The Business Times, 21 May 1991

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1 48 The Business Times
  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 16/12/90 Tuesday, May 21, 1991 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 64 1 WASHINGTON The Bush Administration faces a second round in its fight with Congress over bank reform when a House panel meets today to consider controversial proposals for restructuring the financial services industry. The Administration wants to remove decades-old barriers which prevent
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    • 32 1 TAIPEI Screaming demands for Taiwan's Premier Hau Pei-tsun to resign, more than 10,000 people marched through central Taipei yesterday in protest against the arrest of four political activists.
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    • 32 1 NOEL HAMPERS Gifts, a homegrown company selling hampers and gifts, is going regional the franchise way. Its first franchise will be in operation in Malaysia by year-end. Page 2
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    • 20 1 AUSTRALIA'S Northern Territory has invited Singapore companies to invest in the state's oil refinery in Darwin. Page 7
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    • 21 1 AMERICAN officials are stepping up efforts for USMexican talks to forge the world's largest free-trade zone Page 8
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    • 29 1 A SENIOR adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev has supported a proposal for the seven industrialised democracies to provide financial aid to help stabilise the Soviet economy. Page 10
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    • 13 1 EGYPTIANS feel let down by the Gulf states Page 13
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    • 16 1 PHILIPS plans to set the standard in digital compact cassettes Page 15
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    • 11 1 MARTIN SCORSESE talks about his mentors Page 19
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    • 26 1 THAILAND'S rapidly expanding Bangkok Airways has plans to become the next Asian domestic carrier to go regional. Shipping l imes Pg 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 44 1 THE New York stock market wavered in a narrow range yesterday morning as investors awaited signs of the next move in interest rates. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials inched up 3.13 points to 2,889.76 in the first hour of trading.
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    • 25 1 LONDON shares were higher at midday yesterday. At about 1100 GMT, the Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100share index was up 10.3 points at 2,464.2.
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    • 26 1 SINGAPORE AIRLINES and Japan Airlines will each acquire 10 per cent of the paidup capital of Singapore Aviation Services Co Pte Ltd Page 3
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    • 20 1 AMERICAN fund management giant Fidelity Investments has blocked First Pacific's privatisation offer for Imagineering Technology Page 4
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    • 23 1 OUB's merchant banking arm, OUB Australia Ltd, achieved a 71 per cent rise in 1990 pretax profit Page 6
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    • 16 1 KEPPEL SHIPYARD has dismissed claims of negligence from the owner of Haven Page 3
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Monday Change BT-MGA 737.43 +6.97 Kuala Lumpur ....583.45 +0.09 Tokyo 25,523.03 -178.91 Hongkong 3,917.09 +34.25 Sydney 1,531.2 +0.9 Friday Change New York 2.886.63 -7.38 London 2,453.9 -18.0
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    • 22 1 Exchange rates USS SS 1.7770 100 Yen SS 1.2798 MS SS 0.6420 Money market rates Overnight 5 +1/4 3-month 5-1/8 unch
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    • 37 1 London Gold AM fix US$353.90 -USS1.05 Rubber S'poreJune.. I45.50*/kg -0.50 M'sia June 225.50*/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 41 tonnes -4 Spot MS 15.49 /kg unch Crude palm oil Turnover 1,335 lots -140 June MS769 /tonne -3
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  • 533 1  -  The Pacific Economic Co-operation Conference By Chuang Peck Ming DO NOT take it for granted that the 21st century will be the Pacific Century, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong cautioned yesterday. It may turn out to be the century of Europe. But
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  • 266 1 Bernama JOHOR BARU The Johor government is having doubts whether the Ms 3 billion (about 551.92 billion) Desaru International Resort will ever be completed by the project developers. State Secretary Datuk Abdul Rahim Ramli said yesterday the government was now thinking of taking
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  • 405 1  -  By Kenneth James IN A spirited defence of her country's suggestion for an East Asia Economic Grouping (EAEG), Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry Rafidah Aziz yesterday proposed a test "to clear any misconceptions, or misinterpretations". Addressing more than 300 delegates
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  • 439 1  -  Urbanised Singapore will prove that it still has a lot to offer By Hong Lee Tiam SINGAPORE as a destination for nature lovers is not as preposterous an idea as it sounds. In fact, this is exactly what the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 329 2  -  Clinical trials to begin next month By Claire Leow WO biotechnology firms, tech Medical Products of mgapore and Lupin Laboranics of India, will jointly vclop and market a thirdneration of Hepatitis B ccine in India, where the case is estimated
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    • 286 2 ML Chartered Semiconducr group has re-organised its potations with two entities, ..cli with independent iden- ies and management struc<res. Both firms have plans for v w products within the year, press release stated. The wafer fabrication lant, set up in 1987 as a »int venture between Singai
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    • 130 2 MY SINGAPORE. That's the nation-building theme for this year as the promotional activities veer away from the national "we" and "our" to a more personalised level. The Ministry of Defence is behind a six-month long mass communications programme focussed on "My Singapore" and aimed at
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    • 281 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming A HOME-GROWN firm selling hampers and gifts is going regional the franchise way. Noel Hampers Gifts said in a statement yesterday that its first franchise will be in operation in Malaysia by year-end. The move into Malaysia is only the
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    • 253 2 WORK to convert facilities at Senoko Power Station to take in natural gas piped from Malaysia will cost the Public Utilities Board (PUB) a total of $160 million. The entire project, due for completion in 1993, is aimed basically at modifying
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 90 2 THE RE-TENDER of three Sago Street shophouses has fetched bids averaging $11,209 psm, up from $9,632 psm during the first tender in December 1990. A total of 64 bids were received this round. The highest bid received for one of the units was $1.18 million, which
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      • 40 2 THE British Jewellery and Giftware Federation will take part in the 2nd Singapore International Gift Fair *91 to be held at the World Trade Centre from today to Saturday. Fourteen British companies will be taking part.
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      • 72 2 LIVI KAH NGAM says that it has changed the name of its currently dormant Singapore-incorporated Allamshirc Pte Ltd to LKN Management Services Pte Ltd. The authorised and paid-up capital of LKN Management Services, a whollyowned subsidiary of LKN Construction, remain unchanged at $25,000 and $2 respectively. The
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      • 42 2 FOURTEEN students from the Institute of Education's School of Physical Education will visit the United Kingdom on a three-week study tour. The group will visit mountaineering. outdoor education and sea sports centres in north Wales l and the Birmingham area.
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 371 3  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Airlines was being cautious when it projected that a full recovery would only occur in the later part of the current financial year, SIA managing director Dr Cheong Choon Kong said yesterday. Dr Cheong also said the recent decision by
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    • 231 3 SINGAPORE and the US together accounted for $5.8 million or 86 per cent of the pre-tax losses of fastfood and trading group Inno-Pacific Holdings. The losses were due largely to pizza chain Shakey's, which was described in the company's latest annual report as
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    • 845 3  -  MARKET TALK Bv Chew Eng Han UOB chairman Wee Cho Yaw's turnaround from his previously pessimistic outlook for the group is not merely a consequence of a more favourable economic climate developing after the ceasefire in the Gulf. After a 5.7 per cent
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    • 486 3  -  Two airlines help S'pore Aerospace to boost its share of maintenance market By Selva Kumar IN A MOVE to boost its share of the commercial aircraft maintenance market, defence-related Singapore Aerospace has enlisted the support of Singapore Airlines and Japan Airlines. Singapore Airlines and Japan
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    • 397 3  -  By I Rahita Elias SINGAPORE'S Keppel Shipyard has dismissed claims of negligence from the owner of Haven, labelling the move as a "negotiating ploy" aimed at getting the yard to settle the repair bill. Haven's owner, Londonbased Troodos Shipping Trading, has indicated that a
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 75 3 KUALA LUMPUR Pan Malaysia Rubber Industries Bhd has reported a 77 per cent increase in group after-tax profit to MsB.oB million for the year ended March 31, 1991, from M 54.57 million previously. While gross revenue was 42 per cent higher at $1.50
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      • 61 3 KUALA LUMPUR Pan Malaysia Cement Works Bhd, the cement-based associated company of Malayan United Industries, reported a 6 per cent rise in group after-tax profit to M 528.92 million for the year ended March 31, 1991, from M 527.23 million previously. Group pre-tax profit
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      • 58 3 KUALA LUMPUR Hong Leong Co (Malaysia) Bhd, will retain Nanyang's present management, Hong Leong Co senior group managing director James Lim Cheng Poh said. Hong Leong's acquisition of a 20.3 per cent stake in Nanyang Press (Malaya) Bhd last November made it the largest single shareholder in
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      • 88 3 KUALA LUMPUR Shares of Insas Bhd fell yesterday when the company resumed trading. It was suspended on Friday prior to announcing a restructuring scheme. Insas plans to cut its paid-up capital of 110.19 million 50 cent shares to 110.19 million 25 cent shares. It had
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      • 24 3 SESDAQ company, Wepco Ltd, said its audit committee comprises Messrs Ng Kah Tie, Wee Koon San and Dr Koh Lam Son.
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      • 28 3 WEE EE CHEONG, the son of United Overseas Bank chairman Wee Cho Yaw, has been named an additional director of United Overseas Land.
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 491 4 Privatisation offer for Imagineering Technology said to be inadequate HONGKONG US fund management giant Fidelity Investments has blocked First Pacific's privatisation offer for Imagineering Technology. The First Pacific offer for the Australian computer products distributor is seen to be inadequate by Fidelity, the South China
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    • 283 4 Reuter SYDNEY National Foods Ltd, the company to be floated after buying the food assets of Industrial Equity Ltd (lEL), is forecast to earn a net profit of A 530.67 million (5542.6 million) in its first year of operation, according to
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    • 146 4 BANGKOK Princess Grand Co Ltd, an affiliate of the Dusit Thani Group, has joined local businessmen in a 350 million baht (5524.2 million) investment to build a first-class, 300-room hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima, the Bangkok Post reported. The firm entered the project as it
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    • 335 4 BANGKOK A sharp rise in land prices has emerged as a new problem for the skytrain mass transit project with the cost of expropriation now estimated at 25 billion baht (S$ 1.7 billion) to 35 billion baht, up five to seven times from
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    • 152 4 Reuter SYDNEY Australian Gas Light Co Ltd has tapped Asian capital markets for the first time with the signing in Hongkong of a US$2OO million (*****.6 million) transferable loan certificate (TLC) facility with Euronote option. Arranger ANZ McCaughan Securities Ltd yesterday said the facility
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    • 185 4 Interestßonus Month continues as our US$ rate keeps rising. The month of May is a rather deposits of over US$5O,OOO was 5.94%*. special one at Citibank we've called it So if this sounds like a great deal for Interestßonus Month. And we re offering you why not contact us today.
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 691 5 Securities and Exchange Commission likely to approve request NYT WASHINGTON The Securities and Exchange Commission was expected to take an important step last night towards 24-hour trading of stocks in the US, approving a request by the New York Stock Exchange
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    • 382 5 Reuter LONDON A mixture of economic recession, Gulf War effects and group reorganisation is set to depress halfyear profits at Britain's biggest brewer and the world's number one hotelier Bass pic. Analysts have forecast pre-tax profits for the 28 weeks to April
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    • 330 5 Reuter SEOUL Daewoo Telecom Ltd, a member of the Daewoo Group, will launch US$5O million (SsB9 million) of convertible bonds on the Euromarket on May 29, officials said. The Securities Exchange Commission in Seoul approved the issue on May 4 on condition that
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 91 5 LONDON A trade union with members at Imperial Chemical Industries pic said it is preparing to fight any takeover bid launched by Hanson pic. The Manufacturing Science Finance union, representing 11,000 ICI employees, is enlisting the help of 35 Members of Parliament
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      • 77 5 TOKYO Japan's biggest chemical company Mitsubishi Kasei Corp has reported a 2.8 per cent rise in its net profit from a year earlier to 18.5 billion yen (***** million) in the year to March. Sales grew 5.2 per cent to 770 billion yen in the
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      • 61 5 AMSTERDAM Dutch retail and services group Vendex International said it filed for US Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday for its loss-making US home improvement retailer subsidiai7 Mr Goodbuys. Vendex spokesmah Peter van Bakkum said on Saturday the decision followed 200 million guilders' of
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      • 71 5 SAN FRANCISCO The companies in the closely watched copyright lawsuit filed by Apple Computer Inc against Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co have discussed settling the case, according to a court filing. However, the companies said that "there are no foreseeable prospects for a settlement". The brief mention
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 109 6 TOKYO The Bank of Japan has announced a record interim pre-tax profit of 1.375 trillion yen (S$ 17.8 billion) in the six months to March. It was more than double the profit of 673 billion yen in the preceding six months, or the
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      • 74 6 BEIJING China's currency has been marginally devalued again, bringing its total decline to about 2 per cent since a policy of small adjustments went into effect last month. The State Administration of Exchange Control, an arm of the central bank, said the yuan was set
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      • 113 6 MANILA Ayala Corp real estate subsidiary Ayala Land Inc (ALI) said its share offer due yesterday was postponed to May 28 to avoid overlapping with another company's public offer and to allow the market to absorb one offer at a time. The deferral would
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      • 66 6 ISLAMABAD The Afghan resistance opened its first bank in an area controlled by rebel leader Ahmed Shah Masood, the rebel publication Afghanews reported. Commander Masood inaugurated the bank, in the Takhar province capital of Taloqan in northeast Afghanistan, on April 22, the bi-monthly newspaper said. The
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    • 476 6  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY THE merchant banking arm of Overseas Union Bank, OUB Australia Ltd, posted a 71 per cent rise in 1990 pretax profit despite difficult economic conditions. In line with expectations, it announced that pre-tax operating profit rose to A
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    • 325 6 BANGKOK Swiss Bank Corporation, a triple A-rated bank, is negotiating with a local broker for a joint venture in a bid to enhance its Bangkok representation in the equity business, according to a senior executive of the bank. The bank, which
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    • 261 6 Reuter WASHINGTON The White House says no decision has been made on whether to rename Alan Greenspan as head of the powerful Federal Reserve Board, but many political and financial analysts said they would be shocked if he is not reappointed. Despite past criticism from
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    • 146 6 Reuter TOKYO Major Japanese banks are likely to announce poor results for the year ended March 31, with drops in current profit ranging from 20 to 30 per cent due to higher interest rates and Calls in stock and bond prices. The financial daily
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    • 524 6 IHT HONGKONG The Association of International Bond Dealers has renamed itself the International Securities Market Association at its annual meeting last week. The change should have been a reaffirmation of the evolution of the organisation, but instead exposed a rift
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  • THE REGION
    • 333 7  -  From S N Vasuki in PERTH AUSTRALIA'S Northern Territory government is targeting Singapore companies to invest in the state's first oil refinery. A delegation of senior officials from the territory's Department of Mines and Energy are currently visiting Singapore to meet
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    • 299 7 Reuter SYDNEY The head of qqc of Australia's leading banks said on Sunday that he saw little to indicate an economic recovery before late 1992 despite the government's expectation that the recession would hit bottom later this year. "Nothing appearing that I can
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    • 262 7 AFP MANILA The Export-Im-port Bank of Japan has warned the Philippines not to expect further loans if the country were to seek a debt write-off from official creditors. A Philippine finance department official said that an Eximbank letter, sent to Finance Secretary Jesus Estanislao
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • 441 8 Reuter WASHINGTON With Congress close to giving President George Bush special negotiating authority, US officials plan a quick start for talks on a pact with Mexico that would forge the world's largest free-trade zone. They are also studying a
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    • 241 8 AFP BEIJING Investment in China showed healthy growth in the first four months of 1991, with foreign companies turning away from joint to wholly-owned ventures, an official report said on Sunday. China approved more than 3,100 new overseasfunded projects from January to April with
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 92 8 WASHINGTON President George Bush's budget director said on Sunday that the US economy was beginning its recovery from the recession, but he could not predict how strong or how long the recovery would prove to be. Interviewed on television, Richard Darman said: "Right
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      • 62 8 MOSCOW Reserves of natural gas. capable of "meeting Soviet and Western demands for decades" have been found off the port of Murmansk in northern Russia along the coast of the Barents Sea, according to a Tass report. But exploitation of the find would be
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      • 69 8 BEIJING Record numbers of tourists are flocking to Beijing this year, and spending more money than ever, after being frightened away by tanks that crushed pro-democracy protests in the Chinese capital two years ago. The Beijing Ribao newspaper said recently that 320,000 foreign visitors arrived in the
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      • 56 8 TOKYO Japanese and US negotiators opened the third follow-up meeting yesterday of the Structural Impediments Initiative talks to review progress in solving structural barriers to trade and investment. The two-day meeting being held at the Foreign Ministry will likely focus on Japan's system of keiretsu, the grouping
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      • 37 8 TOKYO Japan deported a record 29,884 illegal foreign workers last year, 80 per cent up on 1989. Bangladesh topped the list with 5,925 people deported, followed by 5,534 South Koreans and 4,465 Malaysians.
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    • 365 10 AP MOSCOW A senior adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev has endorsed a plea for the seven industrialised democracies to provide financial aid to stabilise the Soviet Union while it reforms its economy. The draft letter proposes active involvement by the Group of
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    • 485 10 EC president's Tokyo visit begins tomorrow Reuter BRUSSELS European Commission president Jacques Delors visits Japan this week on a mission to persuade Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu of the political sense of easing decades of trade friction. But trade figures released only days before
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    • 223 10 Reuter WASHINGTON The US and its European allies have revived discussions on bringing the Soviet Union into association with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. "To the extent that (Soviet President Mikhail) Gorbachev is now moving more on the
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    • 213 8 Reuter LONDON The March rise in UK retail sales was not sustained in ApriL, the latest Confederation of British Industry survey of distributive trades showed. April's retail sales volumes remain unchanged from a year earlier, in spite of the pick-up in March,
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    • 566 10 p': r P I i Mr Lew Syn Pau at Canossian School for the Hearing Impaired, one of the 42 charities supported by the Community Chest of Singapore To |o be assured of money to meet our needs every month is something we can all do with. However, there are
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    • 162 10 Discover A World Of Exciting New Opportunities At Asia-Pacific's International Showcase For... I Halls 4 5, 21-25 May 1991 World Trade Centre Singapore Meet with more than 350 companies and Dame eating groups from me Asio-Pocific Europe ana me United States What You Can Sn Al Th« Show See a
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 439 11 To predict your financial future, it pays to read our past. What does your prosperity line look like? If your fingers have v been burnt by the stock market, or you've been disappointed with the I J hand-outs from fixed deposits, there \l 1/ is an alternative. p: I I
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  • 471 12 EDITORIAL AFTER struggling to keep afloat during the difficult years of the mid-Eighties, the local marine industry performed strongly last year and contributed 3.6 per cent of Singapore's Gross Domestic Product. Gross turnover rose by 24 per cent over the previous year to hit $2.26 billion,
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 229 12 CRITICISM of Mr Javier Perez de Cuellar, the United Nations Secretary-General, particularly for alleged indecisiveness and lack of dynamism, are now so commonplace as to completely overshadow his accomplishments. In his own quiet manner, he may even have achieved more than the charismatic Dag Hammarskjold,
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    • 105 12 THE 1990 Population Census is a revealing document on Singapore's progress. It is the nation's report card. We have made it almost to the standards of a developed country. But there are still problems ahead the ageing population profile, lower fertility rate and the increasing number
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    • 171 12 ONE ACHIEVEMENT shown in the 1990 Population Census that will not escape attention is that for all the three major ethnic groups, progress in terms of education and housing has been reported. This will no doubt help strengthen racial harmony. A greying population, increase in the
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 181 12 THERE WAS a lot of hype when the Kuala Lumpur Master Plan was introduced about how orderly the city's growth would be, the Malaysian "face" it would have, and that, besides being the focus of the country's commercial activities, it would also develop into
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    • 160 12 WITFI Chinese Communist Party general secretary Jiang Zemin escorted by Defence Minister Qin Jiwei at the recent Moscow summit, indications are that a broad range of talks was conducted over military exchanges, but, hopefully, such talks were not of a sort that will once again give rise
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    • 190 12 WHEN THE Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) Act 1991 comes into force on June 1, the EPF will be empowered to put its eggs into more baskets. Under current regulations, the EPF has to mandatorily put a minimum of 70 per cent of its investible funds into
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  • 1005 12  -  Katherine Burton finds an old British stockbrokers' adage to be true at least in some markets Katherine Burton IHT SELL IN MAY and go away. That's the adage of British stockbrokers of old who, along with their clients, were eager to
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 40 12 DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU THEY'RE SPONSORING A 3P 7 ITS THE MAUBU HOMECOMING HORACE FOR UM4AT OD ThfY BOTH COLONY VFUJ ON THE ALL THE LOCAL VETERAN*? APARAVE? MOTHER ACCEPTED PHONE' OFTHE&XfUJAR. THEY WOCU rj,yc. v JC.- B inni I
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1102 13  -  William Ellington reports on the futures trading in share indexes which will begin soon on several European financial futures and options exchanges William Ellington IHT WHILE stockbrokers and financial potentates wrangle over the best way to organise a single market for share
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    • 1009 13  -  Salil Tripathi, who visited the region recently, finds Egypt feeling let down by the Persian Gulf states Salil Tripathi ARAB UNITY is a bit of an oxymoron in international lexicon. At most times divided, Arab countries have found their relations as dynamic as the
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    • 682 13  -  Thomas M T Niles, the US Representative to the European Community, answers Joseph Fitchett's questions about the implications of political changes underway in Europe Joseph Fitchett's IHT Q: France's new prime minister, Edith Cresson, is among prominent Europeans who have called for
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  • CORPORATE FOCUS
    • 1104 14  -  Michelle Rowe, reporting from Bangkok, profiles Thailand's Siam Cement Group, which will be operating the world's largest kiln in 1993 Michelle Rowe THAILAND'S Siam Cement Group will begin operating the world's largest kiln in early 1993 in an attempt to alleviate the country's
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
    • 532 15  -  Dutch electronics giant Philips aims to set the standard in digital compact cassettes. Claire Leow reports Claire Leow Eager to prove its technological relevance, Dutch electronics giant Philips wants to set the standard in digital compact cassettes (DCC) and launch a full range of
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    • 310 15 THIS year will see Singapore's research and development (R&D) fain greater visibility in the public's eye, thanks to the National Science and Technology Board (NSTB). The board hopes to increase the budget allotted to its R&D assistance scheme for the next five years once findings
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    • 546 15  -  The Unix operating system could be the key that opens a worldwide market place to local software developers, the head of the organisation tells Kenneth James Kenneth James UNIX big, strong, but distinctly unfriendly used to be the operating system for "techies", the arcane
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    • 241 15 US-BASED Advanced Logic Research (ALR) has signed a contract with local Business Computers to distribute ALR's complete line of mi-cro-channel architecturebased (MCA) products. Business Computers will be the sole distributor in Singapore to provide consumers with an alternative to IBM's range of MCA products. ADVANCED Computer now has
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    • 942 19  -  Many people have mentors who might have influenced their careers in a big way. Maureen Dowd writes on one director's search for and meeting with his particular hero Maureen Dowd NYT LIKE many American children of the *****, Martin Scorsese fell in love with
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    • 396 19 Chinese cinema reinvents itself The Economist National martyrs make good propaganda but as Chinese officials have been discovering, they do not always make good films. Some 16 billion cinema tickets were sold in China last year, but it was bandits and pimps, not revolutionary heartthrobs, that
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    • 312 19 CHATTERBOX' AN EIGHT-DAY exhibit of US Vice-President Dan Quayle's political and personal belongings in Huntington, Indiana, has drawn a crowd and will be extended for a week. More than 2,000 people, including Quayle's parents, have seen the collection of hundreds of photographs, documents and personal
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    • 250 19 AND ENTERTAIN Set Your Heart On Our Set Meals. lunch: I V[ 2.30PM. $16.50 l*PlF*Wa V reRPERSON -p- jjp' DINNER: 6.3CPM TO V jdp 10 30PM $1650. PER PERSON The Cafe-in-the-Park is well known for its excellent food. And now, for its value-for-money set meals. Everyday, except Saturdays. jik ANA
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  • SPORTS
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      • 131 20 MILAN Craig Parry of Australia took advantage of a late mistake by Masters champion lan Woosnam to win the Italian Open golf championship by one stroke at the Castelconturbia course on Sunday. Woosnam looked on course tor his fourth success in seven events this season
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      • 88 20 SILVERSTONE, England Six Jaguars are among the 43strong entry for the Le Mans 24-hour race from June 22-23. The British team, led bv former Formula One driver Derek Warwick, will field its latest 3.5-litre XJR-14 models along with four 1990 cars. Rival Mercedes will put out four cars,
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      • 82 20 WILMINGTON, Delaware Erik Breukink of the Netherlands overcame a flat tyre and a 50sec deficit on Sunday to win the Tour Du Pont with a tremendous effort in the race's final stage. Breukink, who surrendered the yellow jersey to Atle Kvalsvoll in the sixth stage,
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      • 96 20 LONDON Tottenham midfielder Paul Gascoigne underwent surgery on Sunday on damaged ligaments in his right knee, an injury that may undermine his expected transfer to Lazio of Rome. Gascoigne was injured early in Saturday's English Football Association Cup final when he fouled Nottingham Forest's Gary Charles, and
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      • 57 20 CLEVELAND, Ohio Kenya's Paul Kipkoech turned in a personal best time in winning the Cleveland Marathon on Sunday. Kipkoech won the men's race in 2:14:26, missing the course record by just three seconds. Anatoli Karpipanov of the Soviet Union finished second, well behind Kipkoech in 2:16:08, followed closely
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      • 61 20 TALLAHASSEE, Florida Pat Bradley recovered from a spate of early bogeys on Sunday to edge out Japan's Ayako Okamoto in the Centel Classic, the richest tournament on the LPGA Tour. Bradley, who won for the 27th time in her career, shot a one-under-par 71 on the
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    • 682 20  -  Contrary to the golf membership boom, the market for golf equipment is rather quiet. Nirmal Ghosh and Cassandra How report Nirmal Ghosh, Cassandra How WITH the continuing boom in golf club development in Singapore and the region as a whole, and the seemingly unlimited
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    • 471 20 AS LONG AS the golf equipment market remains saturated, you can be assured that constant research and development will eventually see the birth of a perfectly-shaped driver or iron. Golfers may use graphite shafts, boron or even titanium shafts in an effort to improve
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    • 322 20 AFP DUBLIN, Ohio Kenny Perry two-putted for a birdie on the first extra hole on Sunday to beat Hale Irwin and claim his first career victory at the Memorial Tournament. Perry, who set the course record at Muirfield Village with a 63 on Friday, carded
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    • 336 20 AP AUSTIN, Texas Lee Trevino and Mike Hill teamed for a 6-under 66 on Sunday to hang on for a 2shot victory in the Legends of Golf. The pair held off the sizzling charge of A 1 Geiberger and Harold Henning,
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    • 565 20 AP BERLIN Arantxa Sanchez Vicario of Spain defeated American Jennifer Capriati, 7-5, 5-7, 6-4 at the US$5OO,OOO Lufthansa Open women's tennis tournament on Sunday, to join Germany's Steffi Graf in the final. Graf had breezed to an easy 6-1, 6-2 victory over
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4583 21  -  By Salil Tripathi EVEN bad news does not always last long. Singapore Airlines last weekend posted results that would seem disappointing by conventional yardsticks, but its stock was the top gainer in slim trading yesterday, pulling the benchmark Straits Times Industrials Index up
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  • 4061 22 Main Board SIA Foreign 1960 70 3.7% SAL-SI AF93 2000 205 +51 +33.1% DBS Foreign 1330 +50 +3.9% OCBC Foreign 1150 +40 3.6% SIA 1340 30 2.3% SIA 200 1340 30 f2.3% UOB Foreign 710 +25 +3.6% SBC-SIAF92 2000 220 +25 +12.8% DBS 1210 +20
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 4057 23 Bernama SHARE PRICES in Kuala Lumpur finished easier yesterday but off the day's lows in thin trading. Some speculative interest among second-liners saw the KLSE Composite Index rising 0.09 of a point to 583.45, while the Industrial Index gained 0.16 of a
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    • 145 23 BANKING, FINANCE INSURANCE 1991 A Business Times Special Supplement The theme for this year's supplement Is "Focus: Asia", reflecting the growing economic and financial muscle of Asia as well as its importance as one of the world's fastest growing markets. Target date for publication is May 30. Among the topics
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 309 24 Company Date Year Group Net Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) per share dividend ('000) (cents) VMS May 16 Dec 90 $1.924($7.636) 2.4(9.5) 8(11) Haw Par May 15 Dec 90 $25,624(116.429) 156(100) 11(7) T«er Balm May 15 Dec 90 $5,379($5,409) 7 2(7.2) 8(8) Bousteadco May 14 Dec
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    • 1474 24 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for payment date dose payable tke year last year Acnu 5%TE Jun 5 Jun 17 Jul 1 10%TE And Steel 50c 10* (S) May 16 May 31 Jun 7 10* 12.6% Boustead 50c 5%(l) Apr 25 May 10 Jun 7 5*
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    • 197 24 Company Date Year Groap pra-tox Nat eantinis J™* ann to profit/low (L) par »l»ara dWWand (•000) (caats) < !A May 20 Mar 91 *****,800($1436,400) 143 2(1884) 40(35) R thtnans Ms.a May 16 Mar 91 M$303.607($177.293n) 651(371) 4»(27.5) JC MPH May 15 Mar 91 $16,481 ($19,615) 7.4(8.5) !l, STL
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    • 177 24 Company Date Half-year Group pro-tax laterlm ann to profit/loss (L) dividend (•000) C4C May 17 Mar 91 $49,453(146,270) 5(4) Goodwood Park May 17 Mar 91 $14,753(515.208) 35(15) HMsia May 17 Mar 91 $313(11,725) 5(5) KST Apr 30 Feb 91 M$43,849($37,114) 10(10) Sph Apr 26 Feb 91 $110.396($84.977) 8(8)
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    • 532 24 May 17 Goodman Fielder Wattie has approached its 63% owned subsidiary Cold Storage Holdings to buy over the latter's bakery interest. Sports Toto Malaysia Bhd has agreed to sell its entire stake in Cermat Teguh Sdn Bhd, which owns the Ms22om Shahzan Tower, to Insas Bhd for M560.86m.
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    • 1031 24 {prices (as at 20.05.91j Conversion terms Premium/ Expiy (discount) V Amount Optional** using issued Company (mil Wrts Share Loan Con* Exer Lnstfc Cash Cash Loan Gearing Date Mtt» units) stock ratio price nom Stk. Lett value s s s C&C Wt 37.5 2 690 5 600
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    • 719 24 Main Board Last FuH Year Company Penod Date Year Net EPS Gross Net amouiced anting (cents) <h profit last year (WOO) Cerebos Interim Apr 27 Jul 91 12.6 200TE(a) 38.911 Spore Land Interim May 4 Dec 91 12.6 10.0 44.641(g) Van der Horst Interim May 21 Sep 91
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    • 248 24 Company Rights Issue 08S One-for-ten $960 (locsl) or $1050 (foreign) per share Ex-date May 23 Books dose: Jun 5 Acceptance Payment: NYA Dufcp Est Restricted issue of $88 514m nominal value of 10% Convertible Redeemable Unsecured Loan Stock (CULS) 1991/1996 issued on the basis of $1 nominal amount
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    • 755 24 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Company Cwnnrilw period Conversion tone for oao ordinary skm CtC Wt Before 26/4/93 1 warrant plus $3 09 cash Causeway Loin Causeway Wt 2/10/89 to 20/10/94 1 warrant plus $0.77 cash or 1 warrant plus SO 77 nominal amount of loan stock Chuan fto Notes Chan hk»
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    • 541 24 Company Rights Issue Alcorn Onefor two <p. MSI 00 per share Issue of 40m Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares (CRPS) of MSO10 each at MSI per share with 10m detachable TSR on the basis of 1 CIVS with 1 TSR for every 4 CRPS Batten One for four (a,
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    • 257 24 Inchcape Bhd: 24th AGM at Inchcape House, 12th Floor, 450/452 Alexandra Road, Singapore 0511 on Tuesday, May 21, at 12 noon. Guinness Anchor Bhd: 27th AGM at the Executive Suite, Level 3, Holiday Villa, 9 Jalan SSI2/1, Subang Jaya, ***** Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan on Tuesday, May
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2196 25 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS closed easier but off lows yesterday in the thinnest trade since early January. Small-lot sales kept whittling prices until some late bargain-hunting emerged. Hopes for a discount rate cut provided meagre downside support but worries of arbitrage unwinding weighed on prices.
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 1993 25 Reuter HONGKONG SHARES rallied yesterday to rise more than 30 points, closing at a new post-1987 high, breaking the psychological barrier of 3,900 and raising hopes for a new all-time record this week. "We are cautiously optimistic that the market will test the
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    • 29 25 Prices for Tokyo are provided by Telerate Prices for Hongkong are provided by 1 elerate Read chartpoint, a guide to investing in the stock market. Every Saturday in BT.
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Aussie market digests last week's gains
      • 938 26 AUSTRALIAN SHARES closed virtually steady yesterday as the market moved to consolidate its position after last week's surges. Brokers said the local bourse drifted aimlessly amid scattered offshore and local trading in thin volumes. "But it was a credible performance. The market held firm and digested last week's events,"
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      • 230 26 Close Previous May 20 SYDNEY All Ordinaries Index 1,531.2 1,530.3 +0.9 All Industrials Index 2,396.4 2,395.8 +0.6 All Resources Index 872.4 871.4 +1.0 Turnover (million) 112.31 186.94 -74.63 BANGKOK SET Index 813.78 820.93 -7.15 Turnover (million baht) 3,320 3,430 -110 JAKARTA Composite Index 406.01 404.87 +1.14 MANILA Composite Index 1,144.86
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      • 797 26 THAI STOCKS eased as the market lacked driving force with foreign investors indifferent. The SET index ended 7.26 points lower at 813.78 on a turnover of 3.32 billion baht. Prices fell across the board. Jalaprathan Cement lost 24 baht to 753, Siam Cement slipped 12 to 658, and Tanayong,
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      • 499 26 PHILIPPINE companies' strong first-quarter results boosted share prices in a market that was looking for an excuse to move ahead from a month of consolidation. Manila's composite index rose 28.31 points to settle at 1,144.86 as the market ignored weekend bombings blamed on right-wing rebels in Baguio City. Wall
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      • 625 26 PRICES on the Jakarta stock exchange yesterday closed mixed in another dull trading day. Brokers said profit-taking dominated the market, putting pressure on some shares. The index edged up 1.14 points to 406.01. Lippo Industries was well traded on the big board on a volume of 200,000 shares at
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      • 310 26 In local currency In S$ In US$ day y ear day year day year May 17 Index change change change change change change World ..406.5 -0.1 13.5 -0.2 11.4 -0.6 9.4 fEAFE Europe Pacific 536.2 0.0 14.1 -0.2 9.7 -0.6 7.7 424.1 -0.4 16.4 -0.7
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      • 766 26 SEOUL STOCKS retreated in extremely thin trading yesterday, pressured by tight liquidity and lingering political uncertainty. The composite stock index shed 7.67 points to close at 628.71 on turnover of 84.7 billion won compared with 82 billion won in Saturday's halfday session. Losers outstripped gainers 550 to 74, and
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      • 339 26 TAIWAN share prices finished higher across the board and dealers said the market could-test the strong 6,300-point resistance level soon. The weighted index rose 127.81 points or 2.1 per cent to finish at 6,110.07 compared with Saturday's 5,982.26 close. Turnover was a moderate 59.3 billion Taiwan dollars against 51.3
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      • 81 26 FOOD conglomerate Goodman Fielder Wattie led the share market higher in afternoon trade as willing sellers took to the sidelines, keeping volumes low. The strength of Goodman in Australia helped and that was the main factor driving the market yesterday afternoon, said Murray Rutherford of Jordan Sandman Were.
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      • 45 26 BOMBAY SHARES were subdued as India went to the polls for the second time in 18 months in national elections not expected to yield conclusive winners. The Bombay Stock Exchange index fell 13.44 points to 1,284.25. The national index lost 3.72 to 638.94. Reuter
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1030 27  -  THE By David Gabriel Using technical methods, the Sang Kancil weekly report tracks the profit/loss position of a $50,000 deposit, leveraged up to 10 times, for trading in a portfolio of deutschemarks, yen, sterling, Swiss francs, Nikkei Stock Index Futures and Euro-yen futures. PREDICTIONS about
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    • 440 27 THE US DOLLAR closed firmer against the mark and yen in Tokyo, pulled up just before the end by overseas players. Sweden's linkage of its crown currency to the European currency unit (ECU) also supported the US currency, dealers said. But traders
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    • 1122 27 SIMEX EURODOLLAR Open High Low Sett Est Vol Op/Int Vol Jun 91 93.88 9189 9188 9188 637 ***** 1614 Sep 91 93.66 93.66 93.65 93.65 2578 ***** 6287 Dec 91 93.18 93.18 93.17 93.18 426 ***** 1078 Mar 92 92.96 92.97 92.95 92.95 302 6655 164 Jun 92
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    • 386 27 Cross rates May 20 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr A$ NZ$ USS 1.7775 2.7670 1.7485 138.70 0.5867 1.4750 1.2788 1.6964 SS 0.5626 1.5567 0.9837 0.7803 0.3301 0.8298 0.7194 0.9543 MS 0.3614 64.24 0.6319 0.5013 0.2120 0.5331 0.4622 0.6131 Dm 0.5719 1.0166 1.5825 79.33 0.3355 0.8436 0.7314
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    • 554 27 Interbank rates S$ Bid Offer Overnight 5 5 1/8 1-month 5 5 1/8 2-month 5 1/16 5 3/16 3-month 5 1/8 5 1/4 Overnight mode: 4-7/8 LSS Bid Offer 7 days 5 7/8 6 1 month 5 7/8 6 2 months 5 15/16 6 1/16 3 months 5
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 358 28 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Ma- > laysia aims to continue to be I the world's leading supplier of palm oil to meet the growing world demand for oils and fats, projected to increase by another 30 million tonnes by the year 2000,
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    • 363 28 Reuter MOSCOW A senior Soviet oil official said Moscow must buy petrol abroad before the harvest if the supply of crude to refineries could not be maintained at target levels. Vyacheslav Yurov, head of the Russian republic's oil supply corporation
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    • 851 28 REPORTS THE PRICE of tin was unchanged from last Friday's close at M$ 15.49 per kg at the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market yesterday. Dealers said the lower close on the London Metal Exchange last Friday had no effect on the local market
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  • 1312 28 Rubber May 20 HAS(*»>hi Iflw) Scenting Noon Close Int I RSS Prompt 143.75/144.75N I43.50/I44.50N Int 1 RSS June 91 145.75/146.25 145.50/146.00 Int 1 RSS July 147.25/147.75 147.00/147.50 Int 2 RSS OP 142 00/144.00N 14I.50/143.50N Int 3 RSS OP I37.50/I39.50N 137.00/139.00N Int 4 RSS OP 133.00/135.00N 132.50/134.50N Int 5 RSS
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    • 327 28 BUSINESS TIMES TELEPHONE: 730-5771/5772/3773 PAX: 734-4»»2 LIQUOR LICENCE NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Iha, I David Reginald Ellis Broadley of No 20 Rebecca Road, Singapore 1026, have applied for a 2nd Class Public House licence in respect of premises at M/s Duxtons Deli at 21 Duxton Hill, Singapore 0208, and
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 556 29  -  LETTER FROM DUBLIN 3* W JF m? M? M? Mi? Jw By Peter Millership Karaoke bars and discos are vying with Dublin's bastions of traditional drinking in a battle which is getting some publicans hot under the collar. They are worried that the relative
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    • 152 29 As at 3pm yesterday: Ixical dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.380 1.400 Canadian dollar I.S32 I.SS2 NZ dollar 1.035 1.0700 Sterling pound 3.000 3.0200 US dollar 1.7700 1.7860 I>ocal dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 14.20 15.20
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    • 52 29 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel May 21-25 Medicine Zagreb, Zagrebacki (38)*****666 Technology Yugoslavia Velesajam International Exhibition of Medical. Pharmaceutical Laboratory Equipment Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel May 22-24 International Utrecht, Koninklijke ********** Computer Netherlands Nedertandse Software Jaarbeurs Exhibition May 25-29 International Milan Associasione *****64.282 Elect rot echnics
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    • 322 29 1 The prophet with a small by the JIK. JH (B _JB H 4 His bible readings charm 9 a regular atuniversity (7) 11 A lion disposed to make 12 Large terrorist organisation 17 gains H IB M|^H 13 Possess the right to 14 Firm demand for silence the H
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    • 212 29 Singapore Outlook: Showers over many areas in the late morning and afternoon. Forecast: Maximum temperature 27.8 Assoc humidity 84% Minimum temperature 23.8° C Assoc humidity 98% Hours of sunshine.... 0.00 Rainfall in mm 44.0 Rainfall this month 226.7 Rainy days this month 15 World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/I.o* Cond. Auckland 19/11
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    • 36 29 *****3 HAssLe ON UJWPX LJANT UP pit CRP^CKOFDftwN... T TRPON u or me* 7 ofc£,SS»wJG the. u?fMX XJ _k -through thc door V- p\N»D ftU. FoK ft neße, fiTTA^oe... A EVENING STANOARO CO. LTD.. 1962-1991 <T<cU-,
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  • 443 30 Bernama LABUAN The Ms4l2 million (about ***** million) allocation to improve Labuan's infrastructure over the next few years underscores the federal government's seriousness to transform the island into a full-fledged tax haven, Finance Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said
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  • 295 30 Reuter NEW DELHI At least 35 people were killed yesterday in widespread violence in two Indian states during the first phase of elections to federal Parliament, news reports and witnesses said. Police imposed a curfew in a third
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  • 288 30  -  By Hong Lee Tiam SOCIETY never asks how a man balances the multiple roles in his life and career, yet it seems to ask that question unabashedly of a woman, noted Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz, Malaysia's International Trade Industry Minister, yesterday. In a
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  • 610 30  -  The Bottom Line KENNETH JAMES KENNETH JAMES AT FIRST glance, the numbers are welcome indeed. The 7.5 per cent economic growth in the first quarter is way ahead of the 3-6 per cent forecast prompted earlier this year by war clouds over
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  • 107 30 Reuter US VICE President Dan Quayle urged Japan to open its rice market on the first day of his two-day visit to the country yesterday. Allowing rice imports "will benefit Japanese consumers," Mr Quayle told Japanese Ag- riculture. Forestry and Fisheries Minister Motoji Kondo,
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  • 330 30  -  By Genevieve Cua THE Asia-Pacific's dependence on energy imports will increase considerably during the decade, with net imports of oil taking up the lion's share of demand. Professor Mitsuru Miyata, senior managing director of Japan's Institute of Energy Economics, said energy supply within
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    • 306 30 JIL Baume Mercier GENEVE 1830 HOTEL MERIDIEN Now, a meeting package in Phuket that even your accountant would approve of. Imagine holding your next meeting against the i backdrop of the Andaman Sea. Imagine taking time out J y from all the business talk to dive into our stunning pool.
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  • Shipping Times
    • 352 31 AFP DUBAI The tiny emirate of Dubai through trade with Iran, business from Kuwait, oil, a duty free port, and tourism looks set to emerge from the Gulf crisis as the Hongkong of the Middle East. The most concrete signs
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    • 509 31  -  From Rahita Elias in BANGKOK USING Indo-China as its springboard to South-east Asia, Thailand's rapidly expanding Bangkok Airways has plans to become the next Asian domestic carrier to go regional. Mr Paichayon Uathavikul, Bangkok Airways' vicepresident, administration and finance, told BT that the carrier
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    • 303 31  -  By Magdalene Pang THE SINGAPORE Freight Forwarders Association (SFFA) has amended its constitution to allow newly established forwarders to become members. Previously, the SFFA only admitted applicants who have been operating here for at least two years. Now, freight forwarders who have not
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    • 330 31 NYT TOKYO IshikawajimaHarima Heavy Industries Co has reached an agreement with a German yacht-buildcr to import luxury yachts to Japan, a company spokesman said last week. However, the Japanese shipbuilder and heavy equipment manufacturer expects to sell only about two yachts annually,
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    • 294 31  -  By Selva Kumar THE TRANSPACIFIC Westbound Rate Agreement (TWRA) has filed a new schedule of commodity-spe-cific rate increases as part of its 1991 rate programme. The increases, which will take effect from June 1 and July 1, will range from US$4O to US$2OO
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    • 325 31 Reuter LONDON Pirate attacks against merchant vessels in the South China Sea increased six-fold last year and calls are being made for measures to combat the crimes. The International Shipping Federation says night attacks on merchant vessels rose from six in
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      • 74 32 THE AUTOMOBILE Association of Singapore is organising a series of seminars on safe driving on Malaysian roads. The first of the series will be held on Thursday from 7pm to 9 pm at the AA Centre Multi-Purpose Hall in River Valley
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      • 113 32 MANAMA, Bahrain National Shipping Co of Saudi Arabia said it posted a record 80.328 million riyals (5536.4 million) net profit in 1990, up 16 per cent from 1989's 68.8 million riyals. The Riyadh-based company said in a statement that net assets at the end of
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      • 74 32 TAIPEI Taiwan and New Zealand plan to open air links in July, a senior official at Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said yesterday. Air New Zealand is expected to start flying to Taipei in July under an agreement signed last month, CAA deputy director
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      • 74 32 ISLAMABAD The Pakistani government has decided to allow one of two foreign groups to set up a private domestic airline in the country, a government spokesman said. The two groups the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development and the Gulf Cooperation Council Investment
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      • 85 32 MOSCOW The Soviet government has met most demands by air traffic controllers, but their strike could still go ahead because of differences over pay, a trade union leader said on Sunday. Sergei Yevsukov, vice-president of the controllers' union, said the government had made key concessions
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      • 88 32 TOKYO Toyota Motor Corp said its wholly owned US unit, Toyota Motor Manufacturing USA Inc (TMM), has begun exporting car components for Camry cars to Toyota's Tsutsumi plant in Toyota City, central Japan. The shipments of 250 rear axle shaft sets early this month were
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    • 1102 32 DRY CARGO freight rates on Friday firmed in an active market with grains and coal and iron ore the busiest sectors, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index was marked up 11 points at 1,660. A 250,000-tonne iron ore load was booked from Tubarao to Japan at U5510.25 for
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    • 1871 32  -  Perry Flint concludes his article on South Korea's Asiana Airlines by taking a hard look at the problems it is facing Perry Flint Air Transport World THE decision to lease aircraft from GPA and Ansett was based as much on necessity as anything, notes
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    • 955 32 May 28-30: Bth International Intermodal Expo, organised by Georgia Freight Burcauce, Georgia World Congree Center, Atlanta, USA. June 4-6: World Express, Amsterdam, Holland. June 4-9: Compat '91 Sixth EDI Exhibition and Conference, organised by Blenheim Queensdale, Blenheim, Falkoner Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark. June 11-14: Nor-Shipping '91, Sjolyst Exhibition Centre,
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    • 11174 40 This is a list of ships loading Ai at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for a
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    • 3290 45 Containerline NV: Belsin I Shpg Agencies Pte Ltd (SVMarine Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SyAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiei Liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). Albatros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Lid (S).
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    • 257 45 AkaniCaakn Td: 545-8011. Fax: *****98. Air Express Travd Tel: 533-5771. Fax: *****44. Akknt Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fax: *****16, *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Tet 278-0188. Fax: *****83. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines), 747-7421. Fax: *****75. Cfty-Link International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: *****50. Cluster Link Supplies A Services Tel:
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    • 1514 45 Akex Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Acthah Singapore Td: 542-7812. Fax: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Td: 545-8033. Fax: *****05. Td:™s42-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Td: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express Internntiooal Td: 542-7666. Fsx: *****74, *****50. Air Market Express
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    • 1983 46 ARGENTINA Buenos Aires: The dispute with the gantry crane operator spread to other machine/crane operators. The port was disrupted by union action. Although their demands have not been fully met. crane operators are working normally again. In the past few days arrival have outnumbered sailings and the port
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    • 350 46 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES Reuter AFP VESSELS SOLD FOR FURTHER TRADING Bulk carriers Golden Rio: 38,186 dwt and built 1979, sold to Greek buyers in the region of U556.25 million. The Ourania L: 27,571 dwt and built 1973. sold to Greek interests for around US$3.5 million. Motor vessels Kapetan Sideris:
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    • 470 46 'mm —i TT-r-nrr n»r u-mtnr'TwnM ARRIVALS Op Flight Type ETA T From TODAY NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 I NRT KAL KE697 B707F 0150 1 SEL JAL JL6I7 B747F 0345 I NRT RJA RJ024 B707F 1900 I AMM/MCT CLX CV796 B747F 2115 1 LUX/AUH/KUL TOMORROW AZA AZ997 DC8F
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    • 224 46 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS An Pep Name of Vessel ETA ETD Ports of Calls Port Agt ni MAY 22 22 Cora Princess 1000 1800 Jakarta-Sin-Jakarta Sembawang Johnson 26 26 Ocean Pearl 0700 1700 P Klang-Sin-Brunei Reefer Lines 27 01 Fuji Maru 0800 0800 Tokyo-Hong Kong- Mitsui O S K
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      • 240 47 Penartg Port Berth in Butterwarth on May 21: 1: Kocaeii I; 2: rai; 3: Sptca; 4: nil; 5: Swadaya; 6: A Princess. Penanf Wharf NB: nil; CB: Cipta Karya; SB: HMS Manchester. BCT: Bl: ml; Bit: Bronson; l/B: ml. VOIP: lonian Mariner. Due on May 21: Wu
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    • 649 48 UPI ANCHORAGE, Alaska A Soviet jetliner, pioneering a new Pacific route linking the Soviet far east and the west coast of the US, made its historic first flight on Sunday, albeit late. The inaugural flight from Khabarovsk was 70 minutes behind schedule in
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    • 505 48 NYT NEW YORK A slump in the boating market has prompted an elite group of yacht designers and builders to develop a futuristic design that they hope will rejuvenate a stagnant marine industry. The result of their four-year effort is
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    • 326 48 Lloyd's List LONDON Lloyd's Register has blamed structural weaknesses for the 34 bulk carrier casualties which have cost more than 250 lives since the beginning of 1990. LR said a combination of prejudicial loading stresses, cargo handling, weather and corrosion had overcome the vessels.
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    • 96 48 AFP DHAKA Two Japanese helicopters were being test run last Saturday for relief operations in Bangladesh's cyclone-ravaged areas, officials said. "We have assembled the dismantled helicopters and should be ready for our first sorties from Chittagong", Bangladesh's port city, one crew member said at the
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    • 277 48 AP TOKYO North Korea has accused the US of "undisguised piracy", saying a US ship had stopped and searched a North Korean cargo vessel in the Middle East. The official Workers (Communist) Party newspaper Rodong Shinmun declared on
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    • 2053 37 V NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL *****77 (CR NO: **********0E) BOOKINGS: NEPTUNE LINK TEL: *****00 UK/EUROPE SERVICE-*****19 USA SERVICE 27W116 AUST/INDIA/PAK SERVICE *****18 FAR EAST SERV'CS-*****48 Mm MM TERMINAL OFFICE-*****22 DOCUMENTATION DEPT: *****44/*****14 ■MflH CFS: K27 IMPORT: *****69/*****50 CFS: K27 EXPORT: *****53/*****04 m NEPLINE SDN BHD MALAYSIA K.L.-(03) *****33,
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    • 1528 39 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD imSSSSSSSS ml Mm iBBi PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street #03-00, Singapore 0106. [JAKARTA [BANGKOK VESSEL VOV SIN JKT SIN cncy 211 22/5 53/ c Ofl/s VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN EQUATOR MAS 04N 23/5 25/5 30/5 KOTA PMLVWAN Vut 25/ I 2/5 BUNG A TERATAI
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