The Business Times, 19 February 1988

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 152 1 Reuter Dow Jones lower WALL STREET stocks showed small changes over a narrow area in slow early trading yesterday. Brokers said investors found little in the news background to inspire either buying or selling. Foreign investors were mostly out of the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
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  • 159 1 FOREIGN EXCHANGE rates barely hiccoughed in listless trading in Tokyo yesterday. The US dollar fluctuated marginally around 130.00 yen all day, hemmed in tightty between sell orders from commercial operators and buy orders by speculators and institutional investors, analysts said. The market closures in HongKong
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  • 305 1 COMPRESSORS for air-condi-tioners is the latest product that Sanyo Electric Co, which has been steadily expanding its operations in Singapore, will manufacture in a new $43 million investment. Production of the compressors will oe handled by Sanyo Compressor Singapore Re Ltd, which was
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  • 723 1  -  MAS survey expected to come in useful as marketing tool By ALVIN TAY THE FINDINGS of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's ongoing survey on the cost of treasury operations could be used as a marketing tool to convince more international banks that it is
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  • 83 1 Reuter TRANSPORT WORKERS have announced a strike for today that could halt all domestic air travel in Australia and severely disrupt international flights. Union officials said in Melbourne yesterday that 1,100 aircraft refuellers and oil-tanker drivers would stop work and meet today to discuss the
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  • 122 1 Reuter THE PESO slid to a two-year low of 21.010 against the US dollar from 20.911 in thin trading yesterday, a Bankers' Association of the Philippines spokesman said. He said only US$2 million was sold in a listless market where transactions have totalled only
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  • 376 1  -  By SOH TIANG KENG ONE OF BRITAIN'S top merchant banking and securities houses, S G Warburg, plans to set up an office in Singapore within the next few months. Mr Mark Hadaley-ChapJin, a senior Warburg executive based in Hongkong,
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  • 168 1 AFP INDONESIA is further relaxing investment and operational requirements for foreign oil companies to boost the country's national oil and gas output, a minister ssid in Jakarta on Thursday. "For the sake of national interest, both in the long and short term, it is
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  • 158 1 THE MARKET VOLATILITY that followed last year's crash has unnerved investors, who now wonder whether their bovine friend will return during the Dragon Year. Most of the experts we spoke to agreed that the market would take its cue from the US economy. But as
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  • 330 1 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad seems to have gained the upper hand in dealing with his problems now that political figures such as Datuk Musa Hitam who was once his No 2 in the government and in the United Malays National Organisation
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  • 122 1 AP A JAPANESE MINISTRY yesterday called for new steps to boost Japan's aid to the Third World to levels matching its status as one of the world's richest nations. In a 1967 White Paper on economic development, the Ministry of International Trade and
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    • 277 1 Sm Back Pag* EUROPEAN COMMUNITY economic growth is sot to fall in 1988 but there are no signs of a recession, according to EC Commissioner Peter Schmiedhuber. OVERSEAS, Page 2 INDONESIA'S oil-dependent economy is expected to grow by between 3 and 5 per cent into the *****. OVERSEAS. Page 2
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 585 2 No signs of a recession however Reuter EUROPEAN COMMUNITY economic growth is set to fall in 1988 but there are no signs of a recession, according to EC Commissioner Peter Schmiedhuber. Member states, however, should do more to stimulate their economies, he said in
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    • 251 2 Reuter THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (EC) is investigating charges that Japan and South Korea are selling cut-price photocopiers and television sets to boost their share of the EC market unfairly. The "anti-dumping" investigations announced on Wednesday are part of a concerted EC strategy to reduce
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    • 283 2 AFP THE WEST GERMAN economy is likely to experience "at best" zero growth over the first quarter of this year, and inflation is likely to rise over the year as a whole, according to two leading economic institutes on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Federal statistics office
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    • 69 2 Reuter THE US has asked Brazil, Thailand and India for talks to limit textile exports and if agreements are not reached, unilateral quotas will be imposed, says the Commerce Department. The talks will cover polyester yarn with cotton from Brazil, duck cloth from India
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    • 124 2 AP THE South Korean government has invited three foreign companies to bid for feasibility studies on a bullet train to link Seoul with the eastern part of the country. Transportation ministry officials said in Seoul on Wednesday that Louis Berger Co of the
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    • 253 2 Reuter WEST GERMAN Economy Minister Martin Bangemann has held talks with the Sultan of Brunei, Sir Muda Hassanal Bolkiah, and officials of the tiny, oil-rich state on possibilities of increasing economic cooperation. "We were discussing the possibilities of cooperating economically, and we had talks
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    • 128 2 AP FIVE WORLD figures including Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey, Chinese anthropologist and sociologist Fei Xiao-Tong, and US economist John Kenneth Galbraith have been named by Encyclopaedia Brittanica to share its annual award for communicating knowledge for the benefit of mankind. The other winners of the third
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    • 459 2 AFP INDONESIA'S oil-dependent economy will grow by between 3 and 5 per cent into the *****, spurred by continued expansion of manufactured exports, Economic Coordinating Minister Ali Wardhana said on Wednesday. Speaking at a luncheon with Indonesian and Japanese businessmen in Jakarta, Mr Wardhana also
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    • 377 2 Reuter INDONESIA'S state-owned Pertamina Oil Company has plans to build a US$7OO million oil refinery to supply oil products to Asia. Company president director Abdul Rachman Ramly told parliament on Wednesday the refinery would be a Britishdesigned plant with a capacity of 100,000 barrels
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    • 225 2 UPI A JURY in New York has found two former executives of the Beech-Nut Baby Food Company guilty of federal charges for their part in a scheme to sell millions of jars of fake apple juice for infants. Niels Hoyvald, former president
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    • 431 2 AFP CHINESE interim Premier Li Peng pledged at a Lunar New Year gathering in Beijing on Wednesday that economic reforms would be strengthened this year and said that China s most pressing problem was rising prices. Meanwhile. Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang was
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    • 151 2 Reuter THE UNITED STATES says it still considers China a friendly country despite an article in an official Chinese journal accusing Washington of interfering in Beijing's internal affairs. "We continue to view China as a friendly, non-allied country and remain convinced that progress in US-China
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    • 167 2 AFP THE WORLD Food Programme (WFP) is to provide emergency aid worth a total of U559.25 million to Vietnam, Pakistan, the Philippines and Benin, a spokesman for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in Rome on Tuesday. Vietnam will receive 30,000
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 75 3 Reuter TOKYO RUBBER futurM closed narrowly mixed on position adjustments in extremely light and featureleea trading yesterday, dealers said. Spot February to April roee 0.2 to 0.4 yen per kg to end on their highs on sporadic short-covering, while other months declined 0.1 to 0.3 yen but cloeed above
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    • 233 3 Reuter SOYBEAN FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade rallied sharply at the ctoee on Wsdnesdey on heevy Iocs! buying, with pricss closing 13% to 6X cents per bushel higher. Nearby March ended 13.0 centa higher at USSB.33H, and the March 1989 delivery set a life-of-contract high. C and
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    • 229 3 Reuter STEEL OUTPUT by the West's major producers jumped 17.5 per cent last month from a year earlier ss steelmakers worked to meet strong demand, the International Iron and Steel Institute (IISJ) haa said. The institute said crude steel production in the 30 countries
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    • 83 3 AFP THE NATIONAL Pipe Company Ltd. a SaudiJapanese Joint-venture company and Saudi Arabia's largest manufacturer of welded steel pipes, may suspend production becauee of a depreeeed market, the newspapsr Al-Riyadh rsportsd on Wsdnooday, citing company sourcee in Riyadh. The firm has latsly reduced staff, including
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    • 167 3 Reuter THE UNITED Arab Emirate* (UAE). a key player in oil pricing strategy, is allowing crude oil production to fall in order to defend Opec's official price of US$lB a barrel. Oil Miniater Mana Said AKXeiba said at a meeting with Japaneee
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    • 592 3 Better prices from Japanese buyers AFP NEW CALEDONIA'S nickel industry is looking at 1968 with relative confidence after two hard yaars, thanks to higher prices offered by Japaneee buyers of the French Pacific territory's major export. Societe Le Nickel (SLN), the quasi-monopoly which has
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    • 212 3 Reuter WHEAT FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade cloeed 3-1/4 to 1/4 cent lower on Wedneeday off session lows, with March down 3-1/4 cents at a bushel. Prices recovered from sharp sarty loeses which were sttributed to stoploss selling as prices broke through support levels in March and
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    • 70 3 Bangkok OodRg print nhbll (USS/tonn*, POt) White Rke 100% 1« dom 355 100% 2nd doM 32C 100% 3rd daw 315 5% 310 '9S 305 15% 293 20% 293 25% 290 35% 295 Broken Rico A-1 S«p*r 225 A-l Spadot 223 C-l SpwM miq C-1 Ord unq Loonzain Rke
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    • 190 3 TOKYO: YEN-DENOMINATED gold futures ended with small gains in thin trading yeeterday, dealers said. Prices were quoted from one to four yen firmer. Technical-based short-covering lifted prices in early trade, some dealers said. But pricee failed to advance further with little follow-through buying due to the abeence of
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    • 476 3 AFP THE FOUR-LANE highway linking the copperbelt towns of Kitwe and Ndols is the only one in Zambia, fringed with unkempt forest and encroeching grass, its surface pitted with potholes. The copperbelt which was the gtory of Zambia in the 1900 when the country produced
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 879 4 Loan exposure a key factor Reuter AFTER A REVIEW of bank ratings focusing on their exposure to developing country loans, Moody's Investors Service Inc said it lowered the ratings of eight institutions and affirmed the grades of three others. About US$B2.6 billion of debt
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    • 597 4 JAKARTA: The US dollar was fixed yesterday at 1659.00/1665.00 rupiah. TOKYO: THE US DOLLAR yesterday closed easier against the yen on profittaking but little changed against major currencies, in directionless trade due to a lack of factors, dealers said. The dollar fluctuated marginally around 130.00 yen all day.
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      183 4 Reuter IMM FOREIGN Currency futures finished mostly higher after a quiet day of trendless trading on Wednesday. US January industrial production and housing starts reports, released on Wednesday morning, wielded limited impact and failed to rouse the market from its torpor, traders said. Values wavered in trading ranges as
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    • 379 4 Reuter THE US DOLLAR'S halving in value since 1985 is leading more bankers and companies to ignore its role as a benchmark against which other currencies are measured. So-called "cross-trades", when two non-dollar currencies are exchanged, now account for about a quarter of
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    • 496 4 EUROSTERLING bonds are likely to be an increasingly attractive choice ttiis year because the UK government's borrowing plans will probably make alternative investments scarce. According to London analysts and investors, the government will have such a comfortable funding poeition that
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 311 5 FT DEN NORSKE CREDITBANK (DNC), Norway's largest bank, said on Tuesday its entire executive board had been replaced, one month after announcing the resignation of its chief executive following the bank's dramatic slide into the red for 1987. The bank's 45-member supervisory board
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    • 405 5 FT TWO MORE substantial gold loans totalling 500,000 troy ounces or about 15 tonnes, and worth about US$22O million are currently being negotiated, according to London traders. Analysts suggested in London on Wednesday that the new loans would have a depressing impact on
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    • 687 5 NYT THE FAILURE of a leading mortgage insurer to meet its obligations has led US banks and savings and loan associations to declare nearly US$5OO million in home mortgages in the south-west in default. As a result, the lenders have begun foreclosure proceedings
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    • 494 5 Expansion a 'matter of survival' Agencies THE BANK OF TOKYO has agreed to buy Los Angeles-based Union Bank for about US$75O million from Brit-ish-owned Standard Chartered PLC. The move, announced earlier this week, ensures a strong US presence for the Bank
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    • 497 5 FT THE BOARD of the World Bank would this week approve a plan for a US$75 billion boost to its capital base, the bank's president Barber Conable said on Tuesday. In Washington, Michel Camdessus, managing director of the International
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    • 195 5 AFP CHASE MANHATTAN BANK has sold its Paris office for "more than" 600 million French francs (US$lO3 million dollars) as part of a general retrenchment of its activities in France, sources close to the buyer said in Paris on Wednesday. Officials from the US-owned
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 504 6 IT IS AN OFT REPEATED point which bears repeating: Singapore has only one natural resource its people. And if it isn't bad enough that that is all we have, we now find that there isn't that much to go around to meet the demand arising
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    • 989 6  -  By DENNIS SEE Manager, Private Banking Group, BANQUE INDOSUEZ A PERIOD of consolidation can be expected in the investment markets this year. Confidence is likely to remain low as a result of substantial losses incurred by investors in last October's major markets'
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    • 456 6  -  By HILL SAMUEL MERCHANT BANK ASIA FOLLOWING the global stock market panic in October last year, compounded further by a loss of confidence in the US dollar, most private investors probably feel insecure and demoralised in the current environment. Firstly, there lurks the
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    • 1865 6  -  By ALAN JOHN HARGREAVES i, Research Director, HOARE GOVETT SECURITIES THE OUTLOOK for the Year of the Dragon is mixed to say the least. While the fundamentals of the economy and the corporate sector remain in growth mode, there is no guarantee that this will
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    • 1053 7  -  By WARDLEY THE AUSPICIOUS OMENS of the new year should augur well for financial markets in 1986, the year of double prosperity and the eastern dragon representative of the spirits of change, of venture and good fortune. Given the difficult market
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    • 805 7 DBS SECURITIES SINGAPORE THE PREVAILING mixed views on the fortunes that this dragon year will bring, appear to have affected the world s stock markets. However, we are cautiously optimistic about the local bourse, given a more positive post-crash economic scenario and barring unforeseen circumstances.
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    • 1826 7  -  By K C TAN Vice-President Institutional Sales, SUN HUNG KAI SECURITIES ONE EFFECT of the global stock market crash was a loss of confidence, wealth and capacity to raise capital. The markets became hypersensitive to economic, fiscal and monetary news. This market volatility has
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    • 897 7 UOB SECURITIES A LOT MORE surprises await the stock market investor and punter in the Dragon year because the market is expected to be increasingly tricky and volatile. This means trading opportunities will abound for the daring speculator who is adept at stock selection. A
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    • 559 7  -  By DONALD McLAY Managing Director, BAIN A CO SOME CONFIDENCE is coming back into financial markets, but investors are clearly still apprehensive about prospects for a second wave' fall in world share markets and about a significant slowing in the world economy in 1988
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    • 652 7  -  By LEE KEEN WHYE Head of Research, KAY HIAN I BELIEVE we saw the bottom of the last market cycle when the Straits Times Industrial Index hit 700 in mid-December last year. In the short term, the Singapore stock market is likely to recover some
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  • SPORTS & LEISURE
    • 428 8 AFP PIRMIN ZURBRIGGEN showed he was human after all on Wednesday when he made the costliest error of his career. It lost him the men's combined title in Calgary, Canada, and the chance to become the first man in history to take
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    • 146 8 Reuter EDDIE "THE EAGLE" FEVER is sweeping Calgary, days after Britain's lone ski jumper finished a distant last in the Olympic 70metre event. Posters praising the intrepid Eddie Edwards have appeared all over the city and the jumper himself has been so deluged by media
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    • 282 9 AFP UNDISPUTED world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday to prepare for the defence of his crown against fellow American Tony Tubbs at the new Tokyo Dome on March 21. Speaking to journalists at his
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    • 56 9 AP FORMER heavyweight champion George Foreman. who rejected an earlier opponent will continue his comeback on March 19 when he fights Dwight Muhammad Qawi in a scheduled 10-round bout. Foreman, 40. will be seeking his eighth straight win since resuming his career last March after a
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    • 524 9  -  HOMOKKET BUSHES* with Mike Cashmore HAVING RETURNED from a long Christmas and New Year vacation. I was faced with the daunting prospect of returning to my exercise schedule. Like the many who are resuming or starting a programme for the first time know, this
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    • 450 9  -  By WALTON MORAIS WITH ENTRY to the Rolex Masters restricted to 12 local golfers, today s BP Circuit monthly golf tournament at Warren carries more significance than usual. At stake is a place in the $100,000 Rolex event which will go to
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    • 201 9 AP WELSH GOLFER lan Woosnam has joined world No. 1 Greg Norman and Wimbledon tennis champion Pat Cash as a target for Australian anti-apartheid protesters, a spokeswoman in Melbourne said on Wednesday. Activists are planning a campaign against Woosnam. one of the stars of the
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    • 158 9 Reuter TWO BLACK GOLFERS failed to tee off in the first round of a Sunshine Circuit golf tournament in South Africa on Wednesday following threats from radical black activists. Tournament officials said one of the golfers, Richard Mogoerane, pulled out after his wife
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    • 115 9 AP IN SPITE OF playing with a woefully erratic serve, topseeded Boris Becker of West Germany defeated Sweden's Magnus Gustafsson 6-3, 6-3. in the second round of the Stella Artois indoor tennis tournament in Milan on Wednesday. Becker's serve let him down, as
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 1247 10 Deal adds up to US$l billion NYT MARKING what analysts described as the largest investment by a Japanese company in an American manufacturing concern, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company said on Tuesday that it had preliminarily agreed to sell 75 per cent of its
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    • 200 10 UPI AIDED by brisk domestic demand, Sony Corp has said that its profits for th« quarter ended last Dec 31 more than doubled over a year ago. The major Japanese electric and alectronics equipment manufacturer said on Wednesday consolidated net sales hit a
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    • 547 10 NYT SONY Corp may have lost the battle for supremacy in the consumer market for videocassette recorders (VCRs), but its Beta-format camcorders and VCR editing systems are dominating the professional broadcasting market. The world market for professional-use camcorder systems, which usually include several of the
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    • 440 10 Reuter SHARE PRICES on the Tokyo market surged to close the sixth consecutive session higher yesterday aa powerful trust funds and other instltutional Inveatora entered the market after being mostly abeent this year. The Nikkei Index spurted 245.41 points, or one per cent to 24,675.36. On Wednaaday it roee
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    • 372 10 Reuter THE Australian share market doeed higher yeeterday, recording its sixth succeeslve gain, as recent poeitive news from home and abroad maintained Investor confidence. By the cloee, the All Ordinariee was 11.7 points higher at 1,243.7, but prices were an hour behind due to computer problems. The Qold Marker
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    • 153 10 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index roee 7.21 to 347.04 yesterday on a turnover of 7,305,474 eheree worth 073.52 million beht. PU 1« BAHT Ao Kham Thai Tit 19 1 Ml 10 Bangkok Agro-lnd 92 ♦B Bangkok Bank. Bank 01 Ayudhya Charoong Thai Wtn A CM 333 330
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    • 97 10 Reuter WHEELOCK Mardsn snd Co Ltd. wholly owned by World International (Holdinge) Ltd. hes said it would ssll its Jspaneee trading arm to a company controlled by Sir Y K Pao. major shsreholder of World Internstionsl. It is selling its 90 per cent staks
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    • 72 10 Reuter THE Jspsnsse Finence Ministry plsns to consult securities housee snd institutions! invsstors st ths snd of Msrch sbout ths next ssle of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp shsres to the public, s min- istry officisl said. Discussions will centre on when snd
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    • 237 10 AP AFP PARK LANE Hotels International Ltd announced yesterday that it had purchased the 500-room Churchill Hotel in London for about HKSI.S billion. The hotel, purchased from International Realty Investment Group of Kuwait was the largest single property investment by a Hongkong
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    • 181 10 Reuter GENERAL Motors of Canada Ltd and Ford Motor Co of Canada Ltd ara unfairly using the court system in an attempt to keep Hyundai Motor Co out of the marketplace, a lawyer for the South Korean car maker has said. "We regard this case
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    • 208 10 Reuter AMERICAN investors should learn a lesson from their Japaneae counterparts and keep cool when the market starts to fall, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman David Ruder said yesterday. "In my opinion, one of the primary causes of the (October 1987) market break
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    • 105 10 AP KOREA Steel Pipe Co Ltd has said in Seoul that it is discussing a joint venture with China to build and operate a steel pipe plant in Shandong province. Although Seoul has no diplomatic relations with communist countries, South Korean businesses are
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    • 299 10 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT CAP. 90 AND IN THE MATTER OF MUTUAL HOLIDAYS (PTE) LTD (In Voluntary Liquidation) MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP (Pursuant to Section 29CK2Xb) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held at 135 Cecil Street #14-03 LKN Building, Singapore 0106 on the
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    • 287 10 THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 Tlijivlvl Ssl T f.iTltX'f T»J. (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD On Masters' Voluntary Liquidation) SPECIAL RESOLUTION Pined mi the 8 day of February IMS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the company held at 4 Raffles Quay #03-00, Plnlayson House, Singapore 0104 on 2 February IMB, the
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    • 10 10 Mart alt In KL, HK and Talpal wara doaad yaatarday.
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    • 278 10 IT'S ABOUT TIME Given its central location, Singapore is now the courier hub of the Asean region. But the Republic has the potential to join the ranks of big courier service centres such as London, Schipol, Hongkong and Tokyo. It can be a link between the East and West. The
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 973 11 New York Reuter WALL STREET closed lower on Wednesday amid a late round of prof-it-taking that took the steam out of a market that had gained more than 110 points in the last five sessions. The decline occurred as investors continue to deal with their concerns
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    • 916 11 London Reuter SHARE PRICES on the London market were narrowly lower at the opening in thin trading yesterday, dealers said. The recent cautious trend continues ahead of yesterday's UK money supply and bank lending data for January due at 1130 GMT. The data will
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    • 869 11 Selected indices HONGKONG Hongkong Index Thurcdoy Closed Wednesday Closed Week ago 1.474 76 All Industrial] Thursday Wednesday Week ogo NEW YORK 1.991 4 1.977.6 1.9396 Hang Seng Index Thursday Closed Wednesday Closed Week ogo 2.256 46 Dow Jones Wednesday Tuesday Week ogo 2.***** 2.***** 1.***** TOKYO Nikkei Average Thursday 24,*****
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    • 318 11 Reuter LONDON'S International Stock Exchange said after discussions with its Investors Advisory Group that the exchange's increased contract levy on most share transactions would have to be retained for the time being. Further meetings will seek a possible alternative to the charge. The stock exchange
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    • 360 11 Final agreement expected within a month IHT SAUDI ARABIA plans to buy about a SO per cent stake in Texaco Inc's extensive US refining operations along the Gulf of Mexico for more than US$l billion, industry sources said. The move, if completed, would
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    • 625 11 FT THE OUTCOME of the takeover battle between Birmid Qualcast, the home products group, and cement company Blue Circle, one of the cloeest bid contests in UK corporate history, was on Wednesday night thrown into confusion after the UK Takeover Panel ordered
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    • 343 11 NYT TANDEM COMPUTERS Inc has agreed to acquire UngermannBass Inc, a leading maker of local area networks, for approximately US$26O million. After the merger, announced on Tuesday, Ungermann-Bass will operate as an independent division of Tandem, which is based in Cupertino. California. Ralph Ungermann,
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    • 191 11 AFP THE BELEAGUERED Australian media group John Fairfax Ltd resolved its battle for editorial control yesterday and ruled out British press baron Robert Maxwell as an acceptable buyer of any of its assets. Chris Anderson, who resigned last week as editor-in-chief of the Fairfax
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    • 353 11 NYT THE CAMPEAU Corp again sweetened its bid for Federated Department Stores Inc on Tuesday. The offer was raised by US$5 a share, to US$66 in cash, or a total of US$5.7 billion. The Campeau proposal was presented along with details of its financing
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    • 203 11 AFP FRAMATOME, the nuclear power unit of France's giant Compagnie Generate d'Electricite (CQE), on Tuesday made a 2.85 billion tranc (US$49O million) bid for control of the Telemecanique company, the world's third-larg-est maker of parts for factory control systems. The Framatome bid, which was approved
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    • 323 11 Johnson Johnson to buy Playtex unit NYT JOHNSON Johnson and Playtex Holdings Inc have announced that they had reached an agreement in principle for the big health care company to buy Playtex Family Products Inc for US$726 million. The Playtex Holdings subsidiary makes tampons, disposable baby bottles, rubber gloves and
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  • 410 12  -  October crash boosted earnings in fourth quarter By LEE HAN SHIH HELPED BY the October crash, the ancient trade of pawnbroking chalked up yet another year of healthy growth in 1987. A record $1.17 billion changed hands at pawnshops in 1987. This was up
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  • 280 12 Reuter INDIA'S economic growth slowed to 4.0 per cent in 1986/87 on lower agricultural production. According to provisional figures of the national accounts released by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was down from 4.8 per cent in
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  • 180 12 Reuter THAILAND and Laos signed a ceasefire pact in Bangkok on Wednesday to end six months of bitter fighting over a small section of their border, a top Laotian official said. Laotian Chief of Staff General Sisavat Keobounphan told reporters after signing the agreement
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  • 160 12 IN THE TURKISH countryside, away from the polluted air of Istanbul, one could muse on anything and everything. There are no barriers of such fire-kindling issues as race or religion; no threats to life or limb from rude strangers; no need, indeed, to plan any strategy for
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  • 165 12 AFP INDONESIA'S armed forces chief General Benny Murdani has said the government will not hesitate to crack down on disturbances during next month's general assembly to elect a president, the Indonesian press said yesterday. Repressive action, if any, should not "confuse the calm and orderly atmosphere
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  • 142 12 NYT THE US GOVERNMENT released two reports on Wednesday that indicated the economy would continue to expand, though at a sluggish pace. Economists said the reports, on home building and industrial production, also provided further evidence that the growth in export business by the
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  • 175 12 AFP INDONESIA will not normalise relations with China until Beijing has admitted and apologised for involvement in a 1965 coup attempt in Indonesia. Indonesia's intelligence chief said yesterday. "This is a principle issue that has to be resolved, that China has to say
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  • 265 12 UPI PRESIDENT REAGAN, sending Congress a US$l.l trillion budget proposal yesterday, is asking legislators to go along with prescribed tax increases and spending cuts and to add provisions scrapping several domestic programmes. The plan, which sets forth spending recommendations for fiscal 1989,
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  • 127 12 UPI HOUSE AND SENATE negotiators in Washington began work on Wednesday on a sweeping compromise trade bill to open foreign markets to American products and avert an economic crisis. The bill is also intended to make US exports more competitive and protect those industries
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  • 270 12 AFP SOUTH KOREA will open its markets wider and ease foreign exchange controls to curb its bulging payments surplus and head off friction with Its trading partners. Economic Planning Board (EPB) officials said on Wednesday a package of measures would take effect on April
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  • 543 12 Bernama THE Umno (Baru) pro torn committee will have its first meeting next month after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. who is the party's pro tem president, returns from a visit to Thailand and Burma. Stating this
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  • 256 12 Reuter THE NEED to make provision against doubtful Third World debt sent Midland Bank PLC, Britain's third largest bank, nearly US$9OO million into the red in 1967. Several bank analysts said they thought it was the first big British commercial bank to
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  • 97 12 Reuter COMEX gold futures popped up to new highs early yesterday since beginning a recovery from last week's reaction lows, buoyed by dollar-related buying. April gold gained US$2.2O at U*****.40 an ounce, which was the strongest price since coming out of a low last Friday of
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  • 186 12 AFP WEST GERMAN Economic Minister Martin Bangemann has said that the European Community market should remain open to Asean member countries. Speaking at a press conference in Manila after arriving on Wednesday for a two-day visit, Mr Bangemann said that "access to
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  • 132 12 Reuter WEST GERMAN Economic Minister Martin Bangemann has urged the Philippines to ease its 40 per cent ceiling on foreign investment in order to compete globally for investors. "You have to change," he said at a meeting of European and Filipino businessmen in Manila yesterday.
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  • 246 12 Agencies PHILIPPINE Defence Secretary Fidel Ramos said yesterday that the military had dropped the idea of a stringent Internal Security Act after an outcry over the proposal. The retired general told a Senate Defence Committee hearing that military officials had studied the feasibility
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  • LATE FILE
    • 67 12 NYT JAPAN will cooperate with South Korea in the creation of a "wiaa men'e group" that will attampt to raaolva problems between the countries and prevent new ones from appearing. Sources in Tokyo said Japan's decision would be conveyed by Prime Ministar Noboru Takeshita when
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    • 60 12 Reuter BRITISH Ford Company workers voted yesterday on a two-year pay deal that could end a cost I y 10-day atrike and set an important industrial wege precedent et e time of mounting labour unreat. Early reeulta of balloting showed aseembiy line workera voting
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    • 35 12 UPI PHILIPPINE President Corazon Aquino, epeaking at an international conference in Manila on constitutional principies, yesterday promieed to work with the country's top judges to revamp the judicial system. UPI
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    • 48 12 NYT LICK) GELLI, a financier accused of masterminding a wab of criminal and political conapiraciaa involving many of the moat powarful man in Italy, has baan axtraditad from Switzariand, officiate in Roma said. Ha has baan on tha run from Italian juatica since 1981. NYT
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    • 55 12 AP US VICE-PRESIDENT Gaorga Bush will continue to ba on tha offanaiva In his campaign for tha preeidential nomination, a tactic hia adviaers faal won him tha New Hampshire primary. Ha ia expected to go on attacking rival Senator Bob Dole for poeitiona on iesues from
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    • 38 12 AP ANTHONY McLEOD Kennedy joined the US Supreme Court yesterday aa its 104 th justice, bringing a crucial tie-break-ing vote to a court hampered by a vacancy for the pest eight months. AP
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    • 56 12 AP THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT has spent more than £3 million in its court battles to block the publication of Spycatcher, the memoirs of a former intelligence officer, a British legal magazine reported yesterday. That's more than five times the government's estimate of £575,000 provided to the
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 118 13 AFP JAPANESE shipbuilders will apply for an extension of their anti-depression cartel for another year from April 1 to limit production. Kenji Hasegawa, chairman of the Japan Shipbuilders' Association, said the association would soon file with the Fair Trade Commission, Japan's an-ti-monopoly watchdog
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    • 372 13  -  By G DURAIRAJ KUANTAN PORT has registered a commendable 49 per cent increase in its throughput last year totalling 1.4 million tonnes compared with 934,952 tonnes in 1986. The port, located along the eastern seaboard of Peninsular Malaysia, witnessed hefty increases in several
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    • 189 13 JARDINE Surveying Services (JSS) will be setting up a new office at Port Klang on March 1, in the first phase of its expansion into Malaysia. The company has plans to eetablish other offices at Penang and Pasir Gudang by the
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    • 214 13 Seatrade Week A NEW proposal that would split the US-flag liner fleet into two groups one that received operating subsidy and one that did not is being studied by the Shipbuilders' Council of America. In an effort to move along the operating
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    • PORTSIDES
      • 93 13 AFP JAPAN'S Maritime Self-Defence Force (MSDF) has taken delivery of a new submarine, the 27th sub built by Japan since the end of the World War 11. the defence agency said. The 2.250-ton Sschishio was built at a cost of 32 billion yen (US$246 million) at
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      • 32 13 Reuter THE EUROPE South and South-East African Shipping Conference said it revised its currency adjustment factor (CAF) to 18.90 per cent from 22.49 per cent, effective March 1. Reuter
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    • 163 14 THE MAJOR shipping consortia operating between the Far East/European. Far East/Persian Gulf, Straits ports/Australia, Straits/Japan and the member lines: ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): "K" Line Korean Shipping Corporation Neptune Orient Lines Orient Overseas Container Line Cho Yang Shipping ANRO (STRAITS/ AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line Djakarta Lloyd Nedlloyd
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    • 127 14 Reuter NEW FOREIGN shipbuilding orders received by Japanese yards in January fell to six ships totalling 101,300 gross registered tonnes (grt) from 21 ships of 357.378 grt in December, the Japan Ship Exporters' Association said. January orders, the lowest in fiscal 1987
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    • 1598 14 Lloyd's Shipping Economist SINCE ITS FORMATION 10 years ago, Hanjin Container Lines, part of the Seoul-based Hanjin group, has grown to become South Korea's premier container ship operating company. Currently. Hanjin operates 14 fully cellular vessels totalling 26,452 TEU. All but
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    • 1017 14 At Shpg V 5 AtC Contoma' VM 1 Accord Shpg VI 3 Ahrankial Unar 3 Alrico Ocaon KM 2 Alltrons V* 3 AC Toap*a' a 5 American Tpt n 4/5 Anro Sarvica IV 2/3 Arrow Linns IX 5 Aiion Ocaon XI 4 Altos Una 1 s ANl
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    • 112 14 HONGKONG International Terminals, a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, took delivery of six new rubber-tyred gantry cranes on Feb 10. The cranes arrived from Japan on Feb 9 and were unloaded at Terminal 4 the following day. Manufactured by Sumitomo Heavy Industries,
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    • 650 15 EXPORTERS and the Bangkok Shipowners and Agents Association have agreed to fight the Port Authority of Thailand s decision jointly to allow a private firm to monopolise crane services for about 300 days, said the Bangkok Post. Conflict over the controversial service, which
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    • 76 15 EVERGREEN LINES is now offering European customers a regular service to and from India, using the ports of Bombay and Madras. Shipment is effected via Evergreen's regular North European ports of call, using the line's round-the-world linehaul vessels. Containers are transhipped at
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    • 190 15  -  From KINGSLEY WOOD AUSTRALIAN STATE Transport Minister Roy Abbott has denied opposition claims that Port Adelaide freight charges are higher than those of Sydney and Melbourne. Federal transport spokesman Mr Julian Beale also alleged that idle time for men and machinery
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    • 90 15 Reuter A SALVAGE expert has inspected a crippled ferry hired by a Palestinian Liberation Organisation as its "ship of return" to Israel. The expert, Antonis Naxakis from Greece, said on board the 6,151ton Sol Phryne that damage caused by an explo- sion on Monday
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    • 140 15 Feb 22-25 Insurance solvency assessment. Insurance Reinsurance Research Group course, The Gloucester Hotel, Harrington Gardens, London SW7. March 22-24 NAV 88 Conference. The theme will be Radionav 2000 a European Dimension. The advent of longer range systems, changes in trading patterns have caused a major re-exami-nation of the
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    • 8637 20 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of
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    • 1042 21 AFTER this week's brief hesitation, dry cargo charter rate potential continued to harden on Wednesday on the London shipping freights market. The most noticeable rise was in the US North Pacific grain-loading area, where Dreyfus reportedly paid a very firm US$l5 (fio) for a Korean vessel to work
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    • 1034 21 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES VhmI Berth Arrtval Dopcrtun KEPPEL WHARVES Bangkok Navee K35 alongside 2002/0600 Boogabila K09 alongside 2202/0600 Bum Hon K30 alongside 18.02/1700 Kris Melela K24E alongside 19 02/2300 Ma to ram KI5 olongside 2002/0600 Ned leuve K18 alongside 19.02/0600 Rajah Brooke K25W alongside 20 02/2300 Tomoh
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    • 2054 22 A B AB Shipping Boustead Shpg AgenckM. ABC Containeriine NV S pore Shpg (S). Accord Shpg Accord Shpg (S). Africa Ocean Linee Sea I ion Shpg (S). Ahrenkiel Liner Kim Shpg (S). Alfred C Toepfer Oceanus Shipping Agenciee (S) Mufti port Sdn Bhd (PK). Alltrene Alltrane
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    • 132 23 Area/Port Viscosity Density Water CST at 50C G/ML at 15C Volume 0/0 Africa/Red Sea Jeddoh 111/180 0.948/0.979 0.2/0.8 Durban 149/164 0.988/0.993 0.1/0.2 Arabian Gulf Ras Tanura 183/229 0.968/0.972 0.0/0.3 Bahrain 109/109 0.966/0.966 0.2/0.2 Europe Rotterdam 29/502 0.959/1.002 0.0/1.4 Hamburg 31/394 0.940/0.990 0.0/0.4 Le Havre 25/367 0.923/0.989
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    • 500 24 AP IRAN, reacting to a Pentagon announcement confirming a previously-disclosed cutback in US naval forces in the region, said the decision represented a defeat for American "militaristic policy." At a news conference, US Assistant Defence Secretary Richard Armitage confirmed that the
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    • 257 24  -  From Kingsley Wood PORT KEMBLA is looking at the viability of investing in container handling equipment with the aim of attracting shipping from the overcrowded berths of Sydney and Port Botany, 81km to the north. Kembla is currently an industrial port serving the BHP .steel
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    • 113 13 mm SINCE ITS FORMATION 10 yeors ago, Hanjln Container Linos, part of the Sooul-basod Hanjin group, has grown to become South Korea's premier container ship operating company. Page H EXPORTERS and the Bangkok Shipowners and Agents Association have agreed to fight the Port Authority of Thailand's decision }ointly to allow
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    • 19 14 Lines and services represented by Members of the Registry of Accredited {sff§B Shipping Agents. Singapore National VV&rtfir Shipping Association.
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    • 891 15 wMam The Straits WSMM Steamship Group Mansfield Container Shipping Re Ltd PS&O Containers K«KI:;I>.I X'lAitmur tW Ai; aTTfr w un iw aw iMi vm XII M H u Km w ww mm am lvw is* vm u* am am mm mm am mis mis vis Also Accepting Cargo For: HMturf
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    • 348 16 MSI NOSE MARITIME PTE LTD ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINES IRANIAN SERVICE Singapore Loading for:29/2 BANDAR ABBAS (2nd call) IRAN SHOJAAT KYOWAI KYOWA LINE Singapore Loading for: URANIA 4 27/2 JAVA, LAE, HRA, TLG, LTK, MALAU MICRONESIA SERVICE SPORE PK LOAD FOR A VESSEL 25/2 27/2 SAIPAN, GUAM, TRUK,
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    • 546 18 GOLDEN LINE SfcV GUM GUAM SUPPING (PTE) LTD NXs 1 n. Ttiok *rw str»«< SINGAPORE 01M TEL: SJ4J* CM LINtS) Far SMI» STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: GOLDEN HAVEN Cotomte/KaradN/Outw COL DEN LANO Cotombo/KaradM/Dubai CHINA SERVICE A VESSEL Shanjhai/Hsmliant S pore P Ketone Pcnm 2S/2I Fob 12/14 Mar CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING CO.,
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    • 500 18 PHILI Oni€NT UN€5 PTC LTD M£AD OFFICE 63 ROB KSON ROAD -07 12 AFRO AS;A B.UHDING SINGAPORE 0106 TELEX RS ***** PHIII FA* P2556/6 EAST/FAR EAST LOW. F STOWE. S TON, TILBURY. ABERDEEN tl KVE. H BURG. R MM. GENOA. ANTWERP AND ALL MLANO USA SERVICE S GOLUBKINA ISTANBUL MERSIN.
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    • 893 19 Vi NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LTD Pwun NEPL,NE SON BHO a JBahru NEPLINE SDN BHD ZM FAR EAST/EUROPE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE A mtmbw of th« ACE Consortium NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTD. Ft EU/AUST TPA/SCA Terminal CFS BOOKINGS: *****5J *****42 221X2 2Z***** 2790U9 27*14 77*111 ***** M NEPLINE SON BHD. MH INWARD/OUTWARD
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    • 375 19 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO: P KELANG. PENANG. BUSAN, INCHON #No i Oonjm/MIN •Gloria/WN No 7 Donam/M2N No Donam/IO?N No I Donam/IKN No Donam/M2N ETD BS KICK SPORE PKELANC BUSAN OWB IMB In Port 22-24/02 05-01/03 17* 02/ 12/ OMB 21/ 22« 25-2 MO 27-27/B2 10-11/B
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    • 608 19 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD SINSOV BUILDING 55, Market Street Singapore 0104 Tel: *****33 (15 Lines) Terminal Office: *****41/2 Cable Address SINSOV SINGAPORE Telex Numbers RS ***** RS ***** RS ***** BCMiMr f PENANG M/s HANDLING SYSTEM CO SON BHD MESSRS HAI TNOMC SHIPPING 127 Penary Street P«n
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    • 15 19 KdliU ft 4 <3 MADJU SENDIRIAN BERHAD 20-12 Tong Eng Building Singapore 0106 Tel *****8/
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    • 355 20 I SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. TEL 22b6868 .30 L.nes> FAX *****39 *****76 TELEX RS ***** A B SSCMA RS ***** A B SSCAD VE.B DEUTFRACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCK INTEGRATED FULL CONTAINER SERVICE "VIA COLOMBO: Accepting cargo tor INOIA Bombay. Cochin, Madras i Calcutta •"VIA LARNACA: Accepting cargo for Lattakia, Piraeus. Thessakmiki,
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 196 20 Yd Regional Weather <T7l St N kx I i m Va fct t 3 232 cv IS 27 rf" m n r?*» -S te lv LLlt In SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS AT 7.30 A.M. THIS MORNING. Wind direction with speed in knots Wove height LEGEND R Thunderstorm Temperature c
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    • 931 21 \\csp\ CSP SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE. LTD. Tel: *****66 (16 Lines) Fa* *****15 FIXED CON r CL/LCL TO: CHINA, HONG KONG. BANGKOK, P.KHJUK, KEELUNG, KAOSHHMG, MANILA, BUSAN, TOKYO/YOKOHAMA KOBE, OSAKA, JAKARTA, L MALAYSIA ALL EUROPE BASE PORTS ALL USA PORTS Also accepts to ottwr destinations. ACCEPTING FCL/LCL AND CONVENTIONAL: P.Kelang: 20/2
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    • 257 21 UNIPACIFIC TRANS. TRADING AGENCY PTE. LTD. EC IRAQI LINE IRAQI ST*T| (NKRPRISf «0» ARIT TRANS'O«T EAST BOUNO SERVICE ETA S'PORE LOADING FOR ALFARABI 2S/2 iapM W SIN MAO m item WEST BOUNO SERVICE ETA S PORE LOADING FOR W ALFARABI 25/3 MM, A^ta. THROUGH B/U to BAGHDAD UPON REQUEST ALSO
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    • 575 22 I INK I I NIK SUII'I'I I'll III) TTTWST 11 i ll '.I 7^ i ll ii |"Q out »u in mi nr im w WlUlMUflUflMfllMlW 52 22 25 S1 S! SB an aa va aa bij aa m ma.* J TATSUMI MARINE CO. LTD. JAPAN DIRECT SAILING TO PAPUA
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    • 295 22 ZIM FULL CONTAINER SERVICE acta*** FCt/ICI carton to USA Last t *nt Coast CarriMoan.East Canada. HAITI. Carta Rica. CI Salvador. Guatemala. Hondurat Vanaxuaia Nro. Ecuador. Catombu via Miami. Trinidad. Barbados Antimu St Lmcu Rbntaarrat Guayana via Kirattan ZIM EIIAT ZIM HOPE* ACCEPTIRS CAAQO TO ADELAIDE VIA MELBOURNE ADO ALSO FCL
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    • 304 22 Everett Lines COMPANIA PERUANA DE VAPORES "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" LOADING FOR CALLAO, MATARANI, ILO* AND ALL OTHER 5 L'iilKw.illillif l.K'i L 4.1b 11 CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING TO FINAL DESTINATION Panang* P. KatMf* Tinppan MURRAYEVERETT 22/23 Fat thomaseverett MHsr mm* m MUGHEVERETT 11/13 Rtel EVERETT ORIENT LINE' JAPAN/BAY OF
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    • 119 23 JY OF SAUDI ARABIA REGULAR RO-RO SERVICE TO MIDDLE EAST SINGAPORE 24 FEB P KELANG 26 FEB 16 MAR VESSEL S. RIYADH S. ABHA S. TABUK Acting Br—fcbulk. Ro.Ro, Cowtaimrs FCL Containers for Sharjah, Doha and Riyadh. REGULAR RO-RO SERVICE TO USA/CANADA VESSEL I SINGAPORE P KELANG 24 FEB It
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    • 44 23 4* TAYO SHIPPING LINES fTE LTD TEL *****25 (3 Hn«i| TLX AS ***** TAYOIN FAX LTDJ VESSEL S'POftE LOADING FOR «W| UTA-A S? W^ l KKANIARU a vessel JSSm^ PM,L,PfINt P RUnc AflMt- INTER SYSTEM CO SOM BHD TO-: 2»750T1«/23«§7 TLX HA 2K14 HSKL
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    • 444 23 LCL/FCL SERVICE n-n, TEL: *****11 FAX: *****47 TELEX: RS ***** SKHST Uii'KJJ lUCKT SEAWAT SERVICES PTE LTD TIl 26Q61 Fai: *****77 S.E.ASIA/CHINA SERVICES SGP PKLANC PNC FOR TIM 15/3 SHANGHAI E. AFRICA/RED SEA MEDITERRANEAN SERVICE ktN sgp for RUAHA 25/2 1/3 MUKALLA/ALEXANDRIA/DAR ES SALAAM TBN 71/3 t/4 AOEN/HOOCIOAH/ALEXANORIA COLOMBO SERVICE
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    • 441 23 ft£J POH TIONG CHOON SHIPPING (PTE) LTD TEL: *****66 (10 LINES) FAX: *****41 TELEX: R*****6 POHSHIP PTC GROUP KEELUNG/KAO HONG KONG BANGKOK JAKARTA MANILA LCL/FCL SERVICE TO 28/2 6/3 1/3 7/3 27/2 5/3 20/2 24/2 3/3 BUSAN TOKYO/YOKO UK/EUROPE USA/CANADA DURBAN/CTOWN OTHER POUTS: P KELANG, PENANG, E.M'SIA, SURABAYA, BELAWAN, SAMARMOA,
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    • 327 23 PERCH OCEAN UNES (Perfect China Ocean Shipping Lints) WISHING ALL OUR I I I i. v i I Ml 1 I 1 CHINESE NEW YEAR M-Mflfe Of T hf F'BISS GROUP) WEEKLY CONSOL SERVICE LCL/FCL U.SJL (East West Coast all inland points) UK/EUROPE Continents (All Ports) T l ¥Ifii itfl
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    • 310 24 Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) Ltd ,n 'F I (20 tin.-si TI RS ??(>'.! K PS 20 f>72 \M I Is \K I IM K lII' STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-R0 HEAVY LIFTS *Subj«ct to carfo inducement NOTE: ALSO CALLING OTHER JAPANESE PORTS, HONGKONG, TAIWAN CHINESE PORTS, SUBJECT
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    • 438 24 1 COLUMBUS LINE REEDERE! GMBH (A SERVICE OF HAMBURG SUD) EXPRESS SEMKOWTAfCR SERVICE TO i (ASIA-SOUTH PACIFIC JOINT SERVICE) SPORE CALABAR VIS 29/2 To Rod Mornby. Lm, COLUMBUS NIUGINI VIS |20/3 Rabaul, and Madang Accepting via Transhipment to Orobay, Wewak, Akrtau, Kavieng Kimbe Port Keiang's Afont: H C Til: 35K701/4
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    • 316 24 W UfiS 1 LCL WEEKLY SERVICE TO: Hfl KAMJMtM HONQKOMQ >1/1 TUUMY >1/1 PNEMANTIE rnt S YD/ME LI >1/> aoclaioc an (transit Urns 12 days) WEEKLY COMSOL. SERVICE FROM GERMANY uu rMtrm ETD «W*ANr ETA SPORE CON-CARRIER **7 |Q jyj CON-CARRIER S7/S7 11/2 J/3 LCL SERVICE TO CARRIKAN PORTS Sin
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    • 648 24 Will CALL US AT: P. KELANG PENANG J. BAHRU f. GUDANG SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR 3HS7SJ/3M7111 M (*****/4. C ***** ■07 241 m «7 *****3. *****5. *****0, *****1 47-*****22 242M1 Weekly far east/europe container service lIZZZSI TO EUROPE feeder I BUTANC 4» BUTANC <a I I 77.■ I KORRICAN b. butanc
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