The Business Times, 3 June 1991

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    10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 16/12/90 Monday, June 3, 1991 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
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      UAE expects oil price to hit US$21
      72 1 ABU DHABI The United Arab Emirates Oil Minister said he expected prices to reach US$2l a barrel. Yousuf bin Omeir bin Yousuf told the official news agency WAM that production by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would remain at its current level
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      Scotts going regional
      16 1 THE SCOTTS group is expanding its horizons in the Asean region Page 2
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      Tie-ups for Esco
      21 1 HOME-GROWN clean room specialist Esco Technologies (Asia) is embarking on joint ventures in China and Hongkong Page 2
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      Pessimism over Manila
      25 1 POLITICAL Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd is pessimistic about the near-term economic prospects of the Philippines in its latest risk report Page 7
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      Copyright law in China
      22 1 CHINA has introduced its first copyright law to step up its protection of intellectual property rights Page 8
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      Signs of recovery
      27 1 POSTING a third straight advance, the US government's main economic forecasting gauge is signalling that the 10-month-old recession will soon be over Page 9
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      Dilemma for Opec
      39 1 OPEC' is going to have to choose between slightly increasing its oil output in the next few months, to meet higher demand, and the status quo to help push a price increase, say observers. Page 9
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      Scholarship shuffle
      38 1 IN labour-strapped Singapore, scholarships have become an almost standard means of enticing and keeping staff, but the EDB and Glaxo are pitching for a level beyond the immediate pressure of filling an executive post Page 10
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      Of pygmies and giants
      20 1 ARE the great tenors of today mere pygmies compared with giants of the past? Page 15
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      Local role in renewal
      32 1 LOCAL shipbuilder Hong Lam Marine and Singaporebased Asian Eternal Shipping Pte Ltd are geared up to be major players in PertaminaIndonesia's fleet renewal exercise. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
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      DBS Land debt up
      32 1 DBS LAND is feeling the effect of its buying binge over the past two years, with a debt burden up sharply to $1.3 billion at end-1990 Page 3
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      British investment
      37 1 THE BRITISH government is to bring in between Ms 2 billion and Ms 3 billion in investments through oil giant Shell for various projects in Malaysia in the next two to three years Page 3
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      Rescue plan for Bond
      36 1 A MEETING of creditors holding mark bonds from Australia's Bond Corp Holdings Ltd has approved a proposed rescue plan for the financially troubled group involving a debt for equity swap. Page 4
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      Banks seek assurance
      39 1 BRITISH BANKS that have guaranteed bonds worth at least £200 million to £300 million taken out by companies trading with Iraq are lobbying for legislation to ensure they would always have claims on clients Page 6
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      Issues swamp market
      38 1 US CORPORATIONS swamped the high-grade debt market with new issues last week to take advantage of low interest rates, and some analysts expect offerings could total as much as US$l2 billion this month Page 6
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      STOCK INDICES
      27 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 748.01 +3.58 Kuala Lumpur ....629.54 -4.36 Tokvo 25,789.62 +142.22 Hongkong 3,707.01 +27.29 Sydney 1,510 +9.5 New York 3,027.50 +27.05 London 2,499.5 +8.3
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      CURRENCIES
      23 1 Exchange rates USS ss 1.7650 100 Yen SS 1.2790 MS SS 0.6395 Money market rates Overnight 5-1/2 1 11/16 3-month 5-5/8 +1/16
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      COMMODITIES
      38 1 London Gold AM fix USS361.55 USS1.05 Rubber S'pore June 146.50*/kg +0.50 M'sia June 228.00*/kg +1.00 KL Tin Turnover 26 tonnes -7 Spot MS 15.25 /kg -0.09 Crudo palm oil Turnover 1333 lots +1039 June MS784 /tonne +11
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    NOL to list Thai units on Bangkok exchange
    489 1  -  Group's priority is to develop carrier network From Rahita Elias in BANGKOK NATIONAL carrier Neptune Orient Lines has plans to list its Thai subsidiaries on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Mr T G Tan, managing director of Bara Shipping Agencies, one of
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    An entire spectrum of services
    253 1 BANGKOK Neptune Orient Lines has entrenched itself firmly into the Thai network, providing the entire spectrum of transportation services here. Over the past five years or so, the carrier has invested about Sl6 million in Thailand on transport-related ventures. Among its major investments is a
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    Lock icon Indon banks warned over offshore loans
    228 1 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's central bank governor has warned the country's national banks of the possible danger to the economy of indiscriminately borrowing from offshore lenders. "Banks should prepare themselves well in taking the professional decision of seeking foreign loans so that they will not
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    S'pore: the world's largest disk drive exporter
    324 1  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE'S disk drive industry continues to shine today as the world's largest supplier of drives. Last year, the country shipped $7.18 billion worth of drives, up 31 per cent from $5.47 billion in 1989, according to government statistics. In volume
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    PM Goh suggests two categories of COEs
    411 1  -  Ministry to put system on trial By Yang Razali Kassim CERTIFICATES of Entitlement for car ownership may in future be classified into two categories transferable and non-transferable to accommodate calls to curb speculation in COEs, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday. The
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    Lock icon Australia must look more to Asia: Keating
    171 1 AFP CANBERRA The Australian government should pay more attention to Asia, Deputy Prime Minister Paul Keating said yesterday on the eve of a crucial vote on his bid to replace Bob Hawke as prime minister. Speaking on television, Mr Keating said Australia was
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      3 1 Analysis, Pg 11
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      150 1 (0) Dulux THE BETTER PAINT Singapore may have an open university. Back Page Feud threatens to split Labor government, Pg 7 HOW TO STAY ONE STEP AHEAD In business, being punctual is always important, especially when a major proposal is being presented to the board, or an international contract is
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
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        PM: S'pore must keep striving for excellence
        104 2 SINGAPORE cannot afford to slacken in its pursuit of excellence and must continually set high standards for itself to beat international competition, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the official opening of Terminal 2 at Changi Airport last Saturday. "We may be
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        Tolerate 'pasar' Mandarin
        113 2 DEPUTY Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong has suggested that the Chinese intelligentsia accommodate a brand of 'pasar' Mandarin in Singapore as a strategy to get more Chinese Singaporeans to speak the language. Mr Ong urged the intelligentsia to be more tolerant of Chinese Singaporeans who cannot speak
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        Mr Lee to address conference
        70 2 SENIOR MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew will address the International Monetary Conference, a yearly meeting of chief executives of the world's largest banks, in Osaka today, said a press statement from the Prime Minister's Office. Representatives from 30 banks in the US and 70 banks from
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        Station-wagon taxis
        59 2 NTUC-COMFORT launched 10 station-wagon taxis last Saturday, the first time that a station-wagon is being used as a taxi in Singapore. The taxi, with its large capacity, is bestsuited to commuters travelling with many pieces of luggage. The NTUC added that The Public Transport Council has approved a
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        POSB services on Teleview
        49 2 THE POSBank has launched its Teleview on-line services for the following: balance enquiry on savings and current account funds transfer between savings and current accounts; request for cheque book, passcard or current account statements; and enquiry on Giro, Interbank Giro and POSBline Bill Payment services.
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        Civil service centralised database
        59 2 THE civil service is launching a centralised database. Central Personnel Information System, to computerise the personnel records of monthly-rated civil servants. The $7.2 million project, started in mid-1986. will be ready by 1993 to serve individual ministries and the civil service. With a shared pool of
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      Lock icon Scotts spreads its wings
      604 2  -  Regional expansion takes off with apartments in Bangkok By Salil Tripathi THE new logo of the Scotts group of companies shows a horse with wings, as if ready for take-off. It is an apt symbol for the group, which is expanding its horizons in the Asean
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      Esco Technologies in China, HK ventures
      366 2  -  By Genevieve Cua HOME-GROWN clean room specialist Esco Technologies (Asia) is embarking on joint ventures in both China and Hongkong to manufacture clean room components. The Chinese venture is part of efforts to help upgrade the standards of clean room manufacturing in China, and
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      Singapore trade and distribution centre in Rotterdam opens
      229 2 THE Singapore Trade and Distribution Centre (STDC) will be inaugurated in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, today. Mah Bow Tan, the Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Communications, will officiate at the grand opening ceremony, said the ministry. The STDC is a
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
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      DBS Land's debts rise sharply to $1.3b
      442 3  -  Outlook good as projects come on-stream, says chairman By Elaine Koh DBS LAND is feeling the full effect of its buying binge over the past two years, with a debt burden which rose sharply to $1.3 billion at end-1990, according to its latest
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      Lock icon MMC to give priority to engineering sector
      261 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Mining Corp (MMC) will concentrate on sustaining the growth of its engineering sector while pursuing its commitment in manufacturing and efforts to participate in the government's privatised projects. Chairman Tan Sri Nasruddin Mohamed says in his latest annual statement
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      Lock icon K Guthrie expects improved profits this year
      242 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Kumpulan Guthrie's group pre-tax profit is expected to better last year's $64.3 million (5541.2 million), chairman Jeneral (B) Tan Sri MohdGhazali Che Mat says in the latest annual report. The optimistic outlook is based on forecast prices for commodities and
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      Will Gold Coin yield its booty to Acma?
      1073 3  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN By Mano Sabnani LAST FRIDAY, the Singapore stock market, as measured by the Straits Times Industrials Index, advanced to 1,554.18, just below its 1991 high of 1,558.64 recorded on April 29. Turnover in both volume and value
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      Lock icon UK govt to bring in up to M$3b in investments to M'sia
      220 3 Bernama IPOH The British government will bring in between Ms 2 billion and Ms 3 billion in investments through the oil giant, Shell, for various projects in Malaysia in the next two to three years, the British High
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      Lock icon Angkasa may make motorcycle engine parts
      104 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Angkasa Marketing Bhd, a whol-ly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Steel Mills Bhd which is going public, may go into the manufacturing of motorcycle engine parts if the sales volume reaps economies of scale, ASM executive director Mr Tan Onn Poh said yesterday.
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Long Huat Timber posts 45pc fall in profit
        122 3 KUALA LUMPUR Long Huat Timber Industries has reported a 45 per cent drop in its group pre-tax profit to M$ 1.068 million for the six months ended Feb 28, 1991, from MS 1.944 million the previous corresponding period. Turnover fell 27 per
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        Malayan Flour unit to sell land
        81 3 KUALA LUMPUR Malayan Flour Mills said its 67 per cent owned subsidiary, Dindings Soya and Multifeeds, proposes to sell 70.8 ha of agricultural land and 9.2 ha of industrial land at Batu Undan forest reserve in Perak to Dindings Broiler Breeder Farm, a 93
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        Sungei Way bid to buy quarries
        99 3 KUALA LUMPUR Sungei Way Holdings expects to finalise its acquisition of additional quarries around next month. Group chief executive Datuk Jeffrey Cheah said after the company's annual general meeting that the company was close to finalising the acquisition of additional quarries. On the group's
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        Adviser favours Bolton purchase
        60 3 KUALA LUMPUR Bolton Properties has received approval from independent adviser Utama Wardley (UW) for its proposed acquisition of 200,000 shares in Bolton LYL and landed properties. UW said in a circular to Bolton shareholders that the proposed acquisitions are in line with Bolton's core business of
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        Timah Langat seeks investments
        92 3 KUALA LUMPUR Timah Langat, which is involved in the mining business, is constantly looking into further investments either to strengthen its existing business or expand into other activities. Chairman Datuk Ahmad Razali Mohd Ali said in the company's 1990 annual report that expansion of the welding
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon Bond Corp rescue plan approved
      336 4 Creditors accept scheme to swap debt for equity Reuter FRANKFURT A meeting of creditors holding mark bonds from Australia's Bond Corp Holdings Ltd has approved a proposed rescue plan for the financially-trou-bled group involving a debt for equity swap. A Bond Corp official said the
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      CP Group likely to reject Bangkok's new phone deal
      281 4 BANGKOK The Charoen Pokphand Group of Thailand is likely to turn down the government proposal to operate only half the three-million-line telephone concession as it is commercially unfeasible, a highly-placed source in the CP Group told the Bangkok Post over the
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      Lock icon Aussie TV network sold to holding company
      205 4 AP MELBOURNE The first phase of a restructuring of the Seven television network was completed on Friday when the network was sold into a holding company owned by banks and unidentified investors. The network was placed into receivership in November 1989 when its
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      Lock icon Analysts bullish about Fletcher's long-term outlook
      618 4 IHT AUCKLAND Of the 10 largest companies in New Zealand a decade ago. only Fletcher Challenge Ltd managed to survive rapid deregulation in the 1980s that opened the country's market of less than 3.5 million consumers to international competition. But the very strategy that
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      Electricity project investors face tough Indon screening
      433 4 JAKARTA Sixty-two foreign and Indonesian companies which apply for licences to invest in electricity generation plants are being subjected to a stringent prequalification evaluation regarding their technological and financial capabilities, the Jakarta Post reported on Friday. "We expect to announce the companies which
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Atari expects sales to grow despite recession
        55 4 CHICAGO The electronic video game market has seen erosion brought on by a lengthy recession and a declining demographic pool of potential consumers, but Atari Corp said it is running counter to the trend and looking for growth this year in sales of
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        Indon telecom firm posts losses
        39 4 JAKARTA Losses estimated to run into billions of rupiah were incurred by the state-owned telecommunications company Perumtel last week, due to a break in the optic fibre communication system, according to the Jakarta Post.
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        Go-Video to file appeal
        51 4 SCOTTSDALE, Arizona Go-Video Inc said it expects to file an appeal soon against the decision rendered against it in US District Court in Arizona in the company's antitrust suit against video cassette recorder makers Sony Corp, Matsushita Electronic Industrial Co Ltd and Victor Co of Japan
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        Thai Wah posts rise in profit
        86 4 BANGKOK Thai Wah Co Ltd, a major distributor of consumer products, said its consolidated net profit grew 27 per cent from a year earlier to 232.08 million baht (SSI6 million) with a 4.42 baht earning per share in the year ending December, according to
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        Fuji Heavy suffers 66b yen loss
        82 4 TOKYO Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd became the only Japanese automaker in fiscal 1990, which ended March 31 this year, to post a net loss with its announcement of a 66.4 billion yen (SSB49 million) loss. Fuji, the manufacturer of Subaru cars, was hit hard
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        Steel cord and bead wire plant
        47 4 JAKARTA PT Branta Mulia, a major manufacturer of nylon tire cord, plans to set up a plant in Serang, West Java to produce steel cord and bead wire with investments of 354.74 billion rupiah (SS33O million), according to the Jakarta Post.
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon American merger volume rose 40pc in May
      296 5 Reuter NEW YORK Merger volume in the United States jumped 40 per cent in May with 295 deals announced for a total value of US$lO billion (Ssl7 billion), compared with April's 306 deals totalling US$7.l billion, according to Securities Data Co. But overall,
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      Lock icon Analysts doubt Hoechst will make hostile bid for Upjohn
      384 5 Reuter FRANKFURT Hoechst AG may be eager to expand its pharmaceutical business through increased links with Upjohn Co, but most analysts doubt reports it would make a hostile bid for the US health care firm. Rumours that German chemical giant Hoechst
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      Lock icon Xerox's new chief will not change direction
      415 5 Reuter PITTSBURGH Paul Allaire, who was named chairman of Xerox Corp last week, said he is not planning any changes in the company's strategic direction or goals. Mr Allaire noted in an interview after addressing a conference here that he has been Xerox's
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      Lock icon Pilkington likely to post much lower profits
      274 5 Reuter LONDON Recession in all its major markets will slice glass-maker Pilkington pic's pre-tax profit for the year to March 31, 1991, to about half the amount for the previous year. Building share analysts expect the company to report pre-tax profit of between
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Donald Trump will not seek father's help
        115 5 NEW YORK The Trump Organisation said Donald Trump has no intention of asking his father for financial assistance in meeting debt payments involving his Trump Castle casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The company termed false a story in Friday's Wall Street Journal
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        Beghin-Say expects to cut debt
        102 5 PARIS French sugar and food oil group Beghin-Say said it expects to cut its net debt to 8.1 billion francs (552.4 billion) in 1991 from 8.5 billion last year, helping reduce its debt as a percentage of equity to 100 per cent. BeghinSay expects to
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        Earnings pace to be maintained
        53 5 NEW YORK Bausch Lomb Inc chairman Daniel Gill said he expects the company to maintain its current earnings growth pace of 15 per cent in 1991. Mr Gill said on Friday he also expects to increase the dividend at its current pace of about 9
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        Preussag in talks with Iran
        58 5 HANOVER Preussag AG said it was in talks with Iran over cooperation in mining projects. A spokesman for Preussag said the Iranian Mines and Metals Minister Mohammad Hussein Mahloujchi had met with Preussag officials and discussed various projects. There were no concrete outcome of the
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        Denison may break even in '91
        90 5 TORONTO'— Denison Mines Ltd, the struggling energyresources company, may break even on an operating basis in 1991, president Bill James told reporters at the annual meeting on Thursday. He said Denison will probably post a net loss, including the payment of preferred shares, after
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        Socgen co-opts board member
        99 5 BRUSSELS Belgium's largest holding company Societe Generate de Belgique SA said its board co-opted Karel Vinck, chief executive officer of Belgian steel wire and cord producer Bekaert NV, as a board member. Socgen, which has major shareholdings in mining, cement and steel, said in a statement
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
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        DBS Finance raises fixed deposit rates
        96 6 DBS FINANCE and its subsidiary Great Pacific Finance have revised their interest rates on fixed deposits with effect from June 1. In a press release, the company said that interest rates on 12-month deposits of $20,000 have risen 0.0625 per cent to 5.12 per
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        Merabank in receivership
        86 6 WASHINGTON The Resolution Trust .Corp (RTC) has taken Merabank Texas, based in El Paso, Texas, into receivership. Merabank, which was transferred to the RTC by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), had approximately US$l.2 billion in assets and about $1.2 billion in liabilities, including $729.8 million in
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        German insurer sees good growth
        69 6 AACHEN, Germany Aachener und Muenchener Lebensversicherung AG, the life assurance unit of Aachener und Muenchener Versicherung AG said it expected good growth in 1991. The firm had 9.2 billion marks of new business in the first four months of 1991, or 115 per cent of
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        Zimbabwe's venture capital firm
        66 6 HARARE Zimbabwe has launched an internationallybacked venture capital company to assist small businesses during the country's five-year economic reform programme. Senior officials from the Commonwealth Development Corporation and the International Finance Corporation, nine Zimbabwe commercial banks and the (central) Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, representing the major
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      Lock icon Gorbachev invited to bank meeting
      215 6 AFP LONDON Jacques Attali, president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has invited Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to come to London for a bank meeting, preferably in July, the bank said. But a bank spokesman refused to be drawn on whether Mr Attali
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      Lock icon UK banks seek tight laws on Iraqi bonds
      397 6 Reuter LONDON Banks that have guaranteed bonds worth at least £200 million to £300 million taken out by companies trading with Iraq are lobbying for legislation to ensure they would always have claims on clients, bankers said. Companies that traded with Iraq
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      Lock icon Heavy US corporate debt offerings expected in June
      509 6 Reuter NEW YORK US corporations swamped the high-grade debt market with new issuance last week to take advantage of low interest rates, and some analysts expect offerings could total as much as US$l2 billion in June. On Thursday, almost $2 billion of
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      Lock icon Islamic exchange proposes trust fund
      100 6 Reuter KARACHI The Islamic Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Commodity Exchange (ICCICE) plans to set up an Islamic Trust Fund to promote trade and industry in Islamic countries, an exchange official said. Agha M Ghouse, Assistant Secretary General, said: "The fund will promote trade and
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      Lock icon Indon firm gets M'sian loan to buy cargo ship
      252 6 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Bank Industri Malaysia Berhad, together with Public Bank Berhad, will lend M 522.07 million to an Indonesian firm to finance the purchase of a cargo vessel from Malaysia Shipyard and Engineering Sdn Bhd. The loan is the first
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      Lock icon Mitsui Taiyo to cut assets by 1993 to meet requirements
      375 6 Reuter TOKYO Mitsui Taiyo Kobe Bank plans to slash assets by some two trillion yen before March 1993 to meet stiff new international capital adequacy requirements. Mitsui Taiyo, born of a merger between Mitsui Bank and Taiyo Kobe Bank last
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      132 6 Centre lor Business Research Development Faculty of Business Administration National University of Singapore Special Seminar "International Marketing Strategy" by Professor C B Johnston Dean of Western Ontario Business School for 11 years with teaching experience in 17 countries. President of C B Johnston Ltd; Director of Canada Publishing Corporation; Founding
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  • THE REGION
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      Philippine economy improves
      525 7  -  Upturn may be transitory: risk report By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE The economic situation of the Philippines has improved markedly though much of the upturn is based upon transitory factors, according to Hongkong-based Political Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd (PERC). In its latest risk report on the country,
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      Lock icon Feud threatens to split Labor government
      501 7 Hawke-Keating leadership struggle Reuter SYDNEY It's been called the most devastating partnership in Australian politics populist, earthy Prime Minister Bob Hawke and hardnosed, economic reformist Treasurer Paul Keating. But the duo which won four elections, brought unprecedented union stability and shook the country from
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      Lock icon Aquino threatens to veto ceiling on debt repayments
      301 7 Reuter MANILA President Corazon Aquino has said a proposed ceiling on Philippine debt repayments would harm the country's credit standing and warned Congress she might veto any attempt to impose a debt cap. Mrs Aquino said in her regular Sunday radio talk
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Manila loses US$2b of fish to poachers a year
        120 7 MANILA The Philippine Navy's acute lack of modern vessels is costing the government around US$2 billion (553.5 billion) worth of fish to poachers annually, the navy said on Saturday. Navy chief Rear Admiral Mariano Dumancas said their vessels were no match
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        NZ defends immigration office
        139 7 WELLINGTON New Zealand's Immigration Minister Bill Birch has defended the efficiency of the Immigration Services' (NZIS) Hongkong office but consultants handling applications have strongly criticised its performance. He flew to Hongkong at the weekend for talks about the service with NZIS officials and consultants. A statement
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        Talks to speed up repatriation
        108 7 HONGKONG Government officials will press for speedy repatriation of Vietnamese boat people not classed as refugees when talks on the future of thousands crammed into the colony's camps open in Washington today. A total of 5,100 Vietnamese boat people arrived in Hongkong month compared with
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        Samoa to rely heavily on aid
        58 7 APIA, Samoa Western Samoa will be forced to continue its heavy reliance on foreign aid in all spheres of development, Head of State Malietoa Tanumafili II said last Friday at the ceremonial opening of Parliament here. Major aidfunded projects now under way include road
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        French firm in Viet gas venture
        98 7 HANOI The French firm ELF-Antargaz has formed a joint venture with a Ho Chi Min City entity to produce butane, the Vietnamese News Agency (VNA) reported on Saturday. The Saigon Gas Co, formed with the city's Union of Building Materials Enterprises, was initially capitalised
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      320 8 Bid to appease opposition to trade status renewal AFP BEIJING China has introduced its first copyright law to step up its protection of intellectual property rights, the Xinhua news agency reported. The law, passed by the National People's Congress last September, came into
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      Lock icon Chinese economy in danger of overheating
      180 8 AFP BEIJING Chinese economists have warned that the country's economy is growing too fast, estimating the rate at nearly 8 per cent this year rather than the planned 4.5 per cent, the China Daily reported on Saturday. In a report, a team of economists
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      Lock icon China's state companies in HK form group
      68 8 AFP HONGKONG China's state-funded companies here have set up an association aimed at promoting investment and technology exchanges between Hongkong and China. The Hongkong Chinese Enterprises Associa- tion had been set up by longestablished Chinese state enterprises here including the Bank of China
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      Lock icon Congress (I) closes ranks to fight polls
      525 8 AFP NEW DELHI The late Rajiv Gandhi's orphaned party has closed ranks after weathering a storm over who succeeds him, presenting a picture of unity ahead of a ballot it hopes to win on a wave of sympathy for its slain leader. But
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      Quiet run-up to anniversary
      62 8 BEIJING All is quiet in Tiananmen Square nearly two years after the Chinese government's crackdown on the pro-democracy movement there. A visitor is seen enjoying a nap yesterday near the square's Monument to the People's Heroes, an apparent vindication of the Beijing authorities' confidence that there
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      Lock icon Signs point to end of US recession soon
      526 9 Analysts see economic reports indicating summer recovery NYT WASHINGTON Posting a third straight advance, the US government's main economic forecasting gauge signalled Friday that the 10-month-old recession would soon be over. "The end is imminent," said Maury Harris, chief economist at Paine
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      Lock icon Opec members face dilemma on next step to take
      461 9 AFP PARIS The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) is going to have to choose between slightly increasing its oil output in the next few months, to meet higher demand, and the status quo to help push a price increase, said
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      Lock icon Superpower summit closer, says Bush
      98 9 Reuter NEW YORK US President George Bush joining in the celebrations at the West Point Military Academy's graduation celebrations last Saturday. In a speech earlier, he said a US- Soviet agreement to reduce conventional forces in Europe was an important step towards a summit soon
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      Lock icon Jordan hoping to strike oil in desert
      333 9 Reuter AMMAN Jordan, one of the few countries in the Middle East with no proven oil reserves, is trying to attract American exploration companies to drill in its uncharted desert. Kamal Jreisat, the director of Jordan's Natural Resources Authority, says his department has
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      Lock icon Teheran urging nationals living abroad to return
      364 9 NYT TEHERAN In a move to attract Iranian investors and professionals, Iran has called on tens of thousands of expatriates to return home. The invitation was made in New York last month at a gathering of Iranian investors, bankers, and university professors who
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        OECD talks to focus on trade recovery, E Europe
        108 9 PARIS The outlook for economic recovery, world trade liberalisation and support for Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union in reforming crisis-ridden economies will be focal issues at the annual OECD ministerial meeting opening here today. Senior diplomats said the two-day
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        New post in the offing?
        112 9 TOKYO A Japanese government council will propose in mid-June the creation of a new ministerial post to speed up Japan's response to overseas crises like the Gulf War. Jiji Press said on Saturday that a report now prepared by the influential council would criticise Japan's
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        Paris ready to adhere to N-treaty
        97 9 PARIS France is ready to adhere to the 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Le Monde reported on Saturday. The influential French daily said this would be part of a world disarmament plan to be announced by President Francois Mitterrand today. Le Monde, which did not
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        UN to reopen offices in Lebanon
        107 9 BEIRUT The United Nations has decided to reopen all the ofFices it operated in Lebanon before the start of the civil war in 1975. The UN announcement was made by Mohammed Abdallah Nour, an assistant to UN secretarygeneral Javier Perez de Cuellar. Since the
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        Whaling moratorium extended
        94 9 REKYJAVIK A moratorium on commercial whaling was extended for another year by the International Whaling Commission which ended its annual meeting here late on Friday. Despite the ban, the commission showed sympathy for the Eskimos, retaining or slightly increasing the quotas of three traditional whale-hunting populations. The
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        Mexico raises tariffs
        61 9 MEXICO CITY Mexico is increasing tariffs on four products and opening unfair-trade investigations into imports of pots and tubing from the United States. Mexico's Ministry of Trade said on Friday that duties will be increased on steel rods from the US and Venezuela, rolled steel plates from
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      Lock icon A most generous gift
      1049 10  -  Holders of EDB-Glaxo scholarships are in an unusual position in that they are not bonded to work for that company. Genevieve Cua reports Genevieve Cua WHEN graduates of the EDB-Glaxo scholarship programme return from their studies in three to four years' time, they arc likely to
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  • ANALYSIS
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      The economic policy that just refused to die
      920 11  -  Controversial in its previous lifetime and maligned during its short death, Rogernomics the fiscal strategy of New Zealand's former Labour government lives on again with a new face under the ruling National Party. Selwyn Parker reports from Auckland. Selwyn Parker UNTIL New
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      In the notebook world the race is on for power, size and reliability
      511 11 JUST as the layman finally came to terms with megabytes (Mb) a measurement of the amount of data stored on a drive a new term has come on the scene. Gigabytes. A thousand megabytes of data, or
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      Lock icon Disk makers going into overdrive
      1097 11  -  The local disk drive industry is grappling with the facts of life in the nineties as new market forces come into play. Claire Leow examines how it is coping Claire Leow THE LOCAL disk drive industry, about 10 years old and the world's largest exporter
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  • SPORTS 1
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      Lock icon A global affair
      323 12 French Open AP PARIS The 16 women who have reached the French Open's fourth round embody the global nature of contemporary tennis 13 countries and six continents are represented. Americans make up the biggest national contingent, with three players, followed by Spain with two. South America is
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      Lock icon Edberg sweeps past Chesnokov
      231 12 AFP PARIS World number one Stefan Edberg's smooth serve-and-volley tennis brushed aside Andrei Chesnokov of the Soviet Union and put the Swede into the last sixteen of the men's singles here on Saturday. Edberg, 25 and bidding for his first victory in the world's supreme clay-court
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      Lock icon Ballesteros leads
      289 13 British Masters AP WOBURN, England Seve Ballesteros mastered the British Masters' course for the third day on Saturday, shooting a 68 to stretch his lead to seven strokes with one round to play. Ballesteros, who had struggled last year with only one tournament victory, continued his recently rediscovered
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      Lock icon Golf in China remains domain of the elite
      269 13 AFP BEIJING On a verdant green, Japanese are practising their drive and Chinese leaders are keeping a low profile. Beijing's international golf course remains, along with the eight others in the People's Republic, a closed club reserved for the elite. This pocket
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    • SIDE LINES
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        Local qualifiers for Volvo/Castrol event
        101 13 SINGAPORE Ten more Singapore golfers qualified late on Friday for the Volvo/Castrol Amateur Cup 1991 regional finals to be held in Thailand in August, bringing the total number of qualifiers to 20. They will be competing with golfers from four other Asian countries for a
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        Mears roars ahead
        78 13 MILWAUKEE Rick Mears blew away the rest of the qualifiers on Saturday, taking the pole position for Sunday's Miller 200 with a record-smashing lap of 261.102 kph. Mears, who drove away last Sunday with his fourth Indianapolis 500 victory, buried his own two-year-old record of 258.763 kph
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        Shchennikov outwalks the field
        70 13 SAN JOSE Mikhail Shchennikov of the Soviet Union fought off hot temperatures and a packed international field to win the men's 20-km walk on Saturday, starting a Soviet sweep of the lAAF World Cup of Race Walking. Shchennikov, 23, walked the course in 1 hour, 20
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        Walker leads
        56 13 ROCHESTER, New York Colleen Walker shot a three-un-der-par 69 to take a two-shot lead after three rounds of the Rochester International. Walker, looking for her first win of the year, scored four birdies on the back nine of the 6,162yard Locust Hill Country Club course as she improved
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        Taylor keeps title
        72 13 PALM SPRINGS, California Meldrick Taylor won a split decision while Terry Norris powered his way to a knockout victory as the champions retained their respective world titles on Saturday. Taylor successfully defended his World Boxing Association welterweight crown in his first defence by taking a split decision
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      Lock icon Sutton holds on to lead in Kemper Open
      602 13 AFP POTOMAC, Maryland Sixty-four was the magic number at the Kemper Open on Saturday as the top four players all posted that score and tried to run away from the field in the third round. "The course was there to be had,
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      Lock icon Coody in front in NYNEX event
      169 13 AP NEW YORK Charles Coody and Don Bies each shot course-record 8-under-par 62s on Saturday as Coody took a one-stroke lead with one round to play in the NYNEX Commemorative at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club. The 53-year-old Coody, a two-time winner on the
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      Lock icon On opera stars then and now
      889 15  -  Are the great tenors of today mere pygmies compared with the giants of the past? John Rockwell sets the record straight John Rockwell NYT Any time a critic ventures to write about the human voice, his timid little breast-strokes into this murky sea are
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      Lock icon Pavarotti slammed by Aussie critics
      489 15 AFP Australia's leading music critics last Wednesday gave Luciano Pavarotti, generally considered the world's greatest tenor, the thumbs down after they were charged AS 150 (S$ 195) a ticket to review his concert. One even suggested he bellows and rated him second best in a
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      Lock icon Mass-produced graphite violins: a future reality?
      561 15 An 81-year-old retiree believes that his efforts to make a cheap, top-quality instrument will soon be realised AP HAROLD Stephens lost his violin when he was 16, and in a way he's never stopped looking for it. At 81, the retired motor company executive
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      105 15 SUMMER SEDUCTIONS Cool and cold culinary temptations to seduce your summer palate including Cold Crab "Teochew" Style, Fresh Asparagus on Ice, China China Drunken Chicken, Rainbow Cold Dish Combination and many more. Prices from $B.oo+ .♦it. CHINA CHINA RESTAURANT MARINA BAY GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB 6 MARINA GREEN, SINGAPORE 0101.
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
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      Surge in Dow, Nikkei gives local stocks a fillip
      5378 16  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SHARE PRICES on the Singapore stock market finished slightly higher in moderate trading last week. The Straits Times Industrials Index rose 6.58 points to end the week at 1,554.18, only four points short of this year's high
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    4195 17 Main Board DBS Foreign 1370 +70 4-5.4% NatSteel 1120 4-40 4-3.7% UOB Foreign 750 40 4-5.6% Jurong Ship 50* 945 30 3.3% C&C 580 4-30 f 5.5% Keppel C Wrts 545 +25 +4.8% UOB Wt 358 +22 +6.5% Hong Fok 290 4-21 +7.8% OCBC Foreign
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
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      Lock icon Smart money switches into cyclicals
      754 18 End of recession may not be in sight yet, warn analysts 'NEW YORK FT CYCLICALS find favour among the optimists. The word went out on Wall Street last week: the smart money is in cyclicals. Convinced that a bounce back from recession is just around
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      Lock icon Market rises for three days in a row
      493 18 Firm Wall Street sparks turnaround TOKYO AFP SHARE PRICES posted a substantial rise on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week, helped by the stable yendollar exchange rate and firm prices on Wall Street. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues closed
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    • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
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        SYDNEY
        122 18 A LACK of offshore interest pushed down Australian stocks during the week, brokers said. The market indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, slipped 26.8 points to 1510.0. The All Industrials Index lost 34.2 points to 2367.5 and the All Resources Index shed 20.4 points to 857.6. Daily turnover averaged A
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        SEOUL
        213 18 PRICES and turnover sagged last week on the South Korean stock market and experts held out little hope of an early recovery as the government tights inflation. The broad-based Composite Stock Price Index, which opened on Monday at 617.30, fell to 611.35 on Friday, its lowest point of the
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        TAIPEI
        334 18 SHARE PRICES on the Taiwan Stock Exchange received a setback last week in extremely thin trading as most investors were haunted by the government's stepped-up efforts to crack down on tax evasion, analysts said. Wiping out the previous week's 1.2 per cent gain, the 228-issue weighted price index sagged
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        BANGKOK
        104 18 THE Securities Exchange of Thailand (SET) index declined a further 4.35 points last week, closing on Friday at 808.19 points. The stock market fell throughout the week except on Friday when it rose by 5.31 points. Average daily turnover by volume last week was 18,892,029 shares, a fall from
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        MANILA
        148 18 PHILIPPINE stock markets slumped last week despite reports that more new firms would be going public soon, bourse spokesmen said. At the Manila Stock Exchange, the Composite Index closed at 1,173.59 points on Friday, down 20.72 points or 1.76 per cent from the 1,194.31 points posted on May 24
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        JAKARTA
        130 18 MOST share prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) dropped again last week in thin trading as investors took a wait-and-see attitude to the upturn in other Asian markets. The JSE has tended to re- act slowly to changes in other Asian markets and most investors were holding on
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        BOMBAY
        339 18 THE political uncertainty following former premier Rajiv Gandhi's assassination appears to have had little effect on India's stock market, with prices continuing to hold out strongly. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sensitivity index moved down by a marginal 7.6 points last week to close at 1307.3 points, and the
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      Lock icon Prices inch up in volatile trading
      208 18 HONGKONG AFP SHARE PRICES rose slightly in volatile trading last week, with the Hang Seng Index gaining a mere 3.03 points or 0.08 per cent during the week to close on Friday at 3,707.01. Average daily turnover also fell to HKSI.3 billion from the
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      Performance of firms comes under closer scrutiny
      858 18  -  By Ray Heath SCENE: The breakfast room of a rambling, black-gabled house in one of the leafier parts of the stockbroker belt outside London. Drawn up in front of the house, at the end of the long, chestnutlined drive is a Rolls Royce.
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      Lock icon Profit-taking sets in after market hits record high
      4456 19 KLSE Composite Index at all-time high of 635.02 Bernama AFTER continuing the rally of the previous week, investors took a pause from midweek to lead share prices to a mixed close last week. The KLSE Composite Index added 3.73 points over the
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      47 19 53,369 HER WORLD SCALES NEW HEIGHTS It sold an all-time high of 53, 369 copies in April. This figure has been officially checked and audited. That's streets ahead of the competition. Published by Times Periodicals, a member of Singapore Press Holdings Tel: 255 0011 H 0 0
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Signs of recovery push Dow to record high
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        1333 20 PROPELLED by solid signs of a reviving economy, New York stocks rose strongly on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average sprinting past the record it set six weeks ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which hit its previous high of 3,004.46 on April 17, closed at 3,027.50,
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        LONDON
        795 20 LONDON shares ended higher on Friday, but traders said volume was very low. The four-day trading week, with Monday closed for a bank holiday, coincided with school holidays, resulting in the absence of many investors, traders said. The Footsie 100-Share index ended 8.3 points, or 0.3 per cent, higher
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        AMSTERDAM
        360 20 DUTCH shares ended firmer on Friday after an essentially Wall Street driven session, but were off their day's highs in moderate turnover. Shares in Amsterdam rose on Thursday's higher close in New York, but gave up some of their gains after the US bourse showed lack of clear direction
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        PARIS
        249 20 IN PARIS, the blue chip CAC-40 Index ended on Friday at its highest closing level this year in lively trade, stimulated by a buoyant Wall Street and French bond prices, and Friday's expiry of May index futures and options contracts. The index finished 24.69 points or 1.34 per cent
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        MILAN
        219 20 ITALIAN share prices rose nearly one per cent to reach a new high for the year on Friday, with banks leading the advance although the buying spread through most sectors, brokers said. Thursday's surge on Wall Street, gave an additional boost to the Italian market as it did other
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        ZURICH
        310 20 SWISS shares closed more than one per cent higher on Friday after a very active second half of the session which saw buying from home and abroad, dealers said. They said buying intensified after the release of US economic indicators. These further improved sentiment which was already positive on
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        STOCKHOLM
        282 20 STRONG OVERNIGHT advances on Wall Street and falling Swedish interest rates helped the Stockholm bourse end broadly firmer in busy trade on Friday. The bourse general index climbed 0.35 per cent to 1,097.45 in turnover of 592 million crowns. Blue chips shares rose 0.66 per cent. Dealers said a
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        TORONTO
        302 20 CYCLICAL shares led Toronto stocks sharply higher in late trade on Friday to a close at the day's peak, boosted by an afternoon surge on Wall Street over the all-time closing high, dealers said. Many investors rotated out of interest-sensi-tive shares into cyclicals, they added. Paper and forest products
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        561 20 May 31 Close PrtviotB NEW YORK Dow Jones 3,027.50 3.000 45 27.05 NYSE Financial 156.64 155.54 +1.10 SAP 500 389.83 386.96 2.87 Turnover (million) 232.1 234.4 -2.3 LONDON Financial Times 30 1,957.2 1,948.5 +8.7 FTSE 100 2,499.5 2.491.2 +8.3 Turnover (million) 469.1 430.8 +38.3 AMSTERDAM CBS Tendency Index 95.6 95.1
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
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      US$ all set for farther gains
      429 21 NEW YORK THE US DOLLAR rode the wave of an expected rebound in the US economy on Friday, ending almost two pfennigs higher and poised for possible further gains. A trio of fresh data, including April leading indicators and factory orders and the May
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      765 21 ASIAN CURRENCIES AFP ASIAN currencies showed an upward trend against the US dollar with more gainers than losers. The Australian. Taiwan, Singapore, Hongkong and New Zealand dollars were all up on the greenback as were the South Korean won and the Philippine peso. Losers included
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      INTERBANK FOREX RATES
      366 21 Cross rates Jul) 1 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.7680 2.7620 1.7420 138.45 0.5893 1.4854 1.3151 1.7182 SS 0.5656 1.5622 0.9853 0.7831 0.3333 0.8402 0.7438 0.9718 MS 0.3621 64.01 0 6307 0.5013 0.2134 0.5378 0.4761 0.6221 Dm 0.5741 1.0149 1.5855 79.48 0.3383 0.8527
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      551 21 Interbank rates s$ Bid Offer Overnight 5 1/2 5 5/8 1-month 5 3/8 5 1/2 2-month 5 1/2 5 5/8 3-month 5 5/8 5 3/4 Overnight mode: 5-1/16 LS$ _L^ W 7 days 5 7/8 5 7/8 I 1 month 5 15/16 5 7/8 j 2 months 5
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      Lock icon Poland set to introduce higher-valued currency
      443 21 FT WARSAW Poland is planning to introduce a "heavy zloty" worth a thousand times the nominal value of the present currency to accompany the government's fight against inflation. The new banknotes have been printed in Germany but are being stored in a bank vault
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      239 21 Reuter BRUSSELS EC finance ministers are likely to decide in July to ask member states to submit a binding plan of how they propose to get ready economically for monetary union, EC Economy Commissioner Henning Christophersen said. "(Members) must submit to the
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      245 21 Reuter TOKYO Recent dull trading in the Japanese government bond (JGB) market left some drowsy traders sleeping past the expiry date of their June JGB futures options contracts, bond dealers said. An unusually high 616 contracts of put options on JGB futures on the
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      Gold jewellery demand boosts prices
      434 21 GOLD FINANCIAL FUTURES REPORT SPOT GOLD last Tuesday leaped from the week's low of U*****.50/$355.00 to the week's high of $364.30/ 5364.80 within a few minutes of the release of two separate reports which showed world record demand for gold jewellery in 1990 and even
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      262 21 IMM M^rJi DCUTSCHCMARK Open High Low Sett Vol Op/lnt 0.5787 0.5797 0.5730 0.5732 37,720 79,519 Sep 91 0.5743 0.5752 0.5685 0 5689 EUWOOOU-AW Open High Low Sett Vol Op/lnt j un 91 93.95 93.95 93.90 9191 113,832 880,309 Sep 91 93.76 93.77 93.62 93.65 IAPAHESE YEW Open High
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      499 21 BANKS ABN Bank 8 Allied Irish Bank PLC 8 American Express Bank 8 Am'Dam R'terdam Bank 8 Arab Banking Corp 8 Arab Bank PLC 7Wi ANZ Banking Group 8 Ban Hin Lee Bank 7V« Banca Commerciale 8 Banco do Brasil 8 Bangkok Bank 7V« Bank Bumiputra 8
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      Lock icon Canadian grain shipments soar as export sales rise
      199 22 Reuter OTTAWA Canadian port officials say grain sales to the Soviet Union and elsewhere have increased exports through their ports in the first few months of this year. Grain exports have rebounded in the major ports of Vancouver, Thunder Bay and Prince
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      312 22 Reuter WASHINGTON A commodity exchange trader in a settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission stemming from its ongoing probe of New York exchanges was permanently barred from floor trading, while another Comex trader was barred for four months, the
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      Lock icon Platinum plunges on Nissan converter plans
      867 22 REPORTS AFP NISSAN Motors' announcement that it had created a catalytic convertor using palladium sent platinum and rhodium prices tumbling in the past week on London's commodity markets. Although platinum reduced its losses, the market remained cautious. On the London Metal Exchange (LME). copper
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    1176 22 Rubber MS (fob in bales) S cents/kg Int 1 RSS Close May 27 145.50 May 28 145.75 May 29 May 30 145.00 May 31 145.00 MRCLB (fob in bales) M cents/kg Int 1 RSS Close May 27 229.00 May 28 229 00 Mav 29 May 30 229.00 May 31
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      644 23  -  LETTER FROM BANGKOK By Denis Gray The stench of death is rising from the mighty River of Kings, which nourishes one of the world's richest rice bowls and flows past glittering vestiges of old kingdoms. Scientists say the Chao Phraya, the river's name in Thai,
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      150 23 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.335 1.3SS Canadian dollar 1.530 1.550 NZ dollar 1.020 1.055 Sterling pound 3.015 3.035 US dollar 1.7600 1.7700 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign cwrency Austrian schilling 14.40 15.40
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      78 23 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Medical International June 5-7 Speciahzed for Graz. Grazer Messe ********** Instrument Exhibition High-Tech* Austna lnternat.onal Equipment Centre Innovation Exhibition June 2nd International Centre Instituto (541)*****40 June 7-10 International Milano E.A Fiera *****971 5-11 Exhibition On Municipal de
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      331 23 8 Motoring enthusiast must have a screw loose if it I I 1 j i 1 i 1 comes off (5,3) |H iHf 9 A French and Spanish coin which cannot be gen- Ri I jHT^j uine (6) The horses have but the riders have fallen 11 Conclude negotiations in
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      217 23 Singapore Outlook: Showers over several areas in the late morning and early afternoon. Report Maximum temperature 32.0 Assoc humidity 69% Minimum temperature 25.4* C Assoc humidity 99% Hours of sunshine 7.60 Rainfall in mm 4.4 Rainfall this month 248.7 Rainy days this month 20 World report Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland
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    428 24 Sihanouk to head Supreme National Council Agencies JAKARTA Leaders of Cambodia's warring factions opened a new round of peace talks yesterday but neither they nor diplomats held out much hope for significant progress towards ending the impoverished country's civil war. Following a luncheon meeting
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    Asean seeks more equal relationship with EC
    530 24  -  EC-Asean Ministerial Meeting From Sharon Lau in LUXEMBOURG ASEAN countries which have experienced strong economic growth in recent years are seeking a more equal relationship with the European Community (EC), a change from the current donor-recip-ient one, diplomats said at the end of
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    611 24  -  Education one of several issues discussed during community visit By Yang Razali Kassim THE SINGAPORE government may start an open university and encourage distance learning to accommodate the growing demand for more educational opportunities, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. This was one
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    Lock icon Thousands march in HK in memory of Tiananmen
    227 24 Reuter HONGKONG Thousands of Hongkong Chinese, most of them youngsters, staged a protest march and rally through the British colony yesterday to mark the second anniversary of China's brutal suppression of democracy in Tiananmen Square. The crowd, estimated by police at 7,000
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    344 24 AFP BANGKOK A dispute over Thailand's largest ever infrastructure project is threatening to turn into the country's first full-blown political crisis since the February military coup. The feud, involving a telephone project worth US$6 billion (5510.6 billion), pits Communications Minister Nukul
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      405 25  -  By Selva Kumar LOCAL shipbuilder Hong Lam Marine and Singaporebased Asian Eternal Shipping Pte Ltd are geared up to be major players in PertaminaIndonesia's fleet renewal exercise. Last Friday, Hong Lam delivered the Asian Oil I to Asian Eternal. Built at a cost
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      336 25 AP WASHINGTON Three major health groups urged the US government last week to work with international aviation authorities to ban smoking on airline flights worldwide. "An international smokefree policy makes perfect sense for the world's airlines who are finding it both
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      235 25 Reuter COLOMBO Sri Lanka's state-owned national airline is in profit for the first time in its troubled 12-year history because of increased tourism and spending cuts. "We are very comfortable now and have a solid cashflow of one billion rupees (US$44 million) at
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      Emirates expands its services
      191 25 PASSENGER capacity on Emirates' flight from here to Colombo and Dubai will be expanded when the UAE national airline replaces its current 181-seat aircraft with a 223-seater in July. Emirates, the international airline of the United Arab Emirates, will be trading its Airbus A3lO-300 for a
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      486 25 AFP DUBAI A joint Arab shipping venture owned by Iraq and five other Gulf states expects record profits in 1991 and is considering buying new vessels. But officials from the United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) said the freezing of Iraq's shareholding,
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      Japanese firm expands into S'pore and M'sia
      345 25  -  By Magdalene Phang JAPANESE NVOCC operator Shinyei Shipping has joined the local freight forwarding scene by setting up offices in Singapore and West Malaysia. By early March, Shinyei offices have sprung up in Singapore, Port Klang, Penang, Malacca and Johor Baru. The Japanese
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      Lock icon Fall in Japan Airlines' profit
      293 25 UPI NEW YORK Japan Airlines, citing the negative impact of the Gulf War, reported lower profits for fiscal 1990 last week. Profits for the year ended March 31, 1991, fell to U*****.68 million (Ss2Bl million), a 3.3 per cent drop from 1989's $165.2 million. Revenues
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        37 25 SHIPYARDS, long the prey of shipowners, have now turned predator. The disclosure that Germany's Bremer Vulkan controls almost half of compatriot shipping company Senator Line has turned the tables on shipowners Page 2
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        Arctic route that could revolutionise shipping
        41 25 OFFICIALS from Norway and Alaska said they are completing studies of an Arctic Ocean transport route connecting North America, Europe and the Far East that could make the Suez and Panama canals obsolete Back Page
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        US to take Airbus subsidy row to Gatt
        50 25 THERE IS no longer any justification for subsidies to the European Airbus consortium and a planned US complaint to Gatt seeks to resolve the issue once and for all, a senior official of rival US plane maker Boeing has said Back Page
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        E European market for S Korean cars
        42 25 EASTERN Europe is rapidly emerging as a major market for South Korean cars as local car makers intensify their pitches in the region to overcome sluggish sales in the US, industry officials said Back Page
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        Air India resumes flights to Canada
        37 25 ALMOST six years after an Air India jet from Toronto exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing all on board, the air carrier resumed flights to Canada on Saturday BackPage
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        Karachi dock workers call off strike
        92 26 KARACHI About 6,000 dock workers in Karachi called off an 11-day-old strike on Saturday after winning a 20 per cent wage rise. "The work will start from Sunday," Communications Minister Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi said. Union leader Khan Madin Khan told reporters the backlog of
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        Indefinite strike in Rio
        62 26 RIO DE JANEIRO The union of port workers at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second-largest port, and several other ports called for an indefinite strike which began on Saturday. Rio port workers' union adviser Hamber Carvalho said the strike was confirmed at Rio's port as well as
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        Payment for Venezuela
        34 26 CARACAS A consortium including the US Bell South telephone company on Saturday paid Venezuela US$lOO million (Ssl76 million) to run a segment of the country's state-owned telephone giant, company officials said.
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        King to sell luxury yacht
        48 26 MADRID King Juan Carlos has announced plans to sell his luxury brand new yacht, built at a cost of US$l2 million (Ss2l million), in order to renovate his palace in time for a series of international events which Spain will host next year.
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        Cyclone moving towards Khulna
        61 26 DHAKA A cyclone brewing in the Bay of Bengal threatened to hit Bangladesh yesterday and cause even more damage than the April storm which devastated the country. Mokammel Huq, the chief relief coordinator in Chittagong, said the cyclone was moving towards Khulna, the country's second sea
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        Finnair can fly over Siberia
        34 26 HELSINKI Finland's state-controlled airline Finnair Oy has been granted the right to fly from Helsinki to Tokyo over Siberia, cutting three hours off the journey, the Foreign Ministry said.
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        Helicopter in sea mishap
        40 26 CHITTAGONG A British helicopter ferrying relief to cyclone survivors lost power on take-off and rolled into the sea on Saturday but all five people aboard were rescued, the commander of the US military task force said.
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      Lock icon Turning the tables on shipowners
      861 26  -  Shipyards, once the prey of shipowners, are now going on the offensive. Tony Gray reports Tony Gray Lloyd's List Shipyards, long the prey of shipowners, have now turned predator. The disclosure that Germany's Bremer Vulkan controls almost half of compatriot shipping company Senator Line has
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      COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
      819 26 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. x Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1358 26 DRY CARGO chartering was brisk with no let up in sight although only a few key fixtures were confirmed on Thursday, brokers said. A flood of chartering of panamax tonnage, particularly from the Far East, tightened nearby supply and boosted rates, they said. The Baltic Freight Index rose
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      11761 34 1 his is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for a
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        568 41 »wmI «oy Ha Berth Arm* Departure vetsd (toy No Berth Armd Departs* lUppd Wtarws Jurong Port Ametad 45A K34 along** 0506/0600 Gulden Falcon 56 J5 akx*side 01 06/2300 Frotasantos 5WB *32 alongside 04 06/0600 Pulau Kalimantan 08/91 J3 aloi*side 01 06/2300 tsta Florean 2208E C10 alongside 0506/2300
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        988 41 RECgVgC OF EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booki*/Balance Rslts Sty Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From to Concofd 21W 05/0*00 4 03/1200 03/1459 03/1700 ACX Lily 1 IB 04/0100 1 02/1500 02/1659 02/1900 2 02/1700 03/0659 03/0900 OCX Lotus 13A 05/1500 4 03/1200 03/1459 03/1700
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        265 41 PWX Nrt Barlh n Buttvworth an Miy 31: 1: Tai Bao; 2: Yu Yi I, Deng Yun, Pathein; 3: Sri Arfca, Malayan Success, Builder I; 4: ml; 5: Eagle Breeze; 6: Sea Glory. Penang Whert: NB: ntl; CB: ml; SB: ml. BCT: 81: Mirna; BH: World Aretus;
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      Lock icon Arctic route may make Suez and Panama obsolete
      391 42 Test shipment to be completed this summer j Reuter ANCHORAGE Officials from Norway and Alaska said on Friday that they are completing studies of an Arctic Ocean transport route connecting North America, Europe and the Far East that could make the Suez
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      501 42 AFP PARIS There is no longer any justification for subsidies to the European Airbus consortium and a planned US complaint to Gatt seeks to resolve the issue once and for all, a senior official of rival US plane maker Boeing has said.
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      265 42 AP SEOUL Eastern Europe is rapidly emerging as a major market for South Korean cars as local car makers intensify their pitches in the region to overcome sluggish sales in the US, industry officials said on Friday. Korea in the first
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      258 42 NYT TOKYO The Odakyu Electric Railway Co is putting off a decision on whether to use its new seatless rail cars until it can find out whether its passengers will stand for the change. Officials of the long-distance line say they fear a negative
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      182 42 UPI TORONTO Almost six years after an Air India jet from Toronto exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing all on board, the air carrier resumed flights to Canada on Saturday. Ashok Vaish, a senior vice-president and regional director for Air India in
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      28 25 Coctatt Report 2 Container Schedule 17 My Frwghts 2 index to Advertiser* 3 Slapping Gurfe 10.11 Slips w Port 17 Support Tries 17 Weather and Saa Condfcom li
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      77 26 NOTICE t PT. PERUSAHAAN PELAYARAN USldamar segara agung lines We are pleased to announce the commencement of our container feeder service between Jakarta and Singapore in June 1991. This service will initially offer a weekly fixed day sailing, arriving and sailing from Singapore every Wednesday. The first call of our
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      2407 27 SMIWM C agencies «||ff n i?" m Ro a #12-05 South point. Sinppori 0208 Cliffy T(i *****11 TELEX NO RS ***** IgTWf TERMINAL/CFS Td *****18 220 W> BOOKINGS T.I *****34 258 BHH k KSAKA JAROINE SNIPPING AGENCIES HORT KELANG TEL: *****18 TELEX NO MA*****/MA***** SSSS PENANC TEL *****4 TELEX NO
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      1140 27 INDEX TOWjVffITOERS Col Page Col I*l M ABC Containerline 12 1 M+ R Frwdg 13 1/2 Accord Group 8 1-3 Mac-Nds Agencies 14 1/2 AFS 15 2 Macoline 18 3 Ahrenkiel Liner 16 4 Madju Sdn Bhd 15 1/2 Allied-Link 16 4/5 «MaerskLine 3 4/5 Anglo Orient 16 /2 Mc
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      2164 27 imimwa TWO SAILIN6S PER WEEK TO NORTH ASIA SINGAPORE/HONG KON6 4 DAYS ETD WEEKLY TUESDAY ANO WEDNESOAY SINGAPORE/KORE 7 DAYS VMM) Voy ETA ETO 'Port 'Pwiang SlnW o,. Kalang DESTINATIONS Thrt wMk Marcnan MMrak 9108 FiMr By HCQE cv 4/6 0600 MRS M Pinto CFS M 23M MRS OAK LOB
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      1224 28 ROTTEDAM/1 gST y VOY NO S PORE SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG ANTWERP LE HAVRE ELBE 05/122 6'6 27/6 25/6 24/6 LEVERKUSEN EXPRESS 01/322 9/6 26/6 28/6 1/7 2/7 ißjUMld} LONDON EXPRESS 02/123 14/6 6/7 5/7 3/7 t ALL WCSTMUNO P KITANO 08/323 16/6 7/7 5/7 4/7 S/7 KELANC ft KNANC CARGO HAMBURG
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      700 28 DIRECT SOUTH PACIFIC SERVICE SIN NOU SUV PPT IS LA FLOREANA 2208E In Pt 14/6 16/6 22/6 ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO VIA SUVA TO LAUTOKA. PAGO PAGO APIA t NUKUALOAFA DIRECT CHILE SERVICE SIN lOQ ANF VAP CLX SAI (PERU) IS LA FLOREANA 2208E In Pt 5/7 6/7 9/7 9/7 10/7
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      1525 28 REGULAR INDEPENDENT FULL CONTAINER SERVICE WESTBOUND FOR EUROPE VSL/VOY SM ALG BCL HAM BRE ROT ANT Ftt UM (VIA (VIA (VIA ALG) HAM) ROT) NORASIA SINGA 9113 3 08/06 ZI/OC 29/06 02/07 03/07 04/07 05/07 06/07 07/08 NORASIA AL-MUNTA2AH 9114-3 14/06 04/07 03/07 07/07 0«/07 09/07 10/07 11/07 12/07 NORASIA
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      2098 29 —jSteomers Maritime Holdings Ltd ww p&o r ■nV STRAITS SHIPPING I ■Hmk j. C J w **rm Containers mlm •"•a—"*— N* P««i/ -t-fM S port *l| Sou Ant Rat Hb| KEUfU IMPISH 9101 01. OS 03 OS 05.0« 20/04 23/04 24/0* 27/04 S 5 PEMNSU.M BAT 0521 01/0* 03/0S 04/04,
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      557 30 CR NBR **********0-0 EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO EUROPE VSL.VOY I SPORE ROAM/AOAM H BURG BREMEN ANTWERP MATARAM 29W8 I 20/6 22/7 27/7 31/7 3/8 FAST TRANSIT TIME ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/CONTAINERISED CARGO Sub|sct to Inducement Alto accepting cargo lo Casablanca Port Said. Port Alexandria. Genoa. Trieste ALSO ACCEPTING BOTH CONTAINERS CONVENTIONAL CARGO
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      1038 31 m sinsov SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKING: *****51/ *****64/ *****59 (FESCO LINE) ENQUIRIES: *****33 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 (REGULAR INDEPENDENT SERVICE) FULL CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES otscmwOHG ntau castboum) 10MW6 fon WCSTBOUK) mjwagra) at Ronaniir 5u wv (ml* H«g "wr Is*
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      1416 32 AS AGENTS: KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD (CR No: **********0 M) W W TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKIRS23I6S FAX: *****79 I r%| M MALAYSIA: "K" UNE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD I -BL mi AJL TEL: PJ *****22 PK *****01/5 PENANG *****5 JB *****1 KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA LTD INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUTINTERNUSA TEL:
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      163 32 Continental Pacific Shipping jr TIMBER PLYWOOD SERVICE TO U.K./CONTINENT KKU S POKE PK LOADING FOR ARROW AD VENTURE SM Sid RDM/ANT/FLU/UK OURANIA L SM ROM/ANT/FLU/UK MARY M In Pt 7/6 11/1 RDM ANT FLU UK WORLD AMPHK* 30/6 ROM ANT/FLU/UK loidi Sab»h Indonesia ®M ULTIPORT AGENCIES (S) PTE. LTD. TEL:
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      101 32 IS'pore P Kelang Loading for I NEA ELPtS tn Port 4/6 Antw Rdm/UK Nantes [Spore Loading for I PAN GLORIA 10/6 Dubai/Dammam I MERCHANT PILOT 15/6 Hodeidah/Jeddah/Aqaba I r S pore Loading for SAMMI SUPERSTARS Los Angeles New Orleans/ I Charleston/Norfolk/Camden OCEAN FRIEND Los Angeles New Orleans/ I Charleston/Norfolk/Camden B
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      770 32 Xfp* PHILI ORI€NT UN€S PT€ LTD '08 ROBINSON HOAO #07 00 GMG BUILDING SINGAPORE 0106 1 TEL *****22/*****69/*****00 TELEX RS ***** PHILI FAX *****76/*****38 ij&f- BY AIR LAND OR SEA... WE TAKE ON THE WORLD FOR YOU MEMBER OF SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION 12 JUN DUBAI. DAMMAN, SHARJAH, DOHA. rlffmnN
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      479 32 /V-*-. GOLDEN LINE GUAN GUAN SHIPPING TNT><\ (PTE) LTD 23. Telofc Aver Street SINGAPORE 0104 TEI *****8J (10 LINES) Fm: *****04 (CR No **********0W) STRAITS/PERSIAM CULT SERVICE S pore P Keianj Ptnanj GOLDEN HARVEST ColoiMc Ka'actr Dubai 1,10 Jui GOLDEN WONDER Coiorrbo Karachi DuSai 21,30 kn CHINA SERVICE QMG FENG
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      1498 33 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD Ml mm PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street *03-00, Singapore 0106. JAKARTA ""1 [BANGKOK 1 VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SIN VESSEL VOV SIN BKK SIN EDEN 231 4/« 11/« KOTA PANJANQ 9116 13/6 EQUATOR MAS 06N 7/6 9/6 13/6 KOTA BINTANO 9116 4/6 7/6 11/6 HAI
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      1015 33 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 NOS SPORE LEHAVRE ROTTERDAM S'HAMPTON HAMBURG GOTHENBURG FRANCE HOLLAND UK GERMANY/SCAN SWEDEN Watefschout' 166 3/6 26/6 Benavon f 178 7/6 24/6 25/6 27/6 28/6 Jutland
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      539 33 M MYANMA P HH HVE STAR UNE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) S'pore P.KIf Pen P.Gdf PAGAN VI7IW 8/10 tun AVA VIOBW 16 11 tun TO THE BANK UMI v' A of Andrew Weir Shipping) SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE \1 HEAVY LIFT CAPABILITY 1 EXPRESS TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA I
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      738 36 (pßi TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND fiS [Sm Fratn Mtlb [lyd I Audi [Spf |p CHAIM C VEKOIMI 272 li t 22/6 21/8 Til Til 9/7 ANTKKRPEN 273 21/S 5/7 10/7 14/7 20/7 23/7 25/7 MARTHA 275 5/1 M/( 15/1 11/S 24/t 2C/S 27/1 ELLEN HUOtG 27C 15 I 22/1 2t I
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      864 36 OUTBOUND VOY PKL PNG JKT SIN HKG KAO KEE TYO SM/ NGO KOB VESSEL VOY |SM |PKL PNG (UN SM ACX LHY 116 *1 6 305 46 S6 11 6 146 156 156 166 ICEBKD 8A TFTi 76 loT" ACX DAISY 14 8.6 *1 6 7 6 14 6 18
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      288 36 I jf mm I P T PERUSAHAAN PELAVARANf i V*® KALIMANTAN DIRECT WEEKLY SERVICE TO > JAKARTA/TG. PRIOK 1 V„M< ETA/ETD DESTINATION NUGA XXI Voy 12/91 5/« J*»rt»P»Wn*»o| j NAM XXI V«y 13/11 7/1 lun Wurta/NMtaa| MAGA 42 *oy 1/11 11/12 lun tok»rt»/Mi«fc«t MAGA XXI Voy 13/11 14/15 )un Murta
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      1403 36 3 CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING COMPANY FULL CONTAINER LINER SERVICE ,lt |®gj™ 2, MISTRI ROAD. HMC BUILDING ULl #15 00, SINGAPORE 0207 CABLE COSTARLINE CR NO: **********0 M CABLt COSiAKLiHt General Agents: CO6TAR SHIPPING PTE LTD TO HONQKONQ AND CHMA AND CHMA YESSEL/VOY MP HKG SHA XIN HRU DAL QW VESSEL/VOY
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      1374 37 roc CONVENTIONAL SEKVICK Vtsstl PKL PNC P G Loading for A VESSEL 28/05 Rotterdam Antwerp CHINA rou CONTAWKH OMVICE VnMl SCP PKL BKK HKG QIN SHA YANGfANCKOU 151 026 33 6 0/6 126 166 YANGfANGKOU 153 02// 03/7 07/7 12(7 16/7 AJto accepting other chinew ports via HKG AUBTRAUA FULL
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      621 37 i SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD EM EH ETA SPOKE POUT KELANG PENANG BLUE lADE 18/6 Loading for Mile *UVAI MUOMU IS 6 leading tor Calcutta (XXPHN S**d Loading For Male PIONEER SUPREME 15/6 Loading for Malt OONAKULHI 10/6 Loaded For Feimaru PROGRESS LBERTY 12 6 9
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      440 37 If kft SYDNEY/MELBOURNE BANGKOK lam. Ivor mm srp jjj [*wti Ivor mwok mnbrqk m BHUM 0905 20-21/6 03-5/7 074J7 DEJA BHUM#* 13N In ft 3/6 Thur I 6/6 MANET A !">SO 5-6/7 18-20/7 22-24/7 CHAIYA BHUM# 12N In Pt 3/6 6/6 PITA BHIW 1106 20-21/7 02-4/8 06 8/8 MAHA BHUM#
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      433 37 neen-une VBL VOV SINGAPORE MADRAS SINGAPORE VESSEL VOY siN MM SIN TIGER BAY 161N 03 04/06 10-12/06 IS-19/06 TMJER STAR 162N 13-13/06 19-21/06 27-27/06 KURIISK 162 A 16-16/06 23-25/06 01-01/07 VSL VOY SINGAPORE/CALCUTTA/SMGAPORE VESSEL VOV SIN CAL SIN TIGER RIVER 131CN8 05 06/06 11-13/06 19-20/06 LHOTSE 403 10-10/06 17-19/06 25-26/06
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      1164 38 MAC-NELS SINGAPORE I EXPORT TEL *****22 import TEI: *****02 PENANG TEL: (04) *****6 IKK TEL (088) *****0 TAWAU TEL (089) *****9. P KELANG TEL. (03 *****77 KUCHING TEL (082) *****3 SKAN TEL (089) *****2 I J BAHRU TEL: (07) *****2 SIBU TEL: (084) *****2 PADANG TEL (751) ***** I—tw V*
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      381 38 IHUHWTTWYTTWTTrHHHHH Hpjpjp ffgfc blue star line |)i^^^ r SINGAPORE TO NEW ZEALAND AND T/S FIJI FULLY CONTAINERISED MONTHLY SAILINGS DISCHARGING AT NEW PLYMOUTH Si PORT CHALMERS ACCEPTING FCL LCL FOR AUCKLAND, NAPIER, WELLINGTON, BLUFF, CHRISTCHURCH, DUNEDIN, LYTTELTON, INVERCARGIL, FIJI AND TAHITI StN N. PLY AUCK LVT PREMIER 12S 4 tun
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      754 38 THONG SOON LINES PTE. LTD. 77 ROBINSON ROAD #15-00, #16-00 SIA BUILDING SINGAPORE 0106 TEL: *****88 FAX NO: *****11, *****22 TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO CONVENTIONAL/CONTAINER SERVICES ***** M (BOOKINO UHKt) SINGAPORE TO WEST MALAYSIA SINGAPORE TO SABAH VESSEL Vor ETA DEST VESSEL VOT ETA PEST
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      378 38 r~ nvqcc FRATA CONTAINER UNES ARE PROUD TO OFFER OUR CONSOLIDATIONS TO A WIDER VARIETY OF PORTS. ARE PROUD TO OFFER OUR CONSOLDATIONS TO A WIDER VARIETY OF PORTS. N*TJ FREQUENCY/HTH ETA SM TRANSIT TNE AUCKLAND 3 SAIWGS 13 Ot OAYS BANGKOK 4 SAIMGS 04/0 C 3 OAYS CMTTAGONG 4
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      774 39 Avv COMPANIA PERUANA de vapores "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" ACCEPTING BREAKBOLK FCL/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CALLAO, MATARANI. ILO* I OTHER PERUVIAN PORTS* WITH T/S AT KO6E ON CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING. Penanf* P. Kelanj Snjapore E'Mva SHAPIAEVERETT 08 10 )un 11/13 Jun 18/20 lun KAMALEVERETT 27/2S lun THOMASEVERETT 08-09 W 10/11
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      531 39 VSL Ivor Is POKE [MAINLINE* [LAX IKST |SAV [NYC IHTX m MIIBOURNI 21* 14/6 7IM PUSAN 14/7 23/7 2b 7 217 JO/7 m PWAFUS 12H 26 t 7IM CALIFORNIA 23 7 II 4/1 t/l I I AM KOPER ISE 21 /W SAVANNAH 317 9/1 12/1 14 1 l«/( TIM KAOHSIUNG
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      764 39 VnM LINER SHIPPING PTE LTD '0 Arson Road *17-06 International Plaza, Singapore 0207 Tel: *****33 (10 lines) \l Tele* RS ***** LSSHIP Fax *****13 IMI j j!JM L- FAR EAST__ HRmi 3/6 10/6 JAKARTA 1/6 s/6 KEELUNG 9/6 12/6 [MANILA 1/6 8/6 KAOMStUNG 2/6 9/6 P. KELANG 7/6 14/6 BUSAN
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      831 39 PERINTIS LINE 11 SIN FM EAST ACCEPTING ALL FCL CARGOES 9/6 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG BETWEEN SINGAPORE 10/6 BANGKOK JAKARTA SURABAYA I V* MANILA/CEBU 8/6 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA vessel VOY S.N jkt sby i PORT KELA NG/PENANG/E. Malaysia VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SBY 6/ g BUSAN MELITA 07/91 05/06 08/06 12/6 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA JATiDIRI 935 08/06
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      111 39 SINWAY SHIPPING SERVICES PTE LTD WEEKLY LCL/FCL JAKARTA BANGKOK FAR EAST U.S.A. TEL: *****22 10/6 CHTG/DHAKA, 9/6 MADRAS 10/6 CALCUTTA 1/6 BOMBAY. 8/6 COLOMBO 8/6 KARACHI »/6 DUBAI. OAMMAN. BAHARAM. MQABOOS 1/6 lEDOAH REGULAR LINER SERVICE VSL ETA LOADING FOR TBN 10/6 BOMBAY TBN 6/6 COLOMBO, KARACHI TBN 7/6 MADRAS.
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      780 40 traits Container Agencies (a member of Steamers Maritime Holdings Ltd) P.T. MjgXUTAN PERTAMBANGAN SERVICE VESSEL VOY SPOKE JAKARTA SURABAYA TAKARI I 1708 03 JUN 05 JUN TAKARI IV 4092 06 JUN 08 JUN TAKARI I 1710 10 JUN 12 JUN TAKARI IV 4094 13 JUN 15 iUN TAKARI I 1712
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      206 40 MULTI-MODE SHIPPIIB PTE LTD MIDDLE-EAST/PERSIAN GULF ACCEPTING FCULCL DUBAI DAMMAN, SHARJAH. DOHA. MUSCAT, BAHRAIN. ABU DHABI. BANDAR ABBAS. JEDDAH FAR EAST ACCEPTING FCULCL PENANG. PKELANG, JAKARTA, BANGKOK. HONG KONG, TAIWAN. JAPAN. MANILA. KOREA UK/EUROPE ACCEPTING FCULCL LONDON, FELIXSTOWE, LEEDS, TILBURY. ABERDEEN. LE HARVE, HAMBURG. ROTTERDAM, ANTWEP. GOTHENBURG, COPENHAGEN ALL OTHER
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      726 40 /Cgt\SETH SHIPPING CORP. SDN BHD (UmM fT KLAUS TEL 03 3C***** llMt| FAX *****11 V PENANC TEL 04 6329?9 SKAN TEL 08«7I4«S2 \I7 SIIU TEL 064 *****2 TAWAU TEL: 089-*****9 KK TEL *****2250 KUCH TEL 062 *****3 M'SIA TO USA/CANADA CONTAINER SERVICE ftEOCT IWT ft» I m |S« IA/LBI KST
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      513 40 CUJj coniußV inTEßmonnt\ j LCL/FCL SERVICE FROM fV/ f I HI HI /Ml W CWI over 600 lermlnals/offlces in U.S.A I I I B fIH m CUM maintains ovar 35,000 tmclor» 4 truck*. V I I /Ml M CUM wrv« ow 60,000 points In USA M CUft r*U«bl» LCI/FCL s«rvtoM.
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      428 40 FCL/LCL SERVICES MANILA ETA VIGOUR PACIFIC 38NB 8/6 VIGOUR SINGAPOUR 2NB 15/6 BANGKOK 7/6 14/6 BUSAN 5/6 13/6 HONGKONG 5/6 13/6 DURBAN PT LOUIS 19/6 */7 KEELUNG 9/6 16/6 USA. 6/6 13/6 PT KELANG 7/6 14/6 KOBE 9/6 16/6 PIRAEUS 10/6 21/6 OSAKA 5/6 12/6 JAKARTA 7/6 12/6 SURABAYA 7/6
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      638 41 MORE FREQUENT FUEHIS WORLDWIDE j NEW ZEALAND/FUI 1 "VESSEL Jkt t* fw *Bkk Sin S'baya Auckland Fiji(A) < N.Ptymouth(A) Tmaru Lyttetton(B) Dunedin(B) Napier Wefcigton(C) Tauranfi N Rotterdam/9113 8/6 10/6 10/6 10/6 12/6 15/6 28/6 10/7 30/6 2/7 3/7 3/7 4/7 4/7 6/7 N Rosario/9114 18/6 20/6 20/6 20/6 22/6 25/6
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      312 41 TIDES AND WEATHER **MRI I 40MNM ilMfiMt l«K s.o*- TODAYS TIDES (height in metres) HOUR 0000 0100 0200 0300 0400 0500 0600 0700 OSOO 0900 *****100 **********00 *****(00 **********00 2000 2100 2200 2300 JR 2.5 2.9 3.0 29 2.5 2.0 1.4 1.0 0.7 0.6 06 08 1.2 1.7 20 2.1
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      761 42 CHARTPOINT Every Saturday in Business Times HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. EABTBOUND FEEDER TO PACIFIC BQUTH-WEBT TO PACIFIC NORTH-WEST FEEDER VOT IHR PKE SIN lIK HAUL WY LBH OAK Sl* HAUL DOT TCM/StA PTL NAN HAI 203 014 02/04 03/06 05/06 H. EXPLORER 401 01/07 04/07 07/07 BAY BRIDGE 55E
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      78 42 f OFFICES P MACOLINE ?SST SSk I PORT KELANG 03 *****06 SIN-PASIR GUDANG-PALEMBANG CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL SIN PG SIN KM Bunga Setawar PMOI9 8/6 8/6 9/6 10/6 Bunga Setawar PMO2O 15/6 15/6 16/6 17/6 CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL ETA SIN PORTS B SETAWAR' 6/6 PALEMBANG 'SUSANNA" 4/6 PONTIANAK "BRITT ANN 5/6
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      111 42 CHARTPOINT Every Saturday in Business Times FASTEST TO LOS ANGELES WE'RE CHANGING HORSES IN MID-STREAM TO SERVE YOU BETTER FROM MID-JUNE (ALLIGATOR PRIDE 12/6), OUR ALLIGATORS WILL CALL SINGAPORE DIRECT EVERY WEDNESDAY OFFERING YOU SOME OF THE FASTEST TRANSIT TIMES AVAILABLE, SUCH AS:LOS ANGELES/LONG BEACH 17 DAYS OAKLAND/SAN FRANCISCO 20
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