The Business Times, 23 April 1990

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  • 10 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 170/12/89 Monday April 23 1990 75*
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  • BUSINESS TIMES
    • 47 1 NIGERIAN President Ibrahim Babangida appears to have foiled a coup bid by junior army officers early yesterday and is "perfectly safe" with government troops back in control, the chief of army staff, General Sani Abacha, said in a national radio broadcast.
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    • 34 1 TO HELP EASE the overload of passenger traffic between Singapore and West Germany, an agreement has been reached to advance the scheduled increase in air services between the two countries Page 2
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    • 34 1 JAPANESE flexible automation systems manufacturer Okura Yusoki Co has opened its first overseas subsidiary in Singapore and today claims to be the world's largest independent manufacturer of conveyor systems Page 2
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    • 28 1 VIETNAM has staved off famine and staged a dramatic recovery in rice production, becoming the world's No. 3 rice exporter last year Page 7
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    • 28 1 TRADE MINISTERS who took part in informal trade talks last week are confident that they will meet a year-end deadline to implement reforms Page 8
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    • 27 1 THE JAPANESE government has urged Tokyo companies to buy more foreign-made computer chips to scale down trade tensions with the US. Page 9
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    • 24 1 PY VAN reviews last Friday evening's SSO concert with Marie Louise Bastyns, the soloist in Schumann's A Minor Piano Concerto Page 17
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    • 22 1 TWO MORE shipping lines are scheduled to make regular calls at Pasir Gudang soon. Shipping Times Page One
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 36 1 YOUNG TYCOON Lim Thian Kiat is facing an uphill battle trying to convince market analysts and investors that his proposal to merge Kamunting Corp with Malaysian Plantations will benefit minority shareholders Page 3
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    • 47 1 IMPROVED advertisement volume, rising newspaper sales and the success of cost-control measures resulted in a sharp increase in the unaudited group pre-tax profit of the New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd in the first six months to Feb 28 this year Page 3
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    • 22 1 THE KLSE has set a final deadline for broking firms to submit updated short claims of scripts Page 3
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    • 19 1 JAPANESE brokerage house Sanyo Securities has applied for a merchant banking licence in Singapore Page 6
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    • 31 1 THE ASIAN Development Bank approved US$3.6 billion in loans last year, bringing its total lending to US$29 billion, the ADB annual report for 1989 said Page 6
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 762.43 -4.60 Kuala Lumpur ....541.88 -4.59 Hongkong 3,067.30 -0.37 Tokyo 29,835.44 -109.97 Sydney 1,491.4 -3.7 Friday Change New York 2,695.95 -15.98 London 2,187.1 +2.4
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    • 22 1 Exchange rates uss SS1.8755 Yen (100) S$ 1.1916 MS SS0.6891 Money market rates Overnight 6 1/16% 1/16 3-montn 6 13/16% 4/16
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    • 22 1 Rubber S'pore May 157.25*/kg +1.50 M sia May 21 l.OOVkg unch KL Tin Turnover 91 tonnes +21 Spot M$ 17.46/kg -0.06
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  • 393 1  -  By Genevieve Cua AFTER a strong performance last year, the chemical industry is bracing itself for a more difficult time. Stiff competition in a number of sectors is expected to keep prices down and reduce overall profits this year. The future for the investment
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  • 44 1 America's top-secret F-lI7A fighter made its first public appearance in a far-from-stealthy manner last Saturday. The Stealth plane, under wraps for the last eight years, is seen landing at a Nevada base to be displayed for the first time.
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  • 443 1  -  From Anna Teo in LONDON AS PART of the new leadership style, Parliament will be prorogued every January for a fresh focus on the programmes of the country, said First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong last Saturday. The second session of the
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  • 367 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming A CLUB to give tripartite industrial cooperation a push at grassroots level is being formed by the National Productivity Board (NPB). To be called the Singapore Industrial Relations Society (SIRS), it will bring under one roof personnel executives
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  • 212 1 AFP AUSTRALIA could face two quarters of negative growth and the possibility of a "technical" recession with an accompanying rise in unemployment, Federal Finance Minister Ralph Willis said yesterday. "We are likely to see a significant slowdown in growth and we certainly could be in
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  • 424 1  -  By Magdalene Ng METAL CONTAINERS has become the latest takeover target in town, with businessman Goh Cheng Liang said to be preparing a bid for the listed can-maker. Metal Con shares were suspended from trading last Friday "pending discussions". An
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  • 85 1 AFP NORTH Sumatra Military Commander Major General Joko Pramono yesterday claimed that about 140 Indonesian rebels from the province of Aceh have received military training in Libya. He said security forces had arrested 20 of them and some 30 others were still being sought,
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 90 2 THE Marine Department and the Trade Development Board are jointly organising a shipping; mission to Tokyo from April 24 to April 27. The mission, billed as the first major one to Japan, will promote Singapore as a major shipping centre and a distribution hub. It
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      • 69 2 THE Minister for Law and Home Affairs, Prof S Jayakumar, left yesterday on a visit to Taiwan at the invitation of Mr Hsu Shui-teh, the Minister of the Interior. The Ministry of Home Affairs said Prof Jayakumar is accompanied by Mr Tang Guan Seng, Parliamentary Secretary (Home
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      • 69 2 TO BOOST cultural development, various cultural groups should study each other and explore ways of creating a distinctive Singapore identity, said Mr Ong Teng Cheong, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister last night. Speaking at the 50th Anniversary of the Singapore Fen Yang Guo Association, Mr Ong pointed out
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      • 62 2 THE trend in social services is to move away from institutionalisation to community-based services, said President Wee yesterday. In a keynote address to a seminar on social service clubs, he said that institutional care of the aged, disabled, children and the mentally ill should be replaced
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      • 103 2 SINGAPORE has one of the highest rates of short-sighted-ness in the world, after Japan and Taiwan, said Mr Yeo Cheow Tong, the Acting Health Minister. Speaking yesterday 'at the opening of a symposium on Singapore Visioncare, Mr Yeo said as the level of education and
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      • 117 2 THE HOUSING Board will increase its monthly service and conservancy charges for residential units by between $1 and ,$5 from June 1. In an announcement on Saturday, the Ministry of National Development said that the rates for a one-room flat will go up by
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    • 331 2 TO HELP EASE the overload of passenger traffic between Singapore and West Germany, an agreement has been reached to advance the scheduled increase in air services between the two countries. The agreement will allow the national careers of both countries to operate two
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    • 322 2 THE bids for the first tender exercise for new vehicle certificates proved to be lower than expected, providing a relief to motorists. The results, whi£h were announced by Communications and Information Minister Yeo Ning Hong on Saturday, showed that all successful bids were well below
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    • 268 2 THE SOCIAL and economic achievements of Indians, and the availability of a pool of highly qualified Indians are key factors which affect the ethnic group's status in Singapore. This was the theme of two speeches made over the weekend by National Development
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    • 250 2 JAPANESE flexible automation systems manufacturer Okura Yusoki Co has come a long way, both in the literal and figurative sense. Literal in that it has opened its first overseas subsidiary in Singapore; figurative in that the company today claims to be the world's largest
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 121 3 PROMET Bhd has received another eight forged share certificates for 1,000 units each registered under Morgan Grenfell Nominees Pte Ltd. Promet said in a statement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange that a police report had been made and a copy of the report would
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      • 157 3 MALAYSIAN Resources Corporation Bhd, which has managed to cut its group pre-tax loss last year, has announced a debt conversion scheme to improve its future profitability, cash flow and gearing. MRCB said its group pre-tax loss for the year ended Dec 31, 1989 was reduced by 81
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      • 152 3 MALAYSIAN General Investment Corp (MGIC) has posted a 133.5 per cent rise in its group pre-tax profit to M 54.79 million for calendar 1989 from $2.05 million in 1988. Announcing its interim results, MGIC said the higher results were mainly attributable to the bullish stock market
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      • 149 3 BSB MALAYSIA, a leading international advertising agency, has been picked by Resorts World to handle the advertising and promotion of Genting Highlands Resort. BSB said it managed to win the advertising account after an exhaustive and aggressive pitch involving five other international and two local
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    • 360 3 MBT STOCKBROKING firms have been given a final deadline, next Tuesday, to submit updated short claims of scrip from the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) clearing house, Scans. Any broking firm that wishes to make further amendments to its original short claims
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    • 551 3 MARKET TALK MALAYSIA'S young business tycoon Lim Thian Kiat is facing an uphill battle trying to convince market analysts and investors that his proposal to merge Kamunting Corp with its associate Malaysian Plantations will benefit minority shareholders. Despite aggressive lobbying by
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    • 454 3 NST IMPROVED advertisement volume, rising newspaper sales and the success of costcontrol measures resulted in a sharp increase in the unaudited group pre-tax profit of the New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Bhd (NSTP) in the first six months to Feb 28 this year. The
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    • 247 3 Bernama AMALGAMATED Steel Mills Bhd, a member of the Lion group of companies, is among several parties which have announced the acquisition of a total of 54,392,013 additional shares in Lion Corporation Bhd. All the shares were acquired on Feb 2, this year, and all
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    • 400 3 Bernama HOTEL and property-based Landmarks Bhd expects a further improvement in its group returns and asset values as the property market continues to grow. Chairman Mohd Razali Abdul Rahman said in the company's 1989 report that Sungei Wang Plaza would be upgraded to complement rather than
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 58 4 A LARGE majority of businessmen in Manila expect a satisfactory if scaled-down Philippine economic growth this year despite a December coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino which affected the future plans of 90 per cent of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry. According to the chamber
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      • 77 4 STOCK INVESTORS shouting anti-government slogans staged angry protests in Seoul last Saturday for the second consecutive day to protest against a prolonged stock market recession and the lack of government measures. About 100 investors roamed through 10 trading offices in the central provincial city of Taejon,
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      • 65 4 INDIA will decide whether or not to resume Airbus A-320 flights after receiving the findings of a judicial inquiry into a February crash that killed 90 people. Indian Civil Aviation Minister Arif Mohammad Khan said in New Delhi last Saturday that no decision had yet
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    • 716 4 AP FOREIGN BROKERS, who had a hard time riding the bull market on the Tokyo stock exchange in recent years, are wrestling the bear with greater success in 1990. After years of steady gains, the Tokyo stock market plunged this year and the benchmark Nikkei
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    • 376 4  -  From Al O Labita Jr in MANILA MANILA'S foreign companies have urged the government to make its investment rules competitive, saying investment funds are getting scarce now that Eastern European markets are opening up. "Investment laws and policies must at least be competitive
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    • 194 4 Asahi HITACHI Ltd is planning to market later this year the first "fault-tolerant" computer system made by a Japanese company. Fault-tolerant computer systems use two computers that automatically back up each other in case of a machine or program failure. The Japanese market for such
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 355 5 AP AVON PRODUCTS INC's tentative deal to sell its majority interest in a Japanese subsidiary to one of Japan's private mail order companies appears to have fallen apart. Tokyo-based Friends of Freesia Co Ltd has notified Avon that it
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    • 477 5 Reuter COCA-COLA has hired American Home Products executive Theodore Host as marketing head for its US business, where analysts say sales for its soft drink line in 1990 have grown at only half the rate of arch rival PepsiCola. Mr Host, 44, will become
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    • 620 5 NYT FIRST CHICAGO Corp, parent of the First National Bank of Chicago, reported a sharp drop in first-quarter earnings on Friday, as expected. The decline was attributed to a big run-up in its portfolio of troubled real estate loans. Net earnings fell
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    • 526 5 NYT PHILIP BAKES JR, the veteran airline executive chosen in 1986 by Mr Frank Lorenzo to turn Eastern Airlines around, resigned as president and chief executive last Friday. Mr Bakes' resignation follows last Wednesday's bankruptcy court action forcing Mr Lorenzo to turn control
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    • 147 5 AFP MONDADORI Publishing House has sold 14.1 per cent of the Espresso Group to help financier Silvio Berlusconi in his conflict with businessman Carlo De Benedetti for control of Mondadori. According to sources on Saturday, the sale was to avoid having an attachment served
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    • 405 5 NYT IN THE PAST three months, a number of US foodindustry analysts have begun to rhapsodise over a homespun North Carolina gro-cery-store chain called Food Lion, whose shares trade over the counter. The basis for Wall Street's enthusiasm is clear, the
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 88 6 SOUTH AFRICA will force banks to be more publicly accountable by requiring off-balance-sheet funding operations to be placed on the balance sheet, Reserve (central) Bank governor Chris Stals said. But no further steps will be taken to intensify already-restrictive monetary policy aimed at
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      • 51 6 THE government of the Federated States of Micronesia has closed a deal with Merrill Lynch, allowing Micronesia to borrow up to US$3OO million. The purpose of the US$3OO million programme is to allow the four Micronesian states and the national government to borrow funds for worthwhile
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      • 80 6 THE National Bank of Panama is launching an investigation to determine how much money was illegally laundered in recent years, the bank's director said. Luis H Moreno, managing director of the government bank, said the investigation would attempt to reveal how much illegal money the former
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      • 96 6 JEFF H Reynolds, the young investor who had reportedly expressed interest in acquiring the Bond media and brewing empire in Australia, has been arrested on a hot cheque charge. Mr Reynolds was arrested in Houston, jailed on a US$l million bail, and was to be taken to
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    • 213 6  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SANYO Securities ranked seventh in terms of total assets among brokerage houses in Japan last year has applied for a merchant banking licence in Singapore. Sanyo, which is closely related to Japan's top brokerage house Nomura Securities, has been running
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    • 440 6 AP A MAJOR credit-rating agency's decision to review the health of Citicorp's debts reflects the hard times the banking industry is enduring with weakening foreign and real estate loans. Citicorp is the biggest American bank holding company. Several other institutions already have had
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    • 297 6 AFP THE Asian Development Bank approved US$3.6 billion in loans last year, bringing its total lending to US$29 billion, the ADB annual report for 1989 said. Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and the Philippines were the main beneficiaries of ADB loans in 1989, the
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    • 260 6 Bernama THERE is an undent need for bankers to have a broad understanding of other fields in today's era of modem banking where merger of functions is fast becoming the trend, Institute of Bankers Malaysia (IBBM) chairman Tan Sri Jaffar Hussein
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • THE REGION
    • 203 7 AFP POWER SHORTAGES and protracted drought hampering the Philippine economy are due partly to years of deforestation, President Corazon Aquino said in a statement released in Manila on the eve of Earth Day. Mrs Aquino said on Saturday that "the time of reckoning has come.
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    • 364 7 IHT TWO YEARS after its Communist rulers made an international appeal for emergency food aid to avert famine, Vietnam has transformed its agricultural system, boosting productivity and catapulting itself into the position of the world's thirdlargest rice exporter in 1989. Most of the
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    • 184 7 AP US OFFICIALS have unsealed an indictment alleging that a Texas-based ring illegally served as brokers for the Vietnamese government to deal rice and US military hardware abandoned by US troops at the end of the Vietnam War. A five-month US Customs Service probe resulted
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 74 7 DESPITE a popular perception of massive Japanese land acquisitions in Australia, a Queensland state government survey has revealed that only one per cent of the total land area of Australia's second biggest state is owned by foreigners. According to the report, released by
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      • 78 7 PROPOSED TALKS between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan may ease tensions over the disputed Kashmir region but a lasting peace cannot emerge until Kashmiris are allowed to determine their own future, diplomats and politicians say. "Pakistan cannot be expected to make a deal with
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      • 76 7 BURMA'S military government has signed a tin productionsharing contract with a Thai firm in Rangoon. The official Rangoon Radio, in a report monitored in Thailand, said the production-sharing contract with the Burmese Mines Ministry would allow Bangkok-based Sunshine Construction and Trading Ltd to conduct offshore tin exploration
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      • 82 7 PRESIDENT SUHARTO said Indonesian youths should be encouraged to become involved in politics, but he warned they could be taken advantage of by others, the Antara news agency said yesterday. "Youths should be given the opportunity to develop activities in the field of political education and
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • 413 8 AFP TRADE MINISTERS representing some 30 countries left Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, last weekend relatively confident that they could meet an end-of-year deadline to implement sweeping trade reforms. The ministers, who represent nearly one-third of the 105 participants in the current round of
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    • 445 8 Reuter THIRTY YEARS after Soviet experts left and the lights went out on China's short-lived love affair with its communist neighbour, steelmakers in bleak Baotou hope Moscow's money and machinery will soon return. Premier Li Peng's visit to Moscow beginning today is a sign
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    • 330 8 AFP MINISTERS from nine European nations are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the future defence of Europe as the continent's political map is redrawn. The meeting of the defence and foreign ministers of the Western European Union (WEU) will launch a complex
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    • 144 8 Reuter THE US grain industry is worried about how an impending review of most-favoured-nation (MFN) trade status for China may affect future wheat sales to Beijing. China is the top customer for US wheat, buying nearly 14 million tonnes of grain in the last two years
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    • 274 8 AFP RESIDENTS in Kabul have begun shopping for weeds and animal innards as runaway inflation threatens to steer the economy towards an unprecedented depression. Government support for cereal prices has failed in the free market and official efforts to halt galloping inflation have stopped
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    • 452 9 NYT JAPAN'S Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) met representatives of 170 Japanese companies last Friday to urge them to buy more foreign-made computer chips to reduce trade friction with the US. The same companies were summoned to Miti to
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    • 187 9 NYT THREE JAPANESE companies have agreed to comply with a request by Moscow to change the planned construction site of refrigerator parts factory from Lithuania to the neighbouring republic of Byelorussia. Sanyo Electric Co, Japan's leading refrigerator maker, Nissho Iwai Corp and Toyo
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    • 176 9 Reuter NIGERIAN businessmen are looking to Japan for inspiration and cash to help develop their country's technological base. But, so far, Japanese companies have tended to shy away from sub-Saharan Africa's biggest economy. Nigeria's poor infrastructure, difficult investment climate and the unhappy experience of some Japanese
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    • 45 9 A group of Polish children is seen here rallying to Mother Nature's side. Students from Bytom, the most polluted town in Poland's Silesia industrial region, donned gas masks and carried posters during a rally to mark World Earth Day.
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    • 223 9 Reuter BUSH ADMINISTRATION officials have promised to prod Japan to import more American vehicle parts, but refused to say whether retaliatory action against Japanese parts will be ordered. Japanese car makers had shown no serious commitment to increasing purchases of US parts, in spite of
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 99 9 A CONTROVERSIAL TAX on oil and other fossil fuels is now certain to be proposed by the European Community's environment chief later this year to help curb the "global warming" phenomenon. Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana announced his plan for a so-called
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      • 71 9 EUROPEAN COMMUNITY foreign ministers have given strong backing to a Franco-German plan to speed up the ECs political integration. But, as they met in Dublin last Saturday, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was delivering a speech in London attacking the idea of political union. The
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      • 72 9 FOUR JAPANESE COMPANIES topped the list of companies obtaining the most patents from the US last year. The US Commerce Department said half of the top 10 spots went to Japanese companies, including the top four. Only three US companies were in the top 10.
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      • 108 9 TOYOTA AND PEUGEOT arc to open factories in Turkey by 1993 in connection with joint ventures with Turkish participants, say investors in the two projects. Each plans to produce about 100,000 vehicles a year in 1994. Sources in Istanbul said the Turkish government had authorised two
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 986 10  -  The days of supercharged surpluses and double-digit growth in South Korea appear to be over. The country is running a balance-of-payments deficit for the first two months of this year. Peter Maass reports. Peter Maass IHT A SENIOR South Korean economic official
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    • 646 10 Reuter TO MOST, the eruption of a USJapan trade dispute over hightech materials known as amorphous metals is just that amorphous. But to US industry and government insiders, it is a classic case of "Japan Inc" at work. Seen from the US side, the case is
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  • FOCUS 1
    • 1068 12  -  ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT Should workers be involved in the management of the company they work for? Will their participation help to soften trade union militancy and boost productivity or will it lead to more chaotic management? Prema Jayakumar reports Prema Jayakumar (Prema Jayakumar is a freelancer
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    • 483 14  -  There is a new awareness at work. It has given rise to what some experts call the quality culture. Magdalene Ng reports Magdalene Ng Quality pays. Companies the world over are beginning to see that ay shape their future. Customers and users are becoming more demanding
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    • 308 14  -  SPOTLIGHT ON MANAGEMENT By Steven Choo (Steven Choo is a consulting manager at Ernst Young Consultants Pte Ltd) Money is the prime concern of the small businessman with meagre resources. He is often cash-strapped, either to keep his business going, or to
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    • 200 14 Management Consultancy SI/ I I I T r 1/ Seminars And Training ■Kill I Business Assistance 11 I L L I X It Manpower Recruitment CONSULT AMIS Business Centre Direct Mailing prv GP Sea Hawk auComaCK A watch for all situations Its essential lines and the tangible beauty faithfully reflect
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  • SPORTS
    • 651 15  -  By A Surendren THE DHL Singapore Women's Open finals threw up another surprise at Kallang yesterday. Where everyone had figured on the tall and athletic Sarah Loosemore of Britain to win, Japan's Naoko Sawamatsu had other ideas and insisted on turning the
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    • 280 15 AFP MIKE REID claimed he had done nothing special on Saturday after firing a five-un-der-par 67 and taking a three-shot lead after three rounds of the Greater Greensboro Open in North Carolina. Reid, known as "Radar" for his ability to hit fairways, managed for the
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 87 15 FRED ROBERTS' bank shot with 3.3 seconds left capped a fourth-quarter Milwaukee rally and the playoff-bound Bucks extended the New Jersey Nets' franchise record road-losing streak to 28 games, 96-95, on Saturday night. Roberts' shot gave the Bucks their only lead of the second half, and came
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      • 86 15 BASEBALL has never appeared easier for the Milwaukee Brewers than in the last three games. They've scored runs early and then turned the game over to their pitching staff. And that staff has been stingy with runs. Teddy Higuera pitched the team's club-record third straight shut-out
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      • 75 15 PLAYOFF surprise John Druce had his first career hat-trick as the Washington Capitals scored five times on their first 11 shots on Saturday night to beat the New York Rangers 6-3 and even the Patrick Division finals at one win apiece in the National Hockey League. Washington
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      • 89 15 WORLD number one Jahangir Khan yesterday felt the full weight of the Australian plot to deprive him of a record ninth British Open squash title. The 26-year-old top seed was to play against Chris Dittmar, who defeated him in both the World Open and world
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      • 33 15 A SPARKLING second-half display of fast, open rugby powered Fiji to a 20-7 win over New Zealand side Canterbury in a South Pacific Championship game in Suva on Saturday.
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      • 65 15 ABRACADABRA crossed the finish line 52 seconds behind the Japanese yacht Tiger in the Virgin Islands on Saturday, but claimed the overall victory in a seven-race yachting series. Abracadabra completed the St Thomas 50-Foot Yacht Association World Cup events with a nine-point lead over the second place
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    • 187 15 AP TOP-SEEDED Monica Seles of Yugoslavia and No 4 Katerina Maleeva of Bulgaria advanced to the final of the U*****,000 Eckerd Open in Florida with straight-set semi-final wins on Saturday. Seles, seeking her third straight tournament championship, beat No 3 Conchita Martinez, the defending champion,
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    • 186 16 UjUaJt's a* V/\J Sp* <*j Our S.E.A. Buffet April 1 30 Lunch or Dinner Adults: $16.00 Children below 12:810.00++ Cafe Plaza SsissSSl' C M \y 1 6 YoiiCanGo Secretaries' Weekly Tie Get away from the 'grind' at the office —to a delightful V,;.. I Set Lunch with a dtx»r gift
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    • 641 16 TELEVISION AND RADIO f^gg/ggggggggggggggggggggt^gggHKHKßHHHHHK^Kt^HKKKttHKttKtHK^KHtttKtHttfKUKKHKKl^KtKKtHtKHtttttttUUKKHtH^HKHHHKtKtKHHlM^M^^ At 1 earn Wf ep>. BrMklnj Fait SdMduk. BUSINESS ON RADIO 1 i. vi r»Mrrl A SBCI2 i«t t* t.. *u. High- «.oo »m«uin«»(Mi 10 V 6 triangle Kjs^p.sy v v O ries Cricket (ep 2/3) Aus- Elizabeth fears that her "«wom. 5.30pm, 3.25 am: Financial
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  • THE ARTS 1
    • 667 17  -  P Y Van reviews last Friday's SSO concert with Marie Louise Bastyns, the soloist in Schumann's A Minor Piano Concerto P Y Van GOOD versus evil, loud versus soft, beauty versus beast, Romulus against Remus. Dramatic tension is often created by using one character as
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    • 889 17  -  Schumann's famous love-inspired A Minor Piano Concerto is a favourite among many pianists. J Gordon surveys the various CD recordings of this work that are available at the shops. J Gordon Even though Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto appears to be the audience's perennial
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    • 662 18  -  Austrian musician and writer Hans Keller, in his treatise on criticism, described the following as phoney professions: viola player, conductor, music critic, professional broadcaster and editor. P Y Van assesses his book and offers some alternative views on criticism. P Y Van KANT advised man
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    • 872 18  -  Starry-eyed romance seems hopelessly out of date now with today's movie couples expressing society's deep fear and cynicism about love. Caryn James reports. Caryn James NYT WHEN BACALL first laid her sultry eyes on Bogart in To Have and Have Not, appearing
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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    • 158 17 "Sizzling, Mouth' Watering Steak Awaits You At Jack's Minunar" Succumb to itl Amidst cozy atmosphere, savour tender juicy steak, prepared the way only Jack's Place knows best. And at prices that are value for your money. Located conveniently just outside CBD with sheltered multi-storey car park. mam *2, 401 Havelock
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    • 356 17 I\ SECRETARIES' WEEK kßa AT MARINA BAY 23 27 APRIL 1990 WEm TEE-OFF CAFE Set Menu at 14.00 I NISHIKI RESTAURANT MHI Set Menu at $19.50 fin flflral X CHINA CHINA M WjM |g RESTAURANT I et enu r m jjg^Rn I TIENGOURT# I S SICHUANCUiSME I For a Wealth
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    • 592 18 tin wjomwe IaHBCMC MANAGING CHANGE FOR SUCCESS 4TH ANNUAL BUSINESS SEMINAR Shangri-La Hotel, Island Ballroom Saturday, 12 May 1990 jointly organised by the nilga MB A ALUMNI NUS \l\MA\ THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE MANAGEMENT STUDIES NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE Keynote Speaker: MR UM CHIN BENG Deputy Chairmen, Singapore Alrlinee "Managing
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    • 221 18 NOTICES IN THE MATTERS OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF DOMUS DEVELOPMENT PTE LTD (Incorporated In ths Republic oI Singapore) (In Liquidation) MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, (Chapter 50) that the Final General
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    • 356 18 Skigmorine fireup Singmorine Industries limited (Incorporated m the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an Extraordinary General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company will be held at the Board Room, Keppel Corporation Limited, 325 Telok Blangah Road, Singapore 0409 on Tuesday, May
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4965 19  -  By Lim Mui Khi LAST WEEK'S performance could be the beginning of a consolidation phase for the local bourse, market observers said. Prices drifted sideways, while average daily volume fell to almost half of the previous week's. The Business Times Composite Index lost
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  • 3928 20 Main Board I set an 50* 945 45 5.0* Semb Shipyard 700 +25 +3.7% Acma 221 +23 +11.6% Wearnes 670 20 3.1% Times Pub 426 +16 +3.9% Jurong Ship 50* 800 +15 +1.9% Metal Ctainers 156 +15 +10.6% Hai Sun Hup 20* 215 +13 +6.4%
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3921 21 MBT Bernama BEARS stamped their authority on all five trading days last week, driving share prices lower across the board on the Kuala Lumpur stock market. The rebound in the previous week after two weeks of easier trading proved to be a brief respite.
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    • 166 21 SINGAPORE BUSINBSS/SAMSONITB SUBSCRIPTION PROMOTION THIS MONTH'S LUCKY DRAW PRIZE iff &j Ek m won i *>-.- 1 '>T-J I h I J Subscription rates: 12 issues of Singapore Business 5548.00 12 issues of Singapore Business and a copy of the Yearbook '90 5554.00 7? *East Malaysia *****.00 (Registered second air
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 1208 22 (F6$^3rE6slSi$i?pt6iE DBS Securities SHARE PRICES rose sharply during the past week in active trading, with, the Hang Seng Index gaining 71.61 points, or 2.4 per cent, to close at 3,067.30 on Friday. Average turnover also rose sharply to HK.SI.6 billion (US$2O6 million), against
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    • 548 22 AFP JAPANESE share prices posted a substantial rise in the latter half of the past week, buoyed by the yen's rise against the US dollar. The Nikkei Stock Average closed on Friday at 29,835.44 yen, up 621.52 yen or 2.1 per cent
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    • 734 23 'HEWYOW FT ANXIETY over the pace of US inflation took centre stage on Wall Street last week, sending bond prices tumbling and equities following in their wake. The catalyst was news on Tuesday that the Consumer Price Index had jumped 0.5 per cent
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    • 817 23  -  LONDON By Ray Heath SPORTSMEN, politicians and businessmen share the dubious gift of making firm statements which are in tatters almost before they are out of their mouths. "Our players have never been more ready, and I don't see
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    • 221 23 AFP RISING US interest rates and the fall on Wall Street dragged down Australian stocks during the past week, brokers said. The main market indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, fell 7.0 points to end the week at 1,491.4. The All Industrials Index rose 10 points
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    • 212 23 ramffigX;: AFP THE Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) firmed slightly last week although trading slackened towards the end of the week as holidays marking the end of the Muslim holy month, Ramadan, approached. The JSE Index ended the week at 641.686, up 0.32 per cent from the
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    • 129 23 BOMBAY AFP THE Indian stock markets made a smart recovery last week as war rhetoric between India and Pakistan subsided and the government settled a dispute with an Indian business magnate. The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitivity Index rose by 39 points to close at
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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    • 453 22 NOTICES IN THE MATTERS OF THE COMPARES ACT (CHAPTER 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF CHATELET TRADING PTE LTD (Incorporated In 0m Republic of Singapore) (In Liquidation) MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WMDMG UP NOTICE B HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 306 of tie Companies Act, (Chapter 50) fiat the Final General
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    • 202 22 Banking, Finance 8c Insurance Supplement 1990 Banking, Finance and Insurance Supplement, Business Times's biggest and most established annual supplement, Is here again. The theme of this year's bumper issue, scheduled to be published on May 24, 1990, is Financial Sector Leading Singapore into the 90s. The financial services industry was
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Dow Jones falls below 2,700 level
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        1351 24 LATE expirations-linked buying saved the US stock market from a steep closing loss last Friday, but shares nevertheless posted their third straight decline, hurt by extended bond market weakness, inflation fears and some disappointing corporate results. The Dow Jones industrials closed off 15.98 points to 2695.95. Some 175
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        849 24 SHARE PRICES finished slightly higher on London's Stock Exchange last Friday after a drab session. Dealers complained of a lack of investor interest in the middle of the current three-week trading account. The exchange divides trading into two-week and three-week trading periods for accounting purposes. "We're meandering around without
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      • 326 24 WEST GERMAN share prices ended slightly higher last Friday, but off the highs of the day, with market activity mostly restricted to position squaring ahead of the weekend. "There was no real interest in the market from either international or domestic investors," one share trader said. Turnover was moderate
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      • 376 24 SWISS shares traded mixed to firmer last Friday. Dealers said activity centred on Ciba-Geigy after the company said it was withdrawing a planned capital increase because of its falling share prices. In addition to that, Ciba-Geigy also said its employee foundations would acquire 360,000 registered shares by buying on
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      • 191 24 STOCKS in Milan ended the week mixed in lower volume focused on computer maker Olivetti and chemicals concern Montedison. The MIB index slipped three points, or 0.29 per cent, to close at 1,028. Brokers said a combination of profittaking from gains earlier in the week and the weakness of
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      • 378 24 DUTCH share prices ended the week mixed in slow trading on Friday. "Players tried to square their positions in view of the weekend," a trader said. The CBS all-share index closed 0.4 points up at 119.2. "Foreign demand boosted two main risers, yeast producer Gist Brocades and shades maker
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      • 561 24 Brussels Apr 20 Francs FORWARD MARKET Acec 4820 -70 Arbed 5530 +100 Astur 1570 +50 Brascan 694 -12 Canpac 646 -18 Cock 211 +6 De Beers 746 unch Ebes 4280 unch Gb-Inno-Bm 1348 +14 Gevaert 8450 unch GrBruLamb 3970 +5 Hobok Petro.... ***** +25 Ryl Dutch 2630 +20 Sidro 1705
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      • 80 24 INDICES TURNOVER NEW YORK Close Pitihw Apr 20 Dow Jones NYSE Financial SAP 300 Turnover (million) 2695.95 2,711.94 137.87 139.28 335.11 338.09 175.0 159.9 -15.98 -1.41 -2.98 15.1 L0N00N Financial Times 30 FTSE 100 Turnover (million) 1.712.6 2,187.1 410.7 1.712.2 2,184.7 491.9 +0.4 2.4 -81.2 AMSTERDAM CBS General NA 197.20
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 496 25 FOREX MARKET REPORTS A MID-WEEK US trade figure provided much of the excitement in the major foreign currency centres last week a week which saw the greenback crossing 160-yen barrier on Wednesday. Much action was also focused on the mark-yen cross rate which
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    • 579 25 ASIAN CURRENCIES AFP THE yen pulled out of its freefal! last week, with a little help from a US monetary official who warned that its continued drop could hurt global trade. The Australian, New Zealand, South Korean, Malaysian, Thai and Singapore units
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    • 392 25 Cross rates Apr 21 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.8755 2.7195 1.6885 157.50 0.6105 1 4905 1.2974 1.7153 SS 0.5332 1.4500 0.9003 0.8398 0.3255 0.7947 0.6917 0.9146 MS 0.3677 68.96 0.6209 0.5792 0.2245 0.5481 0.4771 0.6307 Dm 0.5922 1.1107 1.6106 93.28 0.3616 0.8827
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    • 564 25 Interbank rates s$ Bid Offer Overnight 6 1/16 6 3/16 1-month 6 1/2 6 5/8 2-month 6 5/8 6 3/4 3-month 6 13/16 6 15/16 Overnight mode: 6-1/4 US$ High Low 7 days 8 5/16 8 1/4 1 month 8 3/8 8 5/16 2 months 8 7/16 8
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    • 609 25  -  With commodity prices expected to fall over the next few months and the AS being a commodity currency, Mr lan Little, (right) chief economist of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, explains why the AS is likely to fall to around 73
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    • 359 25 GOLD FINANCIAL FUTURES REPORI SPOT gold's narrow range between last Monday's U*****.50/U*****.00 and Thursday's U*****.70/ U*****.20 was not due to a lack of market moving factors but rather the market's* inability to interprete them confidently. This was best demonstrated when traders failed to respond to
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    • 271 25 Liiiiii Apr 20 OOLO FUTURES* 100 oz) USS/oz Open High Low Settle Change Apr 376.80 377.00 374.80 376.60 -0.70 May 377.60 377.60 377.60 377.50 -0.80 Jun 380.30 380.70 377.50 379.90 -0.80 Aug 385.00 385.20 382.40 384.70 -0.80 Oct 390.00 390.00 387.50 389.60 -0.80 Dec 394.70 395.00 392.50 394.40
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    • 513 25 BANKS ABN Bank 7V. Allied Irish Bank PLC 7Wi American Express Bank 7% Am'Dam R'terdam Bank 7% Arab Banking Corp 7Vj Arab Bank Ltd 6Vi Asia Commercial Bank 7 ANZ Banking Group 7% Ban Hin Lee Bank 7V« Banca Commercial 7% Banco do Brasil 7% Bangkok Bank
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 401 26 Reuter OPEC seems to have got a temporary floor under sliding oil prices with hints that it will cut its excess output, but a sceptical market may soon want more solid evidence that the present oil glut will be mopped up. Petroleum
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    • 197 26 Reuter ECUADOR'S Energy Minister Diego Tamariz has called on Opec countries to send a clear signal to world oil markets by taking crude oil off the market to halt the slide in prices and steer them back to higher levels. "This may be
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    • 204 26 MALAYSIA'S production of crude palm oil (CPO) in March this year rose by 8 per cent to 454,433 tonnes from a month earlier and increased by 23 per cent compared with same month in 1989, the Malaysian Statistics Department said. In its monthly release of
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    • 893 26 WEEKLY ROUND-UP AFP OPEC's timely decision to hold an emergency meeting on May 2 provided crude oil prices with the necessary boost to wipe out recent losses this past week. Market operators hope the cartel will take steps to reduce production among
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  • 1119 26 Rubber HAS (fob in half 1) S cents/kg Int 1 RSS April Close Qosed 157.00 156.00 A JE 1 ates) M cents/kg Int 1 RSS April Close Qosed Ell 228.00 Ml 227.50 441 227.50 228.50 LONOON (Apr 20) pence/kg Close Previous 1 RSS May 1 RSS Jun 2 RSS
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 1025 27 City Flight ETA Flight FTO City Flight ETA Flight ETO lyiwl 1840 1915 SQ225 2215 Kiiglg Lumpur MH601 MH627 0200 0635 MH602 MH628 0200 0720 0730 0800 RJ182 1445 RJ 183 2320 MH640 MH630 SQ103 MH605 SQ 105 0810 0840 SQ102 MH604 Amsterdam SQ23 GA893 KL841
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    • 639 27 LETTER FROM LONDON BILLY buys almost everything, the sign reads. Billy's selection of "almost everything" is piled high within a six-foot-square cubby hole in one corner of Camden Lock market, located on Regent's Canal in Camden. Billy himself is tiny and stands on two milk
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    • 152 27 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.4400 1.4600 Canadian dollar 1.5980 1.6180 NZ dollar 1.*****.***** Sterling pound 3.065 3.085 US dollar 1.8725 1.8825 I>ocal dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 15.60 16.60 Belgian
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    • 153 27 Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Duration Title Venue Organiser Tej Apr 5-23 International Buenos Fundacion (54)1/*****63 Apr 25 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (263)9/***** Buenos Aires Aires El Libra May I International International Exhibition Trade Fair Trade Fair Apr 17-22 International Zagreb. Zagreback. (38)41/*****6 Apr 2 7 International West
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    • 60 27 W T l>UJ neM chotct Tuejday, I B I|V I I \M \f\ I Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Leaving I ll\ I I IK 1I I Changi Airport at 2135 houn and arriving at I J I JPY Heathrow early the following morning. CmU your travel agent or Air Caruuia
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    • 345 27 NOTICE la fee Matter ti Tto Cempaaiee Art, Cap. M •ai POLY AD PTE LTD (la Menken' VeiuterUy) liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed company duly convened and held at 0001 Beach Road #12-02 Oolden Mile Tower, Singapore 0710 on Thursday, i 10th day of April, 1900
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    • 454 27 I Steamers Maritime Holdings Limited I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) H I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of I I the Company will be held at the Straits Room, 10 Collyer Quay H #29-00, Ocean Building, Singapore 0104, on Friday, 11 May 1990 at
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 283 27 5 Families resulting from what Adam lost during a set back P--9 Give voice to nonsense rubbish 12 Commonwealth supporter tells where he gained his lau13 Crams 21 Architect of the women's na- —-Lhl—lml——LmJ —lmJ 24 It is used for making fast I I M I 25 He joins the
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    • 225 27 Singapore OUTLOOK: Showers over a few areas ia the pre-dawa hoars Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on Apr 22 at the airport: Max temp 33.5 Assoc humidity 69 Mia temp 25.0 Assoc humidity 94 Hrs of soashine 8.05 Rainfall ia mm ail Rainfall this rath 50.5 Report for
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  • 411 28 Reuter AP THE EUROPEAN Community has issued a firm warning to Moscow for its economic blockade of Lithuania but made clear that the rebel republic may have to compromise to resolve the crisis. The 12-nation EC urged Moscow on Saturday to lift its
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  • 440 28  -  By Kenneth James SINGAPORE'S economy is likely to grow by 6 per cent this year, well ahead of most developing countries but slightly below the average for the Newly Industrialising Economies, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has predicted. In its 1989 Annual Report
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  • 389 28  -  IDPM's Visit to Britain From Anna Teo in LONDON SINGAPORE'S growth will be affected if Hongkong's position as a key Asia-Pacific economy is diminished, says First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, reiterating the Republic's support for measures to keep
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  • 381 28 Bernama FORMER Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman's statement that trade and commerce were better left to the Chinese because the Malays were not trained for it has drawn strong criticism. Trade and Industry Minister, Datuk Sen Rafidah Aziz, said yesterday that she was
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  • 390 28 FIRST Deputy Prime Minister Goh Oiok Tong says he wants to evolve his own style of leadership when he assumes the premiership in late November or early December. It is already obvious, he said, that he was a "better listener than Mr
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 481 29  -  By Ravi Nambiar TWO MORE shipping lines are scheduled to make regular calls at Johor port in Pasir Gudang soon. Japan's "K" Line and West Germany's Senator Linie are reported to be in the final stages of negotiations with
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    • 431 29  -  By Sangeeta Mulchand SEA-AIR traffic through Singapore is expected to maintain steady double-digit growth in the *****, breaching the 20,000-tonne mark by the year 2000. Projecting this ambitious leap from last year's 7,580 tonnes, assistant director (air cargo)
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    • 334 29  -  By Rahita Elias REFLECTING buoyant conditions in the shipping industry, Singapore-based Swee Heng Metal achieved record sales of $20 million in container handling equipment last year, far above the $1 million target in its agency agreement with principal Lancer Boss. Mr
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    • 327 29  -  From Julie Chatterjee IN BOMBAY THE SHIPPING Corp of India (SCI) is probably going to start passenger services between Madras and Singapore and between Cochin and West Asia/Persian Gulf in three months' time. Of these two sectors, SCI is quite familiar with
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    • 219 29 LLoyd's List DENMARK'S AP Moller group is to spend more than US$l3O million on eight offshore support vessels in one of the most costly expansion programmes ever seen by the industry. The company has ordered four powerful anchor handling tug/supply (AHTS)
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    • 425 29 CELEBRATE the long Hari Raya weekend but don't forget to keep your factory gates open for import cargoes, advises Malaysia's premier port operator, the Kelang Container Terminal (KCT). All essential port operations are going to be open and working throughout the weekend and
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    • NEWS SUMMARY
    • LOG BOOK
      • 105 30 ISHIKAWAJIMA-HARIMA Heavy Industries Co (IHI) will provide technology for building liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers to South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. IHI officials said it would be Japan's first transfer of high technology overseas in the shipbuilding field. IHI, a major Japanese shipbuilding and engineering
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      • 108 30 KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA LTD, Japan's third biggest company, has set up a joint venture in South Kotea with Dongwoo Marine Transport Co for cargo collection and agency business. The new firm, Dongwoo Marine Co Ltd, is capitalised at 1.6 billion won (US$2.l million), with the South
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      • 81 30 ifeXACO INC IS CONDUCTING research on whether it a ill eventually use double-hulled tankers to transport crude ju Texaco President James Kinnear said. Pressure has iiicunted for the US oil industry to use double-hulled vessels since the Exxon Valdez, a one-hulled supertanker, spilled 11 million gallons
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      • 113 30 iWiSS REGIONAL AIRLINE Crossair has purchased four BAe 146-200s and taken options on a further eight. Deliveries will begin in the fourth quarter of 1992 following certification of the BAe 146 to Category 3 instrument approach standard. As an interim measure, Crossair is acquiring three used
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      • 80 30 IURKISH FLAG CARRIER Turk Hava Yollari is to buy five Airbus A 340-300 very long-range four-engined widebody aircraft, plus five options. The aircraft, to be powered by CFM International CFMS6-5C2 engines, will seat 279 passengers in a three-class layout. Deliveries will begin in 1993. The Airbus
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    • 775 30  -  Sangeeta Mulchand finds out more about the 30-year-old sea-air intermodal industry which flourished only recently Sangeeta Mulchand COMBINING modes of transporting cargo on a single joumey is not new. The almost 30-year-old industry, however, did not flourish until recently. Started in the early 60s
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    • 330 30 Reuter A LEGAL wrangle over three long-idle liquefied natural gas tankers may damage Nigerian and Algerian export plans and delay reopening of the largest LNG terminal in the US, analysts and industry sources said. "It's not clear if loss of the tankers would scuttle
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    • 849 30 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 12253 38 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for a maximum
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      • 511 45 IwmI Way N» Bwtt Annul 0<partirt Vead Voy No Bcrtti Dep*ture Keppd Wharves Otyropw U/90 P3E alongside 2204/2300 6 Haven 1/90 K17 alongside 2304/0600 s« Lian ***** P2C alongside 24 04/0730 Kota Abadi E 847 K31 alongside 25 04/0600 str Venture 10£ P2A alongside 22 04/2300 Patrartos
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      • 1678 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO TransUner SctaMes Ship Voy No Arr Date Time From To Bookin Gate Bfc Op *j Goncharov 08SI90 24 04.90 1100 23/1030 23/1129 tamci 2 Q6 00 F01 23/1930 23/2029 Portnet i 24/0200 24/0259 NA _2 Amaka KCN004 24 04 90
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      • 329 45 Port King South Port Cerlang berth 1; Hoegh Dyke berth 2; Soon Hoe berth 2; Hanjin Karachi berth 3; Seng Soon Chew berth 4; Beriasa berth 5; Kin Line No 1 berth 7; Bunga Setawar berth IK Star Eight berth J Shell KCT: TSK Chorus berth 8;
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      • 924 45 THE dry cargo freight market saw a continuing weakening in Pacific rates, and the Baltic Freight Index (BFI) fell a further eight points to 1,436. Fixtures included 52,000 long tons of heavy grain from the US North Pacific range to Japan, for the second half of May, loading
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    • 379 46  -  From Al O Labita IN MANILA AN INTRA-ASEAN industrial complementation to produce railway spare parts will have good prospects, says a senior Filipino official. "We are bullish that this complementation scheme wiir hasten Asean's self-reliance in the railway industry," says Pete Prado,
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    • 174 46 AFP TAIWAN is to bar ships flying Pakistani flags from its ports unless Islamabad lifts a similar ban imposed on its vessels in the next four months, a Communications Ministry official said on Thursday. The decision to retaliate was reached in a meeting two days
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    • 348 46 TNT SKYPAK recorded a 20 per cent boost in the volume of parcel shipments in the first quarter of 1990 compared with the previous quarter. This, said the South China Morning Post, was despite the slump in the courier business
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    • 145 46  -  By Julie Chatterjee AN AMBITIOUS plan is in the offing to give the Port of Madras a massive Ss44o million facelift. The project will be financed by the Madras Port Trust to the tune of Ss2oo million. The balance will come from the Indian government
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    • 774 46  - 'Assignable' what it means if cargo is lost WAgER mITk By Ian Lancaster GENERALLY, marine cargo insurance policies are assignable. which means that all rights and benefits to the cargo can be passed freely from the sender to the receiver. Today we discuss the implications of the term "assignable" and
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    • 39 29 Air FragM Schedule 17 Contamer Schedule 17 My Fraghfc 17 Index to Advertiser* 3 Shwng Gude 10.11 Stys m Port 17 Soppore Tries 17 Cocfcett report 2 Urf it.im 1.1 1 O naiermani 10 Weather and Sea Concttms 17
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    • 158 30 SINGAPORE BUSINESS/SAMSONITE SUBSCRIPTION PROMOTION THIS MONTH'S LUCKY DRAW PRIZE iL L v\()fi 5548.00 12 issues of Singapore Business i *East Malaysia -S$ 102.00 Registered second class air mail) WmK I 'Overseas -5594.00 *NOTt: Overseas subscription includes a yearbook '90. MA SUBSCRIPTION/RENEWAL FORM I (Subsi ription/renew.il orders re( eived by 27th
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    • 1198 32 ROTTERDAM/ 1 VOY NO S PORE P. KELANQ SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG BREMERHAVEN ANTWERP LE HAVRE LARGS BAY 20/549 25/4 27/4 15/5 17/5 18/5 2<V5 22/5 MONTE ROSA 07/548 28/4 21/5 15/5 17/8 1475 20/5 LONDON EXPRESS 11/562 2/5 4/5 22/5 24/5 28/5 27/5 28/5 CITY OF EDINBURGH 88/561 3/5 28/5 22/5
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    • 1357 33 szgsSteamers Maritime Holdings Ltd &p&o TWm STRAITS SHIPPING! 1 Containers accepts due sails rW« Mtai rtn Ntwf rtaMirta un TTICI uuniut am vm am vm am am 22m C GO mm row am w* iv« vm um am iintang seria mk sum, ki Daily n Apr Apr LOfIOON EXPMS W
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    • 593 34 CR NBR 11 §*****000-0 EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE VSUVOY S'POUt l»DA» H BURC BRUKN ANTWtRP ADAH ■ATARAM/SWB 21/4-1/5 5* W lfi VM BAAS ULLAH/27W8 JS-tifi 25?S 1/7 4/7 1/7 FAST TRANSIT TIME ACCEPTING BREAK BULK/CONTAINERISED CARGO Seated to Munmanl ANo aocaptoo cargo to CMtofcnca, Rod Said, Port AJmrafrto, Qanoa, Trlsrta. ALSO
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    • 839 34 (Jh HANJIN SHIPPING FULL CONTAINER SERVICE HSSIN OOK rn H"CHEJUNK "£22 WW VS 25 24fi TVS 27/5 21/5 HANJIN FELIXSTOWE «E 3W4 M SUSAN UK JSfi Vfi 3, a g£ 3 CHOYANG PARK OI7E N. POHANG «E W M 11 N». T/S AT PUSAN S port H.Mm Kj«Mim| Mb* YoM
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    • 1321 35 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE (CR No: **********0 E) BOOKINGS/ENQUIRIES: UK/EUROPE SERVICE *****19 AUST/INDIA/PAK SERVICE *****18 K USA SERVICE *****16 FAR EAST SERVICE *****48 Mr DOCUMENTATION: *****44/*****14 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 PKN PKG SCP MOTHKR VSIVVOY
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    • 435 35 $pecam r V KEELUN6 Tel: *****55 > (29/4) \v\ KAOHSIufiG On X (29/4) A ll FOR BOOKINGS X\o I TEL- *****17 k BANGKOK ncOLOHfiil (28/4) W J I (28/4) L jjs JY\ I Specargo's Own V I Operated V\X I Warehouse at XaliX/ A) I FTZ Warehouse Tel: *****50 SEAWARD
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    • 1215 35 m sinsov f SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKING: *****51/ *****64 ENQUIRES: *****33 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 ~^~^^^~JREGU^^NDEp|NDEN^ERViCE^^^~^~~" DISCHARGING FROM EASTBOUNO LOADING FOR WESTBOUND WARE ggg MHHLA MKQlit" VOYAGE SPORE WOAWt HRURC »HAVtW THJUItT HQTT WTW twhono* mtm sm _w
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    • 1104 36 J liUUilll VOY 'INDO 'PK/PNG [sGP LB CHLS NFK NYC HFX OOCL FRIENDSHIP 19 23/4 24/4 26/4 19/5 29/5 31/5 2/C 6/6 NEPTUNE JADE 24 X/ 4 1/5 3/5 26/5 5/6 7/6 9/6 13/6 OOCL FORTUNE 20 7/5 8/5 10/5 2/6 12/6 14/6 16/6 20/6 AMBASSADOR BRIDGE 28 14/5 15/5
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    • 699 36 ETD SIN (1 DAY) 0 **V) ♦(1 DAY) BOOKING COWTACT I T 27/04/90 PENANG BANGKOK JACQUELINE TWICE/WKLY ETD SIN (3 DAYS) (2 DAYS) (1 DAY) BOOjON^OJJACT 26/04/90 HQNG KOWC KAOHSIUNG KEELUNG JOYCE/JUDY [TWK*/WKLYJ ETD SIN (6 DAYS) (1 DAY) (4 DAYS) I I I 26/04/90 BUSAN MANILA NAGOYA SERENE/SITI TWICE/WKLY
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    • 289 36 Cotrtmenta! Pacific Shippum jr TIMBER PLYWOOD SERVICE TO U.K./CONTINENT KKU S POKE PK LOADING FOR ARTEMISIOM SM SCTEJRDN/ANT/FIU/UK BYRON V SW In Pt 2M SETE/ROM/ANT/FLU/UK A R BE LA SM SETE/ROM/ANT/FLU/UK Load* Sabi MULTIPORT A6ENCIES (S) /Q\ PTE. LTO. I V TtL: *****77 FAX: 225M31 \|Tj/ PIC. MULTIPORT SON BHD.
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    • 643 36 ftv?Nl golden line GUAN GUAN SHIPPING (PTE) LTD a. Teiok Ayor Stroot SINGAPORE 0104 1 TEL SOM (10 LINES) Fix SOW (CR No STRAITS/PERSIAN GULF SERVICE: Sport P. Ketonj P«o*nt GOLDEN BEAR Colombo'feradw'Outw Hllhj GOLDEN HARVEST 21/21 May CHINA SERVICE DAI TUN SHAN Huanpu/FutaM IV* A#r CASABLANCA SERVICE A VESSEL
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    • 1637 37 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD SfiSSB E tm UIKI P'L Building, 140 Cecil Street #0340, Singapore 0106. I JAKARTA 1 I BANGKOK 1 VESSEL VOY SIN J'KT SIN VESSEL VOV SIN BKK SIN MAJAPAHIT 5358 24/4 29/4 PEGASUS PIONEER 7IN 24/4 27/4 1/5 EDEN 9011 2S/4 27/4 2/S KOTA SINGA
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    • 1068 37 BEN LINE CONTAINERS LTD y 200 Cantonment Road Tel: *****22 #13-05 Southpoint m Fax *****63 Singapore 0208. 9 Telex: RS ***** EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT VESSEL |vQY SPORE PKLANG SHAMPTON HAMBURG BHAVEN R'DAM L'HAVRE Largs Bay 20/549 25/4 27/4 15/5 19/5 21/5 17/5 23/5 Monte Rosa* 07/548 26/4 21/5
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    • 59 37 MV. COSMO ANGEL 02 STH I HONG KONG 5/5 I APIA (WESTERN SAMOA) 28/5 I PAGO PAGO (AMERICAN SAMOA) 30/5 I PAPEETE (TAHITI) 3/6 I RAROTONGA (COOK ISLANDS) 7/6 I NUKUALOFA (TONGA) 12/6 I SAVU SAVU (FIJI) 15/6 I cwwmt HUBS fcl n/4,27/4 I LCL <7/4 AGENTS: I BEN LINE
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    • 289 37 MYANMA fßk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) S'pore P.Kelang Pen Bkok PAGAN VISSW 21/* APR PATHEIN VIOIW 24/3# AM MYOMA YWA VI26W APR/1 HAY 25-21 APR 21-» APR MERGUI VW a APRfI MY DISCHC ONLY HPA-AN VI49W 2Jt MAY THE BANK LINE (A Mrvlc* of
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    • 743 40 INTEGRATED CONTAINER SERVICE MEMBER Of EACON SERVICE TO UNITED KINGDOM NORTH CONTINENT EUROPE OUTBOUND SIN FU BRE ROM ANT HBC RST W. ULBRICHT *M 01/5 2*5 24/5 2*5 27/5 PANAMA SEN 2/M 12/5 0*( 08* o*B 0*( o*B T WENOA 5W 2*5 I*l 1*» 1*« AMERICAN SEN 2/10 2*5 21/8
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    • 1210 40 roc comnpmowAt MM| VMM) P~KLC PWC Fa [M3I««W TONCCMUAN 30/3 R»tto«4««/Aiitw«rp YANGCHUAN 2*4 lntlirfm(A«l«if» CHINA rou COWTAWn IPVKI VttMl PKL PMC SPOKE BKK HKC SHA QiN ITS WEI HE 50 27/3 2*3 3V3 *4 I*4 YANG FANG KOU 125 11/1 I*3 *4 11/4 W W Acciphng FCL Ctrfo for all
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    • 215 40 FAST DIRECT REGULAR SERVICE TO INDONESIA PORT PADANG/PK. BALAM SEMARANG/ PANJANG/CIGADING/BENGKULU VSL ETA ETD LOADING FOR DELI INDAH ***** 27.4.90 PK. BALAM NA6A JAYA In Port 25.4 90 PANJANG LAMPUNG JAYA In Port 25.4.90 PANJANG PINANG JAYA In Port 26.4.90 PANJANG/PK BALAM PERITA JAYA 28 4.90 30.4.90 PANJANG/JAKARTA ABADI JAYA
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    • 577 40 POSEIDON CONTAINER TRANSPORT GMBH HAMBURG TRANS-SIBERIAN CONTAINER SERVICE SOTRA GENERAL AGENTS ACCEPTING ALL FCL LCL CONVENTIONAL CARGOES I AFGHANISTAN! Hairaton, Tourghundi, Kabul, Herat, Mazar-1-Sharif, Mashad, Kushka 1 IRAN Djulfa, Astara VIA ILYICHEVSK ETD SINGAPORE 25/4, 2/5, 12/5, 17/5, 23/5, 28/5; 5/6 EUROPE I :To all inland points: VIA VOSTOCHNY Poland,
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    • 1099 41 EXPRESS FEEDER SERVICE (Fully Containerised) VESSEL SIN CAL CTG A VSL 24/4 30/4 (Conventional Service) ETA S'PORE LOADING FOR BANGLAR PROGOTI Sid S.KOREA/JAPAN ETA S'PORE LOADING FOR A VSL 23/4 Port Suez/Port Said/Alexandra ir?«tMA^nirrir EAST MALAYSIA SHIPPING INT. (PTE) LTD 41-A AHOY STREET, S PORE 0106. TEL: *****18 (4 LINES)
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    • 487 44 transintra shipping (yngapof#) private limited Cargo bookings Tel: *****88 (5 LINES) A TBN END MAY HKG, KAO, POHANG FROM ALL UNITED KINGDOM CITIES/PORTS FROM COPENHAGEN/AARHUS FROM HAMBURG/BREMEN FROM BUSAN FROM LOS ANGELES/ALL USA IPI POINTS PLATOU PACIFIC M jL-* shipping SERVICES V REGULAR FAR EAST N. AMERICA BREAKBULK SERVICE OWNERS'
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    • 310 44 fe*ADKRIS BUSINESS (PSi CORPORATION PHIUPPINE DIRECT REGULAR SERVICES TO MANILA BISLIG ACCEPTING CARGOS TO ALL PHILIPPINE PORTS ON INDUCEMENT. ALL HEAVY LIFT WELCOME. M.V.'DAGOHOY' 05/90 23R0 A PHIL ILIGAN/BISLIG TBN 27TH APRIL MANILA TBN IST MAY MANILA/ILIGAN M V DAGOHOY 06/90 10TH MAY BISLIG/MANILA GENERAL ACT CALSOURCE SHIPPING t TRADING
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