The Business Times, 8 March 1995

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  • 10 1 Business Times MITA(P) 194/12/94 Wednesday March 8 1995 WEKSOWASIA 85^
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 50 1 Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON US business confidence dropped to 59.0 in February from a record high of 65.2 in the previous report in December. The US Chamber of Commerce yesterday said "the drop was another clear indication that the economy is slowing in early 1995". Knight-Ridder
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    • 38 1 Reuter BIEL, Switzerland The world's biggest watchmaker, Ste Suisse Microelectronique et d'Horlogerie (SMH) of Switzerland, yesterday said it would shift some production to Asia to counter the costs of the rising Swiss franc.
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  • 171 1 Stock mirfcet indices Tuesday Change ST1I 2,098.53 -28.46 KLSEComp 947.23 -6.17 Nikkei 16,955.28 -85.44 Hang Seng 8,138.66 +44.75 SET Index 1,237.31 +1.58 Jakarta Comp 447.22 -5.66 Manila Comp 2,447.40 -9.14 Taipei WP! 6,480.76 +5.82 Seoul Comp 936.13 +2.69 Bombay BSE30 ....3,504.20 -36.56 CLSA China B 822.75 +4.70 Aust
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  • 472 1  -  From Neil Behrmann, Anthony Rowley THE US dollar has gone off the precipice, free-falling to new lows in Tokyo and London yesterday against the yen and the Deutschemark. In London, the battered US unit closed at 90.75 yen and 1.3745 marks. This
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  • 94 1 SINGAPORE The local dollar surged to another record high of S$ 1.4245 against the US currency yesterday despite two rounds of intervention by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Dealers reported that the Sing dollar started at 551.4350 and strengthened quickly to 551.4290 where it
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  • 69 1 Reuter NEW YORK Stock prices fell sharply yesterday on mounting fears that the Federal Reserve will be forced to boost interest rates to stop the dollar's fall. The Dow Jones industrial average was ofT a steep 37.35 points at 3.960.21 at 1 pm EST.
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  • 123 1 SINGAPORE Continued weakness of the US dollar yesterday overshadowed almost all other factors again as investors in most Asian markets fled to the sidelines in expectation of lower prices. Asian bourses closed mixed, with prices falling in Singapore, Jakarta, Malaysia, Manila, Australia and Tokyo as
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  • 707 1  -  From Neil Behrmann, Shiv Taneja FAILED British investment bank Barings may resume operations today following its rescue by Dutch financial group ING, but the Singapore and Japanese operations will remain frozen for the time being. Baring Futures (Singapore) is
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  • 413 1  -  By Corinne Kerk SINGAPORE Local television production and post-pro-duction group Yellow River Network and Westinghouse Electric Corp's Group W Network Services will invest a total of about $48 million over two years in a new production and satellite
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  • 353 1  -  By Vikram Khanna SINGAPORE Pakistan is nou moving to "redefine its relationship" with the countries of South-east Asia. Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said yesterday. "For a long time. Pakistan has been looking westward for investment. 1 would like Pakistan to
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    • 297 1 o I BRI NG MAGLI JBSfeA A Hr Centrepomt #01-30 Tel: 737 4509 Paragon By Sogo #01-19 Tel: 734 9935 CONTENTS News Companies S pore News 2 .19.21.22 Regional News 4,5.6 Financial 24,25 Wort) News 7.9 Features Markets Analysis 17 CJob/iaSt. StS 2&30 Editorial 16 Regional 26 Sports 12.13 World
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    • 26 1 World Focus: Pa 10 Republicans' setback Hongkong aiifJbints first Chinese financial secretary "w/ mm' 1 A n. w <v M it f; Full report, Pg 5
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    • 50 1 Hock Lock Siew: pg 19 General provisions for finance firms More reports, Pg 3 11 key analysts defect from Baring Securities in Japan Simex should tell its side of the story: CBOT official ING expects to recover funds from Leeson Yeo Cheow Tong on WTO, the Apec formula, Pg 17
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 343 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming THE economic boom continues to boost the number of companies formed. In the first nine months of 1994, 7,195 new firms registered with the Registry of Companies and Businesses 654 more than in the corresponding period in 1993. The Statistics Department's
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    • 427 2  -  By A J Leow THREE freehold residential land parcels worth at least Si3s million have been put up for sale by tender by owners hoping to reap the benefits of new development guide plans. The first two parcels in Tanglin and
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    • 220 2  -  By Claire Leow AM I:RICAN semiconductor company LSI Logic Corporation is taking a IJSS2O million (SS2B.X million) stake in Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM). according to a report yesterday CSM president lan Bock Seng could not be reached for comment, but industry sources
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    • 219 2 AT&T, the giant telecommunications group, has invested U552.5 million in a research and development centre in Singapore. its fourth worldwide for business communications systems. The AT&T Centre of Excellence will support its Asia-Pa-cific distributors and direct sales channels of business communications systems,
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    • 322 2  -  By David Mok ISRAELI high technology firms are keen on establishing joint ventures and manufacturing and R&D partnerships with Singapore companies as a gateway to Asian markets. The trade commissioner at the Israeli Embassy, Avi Liran, told Business Times
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    • 319 2 A MR BEAN look-alike, singing waiters and waitresses, a mechanical horse and Miss Macau are expected to help local travel agents hook sales of at least $16.5 million at the Travel 95 fair next week. The president of the National Association
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    • 148 2 VIETNAMESE Defence Minister General Doan Khue yesterday called on Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and his Singapore counterpart. Dr Lee Boon Yang. General Khue. who arrived on Mondav for a three-dav of- ficial visit, is the first Vietnamese defence minister to visit Singapore. Accompanied
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  • THE BARINGS DEBACLE
    • 350 3  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO A IO FAL of 11 key research staff ot Baring Securities (Japan) have quit the firm and moved en-masse to Britishbased brokerage Smith New Court in Tokyo. Smith New Court in London said the 11 analysts
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    • 418 3 SINGAPORE The Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) should tell its side of the story in the Barings debacle, a visiting official from the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) said yesterday. CBOT's executive vice-pres-ident for planning and operations, Frederick Grede, said Simex
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    • 63 3 IN MONDAY'S story entitled "Leeson near breakdown before fleeing", we said the directors of Baring Futures (Singapore) Pte Ltd had requested Justice Lai Kew Chai for more time to consider handing over relevant documents. The lawyer for Simon Jones, one of the directors, has clarified that Mr Jones had
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    • 205 3 Bloomberg Business News AMSTERDAM Internationale Nederlanden Groep NV. the Dutch finance company that took over Barings pic on Monday, expects to recover money from the British merchant bank's former trader Nick Leeson should he be found guilty of any criminal charges. "Of course
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    • 145 3 LONDON Self-regulation of financial institutions proved helpless to stop British investment hank Barings from collapsing and will not prevent such a disaster recurring. "Self-regulation does help but it certainly does not work." Martyn Bridges, an investigator for accountants louche Ross, yesterday told
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    • 318 3 AP FRANKFURT Nick Leeson. the futures trader blamed for the collapse of Barings, practised the signature of a top Wall Street trader in order to commit forgery, according to Singapore authorities. The complaint, telexed on March 2 to Germany's Federal Criminal Police to support
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 451 4 Bloomberg Business News Reuter, JAKARTA Indonesia's planning minister has warned that the country's economy will be hit by the weak US dollar and said it still needs foreign aid in light of its large foreign debt. "The weak dollar certainly
      Bloomberg Business News; Reuter,  -  451 words
    • NOTE BOOK
      • 78 4 Knight-Ridder KUALA LUMPUR Bank Negara will release its 1994 annual report on March 27, the Malaysian central bank said yesterday. Bank Negara governor Ahmad Mohd Don will hold a press conference in conjunction with the report's release. The annual report contains a review
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      • 103 4 AFP MANILA The Philippine government yesterday lifted travel tax requirements at international airports in the country's south to boost tourism and business links with contiguous areas of South-east Asia. President Fidel Ramos exempted for two years air and sea passengers from the southern Mindanao
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      • 94 4 AFP MANILA The Philippines will set up a nationwide radar system for both civil aviation and air defence, officials announced yesterday. The system is part of the government's efforts to boost the Philippines' defence capabilities, in line with a law passed last month allocating
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      • 62 4 Reuter PHNOM PENH Cambodia has temporarily stopped issuing licences to establish shrimp farms because of increasing environmental damage, a statement from the Environment Ministry said yesterday. "A temporary ban has been placed on new shrimp farming licences and the ministry is looking urgently to develop new
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      • 82 4 Reuter JAKARTA An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale jolted a remote part of Indonesia's Kalimantan province on Borneo island yesterday, officials said. There were no reports of injuries or damage, they said. The quake's epicentre was about 65 km east of Tarakan town in
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    • 385 4 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Titan Ciroup's move to have the import licensing requirements for two types of resins lifted has been lauded by the industry but the Minister of International Trade and Industry says she has yet to receive
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    • 71 4 HANOI Women shopping in Hanoi's first supermarket on Monday. The opening of this first supermarket over the weekend reflects the capital's booming economy and the growing number of newly rich people. The monthly per capita income in Hanoi is around US$55O (*****), Vietnam's
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    • 194 4 AP KUALA LUMPUR Harris Corp of the United States, a high-technology electronics group, plans to invest more than MS2SO million (SSI4O million) in its Malaysian operations over the next five years, its chairman said yesterday. John T Hartley, who is
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    • 224 4 Reuter NEW DELHI Malaysia's national oil and petrochemicals firm Fetronas plans a petroleum refinery in India, a top company official said. "We are currently talking to some existing Indian refineries on building a joint venture refinery," Hamzah Bakar. senior vice-president of Pctronas Trading
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    • 359 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is expected to earn Ms 2 billion (SSI.I billion) from the export of rubberwood furniture this year, Ministry of Primary Industries secretary-general Othman Yeop Abdullah said here yesterday. Malaysia earned MSI.2 billion from the export of rubberwood furniture
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    • 487 4 AP, AFP SINGAPORE Although rebuffed by Thailand. Washington has not given up hope of stationing ships in South-east Asia with supplies for military or humanitarian emergencies, the commander of the US Pacific Command said yesterday. "We are relooking the whole thing."
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 482 5  -  Donald Tsang will take over from Hamish Macleod on Sept 1 From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG THE government yesterday announced that Secretary of Treasury Donald Tsang Yam Kuen will take over as the new financial secretary from Sept 1 this year, making him
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    • 259 5 Reuter BEIJING China must find new jobs for tens of millions of underemployed farmers and workers who face layoffs from money-losing state-owned enterprises. In rural areas, China has 100 million surplus workers who do not have enough farm work,
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    • CHINA WATCH
      • 92 5 Reuter WASHINGTON Thirty-six US senators urged President Bill Clinton on Monday to let President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan visit the United States this year. The United States does not have formal relations with Taiwan because of its recognition of China. Last year, Mr
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      • 38 5 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwanese scientist Lee Lin-shan posing with the Golden Mandarin Number Three computer in Taipei yesterday. The computer is able to "listen" to Chinese being spoken and write the relevant Chinese characters. Reuter
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      • 78 5 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's National People's Congress is likely to pass a new central bank law but will probably postpone other major economic bills until later this year, the official Financial Sews said. A draft of the new law for the People's
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      • 36 5 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI The Central Bank of China, Taiwan's central bank, estimates "M 2" money supply growth declined for the 13th month in February, the Economic Daily News reported.
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    • 178 5 All' TAIPEI Taiwan's trade surplus surged more than fourfold from a year earlier to US$76O million (551.09 billion) in the first two months of this year. The Finance Ministry yesterday said exports in the Janu-ary-February period jumped 21.5 per cent to U5515.93 billion
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    • 245 5 AP. BEIJING Finance Minister Liu Zhongli has unveiled a 1995 budget that shows a central government still struggling to establish its authority to tax the nation's businesses and individuals, while battling to control the free-wheeling spending habits of local and provincial governments.
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 333 6 Govt forecast of 3.75% growth appears on target Reuter SYDNEY Australian labour force figures, to be released tomorrow. are expected to show employment growth in February remained strong but moderated from the high levels of 1994, economists said. They said employment growth
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    • 179 6 Reuter BONN Leaders of Germany and South Korea toasted one another on Monday with the camaraderie that comes with knowing the pain of national partition. "Unfortunately, today the Korean peninsula remains the only place on earth where the Cold War still lingers
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    • 380 6 Reuter WELLINGTON Lower than expected New Zealand producer price index (PPI) figures yesterday tipped the scales in a monetary policy debate towards those arguing that inflation is under control. "I don't think anyone could argue otherwise," said Kevin Smit. National Bank
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    • 200 6 AFP TOKYO Japan will provide US$5.B million (SSB.3 million) in fiscal 1995 to help build safer light-water nuclear reactors in North Korea, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Kozo Igarashi said yesterday. This contribution will be given to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 71 6 AFP TOKYO Capital investment by Japanese manufacturers for the year from April is cxpectcd to grow 3.8 per cent from a year earlier, the first increase in four years, a major business daily said yesterday. The growth, to be led by spending by vehicle makers
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      • 89 6 Reuter NEW DELHI India must keep its trade deficit under control and raise its domestic savings to prevent a Mexican-type flight of capital that could weaken the economy, a leading Latin American economist said yesterday. "One should avoid going into large current-account deficits which means
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      • 103 6 AFP SEOUL South Korea's money supply growth rate was 16.9 per cent in February, down from 19.7 per cent the previous month, the central Bank of Korea (BOK) said yesterday. The money supply (M 2), which includes currency in circulation, short-term and
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      • 59 6 AP NEW DELHI Within one year, Reebok will start selling its shoes in India. The shoes will be marketed by Reebok India, a joint venture between Reebok International and Phoenix Overseas. a local company, the Economic Times newspaper reported yesterday. Reebok will hold 80 per
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  • THE WORLD
    • 405 7 AP MUNICH After bargaining through the night, negotiators announced agreement yesterday on pay inereases of about 4 per cent to end the first strike in 11 years in west German metalworking industries. Employers expressed worry that the aeeord will raise their eosts and
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    • 320 7 Reuter ROME Prime Minister Lamberto Dini yesterday effectively undertook to resign by the end of April to try to swing his predecessor Silvio Berlusconi behind his drive to put Italy's chaotic finances in order. In a statement hours before the Senate
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    • 406 7 World Summit for Social Development Reuter COPENHAGEN International Monetary Fund managing director Michel Camdessus said that despite the market turmoil caused by Mexico's economic crisis there was no need to set up new controls. "There is the need to avoid yielding
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 79 7 Reuter PARIS France and Britain yesterday said they had agreed- to recognise each others' futures and options markets to allow them to ofTer investment services with each other. Economy Minister Edmond Alphandery said he and his British counterpart. Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke,
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      • 74 7 AFP MOSCOW Talks between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Russia on a crucial US$6.3 billion (SS9.I billion) standby loan are virtually wrapped up, with only minor details outstanding, officials said here yesterday. Negotiations at expert level were expected to be finished late yesterday
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      • 97 7 Reuter MOSCOW First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais said a new presidential decree which scrapped customs privileges would win four trillion roubles (SSI.3 billion) for budget coffers, Interfax agency said. President Boris Yeltsin's top economic adviser, Alexander Livshits, told a news conference on Monday
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      • 68 7 UPI WASHINGTON An independent group of economists calling themselves the Shadow Open Market Committee urged the US Federal Reserve Board on Monday to ease off before its tight money policies drive the economy into a recession. At a press conference following its weekend meeting,
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      • 68 7 Reuter WASHINGTON US President Clinton's foreign policy advisers are recommending he take steps to ease relations with Cuba by revoking some economic sanctions adopted in August, administration officials said on Monday. The proposal would lift the ban that blocks Cuban exiles from sending cash
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    • 198 7 AFP JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin yesterday launched a damage limitation exercise as police probed the alleged use of millions of dollars of trade union funds for Labour Party electioneering. "Only individuals are involved, not the Labour Party as such."
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    • 447 9 Reuter BRUSSELS Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller pledged her government would use a landmark agreement with EU states on a customs union as an opportunity to gain a permanent seat at Europe's table. "Today is an historic moment not only
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    • 91 9 Reuter PHOENIX, Arizona Don and Shirley Pence of Phoenix addressing a press conference on Monday after winning the LS$lOl.B million (*****.5 million) Powerball lottery jackpot in a draw at the weekend. The couple will share their winnings with their daughter. C arrie Smego. The jackpot
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    • 312 9 AFP O'ITAW Canada warned the European Union on Monday that Spanish and Portuguese trawlers must voluntarily eease fishing for turhot on the Grand Hanks or else faee measures to make them stop. "One way or another, this activit) will be stopped." I isheries
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    • 327 9 Reuter WASHINGTON The number two man at the the US central bank gave an upbeat assessment of the US economic outlook on Monday, saying the high-flying economy looked on course to achieving a much-sought-after soft landing. "The US economy is in very good
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    • 322 9 Reuter MEXICO CITY Mexico's crackdown on banking consortium Asemex-Banpais on charges it was sloppily run has raised fears other major banks could fall back into government hands, analysts said on Monday. "This just makes people very nervous," said Susan
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    • 149 9 AFP PARIS Some 80 European manufaeturers of ear parts are seeking to boost sales in Japan at a two-day conference, ending here yesterday, that has targeted Japanese car makers. The gathering was organised by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers' Association and the European Union's association
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    • 910 11 Electricite de France opens a regional office in Singapore flu v 7 X EDF has been operating in South East Asia for over 20 years. sSKraH 9H| BML U *SL# n n more recen Y e ars, EDF's role has evolved from an active T the Message from Message from
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  • SPORTS
    • SIDE LINES
      • 75 12 SINGAPORE National soccer coach Douglas Moore will deliver the Singapore Recreation Club Lecture this Sunday at 10 am at the SRC, 179 River Valley Road. His topic: "The challenges facing Singapore soccer in the 21st century". Ihe SRC Lecture, a community sports project
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      • 81 12 AP LONDON Nick Laldo and Lrnie Lis were listed as joint favourites by British bookmakers on Monday for next month's Masters. Faldo's odds were slashed from 14-1 to 7-1 following his victory on Sunday at the Doral-Ryder Open. Bookmakers Ladbrokes had offered 16-1 odds on
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      • 74 12 AFP AUCKLAND Half-centuries by South Africa's top three batsmen put their team in a strong position yesterday in the centenary Test here against New Zealand. At stumps. South Africa had reached 232 for four, giving them a 198-run lead over the home side.
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      • 59 12 AFP INDIAN WELLS, California Mary Joe Hernandez broke Natasha Zvereva three times in eaeh set for a 6-4. 6-3 triumph here on Monday in the rain-delayed finals of the WTA Evert Cup. The US veteran took home U5579,000 (S$ 112,800) for the vietory, her fifth in
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    • 826 12 Golf Reuter MIAMI Nick Faldo and Greg Norman have duelled down the stretch many times before, but the steady Briton's one-stroke victory over the swashbuckling Norman at the Doral-Rvder Open on Sunday was memorable for its clumsy conclusion. In a tough
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    • 1030 12 America's Cup NYT SAN DIEGO The day after the US$3 million (554.29 million) yacht one-Australia sank in only two minutes in choppy seas, America's Cup race organises and competitors mulled over whether the boats should have been racing at all. And if so, why it
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    • 596 13 AFP WASHINGTON Tennis needs new rivalries to thwart prophecies of doom, with Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras hopeful of matching such legends as Bjorn Borg against Jimmy Connors or Ivan Lendl against John McEnroe. Agassi's pursuit of world number one Sampras and the
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    • 52 13 Reuter LONDON Jockeys Norman Williamson (left) and John Reid with racehorse. Stalled, to promote a radical new sponsorship programme by photocopier and fax company Danka. The Danka logo will appear on the colours of horses trained at the racing centre of for about £350,000 (S$805,000) over three
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    • 565 13 Reuter PARIS World champion Michael Schumacher has a fervent if optimistic wish heading into the 1995 Formula One series he wants it free of controversy. "I'm looking forward to a season with just sport and no political issues," said Schumacher, whose Benetton team
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    • SCORE CARD
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        20 13 NEW YORK NBA on Monday: Chicago 103 Portland 83; Seattle 103 Golden State 106: LA Clippers 101 Minnesota 88.
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        126 13 AUCKLAND South Africa, with six second innings wickets in hand, led New Zealand by 198 runs at close of play on the fourth day of the centenary test match. Scores: South Africa 294 and 232 for four (G Kirsten 76, A Hudson 64, H Cronje 58 not out). New
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        276 13 LONDON World rankings issued on Monday (US unless stated): 1 Nick Price (Zim) 22.42 pts ave 2 Greg Norman (Aust) 20.17 3 Nick Faldo (GB) 17.67 4 Ernie Els (SA) 15.02 5 Jose Maria Olazabal (Spn) 14.91 6 Bcrnhard Langcr (Gcr) 14.62 7 Fred Couples 14.04 8 Colin Montgomerie
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      • Article, Illustration
        162 13 INDIAN WELLS, California U*****,000 (*****.500) Evert Cup singles final: 8-Mary Joe Fernandez (US) b 4-Natasha Zvcrcva (Bela) 6-4 6-3. Doubles: 2-Lindsay Davenport/Lisa Raymond (US) b l-Ar- antxa Sanchez Vicario (SpnVLarisa Neiland (Ukr) 2-6 6-4 6-3. MONTE CARLO ATP lour rankings released on Monday: 1 Pete Sampras (US) 4.389 pts
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        118 13 SAN 1)1 KGO America's Cup 4th rd trials on Monday Challenger series (wins worth five points): Team New Zealand (Peter Blake) b Rioja dc Espana (Pedro Campos) by 1:15 mins: France 3 (Marc Pajot) b One Australia (John Bertrand) which did not start; Tag Heuer Challenge (Chris Dickson) b
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    • 349 13 HSBC Holdings pic <Z> Results for 1994 j^ e p er f ormance 0 f ih e HSBC Group 1994 1994 1993 in 1994 was satisfactory; given ussm For the year £m £m difficult conditions in the treasury 4,857 Profit before tax 3,166 2,584 and capital markets, coupled with Profit
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    • 840 15  -  Antony Thorncroft talks to Andrew Lloyd Webber about his obsessions Antony Thorncroft FT I any fiI U nancial questions. 1 don't get involved with the business. I haven't even got an office at the Really Useful Group." Thus Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber glides smoothly over his
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    • 263 15 CHATTERBOX UPI AFP AP TAIWANESE director Tsai Minh Liang won the Golden Panda award at the 11th Asian film festival at Montpellier, France, on Sunday for his production Rebels of a Neon God. organisers said. The 38-year-old director had also been honoured at the Venice
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    • 757 15 TV RADIO UK 9 J Earthvisions 1: In Care of Na- J ture. 9pm, Cti 12 M A young French woman goes to Borneo to study the social Kk\ 1*" behaviour of Asia's biggest ape K' I Ji= the orangutan. 2: Falcons Over Paris, 9.30pm, vjsj Chl2 "11 9 The
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  • 534 16 EDITORIAL r FOR several days and with no major success, the US Federal Reserve and 16 other central banks have been trying to prop up the US dollar as it kept sinking ever lower against the yen, the mark and other major currencies. The
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 180 16 The Straits Times March 7 HAVE Singapore workers shown themselves to be better investors of their retirement savings than the managers of the Central Provident Fund? The report card just in, for the one-year period, Oct 1, 1993 to Sep 30, 1994, does not look encouraging,
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    • 188 16  -  Berita Harian SINGAPOREANS must certainly be proud that their legal system has been cited as among the best in the world. Being Asian, our legal system has taken into account our values system, that may work as deterrence like the recent go-ahead for molesters to be shown
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    • 171 16  -  Lianhe Zaobao CHINA'S ECONOMY is thriving. However, rapid growth of the market economy has also brought about many problems, of which ever rising prices and rampant corruption are two that the Chinese people are most concerned with. Galloping prices have a serious impact on political
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    • 123 16 The Nikkei Weekly March 6 IN THE WAKE of the Barings debacle, financial institutions dealing in derivatives must step up their monitoring of these trading activities and establish a system to keep track of their own positions and exposure to risk. Japanese institutions, which have begun
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    • 140 16 Eastern Express March 6 YESTERDAY'S 25.8 per cent turnout in the municipal poll can be interpreted in several ways. Those who oppose democracy may feel justified in claiming that Hongkong is not all that interested. Those who are fearful of events after the transition may
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  • 1249 16  -  Anthony Rowley discusses why a rescue plan for two failed Tokyo credit unions is under tire and what it portends for Japan's troubled financial industry as a whole Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo Correspondent The decision last week by the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
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    • 1023 17  -  The World Trade Organisation: deadlock over the top post, and Singapore starts preparing for the big meeting YANG RAZALI KASSIM YANG RAZALI KASSIM The writer is BT's Regional Analysis Editor Having successfully taken over the key levers of decisionmaking in the World Trade Organisation,
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    • 1173 17 FOR THE next several months, Trade and Industry Minister Yeo Cheow Tong will be one very busy man. The world is coming to Singapore for a big trade party next year. He has to play host and ensure that all systems go. So don't
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  • 494 18 Reuter BONN Companies from the fast-growing eeonomies of Asia have embarked on a buying spree in Germany, turning a blind eye to high labour eosts and long holidays here in their quest to expand in the European market. Investors from
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  • 194 18 Reuter NEW DELHI Economists from developed nations said they saw a drop in the demand for unskilled labour after years of cheap imports from developing economies but warned against protectionist steps linked to labour. Economists from the Parisbased Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Devel-
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  • 42 18 Reuter HANOVER, Germany A young woman presenting a telephone, designed like the spaceship Enterprise, at the computer fair Cebit yesterday. Six-thousand-and-eighty-eight exhibitors are showing their new products of computers, communication and information systems. The fair ends on March 15. Keuter
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  • 262 18 Bloomberg Business News HANOVER. Germany The mobile phone subsidiaries of state-run Deutsche Telekom AG and GTE Corp yesterday said they will provide the world's first trans-Atlantic mobile phone network. Financial details of the alliance were not disclosed. Lothar Hunsel. chief executive
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  • 187 18 Reuter ROME An Italian court yesterday ordered the seizure of assets worth up to 1.9 trillion lire (SSI.4 billion) from former health minister Francesco de Lorenzo and associates involved in a bribery scheme that pushed up the cost of medicines. The Court of
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  • 370 18 AFP NEW DELHI More than five million people voted yesterday in the eastern Indian state of Orissa in the latest in a series of make-or-break provincial elections for Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao. officials said. Fifty per cent of the 10.3 million
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  • 725 18  -  The Bottom Line LIM HOCK KHENG LIM HOCK KHENG The writer is the director of an international accounting firm 's bank consultancy unit specialising in treasury and risk management THE collapse* of Barings pic, Britain's oldest merchant hank will take its place
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  • 353 18 Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON United States officials acknowledge that the Mexican economy could slip into recession this year, and see the peso as unlikely to recover much, even with a US$2O billion (SS29 billion) aid package. "It's pretty much conceded (among
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 575 19  -  Keppel group results By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Keppel Bank, the first listed bank to release 1994 results, yesterday said its group net earnings surged an impressive 40.3 per cent to $64.4 million. The bank said its strong performance was "broad based
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    • 355 19  -  By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE Higher profits from commercial and residential projects helped lift Straits Steamship Land's net earnings 64 per cent to a record $59.35 million for the year to Dec 31, 1994. The improved performance achieved with a huge increase in turnover
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    • 403 19 SINGAPORE Group earnings of listed rigbuilder Far East Levingston Shipbuilding (Fels) jumped 24 per cent to $42.5 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1994. This translates to a 5 per cent increase in earnings per share (EPS) of 25.6 cents. Its performance,
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    • 798 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Alvin Tay SINGAPORE What a contrasting performance by Keppel Finance and Focal Finance! On Monday, Keppel Finance reported a 53 per cent jump in group earnings to Si8.6 million for 1994, on a 30 per cent rise
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    • 392 19  -  By Michelle Low SINGAPORE Industrial hardware maker Sin Soon Huat (SSH) is braving the market with an initial public offer of 42 million shares on Sesdaq. This makes SSH the second company to go public here this year, almost two months
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    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        48 19 Mixed Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers filled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Alliance. Credit Lyonnais Securities, Dai*a, hraser, GK Goh. Kay Hian, Morgan Grenfell, OngCo, Nomura, Phillip, Smith New Court, WI Carr and SG Warburg.
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        117 19  -  Quak Hiang Whai For those who plan to buy Sime Darby in a big way, it is advisable to take some caution. The stock has already added close to a $1 in one month and may be due for some consolidation before it could move up further. Daily
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    • COMPANIES
      • 346 21  -  From Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR CONSTRUCTION and power generation group YTL Corporation Bhd stunned analysts yesterday when it announced a 183 per cent jump in net profits to M 557.42 million (SS3I million) for the first six months ended Dec
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      • 502 21  -  Joint partners Guthrie, Lee Kim Tah say complex will be aimed at families By/ Agnes Wee SINGAPORE Listed companies Guthrie GTS and Lee Kim Tah Holdings are launching their first joint-de-velopment a $120 million suburban retail project called Jurong Point, at Jurong West. At
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      • 297 21 SINGAPORE Malaysian corporate raider Quek Leng Chan has mopped up yet more Yeo Hiap Seng shares, raising his interest to 6.7 per cent through purchases worth $13.13 million. The latest purchases were made between Feb 27 and March 2 at prices ranging
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      • 564 21 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS MaMgerV prices Mar 8 us Gr Fund 0 99 101" Singapore Unit Trust (JOB Asset Mgt Ltd The Commerce 1.59 1.68 IJmfund 1.32 138 The Savings Fund 142 1 50xd Unibond f 1015 1040 S]porc Prog Fund 0 58 0.62 United Gr Fund 1.55 161 S;pore Set
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 61 21 SINGAPORE Paint maker Berger International has posted a 34 per ccnt rise in group net earnings to $4.47 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1994. up from 53.34 million in 1993. Earnings per share was 4.62 cents, up from 4.08 cents previously. Group turnover rose
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        • 31 21 SINGAPORE Bestmix Ptc Ltd. a subsidiary of SPP Limited, has acquired 30 per eent of QAS-RMC a Singapore company that supplies readyniixed concrete in Myanmar.
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        • 85 21 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian conglomerate Berjaya Group said it has received the Securities Commission's permission to issue rights shares in the ratio of one share for every two held. It will issue 260.64 million new ordinary shares of MSI each at a premium of 80 sen
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        • 79 21 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Lion Land Bhd has clinched a deal to make and assemble minivans and light trucks in China through a joint venture with a Chinese company. Lion land's whollyowned subsidiary Supreme Properties will form an equal partnership with Tianjin Automotive Industry Corporation
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        • 37 21 All* SINGAPORE Indonesia's publicly-listed transport firm PI Steady Safe yesterday obtained a syndicated US$25 million (5535.7 million) loan from eight offshore banks in Singapore to expand its business, officials said. ALP
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      • 298 21  -  By Lee Han Shih SINCi APORI; An announcement yesterday suggested the powerful Kwek family of the Hong Leong group may have withdrawn its support for Indonesian businessman Sukarman Sukamto's hid to take control of listed Parkway Holdings. Parkway told the Stock
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      • 333 21 SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel) has totally removed itself from the Hongkong paging market since March 1. the company said yesterday in response to an article in BI The BT article yesterday queried whether Sing Tel was still involved in the Hongkong
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      • 411 22 AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan has allowed Motorola to resume its mobile phone service in Karachi after the US firm allowed authorities to eavesdrop on some calls for security reasons, company officials said. The Karachi network of the US telecommunications giant is likely
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      • 203 22  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Tibs Holdings has formed a joint venture in China to operate a string of transport and tour-ist-related businesses in the province of Shandong. The company said yesterday the businesses include taxis and inter-city coaches, car rental, a
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      • 209 22  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE: Morgan Grcnfell Asia (MGA) said on Monday that it was the top project finance adviser in the Asia-Pacific for the fourth consecutive year, with 44 mandates last year. The merchant bank said it topped the list in
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 86 22 AFP HONGKONG Canadian telecommunication giant Northern Telecom yesterday said it had won USSSO million (5571.5 million) worth of contracts to supply digital switching systems to three areas in China. The contracts, which will support a total of close to 500.000 subscriber telephone lines, were awarded
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        • 50 22 Reuter CHIBA, Japan US Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale taking a bottle of mineral water manufactured by the California Mountain Water Co after the opening ceremony of the US pavilion at Foodex Japan here yesterday. More than 100 companies took part in this year's exhibition. Reuter
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        • 88 22 AFP TOKYO Japanese steelmaker NKK Corp on Friday projected a pre-tax loss of 45 billion yen (***** million) for the year to March, up from 24.2 billion yen a year earlier. The company also projected sales of 1.18 trillion yen for the same period, down from
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        • 125 22 Reuter IRVINE. California Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it has begun its previously announced tender offer for 5.82 million shares, or about 18 per cent of the outstanding shares, of AST Research Inc for US$22 per share. In addition to the
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        • 50 22 AFP STOCKHOLM Swedish home appliances group Electrolux announced on Monday that it has bought 51 per cent of the shares in Indian group Maharaja International, which operates in the same sector. It said the value of the deal is US$l3.3 million (SSI9 million). AFP
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        • 69 22 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI The Economics Ministry's Investment Commission on Monday gave DuPont Co permission to invest US$B2.7 million (SSIIB million) in its Taiwan subsidiary, the ministry said. In January. Wilmington. Delaware-based DuPont said it and Far Eastern Textile Ltd, one of Taiwan's largest textile
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      • 565 22 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Foreign investors in the next few days will have a chance to buy a stake in what has been one of the highest-fly-ers in the Taiwan computer industry in the *****. GVC Corp. a leading Taiwanese
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      • 424 23 Reuter LONDON The Wellcome Trust confirmed that it had accepted Glaxo's offer for Wellcome and said it was looking forward to being the biggest shareholder in the combined Glaxo Wellcome company. Wellcome earlier accepted defeat in its battle against the £9 billion (5520.7
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      • 324 23 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Oppenheimer Co held acquisition talks with Dutch banking giant Internationale Nederlanden Groep NV in the past month, the New York investment bank and brokerage's president said. Nathan Gantcher, in an internal conference call, said that
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      • 176 23 Reuter GENEVA Mercedes-Benz AG chairman Helmut Werner says his company got off to a strong start in 1995, with monthly volume levels in January the best since June 1994. "The year has started consistently well for MercedesBenz," he said, according to the text of
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      • 236 23 LONDON Barclays pic yesterday said 1994 pre-tax profit rose to £1.859 billion (554.3 billion) from £664 million the previous year as sharply lower provisions for bad debts outweighed falling interest income and securities trading profits. The figure is at the lower end
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      • 320 23 Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON In a victory for disgruntled investors, the Supreme Court has ruled that securities brokers can be forced to pay punitive damages to their customers in a dispute resolved by arbitrators. The 8-1 decision puts the securities industry
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      • 472 23 TV shopping firm's chairman steps down following takeover Reuter PHILADELPHIA Barry Diller, the Hollywood master television programmer who took over QVC Inc in 1993 amid a blaze of publicity, has left the television shopping firm quietly through the back door. A QVC spokeswoman on Monday
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      • 532 23 Bloomberg Business News BETHESDA, Maryland Marriott International Inc said on Monday it agreed to acquire 49 per cent of Ritz-Carl-ton Hotel Co in a bid to expand into the luxury lodging business. Marriott and three partners plan to pay USSISO million
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      • 267 23 NYT NEW YORK Elf Aquitaine SA of France and the Williams Companies announced on Monday that they had sold Texasgulf Inc, one of the world's largest producers of phosphate rock, to the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan for US$BlO million (551.158 billion) in cash. The
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 449 24 Reuter SHANGHAI Shanghai eased trading controls over its scandal-hit bond futures market yesterday, but not on the key contract that brought the stock exchange to the brink of disaster last month. Trading will resume with sharply higher margin requirements. The exchange also said
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      • 36 24 Reuter MELBOURNE A huge fireball fills Melbourne's sky after a petrol tanker overturned yesterday. The driver jumped free as 40,000 litres of petrol fed a spectacular blaze, shattering windows in nearby buildings. Reuter
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      • 287 24 Reuter VANCOUVER De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd pulled the plug on Monday on a Canadian diamond exploration venture after it failed to live up to its early promise, underscoring the risks in the country's Arctic gem rush. "Following a comprehensive evaluation of
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      • 253 24 Knight-Ridder SINGAPORE Gas oil prices are likely to soften as Indian Oil Corp has bought only 11 cargoes in its tender for April delivery, lower than the 14-17 cargoes that the market has been expecting. Traders yesterday said
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 68 24 SINGAPORE Indonesian transportation firm PT Steady Safe yesterday signed an agreement with a group of banks to raise a US$25 million (Ss36 million) loan. Arranged by Banque Nationale de Paris, the syndication comprised eight offshore banks, including Singapore's DBS Bank and Tat Lee Bank.
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        • 68 24 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's top 21 banks will write off more than 50 per cent of their non-performing loans by March 31, the end of the current fiscal year. Yoshimasa Nishimura, a senior Finance Ministry official, yesterday said the 21 banks reported
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        • 56 24 Reuter HANOI Citibank formally launched its first branch here on Monday, and said it planned to attract some of the world's top companies to invest in the communist country. "We are going to launch an effort to do some matchmaking, to introduce our customers to
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        • 89 24 AFP BEIJING The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) has signed an agreement with Japanese financial managers to issue nearly US$l6O million (***** million) worth of Samurai bonds on Tokyo's securities market. Japan's Daiwa Securities Co is to be the leading manager for the 15
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        • 87 24 Reuter SEOUL Daewoo Corp, the trading arm of South Korea's Daewoo Group, has decided to scrap a plan to issue US$7O million (SSI(X) million) in depositary receipts for listing on the London exchange. "We have given up the plan due to the Barings failure's impact
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      • 184 24 Reuter LONDON Lloyd's of London cannot afford any more of the regulatory failures that have plagued the insurance market in recent years. "Lloyd's cannot afford more regulatory lapses of the kind that have been revealed in the past few years and which
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      • 322 24 Reuter CHICAGO Futures traders have been struck once again by a misalignment between price moves allowed for futures traded on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and those allowed on Globex. The discrepancy, this time in Swiss franc
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      • 288 24 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg NEW YORK Heating oil futures fell to the lowest price in more than 11 months as the arrival of spring-like weather signalled an end to winter's home-heating season, leading companies to sell off their ample supplies. After
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      • 190 24 Reuter LONDON The dollar was hardly changed in early European dealings despite lack of concerted central bank intervention overnight as it tried to find a foothold against the surging mark and yen. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) continued to intervene to keep the dollar from slipping through the
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      • 97 24 Reuter NEW YORK The dollar opened on the slide against major currencies except sterling yesterday in brisk trading but a technical correction helped it to level off a bit. At 1500 GMT, the dollar was trading at 1.3934 marks from 1.4035 late Monday and at 91.75 yen from
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        1686 24 trade-*eifhuxl inje\ tabulated againsl S'pare't tup H trading parr net Boh- year IWI< US$/S$ forward rates Noon /Mar 7 s$ Bid Offer 1-month 1423} 1.42)0 2-month ***** 1 4216 3-month 1.4164 ***** b-month ***** ***** Souriv Ol'BC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9m m Mar 7 Singapore
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1469 25 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures ended sharply firmer as the surging yen bolstered debt instruments. while the sagging US dollar kept Eurodollar futures flat. The March Euroyen contract, which expires this week, rose to 97.77 trom 97.73, September Euroyen jumped to
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      • 689 25 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber TOKYO: Rubber futures closed sharply lower led by active selling by large-lot investors in the afternoon in an already bearish market on the back of the yen's appreciation against the dollar. Prices fell 2.9 to 6.2 yen per kg, with benchmark August
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        • 84 25 TOKYO China's production of nickcl soared 27 per cent in January to 3.120 tonnes, compared with 2,457 tonnes in Jan 1994. according to data provided by the China National Non-ferrous Metals Industry Corp. The January figure is 36 per cent higher than the 2,294 tonnes
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        • 142 25 MOSCOW Russia will face a shortage of sugar likely to total 800.000 tonnes in the first six months of this year, according to sources in the Russian Trade Committee, the Interfax News Agency reported on Monday. The sources said Russia will also face a
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        • 124 25 BANGALORE. India India's coffee growers have told Commerce Ministry officials they won't object if restrictions on coffee imports are removed, provided they are allowed to sell all their produce in the free market. "If the authorities perceive imports as one way of controlling domestic prices
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      • 1490 25 Rubber Mar i Singapore Commodity Exchange Physical Prices (futures dosing as at 5.30pm) Buyers Setters As at 12 noon (S cents/kg) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open RSS 2 Apr 95 269.50 270.50N Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest KSS 3 Apr 95 268.50 269 50N
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1064 26 -0.4 SHARES nudged marginally lower yesterday as investors sat on the sidelines in lacklustre trade ahead of the release of economic data later in the week. The All Ordinaries Index closed at 1.891.2 points, down 0.4. The All Industrials fell 3.8 to 2,833.9 and the All Resources firmed 2.4
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      • 147 26 -9.14 Share prices slid in thin trading as the problems of the peso and interest rate worries kept many investors ofT the floor. The PSE Index finished 9.14 points lower at 2,447.4. Turnover was 1.18 billion valued at 654.6 million peso. Rising interest rates and the depreciation of the
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      • 516 26 +5.82 Stocks staged a weak comeback, boosted by market heavyweight banking and insurance shares. The 422-issue Weighted Price Index gained 5.82 points to close at 6,480.76. Turnover was 744 million shares worth NT530.35 billion. Falls outpaced rises 218 at 84, with 120 issues unchanged. The market opened slightly high
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      • 148 26 +2.69 Shares nudged upwards for the fifth straight g day in a tug-of-war between arbitrage selling and continued bargain hunting. The Composite Price Index edged up 2.69 points to close at 936.13. Turnover was 27.82 million shares worth 546.6 billion won. Rises outweighed falls by 408 to 341 with
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      • 340 26 -1.12 Shares ended mixed in thin volume, with strength in Telecom balanced by weakness among other leaders. Telecom added four cents to NZ$5.4l but forestry stocks were weaker, with Carter Holt Harvey oil three at NZ$3.3l and Fletcher Challenge down one to NZ$3.Bl. Dealers said cyclical stocks were
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      • 78 26 -36.56 Lack of adequate buying support combined with mild profit booking by corporates weakened share prices in a day of lacklustre trade. The 30-share BSE Index fell 36.56 points to 3,504.20 while the 100-share National Index declined 8.34 to 1,697.18. Brokers said most speculators had slackened their purchases on
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      • 902 26 -24.9 BLUE chips ended a difficult session showing losses across the board, with few positive highlights. The FTSE-100 closed down 24.9 points at 2,977.0. Dealers reported little support for shares throughout the session after shock news from electricity regulator, OFFER, that it would consider tighter price controls for the
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      • 144 26 -49.23 French shares started slightly higher in a technical reaction to Monday's 1.2 per cent drop but closed lower on the back of currency turmoil, dealers said. They noted sentiment was still very weak due to the temporary fragility of the franc, they added. the CAC-40 Index finished at
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      • 162 26 •16.98 German shares slipped because of the dollar's continuing weakness and worry about the effects of the compromise wage deal in the German metalworking industry, traders said. the DAX Index finished the day at 2,053.34 points, off 16.98. Frankfurt Mar 7 DM AEG 137 80 -I.J BASF V. 304
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      • 122 26 -9.18 Swedish shares fell as equities traders caught the general mood of pessimism and despair and took their money home with them. "Interest rates, currencies and foreign exchanges are dragging down the bourse. There's enormous uncertainty, it really doesn't look good," said a broker. The OMX Index fell 9.18
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      • 191 26 •21.88 Continued dollar weakness along with higher bond yields and Bel-20 basket selling sent Belgian shares to a sharply lower close. The Bel-20 Index, cur- rently setting its lowest levels since September 1993, closed 21.88 points lower at 1,276.58 after dipping to 1,270.07. "There's good support around 1,270 I
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      • 252 26 -8.9 A weak dollar and easier bond markets led Swiss shares to a lower close. Banks, however, showed resilience as the strong franc nourished hopes that new funds would flow into the Swiss market and that the strong currency would ease interest rates. Dealers said the market mainly followed
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      • 140 26 -7fi Italian shares drifted lower in directionless trade with the weakness of the lira and bonds encouraging some sales. the market was waiting for the Senate vote on the government's budget package although approval is discounted. Prime Minister Lamberto Dini has a comfortable majority in the Upper House. "The
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      • 298 26 +20.4 A strong gold price run towards the close buoyed related stocks after a mostly quiet start. The bullion rise brought fresh buyers into the market after initial scepticism that gold could hold and extend gains. Other stocks ended mostly better in line with recent improved sentiment towards industrials.
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      • 241 26 +6.4 Stocks edged higher in moderate early trading as rallying gold shares offset weakness in several other sectors, traders said. The TSE 300 composite index rose 6.4 points to 4,123.50 in light volume of 14.3 million valued at C 5161.00 million Advancing issues outpaced declines, 194 to 163, with
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      • 291 26 -3.38 Dutch shares crept back from a new 1995 low hit in afternoon trade but still closed below the important 400-point support level. The AEX Index closed down 3.38 points at 398.74, but off the low of 397.94 points. Some operators say the close below 400 could prompt the
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      • 722 26 -15.56 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rose 7.95 points on Monday, was down 15.56 to 3,982.00 at Mam EST. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index was off 1.07 to 262.04, while Standard Poor's 500-stock Index was down 2.13 to 483.50. Falls outnumbered rises 1,192-599 among the
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      3100 27 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks rose for the first time in five days as a rally in conglomerate issues offset a drop in HSBC Holdings. Hutchison Whampoa and Swire Pacific kept benchmark stocks in the black as the US dollar steadied. The dollar's rebound from a postwar low against
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      628 27 CLSA HONGKONG H shares fell 1.2 per cent on volume of HK562.6 million as selling pressure dominated the market. Shanghai Petrochemical and Yizheng were the most heavily-traded stocks on turnover of some HK$l5 million. Yizheng Chemical was the largest loser, down 3.7 per cent. In Shanghai, the B Index
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      2547 27 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks fell on concern that the stubborn strength of the yen will erode the earnings of exporters at the core of Japan's economy, analysts said. "Investors weren't all that worried about the yen's gain at first, but it's come so far that on second thoughts,
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      1794 27 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks closcd slightly higher on buying of blue chips after hovering in a narrow range throughout the day. The SET Index closed up 1.58 points to 1,237.31. A total 43.9 million shares worth 3.1 billion baht changed hands. "The gain was limited because the market lacked buying
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      1165 27 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed lower in thin trading and active local selling coupled with generally weak sentiment. "Local players appeared to he too cautious on talk of a possible interest rate hike in the US following the dollar crisis." one broker said. Sampoerna was among those subject to
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    • 366 31  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Marinebased FT Cumawis, a member of Indonesia's Samudera Group, plans to buy 11 vessels over the next five years. Its fleet expansion plan was disclosed in the latest issue of Samudera News. Samudera group public relations manager Aparna Vidyanath told
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    • 379 31 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK Tanker markets on Monday remained relatively quiet and devoid of demand for March loaders, brokers said. From the Persian Gulf, Mobil opened and quickly fixed the 290,691-deadweight-tonne New Vision at a steady worldscale 45 for a March 22-24 270,000-tonne cargo
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    • 143 31 Knight-Ridder BONN Economics Minister Guenter Rexrodt, meeting his South Korean counterpart on Monday, said he was concerned about South Korean plans to expand its shipbuilding capacity. Welcoming South Korea's decision to sign the 1994 OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) agreement to
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    • 190 31 Reuter BEIJING Chinese lawmakers complained on Monday about mismanagement of puklie works that had led to costly shipping disruptions on the Yangtze river, the official Xinhua news agency said. National People's Congress delegates from Sichuan province said Yangtze shipping could face further interruptions during
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    • 292 31 AFP VANCOUVER. Canada A Filipino sailor said on Monday he was assaulted and intimidated for complaining about waste oil being dumped overboard from the Japaneseowned container ship he sailed on. Hector Victorino says oil was dumped almost daily as the Alligator Independence
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    • 1838 32 DRY CARGO freight rates on the Atlantic were strong enough to send the Baltic Freight Index (BFI) to a new record even though many brokers considered conditions for Panamaxes a little easier in the Pacific. The situation in the West proved sufficient to propel the 10-year old index
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    • 1684 33  -  China is urgently seeking overseas financing for the development of its ports and shipyards, reports Francine Brevetti Francine Brevetti Seatrade Review CHINESE maritime sources will speak at great length about their ambitious plans for national ports, terminals and shipyards, but they are less specific
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    • 11646 40 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Pcnang after
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      • 495 50 Reuter NEW YORK The largest US airlines are getting a shot in the arm from investors who are growing increasingly confident that recent fare rises and other actions will help carriers recover from four years of losses. A rally in airline stocks,
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        53 50 TOKYO Motor journalists inspecting the Toyota ASV (Advanced Safety Vehicle), an experimental safety car, developed by Japan's biggest car maker Toyota at its Tokyo headquarters on Monday. The car uses a host of advanced electronic systems to make motoring safer by eliminating driver error, a Toyota Motor spokesman
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      • 192 50 Reuter LONDON A US judge has turned down British Airways pic leave to appeal her decision in January that the US courts have jurisdiction to try its long-running "dirty tricks" dispute with UK rival Virgin Atlantic Airways. The airlines
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      • 483 50 Reuter GENEVA Car sales are pointing tentatively upwards again in western Europe after being ravaged by the recession. But as industry leaders gather here for the annual Geneva car show, the recovery has already begun to stutter. The industry hopes that a
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      • 391 50 AFP BONN The Dasa aero group and Samsung Aerospace ot South Korea have agreed to study the feasibility of building a regional transport jet with 100-120 seats. Dasa said on Monday. Daimler-Ben/ Aerospace, known as Dasa. said its 49 per cent-owned subsidiary
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      • 99 50 Bloomberg Business News BERLIN Amadeus, Europe's largest flight reservation system, will acquire System One from Continental Airlines, creating the world's largest computerised flight reservation network. Amadeus, which is jointly owned by the largest carriers of Germany, France and Spain, declined to disclose terms of
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      • 374 50 UPI BANGALORE, India McDonnell Douglas Aircraft is looking for Indian joint venture partners to help produce structural and system components for its aircraft, a senior company official said on Monday. "McDonnell Douglas is offering 38 work packages to Indian companies," the US aircraft
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        • 89 50 AFP MANAMA The International Air Transport Association (lata) opened a conference here on Monday to study ways to cut the number of plane crashes. "Eighty per cent of plane crashes are caused by human error." said lata director-general Pierre Jeanniot. The two-day conference
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        • 87 50 Bloomberg Business News ST LOUIS McDonnell Douglas Corp said on Monday it will lay off 1,300 people as it shuts down two plants to cope with the Pentagon's shrinking military budget. St Louis-based McDonnell Douglas, which has cut roughly 60,000 jobs since 1990, will
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        • 80 50 AP ST JEAN-CAP FERRAT, France Seeking a market niche somewhere beyond luxury, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is unveiling its most expensive model yet: a U*****,000 (*****.000) convertible, the Bentley Azure. To chief executive Chris Woodwark. the equivalent of the new model cannot be found on four
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    • 980 39 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. j I BCR NO **********0E VESSEL VOY SIN CMB JIB HOD JED AQJ AOE PZU MSW ASA KOTA WIRAWAN WRNS3S 8/3 14/3 20/3 22/3 24/3 27/3 1/4 5/4 5/5 9/4 KOTA BERANI BRNISP 17/3 23/3 29/3
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    • 579 42 RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD TEL: *****33 (12 Lines) K-* FAX: *****15/*****03 CO TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) CR NO.: **********0E ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Vmml Voy ETA Loading For Spor* Andinei 38WB 12/04 Mombasa. Djibouti Assab. Massawa Abbay Wonz 43W8
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    • 343 43 SINO EXPRESS SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. L# I 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. S TEL: *****90 (4 LINES) FAX: *****98 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKG/SHAI S'PORE HKG SHAI VESSEL VOY ETA I ETD ETA I ETD ETA j ETD LATMOS 925/926 7/3 8/3 13/3 14/3
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    • 1549 44 unmmsm U. S. A. /CANADA 3 TIMES A WEEK MAERSK YOKOHAMA V.9506 ETA SIN 13TH MARCH 95 MARGRETHE MAERSK V.9504 ETA SIN 14TH MARCH 95 AXEL MAERSK V.9506 ETA SIN 15TH MARCH 95 Vessel Voy ETA I ETD 1 DESTINATIONS Next Week PANAMA Next Week 6TH STRING MARGRETHE M V
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    • 467 45 WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTM BttAKBUU/SOC CMGOfS TO FROM KO6C. YOKOHAMA. NAGOYA. MOI. TOKYO*. MAMA*. OAVAO* Penanj' P. Kelang Singapore E'Msia* KAMALEVERETT V2SE 18/19 Mar KARABfVERETT V22E 22/23 Apr KAMALEVERETT V26E 07/08 May ACCtPTMG BREAK BULK/FCI/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CHTTAGONG, CALCUTTA ANO MONGIA*. Sinjapore P. Ketanj" Penanf* Paw
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    • 722 46 FIXED k. WEEKLY SAILINGS 1(1:261-35% Fax :261-0978 MELBOURNE |n GP SHIPPING PTE LTD I Call: Kenny/Mas/Peter STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD I AGENTS FOih ZIM CONTAINER SERVICE >- GOLD STAR LINE LTD SETH SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (8 LINES) FAX: *****70 l~ <ca no. mmsiw-t) N.AMERICA/CARIBBEAN SERVICES I 4MB
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    • 386 46 Calling: FAR EAST, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, U.SJL oar CMT liner Express Agencies Pte Ltd Hot Line: 22-007-22 BINTANG MAS SHIPPING PTE. LTD. 39 NEIL ROAD. SINGAPORE 0208 MTEL: *****88 FAX: *****64 TLX: R*****5 SINMER CR No: **********0* Receiving Cargo at PTI I Bintulu I I Muara
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    • 402 46 y Content! CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 11 MARCH (Accepting to all New Zealand porta) PENANG 10 MAR JAKARTA 12 MAR PORT KLANG 16 MAR RAN6KOK 12 MAR MANILA 12 MAR MELBOURNE 14 MAR SYDNEY 14 MAR BRISBANE 14 MAR FREMANTLE 14 MAR ADELAIDE 23 MAR •ACCEPTING TO ALL
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    • 1645 47 W SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD 20 McCallum Street #16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22 (10 Lines) FAX: *****05 CR No.: *****8 200 00R Y.S.N. Lir"- M 1IMMiim-'-'-—1MMiim-'-'-— V—*l Voy Hong Kong Singapore P. Ktlwt Ponanfl Sp<c« 68 Sailed In Port »-9/3 Jupttoc 06 Sailed 13-14/3 15-18/3 Chief 01 Cherokee
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    • 1761 48 :i AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. I 1 19 KEPPtL ROAD »Q2 01 JIT POH BUIIDINC SINGAPOWt 0208 TEL 225 9%6 fd» 221 4922 J TWICE WEEKLY TO FROM •UK/NORTH CONTINENT EUROPE* J FOR ENQUIRY/BOOKING CALL 225-1-225 TO NORTH AMERICA A CANADA WEEKLY CONTAINERIZED SERVICE [mI m I ra I «i
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    • 1513 48 K**<W AS AGENTS "K" LMI (SWGAPOI£) PTE LTD (CR NO: **********011 GST REG NO: M 2-*****99-6) TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/0/9 I Mf* MALAYSIA "K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD i W*J TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 JB *****01 PGU *****25/6 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUT INTEItNUSA.
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    • 502 48 BLACK SEA SHIPPING CO (UKRAINE): BLASCO SERVICES BLASCO: INWARD *****65 OUTWARD *****28 FAX *****26 lomik "I ffttfl WT BW JOMMI M WT HI W I jam I HMEBI MTLB l taMl K.MSHMOV 2SCH4 23/12 17/13 M/M 25CW94 17/ M 13/ M 24/14 21/ M K/M M/M I MMUIT I2CEM 14/
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    • 480 49 A HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 fpMA l"ptt PSD VESSELS VOY SW RTM ANT lEH HAM BREJ Ftt 08/03 10/03 H/oT H. FRONTIER 315W 13/03 31/03 02/04 01/04 02/04 02/04 04/04 15/03 17/03 18/03 H. COMMANDER 314* 20/03 07/04 09/04 01/04 09/04 09/04 11/04 22/03
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