The Business Times, 17 May 1996

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MIT A (P) 04(V12/S>r> Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes SINGAPORE FRIDAY, MAY 17,1996 85c
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
    69 1 EmUMB BATES us* s$ USI 1.406 I 1-&12 .2.128 DM 0.652 .0.918 ¥Mi. 0«8 1.S20 Mt 0.402 .0.565 HKI 6.129. 6.182 BAHT 6.646 .6.666 EUP1AH166 6.642 6.660 PUB BATES SWQAPOte*._ .6.44 KUALA LUMPUR ..8.15 JAKMM. 18.00 BANGKOK 1175 MANBA 14.50 HONGKONG .8.75 TAIPEI 8.M SYDNEY 10.75 TOKYO __180 SEOUL
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    Redas appeals for changes to new curbs
    468 1  -  Govt urged not to step up land sales till foil impact is known By] Lilian Ang [SINGAPORE] Developers have appealed for changes to the measures announced this week to curb property speculation, and urged the government not to step up land sales until
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    SHI up 26, property stocks still weak
    339 1  -  By Ven Sreenivasan (SINGAPORE] The stock market rebounded convincingly yesterday, indicating that the market's immediate concerns about government measures to curb property speculation may already have receded. The Straits Times Industrials Index recouped 26 of the 44 points it lost the day before,
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    Ex-Giordano boss bitten by the technology bug
    476 1  -  Byt Quak Hiang Whai and Vikram Khanna [HONGKONG] With his publishing business now on track and all his shares at Giordano International completely divested, Jimmy Lai, the outspoken founder of the casual-wear chain, has found a new thrill and business venture: technology merchandising.
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    All sellers of property must make statutory declarations
    822 1  -  Byi Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] All sellers of properties will now have to make sworn statutory declarations under new procedures for paying stamp duties. Non-resident sellers will also have to submit a new IR 37A form to the Inland Revenue Authority (IRAS) on
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      6 1 More property reports and reactions, Pg2
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      182 1 Im ■V] ESißr Jm BUMS ***** n (It does not, unfortunately, monitor taste.) Introducing the first Hewlett-Packard own colour copying. You won't have to send out colour printer-copier. The HP Copy Jet. for expensive colour copies and you only need A printer and copier in one? Think of the one
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Choice site planned
      376 2  -  Choa Chu Kang development plan projects a 52% rise in residential units by 2010 By. Abdul Hadhi fSINGAPORE] CHOA Chu Kang will in future become a choice residential district with attractive amenities and recreational areas and will also boast a shopping centre comparable to Bishan's Junction 8.
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      Property sale loss not tax deductible
      331 2  -  By < Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Losses made from the sale of properties affected by the new income tax rules will not be allowed for tax deduction, an IRAS spokesman said. This is because those who are caught by the new taxes which are levied
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      Genuine buyers won't be deterred
      356 2  -  Foreigners who pay cash or use foreign currency loans will still boy: analysts By Agnes Wee [SINGAPORE] The new restrictions on foreign property buyers are likely to succeed in weeding out the speculators among them but genuine investors who pay cash or use foreign currency
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      Foreigners can use CPF to pay foreign currency loans
      442 2  -  By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Foreigners can use their Central Provident Funds to service their foreign currency loans for purchasing a Singapore property even though they are now barred from taking a Singapore dollar loan to buy that property. "Foreigners can
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      Long arm of the curbs on property
      589 2  -  Govt measures expected to hit speculation in industrial properties By, Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Some of the new measures introduced to curb property speculation are likely to dampen the growing speculation in the buoyant industrial property market. But property consultants told BT the measures
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      Agents say sellers now putting deals on hold
      360 2  -  By Michelle Low [SINGAPORE] Sellers have backed out of the property market, several property agents said yesterday. Agents say most sellers would rather hold on to their properties than let them go at a loss. The result, they say, is that transactions
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon International calls up 8.6% in Q1
      310 3  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Industry By' Teh Hooi Ling INTERNATIONAL telephone traffic grew 8.6 per cent in the first quarter compared with a year ago. Latest figures from Singapore Telecom show a total of 44 million calls were made between January and March, up
      Source: Singapore Telecom  -  310 words
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      New regional HQ to help JVC double Asian turnover
      315 3  -  It will set up centres for distribution, RAD and after-sales service here By] Kevin Sullivan CONSUMER electronics firm Victor Company of Japan (JVC) will use its new regional headquarters in Singapore to spearhead an ambitious drive to double its turnover in
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      Recalling Nissans to correct flaws
      275 3  -  Byi Christopher Tan TAN Chong yesterday initiated a voluntary campaign to recall 4,702 Nissan cars sold here in the light of a similar exercise in Japan. The recall is the second phase of a massive rectification programme involving 1.1 million vehicles in Japan and abroad
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      A Tresors trove of US$25m in sales, and 18,400 visitors
      408 3  -  About 70% of this year's exhibitors have shown interest in returning next year By i Corinne Kerk TRESORS, the fine art and antiques fair which ended its sixday run on Tuesday, recorded total sales of between US$2O million (Ss2B million)
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      Ericsson launches $2m joint research project
      147 3 SWEDISH telecommunications group Ericsson yesterday announced a $2 million joint investment with the National Science and Technology Board in a research collaboration on wireless multimedia. The research will be conducted with two Singaporebased research institutes, the Centre for Wireless Communication and the Institute of
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Banhara to reshuffle cabinet next week
      382 4  -  BANGKOK PM won't disclose extent of shake-up, or if he will drop coalition partner By\ Loh Hui Yin PRIME MINISTER Banharn Silpa-archa has promised to reshuffle his cabinet next week, after Parliament has considered the the 1997 budget proposals. But Mr Banharn, who was
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      Lock icon Group concerned over Taiwanese firms quitting M'sia
      240 4 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama THE Taipei Investors Association in Malaysia is looking into the alarming trend of Taiwanese companies pulling out from Malaysia. Its executive secretary, Wee Chin Yuan, said the association learned from Human Resources Minister Lim Ah Lek yesterday that 31 Taiwanese
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      Lock icon In training for next month
      47 4 [KUALA LUMPUR] Light Rail Transit (LRT) coaches passing by Pudu station in the city centre during a test run in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The Msl.2 billion (Ss67B million) Phase 1 project covering 12 km is expected to start running next month. AFP
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      Zhu Rongji's visit to boost Sino-Thai business ties
      252 4  -  BANGKOK China's economic czar is on the second leg of a S-E Asia tour By] Loh Hui Yin THAILAND and China are to map out a strategy to take their economic relations into the 21st century, further strengthening their already good bilateral
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      Lock icon April CPI up 3.6%
      116 4 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S consumer prices rose 3.6 per cent year-on-year in April, slightly faster than March's 3.2 per cent, the statistics department said yesterday. The rise was mainly attributed to food prices rising 5 per cent, as well as entertainment and education prices climbing 3.7
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      Military ties at optimum level, says US general
      315 4  -  SINGAPORE By] Kevin Sullivan US-SINGAPORE military ties are at optimum level, Gen John Shalikashvili, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said yesterday before returning to Washington after a twoday visit here. "We have a relationship between the armed forces of
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      Lock icon Motor industry to take Jakarta to WTO
      279 4 TOKYO AFP JAPAN'S motor industry wants to take Indonesia to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over its national car policy, a senior representative said yesterday. "We have told Indonesian officials that the trade issue should be taken to the WTO for a smooth
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China's still open to a deal with US
      509 5 BEIJING But Washington must stop using high-handed tactics, Reuter CHINA said yesterday the way was open for a deal with the US that would avert a trade war over copyright piracy but only if Washington renounced "high-handed" tactics. China and the US
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      Lock icon China publishes tit-for-tat sanctions list
      184 5 WASHINGTON Bloomberg Business News MINUTES after the US announced a list of US$3 billion (554.2 billion) of Chinese imports targeted for punitive tariffs, China published a broad list of US imports and investments on which it will impose retaliatory tariffs and suspend trade privileges. The
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      Robert Kuok's Kerry group to be listed soon
      396 5  -  SINGAPORE By Teh Hooi Ling THE Kerry group, Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok's flagship company in Hongkong and China, is poised to go public soon. A senior executive of Kerry Development (Shanghai) Co Ltd, Wong Siu Kong, told BT yesterday that "it won't
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      Lock icon Hongkong bourse indifferent to trade war threat
      335 5  -  HONGKONG Superpowers could ceme to terms at last minute, say analysts By Quak Hiang Whai THE threat of a full-scale trade war between China and the US had little impact on the Hongkong stock market with the benchmark Hang Seng index finishing marginally
      Source: Bloomberg; JEN CHUA  -  335 words
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      Lock icon Teng-hui says he won't seek another term
      85 5 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN President Lee Teng-hui will not seek re-election after completing his second term in 2000, officials said. Mr Lee told a National Assembly on Wednesday that the forthcoming term would be his last, and that he would not seek to revise
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  • ASIA
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      The road ahead for India
      728 6  -  BJP and HF-LT may take different routes but end up at the same destination By Vikram Khanna IN the event, the opinion polls turned out to be spot on. India has ended up with as hung a parliament as it's possible to get. With a
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      Lock icon Share market welcomes move to form BJP govt
      370 6 BOMBAY AFX-Asia Reuter SHARE prices closed off highs on late profit-taking after the rally triggered by news that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been asked to form a government, dealers said. The Bombay Stock Exchange Index closed up 26.82 points at
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      Lock icon Vajpayee's greatest test: Forming India's next govt
      698 6 NEW DELHI He needs every bit of his famed diplomatic skills to win enough support Reuter JEN CHUA ATAL Bihari Vajpayee, diplomat, poet and orator, faces his greatest test now that his Hin-du-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been invited to form India's
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  • THE WORLD
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      Shifting economic undercurrents
      733 7  -  WORLD VIEW fniangaa wonp anil Mi butt 'fIM jUtOU Ot UIA By Kevin Sullivan THE thing about economic transition periods is that you don't really know they've begun until they're already well advanced. The end of the Cold War was straightforward Presidents Bush and Gorbachev had the
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      Lock icon Business productivity up in first quarter
      170 7 WASHINGTON Reuter THE productivity of American workers outside the farm sector jumped 2.6 per cent in the first three months of 1996, the Labour Department said yesterday. The news was upbeat for the economy as gains in business efficiency are viewed as a key
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      Peter Baring claims Leeson had help
      345 7  -  LONDON Issues public apology for failing to discover fraudulent dealings By\ Neil Behrmann PETER Baring, former chairman of Barings, has repeated the claim he made in the immediate aftermath of the £860 million (Ssl.B billion) collapse of the British merchant bank: that rogue trader
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      Lock icon Dole quits US Senate in battle for presidency
      358 7 WASHINGTON Reuter 808 Dole announced on Wednesday he is quitting the US Senate to wage an all-out fight against Bill Clinton for the presidency. "I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people and
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      Lock icon Rate cuts still on agenda
      142 7 FRANKFURT Bloomberg Business News THE Bundesbank yesterday said cuts in German money market rates remain on the agenda, as the economy struggles through a rough patch and inflation is nowhere in sight. Sounding unusually confident about its quest for stable prices, the central bank said
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Dole dishes up confused Asia doctrine
      780 8  -  THH BOTTOM LIMB OPINION By Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent LAST week, I joined some of Washington's leading foreign policy hands, including former secretaries of state, members of Congress, think-tank analysts, government officials, columnists and television reporters, to cover Senate Majority
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      120 8 'It certainly is the case that there's been an explosion in the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities (in the US). Hie fact that a similar explosion is not taking place in other parts of the world is suspicious; why would only Americans be afflicted with this
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      India's electoral end-game
      583 8 EDITORIAL AFTER days of jostling and suspense, India at last has a new prime minister. But the swearing-in of Atal Bihari Vajpayee yesterday only marks the beginning of yet another spell of haggling and horsetrading. The ultimate shape of India's government is still a wide open question
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      Silver lining seen in migration into cities
      933 8  -  Economist says big middle class can grow from China's urban population explosion w Toh Han Shih The writer is a BT correspondent A FORMER World Bank official, Andrew Hamer, who was a China economist in the World Bank from 1967 to 1995, disagrees
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      380 8 ■MdteoriMcrrtbaaktac THIRD World "kleptocrats" such as Ferdinand Marcos, Haiti's Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier and Zaire's unspeakable Mobutu Sese Seko stashed hundreds of millions, even billions, in respectable banking institutions. But secret banking is not all bad. Crooks are not the only people it helps. European Jews
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Shankar returns to recording
      713 9  -  Ex-Beatle George Harrison is to play patron to his former sitar guru, reports adam tammer ADAM TANNER Reuter THIRTY years after Beatle George Harrison journeyed to India seeking sitar lessons from Ravi Shankar, the former pupil has become the Indian master's foremost patron. When Shankar, 76,
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      Singapore to see Aida staged on a mammoth scale
      356 9  -  OPERA By i Corinne Kerk [SINGAPORE] Come September, a dramatic tale of doomed love, loyalties, betrayal and death will take over the Singapore Indoor Stadium in the form of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's four-act opera, Aida. The $4-million mammoth production in
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      Lock icon Sitcom takes a risk with marital crisis
      738 10 TV How will fans of Had About Ton react to Paul and Jamie Buchman's breakup? NYT [NEW YORK] All the good people in US television soaps seem to have been hit by one crisis or another this month. On Roseanne, Roseanne's husband Dan
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    • CHATTER Box
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        Lock icon Jemima, Imran expecting a baby
        72 10 Reuter [LONDON] Jemima Goldsmith, the British socialite who married former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan last year, is expecting her first child. Her spokesman said yesterday: "I am pleased to confirm that Jemima will be expecting a baby in November." He said the 22-year-old blonde
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        Lock icon Hopkins wins Spencer Tracy Award
        99 10 Reuter [LOS ANGELES] Anthony Hopkins has become the first non-American actor to win the Spencer Tracy Award for excellence on stage and screen. Hopkins, who won the best actor Oscar fin- the 1991 movie TheSUenceqftheLamtteaA was nominated this year for Nixon, was presented with the
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        Lock icon Dunmore cliches Orange Prize
        69 10 AFP [LONDON] British writer Helen Dunmore carried off the first £30,000 (S96&000) Orange Prise tor women mroalMs here yesterday, edging out the ex-wife of writer Batman Rushdie. Runaway favourite Dunmore beat Marianne Wiggins and four other authors with her novel* Speiltf Winter to daim the award.
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        Lock icon Speechless flad
        79 10 AFP (LIVERPOOL] A film thought to be the first of the Beatles giving a performance has been discovered in a house in their home city here—but it has no sound to §o with the pictures. Shot in colour on an 8-millimetre camera, it shows the Ffcb Four playing
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      Lock icon Two British films create a stir
      849 12 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL While one deals with emotional stress points of relationships, the other visits a shim of jonkies and thugs LAT-WP [CANNES, France] As different as the classic chalk and cheese, a pair of completely British films have this at least in common:
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Want Want closes at 25% premium
      434 13  -  Dealers «ud to be getting good order flows from institutional investors By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Taiwan ricecracker maker Want Want Holdings Ltd staged a robust debut yesterday, escaping the public apathy that greeted the first two new share offers this year. The Want
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      Tingyi to raise rice cracker output
      481 13  -  Mm could q»rk market war with Want Vast Is China By\ Lu Ning [SINGAPOREJ In what appears to be the first salvo of a rice cracker war, Tingyi Holdings, a Taiwanese-owned instant noodle firm that does all its business in China, announced on Monday
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      IPC to gain 85m francs from sale of Groupe Bull stake
      270 13  -  Byi Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Locally listed IPC Corporation has sold its 3.27 per cent stake in Compagnie des Machines Bull (Groupe Bull) for a total of 135.81 million francs (5536.7 million). The sale of 4.52 million shares was transacted
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      Guthrie's Batam woes: What if other owners follow suit?
      598 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Abdul Hadhi i HE Indah Puri Resort in Batam came to haunt Guthrie GTS yet again recently. At an extraordinary I meeting convened last Friday for another purpose (to approve a l-for-5 boJ nus issue), a proxy for
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      Farmcare maker Zagro gets nod for Sesdaq listing
      270 13  -  By Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Zagro Asia Pte Ltd, which makes farmcare products, is going public. The Singapore-based company yesterday said it had obtained in-principle approval from the Stock Exchange of Singapore for a listing on Sesdaq. It is the second company to
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      Avimo interim earnings up 26%
      271 13  -  By\ Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] Precision optics maker Avimo has reported a 26 per cent jump in interim group net earnings to $3.2 million for the half-year ended March 1996. This was achieved on the back of a 45 per cent surge in interim group
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        MME woos foreign traders for Klibor futures
        727 14  -  It hopes traders will come to the exchange to hedge their ringgit positions &y Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] The Malaysia Monetary Exchange (MME) is drumming up support among ringgit traders in Singapore for its soon-to-be-launched three-month Kuala Lumpur Interbank Offered Rate (Klibor) futures contract.
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        OCBC attracts $73m for its Asia infrastructure fund
        296 14  -  By\ Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] Rich pickings by unit trusts continued with OCBC Asset Management raking in a massive $73 million from its Savers Asia Infrastructure Fund (Saif) at the end of its one-month launch period on April 30. Saif s $73 million
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        Crosby fund raises US$25m
        197 14 [SINGAPORE] The Crosby group said here yesterday it has raised U5525.6 million (Ss36 million) through its Greater Mekong Capital Fund, which will invest in unlisted companies in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam and China's Yunnan province. The fund, launched in February, is Crosby's first regional private
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        Lock icon Tenaga interim seen sharply lower
        410 14 But 2nd half expected to improve as power rate hike takes effect Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Power giant Tenaga Nasional Bhd is widely expected to report sharply lower half-year earnings in the next few days, hurt by its inability to get an electricity tariff hike during
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        L&G to buy Melbourne WTC for A$103m cash
        313 14  -  From, Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S property group Land General Bhd (LAG) is to buy the World Trade Centre (WTC) in Melbourne for ASIO3 million (SIII6 million) cash. Land General said in a statement that its 75-per-cent-owned unit Lang Australia Pty
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        Lock icon Shell Mining's Q1 margins improve
        229 14 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] SheU Refining Company (FOM) Bhd said yesterday that its refining margins in the first quarter of 1996 improved by 90 Malaysian cents a barrel over the same period in 1995. Shell Refining's chairman and chief executive Megat Zaharuddin bin Megat Mohamed Nor
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        Lock icon Setron to buy remaining 70% of Business Focus
        462 14 MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] Setron (Malaysia) Bhd is to acquire the remaining 70 per cent stake in widely diversified Business Focus Sdn Bhd. Setron executive chairman Am in Shah Omar Shah told a press conference here yesterday that with the proposed acquisition Setron
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        Lock icon Total Access posts 76% profit rise in 1st qtr
        143 14 Bloomberg Business News [SINGAPORE] Total Access Communication pic, Thailand's second biggest mobile telephone company, yesterday said net profit rose 76 per cent in the first quarter of 1996. TAC, whose stock trades on the Singapore exchange, issued a financial summary through
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      • COMPANY Briefs
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          Amcol confirms EGM
          81 14 [SINGAPORE] Amcol Holdings yesterday confirmed that it had been asked to call an EGM for the purpoee of removing all existing directors and appointing Sukamto Sia, Lee Howe Yong, Steven Baker, Sumitro Sukamto and Peter Gontha to the board. The meeting was called on May 15 by
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          STIC buys more shares in associntes
          48 14 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Technologies Industrial Corp said it has acquired additional shares in two associate companies from Sembawang Industrial. It has bought LIS million shares in Singapore-Wuxi Investment Holdings at $1,066 per share, and 47,222 shares in Wuxi International Management Services at $I.o6sapiece.
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          PCC issues notice on redemption of RCPS
          41 14 [SINGAPORE] First Capital Corp yesterday issued a notice on the redemption of its Redeemable Cumulative Preference Shares. It will redeem the 100 million &2S per cent RCPS of 1 cent each on June 17.
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          Lock icon Kinta Kellas profit Up 4%
          40 14 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Kinta Kellas yesterday said group pre-tax profit for the quarter ended March 31,1966, roae 4 per cent to M 511.460 million (816.47 million) from MfIOJTI million In the previous same period. Bernama
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          Lock icon Rothmans' profit rises 17.7%
          47 14 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Rothmans of Pan Mall (M) Bhd yesterday said it had registered a 17.7 par cent increase in group pre-tax profit to M 5509.760 million (SS2BBmillion) for the year ended March 31,1966, from M 943&228 million in the previous corresponding period.—Bernama
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        Lock icon British Telecom pre-tax profit up 13% to £3 billion
        299 15 Company took a one-time charge of £73m for revamp of MCI Communications Bloomberg Business News (LONDON] British Telecommunications pic said full year pre-tax profit before one-time items rose 13 per cent, largely because the cost of cutting jobs fell. Pre-tax profit
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        Lock icon Media boss Packer is still the richest man in Australia
        310 15 Reuter [SYDNEY] Australian media baron Kerry Packer has retained the crown as the country's richest man with a fortune worth A 53.3 billion (553.7 billion), according to the Business Review Weekly magazine's 1996 Rich List. Huge fortunes were made by
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        Lock icon Here's Nintendo 64
        49 15 [LOS ANGELES] Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the video game Super Mario 64, posing with Nintendo Corporation's new game system Nintendo 64 at a press preview in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Nintendo 64 will be available in Japan next month and in the US in September. REUTER
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        Lock icon Goldsmith ups stake in Elders Australia to 6.76%
        166 15 Bloomberg Business News [SYDNEY] British financier James Goldsmith has increased his stake in Australian rural services group and takeover target Elders Australia Ltd. Investment companies controlled by Mr Goldsmith, led by General Oriental Investments Ltd, said in a notice to the Australian
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        Lock icon Two US retailers report improved Q1 results
        647 15 Finns' cost-costing helped offset cutback in consumer spending Bloomberg Business News [CHICAGOI Federated Department Stores Inc and Woolworth Corp reported better-than-expected fiscal firstquarter results because of cost-cutting at the two major US retailers. Federated said it had a fiscal first-quarter profit of US$9.3
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        Lock icon Aussie company profits up 8% despite pessimistic forecasts
        253 15 AFP [SYDNEY] Company profits rose 8 per cent in the three months to March, said the Bureau of Statistics. It said company profits before tax, interest and depreciation rose to All 1.46 billion (5512.9 billion) in the three months to March 31.
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        Lock icon Mitsubishi Estate posts parent net loss of 121b yen
        341 15 Rockefeller Centre in New York blamed for the bad show AFP [TOKYO] New York's Rockefeller Centre cost Japan's Mitsubishi Estate dearly, forcing the prestigious real estate company to report a 121.33 billion yen (Ssl.6 billion) parent net loss for the year
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        Lock icon Lockheed to sell US$3.5b of bonds
        253 15 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Lockheed Martin Corp is preparing to sell US$3.5 billion (554.9 billion) of bonds about 60 per cent more than planned in what will be the biggest sale of high-grade debt ever. Wednesday's borrowers Xerox Credit Corp, Columbia HCA/ Healthcare
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        Lock icon Orange County's plan approved
        546 16 Court decision clears way for county to get out of bankruptcy next month Bloomberg Business News [SANTA ANA, California] A US Bankruptcy Court judge approved Orange County, California's reorganisation plan, clearing the way for the county to exit from bankruptcy next month. Judge John Ryan has
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          Lock icon 2 M'sian banks eye stake in Manila bank
          65 16 Bernama [MANILA] Two Malaysian banks have expressed interest in acquiring a combined 40 per cent stake in the state-run Philippines Al-Amanah Islamic Investment Bank (PAIIB). Dallah Albaraka and Bank Islam made their proposal to the Department of Finance through the Development Bank
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          Lock icon Bank off Korea's credit control plan
          74 16 Reuter [SEOUL] The Bank of Korea (BOK) said it will lift credit controls on all but the top 10 business conglomerates in South Korea, with effect from July 1. The central bank ruled that bank loans provided to the top 10 business groups should
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          Lock icon Rise in May rubber futures margin
          47 16 Reuter [TOKYO] The Tokyo Commodity Exchange said yesterday it will raise the margin requirement on the May rubber futures contract by 10,000 yen (Ssl32) to 166,000 yen per trading lot, effective today. The move is intended to cool overheated trade. —Reuter
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        Singapore's 1995 silver imports fall to 29m ounces
        523 16  -  Regional importers are buying directly from producers From Neil Behrmann in London SINGAPORE'S silver trade has slumped as regional importers are buying directly from producers, says the Silver Institute which represents leading producers. In an extensive 64-page annual review of the global
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        201 16 SCMP [HONGKONG] HongkongBank has surprised the market by increasing the size of its floating rate certificate of deposit (FRCD) offer to HK54.75 billion (SsB64 million), setting a record in the territory's debt market. In a deal one market player described as a "slam-dunk", subscriptions reached
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        Lock icon Profit-taking cuts Euroyen gains
        229 16 SSXEXReport Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures ended steady yesterday as profit-taking pared earlier gains made on sentiment that a Japanese interest rate hike was not imminent. "The Euroyen has basically been at 98.75 all day," said one dealer. "Right now, there isn't any clear factor to
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        169 16 Reuter AFP London THE dollar climbed against European currencies but retreated against the yen as dealers awaited the publication due today of the US trade balance and amid quiet trading because many European markets were closed for a holiday. At 1237 GMT, the dollar was traded at 1.5343
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        339 16 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON! World oil prices slipped yesterday amid renewed concerns Iraq may be nearer a deal with the United Nations on an oil-for-food deal which could see Iraqi crude on international markets for the first time in six years. London
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1590 17 8I00M FUTUKB8 May 16 MIMtt (Mm dad* m I30*a0 ISS1 CONTtACT(S CMtsAe) CtOM VKmt Opan M» f Wt (taanas) latarwt Jan 96 215.50 215.50 216*25 75 400 •M ***** 209.00 2IL2S ITS 260 A** ***** 201.50 ***** 3075 2475 Sap 96 211.25 ***** 207.00 525 3500 Od/Dat 96
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2188 17 IMMK m>w htoitilili nw *h A. A. Corp A* 661/2 -1/4 AB Ports 296 -3 Abbey National 5731/2 *1 Allied Lyons 495 -6 Amac 112 -11/2 Argy* 342 Asda Croup 118 unch BAT Ind 490 2 BKC 3401/2 -11/2 BOCGroup 930 -5 BR Petroleum 5681/2 -101/2 BTR
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      1603 17 Reuter Q Nikkei 22S *UM STOCKS extended modest gains as fears of a credit-tightening by the Bank of Japan in the near future subsided. Brokers said, however, that rising momentum was limited because of profit-taking pressure. The key 225-share Nikkei Average closed up 91.24 points to close at 22,147.21.
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      1694 18 AFX-Asia D Hang Seng -30.42 SHARES closed lower on weak sentiment due to the uncertainty over the trade dispute between the US and China. The Hang Seng Index closed down 30.42 points at 10,833.41. Turnover was HK$3.O4 billion. Dealers said the market drifted throughout the day in the absence
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      833 18 AFP □set Index -MM SHARE prices closed lower as investors waited for the local political situation to settle and amid poor corporate earnings. The SET Index plunged 24.26 points to 1,302.34. Turnover was 93.6 million shares worth 6.9 billion baht. Declines buried advances 280 to 77 with 89 stocks
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      313 18 AFP Q Manila -ILIS SHARE prices fell as the market continued to consolidate with investors shifting their focus to second liners. The Composite Index lost 11.15 points to 3,112.42. Turnover was 5.23 billion shares valued at 10.24 billion pesos. Petron Corp lost 25 centavos to 10.25 pesos. San Miguel
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      643 18 Reuter FlShanjfluuß Store Index *011 THE Shanghai B market ignored a possible trade war between China and the US and ended firmer on selective buying. The index gained 0.16 point to 49.66 on volume of 7.1 million shares worth US$2.B million. Brokers said few B share companies depend on
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      403 18 AFP HWFMat *U8 SHARE prices finished marginally higher on slow trading as most market participants stayed on the sidelines. "Trading was very slow as investors declined to take initiatives due to the lack of fresh incentives," said a trader. The Weighted Price Index rose 1.52 points to 6,096.93. Turnover
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      409 18 AFP pOamDoatelaig -17.21 SHARE prices fell yesterday, as concerns over the scheduled new stock listings weighed on investors' sentiment amid a lack of fresh incentives, brokers said. The Composite Price Index closed 17.21 points lower at 940.96. Turnover was 38.4 million shares worth 711.5 billion won. Falls beat risers
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      618 18 AFP DAnOrijMriM -14.7 SHARE prices closed lower as concerns over the growing number of corporate profit downgrades intensified. "There's red ink everywhere and the problem is that the profit downgrades are across the board," said one broker. The All Ordinaries Index fell 14.7 points to 2,245.5. Turnover was 359.2
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      Lock icon WELLINGTON
      278 18 Reuter n Wellington -til SHARES declined for a third day as the yield on overnight cash jumped to 10 per cent, its highest level since January 1993. The NZSE Top 40 share Index fell 9.11 points to 2,071.01. Reuter •ay it na m») ANZ Banking 6.95 -0.05 ***** Advontogoi
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        Lock icon Economic concerns deter investors
        7753 19 KUALA LUMP U RReports currency terms. Bloomberg Business News, AFX-Asia QOompuite Index -4JI Ml m STOCKS fell for a second day, led by Tenaga Nasional and Malaysian Assurance Alliance, on concern over the country's economy and the currency's long-term prospects. "There is still no clear sign
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        UIC warrants worth a buy
        3738 20  -  WARRANT WATCH -By Ven Sreenivasan WITH the hammering that property counters have been taking in the last few days, one might be excused for thinking we are going off the deep end for suggesting that a property-based warrant is still worth a buy. But before
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2297 20 MALAYSIA* STOCKS Or Or UN LMt Vat Day Laat Quata Mi Oh YN IM HCw HHH L— »tw Ctwpawy lata COOP) HUB U» Buyar laOar On 9H %mH ~US 404 a MM iiomv ui *4 M 441 440 44* 450 $3 it 0J 934 4591 10 04 500t
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        MAIN BOARD
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        HOT STOCK
        69 22  -  •m Paul TUAN SING Hoktings has been trading in a right angled triangle firmed bg Joining thepmks aS troughs sines earfy December. At yesterday* ciose cf 57.5 ants, U is near the beat cf tht triangle. With li near opersqjU region, it is unWßtfy that the bQM wUI
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        Selective bargain-hunting gives a boost to market
        804 22  -  IfjgIJIIIIBT Bat property stocks still weak; banks also slide on room some property buyers ire cuceOiiig their loaa applications By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Stocks recovered somewhat on selective bargain-hunting after Wednesday's panic-driven plunge. The Straits Times Industrials Index closed at 2,347.89 for a
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          BP tries its luck
          109 22 "FILLING lucky petrol?" This may be the question the service attendant at your local BP station may now be asking, following the company's launch of to new Mogas lie petrol In case It went unnoticed (which it highly unlikely In number-craxy Singapore), the number 118 tat
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          Of skyscraper and Big Bears
          140 22 INVKSTORS who art wondering if the Dow Jonas has peaked shoukd literally look to the sky, according to an article in the latest edition of ThtßoonamiaL The weekly news magei tnn lilghUghH a light Imm tod study by American analyst Christoferßathke that each time a
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          Good side of
          94 22 A STOCKBROKER bat this ftmny tale to tofl. Since he eoMhteleaeehoM home recently in what lookad mud an appreciating market, hie wife has dot stopped giving him an earfUL Now that the speculative bobble hae been pricked, ha hopes hie wife wffl be happy end atop aU
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          50 22 REACTINO toarscent item in the BT that directors' flwe eml i eiiaiinn 1 km at Nat Steal nearly douMedtosl.37 million last year, acompany insider pointed out to us that this was partly due to the feet that the Ntfhaei hoardmm haaaeamndfhll-time executive: OofloonHea, who is chief operating officer.
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      270 23 Knight-Ridder Reuter RATES for Panamax grain cargoes on the main route from the US Gulf to the Far East are starting to weaken for early June cargoes, brokers said. Chartering activity was very slow. News of handysize business was ruiH rspiained active for very. large crude carriers from
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      183 38 Conikui nf ill Piwiflci Shipping I TIMBER PLYWOOD SERVICE TO U.K./COHTINENT KXU STORE m. LOAOM6 FOR WORLD METUS SU) MPT FUVROT*NT/UK WORLD AJAX MPT- M FUVROT/MTTAK' I ft CONTIPAC SHIPPING PTE LTD < mi HUM Tub mr aim awuiu nm t i FCIACL CONSOLIDATION SERVICE TO' ASIA/F.E., EUROPE, USA, AUST,
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      469 39 X Slogoporo Soviet Shipping Co. Pto. Ltd. CR 00:**********00 BOMBAY/COCHIN IVESOEL VOY OM BOM COC VANESOA OON 2*oo 20/00 11 TRADE MOT TF9IOO 23/00 01/00 a XOUR MA 000 20AM 03AM XOURQEMMI 410 30/05 OOAM *1 s muuuiaragvMiamci IWOOEL VOY STOW UOMK EVER QLEAMY 0100-064W 21/00 10AM EVER QROWTM 0100-009W
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      250 39 SIM FAR EAST 20/05 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 19/05 BANGKOK 19/05 MANILA/CEBU 19/05 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 19/05 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 19/05 BUSAN 19/05 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 19/05 HONG KONG SIM CHINA (+BH#±*«n) 19/05 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU OALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/OINGDAO/HAIKOU SIM EUROPE/UK 191)5 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 20/05 ROM/ANT/LEH/HAM/GOT/OSL also accepting cargo to EASTERN BLOCK COUNTRIES SIM USA/CANADA 20/05 LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK all
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      521 39 I STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD ZMCONTJSSB SERVICE GOIO STAX UNI LTD SETH SMPPMG CORPORATION TBEhmt 220-4464 (I LINES) FAX: *****70 U *****12 (MAMETM6) (CR NO. 1031MS*****) N. AMERKA/CARSKAN SERVICE mKRSB m m I— I!■IBlIIf I WC I iwn n/w Z.UWWBM n/M m/m m/v m/v bb/v HUM— *11 I*/M
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      103 39 0 u_ TOKYO SMMIKI KAIUM CO PTI lb HRJI 10 AM6OM MQAP MS-IS J Ulia ■rVNMMnONALPLAZA VPOMEOtOT THj *****28 (S UNES) nUb2SS6IO6 A *****10 CM **********06 1 4 1 SERVICE TPs FAR EAST/CHSIA/EUROPi 19/06/96) TOKYO, YOKOHAMA, KOOE NAQOYA 19/06/96) OSAKA, USA 4AIMJMB uoMMffMIA 1 WVaWO) imwrun AND ALL CNMA PORTS
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      431 40 I UNO IXniM IHIPNNO (PTI) LTD. MM I 11 COLLYDI QUAY #06-01 TNI AMSAM SINGAPORE 0104. V—/ TKL: *****90 (4 LINES) FAX: *****90 TLX: R*****1 SMOCX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKQ/SHAI trpom wra iw -WW. VW BTA I ITP FTA FTP BTA FTP JN Yl) 9601/9602 17/06 1W» 22/06 23/06
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      393 40 20TH ANNIVERSARY OFFER* (LonwiUowMt RatM) PEM/PK SIM I HONGKONG 18/5 19/5 1 mv "WAN HA1223" V.N023 I I TOKYO/YOKO 18/5 19/5 mv "A. HOPE* V.***** i LONG BEACH ALL USA PORTS 20/5 21/5 mv"HY. BARON" V.036E i j CALL S PORE: EILEEN, LAURA, XIUHUA PKLs CHEW/VIVIEN PIN: YIN NEE/KHOO I*..■
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      130 40 ATTRACTIVE, FCL/LCL RATES TO; IndianSub-ContinentPorts MADRAS/BOMBAY/ CALCUTTA/COLOMBO/ CHnTAOONG/ NHAVA SHEVA Xs S" 1/ "W* BNQUIMB BOOKINGS" PUCALL I TEL. 224 6744 td < wi*. ppi O.K. LINE f FULL CONTAINER SERVICE B'PORE/JAKARTA WOY m MB WWW 7297/72 M 2UI W Mi M S'PORE/SURABAYA/SEMARANQ «na voy m my m 1 h1
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