The Business Times, 3 April 1990

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  • 10 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 170/12/89 Tuesday April 3 1990 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 64 1 JAPANESE Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu yesterday telephoned LIS President George Bush to say that he had sent two personal envoys to Washington to emphasise his commitment to resolve bilateral trade issues. White House spokesman Martin Fitzwater said the two would also carry a
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    • 28 1 THE TDB's Approved International Trader scheme may offer tax incentives for major players in the trading game, but there is a price Page 2
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    • 15 1 THE MYSTERY of the Raffles Place typhoid case has been solved Page 2
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    • 20 1 THE US trade deficit with Thailand increased by US$B3B million to US$2.l billion last year Page 7
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    • 18 1 THE VIETNAMESE government has undergone a major reshuffle and emerged with a streamlined Cabinet. Page 7
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    • 29 1 US and Japanese negotiators are meeting to try to remove broader obstacles that stand in the way of increased US exports to Japan Page 8
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    • 26 1 A GOVERNMENT PANEL has recommended an 11-year, US$3O billion project to help ease massive traffic congestion in six Korean cities Page 8
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    • 22 1 SOME 75 private and public collections are found in a tribute at the Vincent van Gogh National Museum. Page 15
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    • 29 1 THE INDIAN CABINET has vetoed plans by the Shipping Corporation of India to buy 15 ships at a cost of Ssl billion. Shipping Times Page One
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 37 1 WALL STREET stocks traded moderately lower yesterday, after the Tokyo market posted its second-biggest point fall in history. The Dow Jones industrial average slid 21.17 points to 2,686.04 after half an hour of trading.
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    • 48 1 SHARE PRICES were sharply lower in London at midday yesterday, hurt by a near-record fall in Tokyo share prices and violent riots in London over the weekend. At about 1115 GMT, the FTSE 100-Sharc Index was 32.3 points, or 1.4 per cent, lower at 2,215.6. AP
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    • 30 1 THE GENTING Highlands group will invest Ms4so million over the next five years to build new facilities and upgrade existing ones at its resort in Genting. Page 3
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    • 30 1 ACMA shareholders can at last hope to get out of the deep freeze the former refrigerator maker has been in the last few years Page 3
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    • 18 1 AN OCBC SUBSIDIARY is Australia's latest foreign bank to incur a loss Page 6
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Monday Change BT-MGA 768.75 -16.59 Kuala Lumpur .2,961.78 -90.46 Hongkong 2,934.70 -63.28 Tokyo 28,002.07 -1,978.38 Sydney 1,506.8 -27.8 Friday Change New York 2,707.21 -20.49 London 2,247.9 -15.1
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    • 22 1 Exchange rates US$ S$ 1.8870 Yen (100) SSl.1794 MS SS0.6908 Money market rates Overnight 4% -2 3/16 3-montn 6 5/16% unch
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    • 35 1 London Gold PM fix US$368.40 -US$0.10 Rubber S'pore May 155.25«/kg +1.00 M'sia May 226.00*/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 154tonnes +46 Spot M$17.98/kg +0.20 Crude palm oil futures Turnover 561 lots -373 April M$677/tonne -3
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  • 426 1  -  By Lim Mui Khi INVESTORS in Tokyo yesterday went on a selling spree after reading a newspaper report that major financial institutions would be clearing their share positions. It also led to declines in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hongkong and Sydney, albeit not to the extent of Tokyo's.
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  • 268 1 BRITAIN'S pound sterling and the London stock market fell sharply yesterday morning after weekend violence in London linked to the introduction of a new local tax to replace the property rating system. Concerns that the riots would weaken British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's leadership
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  • 270 1  -  By Shoeb Kagda SINGAPORE Airlines is looking to leasing or purchasing warehouse space at major international airports to cope with the growth of its cargo capacity, said SlA's acting director of marketing services, Mr Joseph Chew. The move is to avert future
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  • 132 1 AFP THE EUROPEAN Community yesterday put forward proposals to protect intellectual property and to deal toughly with the pirating and counterfeiting of goods throughout the world. The proposals were put to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt). Some estimates put the value
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  • 245 1  -  By Hong Lee Tiam THE US dollar yesterday soared to a 39-month high of 160.35 yen in Tokyo following a report that Japan's major insurance companies were planning to sell large blocks of shares. The report by the Nikon Keizai Skimbun financial daily was
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  • 83 1 Reuter THE US National Association of Purchasing Management's monthly index of economic activity rose to 48.8 per cent last month from 48.3 in February. A reading below 50 per cent indicates the manufacturing sector of the US econ- omy generally is declining, while a reading above
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  • 341 1 AP THE US regained its position as the world's leading exporter last year after having lost it to West Germany for several years, according to the International Monetary Fund. The IMF announced over the weekend that US foreign sales were worth US$364 billion
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 67 2 SINGAPORE TELECOM and the Communications Authority of Thailand have launched a mobile service link for their mobile phone users. Singapore subscribers will be able to reserve mobile phones for use when they visit Thailand; the phones can be used in Bangkok, Chiangmai, Hatyai, Khonkoen,
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      • 77 2 A GROUP of Singapore manufacturers will leave for an investment mission to Penang from this Wednesday to Saturday. The mission, which is organised by the Singapore Manufacturers' Association (SMA), is in response to an earlier visit by the Penang Chief Minister and his team. SMA's president,
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      • 75 2 RANK XEROX's expertise in quality practices will be shared at a chief executive officer breakfast talk jointly organised by Rank Xerox (Singapore) Pte Ltd and the National Productivity Board. Mr John Grattan, manager of Quality Intensification for Xerox Corporation's worldwide development and 'manufacturing operations, will give a
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      • 57 2 TELEPHONE subscribers who need a telephone installed at certain premises for only a few days can now tap a new service of Singapore Telecom. The Temporary Telephone Service is now available at some funeral parlours, temples and a crematorium. Plans are afoot to extend the service to
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      • 113 2 IN OUR front page story last Wednesday on Jade House being demolished, it was reported that the Aw family had struck a deal to sell the site near the junction of Tanglin and Nassim roads. We have been informed by the owners that that is not so.
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    • 392 2  -  By Lilian Ang TRADING HOUSES hoping to take advantage of the new Approved International Trader (AIT) scheme will have to contribute something in return they will have to help build up the pool of trading expertise in Singapore. The ruling, aimed at taking Singapore one step
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    • 349 2 SINGAPORE enjoyed a boom in bank credit in January with total bank loans expanding at a brisk pace of 25 per cent. This high rate was recorded after adjustments for a temporary upsurge in bank financing for the subscription of shares for Kim
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    • 93 2 OFFICIALS were bracing for a flood, but the first day that the public could tender for a licence to buy new cars saw only a trickle. Could the motoring public have lost its desire for new wheels? Not likely. A safer bet is that kia
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    • 256 2  -  By Magdalene Ng THE MINISTRY of the Environment revealed yesterday that it had been notified of 14 local cases of typhoid fever in the past fortnight. The reply came two weeks after a BT report that at least six people working in
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 279 3 Other indices Close Previous Net change Apr 2 Mar 30 BT Composite 1328.44 1356.54 -28.10 BT-MGA 768.75 785.34 -16.59 ST Industrials 1549.19 1581.08 -31.89 BT OB/OS -220 -152 -68 BT CADI -5642 -5510 -132 BT 10-day MA -5415 -5393 -22 BTOBV +*****09 +*****96 -***** ST Finance 2588.83
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 68 3 UNITED INDUSTRIAL Corporation is now 2.34 per cent away from triggering a general offer for Singapore Land with the latest acquisition of 250,000 Sing Land shares. UIC, UIC Enterprise and Mr Oei Hong Leong acquired the shares at an average $14.57 a share on March
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      • 82 3 PARKWAY HOLDINGS has signed a US$4O million revolving credit facility with a group of banks on March 29, for its US-based subsidiary, Harborview Corporation. The facility, guaranteed by Parkway Holdings and Parkway Properties Pte Ltd, is for the construction of the Harborview project in Baltimore. The
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      • 57 3 SELANGOR Dredging, in a reply to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, said that it had only started preliminary prospecting, and has not started gold mining activities. However, it confirmed an earlier report that said it was entering into an agreement with Perlombongan Seri Selatan
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      • 24 3 VAN DER HORST said that Messrs Mohanraj Abraham and Cheang Wai Yew have stepped down as directors of the company.
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    • 303 3  -  By Elaine Koh CEREBOS PACIFIC, for which there is now an unconditional general offer by Japan's liquor giant, Suntory, has acquired a specialist tea and coffee business in New Zealand. The NZ$7-million purchase of Robert Harris Tea Coffee Specialists Ltd was made by subsidiary
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    • 259 3 INCREASED SALES lifted Lee Kim Tah Holdings Ltd's attributable profit to $1.11 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1989, a 149 per cent improvement over the $2.26 million loss a year earlier. The construction group's achievement came on a 94 per cent increase in
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    • 490 3  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN b> William Chia ALTHOUGH Acma Electrical Industries has released financial results which showed it moving deeper into the red last year, the company is laying the groundwork for a strong turnaround in the current year. Acma,
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    • 539 3  -  By Magdalene Ng REVAMPED Resorts World Bhd a subsidiary of gaming and leisure-based Genting Bhd is investing some Ms4so million over the next five years to turn Genting Highlands into a fully integrated premier holiday resort in the region. Chairman Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong
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    • 521 3 MBT RIGHTS ISSUES proposed by Malaysian-listed companies in the first quarter of this year will tap over Msl billion from the market. Thirteen companies have proposed cash calls that will result in 879.95 million new shares. All the rights issues proposed are subject to
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 539 4 Reuter MAJOR Japanese life and non-life insurance companies have no intention of conducting a major sell-off of stocks in the near future, managers at their finance and investment planning departments said. Fear that the insurers would dump domestic shares to restructure their portfolios
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    • 360 4 Reuter THE Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd said it will merge with National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Ltd, paying A 53.4 billion for a 51-per-cent stake in the enlarged National Mutual. ANZ said in a statement in Melbourne that the transaction
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    • 196 4 Reuter BOND CORP HOLDINGS Ltd's 51.6 per cent owned Bond Media Ltd said it has gained an extension on a debt repayment deadline and that Bankers Trust Australia Ltd will underwrite half of its future senior debt over the next three years. A syndicate of
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    • 184 4 HONGKONG Cloae Open High Low Xokmmt duo* Hang Seng Index 2,934 2,992 2,992 2,931 -63 Hang Seng Spot 2,945 2,950 2,959 2,938 668 -40 Close Prrnoos N« Chaogr Apr 2 Mar 30 Hang Seng Finance 2,011.27 2,045.33 -43.06 Hang Seng Utilities 3,603.64 3,673.52 -69 88 Hang Seng
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    • 500 4 NYT THIS year's steep drop in prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange may have saved the world's largest company, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp, from being broken up. For three years, debate has raged within the Japanese government over proposals to split
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 410 5 INTERNATIONAL services and marketing group Inchcape pic reported profit before extraordinary item of £99.4 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1989, up from £84.1 million a year earlier. Turnover rose to £2.95 billion from £2.45 billion. The motors division continued to
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    • 257 5 Reuter UAL CORP's directors last week reviewed but failed to act on a "concept" presented by Los Angeles investor Marvin Davis which calls for a merger agreement, subject to financing, at a price in excess of the board's US$22O a share asking price, according
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 112 5 Reuter PHARMACEUTICAL group SmithKline Beecham pic has sold its Ambrosia, Marmite and Bovril food businesses and brands to CPC International Inc for £157 million. Ambrosia milk-based desserts, Marmite yeast extract and Bovril drinks and cooking aids had total sales of £89 million in 1989, SmithKline said.
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      • 98 5 NYT CORPORATE America kept to a steady pace in raising money from the securities markets in the year's first quarter, but that trend brought little joy to Wall Street, since underwriting fees remained low. A respectable total of U5577.7 billion in securities was issued in
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      • 62 5 Reuter WEST GERMAN national carrier Deutsche Lufthansa AG is taking a 40 per cent stake in Sun Express, a new Turkish charter airline linking airports in West Germany and Austria with Turkey. The new airline will start operations on April 4, flying from Frankfurt, Dusseldorf,
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    • 478 5 NYT HAROLD C SIMMONS, the Texas investor some would call a corporate raider, knew he had an image problem when he decided to seek control of Lockheed Corp. So he made a videotape to portray himself to institutional shareholders as a former drugstore
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    • 167 5 Reuter SWEDISH steel producer Uddeholms AB has agreed in principle to form a strategic alliance with Austria's Voest Alpine Stahl AG. The alliance is expected to make Uddeholms and Voest's subsidiary Boehler combined the world's biggest producer of steel for tool production. Under the complex
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    • 175 5 Reuter THE HONGKONG government sold half the 6.8 per cent stake 377.54 million shares that it held in Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd to a wholly owned subsidiary of Cable and Wireless pic. The government exchange fund's shareholding in HK Telecom has been reduced to 3.4
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 671 6  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY BANK of Singapore (Australia), a subsidiary of the OCBC Bank group, is the latest foreign bank in Australia to report a loss for its 1989 financial year. The subsidiary lost Asl.l million during the year to Dec 31,
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    • 567 6  -  TAKING COVER By Paul Frankland AT LAST, the end is in sight! Not of the world, but of my insurance alphabet. It ends today in fact, as indeed it should, with the unlikely letters, X, Y and Z. Sort of the ugly sisters of the
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    • 188 6 Reuter TAIWAN'S cabinet has approved a Finance Ministry proposal to set up the first new banks in almost a decade, a statement said. The proposal follows a new banking law passed by parliament in July 1989. Under the new rules, a new bank must have
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 93 6 MITSUI Taiyo Kobe Bank Ltd, a merger of two major Japanese banks, opened its doors yesterday, becoming the world's second-largest bank in terms of deposits. After a signboard with the new bank's name and its cherry blossom logo was unveiled, Finance Minister Ryutaro
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      • 91 6 FURTHER falls in short-term interest rates can be expected in the next few months, along with downward pressure on the Australian dollar, the National Australia Bank Ltd said in its March quarterly summary. But with inflation likely to stay high, particularly given the prospect of
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      • 55 6 THE Bank of France has lowered its intervention rate to 9.75 per cent from a previous 10 per cent. It also lowered the five-to-10 day repurchase rate to 10.50 per cent from 10.75 per cent. The rates were last changed on Dec 18, when they
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      • 96 6 CHINA asked Japanese commercial banks to extend for another year an expiring credit line it set up with them five years ago. The banks have yet to decide whether to accept China's request, but some seem willing to do so. The US$2 billion line, due to
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  • THE REGION
    • 504 7 THE US trade deficit with Thailand for 1989 increased by US$B3B million to US$2.l billion, according to the sth Annual National Trade Estimates released last Friday by the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the Bangkok Post reported. The report classified
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    • 168 7 AFP THAI DEPUTY Prime Minister Pong Sarasin is to pay official visits to the Soviet Union, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia from April 9 to 15 to explore trade potential in those countries. A Thai government official said in Bangkok yesterday that Mr Pong
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    • 248 7 Bernama CERTAIN construction materials can be imported if there is really a shortage of them to cater for the needs of the Malaysian construction industry, Works Minister, Datuk Leo Moggie said yesterday. He said that the government would allow the materials to be imported
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    • 115 7 Bernama SUDAN wants to increase its bilateral trade with Malaysia, its finance and economic planning minister Dr Ahmed Ali Zakki said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. At present, both countries only have limited trade with each other. Sudan only imports some palm oil and manufacturing
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    • 125 7 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN Bar Council received 43 claims totalling M 51.39 million from various parties for losses incurred due to dishonesty by five lawyers who were struck off the rolls of advocates and solicitors last year. Council vice-president Manjeet Singh Dhillon said the claims were
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    • 273 7 AP A PHILIPPINE Senate committee yesterday suspended hearings into allegations of US links to a coup attempt under pressure from President Corazon Aquino. "I can't do anything in the interest of good relations with the executive department," said senator Ernesto Maceda, chairman of the
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    • 174 7 AFP THE HANOI government underwent a major reshuffle last Sunday and emerged with a streamlined Cabinet that has 10 portfolios less than the previous one. Local newspapers yesterday reported that the new structure, which had several ministries combined within a single portfolio, aimed to improve the
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 117 7 AFP PRESIDENT SUHARTO will be leading Indonesia's delegation to the first summit of the G-15 group of developing countries in Kuala Lumpur in June. Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas told journalists in Jakarta yesterday that a Malaysian delegation was expected in the Indonesian capital
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      • 77 7 AFP AN INDONESIAN STATE FIRM is currently exploring setting up a plant to produce disposable syringes in the Soviet Union under a newly-formed joint venture. Indonesian Health. Minister Adhyatma told journalists in Jakarta yesterday that the company, P T Kimia Farma, had already set up
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      • 82 7 AFP THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Kuala Lumpur will repatriate 13 Vietnamese boat people who have offered to go home tomorrow. A UNHCR official said yesterday that the group, whose ages ranged from 42 to three years, included seven males, four
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      • 45 7 Bernama TOWN-BOUND TRAFFIC using the recently opened MS 103 million Sultan Mahmud Bridge in Kuala Terengganu began paying toll yesterday. The alternative for those unwilling to pay the toll is the old route using the Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Bridge. Bernama
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 67 8 AFP THE BRITISH ECONOMY is likely to grow by 1.1 per cent this year, less than half of its growth rate last year. According to a forecast by the Confederation of British Industry published yesterday, the trade deficit is expected to fall to £14.8
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      • 68 8 Reuter SOUTH KOREA'S ruling party went on record yesterday as saying that the Soviet Union and South Korea have agreed to normalise relations before the end of the year. It was the most clear-cut announcement so far on the timing of the proposed establishment of
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      • 56 8 Reuter SEVERAL THOUSAND SPANIARDS peacefully marched last Sunday to an airbase used by US forces to demand the withdrawal of US troops and Spain's pullout from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. The communist-backed protesters, chanting "No to Nato" and "Bases out" marched 20 km to
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      • 72 8 AFP HUNGARY'S centre-right Democratic Forum party and the liberal Free Democrats face mounting pressure to form a coalition amid fears that the country could be plunged into a crisis without such an alliance. Quoting Western diplomats, the Sunday paper Vasarnapi Hirek said "only cooperation between
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    • 448 8 Reuter BUOYED BY SUCCESS in resolving several specific trade disputes, US and Japanese negotiators began a two-day meeting yesterday to try to remove broader "structural" roadblocks that stand in the way of increased American exports to Japan. The negotiators opened a new round
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    • 367 8 AP AFP A GOVERNMENT panel recommended yesterday an 11-year, US$3O billion project to help ease massive traffic congestion in six South Korean cities. The recommendations were presented to President Roh Tae-Woo by a panel headed by Prime Minister Kang Young-Hoon. The panel
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    • 217 8 AFP FRANCE is considering scrapping visas in the near future for tourists from all Eastern Europran countries except the Soviet Union, Albania and Yugoslavia. Sources in Paris said over the weekend that France would also try, from yester- 1 day, to reach
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    • 234 8 AFP MOST Latin American and Caribbean countries posted disappointing economic results in 1989, the last year of a "lost decade" in the region, the Inter-American Development Bank said in a report published on Sunday. Economic growth for the region was a lacklustre 0.7*
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    • 240 8 Reuter STRENGTHENED management and market-oriented strategies have been key factors in helping leading British building societies cope successfully with the challenges of deregulation and a stagnant housing market, says US rating agency Standard and Poor's. The agency said in a report issued yesterday
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    • 180 8 ITiere is no cause for alarm. else remains much the same. for hourly, daily, weekly and West Malaysia, at Kuala IMmpur What you have just witnessed is We still have the biggest and monthly rental. and Penang. Another change a simple name change. newest fleet of self-drive rental And we
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  • 442 10 EDITORIAL ASEAN, so often held up as the epitome of regional cooperation, came in for some forthright comment from Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin last week. Opening a roundtable discussion here, Datuk Paduka Daim had strong words for the parlous state of economic cooperation in the
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 219 10 IN ITS final form, the Bill providing for Nominated MPs incorporated several significant amendments. Chief among these is the "sunrise" provision giving the next Parliament the right to decide whether it wants to carry on with the system. MPs in the next Parliament will be free
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    • 158 10 THE FIRST batch of NMPs will have a heavy responsibility and a difficult job before them. They must prove by their performance that they are different from the elected MPs. But judging from the present standards of parliamentary debates and the performance of some outstanding MPs, it
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    • 144 10 THOUGH HE is into his fourth term in office, there is nothing for the Australian Prime Minister, Robert Hawke, to be happy about following his recent slim victory. His majority was slashed from 22 in the last Parliament to about six to eight, as the results are
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 173 10 GUIDELINES on how stockbroking firms can merge to be better equipped to cope with a rapidly growing market have just been released by the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) Committee. These guidelines, to meet the new requirement of a 10-fold increase in minimum paid-up capital, from
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    • 185 10 MANY Hongkong home-buyers paying mortgages or other loans will be calculating the impact of yesterday's decision to increase interest rates by one per cent. One concern created by higher interest rates is the effect on the property market, especially for small and medium-size flats, which have
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    • 123 10 IT NOW LOOKS as though the neutral camps for displaced Cambodians proposed earlier by the prime minister will be located inside Thailand. Government agencies dealing with the issue, including the National Securities Council, have agreed to recommend that the Chatichai administration put the idea into practice. The
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  • 740 10  -  Economics Correspondent Kenneth James recently met Dr Noordin Sopiee, head of Malaysia's premier think tank Kenneth James THE WHITE colonial building isn't large it used to be the residence of a senior government official. Staff size, by the institute's own description, is a
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  • 204 10 A 1986 PROFILE of Isis direc-tor-general Noordin Sopiee was headlined "He who would be Kissinger," a reference to the pipesmoking intellectual's preference for making his points behind the scenes. This image of political reticence notwithstanding, Dr Noordin, 45, is hardly your shy retiring type.
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 893 11  -  The ambitious US-Mexico free trade pact could create a common market to compete with the EC and the Pacific Rim, writes Vivian Perry Vivian Perry Reuter MEXICO is considering a free trade deal with the United States its dominating northern neighbour that swallowed
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    • 879 11  -  Yoichi Funabashi reports on two diplomatic incidents which symbolise the weakness of the political leadership in Japan Yoichi Funabashi Asahi WO RECENT inciI 1 dents involving Japa- nese leaders have I become the subject of JL much conversation in America's capital. One is "the incident
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    • 840 11  -  Democracy, generally, is a scruffy business. But in Taiwan it can also mean a punch in the nose, says Andrew Quinn. Andrew Quinn Reuter TAKE ON a Taiwan senator in a political debate and you are just as likely to
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    • 291 12 APPLE COMPUTER has filed a criminal complaint in Taiwan against five individuals for infringement of its copyright and trademark rights under Taiwan law. Following that, police raided two companies believed to "pirate" Apple's products. A company spokesman said the action was line with its policy of protecting its
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    • 677 12 NYT ENGINEERS at the University of Michigan arc experimenting with inexpensive liquids that, in response to high electric fields, can change from the consistency of water to peanut butter in a fraction of a sccond. These electro-rhcological fluids are
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    • 442 13  - A hot spot by default? Funds could be heading for US markets, writes Chet Currier Chet Currier AP AS THEY LOOK FOR potential winners in the international investment derby of the early *****, some analysts are touting a recent also-ran by the name of the United States. The idea isn't
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    • 529 13 NYT THE UP-AND-DOWN performance of the world's stock markets in the first quarter of 1990 has left international portfolio managers with some tough investment decisions. With the Japanese stock market plunging 23 per cent through March, the question is whether the bottom is
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    • 708 13 NYT AS THE SECOND QUARTER begins, evidence is building that suggests conditions in the besieged market for highyield "junk bonds" may have stabilised and that a turnaround could be in the offing. Investors in that market could surely use some good news.
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    • 678 14 TELEVISION AND RADIO A 1 1 ~sici2 I 930 —A» or Nolhin 8 3.42 Saytap of the Prepkat BUSINESS ON RADIO classical art form ™m m, Odd Man Out. The fnend- b .d to exploit the cheap la- Hayat 9 JSam, 1.30PM, ship between Kevin and Paul hour market, a
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    • 815 15  -  Michael Kimmelman appraises an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of the artist's death Michael Kimmelman NYT THE exhibition of Vincent van Gogh's work that has just opened in Amsterdam at the Vincent van Gogh National Museum and at the Kroelier-Mueller National Museum in the nearby town
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    • 529 15 Reuter FILM STAR Kathleen Turner is proud of the work she's done in the theatre, but, unlike many actresses, she won't express a preference for stage or screcn. "I don't prefer either, I want both," she said in a recent interview. "I love
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    • 258 15 CHATTERBOX Agencies PHOTOGRAPHER David Douglas Duncan, who has published six books on Pablo Picasso, said last Friday he is donating four drawings by the famed painter to raise funds for Aids-afflicted children and orphans in Romania. Duncan, 74, said the paintings, given to
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  • SPORTS
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      • 100 16 AP CHARLES BARKLEY scored 31 points and Mike Gminski had 19 points and 13 rebounds last Sunday as the Philadelphia 76ers won their seventh straight game 141-112 over the Phoenix Suns. In Boston, the Celtics triumphed 133-125 over Orlando. Larry Bird scored 36 points,
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      • 66 16 AFP NORMAL SERVICE was resumed in snooker last Sunday as Steve Davis won the Benson and Hedges Masters in Eire for the fifth time and ended his five-month barren spell. But while it may not quite have been vintage Davis as he defeated Northern Ireland's Dennis Taylor
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      • 65 16 Reuter ENGLAND WILL PLAY five Tests on its four-month tour of Australia in 1990/91. The Australian Cricket Board said yesterday that the English team, which would arrive on Oct 19 and leave after the fifth Test on Feb 6, would also play a match against an
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      • 75 16 AP THREE GOALS in the second period and one into an empty net gave the Edmonton Oilers a 4-2 away victory over the Winnipeg Jets as the teams finished the regular NHL season last Sunday with a warm-up game for their Smythe Division play-off series. Jari Kurri,
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      • 69 16 AP CREWS ARE WORKING feverishly in Italy to finish projects for the 1990 World Cup, but they're running out of time. The tournament begins on June 8, but the organising committee says seven of the 12 stadiums aren't complete. The delivery date for the
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    • 556 16 AP ROBERT GAMEZ's perfect seven-iron shot at Bay Hill not only altered Greg Norman's expression, it also put a new look on the 54th Masters. The theme for the first of the year's great golf championships remains the same: Americans fighting off international domination
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    • 455 16 AP SIMON BROWN stopped Tyrone Trice with a potent combination 51 seconds into the 10th round on Sunday to defend his International Boxing Federation welterweight crown for a seventh consecutive time. Brown (32-1) put Trice against the ropes and then repeatedly pounded the challenger with a
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    • 290 16 AP SECOND-SEEDED Michael Chang of the United States survived another upset bid by fellow American Jim Grabb to capture the Volvo Chicago tennis tournament on Sunday, 7-6 (7-4), 1-6, 6-4. Chang, ranked ninth in the world, broke the tournament's fifth-seeded player in the 10th and final
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    • 259 16 AFP ENGLAND'S last tour match before the final two tests ended in a tame draw after Desmond Haynes, Barbados" captain refused to make a game of it despite having a lead of 391 runs at lunch. The declaration, which could have come mid-way through
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    • 262 16 AP THE FINAL two hours of the Dinah Shore tournament seemed like an eternity to Betsy King. "It was maybe the longest two hours of my life," King said on Sunday after she stumbled down the final seven holes but survived to win by two
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    • 178 16 AP KATERINA MALEEVA continued her string of upsets on Sunday, capturing the Virginia Slims of Houston by defeating reigning French Open champion Arantxa Sanchez 6-1, 1-6, 6-4. The fourth-seeded Maleeva, ranked 12th in the world, reached the title match by upseting top-seeded Martina Navratilova in
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    • 232 16 AFP FADING LIGHT saved defending champion West Germany and held up Argentina on the show clay court at the Buenos Aires Tennis Club last Sunday as the two sides battled for a place in the Davis Cup semi-finals. The Germans, who started the day
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    • 452 16 NOTICE IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF FLAIR FASHIONS INDUSTRIES PTE LTD (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of FLAIR FASHIONS INDUSTRIES PTE LTD duly convened and held at 141 Middle road #05-01 GSM Building, Singapore 0718,
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4621 17  -  By Lim Mui Khi OF SELLERS there were aplenty yesterday. And even with prices falling sharply, there were few buyers. However, dealers said there was no panic selling although only eight counters saw their prices rise against 150 which fell. Among the
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 2
    • 3326 18  -  By Lim Mui Khi LIKE THE main board, Gob International, the over-the-counter market, fell yesterday as nervous investors reacted to a further plunge in the already shaky Tokyo stock market. Only three counters Alcorn, Tan Chong and Hongkong counter CDL Hotels made gains. Aluminium
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  • 940 18 Company Expiry/ C oupon C onversion period Interest C onversion term for one ordinary maturity <%) payable share date ftgjjjjf 1994 0 Dec 31 Camay W 1994 Oct 2. 1989 to Oct 20. 1994 1 warrant plus $1 cash or 1 warrant plus {1
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3236 19 MBT SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market tumbled like ten-pins yesterday to close broadly lower as investors yielded to pessimism over the 1,938-point plunge on the Tokyo bourse. Dealers said the bearish mood was in line with the poorer sentiment on major overseas bourses.
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 1079 19 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for payment date close payable the year last year fcntek Enf 6%TE (I) Apr 11 Apr 17 Apr 28 6%TE 6%TE Awno 15%TE Feb 28 Mar 12 May 15 25%TE 25XTE BAT 90.9%(n) Apr 6 Apr 19 May 3 122 7%(n)
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    • 334 19 Company Rights Issue MM One-tor four M$2 40 per share Ei-date Mar 8 Books close Mar 22 Acceptance 4 Payment May 10 CtC Two for five $210 per share Three warrants tor every 10 existing shares held at JO 48 per warrant Ex-date Feb 1 Books close: Feb
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    • 358 19 Company Rights Issue ftpofc One tor-one <a $1.85 per share FAC8 One tor one M$0 50 per share Faber Merto One tor one M$0 ?5 per share, followed by a share swap of five Faber Ikrtn shares tor two new shares in New Faber H leonf M Two
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    • 130 19 Rashid Hussain Berhad: EGM at the Auditorium, Ist Floor, Bangunan Peremba. 424 Jalan Tun Razak, ***** Kuala Lumpur on Friday, Apr 6, at 10am. Malayan United Industries Berhad: EGM at the MUI Plaza Conference Centre, Ist Floor, MUI Plaza. Jalan P Ramlee, ***** Kuala Lumpur or Fnday, Apr
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Nikkei and Hang Seng finish sharply lower
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      • 973 20 A DOMESTIC interest rate rise in Hongkong and a share-price slide in Tokyo combined to suppress stock prices in the British colony yesterday, abruptly halting last week's strong rises and buoyant market sentiment. The Hang Seng index ended down 63.28 points, or 2.11 per cent, at 2,934.70. After shedding
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      • 604 20 FEARS that insurance companies plan a stock sell-off sparked widespread selling, slicing 6.60 per cent off the key Nikkei index at yesterday's close. The 225-share Nikkei plummeted 1,978.38 points to close at 28,002.07, its second-laigest one-day point drop ever. It was the largest fall since Oct 20, 1987, when
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      • 452 20 A SHARP PLUNGE in Tokyo's Nikkei Index and a general lack of interest in afternoon trading drove the Australian sharemarket to a weaker close yesterday. The All Ordinaries Index finished 27.8 points off at 1,506.8 after recovering slightly from a mid-session low at 1,505.77 "We saw a very disinterested
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      • 296 20 SEOUL STOCKS closed slightly lower yesterday after early gains were wiped out by late selling pressure, brokers said. The composite index closed at 838.29, down 2.60 points from Saturday. Turnover was 315.3 billion won against 275.4 billion for Saturday's half-day session. Brokers said the market opened strong on rumours
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      • 393 20 TAIWAN'S stock market bucked the regional trend and closed sharply higher yesterday, inspired by the announcement of the sale price for the Finance Ministry's stake in three commercial banks, dealers said. The weighted index gained 407.62 points, or 3.8 per cent, to close at 11,163.49. Turnover rose to NTS
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      • 238 20 THE THAI BOURSE opened weak yesterday on news of plunging Tokyo share prices but recovered after the first hour to record small gains in most sectors, brokers said. The official SET Index gained 2.21 points to close at 853.74. Siam Cement shed 60 baht to close at 6,246. Siam
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      • 92 20 MANILA SHARES fell across the board in dull trading yesterday and brokers said the market will continue to drift through the rest of the month. "It looks like we are in for a retrenchment after two weeks of rally. The market is on vacation," said Villamor Vital, vice-president at
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      • 99 20 NEW ZEALAND share prices on a market depressed sinoe September' fell again yesterday with only marginal blame attributed to Tokyo's 5 per cent morning fall, brokers said. "Japan's weakness is not helping but if the Nikkei had been up 1,000 would our market have risen? I doubt it,"
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      • 88 20 PRICES on the Jakarta stock exchange ended mixed in fairly slow trading bringing the Jardine Fleming Nusantara index 0.25 of a point down to 140.38 yesterday. Pharmaceutical firm PGI rose 5,000 rupiah to 115,000 on turnover of 3,214 shares, but other shares in the sector ended barely changed. Sepanjang
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      • 229 20 Hongkong SHK Prt 13.90 -0.40 14.10 13.80 1748 SHK Ppt War 90 13.70 0.60 14 10 13.70 86 Sino Land 0465 -001 0.475 0.46 ***** San Mmuel 4.10 -0.05 4.10 4.10 Shaw Brochers 3 85 -0 10 3.90 3.80 145 Summa Promct 0.145 -0.003 0.146 0.144 7120 Sino Realty 0
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 429 21 Reuter MUSCLE-FLEXING intervention in currency markets by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is no longer effective in propping up the staggering yen, analysts say. "They seem to have come to a dead end as far as intervention goes," said Hiroaki Shukuzawa, a
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    • 303 21 DBS BANK has forecast a rise in domestic interest rates in the next three months. In the latest issue of its Investment Digest, DBS said domestic interest rates are likely "to inch upwards" in the second quarter in line with the rising trend
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    • 389 21 Cross rates Apr; USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.8870 2.7315 1.6980 160.00 0.6154 1 5035 1.3236 1.7286 SS 0.5299 1.4475 0.8998 0.8479 0.3261 0.7968 0.7014 0.9161 MS 0.3661 69.08 0.6216 0.5858 0.2253 0.5504 0 4846 0.6328 Dm 0.5889 1.1113 1.6087 94.23 0.3624 0.8855
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    • 566 21 Interbank rates SS Bid Offer Overnight 4 4 1/4 1-montn 6 5/16 6 7/16 2-month 6 5/16 6 7/16" 3-month 6 5/16 6 7/16 Overnight mode: 6-5/16 liSS Bid Offer 7 days 8 1/4 8 3/8 1 month 8 5/16 8 7/16 2 months 8 3/8 8 1/2
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    • 465 21 Reuter THE Japanese yen is stalking South Korea's won and threatening to undermine export growth, a problem rooted in a new exchange rate system which does not properly reflect currency trends overseas, bankers said. The Bank of Korea replaced its managed
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    • 334 21 THE US dollar yesterday soared above 160 yen during Asian trading hours following jitters over the ailing Tokyo stock market. Dealers said the greenback touched a high of 160.35 yen during the intraday trading in Tokyo yesterday, its highest level since December 1986. They
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    • 1108 21 SIMEX EUBOOOUJU> Open High Low Sett Est Vol Op/Int Vol Jun 90 91.33 91.34 9L3I 91.33 8329 ***** 5417 Sep 90 91.20 91.23 91.20 91.21 1018 4828 1887 Dec 90 91.03 91.05 91.02 91.03 318 2548 309 Mar 91 90.97 90.98 90.97 90.97 5 368 127
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 474 22 Reuter MALAYSIA'S natural rubber production, which hit a 17-year-low of 1.42 million tonnes last year, may remain low this year due to falling prices, a Malaysian Rubber Exchange and Licensing Board (MRELB) official said yesterday. MRELB chairman Sabki Jahidin told Reuters that at
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    • 569 22 COMMODITY REPORTS GOLD closed easier in quiet and dull trading as the metal closely tracked the dollar/yen movement. Bullion ended at U*****.50/U*****.00 an ounce against New York's U*****.25/75 close on Friday. A range of US$367 to US$37O is expected in New York. Local gold
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    • 365 22 Reuter LAST FRIDAY'S payment of £182.5 million by the International Tin Council (ITQ to its creditors brings the curtain down on one of the most costly and contentious financial dramas ever seen, but has been welcomed on all sides. "To get a
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    • 139 22 AFP INDONESIA'S pepper output is expected to rise 2,000 tonnes to 52,000 tonnes in 1990, allowing for a corresponding increase in exports. The Jayakarta Daily, citing figures from the National Export Development Board (BPEN), said exports should also rise by 2,000 tonnes to reach
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  • 1445 22 Rubber A P r2 MS (hfcb >■!«»> S cents/kg Noon Close Int I RSS Prompt I5300/154 00N 152.50/153.50 Inl I RSS May 90 I55.7VI56.25 155 25/155.75 Int 1 RSS June 157 00/157.50 156.50/157 00 Int 2 RSS OP 151 00/I53.00N 150.75/152.75N Int 3 RSS OP 145 50/147 50N I45.2VI47
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    • 716 22 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. SO PURSUANT TO SECTION 290(2)(b) AND IN THE MATTER OF HOW GUAN ENTERPRISES (PTE) LIMITED At an Extraordinary General Meeting ot the above named Company duly convened and held at 6001 Beach Road, #12-01 12-11 Golden Mile Tower, Singapore 0719 on
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    • 695 22 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50. AND IN THE MATTER OF JOHN DEERE INDUSTRIAL (PTE) LTD (In Members' Voluntary Winding Up) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of John Deere Industrial (Pte) Ltd convened and held at 36 Robinson Rd, #18-01 City House. Singapore 0106
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 642 23 City HigM ETA Flight ETD Abu Dhabi GA893 1235 GA892 0035 GA881 1435 GA886 2210 Adelaide QF82 2200 tettmlM GA893 1235 GA892 0035 Athens QF16 1820 OA471 2215 Bahrain QF5 2230 Qaifcpapan GA525/ 1755 J 910 Bandar Seri BI421 1100 Begawaa BI422 1205 B1429 2030 BI430
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    • 570 23  -  LETTER FROM NIZWA By Eric Hall FOR GENERATIONS, a tree in Nizwa's bazaar had spread its gnarled branches to shade the traders at the Friday animal auctions. Now it has gone, and the 20th century has really come to this mediaeval city which is getting
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    • 153 23 As at 3pm yesterday. I>ocal dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.4190 1.4290 Canadian dollar I.S970 1.6170 NZ dollar 1.0720 I.I 120 Sterling pound 3.050 3.080 US dollar 1.8840 1.8940 Ixtcal dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 15.40
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    • 115 23 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Mar 31- International Ban, Fiera Del (39)80/*****1 Apr 5-8 Children's Book Bologna. Ente Autonomo (39)51/*****1 Apr 8 Fair for Leisure. Italy Levante Fair Italy Per Le Fiere Sports, Tourism Di Bologna Apr 3-8 Helsinki The Finnish (358)0/*****
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    • 169 23 I Show no concern in row 4 Honorary title of key value 5 23 Sound of music current in ?5 saw (8) Fighting drink on up (6) with the SOLUTION DOWN meat < 5) 16 Charles hungry in the mess MKII MpMaBcMI 1 Seems the exhausted rug- ■BlAlclKlslaßlAiTlclHlElßM ger pUyer
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    • 227 23 Singapore OUTLOOK: Showers over seven! areas in the late morning and afternoon Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Apr 2 at the airport: Max temp 31.8 Assoc humidity 71 Min temp 25.7 Assoc humidity 98 Hrs of sunshine SJS Rainfall in trace Rainfall this mth 0.8 Rainy days
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  • 430 24  -  By Anna Teo WITH A 1988 per capita gross national product of US$9,lOO, Singapore stands 27th in the World Bank's latest list of 35 high-income economies. The list comprises mostly member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development,
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  • 341 24 AFP INDONESIA will repay at least US$ 120 million it owed to China from loans taken before bilateral relations were frozen in 1967, Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said in Jakarta yesterday. A technical meeting in Beijing last week to prepare for
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  • 130 24 Reuter LOSS OF soil fertility in developing countries is endangering food production and could turn into a major environmental problem, the US Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said yesterday. "Action is needed at international, national and farm levels to avoid a plant nutrient depletion catastrophe
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  • 86 24 AFP REELING from a major blow by the African National Congress to his reform plans. South Africa's President Frederik de Klerk is expected to announce a countrywide crackdown on violence. Government sources predicted Mr de Klerk will send in troops to restore order in three flashpoints Natal Province,
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  • 626 24  -  The Bottom Line NOORDIN SOPIEE NOORDIN SOPIEE Dr Noordin is Director-General of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia. The views expressed are entirely his own. SOME THINGS happen so fast and are so contrary to the general way we are used
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
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      • 59 25 Seatrade Week THE ALL JAPAN SEAMAN'S UNION has made a further concession on the maruship system in the "greater coasting area", cutting the minimum domestic crew requirement from nine to six, subject to safety inspection. There are 51 Japanese-flag cargo vessels and maruships of over
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      • 91 25 Fairplay FOR THE FIRST TIME since 1984, the South Korean government is to allow its shipowners access to foreign finance to build up their fleets, providing the vessels are built at a South Korean shipyard. The move is being welcomed by the majority of
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      • 139 25 AP THE DUTCH COAST GUARO on Sunday were cleaning up an oil spill 30 km long and 700 metres wide allegedly pumped deliberately into the North Sea by an unidentified ship, Dutch Television reported. The name and nationality of the ship are being withheld
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      • 104 25 AFP ISRAELI POLICE DISCOVERED 30 kg of pure heroin and smaller quantities of cocaine and opium in a container in the port of Haifa on Friday, police said in Jerusalem on Saturday. Two people were arrested. The drugs, which included half a kg of
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      • 87 25 NYT HARRY BRIDGES, a leading figure in America's 20th century labour movement who organised the West Coast longshoremen in the *****, died of emphysema on Friday at his home in San Francisco, the longshoremen's union reported. He was 88. The Australian-born Bridges, who entered the
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    • 148 25  -  AL O LABITA MANILA'S container traffic is on the uptrend, says the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA). Containers inbound and outbound totalled 108,159 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) last January compared with 90,238 TEUs in the same month last year, a 19.9 per cent rise. Foreign
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    • 261 25 Lloyd's List ITALIAN state-controlled shipowner Lloyd Triestino has moved into the black for the first time in eight years by announcing a profit last year of 110 million lire (U5580,145) against a loss of 17.8 billion lire in 1988. The company, which is part
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    • 483 25  -  By JULIE CHATTERJEE THE INDIAN CABINET has vetoed plans by the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), the country's premier shipping line, to buy 15 ships at a whopping cost of Ssl billion. The reason, according to the Union Cabinet, is the
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    • 321 25  -  By JEAN FOONG STATE-RUN China Ocean Shipping Company (Cosco) will start a container service between Japan and the Middle East Gulf via Singapore in May. This service, which will provide two sailings every month, is an extension of
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    • 247 25 Berita Harian THE MALAYSIAN Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board (CVLB) has suspended the permits on 483 commercial vehicles since 1987 for various offences, including overloading and for operating unsafe vehicles According to a Ministry of Public Enterprises spokesman, the permits were
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    • 1138 26 Journal of Commerce CONTAINER leasing companies enjoyed a profitable year in 1989, and industry executives say 1990 is shaping up to be another good year. Use levels remain high and leasing rates, though still not where the industry would like them to
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    • 231 26 AFP TANKER rates resumed their upward trend over the past week, in response to everincreasing enquiry, London brokers E A Gibson said on Friday. In their latest report, they said that strong enquiry was seen in the Middle-East Gulf for very and ultra large crude carriers (over 200,000
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    • 299 26 Lloyd's List THE EMERGENCE of a twotier tanker market where modern tonnage servicing the US and other demanding areas commands substantial premiums on freight rates, and a second division of cheaper, serviceable tankers serves the rest of the world, has been welcomed as
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    • 898 27 DRY CARGO freight rates continued to drift down in very quiet conditions with the Baltic Freight Index (BFI) cut by three points to 1,529, its 13th fall in as many days. There were few index-related fixtures, although the US Qulf to Japan heavy grain route was booked at
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    • 537 38 The Nation UNITED THAI Shipping Corp Ltd and Unithai Line Co Ltd have reported a combined net profit of 52.52 million baht for the 1989 financial year ending Dec 31, 1989. United Thai Shipping, a national flag carrier, has
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    • 144 38 JAPAN'S largest transportation company Nippon Express has won a licence to undertake international road haulage services between the Netherlands and major European cities, the company announced. Under a licence obtained from the Dutch government, Nippon Express Euro Cargo BV will start business this month. The
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    • 297 38 Seatreade Week BRITISH CONTAINER manufacturer and fleet owner Sea Containers has set July as the tentative date to start up production with a new Brazilian plant near the port of Santos. The US$l2 million plant, Sea Containers' tenth, will have peak production
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    • 97 38 AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT GIANT Thomas Nationwide Transport has reduced its stake in ABC Containerline following the sale of more shares to Tsvi Rosenfeld, the latter's managing director, who now becomes the majority shareholder of ABC Containerline TNT had earlier announced its intention of reducing its
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    • 523 38 NYT A YEAR AFTER she was involved in the worst oil spill in US history, the Exxon Valdez is 70 per cent repaired and four months from being sent back to sea. The 30.000-ton tanker is sitting on dozens of concrete blocks
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    • 88 25 BSWEE HENG METAL CO PTE LTD 13 TUAS AVE 14 SINGAPORE 2263 TELE* RS 208?8 SHMCPL TEL: 861 5855 (sl«ws) TELEFAX 861 29«6 7 5 wI2TCL*O-> 1 Corta,n r Handter. SUN. Ix j jriJijrw Warehouse Truck* Cvatw ItiUng PM<( Truck* v>li<b Alto buy. Ml. rental A rapa» BRITISH DESIGN INNOVATION
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    • 433 25 How to look after Aooilabl* iMtkiy at major STP Distributors bookshops and news-stands INSIDE Container use on upswing CONTAINER leasing companies enjoyed a profitable year in 1989, and industry executives say 1990 is shaping up to be another good year. Chassis lessors, on the other hand, were dealing with exactly
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    • 74 26 TO ALL OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS RIIS Shipping A/S Svendborg is a very specialised carrier for class one and any project cargoes. Having a total of 6 self-substained vessel (average, two years old each vessel). We can accept cargo to almost any destinations. For more details, please feel free to contact:Mr.
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    • 2206 27 200 C*ntonnwnt Road #12-06 South point. Sngapce 0208 All VFr T«| *****11 TELEX NO RS ***** IVilllill TERMINAL/CFS TO *****11 220 W BOOKINGS TH *****34 235 L VAy .J PESAKA JAROINE SHIPPING AGENCIES SON BHD. PORT KELANG TEL: *****18 TELEX NO MA*****.MA***** SSnS PENANG TEL *****4 TELEX NO MA***** CFS
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    • 678 30 A Joint Europe Service Of: P.T. DJAKARTA LLOYD e P.T. 6ESUM LLOYD P.T. SAMUDERA INDONESIA e P.T. TRIKORA LLOYD CR NBR **********0-0 EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE VSI/VOY S PORE R DAM/ H BURG BREMEN ANTWERP AOAM S PANJANG;2SWB 22-25/4 23/5 27/5 1/t 3/6 MATARAM/26W8 30/4- 2/5 5/6 10/6 2/6 15/6 FAST
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    • 1282 31 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD tSSSSSSS Jv PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street #03-00, Singapore 0106. f JAKARTA I BANGKOK 1 VESSEL VOY SIN J'KTSIN VESSEL VOV SIN BKK SIN SCA PEARL 04SB 4/4 6/4 t/4 HAI HUI 71N 4/4 7/4 11/4 EDEN 900t 4/4 6/4 11/4 KOTA JADE 23N «/4
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    • 735 31 r BEN LINE CONTAINERS LTD 200 Cantonment Road Tel: *****22 #13-05 Southpoint m Fax: *****63 Singapore 0208. Telex: RS ***** EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT [SP PK STON HAM BHAVEN RDAM HAVRE Toiaga Bay 4/4 6/4 24/4 27/4 28/4 26/4 25/4 Hamburg Express OMIT 30/4 24/4 26/4 23/4 29/4 Alaska
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    • 372 31 NEW MONTHLY SERVICE OPERATING I DIRECT SAILINGS FROM SINGAPORE I AND HONG KONG TO PACIHC ISLANDS.! MV SUHAN* V.IS I SINGAPORE Sailed I APIA (WESTERN SAMOA) 28/4 I PAGO PAGO (AMERICAN SAMOA) 30/4 I PAPEETE (TAHITI) 4/5 RAROTONGA (COOK ISLANDS) 7/5 I NUKUALOFA (TONGA) 12/5 I SAVU SAVU (FIJI) 15/5
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    • 495 31 M MYANMA pß*. FIVE STAR UNE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.Kelang Penang Bangkok PAGAN V/S4W 31 MAR/2 APR MYOMAYWA VI29R 21/31 MAR HPAAN VI4W 5/7 Apr THE BANK LINE (A service o( Andrew Weir Shipping) SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE W HEAVY LIFT CAPABILITY I EXPRESS TO PAPUA NEW
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    • 556 32 IRANIAN SERVICE Singapore Loading for:IRAN TEYFOURI 2/4 *bbis A VSL MID Banda Abbas (National Line Of Mexico) U.S. WEST COAST/MEXICO/CENTRAL AMERICA CONTAINER SERVICE HKG LB ENSCNADA I CARDENAS S.CRUZ MANZANILLO TOLUCA VlO 30/3 22/4 24/4 21/4 30/4 2/5 ■ITAL W4 *4 2/5— 13/5 OAXACA Vl2 11/4 13/5 14/5 11/5 20/5
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    • 790 33 totorrnn FCL/LCL TO: FAR EAST JAPAN EUROPE FIJI ISLAND KAOHSIUNG 8/4 TOKYO —12/4 LE HAVRE 9/4 LAUTOKA —13/4 KEELUNG 8/4 YOKOHAMA —12/4 ROTTERDAM 9/4 SUVA —13/4 MANILA 6/4 KOBE —12/4 UK PORTS 9/4 BANGKOK —8/4 amctrai IA HAMBURG —9/4 EAST AFRICA BUSAN -12/4 GOTHENBURG 9/4 LOU|S 6/4 HONGKONG -12/4 SYDNEY
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    • 1115 34 Page Ten N. AMERICA-ATLANTIC COAST VOY *INDO 'PK/PNG SGP LB CHLS NFK NYC HFX 23 2/4 3/4 5/4 2«/4 8/5 10/5 12/5 16/5 30 9/4 10/4 12/4 5/5 15/5 17/5 19/5 23/5 19 22/4 21/4 19/4 12/5 22/5 24/5 26/5 30/5 OOCL FRIENDSHIP 19 23 4 24 4 19,5 M
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    • 1851 35 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE (CR No: **********0 E) Bookings: UK/EUROPE *****19, AUST/INDIA/PAK-*****18 USA *****16, FAR EAST-*****48 Documentation: *****44/*****14 MW Terminal: *****22 CFS: M 2 IMPORT: *****69/*****50 EXPORT: *****53/*****04 NEPLINE SDN BHD MALAYSIA K.L.-*****33, P.Kelang *****87, Penang-*****0, J.Bahru-*****3, *****4 PEN PKG SCP MOTHER V9L/VOY SGP LKH FU EDM HAM MOTHER
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    • 1269 35 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 ***** pcnanc KUM MISSUS MAI THONG SNIPPING 12/ PeNong Street Panang, Malaysia M/S MANOLING SYSTEM CO SON MM)
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    • 582 36 r DSR-LINES VEB OEUTFRACMT.SEEnEEDEREl ROSTOCK DSR LINES VEB DEUTRACHT/SEEREEDEREI ROSTOCK INTEGRATED CONTAINER SERVICE MEMBER OF EACON SERVICE TO EAST MEDITERRANEAN NORTH CONTINENT EUROPE ■VIA LAMACA. ACCEPTING CARGO FOR LIMASSOL, BEIRUT. LATTAKIA, ALEXANDRIA ISTANBUL TRIPOLI, MERSIN, PORT SA10, PIRAEUS, THESSALONIKI. IZMIR, TO COLOMBO INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT OUTBOUND S PORE COLOMBO accapting for:
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    • 1134 37 EXPRESS FEEDER SERVICE (Fully Containerised) VESSEL SIN CAL CTG A VSL 2/4 8/4 A VSL 3/4 9/4 (Conventional Service) ETA S'PORE LOADING FOR BANGLAR PROGOTI 14/4 S.KOREA/JAPAN BANGLAR MAYA 7/4 CTG/MONGLA FAR EAST/MEDITERRANENAN SERVICE ETA S'PORE LOADING FOR BISKRA 12/4 S. Korea, Japan ALL VESSELS ACCEPTING FCL CONTAINERS FOR JAPANESE
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