The Business Times, 25 December 1990

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  • 11 1 Business Times MCI (P) 16/12/90 Tuesday December 25 1990 75 c
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 55 1 FOREIGN investment in Indonesia in 1990 soared to an all-time record of US$B.7 billion, largely in response to the government's dercgulatory measures of recent years. Officials in Jakarta said yesterday that the figure of foreign investment approvals represented an 85 per cent increase
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    • 58 1 JAPAN'S Cabinet yesterday approved a drait budget for the coming fiscal year with government spending targctted to grow 6.2 per cent to 70.35 trillion yen. The draft budget, prepared by the Finance Ministry and due to be officially adopted at the end ol the week,
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    • 40 1 MOST Asian countries will keep their economies growing next year but at a slower pace than before mainly because of external factors such as the Gulf Crisis, says a Tokyobased private economic research organisation Page 4
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    • 30 1 BARRING a year-end miracle, 1990 will go down in history books as the end of the longest period of US economic expansion in peacetime Page 4
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    • 28 1 VIETNAM'S Defence Minister has said that the country's army cannot remain divorced from politics and must make greater efforts to promote national renewal Page 4
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    • 31 1 THE SOUTH KOREAN government has made several New Year's resolutions as far as the economy is concerned, and wants to put the memories of 1990 behind Page 4
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    • 40 1 BOOM DAYS in Guangdong, Fujian, Dalian, Pudong, Shanghai, Tianjin and elsewhere show that China has been making a quiet comeback after 18 months of isolation imposed by a world angry at last year's Tiananmen massacre Page 7
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    • 30 1 W H AUDEN's poem For the Time Being, offers a glimpse of redemption even in the trivialisation of Christmas, the frantic shopping and distracted gaiety Page 9
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    • 31 1 THE Malaysian government has expedited several measures to ensure that total privatisation of Port Klang can be carried out by March 1 next year. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 24 1 ATHLETIC sportswear maker LA Gear showed the best long-term profitability of public US companies surveyed by Forbes magazine Page 2
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    • 32 1 THE MOVE by IBM Japan to encourage development by its competitors of IBMcompatible PCs has been met with both enthusiasm and scepticism from the Japanese computer industry Page 2
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    • 36 1 SCROOGE-LIKE Christmas shoppers in the US, wary of recession and war, have failed to meet the meagre holidayseason expectations of American merchants, capping a miserable 1990 for the US retail industry Page 2
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    • 37 1 NCR CORP, fighting an unsolicited takeover bid from AT&T, says it still wants to remain independent and that under 'current circumstances' there is no third party interested in acquiring the computer firm Page 2
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    • 32 1 JAPAN'S Finance Ministry has begun an investigation into whether Japanese brokerage houses intimidated two Japanese companies into cancelling an agreement to issue new bonds through Salomon Brothers Page 3
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    • 30 1 SALARIES are continuing to collapse on Wall Street, but at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc, some people are still receiving more than US$l million a year Page 3
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    • 35 1 FOR the first time in more than a decade, the US Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing an overhaul of the regulations and laws governing the mutual fund business Page 3
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    • 46 1 THERE was no trading at the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange was open for half-day trading, while the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange and the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market were closed. The Tokyo stock and forex markets were also closed.
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    • 23 1 Monday Change Kuala Lumpur ....500.61 +6.47 Hongkong 3,060.95 -18.72 Sydney 1,270.9 -0.9 Friday Change New York 2,633.66 +4.20 London 2,164.4 +5.6
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    • 11 1 Exchange rates USS SS 1.7430 Yen SS 1.2873 MS SS0.6440
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  • 556 1  -  Group to buy travel firm, offer upmarket packages By John Tan i FIRST it was just buying and developing hotels. Then it was rock music. Even mutterings of an airline was heard. And soon after it was trendy retailing. And now it
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  • 461 1  -  By David Chew A SINGAPORE firm has teamed up with Indonesian and Japanese partners to invest in four ventures, worth a total of US$B.5 million, in Indonesia. These include Maya Manufacturing and Trading's first production ventures in plastics in Indonesia. Three of
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  • 128 1 QCD (M) SDN BHD, the Malaysian subsidiary of debtridden Electro-Magnetic (S) Ltd, has said that it is not facing any problems with its Malaysian banks. In a letter to BT yesterday, QCD said: none of its bankers have made any attempt to wind up
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  • 241 1 Agencies US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney warned that some members of the anti-Iraq alliance could not be counted on to join an offensive war to liberate Kuwait as sirens wailed and power to half of Baghdad city was cut yesterday in an air raid drill. Mr
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  • 320 1 Agencies THAI Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan has hit back at claims he secretly deposited 200 million baht (US$B million) in a Hongkong bank, saying it was an attempt to destroy his new government, reports said yesterday. Mr Chatichai was reacting to accusations made
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  • 402 1 AP THE CONGRESS of People's Deputies yesterday overwhelmingly approved a resolution in principle to preserve the Soviet Union as a federation of 15 equal republics, Tass reported. The national parliament's vote was 1,657-20 with 61 abstentions, the official Soviet news agency said. Lawmakers
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    • 39 1 Congress in tricky position over Bush policy. Pr 4 Bubbly bonanza for crossword fans I RY YOUR HAND at BT's yearly Christmas Crossword Contest on Page 13 and you might just win for yourself a giant bottle of champagne.
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    • 244 1 mikon The World's Finest Photographic System Editorial, Pg 6 The Bottom Line, Back Pg ~-i nnn-nnamiTi«wniwiiww»ifii<>(OTWfiniw> > > v J ww>^^Maaaa aaacaott&aaaaocaoaoftaoaaooC3 rilß The Editor and Staff of Business Times wish all readers a err y Christm as The Prime Minister, Mr Goh Chok long, wishes all Christians a Merry
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 98 2 THE RECEIVER for publisher John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd said Baring Bros Burrows and Partners Ltd has been appointed adviser on the restructuring of the group. Des Nicholl, of Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu, said in a statement that Baring Bros Burrows would take primary
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      • 97 2 BANK OF NEW ZEALAND Ltd said it received NZ$25O million in return for the issue of new shares to its major shareholders, the New Zealand government and Fay, Richwhite and Co Ltd. The share issues marked the completion of the balance sheet restructuring announced on Nov
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      • 104 2 EXXON CORP said on Friday its first sen/ice stations in Eastern Europe will open for business this month. Two stations are on an Autobahn Northwest of Berlin, and a third is in Budapest. Because of their unique location, the two German stations, Wolflake West
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      • 69 2 IRAQ has urged Turkish firms to complete their contracts and has promised them generous offers and privileges after the Gulf crisis was over. The Iraqi News Agency quoted Minister of Industry and Military Industrialisation Hussein Kamel Hassan as saying on Sunday: "Turkish firms will enjoy
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      • 85 2 NHI NELSON Holdings International Ltd said it executed a letter of intent regarding the sale of its principal operating subsidiary, Nelson Entertainment Group Inc, to a new company that will be controlled by financier Stephen C Swid. The proposed purchase price includes the consideration to
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      • 53 2 ZAPATA CORP said its board of directors voted to extend the tender offers for the company's subordinated debentures until 1700 EST Dec 27, 1990. Zapata said no changes were made in the offer price or the minimum percentage required to be tendered. Withdrawal rights are
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    • 368 2 NYT MTM ENTERTAINMENT, the struggling television production company, may soon be sold by Television South pic, its British owner, according to newspaper reports in Britain. Television South, known as TVS, shuffled its management last Friday night, naming a new chairman, and plans
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    • 357 2 AP ATHLETIC sportswear maker LA Gear showed the best long-term profitability of public US companies surveyed by Forbes, the magazine has announced. The Los Angeles-based company averaged an 83.2 per cent return on equity primary earnings per share divided by common shareholders' equity per
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    • 698 2 UPI SCROOGE-LIKE Christmas shoppers, wary of recession and war, failed to meet the meagre holiday-season expectations of US merchants, capping a miserable 1990 for the retail industry. From discount retailers such as Ames Department Stores Inc to general merchandisers such as Sears,
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    • 584 2 AFP THE DAY AFTER Alan Bond was arrested on a charge alleging corporate dishonesty, a normally restrained newspaper in Sydney proclaimed in a pageone headline: "It was a bad day for Greed Inc." In fact, 1990 was a bad year for "Greed
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    • 432 2 Asahi THE MOVE by IBM Japan Ltd to encourage development by its competitors of IBM-compatible personal computers has been met with both enthusiasm and scepticism from the Japanese computer industry. Enthusiasts say it will help create industry standards that will benefit Japanese users.
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    • 292 2 Reuter NCR CORP, fighting an unsolicited takeover bid from American Telephone and Telegraph Co, said it still wants to remain independent and that under "current circumstances" there is no third party interested in acquiring the computer firm. "In the past, we have had a
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 574 3 Barriers remain for foreigners in Japanese financial markets NYT JAPAN'S Finance Ministry has begun an investigation into whether Japanese brokerage houses intimidated two Japanese companies into cancelling an agreement to issue new bonds through Salomon Brothers, an American brokerage with offices in Tokyo.
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    • 335 3 NYT SALARIES continue to collapse on Wall Street, but at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc, the former powerhouse that filed for bankruptcy protection this year, some people are still receiving more than US$l million a year. The firm, which declared bankruptcy on May 29,
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 98 3 MONDAY'S Financial Times says Britain may issue some government bonds denominated in the "hard ECU" to try to win over other countries to its idea of this parallel European Community currency. Rejecting an imposed single EC currency, Britain has instead suggested that the
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      • 77 3 THE ITALIAN monetary authorities' debt strategy next year will be focused on lengthening maturities of government paper and possibly offering innovative issues, analysts said. That strategy could heighten foreign investor interest now very small in Italy's bond market, the world's third largest after the US and Japanese
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      • 73 3 INDIA has appointed S Venkitaramanan as governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), a government statement said. Venkiramanan, 59, was finance secretary, the most senior civil servant in the Finance Ministry, between 1985 and 1989 when former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's government liberalised India's economic
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      • 39 3 ANGOLA has ordered all the country's businesses not to deal with foreign investors who have no tax clearances from the government. It said the measure was necessary to improve tax collection and combat tax evasion.
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    • 438 3 NYT FOR the first time in more than a decade, the US Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing an overhaul of the regulations and laws governing the mutual fund business. The move, a priority of the SEC's chairman, Richard C Breeden, has set the
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    • 308 3 UPI FORMER insurance tycoon Robert H Walker was in jail on Sunday after being extradited from Barbados to Texas to face federal charges of defrauding his customers of more than US$5O million. US marshals moved Walker to the Mansfield Law Enforcement Centre,
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 131 4 HIGH-TECH smugglers brought nine billion foreign cigarettes into China last year, costing the state US$l92 million in lost revenue. The China Daily, citing a Beijing Tobacco Industry official, said yesterday that the customs service seized only 10.5 million cartons containing with 200 cigarettes each.
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      • 70 4 THE Soviet Union is seeking US$l.33 billion in credits to cover overdue payments to German businesses. The Hcindelsblatt newspaper in Berlin said on Sunday that it learned of the Soviet credit demand from the East Europe Committee of the German Economy, a business group dealing with German
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      • 63 4 THE Yugoslav republic of Slovenia has voted overwhelmingly to become an independent and sovereign state, in a plebiscite that could open the door to secession. As the outcome of Sunday's vote became known, thousands of usually unemotional Slovenes joined spontaneous street celebrations. They sang patriotic songs
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      • 88 4 JAPAN is expected to conclude an agreement next year with the Soviet Union to promote bilateral cooperation in securing the safe operation of nuclear power plants. Government sources in Tokyo said yesterday that the agreement is expected to be signed in April when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
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      • 71 4 THE flight of capital from Saudi Arabia that followed the Aug 2 invasion of Kuwait has stopped and much of the money has returned. "Most of the US$B billion which was transferred outside the kingdom last August has returned now," said Wahib Binzagr, chairman of the Saudi
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      • 71 4 THE South Korean government marked Christmas by releasing 470 prisoners and juvenile delinquents in a general amnesty yesterday, the Justice Ministry said. Seoul is in the midst of a "war on crime" announced earlier this year by President Roh Tae-woo to crack down on violent and drug-related
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    • 285 4 AFP VIETNAMESE Defence Minister Le Due Anh says the army cannot remain divorced from politics and must make greater efforts to promote national renewal. The armed forces newspaper last Sunday quoted him as saying, "In the future we must make greater
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    • 624 4 AP GERMAN MERCHANTS are enjoying a boom this Christmas season as shoppers clog stores to snatch up everything from expensive video recorders to chocolate Santas. Forget the slow sales in the US and UK. Business is brisk in Germany, backed up by some
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    • 572 4 Tokyo-based institute points to external factors UPI MOST Asian countries, including newly industrialising nations, will keep their economies growing next year but at a slower pace than before mainly because of external factors such as the Gulf crisis, says a private economic research
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    • 224 4 AFP THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to sign a US$7OO million loan agreement with the Philippines in January, Finance Secretary Jesus Estanislao has disclosed. "What I can confirm now is that we will come to a full agreement with the
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    • 570 4 Reuter BARRING a year-end miracle, 1990 will go down in history books as the end of the longest period of US economic expansion in peacetime. A senior administration official said that when the figures are in, they could show
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    • 416 4 AFP THE SOUTH KOREAN government has made several New Year's resolutions as far as the economy is concerned, and wants to put the memories of 1990 behind. It wants to stave off inflation, increase exports and save enough money for facility investments, which are
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    • 446 4 The Gulf Crisis Reuter THE US CONGRESS could soon face a politically perilous vote on whether to endorse US President George Bush's policy on the Gulf as fears of a war there grow. A vote appearing to support a war could come back
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    • 178 4 Reuter IRAQ is using businesses around the world as fronts in its quest for military nuclear capability and has managed to buy much of the hardware that could help it to produce atomic weapons within 10 years. The New York Times said
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    • 162 4 AP THE Bonn government is investigating US intelligence suspicions that German companies have broken sanctions against Iraq. Earlier, the news magazine Der Spiegel said Washington had given Bonn a list of 50 German companies suspected of violating the United Nations embargo against Iraq. It
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  • SPORTS
    • 1071 5 Reuter NICK FALDO's achievements despite a nagging wrist injury in 1990 pose the question of what he might have done to his rivals if he had been fully fit. He has vowed to show I them in 1991. Last week, the 33-year-old Englishman promised
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 115 5 SAN FRANCISCO quarterback Joe Montana, although healthy, was not in uniform for the 49ers' National Football League game on Sunday against the New Orleans Saints. Montana, Sports Illustrated s 1990 Sportsman of the Year, had not missed a game this season, and was expected
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      • 123 5 DEFENDING women's World Cup Alpine ski champion and current season leader Petra Konberger of Austria tore hand ligaments in a fall during a race and will wear a cast for 10 days. Dr Wulf Gloetzer, physician for the Austrian Alpine team, said Konberger's fall on Saturday at
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      • 91 5 AUSTRALIAN fast bowler Terry Alderman, a key figure in the first Test win over England, is in doubt for the second Test starting in Melbourne tomorrow. Alderman, 34, told the chairman of the Australian selectors Laurie Sawle in Perth on Sunday that he had badly strained
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      • 98 5 THE 22nd game of the World Chess Championship, which could decide the title in defending champion Garry Kasparov's favour over Anatoly Karpov, was postponed a second time. The organisers said in Lyon on Sunday that a technical time-out was called so as not to have a game on
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      • 96 5 GRAND SLAM Cup and United States Open winner Pete Sampras has withdrawn from this week's Hopman Cup team event in Perth because of foot blisters. Tournament organisers said on Sunday that Sampras and fellow American Zina Garrison were seeded first in the competition that starts on Thursday. Tournament
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      • 72 5 SOLO French yachtswoman Isabelle Autissier has erected a jury rig on her 20-metre yacht and is determined to make Sydney under sail. BOC Challenge to Sydney officials said yesterday that the 34-year-old mariner, the last woman to survive the rigorous single-handed round-the-world blue water classic, was 310
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      • 64 5 TODD MONTANARO of the United States beat James Collieson of Bermuda 6-0, 6-3 on Sunday in the opening round of the boy's 14-division of the 14th Port Washington International Junior Championships in New York. In other matches, Anders Berqkvist of the United States beat Lucio Dagasso of
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    • 481 5 AP FIVE-TIME Wimbledon champion Bjom Borg, who retired in 1983 at the age of 27, said in a Swedish newspaper on Sunday that he is ready for a comeback but is unsure of where or when to return. "I'm mentally ready and I don't have any
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    • 381 5 Reuter ONCE branded a young hothead, Lothar Matthaeus crowned his rise to maturity on Sunday by becoming the first World Cup winning captain to be voted European Footballer of the Year. There was a certain inevitability about the victory for the player who has grown
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    • 209 5 AP GERMAN Track and Field Federation officials have said top athletes will be subjected to semi-monthly dope testing starting next month. The announcement following a meeting of top track and field officials in Frankfurt on Saturday comes after recent allegations that many German athletes,
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  • 477 6 EDITORIAL THE SURPRISE resignation of USSR foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze last week casts a long shadow over the future of perestroika. Mr Shevardnadze was not just a senior minister in Mr Mikhail Gorbachev's cabinet. He played a key role in shaping the bold foreign policy initiatives
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 194 6 THERE are fears that the new Europe which is being built may prove to be more of an exclusive Community club than the much-desired "common European home". Such fears were heightened by last month's stalemate at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade talks where the Community's readiness
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    • 91 6 COMMUTERS can expect a more convenient public transport system when the bus and mass rapid transit systems are integrated island-wide from early next month. With an integrated ticketing system, commuters will be able to ride on the mass rapid transit system and buses with a single ticket and
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    • 118 6 WHAT mental outlook should a Singaporean possess? When advocating the so-called Asian value system, a simplified approach treating Asian values as good and Western values as decadent cannot be adopted. Any discussion on this issue is further complicated by the multi-cultural nature of Singapore's society. But, regardless of
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 175 6 A REVIEW of Thailand's policy towards Burma, particularly the ruling military dictatorship or the State Law and Order Restoration Council (Slorc), is long overdue. Tuesday's formation of the "National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma" by a group of elected opposition politicians and the arrival
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    • 164 6 WHAT troubles Finance Minister Datuk Paduka Daim Zainuddin is the deficit in the services account which, he said, remains large in spite of the concerted efforts made by the government to promote tourism, improve shipping and air services, and increase educational opportunities provided locally. This deficit has
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  • 1234 6  -  Privatisation has become popular with many governments. Conrad de Aenlle reports on what's in store for investors who buy into former state enterprises Conrad de Aenlle IHT PRIVATISATION was a radical conccpt when Margaret Thatcher made it a guiding principle of Britain's economic policy about
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • ANALYSIS
    • 2064 7 After the diplomatic and economic isolation brought about by the Tiananmen massacre, China is now back in the fold. The Gulf crisis and Beijing's abstention from the UN Security Council vote against Iraq have helped to mend Beijing's relationship with Washington. Investors are once again being enticed
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    • 254 7 1989: JUNE 4: Tiananmen massacre. US imposes ban on high-level missions, aid, and arm sales. China's trade, investment, and diplomatic links with outside world squeezed JULY: Secret mission by National Security adviser Brent Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger DECEMBER: Mr Bush
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 822 9  -  WH Auden's poem For the Time Being, offers a glimpse of redemption even in the trivialisation of Christmas, the frantic shopping and distracted gaiety, says Peter Steinfels Peter Steinfels NYT There it was, among the secondhand classics, the soft-core pornography and the old National Geographies
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    • 834 9  -  Zimbabwe, which plans to corner the African market in big-budget Western films, hopes the new Sherlock Holmes TV series will promote the country as a mainstream film venue. Vanora Bennett reports. Vanora Bennett Reuter SHERLOCK HOLMES has left his home in London's foggy
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    • 673 9 CHATTERBOX JAPAN'S Emperor Akihito, < who celebrated his 57th i birthday on Sunday, says the i "banzai" cheers at his recent enthronement did not remind him of World War 11. i Shouts of "banzai" (long life) for his father, the late Emperor
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3707 10 Bernama SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange closed mixed yesterday as the market ended trading early in view of the Christmas holiday today. The ICLSE Composite Index, which climbed steadily from the start of trading, finished 6.47 points higher at 500.61 at
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 1815 11 Reuter HONGKONG stocks closed easier in extremely thin, sluggish half-day trade yesterday, brokers said. "There are three main factors in the market today," a broker said. "First, everybody's already on holiday. Second, Merry Christmas. Third, bye bye." The blue-chip Hang Seng Index fell 18.72
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Aussie stocks end at near 2-year low
      • 994 11 NERVOUSNESS over the looming deadline for a Middle East confrontation and lack of investor interest ahead of the Christmas break pushed the Australian sharemarket to a near two-year low. Trade was dull with overseas buyers adopting a wait-and-see attitude. "The market's really locked into the Gulf countdown and I
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      • 78 11 Close Previow Dec 24 SYDNEY All Ordinaries Index 1,270.9 1,271.1 -0.9 All Industnals Index 1,935.1 ',936.4 -1.3 All Resources Index 759 1 759 7 4X6 Turnover (million) 57.25 77.74 20.49 BANGKOK SET Index 587.85 -23.78 Turnover (million) NA 1,080.0 JAKARTA Composite Index NA 400.44 MANILA Composite Index Closed 664JI0 Turnover
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      • 47 11 THE Securities Exchange of Thailand (SET) index plunged sharply yesterday to close below the psychological banner of 600 points on fears that the Gulf crisis would explode into war. The volatile index closed at 587.85 points, down 23.78 points or 3.8 per cent from Friday's closing.
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      • 84 11 TAIWAN stocks ended lower yesterday as investors sold to reduce their exposure before Tuesday's holiday, brokers said. The weighted index closed 74.20 points or two per cent lower at 4,093.61 compared with Saturday's 4,167.81 finish. Turnover was NT539.3 billion against NTS3S.B billion. The market will be closed on Tuesday
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      • 798 11 Reuter, AFP SEOUL stocks fell below the 700 level in thin early trade on selling by individual investors wary of the market's prospects for next year, brokers said. The index stood at 698.79 near the close of the morning session, down 6.84 from Saturday's close. Unpaid customer accounts and
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      • 333 11 In local currency la S$ la US$ day year day year day year DEC 21 Index change change change change change change World 361.2 -0.3 -22.3 -0.9 -25.3 -1.4 -18.6 $Eafe 474.3 -0.9 -30.4 -1.8 -31.0 -2.3 -24.8 Europe 367.5 0.0 -18.4 -1.5 -15.3 -2.0 -7.7 Pacific 790.3 -1.5 -37.6
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 777 12  -  THE SANGKM^L By David Gabriel Using technical methods, the Sang Kancil weekly report tracks the profit/loss position of a $50,000 deposit, leveraged up to 10 times, for trading in a portfolio of deutschemarks, yen, sterling, Swiss francs, Nikkei Stock Index Futures and Euro-yen futures. THE
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    • 388 12 Cross rates p<* 24 US$ SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS ***** 2.7060 1.5310 135.40 0.5305 1.3120 1.2945 1.7007 S$ 0.5737 1.5525 0.8784 0.7768 0.3044 0.7527 0.7427 0.9757 MS 0.3695 64.41 0.5658 0.5004 0.1960 0.4848 0.4784 0.6285 Dm 0.6532 1.1385 1.7675 88.44 0.3465 0.8570 0.8455
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    • 564 12 Interbank rates Dec 21 SS Bid Offer Overnight 2 1/2 2 3/4 1-month 4 7/8 5 2-month 5 5 1/8 3-month 5 1/16 S 3/16 Overnight mode: 4-1/4 L'SS Bid Offer 7 days 11 7/8 12 1 month 8 3/4 8 13/16 2 months 8 1/8 8 1/4
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    • 406 12 Reuter FOREIGN exchange, long regarded in the banking business as the goose that laid the golden egg. will lose some of its downy coat in 1991. "There is a general indus-try-wise problem in banking," said Mr lan Spence. a managing director
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    • 250 12 IMM Pec 21 DEUTSCHEMARK Open High Low Sett Vol Op/lm Mar 91 0.6572 0.6580 0.6475 0.6507 ***** ***** Jun 91 0.6535 0.6535 0.6460 0.6474 EURODOLLAR Open High Low Sett Vol Op/lnt 92?74 92J1 9167 9169 ***** *****8 Jun 91 92.80 92.83 92.75 92.76 JAPANESE YEN Open High Low
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    • 574 12 Reuter GOLD, the safe haven of days gone by, will trade more like a commodity in 1991, focusing on supply/demand and lessening its role as a traditional shelter from crisis, industry analysts said. In the coming year, prices will barely stray from 1990's
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    • 574 12 UPI US REGULATORS ended the first full year of their herculean task of stemming the savings and loan industry's huge losses with praise and condemnation. The industry, meanwhile, continued to bleed red ink. By the end of the year's
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    • 337 12 Reuter US SECURITIES firms will continue to cut unprofitable businesses, pare staff and seek money-saving consolidations into 1991 as cost control remains Wall Street's top priority, analysts and executives said. The securities industry as a whole may barely break even for full
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    • 531 13  -  POSTCARD FROM THE SEYCHELLES By John Lablache Giant tortoises amble in the background as a guitarist strums love songs on a tiny wooded island in the Seychelles. A photographer stands by to take a picture of the happy bride and groom. They walk to
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    • 148 13 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.3310 1.3610 Canadian dollar 1.4870 1.5070 NZ dollar 1.0100 1.0400 Sterling pound 3.2490 3.2990 US dollar 1.7320 1.7420 load dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling Belgian franc
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    • 139 13 Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Jan 19-27 International Germany Stuttgarter (46)711/258*0 Feb International Hamburg Hamburg Messe *****569-0 Exhibition For Messe Und Tourism, Caravan Und Congress Caravamng. Kongress and Automobile GmbH Motoring. Tourism Exhibition Jan 21-24 Middle East Manama, Arabian Exhibition 973/*****3 Feb
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    • 365 13 Christmas Crossword Contest BT's Christmas Crossword is back. All ready for you to chew over Christmas Day lunch or get over last night's hangover with. And as a sweetener, BT has on offer a giant bottle of champagne for the first all-correct entry to be opened. Send your entries to:
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    • 203 13 Singapore Forecast (Sun) Maximum temperature 30.6* C Assoc humidity 64% Minimum temperature 24.2* C Assoc humidity 93% Hours of sunshine 7.25 Rainfall in mm Trace Rainfall this month 201.1 Rainy days this month 15 World report Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland 21/15 Showers Bangkok 32/23 Fair Beijing 01/-9 Cloudy Brunei 31/23
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  • 407 14 Total exports for first nine months up 13.5 pc Bernama MALAYSIA'S trade surplus in the first nine months of this year plunged to MS 183.8 million, 97 per cent lower than the M 56,055 million in the same period last year. The statistics department in Kuala
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  • 290 14 AFP THE PHILIPPINE armed forces were on the second highest state of alert yesterday to deter attempts by right-wing military rebels to launch sabotage attempts during the Christmas holidays. Armed Forces chief General Renato de Villa said the capture of two ex-military men and two
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  • 391 14 Reuter US NEGOTIATORS, reviewing the state of play after efforts to reform global commerce faltered this month, may act unilaterally and aggressively next year to prise open markets in Europe, Japan and Latin America. "We'll see a flurry of
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  • 205 14 Reuter TAIWAN'S plan to put its relationship with China into a new legal framework will not be completed on schedule because of sharp debate in parliament, a senior government official said yesterday. The government has given up hope that two key laws on Taiwan-China relations
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  • 860 14  -  The Bottom Line GARY BECKER GARY BECKER The writer is a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago. Reproduced from Business Week International by special permission. Copyrighted by McGraw-Hill, Inc. All rights reserved. I RECENTLY was invited to Moscow to explain the
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  • 198 14 Bernama THE KUALA LUMPUR Stock Exchange said yesterday it would introduce a second board index from Jan 2 in view of the increasing number of companies being listed on the second board. The KLSE added that the index, aimed at providing investors with
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    • 160 14 PiageT KWUJF.R HN ItmXMMIMVIS IXI4 CENtZVE THEGROWTH TRIANGLE A Special Business Times Survey February 26, 1991 The Growth Triangle began casually as an idea. Singapore. Batam. Johor. Singapore has a rich pool of managerial talent. Batam and Johor are rich in natural resources, land and labour. Combine the three and
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  • Shipping Times
    • 402 15 Bernama THE Malaysian government has expedited several measures to ensure that total privatisation of Port Klang can be carried out by March 1, Deputy Transport Minister Datin Paduka Zaleha Ismail said. She said the government was convinced that the port could be
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    • 380 15 Lloyd's List THE world orderbook for dry bulk tonnage fell in the third quarter of 1990 to its lowest level since mid-1988, an analysis from major shipbroker Clarkson shows. It stood at 12.2 million tonnes deadweight, having fallen from a
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    • 143 15 AFP SPACE Communications Corp (SCC), part of the Mitsubishi group, has cancelled all communications services via its Superbird A satellite because of technical problems, company officials said yesterday. The cancellation was announced by SCC President Hiromune Minagawa at a hastily-arranged press conference late
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    • 416 15 THE Australian federal government and the country's shipping industry have fired a double broadside at critics of the allegedly high costs of shipping. Outspoken shipping industry leader Bill Bolitho attacked the General Council of British Shipping for boasting about its overseas earnings for
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    • 373 15 Bangkok Post SAMAK SUNDARAVEJ, Thailand's newly-appointed Transport and Communications Minister, has reaffirmed his longstanding opposition to the 20-year-old proposal to build the country's second international airport at Nong Ngu Hao, a low-lying suburb to the east of Bangkok. Mr Samak, who was
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    • 259 15  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY AUSTRALIA'S second international airline, Australia World Airlines, which is funded by Asian investors, has secured landing rights in Taiwan. The airline will now put in a formal application to the Australian government for its approval to start
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    • NEWS SUMMARY
      • 35 15 AFTER many years of development, a new charter party was formed aimed at the containership owner and charterer. The Boxtime Charter Party looks set to become a regular feature Page 2
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      • 55 15 THE United States and Britain remained far apart after the latest round of talks about allowing the transfer of rights to use Heathrow Airport in London, an American official said. American Airlines has agreed to buy TWA's routes, while United has agreed to
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      • 43 15 PAN AMERICAN World Airways may eventually be acquired by Trans World Airlines, but the financially ailing carrier would fly as Pan Am for a few more months if a requested short-term loan is arranged Back Page
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      • 34 15 AEROSPACE giant Boeing Co, whose stock has been buffeted recently by fears of a major US airline industry recession, sees relatively smooth sailing in 1991 Back Page
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      • 76 16 THE US Defence Department has been paying high prices to charter vessels and book space aboard freighters to support the military build-up in the Persian Gulf. Ship brokers, freight agents and shipping executives agree that higher prices have meant more profits for shipowners.
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      • 53 16 AN AEROSPATIALE-LED consortium has won a more than US$29O million contract to launch two telecommunications satellites for Turkey, the semi-official Turkish news agency Anatolie reported. Under the contract, Ariane rockets are to be used to launch the two Turksat satellites. The first is to be into
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      • 74 16 SOME 1.16 billion people travelled by air on scheduled domestic and international flights worldwide, about 5 per cent higher than last year, the International Civil Aviation Organisation said. The preliminary estimates indicated that traffic growth would be sustained through the end of the year. Air
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      • 86 16 GERMANY'S Siemens and Swedish Ericsson firms have won a contract to install new telephone networks in Hungary. The contract is for the installation of about 550,000 digital phone lines during the next five years, the MTI news agency reported. In the first year 65 per
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      • 115 16 THE European Investment Bank is lending 149.1 million ECUs (US$lBO million) to Airbus Industrie for development of the Airbus A 321 short-distance and medium-dis-tance airliner. It was the first such loan directly by the bank to Airbus Industrie to finance an aircraft development programme in Europe.
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      • 70 16 McDONNELL DOUGLAS CORP's McDonnell Aircraft unit last week said it will notify about 4,000 employees that they could be laid off as soon as Jan 2 if the US Navy's A-12 Avenger programme is cancelled. McDonnell Aircraft said people identified for notification will be selected on
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    • 1037 16 CONTAINERISATION still a relatively new market in shipping, has adapted existing charter parties as the basis of trading. The first purpose-built containerships did not appear in any numbers until the late *****. As the major liner routes quickly adapted to the box revolution, so the smaller
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    • 935 16 1991 Jan 18: The Fifth Chua Chor Teck Memorial Lecture on Hull Structural Failures Repairs by Profesor M. Mano, of Kinki University, Japan at the Auditorium, Singapore Polytechnic. Lecture at 6.00 pm. For further enquiries call Ms Yeo at 278-9444. Jan 24-27: Airport, Port and Transport Exhibition APEX
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    • 12957 24 This is a list of ships loading v at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by 1 destination, the name of the c ship, the shipping line in- volved and the estimated y dates of arrival and departure a from the Port of Singapore. Advanced
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    • 3308 29 Cootainerline NV: Belsin I Shpg Agencies Pte l td (SyManne Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SyAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsourve Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). Albatros Seal-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ltd
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    • 241 29 Abacus C miners Tel: 545-8011. Fax: *****98 Air xpress I ravel Td: 533-5771. Fax: *****44 Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844 Fax: *****16, *****80 Airswift Worldwide Courier Td: 278-0188. Fax: *****83. AJS Supplies Td: 748-6322 (2 lines), 747-7421. Fax: *****75. City-Link International Td: 344-3377. Fax: *****50. (luster link Supplies
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    • 1485 29 Abex Express Freight Td: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Td. 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Td: 542-7822. Fax: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Td: 545-8033. Fax: *****05. Aerospeed Td: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Td: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express International Td. 542-7666. Fax: *****74, *****50. Air
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    • 2393 30 ARGENTINA Villa Constitucion: One vessel berthed in ballast awaiting orders. San Nicolas: Four vessels in port of which 2 loading steel coils, I discharging iron ore, 1 awaiting coal cargo; 2 barges in roads awaiting berth to discharge iron ore. La Plata: Two vessels loading petrochemicals; 1 vessel
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    • 564 30 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES Reuter, AFP VESSELS SOLD FOR FURTHER TRADING Bulk carriers The Spring Eagle: 37,651 dwt and built 1983, sold to an unnamed concern for about US$l3 million. United Ambitioa: 60,010 dwt and built 1981, sold to Chinese buyers for about US$l5.5 million. Chemical tankers Astro: 3,575 dwt
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    • 546 30 ARRIVALS Op Flight Type ETA T From TODAY JAL JL6I7 B747F 0200 1 NRT KAL KE697 B747F 0220 1 SEL NCA KZ205 B747F 0310 1 NRT CLX CV796 B747F 2230 1 LUX/AUH/KUL TOMORROW CAL CI333 B747F 01 IS 1 TPE AZA AZ995 BC8F 0235 1 SYD SIA
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    • 364 30 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Dtp Name of Vessel ETA ETD Port Agent Ports of Calls DECEMBER 25 25 Andaman Pnncess 0900 1400 Lines International Sin-Malacca-Sin 27 27 Andaman Princess 1300 1700 Lines International Cruise-to-nowhere 27 28 Cora Princess 2100 0900 Sembawang Johnson Cruise-to-nowhere 28 28 Andaman Princess 1500
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      • 596 31 Vtwd Voy Wo Birth Anwd Ogrtw VksM Voy Wo Berth km* Depart i| M nn Otympa 26/90 P1A 25 12/0700 2612/1200 Ms Strength 29EB K33 alongsrie 24.12/1600 pj? 24 n/S W12/0630 Gradistea 01/90 K34 atongsrfe 26.12/0600 J* 138 2 US Koto Beran E-879 R32 alongsde 28 12/2300
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      • 1280 31 RECEIVING OF EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookng/Babnce Rsfts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACX Jade 27A 26/1900 4 24/1200 24/1*59 24/1700 ACX Lotus 7B 25/0700 1 23/1500 23/1659 23/1900 3 24/0700 24/1159 24/1400 A1 Pride ***** 24/2300 2 23/1700 24/0659 24/0900 Aba
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      • 324 31 HMWfC r OfT Berth 1: Gina. Berth 2: Bunga Mas. Sin Nga. Berth 3: You Yi 16. Berth 4: Ken Sky. Berth 5: Trade WiH berth 6: Bunga Dahlia. 01 jetty: Stolt Uskok, Santi. DCJ: Belle Coral. Due on Dec 24: Nissin, Ribuan Jaya. Due on Dec
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    • 739 31 CHARTERING on the dry cargo freight market on Friday featured confirmation of the first Soviet grain shipments since the easing recently of some trade restrictions on Moscow by the US, brokers said. Cargill Inc took six vessels for prompt to mid-January loading from the US to Soviet Baltic
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    • 355 32 NYT THE United States and Britain remained far apart after the latest round of talks about allowing the transfer of rights to use Heathrow Airport in London, an American official said. American Airlines has agreed to buy TWA's routes, while United has agreed to
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    • 257 32 UPI PAN AMERICAN World Airways may eventually be acquired by Trans World Airiines, but the financially ailing carrier would fly as Pan Am for a few more months if a requested shortterm loan is arranged. Before the proposed merger was put on
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    • 299 32 Reuter AEROSPACE giant Boeing Co, whose stock has been buffeted recently by fears of a major US airline industry recession, sees relatively smooth sailing in 1991. Frank Shrontz, chairman and chief executive of the world's largest aircraft maker, dismissed analysts' concerns and
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    • 156 16 BT SURVEYS Looking Wider, Thinking Deeper Some subjects are of such Interest to our readers that they demand more space and more research than can be given in our dally reporting. As part of BT's overall service we have always recognised this and taken the necessary steps. Filling the gap
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    • 1066 17 JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES 200 Cantonment Road #12 Southpoint. Singapore 0208 All If# Tel *****11 TELEX NO RS Y iffTmil TERMINAL/CFS ret *****18 220 ItßAAAflrl bookings Tei *****34 235 L VQQQf J tSAKA JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES SON PORT KELANG TEL *****18 TELEX MA***** MA***** PENANG TEL G***** TELEX NO MA***** CFS
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    • 814 18 ROTTERDAM/ VOY NO S PORE P KELANG SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG BREMERHAVEN ANTWERP LE HAVRE OSAKA BAY 97/555 30/12 24/1 18/' "'J TOtAGA BAY 13/558 31/12 17 1 li'J HONG KONG EXPRESS 98/501 3/1 28/j 22/1 24/1 21 1 CITY Of EDINBURGH 93/503 6/1 23/' 26/1 TOKIO EXPRESS 97/505 13/1 3»1 4/2
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    • 717 19 ®jjjSteamers Maritime HoJding^Jtd| P&O UflU STRAITS SHIPPING I r J Singapore to BruMi, East Malaysia, Wa^Containers Mj» I SSmSLuS!* fH Group""" China Navigation Co. (A m—bar o« ANRO) 1 I Syarikat Perkapalan Kris I s ~x Mansfield Container Shipping Pte Ltd I I 19 Hoc Chiang Road #OD-02 to M
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