The Business Times, 8 October 1990

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  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 170/12/89 Monday October 8 1990 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 92 1 INDONESIAN President Suharto, who froze Jakarta's relations with Beijing 23 years ago, will visit China next month. Secretary of State Moerdiono was quoted by Indonesian papers yesterday as telling journalists in Beijing that Mr Suharto would visit China for five days after going to
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    • 27 1 THE newly-created Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) has four major projects in the pipeline to help 20,000 or so less-privileged Indian households Page 2
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    • 32 1 THE MAIN thrust of the 1991 Malaysian budget proposal will be anti-inflationary and interest rates can be expected to ease in the near term, says Bank Buruh Page 7
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    • 36 1 BRITISH CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer John Major, upbeat after the pound sterling's weekend entry into the European currency float, has predicted a big drop in the country's rate of inflation next year Page 8
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    • 28 1 A LEADER of world trade talks on agriculture has expressed 'considerable concern' in Geneva about lagging negotiations on cutting government subsidies to farmer*. Page 9
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    • 26 1 FOR the first time in 31 years, Malaysia's National Front has to reckon with the force of a united opposition Page 10
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    • 40 1 IN SPITE OF all the talk of greater teamwork within organisations, the truth it is now turning out is that very few Western companies of any size have actually yet operated in this way. Page 12
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    • 30 1 SEA-LAND SERVICE has decided to launch a Far East-Europe 'landbridge' container service using the Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR) from the first half of next year. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 28 1 MALAYAN Banking intends to remain home-bound, but will continue its search for the only missing jig-saw in its financial empire a life insurance company. Page 3
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    • 25 1 HOPEWELL is to invite banks to join an US$BOO million loan to finance a superhighway linking Guangdong with Hongkong and Macau. Page 4
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    • 19 1 POLLY PECK'S banks and other lenders have agreed to a temporary standstill for debt repayment Page 5
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    • 23 1 TO COMPETE more aggressively globally, several big US banks are considering applying for the right to trade commodities Page 6
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    • 33 1 SUMITOMO BANK chairman Ichiro Isoda has said he will resign in connection with the arrest of a former bank branch manager allegedly involved in shady loan deals. Page 6
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    • Article, Illustration
      21 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 561.49 -064 Kuala Lumpur 470.06 2.74 Hoaduag 2,850.45 -12.1 22,827.65 549.46 »te=3!ffiS IV London 2,143.9 +73.5
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    • 13 1 USS S$ 1.7480 Yen SJI.3079 SJ0.6476 Overnight 6-1/4 1/2 3-month 6-1/2 unch
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    • 33 1 LiataMd PM fix US$395.60 -US$0.15 S'pore Oct.... 154.50*/kg unch NTsia Oct 237.50«/kg unch NLTIa Turnover 40 tonnes +18 Spot M$16.18/kg -0.13 Crate pain 4 Turnover 774 lots -325 Oct M$655 /tonne +1.00
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  • 435 1  -  Move to help banks cope with high rentals and space shortage By William Chia THE MONETARY Authority of Singapore is planning to build a financial park outside the central business district to help banks struggling to cope with the high cost and scarcity
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  • 331 1  -  By Yong Pow Ang PRIME MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew reckons there is a fair chance of the Gulf crisis erupting into war. If that happens, it would send oil prices up and drive the world economy into recession. But Singapore, he is
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  • 434 1  -  By Harish Mehta IN A BID to prevent a possible split within the Malay community and to give it economic muscle, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has suggested that Malay professionals who want to depoliticise Mendaki set up a second Mendaki
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  • 521 1  -  By Yong Pow Ang THE INSTITUTE of Policy Studies (IPS), the govern-mefit-initiated think tank, has mapped out an ambitious plan to help add intellectual depth to Singapore's business community. In the pipeline are seminars, talks and conferences for local entrepreneurs and
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  • 84 1 WHILE THERE is a consensus that the property market is showing signs of maturing, what is the picture like for: individual sectors? Industry experts will evaluate the prospects for the residential, industrial, commercial and investment markets in BTs 28-page Property Supplement tomorrow. Also
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 52 2 ECONOMIC and management consultancy Segal Quince Wicksteed (SQW) of the UK has opened an office in Singapore, its first in Asia. The office, headed by Chris Green, will service clients throughout Asia. The company says demand for its services in Asia has been
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      • 36 2 TELECOM'S Business Reply Service (BRS) has been extended on a reciprocal basis to Britain. Currently available within Singapore and Malaysia, the service is suitable for companies that want to conduct international direct marketing.
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      • 92 2 THE CONSUMERS Association of Singapore (Case) is asking NTUC Comfort to explain some points relating to the taxi fare increase taking effect this month. Among others, Case wants to know why consumers have to bear a shortfall in five collection resulting from the last taxi fare
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      • 43 2 HONG LEONG FOUNDATION is donating $680,000 to various charities this year. In the past decade, the foundation donated about $650,000 annually. Among the beneficiaries this year are the 25th Anniversary Charity Fund, Jurong Bird Park and Sentosa Development Corp.
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      • 50 2 A SEMINAR on trade and investment opportunities in the North Rhine Westphalia region of Germany will be held on Nov 9. It is jointly organised by the Singapore Manufacturers' Association and Sinogcrma Trading, a member and consultant for the Economic Development Corp of North Rhine Westphalia.
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      • 53 2 THE THEME for this year's Construction Industry Development Board seminar is The Office of the Future: Designing Tomorrow's Buildings". Professor Volker H Hartkopf, Professor of Architecture from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg, will be the speaker for the seminar, which will be held at the Oriental Hotel
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      • 60 2 THE GULF CRISIS may push up inflation in Singapore to more than S per cent this year, said Mr Lim Boon Yang, the National Trades Union Congress deputy secretary-general. Writing in the NTUC News, he urged employers not to take advantage of the uncertainties
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    • 556 2  -  Topics range from Speak Mandarin campaign to SAP schools _By Harish Mehta ENGAGING First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in a frequently combative dialogue, Malay professionals at a convention yesterday also aired their concerns over the Speak Mandarin campaign and discrimination against Malays in
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    • 276 2 THE newly-created Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) has four major projects in the pipeline to help 20,000 or so less-priv-ileged Indian households. Top of the list is the setting up of a Family Service Centre (FSC) that will serve as a
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 495 3  -  Fraa Alvin Tay in KUALA LUMPUR THE MALAYSIAN branch of Hongkongßank will seek a public listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange if it decides to divest part of its stake after local incorporation. Its chief executive officer in Malaysia, Mr David Eldon, told
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    • 604 3  -  Fro«i Alvin Tay in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA'S banking giant Malayan Banking Bhd plans to remain home-bound, but will continue its search for the only missing piece in its financial empire a life insurance company. In an interview with Business Times
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    • 184 3 Bernama THE independent directors of Consolidated Plantations Bhd say the company's proposed acquisitions of DMIB Latex Products Sdn Bhd and DMIB Healthcare Sdn Bhd will be in the long-term interest of the company. In asking shareholders to vote in favour of the proposals, they
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    • 231 3 Bernama DMIB BHD, a member of the Sime Darby group, has to contend with greater competition in the domestic tyre market now that Malaysia's fourth tyre factory has commenced operation. DMIB chairman Datuk Seri Syed Nahar Shahabuddin said the sharp increase in oil prices following the
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    • 146 3 Bernama DESPITE Tractors Malaysia Bhd more than doubling its consolidated group pre-tax profit in the year ended June 30, chairman Tunku Naquiyuddin Tuanku Jaafar is reluctant to make any performance forecast for the current year. In his annual statement, Tunku Naquiyuddin said this was because
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    • 494 3 THE KUALA LUMPUR Stock Exchange has called for the setting up of more broking firms outside of the KJang Valley to capture business which they may be losing to Singapore. In an interview with the Malaysian Business Times, exchange chairman Nik Mohd
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 78 3 INSURANCE COMPANIES and commercial and mercfaaa* a banks are permitted to buy Syarikat Telekom Malaysia Bhd shares, the public issue of which closes tomorrow. Arab-;;' Malaysia Merchant Bank Bhd managing director Datuk Mrflek Mexican said permission was granted by Bank Malaysia although STM
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      • 129 3 LANDMARKS BHD, the hotel and property group, incorporated.Landmarks Engineering and Development Sdrt" Bhd which could turn out to be a surprise for the company, said managing director Hassan Abas. He said the new subsidiary "could be our surprise over the next five years'* in view of the company's
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      • 81 3 BATA MALAYSIA Bhd will spend another MS 1.5 million to renovate 210 of its shoe outlets throughout the oountqc J according to managing director Keith Weston. The company v recently spent M 5500,000 to renovate "Bata Premier Stored. 4 its biggest shoe store at Jalan Tuanku
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      • 52 3 IDRIS HYDRAULIC (M) Bhd is still awaiting approval frorf the authorities on its proposed restructuring programme to- > turn around the company, said managing director Fbydto'l Marina Ynsoff on Saturday. She told reporters after company's wim| general meeting that "we have several proposals but (these)
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      • 84 3 MATSUSHITA Air-Conditioning Corp Sdn Bhd will set multi-million ringgit research and development centre at its plant in Alam, Matsushita's first outside Japan, manage ing director Y Shohtoku said last Friday. He said construe' tion of the centre would begin by the middle of next year a»d
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      • 63 3 PILECON Engineering Bhd's turnover for 1991 is expected to exceed its projected target of MS3OO million for this yeafr" in view of the healthy growth in the construction indurtry Jjr-r: South-east Asian countries, chief executive Hong LeePPer"» r said. Pilecon has about MS7OO million worth
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 90 4 BANGKOK. BANK Ltd said it is offering five million new common shares for public subscription between Oct 8 and 1S to raise 1.73 billion baht. The bank said 3.75 million of the 100-baht par shares will be offered to both existing Thai shareholders
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      • 89 4 ALPS ELECTRIC Co Ltd of Japan has set up a subsidiary in Arbroath, Scotland to produce tuners for televisions and video cassette recorders, a spokesman for Alps, a maker of electronic components, said. The new company, named Alps Electric (Scotland) Ltd, capitalised at £200,000, is whollyowned
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      • 91 4 AUSTRALIAN car maker General Motors-Holden's Automative Ltd (GMH) recorded a profit after tax and extraordinary items of AS 151.5 million for the year ended June 30, up from A 592.4 million a year earlier. But GMH, a wholly-owned unit of General Motors Corp, said it
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    • 514 4 Reuter HONGKONG'S Hopewell Holdings Ltd is to invite banks to join a high-yield US$BOO million loan to finance a superhighway linking the southern Chinese city of Canton with Hongkong and Macau, banking sources said. The 12-year loan carries interest of 150 basis points
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    • 167 4 AP BILLIONAIRE industrialist Kerry Packer, reportedly Australia's richest man, suffered a massive heart attack yesterday while playing polo, emergency officials said. An ambulance spokesman said the 52-year-old Packer, a lifelong polo player, was riding a hone in a national tournament at Warwick Farm
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    • 367 4 EVEN THOUGH he resigned as chairman and a director of his flagship company, Alan Bond is still actively negotiating to save Bond Corp Holdings from liquidation, according to a story in Saturday's South China Morning Post. The paper quoted
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    • 300 4 Reuter A ROUND of governmentimposed price cuts and the lack of new products are likely to shrink profits of Japan's major drug companies in the six months ending Sep 30, 1990, industry analysts say. Major pharmaceutical firms on average are expected to
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 405 5 Reuter POLLY PECK International pic said its banks and other lenders agreed on Friday a temporary standstill for debt repayment would be granted. No time frame was specified. It is possible that further discussions, conducted by a steering committee of 10 representative
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    • 315 5 NYT THE Hewlett-Packard Co announced a reorganisation last Friday intended to streamline its computer business and prepare for succession at the top. Chief executive John Young will now share responsibilities with chief operating officer Dean O Morton, in a newly created "chief executive office". The moves intensified
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    • 303 5 Reuter THE crystal and china group Waterford Wedgwood, hit this year by a crippling threemonth strike and recession fears in major markets, could soon give its shareholders another nasty shock, analysts said last week. They forecast half-year pre-tax losses of 20 million punts (US$35 million)
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    • 209 5 Reuter BRITAIN'S telecommunications watchdog is showing signs it will get tough with British Telecom in a draft review due out next month, analysts say. The Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) has said it may propose a cap on British Telecommunications pic's (BT) international call charges. Analysts
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 90 5 THE European Commission's new anti-trust unit is closely watching the mergers and alliances between Italy's Fiat SpA and French Compagnie Generale d'Electncite SA, Commission sources said on Friday. The link-up, announced on Thursday, is "obviously very major", an EC official said. The area
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      • 121 5 RHONE-POULENC chief financial officer Jean-Pierre Tirouflet said the company expects earnings per share of aboyt 40 francs in 1990, compared with 66.1 francs in 1989. He also said the company may cut its yearly dividend by 10 per cent in 1990 due to its expected
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      • 67 5 THE DUBLIN High Court has given the go-ahead for banks to lend struggling Goodman International Ltd enough working capital to keep Europe's biggest beef business afloat during the crucial autumn cattle-slaughtering season. Goodman, its Middle East trade hard hit by the Gulf crisis, owes 460 million punts
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      • 66 5 QUAKER Oats Co's Fisher-Price unit said its Kiddicraft office and factory in Aztec West, England, and its distribution centre in Newport, England, will close permanently on Dec 21, with the loss of 154 jobs. Production is being consolidated elsewhere in Britain. It said the loss from
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      • 102 5 MAXWELL Communication Corp (MCQ pic's planned asset sales to repay short-term debt may weaken its earnings and harm long-term prospects, analysts said. The company has agreed disposals of over US$35O million, and said that negotiations were advanced on sales to raise US$4l5 million. By Oct
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      • 52 5 RENAULT Vehicules Industriels SA has completed its acquisition of Mack Truck Inc's remaining publicly-hekl shares. Made Trucks was merged into Renault's wholly-owned ITM Acquistion Corp following acceptance of the shares tendered under the U556.25 a share terms of the offer, Renault said. Mack Trucks is now its
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 78 6 SUMITOMO Bank chairman Ichiro Isoda yesterday said he would resign in connection with the arrest of a former bank branch manager allegedly involved in shady loans deals. Akinori Yamashita, 45, former head of a Sumitomo branch in Yokohama, was arrested on Friday for allegedly arranging
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      • 84 6 LUXEMBOURG plans to tighten bank licence rules following the money laundering case involving Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) whose parent company BCCI Holdings (Luxembourg) SA is located in the Grand Duchy. Luxembourg Treasury director Yves Mersch said that a law will come into effect
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      • 48 6 CITICORP plans to appeal in court a recent decision by the Federal Reserve Board barring it from continuing insurance activities at its Delaware unit, a Citicorp spokesman said. Citicorp said it had filed notice of appeal with the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan.
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    • 458 6 Reuter IN A BID to compete more aggressively in global markets, several major US banks are considering applying for the right to trade commodities such as crude oil, industry sources said. Analysts said the interest in trading in physical markets is part
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    • 369 6 Reuter AN ATTEMPT led by three of the four UK clearing banks to bring more stability and liquidity to the sterling/dollar (known as "the cable") market in London through imposing wider spreads is likely to fail, said senior traders. "The idea behind the banks' decision to
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    • 285 6 AFP CREDIT LYONNAIS Bank's results for the first half of the year "are not bad, better than at other banks," Chairman Jean-Yves Haberer said on Thursday. Noting that no exceptional factors had artificially boosted earnings for the first six months, he said the bank's
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    • 226 6 AFP THE PACE of increase in Japanese bank loans slowed down by 13.8 per cent from a year earlier in August, the Bank of Japan said. Japanese banks' outstanding loans as of the end of August showed an increase of 3.015 trillion yen (U5522.3 billion), down
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • THE REGION
    • 439 7 Bernama THE main thrust of the Malaysian budget proposal for 1991 will be anti-inflationary and interest rates can be expected to ease in the nearterm, says Bank Buruh (M) Bhd. In the October issue of Money Letter, the bank says that interest
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    • 378 7 AFP THE SURGE in world oil prices could boomerang on the Indonesian economy despite windfall oil profits, Finance Minister Johannes Sumariin has warned. "We must not be impressed by the increases (in oil prices)... If we are not careful, they could
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    • 308 7 PROVIDED there is no global recession, Hongkong's property market will weather the current oil crisis, say analysts. South China Morning Post reported that analysts foresee no significant effects on the territory's property sector from the surge in prices. It added
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    • 260 7 AFP MILITARY AUTHORITIES in Rangoon have expressed satisfaction at progress in decentralising Burma's economy and said they would not yet consider adjusting the exchange rate of the kyat, the Burmese currency unit. Trade Minister Brigadier General Abel told reporters in Rangoon last Friday that
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 110 7 PANAMANIAN Vioe-President Guillermo Ford arrived in Taipei last Saturday to promote investment opportunities in his country, a Panamanian embassy official said. Mr Ford was greeted at the airport by his Taiwanese counterpart, Li Yuan-zu. During his stay in Taiwan, Mr Ford will meet Taiwanese President Lee
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      • 67 7 VIETNAM says it will soon release 45 Thai fishermen arrested in waters off the southern Vietnamese port of Vung Tau, a Thai Foreign Ministry official said in Bangkok last Friday. Thailand must pay a fine of US$l,OOO for each fisherman, said Saktip Kiairerk, director general
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      • 102 7 VIETNAMESE Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach will visit Tokyo in late October to seek the resumption of Japanese economic aid, press reports said in Tokyo last Friday. Mr Thach is expected to meet Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu and Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama in his
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      • 134 7 TAIWAN'S exports in September staged a recovery to $5.57 billion, up 6.5 per cent over a year earlier, following six consecutive monthly declines, government statistics showed last Saturday. Imports in the month dropped only 0.9 per cent to $4.16 billion, leaving a trade surplus of $1.41
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      • 121 7 VIETNAMESE AUTHORITIES have dismantled a clandestine opposition group accused of seeking to disrupt National Day celebrations last month and overthrowing the communist government, an official report said in Hanoi yesterday. The daily Nguoi Ha Noi said the group, called the Scientific Social of Vietnam, had more than
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • 669 8 Agencies BRITISH CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer John Major, upbeat after the pound sterling's weekend entry into the European currency float, yesterday predicted a big drop in the country's rate of inflation next year. After II years of opposition from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
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    • 270 8 AFP FRENCH President Francois Mitterrand says he sees an "economic government of Europe" as a logical and necessary consequence of economic and monetary union, and that European union is doomed to fail without a "political union of decision at the top". In an
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    • 376 8 EUROPEAN Community foreign ministers on Saturday began debating whether the Gulf crisis should spur the world's biggest trading bloc to take on a defence role. The ministers opened their talks buoyed by Britain's surprise decision on Friday to lock sterling into the exchange
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    • 614 9 Negotiations on subsidies falter as deadline looms AFP A LEADER of world trade talks on agriculture has expressed "considerable concern" in Geneva about lagging negotiations on cutting government subsidies to farmers. Aart de Zeeuw of The Netherlands, chairman of the agriculture negotiations group
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    • 429 9 AP SOVIET President Mikhail Gorbachev has moved to boost the output of Soviet businesses by allowing them with certain restrictions to negotiate their own wholesale prices. A presidential decree on prices, released by the Tass news agency last Friday, was billed as a step
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    • 399 9 Reuter GLEAMING new office towers and luxury apartment blocks are standing empty in Beijing, a symbol of slumping foreign investment following last year's military crackdown which scared away businessmen. A building boom is reaching its peak and more topclass property will be
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    • 250 9 Reuter A BUNDESBANK report has put Germany's federal deficit at around 100 billion marks this year and 120 billion to 130 billion in 1991. The Bundesbank believes the costs of German unity will be higher than the Bonn government has estimated. According to a
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 86 9 JAPAN'S International Trade and Industry Minister Kabun Muto left Tokyo last Saturday for Canada via Washington to attend trade talks among four major economic powers this week. The four-party meeting is to pave the way for completion of the Uruguay round of multilateral trade
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      • 93 9 US Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter said last Friday that he will oppose any effort to cut farm subsidies more than the amount specified in the defeated US$5OO billion deficitreduction package. Mr Yeutter, in a statement, said "parochial interests overwhelmed the national interest" in Thursday night's 254-179 House
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      • 75 9 CHINA has obtained its largest syndicated loan since last year's Tiananmen Square crackdown, thanks to major participation by Japanese banks, press reports said on Saturday. Sixteen Japanese and Chinese banks have joined together in granting an US$B2 million line of credit to SEG-Hitachi, a joint venture
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      • 50 9 THE German government has adopted a 20 billion Deutsche mark (US$l2.9 billion) supplementary budget to help meet the costs of German unification and the Gulf crisis. The extra spending will take the budget deficit of the unified Germany to 66.8 billion marks (US$43 billion) this year.
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1326 10  -  For the first time in 31 years, Malaysia's National Front has to reckon with the force of a united opposition. David Chew says it'll be one heck of an election David Chew MALAYSIA'S eighth general election promises to be a keenly fought battle, whose outcome
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    • 901 10  -  David Marsh profiles Helmut Kohl, who is now leader of the first unified, democratic Germany since 1933 David Marsh FT HELMUT KOHL strode last week to the helm of history. In 120 years since Germany's first unification under Otto von Bismarck, the Germans have
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    • 398 10 (Friday, 2 November 1990) jf (Saturday, 3 November 1990) y Both workshops at The Paddock', Kuala Lumpur, Hitton Hotel. P Organised by: The Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) The "Hedging and Risk Management" workshop has been tailored for decision-makers of financial institutions and commodity companies to help them get a
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT 1
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    • 1226 11  -  Ho Kwon Ping tells Chuang Peck Ming why Wah-Chang moved into the leisure business Chuang Peck Ming THESE DAYS, there's an air of excitement in Ho Kwon Ping's Jurong office. Telephone calls come through with metronomic regularity, updating him on his company's
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    • 856 12  -  Christopher Lorenz takes a look at why it is so hard for companies to bridge organisational boundaries Christopher Lorenz FT ONE OF THE most popular managerial leitmotifs of the last five years in Europe and the US has been the need for much greater
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  • SPORTS 1
    • 474 13  -  By Cassandra How THIS TIME ROUND in the final of the Honda Kah Singapore Men's Tennis Open, Sander Groen of Holland did not have time to get a "feel" of his opponent in the first set. Groen lost the first set as he had in three
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 59 13 MARK A! -I FN won his seoond straight Ironman Triathlon Worid Championship in Hawaii last Saturday, his 20th consecutive victory. Allen's time was eight hours, 28 minutes and 16 seconds, well off his 8:09:15 record pace of last year. Scott Tinley, the 1982 and
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      • 85 13 AMERICAN Robert Quiroga retained his IBF junior bantamweight title when South African challenger Vuyani Nene failed to answer the bell of the fourth round in Pagliara, Italy, last Saturday. It was the 24th victory in as many fights for the unbeaten boxer from San Antonio,
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      • 97 13 FLYING CONTINENTAL, owned by Jack Kent Cooke, who has seen some good two-legged runners lead his Washington Redskins to two NFL Super Bowl victories, charged into the lead 45m from the wire last Saturday to win the Jockey Qub Gold Cup in New York. The four-year-old colt,
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      • 74 13 JAPAN'S Tsuneyuki Nakajima shot a three-under-par 69 yesterday to dash Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki's hopes of winning an unprecedented third straight Japan Open golf championship. Nakajima, who started the final round four strokes behind Ozaki, shot four birdies and one bogey for a seven-under-par 281 total
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    • 269 13 NYT TENNIS' 14-year-old phenomenon, Jennifer Capriati, is in some danger of not qualifying for the Virginia Slims Championships next month at Madison Square Garden. Only the top 16 female players in the world receive invitations to the event. Although Capriati is currently ranked
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    • 390 13 Agencies SECOND-SEEDED Boris Becker defeated top-ranked Stefan Edberg in straight sets in the singles final of the Australian indoor tennis championship in Sydney yesterday. Becker got his revenge for losing the 1990 Wimbledon title to Edberg, taking the match 7-6 (7/4), 6-4, 6-4 in just
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    • 623 14 Reuter NICK PRICE shot a seven-under-par 63 to take a twostroke lead after the third round of the US$BOO,OOO Texas Open golf tournament in San Antonio last Saturday. Gary Hallberg was second followed by Corey Pavin, three shots off the pace. Seven other players,
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    • 240 14 Agencies THE OAKLAND Athletics scored seven runs in the ninth inning to turn a close game into a rout and beat the Boston Red Sox 9-1 in the opening game of the American 1 rapr championship series in Boston last Saturday.
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    • 151 14 Reuter AUSTRALIA'S Chris Robertson upset top-seeded Jahangir Khan of Pakistan in the semi-finals of the Vancouver Grand Prix squash tournament last Saturday. Robertson's 72-minute, 17-15, 15-9, 15-11 victory was only his second against Khan, whom he beat for the first time in New
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    • 213 16 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTEBTAIN WHEBE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN WHERE TO DBE Some of our best advertising is by word~of~mouth. Ik I ;-.V id|^ For outstanding haute cuisine in surroundings of unashamed opulence. The Palm Grill is the name on everyone s lips. Reservations. 330 8310 or
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  • THE ARTS
    • 642 17  -  What has an SIA flight got to do with an art exhibition? David Gabriel seeks the answer David Gabriel They are ail British, living and working in Singapore. They are all involved in or concerned in some way with the visual and dramatic arts. You will
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    • 659 17 AP IT TOOK more than four centuries for the Greek town of Iraklion to hold a major exhibit of paintings by native son El Greco, but it decided to hurry in celebrating his 450 th birthday and held the show
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    • 585 17  -  P Y Van reviews an unusual concert of the SSO P Y Van THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra returned to the Victoria Concert Hall with an unusual harp concert by Reinhold Gliere, a composer whose music spanned Tsarist and Soviet Russia. Conducted by Lim
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4870 18  -  By Quak Hiang Whai THE CONTINUING Gulf crisis, soaring oil prices and the US tax package provided much of the background for share trading in Singapore last week. The market, led by the blue chips, managed to recover some lost ground during the first
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 755 20 Bear trend expected to continue FT JUST WHEN the world had started to look a slightly less dangerous place, Wall Street woke up on Friday moming to a double dose of bad news. First it learnt that in the early hours of the moming Federal
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    • 955 20  -  By Ray Heath WITH one mighty bound, Britain has entered the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the European Monetary System. Years of government foot-dragging, months of rumours, denials and further rumours which have had the stock market bounding up and down like a yo-yo on the
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    • 559 20 f^^TOKYO AFP A SET of packages announced by the finance ministry last Monday to prop up the ailing market combined with an easing of bond prices were two key factors for the strong rally on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week.
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    • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
      • 88 20 FEARS over the Gulf crisis and that the United States would balk at tackling its budget deficit drove the Australian stock market to a 31month low at the close of the week on Friday. The main market indicator, the All Ordinaries index, ended a week of heavy trading at
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      • 69 20 PRICES on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) fell again last week in thin trading. Lack of buyers brought the JSE index down for the fifth week running by 3.9 per cent to 450.058 on Friday from the previous week's 468.509 close. The Jardine Fleming Nusantara index fell to 105.49
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      • 50 20 THE Securities Exchange of Thailand (SET) closed substantially higher for the week despite a 5.8 per cent plunge on Thursday over rumours that Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan had resigned. The ultra-sensitive index closed on Friday at 672.98 points, up 31.42 points or 4.8 per cent from the week before.
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      • 97 20 SOUTH KOREA'S stock market ended the short trading week higher on news of the establishment of diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union and that international oil prices were more stable than expected. On the first day of trading on Friday after five consecutive holidays, the market opened on a
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      • 45 20 INDIAN share prices rose marginally last week's only trading day because of holidays and settlement of shares. The sensitivity index on the Bombay Stock Exchange gained 6.82 points on Thursday to 1,426.90 points, while the national index closed at 708.68, after gaining 1.74 points.
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      • 45 20 AFP TAIWAN INVESTORS appeared to catch their breath after three consecutive weekly plunges as share prices staged a recovery during the shortened trading week. The 216-issue weighted price index recouped 66.39 points, or 2.45 per cent, to close the week at 2,771.4 points. AFP
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    • 797 20 HONGKONG DBS Securities HONGKONG share prices logged a comfortable surge of 3.2 per cent during the past week, although trading stayed uneasy amid volatility on major overseas markets. The Hang Seng Index gained 89.63 points during the week to close at 2,850.45 on Friday. The key index
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3946 21 MBT THE two-week selling spree on the Kuala Lumpur stock market was stemmed last week, with share prices recovering some lost ground. Gains were, however, relatively small compared with the losses incurred earlier. Despite a strong start, bouts of selling in the later
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Wall Street gyrates, then settles lower
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        1256 22 WALL STREET stocks fluctuated wildly on Friday after Congress balked on the budget, President Bush warned that he would veto plans to delay drastic cuts and oil prices rose for a time above US$3B a barrel. After some violent gyrations, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended at 2,510.64,
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      • 266 22 DUTCH shares ended lower on Friday as a disorder in the Amsterdam telephone system made a reaction to the halt of US blue chips' slide impossible, dealers said. "We were about to follow the Dow Jones up as trading was stopped because the telephone system broke down," a dealer
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      • 271 22 SWISS shares closed mixed on Friday, recovering most of early losses as Wall Street's rally lifted sentiment, dealers said. At its opening the Zurich bourse was sharply down on overnight news that the US Congress had rejected a compromise agreement on cutting the budget deficit. The SMI Index of
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      • 166 22 BELGIAN shares, influenced by a sharp drop in New York, ended generally lower in moderately active trading on Friday, dealers said. Holding company Societe Generate de Belgique led the market down in active volume of 24,200 shares, closing down 2.8 per cent to 1,935. Dealers said the market didn't
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      • 246 22 GERMAN share prices fell 2.2 per cent on Friday after the US House of Representatives threw out proposals to cut the US budget deficit by US$5OO billion. Domestic selling was heavy early in the session, but volume thinned out later as investors squared positions before the weekend and many
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        777 22 NEWS of the pound's entry into Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism coupled with a percentage point cut in Britain's base lending rate to 14 per cent, sent the London stock market soaring on Friday. The late news moved the Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index, which was in negative territory, 110
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      • 83 22 Oct 5 CVwe Prmous NEW YORK Dow Jones 2,510.64 2,516.83 -6.19 NYSE Financial 111.32 112.23 -0.91 SAP 500 311.50 312.69 -1.19 Turnover (million) 153.4 145.41 -1-7.99 LONDON Financial Times 30 1,644.3 1,601.3 43.0 FTSE 100 2,143.9 2,070.4 +73.5 Turnover (million) 447.8 421.3 +26.5 AMSTERDAM CBS General NA 170.80 I BRUSSELS
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      • 262 22 FRENCH share prices finished steady on Friday after bouncing on news that Britain would join the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the European Monetary System today and cut its interest rates. The CAC-40 Index ended at 1,551.93, 0.81 points below Thursday's close after trading some 20 points down for most
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      • 92 22 PRICES on the Stockholm bourse closed broadly lower in calm trade on Friday with traders expecting a fall on Wall Street following the US House's rejection of a budget deficit reduction plan. The General Index closed at 966.66, down 1.87 per cent in turnover of 336 million crowns. Blue
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      • 205 22 TORONTO stocks closed slightly lower on Friday in lacklustre trading after dropping sharply in morning trade on news the US House of Representatives rejected a budget pact, dealers said. Many investors were going short before the long weekend, they added. The Composite Index fell 9.1 to! 3,166.9 on volume
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      • 312 22 LEADING SHARES in Johannesburg gave up much of Thursday's gains on Friday in slack trading ahead of the weekend and in the absence of any fresh stimulus, dealers said. Gold shares led the retreat after Thursday's promising rise in world bullion prices ran out of steam. The JSE All-Gold
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      • 120 22 Milan Oct 5 Lire Ass Gen ***** -190 Bastogi 250.00 -II Fi* 6620 -167 Finsider— susp IfiPriv ***** -450 Italcementi Ord ***** +100 I taigas 2635 -29 Magncti M Pf 1059 -21 Mediobanca ***** -400 Minluiza. Mondadori Priv susp Montedison 1231 -8 Olivetti Old 4070 -160 Olivetti Priv 2900 -75
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 514 23 AFP THE yen rebounded strongly from a two-week dip to close at a more than 17-month high against the dollar. The Australian, New Zealand, Hongkong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Singapore, Thai and Taiwan currencies also rose during the week. The South Korean unit dropped
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    • 392 23 Cross rates <*6 US$ S$ MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1 7495 2.6980 1.5550 132.15 0.5112 1.2918 1.1945 1.6192 SS 0.5716 1 5422 0.8888 0.7554 0.2922 0.7384 0.6827 0.9255 MS 0.3706 64.84 0.5764 0.4898 0.1895 0.4788 0.4427 0.6001 Dm 0.6431 1.1251 1.7350 84.98 0.3288 0.8307
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    • 547 23 Interbank rates S$ Bid Offer Overnight 6 1/4 6 1/2 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: 6-3/8 US$ High Low 7 days 8 3/16 8 1/16 1 month 8 1/8 8 1/16 2 months 8 1/16 8
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    • 561 23 Reuter STERLING topped 3.0150 marks and hit U551.9535 following the surprise news that the UK will enter Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) today at about 2.95 marks. "This is very positive news," said John Galbraith at Natwest Bank pic in New York. "Now you
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    • 377 23 Reuter THE SOVIET UNION plans to publish a decree on currency reform in the near future as part of its efforts to introduce a market economy, according to senior government officials. Deputy Finance Minister Vladimir Rayevsky, when asked at a news conference
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    • 379 23  -  GOLD FINANCIAL FUTURES REPORT Sin Huat Bullion LAST WEEK saw spot gold relinquish most of the USS 14.00 per troy oz gains it had made following crude oil's peak at US$4O.OO per barrel a fortnight ago. Five consecutive days of Nikkei Stock Index losses amounting
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    • 267 23 Oct 5 COU) FUTURES (100 oz) USS/oz Open High Low Settle Change Oct 394.30 396.00 394.30 393.60 1.30 Nov 395.70 1.20 Dec 399.50 400.70 396.50 398.10 1.20 Feb 404.00 404 50 401.40 402.20 1.20 Apr 408.00 408.00 404.80 406.10 1.20 Jun 410.20 1.20 Aug 414.10 1.30 Oct
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    • 521 23 Prime lending rates BANKS ABN Bank Allied Irish Bank PLC 8% A men can Express Bank 8Vj Am'Dam R'terdam Bank 8Vj Arab Banking Corp 8V1 Arab Bank PLC 7% Asia Commercial Bank 7Vi ANZ Banking Group 8% Ban Hin Lee Bank 8"A Banca Commerciale 8Vi Banco do Brasil
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    • 136 23 UP. **k LIVING IT EACH WEEKEND, put up your executive feet, and let us shuffle through your imagination. We usually tread lightly, but even when we don't, you'll know you're alive after that exciting, exacting or simply emaciating week of work. So don't throw in the high-flying towel, or take
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 302 24 Reuter PEPPER prices would recover much more rapidly if producers were to stabilise output and step up cooperation, an industry official said. Executive director of the International Pepper Community (IPC) Mohamad Ismail said major producers should restrain production growth to reduce oversupply in the
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    • 252 24 Reuter A ONCE serene national park with lush tropical hardwood trees in Malaysia's Sarawak state has turned into a battleground between villagers and loggers. Over the past two months villagers in a remote area on the western coast of Borneo island have exchanged blows with loggers
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    • 137 24 Bernama THE FUTURE for tin lies in maintaining a sound technological back-up to the metal, something that was increasingly becoming a co-opera-tive venture between tin producers and users, says the International Tin Research Institute. Tinplate, for example, is not only a premier packaging material but
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    • 889 24 REPORTS AFP FRESH hope for a diplomatic solution to the Gulf crisis after what were seen as conciliatory statements by Iraqi and US government leaders set off a sharp downturn in crude oil prices this past week. After the previous week's
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  • 1116 24 Rubber KAS (Ub hi bates) S cents/kg Int 1 RSS Close Oct I 156.50 Oct 2 155.25 Oct 3 154.25 Oct 4 154.50 Oct 5 154.50 HUELB (hfc fcatat) M cents/kg Int 1 RSS Close Oct I Closed Oct 2 238.50 Oct 3 237.50 Oct 4 237.50 Oct 5
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
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    • 794 25  -  LETTER FROM NEW YORK jrjtjrjrjr Jr W Jr jw Jv By, Andrew Yarrow Thirty metres above the noisy, crowded, fast-paced worid that is street-level New York, the city seems a serene, toylike configuration of buildings, streets, parks and waterways. Although such vistas are
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    • 154 25 As at 3pm on Oct 5: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.432 1.472 Canadian dollar 1.508 1.328 NZ dollar 1.068 1.118 Sterling pound 3.330 3.330 US dollar 1.7460 1.7360 Local dollars to 100 Baits of hrrip emrtmcy Austrian schilling
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    • 103 25 Duration Title Venue Organaer Td Oct 1-12 Singapore Business Vancouver, Singapore 33*8787 Development Montreal, Manufacturers' Mission to Canada Calgary A Association Toronto Oct 12-16 Tokyo Pack *90 Hanimi, International PO Box 193 Tokyo Information Japan Centre Oct 14-18 Health Care Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1/*****48 Hospital, Supplies Exhibitions
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    • 62 25 Kj., MVS T O a XV/ I y i hur»ii.i\. m V.nd.u I c.n -14( h.ii'^i rp.• rt it J. V hi'i. r and urn n; it J! .!it'ifi*it vittc* 'THhi I s the tallow:i£iti\. I'l Hi 111 V C -H \I I: Air Canada Find out how sellers are
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    • 218 25 Northern Territory grass finds everyone in the after- 1 noon everyone (4,4) 27 More than 20cwt points to 7 the opposition party WEEKEND'S SOLUTION partial modulations (9) hopes for repeatedly (5) 28 Part of a poem which is Prepare to sleep on bench |p|olwiElßlolFlTlHl£|p|RlElsfsl unable to appeal (5) w.th soft
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    • 203 25 Singapore OwtJook: Fair Report: Max temp. 32.8 assoc humidity 63% min temp 26.8* c assoc humidity 86% hrs of sunshine 8.10 rainfall in mm Nil rainfall this mth. 1.6 rainy days this mth I World report AsunPadfic Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland 16/10 Showers Bangkok 26/23 Showers Beijing 24/13 Sunny Brunei 32/24
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  • 430 26  -  New resorts and expansion plans in the works By John Tan INTERNATIONAL resortvillage chain Club Mediterranee will invest more than US$2OO million in the AsiaPacific by 1995, building at least seven new villages and expanding existing resorts. Mr Ferhan Gorgun, Gub Med's director
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  • 466 26 Analysts fear fallout from budget discord Reuter HALFWAY THROUGH the US election campaign, politicians find Americans disgusted with the government's seeming inability to get things done and fear they will want to "throw the rascals out". The view that the divided federal government Republican White
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  • 230 26 Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said a lengthy campaigning period for the country's elections could lead to tension because the voting public will not be able to concentrate on other matters. Speaking to reporters after holding a meeting with
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  • 309 26 The Gulf Crisis Agencies A BRITISH newspaper yesterday identified a Chinese company which allegedly supplied Iraq with a rare chemical used to make nuclear weapons, missile fuel and nerve gas. The Independent on Sunday, a respected London weekly, said that China Wanbao Engineering
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  • 343 26 AP THE SOVIET UNION h* indicated it may be willing ts return some disputed islands to Japan as part of an agreement aimed at improving re* lations. Soviet officials made the proposal to a group of Japanese lawmakers who visited Moscow
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  • Shipping Times
    • 454 27  -  Linda Chee US SHIPPING major SeaLand Service has decided to launch a Far East-Europe "landbridge" container service using the Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR) from the first half of next year, said SeaLand chief Alex Mandl. This is a little later than what Will
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    • 383 27 Reuter THE Greek government will sell 49 per cent of stateowned airline Olympic Airways, which is struggling under the weight of US$7lO million in debts and has made no profits for a decade. "We decided to sell 49 per cent of Olympic's
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    • 146 27 Reuter THE British Shippers' Council (BSC) asked the European Commission to stop shipping lines from running what it says are price-fixing cartels between Europe and the United States, the council's spokesman said. The British council, which represents import and export firms using shipping
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    • 313 27 Reuter SWEDEN'S Ericsson has become the top supplier of cellular telephone systems to the booming US market with a major order, analysts said. The order increased its US market share from around 25 per cent to over 30 per cent, said
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    • 336 27 AFP PARIS and Phnom Penh will soon be linked by a regular air service for the first time in more than 15 years. Air Liberie and Air Kampuchea signed an agreement in Phom Penh last Thursday allowing the private French charter company
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    • 386 27  -  _4L Dexter Lee LOOK EAST. That is the direction in which newlyformed Airlease Finance is looking for a major portion of the commercial aircraft leasing market Based in Shannon, Ireland, Airlease is expecting to source about one-third of its business from the fast-ex-panding
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    • 232 27  -  Malini Tambyah HONGKONG shipping company Venus Virat Lines will start a liner service from Singapore to Bombay later this month. The service will start with one ship, to be boosted by March with two more vessels. Plans are also being made
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      • 86 27 THE first Kuwait Airways commercial ttfht since Iraq invaded the enuate more than two months ago left Cairo for Colombo on Saturday carrying home 300 Sri Lankan refugees from the Gulf. An official at Kuwait Airways in Cairo said the Sri Lankans had
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      • 43 27 Under strict rules imposed by the US government, airline passengers who are not Wind, deaf; obese, pregnant, frail, or under 16 years old will be given seats near exits to help evacuate the plane in an accident Page 2
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      • 33 27 EUROPEAN Community rules designed to encourage lower air fiues may be oflsetliy rising costs for airlines, British Airways chief executive Sir Colin Marshall said. Back Page
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      • 93 28 A THREE-DAY shiprepair conference on "Challenges Ahead for Shiprepair and Life Extension of Ships" will be held in Singapore from tomorrow. About 120 delegates from 11 countries will be attending the event at the Dynasty Hotel. The focus will be on how the shiprepair industry
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      • 63 28 THE Chinese military has begun commercial flights to Xiamen, the starting point of a skyjacking that ended with a fiery crash in Guangzhou. China United Airlines is to use Yun-7 turboprops on its twice-weekly flights from the eastern city of Nanjing to Xiamen and Fuzhou,
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      • 89 28 SCANDINAVIAN Airlines System said it signed a letter of intent with Alitalia to develop a joint freight handling data system that will replace airway bills and increase the efficiency of their freight operations. The system means all information needed by customers, agents or airlines will
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      • 85 28 THE Philippine Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) closed six domestic ports on the southern island of Mindanao in a security move after rebel troops seized two cities on the island, the government agency said. The closure was -meant to bar rebel troop movements and prevent the mutineers
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      • 49 28 SCANDINAVIAN airline Scandinavian Air Systems (SAS) said it would be operating services to Berlin and Prague from Oct 28. SAS would operate six services a week between Stockholm and Berlin and a daily service from Copenhagen, with five flights a week to Prague.
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      • 93 28 TURKISH firms will lease 4,000 tanker trucks to Iran, Osman Gedikoglu, general manager of the Turkish Transporters Association said. Gedikoglu said Turkish and Iranian transporters signed a US$3O million six-month deal in Ankara on Wednesday under which 4,000 tankers will be used to haul oil
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    • 966 28 Under strict rules imposed by the US government, airline passengers who are not blind, deaf, obese, pregnant, frail, or under 16 years old will be given seats near exits to help evacuate the plane in an accident NYT STRICT rules have been imposed by the US
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    • 223 28  -  Selva Kumar finds out about regional airlines' allocation of exit seats Selva Kumar Regional airlines allocate seats next to emergency exits only to able-bodied passengers, but they are not routinely asked if they will help in an evacuation. This was disclosed by
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    • 934 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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    • 12481 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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      • 471 43 \faad Ik 8arll Mad Oyrtn ssrr MO 07.10/1900 G Hmw 2/90 K29 Honpdi 08.10/0600 Gustar 2/90 K33 akMpda 10.10/2300 Ma Mott E-866 K32 atonpidt 12.10/0600 Mi IBi 34 K34 ato*sda 07.10/1545 Trail Hr E473 K31 akwpda laiO/lSOO lampMf ***** K34 07.10/2359 08.10/0600 Li Hm| 9 K30 07.10/2000
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      • 1045 43 RECOVWK or EXPORT Fa containers and lcl cargo lUcard Bwtae/BaMct Mb 9# Vvy N> taM Frwn Ti ftm to Ow 4A 09/2100 2 07/1700 08/0659 08/0900 4 08/1200 08/1459 08/1700 Mtanbc Sm EF022 09/1700 1 07/1500 07/1659 07/1900 3 08/0700 08/1159 08/1400 I 4 08/1200 08/1459 08/1700 mil
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      • 242 43 I6HL2S3 Berte 1: Pernas Safari, 2: Tomoh Satu, 3: Seng Kai, 4: Urfa, 5, Lancelot Sailor, 6: Abie Order. 01 jettf Rosalie, Ha Heng 88. OCJb Soon Hm. Dm a Oct Conques Venture I. Bum Han, Damai, Barge HB 1856, Km Merutx. Bonga Penaga Out an Oct
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    • 1023 43 THE FREIGHT market continued yesterday's trend of few grain futures but active iron ore and timecharter business. Sentiment picked up further on unconfirmed rumours of impending large wheat and soybean meal purchases by the Soviet Union, which have taken world soybean and grain markets higher. "The market is
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    • 397 44 Reuter EUROPEAN Community rules designed to encourage lower air feres may be offset by rising exists for airlines, British Airways chief executive Sir Colin Marshall said. "The prospects of lower air fares in 1993 are really just not there, other than on a
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    • 209 44 Reuter JAPAN Air Lines Co Ltd and Nippon Cargo Airlines Co Ltd (NCA) have been forced to delay the TokyoChicago cargo flights due to a dispute with United Parcel Service (UPS), a JAL spokesman said. Each of the Japanese airlines was to have
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    • 561 44  -  By Ian Lancaster The writer is director of Citicorp* Insurance Broken** Cargo owners run a constant risk of having their goods rejected when they reach their destination for a variety of reasons political, religious or health. And when it comes to highly
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    • 594 27 SNIP LASHING MATS RIALS SPECIALIST MINTERMARNIE SUPPLY CO (PTE) LTD TEL *****33 (6 LINES) FAX *****77 Oacttt rapvt *2 MyFMtfto MBtoMwlton 3 ShppMK Gadi WJI Stops tat 17 *1 urn T*n 17 WMfc* art Soa Om«mi 17 1— t < >'» I H I TO WHOM ITMAY CONCERN I l*j
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    • 82 28 FOR BITS AND Geared to keep the busy business executive abreast of new technologies he can exploit to full advantage, INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY page provides news, reviews and features in the areas of information technology, biotechnology, electronics and just about everything high-tech. Although its primary focus is on local news, INNOVATION
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    • 1946 29 jaroine shipping agencies \lllf/ 200 Cantonmwt (toad *12-05 Souttipo.nt. S«KKKn 0208 *1111* t«i 2218 ml ma no rs siin IVCXnXII TERMINAL/CFS Ttl *****11 220 M i^VA G ?ARDI MAPPING AGENCIES SOU. MO PORT KELANG TEL *****11 TELEX NO. MAJM77/MA***** SSZS PENANG TEL *****4 TELEX NO MA***** CFS TEI 34*06 11
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    • 1089 30 ROTTERDAM/ VOY NO S'POWE P. KELANG SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG BREMERHAVEN ANTWERP LE HAVRE BCNALDER 97/522 8/10 24/10 27/10 29/10 HAMBURG EXPRESS 98/521 11/10 5/10 30/10 1/11 29/10 4/11 TOKYO BAY 01/525 14/10 31/10 2/11 4/11 5/11 7/11 KOWLOON BAY 07/524 18/10 12/11 6/11 8/11 5/11 11/11 KURAMA 07/528 21/10 7/11 9/11
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    • 586 30 DIRECT SOUTH PACIFIC SERVICE SIN NOU SUV PPT SEASPAC II 28/10 8/U 10/11 15/11 ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO VIA SUVA TO: LAUTOKA, PACO PAGO, APIA NUKUALOAFA DIRECT CHILE SERVICE SIN IQQ ANF VAP SEASPAC II 28/10 29/11 30/11 2/12 AIM KcapUag Carfo to CallM (P»m) via Volpo Agemo; SINGAPORE: *****56 VS.
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    • 1819 31 2=Steamen> Maritime Holdings Ltd f WP&O I Tf STRAITS SHIPPING I Containers Mf m OWmVPPW^VWIVIPV^B9^MVIfIHP I W9HV9fV9HiI Q9J]V]VJ9^V9W{yV|nfin|VFlV|!inS!llllfn nni^KtunagMarwwiwiKiiini^Bi^a^iM ■■■■(■■■■■■■■iAAHMHHflMHßßilßliHiftMHi ■■■■■■■^■•■■■i 1 1 111 1 1 1 1 Vo» No P Hlang Spore S'ton H'bur| B'haven ITdim La* SAILS BtNALDER 97/522 ♦106-01/10 ®10 25/10 27/10 2110 CAKGU HAMBURG EXPRESS 98,521
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    • 666 32 CR NBR **********0-D EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO EUROPE VSIJVOt SPOKE ROAM/ADAM H»U*C BROHN ANTWERP msu. [is ss as is FAST TRANSIT TIME ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/CONTAMERISED CARGO to MuoaranL Alm aooMkfig cvgo to CMMnca, Port Sato, Port Alnandria, One*, TrtMto. ALSO ACCEPTING BOTH CONTAINERS, CONVENTIONAL CARGO VIA TfS TO UK PORTS, HULL.
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    • 1751 33 r NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL: *****77 (CR NO: **********0E) BOOKINGS: UK/EUROPE SERVICE— *****19 USA SERVICE— *****16 AUST/INDIA/PAK SERVICE— *****18 FAR EAST SERVICE— *****48 TERMINAL OFFICE :*****22 DOCUMENTATION DEPT: *****44/ *****14 CFS: K27 —IMPORT: *****69/*****50 CFS: K27 EXPORT: *****53/*****04 NEPLINE SON BHD MALAYSIA r rnftj K.L. (03) *****33, P.Kelang-(03)
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    • 1318 33 9 v! I m 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 DISCHARGING FROM EASTBOUND Vtssas VOYAg ISPOBt IMAWIUI WKOWt VOYACt Sfott PKUNC H»Ut6 I KAVtW THJURY HffT SwMg T
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    • 1389 34 il K line KAWASAKI LTD. BtPORT N. AMERICA PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST 7 IMPORT N. AMERICA PACIFIC $OyTH-WEST ~T~~T 771 Tu, 11l MO THE* VESSEL VOt MOUS 13 OAK THY FEEDER VESSEL VOY THY SCP FEEDER VESSEL VOY INOO ?,n mi 111 HENRY M BRIDGE 17 12/9 !H M M LIONS GATE
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    • 766 34 PHILI-ORICNT UN€S PT€ LTD 1 106 ROBINSON ROAD #07-00 GMG BUILDING SINGAPORE 0106 TEL: *****22/*****69/*****00 TELEX: RS ***** PHNJ FAX: *****76/*****36 SUf'-k BY AIR, LAND OR SEA WE TAKE ON THE WORLD FOR YOU MEMBER OF SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION 6 OCT MONTREAL OTTAWA, TORONTO, VANCOUVER, S"WESTERN ONTARIO. 11 OCT
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    • 364 34 /%-^~7 GOLDEN LINE A GUAN GUAN SHIPPING t>sL£<V (PTE) LTD UW&B** T»Arrm/>— mvlcl S'pore P. Ketom Por»r« GOLDEN HARVEST Cotanbo/Kaflda/Wiai 14/ M Ot» GOLDEN WONDER CotomOo,H*idK/Ou<* U lto» CHIMAWVKI CUSMAN XiunmlfuOou PORT BAI TUN SMAN Xwiwi/FuAou MP <** QING FENG ERHAO Muar>C*i PO* T HAI FENG MuMtpu/Slwnto. 2W» 0c» A
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    • 1518 35 sss&st&mt PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD »J gj Ml PIL Building, 140 CecM Street #0300, Singapore 0106. I JAKARTA I I BANGKOK I VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SIN VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN EDEN 9033 11/10 13/10 17/10 PEGASUS PROGRESS 037N 0/10 0/10 13/10 MAJAPAHIT 0398 10/10 10/10 HAJ YING
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    • 1019 35 r BEN LINE CONTAINERS LTD N 200 Cantonment Road Tel: *****22 #13-05 Southpoint I>A Fax: *****63 Singapore 0208. Telex: RS ***** EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/COMTBtBtT: VESSEL IVQY SPORE PKLAN6 SHAMPTON| HAMBURG BHAVEN ffOAM LHAVRE aumn- 97/522 8/10 Via Tot) 24/10 27/10 29/10 Hamburg Express' 98/521 11/10 5/11 30/10 1/11
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    • 339 35 M MYANMA FIVE STAR LINE (Myaiimar National Una) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Sport P.KIf Pw PGdg MAGWAY VII# Ski R AVA VIO4W T PAT HE IN VIO6W W OCT 13/15 OCT HPA-AN VISSW 1/14 OCT PAGAN VI62W 12/14 OCT MYOMA YWA VI3IW 11/21 OCT nature BANK UHE wfcp- (A Mfvie*
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    • 786 38 INTEGRATED CONTAINER SERVICE FROM FAR EAST TO NORTH CONTINENT OUTBOUND SIN FLX BRV ROM ANT HBC RST V. PUCK Im lufl 1/11 3/11 2/11 4/11 7/11 GERMAN SEN WFO44 10(10 2/11 3/U 4/11 Wll 1/11 PARIS SEN WFO4O IJ/10 1/11 *11 11/11 12/11 14/11 TMOERINCEN V* WO "wu 19/11 11/11
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    • 1144 38 z if— CRYSTAL FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD TEL: *****88/*****22 MM CUMUMIM SatVICES Tfc FAR EAST PORT KELANG 12/10 4 19/10 MANILA 13/10*20/10 PENANG 12/10 4 19/10 BUSAN 10/10 4 20/10 BANGKOK 11/10 4 16/10 TOKYO 11/10 4 14/10 HONGKONG 8/10 4 11/10 YOKOHAMA 11/10 4 18/10 KAOHSIUNG 14/10 4 21/10
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    • 331 38 EIHHK LOADING FOB VESSEL VOCE CSO DM OAIRES IWIOEO «0 ITS *1T PAfiOA C. ISA OIL 11/14 2400 401 W W- OPT VMMU mi HOSTKEN I wai 4/12 1702 MO2 W OPT V.MNU I DISCHARGING FM BRAZIL ONLY mm] Ml m KU RUSAN TOK mo MM ■OSTKINI 1W VU «I
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    • 1404 38 IBs fSI ie fea W CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING COMPANY 2, MISTII ROAD, HMC BUILDING w T r. 22°!a« u .d #1500, SINGAPORE 0207 FULL CONTAINER LINER SERVICE TELE R v s 55L? OSH,p CI NO: **********0 M rlMr CABLE: COSTARLINE General Agents: COSTAR fIUVM PIS LID ■rn Mia— ft mm
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    • 766 39 NIHON-ASIA CR **********0N TEL: *****22 FAX: *****86 Competitive Rates!! ETA USA All IPI Destns 13/10, 19/10 EUROPE all Ports 13/10, 16/10 BANGKOK 10/10, 15/10 HONGKONG/CHINA 12/10, 16/10 SYD, MEL, ADEL, BRIS 14/10, 20/10 FREMANTLE 11/10, 19/10 MANILA 12/10, 19/10 PKLG/PENANG 10/10, 17/10 Port Ktlang Branch Tat: *****21/2/3 Fax: *****24 Panang
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    • 248 39 Sj RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD TEL: *****33 (12 Linos) en FAX: *****15/*****03 fH TELEX: R8 ***** RISHIP (3 Linos) Pi\ ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL VESSEL IvOY ETA LOAOtNO FOR SPOWE NET SANE T JOWB iTTI OARESSALAAM MOMBASA. DJIBOUTI ASSAB MASSAWA ABYOT
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    • 818 39 te_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 ft THAILAND ALSO ACCEPTING LCL CARGO TO ALL DESTINATIONS. t WE SERVE FOR BOOKINGS CALL SPECARGO FORWARDING AT TEL: *****55 SINGAPORE INOONfBIA BCRV9CK f VSL VOY SIN
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    • 683 41 COMPANIA PERUANA \CSX de vapores "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/FCL/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CALLAO MATARANI, ILO* 4 OTHER PERUVIAN PORTS' WITH T/S AT KOBE ON CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING. Penang* P. Kelang Singapore KAMALEVERETT 14/18 Oct THOMASEVERETT 26/21 Oct 29/31 Oct KARABIEVERETT 05/07 Nov 01/10 No* "EVERETT ORIENT LINE" \S&
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