The Business Times, 3 November 1994

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  • 13 1 SINGAORE Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Thursday November 3 1994 75«
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  • 2 am LATEST
    • 56 1 AFP NEW YORK Wall Street share prices rose yesterday after falling earlier in the morning. At 11 am EST, the Dow Jones index of leading industrial was down 8.41 points, with some 105 million shares changing hands. At Ipm EST, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was
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    • 43 1 Reuter LONDON Britain yesterday said it wanted to improve ties with China, soured over the future of Hongkong, and promised that it would leave the territory with "decency and honour" when Beijing takes over in 1997. Reuter
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  • 162 1 Stock market indices Wednesday Change STII closed KLSE Comp closed Nikkei 19,750.65 -165.83 Hang Seng 9,451.76 -121.64 SET Index 1,529.10 -7.38 Jakarta Comp 524.09 -0.56 CLSA China B ....1,154.71 -1.80 Aust All Ord 2,011.2 -16.8 FTSE 100 3,081.3 -15.0 Wednesday Previous lpm EST close Dow Jones 3,867.07 3,863.37
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  • 508 1  -  By Cuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE American corporations have revised upward their planned investments in Singapore this year, from US$l.2 billion to US$l.6 billion (552.3 billion), says the United States Department of Commerce. The updated estimate, which appears in the department's
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  • 324 1 Reuter Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The United States Federal Reserve intervened to rescue the battered dollar yesterday after it sank to a new post-World War II low against the yen. "It looks aggressive," said one dealer at a US bank, adding that
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  • 315 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE The Monetary Authority of Singapore has told financial institutions here to report suspected drug trafficking to it directly. The move comes after the Association of Banks in Singapore indicated that its members were more comfortable
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  • 576 1  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON LONDON Cracks are appearing in the walls of De Beers' international diamond cartel and the source of the fissure is Russia. The South African-owned De Beers monopoly, which controls about three-quarters of the world's rough
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  • 547 1  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Discouraging double-transfers and introducing a pay-as-you-bid system will only temporarily lower Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices, several car distributors said. Motor Traders Association of Singapore president Mike Wong said: "Prices may fall, but give it one to two
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  • 362 1 HONGKONG China has decided to allow some foreign banks in Guangzhou and Shanghai to do business in yuan for the first time, according to David K P Li, a director of Bank of East Asia. He was quoted
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    • 9 1 Law: Pg 16 US law firm opens S'pore office
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    • 24 1 Hock Lock Siew: Pg 21 Finance companies: biggefcmleZrrz Unchanged US leading index points to moderating growth, Pg 20 Cambodia drafts money-laundering law, Pg 25
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • ASIA NOTES
      • 100 2 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia wants scrapped a rule requiring tropical countries to ensure wood products come only from ecologically sustainable forests. "We will bring this issue to the next Itto (International Tropical Timber Organisation) meeting in Yokohama," Forestry Ministry spokesman Agus Wahyudi yesterday quoted
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      • 76 2 AFP MANILA Standard and Poor's has revised its rating of Philippines' foreign debt from "stable" to "positive" due to economic reforms and improved political outlook achieved under President Fidel Ramos. S&P yesterday said it "affirms its '88-mi-nus' rating of foreign currency debt of the... Philippines
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      • 100 2 AFP MANILA President Fidel Ramos has warned that the Philippines would be isolated in the world trading community if it failed to ratify the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt). "We need (to accede) to Gatt because if we do not, it will mean
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      • 69 2 AFP MANILA The Philippine government is planning to redevelop the 400-hectare National Penitentiary and move inmates to a new facility to be built outside the capital. Justice Secretary Franklin Drilon told the radio station DZRH yesterday that the plan now had legal backing following the passage
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      • 78 2 AP JAKARTA Indonesia will soon receive two warships as part of a US$I.l billion (SSI.6 billion) purchase of 39 vessels made in the former East Germany. Antara news agency yesterday said that the landing ship tanks, one built in 1976 and the other in 1979,
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      • 105 2 AP MANILA About 200 of the 220 employees of government-run television station IBC Channel 13 have walked off their jobs, claiming management owes them benefit payments for the past two years. Sammy Cordova, president of the IBC Employees Union, yesterday said employees began the strike
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    • 441 2 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has been warned to address urgently the problem of labour shortages. The chief representative of the Japanese Small Businesses in Malaysia (JFS), Akihiko Urata, told the Malaysian Business Times yesterday that the labour shortage must be addressed before
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    • 261 2 Reuter HANOI Vietnam yesterday said it had failed in its bid to keep price rises within single figures for 1994, reporting 11.3 per cent inflation for the first 10 months. A big increase in food costs, apparently due to higher rice
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    • 297 2 AP AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Suharto yesterday ordered his ministers to contain inflation, already at 8.27 per cent for the first 10 months, at below 10 per cent. Information Minister Harmoko said after a Cabinet meeting on the economy that Mr
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    • 39 2 Reuter SAMUT SONGKRAM, Thailand Vets sterilising a stray dog. Thailand is trying to control its stray dog population and prevent the spread of rabies. Samut Songkram is the first province to introduce the anti-rabies strategy. Reuter
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    • 189 2 AFP MANILA The Philippines and Malaysia plan to set up joint sea patrols to guard against piracy, drug trafficking, marine pollution, smuggling and illegal immigration. A source at the Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday said the two countries would set up a
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    • 317 2 Reuter AFP JAKARTA Senior officials yesterday said that Indonesia would provide no home for United States bases after Thailand rejected a similar request from an American admiral. "It is clear that we do not want any foreign military base in our homeland,
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    • 189 2 HYATT REGENCY SINGAPORE brings you Giacomo Puccini's TOSCA Dinner Opera 7.15pm 9th November 1994 Regency Ballroom level 2 Sl2o+++ per person, includes pre-dinner cocktails and a 4-course Western set dinner Set against 19th Century Rome a romantic tragedy between Cavaradosi, a painter, TOSCA, a famous opera singer and Baron Scarpia.
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 467 3 UPI AFP BEIJING Some private and foreign-owned firms continued to force employees to work overtime and infringe on workers rights, a national survey published yesterday said. The Labour Ministry's findings resulted from a six-month probe conducted by labour departments and trade unions.
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    • 306 3 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG A special panel appointed to review Hongkong's market-moving disposals of government land will recommend the sale of some large lots by sealed tender instead of open auction. Panel member Nicholas Brooke said the requirements for developing some
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    • 211 3 AP BEIJING China will tighten control and management of overseas firms funded by Chinese state firms to prevent a drain on state assets, according to a senior Finance Ministry ofTicial. Much of China's newfound affluence has been funnelled into overseas investments, raising
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    • 234 3 Reuter AFP TAIPEI Taiwan has decided in principle to allow securities investment trust firms to invest in a second South-east Asian stock market following approval for such investment in Malaysia, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials said. The
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    • CHINA WATCH
      • 68 3 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG China and the UK are close to reaching an agreement on the financing of Hongkong's new airport, said Hongkong chief secretary Anson Chan on Tuesday. "We hope, before too long, to be in a position to put a bill to the Legislative
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      • 58 3 Reuter BEIJING A man executed last week for the first murder in a Chinese brokerage advised his countrymen during an interview hours before his death not to borrow money to play the stock market. "Do not repeat my mistake," An Gang was quoted
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      • 71 3 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG The recent, large fluctuations in Shanghai's stock prices are due to the lack of a complete market supervision system, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday, quoting a senior exchange official. Wei Wenyuan, general manager of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, said the
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      • 69 3 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation and China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait will hold a sixth round of talks in the Chinese city of Nanjing between Nov 21 and Nov 26, the Beijing-backed Hen Wei Po newspaper reported yesterday. The
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      • 75 3 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Hongkong will be unable to finish developing a proposed ninth container terminal by the original planned completion date of mid-1995 because of a delay in negotiations between China and the UK, the government said in a statement yesterday. China has insisted the Hongkong
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    • 131 3 Reuter TAIPEI A Taiwanese newspaper said yesterday the island has agreed in principle to buy uranium from its rival China in exchange for permission to store nuclear waste on the mainland. The China Times said stateowned Taiwan Power Co had accepted in
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 584 4 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's trade volume is soaring, underpinned by heady economic expansion, but private-sector analysts said yesterday deficits would widen unless exporters improved their competitiveness. The Trade Ministry said on Tuesday the customs-cleared trade account posted a deficit of
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    • 246 4 AFP SEOUL The biggest threat to South Korea's booming economy is the possibility of North Korea suddenly collapsing and the South having to foot the bill of rapid integration. according to Moody's Investors' Service Inc. In an annual countrv report released
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    • 97 4 Reuter SVDNEV Forensic dentists at a Sydney medical centre examining the teeth of the nearly 2,000-year-old remains of a woman on Tuesday. The woman is said to have been between 30 and 40 \ears old when she died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in
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    • 312 4 AFP TOKYO The world's big-gest-selling daily, the Yomiuri Shimbun. marked its 120 th birthday yesterday with the announcement that it had bust its own circulation record. Daily sales hit 10.088.939 copies in September, way above the 10-million mark reached in May.
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    • 438 5 Reuter SEOUL Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng, touring South Korea's industrial giants as part of his five-day visit, won a promise yesterday for a US$3 billion (554.4 billion) investment in his country. As Mr Li stopped at Samsung Electronics
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    • 341 5 Reuter NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao has seized control of national policy on troubled Kashmir from two ministers who openly bickered about how to end a rebellion that spawned the abduction of four Western tourists. Mr Rao's move to quell
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    • 289 4 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I POH KOK HUI of Blk 22 #02-150 Balam Rd Singapore 1337, have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop Licence in respect of premises at M/s Yes Snacks Corner at 317 Outram Rd #01-32 Concorde Shopping Centre Singapore 0316, and that this application will
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 1205 6  -  State of China's inflation By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE Inflation is beginning to look like the never-ending story in China. Despite a brave front, success in preventing economic overheating has eluded Chinese authorities so far this year. After a brief dip between Februarv and May, consumer prices
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  • THE WORLD
    • 473 8 AP NEW YORK Britain will surpass Japan as the largest source of foreign direct investment in the United States by the end of 1994. ending Japan's three-year hold on the top spot, said a report released on Tuesday. Economists said
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    • 423 8 AP TORONTO Canada announced on Tuesday that it will accept fewer legal immigrants each year and overhaul immigration guidelines to give less emphasis to family members and more to those with marketable skills. The action came
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    • 556 9 AP MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin has fired Deputy Defence Minister Matvei Burlakov, whose name has been linked to a military corruption scandal and the recent murder of an investigative reporter. The Russian news agency Tass. which reported Mr Burlakov's dismissal
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    • 470 9 FT MOSCOW The Russian rouble could be stabilised early next year if Moscow and the International Monetary Fund can agree to a plan to peg the currency to the US dollar, cut inflation and reform the country's Fiscal system. The plan, being discussed
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    • 358 9 Reuter WASHINGTON Latin America, which is enjoying its fourth consecutive year of moderate economic expansion, should save and invest more in order to attain higher growth, the Inter American Development Bank said. The regional bank said in a report
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    • 378 10 Reuter WASHINGTON The biggest players in the communications business and dozens of new ventures will vie for a piece of the action when the government sells off the rights to offer a new generation of wireless telephones. The
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    • 195 10 AP OTTAWA The Canadian Broadcasting Corp, Canada's public radio and television broadcaster, plans to cut as many as 1,000 jobs over the next four years to deal with an expected budget shortfall. The CBC, which employs 9,000 people, will try to eliminate
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    • 329 10 AP LONDON The editor of The Guardian resigned on Tuesday from a press watchdog committee following allegations that his newspaper used a false fax to gather information about a government minister. Peter Preston said he had decided the "cleanest thing" would
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    • 76 10 Reuter WASHINGTON Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules on Tuesday to ease requirements governing corporate debt securities listed on national exchanges. The new rules will exempt exchange-listed debt securities from borrowing restrictions and proxy rules, levelling the playing field between those
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    • 139 10 Reuter NEW YORK George W Bush, the son of the former president and Republican candidate for Texas governor, was accused on Tuesday of using his name to press the Argentine government into granting a Texan firm a natural gas deal. The Nation magazine said
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    • 60 10 Reuter WASHINGTON The US State Department has granted a visa to Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of Russian ultranationalists, who is scheduled to speak in San Francisco on Monday to several hundred foreign policy specialists. "Our decision to issue Mr Zhirinovsky a visa neither endorses his
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    • 69 10 AFP BAGHDAD The Baghdad international trade fair reopened on Tuesday after a three-year suspension due to the embargo imposed on Iraq for its August 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The countries represented at the fair, which will last two weeks, included Russia, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan,
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    • 78 10 AP BUENOS AIRES South Africa will soon unveil the final draft of a proposed "truth commission" to expose apartheid-era crimes, Deputy President F W de KJerk said here on Tuesday. The truth commission, proposed by the African National Congress-led unity government, would grant amnesty to
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    • 736 8 SCOTTS HOLDINGS LIMI T t 0 NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 14th Annual General Meeting of SCOTTS HOLDINGS LIMITED will be held at Sir Stamford 11, Mezzanine Floor, Hyatt Regency Singapore, 10-12 Scotts Road, Singapore 0922 on Friday, 25 November 1994 at 10.00 am
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 452 11  -  I get a hell of a kick playing different people in different types of movies, Kurt Russell tells Michael Mills Michael Mills AP KURT RUSSELL thinks he's had a richly varied career, and why not? After all, his first major movie role was
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    • 407 11 ROY Lichtenstein's 1...1' m Sorry wont to American collector Eli Broad for nearly US$2.5 million (553.6 million), fetching the highest price on Tuesday night at Sotheby's contemporary art auction. The face of a pretty blonde with a tear falling from her eye is considered
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    • 1005 13  -  Ahead of the World Congress on Ecotourism next week, Audrey Perera takes a look at the issues involved and asks if social consciousness or big bucks will have the final say Audrey Perera The writer is a freelance writer who contributed this article to Business
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    • 184 13 Reuter AMSTERDAM Controversial British filmmaker Peter Greenaway made his opera debut yesterday with a bloody mix of theatre, cinema and music about a murdered composer who loved his horse more than his woman. The world premiere of Rosa: A Horse Drama was staged by the
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    • 443 13 CHATTERBOX AP UPI AP AP AP UPI JOHN Wayne Bobbin visited sex shops in the city's red-light district on Tuesday to promote his new video. He stars as himself in the hardcore John Wayne Bobbin Uncut, which recreates his version of how his wife,
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    • 37 13 Reuter HAMBURG Fashion designer Karl during a news conference promoting his photobook in a Hamburg museum on I uesday. I.agerfeld protege Claudia Schiffer, Cierman supermodel, is pictured on a poster in the background. Reuter
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    • 92 11 TRESORS 1994 TURNS SINGAPORE INTO A MAGICAL CITY OF FINE ARTS ANTIQUES INVEST IN ART. INVEST IN WOOL. A Rare Collection of Antique Persian Rugs and Large Palace Quality Carpets At S.E. Asia's Ever Largest Single Exhibition Opening Hours Daily: 10am to 9pm (Admission FREE) Hf OfchardHoSShopping A 1 Arcade
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 1041 13 TV RADIO Michael Jackson released Hy T the pop icon's transition from 11j to Wacko {J Paul Newman excellent as V 7 fp- *Jv^k broken-down ambulance-chas- 11 er who gets to sue a hospital Brahmana Manggala the he- #i ro oHhis Indonesian piece. He loom of the Majapahit Empire. P
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
    • 676 15  -  By Seamus Phan The writer is the managing consultant with a technology and strategic management consulting firm based in Singapore JAPANESE electronics giant Casio has just released a range of multimedia consumer products in a move to shed its image as a watch and calculator
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    • IT TAKES
      • 86 15 AFP BANGKOK Thai archaeologists have found the remains of large plant-eating dinosaurs they believe roamed northeast Thailand some 160 million years ago, a scientist said. Seven to eight dinosaur bones were unearthed in late September by a bulldozer that was building a road in Sahatsakhan
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      • 88 15 AFP TOKYO A Japanese computer company has taken dating services into the cyber age, offering on-line pictures and curriculum vitaes of several hundred men and women looking for marriage partners. Grace Bridal Yokohoma, saying it is the first computer marriage agency in Japan, charges men 35.000
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      • 73 15 UPI PITTSBURGH A small trial of a non-surgical abortion method suggests a combination of an anti-cancer drug and an anti-ulcer drug could lead to a safe alternative to surgical abortion. A study shows the prescription drugs successfully aborted 90 per cent of early pregnancies. "This
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  • THE LAW PAGE
    • 444 16  -  Frederick Taylor tells Ramesh Divyanathan about Heller's plans in South-east Asia Ramesh Divyanathan A Singapore-based lawyer of Heller Ehrman .White McAuliffe. an American firm which has just opened an office in Singapore, was recently involved in one of the world's largest telecommunications deals. Frederick
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    • 282 16 AT THE BAR Lawyers might not be allowed to advertise their serv ices in newspapers, but some are putting out ads for a different reason. Two ads were placed by lawyers in the Business Times earlier this week to let the public know of certain
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    • 225 16  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan LAW SCHOOL these days is not all about the art of aggressive litigation. In fact, something more sedate negotiation. Postgraduate law students in the Practical Law Course (PLC) have undergone a practical course in negotiation for the first time. Negotiation, part of the
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  • SPORTS
    • 590 17 AP CHICAGO With a bronze statue unveiled outside the stadium and a No 23 jersey raised to the rooftop, Chicago said farewell on Tuesday night to the best basketball player this city and the sport has known. For two hours, teammates, opponents, fans,
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    • 753 17  -  Football buries its heroes as basketball grows stars, writes Harvey Araton, Harvey Araton NYT CHICAGO Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers were handed their jerseys in a driving rainstorm between halves of Monday Night Football. Michael Jordan had his number retired on Tuesday night on
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    • 687 17 NBA Season Countdown NYT NEW YORK The Orlando Magic are a bicycle built for five. Their shooting guard is deadeye from nine metres; their point guard can see over small trees; their small forward leaps so high he needs air traffic control; their power forward
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    • 805 17  -  By Robin Finn NYT OAKLAND She is the most unorthodox tennis prodigy her sport has ever seen: a 14-year-old African-American girl with a ghetto in her past, a total absence of junior competition in her present and a plan to spend
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    • SIDELINES
      • 84 17 AFP BANGKOK The Thai government sacked the contractor of a multi-million dollar sports complex yesterday, but vowed to host the 1998 Asian Games even if it had to finance and build the facilities itself. The Thai Cabinet revoked building rights for Apipat Nakorn Company after
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      • 124 17 AP PARIS Andre Agassi, the US Open champion, made a successful return to the Paris Open but Michael Stich and Stefan Edberg had short ones Tuesday in the second round of the U552.25 million (553.3 million) tournament. Agassi beat Jason Stoltenberg of Australia. 6-4. 3-6,
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      • 101 17 AFP PARIS English clubs were dumped out of the Uefa Cup on Tuesday with both Aston Villa and Newcastle United losing on the away goals rule. Just days after European football's governing bodygave English clubs another Uefa Cup place, bringing the total up to
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      • 79 17 AFP CARDIFF An exciting new scent, "Eau de Rugby Player", will soon be wafting through Britain's changing rooms to replace the more familiar smell of sweaty socks. Welsh rugby union star leuan Evans unveiled his own after-shave range here on Tuesday and urged macho men to
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      • 116 17 AFP DETROIT, Michigan Detroit Red Wings season-ticket holder Linda LeSage is suing the National Hockey League team over the lockout that has wiped out the first month of the league season. The car assembly line worker wants a minimum of US$lO,OOO (S$ 14,700) in
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      • 91 17 Reuter LONDON Australia's giant forward Paul Sironen could miss the second rugby league test against Britain after being sent off in the second half of the tourists' 32-14 win over leading club side St Helens on Tuesday. The 29-year-old ex-policeman was dismissed for use of the
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        141 17 PARIS Uefa Cup 2nd rd, 2nd leg Tuesday: Tekstilshik Kamyshin (Rus) I Nantes (Fra) 2 (Nantes win 4-1 on aggregate); Real Madrid (Spn) 4 Dynamo Moscow 0 (Real Madrid 6-2); Cannes (Fra) 2 Admira Wacker (Aus) 4 (Admira Wacker 5-3); Bayer Levcrkuscn (Ger) 5 Kispest Honved (Hun) 0 (Bayer
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        263 17 PARIS U552.25 million Paris Indoor Open Ist rd Tuesday: Jakob Hlasek (Swi) b Javier Sanchez (Spn) 7-5 6-4; Mark Woodforde (Aust) b Jean-Philippe Fleurian (Fra) 7-6 (9/7) 7-6 (7/3); Guy Forget (Fra) b Guillaume Raoux (Fra) 6-4 6-4; Paul Haarhuis (Neth) b Daniel Vacek (Cze) 7-6 (7/4) 6-2; David
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        11 17 GALWAY, Ireland lour match Tuesday: US beat Ireland Development 20-13.
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  • 510 18 IT WAS not long ago that Singapore's Prime Minister, Goh Chok Tong, likened his role to that of a striker in a football team. Even as Mr Goh's team put out a White Paper to benchmark ministerial salaries to those earned by top men in the private
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  • 192 18 FROM its neighbours' perspective, what is especially interesting about Malaysia's new budget would be the new initiatives offered to attract foreign investors. The continued emphasis on infrastructure development, both hard and soft infrastructure, will help to clear up some of the bottlenecks faced by investors.
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  • 120 18 WITH no increase in taxes, no new taxes but a very long list of handouts for every sector of society, the 1995 budget tabled in Parliament yesterday has to be the best ever. After seven bountiful years, with the economy registering growth in excess of 8 per
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  • 203 18 THE Middle-East economic summit in Casablanca is a landmark move by the Arab countries and Israel towards building hopes and realising opportunities that have been neglected for a long time. As a region of economic potential, the Middle East is virtually forgotten, except for its oil reserves
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  • 194 18 CHINESE Premier Li Peng's visit to South Korea is not only a display of friendship between China and South Korea, it is also a sign of peace and stability in the North-east Asian region. There are two reasons why Seoul is seeking active diplomatic ties
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  • 124 18 THE haze is back. Just when the skies were clearing up and visibility was slowly being restored after the worst case of haze in years, Malaysians in affected areas are once again under a blanket of gloom, breathing none too clean air and not able to see
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  • 177 18 IN RECENT weeks, China has insisted that its objections to Jardines' involvement in the Container Terminal No 9 (CT9) project are not due to any innate hostility towards the British-owned hong but simply out of suspicion about the way the project was parcelled out by
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  • 1095 18  -  Deep rifts threaten both the ruling coalition and opposition parties, even as conservative forces look set to dominate political life. Anthony Rowley reports Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent. STORM CLOUDS are gathering again over Japan's political horizon as new
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    • 266 18 BOOM TOWN WhileSingapore'sresidential property market may be peaking, Malaysia's Klang Valley is still booming, fuelled by new money, new housing forms and new infrastructure. ALSO I\ THIS ISSUE: ffh Q The remaking of Yeo Hiap Seng Malaysia's hottest property stocks Gold: Heading for new high? MRCB goes shopping J q™**
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    • 1528 19  -  The results of next month's mid-term elections could determine the political map of the US in this decade, says Leon Hadar Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent AMERICANS are angry with their politicians and it shows. A populist, anti-Washington sentiment
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    • 806 19  -  Recent investigations into fraudulent banking practices are causing concern over the future of unpaid loans. Farhan Boknari reports from Islamabad Farhan Bokhari The writer is a financial journalist based in Karachi who contributed this article to BT AROUND midday, Karachi's bank square
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  • 418 20 AP WASHINGTON The United States government's chief forecasting gauge of future economic activity was unchanged in September after a strong advance the previous month. The index of Leading Economic Indicators, which is aimed at predicting activity six to nine months down the
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  • 401 20 AFP WASHINGTON Setting a fixed date for Asia-Pacific regional free trade would be a mistake and cost US business dear. A report released on Tuesday by a panel representing US business interests also cautioned against Washington making the Asia-Pacific Economic
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  • 303 20 Reuter PHNOM PENH Cambodia's head of state warned tourists to avoid his country as the bodies of three Western hostages killed by Khmer Rouge rebels were recovered bound and shot from graves found near a southern rebel base yesterday. King Norodom Sihanouk, saying Cambodia
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  • 337 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China's infrastructure development will be constrained by a world shortage of capital as it competes with other developing nations for foreign investment. Citicorp chairman John Reed yesterday said China's capital needs could reach US$5O trillion (5573.5 trillion) as
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  • 106 20 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Lower House of Parliament yesterday put the finishing touches on sweeping electoral reform legislation, making it technically possible for Prime Minister Tomiichi Muravama to call elections next month. The Bills approved by the 511-seat Lower House redraw the country's electoral
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  • 788 20  -  The Bottom Line GARY BECKER GARY BECKER The writer, the 1992 Nobel Laureate, leaches at the University of Chicago and is a fellow of the Hoover Institution. Reproduced from Business Week International by special permission. Copyrighted by McGraw-Hill, Inc. All rights
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  • 258 20 AP BEIJING In its latest jab at the Hongkong trading house Jardine Matheson, the Chinese government yesterday demanded details of a contract to build a naval base that will be used by China after it takes over the colony in 1997. Jardines,
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 443 21  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG SINGAPORE'S Hong Leong group, Temasek Holdings and Keck Seng Investments are plouging over US$2OO million (***** million) into a luxury bungalow project in Beijing. Called Beijing Riviera, the project promises to deliver the highest quality of residential
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    • 357 21 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Singapore Airlines (SIA) is expected to hold its position as one of the leading airlines internationally despite the tougher operating environment and the strong Singapore dollar, according to stockbroking firm Schroder Securities. In recommending a "buy" for the airline
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    • 243 21 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN), which expects to be corporati sed by the end of December, has not ruled out the possibility of a reverse takeover to secure a listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE). BSN chairman Ahmad
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    • 831 21  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Alvin Tay SINGAPORE Singapore's publiclylisted finance companies should have a good reason to smile after the proposed changes to the Finance Companies Act were unveiled on Monday. Amid the mostly expected changes, there was a
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    • 186 21 SINGAPORE Within three days of its launch, DBS Land has sold 80 per cent of Phase One of its Aspen Heights condominium development on Institution Hill. The project, ofT River Valley Road, offers 480 units under Phase One.
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    • 376 21  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom International (STI) and a firm from China have been invited to sign contracts to install and operate competing paging systems in Phnom Penh. Both STI and Kehua China Science Resources Technology Trade Corp
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    • 302 21 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Tenaga Nasional Bhd is expected to announce on Monday a record pre-tax profit of Ms 2 billion (SSI.I billion) for the year ended Aug 31. But prospects in the next few years hinge on how well it can
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    • COMPANIES
      • 384 23  -  Reports from Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK BANGKOK Bank has appointed Chartsiri Sophonpanich, a grandson of its founder, as its president in what analysts describe as a dynastic succession. The 35-year-old Chartsiri, currently senior executive vice-president, will assume his new post on Dec 1,
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      • 487 23 M—Hmt' pric«* Nov Singifirn Unit Trust The Commerce 1.70 1.80 The Savings Fund 1.66 1.76 S'potc Prog Fund 0.6} 0.69 S'porc See Fund 1.02 1.08 S*pore Invest Fund 1.23 1.32 S'porc Equity Fund 0.83 0.88 Asia Unit Trust Mai Invest Fund 2.47 2.60 Mai Prog Fund 0.92 0.97 Amanah Baku
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      • 205 23 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Tasek Cement Bhd expects its turnover to be better in the current year despite the challenge it has to face in improving its profits through effective costcontrol measures, said chairman Hamzah Sendut in his annual statement. "In a price-controlled industry like
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      • 132 23 Reuter JAKARTA Property developer PT Duta Pertiwi made an impressive debut yesterday, surging almost 23 per cent in active trading to 3,875 rupiah from the initial public offering price of 3,150 rupiah a share. It hit an early high of
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      • 250 23 BANGKOK Bank, South-east Asia's most profitable bank, will earn at least 10 per cent more in net profit this year than last year's 13.9 billion baht (SSBI9 million), said a senior director of the bank yesterday. Mr Piti Sithi-Amnuai, executive
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      • 258 23 UPI HONGKONG Golden Harvest Entertainment (Holdings) Ltd, the distribution arm of the Hongkong-based Golden Harvest film studio, announced plans yesterday to list its shares on the Hongkong Stock Exchange. Funds raised from the listing will be used to pay back loans and develop
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      • 363 24 Reuter NEW YORK Sweden's biggest drug company AB Astra has paid US$B2O million (SSI.2 billion) to Merck Co Inc for a half share in Astra Merck Inc. Astra Merck was created in July 1993 under a two-phase licensing agreement Astra struck
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      • 367 24 UPI NEW YORK Sony Corp signed on Tuesday a multi-year worldwide rights deal with music video giant MTV in its first deal covering global rights. The agreement indicates Sony may have decided to back away from being one of the founders of a
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      • 127 24 FT LONDON British Petroleum said on Tuesday that higher sales volumes, helped by rising demand for petroleum products, were one of the main factors behind the company's strong third-quarter performance. Replacement cost profit of £415 million (US$996 million) was 23 per cent up
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 69 24 Bloomberg Business News CHICAGO Quaker Oats Co said it will buy Snapplc Beverage Co for USSI.7 billion (552.48 billion) in cash, or USSI4 a share. "It brings together two of the great brands and most recognised trademarks in America Gatoradc in sports drinks and
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        • 64 24 Cable Wireless to buy firm Reuter LONDON Telecommunications group Cable and Wireless pic said it has agreed to buy British Telecommunications pic's BT (Marine) Ltd subsidiary for around £40 million (5596.2 million) in a deal that should be completed in the next few weeks. The BT (Marine) business will add
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        • 59 24 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd said deputy chairman Brian Pcmbcrton had decided to retire and had resigned from the board of directors and from his post as deputy chairman. Mr Pcmbcrton retired earlier this year from the board of HK Telecom's British parent. Cable and
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        • 64 24 Reuter NEW YORK Continental Cablcvision Inc is considering a proposal that would give US West Inc a 25 per cent to 30 per cent stake in the company, which would be valued at approximately USSI.9B billion (552.9 billion), the Wall Street Journal reported. Some executives told
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      • 68 24 Reuter MOSCOW A shareholder of the get-rich-quick investment company MMM burning a "ticket" with the portrait of the firm's head, Sergie Mavrodi, in front of the company's main office here on Tuesday. Mr Mavrodi bounced back into Russia's financial world, winning a seat in
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      • 285 24 NYT NEW YORK Executives of RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp tried to reassure stock analysts on Tuesday that the company's US$l billion plan to begin separating its food operations and tobacco business, which was announced on Monday, would provide new shareholders
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 464 25  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Cambodia is slapping money launderers with a US$lOO,OOO (S$ 146,800) fine and criminal charges, in a bid to ferret out the black money that has entered the property market. The tough new measures are part of a new
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      • 440 25 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK A federal investigation of derivatives sales by Bankers Trust New York Corp is an ominous sign for a US$l4 trillion market that has grown with little scrutiny, derivatives experts said. Securities regulators are investigating whether Bankers Trust broke federal securities
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      • 386 25 Reuter WASHINGTON The insurance industry faces huge potential losses from violent weather that could accompany global warming, and should fight for policies to cut heat-trapping emissions, the World Watch Institute said in a report on Tuesday. "The insurance industry
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      • 307 25 Reuter SINGAPORE South-east Asian base metal consumers continue to resist soaring prices for aluminium and other metals but traders said that would not immediately alter the current bullish outlook for the metals. They said the rally, led by aluminium
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      • 317 25 Reuter WASHINGTON Tough federal oversight of the insurance industry is needed to prevent abuse by unscrupulous US companies and to set solvency standards for foreign insurers, a congressional study said. The report by the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee
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      • 443 25 Knight-Ridder SYDNEY Strong profit increases by Australia's biggest commercial banks in 1994 will demonstrate the successful unwinding of bad debt, but will not head ofT a brewing, cutthroat war over lending rates, according to industry analysts. Analysts are expecting market leader
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      • 303 25 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Crude oil futures fell after the American Petroleum Institute and the US Department of Energy reported rising crude oil and falling oil product stockpiles in the US, the world's largest consumer. At 5.20pm London time, December Brent futures were three cents
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      • 203 25 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar fell to a post-World War II low of 96.17 yen as traders tested central banks' commitment to defending the beleaguered currency. Japan's central bank bought dollars for yen in Tokyo to try to support the currency, traders said. Shortly after the
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        1614 25 I rade-onghled index cakulaled axainst Spue's lop 14 trading panntr\ Base year I9SS US$/S$ forward rates Noon Nov I s$ Bid Offer 1-month ***** 1.4675 2-month 1.4636 1.4651 3-month 1.4616 1.4631 6-month ***** 1.4585 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9am on Nov 1 Singapore dollars to one
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      • 92 25 AFP NEW YORK The dollar slipped against most major currencies in quiet trading yesterday, reaching a record-low level against the Japanese yen. In early morning trading, the dollar was at 96.15 yen from 96.65 on Tuesday. The greenback was at 1.4936 German marks from 1.4945 on Tuesday but
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1342 26 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Japanese government bonds (JGB) and Euroyen futures closed with a firm tone on Simex yesterday ahead of the holiday in Tokyo today. Dealers said both contracts were boosted by the strength in the yen against the US dollar which hit an all
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      • 414 26 COMMODITY REPORTS Gold HONGKONG: Gold extended its New York gains to close slightly firmer yesterday, buoyed by the weak US dollar, dealer said. Gold bullion ended at U*****.30/80 an ounce, up slightly from the local opening and New York's closing level
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        • 84 26 TOKYO Japanese traders have entered into talks on long-term supplies of aluminium from South Africa's Alusaf Ltd, to begin with the start-up of production next year at the company's huge new smelter, according to industry sources. Alusafs US$2.l billion (SS3.I billion) green-field aluminium smelter in
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        • 72 26 NEW DELHI India's state-run Hindustan Zinc Ltd has floated a tender to import 20,000 tonnes of lead concentrate containing 65-75 per cent lead for shipment by February end. Delivery shall be in two shipments of 10,000 tonnes each. Hindustan Zinc could increase imports up
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        • 112 26 TOKYO Negotiations between Kaiser Aluminum Co and labour officials remain locked in negotiations, with both sides working overtime to reach agreement on pension and wage issues to avert a threatened strike. The deadline imposed by the United Steelworkers of America for conclusion of the talks expired
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        • 59 26 TOKYO Imported-beef buying is expected to start picking up at the end of the month as wholesalers and retailers gear up for the final demand season of the year. Beef business generally has slowed for both Australian and US origins, although prices in some sectors
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        • 91 26 TOKYO Japan's soybean crushing was up 0.8 per cent in September from the year before to 325,873 tonnes, and soymeal production was up 0.8 per cent to 251,484 tonnes, according to figures released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Rapeseed crushing ro6e 1.4 per
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    • 1470 26 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 Dec 94 190 SO 190.50 191 50 225 T?50 Jan 95 186.00 186 00 187.00 375 2400 Feb 184 00 184 00 184 00 150
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 650 27 +22.13 Share prices rose yesterday after a two-day holiday as investors in oil refining giant Petron Corp positioned for a possible stock dividend after a strong third quarter result, analysts said. The PSE Index gained 22.13 points to end at 3,090.65. Turnover was 2.69 billion shares valued at 1.71
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      • 1163 27 -16.8 SHARES tracked a weak Wall Street to close sharply lower in lacklustre trade, brokers said. The key All Ordinaries Index ended 16.8 points weaker at 2,011.2. The All Industrials fell 19.7 to 2,843.1 while the All Resources shed 15.0 to 1,395.1. Turnover totalled 182.6 million shares worth A
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      • 593 27 141.45 Share prices rebounded 141.45 points to close at 6,342.66 amid resumed buying interest following approval of two investment funds totalling NTS 10 billion. The market opened higher and climbed 171 points before easing in the last 10 minutes of trading. Turnover was 1.30 billion shares worth NT557.81 billion.
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      • 467 27 -2.69 Share prices turned bearish yesterday a heavy liquidity squeeze, ending a three-day upsurge, brokers said. The Composite Price Index shed 2.69 points to close at 1,105.74 points, with 53 million shares valued at 1.21 trillion won changing hands. Rises led falls 451 to 412, with 83 counters unchanged.
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      • 359 27 -0.59 Stocks were kept afloat despite weak bond and world markets. "It was a pretty good effort given the international markets," said a broker. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended down 0.59 at 2,108.73. The top stocks index was propped up by a good performance from the leading three
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      • 662 27 Britannia Funds sterling Cash Bid Offer Mim Cap Deposit 18 6400 38 6500 Mim Jersey Gilt .0.1*93 0 1992 Mim Mil Income *0 9000 *0 9-400 L'S$ Cash Income Plus Fund 9 6200 *****0 PS S Reserve Fund 5 3200 5 3300 Sterlilm M|i Euro Performance ***** ***** Far East
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      • 656 27 -15.0 STOCKS fell for the second day amid mounting concern that the US inflation rate is rising and as the dollar dropped to a new post World-War II low against the Japanese yen. The FT-SE 100 Index closed 15.0 points lower at 3,081.3, after falling as low as 3,069.5
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      • 130 27 -32.09 French shares slumped as the dollar fell to new postWorld War II lows against the yen, threatening, the earnings of exporters. "The dollar is looking just horrid and we all want to know when this mess is going to end," said a broker. The CAC 40 Index closed
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      • 164 27 -28.10 German shares drifted lower yesterday, broadly unmoved by US factory goods orders data showing fall of 0.2 per cent in September. Share volumes remain moderate. The DAX Index closed at 2,038.08, down 28.10 points on the day. Frankfurt No* 2 DM An 150 90 -4 10 BASF JII50
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      • 128 27 -7.71 Belgian shares recovered slightly after the release of unchanged US September leading indicators. The Bel-20 Index closed down 7.71 points, at 1,367.55. It was down 0.73 per cent at 1,365.25 before release of the data. About 960 million francs worth of shares were traded. Brussels 2 Fmn FORWARD
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      • 192 27 -236 Shares ended sharply lower, driven down by profit-tak-ing on banks, the political uncertainties and the weakness of other bourses. Traders said the outlook for today was not bright although the mood, particularly in the banking sector, could be influenced by whatever Banca Commerciale Italiana decides at its board
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      • 250 27 -4.5 Dutch stock declined amid concern the dollar's plunge to new post-World War II lows will erode the US earnings of Dutch companies. The potential for disappointing corporate profits was highlighted by Akzo Nobel, whose third-quarter earnings came in at the lower end of expectations. Akzo helped dragged the
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      • 204 27 -9.70 Swedish stocks fell for the second day as concern about Sweden's referendum tojoin the European Union oflset strong earnings and positive government budget measures released yesterday. The OMX Index of 30 leading stocks fell 9.70 points at 1,141.35. "If polls continue to show a small margin between 'yes'
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      • 242 27 -3.9 Swiss shares ended an overall quiet session little changed. Dealers said the weak dollar Wall Street's easier opening weighed on a market which nevertheless showed some resilience. Activity was focused on banks as investors swapped ÜBS for CS Holding. The broad SPI Index ended up 0.74 point at
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      • 356 27 +27 South African shares defied softer world markets and a weak gold price to post steady gains as local interest propped up prices in mostly lacklustre trade. Dealers said prices had found support from anticipated gold price strength and from hopes of a recovery in Wall Street, both of
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      • 247 27 -13.70 Stocks weakened in quiet early trading as most sectors were pulled lower by sagging North American currency and debt markets. Inflation concerns continue to weigh on financial markets and are fuelling expectations of a US interest rate hike. The TSE-300 Index dropped 13.70 points to 4,250.75 in early
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      • 737 27 -9.08 The Dow Jones, which plunged 44.75 points on Tuesday, was down 9.08 to 3,854.29 at I lam EST. The NYSE Composite Index was off 0.62 to 256.12, while Standard Poors 500-stock Index was' down 1.16 to 467.26. Declines topped advances 1,146-608 among the 2,548 issues crossing the
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      2803 28 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks fell for the second day yesterday after new economic numbers in the US signalled a possible increase in inflation and interest rates. "It's because of the figures yesterday in the US," said an analyst. The benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 121.64 points to 9,451.76.
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      551 28 CLSA HONGKONG H shares edged down 6.74 points to 1,480.05 on HKS99 million turnover, down from the HKSIS4 million registered on Tuesday. Dongfang Elec and GZ Shipyard topped the market, chalking up gains of 6.7 per cent and S.l per cent respectively. Yizheng lost 1.7 per cent on HKS3O
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      2504 28 Reuter TOKYO Stocks closed lower yesterday as worries over Japanese firms' profitability hurt sentiment and the dollar neared its post-World War II low against the yen. Uncertainty over currencies forced many dealers to cut back positions ahead of a national holiday here today. "People were afraid the dollar might
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      1667 28 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks closed lower, pulled down by New York's losses on Tuesday despite continued buying by foreigners, brokers said. The SET Index fell 7.38 points to 1,529.10 after dipping as low as 1,521.09 on moderate 7.79 billion baht turnover. "The Thai market was considered quite strong because it
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      1110 28 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices drifted lower at the close in moderate trading yesterday. The market was weighed down by weak domestic and regional market sentiment despite the debut of property firm Duta Pertiwi. Duta Pertiwi, a unit of the Sinar Mas group, rose about 20 per cent to 3.800
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    • 91 23 We provide shelf companies and incorporation services in ALL jurisdictions, including British Virgin Islands Cook Islands Cayman Islands Hong Kong Bahamas Western Samoa Full nominee, management, corporate secretarial and professional administration services are available. We specialise in offshore trusts, offshore banks, and captive insurance companies for qualified applicants. For further
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    • 37 23 PMCHO VILLA J I In Mexico, a folk hero, q t US' w I In Singapore. i 1 The New Name In Mexican Cuisine a Level 3, Raffles City J 1 Reservations: 431 6333 (Lunch <Sl Dinner).
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    • 1135 24 lIH x s ss s pg s hi [TTr UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LTD (INCORPORATED IN THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE REMINDER To Holders Of: $167,954,614 1.5% Unsecured Loan Stock 1989/1994 ("Loan Stock") IMPORTANT NOTICE This Is an important notice which requires your immediate action. Holders of Loan Stock ("Loan Stockholders") who
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    • 111 26 11 00am. Wednesday 23rd November 1994 31st Level. Allendale Square, 77 St. George s Tee West Perth's most attractive investment A prime street address to be envied, 28 Kings Park Road in West Perth offers three floors of offices (1331 square metres). Fully leased, the property provides substantial income growth
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    • 51 26 The markets in Singapore and Malaysia were closed for a public holiday. As and when the latest London/ Rotterdam prices are not available, the previous trading day's closing figures are carried instead. f STRAIGHT TALK You shouldn't have to read between the lines to get the fuH picture. Companies Markets.
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    • 29 27 The Bombay Stock Exchange was closed yesterday. Wmmm Puiget Boutique and Service Centre "01-01 Mandarin Shopping Arcade, The Mandarin Singapore, 333 Orchard Road, Singapore 0923JOAILUER EN HORLOGERIE DEPUISIB74 GENEVE
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  • Shipping Times
    • 341 29  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Local ship management company Sembawang Johnson now manages 41 vessels. Its latest contract, awarded by Wallenius of Sweden in September, is the full management of two 12,000 deadweight tonne (dwt) car carriers, Tosca and Aniara. In May, Semjom was
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    • 426 29 AFP STOCKHOLM The wreck of the ferry Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea a month ago, looks like being the final resting place for most of the 912 people who died in that disaster as a Swedish government promise to
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    • 272 29 Knight-Ridder HAMBURG Turnover at the 16 major German seaports during the first half of 1994 grew 13.2 per cent from the same period last year to 91.6 million tonnes, the Association of German Seaport Firms (ZDS) said here last week. Chairman
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    • 752 29 Page Coi Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahiers Lines 13 5 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 •APL 5 4/5 •Appenship 4 4/5 •ANL 3 1/2 •ASCL 5 5 Astro Shpg 12 4 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 •Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 •Bank Line. The 9
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    • 305 29 AFP USINSK, Russia A Greenpeace team set out on Tuesday to survey the ecological damage caused by a major oil spill in the Russian Far North amid continuing disagreement on the scope of the disaster. Hampered by a thick snow cover and minus 20
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    • 409 29 Reuter LONDON Two overseas brokers on Tuesday joined the panel that reports daily shipping rates for the Baltic Freight Index in a move that analysts say is likely to boost the image of the Baltic Exchange abroad. The new panellists are Banchero Costa
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    • 241 29 Reuter HANOI Ho Chi Minh City authorities are seeking damages from Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines, owner of an oil tanker that spilled diesel into the Saigon River a month ago, official newspapers reported. The city's environment committee has filed a suit with
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    • 1292 30 TRADING was sluggish on the freight market with several European countries on holiday, but rates for Panamaxes showed signs of softening slightly, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index dropped by a further 7 points now standing at 1.863. Daiichi paid a slightly softer US$l3,BOO daily for the 1993built,
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    • 14549 38 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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    • 3040 43 A X-JLBC Containerline NV: Belsin Shpg Afencies Pte Ltd (SVManne Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN) \Ctord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (s®Accord Contr Line (PK/PN). Vdkris Business Corpora Hon Philippine: Cglsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) A|renkiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg A Trdg (S). Übatros Sen-Air Service: Frata Shpg
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    • 278 43 Abacus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fax: 545-1898 Air Express Travel Td: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144. Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844 Fax: 542-3716, *****80 Airswift Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188. Fax: 273-8283. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. City-Link International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450 Cluster Link Supplies Services Tel:
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    • 1520 43 Abe* Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activalr Singapore Tel: 542-7822. Fax: *****20. Aeroliak Freight International Tel: 545-8033. Fax: *****05. Td:'342-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Td: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express International Td: 542-7666. Fax: *****74, *****50. Air Market Express
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    • 2885 44 ALBANIA Dunes: Seven vessels in port of which 2 loading pesticides in containers, I loading iron nickel, 1 each discharging bagged urea, bagged sugar, diesel on, bagged cement, 1 diesel oil vessel waiting in roads for berth. ARGENTINA Diamante, Santa Fe: No vessels berthed, no vessels in roads,
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    • 540 44 Simpson Spence Young WITHOUT doubt, the sale that has caused the most speculation this week in the bulkcarrier sec-t-tor is the purchase by clients of NJ Goulandris of the 1982 built panamax Ayiassos of 65,000 dwt for a price in the region of US$l4.9 million. The ship was
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    • 1478 44 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Dep Name of Vessel ETA ETD Forts of Calls Fort Agent Telephone No NOVEMBER 03 03 Delfin Star 0730 2100 Cruise to Nowhere Harpers Shipping 221-1388 03 03 Renaissance 2 1000 2000 Cruise to Nowhere Renaissance Cruises 222-3388 04 04 Renaissance 2 1000 2000
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 440 45 ¥MMI toy N» Btrtfi fcrtwl Pgattot Jiironi Port Kdfimu laya 10 02, 94 II alongside 0311/2300 M| Be 11/01/94 II akx«s«je 0311/2300 Nan»ng 9414 6/6 alongside 0311/0500 Raclwnanuel I S116 94 13 akx*side 0311,0800 AlWsa 4947E 17 0311/1500 0311/1900 Bat am Bah«a 11/01/94 18,9 0311/1000 04 11/2300
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      • 1493 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From bOas, 0588 04/2359 1A 02/1500 02/1659 02/1900 28 02/1700 03/0659 03/0900 4 03/1200 03/1459 03/1/00 Hex lade 2108 04/1100 IB 02/1500
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      • 591 45 Cartoon Oct 27 Deraty Nits Readue Mi Miriam Sedrwnt MM Exmhi KG M*3 1 V/V '.MM MM PPM method BO/Qmac Lmh Spec £25 991 10 IS O 0.10 30* 0.10* Spec G35 991 1.0 18.0 0.15 30* 010Norttan Empe 180 Ave 980 0.2 117 004 9
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      • 795 45 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 1732 46  -  As the oil companies wrestle with the economics of producing oil from more and more marginal fields, vessel-based floating production systems are increasingly providing something to get to grips with. Lan Middleton reports Lan Middleton Seatrade Review IN 1989 that most daring of shipping entrepreneurs, John
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    • 995 47 Rail giants Union Pacific and Burlington Northern are bidding furiously for the 135-year-old Santa Fe which will turn the winner into the largest railroad in the US Bloomberg Business News WHY is a 135-year-old rail line the apple of the eye of the two
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    • AIR AND LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 550 48 Reuter LONDON The venerable Boeing 707 and other older model aircraft from the dawn of the jet age will begin vanishing from skies and airports in much of the developed world next year as noise reduction rules take effect, experts say.
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      • 211 48 Bloomberg Business News FORT WORTH, Texas AMR Corp released the list of the 68 people killed in Monday's crash of a commuter plane near Chicago. The Super ATR turboprop went down near the town of Roselawn in north-west Indiana, about 48km south of
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      • 379 48 Reuter CHICAGO The US said it will soon open talks with nine small European countries to reach agreements on free trade in aviation services. Transportation Secretary Federico Pena said on Tuesday "they (the agreements with the nine) will add powerful momentum
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      • 296 48 Reuter CONCORD, New Hampshire A federal grand jury has handed down more charges against three former top executives of American Honda Motor Co, the US Attorney's office here said on Tuesday. The new indictment returned by the grand jury in Concord, New Hampshire, alleges
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      • LOG BOOK
        • 118 48 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan Air Lines Co, the largest Japanese air carrier, said on Tuesday it would begin flying round-trip to Vietnam twice a week beginning on Nov 16. JAL's 3,908-km flight between the western Japanese city of Osaka and Ho Chi Minh
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        • 58 48 SINGAPORE The Weidemann loader will now be available in Singapore with the appointment of Mekasindo International Pte Ltd as the exclusive distributor of German manufacturer Weidemann Maschinenfabrik. Unlike conventional loaders the Weidemann loader has a fully hydraulic articulated steering, providing a tight turning radium allowing the
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        • 75 48 Reuter HONGKONG Macau is set to sign air service agreements with Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands this month, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported yesterday. The Portuguese-ad-ministered territory signed agreements with Brazil and Finland in July and September, and has initialled agreements
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        • 108 48 Bloomberg Business News DETROIT Chrysler Corp is delaying production of its new minivan models by at least five weeks to make sure they meet certain quality levels, the Detroit News said on Tuesday. The newspaper, quoting suppliers familiar with the minivan project, said Chrysler
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        • 95 48 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's Daiwa Institute of Research has found that Japanese shipbuilders have met with only partial success in their efforts to narrow a competitiveness gap with South Korean counterparts, Nikkei English News reported on Tuesday. If Japanese shipbuilders' 1993 costs are represented
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        • 125 48 Reuter CHICAGO The US, Canada and Australia signed an agreement on Tuesday to ban smoking on flights operated by their airlines among the three countries. The US Transportation Department, which announced the accord at a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, said the
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      • 1369 48 Qty nm ET* Ft* no Abu MiaM GF146 1110 GF147 1850 SQ441 1455 GA975 1520 GA883 1545 Adoiatdo Qf81 1930 QF82 2050 SQ228 2035 Amsterdam KL843 0545 SQ26 2355 SQ25 0635 GA975 1520 KL837 1450 KL838 2335 A thorn SQ347 0705 Auckland SQ286 2035 BA1I 1350
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      • 425 48 Reuter HONGKONG Airbus Industrie has adopted a policy that will cover relations with China for the next 10 to 50 years because the company views China as a long term market for its aircraft, said Airbus managing director Jean Pierson on Tuesday. Mr
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
    • 46 29 2 New Services to Far East RTA Arriving Wed to Pusan Incheon lAX Arriving Fri to Tokyo, Osaka Yokohama HtitiiHC 326Q230 Offshore opportunities for shipowners, Page 18 Santa Fe coveted by two suitors, Page 19 Boeing 707's days numbered as noise rules take effect, Back Page
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    • 25 29 Line* and services represented by Members ol the Registry ol AccredHed Shipping Agents, Singapore National Shipping Association. For advertising enquiries, contact Shfc** Ames. Tel 740-2089/740-2090
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    • 222 29 the FAMOUS CiufiOPi ■Emms 224 1*33 For more information please refer to Pg. 11 t A f A r I ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING UNES I The Only National Line Of Pie ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN I The Largest Maritime Fleet In The Middle East I IRISL will maintain
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    • 1973 30 [zxpohj:„„ i import..,, import.... I NORTH AMERICA] I I I MOUTH AMBRje*~l MWWNHtTfrWtr WMTWgq I TotAtrcoACTMuraMgwcAMavtc* wmwh CMawmiiw (P—CT nam man mm i *ssa wr_ stom u Bjjj *cr Ml houstoh cwc iw mxicoan nm stom mam mo mowiemeq wok mm santos mmmm pmammm vessel/voy no los —nrr iSS timrwrn
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    • 2282 31 OOCL s > p T c ltd JARDINE shipping agencies jaroine shipping agencies son. oho. 200 CANTONMENT ROAD. 12-05 SOUTH POINT. SINGAPORE 0206 PETALING JAYA TEL: 03-*****76 FAX: 03-*****42 CFS: 03-*****42 I CR NUMBER **********0 C PENANG TEL: *****4 FAX: *****1 DOCUMENTATION TEL: *****55 (INWARD)/*****90 (OUTWARD) Ip O H T
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    • 1729 31 ■UEHSsaHEa EAST MEDITERRANEAN MARSAXLOKK/PIRAEUS/IZMIR/ISTANBUL CARDIGAN BAY V 4533 ETA SIN 07TH NOVEMBER 1994 V«s»el Voy ETA ETO DESTINATIONS n»*i Mk maren maersk v 9410 >'"HI UPWiW I IWW 111' 1 MW I'll I'H I— Mil il'fW cy os/11 oeoo hrs cfs 07/n rssa hrs oak lgb sfo mem atl mia
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    • 1386 32 ROAM [i SOUTH- PORT VOY NO HAMBURG ANTWERP HAVRE AMP TON KELANG S PORE HKG KAO TYO SHI KOfl NAG FRANKFURT EXPRESS 78/241 13/10 15/10 16/10 4/11 5/11 10/11 17/11 14/11 15/11 LUDWIOSHAfEN EXPRESS 16/441 15/10 17/10 19/10 12/10 6/11 10/11 14/11 15/11 16/11 DANUBE ***** 16/10 20/10 22/10 10/11
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    • 467 32 IS'pore P.Keteng Loading for KAPITAN SOROKA 12/11 Rdm/Atw/UK/Nantes I WORLD ARGONAUT 6/11 10/11 Rdm/Atw/UK/Nantes BALA BAN 1 20/11 25/11 Rdm/Atw/UK/Nantes 'Loads E./W. Malaysia. Indonesia I I Loading for PAN RISER Dubai/Bahrain/Dam man /Kuwait I SADANK ALKAVAN Jeddah/AqaOa 'Loads Singapore. E./W. Malaysia. Indonesia I I Loading for STAR MAN Los Angeles/New
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    • 1286 32 NORASIA NORASIA MAIIA 9444 3 M/ll 22/11 25/11 20/12 24/11 27/12 20/12 29/12 29/12 01/12 I SI VALUE 443* 10/11 29/11 02/12 03/12 03/12 04/12 05/12 04/12 00/12 M/ 12 I NORASIA Ktl 9445 3 17/11 M/ 12 09/12 10/12 10/12 11/12 12/12 13/12 15/12 15/12 I SI PRDE 444
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  • Page 33 Advertisements
    • 1378 33 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Ho« Chiang Road #11*01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Td: *****88 Fax: *****17 r new guinea pacific line I V BP (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) I ACCEPTS K>#yV CMGO OU SAILS STRa7T^ G pWhV I !5* n® £T«. «1L M HH* rCL LCL COWTAWCR
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    • 2948 33 Singapore Agent: X A?ll C jfltll il 1 p& Container® (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd 10 Hoe C hiang Road. #07-01 Keppel Towers. Singapore 0208 First Class Connechons WORLDWIDE Te,:225 2233 Te|e RS ***** pnocsp.f«k 225 5327/222 7517 C R Number: *****9 *****Z EXPORT IMP° R T sIE 2i!|~ iH: Sw—
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  • Page 34 Advertisements
    • 588 34 ifK EKA JAYA AGENCIES TEL: *****22 (8 LINES) FAX: *****05 SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN CHARGE □jfl CHI M—l CITY I PAQM IHANDPHONE/!)—CT I MKMBTWfIi I I HUM |7CT«MMIW I L-&ILYIH CHAW »HWM HHmfHHW MAN9j iHMtt jHW7a i to vietnam7hCmc J» CENTER-POINT K f \xm 7 LINES nn«l I WT I tT»
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    • 1243 34 HANJIN SHIPPING BOOKING TEL:- *****35-237 OPERATION TEL: *****41-253 SALES TEL:- *****30-233 DOCUMENT TEL: *****71-275 FM Wl S* UK HMJI SB m TO FBI WL |l* «AU. SA» IN RTC HAIUN ROTTERDAM 02K 11/11 OKCT 1/12 2/12 J/12 NMUN HUNS** 10(1 S/ll M PtOGKSS 03* 1/12 9/12 U/12 HANJM lEH*W£ 02K
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    • 1836 35 wmctt»A«jmq«" v r^^p^BlOp^W®T^y ■K BB w^^LJ®L^^R' r^^:V^ MIN QOSUR SHIPPINGPTE LTD SSS'S/S5" 4 4 jtm'ZM p JS£s£*?7&V 46 SkMtM IVajr »1/-M c« N« **********0 M riE 22*220H liwtM S« Okk *****50 tnaifmmmt: *****30 MS 4Mg hmr 2 VCff Mo. CCSU IOMORt Off Id: fax: *****15 '«> 22*1166 ZJZZZmiL """zzsiw *%."'*>••»
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    • 912 35 HEUNG-A SHIPPING (KOREAN FLAG)| i BAIT CfflmaHßß MIWCE I I CaWEWTIOIMt SBBflCt 1 UKANTA <VC [WHlMKttpiig'lmTl HUOI HIS IWC MOJ I i W»| HK«f •ii'ljKTl Wt\ MKOfPMt" DMA I ¥***** 30/10 03/11 17/11 M/ll 14/11 11/11 10/11 M/ll WO. OOMMI 41* M/ll 12/*****/111 OMT 24/11 »/ll i mp mm 04/11
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    • 893 35 A I MULTILINE SHIPPING PTE LTD ■V (a member of SMSOV Group) CR NO: **********0 C ENQUIRIES: *****33 BOOKINGS: *****64, *****51, *****31, *****13 BALTIC: INWARD *****97 OUTWARD *****10 T/S *****10 ,4k BLASCO: INWARD *****65 OUTWARD *****28 T/S *****46 FESCO: BOOKINGS *****99/*****01 DOC *****07 MARINE INSURANCE: *****87 INVENTORY: *****59 AGENTS: KL:
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  • Page 36 Advertisements
    • 1297 36 AS AGENTS: "K" LHIi (SIN6APORE) PTE LTD (CS NO: 1244J73QM0M/GST REG NO: K2-*****M4) TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 W IT MALAYSIA: "K" LINE MAMTIMi (MALAYSIA) SON IHO M ■V TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 JB *****01 PGU *****25/6 1 INDONESIA: P.T. SAUNA LAUT WTHNUSA. TEL: JKT
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    • 1135 36 79 ANSON ROAD, #21-01, SINGAPORE 0207 TELE: *****92 FAX: *****57 CR **********9N PORT KLANG/BELAWAN GUDANG VESSEL VOY 1 PKt BLW VESSEL VOY 51 ttN PqT~ VIGOUR SINGAPORE ***** 03/11 (THU) 04/11 (FIB) MCC CONVEYOR 4P44 04/11 (HB< 06/11 (SUN) XOUR m 940/6 04/11 (FIB) 0611 (SUN) XOUR JAYA 940// 07/11
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  • Page 37 Advertisements
    • 973 37 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD •I SSBBBBb? M 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I UflHf CR NO **********06 I I J VESSEL VOY SIN CMS JIB HOO JED AQJ PZU MBW ASA AMI sji;J KOTA BERLIAN BRL23S 11/11 22/11 24/11 28/11 28/11 28/11 V™ 24/11 I I
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    • 608 37 I L gSJ^~ M MYANMA VBBk FIVE STAR LINE r (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yanjon (Rangoon) Spore P.KIi Pen P.Gd| PAG AW V2I4W M PORT PWYA V 1361* 10/12 No. 14/15 Nov HP A AN V2O6W 10/12 Nov PAGAN V2ISW 15/17 Nov MALAYSIA AGENTS BOUSTEAD SHPPfK ASENOES KUL TEL
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    • 1570 40 TO EUROPE FROM EUROPE rem ]HII K* I MOT** ¥SL STOKI lEH ITM HNt Iml FTT PKI STOK W(t fIBAN KOK 3—fl) INMI WW 1 «g IKm iir mm «i7i/4573 "EIT "Eli" w~ cvmopa zm~ ~tZn nTTT" 2111 21.11 23.11 ?«.n b rtima uu 0311 mi 0111 u u uu
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    • 336 41 (fc FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE 0106 HOT LINE: *****33 (30 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 07/TI ROTTERDAM 07/TI AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 07/TI HAMBURG/BREMEN 07/TI MARSEILLE/FRANCE 08/TI FELIXSTOWE/UK 07/TI BARCELONA/SPAIN 04/TI LEHAVRE/FRANCE 08/TI GENOA/ITALY 05/11 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 07/TI LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 04/TI SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 05/11 NEW YORK/EC 04/TI FREMANTLE/ADELAIOE 05/TI VANCOUVER 04/11 BRISBANE 07/TI TORONTO/MONTREAL
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    • 274 42 ASIA HKG/TWN/BKK GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN i 3/11 4/11 5/11 HKG/BKK/KEE/KHH Genoa/Barcelona/Marseilles 11/11 12/11 13/11 5/11 6/11 7/11 HKG/BKK/KEE/KHH G'burf/Chafen/S'holm/Oslo 5/11 6/11 7/11 7/11 8/11 9/11 HKG/BKK/KEE/KHH Piraeus 3/11 4/11 5/11 j Dcrciuiwr Tn 1 7/11 ir\»l /IVp. /klftllll A 3/11 4/11 5/11 SHANGHAI/DALIAN JPN/KOREA/MANIL
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    • 295 42 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD lIA H« IH SKM rati KQ.MC PI HANG Bill INK IS/11 12/11 loading tw Mile «WN MUOHU IVII Loading (or Dubai DOITHN 11/11 |/ii loftfcni For Mate PKMU sunt mi 18/11 loadwg Fot Male UMCEW 14/11 loading F« Male paoottss mm 2/11
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    • 597 47 A HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 [pNA* [~PKE* PCD* KSSELS VOY SM RTM MIT' LOT HUM BftEt Ftt 02/11 04/11 05/11 SI FREEDOM 313** 07/11 25/11 27/11 STH 2770 277TF 29/11 09/11 11/11 12/11 H. COMMNOER 312W 14/11 02/12 04/12 03/12 04/12 04/12 OC/12 16/11
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