The Business Times, 15 September 1995

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    12 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Friday September 15 1995 85*
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    Lock icon Dow up 16.91 points
    78 1 Reuter NEW YORK Stocks prices were mixed yesterday as the market paused after this week's run into record territory. The Dow Jones was up 16.91 points at 4,782.43 at 2pm EDT, surpassing Wednesday's record closing high of 4,765.52. But the Nasdaq Composite index fell 1.88 points
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    153 1 TMqr Change SIT! 2,129.89 +3.49 KLSEComp 993.2 -4.63 Nikkei 18,758.55 +144.29 HaniSenf 9,680.10 98.74 SETuidex 1,315.46 -7.55 Jakarta Corap 495.42 +1.82 Manila Comp 2,731.49 +49.03 Taipei WPI 4,956.02 -30.97 Seoul Comp —965.7 -2.62 Bombay BSE30 ..3,361.18 -10.95 CLSA China B 865.77 -1.07 Aust AllOrd 2.150.9 -10.9 FTSE 100 3565.4 -5.4
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    Major forex, bond traders in S'pore took a beating last year
    658 1  -  By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Major players here in foreign exchange and bond trading suffered sharp declines in earnings last year, with at least two big names Bankers Trust and Morgan Guaranty Trust slipping into the red. Latest figures from
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    Lock icon $ may hit 110 yen before backtracking
    404 1  - may hit 110 yen before backtracking By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Leading currency experts say the US dollar's surge against the yen is likely to continue in the next few months, with some predicting it could hit 110 yen. But looking beyond six months, most see the dollar heading back where
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    NTU researchers to develop and build micro-satellites
    519 1  -  Move paves way for S'pore to join global race to build satellite networks for mobile phones By Toh Han Shih SINGAPORE Research scientists at the Nanyang Technological University are working on a multi-million dollar project to design and build up to 10 micro-satellites
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    Metal Con must be traded in foreign currency after takeover
    419 1  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE The Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) has ruled that shares of takeover target Metal Containers Ltd (MCL) should be traded in a foreign currency after a change in ownership and core businesses. This is probably
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    Lock icon Congress backs higher debt limit to avoid govt shutdown: Rubin
    424 1 Bloomberg Business News ATLANTA The US government will hit its current US$4.9 trillion (556.9 trillion) debt limit next month, and top-ranked congressional lawmakers have agreed they will raise the limit to avert any danger of the Treasury defaulting on its
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      20 1 Hock Lock Siew: Pg is KPJ gets a shot in the arm G3 likely to continue floating currencies, Pg 2
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Manufacturing loans up 20.3%
        317 2  -  By Shiv Taneja WHILE growth in overall bank loans dipped slightly in July, the rate of increase for loans to the manufacturing sector crossed 20 per cent for the first time in eight years. According to latest numbers from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, banks' loans
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      Science board launches fund to spur technology start-ups
      243 2 THE formation of more tech-nology-based start-up companies in Singapore is the goal of a new $50 million equity fund launched yesterday by the National Science and Technology Board. The Technology Development Fund, aimed at helping innovators get their businesses off the ground,
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      Internet providers set to battle each other over access rates
      510 2  -  By David Mok A PRICE war over Internet access rates looks set to erupt. Incumbent provider Singapore Telecom, which runs the Sing Net access service, is introducing a new promotion package to lure subscribers hot on the heels of recently
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      Tata finalising plan to hive off more units
      416 2  -  By Genevieve Cua MORE DIVESTMENTS are on the cards for India's leading conglomerate, the Tata Group, which is undergoing a restructure to brace itself for increasingly stiff competition. Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata declined to name which companies will be sold, but
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      Balestier site yields $451 per sq ft in auction by taxman
      296 2 THE auction of a vacant lot ofT Balestier Road by the tax authorities yesterday fetched a surprising $2.42 million, or $451 per sq ft. The 5,360 sq ft freehold plot for residential development was sold to a Chinese businessman,
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      Lock icon S'pore-Canada talks a boost to economic ties: PM
      416 2 SINGAPORE and Canada had kicked off talks that would l- fjiave the way for smoother economic exchanges between •"them, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said in Ottawa on Wednesday night. Mr Goh, speaking at a dinner hosted by his Canadian counterpart Jean
      AFP  -  416 words
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      Ticket-boarding pass to one will mean plane sailing next year
      385 2  -  By Agnes Wee BY THE second half of next year airline passengers will be issued with a single ticket which also incorporates their boarding pass, and this will help to speed up the checkingin process. This single document, known as
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      Lock icon G3 likely to continue to float currencies
      330 2  -  Ex-World Bank official says they won't return to fixed exchange rates By Paul Leo THE G3 nations United States, Germany and Japan are unlikely to return to the Bretton Woods regime of fixed exchange rates. They will continue to float their currencies, says
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon KL budget to focus on hi-tech industries: minister
      338 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's 1996 Budget, which is expected to include tax cuts on more items, will also focus on a shift towards technology-in-tensive industries, Deputy Finance Minister AfTifudin Haji Omar said yesterday. He said incentives might be introduced to encourage more
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      Cambodia to unveil winning bids for offshore fields soon
      345 4  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Cambodia, buoyed by three recent oil discoveries, will soon announce winning bids for a further two offshore oilfields lying near the Gulf of Thailand. But it has drawn a blank on one on-shore oilfield. Cambodia's Minister of
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      Lock icon Manila hopes to name new S'pore envoy by December
      156 4 AFP MANILA The Philippines said yesterday that it hoped to name by December a new ambassador to Singapore, a hot seat left vacant by the controversy over the hanging of a Filipina maid in March. "We would like to normalise relations
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      Lock icon Sumitomo to join Hopewell in US$1.8b Indon power project
      281 4 Bloomberg Business News AFP, Bernama TOKYO Sumitomo Corp of Japan said yesterday that it would join Hopewell Holdings Ltd of Hongkong in a US$l.B billion (552.5 billion) electric power station project in Indonesia. The Japanese trading house said it would invest
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      Lock icon Starting young
      49 4 Reuter HANOI Five-year-old Vietnamese chess player Nguyen Truong Son pondering his next move during the 1995 National Chess Championship here yesterday. Son, the youngest player among 172 wood pushers in the tournament, lost the game in 15 minutes against a rival six times older than him. Reuter
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      Lock icon Harmoko denies using state funds
      99 4 AFP JAKARTA The head of the ruling Golkar party, Minister of Information Harmoko, has denied Using state funds to finance his nationwide election campaign trips. The Jakarta Past yesterday -quoted him as saying; "When I travel to the provinces, not in my capacity as Minister
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      Lock icon Call to probe US drug suspicions
      83 4 Reuter BANGKOK Thailand Has named a 12-member panel headed by a former diplomat to investigate US suspicions that some Thai politicians were involved in drug trafficking, an official in the prime minister's office said yesterday. The panel is headed by former foreign minister Thanat
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      Lock icon More from Indon workers abroad?
      82 4 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian Manpower Minister Abdul Latief said he hoped annual foreign exchange earnings from Indonesian workers abroad would rise to US$l billioa (551.43 billion) at the f end of 1999 from US$594 mifflori in fiscal 1994A95 (April/March). He told reporters earnings were US$353 million
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      Suharto, Keating to discuss thorny issue of two-way ties
      515 5  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA INDONESIAN President Suharto and Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating will meet in Bali during the weekend to discuss strategy ahead of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum summit in November. That will most likely be
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      Lock icon Hanoi to spend US$20m to bail out state-run trading firm
      302 5 AP HANOI Vietnamese authorities are trying to rescue one of the country's biggest state-run companies from crippling debts despite an official policy of making state sector firms less dependent on government support, a report said yesterday. The Vietnam Bank for
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      Lock icon Model fighter
      48 5 Reuter BANGKOK A group of military officers from the China's People's Liberation Army studying a model of a US-made jet fighter at the Defence Asia *95 arms show here yesterday. The three-day show, featuring many latest weapons from around the world, attracted thousands of visitors. Renter
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      Lock icon Indonesia may post 8.8% inflation this year
      252 5 AFP, Bloomberg Business News JAKARTA Indonesia's inflation rate may only be 8.88 per cent this year. Antara news agency yesterday quoted Finance Minister Mar'ie Muhammad as telling a parliamentary session: "If we look at the inflation profile of the past four months of
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      Lock icon Bulog shelves plan for crude palm-oil buffer stock
      161 5 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia state commodities regulator Bulog has "shelved indefinitely" an agreement to buy crude palm o>U from the private sector to set up a permanent 75,000tonne buffer stock, Derom Bangun, vice-chairman of the Indonesia Palm Oil Producers Association, told Reuters. Mr
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      Lock icon Vietnam slams 'cowboy' foreign firms
      261 5 Reuter HANOI Vietnam publicly pilloried nine foreign investors in the country as part of a drive to wipe out what it called "cowboys in the Vietnamese financing arena". An article headlined "Risky Foreign Partners Exposed" covering almost a full page in the Vietnam News daily
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  • CHINA /HONGKONG /TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Top HK civil service official quits
      370 6 Secretary takes early retirement amid speculation over 1997 fears Reuter HONGKONG A top Hongkong official announced his resignation yesterday, forcing the government to move quickly to buoy sagging civil service morale ahead of the 1997 handover to China. Secretary for the Civil Service Michael
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      Lock icon State property value climbs 18% a year
      77 6 Oana-Xinhua BEIJING The value of China's state property grew annually by 18 per cent from 1979 to 1994, to well over four trillion yuan (SS6B6 billion) by the end of last year, a senior government official said yesterday. Pan Yue, deputy director of
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      Lock icon HK property sale accords rise 6.4%
      94 6 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong saw an increase of 6.4 per cent in the number of sale and purchase agreements for property in August, compared with August 1994, the government's land registry announced yesterday. Property prices have fallen by as much as 40 per
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      Lock icon Value-added tax revenue at 234b yuan
      81 6 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's state tax administration has declared a new value-added tax a success after collecting 233.8 billion yuan (5539.7 billion) from the tax last year, the governmentowned China News Service reported. That amount accounted for 51.4 per cent of total industrial
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      Lock icon HK population grows 2% to 6.19m
      65 6 AP HONGKONG The population of Hongkong, already one of the world's most crowded cities, reached an estimated 6,189,800 at the end of June, a jump of 128,400 people, or 2.1 per cent, over June 1994, the government said yesterday. There were 41,100 more births
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      Lock icon China's CPI dropped 2 pts to 14.5% in August
      302 6 AFP BEIJING China's Consumer Price Index (CPI) registered a year-on-year growth of 14.5 per cent in August, down 2.2 percentage points from the previous month, the State Statistics Bureau said yesterday. The drop accompanied a 2.3 percentage point fall in the
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      Lock icon Hongkong's small credit companies outperform banks
      290 6 Reuter HONGKONG While Hongkong's banks have been troubled by keen competition and a mortgage lending slowdown, smaller credit companies remain largely unscathed in their niche markets, analysts said yesterday. The so-called deposit-taking companies are allowed a narrower range of operations than banks, and usually
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      Lock icon Building up to 1997
      47 6 Reuter HONGKONG Construction workers toil on the terminal building of Hongkong's new airport under construction at Chel Lap Kok. The airport, said to be one of the world's largest infrastructure projects, is to be opened after Hongkong is returned to Chinese rule. Reuter
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      Lock icon Brokers move in to fill niche as China banks drop equities trade
      346 6 SCMP HONGKONG As China's commercial banks began hiving off their stock and trust arms to comply with a banking law, major brokerages are positioning themselves to take advantage of the break. The Big Four state banks the Industrial
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      Lock icon Resignation talk denied
      80 6 Reuter HONGKONG Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd yesterday said there was no truth to the rumour that its chief executive Linus Cheung intended to resign. Mr Cheung is also on the board of Cable Wireless pic. On Tuesday, Cable Wireless announced that Mr Cheung will have additional responsibility
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      Lock icon China banks unlikely to fill this year's loan quotas
      340 6 Reuter BEIJING China's banks have 360 billion yuan (5561.8 billion) in credit quotas available for the rest of the year, but the sum is unlikely to be loaned out, economists said yesterday. This is because of China's continuing credit squeeze and
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      Lock icon Beijing posts US$944m trade surplus
      251 6 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's trade surplus was US$944 million (551.35 billion) in August, with export growth outpacing the growth of imports. Customs House statistics, released yesterday, showed that the August result lifted the country's trade surplus for the year to US$l5.4 billion, compared to
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      416 6 IN THE MATTER OP THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP.» AND IN THE MATTE* OP ATWOOO OCEANICS SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 45 Cantonment Road. Singapore *****8 on 12 September 1995 the following Special Resolutions were duly
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Battered Tokyo credit unions may merge
      516 7 Bad loans, collapse of 2 members prompt soul-searching Reuter TOKYO Japan's credit unions, weighed down by bad loans and struggling to survive, have begun to think seriously about mass mergers after the recent collapse of two of their number. "Many credit unions say they
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      Lock icon Japan's socialist party to form new liberal party
      218 7 AFP TOKYO Japan's socialist party, headed by Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, said yesterday it plans to form a new liberal party next month to better its chances against two major conservative forces in the next general elections. The draft plan, endorsed by
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Japanese bankruptcies up 30%
        53 7 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japanese bankruptcies rose 30 per cent to 1,408 cases in August from the previous year, said private research institute Tokyo Shoko Research yesterday. Total debts of those bankruptcies surged 65.9 per cent on the year to 820.201 billion yen (SSI 1.37 billion).
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        Lock icon Seoul keeps money growth at 15.9%
        90 7 AFP SEOUL South Korea's central Bank of Korea (BOK) yesterday said it would hold year-on-year money supply growth at 15.9 per cent in the fourth quarter of the year in a bid to maintain economic stability. "The bank will focus on maintaining price stability
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        Lock icon Seoul ambassador to NZ recalled
        63 7 AFP SEOUL The South Korean ambassador to New Zealand, Lee Dong Ik, returned home yesterday after being recalled in a dispute over a former diplomat seeking refugee status in New Zealand. Foreign ministry officials said Seoul had no immediate plan to name Mr Lee's replacement
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        Lock icon NZ's manufacturing sales up 5.8%
        59 7 Reuter WELLINGTON Manufacturing sales in the June quarter rose 5.8 per cent, or NZ5697.2 million (***** million), compared with the June 1994 quarter, Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) said yesterday. When comparing movements over the same quarter of the previous year, the 5.8 per cent rise
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        Lock icon Aussie inflationary expectations fall
        59 7 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australian expectations for annual inflation fell to a one-year low of 4.3 per cent in September, according to a survey by Westpac Bank and the Melbourne Institute Centre for Business Cycle Analysis. The index fell from 5.2 per cent in August to
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      Lock icon Their country reaps what they sew
      44 7 Reuter COLOMBO Sri Lankan women at a factory making garments for export, the country's main gross foreign exchange earner. Their other main contribution to the economy's coffers comes from tea pickers and maids in the Gulf states. Reuter
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      Lock icon Don't write my dirge yet: billionaire Packer
      199 7 AFP SYDNEY Australia's richest man, pugnacious billionaire magazine and television magnate Kerry Packer, said yesterday reports of his death were "grossly premature". Mr Packer collapsed at eastern Sydney's Hakoah Club on Wednesday evening and was taken to hospital after what ambulance officers described
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      Lock icon Japan's stimulus plan aims to boost domestic demand
      366 7 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Measures to boost domestic demand and to stimulate land transactions are the focus of the government's economic stimulus package due out next Wednesday, said the Nihon Keizai newspaper. To boost domestic demand, the plan calls for increasing
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      Lock icon NZ central bank gives green light to tax cuts
      239 7 Reuter WELLINGTON New Zealand's central bank yesterday gave tacit approval to planned government tax cuts but said interest rates will have to stay higher for longer to keep inflation in check. "It seems to us that the government's preconditions for tax
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      Lock icon Indian military likely to rely more on private industry
      534 7 But suppliers must be prepared to sit out lean years Reuter NEW DELHI India's armed forces will rely increasingly on private industry to supply and maintain equipment and weaponry, senior defence officials said yesterday. But industrialists must be prepared to put
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      A smaller but better Tresors
      736 11  -  S'pore art and antiques fair introduces vetting system for exhibits, reports Susan Tsang Susan Tsang THE third Tresors fair, which opens to the public tomorrow, hopes to attract a record number of visitors, but the fair itself will have fewer exhibitors. Compared with last year,
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      Lock icon Christopher Reeve keen on future directing jobs
      396 11 NYT Reuter NYT UPI UPI CHRISTOPHER Reeve's wife, Dana, said on Wednesday that he had called his agents at the William Morris Agency about future directing jobs and speaking engagements and that he hopes to attend a benefit in New York next month.
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      Eminently enjoyable
      559 11  -  Kevin Sullivan catches the televisual, very American glitz of the Annual Emmy Awards Kevin Sullivan THE 47th Annual Emmy Awards were slick, fastpaced and very enjoyable. There will be those who groan at this assessment. Indeed, my predilection for televisual glitz will prompt many to wonder whether I
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      1165 11 TV A RADIO J&.. ..I America, promising return Chuzzlewit. Old Martin's nephew, to visit him in the country. f^BftMMK Part 2 of the BBC adaptation of Dickens'novel. j\ Doom, Bpm. Ch 5 t. fcJjVrfJ H|u j In Steven Spielberg's 1984 pre- |i x\ "S.Jj quel to Raiders Of The Lost
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  • Article
    Keating's real task in Bali
    511 12 OSTENSIBLY, the top item on Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating's agenda when he meets President Suharto on Sunday is their common strategy for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in November. Both leaders say they are unreservedly committed to the Bogor summit targets on
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    Productivity holds the key
    242 12 THE Ministry of Labour's paper on the work force, released on Tuesday, is timely in view of Singapore's classification as a developed country next year by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Unlike the past, when it had to compete with newty industrialising economies (NIEs)
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    Strengthening Asean free trade
    157 12 ON THE surface, it seems the Asean Economic Ministers' Meeting in Brunei could not come to a consensus on the proposed speeding up of the formation of the Asean Free Trade Asea (Afta). What must not be missed is the fact that the ministers agreed to
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    Past holds lessons for young
    160 12 THE government and the community have realised the importance of educating young Singaporeans on the calamity of World War 11. Instead of having mainly older Singaporeans participate in commemorative ceremonies as in the pak, young students also took part in these activities this year. It
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    Bush understands China
    197 12 FORMER US President George Bush has shown he retains his keen insight into Chinese affairs following his visit to Beijing, where he met several of the country's top leaders. At the end of his tour, Mr Bush said the time had come for Sino-US relations to switch
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    Myanmar junta on notice
    183 12 UNITED STATES ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, late last week delivered a blunt message to Myanmar's military leaders. The military must undertake democratic reforms before Yangon can expect closer ties with Washington, she told State Law and Order Restoration Council (Slorc) chief Lieutenant General
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    Saddam should step down
    130 12 OBSERVERS, particularly in Iran, believe Saddam Hussein's presidency will continue to pave the way for greater influence of unwanted forces, particularly the United States, in the region. They also believe the economic and political situation will deteriorate because of uncertainties in this strategically important part of
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    1081 12  -  Bangalore's high-tech pool of workers supports software firms like thriving nome-grown Infosys, reports Sharon Moshavi Sharon Moshavi Bloomberg Business News IN INDIA'S version of Silicon Valley, you can hire a hotshot computer programmer for a couple of hundred bucks a month. That's why Infosys Technologies has prospered,
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      1054 13  -  Flaws are surfacing in the De Beers' cartel as Russia and Canada pose new threats, Chan Siew Ling reports Chan Siew Ling Tightly controlled pricing is instrumental in making diamonds a valuable investment. It makes the diamond market predictable, at least on the supply side.
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      271 13 Bloomberg Business News FOR beer drinkers who get sleepy after a brew or two, a new beer with a kick is on the way. Starbucks Coffee and Redhook Ale Brewery in Seattle have joined forces to brew Double Black Stout, a
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      510 13 Bloomberg Business News IN the past week, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi and Monica Seles reached the finals of the US Open. Cal Ripken Jr broke Lou Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 consecutive major league baseball games. Deion Sanders signed
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    Clinton govt wants to upgrade trade ties with Asean
    465 14  -  From Lson Hadar in WASHINGTON TWO top US officials said that the Clinton administration wanted to upgrade trade relations with the Asean countries. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and his deputy, Under-secretary Jeffrey Garten, said on Wednesday that Washington was blanning
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    M'sian, Taiwan investors discover S Africa
    361 14  -  Seminar told about business opportunities By Kevin Sullivan t SINGAPORE Malaysian and Taiwanese investors are 'capitalising on a strategic reorientation of South Africa's trade links away from Eu- rope and North America and towards Asia, participants at a seminar on "Business and Investment Opportunities
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    Lock icon Plan to chop US$30b business tax breaks
    130 14 Reuter WASHINGTON The head of the House Ways and Means Committee plans to propose measures to eliminate US$3O billion (5542.9 billion) in tax breaks for business and corporations, the Washington Post reported yesterday. Republican Bill Archer will submit a plan for closing or
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    138 14 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday approved a rule change that would broaden the reporting requirements on disciplinary actions for virtually all 5,400 US brokerage firms. Under the new rule, which will go into effect on Oct 1, the firms
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    82 14 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Investors who want to buy into shares of small companies but can't decide which ones to pick will soon have another option. The American Stock Exchange plans to trade shares whose price will be tied to the value of an index
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    63 14 Reuter WASHINGTON The World Bank said yesterday that it was discussing the establishment of an US$ll billion international trust fund to allow the world's poorest nations to write off some of their US$l6O billion in for- eign debt. But it stressed that the discussions were at an
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    81 14 Reuter FRANKFURT Adidas AG, the German sportswear-maker known for its three-stripe logo, yesterday said it planned an initial public stock offering this year. The offering is planned between late October and early December and would value Adidas at between US$l.6B billion) and U552.35 billion, sources
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    51 14 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Aerospace pic, the UK builder of military and civilian aircraft, yesterday said pre-tax profit doubled, excluding one-time items, as the company reduced operating costs. Pre-tax profit in the half rose to £160 million (***** million), excluding items, from £75 million a year
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    100 14 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Hongkong, set to come under Chinese rule in mid-1997, remains the world's most expensive place to rent office space. Office rents in Hongkong average U*****.36 a sq ft, down almost US$2 in the past six months, said Colliers International, a worldwide
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    355 14 Reuter OSAKA The multimedia revolution epitomised by the Internet is more likely to wreck than improve your life, and could one day drag the world into total anarchy, some telecommunications experts said yesterday. "The telecommunications revolution is all about control and power,"
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    416 14 AFP, Reuter, Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Federal Reserve policymakers are unlikely to cut the overnight bank lending rate at the Sep 26 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Wall Street Journal said. Interviews with several Fed governors and
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    242 14 AP LONDON Eurotunnel pic, which operates the rail tunnel under the English Channel, said yesterday it has suspended interest payments for up to 18 months on debts totalling £7.8 billion (5517.3 billion). The company said the move had been agreed with its syndicate
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    760 14  -  The Bottom Line PAUL SAMUELSON PAUL SAMUELSON The writer is an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This commentary first appeared in the Los Angeles Times THE world economic recovery is showing some signs of slowing down. The bulk of the new evidence
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      Goldtron posts 7% profit rise, wins $62m home alarm deal
      439 15  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Sesdaqlisted electronics group Goldtron Ltd has reported a relatively flat 7 per cent increase in group interim earnings to $13.42 million for the six months ended June 30, 1995, against $12.60 million previously. Goldtron, which has
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      Insurance unit helps Pacific Century lighten losses by 70%
      388 15  -  By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Better operating results from its insurance subsidiary helped Pacific Century Regional Developments trim its losses for the six months ended June 30 1995. Group net losses attributable to shareholders fell 70 per cent to $6.4 million from
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      Scotts-managed Bangkok block maintains 90% occupancy
      180 15 SINGAPORE Scotts Holdings said its Palm Courtt service apartments in Bangkok has attained over 90 per cent occupancy within eight months of its official launch last December. The apartments, managed by wholly-owned subsidiary Ascott International Management, were fully leased on Aug 22, it added
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      Quek-Charles Yeo concert parties pact dismantled
      192 15 SINGAPORE A concert parties agreement between Malaysian businessman Quek Leng Chan and Charles Yeo has been terminated following Mr Quek's decision to let his offer for beverage group Yeo Hiap Seng lapse. Mr Yeo and individuals, together with a holding company Abound Investments, hold
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      PPP looking for partners
      156 15 SINGAPORE Pan Pacific Public Company (PPP) intends to seek partners for joint ventures to build and manage projects in Yunnan, China. Managing director Chong Huai Seng says in Pan Pacific's latest annual report that the company wants partners with development and management expertise. "Eventually we hope
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      KPJ gets a shot in the arm from Malaysia's fast growing healthcare industry
      741 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW -By William Chia SINGAPORE Companies providing healthcare services to Malaysia's affluent and fast growing middle class are in the pink of health, so to speak. Standing out among them is KPJ Healthcare Bhd, the
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      OCBC reshuffles top ranks in ops revamp
      338 15  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE A reshuffle of top management portfolios is the first level of change at OCBC Bank in an effort to sharpen its competitive edge as it prepares for the future. Announcing the recommendations of a top-level strategy committee the Board
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      OUB reviews local banking operations
      161 15 SINGAPORE Overseas Union Bank has hired consultants Coopers Lybrand to spearhead a review of its national banking operations, the bank's largest division. In the latest issue of the bank's house journal, OUB News, president Peter Seah said the review was to examine the bank's missions
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        50 15 Mixed 'Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Alliance. Barings, Credit Lyonnais Securities, Daiwa, Fraser. GK Goh, Kay Hian, Morgan Grenfell, Ong Co. Nomura. Phillip, Smith New Court. Wl Can and SG Warburg.
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        76 15  -  By Skiv Taneja THE weekly RSI and stochastics charts of Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd show strong buy signals, although the indicators are less clear from the daily charts. Based on the price and volume charts, the downside looks limited at the present level of $2.24. By Shir Taneja NOTE:
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          SuperBowl first-half earnings up 9.7%
          83 16 SINGAPORE Superßowl Holdings reported a 9.7 per cent increase in interim net earnings to $3.76 million on a 56 per cent surge in turnover to $15.8 million. The company said the increased earnings were due largely to increased revenue from the sales of membership of
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          JC-MPH clarifies lease-back sale
          138 16 SINGAPORE Jack Chia-MPH Ltd, which has recently sold its four-storey warehouse in Tagore Drive for $38.5 million with a seven-year lease-back arrangement, clarified with the Stock Exchange of Singapore that the price was arrived at on a willing seller, willing buyer basis, taking into account prevailing
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          SM Summit profit up, turnover falls
          53 16 SINGAPORE SM Summit Holdings reported a 13 per cent growth in interim net earnings to $1.9 million despite a 4 per cent fall in turnover to $7.3 million. Directors expect the results for the second half-year to be at least equal to that of
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        Lock icon Sime Darby signs deals with Hewlett-Packard, Lotus
        253 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Sime Darby Bhd yesterday signed worldwide exclusive contracts with Hewlett-Packard Sales (Malaysia) and Lotus Development (Asia Pacific) to buy and lease Hewlett-Packard computer hardware products as well as buy Lotus software products for its global operations. The deal with HP
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        Renong's US$250m Manila tollway project takes off
        438 16  -  From Al Labita in MANILA LISTED Malaysian conglomerate Renong Bhd broke ground yesterday for its first Philippine infrastructure project a US$25O million (Ss37B million) toll expressway. Linking Manila and Cavite province, the 25.5 km project is to be jointly built and financed by
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        Lock icon KLI expects commendable results in coming financial year, says chairman
        384 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kuala Lumpur Industries Holdings Bhd (KLI) is confident of achieving commendable results in the coming financial year when its various joint ventures and privatisation projects are fully in place, says chairman Wan Sidek Wan Abdul Rahman. "Coupled
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        Lock icon Leong Hup in talks to sell its 31% KFC stake
        193 16 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Leong Hup Holdings Bhd is negotiating with two parties to sell its 31 per cent stake in KFC Holdings Bhd, a fast food operator, local newspapers reported yesterday. Leong Hup executive director Kevin Lau Eng Guang
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        Lock icon Arab-Malaysian Bank to offer services on Internet
        157 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Arab-Malaysian Banking Group aims to offer financial services and provide transaction facility via the Internet in the near future, chairman Azman Hashim said yesterday. "Customers may apply for the services directly through the Internet and through which thay would
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        Cam Mechatronics to make computer parts in Philippines
        193 16 SINGAPORE company Cam Mechatronics will open a Philippine plant to produce computer parts for export. The chairman of the Philippine Export Zone Authority, Lilia de Lima, said yesterday the 194 million peso (SSIO.B million) plant would be operated by Cam Mechatronics Philippines,
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        Ipco earnings double to $7.7m as turnover trebles
        256 16  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Engineering group Ipco International yesterday unveiled a sterling set of results as earnings nearly doubled for the year to June to $7.74 million. This was achieved on the back of a turnover of $258.27 million, nearly treble the
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        478 16 Group aims to be financial supermarket Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Industrial Finance Bhd (MIDF), which aims to be a financial supermarket, is awaiting approval from the Securities Commission for a stockbroking licence. Group chief executive officer and director, Darwis Mohamad Daek, said after the
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        Exceptional gain helps lift Jardine unit's bottomline
        396 17  -  Trading arm says full-year earnings set to fall From Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG JARDINE International Motors (JIM), a listed motor trading arm of Jardine Matheson Group, has doubled its interim net earnings, thanks mainly to an exceptional gain from the sale of
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        Lock icon Aussie group Jennings put under receivership
        114 17 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australia's Jennings Group Ltd has been put under receivership by a bunking syndicate owed more than As29o million (SS3OS million), the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Arthur Andersen partner Nark Korda was appointed receiver over the group and 15 of its
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        320 17 Reuter HONGKONG Giordano International Ltd said it has opened eight more outlets in China in the past two months, contradicting rumours that Beijing would limit the casual wear chain's development in China to put pressure on its main shareholder,
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        256 17 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI Yang Xianghai, the city's top securities regulator, will replace Wei Wenyuan as the head of the Shanghai Securities Exchange, an exchange official said. An official announcement that Mr Yang will replace Mr Wei "will be released soon", said Wang
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        Lock icon Market liberalisation part of major reform, says Taipei
        406 17 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Taiwan's decision to open its stock market further to foreign institutions is only the beginning of a larger reform campaign, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. "We are trying to build Taiwan into an Asia-Pacific financial centre,"
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        Lock icon HK Futures Exchange eyes Cheung Kong contract
        238 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Hongkong Futures Exchange is seeking regulatory approval to start a stock futures contract on shares of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd, a spokesman for the exchange said yesterday. If approval is gained, a formal announcement of the launch could
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        Lock icon New World sells its stake in SHK HK
        129 17 Reuter HONGKONG New World Development Co Ltd has agreed to sell its entire 12.09 per cent stake in SHK Hong Kong Industries Ltd to Megaland Development Ltd and Financial Gain Holdings Ltd, SHK said in a statement yesterday. New World has agreed
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        Lock icon Aussie corporate profits up 11-17% thanks to resources
        510 18 Reuter SYDNEY Corporate Australia closed its annual reporting season yesterday with profits up about II to 17 per cent, underpinned by a leap in earnings by resources companies but held down by disappointing industrial profits. Supported by a global turnaround in commodity
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        439 18 Institutional investors seeking help from NSW ex-premier, says newspaper Reuter CANBERRA Institutional investors in embattled retailer Coles Myer Ltd are pushing for independent director and former New South Wales Premier Nick Greiner to persuade Coles executive chairman Solomon Lew to give up his
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        333 18 Reuter NEW YORK Salomon Brothers analyst John Jones said he lowered third quarter earnings estimates on International Business Machines Corp by 10 US cents a share and raised fourth quarter estimates 10 cents a share, saying a problem meeting demand
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        Lock icon Turner postpones board meeting; TCI, Time still negotiating
        297 18 Bloomberg Business News ATLANTA Turner Broadcasting System Inc postponed today's board meeting as TeleCommunications Inc chief John Malone and Time Warner Inc chairman Gerald Levin hammer out the terms of Time Warner's US$B billion (Ssl 1.4 billion) bid to buy Turner. Mr
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        Lock icon What's NeXT? WebObjects, a program for businesses
        172 18 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK NeXT Computer Inc will start selling next year a software program that allows businesses to provide interactive information over the Internet. The program, called WebObjects, will be sold primarily to large corporations with many customers, said Steven Jobs,
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        Lock icon Legal and General doubles profit
        80 18 Reuter LONDON Legal and General pic, Britain's second largest life insurer quoted on the stock exchange, raised its dividend 10.8 per cent yesterday after doubling pre-tax profits in the first half of 1995. The group said pre-tax profits rose to £117.1 million (*****.9 million) in
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        Lock icon P&0 Ist-half pre-tax at £132m
        61 18 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O) said first-half pretax profit rose slightly to £131.9 million (*****.8 million), compared with £128.6 million a year earlier. The UK shipping, transport, construction and property company said it will pay a first-half dividend of
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        Lock icon Kowloon Motor Bus net profit tumbles
        70 18 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Kowloon Motor Bus Co said net profit fell 84.4 per cent in the six months ended June after the sale of two bus depots inflated 1994 earnings. Profit after taxes and payments to minority interests fell to HKS2IB million (5540.4
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        Lock icon UK chemical firm ups profit by 14%
        73 18 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Albright Wilson pic, a UK chemical company that first sold shares this year, said first-half pretax profit rose 14 per cent to £26.9 million (5559.7 million) as sales of phosphates and surfactants increased. Albright Wilson, which was spun off
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        Lock icon Prudential on acquisition prowl as interim profit rises 20%
        458 20 FT LONDON Prudential, the UK's largest life insurance and investment group, has indicated that it is interested in acquiring other life companies as part of the widely expected shake-out of the British industry. Peter Davis, who has been group chief executive
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        Lock icon Renaissance developing program for currency traders
        298 20 Bloomberg Business News LOS ALTOS, California Renaissance Software Inc, one of the biggest makers of trading software for interest-rate derivatives, plans to launch a new program for currency traders before year's end. The company has carved a niche for itself selling software that big
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        Lock icon J Aron S'pore winding down oil trading?
        72 20 Reuter SINGAPORE Goldman Sachs trading subsidiary J Aron Singapore is winding down fuel oil trading here, following a head office decision to consolidate its worldwide trading books in New York, trade sources said on Wednesday. "Aran's fuel oil activity has dwindled significantly this
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        70 20 Reuter WASHINGTON The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has proposed new rules on how national banks may distribute income from credit life insurance sales. To protect consumers who buy credit life insurance, the plan would bar banks from structuring incentive or bonus
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        54 20 AFP HANOI The Korea Development Bank opened its first representative office in Hanoi yesterday, becoming the fourth South Korean banking institution to operate here. Other South Korean banks already in the Vietnamese market are Shinhan Bank, the First Vina bank and the Exchange
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        52 20 AFX-Asia BOMBAY The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it plans to launch a foreign exchange clearing house by October. The clearing house is expected to bring down the cost of foreign exchange transactions for banks, make speedier settlements and also provide credit risk
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        Lock icon ANZ revamps broking operations
        48 20 Bloomberg Business News MELBOURNE Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd said yesterday it will merge two parts of its securities operation, ANZ McCaughan Private Client Services and ANZ Stockbroking. The retail operation will operate under a single name, ANZ Stockbroking. Bloomberg Business News
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        53 20 Reuter QUITO, Ecuador Three Ecuadorans dressed up as corrupt businessmen yesterday, carrying posters on which are printed "Inefan" (National Institute for Reforestation), "oil" and "government". They are protesting against a foreign oil firm's plans to drill new wells in an area in the Amazon basin designated as a
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        383 20 AFP SHANGHAI More foreign banks are moving control of their China operations from Hongkong to Shanghai as their branch networks and the need to bring corporate planners closer to their customers grow. Andrew Hemm, general manager of the Shanghai branch of Britain's
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        Lock icon CSCE members want meeting on plans to move to New Jersey
        337 20 Reuter NEW YORK Some Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange members requested a special meeting to consider the exchange's plans to move to New Jersey, as well as a possible merger with the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), said William
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        Lock icon A new safeguard for banking via Internet?
        356 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Visa International and Microsoft have jointly developed a technology which is set to make routine chores like banking convenient and secure, and its specifications will be made available today. The Secured Transaction Technology (STT) to safeguard Internet bankcard transactions will
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        243 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuter MOSCOW Russia, the world's second-largest energy producer, has made much progress in reforming its oil industry but needs to make big changes in its natural gas and nuclear sectors, the International Energy Agency (lEA) said yesterday. The oil sector,
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        195 20 Reuter LONDON The dollar slipped below 103 yen in morning Europe after touching a high of 103.75 yen in choppy trade overnight, a level not seen since June 1994. However, European trade was quiet with markets fairly illiquid as dealers expressed caution about fresh involvement amid such volatile conditions.
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        96 20 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was mixed in early trading here yesterday, losing ground against the mark due to profittaking but staying firm against the yen. At 1430 GMT, the dollar was trading at 1.4884 marks from 1.4930 on Wednesday and at 102.55 yen, the same rate as
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        Lock icon Euroyen, Eurodollars end flat in quiet trade
        1338 21 Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen and Eurodollar futures ended flat in listless trade. The market shrugged off Wednesday's favourable US consumer price index and waited for last night's US August retail sales data. "We had a very listless day in the Eurodollars, nothing was
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        Tokyo rubber gains on weak yen
        692 21 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber TOKYO: All Tokyo rubber futures contracts closed higher, reflecting the yen's steep losses against the dollar, traders said. Prices were 1.6 to 5.2 yen per kg higher, with benchmark February up 5.2 yen at 133.4. Active buying from individuals emerged from
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        Shell, Caltex in Pakistan oil venture
        113 21 ISLAMABAD Anglo-Dutch oil firm Shell and US oil company Caltex, together with several other international and local companies, will build a 900 km oil pipeline in Pakistan at an estimated cost of US$6OO million (SSB64 million). The other foreign companies in the consortium are
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          21 21 treatment charges smelters now receive for their services, combined with the weaker yen, have made copper smelting profitable again in Japan.
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        Platinum plunges on panic selling
        99 21 TOKYO Japanese investors who had bought platinum futures heavily on Wednesday and early yesterday morning turned around and began panic selling at midday, sending both spot and futures prices plunging. A sudden firming of the yen against the US dollar in Asia trade yesterday prompted
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        New Zealand wool prices up
        40 21 WELLINGTON Prices rose at the seventh sale' of the New Zealand wool season. The wool price indicator rose seven NZ cents (6.65 S'pore cents) per kg clean from the last sale Sep 7 to NZ$5.4O.
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      1414 21 SICOM Futures Itabbar (fvturts dosing as at 5.M»n) IBS 1 Caatract (S ccnts/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Oct 95 liilo 1*5 00 188.00 150 1600 Nov 186.50 185.00 186.00 150 1325 Dec 186.50 185.00 186.00 150 1275 Jan/Mar 96 185.00 181.00 184.00 600
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        857 22 -10.9 SHARE prices closed weaker yesterday after lower commodity prices dragged down the bourse's resource sector. "The combination of the higher dollar and lower commodity prices dragged resources back," said a trader. The All Ordinaries Index fell 10.9 points to 2,150.9. The All Industrials fell 9.1 to 3,176.4 while
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        585 22 +49.03 Share prices rose due to the rise in Wall Street and the strong performance of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLOT) there. The PSE Composite Index rose 49.03 points to 2,731.49. Turnover was 7.04 billion shares valued at 1.99 billion pesos. Dealers said the market's failure to
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        Taipei
        518 22 -30.97 Share prices Finished lower due to the lack of buying interest, with biggest loser constructions sliding 3 per cent. "A continued slump in constructions weakened market performance despite active buying of electricals by foreign institutions," said a trader. The 321-issue Weighted Price Index lost 30.97 points to 4,956.02.
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        442 22 -2.62 Stock prices retreated, dragged down by a wave of profit-taking after a good start. "As the index punched through the 980 level, a wave of sell orders emerged to realise profits," said an analyst. The Composite Price Index slid 2.62 points to 965.7. Turnover was 67.35 million shares
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        404 22 -5.17 Shares ended down but off their lows in a sullen response to the Reserve Bank's monthly eco- nomic forecasts, widely seen as damaging for equities. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed 5.17 points down at 2,121.94 on volume of NZ$27 million, maintaining a recent trend of light turnover.
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        67 22 +10.95 Share prices closed higher, helped by scattered short covering in otherwise sluggish trade. The 30-share BSE Index closed up 10.9S points to 3,361.18. The 100-stock National Index ended up 6.8 to 1,546.07. Brokers said the market lacked direction and most players sat on the sidelines to await some
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        710 22 -5.4 UK STOCKS were mixed as Peninsular Oriental and Bass swooned, offsetting gains in British Aerospace and Legal General. Further evidence that the UK economy is slowing, raising the prospect of lower interest rates, underpinned the market and prevented unimpressive earnings from quashing all positive market sentiment. "We're in
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        115 22 +0.98 French shares moved up, buoyed by a rise in bonds following US retail data. The CAC-40 Index ended up 0.98 points at 1,899.21 after rebounding from a session low of I gg7 31 Of the CAC-40 stocks, 21 closed higher, 16 lower and three were unchanged. Volume was
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        161 22 +0.38 German share prices were steady, after profit-taking took the index down from earlier highs. The DAX Index closed at 2,300.29, up 0.38 points. Among yesterday's movers, Daimler-Benz closed at 748, up from 745.50. BMW was unchanged at 832 and Volkswagen added 1.80 to 479.50. a rranKiurt SgM3 DM
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        171 22 +8.39 Belgian shares closed sharply higher as the market benefited from fresh buying after the index breached major resistance at 1,480 in early trading. Traders said they expected the marftet to head towards its previous year-high at 1,493, which was seen as minor resistance prior to a test of
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        Milan
        151 22 -1.05 pc Italian shares slipped to a lower close in lacklustre technical trading ahead of the end of the account and the expiry of the September futures contract today. Olivetti and other de Benedetti shares returned to their downward track after two days of short covering, while the telecom
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        248 22 +3.79 A combination of Wall Street's overnight record, a higher dollar and domestic bonds along with the outlook for lower interest rates swept Dutch shares to the latest in their recent series of record high closings. The AEX Index of 25 leading shares finished 3.79 points higher at 471.78,
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        111 22 +11.62 Swedish shares advanced in moderate trade despite losses in forestry firms thanks to falling bond yields and positive market trends in Europe, brokers said. "It's full speed ahead right now and interest rates are the key to it all. This afternoon's developments will all depend on yields," one
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        265 22 -4.4 Swiss shares ended little changed after the bourse index spent much of the day fluctuating within a 27point range. Dealers said today's expiry of SofTex options and SMI futures overshadowed the market. One dealer said many players on the SofTex seemed short and the expiry therefore could push
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        344 22 +32.3 South African shares ended mixed, with all but gold shares recovering to close higher after a disappointing morning session. Dealers said basket trading related to today's closeout of equity index futures had confused the market's direction in early trade but the bulls had returned with a vengeance. Large
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        193 22 -10.0 Stocks opened lower, depressed by political uncertainty, and is seen dropping on further financial market volatility, a trader said. The TSE 300 fell 10.0 points to 4,576.8 on volume of 9.0 million shares with a value of Cslo2 million. Toronto Sty 13 a AtMto Pnce 24 VI nek
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        668 22 -5.28 Stock prices turned narrowly mixed in heavy trading despite a bond (ally following a pair of favourable economic reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rose 18.31 points to a new record high 4,765.52 on Wednesday, was down 5.28 to 4,760.24 at I lam EDT. The NYSE
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      2719 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks rose for the fifth time in six days, briefly driving the Hang Seng Index above 9,700 for the first time since July, amid optimism declining interest rates will bolster corporate earnings. Driven by property shares, the main index rose 1.03 per cent. "North Asia
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      622 23 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index gained 5.66 points to 1,069.73 on turnover of HKS9.3 million. Shanghai Petrochem saw the greatest gain, up 2.5 per cent on turnover of US$3.6 million. Kunming Machinery was the worst performer, down 5.1 per cent. Turnover in the Shanghai B market was
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      2495 23 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks rose to a seven-month high, as the dollar's move back above 103 yen brightened earnings prospects for Japan's high-tech exporters. The stronger dollar also had investors bidding up cyclicals, or shares such as steels that rise during periods of economic expansion, on hopes Japan's
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      1612 23 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks closed lower on active profit taking after Wednesday's 2.6 per cent rally. Brokers said they expect the market to consolidate further. The SET Index fell 7.55 points to 1,315.46 on active 8.38 billion baht turnover. Losers led winners 227 to 77. Finance and bank counters lost
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      1183 23 AFX-Asia JAKARTA Share prices closed higher on selective bargain-hunting and some high volume married trades in large cap stocks although most investors were on the sidelines. The Composite Index closed 1.82 points higher at 495.42. Advances outnumbered declines 48 to 43. Turnover was estimated at 624.85 billion rupiah. Bank
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        6649 24 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks fell on investor concern that accelerating inflation may spur the authorities to raise interest rates, crimping corporate profits. The KLSE Composite Index fell 4.63 points to 993.20. The Emas Index fell 1.95 to 282.53. Turnover was
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        1792 26  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Malaysian counters traded over-the-count-er here fell back unexpectedly, while Sesdaq counters bounced up smartly yesterday. Blue chips in the meantime continued to be regarded with indifference as the local stock market was still preoccupied with smaller capitalised and speculative
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      714 18 B Goldtron Limited (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore) The Directors are pleased to announce the following results: 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE HALF YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 1995 Group Company 30.6.95 30.6.94 30.6.95 30.6.94 SS'OOO Ss'ooo STOOO Ss'ooo Turnover 265,376 222,684 19 5,360 96 Operating profit/(loss) 14,685 16,010 (8)
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      506 27 Knight-Ridder, Reuter QUIET conditions in the Atlantic and relatively weak demand for September loading continue to affect rates and sentiment in tfce dry cargo market, shipbrokers reported. The Baltic Freight Index (BF1), which has fallen every day this month, continued its decline with a loss of a further
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      327 27 Lloyd's List WASHINGTON The National Research Council has called for stricter measures against shipborne waste violators, stressing that fines and penalties must be effective deterrents. In its report "Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans", the NRC marine board's committee made
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      244 27 Bloomberg Business News FALLS CHURCH, Virginia General Dynamics Corp said it completed the purchase of Bath Iron Works, one of the US's oldest shipyards, for US$3OO million (***** million) in cash. General Dynamics won't assume any debt. General Dynamics received clearance from the Federal
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      325 27 SES '000 Sep 14 S$ Vol CWT Distribution 1.53 -0.01 249 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.23 -0.03 139 Coaco Investment 2.14 +0.07 135 Far East Levingston 6.30 +0.05 118 Freight Links Express 0.72 +0.005 203 CB Holdings Ltd 1.01 +0.015 335 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.93 +0.015 440 Hitachi
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      405 27  -  Asia-Pacific Seatransport Conference 1995 By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Asian countries need to map out a comprehensive manpower plan for seafarers, a professor from the National University of Singapore said yesterday. Associate Prof Chia Lin Sien, of the NUS Geography Department, said
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      313 27  -  By Yong Mei Fong SINGAPORE The Hongkong government was urged yesterday to speed up the construction of new container terminal CTI2 to meet anticipated demands in the 21st century. At Apsco yesterday, deputy secretary Roger Parry of Hongkong's Port Development Board said
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      339 27 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik will make a 10-day visit to Hongkong, Kaohsiung in Taiwan and Pusan in South Korea beginning Sep 25 to study the port operations there. 'These ports are among the most efficient in
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      135 27 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING The China State Shipbuilding Corp has put on hold plans to allow more shipyards from its stable of 26 to sell shares overseas and will seek direct investment in smaller yards, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday. Yang Hongdian,
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      1135 28  -  Major shake-up on the waterfront fails to increase productivity, writes Florence Chong from Sydney Florence Chong Despite a lengthy and expensive reform process, productivity at Australian ports has started to backslide, according to a recent report on the Australian waterfront. In a highly critical report
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      506 28 Page ABC Coot 16 •ANL 3 •APL 12 Able 7 Accord 8 •Ah ten 6 •Ahrenkiei 4 Antaco 13 •Appenship 4 Arowarva IS Astro 8 Austral 9 Avant 6 B'tang Mas 8 BSA 9 BTL 16 Bangladesh 12 Batamindo 7 Bengal Br IS
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        476 46  -  •y Alec Almazan SINGAPORE The main challenges facing Asian airlines are stagnant yields, congested airspace and airports and lack of qualified personnel, Cathay Pacific managing director Rod Eddington said in a speech here yesterday. Mr Eddington was speaking on the second
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        257 46 UPI MANILA Aviation authorities said on Wednesday the Philippines has earmarked 74.8 million pesos (Ss4.l million) to upgrade some 85 domestic and international airports across the country. Air transport office chief Panfilo Villaruel said 50 million pesos of the fund would finance safety and security
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        274 46 Reuter FRANKFURT German car maker Mercedes-Benz AG said on Wednesday it would build a new car plant in Brazil, representing another move by the company away from its expensive home production base. Chairman Helmut Werner told a news conference at the Frankfurt Car
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        291 46 Reuter WASHINGTON Philippine officials urged the US on Wednesday to give the Philippines' national airline time to modernise before an open skies pact between the two countries takes place. The officials raised this issue at a press conference before the opening of
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        Lock icon Sino-Korean plane project likely to pick European partner
        270 46 AFP SEOUL A French-led European consortium has secured a consolidating lead in competition with US aircraft giant Boeing Co to join a Sino-South Korean aircraft project, newspapers here said recently. The report followed an agreement last week between China and South Korea
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        109 46 AP BEUING China is buying US$2.4 million (553.4 million) in air traffic control equipment from the Air Transport Industry Co of the US, an official report said yesterday. The deal is part of China's plan to invest heavily in upgrading its inadequate civil aviation communication
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        80 46 SINGAPORE Passengers travelling from Taiwan to Hongkong on China Airlines and then on to China with Dragonair will benefit from a new service, Inter Airline Through Check-in. The service, introduced on Sep 5, enables passengers departing from Taipei or Kaohsiung in Taiwan, with onward connections to
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        77 46 Reuter SYDNEY An Australian union which has banned French cargo passing through Australia's busiest air freight terminals, said the ban will remain until France completes its nuclear testing in the South Pacific. A spokesman for the Australian Services Union (ASU) said a ban will remain
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        80 46 Reuter TOKYO Jaguar Japan Lid, the Japanese importer-distributor of luxury cars made by Jaguar Cars lid of Britain, raised its Japanese ales target to 2,200 care in calendar 1995 from an earlier projected 2,150, a spokeswoman for Jaguar Japan said. Japanese sales of Jaguar care
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        48 46 UPI SEATTLE Boeing Co officials said on Wednesday'that AD Nippon Airways has made firm an estimated USSI.3 billion (SSI.B billion) order for 10 777-300 aircraft. The airUnp initially announced its intention to purchase the new jets at the Paris Air Show in june. UPI
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        337 46 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's air cargo industry is a growth business, with booming revenue seen in 199S and major fleet expansion planned for the next four years, the nation's two carriers said yesterday. Korean Air Lines Co (KAL), a unit of
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      466 33 ffg FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES!; 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE 0106 y HOT UNE: *****33 (30 LUES) WEEKLY SAILING TO ALL AUSTRALIAN PORTS FOR MORE DETOLSCAU^^^"^ KEN SIM IVERON ONG V TEL :224 1 8 3 3 5 1 ■•A: wa» nv ?iv nw leao* >v ?v* in# MSM lli Iliß
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      354 39 (IIWH— —ifftt) j 4 oSTT mhfmmmt) Seabridge MMNUNE: 278 7772 •i DIRECT I! CONSOLIDATION TO icm mm AT USD 80.00/RT++ SKOAL DISCOUNT FOR ABOVE 5 CBM TRANSIT TIME 10 DAYS V FREQUENCY: tORffIIGHRY ooAKCAMiaicura.il FOR BOOKINGS PLEASE CALL: if Til: *****72 *****49 ZUIAIMI, VASANTHY, KAIA, HUtOH, ANDY 1 Ttt EXT:
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      307 39 W SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD 20 McCallum Street §16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 Tet *****22 (10 Lines) FAX; *****05 Cfl No- *****8 200 00R Y.S.N. IBSL T TSTpg I ST 555 n iihhi m um w— twm tmw n-ww awacNwtw i 7«» IHW i»iw IZJICS tttm Mw zvsoi aaoi aaa«
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      1500 40 uamsmssm MAERSK ENHANCED SERVICE TO EAST COAST SOUTH AMERICA ANNA MAERSK V.9516 ETA SIN 18TH SEPTEMBER 1995 VmM Vo> ETA I ETD DESTINATIONS Nol out PANAMA Naxt waak BTM STRING WWW MAOSON MAERSK V 9608 MAERSK LONG BEACH V.9610 HHI UKM BMBB MM CY-IW9I2OOHRS CY 2U9 1200HRS CFS -1M 2358
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      688 40 TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF LOADING VOY SPORE I P.KELANG* HALIFAX N.YORK NORFOLK N. ORLEANS SAVANNAH TAMPKX) HOUSTON HOEGH DRAKE 0432 28/77 SEP 118 SEP 08 NOV 11 NOV 14 NOV 21 NOV 15 NOV 28 NOV 29 NOV HOEGHDYKE 0832 14/18 OCT 107 OCT 29 NOV 02
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      360 40 V® PHI LI-OH If NT: V**LINGS PT€ LTD' TEL: *****00 (10 LBCB} Jt FAX: *****70/*****38 OHO AUCKLAND, WELLJNQTON, LYTTIETON, 17 SEP I CHRTCHURCH. NEW PLYMOUTH <*> ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, ANTWERP I ANO ALL MLANO DESTMATIONS WTTMN EUROPE 1«80» I 17 BBPV I BUSAN. MAMLA, BANGKOK, PKBANO, 17 8S» I PENANO, K
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      326 42 Singapore So»lat Shipping I Co. Pte. Ltd. CRNO:**********0N BOMBAY/COCHIN IvtWEL VOY BOM COC KOTA MUTMRA MUTOM 17AM SUM •UMK *10 IMI Ml MBOMMK KURAKO MKOM Ml M W/W I—AOLOWV ouw> am mo REGULAR WEEKLY SERVICE TO "SIHANOUKVILLE/PHNOM PENH/ HAIPHONG" SIHAMOUKVIUJE/PHNOM PEMH/HAIPHONfi fSE WOT Pi. «M MM MFH PtONERHMM MWM Ml
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      109 42 m FAR EAST 19/9 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 17/9 BANGKOK 17/9 MANILA/CEBU 17/9 JAKARTA/BE LAWAN/SURABAYA 17/9 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 17/9 BUSAN 17/9 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 17/9 HONG KONG SIM CHINA (+B#±*«n) 17/9 GUANGZHOU/HUANG PU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGOAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIN EUROPE/UK 17/9 LDN/FIX/IYP/SOU 18/9 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIM USA/CANADA
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      429 42 I STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD zSRuffISSSa SOVKI GOLD STAR UNI LTD SCTH SHIPftNG CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-4644 (S LINES) FAX: *****70 Idb *****12 (MAMffTUG) (d NO. IMIO4SMOH) M. ANfItKA/CAMStAN SOtVKIS IMI 1 iMMBM IMiIPtIMW I WC I W mono m iw Ltmmin h/m m/m m/m i/ii i/ii Lwm. n/t
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