The Business Times, 14 March 1989

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    11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 45/12/88 TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1989 75 CENTS
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    FINANCIAL NEWS SUMMARY
    264 1 Dow up WALL STREET stocks gained in early trading yesterday, following up on a partial late recovery Friday. Buying was encouraged by the market s mild reaction on Friday to a drop in US unemployment. The Dow was up seven at 2289 and twice as many issues
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    All sewn up: a blueprint for garment industry
    512 1  -  Ambitious plan charts direction for industry By JOHN TAN GARMENT and textile makers have mapped out an ambitious blueprint outlining the industry's direction this year. Drawn up by a special working committee of the Textile and Garment Manufacturers Association of Singapore (TGMAS),
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    Concerted drive for a bigger piece of the US market
    199 1 A GROUP OF local garment makers are currently in the US to conduct market development studies in a bid to penetrate further Singapore's most important garment market. Organised under the banner of the Textile and Garment Manufacturers Association of Singapore
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    US$ closes steady in Tokyo
    107 1 THE US DOLLAR closed mostly steady on the Tokyo currency market yesterday after fluctuating narrowly in sluggish trade. Dealers said the American unit was boosted overseas last Friday due to expectations of further US monetary tightening, triggered by robust February US employment data. But the
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    S'pore, Australian markets up slightly
    250 1 THE Singapore and Australian stock markets shook off concern about rising interest rates to post slight gains yesterday. Tokyo and Hongkong closed lower. In Singapore, share prices moved higher after a day of fairly active trading despite Wall Street's nine-point fall last Friday and a
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    Lock icon 'KLCE will benefit from LME tin futures'
    299 1 Bernama THE RE-INTRODUCTION of tin futures on the London Metal Exchange (LME) would augur well for the Malaysian tin futures market, the chief executive of the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) Syed Abdul Jabbar Syed Shahabuddin said yesterday. He told Bernama the LME
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    Move to discourage petrol buying in M'sia
    475 1  -  By JEFFREY TSANG AMENDMENTS to two Acts were tabled in Parliament yesterday to discourage Singapore motorists from buying cheaper petrol in Malaysia. The Customs (Amendment) Bill was introduced by Briga-dier-General (Reservist) George Yeo, Minister of State (Finance) and the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill
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    Lock icon Japanese bankruptcies dip
    110 1 AFP JAPANESE bankruptcies involving liabilities of more than 10 million yen (U5577,500) fell 27.5 per cent from a year earlier to 596 in February, the lowest number in 16 years. Teikoku Data Bank said yesterday that combined liabilities fell 39.8 per cent to 74.877 billion yen in
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    Lock icon Malaysia, Thailand likely to be NIEs soon: ADB chief
    264 1 AFP MALAYSIA and Thailand are moving towards economic maturity and should soon join the ranks of Asia's four so-called economic dragons, Asian Development Bank (ADB) president Masao Fujioka said in Manila yesterday. He told a conference on newly industrialising economies (NIEs)
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    Kra canal not necessary now, says Thai premier
    202 1  -  By RICHARD NG writing tor BT from Bangkok THAI Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan has said that a canal across the Kra Isthmus is unnecessary now as world oil prices are low and there is no need to find a shorter route to
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      208 1 Full Report, PAGE 18 Regional Mkts, PAGE 20 Editorial Comment: 12 Don't bank on gimmicks Personality 12 Lawson due for a change? Asian airlines 13 The sky's the limit Exhibitions 3 Firms to gain from 1992 Public sector contracts 3 Jobs down 42pc in January Labour 3 Proposal from Bethlehem
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  • YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT
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      MPs debate Dr Hu's move on CPF
      349 2 THE MINISTER for Finance's move to prevent the use of the Central Provident Fund (CPF) as a tax shelter drew comments from several MPs yesterday. Finance Minister Dr Richard Hu had announced in his Budget statement on March 3 a ceiling on tax
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      Higher tuition fees: warning of wider implications
      367 2 DR ALINE WONG (Tampines GRC) yesterday warned of the economic, political and social costs that could attend the new "block vote" budget system, citing as an example the increase in university tuition fees. University education would become more and more the "privilege of
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      Why not woo private sector brains to civil service?
      466 2 PUBLIC SECTOR brain drain? What about reversing this by enticing mid-career people from the private sector to man key services of the public sector? This was suggested by Mr Chew Heng Ching (Eunos GRC) when he rose to debate on the
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      'Monetary incentives alone not enough'
      375 2 MONETARY INCENTIVES ALONE would not encourage parents to have more children, argued a few MPs yesterday They would only be partially effective in encouraging procreation. said Dr Aline Wong (Tampines GRC). Dr Koh Lam Son of Telok Blangah employed the logic of money can't buy
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      Extending CPF scheme
      528 2 THE LABOUR MINISTRY is finalising plans to extend the Central Provident Fund minimum sum topping-up scheme to include purchase of public housing for parents. Labour Minister Lee Yock Suan said that he had instructed the CPF Board to finalise details of such an extension. Replying to a
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      Shifting of tax burden to consumers
      280 2 THE TAX BURDEN has slowly but surely been shifted more and more to the consumers. Quoting statistics. Mr Ng Pock Too (Nee Soon Central) asserted that without the formal introduction of a broad-based consumption tax, indirect taxation is already contributing to almost 50 per
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      321 2 Can A Better Image Improve Customer Service? BankOnlt. Hfti Customer comes in for a mortgage. Bank appraiser mails in photos of Broker provides offer to purchase, Has a loan application, tax returns. property, plot plan an J comparahles. preliminary title report, andP&S agreement by FAX. Credit information arrives, added to
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Bethlehem Singapore makes proposal to ex-staff in test cases
      474 3  -  By WILLIAM CHIA BETHLEHEM SINGAPORE Shipyard (Bethsing). in voluntary liquidation now, has proposed paying retrenchment benefits of 16 calendar days for each year of service to its 400 former employees. more than a year after they were retrenched. Bethsing is facing
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      PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
      209 3 HENG KHEOK NAM has been made managing director of Swissam Re Ltd, a subsidiary of Concord Watch Company SA. In his new position, Mr Heng will be responsible for marketing Concord as a leading brand in the luxury watch segment. Also recently appointed to Swissam is VINCENT
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      Coming up — post-secondary institutes
      242 3 Coming up post-secondary institutes THE FOUR existing commercial institutes are to be revamped and rehoused in new post-sec-ondary institutes (PSIs) to be built, said Dr Tay Eng Soon, Minister of State for Education. The details of the PSIs had not been agreed upon yet, said Or Tay yesterday, but they
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      Citibank AVP charged with CBT
      102 3 AN ASSISTANT vice-president of Citibank was yesterday charged with two counts of criminal breach of trust involving a total sum of U*****,000. Ho Keng Lay, 44, from the bank's Shenton Way branch, was alleged to have committed the first offence around mid-Nov last year involving
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      Firms expect to gain from single EC market
      626 3  -  By GENEVIEVE CUA SEVERAL SINGAPORE companies taking part in Europe's premier office, information and telecommunication exhibition. CeBIT '89. in Hanover. West Germany, said they anticipated a boom in business when a unified European market materialises in 1992. Interviewed by BT, they said
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      Public sector contracts down 42pc in January
      370 3  -  By LEE HAN SHIH, Property Correspondent CONTRACTORS hoping the new year would bring more building jobs from the government are in for a big disappointment, if the latest Ministry of National Development statistics are anything to go by. In January, jobs awarded by
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      Technofairs donating $100,000 for scholarships
      100 3 TECHNOFAIRS Corporation will hand over a $100,000 cheque to the National University of Singapore for scholarship awards today. This donation, made through the Singapore Federation of the Computer Society, will form a fund for three scholarship awards. They will be offered to honours students in
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC
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      Lock icon Tokyo spurring changes in debt strategy
      685 4 Japan worked closely with US on Brady plan: officials Reuter JAPAN has begun to flex its muscles as the world s biggest creditor nation, clearing the way for big changes in the US strategy to tackle Third World debt. Japanese officials said Tokyo worked
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      Lock icon Roh to call referendum soon
      207 4 Agencies SOUTH KOREAN President Roh Tae-woo will soon call a promised referendum on his record in office. The Sunday announcement threw a fragile opposition alliance into serious disarray yesterday Officials of the ruling Democratic Justice Party (DJP) said Mr Roh is expected to consult community,
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      Aquino to visit Bonn and Paris in July
      451 4  -  By AL O LABITA Jr, PHILIPPINE President Aquino will visit West Germany and France in July and is expected to meet members of the Paris Club, composed of the debtor countries of most Third World countries, including the Philippines. Palace sources said
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      Lock icon Philippines enjoys higher growth
      160 4 AFP THE PHILIPPINES achieved an economic growth rate of 6.7 per cent last year, up from 5.9 per cent in 1987, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap) says. The 1988 Escap report, published in February and made public in Bangkok
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      DAILY AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS
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  • REST OF THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Soviet party to meet amid signs of differences
      511 5 AP THE SOVIET Communist Party will tackle critical food shortages in a special meeting this week that comes amid signs that President Mikhail Gorbachev and Politburo rival Yegor Ligachev disagree on the solution. The hottest issue on the agenda of the 300-member
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      Lock icon Ultra-right posts gains in West German state poll
      266 5 Reuter ULTRA RIGHT-WING parties voicing open hostility to foreigners have posted gains at the expense of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats (CDU) in local elections in the West German state of Hesse. The neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) made a startling breakthrough
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      Lock icon Battle for French cities enters final round
      236 5 AFP THE FIGHT for the control of many major French cities goes to the final round on March 19 after elections on Sunday left minority ecologists and extreme rightists holding the balance of power. The right were poised to sweep Paris again and
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      Lock icon Iran calls for economic boycott off Britain
      515 5 Foreign Minister urges striking the heaviest blow UPI IRAN'S Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashami has called for a boycott of British goods following the break in relations between the two countries last week, Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency (Irna) said on Sunday.
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      Lock icon Queen Elizabeth expresses concern for the environment
      277 5 AP QUEEN ELIZABETH II sent a message of concern for the environment to the Commonwealth yesterday, urging nations worldwide to recognise the global threat of pollution. The Queen said world interdependence had been dramatised forcefully over the past year by the "dramatic growth"
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      141 5 ■///I '//S/ m Max/ Not* Singapore OUTLOOK: Shower* over Mvtril area* In ttM lata afternoon. Report for 24 houn prior to 7.30pm on March 13 at th* airport; Aaaoc humidity.. Hra of aunahlno 105 Rainfall In mm 29.6 Rainfall this mth... IM.B Rainy day* this mth 9 24/18 Cloudy 27/17
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      86 5 Doonesbury S) T -r,i <* THESE ARB THE ARCHITECTS DRAMN66 FOR THE BATHROOMS. MR. TRUMP HAS INPICATEP UJHBRB HE WANTS THE MURALS... OMY s« vs< m 11 BY GARRY TRUDEAU HE'S LOOKIN6 FOR SCENES OF EPIC GRANPEUR. IN THE MASTER BATH, HB UMISTHE MRTIN6 OFTHE REP SEA. in his wife's
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  • COMMODITIES
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      Lock icon Rubber producers to discuss implementation of accord
      476 6 Bernama THE POSITION of members of the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) with regard to the implementation of the second International Natural Rubber Agreement (Inra II), which came into force last year, will be discussed at the annual ANRPC meeting beginning
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      Lock icon Bangladesh tea industry faces uncertain future
      450 6 Reuter BANGLADESH'S ailing tea industry, already hit by a decline in domestic consumption, has suffered a more serious blow with its two most important foreign customers deciding to buy elsewhere. Industry officials said Pakistan, which buys about half of Bangladesh's annual tea output of
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      Lock icon Manila expects higher coffee output this season
      177 6 Reuter THE PHILIPPINES will step up coffee production in the crop year ending July 1989 and expects to meet its higher ICO export quota this year, the US agricultural attache in Manila said in a report released yesterday. "With an expected good harvest
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      Lock icon India takes steps to ease controls on domestic gold trade
      660 6 AFP THOUSANDS of unlicensed gold dealers and goldsmiths, who have been operating underground for years, will soon be able to trade freely under the Indian government s plans to ease controls. For more than 25 years the government has restricted
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      Palm Oil
      343 6 MALAYSIAN crude palm oil future* finished slightly easier in quiet trading yesterday on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange on lack of fresh factors. Dealers said prices eased slightly in line with the lower Chicago soyabean oil prices and absence of demand. Operators were reluctant to take positions ahead
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      Rubber
      417 6 SINGAPORE: Rubber prices ended slightly higher with April 1 RSS buyer quoted at 202.50 cents a kg yesterday, up one cent from Friday's close, brokers said. Prices rose one cent in quiet morning trade on light short-covering following gains in Japanese rubber prices. Values were little changed in thin
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      RAS and MRELB
      278 6 RAS prices m S cwiMg, FOB m bat* NOON CLOSE Buyors Sellere Bvyors Sollors bit 1 RSS Prompt 201.50 202.50N 201.50 202.50 Int 1 RSS Apr 89 203.00 203.50N 202.50 203.50 Int 1 RSS May 203.00 204.00N 203.00 204.00 Int 2 RSS OP 196.50 198.50N 196.50 198
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      SSR and SMR
      81 6 (cantt/kg) APRIL 1989 MAY 1989 (current month) (forward month) RAS NOON V AM 1 |1 r j Dvywfi wvn^ff NOON S#H#rs SSI 30 184.00 186.00N 184.00 I86.00N SSI so 182.00 184.00N 182.00 184.00N MRELB lvy«rs 5,H»ri lvy«n Srften SMI cv 393.50 295.50N 395.50 297.SON SMI I 393.00
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      Lock icon Crude Oil and Products
      150 6 Telerate FUEL OIL PRICES were little changed from last week s levels in light trade yesterday. Market outlook for late March and early April cargoes remained fairly firm. However, some traders cautioned that possible large supplies from South Korea and Taiwan could put a lid on
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      KL Tin
      174 6 THE KUALA LUMPUR Tin Mark* (KLTM) price closed •toady at last Friday s M 524.83 a kg in very quiet trading ysstsrday. "Ths markst condudad Its trading on tha first call with consumars a llttta cautious while minors ara in no hurry to dlsposs," ona brokar said. Scattered
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      Produce Prices
      191 6 Chinese Produce Exchange Sellers' noon doting prici Mar 13 (SS/100 kg) n an Coconut oil kk FOB ioe.oo Otd drum FOB 118.00 New drum FOR 122.00 Copra Mixed (loose) 64.00 Pepper to* whrte Foe niw 740.00 Sarawak wMm FOB foq NIW 730.00 Sarawak tpedal block FOB NIW 585.00
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      Precious Metals
      443 6 HONGKONG: Gold closed slightly easier in moderate trading yesterday on selling from Swiss speculators during the afternoon, dealers said. Investors were cautious due to the firmer US Dollar, they said, adding that the metal lacked new incentives. They expect bullion to trade between US$39O and US$395 an ounce
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      200 7 Q "Even J. Paul Getty's account must have gone into the red at some time in his life," you tell yourself. However, your little gem of financial philosophy does nothing to solve your present predicament. There's no avoiding it, you have cheques to write but funds to find. Is this
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
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      Forex markets
      1502 8 SINGAPORE: THE US DOLLAR closed mixed yesterday, as it vacillated between D-mark 1.8657/1.8625, yen 129.90/129.40, pound 1.7195/1.7160 and Singapore dollar 1.9420/1.9382. Despite the up bias stemming from last Friday's good employment data, there was a general reluctance to attempt any big move ahead of the UK budget today
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      Money markets
      69 8 THE OVERNIGHT RATE on the Singapore money market fell by 3/8 point to close at 4-3/8 per cent yesterday. The two-month rate fell by 1/16 point, while one- and threemonth rates were unchanged. c S$ Interbank rates at the close yesterday: OFtt uo 4 3/8 4 1/4 I
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      Asian dollar market
      256 8 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed firmer in quiet trade yesterday mainly on news of a stronger than expected US February employment data, dealers said. Most operators were sidelined as they awaited this week's release of a batch of US economic data, starting with today's February retail sales.
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      IMM
      254 8 IMM CURRENCY FUTURES were lower at the close last Friday after erasing some declines on profit-taking ahead of the weekend Prices dropped sharply at the outset after the release of figures revealing stronger-than-anticipated growth in the US labour force. The jobless rate fell to 5.1 per cent from 5.4
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      Goverment Securities Market
      98 8 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity BID OFFER HIGH LOW 3 months BQ*****F 8.06.89 3.85 3.80 6 months BS*****N 17.08.89 3.88 3.83 1 year BY*****H 23.11.89 3.93 3.88 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing Day's code rate BIO OFFER HIGH
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      Simex
      510 8 EURODOLLAR futures closed higher on short-covering and commercial buying in active trading yesterday. Dealers said a stable dollar helped prices but the undertone remained soft on inflation fears and possible Fed tightening credit policy following last Friday s strong employment data for February. March Eurodollar rose to 89.72 from
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      World interest rates
      208 8 Indicate* the average of tha prima landing rataa o4 12 ma|or banks In S'pore Interbank market ratas (offer/bid) on Mar 13 us$ DM SWFC Y«n 7 dor* t IS/14 13/16 11 7/4 U 3/4 3 13/14— 13/14 3 3/4 3 3/4 4 3/14 4 1/14 1 «*i
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      Options
      1334 8 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Monday, Mar 13, 1989 DEUTSCHE MARK (SIMEX) Apr M cm** High Law 8a« Apr M puft High Law 8a« 54 55 25A 23 54 9A 7 57 3 44S lOJi 107 Jtm M caMa *•«*> Low ton <*■> n puw High Law Sa« 51 52 53
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
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      'H' is for Hague, Hazard and ...
      563 9  - 'H' is for Hague, Hazard and mxmmMi. by Pi PAUL FRANKLAND Paul Frank/and is the Singapore branch manager of Commercial Union Assurance, one of the Republic's largest insurance companies. He is also a manage-ment-committee member of Singapore's General Insurance Association. His views do not necessarily reflect those of Commercial Union
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      Lock icon Washington to grant US$450m bridge loan to Venezuela
      347 9 UPI THE US government has announced a US$45O million bridge loan to Venezuela, praising the "courageous" economic policy adjustment undertaken by Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez. The Treasury Department announcement last Friday followed an earlier speech by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady spelling
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      Lock icon Latin nations to pursue debt relief goals
      395 9 Reuter FOREIGN MINISTERS of the Group of Eight Latin American countries, while welcoming a new US debt initiative, agreed to continue promoting their own plan for relief on the region's US$4Ol -billion debt. In a communique issued last Saturday after a meeting in
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      Indosuez to set up fund management subsidiary
      202 9 THE BANOUE Indosuez group has been given the greenlight by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to set up a fund management subsidiary here. Indosuez Asset Management (S) Ltd, which was incorporated late last month, will be offering fund management services to resident and
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      Lock icon Rates should stay high, says Hawke
      71 9 Reuter INTEREST RATES will have to stay high to reduce spending on imports, Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke said. "But as soon as it's economically responsible to reduce them, it will be done," he said in Canberra yesterday. The current monetary policy, tight fiscal
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      Dai-Ichi Securities opens representative office
      361 9  -  By QUAK HIANG WHAI THE INFLUX of Japanese securities houses into Singapore continues with today's opening of a representative office by Oai-lchi Securities. Yoshio Fukatsu, the company's representative here, told BT that the new office will monitor the equities and futures markets in Singapore and
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      Lock icon Regulators to review Credit Suisse revamp
      710 9 Reuter SWISS BANKING REGULATORS may choose to regard Credit Suisse's planned holding company as a bank, negating many advantages Credit Suisse hoped its 100 million Swiss franc reorganisation would bring. "We are looking at whether CS Holding should be regarded as a bank," said
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  • TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Solar flare eruption could interfere with communications
      343 11 NYT ONE OF THE strongest solar flares ever seen has erupted, and scientists said last week that it might signal intense solar radiation that could threaten radio communications, satellite operations, and television transmissions over the next two weeks. They said it was another
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      Happy birthday Einstein
      156 11 TODAY IS arguably the most important date in the annals of modern science the birthday of Albert Einstein. The quiet genius who changed mankind s concept of time, space, matter and energy was born 110 years ago this day in the German city of Ulm. Until his
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      Not all hackers turn out to be destructive
      546 11  -  (p(j> csmum uio yji Bv JEFFREY TSANG HACKER. The name has such ugly connotations the very mention of a hacker evokes images of a maniacal high-tech bank robber or World War 111 starter. A hacker must be bad. A hacker is a
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      41 11 Reuter KRYPTOKOM, a West German company at a computer fair In Hanover, Is displaying a smart card to protect computers against hackers. A microchip In a plastic card guarantees safer systems and protects against illegal entering. Reuter
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      Games software business booming
      704 11  -  By JEFFREY TSANG IN PRESSURE-COOKER Singapore with its high demands for academic excellence and almost non-human productivity, do people buy games software for their PCs? The answer is a resounding yes, says the Republic's biggest distributor of software for games, Telahin Enterprises. So high is the
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      336 11 UPI THERE IS only one way to go into high-speed travel: through outer space. And that is exactly what the aerospace plane project planned by the US will do. "The Orient Express is being designed to take off from a conventional runway, go
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      240 11 Seminar on NEW CHALLENGES OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DISK DRIVE INDUSTRY 21 March 1989, Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore In a little over 8 years, Singapore has established itself as the world's largest production centre for Winchester disk drives. In 1988, Singapore's disk drive exports accounted for about 25% of the
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      72 11 Dai-ichi Securities Co., Ltd. takes pleasure in announcing the opening of its Singapore Representative Office MARCH 14, 1989 50 Raffles Place #29- (,2 /o;» Shell Tower. Singapore 0104 Tel: 221-4141 Telex: R*****1 DAI SKC Facsimile: 222-1982 Chief Representative: Mr.Yoshio Fukatsu o DAI-ICHI SECURITIES CO.,LTD. 1-6-2. Nihonbashi muroonachi Chuo-ku, Tokyo. JAPAN
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      Bank on straight talk
      479 12 WITH INTEREST rates rising worldwide, it is only natural that banks in Singapore should also be paying more to their depositors. Local deposit rates have in fact gone up in the past year. At the same time, however, several different ways of computing interest have also
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      Lawson due for a change?
      1436 12  -  Britain's iron chancellor Nigel Lawson faces friends and foes tomorrow when he presents the Budget. Where will he go from here? Although there have been no firm indications that he is about to switch jobs, NEVILLE STACK thinks he just might. NEVILLE STACK Neville Stack,
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      1054 12 After the excitement the proposed creation of a single European market has generated, western Europe is becoming sceptical and even frightened as hard decisions loom on pivotal issues. NYT AFTER THE INITIAL excitement about the creation of a single market of 320 million consumers by
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      Lock icon A matter of meeting demand in the region
      487 13 AFP THE DEREGULATION of routes, the privatisation of state-owned carriers and the emergence of new rivals promise to reshape the airline industry in the AsianPacific region in the coming years. But the most crucial challenge for the moment is simply meeting demand.
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      864 13  -  Asian airlines are doing so well that their biggest problem is meeting demand. They are investing heavily in new and bigger aircraft. Are they overdoing it? PETER STARR seeks some answers. PETER STARR AFP ASIAN AIRLINES, already the fastest-growing and among the most profitable
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      Flying the hottest seat in India's public sector
      825 13  -  SHIRISH NADKARNI ONE OF THE hottest seats in India's public sector today is that of the managing director of AirIndia. The airline incurred a massive loss of Rs44o million for the year 1987-88. And 38-year-old Rajan Jetley, who has worked in both
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        Tourism as an investor-puller
        294 13 MALAYSIA "OVER THE YEARS, tourism has become increasingly important as a means of generating income and economic activity and now ranks as the fifth largest foreign exchange earner for the country. On top of this, successful tourist promotion offers benefits in other areas by making the
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        Gambling a touchy business
        397 13 "THE ISSUE of how to deal with businesses relying on gambling to earn an income is not an easy one to handle. While on the one hand, the government has come under increasing pressure to curb gambling activities, on the other hand there are a number
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        Closer Australian ties
        399 13 INDONESIA "ALI ALATAS' working visit to Canberra last week, the first such by an Indonesian foreign minister to its neighbour Down Under since the serious row that erupted in April 1986, has yielded significant results. He and his Australian counterpart, Gareth Evans, have established the basis for
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        Holes in the sky
        336 13 THAILAND "AT AN INTERNATIONAL conference in London this week on the use of chloroflurocarbons, the Philippines and Malaysia joined some 50 other countries in pledging to phase out the use of the chemical to stop depletion of the ozone layer that protects us from harmful ultraviolet
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      198 12 A HOME NOT A HOTEL. There's no place like home. Especially after being away for a few weeks on a business trip. But now, in Singapore, The Ascott Executive Residences provide a marvellous home away from home. One or two bedroom apartments and penthouses individually designed for the executive or
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      148 13 BT SURVEYS Looking Wider, Thinking Deeper Some subjects are of such interest to our readers that they demand more space and more research than can be given in our daily reporting. As part of BT's overall service we have always recognised this and taken the necessary steps. Filling the gap
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      764 14  -  THE SEXES By JILL SERJEANT Reuter ITALY'S macho males feel under threat and reckon it s time to reassert themselves. But in a country where most men wouldn't be seen dead carrying a shopping bag, scornful females say the spoilt Italian male has rarely
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        362 15 Agencies AN ISRAELI whose entire family died in the World War II genocide of the Jews is finishing a Hebrew translation of Adolf Hitler s Mein Kampf and is looking for a publisher in Israel, the Sunday Telegraph reported. The British newspaper said Dan Yaron
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      609 15  -  BOOKS By PAUL LUKE Reuter CANADIAN AUTHOR Margaret Atwood risked outraging her devoted feminist following by portraying young women as vicious and manipulative in her latest novel Cmt'a Eym. But the book, released in Britain in January and in the United States last
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      428 16  -  Singapore Open tees off on Sunday By CHARLES SAVAGE AUSTRALIAN Stewart Qinn, number one on the entry list for the Singapore Open, hopes it presages the winning number at Tanah Merah on Sunday. If it does, he'll add the Singapore Open to his 1978 and 1986
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      Lock icon Sellberg clinches Baleares Open
      372 16 GOLF AP OVE SELLBERG won the US$4OO,OOO Baleares Open Golf Tournament on Sunday when a strong challenge by Bill Malley of the US fizzled with his double bogey on the 16th hole. With the victory, Sellberg took a giant step towards becoming the first Swedish golfer
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      316 16 BOXING AP HOW BAO does boxer Evander Holyfield want a title fight against undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson? Bad enough for his manager to offer the fight as a winner-take-all match-up for US$25 million. "If we can't beat him, we don't want nothing," said
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      426 16 TENNIS AP IVAN LENDL got in 88 per cent of his first serves on Sunday and needed just 57 minutes to beat No 2 seed Stefan Edberg in the championship of the U5i415.000 Eagle Classic of Scottsdale. Lendl. the No 1 ranked
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      232 16 AP FOURTH-SEEDED Manuela Maleeva rebounded from being down 4-1 in the first set to beat Jenny Byrne 8-4, 8-1 to win the U*****,000 Virginia Slims tennis tournament on Sunday. Maleeva, who suffered a sprained left ankle last Friday in the quarter-finals against
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        913 17  -  INTERVIEW WITH GOODMAN FIELDER WATTIE EXECUTIVES By ANDREA BORCH,ROSIE TAN GOODMAN FIELDER Wattie (Asia) Pte Ltd has been laying the groundwork for "exponential growth" in Asia. Since last August, chairman Noel Robertson and the group s managers have been scouting around the
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        UEL acquires 52.6pc of Graphicom
        289 17  -  By JOCELYN TOH UNITED ENGINEERS Ltd has acquired through its wholly owned subsidiary, McAlister and Company 52.6 per cent of Graphic Communications (Pte) Ltd (Graphicom), a Singapore hi-tech graphic design and communication specialist. The price of $783,000 for 580,000 shares of Graphicom was arrived at
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        457 17 NST PERMODALAN NASIONAL Bhd (PNB), the first company to be given approval to set up a property trust in Malaysia, is understood to have wrapped up the acquisition of two properties in Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur. Industry sources
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        Times Pub forecasts 68pc jump in profit
        653 17  -  Earnings per share expected to be 18.5 cents By ROSIE TAN TIMES PUBLISHING Ltd (TPL), the printing and publishing spin-off of the Singapore Press Holdings group (SPH), has forecast a profit after tax and minority interest of $22.5 million for the year ending
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        Trading in MHE shares starts tomorrow
        171 17 MATERIAL HANDLING Engineering Ltd, the first Sesdaq listing for the year, has been admitted to the Official List of Sesdaq. Trading in the 25 million shares of 20 cents each will begin on Wednesday, March 15. The company, which designs, builds and installs material
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        Hotel Tai-Pan deal is off
        545 17  -  By KEVIN GWEE THE PROPOSED SALE of 50 million Hotel Tai-Pan Ltd shares by Jack Chia-MPH Ltd and other members of the Jack Chia group of companies to a "reputable party" is off. Both JC-MPH and Tai-Pan, in separate announcements, yesterday did not name the
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        NOL preference dividends tax-free
        260 17 NEPTUNE Orient Lines has won a reprieve for its preference shareholders. Under the Income Tax (Amendment) Act 1989, which took effect on Feb 17. dividends paid by a shipping enterprise to preference shareholders will no longer be tax-exempt. But in a statement issued yesterday. NOL said
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        LATEST RESULTS
        97 17 GUTHRIE ROPEL Bhd: Group after tax profit of Ms 22 29m ($7.59 m) on turnover of M597.87m ($76 73m) for the year ended Dec 31, 1980 Earnings per share of 26 3 cents (9.0 cents) and NT A is $3 36 (S3 22) A final dividend of 10
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        1108 18  -  by ANDREA BORCH THE PROPERTY SECTOR yesterday powered the local market to this year's high. The Straits Times Industrials Index rose 5.52 points to 1,160.38. as the market rerated property stocks following last week's announcement that Standard Chartered Bank would sell
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        COMPANY MEETINGS
        141 18 AVIMO SINGAPORE LIMITED: 15th AQM at Leo Room, Marina Mandarin, 6 Raffles Boulevard, Marina Square. Singapore 0103, on Monday, March 20, at noon. VAN DER HORST: 15th AGM held at 11, Padan Crescent, Singapore 0512 on Thursday, March 23, at 10 am. SAMANDA HOLDINGS BERHAD: 17th AGM at
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        APPROVED ISSUES
        123 18 Company RIGHTS ISSUE S Steamship (SSCO) Noo-renounceoble rights oHer of 46 8m Steomers Montime Holdings I'd (Steamers) shores to SSCO stockholders on the bowl ol 1 Steonters shore lor every 3 stock units ol SSCO held at $1 20 per Steomers shore Suspension dote. Feb 16 Booh close:
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        PROPOSED ISSUES
        304 18 Company RIGHTS ISSUE Ayer Hitom Tin One-for-one )l 10 per shore Berjoyo Corpn One for one $100 por per share C 1 Holdings 27 million loon stocks in the roho of $3 loan stock for every five ordinary shores held Causeway Inv Issue of $7,252,937 nominal omount of
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      SES SHARE INFORMATION
      5890 18 1968/89 High Low Tel Cod* Company Last Sato MAR 13 crVol C000) Day High Low Last Ouole Buyer Seller Qr's Dtv Dtv C'vr Qr's rw Not P/E M Cap $mN SECTION ONE INDUSTRIAL I COMMERCIAL 162 85 254 167 135 460 237 350 132 167 177 297
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        3398 19 INVESTORS continued to shy away from the Kuala Lumpur stock market and prices fell lower across the board yesterday in lackaidaisical trading. Except for selective counters, price changes were mostly minimal. Dealers said there was a distinct lull in the local bourse in contrast with
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        673 20 Boost for private placement business Reuter JAPAN'S lour major securities firms are likely to be propelled to the front rank in the United States' private placement business in the wake of a rule being considered by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Rule 144
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        Lock icon Nissan operating profit expected to rise 89pc
        456 20 Reuter NISSAN MOTOR Co Ltd is expected to post parent company operating profit of 90 billion yen or more in the year ending March 31. 1989, below an earlier estimate of 100 billion, but up 89 per cent from 47.61 billion a year
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        623 20 Tokyo Reuter TOKYO share prices closed lower yesterday due to a resurgence of worry about world inflation and concerns that local interest rates may be headed higher, brokers said. The 225-share Nikkei index fell 148.82 points, or 0.46 per cent, to close at 31.552.96 It gained 45.33
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        586 20 Australia Reuter SELECTED BUYING in gold and retail stocks pushed the Australian share market slightly higher yesterday afternoon on "paper-thin" volumes, brokers said. By the close of floor trading, the All Ordinaries Index had climbed from a 2 7-point deficit to a 2 5gain at 1,490.9. National
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        Prices end lower in dull trading
        1380 20 Hongkong IN THE ABSENCE of corporate news or juicy rumours, the Hongkong stock market closed lower yesterday on interest rate worries and concern about a rash of placements and rights issues in the offing, brokers said. "There's very little corporate news around and the
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        170 20 Reuter SEOUL STOCKS rose to record levels lor the fourth straight session yesterday. helped by a buying spree by individual investors. brokers said. The composite index firmed 9.6 points to 972.76 near the close, after a record 963.16 on Saturday's half-day trading. One Baring Securities analyst predicted
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        Lock icon Manila: Bargain hunting
        184 20 Reuter PHILIPPINE STOCKS closed generally higher yesterday as bargain hunting and rising copper prices fanned buying and made up for the lack of positive developments on the oil drilling front, brokers said "The market was quite bullish," said Regina Balane. vice-president at Eastern Securities Inc. She added
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        Lock icon New Zealand: Lower finish
        182 20 Reuter THE NEW ZEALAND share market drifted lower yesterday on lack ot interes. more than actual selling. Brokers expect similarly lacklustre trading with no definite direction over coming days. The Barclays Index fell 17.85 to 1,945 92 "It was down on minimal volume, there was no
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        Lock icon Taipei: Index up sharply
        548 20 Reuter EAGER Taiwanese investors flooded the stock market with buy orders yesterday, sending the index to a sharply higher finish and swelling turnover to a record volume for the year, dealers said. The weighted index gained 157.54 points, or 2.1 per cent, to end at 7,628.91
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        158 20 Reuter THE SECURITIES Ex- change of Thailand Index rose 2.14 points to 437.01 yesterday on a turnover of 7,131.662 shares worth 704.78 million baht. MAN 13 BAHT fAo Kham Thai 448 Ayudhya Invaatmacrt 36 50 Bangkok Agro-lnd 107 4 unch 1 Bangkok Bank 275 Bank Of Ayudhya
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        Lock icon London-based European share market gains ground
        665 21 Reuter THE LONDON International Stock Exchange's (ISE) high liquidity and visibility are attracting more investors keen to join the growing market in Continental European shares traded on the exchange's automated quotation system (SEAQ). Customer trading volume, as opposed to inter-market-maker trading, in European shares
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        Lock icon Boeing, Airbus fight for space in Gulf
        335 21 AFP EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM Airbus Industrie is in a tug-of-war with the US giant Boeing Co to carve a slice of the Gulf airline market, where Boeing and the British company Lockheed have traditionally competed. Over the past two weeks Airbus and Boeing showed
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        Lock icon US companies gear up for Europe 1992
        1055 21 European operations being expanded NYT THE WHIRLPOOL CORP has entered into a US$2 billion joint venture to push its way into the European appliance market. The International Paper Co has made a US$35O million bid for a French paper maker. And Shearson Lehman
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        Lock icon Volkswagen seeking link-ups abroad to reduce production costs
        480 21 Reuter GERMAN MASS car maker Volkswagen AG (VW) is seeking supplies of components and engines from the Far East and across its eastern border in an effort to cut the high costs of its domestic operations. As well as producing cars in
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        576 21 Reuter MILAN: Italian shares remained weak in very quiet late trading yesterday, with attention focused on today's ministerial meeting to discuss cuts in public spending, dealers said. The MIB index slipped 0.7 per cent on some selling ahead of the close of the March bourse account tomorrow.
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      80 16 Play golfcthe Sevvy way Flat left wrist m? N Ilee trevino is one ■of the few players WHO CAN PtNPOUT. THE UFT WRIST ■THROUGH IMPACT/ r THINK OF THE LEFT WRIST 1 BEING FLAT THROUGH IMPACT., IF THE LEFT WRIST IS FLAT, THE CLU&HEAD WILL BE V SQUARE TO THE
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      284 17 CURRENCY INVESTMENT AMI Rl< I.XI'RI SS I!\\K TEL: 321 3333 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CASE HISTORIES IN STRUCTURAL FAILURE organised by Singapore Concrete Institute A.S.C.E., Mexico Section Nanyang Technological Institute Mexican Society of Structural Engineering Dates: 20 22 March 1989 Time: 8.45 am 5.45 pm Venue: Mandarin Hotel, Orchard Road, Singapore
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      495 20 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 50 GLORIA SUNSHINE TRADING CO PTE LTD (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) \t an Extra-Ordinary General Meeting of the Members of GLORIA SUNSHINE TRADING CO PTE jTD, duly convened and leld at 5001 Beach Road W7-24 Golden Mile Comdex, Singapore 0719 on the
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      469 20 In the matter of The Companies Act, Cap. 50 And In the matter of KING'S STAR HOLIDAYS PTE LTD STATUTORY DECLARATION BY DIRECTORS OF COMPANY'S INABILITY TO CONTINUE BUSINESS BY REASON OF ITS LIABILITIES We, TAN TEE TONO and MADAM YONG SHIOW FONG YUEN SIEW CHEONG both of block 97C
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      293 21 LOST SHARE/STOCK/WARRANT CERTIFICATES The following Snare/Stock/Warrant Certificates/* together with the relevant signed transfer deeds have been reported lost or destroyed:ACMA ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED No. of Shares/ Certificate No. In the name of Stock/Warrants ******36" Raffles Nominees 1 *1000 (Re) Ltd ******18 Sim Lim Nominees 1 x 1000 (S) Re Ltd
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    481 22 Reports of money offered to ruling party members AFP PRIME MINISTER Noboru Takeshita's Cabinet, already hit hard by the widening Recruit stock scandal, suffered a new blow yesterday as reports surfaced of shady money being offered by Recruit to ruling party members. Press reports in
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    Lock icon Strikes and high won hit S Korean car exports badly
    304 22 Reuter SOUTH KOREAN car exports fell sharply in the first two months of 1989 due mainly to the effect of strikes and the ever-rising won, industry officials said yesterday. According to the Korea Automobile Manufacturers' Association, overseas sales by South
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    70 22 AFP PORTUGUESE Foreign Minister Joeo de Deus Plnhelro (left) arrived in Singapore yesterday for a two-day visit. He met the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Wong Kan Seng (right), yesterday and is meeting the Minister for Trade and Industry, Brigadier-General Lee Hslen Loong, today before
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    Lock icon No more automatic asylum
    307 22 UPI. Bernama ASEAN has announced a stop from today to granting automatic initial asylum to those fleeing Vietnam. "The cut-off date will be March 14, 1989, and will be applied region-wide," the Malaysian Foreign Ministry said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. After the deadline, a screening policy
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    Lock icon Seoul blocking flight of footwear manufacturers
    136 22 AFP SOUTH KOREA IS moving to limit the flight of footwear manufacturers to low-labour-cost South-east Asian countries to prevent unemployment and bankruptcies at home. Trade and Industry Ministry officials in Seoul said yesterday that the finance ministry had been asked to revise foreign exchange
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    269 22 Reuter, AFP CHINA has threatened to break off diplomatic relations with the Philippines if Manila passes a bill to strengthen economic links with Taiwan. A Chinese embassy official in Manila said yesterday that passage of the proposed bill would violate Manila's diplomatic relations
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    Lock icon EC ministers discuss fraud
    201 22 Reuter EUROPEAN Community finance ministers met in Brussels yesterday to discuss how to fight massive fraud against the EC budget and prepare for international monetary meetings in Washington next month. An all-party committee of Britain's House of Lords estimated in a report published on Friday that
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    381 22  -  By HARISH MEHTA CAMBOOIA, the European Community in 1992, trade protectionism and the state of the Republic's relations with world powers were subjects on which Singapore's ambassadors and top diplomats posted to foreign countries briefed the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Defence and
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    224 22 Reuter BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT to Spring 1988 fell slightly more slowly than previously estimated. but the number in work grew faster. Employment Department figures show. The data, from the 1988 Labour Force Survey, showed British unemployment on an internationally agreed definition fell by
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    86 22 AFP A FIRE on a Singapore-reg-istered cargo ship carrying 1,500 tonnes of cotton was put out yesterday after burning for six days. The 12.300-tonne Kota Akbar was en route to Shanghai from Singapore when it caught fire last Tuesday. The ship was severely damaged
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    184 22 Reuter ASIAN NATIONS are likely to see their hectic export expansion slow this year due to weaker world economic growth. "in most (Asian) countries. export expansion slowed down in the latter part of 1988 and this deceleration was expected to continue in
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    333 22 Bernama HONGKONG IS FAST emerging as a major market for a wide variety of Malaysian products, judging from the impressive growth of Malaysian exports recorded in the first 10 months of 1988 Export of manufactured goods registered a hefty 75 per cent rise
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      59 22 AFP BRITAIN'S 1989-90 budget to be announced today is expected to contain few bold measures although some City analysts hope Chancellor ot the Exchequer Nigel Lawson will attempt some surprise moves on the fiscal front. Despite a record government surplus of £13 Milion. Mr Lawson has
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      45 22 AFP SOUTH KOREA is preparing to buy and burn about two million illegally-produced books, records and video tapes worth 4 billion won (US$5.9 million) to satisfy US demands for protection of intellectual property rights, the Kukmin llbo said yesterday.
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      280 23  -  -By Richard Ng THE Port Authority of Thailand expects to reap 1.8 billion baht in profits this fiscal year, 600 million baht up from last year. This projection is based on cargo throughput which has increased tremendously since October 1988. According to PAT
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      428 23  -  By RAHITA ELIAS CHO YANG s withdrawal from the Far East Freight Conference (FEFC) and. subsequently the Omex consortium, has precipitated a restructuring of the latter grouping. From April 1, Omex space entitlements in the trade between Far East and Mediterranean ports
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      302 23 AP PANAMA CANAL officials are preparing a proposal seeking an increase of up to 14 per cent in tolls on ships passing through the 80km long waterway, shipping and canal sources said. It approved, it would be the first such increase in six
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        90 23 Reuter ENGINEERING company Gebrueder Sulzer AG is negotiating with unnamed possible partners or purchasers for its ailing diesel engine making operation, a company spokesman said. Sulzer blamed losses in the operation on a worldwide shipbuilding slump which led to overcapacity In the diesel engine sector. The diesel
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        86 23 Reuter DOCKERS have started a 48-hour strike at Italian ports on Sunday in a mounting battle over government plans to liberalise freight handling. The communist-based CGIL, the biggest of Italy's three main union confederations, called the strike after Merchant Navy Minister Giovanni Prandini authorised two private
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        56 23 AFP HITACHI Zosen (Shipbuilding) Corp has received a Liberian order to build two 260,000-deadweight tonne class large crude oil carriers. The two vessels, each costing more than 9 billion yen (US$69 7 million), will be delivered to a Liberian tanker operator by the end of 1990
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      188 24 DOCKWORKERS in the port city of Vladivostock have agreed to service the nuclear-powered container ship Sevmorput ending an unprecedented anti-nuclear protest that has cost the Soviet Merchant Marine Ministry almost half a million rubles (US$800,000), a Soviet newspaper said. Oockworkers in at least
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      799 24 AB Shpg V 5 ABC Container IX 1 Accord Shpg VI 1/2 Alltrans IV 1 Anro Service IV 2/3 ANl 1 1/2 APC line V 4 API III 2/3 Arrow lines IX 5 ASCI III 1 Bait-Canada line VII 4/5 Bait-Orient line VII 2 Baltic Orient Shpg
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      315 24 Lloyd's List JAPAN'S leading shipping companies will build 33 new vessels in Japan during the current financial year, more than three times as many as were constructed between April 1988 and March 1989. The boom, according to a Japanese Ministry of Transport spokesman, will
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      371 25  -  -By Al O Lablta Jr MANILA'S shipping industry. described by observers as "on the verge of collapse." now heaves a sigh of relief. The Philippine Congress. noting the industry's financial predicament, has just approved a bill granting shipowners and operators a package of incentives to enable
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      1063 30 FOUR more vessels were reported fixed on Friday on timecharter by Soviet operators, but market talk suggested that they had now pulled out of the market for the time being, brokers said. Business reported Involved Panamax vessels of between 60,000 and 70,000 tonnes dw from the Continent or
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      2343 30 AAAHUt An Ha. CNna Ocun Shpg. Uvcli 14. Evar Glowing EwgrMn March 14 Pilar. Trior March IS Banavon. Trlot. March 1«(PK). Axal Maarak Maarik Lma March It Evar GMui Evargraan. March 17 Ming Comtort Yang Ming. March 11 ViHa da Saturna. CM
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      1127 30 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES VmmI Barth Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Bk* Sky K20 atoflg»da 1700/2300 Chooyong K29 okm^Mt* *****700 Mount Sofcono Kit okwigwto IS 03/2300 Mdomkoa US olOngiKj* 22 00/2300 S*Or •C19 o4ongMt* 1503/2300 PSAat NorM U3 otongwda isoootoo S foniong KI8 otonguda 1403/2300 Win Two K2I otoAgwt*
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      748 23 V/I TIMES STP Distributors Dedicated Kj Quality 3*?**vic*? WW W2 jaAoinc shipping agencies 200 Cantonment Road #12 OS Southpomt, Singapore MOB TM *****11 TELEX NO RS 2*179 TERMINAL/CFS Tel *****18 220 BOOKINGS Tet *****34 23S PESAKA JAROINE SHIPPING AUNCIES SON BMO PORT KEIANG TEL: *****18 Te(e< No. MA*****/MA***** PENANG TEL
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      74 23 mm JAPAN'S leading shipping companies will build 33 new vessels in Japan during the current financial year, more than three times as many as were constructed between April 1988 and March 1989. Page II MANILA'S shipping industry, described by observers as "on the verge of collapse," now heaves a sigh
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      691 23 >°v TIMES STP Distributors MAERSK LINE DESTINATIONS This week Lart M Closing Tim# CV 13/3 2300 MAS CFS 13/3 1300 MRS FMd«f by M Koto* t M Tauro To CaWorn»a-US Gulf-US Atlantic-Cast Canada-Ail Watar Sarvica 6/4 8/4 10/4 12/4 13/4 14/4 15/4 16/4 16/4 14/4 16/4 18/4 19/4 21/4 22/4
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      581 24 u Hapag-Lloyd CONTAINER SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT VOY NO HAMBURG BREMERHAVEN TOLAGA BAY NIPPONICA THAMES MARU HONGKONG EXPRESS CITY Of EDINBURGH CALLING "TYO 28/3. "KOBE 31/3 CONV/SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE TO MED EUROPE VOY NO S PORE T BREMERMALTA CASABLANCA LEIXOES BILBAO AMSTERDAMI HAMBURG HAVEN HAMMONIA HOLSATIA 10/5 13/5 16/5 19/5 27/5 30/5
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      18 24 Lines and services represented by Members of the Registry of Accredited [?m5 Shipping Agents. Singapore National Shipping Association.
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      873 24 w. 1 c> Cr REGULAR INDEPENDENT FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO EUROPE PEN PKL SIN SOU FIX ROT ANT HAM BRE LEH NORASIA SINGA V 8902 3 20/3 21/3 20/3 14/4 17/4 19/4 19/4 20/4 2174 NORTH SEA VWO3-3 25/3 26/3 ?8 3 17/4 23/4 2V4 21/4 2M 24/4 NORASIA Al
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      1028 25 CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT: PICA* KNAVON OSAMA BAT TOKYO BAY HIPPONICA TOLACA BAY MONTI ROSA HONC KONG EXPRESS Also Accepting Cargo For: Hemtairg to Copenhagen. Ajrhuj, Gothenburg, Mjimo. Stockholm. Helsinki. Sonderturg Rotterdam to Antwerp, Amsterdam. Olio. Bnle. Zurich Bremenhaven :to Brtmen Southampton :toMl UK dominations, Belfast ind OuMln 9CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE
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      703 25 The skyfe the Emit when you ship"K"Ljne "K" Line's Far East-Europe Container Service will be augmented by the replacement of three brand new 3400 TEU hi-speed containerships. HUMBER BRIDGE, commissioned in December, 1988, will be followed by RHEIN BRIDGE and NORMANDIE BRIDGE in February and July 1989, respectively. The new
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      57 25 <&. SENATOR LI HI IE AGENTS: rjEWSH!PTEL: *****77 EUROPE a TAIWAN SENATOR NEW YORK SENATOR EE 906 BELGIAN SENATON jEE M EE 90S USA/PANAMA OELGIAN SEN TAIWAN SEN IOJ4 17J4 MM MM 02J6 0304 OIK 09.06 14.06 10J6 ZO OS 20.05 07.00 IIJI lIJO a.05 21.85 MOO IIJI 11.00 10.02
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      365 26 mSINOSE MARITIME PTE LTD ■B&r El ISLAMIC Rl PUBLIC OF IRAN SHIPPING LINKS IRANIAN SERVICE IRAN BAYAN PJIMI Singapore Loading for--11/3 BANDAR ABBAS fK*OWA\ KYOWA LINE SOUTH PACIFIC SERVICE MOTHER VSL KYOWA VIOLET V 24 KYOWA HIBISCUS V 36 LOAD FOR: VILA. NMA. LTK. SUVA. PAGO. APIA GUAM. SAIPAN, HRA.
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      910 26 HANJIN SHIPPING CO., LTD. fully containerised service TO EUROPE VIA SUEZ USA PACIFIC SOUTH WEST Kit PUS LAX OAI Wi 21* 1«M 1M w n/4 ftH 1M 14/4 2*4 30,4 PACIFIC NORTH WEST CANADA NftC PUS SCA VC* 2W 11/3 IW4 12/4 *4 14/4 JV4 JM 23/4 M/ 4 M
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      852 26 a EVERGREEN Full Container Service EVER GREET EVE* GOLDEN EVE* CLOBI EVER CENIUS EVER GIANT Round-The-World East Bound (FE/CARIB/USEC/EURO/FE) S5, M T CHS Ml NYC LNV ANW RDM FLX gg "g 55 SS w «w 07» iws ma aw "2 22J «2J 14/W l M m«> U« 14/05 24*5 2MB
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      899 27 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES \m\ PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street, 03-00 Singapore 0106. Tel' *****33 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE JAKARTA CONTAINER SERVICE SURABAYA/SEMARANG CONTAINER SERVICE SIN MY SRG tin it/3 tin 1M 20/3 24/3 27/3 20/3 2S/3 30/3 1/4 4/4 «/4 1/4 12/4 14/4 VESSEL SKA PEARL SEA PEARL MAJAPAHTT SEA
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      524 27 BEN LINE CONTAINERS City 1 »li4api LM IS* m* a* ■M bma Ot* ll'iiii Etprau VH Imin 271* vj v» tfi m m m u/i ufi ufi vn m up I*s iw vn m na tin ttn na it* on EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE FROM UK/CONTINENT MB tHAttN OAM KAVff STM
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      608 27 DJASAGETRI A Joint Europe Service Of: P.T. DJAKARTA LIOYI P.T. BESURI UOYB P.T. SANUOEM INDONESIA P.T. TRHCORA UOYO EXPRESS SEMI CBNTAINEMIIIP SERVICES aiiKLU LLMALU VSL/VOY SPORE ANTWERP H'BURG/ ROAM/ADAM BREMEN L J. BONTANG/17WB 6 8/4 7/5 12/5 MATARAW23NB 11-14/4 11/5 IfJi PALEMBANG/12WB 3-5/5 6 6 11 6 KUTAI/16WB 15-la/5 17/1
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      294 27 BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES PINYA viaiw PAGAN VMM HTONEYWA V249W PA AN VUM BURMA FIVE STAR SHIPPING COBPfIRATIRN (Burmese National Line) Loading for Rangoon S'pore P.Kelang Penang Bangk Till> NORTHBOUND TO UKC CLYDEBANK V2SN TAMATAI SAMOA VIS FORTHBANK V24N SPORE ROAM HULL HMt 28/3 26/4 3/5 30/4 244 21.5 10* 25/4
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      530 28 Q K l I Nt KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA. LTD. iMwrn f n J-im w wtvi )Y *INDO 'PK/PNG SGP 13/3 14/3 16/3 20/3 21/3 23/3 27/3 28/3 30/3 WW [77i!H (CR No: **********0 M) AS AGENTS KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD t EI. *****7" TELEX KAWAKI RS ***** FAX: *****79 MALAYSIA
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      527 28 AUSTRALIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Accepting FCUFCL Containers INDIA EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE Acctpdng FCUFCL Containers KALIOAS V.4IH TULSIDAS V«H KALIOAS V.42H TULSIDAS V 4IH Singapore P Kalang Pmn| Loading lor. MoOwr VK By Faadar By Faadar 11 Apr (Apr 6 Apr ColomOo Kandla Bombay Mjy 29 Apr 29 Apr Cotomto/KandM/Bontay 4
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      543 28 GG. GOLDEN LINE GUAN GUAN SUPPING (PTE) LTD n, r«M amt SINCAPORf W STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE COt. DC N WINDER Cotomfco. K*rictii/Oub*< GOLDEN HAVEN Cdomte/KandH/Dutei CHINA SERVICE A VESSEL Huangpu, Slunffu. MM TEL: U4MM (10 LINES) fu VMHM PKeUnj Penjnj Sport IVU II mxmu IS/U Mar CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING CO.,
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      445 28 I® PHIU OniCNT LINfS PU LW HfAOO'Kf S3 CO4O »OM2 AffO AS A SU'IOiNG SISGAPOfII oics ffLf* RS ***** PhIH fi< 225««7» ■VESSEL TBN tm/m ea»t Fa t 10. «wg IETA SINGAPOREIDESTINATION MJBAI. DANMAN. KUWAIT. DOHA. MUSCAT. BAHRAIN Mm mm. tr* •wtttt: Kwy^.'f NEW C£NTRADE CHITTAGONG EAST/WOT AHOCA/MB. FCL ft
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      501 29 Agents S'poie On«(jl NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE. LTD. G«wal SoQktnn Bookings Inward/ ret mi nal CFS Enquum ft EU/AUSf rpA SfA Outward *****22 *****U 2tmn 2m;« 2/45/42 2mm t NEPTUNE NQL orient unes ltd NEPIME SON BHD Maiden Voyage of Neptune Topaz NfPTuNt mam r^i M.V. Neptune Topaz makes her maiden
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      371 29 HEUNG-A SHIPPING Korean Flag Vessels 9% OONAW SEMI-CONTAINERISED DIRECT SERVICE TO P KELANG. PENANG KEELUNG. BUSAN. INCHON Veuel't Nam* ETO BS SPORE PKLC KEE BUSAN MO JI VGLORIA/9Q3N 09/03 2122/03 19-20/03 30 30/03 02-03/04 03AM NO I DONAH/TON 13/03 23-25/03 26 27/03 04 04/04 07 09/04 2/04 DRAGNET/303N 22/03 03-04/04
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      182 29 X 5 S£ 14/3 ft 11/3 14/3 23/3 14/3 ft 21/3 l«/ 3 ft 21/3 11/3 ft a/3 IS/3 ft 21/3 MANILA BUSAN TOKYO KOBE NAGOYA YOKOHAMA Tim 25/3 ft 10 4 17/3 ft 30/3 17/3 ft 2 KARACHI CALCUTTA CNITTAGONG iW'} ■p* NOW LOADING BANGKOK BUSAN JAPAN (ALL POUTS)
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      692 29 r 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 ***** PENANG P. KILANG MISSUS HAI THONG SHIPPING 12/ Peiunt Street, Pefung, Mjlajvi M/S HANOIING SYSTEM CO
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      294 30 Mr SINGAPORE SHIPPING CORPORATION (PTE.) LTD. rtl 225 688 ft (34 Urn) FAX *****39/*****/6 rtilX MS ***** A/H SSCMA. US ***** A/H SSCAU DSR-LINES VEB OEUTPnACHTSEEREEDEPE' ROSTOCK i INTEGRATED CONTAINER SERVICE MEMBER OF EACON SERVICE TO EAST MEDITERRANEAN NORTH CONTINENT EUROPE "VIA LARNACA ACCEPTING CARGO FOR UMASSOL. BEIRUT, LATTAKIA, ALEXANDRIA.
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      78 30 T.SK. LINE AEEKIY CONTAINE«IS€O SERVICE WITH flxEO OAY ARRIVAt TS KLINE OFFERS THE FASTEST TRANSIT TIME TO TAIWAN/JAPAN MV. KABUKJ VI9 ETA SIN Sl/S/M I fr KAOHSIUNG 4 DAYS SPORE 5 DAYS 8 DAYS -P- SHIMIZU NAGOYA KOBE TSKLINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD TEL: *****68 W MALAYSIA AG£NT: TRANS-ASIA SHIPPING
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      99 30 0 SIGMA EXPRESS |5) PTE LTD (INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT FORWARDERS) ACCEPTING CARGOES FOR: ENQUIRIES ACCEPTED FOR OTHER DESTNS TEL: *****44 JTSS, sh„ MAINFREIGHT (S) PTE LTD 15 Mccaiium St <*05-04 Natwest Centre S pore 0106 TEL: *****12 AUSTRALIA VSL SIN MULBERA 16/3 Z. VENEZIA 22/3 B. ANGSANA 16/3 FOR MELBOURNE SYDNEY
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      562 31 FARGO SHIPPING Tel: 284 012 a REGULAR EXPRESS FCL LCL SERVICE P ABC CONTAINERLINE N.V. WE HAVE GOT THE FASTEST TRANSIT TIME TO AUSTRALIA! NEXT VESSEL: TNT EXPRESS 221 ETA 31/3/89 Only 7 days to Fremantle! Only 12 days to Melbourne! Only IS days to Sydney! FROM USA/CANADA/EUROPE/MEDITERRANEAN Vsl TNT
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      336 31 IPS LINE CALCUTTA/KARACHI/CHTGONG/CBO REGULAR CONVENTIONAL LINER SERVICE MmyW up to 20 Totm PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORP., KARACHI. INDONESIA MALAYSIA KARACHI MIDDLE EAST GULF SERVICE FOR KARACHI, DUBAI AND DAMMAN. VESSEL KUANTAN PT KLANG PENANG SARGODHA 28-30/3 SUNDERBANS 23-25/4 INDONESIA MALAYSIA EAST ASIA SERVICE FOR HK TWN S.KOREA JAPAN VESSEL BELAWAN
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      792 31 r COMPANIA CHILCNA OK NAVEGACION (CHILEAN NATIONAL LINK) GREAT ANDES SERVICE ARI IQUIQUI VALPARAISO STO S PAiIOS OUB 1W CARGO FOR PUNTA ARENAS TALCAHUANO (SAN VICENTE) ACCEPTED WITH T/S VIA VALPARAISO NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD BOOKINGS: *****34, *****71, *****65 THONG LEE EXPRESS SHIPPING (S| PTE LTD TEL 533 1713 (5
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      14 31 <cfS > CRYSTAL TOIGHTSERVICIES^ V M ***** M Tfc ***** CFSW FAX: *****1 BOOKING: *****22
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      236 31 UNIPACIFIC TRANS TRADING AGENCY PTE. LTD. SINGAPORE TEL: *****22 FAX: *****76 1 IRAQI LINE l»»0' S T «T{ fNTfRPDISf ro« ■i» Ti■ T«»KjrO«T EAST BOUND SERVICE ETA S PORE LOADING FOR NV ALWASITTI 25/3 S. Korea, Japan THROUGH B/lt to BAGHDAO UPON REQUEST AISO ACCEPTING CONTAINERS UPTO AQABA I BAGHDAO
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      535 32 Hai Sun Hup Co (Pte) i 1* 1 *****06 (20 Imm, TLX H$ 22Q6i A RS v» fc v I bit K\ \K L [\t R. STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE PECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFT! OY NO port P. Keiang Penang SEKI VEGA ASIAN KOGGEGRACHT NAGOYA CLIPPER 65 1 114
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      847 32 CHO YANG LINE FAR EAST/EUROPE FUUY'CONTAINERISED SERVICE HANJIN OAKLAND 01* CHOYANC SUCCESS 02W HANJIN TONGMAE 67W HANJIN ROTTERDAM 2W Alto accepting for Inland UK dtttinatiom Antwerp and Scandanavian porti HANJIN ROTTEROAM 01E HANJIN HASAN 471 QUEEN'S WAY BRIDGE 07E CHOYANC PARK 01E U% tor MK/KAOmOBE/YOKO/BUSAN 0FMG *I.o'* ijBASCOVOMB AN* j
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      572 32 m TO EUROPE FEEDER tsK CALL US AT: P KELANG PENANG J. BAHRU P GUOANG SINGAPORE K LUMPUR 1685/53/368/111 04-*****2/4. 62/293 0/*****8 0/-5U373, 5113/5, *****0, 5133/1 02 *****22 *****88 WEEKLY FAR EAST/EUROPE CONTAINER SERVICE *****1 SINGAPORE LE HARVE 17TT* B BUTANC US BUTANC S» OTHER OCSTINATKMS: AARHUS. AMSTERDAM ANTWERP BASLE
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