The Business Times, 7 February 1990

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  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 170/12/89 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1990 75 CENTS
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  • FINANCIAL MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 33 1 Reuter WALL STREET stocks fell amid wariness among traders prior to the Treasury refunding early yesterday. The Dow was off nine points and gainers led declining issues by two to one.
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    • 41 1 AP LONDON shares drifted lower yesterday as institutions continued to stick to the sidelines rather than make new commitments. At 1215 GMT, the Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index was down 13.0 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 2,335.4. AP
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    • 44 1 Tuesday ST Industrials lnd«x 1,582.70 6.47) BT-MGA Index 813.60 (+1.40) NST Industrial Index 3,092.46 62.20 HK Hang Seng Index 2792.89 36.22 Tokyo Nikkei Average 37,666.83 35.42) Sydney AH-Ordlnarles 1,666.9 (-0.6) Monday New York (Dow Jones) 2,622.52( 19.82 London (FT 30 Index) 1,861.0(-5.4
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    • 12 1 US$l 144.80y«n 1.***** M S$ 1.8580 £t U551.6980 Ms. 550.6883
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    • 17 1 Euro-$ (Mar) 91.63 DM (Mar) 0.6020 Ywi (Mar) 0.*****9 Pound (Mar) 1.6864 Nfck*i Index (Mar) 37,980
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    • 12 1 S'poro (buyer's quota) U*****.70 2.20 London (Morning fix U*****.40( +2.65
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    • 10 1 S'por* February 162.00 c*nts/lcg (-0.50 M'tla February 229.50Mct5/kg (-0.50
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    • 8 1 16.62 Ms/kg (-0.06) Tumovcri 41 (-23
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    • 39 1 THE overnight rate on the Singapore money market was down 2/16 points at 1/16 per cent yesterday. On-month rate fell by 1/2 point to 6 1/2 while two and three month rates rose 3/8 to 6 1/2.
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  • 282 1 UNCERTAINTY created by yet more computer-related problems yesterday kept many investors on the sidelines on a day which saw the Straits Times Industrial Index hit another new high. A total of 203.40 million units was traded yesterday, down 39 million from Monday's record.
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  • 205 1 Bernama THE average occupancy rate for hotels in Bangkok in January fell by five percentage points from the same month last year, giving rise to fears that some hotels may suffer severely when more properties begin operations. Domestic press reports yesterday said that the
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  • 379 1  -  By WALTON MORAIS LOCAL ammunition maker Allied Ordnance Co of Singapore, part of govern-ment-owned Singapore Technologies, has signed a "market-driven" joint venture agreement with a division of British defence electronics company, Ferranti International pic. The agreement calls for cooperation in the development, manufacture
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  • 612 1  -  By LILIAN ANG and SUZANNE SOH IN A SURPRISE development. Metro Holdings is talking to several parties about leasing out its entire share of retail space in the $800 million Ngee Ann City now being built along
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  • 197 1 THE US DOLLAR was fixed at a two-and-a-half-year low of 1.6532 West German deutschemarks in Frankfurt yesterday following news that the Soviet Union was considering ending the ruling communist party's monopoly on power. The Weet German currency began rising sharply after Soviet leader Mikhail
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  • 588 1  -  Forced buying-in stepped up, members fined By ROSIE TAN THE STOCK EXCHANGE of Singapore has stepped up forced buying-in of shares and imposed fines on almost every one of its member firms to stem the growing pile of unsettled contracts, mainly on
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  • 275 1 THE YIELD on treasury bills issued by the Singepore government yesterday fell to a record low of zero per cent as banks scrambled for such paper to fulfill their statutory liquidity requirements. Bankers said the sharp fall in T-bill yields was yet another
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  • Article, Illustration
    75 1 WHY 00 SONY and Kodak think Singapore's tops? Whither ths shiprepai/ industry? How can cement and steel costs be kept to a minimum? What ia Singapore's scope aa a cargo hub? Find out in BT'a special supplement on Singaport *90 today. Read, too. about the swingers in shipping,
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  • 60 1 INDIA, China and Indoneeia are success storiee of Asian countries in the Pacific Century which are flying higher in developing their homegrown aeroapace industries. Find out what major aircraft and helicopter manufacturing programmes are being carried out. Our FOCUS package on Page 21 alao examinee the bullish British
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    • 151 1 Full report, PAGE 14 Regional mkts, PAGE 16 World mkts, PAGE 17 f f v COMPANY SERVICES 10 sr.STz V J« 4J USsloom bond issue commodities Editorial Comment The Soviet Union 5 warrants Psim oh Metals POSB and the public Multi-party elections? kl broking firm c^wo*ds r planning backdoor crossworos
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 350 2  -  Half of amount from petroleum, vehicle tariffs By ANNA TEO THE GOVERNMENT collected elmost $1.3 billion in customs and excise duties last year, more than half of which came from tariffs on petroleum and motor The 1989 takings were released ahead of
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    • 348 2 A LOCAL controls and building automation engineering company has clinched a contract to supply and install an island-wide energy management network for government buildings and public facilities. Polyskill Instrumentation, which won the $6.18 million contract in mid-January this year, beat three other
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    • 300 2 MOOICON, a division of West German multinational AEG Aktiengesellschaft, has opened a million-dollar service support centre in Singapore to cater to the Asia-Pacific market. The Modicon Asian Service Centre, the fourth major facility in the company's worldwide service network, will offer sales
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    • 98 2 TWO MORE HAWKERS have had their licences suspended by the Environment Ministry under the Point Demerit System (POS) introduced in 1967. The two hawkers, one at Newton Food Centre and the other at the. Geylang Serai market, had their licences suspended for two weeks
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    • 331 2  - MD, seven key people quit Toplis Harding By HONG LEE TIAM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR and Mven other key employees of local insurance loss adjusting firm Toplis Harding, have resigned following a disagreement between the London-based parent company and the local subsidiary. In yesterday s issue of Business Times and The
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    • 331 2  -  By ANNA TEO TAN JEE SAY, former principal private secretary to the First Deputy Prime Minister, has joined Morgan Grenfell Asia as a director of corporate finance. Mr Tan, 35, started work at the British merchant bank on Monday. He
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    • 331 2 TO MAKE the northern part of the city more accessible, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is to improve the walkways linking the Bugis Street junction and the Civic District. The 2.6-km stretch of walkways will be given its new look in two phases. The project
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 185 2 Global temperatures and weather forecast ntv Uu/ Mai* OUTLOOK: Windy, wNh Mln •hewers ovr ww«l araes in Report for 24 hour* prior Abordoon 11/06 Cloudy to 7.30pm on Fob 6 otOw A/mtardom 10/05 Windy Aihom 10/05 Cloudy T ""Z" Auckland 26/17 Folr Assec SIIWJ loogkok 35/24 Cloudy ASSSS humMMy Ming
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  • REGIONAL BUSINESS & POLITICS
    • 371 3 VIETNAM has called for a marriage of sorts in its trade dealings with Thailand, emphasising trst this involves a long-term arrangement based on mutual understanding. In an interview with the Bangkfr Post over the weekend, Mr L# Van Triet, the Vice Minister at
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    • 264 3 Reuter CHINA'S hardline Premier Li Peng sent unusually conciliatory signals to the United States on Monday, saying Beijing attached importance to friendship with the American people and to Sino-US relations. Mr Li, a leading force behind the crackdown on democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen
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    • 161 3 AP THE BEIJING government will require rural labourers seeking work in the cities to pbtain licences in an effort to stem rural migration anf counter rising urban unemployment, a Labour Mi|istry official has said. Li Peiyao sajp rural residents must have a licence
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    • 269 3 AFP TAIWAN registered a trade surplus of US$l.34 billion last month despite a fall in its foreign trade, according to government statistics released yesterday. The figure represented a 59.8 per cent increase in year-on-year figures. Two-way trade in January totalled US$B.54
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    • 135 3 Bernama FOUR foreign investors will invest about Ms4o million in Trengganu this year, state Industrial, Petroleum, Culture and Tourism Development Committee chairman, Haji Mamat Ghazalee Abdul Rahman said on Monday. Three of the investors are from Singapore and one from Italy, he told a press
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    • 191 3 Bernama A THREE-FOLD increase in the flat toll rate on a newly completed intra-urban highway in Java has drawn protests. Motorists have to pay 1,500 rupiah (5J1.70) from the previous 500 rupiah for using even a short stretch of the 21km
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    • 175 3 AFP THAI Deputy Foreign Minister Prapass Limpabandhu is scheduled to leave today for talks in Saudi Arabia after last week's murder of three Saudi Arabian embassy officials in Bangkok. Officials in the Thai capital yesterday quoted Foreign Minister Siddhi Sawetasila
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    • 190 3 AFP VIETNAM and Australia are scheduled to sign a cooperation agreement next month regulating trade between the two countries. Australian diplomats said in Hanoi on Monday. The agreement, the focus of talks between Hanoi and an Australian delegation led by Michael
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    • 499 3 INDONESIA'S noted economist Widjojo Nitisastro stressed the importance of improving the professional quality of bureaucrats to manage what the market mechanism was not capable of accomplishing. The Jakarta Post reported on Monday. Mr Widjojo noted in a speech at the Dapok campus of the
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    • 213 3 AFP SENIOR OFFICIALS from Australia and Indonesia will meet in Jakarta this week to resume formal talka suspended in 1978, officials said in Canberra yesterday. A Foreign Affairs Department spokesman said the decision to resume the talks followed a meeting between Australian Foreign Minister Gareth
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  • WORLD BUSINESS & POLITICS
    • 605 4 Smaller firms, however, may soon feel the squeeze NYT DESPITE recent rises in interest rates in Tokyo, major Japanese companies say they have little trouble raising money at low cost, a phenomenon that has been regarded as a major advantage Japanese firms have
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    • 131 4 Reuter JAPANESE BUSINESSMEN urged Europe and the United States on Monday to join a fund to promote global development projects such as a second Panama canal. The Japanese-backed Global Infrastructure Fund would deal with projects costing US$lO billion or more, its financiers told
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    • 354 4 Asahi HONDA MOTOR CO plans to import and sell in Japan "several thousand" cars made by the Chrysler Corp in a move aimed at reducing trade friction with the United States, Honda officials disclosed in Tokyo. Honda plans to import Jeeps and other
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    • 440 4 AP US PRESIDENT George Bush cautioned an international gathering of scientists on Monday against seeking solutions to global warming that would burden major industries. He said a bargain must be struck between environmental protection and economic growth. In a speech on© environmentalist called a "gross disappointment",
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    • 397 4 AP EUROPEAN COMMUNITY foreign minister* have given fresh support to efforts to channel economic and other sid to the emerging democracies in Eastern Europe. On Monday, the ministers of the 12nation trading bloc expressed willingness in Brussels to draw Czechoelovakia, Bulgaria. East
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    • 258 4 AP EAST GERMANY has asked West Germany for an immediate aid infusion of up to 15 billion deutschemarks (US$B.B billion), but a West German spokesman called the request "unrealistic". A continuing exodus of skilled workers to West Germany,
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    • 324 4 Reuter THE United States on Monday proposed a 10-year plan which would phase out restrictions on world commerce in textiles and clothing and place this sensitive multi-billion dollar sector under strengthened Gatt trade rules. A US paper put before
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    • 263 4 AP A RECORD 38.3 million foreigners travelled to the United States last year, contributing to a US$45O-million travel surplus, the first in US history, the Commerce Department announced on Monday. "For the first time, the US will enjoy a travel surplus of half a
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    • 259 4 AP THE PRODUCTIVITY of American workers increased at 0.9 per cent lest yeer in the smaileet gain since 1962, while unit labour costs, a major inflation measure for business, shot up 4.6 per cent, the US government said on
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    • 1045 4 ARRIVALS Operator Sorvtc* numbor Local Mm* From UAL UA801 0120 JPK/NtT/HKG UAL UA97 0130 LAX/NtT AZA AZ995 0235 SYD SU SQ601 0355 AKL SU SQ491 0530 »WN MAS MH601 0550 KUL SU SQ401 0605 CM» AM SWAZI CW707 0625 MTS/MtU MAS MH627 0635 KUL MAS MH640 0620
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    • 656 5 DEVELOPMENTS ON THE EASTERN FRONT Reuter $fASTERN EUROPEAN countries fllan massive economic recon•*wl'Struction as they move into a post-communist era, but experts <3ay reforms could take generairnr\jbna and may divert funds from Third World. Political and economic *"*fcfiange in Eastern Europe dominated this
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    • 732 5 NYT THE MOVE for multi-party elections in the Soviet Union, which has been dominated by its Communist Party since 1918, recalls a brief period in early Soviet history when multi-party political activity loomed large only to be followed by years
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    • 409 5  -  By PAUL GOPAL A FORMER SOVIET dissident has warned the West that the adulation it gives Soviet leader Gorbachev is counter-productive. Mr Nathan Sharansky recently told sbout 700 businessmen in Toronto that the West should be less naive about President Gorbachev and
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 1095 7  -  The West is out to catch smart dumpers; the Third World is bent on stopping what it sees as the abuse of anti-dumping measures permitted by Gatt. What really constitutes dumping? Time is running out if the globalisation of industry is not
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    • 910 7  -  A renewed demand for mammoth tusks as a result of the global ivory ban is ironically providing a convenient cover for poachers and traders to continue plying their dastardly business of hastening the elephant's extinction. ROBERT POWELL reports from Nairobi. ROBERT POWELL THOSE
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    • 536 8 THE POST OFFICE Savings Bank (POSB) is expecting a record net surplus of about $230 million for the year ending Dec 31. 1990. Last year, the national savings bank is estimated to have chalked up a surplus of about $200 million. In 1988, the figure
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    • 1486 8  -  China remains as much of a headache as ever to many foreign investors, despite the eagerness of the government to attract investment since June 4, 1989. The construction of the Shanghai Centre, which will be the city's largest hotel, office and residential complex when
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    • 729 8 Mongolia an investment dream with a frightful twist Reuter THE TELEPHONE LINES to Beijing wore brokon. Tho woman in charge of placing calls to Moscow was "resting" and dialing Tokyo was "very difficult". "Maybe you can try again tomorrow or something," said the Ulan Bator Hotel receptionist, translating for an
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    • 602 8 Reuter WHEN IT COMES to politics in Japan, money talks. Politicsl analysts predict thst more then US$2 million will be spent on esch of the ruling Libersl Democratic Party's 325 candidates in the campaign for Lower House elections on Feb 18. And thst's just for
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    • 542 8 Reuter PAKISTAN is having considerable success with its policy of attracting foreign investment through a liberal business climate, the chief economic adviser to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says. "It takes a little time but I think that it is paying dividends," Vaseem Aon Jafarey said
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 507 10  -  Proceeds will help finance Canadian takeover sy MAGDALENE NG BfRJAYA CORPORATION has become the first Malaysian company to issue an international bond with warrants with its proposal to issue a US dollar denominated equity-linked fiveyear bond. n The Malaysian conglomerate said yesterday that,
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    • 743 10 Bernama BERJAYA CORPORATION (M) Bfld has teamed up with SemiTech Microelectronics of Hongkdng to take over a Canadian consumer company for Csl6s million. -The target company, ConsumCompany Ltd, vJH previously listed on the Torento Stock Exchange (TSE) and a unit of Canadian retailing
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    • 253 10 KEPPEL SHIPYARD has clinched two contracts worth a total of $32 million amid strong competition from both local and foreign shipyards. In an announcement yesterday. the company said the first contract, awarded by Amoco Production Company of Houston Texas. USA, is worth $20
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    • 94 10 AN ADDITIONAL 518.55 million shares of Stone Darby Bhd will be quoted on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange from tomorrow, the exchange said in a statement. The new 50 sen-par shares were issued through a one-for-two bonus issue announced by Sime Darby last September and approved by the
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    • 235 10 Bernama FABER MERLIN Malaysia Bhd has completed the sale of the land on which the Kuala Lumpur Merlin and Wisma Merlin stand, to Ampang Hotel Sdn Bhd (AHSB). Ampang Hotel is a joint venture between Cycle Carriage, Hotel Properties and Apac
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    • 241 10 Bernama PUBLIC BANK Bhd has refuted a Malaysian newspaper report's projection that the bank is expected to chalk up a group pre-tax profit of about MS9S million for financial year 1989. Public Bank's general manager, corporate secretariat. Mr Harry K Menon, said
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    • 459 10  -  By WILLIAM CHIA MALAYSIAN stockbroking firm TA Securities is planning to use Mulpha International Trading Corporation Bhd to obtain a backdoor listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Sources close to Mulpha have confirmed persistent market talk that privately-held TA Securities. Malaysia's
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    • 541 10  -  By ELAINE KOH UMW HOLDINGS Bhd. the restructured heavy equipment and motor group, has turned in its best results with a profit after tax and minorities of M 555.01 million, contributed largely by its new motor subsidiary. UMW Toyota Motor Sdn
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    • 453 10 Bernama DREAMLAND HOLDINGS Bhd has forecast consolidated group pre-tax profit of M 55.17 million for the 1990 financial year against a pre-tax profit of M 53.13 million for financial 1989. In a circular to shareholders on the company's proposed 1-for-4 bonus issue
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 486 11 FT THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION is to press for the removal of all banking restrictions in non-EC countries, the Community's commissioner for the financial sector told bankers in London on Monday. In his most critical speech on the illiberal practices
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    • 382 11 Reuter BANKAMERICA Corp chairman AW Clausen is to retire at the end of the company's annual meeting in May and will be succeeded by Richard Rosenberg, who has been named president of the corporation and its Bank of America subsidiary. Mr Rosenberg had
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    • 162 11 Gold futures on Febuary 5, 1990 100 troy ounces. USS per troy ounce Oh* High Low t«m« F*b 419.30 423.00 419.30 432.40 >4.20 Mof 426.00 426.00 424.80 424.60 4.20 Apr 423.30 430.30 424.60 427.30 +4.10 Jun 430.SO 436.00 430.20 433.30 >4.20 Aug 441.00 440.80 439.00 430.60 +4.30
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    • 124 11 Reuter THE US is willing to accept an increase in funding for the International Monetary Fund of up to SO per cent, the Treasury Department confirmed on Monday. An increase of this magnitude would appear to bring negotiators closer together on an agreement to
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    • 303 11  -  By DEXTER LEE CALIFORNIA-BASED Bank of America is beefing up efficiency levels of its Asian operations, starting with the Singapore office. Mr Richard Griffith, an executive vice-president of Bank of America World Banking group, said yesterday that this will be done by introducing quality
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    • 431 11 Reuter A MAJOR international bank in the US has been ordered to forfeit more than US$l5 million after pleading guilty to drug money laundering charges in a case with links to deposed Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega and Colombian cocaine lords. A judge in
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    • 198 11 AP THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY Fund collected US$3.O7 billion more than it lent out last year, a drop from the US$5.4 billion of 1988, according to figures made available Monday. One of the biggest sources of lending to the Third World, the fund has
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    • 448 11  -  Aim is to sharpen expansion thrust in the region By SOH TIANG KENG Financial Correspondent TWO Singapore branches of Security Pacific Corporation will come under one roof next month as part of the US banking group s move to sharpen its expension
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    • 259 11 Reuter NEW YORK Federal Reserve president Gerald Corrigan said the US will need to revamp banking laws to allow banks to offer a full range of financial services if they are to remain competitive internationally. In a speech to a group called Financial
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    • 254 11 Reuter BANGKOK Bank Lid said its 11 foreign branches are this y«B expected to poet their first coi» bined annuel profit after succt# sive yearly losses since the mid-*****. c Bangkok Bank president Chi tri Soponpanich told reporter* that Hongkong's recovering sta4l market
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 652 12  -  Exclusive interview with bank's chief economist By SOH TIANG KENG Financial Correspondent THE chief economist of Banque National® de Paris (BNP), Mr phillippe d'Arvisenet, has forecast a decline in the value of the US dollar during the first half of this year. But he
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    • 667 12 Reuter SIMEX Eurodollar futures closed slightly higher on short-covering and some position adjustments in moderately active trading yesterday. The market is now awaiting direction from yesterday s US Treasury auction of US$lO billion of three-year notes. March Eurodollar closed at 91.63 from Chicago s 9T62 and June at 91.55
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    • 559 12 AFP US INTEREST RATES, already high since the beginning of the year, are expected to increase further or, at best, atabiliae in the coming weeka. US economiats aaid on Monday that the Federal Reaerve Board had its handa
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    • 1106 12 SINGAPORE: The dollar ended higher against the mark yeeterday, but slightly easier against the yen on unwinding of long mark/yen 1 positions, dealers said. Players were cautious and stayed in narrow 20 to 30 point bands during afternoon trade due to uncertainty about developments in the Soviet Union.
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    • 252 12 Reuter IMM currency futures closed with sizable gains on Monday, with the mark, Swiss franc and British pound near new contract highs. Mark futures led the rise after Gorbachev's remark that non-communist parties could eventually be created in the Soviet Union. "The mark is tending to rise and fall
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    • 183 12 Reuter THE Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange received 40 bide from firme vying to build the hand-held electronic terminals that traders will eventually use to record trades, a CBOT spokesperson said. Proposals for the electronic cards, dubbed Audit, or automated
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    • 271 12 ASIAN dollar deposit rates finished unchanged from their opening levels yesterday, which were close to Monday's closes. Most operators were sidelined awaiting last night's US Treasury auction of US$lO billion of three-year notes. "The results of the auction is likely to affect Asian dollar deposit rates here,"
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    • 65 12 THE overnight rate on the Singapore money market was down 2/16 points at 1/16 per cent yesterday. On-month rate fell by 1/2 point to 6 1/2 while two and three month rates rose 3/8 to 6 1/2. S$ Interbank rates at th« dot* yastardayi omt mo o»»rtgM l/l*
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 373 13 Reuter JAPAN will enact a new commodity law in April to meet industry needs for a fair and efficient hedging mechanism, and to move towards internationalising trade. Government officials said the new law will accept foreign brokers as full exchange members, introduce
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    • 115 13 AFP THE Kuala Lumpur Commodities Exchange (KLCE) yesterday began trading in palm olein futures, a contract for refined palm oil denominated in US dollars, officials said. Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik said he expected the new futures contract to draw more foreign
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    • 130 13 Telerate SENTIMENT for fuel oil remained weak in Singapore due to the number of partially committed in bound cargoes. Sell indications were expected to ease in the back of a softer NYMEX and anticipated bearish API statistics. Thailand tendered to buy 3050,000 mt of CSTIBO. Prices
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    • 554 13 MALAYSIAN CRUDE PALM OIL FUTURES: closed easier in sluggish trading on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) yesterday. Dealers said attention was shifted to the refined, bleached and deodrised palm olein futures contract which was launched yesterday morning. They added that the market was also weak in the
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    • 241 13 Reuter Chicago Board of Trade soft rod winter wheat futures closed higher in March and lower in newcrop months in moderately light trading on Monday. March showed the most strength of any contract on the grains floor, primarily on fears the Chinese wheat purchase over the weekend and the
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    • 202 13 Reuter TMC PRICE of an on th. Kuala Lumpur Tin Mart at (KLTM) cloaad all canta lowar at IC.C2 rtnggM a kg ysslsrday on aome aaHing m noKiing rtii throty steady on Monday. "Tha mark at had foHowod Mm taM in London mainly to talka of tin being
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    • 364 13 Reuter HONGKONG: Depreeaod by heavy selling from Japanaaa invaators. gold cloaad at the day's low in moderate trading yeaterday. Bullion ended at U*****.00/50 an ounce against New York's US$422 00/50 close. Local gold closed HK$24 higher at HK53,901 a tael Coins were higher, ranging between HK$24 and HK$4O
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    • 196 13 London Commodity Exchange Ruyor/Sollor doting prices on Fob 5 (£/toon« unless specified). Previous dosing prices in parenthesis. Coffee Mof 565/566 (583/584) tftgh/low 575/565 May 587/588 (587/577) High/low 583/577 Solo* (1790) Cocoa Mor 618/619 (621/622) High/Low 623/618 Moy 629/630 (632/633) 634/629 Solos (5217) Sugar No 6 FOB (US$/tome) Mor
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    • 187 13 Reuter CBOT soybean futures sold off late when the formerly strong soyoll market turned weak. Beans closed lower and on a weak note on Monday. Nearby months rallied to late morning highs on talk the weekly US soybean export inspection figure due from IiSOA after the cloee would show
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    • 338 13 Reuter SINGAPORE: Rubber prices closed quietly steady yesterday with March 1 RSS buyer quoted at 162.00 cents a kg. down 0.50 cent from Monday's close. Dealers said the afternoon market waa quiet and featureless with prices hovering narrowly around the morning levels. Operators were reluctant to deal in the
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    • 346 13 RAS prices In S omMo, FOI m bate* noon aose y S® &v y S®It® j Int 1 RSS Prompt 159.75 *****N 160.00 161.00 Int 1 RSS Mar 90 161.75 162.25 162.00 162 JO lot 1 RSS Apr 163.50 164.00 163.75 164.25 Int 2 RSS Of 154.50
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    • 197 13 Chln*M Produce Exchange Setters' noon dosing prices on February 6 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Mk FOB 79.00 OW drum FOB 93.00 Now drum FOB 89.00 Copra Mixed (loose) 41.00 sellers Pepper Mont ok white FOB NLW 382.50 Sarawak white FOB foq NLW 372.50 Sarawak special black FOB NLW
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    • 826 14  -  -By LIM MUI KHI WALL STREET'S overnight rally cheered the Singapore market yesterday but was stopped short by the Stock Exchange of Singapore's computerised order book system. The market opened firm, but with repeated interruptions and two suspensions in the morning, investors
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    • 3267 15 MBT THE Kuala Lumpur stock market registered record highs in share prices and turnover tor the second consecutive session yesterday despite sporadic bouts of profit-taking. Speculative counters and situational issues again attracted the bulk of investors' interest. Trading pace was hectic. Total turnover (excluding direct business)
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    • 288 15 Monog*r»' prices Royal Trust Asset Mflt UOB Management for Feb 7 112 MS IW— 141 IT Am Pbc Gr Fund 114 120 Un.bond 1015 104 Singapore Unit Trust m>ca Bamipatra Funds (US$) n.Ce—7. in OCtC.AM.tMgt I"* r ftV_ J" 'J tl!» fund 11$ 122 Wi CwM tw«J 120
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 665 16 Bell Resources action may deal the death blow Reuter CIVIL WAR has broken out in the camp of businessman Alan Bond, and the fighting threatens finally to trigger Australia's largest corporate collapse. One of Mr Bond's own companies, Bell Resources Ltd has turned against
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    • 190 16 Reuter AUSTRALIAN brewing, investment and agribusiness conglomerate Elders IXL Ltd chairman John Elliott said the group hopes to detail a planned restructuring on Feb 23 with its interim results. "We are not saying what it involves," he was quoted yesterday by the domestic news
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    • 1297 16 Hongkong Reuter IMPROVED SENTIMENT led a small rally In share prices yesterday, with the Hang Seng Index gaining 36.22 points to close at 2.792.89 "It looks good, the turnover's improved, I think we could soon see the Hang Seng Index breaking through the 2.800 level." a broker said.
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      637 16 Tokyo Reuter TOKYO share prices closed firmer but off their highs yesterday after prof-it-taking replaced bouts of index-linked buying by investment trust funds. Lingering political uncertainties at home and abroad kept investors generally edgy. "We've had a decent run for the past couple days so selling pressure came
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    • 531 16 Australia Reuter AUSTRALIAN STOCKS ended slightly firmer yesterday with trading listless due to the absence of solid leads from overseas, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index finished 0.6 point lower at 1666.9 after drifting down from a high of 1673.7 reached shortly after the start of trading. Dealers
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    • 374 16 Reuter TAIWAN stocks yesterday reversed early gains because investors sold their holdings to take profits, dealers said. The weighted index lost 12.71 points to end at 12.26g.36 compered with Mondays 12,302.07 close. Turnover roee to NT$lBB.l billion from NT|l7g.l billion on Monday. Financial and plastics sectors,
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    • 261 16 Reuter STRIKE THREATS by workers at the state-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand yesterday sent shares sharply lower in panic selling which pushed the index below 800. brokers said. The official SET Index fell 24.44 points to close at 798.12. Losses outnumbered gains 137 to 8. Most
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    • 250 16 Reuter SEOUL STOCKS rose across the board in moderate trading yesterday on rumours that the government would pledge mar-ket-boosting measures soon, brokers said. The composite index cloeed at 888.88, up 9.41 points from Monday's finish. Turnover was 241.2 billion won compared with 156.9 billion won on Monday.
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    • 85 16 Reuter TURNOVER on the Jakarta Stock Exchange yesterday fell to 1.07 million shares from 1.62 million on Monday but the index rose slightly to 452.11 from the officially corrected 449.32 on Monday, the exchange said. The Jardine Fleming Nusantars Index stood at 104.22, up from the previous
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    • 190 16 Reuter PHILIPPINE SHARES roee for the second day running yesterday as Investors' interest was sustained following reports that the US had agreed to comply fully with its original aid commitment to Manila, brokers said. The Manila Stock Exchange composite index gained a further 12.14 points to close
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    • 214 16 Reuter SHARE PRICES ended lower yesterday even though state-owned investment trusts entered the market to head off an early slump sparked by skirmishes on the IndiaPakistan border. Brokers said reports that Indian troops had fired on Pakistani crowds when they tried to cross the international border in
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 773 17 New York Reuter WALL STREET STOCKS came to life during the last minutes of trading on Monday. Improved sentiment about the Treasury refunding combined with shortcovering to boost blue chips higher at the close. The Dow Jones industrial average posted a 19.82-point gain, to close at
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    • 944 17 London Reuter SHARES were marked mostly lower at the start yesterday, as a 20-point gain on Wall Street on Monday failed to generate follow-through demand, dealers said. "The market looks tired and set to drift down as there's no real buying to keep it
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    • 691 17 Results better than expected NYT CLOSING a chapter of its moat tumultuous year. Oraxel Burnham Lambart Inc reported on Sunday that it lost about US$4O million in 1989 on grosa revenues of about US$4.l billion. The US$4O million loaa compares with a loaa for
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    • 253 17 Reuter KOOR INDUSTRIES' Israeli creditor banks have ratified a debt restructuring plan and are waiting for foreign creditors to approve it too, Israeli and foreign banking officials said on Monday. But the officials said the plan to write off more than a quarter
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    • 417 17 AP THE US GOVERNMENT has reportedly offered financier Michael Milken the opportunity to plead guilty to six felonies and avoid a new indictment, lengthy trial and possible conviction on dozens of more charges. But individuals close to the case said on Monday
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    • 303 17 AFP FRENCH TYRE MAKER Michelin has said that it would significant* ly reduce investment and may have to cut production this year, union sources said in Cler-mont-Ferrand, France, on Monday. "The outlook for the market for new vehicles and replacement tyres, in both passenger and
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    • 383 17 RJR NABISCO NYT RJR NABISCO I no has reported a net loss of US$l44 million in the fourth quarter and a US$l.l5 billion loss for the year. But analysts said the results largely reflected an increase in interest expense and other costs from being taken
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    • 1631 17 Reuter MILAN: Italian shares closed lower in light trading yesterday, with selling pressure continuing on leading stocks in the absence of major news to give the market direction, dealers said. Monday's decision to postpone a key meeting of the Enimont shareholders' syndicate pushed Enimont shares up 30
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    • 726 19 THEATRE AP DURING THE TONY AWARDS last June, a parade of producers bounded to centre stage to accept honours for the best play and then best musical of the 1968-89 leiion. Keizo Saji. head of Japan s giant liquor company Suntory International Corp.
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    • 494 19 FASHION IHT FRENCH MENSWEAR exploded with colour, originality and imagination during the weekend fashion shows. The avant-garde were in giddy good form. Yet there were more wearable clothes than ever before from designers who dare and win. The classic houses were in sporty mood, and their
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    • 650 19 MUSIC Reuter AMERICAN COMIC Rita Rudner always gets a sympathetic laugh when she says: "I just can't bring myself to buy a CD player until I have something in writing to say that's the last thing they're going to invent." But a
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  • SPORTS
    • 324 20 BOXING AP THERE WAS a fight of a different kind after Hector "Macho" Camacho successfully defended his WBO junior welterweight title against Vinny Pazienza in Atlantic City on Saturday night. A battle broke out in Pazienza's dressing room when two process servers attempted to hand
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    • 321 20 AP BOXING PROMOTER Don. King on Monday promised a star-stud-ded audience for next week's Mike Tyson-James Douglas heavyweight championship bout in Tokyo, but out in the stands, ticket sales remain slow. King said American real estate tycoon Donald Trump and his wife would arrive in
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    • 355 20 BASKETBALL AP PATRICK EWING and Charles Oakley each scored 24 points on Monday night, leading the New York Knicks to a 116-107 victory over the Miami Heat. The Knicks never trailed after the second period, but had to hold off determined Miami rallies. Rony Seikaly scored 14
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    • 345 20 CRICKET Reuter THE RAIN that washed out the first two days ot the third and final Test between Australia and Pakistan in Sydney again disrupted play yesterday, allowing only 89 runs to be scored. The start of the fourth day's play was delayed by just
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    • 333 20 AFP BEATEN European heavyweight champion Derek Williams returned to London on Monday with manager Mike Barrett demanding an investigation into the British fighter's distraught state at the end of the bout. Williams complained of stinging eyes throughout the fight and was later taken to hospital. "He
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    • 236 20 AP IN A MATCH punctuated by disputed calls. John McEnroe and Jakob Hlasek beat Charles Beckman and Luke Jensen in the Milan indoor tennis tournament on Monday. McEnroe, who was ejected last month from the Australian Open, repeatedly complained about some dubious calls during the
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    • 232 20 MOTOR-RACING AP THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has promised to help organisers of the Le Mans 24-hour race meet safety standards required to get the competition back on the 1990 international racing schedule. In a letter to the International Auto Sports Federation (FISA) on Monday,
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    • 256 20 Reuter FORMULA ONE motor-racing team Onyx, which claims it is losing money over a deal involving Porsche, may take the West German sports car manufacturer to court, a lawyer for the Onyx owner in Belgium said on Monday. Onyx's Belgian owner JeanPierre Van Rossem
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    • 297 20 AP FORMULA ONE world champion Alain Proat of France and hia Britiah team-mate Nigel Manaell began four daya of tests on their Ferrari racers in Estoril on Monday, confident of a successful racing seaaon. Proat, who will start teating Maranello's new 641 car
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    • 388 20 SKIING Reuter SWISS ALL-ROUNDER Pirmin Zurbriggen. bidding for a fourth World Cup title in Courmayeur, Italy, sought to stretch his lead in a men's super-giant slalom yesterday which he hoped would also bring him his first victory of 1990. The Alpine skiing World Cup super-G title
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    • 323 20 AP ALTHOUGH NEITHER has the title within reach, Mateja Svet and Diane Roffe are making comebacks in World Cup ski competition. Svet, a 21-year-old Yugoslav, won her second giant slalom of the winter on Monday, clocking two fastest heats for a total
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  • FOCUS
    • 1062 21 BRITAIN ARTHUR REED, Senior Editor (Europe), Air Transport World, looks at the performance of the British aerospace industry in this article written exclusively for BT. ALTHOUGH THE FIGURES had not been finalised at the time of writing, it appeared fairly certain that Britain's aerospace
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    • 1023 21  -  AIR COURIERS By MARC ROUEN Consultant, Hlckson Public Relations Pte Ltd THE IMAGE OF the on-board courier as a folk hero dashing to catch a flight with sheaves of urgent documents are numbered. Air express companies originally used on-board
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    • 1050 21  -  INDIA, CHINA AND INDONESIA Asian countries are moving ahead with aggressive policies to develop their aerospace industry with an increasing effort to indigenise production. HARISH MEHTA looks at the aerospace industries in India, China and Indonesia HARISH MEHTA INDIA AND CHINA, two
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  • 294 22 NEWTON PTE LTD, the American tool-and-die maker that owns the New Tech Park at Lorong Chuan, has put its building up for sale. The four-hectare site, developed at a cost of $180 million in 1986, is to be sold by tender. Its owners are
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  • 67 22 Reuter PRODUCTION costs at China's state industries climbed 22.4 per cent last year. The China Daily yesterday quoted the State Statistical Bureau as saying sharp rises were recorded nearly across the country at firms covered in the central budget. Wages at the state firms totalled 264 billion yuan,
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  • 519 22 Reuter JAPAN'S current economic boom, which started in November 1986, is likely to continue for the next three years and become the longest period of economic expansion in the nation s postwar history, Sumitomo Bank Ltd chief economist Toshiaki Kakimoto said
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  • 188 22 Bernama THERE is no truth to allegations that Singapore is "sabotaging" Malaysia's Visit Malaysia Year efforts this year, Foreign Minister Wong Kan Seng said. "It doesn't make sense," he said, referring to the allegations that a neigbouring country was out to sabotage the VMY
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  • 244 22 Reuter AN ATTEMPT by thousands of angry Pakistanis to cross into Indian-controlled Kashmir cost the lives of three people, including a 12-year-old boy, Pakistani officials said yesterday. The three died when Indian border guards opened fire on a crowd of people who crossed a
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  • 338 22 AP THE BANK of Japan has queried life insurance companies, securities firms and other institutional investors to gauge their interest in investing in US treasury bonds, news reports said yesterday. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan s premier financial journal,
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  • 308 22 FT JAPANESE investment in foreign reel estate is soaring and is set to top US$lO billion in the year to the end of March, according to forecasts based on figures from the Japanese Ministry of Finance. According to the ministry, investment in foreign real
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  • 215 22 Bernama ABOUT 3.000 estate workers in Sungei Siput in Ipoh. Malaysia, are defying their union's directive to end their strike over their demand for monthly wages. The secretary of the Perak National Union of Plantation Workers. V Kesavan, said the workers from 11
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  • 461 22 Bernama MALAYSIA is expected to register a deficit in its balance of payments (BOP) current account last year for the first time since 1986, Bank Buruh Bhd executive director Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam said yesterday. The projected deficit, to the tune of
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  • 104 22 Reuter RUSSIA'S Communist Party leaders met tor a second day yesterday with predictions that Mikhail Gorbachev's proposal to abandon the party's guaranteed power monopoly would pass easily. The proposals, put forward on Monday on the opening of the two-day plenum. included a call for
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    • 54 22 AFP MOODY'S Investor* Services yesterday downgraded its credit ratings for Japan's three biggest trust banks Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corp, Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co Ltd and Mitsui Trust and Banking Co Ltd and two of their Hongkong units owing to their expoeure to the
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    • 46 22 Reuter GOLF courses are an immensely lucrative business in sports-mad, land-starved Japan, but some may be wreaking havoc on the environment and on golfers' health, the government said yesterday when it suspended construction of a golf resort in central Japan. Reuter
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    • 39 22 Reuter THE European Commission yesterday said it had dropped a three-year inquiry after it was satisfied that photocopiers made by a unit of Japan's Ricoh Co Ltd did not breach EC anti-dumping rules. Reuter
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    • 35 22 AFP JAPAN'S Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and US-based Intel Corp have reached an agreement on production and sales of Intel's semiconductors in Japan, the Nihon KeiZMi Shimbun reported yesterday. AFP
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    • 36 22 AFP JAPAN'S Ishida Corp, an affiliate of Toyota Motor Corp, said yesterday that it had agreed to buy a Floridabaaed manufacturer of aircraft parts from Fairchild Aircraft Corp for US$6 million.
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    • 45 22 AFP FAILURE by Auatraliana to accept a higher level of Aaian immigrants who bring in with them talent and money would be an act of economic lunacy, aaid leading banker Will Bailey, chief executive of the ANZ Banking Group Ltd. AFP
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    • 52 22 AFP SOUTH KOREA'S January auto sales at home and abroad totalled 72.750 units, down 14 per cent compared to the same month last year, industry sources in Seoul said yesterday. The three largests auto firms Hyundai, Daewoo and Kia sold more cars in the
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    • 42 22 AFP PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino praised the Philippines Customs Bureau yesterday for collecting US$l.B5 billion in 1989, surpassing its annual collection target by 17.2 per cent Mrs Aquino also noted that the collection target for 1990 was US$l.96 billion.
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  • 83 22 COMEX gold futures eased in choppy morning dealings yesterday. Sellers surfaced after overnight markets did not improve on Monday s rally. The market was also keying on the three-day US Treasury refunding that started yesterday. Spot gold was down US$l.lO at U*****.30 an ounce. The leading April delivery
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      • 64 23 AFP THE EIGHT MAIN PORTS in Greece, including the port of Piraeus, were closed on Monday by a five-day, renewable strike by administrative staff, union sources said. The strikers were demanding that their employment be classified as being difficult, and they were seeking improved overtime payments,
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      • 90 23 Reuter PORT OF HOUSTON AUTHORITIES are examining the US Shipping Act of 1986 for grounds on which to petition the Federal Maritime Commission, claiming the nearby Port of Galveston is subsidising cargo shipments. The Port of Galveston operates a container shuttle service to a depot near
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      • 71 23 Reuter STEVEDORES AT BRAZIL'S suflar port of Recife expected to sign an agreement yesterday ending nine days of go-slow measures, the union president said. Recife's 1.000 stevedores were working at a deliberately slow pace in loading sugar since Jan 27 to demand merchant marine firms pay
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      • 61 23 AP CORROSION CAUSED BY the failure of controversial protective coating and tape wraps has weakened parts of the 1,300 km crude oil TransAlaska pipeline, triggering a federal probe. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co, the oil industry consortium that operates the pipeline, has already started making repairs
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      • 54 23 Reuter A HURRICANE CAUSED extensive damage at the French ports of Nantes and St Nazaire on Saturday morning, Lloyds Shipping Intelligence Service said. One dredger broke its moorings and went aground on the Channel Bank. A 6,017 dwt Spanish RO/RO vessel, Velazquez, broke its moorings
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      • 38 23 Reuter A PANAMANIAN VESSEL, which was in collision with a barge, is listing in Indonesia's Celebes Sea. Lloyds Shipping Intelligence Service said. The 6,803 dwt Oceania Queen was abandoned by its crew. Reuter
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    • 119 23 LEADING feeder operator Regional Container Lines has been granted a loan of 330 million baht to invest in two new container vessels for its Bangkok services. These would include two new routes Taiwan-Hongkong and Bangkok-Hongkong as well as its Bangkok-Singapore service. The Thai
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    • 320 23  -  By RAHITA ELIAS NIPPON Yusen Kaisha Line has announced that it will tie up with Singapore company Thong Soon Holding to form its own shipping agency on April 1. The new joint venture with Thong Soon, called NYK
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    • 453 23  -  By JEAN FOONG THE HONGKONG-based Wallem Group of Companies is strengthening its presence in Singapore with a new ship management company to be formed within six months. The new office Wallem Shipmanagement Singapore is likely to be located at the World Trade
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    • 375 23 EVEN AS the four-day port strike in Thailand ended on Saturday after the army stepped in, the country's government will face another tough time when negotiations resume next week with militant labour unions, which have refused to accept any compromise.
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    • 308 23  -  ■y AL O LABITA FILIPINO and foreign shipping companies have deplored the continued "detention" by Manila's Bureau of Customs of some 600 containers allegedly used for smuggling in contraband goods. The seizure of the containers, many of them 20-ft containers, has cost some companies
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    • 1462 24  -  This article has been prepared i-'exclusively for Shipping Times by P NAIDU, director, enforcement, of the Customs Excise Department. P NAIDU -THE PRINCIPAL ROLE of the Customs Service is to assess and collect import and excise duties in accordance with the Customs Tariff. There are
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    • 1549 24 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Vmm< VoyNo Berth Arrival Departure K appal Wharvaa AI.Rohmon 2 KI7 alongs.de 06 02/0700 Als Strength 33EB <35 olongside 07 02/ 0600 Boiyunshon 2/90 K33 alongside 06.02/ 0600 Magdeburg 1/90 <28 olongs.de 07 02/0900 Modonshon 1 <32 alongside 07 02/ 0600 Sg Of Flower
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    • 1041 25 THE CURRENT lack of enquiry for ships, particularly in the Atlantic, saw rates continue to fall on Monday and the Baltic Freight Index (BFI) was marked down by 19 points A fixture at US$l4 for heavy grain from the US Gulf to the Netherlands saw the index rate
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    • 7274 30 A guide to ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore
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    • 2929 37 Who acts for whom A —B Accord Shpg Accord Shpg Pte Lid (S)/Accord Contr Lm« (M) Sdn Bnd (PK)/Accord Contr Lin* (PG) Sdn Bhd (PN) ABC CmWmtlm NV KYC Lin# (S)/Renown Shpg (PK/PN) Ahranktei Umt Kim Shpg Trdg (S). AMn S**-Ak S*rvte* Frata Shpg Pte LM (S). ANred C Tui|il»i
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    • 680 38  -  By JULIE CHATTERJEE THE SHIPPING Credit and Investment Co of India (SCICI) has called for immediate steps to set up a new shipbuilding yvd in the country. I •"It we cannot grab the opportunity to cater to the orders
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    • 133 38 Reuter PENINSULAR and Oriental Steam Navigation Co is bidding 650p per ordinary share for Laing Properties pic in an offer valuing Laing's issued share capital at £441 million. P&O said the offer will be made by its Pall Mall Properties unit. It
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    • 350 38 Reuter SHAREHOLDERS OF SEA CONTAINERS will get the bulk of the US$l.l billion the company will receive from the sale of Sealink Ferries and its container assets. In an interview on Britain's Channel Four Business Daily television programme, Sea Containers' chairman James
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    • 126 38 AP THE US CONGRESS is expected this week to start working out differences in oil spill liability legislation so it can send a bill to President George Bush by the March 24 anniversary of the Exxon Valdaz accident. The biggest remaining problem is a dispute over
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    • 422 38  -  By VONNIE BISHOP HONGKONG'S new airport plans proved a drawcard for aviation engineers. executives and other personnel as they flocked into a conference this week on the subject of airports in the 21st century, hopeful of benefiting from the new HK$l27 billion project
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    • 823 38 AFP THE RECENT rates downturn continued during the past week in the freights market, as lack of demand on most routes was still weighing on sentiment, brokers said. The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange (BIFFEX)'s Baltic Freight Index (BFI) registered its second consecutive weekly fall, losing 16 points
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    • 644 28 ftiiwrwiMimi IRANIAN SERVICE I I t Singapore Loading for:- IRAN EKRAN ETA 10 FEB BANDAR ABBAS B |^MSfla| (Natiaaal Un If Mulct) LL WEST COAST/MEXICO/CBVTRAL AMERICA CONTAMHI SHI VICE i NK6 L* ENSCNAOA L CAKOCNAS SAUNA CRUZ MANZANILLO kriLA y23 uw *n ia nw up tys OAXACA «-U W U/l
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    • 1111 29 jsaaaer pacific international lines (PTE) ltd j'jtjHP mf JUbP pil Building. 140 Cecil Street #03-00, Singapore 0106, Tel: *****33 ___—^r r, a ss s& n KTAamtt me 25/02 20/02 2/03 S2NB 00/03 15/03 10/03 1«/03 20/03 24/03 25/03 20/03 2SSB *03 1/03 20MB 14/03 10/03 21/03 22/03 25/03 20/03 30/03
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    • 679 29 I EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT S POM PKLAN6 STON HAM B HAVE N ROAM HAVW To»r« by I 0 VJ 27/2 10 1(0 40 Kip U/2 270 40 10 an AImU Nam IK w 50 70 10 10 70 Hia«a»n Ei«r*u 15/2 120 10 10 S0 110 Larfi In
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    • 323 30 ray/ I DAILY lcl receiving at own cfs ••IiLsB+JJ PENANG VESSEL P KELANG I SPORE IPK MADRAS 18?* LEUVE 9118 10 /2 15/2 /MACOLINE 6 2 MELITA 9004 W \W 16/2 21/2 WAWLIWC LEU VE 9119 #2 2/3 BOOKING: MACOLINE S PORE *****11 PK (03) *****77 PEN (04) *****6 ;s
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    • 594 31 M \m hm» mi: i.ti» BIWEEKLY FCULCL TO: FAR EAST JAPAN EUROPE FIJI ISLAND KAOHSIUNG —18/2 TOKYO —15/2 LE HAVRE —12/2 LAUTOKA —16/2 KEELUNG —18/2 YOKOHAMA —15/2 ROTTERDAM —12/2 SUVA —16/2 MANILA —16/2 KOBE —15/2 UK PORTS —12/2 BANGKOK —17/2 HAMBURG —12/2 BUSAN —15/2 GOTHENBURG —12/2 HONGKONG —15/2 ■r—ptn mtti
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    • 1062 32 JMUIIB VOY ~N DO *PK/PNG [SGP LB CHLS F I I'OOCL FREEDOM 29 5/2 6/2 8/2 3/3 13/3 W f 21/3 I |:«OCL FAITH 18 12/2 13/2 15/2 10/3 20/3 220 24 3 4/4 I.QOCL FRIENDSHIP 18 19/2 20/2 22/2 17/3 27/3 29/3 31/3 4/4 •JEPTUNE JADE 23 26/2 27/2
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    • 692 36 I^vST^^^^COMPANU^ERUANA 4 DE VAPORES 4 f "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" J 0 ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/FCL/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM 4 5 CALLAO, MATARANI, ILO* OTHER PERUVIAN PORTS' 2 WITH T/S AT KOBE ON CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING. K 5 Penang* P Kelang* Singapore Wk 5 SHAPLAEVERETT 21/22 Feb 8 P ROSEEVERETT 6/7 Mar
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    • 652 36 SING KWANG HANG I I SHIPPING a TRANSPORTATION (PTE) LTD WEEKLY LCL/FCL SERVICE [vessel Is pore Lakarta Surabaya JENWEL 14/2 17/2 IjENHOL M 3/2 116/2 [VESSEL I S PORE [BANGKOK A VESSEL 912 W* |A VESSEL 117/2 I2Q/2 DESTINATIONS ETA SINGAPORE PORT KELANG 9 FEB MANILA 16 FEB HONG KONG.
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    • 490 36 PERINTIS LINE I I WEEKLY FULL CONTAINER SERVICE ACCEPTING ALL FCL CARGOES BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND JAKARTA SURABAYA VESSEL VOY SINGAPORE JAKARTA ETA ETD ETA ETD PRASETIA 65A 7/2 8/2 10/2 11/2 PELOPOR 928 10/2 11/2 13/2 14/2 PRASETIA 67A 14/2 15/2 17/2 18/2 PELOPOR 929 17/2 18/2 20/2 21/2 SURABAYA
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    • 497 37 VSL DESTINATION ETA SIN 1 PIVA BHUM V.2UN BANGKOK I" Port SIRI BHUM V 435N BANGKOK 1M OCEAN CROWN V 13ft BANGKOK 14/2 PIYA BHUM V 212 ft BANGKOK 12/2 SO ASIA 07ft MANILA. CEBU I*2 AKA BHUM IKS MANILA CEBU W VIRA BHUM U CHITTAGONG. MONCLA 17/2 0 STRENGTH
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    • 146 38 jßeglTnql Weather SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND BEA CONDITIONS AT 0730 HOURS ON FEB 7,1900. LEGEND R Thunderstorm Temperature c X\ Weother Wind direction with speed in knots y Shower J j Rain Wove height Cloudy Sky Surface winds ore mdicoted by arrows which Hy with the wind One full circle represents
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  • Singaport '90
    • 562 39  -  By LINDA CHEE Shipping Correspondent HARDLY A DOT on the world map. Singapore steamed through the Eighties to become a world-class port. N gathered a string of credentials along the way the world's busiest port lor ship ton- nage and bunkers; the cheapeet shiprepair centre; the
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    • 701 40 By SINGAPORE TELECOM SINGAPORE, with its strategic position, has long been recognised as a financial and business centre. It also boasts one of the finest and busiest ports in the world. To maintain the competitive edge, a good communication infrastructure is a necessity. Singapore Telecom has, over
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    • 429 40 THE LAUNCHING of Inmarsat s global maritime satellite communications system in February 1982 ushered in a new era in maritime communications. Until the 1980s, ships on the high seas could only use the conventional HF and VHF radio facilities. Despite improvements in technology, radio communications
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    • 596 40  -  By CHAN KAH KHUEN By CHAN KAH KHUEN, Director, Business Development, Singapore Network Services TRADENET, the nation-wide Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) network, was launched on Jan 1, 1969. to service Singapore's international trading community. Implemented and managed by Singapore Network Services (SNS), it facilitates the
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    • 974 41  -  By LINDA CHEE, Shipping Correspondent THE PORT of Singapore has made its mark aa one of the world's leading ports in the development and implementation of expert systems and the use of electronic data interchange (EDI) for its services to port users.
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    • 851 41  -  By ERIC SCHONIS By ERIC SCHONIS, Operations Manager, Nedlleyd EAC Agencies Pte Ltd SINGAPORE, with its strategic position within the Pacific Rim, is in an excellent position to benefit from the consumer end exporters' market of "Europe 1992". The facilities offered
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    • 1013 42  -  By TAN KAY HOCK By TAN KAY HOCK, Chairman, Singapore Freight Forwarders Association SINCE the advent of containerise t ion. the market tor full-con-tainer-load (FCL) cargo has been the preserve of shipping lines. They initially provided port-to-port calls, but have moved increasingly to intermodal
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    • 1109 43  -  By LARS A SJOGREN Managing Director, Sembawang Johnson Management Pte Ltd a ALREADY the world's busiest port, Singapore's next logical step forward would be to provide a host of maritime activities such as ship brokering and chartering, ship financing, marine
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    • 880 44  -  By JAMES TAN HEE SER By JAMES TAN HEE SER, General Manager, Orient Container Warehousing Services Pte Ltd CONTAINER MAINTENANCE and repair has always been a major operating cost component, with the repair cost equal to about 50 per cent of the current
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    • 724 45  -  By CHIA CHE KIANG General Manager, Orient Marine Pte Ltd SINGAPORE'S marine supplies industry started in the pre-World War II days and has grown remarkably over the years. Nevertheless. it has not changed much in terms of operations. At present. an average of about 90 vessels
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    • 503 45  -  By M OKUNO By H OKUNO, Deputy Managing Director, Fuji Trading Singapore Pte Ltd SHIP SUPPLYING in Singapore, the world's busiest port, is clearly on the path to bigger and better things. Our free port status and strategic location at the crossroads of
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    • 711 46  -  By CHOO CHIAU BENG president of the Association of Singapore Marine Industries THE EIGHTIES has been a decade punctuated with both major crises and significant successes for the marine industry in Singapore After weathering one of the worst worldwide recessions in 1965. the industry
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    • 606 48 WITHIN SINGAPORE there is a concentration of storage and distribution activity along the southern seafront. Thia ia the Singapore Diatribelt a 3,700 hectare distribution zone embracing the container port, cargo conaolidation and warehouaing tacilitiea, and total infrastructursl support. The Distribelt stretches for about 20km from the
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    • 1076 49  -  By RAHITA ELIAS CALL ANY WAREHOUSE in Singapore today and the odds ara you'll find it fully bookad. Facilities are filled to the brim and operators in both the public and private sectors are furiously building to keep pace with the strong demand. The
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    • 1405 50 Pacific Basin's promising decade ahead b IHE NEXT DECADE will witness if-steady rise in bulk trsds in the e lfcia-Pacific region due to two 'Ifwm areas the rapid industrialisation in countries like Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand "Mhd the Indian sub-Continent; and
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    • 689 51  -  By LIM SOON NEO SINGAPORE is fast emerging as a "premium" sea-air cargo centre popular with Asian exporters looking for a quick but reasonably cheap way of sending their goods to Europe. Figures from the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) show that last
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    • 1173 51  -  By CHARLES STEPHAN Chairman and Managing Director, BOS Equipment Pte Ltd ALTHOUGH Singapore is only a small island in terms of land area. our transport industry is quite buoyant because of the large amount of goods that are transhipped, stored, redistributed
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    • 1132 52  -  By CHAN TUCK HOI Executive Director, Great Region Shipping Pte Ltd THE GEOGRAPHICAL EXPANSE of the market for container feeder operations, using Singapore as the regional hub. stretches fro<n the Philippines westward to the Indian Sub-Continent and from the Indo-Chinese Peninsula to Western
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    • 1375 53  -  By FOO SHIANG HUI Director/General Manager, Mitsui OSK Lines (S) Pte Ltd; Director, Hai Sun Hup Group NEVER BEFORE has Singapore been more poised to play a greater role in the region's shipping and distribution activities than in this new decade. Events
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    • 1247 54  -  Bunkering industry must upgrade facilities to meet rising demand By ROY TSOU Vice-President, Marketing, Singapore Petroleum Company Pte Ltd THE PORT of Singapore Authority has played a major role in promoting Singapore as a premier maritime centre with its total port concept. So far, the results
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    • 578 55  -  By E G VAN DAM MERRETT By E G VAN DAM MERRETT, General Manager, Tank Storage Singapore Pte Ltd Managing Director, Paktank Singapore Terminal Pte Ltd SINGAPORE'S Qradual development into an oil refinery and distribution centre of regional importance clearly gained momentum in the Eighties.
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    • 1062 55  -  By BRUCE A CONTI Executive Chairman, GATX Terminals (Pte) Ltd THE CHEMICAL storage and dis- I tribution industry worldwide has < been buoyant in the last two years due to higher demand for and rising prices of most chemicals Higher demand is linked with every major
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    • 1066 56  -  Br WALTON MORAIS THE DAYS of hanging out in sleazy bars along Tanjong Katong Chivas Regal in hand, buxom women on lap are pver for the boys in the shipping community. No, the wives are not up in arms, nor have they launched a crusade
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    • 733 57  -  By IAN LANCASTER Managing Director, Citicorp Insurance Brokers (Singapore) Pte Ltd THE EIGHTIES was a decade of great change in the shipping industry, with events that will have far-reaching effects for decades to come particularly in terms of marine insurance. Apart from
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    • 828 57  - Simex futures an alternative to shipowners By FRANKIE LIM CHOO BENG Vice-President, Energy Futures, Simex The Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX) High Sulphur Fuel Oil (HSFO) Contract ia the first energy futures to be traded in the Aaia Pacific Region. Since its inception on Feb 22. 1989. it haa progreased
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    • 819 58  -  :0 y JOHN H PETRIE General Manager, Eastman Kodak Co THE 1990's will see Singapore enhance its leading role as a central distribution hub in this part of the world. hThis position is not without good The Republic s advan- tages are obvious. The dominant
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    • 454 58  -  By ISAO YAMAZAKI Deputy General Manager, Sony Logistics (Singapore) AS RECENT AS FIVE YEARS ago Sony Corporation's production volume in South-east Asia was small compared with its other major operating regions in the United States. Europe and Japan In the past two
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    • 149 39 BnWiw^ v A Total Service to International Trade We have been moving for a century, transporting all types of goods over land and sea worldwide. Steamers Maritime Holdings is a leading transportation and distribution company based in Singapore. The Steamers Group comprises Straits Shipping Pte Ltd, Mansfield Container Shipping Pte
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    • 122 39 All the connections PMC TWO Standing tall with the help of expert technology PACE TIMS Freight forwarding industry facing new demands PAGE FOUR Can Singapore become a major shipmanagement centre? PACE RYE Providing a vital lifeline PACE SEVEN Charting a course into new territory PACE EIGHT The Singapore Distribelt PACE
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  • Page 40 Advertisements
    • 85 40 BRITAIN AT SINGAPORT '90 21 British Companies will participate in the British pavilion at the Singaport '90Exhibition at the World Trade Centre. High quality British Marine equipment, supplies and services featured will include Container lifting spreaders Couplings and Fittings Fire protection systems Load/Strain gauge monitors Marine diesel engine spares Marine
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    • 153 40 1111 B I A bi GROUP OF COMPANIES ■••'J wjA w lv^ J' SINGAPORE: ACCORD SHIPPING PTE LTD tV 10 Anson Road #11 -09/10/19, International Plaza I Singapore 0207 Tel: 225 5556 (24 lines) 1,. Fax 225 5346 /222 2972 Telex :RS ***** ACCORD L;, ACCORD CONTAINER LINE (S) PTE
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  • Page 41 Advertisements
    • 189 41 .1 "KOMATSU f CODlfl ICTQ KIMMAKINAKAM UM PUnimLir B£S£E5 m H Hi Nippon ExpressfS) TAKE THE LOAD j mm Being a leader in the clearing tonnes of heavy Mr and bulky cargo is no problem. How do we do it? Simple. We put our Komatsu Z Series' forklifts Our Komatsu
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  • Page 42 Advertisements
    • 335 42 I I i I I BMP!* UN^DIERWATER^COATING^^^I BSSS: >§•£! I CHUGOKU MARINE I 1 7-10 February 1990 I I Halls 3 5, World Trade Centre I I Singapore I I International exhibition and conference for the maritime industry I WML |H» flj flAjp I I X Come February 1990, the
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    • 100 42 "K" Line gives you Japan, Europe and North America every week. Every week, "K" Line connects Port Kelang and Penang with weekly fixed-day container service to Japan, Europe and North America. Its modern containership fleet gives Malaysian shippers superior Europe and North America services via Singapore. It also offers weekly
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  • Page 43 Advertisements
    • 496 43 I ECONOMIC TANK PROTECTION I I FOR CHEMICAL CARRIERS 4 A new generation tank ining system is announced by Sigma Coalings to provide flfl. fly an economic alternative protection of cargo tanks in the increased numbers of < fly 'parcel tankers' being ordered and commissioned to ship various grades of
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    • 305 43 /inritsu saura sait j pla.net OKI L Anntsu Corporation Shipmate International A/S saura Ka*< Swsafcusho Co Ud sail Marine International Ryokusetsha Corporator 00 Olc Elactnc Industry Co Lid J Oasfifi 1 JASON ELECTRONICS (PTE) LTD 3 5 i F COMMUNICATION NAVIGATION i 7»] jjj! Of °£S Jason Electronics has been
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    • 161 44 Introducing NAVIX LINE, a moving force in world resources. /f MMNX LINE NAVIX LINE proudly begins service on June 1, 1989 as one of the world's largest shipping lines. Incorporating the combined fleets of Y.S. Line and Japan Line, NAVIX LINE trampers, specialized carriers, tankers and others will link resources
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    • 75 44 lowing Mtd tiffinjnA •°OFFSHORE INDUSTRIES^Hi MARINE/SHIPPING jtapr /II CONSTRUCTION nufacturers yip LOGGING Wirerope Slings, We provide testing Wirerope-Nylon/ MjJJflrut facilities for Polypropylene Rope, sM? K Towing Shackle with Two-Piece Duplex Sleeves Nut Safety pjn Test-Bench upto 150,000 kg capacity ~~"~rter/ MINTERMARINE SUPPLY CO. (PTE) LTD.\ "S e l re nope
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  • Page 45 Advertisements
    • 35 45 @5135 MARINE SURVEYS YOUR DEDICATED SURVEYORS WE SERVE THE WORLD. WE SERVE YOU BETTER. S.G.S. Singapore (Pte) Ltd. 71, AYER RAJAH CRESCENT #07-18 AYER RAJAH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE SINGAPORE 0513 TEL: *****50 TLX: R*****3 FAX: *****45
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    • 110 45 r— |^^ggag|l^H I W* fo i>> .^4^l s H i I i v aH arelomflnitted to JijliS| I container fleets some the advanced and accurate easy-to-access cargo documentation our extensive inland transportation -xl' v -networks including trucks and trains r a worldwide organisation of dedicated Maersk shipping professionals .our philosophy:
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  • Page 46 Advertisements
    • 60 46 B—^ I With Best Compliments I 1 ii ffi IP flfe| ills #A% §#0 m Si SK ii a 8 Mm mm&Amw i H iHJ THONG SOON LINES PTE. LTD. j fl§ tri hm lik if H IUI IS m i |i| ll 51 Bias Basah Road. #01-01 Plaza By
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    • 956 47 We don't just rent you GENERATORS, m *g| Pr ftJ II L^fc: 0 SN Hi*" we supply ELECTRICITY to ensure your ship sails on SCHEDULE. In keeping with this tradition, I Renting from Yeow Kong I 99HHHH I Yeow Kon S now an international company HMUItS in MvingS of /\M
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    • 68 48 QstriP" rk Total Ser vIC \A/he r realitya distin ct o^Ce^°lor*»« in Ke<e in ,„<l«»«'«« JOC, I .«-SSS--5aSS sft-, w Some 90. oQO s q mdi fnodew (j ar eas. i aircond 1 0 ~nationo ,o riet j SC vIC n d deco' lS 'issss-"" standa^ 5 It Contact us
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    • 118 48 WE ARE PREPARED TO SERVE YOU FROM LOCATIONS AROUND THE WORLD X i|| T~. < "'^V^SsHHh^ v > UMi^BI^HK^V *X. f y S* \]t f ■unMk *v <^H>n <^Hpß^, M V? T» Kansai Paint has been a creative and imaginative leader in the paint-manufacturing industry ever since its foundation in
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    • 198 49 FQRKLIFT 4 in TCTti 11R BI 'fl HI I 9 l w Everything about Nissan Forklifts provides I rPi the support you can expect from Nissan. i r -m. BL The first and proven Full Floating Cab f /73l System that virtually eliminates seat yJ lL !!ny( lh vibration. di
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    • 114 49 I t I The world as we see it. After many years in I t shipping, the world takes on a different perspective. Oceans become smaller; distances shorter.... inriras I At Neptune Agencies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Neptune Orient Lines Limited, we deliver shipments to any part of the
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  • Page 50 Advertisements
    • 61 50 Yowr reliable shipping contact in Singapore Ship-Managers Ship-Agents We manage in excess of 2.7 million D W We handle in excess of 450 port calls annually Tanker Chartering Sale and purchase brokers THOME SHIP MANAGEMENT PTE LTD SHIPMANAGERS AGENTS flll THOME PARTNERS PTE. LTD. TANKER-CHARTERING S&P Postal: P.O. Box 2844
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    • 146 50 INTERCREW (S) PTE LTD Crew recruitment, selection and training I by shipping and offsrtlore experts in Singapore and Europe. Our managers have beejl active in shipping and offshore for many years. On the job as well as behind the desk. They have designed and judged all kinds of collective and
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  • Page 52 Advertisements
    • 60 52 SEA-LAND'S WORLD OF INTERMODALISM MEANS: DOOR-TO-DOOR AS A FINE ART. CONVENIENCE PLUS SAVINGS IN TIME AND MONEY. A COMPLICATED PROCESS GREATLY SIMPLIFIED. IT TAKES DEDICATION AND, ABOVE ALL, COMMITMENT. I I I I I <wW 1 i FOR FURTHER ENQUIRIES. PLEASE CALL 200 CANTONMENT ROAD #05-03 SOUTHPOINT BUILDING W M
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    • 48 52 fcvjlfafa'. NOORD NATIE is the largest independent and fully private cargo handling company in the port of Antwerp, Belgium. NOORD NATIE is specialised in RO-RO and container handling and takes care of all kinds of forwarding formalities. Tel:o3/232.99.40 Tlx: ***** Fax: 03/233.39.36 Stadswaag 7-8 2000 ANTWERPEN BELGIUM, EUROPE
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  • Page 53 Advertisements
    • 176 53 COLLIER ENGINEERING MACHINERY PTY. LTD. IN CONJUNCTION WITH SYNTsSH ENGINEERS PTE LTD SWIFTLIFTER THE ULTIMATE IN CONTAINER HANDLING EQUIPMENT. ONE PERSON OPERATION §§JPP\ *>' j Ik I f I wm* #i^Bpy^y]||R^^ I U tiH vHp n ft yy FEATURES The Swiftlifter is a self contained lifting trailer designed to safely
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    • 115 53 I i to the ends of i earth for you. j 5 of the biggest, most experienced liner opern the business, Nippon Liner System is mov--5 goods and materials the world needs every i of every day. our worldwide fleet isn't moving containers 1-to-port, our intermodular ervices are moving them
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  • Page 54 Advertisements
    • 72 54 frorfft/on of service and innovation 77 jt-i jfiMu-v P Ganaf* hjH* S*ngapor« *fl*« •X EVERGREEN INTERNATIONAL CORP. B™ SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD evtf ljBSuP Hamburg (040) *****0 London (01) *****32 Los Angeles (213) *****00 78 Shemoo Way »2S-01 Singapore 0207 New VWk (201) *****00 Tape. (02) *****66 Tokyo (03) *****01
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    • 47 54 A I Khii K\ y H 1 I «gjl j&Btwffj M 1 l R—— yj| lK#l H V f* ggft '.^H^ 1 W t mRHNK* jMS II V| k" 1 B r~ 1 *"—"""STUFSELRUI 34 2000 ANTWERPEN TEL.: 03/220 60 11 TELEX: ***** FAX: 03/220 62 62
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  • Page 55 Advertisements
    • 230 55 The people to see before you take to the sea. For CHARTS. For INSTRUMENT RFPAIR Complete worldwide coverage of British Admiralty charts and publications available Own Instrument Repair Workshop on for supply 7 days a week. Daily chart premises, Sextants, Barometers Pressure correction service. Also officially appointed Gauges repaired and
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    • 252 55 WORLDWIDE jr* LINER 4|B SERVICES |gg| Jeddah Container Service Mediterranean Container Service Barcelona. Kos Marseilles. Genoa. I Pacific South West Container i>'<ilL'jfa& "■"Twyy. Also via from I us Angeles f Houston. Dallas. Memphis. Chicago. •'•»:■<f New Orleans. Columbus. New York and all major points ISA/Canada Pacific North West Aj^SPRHE Container
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  • Page 56 Advertisements
    • 80 56 'With CompCiments GOLDEN LINE fS- i* 51 GUAN SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. SHIPOWNERS SHIPPING AGENTS i Branches: Hong Kong, Port Klang, Johore Port, Kuantan, Penang, Jakarta, Sabah, Sarawak. i! Regular Services: I China Hong Kong Indonesia Malaysia j Bay of Bengal Sri Lanka India Pakistan Persian Gulf Ports. 1 *1 *4
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    • 69 56 News that makes waves S [itcQ MAHA BHUM 3 Latest newbuilding a 1248 TEU J5355 superfeeder inaugurates its SSSSSm Bangkok-Singapore service by gS£S£ Ist quarter 1990. The fourth generation container carrier features increased effective capacity with m improved speed offering the benefits of H advancements in technology and navigation. I
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  • Page 57 Advertisements
    • 70 57 —jhk: —"B' i J M* l irl-lTTwy BKKk t fIHHiiHHIHHiHHHHHIHHIHHHB9HA J&jfS&kf 24 CHIA PING ROAD SINGAPORE 2261 TEL:*****55 FAX: *****43, *****74 MMB SERVICE KAWATETSU BRIGHTSTAR Hfe"V MLI cTfirviCT for- Ultrasonic Thickness Flashlights ■1# Ml STOCKIST FOR. Indicators COTTON RAGS Uw MIURA CO., LTD FLEXOTUBE-TRIDENT From Holland Marine Division Descaling Machine
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  • Page 58 Advertisements
    • 203 58 In the shipping industry, however small or v; s tional financial transactions are an important p< ciently money moves around the world can ot v associates overseas, but can also have a direct ho o International Corporate Center was esu >1 si businesses like yours. Small enough to give you
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