The Business Times, 21 January 1991

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  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 16/12/90 Monday January 21 1991 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 63 1 HUNDREDS of thousands of Soviets rallied in Moscow yesterday to protest against the government's crackdown on Lithuania and to demand the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev. They waved Lithuanian and Russian flags and a supporter read a message from Russian President Boris Yeltsin, holding
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    • 35 1 CHINA has mapped out a new railway line from Beijing to Hongkong "to get ready for Hongkong's return to the motherland in 1997", the China Daily said yesterday.
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    • 37 1 TWO key downstream operators in the Pulau Ayer Merbau petrochemical complex are planning to invest some US$45O million in new projects to link up with a second complex now under study by PCS Back Pg
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    • 19 1 AFTER a strong rebound last October, Singapore's total trade dipped somewhat in the following month Page 2
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    • 29 1 TOP-NOTCH building design and construction firms eyeing the international markets will get a boost from a new certification scheme to be implemented next month. Page 2
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    • 20 1 THIRTY-SEVEN lots will go under the hammer at Thailand's first property auction on Feb 9 Page 7
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    • 19 1 BUSINESS FAILURES are on the increase in Hongkong, according to the colony's Registrar General Page 7
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    • 17 1 THE SLOWLY emerging Vietnamese economy harbours dreams of becoming a second South Korea Page 10
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    • 36 1 THE Gulf war raises the question of whether the tragedy of conflict could be compounded by damage to major art treasures and monuments that stake out the early stages of mankind's culture Page 17
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    • 30 1 A MAJOR shipping conference with nine lines plying between the Far East and Gulf has decided to double its war risk and bunker surcharges. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 34 1 INDONESIAN conglomerate Sinar Mas is raising a massive amount from the region's capital markets for the second time within a year to build a new paper plant Page 3
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    • 28 1 MALAYSIA'S Finance Minister says Bank Bumiputra Malaysia is to be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in two or three years. Page 3
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    • 35 1 THE CHAIRMAN of Petaling Tin Bhd says his recent open letter was not in response to a statement from substantial shareholder Hijaz Industries which called for the removal of four directors Page 3
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    • 24 1 TANJUNG LAYANG, which intends to take over Idris Hydraulic, says it has no connection with Roxy Electric Industries Page 3
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    • 29 1 MALAYAN Banking retained its status among the top 100 banks in Asia in terms of shareholders' equity for the third consecutive year last year Page 6
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    • 25 1 BANKAMERICA Corp's 1990 fourth-quarter results show a marked deterioration in the performance of its domestic commercial and construction real-estate loans Page 6
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      27 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 597.03 +0.79 Kuala Lumpur ....487.56 +0.22 Hongkong 3,072.17 -15.66 Tokyo 23,808.30 361.49 Sydney 1,266.5 +29.0 New York 2,646.78 +23.27 London 2,102.7 -1.9
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    • 19 1 Exchange rates USS SS 1.7435 Yen SSI.3036 MS SSO.63% Money marfcet rates Overnight 4 -1/8 3-month 4-1/2 unch
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    • 37 1 London Gold AM fix US$380.00 -US$5.50 Rubber S'pore Feb 152.00«/kg -0.50 M'sia Feb 236.50*/kg -1.00 KL Tin Turnover 58 tonnes+ 32 Spot M$ 15.11 /kg -0.02 Crode nlm oil Turnover 1,057 lots -392 Feb M$891/tonne +8
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  • 634 1 Turkey springboard for attacks US helps to defend Israel Agencies THE COMMANDERS of the allied forces fighting Iraq shifted the focus of their aerial onslaught over the weekend from fixed strategic targets to President Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard and other troop
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  • 171 1 AP US-LED naval forces warned ships on Saturday to enter the Gulf at their own risk after mines were spotted in the normally safe southern Gulf waters. Oil and freighter traffic continued to drop off sharply after Iraq fired a missile into Saudi Arabia
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  • 329 1 Agencies FEARS OF possible retaliatory attacks by pro-Iraqi terrorists led to heightened security measures in many countries over the weekend after Baghdad called on Muslims to unite by attacking Western targets. In Bangkok, hundreds of soldiers were seen patrolling outside the US,
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  • 84 1 WITH TERRORIST threats in South-east Asia against American installations, the US Embassy in Singapore has issued another reminder urging for tightened security. The embassy quoted the US authorities which said on Saturday that they had received "credible information of terrorist activity and threats in South-east Asia". This
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  • 248 1  -  By Anna Teo UP TO last November at least, the Gulf erisis had not taken its toll on Singapore's trade with its Middle Eastern partners, as latest figures released yesterday show. Country trade volume figures attached to the November 1990 trade results
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  • 394 1  -  By John Tan SINGAPORE'S tourism industry attracted a record 5.3 million visitors last year, disproving sceptics who predicted that the republic would end the year barely touching the five-million mark. In response to queries from Business Times, the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board released preliminary
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    • 145 1 I EXECUTIVE I PLACEMENTS 1******62 Aircraft Schedule 13 Market Reviews 20 World Stock Markets 23 The Arts 17 Money Changer Rates 13 Commodities 24 Money Market 24 For market indices, editorial. Cryptic Crossword 13 Regional News 7 advertising and circulation exEnterprise Mgt 11.12 SES 18,19 tensions, ca« Business Times Financial
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    • 47 1 Land of the dozing sons, Pg 9 The reality of war and the illusion of news, Pg 9 Opec unlikely to nuke imminent oil cutbacks, Pg 25 Tokyo to offer USs6b-USslob more aid, Back Pg Japanese wholesalers accept oil shuttle proposals, Back Pg Full report, Pg 2
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 93 2 A TRAINING ACADEMY for the arts will open in two yeare, announced EDB chairman Philip Yeo last Saturday. Called the Academy for Creativity Training, it will be a three-way partnership between the Economic Development Board, the creative services industry and the La Salle private college
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      • 123 2 THE opposition should change its role from a sledge-hammer hitting out at the government to becoming a partner in nation-building, said the opposition Member of Parliament for Potong Pasir, Chiam See Tong, last Saturday. This is what the voters want, he said, adding that the ground is
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      • 123 2 SENIOR MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew left last Saturday for a 15-day visit to the United States and Mexico. After four days in Washington, Mr Lee will leave for San Francisco to address the Stanford University. Former US Secretary of State George Shultz, chairman of the Advisory
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      • 77 2 SINGAPORE AIRLINES has suspended its twice-weekly service to Istanbul until further notice, following the latest developments in the Middle East and heavy insurance premiums for planes landing in Istanbul. The last SIA flight to Istanbul left last Friday. SIA has also reassured that flights to and
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      • 49 2 A MEETING to select a chief abbot for one of the largest Buddhist temples in Singapore has ended in disagreement. The meeting at the Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Temple at Bright Hill Drive was attended by more than 40 monks, devotees and disciples.
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      • 22 2 THE American Embassy is closed today, a National Holiday in commemoration of the birthday of Martin Luther King.
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    • 471 2  -  By Anna Teo AFTER a strong rebound last October, Singapore's total trade dipped somewhat in the following month. Still, the November 1990 trade value of $19 billion amounted to a healthy 14 per cent growth and also maintained the year-round trade uptrend. Figures
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    • 498 2 TOP-NOTCH building design and construction firms eyeing the international markets will get a boost from a new certification scheme to be implemented next month. Taking its drive to promote excellence in construction a step further, the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) will,
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    • 280 2  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE has earned a prized seat on the executive board of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) for a three-year period. This is the highest management level of the international body which has been setting widely-recognised benchmarks of quality since
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 481 3  -  Financing for industrial paper plant in Indonesia By Quak Hiang Whai INDONESIA'S Sinar Mas group in its second major loan within a year for its paper production business will raise US$35O million from the region's capital markets to build an
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    • 304 3 MBT TWO MORE industrial parks, managed by MBf Property Services, with a total sales value of Msl6s million are due to be completed in 1992. MBf Property Services' general manager (marketing and sales) Mr KJ Wong said this recently. The two
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    • 245 3 Bernama TANJUNG Layang Sdn Bhd, an investment holding company which has announced plans to take over management and control of publicly listed Idris Hydraulic (M) Bhd, said over the weekend that it has no connections with Roxy Electric Industries. Tanjung Layang's chairman, Datuk Haji
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    • 196 3 MBT TASEK Cement, one of Malaysia's largest cement producers, is set to benefit from the surge in demand for cement in the next two years, said Mayban Securities. This is expected to result in higher pre-tax profit for the company this year
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    • 268 3 MBT BUMIPUTRA Merchant Bankers has achieved a feebased income ratio of 60 per cent, well above the minimum requirement of 30 per cent stipulated by Malaysia's Bank Negara. This was disclosed in the bank's latest annual report by chairman Datuk Hanafiah Hussain, who
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    • 298 3 NST BANK Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd shares will be sold to the public and the bank listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in two or three years, Malaysian Finance Minister Datuk Paduka Daim Zainuddin said over the weekend. Datuk Paduka
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    • 387 3  -  By David Chew PETALING TIN Bhd chairman Gen (R) Tan Sri Ibrahim Ismail has clarified that his open letter to shareholders dated Jan 14 was not a response to an eight-page statement issued by substantive shareholder Hijaz Industries Sdn Bhd two days earlier, calling
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 81 4 AMERCHOL CORP, a unit of Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Co Inc, and Mitsui and Co Ltd are combining their manufacturing and marketing capabilities to expand the sales of Amerchol's speciality polymers to the personal care industry in China. Union Carbide Chemicals and
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      • 112 4 DOWTY GROUP pic said it was forming a £7 million joint venture with Japan's Koike Rubber Co Ltd and C Itoh and Co Ltd to set up a business machinery component factory in North Wales, UK. The factory, in Wrexham, will make polymer components for
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      • 92 4 JAPANESE power tool maker Makita Electric Works Ltd said it will buy a German maker of small gasoline and electric engines named Sachs Dolmar GmbH and its two sales units in the US and Canada from Germany's Mannesmann AGF. It will spend a total of
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      • 51 4 NEC CORP's NEC America Inc unit said it launched a portable cellular workstation that includes the P3OO portable phone, an RJ 11 cellular interface and a notebook computer. The company said the device will provide professionals with computing and communications capabilities to serve a wide variety of
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      • 86 4 FUJITSU Ltd, Japan's top computer maker, said on Thursday it will establish a new Japanese-language database company to provide to users a wide range of information on legal matters, patents, industrial surveys and statistics. The Tokyobased company said the new firm, G-Search Co, will
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      • 99 4 TOYOBO Co, a major Japanese textile maker, said on Thursday it has established a 50-50 joint venture with the Dutch chemical company DSM to manufacture and market high-te-nacity polyethylene fibre on the world market. The Osakabased company said the new firm, Nippon Dyneema Co, will
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    • 280 4 Reuter RUPERT MURDOCH'S News Corporation expects its US$B billion debt restructuring to be completed by the end of this week, a company official said at the weekend. Peter Chegwyn, finance director of News Corp's Australian unit, News Ltd, also confirmed
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    • 488 4 Reuter AUSTRALIAN firm TNT Ltd's profit for the year ending June 30 will be below last year's, chairman Fred Millar told a news conference last Friday. "The Australian economy has deteriorated much more rapidly than most people would have expected," he said. TNT
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    • 571 4 NYT NISSAN MOTOR CO last Friday said it planned to build a second plant in the United States that would make car engines, allowing the company to increase the domestic content of its American-assembled cars. Nissan plans to spend more than
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    • 243 4 GRAND Sport Co, a Thai manufacturer of well-known sportswear, has diversified into casual knitwear to strengthen its market base and increase its bargaining power with retailers. However, it is not introducing new brands. The Nation quoted Nattachai Surawattana-prasert, sales-in-charge of the diversified product range on Friday
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    • 291 4 IHT JAPAN'S Nomura Securities Co has purchased the largest single stake in the Frankfurt Trade Tower, Europe's tallest office building, in another move expanding its presence in Germany. Nomura bought a onethird stake in the building, nearing completion, from Citibank Investments Ltd. The
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    • 87 4 10 British companies will be in Singapore this week seeking trade and investment opportunities. Company profiles are: Manufacturers of Flame Arresters Manufacturers of Food Processing and Packaging Equipment Consulting Engineers Poultry Manufacturers Manufacturers of Domestic and Commercial Waste Disposal Units Manpower Services for Oil, Gas, Petrochemical and Power Industries Educational
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    • 134 4 sst I Durham II n I 1 rH University |f| DA 1 Founded in 1832, Durham is the third oldest University in England with a rich tradition as a centre of scholarship and research. It has maintained its leading role among British Universities through its unswerving dedication to the pursuit
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 381 5 Rescue-deal talks continuing with possible investors Reuter EASTERN AIRLINES Inc trustee Martin Shugrue has said that the bankrupt American airline will begin selling aircraft to pay its bills but that talks are continuing with potential investors to raise money so that Eastern
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    • 319 5 Reuter SWEDISH vehicle maker AB Volvo has announced that it and France's Regie Nationale Des Usines Renault have concluded an extensive crossownership deal. The agreement involves cross-ownership of shares in the two companies' car, truck and bus operations. Volvo said in a statement released
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    • 400 5 Reuter HOLDERS of Saatchi and Saatchi Co pic's Euro-prefer-ence convertible bond issue are unhappy with the firm's recapitalisation plan and regard it only as an opening offer, several bond holders told Reuters. "We are very displeased with this proposal and have written to the
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    • 121 5 Reuter NIXDORF Computer AG, which was taken over by Siemens AG last year, has announced that it lost 800 million marks in the nine months ended Sep 30 last year. This compared with a group loss of 1.07 billion marks for the whole
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  • COMPANY BRIEFS
    • 63 5 NCR CORP has amended a previously filed suit against American Telephone and Telegraph Co concerning AT&T's proxy struggle in its US$9O-a-share tender for NCR. The amended filing made last Friday claims that AT&T, by virtue of its Universal Card credit card operations, is a bank
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    • 89 5 IRONSTONE GROUP INC has filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code after former American National Petroleum Co shareholders alleged that Ironstone defaulted on an escrow holding 50 per cent of Ironstone shares. The escrow agreement on the 2.1 million shares related
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    • 100 5 THE DUTCH ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY is prepared to go to court to fight a European Commission ruling that it is breaking EC anti-trust rules. The European Commission says the four main Dutch generating firms and Samenwerkende Elektriciteitsproduktiebedrijven (SEP), which they jointly own, are breaking anti-trust rules
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    • 93 5 ALCAN ALUMINUM LTD chairman David Morton has said that the company's 1990 net income was "reasonably satisfactory" but has also highlighted the need for continued cost reductions. Speaking in Montreal last Friday, he said such cost-cutting programmes were in place and would reduce 1991
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    • 65 5 DORSET EXPLORATION LTD plans to buy between Cs6 million and Cs7 million worth of working and royalty interests in oil and gas properties from Imperial Oil Ltd unit Esso Resources Canada Ltd. The interests ranged between 90 and 100 per cent in a 52,000 gross
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    • 67 5 SWISS wall- and floor-coverings manufacturer Forbo AG has said that preliminary returns from the group's subsidiary companies indicate "an increase in earnings, leading to the expectation that the group's results for the year 1990 will again be favourable". Forbo's statement, made in Zurich last Friday,
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 93 6 PEOPLE rushed to crowded bank counters in Shenzhen, south China, to buy China's first foreign currency bonds since the communist takeover in 1949. The official China Daily said the US$B million worth of bonds were put on sale on Friday by Shenzhen United
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      • 92 6 MELLON Bank said its U552.52 per share fourth quarter oss reflected a US$l75 million provision for credit losses, aken amid growing concern that the recession may last onger than first thought. It said the large provision reflected the generally soft economy, particularly in the real
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      • 55 6 SEDGWICK Group pic said its retail operating company Sedgwick James purchased 54 per cent of Belgian insurance Droking company Groupe Thilly Van Eessel SA. Sedgwick said the purchase from its joint venture partners in Belgium, Petrofina SA subsidiary Etmofina SA and Groupe Bruxelles Lambert SA, was
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      • 67 6 CfIjjsDITANSTALT, Austria's biggest bank, received a licei®e on Friday to conduct full banking operations in Poland, a feance ministry source said. He said the licence would ensle Creditanstalt to develop a branch network in Poland antf* conduct a full range of commercial and investment baiting business.
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    • 303 6 MBT MALAYAN Banking retained its status among the top 100 banks in Asia in terms of shareholders' equity for the third consecutive year last year. However, Bank Bumiputra Malaysia, which ranked 91st the year before, was dropped from Euromoney Publications' 1989
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    • 407 6 Setback for domestic commercial and real estate loans Reuter THE recession in the United States has finally taken hold at Bank America Corp, whose 1990 fourth quarter results showed a marked deterioration in the performance of the company's domestic commercial and construction real estate
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    • 341 6 NYT IN RESPONSE to the suit filed by the Federal banking regulators against Michael R Milken and a number of well-known former executives with savings and loan associations, a spokeswoman for Milken says the suit is replete with false accusations and and is
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    • 262 6 Bernama ARTHUR ANDERSEN Co, Malaysia, banking on what it has created including a merger exercise with Hanafiah, Raslan Mohamad, is confident of meeting the challenges in 1991 and the decades ahead. AA-HRM country managing partner Haji Zainal A Putih said in its latest in-house
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    • 299 6 AFP ASIAN capital markets will be mixed in the *****, says the governor of Malaysia's central bank, contradicting earlier, more positive predictions at a two-day capital markets conference in Bangkok last week. Tan Sri Dato Jaffar Hussein, governor of Bank Negara Malaysia,
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    • 254 6 AFP MOODY'S Investors Service Inc on Friday said it had lowered its credit rating for Japan's Mitsui Trust and Banking Co Ltd, citing concern about long-term profits and its exposure to the real estate sector. The Japanese unit of the US rating agency said it
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  • THE REGION
    • 380 7 THIRTY-SEVEN lots will go under the hammer at Thailand's first property auction on Feb 9, The Nation reported on Friday. The properties include shophouses, townhouses, homes, offices, resort homes and condominiums, residential and office condominiums, mini-factories, factory land,
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    • 238 7 BUSINESS FAILURES are on the rise in Hongkong, according to the colony's Official Receiver's Office. The economic downturn has contributed to the highest business casualty rate since 1986, the South China Morning Post reported on Friday. Over the past 12 months, there were
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 80 7 INDONESIAN President Suharto has cancelled his planned official trip to New Delhi because of developments in the Persian Gulf, Secretary of State Murdiono said on Saturday. The trip was to have started on Friday. "After considering the latest development, the president regretfully
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      • 102 7 THE UNITED Nations Security Council has called on the international community to send aid to Vietnam to help it overcome problems stemming from the UN embargo on Iraq, the official press in Hanoi said on Saturday. The Nhan Dan newspaper said the Security Council's sanction
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      • 66 7 THE MALAYSIAN government has allocated 26 per cent of its M 59.4 billion development budget under the Sixth Malaysia Plan to the development of the transport sector, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ling Liong Sik said on Saturday night. He said that besides upgrading and
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      • 103 7 BRITISH Trade and Industry Secretary of State Peter Lilley is in Hongkong for a three-day visit at the invitation of the British Trade Commission, a government spokesman said yesterday. Mr Lilley, the first member of new Prime Minister John Major's Cabinet to visit the British
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      • 52 7 MALAYSIA and Thailand will ratify the Malaysia-Thai-land Joint Authority (MTJA) agreement at a ceremony in Bangkok today, the Malaysian Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Malaysia and Bangkok signed the MTJA agreement last year to carry out joint exploration and exploitation of non-living resources in their overlapping
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      • 56 7 VIETNAMESE authorities threw a party to mark the start of a facelift intending to restore the Metropole Hotel to its former glory. An association grouping Vietnam's Giang Vo Co and Hanoi Tourism with Pullman and French construction firm FEAL International has been granted credits of US$9
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    • 262 7 Bemama A NEW agreement will rejuvenate the long-planned but poorly implemented Malay-sia-Indonesia film exchange programme, Malaysian National Film Development Corporation (Finas) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Samad Idris said. Tan Sri Abdul Samad said the latest accord, reached on Saturday, will pave the way for the
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    • 458 7 Bernama EVEN THE happy-go-lucky Thai should by now be worried about Aids. The latest figures from the Ministry of Public Health show that, by Dec 31, 76 Thai had developed full-blown Aids; 235 had Aids-related complex, an earlier stage of the disease; and 25,031
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  • FOCUS
    • 1035 9 The Gulf War Whatever the outcome of the Gulf war, the US-Japan relationship will never be the same again The Economist WEIRD as it seems to anyone in Europe or America, only two days before the war in the Gulf started, the general belief in
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    • 625 9 NYT AFTER last Wednesday night, news coverage of war will never be quite the same. Television, and especially the Cable News Network, turned the US into one vast community of fascinated viewers who watched a war unfold at the very instant
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    • 301 9 Reuter US DEFENCE companies have won praise for the performance of their high-tech hardware in the opening salvo of the Gulf war, but the success belies the troubled outlook for an industry facing shrinking demand. McDonnell Douglas Corp, General Dynamics Corp, Lockheed
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    • 422 9 Reuter UNCERTAINTIES over the war have spawned an endless flow of rumours about what is happening in the Gulf. Much of the day is spent weighing the information spewing onto the trading room floors to help guess what might happen next. Vivid television reports
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    • 912 9 Reuter FIRM, swift and farsighted diplomacy will be needed from the United States and its allies if they win the Gulf War to prevent the Middle East sinking back into a morass of hatred and instability, Western analysts say.
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1479 10  -  Harish Mehta on a slowly emerging Vietnamese economy which harbours dreams of becoming the second South Korea Harish Mehta THE bar at the International Club in Hanoi has become an icon of the emergence of a new cash-rich Vietnamese business class. Here newly-rich Vietnamese businessmen
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    • 706 10  -  The new Vietnam seems chock-a-block with emerging millionaires. Harish Mehta talks to one of them Harish Mehta HOUNDED and re-educated by the communists after they captured Saigon in 1975, the fall and rise of Tran Due Nam is a bullets-to-bonanza story. He is now one of
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT 1
    • 1072 11 A look at the frantic pace of new-product development in Japan The Economist WESTERN companies are supposed to be the masters of innovation, marketing and incisive management. Japanese firms have a reputation for borrowing ideas from abroad, making painstaking improvements and then, when everything is ready,
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    • 1359 12  -  Cingaporo woai owtot BusinessTimes The rise and rise of banker Wee Cho Yaw, Businessman of the Year for 1990, is the classic tale of a Chinese migrant who made good, backed by a base of family wealth and a large dose of entrepreneurial drive. Genevieve
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    • 1069 12 UNITED Overseas Bank's mission for the *****: To be Singapore's leading international bank. For UOB chairman Wee Cho Yaw, this target is only logical as he sees limited opportunities for future growth in the domestic banking market. After transforming UOB from a one-bank, one-branch entity to a
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    • 925 13  -  LETTER FROM UMBRIA By David Dodwell ABOVE the weariness, I suddenly found myself humming, though I couldn't at first tell what. The snows of Mount Subasio were above and behind us. All around were the wrinkled amber oak forests above Assisi: St Francis had walked this
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    • 150 13 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.3580 1.3780 Canadian dollar 1.4890 1.5090 NZ dollar 1.0250 1.0650 Sterling pound 3.3400 3.3700 US dollar 1.7390 1.7490 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign cmcy Austrian schilling 16.00 17.00
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    • 208 13 9 ...supplies clever asides to pious man with the last ll" 26 The breach Georgia and Penny minimised(3) 27 A lot of wine Len must 6 How the bowler wants to were needed to build an return from England to get the batsman deter- ancient tomb!(6) France soon(6) mined to
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    • 212 13 Singapore Outlook: Showers over several areas in the afternoon Forecast: Maximum temperature 31.(TC Assoc humidity 70% Minimum temperature 24.2"C Assoc humidity 96% Hours of sunshine 3.85 Rainfall in mm Nil Rainfall this month 65.1 Rainy days this month 6 World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland 22/16 Fair Bangkok 32/21 Fair
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  • SPORTS 1
    • 622 14 Australian Open Agencies MILD-MANNERED Patrick McEnroe picked up where his volatile brother John was forced to leave off last year, quietly reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open yesterday. The younger McEnroe, playing in only his second Grand Slam event, beat popular Australian Mark
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    • 271 14 AFP ARSENAL manager George Graham refused to get carried away after his side toppled Liverpool from the top of the English Division One football league last Saturday. A 1-0 home victory over Everton lifted the Gunners one point clear of the champion, which was
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    • 532 15 Agencies JOHN COOK, whose career was threatened by a wrist injury two years ago, surged two strokes clear of the field after three rounds of the Hawaiian Open on Saturday. Cook, 32, came in 17-un-der-par on 199 after shooting a 69 over
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 114 15 THAI snooker sensation James Wattana powered into the third round of the World Masters men's singles in Birmingham on Saturday with a 6-0 whitewash of Dutch champion Rene Dikstra. Wattana, who celebrated his 21st birthday last Wednesday with a maximum break against Welsh amateur Paul Dawkins,
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      • 112 15 PRESIDENT George Bush of the US told the National Football League on Saturday that it should go about business as usual and play yesterday's games as scheduled. At the same time, the NFL and other sports organisers continued to increase security. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said
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      • 76 15 BEN JOHNSON insists he will eventually be just as fast without steroids as he was with them. Johnson, who was stripped of his gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 for using steroids, is just beginning his comeback effort. He has finished second twice in 50 metres
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      • 82 15 DEFENDING Grand Slam rugby union champion Scotland was completely thrown off balance at the start of the 1991 campaign by a rejuvenated French side on Saturday. Scots coach lan McGeechan was clearly disappointed after the 15-9 defeat in Paris, where Scotland has not won a
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      • 70 15 THE International Amateur Athletics Federation decided on Saturday that San Sebastien in Spain will hold the 1993 Marathon World Cup. The lAAF executive committee picked the Basque city ahead of rival candidates New Delhi and Athens. The Greek capital has been asked to host the World
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      • 71 15 MELDRICK TAYLOR dominated the first six rounds, then settled in for a unanimous 12-round decision over Aaron Davis to become the new World Boxing Association welterweight title in Atlantic City on Saturday. Taylor set a furious pace early on, scoring with shots to the head and body.
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      • 85 15 JEFF FENECH surveyed his fragile hands yesterday and declared them ready to win him a fourth world boxing title. The unbeaten Australian came through his first fight in 14 months unscathed, stopping Canadian John Kahlbenn in the fourth round of 10-round lightweight bout in Adelaide on Saturday
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    • 245 15 AFP JOHN MORRIS, the batsman who has been left in the shadows during the England team's current tour of Australia, made a late bid for selection in the last two Tests with a century off Queensland in Carrara yesterday. Morris, 26. batted
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  • THE ARTS
    • 1546 17  -  Major art treasures and monuments from the early stages of mankind's culture are in danger of being damaged and even destroyed in the current Gulf War. Souren Melikian details what's at stake. Souren Melikian IHT COULD the tragedy of war be compounded by
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    • 194 17 AFP MUSEUMS and archaeological sites have been closed in Egypt until further notice, apparently as a security measure in the light of the Gulf war, correspondents said in Cairo last Saturday. Last Saturday, a handful of foreign tourists in Cairo were turned away from the "Antiquekhana",
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 1226 18  -  By Diana Oon THE LOCAL MARKET erupted into a frenzy of buying late last week on news of the outbreak of war in the Gulf. On Thursday, the Straits Times Industrials Index leaped 62.46 points to 1,211.54, its highest single-day gain for the year.
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    • 3812 18 Gr's Gr's 1990 Tel Ijwt Vol Week I jot Quote Div Di* YTd Net M Cap High Ix>w Code Company Sale +or- ("000) High Ix»w Buyer Seller Or P/E $mil INDUSTRIAL I COMMERCIAL 277 152 1000 Aetna 173 +2 291 175 164 168 173 10*1" 290 165 1142 Alex Hldgs
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 664 20 NEW YORK Analysts see the potential for a significant setback regardless of war outcome AP THE REVERBERATIONS of war in the Middle East have struck some surprising notes on Wall Street so far. For months since the Aug 2 invasion of Kuwait, economists and
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    • 926 20  -  LONDON By Ray Heath MEN AT WAR are unpredictable. Markets no less so. The volatility of the London market during the days before the UN deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait ticked away suggested that if the shooting started in earnest, the
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    • 593 20 TOKYO AFP SHARE PRICES shot up in erratic trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) last week, with the Nikkei Stock Average posting a 576.28point or 2.44 per cent weekly gain to end the week at 23,808.30 yen on Friday. Traders
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    • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
      • 194 20 SHARE PRICES rose slightly on the Hongkong stock market despite the war in the Gulf, with the Hang Seng Index gaining 13.80 points or 0.45 per cent last week to close at 3,072.17 on Friday. Average daily turnover also jumped to HK$577 million (US$74 million) from the previous week's
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      • 147 20 THE OUTBREAK of war in the Gulf boosted Australian i stock prices last week. The j main market indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, gained 23.4 points, or nearly 2 per cent, to 1.266.5. The All Industrials Index 1 lumped 51.6 points to 1.943.0 while the All Resources Index edged
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      • 89 20 TRADING on the Securities Exchange of Thailand (SET) was brisk towards the end of the week following the outbreak of war in the Gulf. The SET index jumped 51.47 points on Thursday and 24.59 points on Friday after two days of losses on the index. The jump was attributed
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      • 237 20 THE ERUPTION of war in the Gulf boosted Taiwan share prices last week after sweeping away armed conflict jitters that had depressed the bourse earlier in the week. The 220-issue Weighted Price Index recouped 120.17 points, or 3.3 per cent, including Saturday the previous week, to finish at 3.776.08
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      • 113 20 SOUTH KOREA'S bourse closed the week higher after a roller-coaster ride sparked by Gulf war reports. The broad-based Composite Stock Price Index closed Saturday's half-day session at 663.10, up 13.91 from the previous week. Average daily turnover was 14.45 million shares. On Thursday, the news of the outbreak of
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      • 112 20 THE GULF WAR sparked a late mini-rally last week on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSF.) where prices have been sliding for three weeks. The JSE index closed at 393.190 on Friday after hitting 389.224 on Wednesday before the war began, but it was still lower than the previous week's
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      • 66 20 AFP INDIA'S stock markets ended the week with no indication when trading, suspended because of the Gulf conflict, would resume and no sign that a payments crisis faced by brokers was any closer to resolution. The Bombay Stock Exchange's sensitivity index lost 16 points to close at 1.017.72 on
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    • 257 20 THK COMPANIKS ACT, CAP. MlNti KWOV. ITK I.TI) At an Kxtraordlnary General Meeting of MING KWONG PTE I.TI) duly convened and held on the 18 January. 1991 the following special resolution was passed: SPKCIAI. NKKOI.UTION That the company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to Section 290 (l)b of the Companies
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 1070 21 MBT SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market closed higher last week, thanks to the outbreak of war in the Gulf on Thursday. Instead of selling, investors returned in hordes to pick up bargains, resulting in across-the-board advances on that day. Before
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    • 3157 21 1990 I-ast Vol Wttk Net Cap High Low Company Sale *000 High Low P/K Smil INDUSTRIALS 188 170 AISB 50* 179 4 195 188 170 43.7 183.6 342 316 ASM 50« 330 4 1337 334 316 29.5 1354.6 296 280 Acidchem 288 3 144 292 280 123.8 255 250 Ajinomoto
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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        1011 23 WALL STREET on Friday followed Thursday's frenzied rally with further gains, boosted by continued optimism that the Gulf war could end soon, lower oil and buying related to options and futures expirations. Shares managed to shrug off slight early losses after prompted by news that Iraq had fired
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        908 23 UK SHARES ended a fraction weaker in nervous trading on Friday on fears the war in the Gulf could become messy and protracted. Dealers fear further Iraqi missile attacks on Israel, which could prompt retaliation and endanger the cohesion of the international alliance against Iraq. Equity analysts said Thursday's
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      • 289 23 DUTCH shares ended a volatile session mixed on Friday after Gulf rumours and the expiry of January options rocked the market, traders said. "Today's rumour-driven market was very sensitive to the options' expiry, which made it very jittery," a trader said. The CBS tendency index ended unchanged at 79.0
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      • 152 23 BELGIAN shares eased on profit-taking and the absence of institutional buying as the euphoria eased about apparent early success by Allied forces in the Gulf war, traders said. The main Brussels forward market index closed down 0.9 per cent to 4838.93, in contrast to its 6.2 per cent leap
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      • 170 23 ITALIAN shares closed lower on Friday on growing fears that the Gulf war may not end quickly, and volume was seen sharply lower from Thursday's heavy 238 billion lire, dealers said. "The buying wave sparked by the hypothesis of a quick war ended," one broker commented. "Investors were lightening
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      • 124 23 FRENCH shares ended slightly lower on Friday, erasing nearly all their losses in late trading on a news report that Israel will not retaliate against Iraq unless attacked again, traders said. After trading lower throughout the session, touching a-low of 1,540.89, the CAC-40 ended at 1,560.27, down 0.20 points
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      • 236 23 IRAQ'S attack on Israel knocked the edge oft" German shares' strong Thursday gains, but the limited scale of the attack meant the news did not provoke the sell-off some operators feared at the end of a volatile week. The 30-share DAX index ended 17.61 points lower at 1,405.06 after
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      • 301 23 A LATE fall in oil prices and some buying spurred by the expiration of futures and options in the US sent Toronto stocks rebounding to close mixed on Friday, dealers said. Enthusiasm over the UN forces' success in the Gulf war eased from Thursday, they added. The composite index
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      • 414 23 JOHANNESBURG share prices drifted lower in quiet trading on Friday afternoon as uncertain traders moved to the sidelines to await weekend developments in the Gulf war. Dealers said gold shares closed mixed in steadier conditions after Thursday's severe battering on dramatic declines in world oil and bullion prices. A
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      • 268 23 Reuter SWISS share prices closed slightly lower in moderate trading as investors were unwilling to take new positions after news of an Iraqi missile attack on Israel clouded the hopes of a fast allied victory in the Gulf war. The All-Share SPI index, which jumped 5.05 per cent on
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      • 81 23 Jan 18 floae Previous NEW YORK Dow Jones 2,646.78 2.623.51 +23.27 NYSE Financial 121.99 120.66 +1.33 SAP 500 332.23 327.97 +4.26 Turnover (million) 226 318.9 -92.9 LONDON Financial Times 30 1,654.9 1,649.6 5.3 FTSE 100 2.102.7 2,104.6 -1.9 Turnover (million) 345.6 561.6 -216.0 AMSTERDAM CBS Tendency Inde* 79.0 79.0 unch
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 411 24 NEW YORK Reuter THE US DOLLAR closed sharply lower against most major currencies on Friday, driven by stop-loss selling which took it through technical support levels. The indications of early success for the US-allies fighting to drive Iraq out of Kuwait triggered the dollar's descent earlier
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    • 784 24 ASIAN CURRENCIES AFP THE US DOLLAR fluctuated wildly against major Asian currencies last week, as events in the Gulf dictated buying trends. Substantial gains made by the greenback following the first USled strike on Iraq eroded amid signs of a brief war. But the
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    • 395 24 Cross rates Jan 19 US$ SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.7410 2.7215 1.4995 132.50 0.5136 1.2590 1.2837 1.6807 SS 0.5744 1.5632 0.8613 0.7611 0.2950 0.7231 0.7373 0.9653 MS 0.3674 63.97 0.5510 0.4869 ***** 0.4626 0.4717 0.6176 Dm 0.6669 1.1611 1.8149 88 36 0.3425 0.8396
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    • 544 24 Interbank rates S$ Bid Offer Overnight 4 4 1/8 1-month 4 3/8 4 1/2 2-month 4 7/16 4 9/16 3-month 4 1/2 4 5/8 Overnight mode: 4-1/8 US$ High I"** 7 days 7 9/16 7 1/16 1 month 7 5/8 7 5/16 2 months 7 5/8 7 3/8
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    • 260 24 Reuter BRITAIN'S proposals for a hard ECU administered by a European Monetary Fund could eventually form the basis of full economic and monetary union, said Bank of England Governor Robin Leigh-Pemberton. "Our proposals should be attractive to those keen to
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    • 433 24 Reuter THE Bank of Montreal's prime rate cut to 12.25 per cent from 12.50 per cent was foreshadowed by the Bank of Canada's easing of overnight call loan rate last week and other banks should soon follow suit, traders
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    • 444 24 GOLD FINANCIAL FUTURES REPORT WAR broke out in the Arabian Gulf on Thursday morning local time and spot gold spiked instantly to the week's high of U*****.25/ U*****.25. The spread widened to US$3.OO per trade and this quickly tamed overenthusiastic bulls. However, hopes for
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    • 302 24 IMM Jan 18 dcutschemabk Open High Low Sett Vol Op/lnt Mar 91 0.6578 0.6673 0.6578 0.6670 41,750 54,610 Jun 91 0.6543 0.6635 0.6543 0.6633 EURODOLLAR Open High Low Sett Vol Op/lnt Mar 91 92 66 92.78 92 66 92.77 158,170 619.929 Jun 91 92.79 92.90 92.79 92.89 JAFAflESE
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 413 25 AP OPEC has yet to react to the outbreak of hostilities in the Gulf. But while oil prices have dropped sharply, analysts predicted the cartel is unlikely to curb its gushing output soon. "I don't think anybody is going to cut back until
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    • 301 25 Reuter WAR in the Gulf will have only a limited impact on the French cereals market, which is far more concerned about turmoil in the Soviet Union, traders said. Most French grain is going to the Soviet Union and not the Gulf, they said.
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    • 897 25 REPORTS AFP THE LAUNCHING of the Desert Storm operation was welcomed with relief last week by commodity markets, its success convincing traders that the allied forces would win a rapid victory. The Thursday night Iraqi attack on Israel then dampened euphoria. Brent crude
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  • 1174 25 Rubber US (h» H») S cents/kg Int 1 RSS Close Jan 14 151.25 Jan 15 154.00 Jan 16 154.50 Jan 17 152.50 Jan 18.... 152.00 KWtlJ (t* In Wm) M cents/kg Int 1 RSS Close Jan 14 236.00 Jan 15 238.50 Jan 16 238.50 Jan 17 237.50 Jan 18
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  • 478 26  -  Proposed downstream projects would bring investment to USs2b By Lilian Ang TWO key downstream operators in the Pulau Ayer Merbau petrochemical complex are planning to invest some US$45O million in new projects to link up with a second complex now under study by the
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  • 202 26 AFP IRAN'S national oil company and the Qatar government have made arrangements with two major Japanese oil distributors to shuttle oil to Japanese tankers near the Gulf war zone, company officials said on Saturday. Officials of Showa Shell Sekiyu KK, a leading Japanese oil
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  • 236 26 Tokyo to offer US$ 6b US$ 10b more aid The Gulf War Agencies JAPAN is planning to offer US$6 billion to US$lO billion in additional aid to multinational forces fighting Iraq. Quoting government sources, Japanese news agency Jiji Press said last Saturday that the aid would be "at least US$6
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  • 136 26 NYT IN EFFORTS to minimise the impact of the Gulf War on their business activities, Japanese companies are taking precautionary measures such as cancelling business trips to foreign countries and holding off new shipments to the Middle East. While firms involved in
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  • 203 26 NYT SAUDI ARABIA'S highest religious authority has issued a decree sanctioning a holy war against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein by all Muslims and "those assisting them" to evict his forces from Kuwait. The fatwa, or religious decree, authorising the jihad, or holy war,
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  • 378 26 NYT THE US trade deficit fell 12 per cent in November, to US$9.7 billion, the Commerce Department reported on Friday, as the weakening economy dampened demand for oil and other imports. Even though oil prices were still rising during the month, the nation's petroleum
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  • 164 26 Reuter ECONOMIST Nikolai Petrakov says Moscow's bid for free market reform failed because of "unrestrained populism" and a rouble overload in the economy. In an interview published last Saturday, Mr Petrakov confirmed he had quit as economic adviser to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Interviewed by
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  • 364 26 AP SOVIET and US negotiators will make a final effort to agree on a treaty reducing stockpiles of long-range nuclear weapons. The pact is to be signed at a Moscow summit next month if US-Soviet relations aren't further strained. The Soviets will
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    • 90 26 PiageT miujm en imurww, imjts m GFMVK ————I jr. > t. buhie The Soul Cages bod}' lies open in the fisherman's \ard Like the side of a ship where the iceberg rips One less soul in the soul cages One last curse on the fisherman's lips The Wailing Is Finally
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  • Shipping Times
    • 336 27 SHIPMENTS to North America will cost slightly more from next month when members of the Trans-pacific Westbound Rate Agreement (TWRA) raise their bunker surcharges. "Amidst uncertainty following the outbreak of fighting in the Gulf, TWRA lines held to their surcharge formula and adopted only a
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    • 264 27 Reuter INDIA has told foreign airlines they cannot refuel in the country and has slashed allocations of aviation fuel for its own planes. Civil Aviation Minister Harmohan Dhawan said on Friday. Foreign planes will be allowed to land at Indian airports hut
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    • 203 27 NYT DEREGULATION of Australia's airlines has meant lower tares on selected routes, but the major carriers, Australian and Ansett, say visitors from the United States save almost as much by reserving flights in Australia when purchasing their international ticket before leaving
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    • 381 27  -  By Selva Kumar A MAJOR shipping conference with nine lines plying between the Far East and the Gulf has decided to double its war risk and bunker surcharges. From Wednesday the Ja-pan-Asian Gulf Conference (Jappercon) will impose a temporary additional risk surcharge (TARS) of US$5OO
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    • 524 27 Reuter SAUDI ARABIA'S main Gulf oil terminals remained open on Friday to load vital crude and refined products, and shipping in the waterway was not disrupted, oil industry and shipping sources said. Oil executives said another big Gulf oil producer, Iran,
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    • 169 27 FOLEC Communications, an associate company of Steamers Maritime Holdings, has clinched the exclusive distributorship for Northen Telecom's new digital telephone system. In a statement last week, Toronto-based Northern Telecom said its latest system, which offers sophisticated large PBX and ISDN-like features, should become the
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    • 177 27 Lloyd's List ONE-THIRD of the world tanker fleet is engaged on long-term charter, following extensive period charter activity in 1990. London broker Howard Houlder Partners Ltd calculates that in 1990, a total of 31.7 million tonnes deadweight was fixed for periods of
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      • 34 27 Selva Kumar looks at the unresolved dispute between the FASC and the FEFC over the Penang Transport Additional which has dragged on for more than a year now Page 2
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      • 68 27 THE International Organisation (IMO) has called for member nations to investigate the recent rash of losses of bulk carriers. At a meeting of the IMO containers and cargoes sub-committee one of the technical bodies which acts as a custodian of the IMO bulk
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      • 59 27 DELIVERY of the world's largest cruise ship, the 2,766passenger Monarch of the Seas, will be delayed until November because of damage by fire last month in the French shipyard where she is being built. The ship ordered by the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line was to have
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      • 64 27 ARIK A RAD has not slept in 48 hours. He runs US operations for the company that has spread the security system of El Al, the Israeli airline, to airlines throughout the world. With war threatening in the Middle East, the company. International Consultants
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      • 56 28 SECOND-HAND tonnage brokers reported the sale of the Denise, bulk carrier of 19,344 tonnes dw and built in 1971, to undisclosed interests for about US$l.35 million. UK buyers are said to have paid in excess of US$6 million for the car carrier Amoroso, of 3,545
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      • 52 28 FOREIGN SHIP orders received by Japanese yards in December were unchanged from November at four vessels but rose in tonnage terms to 247,300 gross registered tons (grt) from 145,900 grt, the Japan Ship Exporters' Association (JSEA) said. This compares with 18 ships of 813,600 grt in
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      • 63 28 UAL CORP said the US Department of Transportation and Japanese officials reached an interim agreement on its Chicago-Tokyo route that will allow the carrier to continue service until March 2. UAL spokesman Joe Hopkins said the agreement was reached overnight and that US and Japanese
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      • 65 28 AN UNIDENTIFIED man, saying he spoke on behalf of the extremist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a Firebomb attack on PanAm's Turin offices, ANSA news agency reported. The man made the claim in fluent Italian in a telephone call
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      • 65 28 ALCATEL Cable, a unit of French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel NV, said it had won contracts to supply the Albertville Winter Olympics and Euro Disneyland with cables and transmission equipment. Alcatel Cable will supply and install fibre optic equipment needed to transmit broadcasts of ski races
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      • 65 28 FORD Concessionaires Sdn Bhd (fc) hopes to increase the sale of Ford vehicles in Sarawak by 50 per cent to more than 300 units this year. The company said it would be able to enhance the sale of Ford vehicles in Sarawak when the company
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      • 75 28 AIRLINE unions ended a pay strike which had crippled the Romanian state airline Tarom and forced it to suspend all flights for the past month, the state news agency Rompres said. The agency said the strike was called off after talks between unions and the Transport
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    • 1322 28  -  Selva Kumar looks at the unresolved dispute between the FASC and the FEpC over the Penang Transport Additional which has dragged on for more than a year now Selva Kumar The tug-of-WAR between the Federation of Asean Shippers' Council (FASC) and the Far Eastern Freight Conference
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    • 762 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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    • 11840 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. Advaneed dates are published for a maximum
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      • 528 43 wm Voy No Bartti AnM Departure i Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Depertire Itoppd Wh Baiyinshan arm 1/91 K32 alongside alongside 23.01/1500 Sembewani I 1/91 S05 alongside 2401/2300 Catamarca 2 36EB CIO 21.01/2300 Arab Bree« 57 S01 2001/2230 2101/0200 Sg Of Flower *****1 (P K29 alongside 2101/2300
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      • 1260 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT Fa COWTMNERS fM 1ft CABCO |.j. KiCOfu tXXJWnf/MHnCf WTO SNp Voy No Etb/Btr Pwtod From To Fran ACX Lotus 88 22/1500 1 20/1500 20/1659 20/1900 3 21/0700 21/1159 21/1400 4 21/1200 21/1459 21/1700 M Staimah 76 22/1800 1 20/1500 20/1659 20/1900 3 21/0700 21/1159 21/1400
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      • 266 43 ratling Port Berth h Butterworth on Jan 19: 1: C Eregli; 2: Malayan Success. Bangkhunprom; 3: ml; 4: Sea Leopard: 5: Uni Spring; 6: ml. Parang Wharf: NB: ml; CB: Bintang Mekar; S8: ml. BCT: Bl: Meres; BN: San Ward 11; l/B: ml. VOIP: ml. Due on
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    • 925 43 CHARTERING on the dry cargo freight market remained quiet on Thursday with rates steady to Firmer especially in the timecharter sector, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index was unchanged at 1,443. The US Gulf to Continent sub-in-dex was also unchanged at U5514.94 basis light grain. The key US
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    • 311 44 Lloyd's List THE International Organisation (IMO) has called for member nations to investigate the recent rash of losses of bulk carriers. At a meeting of the IMO containers and cargoes subcommittee one of the technical bodies which acts as a custodian of the
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    • 503 44 NYT ARIK ARAD has not slept in 48 hours. He runs US operations for the company that has spread the security system of F.I Al, the Israeli airline, to airlines throughout the world. With war threatening in the Middle East, the compa-ny,-International Consultants on
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    • 399 44 Lloyd's List DELIVERY of the world's largest cruise ship, the 2,766passenger Monarch of the Seas, will be delayed until November because of damage by fire last month in the French shipyard where she is being built. The ship ordered by the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line was
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    • 1147 30 ROTTERDAM/ VOY NO SPOHfcJp KELANG SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG HHEMERHAVEN ANTWERP LE HAVRE BENAVON 98/508 22M I 8/2 Jo' 2 ]3'2 MONTE ROSA 11/507 24 1 18/2 |2'2 2 KASUGA 13/511 271 13/2 J|'2 BREMEN EXPRESS 01/510 31/1 25/2 19/2 '8 2 LIVERPOOi BAY 03/514 3/2 20/2 23/2 25/2 KATSURAGI 04/513 7/2
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    • 1777 31 zzjgSteamers Maritime IfoJdingsTtdj ■TWSTRAITS SHIPPING! ■Mk **Vr Singapore U Briwl. Emi Malaysia. I Containers Ik hi I *>» Ho PKlar,| S I*l e S'ior. H'Sotf B'-avwi R',!<im Let arriPTS DUE SAILS I BINAVON «.WI ♦8AR!?0I t* 02 IMB 1?« «/-n I monte nos* r. w 74.01 no? do? 1102 i;a?
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    • 712 32 Hi CR NBR **********0-0 EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO EUROPE VSt.VOY TPORE RDAM ADAM H BURG BREMEN ANTWERP MA TAR AM, 28MB 30/1 8/3 13,3 16/3 20/3 TRIAS UNITY OCWB 4/3 6,4 12/4 17/4 21/4 FAST TRANSIT TIME ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/CONTAINERISED CARGO Subject lo Inducement. Also accepting cargo to Casablanca. Port Said.
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    • 1683 33 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINIiArUKt itL: uvnii nu: izjw/«uaajl) > BOOKINGS: i UK/EUROPE SERVICE— *****19 USA SERVICE— *****16 m 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 k! P (O3) E *****3^ H p D Kelang-(03)
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    • 1122 33 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKING: *****51/ *****64/ *****59 (FESCO LINE) ENQUIRIES: *****33 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 (REGULAR INDEPENDENT SERVICE) DISCHARGING FROM EASTBOUND LOADING FOR WESTBOUND VESSELS VOTAGt |SPO«f |WtH H«OWC~ VOTACE SEP HE PHLANC HBURC S HAVEN TILBURT
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    • 1613 34 I BK LINE KAWASAKI KISLN RAISHA. LTD. j] EXPORT N. AMERICA PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST IMPORT N. AMERICA PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST j FEEDER VESSEL VOY -INOO *P* PNG SGP MOTHER VESSEL VOY LB OAK CHI NYC L Y °f? LSOSS HONS GATE BRIDGE U 2*l .'4 1 261 BROOKLYN BRIDGE 17 l/ff 20
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    • 1358 34 PHIII-OMCNT UN€5 PT€ LTD 108 ROBINSON ROAD #0/ 00 GMG BUILDING SINGAPORE Oih f TEL *****22/*****69 *****00 TELEX RS ***** PHILI FAX <>R5€76/*****38 1 f* jj# BY AIR. LAND OR SEA WE TAKE ON THE WORLD FOR YOU MEMBER OF SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION fejihlJ 26 JAN MONTREAL, OTTAWA, TORONTO.
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    • 1485 35 SS3S mj/rn pacific international lines (PTE) ltd Mmkl PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street #03-00, Singapore 0106. JAKARTA I I BANGKOK I VESSEL VOV SIN JUT SIN VESSEL VOV SIN BKK SIN EDEN 9103 21/1 23(1 27/1 SEA GLORY 9103 24/1 27/1 31/1 EDEN 9104 27/1 29/1 2/2 MAI HUI 9103
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    • 1125 35 f BEN LINE CONTAINERS LTD 200 Cantonment Road Tel: *****22 #13-05 Southpoint Fax: *****63 Singapore 0208. Telex: RS ***** EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK/CONTINENT VESSEL [VOY SPORE PKLANG SHAMPTON| HAMBURG BHAVEN R OAM LHAVRE BenavonT 98/508 2271 Via BAR 7/2 10/2 12/2 Monte Rosa 11/507 24/1 18/2 12/2 11/2 17/2
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    • 345 35 mm, MYANMA Ipißk FIVE STAR UNE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.KIg Pen P.Gdg PAGAN VI66W mPt 2 *,26 jf„ LOIKAN VI6BW 23/2* Jan HPA AN VIS9W 27/29 Jan PINYA VII3W 22/23 Jan PATMIEN VIO9W i/12 Feb 4/S Feb THE BANK LINE (A service of Andrew Weir
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    • 897 38 INFSIV INTEGRATED CONTAINER SERVICE FROM FAR EAST TO NORTH CONTINENT OUTBOUND SIN FIX BRV ROM ANI HBG MICKLENBURC WMIOS 25,1 23/2 72/2 2S/2 2*12 20i2 PANAMA SEN WFIOS »1 2«/2 2212 21/2 2S/2 EUROPEAN SEN WFIO/ 5/2 »/3 2/3 2»)2 lftJ BRANOENBURG *MlO6 S/2 6/3 S/3 >13 W TO EAST
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    • 1070 38 TEL: *****88/*****22 OUR CONSOLIDATION SERVICES TO: EUROPE 20/01 ft 02/02 LONDON ROTTERDAM FELIXSTOWE ANTWERP SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG MANCHESTER LE HARVE AND ALL EUROPE INLAND DESTINATIONS FAR EAST PORT KELANG 25/01 A 1/02 MANILA 26/01 4 2/02 F>£NANG 25/01 1/02 BUSAN 26/01 2/02 BANGKOK 25/01 29/01 TOKYO 24/01 31/01 HONG KONG 27/01
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    • 265 38 XWtUtBH;T:Mmi;IiHL'H H LOAOINC FOR VESSEL SPORE CBO DSN BAIRES MVIKO *10 STS WIT PAGUA KOSIWftNt 1/1 M UK OPT V «5012 DISCHARGING f M BRAZIL VESSEL SPORE MUG «Wl KEE »of< mo K0« hostween V »1»1 1 Hi 11(1 I*l 2»1 Regular BBulk and Container Service Direct to Turkey, Red
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    • 1294 38 W CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING COMPANY FULL CONTAINER LINER SERVICE TFI fx T r L s SiTcosMiP 2. MISTRI ROAD. HMC BUILDING !t FAX *****66 #15-00, SINGAPORE 0207 CABLE: COSTARLINE CR NO: **********0K1 FWO»r EUROPE VESSEL VOY SOP FIX ROT HAM AWT OK* VtSStL/VOY FLX ROT HAM ANT WW SGP BEAUTY
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  • Page 39 Advertisements
    • 831 39 NIHON-ASIA CR *****8400Q0N TEL: *****22 FAX: *****86 Competitive Rates!! KTA USA All IPI IKslns 25/1, 1/2 j j EUROPE all Ports 26/1, 2/2 BANGKOK 23/1, 27/1 HONC.KONCi/CIUNA 2fi/l, 29/1 SYI), MEL, ADEL, RRIS 24/1, 28/1 EREMANTLE 25/1, 1/2 MANILA 25/1, 1/2 PKLtI/PENANG 25/1, 2/1 Port Kelang Branch Tel: *****21/2/3 Fax:
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    • 287 39 MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD TEL: *****33 (12 Lines) Q FAX: *****15/*****03 1 TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) j \jsf\ ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES (National Lines of Ethiopia) a ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL VESSFI VOY ETA ItOADING FOfl SPO«E ABBAT iflON/ 7/VYB 5.02 DARESSAL AAM MOMBASA DJIBOUTI ASSAB MASSAWA NE
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    • 783 39 MASKAPAI PELAYARAN P«PULAU LAUT FULLY CONTAINERISED REGIONAL FEEDER SERVICE TWICE WEEKLY/WEEKLY FIXED DAY SCHEDULE BETWEEN THE PORTS OF S PORE, INDONESIA, MALAYSIA THAILAND ALSO ACCEPTING LCL CARGO TO ALL DESTINATIONS WE SERVE FOR BOOKINGS CALL SPECARGO FORWARDING AT TEL: *****55 SINGAPORE INDONESIA SERVICE VSL VOY SIN JKT PAJ SIN TANAH
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    • 589 39 BANGKOK CEBU/MANILA VESSEL VOY SINGAPORE BANGKOK VESSEL |vOY S PORE CEBU MANILA MAHA BHUM* 43N_ Mon In Pt Thur 24/1 SO STAR 04A 24/1 30/1 1/2 NANTA BHUM 25N_ Wed 23/1 Sat 26/1 KITI BHUM OSB 31/1 6/2 8/2 JENLINK Fri 25/1 Mon 28/1 SD STAR 06A 7/2 13/2 15/2
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    • 412 39 TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND RTSL EiU [Tiw E!b Is* liuci [NPE |P CHAUI E HUOIG 264* 1/2 ia 14(2 U2 23/2 2W 5/2 BRUSSEL 2M vii 24f2 1/3 *3 1M 13(3 C VEROLME 2M ~3/3 100 IV3 263 ?V3 273 300 ANTWERPEN 2W VH SI »3 14 il "ii»4 Iw 7
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    • 1201 40 A MAC-NELS SINGAPORE EXPORT TEL *****22 IMPORT TEL *****02 TEL (04) *****6 |KK TEL (088) *****0, TAWAU TEL (089) *****9 I lip KELANG TEL (03) *****/7 IkuCHING TEL (082) *****31 SKAN TEL (089)*****2 l~K"~/\~ J J BAHRU TEL (07)*****2 IsißU TEL (084 *****2' LABUAN TEL (087) *****9 TEL (21) *****32
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    • 946 41 XSxv COMPANIA PERUANA OE VAPORES "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/FCL/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CALLAO. MATARANI, ILO* OTHER PERUVIAN PORTS* WITH T/S AT KOBE ON CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING. Penang* P Kelang Singapore E'Msia THOMASEVERETT 29(30 Jan 31 Jan/01 Feb KARABIEVERETT 02/04 Feb 06/07 Feb ROSEEVERETT 13/15 Feb 16/18 Feb 19/21
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    • 579 42 GB SHIPPING MARINE SERVICES NORTH QUEENSLAND/PAPUA NEW GUINEA SERVICES CONTAMER/LCL/BREAKRULK SERVICE "ANK6" SERVICE )AK SPC TWIUE V2ISB 30(1 Vi 11/2 I*2 l 2 MB LAI CARGO TSHIP SAN iUAN POM BUNKER SURCHARGE EFFECTIVE VI9SB TEU USO 53.50 B/BULK USD 5.00 LCL USD 350 SUBJECT REVIEW bookings accepted for east kalwwatan
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