The Business Times, 10 September 1990

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  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 170/12/89 Monday September 10 1990 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 81 1 EAST Germany has denied a report in the West German weekly Bild am Sonntag yesterday that East Germany plans to grant naturalisation to as many as 10,000 Hongkong Chinese. Government spokesman Matthias Gehler told the East German ADN news agency that, according
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    • 46 1 IN WHAT appears to be an easing of the labour crunch and a strong sign of an economic slowdown the number of job vacancies notified by employers in the first seven months of the year plunged to its lowest post-recessionary levels. Page 2
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    • 32 1 PRESIDENT Wee Kim Wee yesterday opened the 78th annual Federation Dentaire Internationale (FDI) World Dental Congress, one of the largest conventions to come Singapore's way this year. Page 2
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    • 32 1 HONGKONG'S global competitive position will deteriorate if current wage rises and inflation levels are sustained, according to a report in the South China Morning Post, on Saturday Page 8
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    • 28 1 THE SOVIET Union could supply South Korea with some of the most modern technologies, supplanting Japan and the US, some South Korean experts say Page 9
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    • 37 1 IT WAS truly a voice that lived up to expectations. Ptacido Domingo also proved to be a most gracious performer when he appeared in concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium last Wednesday night Page 15
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    • 31 1 EVA AIRWAYS is to launch daily scheduled services from Taiwan to Singapore and other destinations in South-east Asia from the middle of next year. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 20 1 MALAYSIA'S Capital Issues Committee has approved Rashid Hussain Bhd's proposed rights issue on amended terms Page 3
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    • 29 1 IN YET another move to "synergise" its operations with a consumer-driven growth sector, MBf Holdings has acquired a SI per cent stake in Ibis Automobile Page 3
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    • 27 1 THE Johor-based Claytan Group of Companies is investing about Ms2om to set up two new plants to produce tableware and clay pipes Page 3
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    • 34 1 THE DECISION by Australia's Labour government to sell at least 49pc equity in its domestic carrier Australian Airlines and its international counterpart Qantas Airways has been welcomed by both airlines Page 4
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    • 33 1 THE chairman of European Community central bankers, Mr Karl Otto Poehl, called for a strong and centralised EC bank to dominate future common monetary policy within Europe Page 6
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      29 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 631.86 -5.46 Kuala Lumpur ....541.41 -6.06 Hongkong 3,047.91 +15.06 Tokyo 23,962.07 +150.16 Sydney 1479.0 -3.1 Friday Change New York 2,619.55 +23.26 London 2,122.9 +2.0
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    • 21 1 Exchange rate* USS SJ1.7635 Yen S$ 1.256i MS SS0.6558 Money iMiitct rates Overnight.... 6 1/2 3/4 3-month 6 1/2% +1/16
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    • 36 1 London Gold PM fix US$384.60 -US$2.90 S'pore Oct.... 156.75'/kg -1.75 M'sia Oct 241.50«/kg -1.00 KL Tin Turnover 35 tonnes +4 Spot M$ 15.22/kg +0.02 Crude pain oil Turnover 242 lots -40 Sept M$664 /tonne unch
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  • 513 1  -  By John Tan TENANTS at the International Merchandise Mart (IMM), described as one of the world's largest one-stop wholesale centres, say business has been painfully slow since the mart was opened in late May. The mart's management, however, remains confident of meeting the target
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  • 359 1  -  By Claire Leow IN SPITE OF an anticipated slowdown in the electronics trade worldwide, semiconductor firm SGS-Thomson Micro-electronics in Singapore expects record sales of $1.1 billion this year. This could grow to $2 billion by 1995 if economic forces remain favourable, says Milivoj von Somogy,
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  • 327 1 The Gulf Crisis AFP THE US and Soviet Union are united in their response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and on the enforcement of UN sanctions, said US Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. US President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev were "firm
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  • 430 1  -  By Keaneth James TOP Singapore executives are less confident about the local economy than they were six months ago but still rate the Republic's economic prospects better than for any other's in the region, according to a business confidence survey carried out two weeks after
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  • 161 1 Reuter CHANCELLOR Helmut Kohl, responding to international criticism that Bonn has not pulled its weight in the Gulf crisis, said a united Germany should end its constitutional ban on deploying troops outside the Nato area. In a radio interview, he said Germany
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    • 182 1 Bush suggests oil swap with Soviet Union, P$ 9 Exodus from Kuwait and Iraq disrupting Third World economies, Ps 10 Soviet-Iraqi tie: a marriage of strained convenience, Pg 10 I K- Hp J^s| MF'' Jg~ ygjm M JAL knows how important a Ergonomicaltv designed to relaxing flight is if you
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 83 2 THE SINGAPORE Labour Foundation (SLF) will launch the Orchid Country Gub, Singapore's latest such club, this week. The dub, boasting a 27-hole golf course, is owned and managed by SLF Leisure Enterprises Pte Ltd, an SLF subsidiary. Mr Ong Teng Cheong, Second
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      • 62 2 THE UPPER Thomson Road-bound carriageway of the MacRitchie viaduct is closed to traffic today and tomorrow between 12am and 5.30 am for Public Works Department maintenance works. Traffic will be diverted to the ground road system. Similarly, the Lornie Road-bound carriageway of the viaduct will be
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      • 46 2 A NIGHT of Grand Opera takes place this evening at the Shangri-La Hotel, with works from Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Puccini by a New York group, Artists International The concert is organised by Sime Singapore Ltd in aid of the 25th Anniversary charity fund.
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      • 85 2 THE MINISTRY of Education is upgrading some of its campsites to provide outward bound facilities, and building a fifth one to promote the rugged outdoor life, according to the Senior Minister of State for Education, Dr Tay Eng Soon. Besides the MOE camps, there are the
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      • 59 2 HELP kidney transplant patients by taking part in a motor rally to Desaru. The SGH Department of Renal Medicine and the Society of Certified Medical Representatives are organising a charity motor rally to the Johor beach resort on Oct 27. They hope to raise $10,000
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      • 55 2 THE NATIONAL LIBRARY Marine Parade Branch and the Singapore Planned Parenthood Association will be jointly organising a talk on family planning on Sep 28. The speaker, Dr Esther Ng, will touch on various topics such as the various methods available for preventing unwanted pregnancies and related issues
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    • 453 2  -  Jobs-to-worker ratio remains at seven-to-one By Anna Teo IN WHAT APPEARS to be an easing of the labour crunch and a strong sign of an economic slowdown the number of job vacancies notified by employers in the first seven months of the year plunged to
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    • 253 2 PRESIDENT Wee Kim Wee yesterday opened the 78th annual Federation Dentaire Internationale (FDI) World Dental Congress, one of the largest conventions to come Singapore's way this year. About 6,000 dentists and dental trade personnel from around the world are in town for the week-long conference,
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    • 323 2 INDONESIA will table at the start of the 11th Asean InterParliamentary Organisation (Aipo) working committee and general assembly today its nomination for the post of the group's secretary-general. New rules on the office of the Aipo secretary-general were drawn up following the setting
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 557 3  -  By Amy Balan MALAYSIA'S Capital Issues Committee has approved Rashid Hussain Bhd's proposed rights issue on amended terms. With the approval, Singapore's United Industrial Corporation is now one step closer to completing a M 5224 million cash sale of its 20 per
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    • 356 3 MBT IN YET another move to "synergise" its operations with a consumer-driven growth sector, MBf Holdings has acquired a 51 per cent stake in Ibis Automobile, the franchise holder for Peugeot motor vehicles and related spare parts in Malaysia. The 5.84 million Ibis
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    • 285 3 Bernama PEGI Malaysia Bhd hopes to return to profitability in the current financial year with the main earnings contributions coming from the insurance, information technology and property sectors. Chairman Mohd Asri Bin Abdul Ghafar said in the company's 1990 annual report that
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 100 3 MALAYSIAN Airline System will increase its international fares by between five and seven per cent, possibly by Oct. I, Malaysian Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik said. The government will allow the rise to onset rising fuel prices and insurance premiums due to the Gulf crisis,
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      • 110 3 SARAWAK Shell Bhd/Sabah Shell Petroleum Co has awarded a five-year contract worth more than MS 100 million to a bumiputra joint-venture company to meet various offshore needs of the companies in Sabah and Sarawak waters. Under the contract, which will replace an existing one given to
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      • 174 3 SOUTH Johore Amalgamated Holdings Bhd has reported a 177 per cent increase in its group pre-tax profit to Ms3J)i million for the financial ended March 31, 1990, comptireß with the previous year. Group turnover for the year improved to $30,477 million from $18,603 million previously. South
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    • 380 3 Bernama THE JOHOR-BASED Claytan Group of Companies is investing about Ms2o million to set up two new plants to produce tableware and clay pipes at its existing 20hectare operations area in Air Hitam, Johor. The investment also includes a Msl million restaurant
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    • 293 3 Bernama GULA PERAK BHD will continue to identify suitable investments and viable businesses to diversify into so as to enhance the group's earnings as well as to utilise the company's tax losses, its chairman, Haji Megat Najmuddin Datuk Seri Dr Haji Megat Khas, says. He
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 77 4 JARDINE MATHESON Holdings Ltd's wholly-owned Hong Kong Security Ltd will merge with UK-based Securicor Group pic's Asian operations, Hong Kong Security said in a statement. It said the two would each own SO per cent of a security-services joint venture, to be completed on
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      • 74 4 JAPAN'S Daihatsu Motor Co is to produce trucks and vans in Italy with that country's Piaggio Co beginning in 1992. The companies plan to assemble 20,000 to 25,000 Daihat-su-developed trucks and vans per year initially at a Piaggio plant in Pisa, Daihatsu officials said. Engines
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      • 121 4 THE first man to entrust a large Japanese motor plant to a British workforce received a knighthood on Friday from a grateful government. Takashi Ishihara, chairman of Nissan Motor Co, was president of Nissan from 1977 to 1985 and the prime mover in the decision to build
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    • 541 4 Reuter THE DECISION by Australia's Labour government to sell at least 49 per cent equity in its domestic carrier Australian Airlines and its international counterpart Qantas Airways Ltd has been welcomed by both airlines. Without big capital injections the outlook for both carriers is bleak,
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    • 613 4 THE HEAD of Baring Brothers Asia Limited, joint advisers to Cathay Pacific on its listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, told the Ronald Li trial last Friday that he knew nothing of the sale to Li of 500,000 Cathay shares
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    • 282 4 THE GUANGDONG Development Bank and Taiwan-ese-based Chyau Fwu Properties are planning an unprecedented joint-venture bank with the backing of both mainland and Taiwanese interests, according to the South China Morning Post. In an apparent bid to smooth over any political complications,
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 677 5 Reuter BANKAMERICA CORP said it won the bidding for the failed Benj Franklin Savings and Loan Association, in a move analysts said underlined its drive to be a major force in west coast retail banking. Bank America said it won the bidding
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    • 433 5 Tate Lyle plans to buy British Sugar Reuter TATE and Lyle pic has submitted a proposal for the acquisition of British Sugar, a subsidiary of troubled Berisford International pic. No price details were available. Sugar group Tate and Lyle said it has made its intentions clear early to enable Britain's
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    • 279 5 Reuter BRITISH Airways pic wants to acquire up to 49 per cent of the East German airline Interflug, the news magazine Der Spiegel said. According to an excerpt of an article to be published today, Spiegel said British Airways
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    • 243 5 Reuter THE dissolution of Stotler and Co, the giant Chicagobased futures brokerage once led by now-resigned industry leader Karsten Mahlmann, is snagged by millions of dollars worth of claims from former brokers and customers, people involved in the bankruptcy said. 'This is
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    • 269 5 Reuter LEANER and meaner, West German sports car maker Porsche b roaring back towards the sales figures it notched up before the 1987 stock market crash. The group, Dr Ing HCF Porsche AG, said its earnings improved in the 1989-90 financial year,
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 125 5 GENENTECH Inc said it has completed the US$2.l billion merger resulting in Roche Holding Ltd owning 60 per cent of its stock. Under the transaction, Genentech shareholders will receive one share of the new redeemable stock, plus US$36 cash, for every two shares
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      • 70 5 AVON Products Inc has predicted that sales of its Undent- t able by Billy Dee Williams celebrity fragrance will top US$22 million this year. The company predicted that Undeniable would capture 15 per cent of the US$ 150 million market this year. Avon said the fragrance
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      • 78 5 THE CAR industry is now better prepared to withstand the effects of an oil crisis and meet consumer demand for highly fuel-efficient vehicles than it was during the Middle East oil crisis of the 1970'5, Ford Motor Co chairman Harold Poling said. "The (car) industry is
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      • 85 5 BETHLEHEM Steel Corp's board is considering a plan to improve "significantly" the competitiveness of its Bar, Rod and Wire Division and said approval of the plan depends on obtaining a new labour agreement with the United Stedworkers of America. It said if a new labour pact
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      • 141 5 CAESARS World Inc said it extended until September 21 from September 7 its tender offer to buy all the 2,175,945 shares of Caesars New Jersey Inc it does not already own for US$22 each. Caesars World owns about 86.6 per cent of Caesars NJ's 16.3 million
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 86 6 JAPAN'S Tokai Bank Ltd said it signed an agreement on Friday with the Hongkong Trade Development Council to exchange information on their economies including trade and investment. "The parties will promote cooperation in trade, original equipment manufacturing arrangements, direct investments, joint ventures
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      • 78 6 CREDIT Suisse, part of theCS Holding group, said it has asked Soviet authorities for permission to open a representative office in Moscow. The bank said in a statement that economic and political reforms had opened new possibilities for the Soviet economy. 'The Moscow office would allow
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      • 96 6 ANY change in commercial banks' reserve requirements would be made in the context of domestic monetary policy, Philippe Lagayette, deputy governor of the Bank of France, said. Commercial banks have been lobbying hard for the abolition of obligatory reserves, saying they impose an unnecessary cost
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      • 44 6 THE Hongkong Association of Banks said it decided at its weekly meeting to leave interest rates unchanged with the prime lending rate staying at 10.5 per cent. "We're waiting for the US unemployment figures," acting association chairman Barry Grosvenor said.
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      • 100 6 JAPANESE bank lending slowed sharply in July with the amount of new loans plunging 49 per cent from a year earlier to 2,648 billion yen, the Bank of Japan said. The central bank also said that the average rate on loans and discounts extended by all
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    • 301 6 Reuter BUNDESBANK President Karl Otto Poehl has delivered written plans for a reorganisation of the West German state central banks to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, according to a report in a West German newspaper. According to a report in the Hamburger Abendblatt, Mr Poehl
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    • 247 6 Reuter EAST and West German banking officials are discussing the creation of an East German clearing bank, said a spokesman for DSGV, the West German Association of Savings Banks. Talks between the West German Finance Ministry, the former East German central bank Staatsbank Berlin
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    • 570 6 Reuter THE chairman of European Community central bankers, Mr Karl Otto Poehl, called on Saturday for a strong and centralised EC bank to dominate future common monetary policy within Europe. On European monetary sources, Mr Poehl said at an informal meeting of EC
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    • 377 6 THE HALF-POINT rise in base lending rate (BLR) announced by the Association of Banks in Malaysia (ABM) is helpful but it is not sufficient to relieve banks of the tight squeeze they are facing now, bankers say. Bank Buruh chief executive Tan Sri Ramon
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    • 281 6 Reuter MIDDLE EASTERN central banks have been steady buyers of yen bonds despite rising defence costs after Iraq's Aug 2 invasion of Kuwait, Japanese dealers say. "Middle Eastern banks have continued to invest in yen assets despite the Gulf conflict," said a dealer at
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  • THE REGION
    • NOTE BOOK
      • 91 8 AUSTRALIAN petrol prices rose another two cents a litre yesterday because of the Gulf crisis, the second officially sanctioned increase in 12 days following the expiry of a three-week price freeze. Petrol prices are now around 54 per cent higher than in September
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      • 57 8 AUSTRALIA will provide China with US$3O million in development assistance in the current fiscal year. The New China News Agency reported on Saturday that an Australian Embassy technology official, Bernice Lee, announced the three-part aid plan for the Australian 1990-91 fiscal year at a bilateral
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      • 71 8 A CLAUSE in the treaty that allows the United States unlimited access to its military bases in the Philippines could drag Manila into war in the Gulf. Alfredo Bengzon, vice-chairman of the legislative-executive bases panel advising President Corazon Aquino on a new bases agreement, on
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      • 68 8 PHILIPPINE President Corazon Aquino visited two gar-bage-strewn sites in Manila on Saturday to investigate trash collection and talk with residents on how the situation could be improved. Mrs Aquino, who came under fire about the mountains of uncollected garbage in the capital, first visited a site
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    • 469 8 HONGKONG'S global competitive position will deteriorate if current wage rises and inflation levels are sustained, according to a report in the South China Morning Post, on Saturday. Mr Ron Napier, a leading international economist with Salomon Brothers, told the Post that the fixed
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    • 423 8 CHINA signed joint venture agreements totalling US$l7O million on the first day of the Fujian Investment and Trade Symposium, Wen Wei Po reported in Hongkong yesterday. Foreign investors from Hongkong, Taiwan, the United States, Japan, the Philippines and Macau have agreed to
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    • 300 8 Bernama THAILAND will buy more oil from Malaysia if it laces a "serious shortfall" of supply resulting from the crisis ia the Gulf, a senior Thai Foreign Ministry official said oa Saturday. Thai Foreigß Ministry Political Affairs Departmeat deputy director-general Vkasakdi Futrakul
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    • 600 8 AFP INDIA has finally opened its skies to the private sector, and businessmen are queuing up with gusto to launch air taxis and take on the muchmaligned state-run domestic carriers. Three air taxi services, as the private charter and regular carriers
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    • 421 8 THE HIGHEST HONOURS ACCORDED TO BUSINESS ACHIEVERS ingaporo Business Times In 1985, Business Times, a business daily published by Singapore Press Holdings, and the leading air express company, DHL Worldwide Express, came together to organize an award scheme to honour Singapore's most successful businessman. In the years before, public recognition
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • 491 9 AP THE SOVIET Union could supply South Korea with some of the most modern technologies, supplanting Japan and the US, some South Korean experts say. South Korea hopes to turn Soviet technologies into new goods for world markets. The marriage of Soviet technology
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    • 278 9 AFP THE EAST German government has agreed to naturalise as many as 10,000 Hongkong Chinese in exchange for in- vestment on East German territory, the West German Bild am Sonntag reported. An East German government spokesman last month said East Germany had
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    • 42 9 Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan being surrrounded by reporters in a Jakarta hotel yesterday on his way to meeting Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas. Talks were due to start among the warring Cambodian factions later in the day.
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    • 319 9 AP A REAL ESTATE war is brewing over the large and handsome homes that line the shady blocks in Klein Machnow, a quiet town south-west of Berlin. Officials say up to 70 per cent of the property has been claimed by West Germans
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    • 361 9 AP AMERICAN President George Bush on Saturday raised the possibility of a unique superpower swap: American state-of-the-art oil technology for some of the Soviet Union's vast, untapped crude resources. "I have no problem with that at all," Mr Bush said en route to
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    • 322 9 AFP FRIDAY'S US government statistics showing an increase in unemployment in August is being interpreted by most economists as another sure sign that the US is moving dangerously close to a recession. The unemployment rate edged up last month to 5.6 per cent, from July's
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 120 9 THE SOVIET UNION may remove the word "socialist" from its formal name, Radio Moscow said on Saturday, quoting a top official. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, might become the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics, the broadcast said, quoting parliamentary leader
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      • 87 9 WEST GERMANY'S foreign minister on Saturday acknowledged that a Soviet demand for billions of dollars has become the "price of unification". Hans-Dietrich Genscher spoke a day after six-nation talks on German unification ended without full agreement. The talks stalled in part because of Soviet objections to
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      • 42 9 ALBANIA is going to accept credit card payments for the first time under an agreement with Eurocard-Mastercard, company officials said in Brussels on Friday evening. To date, only cash and Euro-cheques have generally been accepted in Albania.
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      • 72 9 WORKERS who produce up to 60 per ent of the Soviet Union's oil and gas are threatening to strike unless their economic conditions improve, Soviet media reported on Saturday. In a letter to President Mikhail Gorbachev and other top officials, the head of the trade union
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      • 75 9 SOME independent service station operators in Japan say they are unable to buy enough gasoline because wholesalers and distributors are withholding supplies in anticipation of higher prices. "I'm trying hard to buy, but wholesalers are really holding back," said Masayuki Shimizu, who operates a chain of
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      • 93 9 FRENCH Finance Minister Pierre Beregovoy quashed fears of an austerity package in an interview published four days before he presents the 1991 budget to Parliament. He told the weekly Journal de Dimanche that France had to make some adjustments because of the current surge in oil
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    • 821 10 The Gulf Crisis NYT THE HUMAN and economic costs of the Persian Gulf crisis are coming home to the Third World, whose poor nations sent hundreds of thousands of workers to clean the floors, build the offices, service the cars and
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    • 620 10 NYT PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union meets US President George Bush in Helsinki with a baggage of a long, complicated, often torturous relationship with Iraq. Since 1958, when the Iraqi government of Abdul Karim Kassim abandoned Britain and embraced the Soviet
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    • 514 10 IHT ONE DOES NOT have to be a political philosopher to see that the status quo in the Middle East cannot be sustained. In the Arab world today, there are too many grievances, too many outstanding injustices and a general malaise, which
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 566 12  - The ATM card don't leave the country without it The slogan for the 21 st Century may well be: Have ATM card will travel, predicts Edmund Andrews Edmund Andrews NYT IN A DEVELOPMENT that could render travellers' cheques obsolete and spell doom for high-priced currency traders, automated teller machines are
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    • 1026 12  -  The court sentences for businessmen in the Guinness trial mark a profound change in the British business climate, says John Plender, who at the same time asks: does a prison term serve a purpose for such people? John Plender FT The guilty verdicts
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    • 705 12 FT THE LIFE and personal finances of Ernest Saunders, the convicted former chief of Guinness, have been ruined. Stockbroker Anthony Parnes has suffered the appalling experience of sharing a cell with a psychopathic killer while he was held for extradition in Terminal Island maximum
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 892 13  -  Peter Marsh looks at how the pieces fit together at the Danish company whose name is virtually a household word Peter Marsh FT 1N A VOLATILE and competitive environment, "we have concentrated and used our strength to go deeper into what
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    • 283 13 FT WHEN suppliers start asking for cash on delivery or your bank manager refuses to extend your overdraft limit without an accountant's review of your finances you know you are in trouble. There are, however, other less obvious warning signs of impending
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    • 51 13 PERIOD 3 of the second round of the National Management Game has ended with six participanting teams suffering losses ranging from $84,000 to $700,000. The rest made profits of between $41,000 and $1.2 million. The annual game is organised by the Singapore Institute of Management, ICL and Business
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  • SPORTS
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      • 98 14 CUBAN Julio Gonzalez wasted little time in landing the lightweight gold medal at the World Cup Amateur Boxing Championships in Dublin on Saturday. He maintained his record of not having to go the distance in the tournament by catching East German Marco Rudolf
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      • 143 14 DEFENDING champion Rives Mcßee finished with an eagle to shoot a 5-under 67 on Saturday and held a two-stroke lead in the Bank One Seniors Classic. Mcßee, who won his first Seniors event in the 1989 tournament, birdied No. 17 before the eagle on the
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      • 98 14 THE 11-member executive body of the Olympic Council of Asia has recommended that Iraq be barred from the Asian Games and from membership in the council because of its invasion of Kuwait. Delegates from the council's 38 member countries will vote on the recommendation at
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      • 137 14 THAILAND'S James Wattana made a speedy return to winning ways in Blackpool, England, on Saturday with a third round victory in the £200,000 Dubai Classic. Wattana, Thailand's favourite sporting hero, was beaten 5-2 by world no. nine Willie Thorne in the final qualifying round of
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      • 142 14 DOUBLE Olympic gold medallist Mark Todd charged up the field on the second day of the Burghley Horse Trials in Stamford, England, on Saturday to threaten Mary Thomson's first victory in the event. The New Zealand ace, who was 30th after the dressage on his
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      • 130 14 SAILING COUSINS Jorgen and Jens Bojsen-Moller won the final race and the gold medal of the 1990 Flying Dutchman World Championship on Saturday. The Danish team, which also won the 1988 Olympic gold medal, won the competition by just over a point. The French team, Thierry
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      • 174 14 PAT BRADLEY shot a four-under-par 68 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead entering the final round of the U*****,000 Portland women's golf tournament. Sherri Turner shot a two-under-par 70 to share second place with Dottie Mochrie, who had a 71 on Saturday. Bradley got
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    • 499 14 AFP STRUGGLING Englishman Gordon J Brand upstaged the big names in Sunningdale, England last Saturday to take a surprise third round lead in the 400,000-pound European Open. The 35-year-old Yorkshireman, 82nd in the European money list, carded a 65 to head Welshman lan Woosnam, Spain's
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    • 1158 14 The US Open Agencies ARGENTINA'S Gabriella Sabatini won her first Grand Slam tournament on Saturday, slashing a passing shot that hit the chalk line to take a second-set tiebreaker 7-4 and beat top-seeded Steffi Graf 6-2, 7-6 for the women's US Open title.
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    • 295 14 AFP ANDRE AGASSI and Pete Sampras, a pair of young guns whose time has come, will do battle in the final of the US Open. The two players, a year apart in age, advanced by beating two former Open champions, setting up
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    • 881 15  -  In 1959, a young Australian soprano in a bloodstained gown stunned London's Covent Garden with her performance in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Thirty-one years and 48 operas later, Dame Joan Sutherland is about to take her final bow. Robert
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    • 724 17  -  Political art is coming of age in the Soviet Union, reports Michael Kimmelman Michael Kimmelman NYT For years, bits and pieces of what has loosely been termed unofficial Soviet art have appeared in American galleries and museums. The names of Ilya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov, Vitaly Komar
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4930 18  -  By Quale Hiang Whai SHARE PRICES on the Singapore stock market were easier across the board last week as oil prices continued to rise while investors remained on the sidelines. Local investors were also discouraged by the poor performance of regional stock markets.
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 443 20 Relative strength of market somewhat precarious AFP NEW YORK SHARE PRICES on Wall Street appeared to be directionless in a trading week shortened by Monday's US Labor Day holiday. However, despite the continued uncertainty of the Oulf crisis combined with the increasing likelihood of a US
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    • 506 20 AFP SHARE PRICES nosedived on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week in extremely thin trading as uncertainty over the Gulf crisis, higher oil 'prices and prospects of higher interest rates weighed heavily on the market. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues ended the
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    • 845 20  -  By Ray Heath LONDON A SIMMERING GULF to the east of them, a weakening US economy to the west of them, and company profits being dive-bombed all around them no wonder UK investors are staying in the bunker. Share deals are running at
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    • 545 20 DBS Securities AFP HONGKONG SHARE PRICES on the Hongkong market declined in dull trading, with the Hang Seng Index ending the week at 3,044.79, a 1.4 per cent, or 42.71 -point, fall from the previous week. Average daily turnover dwindled to HKS666
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    • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
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        175 20 PRICES plunged again on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) last week after a short-lived rally in the previous week. Trading was dominated by heavy selling of Bank Duta, a private bank connected with President Suharto, after reports that it was in financial difficulties, but many other shares also suffered,
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        58 20 FEARS of an escalation in the Middle-East crisis drove down Australian stocks during the week, brokers said. The main market indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, tumbled 26.7 points to 1,479.0. The All Industrials Index fell 60.9 points to 2,207.8, the All Resources Index eased 2.9 points to 911.7 while
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        129 20 SHARE PRICES on the Taiwan Stock Exchange plunged during a shortened week amid continued uncertainty over the Gulf crisis as well as rising inflation pressure and slower economic growth at home. The 216-issue weighted price index lost 326.43 points, or 9 per cent, to close the week at 3,308.85
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        154 20 SHARE PRICES on the Securities Exchange of Thailand (SET) fell 24.69 points over the previous week to close at 838.06 points, despite efforts to boost investor confidence. The fall represents a 2.86 per cent decline on the SET index from the previous week's close of 862.75 points. The market
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        106 20 AFP TRADING RESTRICTIONS imposed at India's leading stock exchange in Bombay dampened prices last week, although the stock index went up marginally. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) index gained just eight points for the week when it closed on Friday at 1,255.7, while the national index rose 10 points
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      • 104 20 SOUTH KOREA'S stock market, despite a strong opening amid high expectations generated by the firstever talks between the premiers of North and South Korea, closed the week on a disappointing note. The Composite Price Index of all stocks soared 26 points or 4 per cent to close at 635.4
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    • 407 20 Singapore Shipbuilding Engineering Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) The Directors of Singapore Shipbuilding Engineering Limited advise the following unaudited results of the Company for the six months ended 30 June 1990: 1990 1 989 Ss'ooo Ss'ooo Turnover 184,426 20,426 +802.9 Operating profit and other income 4,503 501 798.8
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3977 21 MBT SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market closed barely steady last week as renewed Gulf tensions and uncertainties on major overseas bourses dampened sentiment. Investors and dabblers alike were reluctant to trade, preferring to keep to the sidelines to await fresh
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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        946 22 STOCK PRICES moved higher in quiet trading in New York on Friday, recovering some of Thursday's losses. Analysts said a drop in oil prices helped encourage some sporadic buying in a quiet session. But traders seemed unimpressed by the latest economic news. The Labour Department's report for August
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        707 22 SHARE prices rose on Friday on London's stock exchange. The Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index closed up 2.0 points, or 0.09 per cent, at 2,122.9. The narrower Financial Times 30 share index closed down 1.4 points at 1,638.5, while total turnover amounted to a sketchy 331.8 million shares, lower
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      • 236 22 TORONTO stocks recovered slightly on Friday after sweeping victory by the socialist New Democratic Party and weaker-than-expected Canadian unemployment figures sent the market tumbling in morning trade, dealers said. The Composite Index lost 22.3 to 3,290.5 on volume of 11.92 million shares. Declines ted advances 292 to 124. "The
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      • 364 22 THE Johannesburg stock market closed mixed to easier in a listless pre-weekend session on Friday as wary investors re- mained unwilling to commit themselves amid the prevailing uncertainties, dealers said. Leading gold shares slipped from their firmer morning levels as world bullion prices, earlier supported by high oil prices
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      • 81 22 Sep 7 Close PltriOM NEW YORK Dow Jones 2,619.55 2596.29 23.26 NYSE Financial 124.73 123.70 +1.03 SAP 500 323.40 320.46 +194 Turnover (million) 123.80 125.62 -1.82 LONDON Financial Times 30 1,638.5 1639.90 -1.4 FTSE 100 2,122.9 2120.90 2.0 Turnover (million) 331.8 515.5 -183.7 AMSTERDAM CBS Genera] NA ***** I BRVfSFIf
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      • 296 22 DUTCH shares closed higher in thin trade on Friday, the CBS All-Share index adding 1.0 to 102.1. Dealers said there was no real weight of investment opinion underlying the movement, with range trading asserting itself into the vacuum of uncerfeinty on interest rates, oil prices ant world growth left
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      • 351 22 WEST GERMAN shares ended mixed on Friday, as some stocks rose ai shortcovering while others slipped sightly in a very uncertain market. Dealers said the market was waiting for the outcome of the Helsinki neeting of US President George Bush ind Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Professional operators were mostly
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      • 184 22 BELGIAN shares ended the week well mixed after a day of thin trade as the Gulf crisis remained a strong disincentive to investors, dealers said. "The daily volume of trade is currently only about a fifth of what it was at the beginning of the year," one dealer said.
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      • 324 22 SWISS SHARES dosed lower on moderate turnover on Friday but selling in blue chips increased slightly in the last hour of trading, dealers said. Investors were holding back because of the Gulf crisis and ahead of yesterday's summit between President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The SPI
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      • 125 22 ITALIAN share prices closed with slight losses on Friday in a dull and featureless finish to a week marked by cautious trading and low volumes. There has been little business apart from some limited interest in Enimont and Montedison,** one broker commented. The MIB index closed at 879, down
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      • 219 22 FRENCH share prices ended higher in extremely thin trade on Friday, buoyed in the late afternoon by a firmer start and continuing firm tone on Wall Street, dealers said. Operators squaring short positions ahead of the weekend superpower summit in Helsinki on the Gulf crisis also pushed prices up,
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 283 23 firms against mark as traders unwind FOREX MARKET REPORTS Reuter THE US dollar was higher against the mark and weaker versus the yen on Friday after players unwound long-mark/short-yen positions. The mark fell sharply against the yen, breaking below key support at 89.80/90 yen. Now the level to watch is
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    • 705 23 ASIAN CURRENCIES AFP THE US dollar took a beating in Asia during the week, with a number of regional currencies gaining ground amid Gulf war fears. The yen reached an 11-month high against the dollar. The Australian, New Zealand, Thai and Indonesian currencies also
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    • 393 23 Crass rales Sep? USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZ$ USS 1.7630 2.6880 1.5550 140.50 0.5241 1.2980 1.2121 1.5974 SS 0.5672 1.5247 0.8820 0.7969 0.2973 0.7362 0.6875 0.9061 MS 0.3720 65.59 0.5785 0.5227 0.1950 0.4829 0.4509 0.5943 Dm 0.6431 1.1338 1.7286 90.35 0.3370 0.8347 0.7795 1.0273
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    • 545 23 Interbank rates S$ Bid Offer Overnight 6 1/2 6 5/8 1-month 6 3/8 6 1/2 2-month 6 7/16 6 9/16 3-month 6 1/2 6 5/8 Overnight mode: 6-1/8 US$ High Low 7 days 8 8 1 month 8 7 15/16 2 months 8 7 15/16 3 months 8
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    • 469 23 Reuter CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer John Major's announcement that sterling would not enter the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the EMS over the weekend is a forceful signal that monetary policy will not be relaxed until there is clear progress on lowering British inflation. "Mr Major
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    • 456 23 Reuter THE Federal Reserve will have to ease interest rates to avert a recession, economists agree, but they believe it will wait at least until August consumer price data is released nearly two weeks from now. Inflation has become the
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    • 451 23  -  GOLD FINANCIAL FUTURES REPORT Sin Hut Bullion (S) SPOT GOLD'S recent inability to respond to what would normally be considered very bullish factors made traders ignore the metal's fundamental outlook and instead trade from a purely technical viewpoint last week. Profit-taking kept prices confined
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    • 287 23 COMEX Sep 23 CPU) FUTUtES (100 oz) USS/oz Open High Low Settle Change Sep 389.50 389.50 389.50 389.50 -0.20 Oct 389.00 391.60 384.00 391.40 -0.30 Nov 393.80 -0.20 Dec 394.50 396.20 388.50 396.00 -0.20 Feb 398.00 399.60 393.50 400.40 -0.20 Apr 401.80 404.30 399.70 404.50 -0.20 Jun 406.70
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    • 500 23 BANKS ABN Bank 8V6 Allied Irish Bank PLC 8* American Express Bank 816 Am'Dam R'tcrdam Bank 8Vj Arab Banking Corp 8% Arab Bank Ltd 714 Asia Commercial Bank 716 ANZ Banking Group 8*i Ban Hin Lee Bank 8V« Banca Commerciale 8% Banco do Brasil 8W Bangkok Bank
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 353 24 Reuter MAJOR oil companies in Europe have called for detailed plans to be drawn up for the release of global oil stocks if the Gulf crisis leads to shortages. The European Petroleum Industry Association (Europia), representing companies with 95 per cent
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    • 307 24 Reuter BRAZIL, the world's biggest coffee producer, is prepared to negotiate proposals for a new international coffee pact but will not accept a cut in its export quotas, the government official in charge of coffee policy said. "Our position is unchanged.
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    • 905 24 REPORTS AFP BRENT crude oil prices moved to a fresh five-year high in London in the past week in line with a firmer trend elsewhere, as the prospect of war in the Gulf appeared to move closer. Other commodities were also dominated
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    • 1089 24 Rubber I MSthfcliHw) Sccntt/kg Int I RSS Clow Sep 3 160.75 I Sep 4 161.25 I Sep 5 158.25 i Sep 6 158.50 Sep 7 156.75 MHE1B (fcfch h*u) M cents/kg Int I RSS Close Sep 3 243.50 Sep 4 243.50 Sep 5 242.50 Sep 6 242.50 Sep 7
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    • 877 24 NOTICES JURONG CEMENT LIMITED 1 I (Incorporated in Singapore) I:| I SECRETARY* OFFICE 11 I 112 Middle Road ,#O2-03 Midland House a Singapore 0718 B;| I NOTICE OF MEETING I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN fiat the Severieerth Annual General II I MeeirwdtheCompany •*be held Room, 103-06 Aeia H 1 Instance
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    • 339 24 THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP.SO SPA CONSTRUCTION (S) PTE LTD (In Liquidation) At a general meeting of SPA CONSTRUCTION (S) PTE LTD duly convened and held on the 7th day of September, 1990 the fotowing special resolution was passed: SPECIAL RESOLUTION The the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to section
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 771 25  -  LETTER FROM TUSCANY By Philip Barron Everyone perked up when Sandra spotted the white Mercedes minibus parked under trees a few hundred yards away. After walking for two-and-a-half hours, we knew that we would soon be putting our feet up and enjoying a good meal
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    • 154 25 At at 3pm on Sep 7: Local dollars to oae unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.4470 1.4670 Canadian dollar 1.3100 1.3300 NZ dollar 1.090 1.1200 Sterling pound 3.3330 3.3330 US dollar 1.7660 1.7760 Local dollars to 100 wits of foreign cunvno Austrian schilling
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    • 80 25 Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Sep 7-17 International Fair Switzerland Schweizer Muster Mustermesae 61/686.20.20 Sep 10-16 International TV, Sound and Electronics Spain Foire De Barodooe V423.3I.0I Sep 13-18 International Leather Week Paris Setnaine Internationale Du Cuir 1/*****569 Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Sep 13-20 International Germany Munchener
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    • 239 25 UNCERTAINT Yjn»-.^_ 27 September, 1990. I mm XII i Organic 1%l I LJ Lb Oxford Business Group I II .L I Who Should Attend 1 J Corporate decision-makers, J government officials and aca^em > cs Speakers Experts unrestricted by A/ protocol but dosdy involved as advisers in European jl/ policy
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    • 213 25 Singapore Owtlook: Showers over several areas ia the late moniiag and early afteraooa Report: Max temp. 32.TC Assoc humidity 65% Min temp. 24.1* C Assoc humidity 95% Hrs of sunshine 7.95 Rainfall in nun... 0.2 Rainfall this mth. 73.4 Rainy days this mth 7 World report Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland
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  • 401 26  -  By Harish Mehta PREDICTING a rough ride for Malaysia's balance of payments, an economic consultancy has raised the country's growth forecast to 8.7 per cent while forecasting a sizeable overall deficit in the 1991 budget to be unveiled in October. Though there is
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  • 331 26 Mahathir warns against political exploitation Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday the government was prepared to help resolve the Cheras toll issue, and at the same time warned certain groups against turning the problem into a racial issue
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  • 101 26 Reuter BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said in an interview broadcast yesterday that she planned to fight a fourth general election and stay on as leader for a considerable time afterwards. Asked if she ruled out being prime minister at the age of 70, Mrs
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  • 382 26 AFP THE Phnom Penh government and its arch enemy, the Khmer Rouge, said yesterday that they were confident an agreement would be reached to end the nearly 12-year war in Cambodia. Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of Phnom Penh's Viet-nam-installed government, and Khieu Samphan, the leader
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  • 56 26 Reuter picture A barber from the Beijing police cutting a young boy's hair free of charge as the capital held a campaign to beautify for the Asian Games yesterday. China is hoping that the Games, which begins on Sep 22, will bring back tourists lost
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  • 240 26 AFP HANOI is eager to settle long-standing disputes with Washington and normalise relations in order to spur the flagging Vietnamese economy, US News and World Report said in its latest issue. In interviews with the magazine, Vietnamese Prime Minister Do Muoi and Foreign
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  • 318 26 AFP CHINESE OFFICIALS wiU travel to Geneva this week to ask for Beijing's return to Gatt as compensation for its moves towards a market economy, the China Daily said in Beijing yesterday. China's chances of having the General Agreement 09 Tariffs and
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  • Shipping Times
    • 450 27  -  From Rahita Elias in TAIPEI EVA AIRWAYS is to launch daily scheduled services from Taiwan to Singapore and other destinations in Southeast Asia from the middle of next year. The carrier is also looking at tie-ups with other airlines to build
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    • 282 27 Reuter THE Lloyd's of London insurance market has changed its widely-used Lloyd's Form of Salvage agreement to include measures to encourage salvors to act speedily in cases that threaten the environment. Lloyd's officials told a news conference that the new form includes clauses from the
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    • 243 27 The Gulf Crisis AFP THE Gulf crisis will cost Air India US$ll4 million in the current financial year, a minister said, seemingly putting the brakes on a phase of rapid growth. Civil Aviation Minister Arif Mohammad Khan told a parliamentary panel
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    • 136 27 HUTCHISON Telecommunications (Thailand) (HTL) expects to start operating its nationwide telephone paging system in Thailand by the end of the year, The Nation reported. HTL, the third company in the country allowed to operate a nationwide telephone paging system, is a 55-45 joint
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    • 350 27 SHIPPING lines may resort to feedering cargo through Singapore to avoid higher port charges planned for Bangkok port. Amnuay lamsuro, chairman of the Bangkok Shipowners and Agents Association (BSAA), pointed to this possibility if the Port Authority of Thailand goes
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    • 239 27  - Far EastS Africa trade: line to ship 4,000 boxes via S'pore By A J Leow TAIWAN'S Nantai Line expects to ship some 4,000 containers via Singapore this year in its Far East-South Africa service. The company said negotiations are underway with MTW Shipyard of East Germany for two newbuildings to
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    • 230 27  -  By A J Leow NIPPON Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has formed a new company, NYK Cruises, to promote South-east Asian and South Pacific cruises for a second vessel arriving next year. The new ship, named Asuka, will be able to carry 600
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    • 203 27 INDONESIA'S Tanjung Priok port will be able to handle 2.5 million containers by 1995 when its third container terminal is completed. State Port Company II commercial director Admir Umar said the second terminal, to be completed by April next year, will
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      • 72 28 CYPRUS last week banned Cypriot-flagged ships from approaching Iraqi and Kuwaiti ports or carrying cargo to or from either country. A government spokesman said the decision by the Council of Ministers was in line with the government's policy of abiding by United
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      • 123 28 THE Indonesian government has scrapped the 15 per cent duty for imported trucks to meet surging domestic demand. Since May, the eight local truck producers have been allowed to import 3,000 built-up trucks of over 2.5 tons. So far, none of them has imported any as
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      • 91 28 NIPPON EXPRESS Co Ltd's wholly-owned US unit, Nippon Express USA Inc, will launch a wholly-owned Mexican unit in September to strengthen freight business between the US and Mexico, a company spokesman said. The new firm, Nippon Express de Mexico SA de CV in Mexico
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      • 109 28 THE BIGGEST gas tanker ever built in Scotland was launched on the river Clyde near Glasgow, the Norwegian company that built it, Kvaerner Govan, said. The tanker can carry 54,000 cubic metres of gas. The old Govan shipyard, bought by Kvaerner two years ago, is
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      • 137 28 THE Transport Ministry issued 27 shipbuilding permits totalling 645,529 gross registered tons (GRT) in August, down from 35 ships of 1.12 million GRT in July, a ministry official said. This compares with 22 ships of 509,695 GRT in August 1989. Permits in the five months ended
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    • 1121 28  -  The Gulf Crisis A considerable buying opportunity may arise in shipping stocks if panic selling and a credit contraction lead to behaviour that appears more like neurosis than genuine sickness This opinion piece by Peter Stokes Peter Stokes of Maritime Consultants Ltd appeared in Lloyd's List
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    • 895 28 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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    • 12660 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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    • 1080 43 CHARTERING on the dry cargo fricght market remained quiet on Thursday but details emerged of coal booked from Hampton Roads and Richards Bay to Japan at a Firmer level, brokers said. Between US$l3.BO and US$l4 was reported paid for a 120,000 long ton shipment and its BFI sub-index
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    • 516 43 Vaaaal Vqr lb Bvft Mini Dapartea Kippil Wh Qvywistan arm 6/90 K29 alongside 14.09/0600 9006 R31 atongsale 12.09/0600 Koti Pctan E-868A K32 alongside 11.09/0600 Martham Bay 35 K18 alongside 10.09/0900 Shaptaeverrt Shoushan 3E K30 atongsale 11.09/1500 31/32 C10 alongside 13.09/1200 Tram Star 014B C09 alongside 0909/1330 World
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    • 1226 43 KCgWjjg Of EXPOBT fCL COWTA1NERS AND Itt CARGO Hoard BooUng/Ihtanct Wh SMp toy No Etb/Bfr Mod Fran To Fran Aa Mt 12A 12/1900 3 10/0700 10/1159 10/1400 4 10/1200 10/1459 10/1700 Anson *****N 11/2000 2 09/1700 10/0659 10/0900 4 10/1200 10/1459 10/1700 B Arcana 204 12/0800 2 09/1700
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    • 322 43 Pwt mm South Pwt on Sap 7: Soon Hoe berth 1; Golden World berth 2; Nan Feng berth 3; Melaka Jaya berth 7; Seng Leong berth 7 A; Petro Mewah berth Jetty She* KCT: Sea Leopard berth 8; Swadaya berth 10; Anro Jayakarta berth 10. MarVi Pert
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    • 359 44 Reuter KAWASAKI Heavy Industries said it plans to make fuselage parts for Europe's Airbus Industrie, in a move industry analysts termed a surprise departure from the Japanese aircraft industry's long-term dealings with Boeing Co of the US. Kawasaki expected to sign a contract
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    • 169 44 LEXMAR CORP has pulled its bid to buy the fleet of Argentine state shipping company Elma. Lexmar president Morten Kristiansen confirmed to Seatrade Week that after inspecting the vessels the USbased shipowner would not be proceeding with its bid the only qualified bid Elma
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    • 168 44 Reuter KYOCERA CORP will start producing 12,000 mobile phones a year under its own name in January or February 1991, a company spokesman said. The phone, to be designed by Kyocera, will be slightly smaller than the 350 cubic centimetre model now made by
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    • 194 44 Reuter SCANDINAVIAN Airlines System (SAS) said it planned cost savings worth one billion crowns in 1991 but did not give details. "We have decided to cut costs by about 5 per cent or one billion crowns but I don't want
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    • 322 44 Reuter AN industry-sponsored group formed to help clean up oil spills announced an US$BOO million Five-year budget, a new name and five regional US centres. Marine Spill Response Corp, founded in 1989 as Petroleum Industry Response Organisation, has yet to help clean
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    • 6 27 Tension favours shipping investors, Page 2
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    • 110 27 SHIP LASNINQ MATERIALS SPECIALIST MINTERMARINE SUPPLY CO (PTE) LTD TEL: *****33 (6 LINES) FAX: *****77 Globe-trotting Algator Mitsui O.S.K. Lines' Alligator container service spans oceans and crosses continents by ship, rail and truck. 2Kl|B^^9||^^l Our Alligators provide Asian shippers with fast and frequent sailings to the world's principal markets in
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    • 166 28 NOTICES FAR EASTERN FREIGHT CONFERENCE NOTICE TO SHIPPERS Transport Additionals Operational Surcharges As a result of recent additions to feeder costs, Member Lines regret that it will shortly become necessary to introduce 'operational surcharges' to apply to transport additionals. The levels of individual surcharges are under urgent study and a
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    • 8 28 IN THE MARKET Every Thursday... ADVERTISING MARKETING In
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    • 2000 29 "'"Kr"# *1111 ua, uuuuaj oc)iicuiim iw im JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES %mll«# 200 Cantonment Row) #12-06 Southpowt, Singapore 0208 Mill/ Tel *****11 TELEX NO RS ***** afffrnvi TERMINAL/CFS Td *****11 220 r DOOO9 *1 BOOKINGS Tw *****34 235 PENANG TEL *****4 TELEX NO MA***** CFS TEL 349M6 u.uiicot.-ti k, cM»r BEBSE3
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    • 1312 29 INDEX TOADVERTISERS I T 1 '1 MaerskLine 3 4/5 I I —1 Mainfreight 15 4 ABC ConUineriine 13 5 MISC 14 1-3 Accord Shpg 8 1-3 M'sia Shpg Corp 9 1/2 Adkris Business 16 3 Mercury Line 12 2 Albatros Sea-Air 14 5 Mendelssohn 4 4/5 Alfred C Toepfer 15
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    • 2324 29 W VAV M I BkJ I I j■k i f l I I mm Vmsei Voy ETA ETO "Port "Penang S(nww K«i«nfl DESTINATIONS f Th» week MMhilde M 900* CkM«g Time Feeder by |^^^2Z^3HE2EEM3E!!E^SEHEHEj^I^EESK3S!SI^^I cv 0400 mrs m Ferco Hi HBV CFS HV9 2358 MRS M Tauro OAK LOB MOU
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    • 966 30 rage i ROTTERDAM/ VOY NO S PORE P KELANG SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG BREMERHAVEN ANTWERP LE HAVRE KASiiflA n/508 W9 8/10 2/10 4/10 1/10 //10 riTY Cif EDINBURGH 91/512 17/9 4/10 8/10 97/511 20/9 15/10 8/10 11/10 8/10 14/10 tcmm FxpflFSS 95/514 23/9 10/10 13/10 15/10 51.5 m <»« S?£S?o, S«S 25/io
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    • 463 30 DIRECT SOUTH PACIFIC SERVICE SIN SUV PPT SFASPAC I 28/9 11/10 16/10 ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO VIA SUVA TO: LAUTOKA, PAGO PAGO. APIA i NUKUALOAFA DIRECT CHILE SERVICE SIN IQQ ANF VAP SEASPAC I 28/9 29/10 31/10 2/11 A ho accepting Cargo to Cjll*o (Ponj) vw Vilpi Ao#nt»: (zfzfel/NXr SINGAPORE: *****56
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    • 1322 30 El gOßflgia SMKM REGULAR INDEPENDENT FULL CONTJUNER SERVICE WE£t&6iM6 FOR EUROPE W,»Y ALC KL FEL ROT UJT HU. north sea ten um «f» tog 12/u W» "j» JWJ "J" N SINGA 9029-3 2109 1210 14 10 1710 1910 22,10 21,10 23,10 24/10 NAL MUNTAZAM 9030-3 28 09 1910 21/10 24
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    • 1604 31 jgSteamers Maritime Holdings Ltd P&O■fW STRAITS SHIPPING TOk containers to* No Ip.Klang Spore bto« H'bui| B'hevw from Left ACCEPTS DUE SAILS AASUGA I 11/508 +T BHUM 10/09 IMB 09(10 08)10 04/10 01/10 08/10 CARGO CITY Of EDINBURGH 91(512 TEX 12/09 1709 CM/10 06(10 08,10 STRAITS STAR VI2E Stun. LO. Taw
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    • 1744 31 TO: EUROPE TO: FAR EAST SP LH RDM HAM B'HVN FIX SPOKE MK KAO KOB BU CHOYANG CHANCE 049W 10/9 21/9 79,-9 30/9 2/10 3/10 CHOYANC PARK 009E 9/9 12/9 13/9 11/9 19/9 HANJIN LEHAVRE 009W IS/9 3/10 4/10 5/10 7/10 1/10 HANJIN OAKLAND 009E 17/9 20/9 21/9 24/9 Z7/9
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    • 353 31 HOCHIMINH VIETNAM RO-RO SERVICE ETA SPORE 11/9/90 ETA HOCHIMINH 14/9/90 M.V. "ORANGE MOON" Voy 4 RAMPWAY CAPACITY 50 TONS IMLintermaritime SOUTHERN AFRICA SERVICE DIRECT MONTHLY BAIUHQB KK SPORE PK PL DM CT SAPANCA VW SM SW In Pt Oft 2/M* •Also call* LL A P E. GENERAL AGENTS: HAI SUN
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    • 604 32 CR NBR **********0-D EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE VSL/VOY S PORE R OAM/ H'BURC BREMEN ANTWERP ADAM ■ATARAM/27W8 22-2S/9 22/10 »fl« W JJU A VESSEL M-UlO 14/11 llfll 22/11 SRIWIJAYA/30WB 21M/10 MfU 23/U 21/11 30/11 FAST TRANSIT TIME ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/CONTAINERISED CARGO Si*|Kt to MuoaiwnL Ate accaptag cargo to Cwrfitanra, Rod Said, Port
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    • 746 32 fih HANJIN SHIPPINGn yy FULL CONTAINER SERVICE S onf I o'lduH M W« B hi.u Frto— «L SIN LINE HAUL LAX OAK CHOYANC CHANCE 049W Si 2M SW 2no VW OAKLAND 00K 17/9 H SEATTLE 013E 11/ M 14/10 HANJIN LE HAVRE 009W 17fl *10 6/10 7/10 9/ 0 10/10
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    • 1255 32 f j -j. T jvra~=nr|^ IPKL SCP HKC KSC KLC PUS MKT OSK SOU TYO LAX CMS lAL *TC IHV AIM MM FIX HK JSP I GENTRY RE-013 li|) IVI 1» 1» Hi) M V U W W 12/lt 2«U »10 SflO )|U lAI VU WU UAI VU I I
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    • 1653 33 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL: *****77 (CR NO: **********0t) BOOKINGS: UK/EUROPE SERVICE— *****19 USA SERVICE— *****16 AUST/INDIA/PAK SERVICE— *****18 FAR EAST SERVICE— *****48 TERMINAL OFFICE .*****022 DOCUMENTATION OEPT: *****44/ *****14 CFS: M 2 —IMPORT: *****69/*****50 CFS:M2 EXPORT: *****53/*****04 NEPLINE SDN BHD MALAYSIA K.1.-(03) *****33, P.Kelang (03) *****87, Penang-(04) *****0,
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    • 1290 33 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKING: *****51/ *****64/ *****59 (FESCO LINE) ENQUIRIES: *****33 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 (REGULAR INDEPENDENT SERVICE) DISCHARGING FROM EASTBOUND LOADING FOR WESTBOUND VESSELS VOYAGC |SPOK |MANILA HKONC VOYAGE >M PKIANC MM t'HAVtN TILBURY MTT AMTWRP
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    • 1605 34 I \jC\ K line KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA. LTD. f I EXPORT N. AMERICA PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST IMPORT N. AMERICA PACIFIC $QUTH-WBST .7 I I/ MOTHER VESSEL VOY MOOS LB WW TM {gJfSJKJ 1 Y T JJ FEEDER VESSEL VOY *INOO -PKPNG SGP MOTHER VESSEL VOY LB OAK CHI NYC 111 MACKINAC
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    • 1111 34 Vsen PHILI-ORICNT LIN€S PTC LTD 108 ROBINSON ROAD *07 00 GMG BUILDING SINGAPORE 0106 1 TEL *****22/*****69/*****00 TELEX RS ***** PHILI FAX *****76/*****38 s BY AIR, LAND OR SEA WE TAKE ON THE WORLD FOR YOU MEMBER OF SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION TORONTO, I vancouver, s'western ontario. 12 SEPT DUBAI,
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    • 1584 35 kJHA|V|nJIO IUI1VO) ifIWIIUWJ If HT¥W J■ PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD Jj gg/g PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street #0300, Singapore 0106. I JAKARTA I I BANGKOK I VESSEL VOV SIN JKT SIN VESSEL VOV SIN BKK SIN EOEN 9028 8/9 11/9 15/9 PCQASUS PROGRESS 833N 8/9 11/9 19/9 DELTA MAS
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    • 1155 35 r BENUNE CONTAINERS LTD 200 Cantonment Road Tel: *****22 #13-05 Southpoint Fax: *****63 Singapore 0208. Telex: RS ***** EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT VESSEL |VOY [-SPOKE PKLANG HAMBURG BHAVEN R'DAM LHAVRE Kasuga 1* 11/508 13/9 7/10 2/10 4/10 1/10 8/10 City of Edinburgh 91/512 17/9 Via Tex 4/10 6/10 8/10
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    • 323 35 MYANMA FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.KIg Pen P.Gdg MERGUI VIOIW PT PATHEIN VIOSW 17/20 SEP 12/tt SEP PAGAN VI6IW VW SEP HPA-AN VISSW 28/1 OCT THE BANK LINE (A Mrvic* ot A/xJr«w Weir Shipping) SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE YA HEAVY LIFT CAPABILITY I EXPRESS TO
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    • 872 38 'jflfj nSR -UNFS N INTEGRATED CONTAINER SERVICE MEMBER Of EACON SERVICE FROM FAR EAST TO NORTH CONTINENT OUTBOUNO SIN FLX BRV ROM ANT HBC RST H. CECIELSKI 14fl 1/10 10/10 9/10 11/10 16/10 TOKYO SEN WFO4O 11/9 11/10 12/10 13/10 15/10 17/10 MECKLENBURG S/» 26/9 20/10 22/10 21/10 23/10 2S/10
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    • 1157 38 1 CRYSTAL FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD TEL: *****88/*****22 OUR COIttOUMTMII IBWCf It FAR EAST PORT KELANG 14/9 4 21/9 MANILA 15/9 22/9 PENANG 14/9 21/9 BUSAN 13/9 19/9 BANGKOK 15/9 4 19/9 TOKYO 13/9 20/9 HONG KONG 12/9 15/9 YOKOHAMA 13/9 20/9 KAOHSIUNG 16/9 23/9 KOBE 13/9 20/9 KEELUNG 16/9
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    • 368 38 LOADING FOO LOADING FOR BUENOS AIRES VtSSU SfOM ICM DM IAIRCS HVIOtO *10 SIS VIT PACUA c isabil I*l# wi» am *11 urn am ■OSTWUNI U/U WU 4/U 17|U J*li J*U V TBA DISCHARGING FM BRAZIL ONLY r scout MNL MK Kit SUSAN TO* NGO *06 C ISABEL l» IM
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    • 1340 38 +ss&*i£4fr*3i fe *3? CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING COMPANY TEL: *****00 '■"Y"-io"s^ B S°'" c full container liner service CR NO 11/*****000 M CABLE: COSTANLINE General Agents: COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD I VtSSU/VOY SCP FLX ROT HAM ANT OK* VESSEL/VOY FIX ROT HAM AWT DKK SGP sha he um mo mo 07/10
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    • 776 39 NIHON-ASIA I CR **********0N TEL: *****22 FAX: *****86 Competitive Rates!! ETA USA All IPI Destns 15/9, 22/9 I EUROPE all Ports 14/9, 18/9 BANGKOK 13/9, 16/9 HONGKONG/CHINA 15/9, 20/9 SYD, MEL, ADEL, BRIS 12/9, 20/9 FREMANTLE 14/9, 25/9 MANILA 14/9, 21/9 PKLG/PENANG 12/9, 19/9 Port Kelang Branch Tel: *****21/2/3 Fax:
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    • 254 39 SSnicHnfLD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD iS TEL: *****33 (12 Llnoo) CTI FAX: *****15/*****03 [fTfj TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Llnoo) PfrA ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES r (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL VESSEL IVOY ETA LOADING FOR SPORE NETSANET 20WB 30/10 DARESSALAAM MOMBASA OJI6CXITI ASSAB MASSAWA MOOEtOAM ANOtNET
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    • 818 39 tef.P T. MASKAPAI PELAYARAN WPULAU LAUT FULLY CONTAINERISED REGIONAL FEEDER SERVICE TWICE WEEKLY/WEEKLY FIXED DAY SCHEDULE BETWEEN THE PORTS OF S PORE, INDONESIA, MALAYSIA THAILAND ALSO ACCEPTING LCL CARGO TO ALL DESTINATIONS r WE SERVE FOR BOOKINGS CALL SPECARGO FORWARDING AT TEL: *****55 SINGAPORE INDONESIA SERVICE VSL VOY SIN JKT
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    • 967 39 BANGKOK CEBU/MANILA IttSgL I VOY SINGAPORE BANGKOK [VESSEL |VOV rPOt CPU MAWU~ CHAIYA BHUM# 00N Tu« 11/) Fri 14/9 SO ORIENT 37R 14/} 20/9 22/9 NANTA BHUM 06N W«d 12/} S«t 15/) KITI BHUM 3C 21/9 27/9 29/9 JENUNK 23N Thur 13/9 Sun 16/9 SO ORIENT 39R 2S/9 4/10 10
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    • 1255 40 A MAC-NELS SINGAPORE'[ EXPORT TEL: *****22 fiiPOBT TEL: *****02 11 I PENANG TEL: (04) *****6 KK TEL (088) *****0* TAWAU TEL: (089) *****9 M P KELANG TEL: (03) *****77 KUCHING TEL (082) *****3 SKAN TEL: (089) *****2 |2|\=/\"| J BAHRU TEL: (07) *****2 SIBU TEL (084) *****2 LABUAN TEL: (087)
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    • 556 40 fflEfc BLUE STAR LINE SINGAPORE TO NEW ZEALAND AND T/S FIJI VTTT I Y CONTAINERISED MONTHLY SAILINGS F AT NEW PLYMOUTH 4 PORT CHALMERS ACCEPTING FCL LCL FOR AUCKLAND, NAPIER, WELLINGTON. BLUFF, CHRISTCHURCH, pUNEDIN, LYTTELTON, INVERCARGIL, FIJI AND TAHITI SIN N PtY AUCK IYT MANDAMA 0580 12 Sep 23 Sep
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    • 1165 40 ~££l THONG SOON LINES PTE. LTD. 51 Bras Basah Rd #01-01 Plaza By The Park S (0718) Tel: *****22 Fax No: *****73 CONVENTIONAL/CONTAINER SERVICES *****11 (BOOKING LINES) SINGAPORE TO WEST MALAYSIA SINGAPORE TO SABAH torn |wt Icti I kit «na m eti iot KIM SOON LI 36/90E 15 SEP PENANG
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    • 699 41 iDmsmtmw COMPANIA PERUANA DE VAPORES "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/FCL/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CALLAO. MATARANI, ILO* OTHER PERUVIAN PORTS* WITH T/S AT KOBE ON CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING. Penang* P. Kelang Singapore SHAPLAEVERETT K3O/10 Sept MURRAYEVERETT 19/21 Sep! 22/23 Sept KARABIEVERETT" 25/26 Sept 27/28 Sept Di»ch) Oisch) 06/08 Oct Loading)
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    • 590 41 VSL VOY SPORE MAINLINER LAX KST SAV NYC |HFX~ LEEWARD 14,"9 2IM IBERIA *10 11/10 21/10 73/10 B/» ZIM MELBOURNE 20* 19/9 2IM HAIFA 25/10 3/11 Vll 8/U 10/11 ZIM OSAKA 14E 27/1 ZIM HAIFA 2VIO 1/11 l/U l/U Mfll ZIM PIRAEUS USE 14/10 ZIM HONGKONC 21/11 10/11 1/12 5/12
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    • 639 41 WSING KWANG HANGII ownto TRANSPORTATION (TTC) LTD WEEKLY LCL/FCL SERVICE VESSEL S PORE JAKARTA SURABAYA JENLINK 13/9 16/9 JENWEL IS/9 I I 18/9 l VESSEL S PORE BANGKOK A VESSEL 13/9 16/9 A VESSEL 16/9 19/9 DESTINATIONS ETA SINGAPORE PORT KELANG 14 SEPT MANILA 15 SEPT HONG KONG. ALL CHINA
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    • 527 41 [W PERINTIS LINE 111 I ■■■iiiniiiinii 111 ACCEPTING ALL FCL CARGOES BETWEEN SINGAPORE/PONTIANAK JAKARTA SURABAYA VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SBY PONTIANAK* TANTO SEJATI 19 12/09 15/09 DERAJAT 902 15/09 18/09 TANTO SEJATI 21 19/09 22/09 DERAJAT 903 22/09 25/09 TANTO UTAMA 105 15/09 18/09 TANTO UTAMA 107 22/09 25/09 TANTO
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    • 401 41 SIN m EAST 16/9 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 15/9 BANGKOK 15/9 MANILA/CEBU 15/9 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 14/9 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. Malaysia 14/9 BUSAN 14/9 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 14/9 HONG KONG also accepting carp) to Huangpu/Shenzhen/Fuztiou/ Xiamen/Xingang/Shanghai SIN EUROPE/UK 15/9 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 15/9 RDM/HAM/ANT/LE HAVRE/GENOA also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Roumania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. UN USA/CANADA 15/9 LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK all IPI points
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    • 284 42 zM CB SHIPPING MARINE SERVICES NORTH QUEENSLAND/PAPUA NEW GUINEA SERVICES CONTAINER/LCL/BREAKBULK SERVICE "AMKE" SERVICE SPE LAE MISIMA POM. T'VILLE V.1758 20-21/9 30/9 4/10 7/10 11/10 BUNKER SURCHARGE EFFECTIVE 1/9/90 Ten USD2S 50 R/BULK USD 2.50 L CL USO 1.50 SUBJECT REVIEW BOOKM6S ACCEPTED FOR EAST KAUMATAN AM —pWW «rt wtfcff.
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    • 861 42 SINGAPORE/MEDITERRANEAN FULL CONTAINER SHIP SERVICE VESSEL/VOY ETA SPORE NAPLES GENOA ILYICHEVSK MERSIN TRIESTE GM V 16CW90 In Pt 2/10/90 4/10/90 9/10/90 VV Vl6-90W In Pt 9/10/90 28/9/90 4/10/90 BM T V 17CW90 25/9/90 17/10/90 18/10/90 23/10/90 IY Vl7-90W 26/9/90 23/10/90 14/10/90 18/10/90 KVU V 18CW90 5/10/90 27/10/90 29/10/90 3/11/90 ALSO
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    • 498 42 m l l J LCL/FCL o>£) PENANG KL: ALLI{O-lihk SINGAPORE: zf/^N m 04-*****2 *****8955 778 6522(22 LINES) SEES \g Marina Orvjj Suaan Ng/Chrlstina Chtaw Dolly Mlrpurl/Eathar Yap J cmvbitioml saunca FROM SOUTH EAST ASIA/ FAR EAST TO USG/BRAZIL/ARGENTINA MV NORTWEEN NOVA MV SUNDERLAND ENDEAVOUR KOTA KINABALU ETA SPORE 3/9 ETD
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    • 347 42 FCL/LCL SERVICES MANILA ETA VIGOUR PACIFIC 15NB 13jS VIGOUR PACIFIC 16NB 23/9 BANGKOK 16/9 23.'9 BUSAH 12/9 19/9 HONGKONG 12/9 17/9 DURBAN 14/9 30/9 KEELUNG 16/9 23/9 PT. LOUIS US 20/S PT. KELANG 14/9 21/9 KOBE 17/9 -24/9 PIRAEUS 12/9 29/9 OSAKA 18/9 25/9 JAKARTA 14/9 18/9 SURABAYA 13/9 163
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    • 1420 44 CHARTPOINT Every Saturday in Business Times PAKISTAN NATIONAL I I (T O f\ Livi iMn#\ I Wrjßß middle m H MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. ,Jg ft' INDONESIA MALAYSIA EAST ASIA SERVICE FOR HK TWN S.KOREA JAPAN MaUWV#*!*] I? I 3 I Ed SJITHI J =1 Zl'i M U vessel belawan
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