The Business Times, 19 March 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MTTA (P) 022^ia^6 85f SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19,1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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  • Article, Illustration
    Mobile phone charges set to fall with M1's entry
    711 1  -  New operator unveils service plana; says its rates are iip to 20% lower than SingTel's By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Charges for mobile phone calls, are set to drop fiu-ther following Mobile One (Asia) Pte Ltd's announcement yesterday that its usage
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  • Article
    S&P retains Thailand's national credit rating
    422 1  -  But two banks downgraded, another placed on watchlist From, Alan Boyd in Bangkok AMERICAN rating agency Standard Poor's yesterday retained its ranking of Thailand's national credit standing, though it noted that the status of the banking sector as a whole had deteriorated. The retention
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    Creative suing Cyrix over MediaGX
    470 1  -  Lawsuit filed on Monday in a US district conrt By. Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Creative Technology Is suing US chipmaker Cyrix Corp for alleged "false advertising, trademark infringement and unfair competition" over the latter's new MediaGX multimedia microprocessor chip. The lawsuit, filed on Monday in a
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    Shake-up at Indonesia's Timor car firm after sales fall 70%
    349 1  -  From, S N Vasuki in Jakarta INDONESIA'S controversial national car company FT Timor Putra Nasional, headed by the youngest son of President Suharto, has undergone a management shake-up after a steep fall in sales of its "Timor" car last month.
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • Article
      NUS, NTU revise fees in favour of science, foreign students
      645 2  -  TffHMi fw lth-hi rod ind aoQ-Uh-basedcoonmi tartan by $50 and $600 respectively Reports by Audrey Tan INIVERSITY tuition fees will hi revised over the next two y jars to nudge students into c lioosing science-based c >urses and to boost
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      Varsity funds: Govt giving $3 for every $1
      232 2 1 HE government will contribi te S3 for every $1 raised by 1 fUS and NTU for their endownent funds, Deputy Prime 1 linister and Minister for Def mce Tony Tan said yestercay. Both the National University of Singapore and Nanyang 1
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      Finance company loans edge up
      316 2  -  BYE OM THE ECONOMY Finance By\ Shiv Taneja OVERALL finance company loans grew 5.3 per cent year-on-year to $166 billion at end-January, latest data from the Monetary Authority of Singapore shows. Housing loans grew 21.3 per cent to $3.3 billion. However, moat other categories of
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      Lock icon Johor chief seeks BG Lee's view
      376 2 Hakatlrir defers comment, Umno Tooth welcomes SIT s move Bernama [JERANTUT] Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday deferred comment on Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's move to expunge his remarks on Johor from a court affidavit, but Johor Mentri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman said
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      Few changes in just released DGPs for six areas
      306 2  -  By, Abdul Hadhi THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) yesterday released Development Guide Plans (DGPs) for six planning areas. They are Lim Chu Kang, Tengah. North-Eastern Islands, Western Islands, Central Water Catchment and Western Water Catchment planning areas. There have been few
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    • Article
      M1 highlights value-added features of its paging service
      357 2  -  OMpaaytadfariMr tariff pUai iran ran n>onu By i Catherine Ong MOBILEONE (Asia) Pte Ltd said charges for Its paging service are comparable to SingTel Paging 1 s but its attractions lie in more innovative value-added features. Company officials yesterday highlighted the simplicity
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      Alcatel unit wins $6m IT contract
      146 2 ALCATEL Singapore, a subsidiary of giant French telecommunications provider Alcatel, has landed s $5.9 million contract to supply core network equipment for the Singapore ONE protect This project aims to build a pervasive IT infrastructure including a nationwide broad bandwidth multimedia network by 1960.
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      Economic growth set to rise to 7.4% this year: NUS dons
      526 4  -  EsptariMOfMtadt* dmaaitafleceodhalf By' Vikram Khanna SINGAPORE'S GDP growth Is set to tick up to 7.4 per cent in 1997 (from 7 per cent in 1996), economists from the Econometric Studies Unit at the National University of Singapore forecast yesterday.
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      SembCorp unit all set to build power plant
      431 4  -  $4Ofoi-SOOOm plant will soppty power for sale islandwide Reports by Ronnie Lim SEMBAWANG Corporation, through subsidiary Sembawang Projects Engineering Co (Sempec), looks set to start building an offshore co-gener-ation plant costing $400-1600 million on Pulau Sakra soon. This will supply power for
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        Air transport industry co-op gets award
        65 4 THE 19th IC&C World Business Summit being held here from today until Friday will present its annual world leader award to Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques, a cooperative of the world's air transport industry. The award honours outstanding contribution to computers, telecommunications and international
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        Joint ventnre with London college
        63 4 (SINGAPORE) Local job training firm Otares Pte Ltd is linking up with Hackney Community College in London to set up a joint venture, Vickers Institute Singapore, offering accredited City and Guild courses. Otares will launch the company at Interclean 97, a three-day industrial cleaning, maintenance
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        3.000 apply for African scholoarships
        55 4 [SINGAPORE] The Singapore International Foundation and Standard Chartered Bank said yesterday they have received an excellent response for their African scholarships launched last October. They received close to 3,000 applications for the scholarship's undergraduate and diploma programmes Mid short-term management courses. Selection centres were in
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      Eastman mulls over expanding US$200m chemicals complex
      325 4 US-BASED Eastman Chemical Co, which started construction yesterday on a US$2OO million (Ss2B6 million) chemicals complex on Pulau Sakra, is looking at doubling that investment in further expansion. It is continuing feasibility studies on a second phase expansion on the southern industrial island
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      114 4 AH SIEMENS the SIMATIC Centre In Siemens, we have always questions regarding SIMATIC believed that the after-sales- products, applications, Bi service is just as important as technical support, spare parts jHd^£ the product you buy. and repair services. Around (V ■we are proud to announce the What's more, the SIMATIC
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      161 5 ©NTT P NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION Jt st NTT is the Telecommunications Partner of Countries All Over the World For over 100 years, ATT has contributed to the buildup of Japan's telecommunications network and facilities, offering diversified services to customers numbering over 60 million. As one of the leading
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  • FOCUS: PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
    • Article, Illustration
      Car Track index at lowest since its start
      602 6  -  Sales down 44% last month but COE premiums surge thanks to aggressive bidding by dealers By I Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] AS EXPECTED, registrations slowed down in February after the festive rush to get new cars on the road. Compared with January, sales
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      Lock icon Hang Seng is headed for 12,100 level
      617 6  -  TlkiiPHwAli VIBWPUmT By: Naresh Verma The writer is a manager of technical analysis advisory (South-east Asia) at DowJones. The opinions in this column are personal and do not represent the views of the writer's employer. His views are also not an invitation to
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Pirates to face the music
      60 7 [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Zulkilfli Mohamad holding up leaflets in front ofa mock cell during an anti-piracy campaign here yesterday. The nationwide campaign staged by the music industry in Malaysia encourages people to report pirated or counterfeit music and video cassettes, CDs, VCDs and laser discs
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      Lock icon Viet-S'pore Industrial Park gets nod to issue licences
      210 7 HANOI AFP A SINGAPOREAN-backed industrial park has received permission to issue investment licences to its prospective tenants, an official at the park said yesterday. "We have a management board which is permitted to issue investment licences," an official from the US$53 million
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    • Article
      New Indon credit rules for banks
      448 7  -  JAKARTA Foreign banks told to extend at least 20% of their credit to small businesses By\ S N Vasuki IN a surprising development, Bank Indonesia has told foreign banks operating in the country that they must allocate at least 20 per cent of their
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      Lock icon Suharto criticises analyses of social unrest
      186 7 JAKARTA AFP PRESIDENT Suharto yesterday criticised Indonesian social scientists for issuing what he said were unsubstantiated analyses on the unrest that has jolted the country in recent months. "It is rare that we can find analyses which can help clarify and settle a problem.
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      Lock icon KL bans human cloning, but will allow controlled animal cloning
      228 7 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA has banned human cloning but would allow replication of animals, Health Minister Chua Jui Meng said in remarks published yesterday. Mr Chua said the cabinet made the decision recently as it considered the cloning process unethical
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      2010 the new rallying cry?
      710 7  -  UAVfBt It may be the deadline for removing Asean Investment hat i i— a By Yang Razali Kassim TWO Asean statements within a week making references to the year 2010 made me sit up. The First was by Singapore's new Trade and Industry Minister, Lee
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      Lock icon Talk of PT Telkom losing monopoly sparks sell-off
      499 7  -  JAKARTA JSE Index falls L 7% after report says Satelindo may enter tag-distance market By\ S N Vasuki JAKARTA stocks fell 1.71 per cent yesterday on rumours that state-owned telecommunications carrier PT Telkom was about to lose its monopoly in providing domestic
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      Lock icon N Korean defector lands in Philippines on China Air flight
      295 7 MANILA Ihdittaiii trudt; Hwang taken tißapkemrcs AFP, Reuter NORTH Korean defector Hwang Jang Yop arrived in the Philippines yesterday on board a chartered China Air (light from China. Alger Ramo, supervising air traffic controller at the Manila international airport, said
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      21 7 ENTREE into modern nostalgia I.CTI 17,725 Skoft 2,159 6,?04 ts.fl. cefljngt T L i^ TafgTfloor>tatt* L a*a«ti ■Hum' M Tanjong Pagar
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      76 7 Jm*' wufl* Hvj *****)6 left behind Come to Intacclean Asia, the iinKv 1 ill largest industrial deaoing. maintenance and building VVi' aervioes trade fair in tha Aria Pacific. It vwlahowcase the best and finest in industrial cleaning and maintenance A muat-eae event for fticilMy managers Ul and anyone with responaibHfty
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Jiang bars Zhao Ziyang from returning to Beijing
      464 8 BEIJING Former party chief ■ot allowed to retain even after funeral, say sources close to Zhao Reuter CHINA'S Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin has barred his predecessor, Zhao Ziyang, {Tom returning to Beijing from the provinces, fearing a challenge to his grip
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      Lock icon HK's Basic Law will reign supreme: Lu Ping
      129 8 BONN AFP LU PING, China's main government official dealing with Hongkong, has said the colony's Basic Law will take precedence over all legislation passed recently. The colony's "Basic Law has supremacy over all other laws in Hongkong," he said on Monday, when
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      Lock icon Beginning his Asian journey
      52 8 [TAIPEI) General Colin Powell, former US Joint Chitfs of Staff chairman, attending a book signing event at a local book shop on Monday for his best-selling autobiography "My American Journey". This is his first trip to Taiwan and the first stop on a speaking tour af
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      Lock icon China adds securities crimes to new law
      169 8 SHANGHAI Reuter CHINA'S new criminal law has provisions on securities crimes for the first time and will help check insider trading and price manipulation, the Shanghai Securities News said yesterday. The law was revised last week by China's parliament, the National People's Con-
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      Lock icon Taiwan cracks down on illegal China projects
      314 8 TAIPEI Companies with illegal investments en the mainland will be fined AFP, Bloomberg TAIWAN is cracking down on unauthorised investments by local businesses in China due to fears that it could hurt the local economy, economic officials said yesterday. Tsai Lien-sheng, secretarygeneral of
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      Lock icon Taiwan adopts law on HK, Macau ties
      206 8 TAIPEI Reuter TAIWAN'S parliament yesterday adopted a law governing the island's ties with Hongkong and Macau after they revert to Chinese sovereignty, acting less than four months before Britain hands Hongkong to Beijing. "I hope the Hongkong-Ma-cau Relations Act will maintain the friendly
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      154 8 Banking will never be the same again. Because everything you once access your money using your Bank 121 cheque book and internationally- H needed to do at a branch can now be done over the phone. Anytime, accepted ATM and credit card. For banking convenience that's one- H anywhere, person-to-person.
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  • ASIA
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Govt plans to revive land market send Nikkei up
      524 9  -  TOKYO Minister says stops to restore liquidity to dormant land market coning by end-March By Anthony Rowley TOKYO stock market prices surged yesterday after Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka confirmed the government intends announcing measures by the month-end to restore liquidity to
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      Lock icon PNG stocks up on military chiefs sacking
      416 9 PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea Bloomberg, Reuter PAPUA New Guinea stocks trading in Australia rose yesterday after Prime Minister Julius Chan sacked his dissident defence force leader, easing concern that the military would force a coup in the Pacific island nation. Defence force
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    • Article
      Chinese medicine's thriving in Australia
      271 9  -  SYDNEY Patients spent AsB4m ob treatment last year, says study By\ Surinder Singh THE practice of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in Australia is big business, according to a study by a university academic. The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday quoted Dr Stephen Myers of Southern Cross
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      Lock icon Moody's too harsh on India, says Morgan Stanley
      293 9 NEW DELHI US bank report gtat Indian corporate MM a'tray 5 rating Reuter US INVESTMENT bank Morgan Stanley issued a "message of confidence" in India's economy yesterday and called a controversial assessment by US credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service unduly harsh.
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      155 9 FOR SALE BY TENDER 16.7484 hectares Subdivision Approved MANDURAH WESTERN AUSTRALIA Zoned: Service Commercial Tenders close 4.00pm WJS.T. 17th April 1997 Phone (65) *****33 Fax: (65) *****43 Details: Francis Lim (Singapore) Home Decor -For people who love thlff homes f me Jaz Have Her 1 Free Jaz cartridge -i f-—
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  • THE WORLD
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      'China connection' issue wounds White House
      493 10  -  WASHINGTON GMiHity CMaton's China policy mwcb the fine By] Leon Hadar THE political commotion in Washington over President Bill Clinton's campaign finance, including the alleged donations from sources linked to Chinese interests, has wounded the White House politically. This will make it more difficult
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      Lock icon EMU: Bonn may seek flexibility in debt criteria
      177 10 LONDON FT GERMANY has signalled that it would seek a flexible interpretation of the Maastricht target for debt to enable its participation in economic and monetary union. Theo Waigel, German Finance Minister, blamed "exceptional circumstances", notably the cost of German unification and
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      Lock icon US housing starts in Feb strongest in nearly 3 years
      368 10 WASHINGTON Reuter BUILDERS in the US broke ground on new homes and apartments at the fastest clip in nearly three years during February, the Commerce Department said yesterday, bouncing back from severe weather in January. Total starts shot up 12.2
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      Lock icon Fed must be ready to head off inflation: FOMC's Parry
      191 10 MUNICH Bloomberg THE Federal Reserve must be ready to head off inflation before price pressures show up in economic data, said San Francisco Fed president Robert Parry on Monday. "Given the risks and the timing issues, it will be especially
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      EU set to suspend tariff preferences for Myanmar
      324 10  -  BRUSSELS Decision today to be endorsed on Mat 24, say diplomats By I Shada Islam EUROPEAN Union governments have overcome their differences towards Myanmar and are set to suspend tariff preferences for Myanmar's exports of industrial and agricultural products. Senior EU diplomats
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      253 10 Opening Of BUSINESS CENTRE At The Penthouse Suntec Tower One ON 19 MARCH 1997 x Wangz Business Centre provides: Fully furnished serviced offices Conference and training facilities A- r v Secretarial and administrative support Personalised telephone answering service v v r v Flexible leasing Wangz Business Centre 7 Temasek Boulevard
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Murdoch pushed out of bed by Japanese bride
      826 11  -  tbbiottuk un OPINION By Anthony Rowley The writer isßT's Tokyo correspondent MEDIA mogul Rupert Murdoch jumps into bed with Japanese TV company Asahi National Broadcasting only to be promptly bounced out by a bride who objects to having her virtue ravaged by
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      124 11 'We will be in a far better position to shape the world, rather than react to it, than at any time since World War H' -USAAnirml WQUamOwvos on America's lead In warfare technology. Hie next downturn is as sure as death and taxes.' -Jokl PtM0BT chief operating
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      Don't isolate the Russians
      583 11 EDITORIAL OVER the next few months, Nato will announce a historic decision which could restructure the world's balance of power in the 21st century. Meeting in Madrid in July, representatives of the US-led alliance are expected to extend formal security guarantees to former Soviet bloc countries
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      Rocky road to euro
      1099 11  -  IftheETTs 11% jobless rate keeps on rising the ensuing social nnrest will torpedo the EMU By\ Shada Islam The writer is a Brussels-baaed Journalist who contributes to BT ON paper, the plans look perfect. First, you build a fron-tier-free single European market. Then, a single European
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      778 11 Aaarlorti political coltv tar MANY have speculated that the fund-raising scandal in the US will have a "chilling effect" on Asian-Pacific American political participation. This episode revives the long-standing issue of whether America ever will truly accept Asian-Pacific Americans as Americans rather than foreigners. The way
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • FOCUS
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      Lock icon HK hotels debunk handover myths
      1035 12  -  Contrary to popular belief, there's still room at the territory's inns from June 28 to July 2. And prices have not been hiked beyond normal high season rates, says the hotel association By i Quak Hiang Whai [HONGKONG] ONE of the most frequent questions tossed
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      139 13 "Let's Dine At The Pool Terrace Restaurant..." ■m-i an, a > nn uming n uw noyii novvosy inn vrvwne Pliii trim on s decidedly relaxed tone. Any time of tfoe dey 9 eN dey v everyday UHlli AM aMAanaa AM wiui en enucing dtmiuisi menu, en ixcallsnt dinner imou oflarinj
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Don't toy with these souvenirs
      625 14  -  DAvn> boet looks into luggage and finds that some Singapore holidaymakers come home with enough exotic armament to make a gangland boss proud DAVID BOEY T-SHIRTS, knick knacks and the occasional coffee table aren't the only souvenirs Singaporean travellers bring home from their travels abroad.
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      Lock icon S African PGA tour chief raring for changes
      402 14 GOLF He waits to see mere tournaments and right prize money Reuter [JOHANNESBURG] New South African PGA tour commissioner Arnold Mentz is a man in a hurry. A former career diplomat with the South African government Mentz took over as tour commissioner
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      Lock icon A write winner
      70 14 [BEVERLY HILLS, California] Billy Bob Thornton displaying the Writers Guild of America Award he won on Sunday for screenplay for his film Sling Blade, which he adapted from one of his stage plays. The movie is about a Umer who is released after spending 20 years in
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Dairy Farm profit down 79%
      509 15  -  Drop to USs2Bm dne to provision for Australian, UK snpermarts, start-up costs ill Japan, China By< Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] Full-year net profit for food retailer Dairy Farm International Holdings tumbled 79 per cent to US$2B million ($40.2 million) due to a provision for repositioning
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      Excel IPO shares at 63 cents each
      436 15  -  Machine-tool maker to sell 43.75 m shares In 12th IPO of year By Annette pau (SINGAPORE] Local machinetool maker Excel Machine Tools yesterday launched the 12th IPO so far this year here, selling 43.75 million shares priced at 63 cents each. The initial
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      Eng Kong IPO: small investors get 45%
      262 15 [SINGAPORE] Small investors will get 45 per cent of Eng Kong Holdings' initial public offer (IPO), the company said yesterday. The container services company issued 15 million new offer shares at 56 Singapore cents each on March 5. At closing day on Monday,
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      Brierley's share price doesn't reflect its success story
      764 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Russell Baker WHEN New Zealandbased Brierley Investments Ltd (BIL) released its interim results last week, the group revealed just how kind the stock market boom has been to it. The market value of BlL's listed investments now exceeds their
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      Lock icon YHS beats forecasts with 10% profit rise to $10m
      418 15  -  By. Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Listed beverage maker Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd (YHS) yesterday announced a 10.1 per cent rise in group net earnings to $9.99 million for 1996, thanks to a big jump in investment income and higher contributions from associates.
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
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        Lock icon Jardine Matheson seen posting 3.6-21% profit fall
        262 16 4 irajoamg exceptional (items, earnrngp expected to stay flat AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong's oldest trading company, Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd, is expected to report a 3.6-21 per cent drop in its 1996 net profit to U*****-405 million 1 (*****-581 million), analysts said. Excluding exceptional
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        B Sports Toto seen coming under flagship's direct control
        474 16  -  Caoriig arm shares likely to be •Jistrilratedto Beijaya Leisure From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur v MALAYSIAN tycoon Vincent Tan is reshuffling his huge Berjaya group of companies > again, sources said. The plan is for Berjaya Lei- < sure Bhd
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        369 16  -  Distributorship takes effect this year after 6-8 months of talks By l Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Diversified Intraco has secured the distribution rights for Renault heavy vehicles, entering a market dominated by the Japanese. BT understands the French trucks will be distributed through Prime Motors,
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        ABR takes 40% slice of S'pore food and beer concern
        297 16  -  By« Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Indonesiancontrolled ABR Holdings said yesterday it has acquired a 40 per cent stake in a Singapore company which will open a brewery and restaurant chain In the region. ABR is paying $1.4 million for a slice
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        202 16 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian International Shipping Corp (MISC) said yesterday net profit fell 15 per cent to M 5477.3 million (***** million) in 1996 due to a depressed freight market. Turnover eased 2.6 per cent to M 52.4 billion, Malaysia's leading shipping firm
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        Clipsal registers 14.8% rise in profit
        222 16 [SINGAPORE] Mainboardlisted Clipsal Industries yesterday posted a 14.8 per cent rise in net profit to $23.2 million for the year ended Dec 31. Turnover was up 18.1 per cent to $178.9 million. Earnings per share on existing share capital were 13.8 per cent higher
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          Berger wins 2 jobs worth $43m
          46 16 [SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listsd Berger International has won two projects totalling 948 million through wholly-owned Berger Contractor (S) Pte Ltd. Berger will carry out the main upgrading to Blocks 128 to 131 at Rim Tian and build a secondary school at Sengkang.
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          Hariman profit up 20.3%
          38 16 [SINGAPORE] OCBC Bank's cloaed-end ftmd, Harimau Investments, saw a 4.5 per cent increase in its net tangible assets per share, while net profits roee 20.3 per cent to 83 J million for last year.
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          84 16 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Kemayan Corp Bhd said its subsidiary has entered into an agreement to jointly develop 24L2 acres of land in Johor into a residential and commercial project The commodity and property firm said its unit, Binabaik Construction Management Sdn Bhd, hae signed
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        33 16 IN OUR report yesterday on Apolk) Enterprise*' results, we said its turnover last year dipped 3.9 per cent It actually rose 3.9 per cent. We are •orry for the error.
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        Net profit of ST Computer falls 16.5% to $6.3m
        190 16 [SINGAPORE] ST Computer Systems Services' net profit for last year slipped 16.5 per cent to $6.3 million on a 2 per cent higher turnover of $327.3 million. The company, which Is a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Industrial Corp, said yesterday that
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        591 17 Japan Telecom, ITJ to merge in Oct; British Telecom takes control of Marubeni venture Reuter, AFP [TOKYO] A wave of consolidation hit Japan's telecommunications industry with announcements of two mergers yesterday, which will throw major challenges to domestic phone giant
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        Lock icon British Telecom keen to make S'pore an Asian hub
        263 17 Reuter [SINGAPORE] British Telecommunications pic said yesterday it aimed to turn Singapore into an Asian communications hub if the company and its partners won their bid for a licence to operate telephone services there from 2000. British Telecom's head of Asian
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        410 17 He abe attacks France for blocking Thomson purchase NYT [PARIS] The chairman of South Korea's Daewoo Electronics Co on Monday sharply criticised the way European political leaders are trying to tackle the Continent's jobs crisis, and blasted France over its cancellation of
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        338 18 Deal seen boosting Tyco's position as largest provider of fire, safety systems Reuter,FT [EkETER, New Hampshire] Tyeto International Ltd, seekingl to strengthen its position as the world's largest provider of Ore and safety systems, said on [Monday it agreed to buy
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        176 18 Reuter [BONN] German steel and engineering group Krupp yesterday] confirmed it planned to launch a takeover bid for rival Thyssen AG and that it was confident it would succeed. -*Krupp plans to make a takeover bid," a company spokesman .said. "We think
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        394 18 New Pearson chief mom to boost circulatkm in US, Asia. NYT [LONDON] Marjorie Scardino, chief executive of Pearson pic, the British media and entertainment company, announced plans on Monday to invest US$l6O million (***** million) over the next five years in The
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        335 18 Appeal of firm lies in two non-broadcast operations NYT [NEW YORK] Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said on Monday that it planned to acquire the Heritage Media Corp, a direct-marketing and broadcasting company, in a tax-free stock deal valued at US$754 million (551.06 billion)
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        229 18 Bloomberg (SACRAMENTO, California] America's largest public pension fund, The California Public Employees' Retirement System, said it will suspend all trading with Nomura Securities Co following a scandal at the Japanese brokerage. The US$lll billion (*****.7 billion) fund, known as Calpers, also said it will
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        Lock icon Sing$ weakens to 18-month low against greenback
        351 19  -  FaUdospiteUSs —fag yam; dealers cite fond and corporate buying ringgit up too By\ Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] The Singapore dollar fell to an 18-month low of 1.438 against the greenback yesterday and a 30-month low of 58.10 Singapore cents against the Malaysian ringgit. Dealers
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        Citibank launches unit trust for Japanese equity
        347 19  -  Citi Japan Fund aims for a return of 40-50% over 3 years By\ Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] Citibank yesterday announced the launch of its third locally-approved unit trust, the Citi Japan Fund which will invest in Japanese equities. At a presentation yesterday, Daniel Tseng,
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        357 19  -  From] Harish Mehta in Phnom Penh CAMBODIA is introducing Treasury bills next month to promote the use of its local currency, the riel, and break the domination of the US dollar. The cabinet director of the country's central bank, the National Bank
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        475 19 r Unregulated market for professionals will lead to fraud, it says Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The Securities and Exchange Commission told the US Congress on Monday it opposes as "dangerous" a bill to deregulate the nation's commodity futures exchanges. The commission, led by chairman Arthur Levitt, said creation
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          67 19 AFP [HANOI] Vietnam is likely to receive a Ba3 sovereign cradit rgting, wyiirfitiitM g medium risk for international borrowers, a foreign banker said on Monday. In a presentation made to state-owned corporations and the central State Bank of Vietnam, David Seto, senior country
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          Lock icon US credit card Advanta sees 1st-qtr loss
          62 19 AFP [NEW YORK] Advsnta, the ninth largest US credit card issuer, warned on Monday that it expects to report a loss of about US$2O million (5528.6 million) in the first quarter of 1987—a move which triggered sharp Calls In specialist cwdtt fdiipffly fltorlfi
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          55 19 Reuter (BANGKOK] Thai Farmers Bank pic, Thailand's third largest commercial yesterday said it would open a repi essulatlve office in Jakarta tomorrow. The bank said the Jakarta office, its 16th overseas representative office, Would offer advisory set vices to foreign investors wishing to invest
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          66 19 AFP (LONDON] The number of foreign banks in London grew ff 3D last ysartoa rscord 581, reinforcing the British capital's position as the leading financial centre in Europe, f study showed on Monday. During 1906,16 foreign Unancial institutions left London, but 36
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        Indonesian firm TFC raises US$37m on Asian dollar market
        234 19 [SINGAPORE] Tunas Financindo Corporation (TFC), the financial arm of Indonesia's Tunas Ridean motor group, has made its debut in the global offshore market, raising US$37 million (SJS3 million) in Singapore's Asian dollar market. Its three-year syndicated loan, signed here yesterday, bears
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        416 19 Reuter [LONDON] Nat West Markets said on Monday that its senior management did not know about the interest rate options pricing problem until three days before the losses were made public. "Senior management did not know until Feb 25 that there was potentially something
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        212 20 SBKELReport Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures were down but off their lows after comments by a Bank of Japan (BOJ) official triggered a late afternoon sell-off yesterday. Masayuki Matsushima, director of the BOJ's research and statistics department, said the market did not always move in
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        Futures up again as cash index surges
        198 20  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES By Perry Gilbert Perry Gilbert, vice-president, Refco Singapore Pte Ltd [SINGAPORE] The Simex MSCI Taiwan index futures continued its upward move yesterday as the cash index surged a further 99.8 points to close at 8,526.2. Despite the implementation of higher
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        218 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [ALMATY] Kazakhstan's mul-ti-billion dollar oil privatisation programme gathered pace yesterday with the sale of its Atyrau oil refinery, but investors in the former Soviet republic say the sell-off remains fogged by uncertainty. Essex Refinery won a tender for a 53.1 per
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        263 20 Reuter AFP THE US dollar stayed on a downtrend against the Japanese currency as well as vis-a-vis European currencies, dealers said. The greenback is suffering a correction against European units, an analyst said. Its next resistance level against the mark is at 1.6830, but the dollar could go
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      1491 21 Reuter Qmwus ♦3W.7* STOCKS closed over 2 per cent higher yesterday, as market participants rejoiced over the government's decision to draw up plans to boost the stagnant land market by the end of the month which is also the end of the fiscal year, brokers said. Lite 225-share Nikkei
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      1461 22 AFX-Asia plbj«Sw| -BM2 SI&.RE prices closed off lows yesterday with some bargainhunting emerging late in the afternoon. Dealers said investors were still concerned over property prices and a possible rise in US interest rates. The Hang Seng Index clffced down 89.62 points at 12,**48.91 off a low of 12,687.44
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      613 22 Reuter Shenzhen Blniex -034 THE Shenzhen B share market ended slightly lower in slow trade yesterday but analysts expected the index to continue its upward trend in the short term on strong investor confidence in China's economic outlook. The B Index shed 0.34 point to 169.65 on turnover of
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      348 22 AFP HwPMp «jj» SHARE prices rallied 1.2 per cent yesterday as retail investors snapped up second liners. "Despite increased selling by institutional investors in the past several days, retail investors remained firm buyers," said a dealer. The TSE Weighted Price Index rose 99.78 points to 8,526.20. Turnover was 4.37
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      247 22 Bloomberg -2L78 SHARES fell yesterday, as bond yields continued to rise, tarnishing the appeal of the yields available from equities. The NZSE Top 40-share Index fell 21.78 points to 2,217.06. Bloomberg Mar N as V- cm* MMN MS -AM MM AOvantaga* Htdgs US 0.03 ***** Air N*w Zealand (A)
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      811 22 AFP nSETlndei +4J6 SHARE prices rose in thin trading yesterday after the international credit rating agency Standard and Poor's affirmed Thailand's sovereign debt rating. Analysts said the news had a positive impact on the market, although the reaction of investors was cautious. The SET Index was up 6.95 points
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      389 22 AFP QOn|MitiUn -OJ3 SHARE prices closed lower yesterday, with increasing expectations of government economy-boosting measures limiting the downside. The Composite Index lost 0.93 point to 657.97. Turnover was 30 million shares worth 509 billion won. Falls beat risers 418 to 377. Blue chips were mixed, with Korea Electric Power
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      581 22 AFP □lldritaria -gd SHARE prices fell yesterday, dragged down by a slump in News Corp stocks. The All Ordinaries Index lost 23.1 points at 2,404.3. Turnover was 426.8 million shares worth A|l.2 billion. Global miner RTZ-CRA lost 10 cents to A 118.45 while resource giant BHP was down three
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      661 22 AFP QnwpißteMß -ILSO SHARE prices closed lower yesterday as investors sold Telkom amid rumours of plans to open the local telecommunications market to other firms, dealers said. "I think it's Telkom's drop which triggered the sell-off on other blue chips," said a local dealer. The JSE Composite Index fell
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      305 22 AFP QlbriU -1122 STOCKS fell yesterday amid US interest rate concerns. The PSE Composite Index fell 16.22 points to 3,215.64. Turnover was 7.8 billion shares worth 2.2 billion pesos. PLDT fell five pesos to 1,590, Manila Electric Co A shares dropped one peso to 119 while its B shares
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        264 23 AFX-Asia □(We Index -7JI SHARE prices closed lower in cautious trade yesterday, with investors largely sidelined ahead of next week's Federal Reserve meeting and the Bank Negara annual report. The KLSE Composite Index closed down 7.16 points at 1,226.87 on volume 0f390.7 million shares
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        Stamford Tyres warrants look attractive based on numbers
        194 24  -  WARRANT WATCH By\ R Sivanithy PICKING a bottom in this volatile market is a difficult business, especially with Wall Street continuing to look nervous. Still, there is a feeling among some observers that the bad news has already been discounted and that
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        59 26  -  •fl Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE AIRLINES' foreign sham, which are currently trading near their two-year low, look Uke a good long-term buy. They doeed yesterday 10 cents lower at $11.90 on a volume of 1.75 million units. Dalfy and weekly RSI and stochastic* are below 25. but an eoen
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        652 26  -  STOCK MARKET COMKBKTART Sentiment stays cautions amid reporting season and Wall Street volatility; afternoon selling pressure puzzles some observers By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Late afternoon pressure on a handful of index heavyweights like Cerebos Pacific and Fraser Neave yesterday pulled the Straits
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          105 26 R£MISI£RS may be among the top earners in Singapore. But they are apparently not held In esteem by loans officers, particularly those who work for the Credit POSB. One remisier was flabbergasted when 1m went into the government-owned bank recently to get an overdraft on his property
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          169 26 HOW do you like your children to drown In a sea of cliches? The Fort Canning Country Club should get top marks for sending out the most cliche-riddled, hyperbolic letter to perents and guardians introducing them to "our one and only Kids Only Hub" which has
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          47 26 CHILEAN policemen stopped 49 motorists for using handphones while driving, only to discover that a third were merely pretending to talk-onfckephones.lt was not dear from press reports if the penalty for using a mock handphone while driving was the same as for a real one.
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          93 26 ILLEGAL software users beware! According to the Business Software Alliance (BSA)—Singapore's anti-software piracy watchdog—they're now going after companies that buy a few legal copies of software and make multiple copies in the workplace. Last month, for example, BSA raided a multimedia company and seized 23 CD-ROMs and
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      331 27 Bridge News, Reuter MIXED reports from the physical market as to concluded fixtures, but the general tone appears firmer, Ciarkson Wolff said in its dally Biffex market report. The index was up 6 at 1481. Volume totalled 188 lots of which May traded 71 and closed 25 up
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      Thome plans to develop Indon, Philippine units
      433 27  -  Aim is to make them full-fledged independent third-party ship manafißment concerns By] Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Singaporebased Thome Ship Management (TSM) aims to develop its Indonesian and Philippine subsidiaries into full-fledged independent third-party ship management concerns within the next two years. The Indonesian subsidiary,
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      Carnival Cruises Asia is name of joint venture
      252 27 [SINGAPORE] Carnival Corporation and Hyundai Merchant Marine have decided to name their joint venture cruise company, which was formed to tap the growing Asian cruise market. Carnival Cruises Asia. President and chief executive officer of the new company, Ray Lutz, said that
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      Lock icon EU to fight unfair shipping practices
      229 27 Journal of Commerce [LONDON! The European Union has declared war on unfair shipping practices around the world. A new external relations policy covering maritime transport was adopted late last week by the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU. The broad objectives are
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      Dangerous to exaggerate role of classification societies
      751 27  -  STBAITTALK Bu\ Seafarer HARD on the heels of the court case against Lloyd's Register comes news of another negligence ruling involving class. This time, however, the classification society involved has been praised, not criticised, by a court. Last July the 1973-built panamax bulker
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      Russia's Fesco to suspend Australia-Japan services
      312 27  -  From Jerzy Farynski in Sydney RUSSIA'S Far Eastern Shipping Company (Fesco) has decided to suspend services between Australia and Japan, after plying the trade for 20 years. The general manager of Fesco Lines Australia Pty Ltd, Glen Vanlangenberg, said the decision was taken after
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      Lock icon Philippines upgrading all Southern Mindanao ports
      263 27 Growth in trade expected with opening of sea linkages with nearby countries Anex-PNA [MANILA] The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is preparing all the ports in the Southern Mindanao region for the imminent growth of trading activities. The growth is the result of the opening
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      Lock icon Chilean govt plans to sell concessions to run ports
      218 27 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Chile's government plans to sell concessions to operate and expand all of its 11 state- owned ports, once a bill is passed through Congress. The Chilean government is trying to pass a bill that will allow the division of
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      Lock icon South Africa extends pollution provisions in proposed shipping bill
      213 27 Reuter [CAPE TOWN] The South African Transport Ministry has tabled a wide-ranging shipping amendment bill including measures to extend oil pollution provisions to cover other harmful substances. "The changes are largely administrative, but there are significant amendments to our pollution control
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        55 27 Journal of Commerce (LONDON] Associated British Ports, Britain's largest ports operator, is to buy Ipswich Pal Authority, which is being privatised. George Young, Britain's transport secretary, announced that ABP had bees selected as the preferred bidder. Ths pott is to be sold for gK.4
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        Lock icon Maersk orders 3 tankers from China
        61 27 Bridge News [COPENHAGEN] The AP Moeller group, which operates the Maersk Line, said it has placed an order for three tankers with the Quangtou Shipyard lilUa wliuiHl PuLM of China. The tankers win be used tor carrying refined oil products, and have a deadweight
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        China's largest dock passes
        57 27 [BEIJING] Ths3oo,ooo-tonne dock in Dalian, a coastal city in north-east China's Liaoning Province, just pasesd stats assessment as the rspubtte's biggest dock, said Xinhua news agency. Hie "No 1 China Dock" is3B6metres long, 80 metres wide, and 12.7 metres deep. It is capable of boflfttag and
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      1070 28  -  CARGO: ATTRACTIVE BY-PRODUCT OF PASSENGER BUSINESS After years as a stepchild, cargo is getting more attention and air carriers have created separate divisions for it but how profitable is it? And how do carriers decide what costs are charged to passenger operations and what to
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
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        205 43 Mat 3W Japan: Vernal Equinox Day. Mar 27 Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Philippines: Maundy Thursday. Mar Australia: Good Friday. Canada Good Friday. Denmark .-Good Friday. Hong Kong: Good Friday. Indonesia: Good Friday. Netherlands .-Good Friday. New Zealand: Good Friday. Norway: Good Friday. Philippines: Good Friday. Singapore: Good Friday. Sweden
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        760 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. thows price ranges in US dollar* instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesiaed stem. Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        Lock icon India to ban planes not fitted with safety device
        462 44 Jets with more than 30 seats must be equipped with collision avoidance system Business Line (NEW DEHLI] Stung by the mid-air tragedy last November and the growing incidence of air misses, India has decided to ban the movement of all planes
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        Lock icon Ford to shut down car assembly line
        275 44 Reuter [LORAIN, Ohio] Ford Motor Co announced that it would shut down its Thunderbird and Cougar car assembly line here as part of a plan to discontinue four vehicles at the end of the 1997 model year. In addition to killing off the
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        Lock icon Iata studying how to store perishables on aircraft
        202 44 Reuter [MIAMI] The International Air Transport Association (lata) is working on a computer mapping project to help air carriers of perishables, an lata executive said. "We are developing a computer program to determine which is the best location for each type of
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        Lock icon Lockheed consortium set to build Scottish air traffic centre
        319 44 Partnership wins first stage of bidding against Hughes group FT [LONDON] A partnership of Lockheed Martin of the US and Bovis Construction of the UK has been chosen as the preferred bidder to build and operate a new Scottish air traffic
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        Europe to test trucks fuelled by LPG
        206 44 [AMSTERDAM] Europe is due to kick off its first trials for trucks fuelled by LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) soon. According to a Cargoweb report, four truck combinations will test out the efficiency of LPG as a fuel. The trials will take place under
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        Lock icon European Air Cargo Forum to be launched on Friday
        324 44 Forum will help promote 'best practice' approach for industry Reuter [LONDON] The European Air Cargo Forum will be formally launched on Friday in Paris as an umbrella body to back the needs of the European airfreight industry, European Air Shippers Council
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          Lock icon Emirates signs US$600m engine deal
          67 44 DPA [DUBAI] Emirates Airlines signed a US$5OO million (Ss7ls million) deal on Monday with Rolls-Royce to purchase 37 enines to upgrade its fleet of Airbus aircraft, the Emirates News Agency WAAf reported. The carrier was the first airline worldwide to install Rolls-Royce engines in its
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          Lock icon Mexico sets bidding rules for licences
          76 44 Bloomberg [MEXICO CITY] The Mexican government released bidding rules for a 20-year concession to build and operate cargo facilities at four entry airports. Mexico plans to grant licences to investors interested in winning a concession to operate facilities at the Mexico City, Toluca and
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          Lock icon Lufthansa in talks with Asian airlines
          70 44 Reuter [FRANKFURT] German airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG is speaking to a number of airlines with a view to securing a large partner in Asia but had not yet made a decision, a Lufthansa spokeswoman said on Monday. She would not comment on a report
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          Lock icon Thai Airways leasing plan approved
          61 44 AFP [BANGKOK] Thailand's cabinet approved yesterday a Thai Airways International Public Co Ltd plan to lease rather than buy six new aircraft, Deputy Finance Minister Thawatwong Na Chiang Mai said. The cabinet also asked the Finance Ministry and the Ministry of Transport to review the
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          Lock icon Virgin Atlantic buys five new planes
          66 44 Reuter Norwalk, Cone Airways Ltd said it bought five new airplanes, allowing it to add flights between the US and London starting this summer. The second largest airline in the UK said it recently purchased two Boeing Co 747-400e and three Airbus Industrie Inc
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        Lock icon Pakistan plans to restructure PIA this year; seeks financial advisers
        319 44 Reuter [ISLAMABAD] Pakistan said it planned to restructure staterun Pakistan International Airlines Corporation {PIA) this year. The Privatisation Commission said in a newspaper notice on Monday that it was seeking financial advisers to supervise the process. The government was considering
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