The Business Times, 24 July 1990

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  • 10 1 Business Times MCI fP* 170/19/KQ 75* Tuesday July 24 1990
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 71 1 THE EUROPEAN Community and the US have resolved differences over how to proceed in negotiations on farm trade reform at the Uruguay Round world trade talks. The ECs delegate to Gatt said in Geneva yesterday that the Uruguay Round negotiating
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    • 24 1 THE Urban Redevelopment Authority is working hard to process planning approval cases quiddy to cut down the backlog. Page 2
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    • 28 1 A LOCAL DESIGN company, which started as a husband-and-wife team, has joined hands with an American firm to better tackle the Asia-Pacific market Page 2
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    • 19 1 THAILAND'S dynamic economy risks overheating as an unprecedented boom in industrial investment fuels inflation Page 7
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    • 28 1 CHINA'S imports in the first half of this year fell by almost one-fourth against the same period last year because of economic sanctions Page 8
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    • 24 1 RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin plans to privatise much of the republic's economy and free prices as part of alternative reforms Page 9
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    • 13 1 GRETA GARBO's art collection is going under the hammer Page 15
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    • 34 1 A CLOUD of doubt hangs over state-owned Malaysia Shipyard and Engineering (MSE) on its success in securing the US$5O million fatty alcohol plant project in Kuantan. Shipping limes Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 36 1 LONDON SHARES slid sharply in late trading following a sell-off on Wall Street. About an hour before the close, the Footsie 100 shares index stood down 46.8 points on Friday's close at 2,353.3 points.
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    • 34 1 HOTEL Marco Polo has proposed a one-for-one rights issue to help finance its new Paterson Road project, while reporting a turnaround with an after-tax profit of $7.72 million Page 3
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    • 41 1 SINGAPORE Shipbuilding Engineering (SSE), the specialist marine arm of the Singapore Technologies group, is offering for sale 46 million 25-cent shares at $1.20 each to the public as a prelude to a main board listing. Page 3
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    • 28 1 SINGAPORE-BASED businessman Jack Chia is floating one of his companies in Thailand, Jack Chia Industries (Thailand) Ltd, on the Thai stock exchange Page 3
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    • 27 1 BANK of Thailand governor Chavalit Thanachanan wants commercial banks to increase their capital as the local stock market is now bullish. Page 6
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    • Article, Illustration
      28 1 Moaday Change BT-MGA 814.95 +3.83 Kuala Lumpur ...Closed Hongkong 3,559.89 +19.46 Tokyo 31,894.7 -526.73 Sydney 1,599.3 -3.4 Friday Change New York 2.961.14, -32.67 London 2,400.1 +12.8
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    • 20 1 Exchange rates USS S$ 1.8130 Yen SS1.2201 M$ SS0.6700 "Wjf "Hrwi mw Overnight 6 +1 3-month 7 1/4* +1/16
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    • 11 1 LmmIm field PM fix US$366.10 USS5.10 S'pore Aug... 155.25*/kg unch
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    • 15 1 MARKETS in Malaysia and Indonesia were closed yesterday for the Islamic New Year.
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  • 468 1  -  By Magdalene Ng THE STOCK EXCHANGE of Singapore is expected to announce a set of guidelines soon on how millions of dollars of interest earned on new share applications will be distributed. The guidelines, coming after months of study on the
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  • 335 1  -  By Lim Mui Khi FAITH in Singapore-made products has paid off for one high-tech manufacturer. Last night, Mr Patrick Ngiam, executive chairman of Essex Electric Pte Ltd, received the first KPMG Singapore High Tech Entrepreneur Award for his contribution to the high-technology business
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  • 380 1 WITH its large population of multinational corporations, Singapore can act as a resource centre for Asean as the region pursues new technology to grow and prosper economically, the Economic Development Board's chairman said yesterday. Mr Philip Yeo, speaking at the
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  • 411 1  -  By John Tan ALREADY facing sluggish sales in the US, local garment makers are worried that a textile bill before President George Bush would only further reduce demand from their main market. The Textile Bill, passed by the US Senate last week, seeks
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  • 164 1 Reuter, AP WALL STREET stock prices tumbled mon than 1M points early yesterday bat thea quickly recovered aearty half of the loss as wild cooiputerdrivea trading hit the market The Dow Jones 30 share iadex cat its loss to 58.42 at 2,902.72 at 11am
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  • 302 1 AFP JAPAN wants China, Taiwan and Hongkong to join the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum but will maintain a cautious position for the time being, a senior Foreign Ministry official said in Tokyo yesterday. The official, who asked not to be named,
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 88 2 TRAINING Institute Advisory Committees will be launched on Thursday for the Singapore Technical Institute, Clementi Institute of Commerce, Pasir Panjang Vocational Institute and the Singapore Vocational Institute. The committees will advise the institutes on ways of improving and promoting vocational training. Dr Tay Eng
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      • 92 2 MAJOR-GENERAL Pehin Mohammad, the Chief of Armed Forces Staff, Royal Brunei Armed Forces, arrived yesterday for a farewell visit. Major-General Pehin Mohammad will be handing over his appointment to Brigadier-General Sulaiman Haji Dam it on Aug 10. He called on First Deputy Prime Minister CJoh Chok
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      • 67 2 THE PHARMACEUTICAL DEPARTMENT, Ministry of Health, will be holding an Asean workshop on communication, information and education on medicines for the community from tomorrow until Friday at the National Blood Centre, Outram Road. The workshop will be attended by delegates from the six Asean countries. Professor D O
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      • 62 2 MORE THAN 370 delegates from 31 countries will convene in Singapore from July 27 to 31 for the International Council on Education for Teaching's annual assembly. This year's assembly will be hosted by the Institute of Education, Singapore. The main theme for the conference will be
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      • 53 2 OMNI MARCO POLO Hotel was selected as the runner-up in the "Overseas Best City Hotel" category in the Hotel of the Year 1990 presentation in London on July 4. The award was one of six overseas awards presented to hotels worldwide for excellence in various
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      • 110 2 IN THE People in Business column in the July 21-22 Weekend Edition of BT, we wrongly reported that Richard Yong had been appointed as the chief executive officer of Intraco Ltd. Mr Yong is the CEO of Hexa Timber, a subsidiary of Intraco. The CEO and managing
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    • 375 2  -  By Lilian Ang THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is trying hard to process planning approval cases quickly, and has so far succeeded in bringing the backlog to within reasonable limits. This was the message driven home yesterday by Mr Liu Thai Ker, URA's
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    • 165 2 THE Stamford College Group hopes to move to newer and bigger premises after it sells off the 11-storey Stamford Educational Towers in Queen Street. Mr Rabind Pereira, group deputy director, told BT that the options being considered include renting a vacant school from the Ministry
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    • 346 2  -  By Shoeb Kagda SPURRED by the greater opportunities for joint ventures as a result of increased globalisation, a 10-member delegation from Trinidad and Tobago is in Singapore as part of a six-nation tour of the Far East. Since liberalising its investment
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    • 245 2 A LOCAL interior design firm which started off as a husband-and-wife operation has joined forces with an American architectural firm to penetrate the Asia-Pacific market. Thema Colleciones, founded by Mike and Ruby Soh eight years ago, announced its team-up yesterday with
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    • 207 2 §91 a US$l99 -gRHIMf :A /T.l Lli .Ivl"L. Pr; 1990 is Thai's thirtieth year of operation. And to period between January Ist, 1990 and December 31st, 1990 celebrate our birthday we've got a present for you. and that you purchase it before arriving in Thailand. $181? A Discover Thailand Ticket.
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 441 3  -  jjrj Elaine Koh HOTEL Marco Polo has proposed a $229.9 million one-for-one rights issue to help finance its new Paterson Road project. The rights issue, priced at $1.30 each, would only partly cover the development cost of the $600 million
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    • 621 3  -  By AJ Leow SINGAPORE Shipbuilding Engineering (SSE), the specialist marine arm of the Singapore Technologies group, is offering for sale 46 million 25-cent shares at $1.20 each to the public as a prelude to a main board listing. The flotation of
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    • 508 3 NST FOUR BROTHERS of the Teong family will control Kuala Lumpur Industries (KLI) through Bee Hin Holdings after the implementation of KLl's restructuring exercise. KLI general manager Yap Ping Kon said the Teong brothers' proposed takeover of KLI is being made at the
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    • 478 3 MARKET TALK THE TOKYO stock market has lost a steep 3.51 per cent of its value over the past two trading days with prices expected to drift lower in the next few days, brokers said. 'The equity market is blowing off a bit of
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    • 385 3  -  By Lim Mui Khi Reuter SINGAPORE-BASED businessman Jack Chia is floating one of his companies in Thailand, Jack Chia Industries (Thailand) Ltd, on the Thai stock exchange. The company, established in 1948, which is one of Mr Chia's earliest companies, is offering
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 112 3 OCBC BANK is making it convenient for Easi-Card (ATM) cardholders of the group to apply for the newly-launched Singapore Shipbuilding Engineering Ltd share issue. They can purchase cashier's order equivalents from selected EasiCash ATMs for only 1, the lowest commission charged in the
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      • 94 3 OCBC Bank, United Overseas Bank and its subsidiary Industrial Commercial Bank, are calling their respective extraordinary general meetings on August 18 for shareholders to approve amendments to the companies' articles of association which will put into effect the revised 40 per cent foreign shareholding limit and
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      • 69 3 SINGAPORE LAND will get a new director in Mr Wee Sin Tho, who was recently also appointed to the board of United Industrial Corporation. Mr Wee is also a director of Roxy Electric Industries, and a former director of First Capital Corporation. Mrs Lily
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      • 31 3 WEPCO Ltd has completed the purchase of 95.65 per cent of the issued capital of Tong Aik Plastic Factory (Pte) Ltd which was first announced on June 20.
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      • 50 3 THE Singapore Sesdaq Fund Ltd has acquired an additional 650,000 shares in Fuji Offset Plates Manufacturing Ltd on July 11 for $855,554. This has raised its stake in the Sesdaq company to 9.42 per cent (3.42 million shares) from 7.63 per cent (2.77 million shares).
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      • 61 3 EDARAN Otomobil Nasional (EON)'s shares will be listed and quoted on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange on Thursday on a ready basis. The KLSE said EON'S entire paid-up capital of 120 million shares will be admitted to the official list under the "industrials" sector. The
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      • 86 3 LINGUI Developments hopes to consolidate all its rubberbased activities under Hock Lee Rubeer Products and Hock Lee Rubber Enterprises on a 20 ha piece of land in Sungai Buloh. The two companies are subsidiaries of Hock Lee Plantations which is wholly-owned by Lingui. Managing director
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 100 4 MITSUBISHI Corp sold stakes of 4.48 per cent in Aristech Chemical Corp of the US to each of four companies in its group for 770 million yen each, the five Mitsubishi companies said in a joint statement. Mitsubishi Kasei Corp, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co Inc,
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      • 75 4 SWEDEN'S second biggest brewery Spendrups Bryggen AB was scheduled to start selling Lion Nathan Ltd's Steinlager beer from yesterday, Lion Nathan said. Spendrups, which will pay Lion Nathan unit New Zealand Breweries Ltd a royalty, is the first to brew the New Zealand beer abroad.
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      • 91 4 TOSHIBA Corp will nearly double its monthly output of integrated circuits for liquid crystal displays to two million units from the current 1.1 million starting in March 1991, a company spokesman said. Toshiba's wholly owned subsidiary Taketa Toshiba Electronics Co, in Oita prefecture, will invest about
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    • 320 4 Reuter TAIWAN is intensifying its crackdown on illegal operations by brokerages after a third company went out of business amid accusations its officials embezzled about NT$B3 million, the Finance Ministry said on Monday. Finance Minister Wang Chien-shien said the government would step up investigations
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    • 145 4 The Bangkok Post SIAM Renault Co, an affiliate of French vehicle giant Renault, has announced plans to set np its own assembly plant costing 200 million baht, following the government's announcement that it will allow more car assembly plants to be opened in Thailand.
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    • 400 4 THAI Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan has defended his government's approval for Caltex Oil (Thailand) to set up the fifth oil refinery in Thailand without having to undergo a bidding process, according to The Nation. He explained the endorsement was made to meet rising demand
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    • 269 4 CHUERNKAMOL Resort Co plans to launch a Bt7oo million residential project, Eastern Sea Point, in Ban Chang District, Rayong, targeted at businessmen working in the country's burgeoning Eastern Seaboard district, The Nation newspaper reported. Chuemkamol Resort Co is owned by three prominent businesspersons Kalaya Mahadumrongkul
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    • 380 4 Reuter THE Australian and Japanese consortium bidding 88 Australian cents a share for Oakbridge Ltd wants to keep the New South Wales coal miner as a listed company, said Tony Lawrance, managing director of consortium leader Mcllwraith McEacharn Ltd. Mr Lawrance said
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 94 5 ALCAN Aluminium Ltd said it served the Canadian Association of Smelter and Allied Workers with notice that it may lock the 1,500 unionised workers out of its Kitimat smelter as of midnight Monday. Alcan Aluminium spokesman Allan Hewitson said the 72-hour lockout notice was given
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      • 89 5 THE United Steelworkers of America said 450 union members are on strike at Noranda Inc's Belledune lead smelter in an attempt to win a new two-year labour contract. Steelworker spokesman Phil Best said no negotiations had taken place since June 25 and none was planned at
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      • 107 5 KUBOTA Ltd said in Sunnyvale, California, that although definitive agreements remain to be signed, it anticipates that its new subsidiary, Kubota Pacific Computer Inc, will begin operations within the next 30 days. Kubota Pacific will make graphics supercomputer products for Stardent Computer Inc, in which Kubota
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      • 108 5 FIRSTCORP Inc said it revised its results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1990, to show a loss of US$2O.4 million or $6.25 a share. In its preliminary earnings release, the company had reported a loss of $9.5 million for the year and said it had
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      • 136 5 JERSEY Central Power Light Co said it knew no alternative that would allow the utility to supply electricity to its customers more economically than continued operation of Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station. The utility said it took issue with the contentions by New Jersey Public
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    • 358 5 NYT EIGHT MONTHS after botching the biggest takeover ever proposed in France, Compagnie Financiere de Paribas, guided by a new management team, is fashioning a strategy to help restore its badly bruised image. In the long term, the strategy is likely to
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    • 422 5 NYT WHEELING-PITTSBURGH Steel Corp might be cited as a case study of how bankruptcy can sometimes have a rejuvenating effect. The company says it has improved production and profits so well that it will meet its goal of emerging from bankruptcy this year.
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    • 145 5 Reuter RANK Hovfa McDoogall pic said it was selling its breakfast cereals basiness to Cereal Partaers UK, a joiat veatare between Nestle SA aad Geaeral Mills, Cor £97 million. RHM Breakfast Cereals was fanned last year through the amalgamation of the Shreddrd Wheat bnaiarss, Vlota
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    • 328 5 NYT A CONSORTIUM comprising Aeritalia of Italy and Aerospatiale of France is negotiating to buy De Havilland of Canada, Boeing's troubled commuter aircraft subsidiary. Boeing, which acquired De Havilland from the Canadian government only four years ago, appears to have lost patience with
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    • 163 5 Reuter HANSON pic is understood to be a frontrunner in a potential £1 billion plus auction for control of Powergen, one of the UK electricity industry's two generating conglomerates that are both due to be privatised next year, a Sunday newspaper said. A
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 92 6 WESTPAC Banking Corp opened a representative office in ftangVnk yesterday and hoped eventually to open a full commercial branch. "We are very pleased to have been given permission to establish a representative office in Thailand, but we sec it as a first step towards
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      • 81 6 KONICA Corp is considering establishing a financing unit in Europe to raise capital for its local subsidiaries, a company spokesman said. Konica Capital EC (Holland) BV, capitalised at US$6 million, currently finances the firm's West German production unit, but does not raise capital locally. As Konica
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      • 66 6 NEW YORK Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) members were to vote yesterday on several by-law amendments affecting how the world's largest energy exchange is governed. The proposed changes, submitted in April, are aimed at curbing the board's power. The move, believed to be the first time Nymex members
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      • 66 6 THE average yield at this week's auction of Ssl2o million of 91-day Treasury bills was 4.29 per cent and the cut-off 4.40 per cent, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said. Bids totalled SSI7I million. This compares with an average vieid of 3.93 per cent and
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      • 99 6 MIDLAND Bank pic said a report in yesterday's Independent newspaper that it was putting its finance house unit Forward Trust up for sale was "pure speculation". "We never comment on speculation. We have no announcement to make and none planned," a Midland spokesman said. The Independent
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    • 176 6 Reuter THE Spanish government has granted a 39.03 billion peseta tax break for two Spanish savings banks, paving the way for their merger into the county's largest financial institution and one of Europe's largest savings banks. The economy ministry said last week that it
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    • 296 6 BANK Buruh, which received overwhelming response to its share financing scheme, may consider raising the limit from the current M 520,000, says its executive director, Tan Sri R V Navaratnam. "We may gradually increase the limit so that we will not be exposed
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    • 576 6 The Bangkok Post BANK of Thailand governor Chavalit Thanachanan wants commercial banks to increase their capital as the local stock market is now bullish. Chavalit said on Sunday that he will be meeting 15 commercial bank executives to discuss the overall banking situation
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    • 198 6  -  Quak Hiang Whai AUSTRALIAN national airline, Qantas, yesterday signed an agreement in Tokyo to lease a Boeing 767-300 aircraft through funds provided by Japanese banks and investor! Under a special arrangement with an undisclosed paper company set up by a Japanese leasing company, Qantas
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    • 328 6 Reuter AUSTRALIAN Ratings Pty Ltd has downgraded long-term debt ratings for Standard Chartered Bank Australia Ltd to 888 plus from A minus, HongkongBank of Australia Ltd to A from AA and Chase AMP Bank Ltd to A from A plus. The ratings agency also
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    • 307 6 Bernama ALTHOUGH Europe it gaining in significance, the Asia-Pacific region will remain an exceptionally promising growth centre for the Deutsche Bank group, a senior economist of the leading German bank said "South-east Asia has been and will continue to be an important
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  • THE REGION
    • 468 7 Reuter THAILAND'S dynamic economy risks overheating as an unprecedented boom in industrial investment fuels inflation, bankers and economists say. Gross domestic product is expected to post real doubledigit growth for the third straight year in 1990. The central bank recently raised its
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    • 333 7 MORE THAN 50 per cent of Hongkong's manufacturers expect to increase exports to Japan this year but almost as many expect their sales to China to continue to worsen, according to the South China Morning Post. Questionnaires sent to 5,761 companies in
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    • 129 7 AFP MITSUBISHI Corporation, Japan's mammoth trading company, said in Tokyo yesterday that it planned to open offices this year in Vietnam, a country viewed as a strong potential market for foreign businesses. Mitsubishi officials said the company hopes to open offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi
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    • 261 7 AP PRESSURE mounted yesterday on Philippine President Corazon Aquino to suspend foreign debt payments in the wake of last week's devastating earthquake, despite her opposition to the proposal. Representative Rolando Andaya, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said he would push through
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    • 293 7 THAILAND'S Board of Investment (Bol) has provided promotional privileges to 12 hotel projects nationwide, which will need a combined investment of more than 3 billion baht, representing continuing investment in this booming industry, reports The Nation. The hotel projects are among the total
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 78 7 NEW ZEALAND economists suspect that Finance Minister David Caygill may use income from privatising state forests to cover a surprise budget deficit rather than for the original aim of repaying public debt Comments by State-owned Enterprises Minister Richard PrebWe that part of the
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      • 72 7 PHILIPPINE President Corazon Aquino yesterday welcomed a truce offer from communist rebels, but said the government will keep enforcing the law and told insurgents to renounce armed struggle for good. "This is good news if it is true and if they are really sincere," Mrs Aquino
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      • 84 7 THE PHILIPPINES was ill-prepared for last week's killer earthquake but has learned important lessons for handling future catastrophes, Defence Secretary Fidel Ramos said yesterday. Mr Ramos told reporters that when the quake, measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale, struck Luzon in the afternoon of July
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      • 107 7 THE VICE-GOVERNOR of Aceh has for the first time blamed extremists for a spate of anti-government attacks in the strongly Muslim north-west Indonesian province over the past two months. The weekend statement by A R Ishaq came as tracts claiming the attacks in the name of
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      • 94 7 THE Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (Sirim) is undergoing major reorganisation to give greater emphasis to research and development activities, said Sci- ence, Technology and Environment Minister Datuk A mar Stephen Yong in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The Malaysian government recently agreed to Sirim employing 178
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      • 99 7 SUSPENSION of world trade talks in Geneva yesterday were indicative of the "bumpy ride" ahead, New Zealand's Trade Minister Mike Moore said in a statement in Wellington. Mr Moore is convenor of the Eminent Persons Group which grew out of the Cairns Group within the
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • 363 8 AP CHINA'S imports in the first half of 1990 fell by almost one-fourth compared with the same period last year because of economic sanctions imposed after China's crackdown on last year's pro-democracy movement, a government official said in Beijing
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    • 167 8 Reuter TAIWAN'S indirect trade with China rose sharply in May and officials said the rapid growth would continue for the rest of the year. Official figures showed Taiwan's trade with China through Hongkong jumped more than 22 per cent to US$374 million in May
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    • 45 8 Shanghai mayor Zhv Rongi enjoys the view during a jangle boat ride at Disneyland last Sunday. He and five other mayors from China are on a 20-day, six-city tour of the US to examine urban planning issues. AFP picture AFP picture
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    • 108 8 Reuter INDIA'S Commerce Ministry said it had modified its import policy, reducing imports of capital goods, raw materials and components to save foreign exchange. Release of foreign exchange for importing raw materials and components by vehicle, consumer durables and electronics industries will be
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    • 267 8 Reuter A HIGH-LEVEL Japanese team has complained to Chinese officials about the problems of investing in China. Japanese sources in Beijing said during the weekend that the delegation told a group of trade ministry and other officials that China needed political stability before investment
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    • 220 8 Reuter TWO JAPANESE trading houses and a bank are discussing with the north-east-ern Chinese city of Dalian a plan to erect industrial buildings there and lease them for up to SO years, a spokesman for C Itoh and Co Ltd said in
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    • 248 8 AFP NEWLY-FORGED SaudiChinese diplomatic ties open a vast market for Saudi petrochemical products and could point to better relations between Riyadh and Moscow, said economic analysts on Sunday. Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen and his Saudi counterpart Prince Saud alFaisal announced the
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    • 269 9 Reuter RUSSIAN Federation President Boris Yeltsin plans to privatise much of the republic's economy and free prices as part of alternative economic reforms, according to the independent press service Interfax. Mr Yeltsin's programme, dubbed the "500-Day Confidence Mandate", would have four stages extending over
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    • 359 9 Reuter EAST GERMAN wage levels will play a key role in East German industrial competitiveness and must reflect productivity, says West Germany's Bundesbank. "Wage rises which cannot be backed up on the productivity side would negatively impact... competitiveness and endanger jobs," the
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    • 309 9 Reuter THE rate of UK wage inflation is set to hit 10 per cent or more in coming months, say economists, following a recent stream of high pay awards and signs that wage pressures are mounting. UK economic data released late last
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    • 359 9 AFP EAST EUROPEAN countries are suffering unprecedented soaring prices, due partly to the end of public subsidies but also as a result of an oil shortage caused by cuts in Soviet deliveries. Czechoslovakia, seen as one of the most solid of the reforming
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    • 163 9 Reuter THE BANK of Japan (BOJ) says close attention should be paid to the situation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as unexpected developments could affect both foreign exchange rates and international commodity prices. Recent dramatic changes in those regions were
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 100 9 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD will start selling cars in East Germany next month, initially seeking a one per cent share of the country's car market. Company officials in Tokyo said yesterday that Honda, Japan's third biggest car maker and the world's largest motorcycle
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      • 75 9 JAPAN'S six major steelmakers have agreed to export about one million tonnes of rolled steel to China in the second half of this year, Nippon Steel Corp (NSC) said yesterday after talks which had begun in Tokyo on June 13. The agreement was between the six
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      • 44 9 ALL OPPOSITION LEGISLATORS in South Korea formally resigned yesterday to press their demand for a new general election. The ruling Democratic Liberal Party (DLP) co-leader Kim Young-Sam said the National Assembly planned to return all the resignation letters unaccepted.
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      • 79 9 INDIAN PRIME MINISTER V P Singh is holding talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev this week which Moscow says will dispel doubts over its continued commitment to India and the Third World. A senior Soviet Foreign Ministry official told the official Tass news agency in Moscow
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    • 163 8 How will the won measure against your wants and yens? Facts that figure 'Today and every day, Zaobao Business. China, Japan and the 4 NIEs are the formidable SI ER Chinese entrepreneurs on foreign soils. paper, the business section is undergoing a radical J muniHiua I economies that ring the
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  • 481 10 EDITORIAL FIRST Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's reminder on Sunday that a freer climate must not lead to indiscipline clarifies an issue at the heart of Singapore's political development. Mr Goh, who will take over the premiership from Mr Lee Kuan Yew in November, reaffirmed
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 238 10 INDIAN democracy is plagued by vested interests, and the latest example of it is Prime Minister V P Singh getting caught in a controversy surrounding the role of his deputy's son in election violence in Haryana State. Mr Singh survived, but anybody who wants to change the
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    • 90 10 THE "weekend car" scheme could result in our roads becoming busy at night and on holidays as well. Parking problems could worsen; and the pursuit of leisure the very reason for the weekend scheme could be marred by the new problems tossed up. The demand for
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    • 153 10 THE policy shift by the United States on the Cam- bodian issue is indeed a big blow to Asean. Why the sudden change of heart? The breakdown of the communistic system the world over provides one strong reason. But the marked changes in Soviet foreign policies and
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 216 10 THE government appears ready to capitulate to opposition from the Hongkong legal fraternity and abandon its plan to deregulate the profession. But amid the hubbub, the government appears to have lost sight of the twin purpose of the proposal: to challenge the protectionist sentiment in the profession
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    • 141 10 DAW Aung San Suu Kyi has spent the past 12 months under house arrest. She faced no charges, was accused in no court. Most Burmese and most friends of Burma have long concluded that Suu Kyi was detained because of her charisma, her popularity and
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    • 155 10 THIS week's agreement between Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on ending remaining Soviet objections to German unification was a god-send to the German nation in general and Kohl in particular. Unlike the Germans in the *****, the Germans in the 1990s
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  • 1509 10  -  There is increasing pressure on the US Congress to reform parts of the securities industry and control speculation in the futures market. Floyd Norris examines the issue Floyd Norris NYT WITH the US financial futures industry fearing for its future, and some parts of
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 895 11  -  World trade negotiators meet in Geneva this week to try to draft the first text of a final agreement to reduce support for EC farmers. Greg McCune reports on the controversial Common Agricultural Policy Greg McCune Reuter THE European Community's controversial Common Agricultural
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    • 1611 11  -  Australian investors have suffered severely on the stock market following the collapses of high-profile companies in recent months. But little has been done to correct corporate misdemeanour and the states are still squabbling over the creation of a national watchdog body. Florence Chong,
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    • 717 11  -  Japan's building industry is wooing women and the elderly to cope with a severe labour shortage. Kayako Watanabe reports Kayako Watanabe Reuter JAPAN'S construction industry, struggling to cope with a building boom that has outstripped the supply of workers, is tapping new labour markets, including women
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  • FOCUS 1
    • 607 12  -  INNOVATIONS TECHNOLOGY S.PfTEP BY 1 LOH HUI YIN Reuter Acer, Taiwan's leading personal computer (PC) maker, has discovered its winning mix of high technology and low-cost manufacturing is no longer enough. "Technology is not our limitation; marketing is," Stan Shih, Acer's
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    • 862 12  -  By Donald A Stanwyck LAST December, Singapore became the first country in the world to introduce a nationwide Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), an infrastructure that enables several telecommunications services such as telephone, facsimile and data to be provided over a
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    • 467 12  -  By Said Abdullah JUST four years old, and a small local computer firm is preparing to carve a niche for itself in the computer business here as well as in the region. Automation Concepts, set up in mid-1986 by two former colleagues, is
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    • 600 12  -  Kenneth James road-tests two small wonders from Psion and Sharp ■T MATTERS Kenneth James SO YOU'RE in the market for a portable personal computer (PC), laptop-sized or smaller. But which one? The options are dizzying one computer magazine recently
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    • 1539 13  -  A home-grown computer company whose expansion now transcends national boundaries shares its recipe for success with Mano Sabnani and Lim Mui Khi Mano Sabnani,Lim Mui Khi IT IS NO coincidence that this year's KPMG Peat Marwick Singapore High Tech
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    • 370 12 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, ITAN HONG CHIEW of No 8 CHENG LIM FARMWAY 3, Singapore 1954, have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop Licence in respect of premises at M/s Prime Supermarket Pte. Ltd at Blk 962 Jurong West Street 91, #01-300, Si ngapore2264, and that this application
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    • 371 12 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that. I TAN HONG CHEW of No 8 CHENG LIM FARMWAY 3, Singapore 1954, have applied fa a Retail Liquor Shop Licence in respect of premises at M/s Prime Supermarket Pte Ltd at Blk 142 Teck Whye Lane, #01-281, Singapore 2368, and that this application
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    • 235 14 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN... WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN... WHERE TO WINE, DINE... Some of our best advertising is by word-of mouth. smUk For outstanding haute cuisine in surroundings of unashamed opulence. The Palm Grill is the name on everyone's lips. Reservations. 330 8310 or 338 8585
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    • 333 14 A SBUttIING FORMATION APPEARS TUMGHTABCM SGOTISHHD —Wimt ilcaf«|«i With its spectacular glass frontage. the Canopy Bar lb the ideal place to see the stars It's aKo\Singapore's newest and most exclusive rendezvous The Canopy Bar. upstairs at the Hyatt Live Seafood Promotion UEcJ "Live" from the sea, "Fresh" on your plate
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    • 246 14 TAKE UP SINGING IN THE STREETS. Come karaoke with our cordless mike, choose from our latest discs. We set it all right ior you the song, the tune, the mood and even our snacks. Only at the Streets. Nightly. f gbtßKr i V JSqMHT- vj V lX- 'Sv Feast on
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    • 556 14 TELEVISION AND RADIO a A A 1 11 7.00 Rosmrm Inherit the 3.45 RaNgliai PrifTMMM BUSWESS ON RACK) Against the odds I 8.00 D« f iirtli Upheaval in Al- letin for students a young 4.40 CMb'i Aafab (Cont d). T ift— 12St Financial News gena (See Our Choice). person's guide
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 966 15  -  Art lovers are looking forward with great interest to the year-end auctions of rivals Sotheby's and Christie's. The former is selling the art collection of the late Greta Garbo and the latter a van Gogh masterpiece. Rita Reif reports Rita Reif NYT Greta Garbo's art collection
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    • 832 15 NYT Anew york state judge has upheld the X rating given to the Pedro Almodovar film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and said he inferred that Miramax Films, the distributor, had brought the suit for publicity purposes. However, in
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    • 495 15 CMATIHHH JAZZ pianist Joe Turner, who played with such greats as Louis Armstrong and Benny Carter, has died of a heart attack in Paris. He was 82. Turner, who died on Saturday at suburban Montreuil hospital, helped make famous the "stride style"
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    • 173 15 AND ENTERTAIN Set Your Heart On Our Set Meals. 7® LUNCH: II MAM IU I B&jMfwlß Vr 2 «pm »i<> sc.. 1 I SbWH ,4 PtR PERSON DINNER: 6.30PM TO ""A-:-' i*-*- IOJOPM JlfcSC. PER PERSON The Cafe-in-the-Park is well known for its excellent food. And now, for its value-for-money
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    • 150 15 TEOCHEW THAI SEAFOOD 1 Spicy. Tantalising. Mouth-watering. Come experience these tempting treats at Siam Square Restaurant today! for a la carte menu j 30 September 1990 I Siam Square Re Ltd 3Coleman Street #01-12/14 Peninsula Shopping Centre Spore 0617 Tel: *****37******79 Tm f\W If A Restaurant and 1 Karaoke Lounges
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  • SPORTS
    • SIDE LINES
      • 123 16 AMERICAN Dave Wharton and Patrick Kuehl of East Germany swam to what is believed to be the first gold-medal dead heat in a major meet in six years last Sunday in the men's 400 m individual medley at the Goodwill Games in Seattle.
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      • 67 16 RICH VOGLER's life ended the same way his father's did: in a Fiery crash on a small Indiana race track. Vogler, who would have been 40 on Thursday, died of head injuries last Saturday after crashing at the Salem Speedway in southern Indiana. His father
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      • 63 16 GORAN IVANISEVIC beat Guillermo Perez-Roldan in four sets to capture his First major tournament title at the USSI million ATP Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart last Sunday. The 18-year-old Yugoslav, a rising star on the men's circuit, won a fourth-set tie-breaker to clinch the win over ninth-seeded
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      • 70 16 WORLD CUP ski races, originally scheduled to start later this month on Mount Hutt in New Zealand, have been rescheduled for Aug 6 to 9, according to race organisers. International Ski Federation World Cup delegate Hans Schweingruber and organising committee vice-chairman John St Clair Brown
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    • 884 16 AFP NICK FALDO realised his lifetime's ambition at St Andrews last Sunday when he captured his second British Open title at the home of golf. Ever since the 33-year-old Englishman was persuaded to take up golf by television pictures of the US Masters in the
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    • 640 16 AP GREG LEMOND said it simply, almost matter of iy"l feel 1 merit this victory," he said. "The Tour de France never cheats anybody out of a real victory. It is always the best who wins." There was no sense of boasting in the remark.
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    • 225 16 Reuter TOP-SEEDED Andre Agassi crushed any hopes sixth-seed Jim Grabb had of capturing his second career singles title with a 6-1, 6-4 victory in Washington last Sunday in the U*****,000 Washington Tennis Classic. The last time the two met in a final at Seoul in
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    • 251 16 AP TOP-SEEDED Arantxa Sanchez Vicario stormed back from a 5-2 deficit in the third set to beat Jo Dune 7-6 (7-2), 4-6, 7-5 for the championship of the Virginia Slims of Newport tennis tournament in Rhode Island last Sunday. Dune, trying for her first
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    • 298 16 Reuter ZINA GARRISON says that the new-look US team is confident of successfully defending its title in an injury-hit Federation Cup. "We're the ones to beat. We feel we have the best team," Garrison said in Atlanta last Sunday, a day before
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4056 17  -  By Magdalene Ng LOCAL SHARES started the week in thin and featureless trading with the poor performances on Wall Street last Friday and on Tokyo's stock market yesterday affecting sentiments. Analysts of some brokerage houses had said over the weekend that shortterm trading
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  • 3933 18 Main SIA Foreign 1890 +50 +2.7% S1A 200 1450 50 3.6% SIA 1450 +40 2.8% OCBC Foreign 1060 +30 +2.9% Isetan 50* 850 20 2.4% Semb Maritime 436 +14 3.3% Spore Fodder 189 +13 +7.4% OCBC 930 +10 +1.1% Metro Hldgs 565 +10 +1.8% Spore
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    • 107 19 The KLSE was dosed yesterday for the Islamic New Year. The folkmiag are Friday's dosiag prices. FOR WHO. WHAT. Wilt RE AND frHEN HI T||E ADVERTISING MARKETING, in BUSINESS TIMES MM every Thursday, covers a vital sector of the economy comprising the M| country's communications muscle. ■wk Hi I 9
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    • 345 20 Jul 23 Oty Developments and the Shaw Organisation have set up Chinatown Point Theatres Pte Ltd to to into the entertainment business. M 20 Hotel Marco Peli's improved design on its proposed $600 m retail and office complex at Paterson Road has been accepted by the Urban Redevelopment
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    • 711 20 Singapore Stacks LastFalYaar NM Ma Tar MR tai Mat «rw <M-I) (sCS lan Ml Mm Mar 30 Ok 89 5351(1.) BM Mm Apr 26 M 90 13(a) 13TE(a) 4,747 TM La* tan Final Jan 1 Dk 89 12.3 10 1206 FIM Mara* Jun 23 S«p 90 35 6
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    • 271 20 UniphoM TdKonmuncattm Bhd: EGM at 10 Jaian Tandang, ***** Petab* Jaya, Seiangor Oarul Ehsan on Tuesday, Juty 24, at 12 noon. Mhmm of M Mai (M) Bhd: 29th AGM at the Petafeng Jaya Hfton Hotel, 1 iaian Barat, ***** Petafeng Jaya, Setangor Oarul Ehsan on Thursday, July 26,
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2266 21 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS closed broadly lower yesterday but off their lows, after an afternoon of volatile, thin trade. Concerns over higher domestic interest rates and a sharp drop in bond prices fuelled selling. Talk of a possible discount rate rise in the near future added
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2453 21 Reuter HONGKONG stocks ended firmer yesterday, boosted by local and overseas buying in the afternoon session. The Hang Seng Index rose 19.46 points to 3,559.89 after drifting lower on light profit-tak-ing in the morning to a day's low of 3,528. "Fund managers stayed out in the
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Taipei market sinks below 5,000 points
      • 1144 22 THE Australian share market finished slightly weaker yesterday after veiy quiet trade, showing remarkable resilience in the face of the fall in Wall Street's Dow Jones Index on Friday and a 526.73-point drop in Tokyo's Nikkei Index yesterday. The All Ordinaries Index ended 3.4 lower at 1599.3. One broker
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      • 360 22 TAIWAN'S stock index fell through the 5,000-point barrier in the last minutes of trade yesterday as short-term investors rushed to take profits after gains last week and earlier in the day, dealers said. The Weighted Index dropped 308.14 points, or 5.8 per cent, to close at 4,991.42 compared with
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      • 713 22 THAI stocks closed mixed yesterday on heavy profit-taking focused on banks after prices soared during the first half hour of trading, brokers said. The Composite SET Index rose 2.10 points to 1133.54 in heavy trade after having risen 23 points in the first 36 minutes as many banks hit
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      • 799 22 SEOUL stocks fell in extremely weak trading yesterday as investors worried about political instability after the South Korean opposition resigned en masse from parliament, brokers said. The Composite Index closed at 681.38, down 5.31 points from the previous session. Turnover was 49.6 billion won against 34.7 billion on Saturday's
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      • 490 22 PHILIPPINE shares closed slightly lower yesterday on speculation President Corazon Aquino might announce some bad news for the economy in her state-of-the-nation speech at Congress in the afternoon, brokers said. "People anticipate that the president would say how much was the damage of the earthquake and how much the
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      • 305 22 UNCERTAINTY ahead of Finance Minister David CaygUTs budget saw the New Zealand share market ease in light trading yesterday and brokers expect little direction before the budget However, dealers said the market held up well to Friday's fall on Wall Street and providing the budget produces no unwelcome
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      • 104 22 THE Bombay Stock Exchange was closed for trading yesterday to enable brokers to complete business done in the two weeks ended Friday. Brokers said trading was unlikely to resume today as their staff were protesting about an increased workload over the last two weeks. On Friday, prices ended mixed
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      • 872 22 Chat Pnito July 23 SYDNEY AH Ordinaries Index 1,599.3 1,6017 -3.4 All Industrials Index 2,485.8 2491.5 -S.7 All Resources Index 922.1 923.8 >1.7 Turnover (million) 61.34 84.59 -23.23 BANGKOK SET Index 1,133.54 1,131.40 +2.10' Turnover (nearest *000) NA NA JAKARTA Composite Index Closed 630.09 Turnover (neatest "000) Closed 2,010 MANILA
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 560 23 Reuter A FEDERAL Reserve credit easing, a lot of testimony-giv-ing by chairman Greenspan and loads of new economic data during the last 10 days have left the US Treasury market confused over its prospects. To start with, the data particularly inflation data do not
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    • 145 23 Reuter THE basic underlying trend of stable consumer prices is not expected to change substantially in the immediate future, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) said in its quarterly economic outlook. However, future price trends warrant watching, the central bank said. Upward
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    • 1539 23 SIMEX QMOmM Open High Low Sett Est Vol Op/Int Voi Sep 90 91.98 91.98 91.96 91.96 2W9 ***** 1484 Dec 90 91.98 91.99 91.96 91% 3063 ***** 2808 Mar 91 91.97 91.98 91.% 91.% 1130 3558 650 Jun 91 91.81 91.81 91.77 91.78 323 736 27 Sep 91
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    • 619 23 FOREX MARKET REPORTS THE US dollar yesterday moved above its earlier lows in quiet European morning trade but was still stuck in its recent range in the absence of fresh factors. The US currency had earlier come under some downward pressure in the Far
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    • 391 23 Cross rates USt SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.8150 2.7050 1.6335 148.15 0.5485 1.3945 1.2723 1.6779 SS 0.5510 1.4904 0.9000 0.8163 0.3022 0.7683 0.7010 0.9244 MS 0.3697 67.10 0.6039 0.5477 0.2028 0.5155 0.4703 0.6203 Dm 0.6122 1.1111 1.6560 90.69 0.3358 0.8537 0.7789 1.0272 Yen
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    • 547 23 Interbank rates USt Bid Offer 7 days 8 8 1/8 I mth 8 8 1/8 3 mth 8 8 1/8 6 mth 8 1/16 8 3/16 12 mth 8 3/16 8 5/16 i Bid Offer 7 days 14 7/8 IS 1 mth 14 7/8 15 3 mth 14
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 377 24 MBT MALAYSIA stands to benefit greatly from the rapid economic expansion in the Asia-Pacific region in the 1990s a decade which will see a scramble for imports of energy supply, particularly liquefied natural gas (LNG). A net exporter of crude oil and
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    • 341 24 Reuter NORTH Sea oil and natural gas liquids production fell to 3.521 million barrels per day (bpd) in June, from 3.753 million bpd in May, figures by stockbrokers James Capel show. However, this was well up on the
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    • 253 24 REPORTS HONGKONG: Gold closed firmer on early speculative buying and short-covering but dealers said the market lacked fresh news. Bullion ended at U*****.50/U*****.00 an ounce against New York's U*****.75/U*****.25 close. Local gold ended HK$l up at HK53.349 a tael. Coins were unchanged to HK$2 higher.
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    • 366 24 Bernama THE palm oil committee of the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) is looking at various aspects of a proposal to introduce crude palm kernel oil futures on the exchange, including the issue of potential players in the market, KLCE chief executive
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    • 192 24 Reuter CHINA supports Opec's oil price and production policy but opposes a rapid increase in prices, its Chinese Energy Minister Huang Yicheng was quoted as saying. "We do not want prices to increase rapidly or drop rapidly as this will hurt the world economy,"
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 727 25  -  LETTER FROM VIENNA By Michael Balter VIENNA the Baroque house at Schreyvogelgasse 8, just off the Ringstrasse, is in much better repair than it was 40 years ago. A new door has been fitted into the entry, and the building's once peeling facade is now
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    • 153 25 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.4140 1.4340 Canadian dollar 1.5350 1.5750 NZ dollar 1.0650 1.0950 Sterling pound 3.2850 3.3750 US dollar 1.8090 1.8190 Local dollars to 100 aaits at foreign i latency Austrian schilling 15.50
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    • 242 25 7 Direction to workers in the 8 The doctor takes tea and 10 View of biscuits crisp and 11 Vegetable to stick in the jHP iH iH )H 12 Heavyweight advised to go mickey out of an informer Instruments of power jHT~~Hi iHHt Hi the armed services (7) JHft—— 17
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    • 209 25 Singapore Outlook: Showers over several areas la the morning Resort: Max temp. 31.4* C Assoc humidity 62% Min temp. 24.9"C Assoc humidity 94% Hrs of sunshine. 8.90 Rainfall in mm Trace Rainfall this mth 100.8 Rainy days this mth 8 World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland 18/10 Showen Bangkok 32/25
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  • 440 26  -  By Martin Soong THE STYLE and pace of government may change with First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong as premier, but Singapore's major policy decisions will continue to be driven by the reality of its strategic location in the region, Prime Minister
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  • 408 26  -  Asean Ministerial Meeting From Yong Pow Ang in JAKARTA TO REASSERT Asean's role in the peace process in Cambodia, Asean foreign ministers have decided to issue a joint statement reaffirming their support for the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK). The reaffirmation follows the
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  • 253 26 THE SINGAPORE government is consistent and has not shifted its position on foreign publications, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. In a July 23 letter to Dow Jones international vice-pres-ident Ms Karen Elliot House, Mr Goh said Singapore's position and foreign
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  • 200 26 AFP WEAK GOVERNMENT leadership, social disorder and a downturn of key economic indicators are expected to dominate Taiwan in the second half of the year. 'Taiwan is entering a period of prolonged political instability and economic difficulty," Hongkong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd said
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  • 742 26  -  The Bottom Line AMY BALAN AMY BALAN The writer is a senior correspondent with BT IF WE BELIEVE that the stock market is the best guide to a company's worth, then broking firms must rank among Singapore's most valued companies. Take Kim Eng
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  • 260 26 AFP, Reuter FOREIGN INVESTMENT in China slid sharply in the first half of this year but an easing of Western sanctions, imposed after last year's crackdown on dissent, should mean stronger growth in the coming months, says a Chinese official. Liu Xiangdong, spokesman for
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    • 379 27  -  By K Vara DOUBT clouds state-owned Malaysia Shipyard and Engineering (MSE)'s success in securing the US$5O million fatty alcohol plant project in Kuantan, Pahiang. MSE, together with the US-based Pitchard Corporation of Kansas (TPC), had been awarded the turnkey project by FPG
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    • 261 27 Lloyd's List MAJOR Japanese shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines is negotiating to acquire a 12 per cent stake in Kansai Kisen Kaisha, an Osaka-based coastal shipping line and major ship operator in the Inland Sea of Japan. Mitsui plans to acquire the
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    • 335 27  -  From Al O Labita in MANILA STATE-OWNED Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has agreed to include a tanker fleet in its US$25O million industrial investment credit project (IICP). But DBP officials said the bank will also start disbursing the money to finance the
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    • 150 27 AFP NKK CORP yesterday laid the keel of the first giant oil tanker to be built at its Tsu shipyard for 14 years as worldwide demand for very large crude carriers (VLCCs) grows again, company officials said. The 258,000-deadweight tonne VLCC, ordered
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    • 71 27 A 14,000-TON cargo ship was launched at the Hambuk shipbuilding complex last week, the Korean Central News Agency reported. The new ship is equipped with more modern loading and discharging facilities than existing freighters, said last week's report. Newly-developed pumps, hydraulic pressure instruments, automatic devices
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    • 341 27  -  From Shirish Nadkarni in BOMBAY THE SHIPPING Corporation of India (SCI) has finally ceased operating its liner service from the west coast of India to Australia, after months of consideration. The service had been making huge losses, and several attempts to improve its profitability
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    • 304 27 A THAI government committee has chosen two consortia led by the country's Charoen Pokphand Group and Japan's Toyo Menka to handle its massive 150 billion baht telecommunications project the country's single largest investment in this field. According to the Thai daily, The Nation, the Charoen
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      • 86 28 ISHIKAWAJIMA-Harima Heavy Industries Co Ltd (IHI) said it won a 43-billion-yen order to build four container ships from P&O Container Lines Ltd of London, a unit of Britain's Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. IHI will build ships capable of carrying 3,800
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      • 63 28 THE Arab world's second largest shipping company, United Arab Shipping (UASC) has announced profits of US$59 million for 1989. It was the second successive year that the Kuwait-based organisation has realised such high returns after operating in the red for several years. UASC has 43
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      • 133 28 THE United States Congress is expected to tighten up one of the loopholes in the 1984 Shipping Act which, said the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), has allowed foreignbased non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCQ to escape tariff-filing requirements when trading with the country. A Bill,
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      • 107 28 SHELL OIL of Houston is reportedly close to securing a US$l3O million deal to charter out the world's two largest tankers still in lay-up. The oil major is said to be negotiating to fix to Coastal Corporation, also of Houston, the 398,143dwt Atlantic and Pacific
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      • 85 28 BELGIUM plans to partly privatise a state sea transport company Regie Maritime de Transport, the Belgian news agency Belga said. The company operates cross-Channel ferries and the high-speed jetfoil between Ostend and Dover, the UK. Belga, quoting communications ministry sources, said the government believed an
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      • 48 28 PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak said national carrier Egypt Air will buy 14 new planes for a total of U551,635 billion, and urged his countrymen to take more pride in using their airline. He did not give details of the planes that will be bought.
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    • 1363 28 A mood of cautious optimism prevails among the booming shipbuilding Japanese and Korean yards, where memories of a devastating recession still cling on. Far Eastern Economic Review reports A BOOM in demand for new ships has filled order books at shipyards in Japan and South Korea
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    • 1004 28 July 10-Aug 14: Forltlift Electrical System course organised by Singapore Port Institute (SPI). Details and applications form, please contact SPI at tel: *****25/*****26/*****30. Jaly 17-Oct 30: International Freight Forwarding IL, conducted by the Singapore Freight Forwarders Association. The Manager, SFFA, 7500 A Beach Road, #13-314 The Plaza, Tel
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    • 12140 36 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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    • 3370 41 .A.BC Containerline NV: Belsin Shpg Agencies Pte Ud (SyManne Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Shpg: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SyAccord Contr Line (M) Sdn Bhd (PKyAccord Contr Line (PG) Sdn Bhd (PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg A Trdg Pte Ud (S) Ahrenkiel Uner Service: Kim Shpg
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    • 217 41 Abacus C ouriers Tel: 545-8011,448-6415. Ak Express Service Tel: 533-5771. Fax: *****44 Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fax: *****16, *****80. City-Link International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: *****50. Cluster Unk Supplies A Services Tel: 296-5720. DHL lateraatiooal Tel: 344-8911.Fax: *****61. DPE Coarier Tel: 284-6611 (7 lines). Fax: *****88 Emery Worldwide
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    • 1477 41 Abex Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actiaic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Acthrair Singapore Tel: 542-7822. Fax: *****20. Aeroliak KG Freight International Tel: 545-5992. Td:"542-59l I. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Td: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express lateraatioaal Td: 542-7666. Fax: *****74, *****50. Air Market Express
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    • 2319 42 ARGENTINA San Lorenzo: Port busy; 6 vessels loading pelletized meal; 5 vessels in roads of which 3 to load pelletized meal, 2 vegetable oil. Rosario: Three vessels operating of which I loading grain, I vegetable oil, 1 pelletized meal; grain stocks adequate. Villa Constitucion: Port quiet; I vessel
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    • 580 42 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES DELORIS, of 42,562 dwt and built 1978, and Helen of 42,366 dwt and built 1978, are up for sale, seeking around USS 11 million each. The tanker 138,949 dwt Vasilikos, which was built in 1976, is for sale at around US$23 million, while owners of the
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    • 522 42 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Flight Typt ETA Frow Op Flight Type ETD T« TODAY TODAY KAL KE697 B747F 0155 SEL FDX FM66 B747F 0200 BKK/TPE/ NCA KZ205 B747F 0215 NRT NRT/ANC/ JAL JL617 B747F 0345 TYO ORD/LCK/ CLX CV7972 B747F 2115 LUX/DXB/KUL BOS SIA SQ802 B747F 0230 SYD/AKL
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    • 361 42 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait IV p Naae of Veaael ETA ETD Port ApH Pom of Calls AUGUST 21 21 Orient Venus (MV) 0600 2000 Borneo Shipping Sin-Fremantle-Jakarta-Kobe 28 29 Andaman Princess 0800 1700 Andaman Cruise Cruise to nowhere 30 31 Andaman Princess 1500 1700 Andaman Cruise Cruise to
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      • 1182 43 HECCBHHC Of EXPOW FCt CONTAINERS MID La CARGO 1 J n I ll Li jUJinrj Itii i Ktcora DOOKSH/tMunce ksrs 9# Voy No Mod From To From P of OkcBd Spoco Aa Jade 5A 2 23/1700 24/0659 24/0900 3 24/0700 24/1159 24/1400 4 24/1200 24/1459 24/1700 An Own
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      • 290 43 PrtlO-i South Port on My 21: Pacific Ocean berth 3; Petro Niaga berth Jetty SM. KCT: Candu berth 8; Acx Daisy berth 10; Bunga Kemuning berth 10. North Port: Yi Yang berth 11; Bangkunprom berth 12; Hai Feng berth 16; Cottbus berth 17; kan Seiar berth 20;
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    • 994 43 THE FREIGHT market ended the week with firmer grain fixings from the US Gulf to the Continent and Japan prompting sharp rises on Biffex, broken said. The spot BR leapt 34 points to 1,129. Grain to from the Gulf to Japan was secured at US$l9 while grain from
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    • 530 44 JAPAN is in desperate need of foreign labour to run its merchant ships, but it is finding Japanese vessels are among the last places experienced foreign seamen want to work, Japanese shipping industry officials say. "In the past, Japanese firms have treated Filipinos and
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    • 163 44 Reuter WEST GERMANY'S Deutsche Bank Ag is prepared to help transform the Soviet Union's Baltic Sea port of Kaliningrad into a model European city and trading hub, the Soviet news agency Tass said. Wilhelm Kristians, chairman of Deutsche Bank's observation council, was quoted
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    • 137 44 AP THE liner Queen Elizabeth 2 recorded its best time for an Atlantic crossing on Sunday when it docked at Southampton four days, six hours and 57 minutes after leaving New York, said Capt Robert Woodall. He said the liner's previ- ous best time was 99
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    • 95 44 Reuter TRADING in shares of Chung Wah Shipbuilding and Engineering (Holdings) Co Ltd will continue to be suspended while the company considers business proposals, a Hongkong stock exchange statement said. The statement said the shipbuilder is in the final stages of assessing certain proposals and
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    • 280 44 PARA Krishnan has joined Tiphook Tank Rental (TTR), the newly-formed division of Tiphook Special Equipment Rental, based in the TTR office in Singapore and responsible for the leasing of tank container equipment throughout the Far East. Mr Krishnan was formerly a director of Seacold Technologies (Singapore
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