The Business Times, 27 June 1991

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  • 10 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 16/12/90 Thursday, June 27, 1991 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 68 1 WASHINGTON The US economy contracted at a 2.8 per cent annual rate in the first three months of this year, the US Commerce Department said yesterday, more than estimated a month ago. The final revision from the previous estimate of a 2.f> per cent
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    • 35 1 TAIPEI Taiwan will lift a 42-year-old ban on direct trade with China if Beijing signs an economic agreement with it. Taiwanese Vice Economics Minister Chiang Pin-kung said vesterdav.
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    • 40 1 JAPANESE-CONTROLLED British computer maker ICL is setting up its first overseas logistics centre in Singapore, a move which will help the company capture a bigger share ot the growing Asia-Pacific market for IT equipment. Page 2
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    • 30 1 SHARP differences for and against the US policy of seeking to isolate Vietnam emerged among lawmakers and witnesses at a US congressional hearing on Tuesday. Page 7
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    • 27 1 ORDERS for "big-ticket" manufactured goods in the US posted a 3.8 per cent gain last month, the biggest in over a year Page 9
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    • 39 1 SOVIET President Mikhail Gorbachev is to present his own reform proposals to Western leaders in London next month and not a plan drawn up by someone else, according to a leading reformist Russian economist Page 9
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    • 37 1 HOME-GROWN agency Henen Advertising has seen its billings grow trom $1.5 million back in" 1981 to $5.3 million last year, a figure which its executive chairman hopes to double by 1995 Page 12
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    • 15 1 DIVORCE CASES are a lucrative business for Japan's private detectives Page 15
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    • 32 1 THE TRANSPACIFIC Westbound Rate Agreement will from next month lower currency adjustment factor surcharges for cargo trom North America to Singapore and Japan. Shipping l imes Page I
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 36 1 WALL STREET opened lower yesterday, the continuation of a downward trend that's gripped stocks throughout the week. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials fell 15.43 points to in the first hour of trading.
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    • 50 1 BRITISH shares were lower at midday yesterday amid fading hopes for lower interest rates, weak summer trading prospects for retailers and builders, and a general lack ot demand for shares. At 1100 GM 1, the FTSE 100-Share Index was down 18 points, or 0.7 per cent, at 2.443.2.
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    • 43 1 TIGHTENING UP by the SES was evident in the approved rights issue of L&M Group Investments, which had to undertake not to increase its share portfolio for a year from the time it receives the proceeds of the issue Page 3
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    • 24 1 THE SES has approved HTP Holdings' one-for-two bonus issue three weeks after it rejected four other proposed scrip issues Page 3
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    • 31 1 TAIWAN has granted licences for 15 new private commercial banks, breaking the government's near-monopoly on banking and getting closer to becoming a regional financial centre Page 6
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    • Article, Illustration
      30 1 Wednesday Change BT-MGA 721.80 +2.62 Kuala Lumpur ...624.08 +1.01 Tokyo 23.766.38 -141 04 Hongkong 3.634.64 +30.38 Sydney 1.506.9 +7.1. Tuesday Change New York 2.910.11 -2.90 London 2.461.2 +2.9
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    • 23 1 Exchange rates USS s$ 1.7695 1U0 Ven SS 1.2781 MS SS 0.6358 Money market rates Overnight 5 1/8 -1/8 3-month 6 +1/8
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    • 39 1 London Gold A\l fix USS366.00 US$2.75 Rubber S'pore Julv l47.25'/kg -1.00 M sia July 233.50*/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 57 tonnes -*-6 Spot MS 15.40 /kg -0.01 Crude palm oil Turnover 1.55*) lots -33") JuK MS792 /tonne 10
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  • 557 1  -  Dutch auction the system used for allocating COEs may be an option By Magdalene Ng THE Singapore stock exchange may introduce a new method for listing shares by the end of the year. The exchange started several studies last year to find a listing
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  • 479 1  -  37.7 m shares offered at 80 cents each By Chew Eng Han SAL INDUSTRIAL Leasing Limited can expect a firm re-, sponse to its share issue as a result of continued government backing, as well as strong support from its parent, Singapore
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  • 221 1 TWO MORE companies, San Teh Rubber and Singapore Electronic and Engineering (SEEL) are likely to go public soon. San Teh, to be listed on Sesdaq. is expected to announce its offering this weekend of 25 million 20-cent shares, priced at 60 cents each.
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  • 368 1 Reuter JAKARTA A former director at a major private Indonesian bank was sentenced to 10 years in jail yesterday for losing US$4l9 million (SS74I million) in foreign exchange trading. Dicky Iskandar Di Nata. 39, was director of Bank Duta whose board
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  • 222 1 GROWING demand for funds is likely to push up local interest rates in the short term but analysts say the rates will stabilise from early next year due to slower economic growth. From today, four banks DBS Bank, Keppel Bank. OCBC Bank
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  • 417 1  -  By Conrad Raj FORMER white-collar crime buster Glenn Knight will go on trial late next year on charges of cheating, attempted cheating and making false statements. Some 44 witnesses are expected to testify with 36 for the prosecution and about eight
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 89 2 I NVIRONMENT Minister Dr Ahmad Mattar is to open I nviroworld '91 today at the World Trade Centre Hall 5. The exhibition is organised by Communication International Assol ites (CI and features more than 200 exhibitors from 20 countries. The exhibition, with an emphasis on
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      • 70 2 SINGAPORE Telecom has established an electronic data interchange (EDI) link with the Netherlands. The link will aliow the Singaporean and Dutch trading communities to s, eed up the documentation process for transactions between the two countries. Yesterday, Telecom and its Dutch counterp rt PIT Telecom Netherlands, together with
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      • 77 2 SINGAPORE will introduce electronic monitoring of drug releases to enhance the supervision of ex-drug addicts and help them avoid relapse. Peter Sung, the Minister of State for National Development and Home Affairs, said yesterday the •\>vernment is also studying legislation to allow the seizure of assets acquired
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    • 254 2 I WO LOTS of property put up for auction by the official assignee fetched almost $5 million for the government yesterday. Six units of postwar shophouses in Mayflower Way went for 53.49 million, while three shophouses in Venus Way went under the hammer
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    • 320 2  -  Fast-track delivery system By Dexter Lee JAPANESE-CONTROLLED British computer maker ICL is setting up its first overseas logistics centre in Singapore, a move which will help the company capture a bigger share of the growing Asia-Pacific market for IT equipment. Central to
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    • 269 2 THE engineering faculty at the National University of Singapore is offering more consultancy services to local industries. The annual staff consultancy income generated by the faculty has been hovering around $1 million since 1987 and is expected to continue growing, said Professor
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    • 213 2 FRANCE can complement Singapore as the Republic strives to improve the capacities of its economy in the field of design and creativity. The strength of the French economy in research and innovation. and an accurate appraisal of European and world markets can work with the
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    • 302 2  -  By Claire Leow THE Vocational and Industrial Training Board (VITB) will introduce a course for computer operators next year to meet a shortfall created by Singapore's computerisation programme. Details are being worked out but the objective of the course is to try to
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    • 186 2 LARGE Singapore companies should support their smaller local counterparts so that they can grow. By helping the small and medium-sized enterprises, they can become tomorrow's Yeo Hiap Sengs and F&Ns, said Henry Lim, executive chairman of Henen Advertising, a small, local advertising agency. Mr Lim,
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 431 3  -  By Elaine Koh TIGHTENING UP by the Stock Exchange of Singapore was evident in the approved rights issue of L&M Group Investments, which had to undertake not to increase its share portfolio for a year from the time it receives
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    • 290 3 Reuter MALAYSIA Mining Corp Bhd (MMC) has begun diamond exploration in Indonesia and may look for gold in Brazil and ilmenite in Vietnam, a company official says. MMC, one of the world's largest tin miners and a company that diversified into engineering and
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    • 470 3 MARKET TALK Reuter TOKYO Japanese investors. tired of getting burned in an ailing, scandal-racked local stock market, are expected to focus more on healthier bourses overseas, say brokers and investment managers. "The performance by Japan stocks is the worst internationally so
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    • 283 3  -  By Magdalene Ng THE Stock Exchange of Singapore has approved HTP Holdings' one-for-two bonus issue three weeks after it rejected four other proposed scrip issues. The SES had earlier this month turned down applications for rights issues by UIC, Hotel Properties and Eu
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    • 369 3 Group plans to cash in on M'sian boom Bernama SINGAPORE-BASED Cycle Carriage Ltd intends to build a significant presence in the property scene in Malaysia through development, investment and ownership of quality properties, chairman Tan Sri Basir Bin Ismail said yesterday. As the
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    • 242 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Mul-ti-Purpose Holdings Bhd (MPHB) is looking at rationalising its financial services, and one option would be to group its activities under 70 per cent-owned Malaysian French Bank. Disclosing this after the company's annual general meeting yesterday, executive director and group legal
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 83 3 SINGAPORE WAREHOUSE Co, a subsidiary of Hwa Hong Corporation, has bought over a Hongkong-based shelf company called Pumbledon Limited. Pumbledon, essentially an investment holding company, was formed in April this year. The company, which has an authorised capital of HK$ 10,000 (552.300), divided
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      • 224 3 OW CHEO GUAN. a director of the Hai Sun Hup group, has disposed of his entire shareholding of 35,000 shares of Si each in Maritime Properties (MPL). He therefore does not have any interest in the 50.000 shares held by MPL in the Hai Sun
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      • 42 3 THE DEADLINE for Nat Steel shareholders and warrant holders to deposit their certificates with the Central Depositary' is July 3 and not June 26 as earlier reported in BT. Trading will be suspended from July 4 to July 12.
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    • 215 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR UMW Holdings will be spending Msso million (about SS32 million) to upgrade its existing Toyota assembly plant and another MS6O million to upgrade branches of the group's motor division. Group managing director Abdul Rashid Bin Abdullah told reporters after
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    • 389 3 The 3rd International Petrochemical Conference Petrochem '91 Third in the series, Petrochem '91 continues in the successful tradition of the conferences in 1989 and 1990. It is worth noting that the number of delegates attending Petrochem more than doubled in 1990. This is hardly surprising as the petrochemical industry is
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 66 4 WELLINGTON Options on Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd shares will be listed on the New Zealand Futures and Options Exchange (NZFOE), the exchange said. The underlying shares are due to be listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange on July 17.
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      • 84 4 KUALA LUMPUR M K Kashiyama, a Japanese-Malay-sian venture producing and exporting disc brake pads, will invest Ms2o million (5512.7 million) to expand production in Malaysia, according to its Executive Director, A G Soo. The venture will build a factory to produce 2 million steel backing plates a
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      • 81 4 BANGKOK Thai Oil Co Ltd plans to invest in a four billion baht (***** million) lubricant base plant, chairman Kasame Chatikavanij said. Mr Kasame told reporters the lubricant base plant project, approved recently by Thai Oil's board, will be a joint venture with state-owned Petroleum Authority
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      • 91 4 TOKYO South Korea's Kuk Dong Construction Co Ltd and Osaka-based Saimon Construction Co Ltd plan to set up a joint venture in Japan in August to construct office buildings and houses, a Saimon spokesman said. It will be the first construction joint venture by Japanese and South Korean
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      • 54 4 BANGKOK Caltex Petroleum Corp has begun work on the costly engineering design of its proposed oil refinery as an indication of its commitment to press ahead with the project, the Bangkok Post reported. Caltex has yet to conclude an agreement with the Industry Ministry on the
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    • 249 4 Reuter AUCKLAND Air New Zealand Ltd, pilotless since April when former chief executive Jim Scott bailed out, is flying towards an operating loss of around NZ$25 million (5525.5 million) in the year to March 31, analysts said. Asset sales of NZ$3l.5
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    • 372 4  -  Bright outlook after all Semen Gresik shares snapped up By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Singaporebased merchant bankers can look forward to more feebased corporate finance business in Indonesia as the country's first privatisation issue has met with great success. All the 40 million
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    • 239 4 Reuter TOKYO Japanese oil firms and trading houses are drawing closer to V ietnam, as both sides await the lifting of a 16-year US trade embargo which could open one of the last remaining frontiers of energy resources. Vietnam's potential for oil exploration
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    • 333 4 BANGKOK Hopewell Holdings' resubmitted request for promotional privileges for the realty and property development under its 100 billion baht (556.9 billion) community train and overhead expressway project was considered a trick by the company to force the Thai government to terminate the project
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    • 331 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Amerisia Industries Sdn Bhd, a member of China's Tunghua group, is to open another three strategic marketing branches in Malaysia before the end of this year in anticipation of great demand for made-in-China machinery equipment and products by local
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 671 5 Real estate loans not material to second-quarter results NYT SAN FRANCISCO Wells Fargo Co stunned Wall Street on Tuesday by announcing that it would increase its reserve for loan losses in the second quarter to about US$35O million (***** million), or more than
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    • 332 5 AFP LONDON British conglomerate Trafalgar House on Tucsday launched a 114 million (about ***** million) friendly takeover bid for troubled British engineering group Davy Corporation. German group Manncsmann meanwhile said that it would be interested in acquiring part of Davy, which is in
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 82 5 LONDON Ordinary shareholders of Brent Walker Group pic voted to approve an extension in the troubled leisure company's borrowing powers up to a maximum of £2 billion (SSS.B billion), from the present limit of £1.71 billion. Company chairman Lord Kinderslcy said at an extraordinary general
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      • 62 5 NEW YORK Borland International Inc said it signed an agreement with International Business Machines Corp to develop the next generation of its Object Vision product for the OS/2 2.20, IBM's 32-bit operating system. The pact is an extension of a recent agreement between the two companies to develop
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      • 65 5 LONDON Guinness pic is to move further into the Spanish drinks market with a £34 million (5598.6 million) bid for brewer Union Cervecera SA. The bid will be made through the group's recently acquired Cruzcampo subsidiary, Guinness said. Following the deal, Danish brewer Carlsberg A/S.
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      • 84 5 PARIS French hypermarket group Carrefour will pay 2,700 francs (Ss7BB) per share between June 27 and July 17 to holders of shares in Ste Viniprix, which controls Carrefour's takeover target Euromarche, the French stock exchanges association (SBF) said. Carrefour agreed to buy 83.14
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    • 336 5 Reuter PARIS THE chairman of Galeries Lafayette, Georges Meyer, said the French stores group will successfully complete its bid for two-thirds of the capital of Societe Francaise des Nouvelles Galeries Reunies next Monday. Earlier on Tuesday, an executive with Devanlay SA said
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    • 399 5 Reuter LONDON British Telecommunications pic aims to grab 30 per cent of the US$l.3 billion (552.3 billion) a year US videoconferencing market within the next three years, using its BT North America Inc subsidiary. At a news conference on Tuesday, the
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 67 6 I Aim laiwan's Ml-B money supply surged at an annual rate ot 5.? per eent in May, the highest in 16 months, signalling an economic recovery on the island. Ml-B, comprising cash in circulation, checking accounts, passbook deposits and passbook saving deposits, returned
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      • 56 6 LONDON The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has announced its first loan to post-communist l uropc. Ihe board approved a 15-year loan of US$5O million (about Ss9o million) on Tuesday to the Polish Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy, which will lend the funds to heating
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      • 68 6 MADRID The Bank of Spain has approved new accounting norms for banks and credit institutions, designed to conform with legislation elsewhere in the EC. A change in a new circular, due to take effect on Jan 1. 1992, is that banks w ill no
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      • 32 6 HADDON TOWNSHIP. New Jersey First Peoples Financial Corp said First Fidelity Bancorp declined its offer to buy seven branches of First National Bank of Toms River from First Fidelitv.
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      • 2 6 Dollar$ Non$en$e
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    • 494 6 Country takes big step towards liberalising banking sector Reuter AFP TAIPEI Taiwan has granted licences for 15 new private commercial banks, breaking the government's near-monopoly on banking and taking a major step towards making the island a regional financial centre. The new banks, most of
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    • 367 6 FT TOKYO Leaders of Japanese economic institutions have called for tighter controls on securities dealings and tougher penalties for breaches of regulations, as part of suggested reforms designed to restore public confidence in securities markets. But it was back to business as usual on
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    • 253 6 Reuter NEW YORK Manufacturers Hanover Corp is revamping its European operations, a spokesman says, and will now oversee Europe from London rather than from New York. Europe will be split into a credit-linked group and a capital markets group, instead of many groups operating independently.
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    • 189 6 Reuter LONDON Lloyd's of London, the world's premier insurance market, was expected to be under fire from its members at its annual meeting yesterday because of a loss estimated at £500 mil- lion (about 551.45 billion). Lloyd's chairman David Coleridge is expected to
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    • 277 6 Reuter TOKYO The Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchanges will raise margin requirements tor stock index futures and options trading from today, according to exchange officials. Also, starting July 3, the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) will disclose at 0630 (»\1 I every Wednesday the names
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    • 243 6 Reuter SYDNEY The float of the government-owned Commonwealth Bank will involve the issue of about 240 million shares priced at A 55.60 each, according to the lustraHan l.vvfx iatcd Press. A further nine million shares will be issued to bank employees at a 10
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    • 58 6 This announcement appears as a matter of record only Neptune Orient Lines Ltd A 578,400,000 Tax Spared Loan Facility Standby Letter of Credit provided by Westpac Banking Corporation Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft The Development Bank of Singapore Ltd Dresdner Bank Aktiengesellschaft Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro Funding provided by Westpac Banking Corporation, Sydney
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  • THE REGION
    • 423 7 Bush administration accused ot double standards AP WASHINGTON Sharp differences for and against the US policy of seeking to isolate Vietnam emerged among lawmakers and witnesses at a US Congressional hearing on Tuesday. Critics, including a Republican senator, accused the White House
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    • 394 7 AP PHNOM PENH The gulf between rich and poor is widening in Cambodia, and could play a major role in the battle between the government and the Khmer Rougedominated guerilla coalition, analysts say. Many people in the Cambodian capital have become better off
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    • 266 7 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Plantations in Peninsular Malaysia have sought government permission to allow them to recruit 32,000 more Indonesian workers to meet a labour shortage, a plantation official said on Tuesday. Abdul Rahman Teh Mohamed, the chief executive of the United Planters
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    • 274 7 AFP MANILA The Philippines will seek to extend an 18month standby arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) until the end of 1992, Central Bank governor Jose Cuisia said here on Tuesday. This will enable the Philippines to take full advantage of
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 92 7 RIO DE JANEIRO Visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called on Brazilian industrialists to grab investment opportunities now available in Malaysia by setting up their manufacturing base in the country. Speaking at an investment seminar on Tuesday, he said they should do
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      • 86 7 GENEVA Hongkong has urged Gatt's "anti-dumping" committee to intervene in its dispute with the US over the ban on imports of synthetic material sweaters into the US, it was announced here on Tuesday. Bilateral talks between Hongkong and Washington failed and now the British
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      • 67 7 WASHINGTON Formal talks on the future of US military bases damaged by erupting Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines are to resume next month. American Defence Department spokesman Pete Williams said on Tuesday that chief US negotiator Richard Armitage was scheduled to travel to Manila
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      • 76 7 JAKARTA Indonesia will put certain local volcanoes that have been dormant under close watch, after the recent eruptions of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines and Mount Unzen in Japan. This would allow the government to cope as early as possible in the event of an eruption, the
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      • 71 7 PERTH The Deputy Premier of Western Australia, lan Taylor, has given the clearest indication so far that the state government will ensure that two proposed mining projects, opposed by Aboriginal interests, go ahead. He said on Tuesday that he would prefer the mining industry resolved
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      • 88 7 TOKYO Japanese engineering consultant Nippon Koei Co Ltd has agreed to form a joint venture with two Vietnamese enterprises affiliated with the country's Energy Ministry. A company official said on Tuesday that Nippon Koei, which was involved in several projects in southern Vietnam before 1975,
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • 356 8  -  Singapore among locations being considered By Salil Tripathi SINC.APOKi: Kuwait may build a new refinery in the Asia-Pacific region, where it enjoys a growing market for its petroleum products, to replace the capacity which it lost at home during the Gulf crisis.
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    • 338 8 FT NEW DELHI Dr Manmohan Singh. India's Finance Minister, hinted strongly on Tuesday that the new government would liberalise India's restrictive foreign investment laws. At his first press conference in New Delhi since taking office, he said India would have to open
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    • 494 8  -  By Harish Mehta BIG BUSINESS in India is rooting for the Congress (I) Party to form a stable government because it hope-, to enjoy a bonanza of economic goodies that the party has promised to deliver. These include exempting profits from taxes
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    • 316 9 Three new reports suggest a modest US recovery AP WASHINGTON Orders for "big-ticket" manufactured goods in the US posted a 3.8 per cent gain last month, the biggest in over a year, the American government announced on Tuesday in one
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    • 223 9 Reuter AP WASHINGTON Leading US Senate Democrats have offered to scale back proposed conditions for normal trade relations with China in an effort to pass a Bill containing some conditions with the two-thirds majority needed to overcome President George Bush's promised veto.
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 89 9 SEOUL South Korea plans to rationalise its tax system under the seventh Five-year Economic Development Plan (1992-96), nearly doubling the average tax burden per head by 1996, a Finance Ministry report said yesterday. The report said taxes would rise to 21 per cent ot
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      • 73 9 BRUSSELS The European Commission has complained to a visiting South Korean minister for the second successive day over Seoul's policies on copyrights, patents and foreign investment. Commission sources said Sir Leon Brittan, the commissioner in charge of competition policy, "banged the table hard" on Tuesday to
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      • 95 9 NEW DELHI India has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan of US$5 billion (SSB.9 billion) to US$7 billion to plug a balance-of-payments gap until the end of next year. The limes of India newspaper reported yesterday that the new government took the
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      • 52 9 BEIJING France is giving China a loan of 2.14 billion French francs (*****.9 million) this year for five major projects, including a new Citroen car plant, under an agreement signed on Tuesday. The loan was the largest France had ever given China, said the official Xinhua
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    • 398 9 AP MOSCOW Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will present his own reform proposals to Western leaders in London next month and not a plan drawn up by someone else, according to top Russian economist Grigory Yavlinsky. Mr Gorbachev made his position clear during a
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    • 135 9 AP MOSCOW I wo-thirds of Soviet state businesses would be privatised by the end of 1995, under a government proposal. Inder the proposal by the Cabinet of Ministers, circulated on Monday, the central government will retain up to half the defence and
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    • 1893 8 1990 Swiss Bank Corporation in facts and figures Swiss Bank Corporation in 1990 Balance sheet as at 31 December 1990 together with the previous year's figures; after acceptance of the Board s proposals concerning distribution of profit The parent bank reported cash flow of Sfr 1431 million 0 9%) for
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    • 179 9 HANDBOOK FOR BUSINESSMEN DOING BUSINESS IN SINGAPORE Complied and edited b> <.<»h lianvtah The aim of this Handbook is to provide employers, employees and those who want to start doing business in Singapore.with essential information which they may require in everyday activities DOING BUSINESS IN MALAYSIA The aim of this
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  • 515 10 EDITORIAL IT IS Singapore's good fortune to approximate in terms of size to the Polis, the primary unit of Greek political thought. The Polis, or City State, was of course the political realm in which individuals achieved fullness by participating in the lives of others around
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 205 10 BERLIN represents German responsibility for two world wars and, particularly, the monstrosity of Nazism. It is simplistic, however, to think that Germany could be tempted again by that terrible ideology just because it decided last week that its capital is moving back to Berlin. But the
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    • 154 10 IS PEACE finally coming to Cambodia? This question arises following the statement by Prince Norodum Sihanouk that the various Cambodian factions have agreed to end their 12-year war. But will there really be peace in that country? Other than the the announcement, there is very little evidence
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    • 142 10 THE 7th Vietnam Communist Party congress is now being held in Hanoi. The Vietnam communist authorities have, since the end of 1986, been calling for reforms but there have still been no concrete results after four and a half years. One of the crucial factors is
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 131 10 THE HOUSE of Representatives (DPR) is currently deliberating eight bills on transportation and financial services designed to provide a stronger legal basis and better protection of the public's interest and to broaden business opportunities in these services. The rapid economic and business growth over the past few years,
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    • 197 10 WHAT Malaysia and the other countries that are still in the various stages of development are concerned about over the outcome of the Sunday (»-7 meeting is whether this fresh forex manipulation exercise will again result in creating major economic disruptions for them while doing little good tor
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    • 153 10 CONCERN about the death penalty in Hongkong is not restricted to a small group of expatriate civil liberty lovers in the territory. Two months ago, the United Nations Human Rights Committee meeting in New York expressed reservations about capital punishment being brought back by the future Special
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  • 923 10  -  In the 1980s, it looked like the junk bond market was on the verge of vanishing. Now all the signs point to a recovery, says Diana Hennques Diana Henriques NYT THE Wall Street market for high-risk corporate bonds, which fuelled the corporate takeovers of
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    • 46 10 DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU SmAAM. UJt 'Pl CjO/NG TO < F] r u ttm C N(tiATTvf~~~\ I HAVt AIONOUQV. SOMAVBt, COT All IXF A "V MA'AM-' r MKXP U MA'AM HCTTUNU YOUVeiitP tATFit*;! I K (XJP tIEWMAJ MfAl r > HIP! UAhl, 115 YUMMY M ITUJITH *11. M
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    • 811 11  -  Smaller countries fear that their industries will be overwhelmed once the Multi-Fibre Arrangement expires, reports Canute James Canute James FT TEXTILE and apparel producers in the developing world have heen unable to find common ground on new rules to govern international trade when the
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    • 1512 11  -  The Philippine elections will be held next May. Vice-President Salvador Laurel, who is sometimes called a 'presidential spare tyre', believes he is the best man to run his country in these troubled times. Harish Mehta, who was recently in Manila, finds out why Harish Mehta SALVADOR
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    • 474 11  -  Sue Baker reports on the search for a new role for the Commonwealth Sue Baker Reuter THE Commonwealth, at 40. is facing something of a mid-life crisis. For many years the Commonwealth, comprising Britain and most of the countries that used to form its empire, has
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  • ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
    • 642 12  -  Stay small but think big. This seems to be the motto propelling Henen Advertising forward. Carolyn Lim reports Carolyn Lim Homegrown agency Henen Advertising, the brain-child ot" executive chairman Henry Lim, has seen its billings grow from $1.5 million back in 1981
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    • 131 12 DENTSU, Young Rubicam. Singapore and Leo Burnett Singapore, have won silver medals in public service advertising at the 34th Annual Print and Radio Awards Festival in New York. Dentsu, Young Rubicam won for "Ashes to Ashes", a health and hygiene print ad for BigO Magazine/Safe
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    • 138 12 EVEN out in the rough and tumble international scene, local advertising agencies manage to win recognition for their quality and standard of work. The latest is Spenser/BBDO, which won a bronze medal in the annual International Advertising Festival of New York for print media. The
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    • 669 12  -  What makes guests return again and again to the same hotel? What induces staff loyalty? Teh Hooi Ling goes behind the scenes at a leading local hotel to find out Teh Hooi Ling WHAT'S in a name? A lot, says John E
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  • SPORTS
    • 682 13 Wimbledon AP WIMBLEDON Call it grass-court gridlock. Two days of rain have turned Wimbledon into a big traffic jam, with players lining up for court space. Some have been waiting since lunch-time on Monday. Of the 131 matches scheduled during the first two days of
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    • 383 13 Reuter LAS VEGAS One of the keys to tomorrow's 12-round re-match between Donovan "Razor" Ruddock and Mike Tyson may be whether Ruddock's cornermen have made him a believer in the old adage that nice guys finish last. Tyson, probably more than any other
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    • 245 13 Reuter HENGELO, Netherlands Kenyan Richard Chelimo and Briton Liz McColgan both set 1991 world best 10,000-metre times at an international athletics meeting here on Tuesday. In spite of the dismal conditions, Chelimo lopped more than half a minute off the previous best men's mark
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 154 13 SINGAPORE The Changi Sailing Club Regatta, scheduled for June 29 and 30, will feature a new class of keelboat, the J-24, which is used by the International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) for match racing. Defending keelboat class champion Alan Barnes of Sun Tzu will
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      • 89 13 SINGAPORE Leading Japanese camera maker, Canon, is embarking on a regional sports sponsorship programme in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hongkong and Taiwan. The sponsorship, worth US$2OO,OOO, aims to develop youth and sports at the amateur level in the region. Canon Singapore Pte Ltd general manager, TFujikake, said
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      • 163 13 BETHESDA, Maryland It's 1986 all over again for Fat Bradley, who is back on course towards the LPGA Hall of Fame. Bradley was the tour's top money-winner in 1986, but the following year she found herself becoming uncommonly fatigued, and in 1988 she began to shake when
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      • 91 13 LAS VEGAS Australia's Jeff Fenech is hoping to take another step towards fulfilling his life's dream tomorrow when he takes on Ghana's Azumah Nelson for the World Boxing Council super featherweight crown. Fenech, unbeaten in 25 professional bouts, has captured world titles in three lower weight
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    • 984 14 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTEBTAIN WHEBE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN WHERE TO WINE, DINE /HI cDJi-Wi DINNER BUFFET at $22+ The ksaeaSy jttkicst and most tender U.S. meat arc coming your*§r at CTCIHtACK Cafe. The finest quality American beef, poultry and seafood grilled and cooked in a variety
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    • 766 14 TELEVISION AND RADIO f■ <i I*l "1 e or**** 8.30 America's Funniest Home VI- 5.30 Alvin and the Chipmunks. I n SBCI2 5.55 Today in History HAWO rttanuwil a 1 racing a. Qyiiis diccq Mure k?£u bk, B9 .9*.«*.vh F b.^ h -J qq pm CNN International 11 Than You
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 1178 15  -  Christine Chapman finds out what kind of juicy things keep Tokyo private eyes busy Christine Chapman IHT ONE MINUTE from the south exit of Shibuya station in Tokyo, where a gangly kid is passing out cards to advertise the services of a fortune-teller, is
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    • 597 15  -  Gail Fitzer meets the outspoken director of Cinema Paradiso Gail Fitzer Reuter OSCAR-WINNING Italian film director Giuseppe Tornatore says rejection by a beautiful woman hurts more than any critic's sting. Catapulted to fame and fortune by the huge success of his 1988
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    • 458 15 CHATTERBOX NOBEL Laureate Czeslaw Milosz was awarded the US$lO,OOO Capri Prize for his life work at a weekend gathering of the world's leading poets in Capri, Italy. A Polish emigre, the 80-year-old Milosz teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. THE US House of
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    • 405 15 NYT MARTHA Graham has left her estate to Ron Protas. artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company and an associate of Miss Graham for 22 years. The choreographer, who died on April 1 at 96, had no immediate survivors. In a will
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 5146 16  -  By S N Vasuki THE Singapore stoek market staged a modest reeovery yesterday despite absence of support from overseas bourses. Tokyo's Nikkei index closed 141 points lower yesterday while New York's Dow Jones Industrial Average lost two points in lacklustre trading on Tuesday.
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  • 4217 17 Main Board IMCHKS0 50 570 M44 1 352 4% NatSteel 1080 50 4.9% OUT 235 +20 +9 3% Inchcapc 450 +12 +2.7% Kings 225 +11 +5.1% SIA Foreign 1920 +10 +0.5% DBS 1220 10 +0.8% OCBC Foreign 1050 +10 +1.0% OC BC 865 +10 +1.2%
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 409 18 Company Date Year Group Net Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) per share dividend ("000) (cents) Amtol )un 25 Dec 90 $36,143($9 185) 182(46) 10(10) SPP ton 25 Dec 90 $1261 ($2,5321) 1 8( Tuan Sing lun 25 Dec 90 1,805($8801 06( <-> ANA Hotels lun 19
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    • 706 18 Main Board Last Full Year Company Penod Oate Tear Net EPS Gross Net a mourned endnf (cents) <tv profit last year (J'000) Ceretws Interim Apr 27 Jul 91 126 MOTE (a) 38.911 Spore Land Interim May 4 Dec 91 126 10 0 44.641<() Km Enf final tun 71
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    • 1027 18 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for payment date close payable the year last year Acnu 5%TE kin 5 Jun 17 Jul 1 10%TE toned 25c 10% Jul 5 Jul 17 Jul 31 101 10% AMFP NYA(e) Jun 19 lul 4 Aug 15 NYA 2 8C Asia
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    • 214 18 Company Date Year Group pre-tax Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) per share dividend (000) (cents) Ganda Hldgs Jun 25 Sep 90 MJ13.021L (J8.363L) IMC Hldgs Jun 25 Mar 91 HK$197.832($376.566) 56 0(113 0 40(40) Isetan Jun 25 Mar 91 J16.060($32,090k) 30 7(485) 10(14) Idns Hyd Jun
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    • 890 18 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Company Conversion period Conversion term lor one ordinary share Bimi Wt Before 30/6/94 1 warrant plus HKS1 00 cash C4C Wt Before 26 4 93 1 warrant plus $3 09 cash Causeway Loan Causeway Wt 2 10 89 to 20 10 94 1 warrant plus JO 77
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    • 188 18 Company Date Half-year Group pre-tax Interim ann to profit/loss (L) dividend (000) Ganda Hldgs Jun 25 Mar 91 M$554l ($3.2371) Asia Pacific Jun 2! Mar 91 $59.214($48.108) 14 5(15 4) FSN Jun 21 Mar 91 $89 232($75.678) 9 2(9 2) A*imo Jun 14 Mar 91 $1,541(11.571) 5TE(75TE) Samanda
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    • 432 18 Company Rights Issue AJcom On? tor two (a MSI 00 per share Issue of 40m Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares (CRPS) of M$0 10 each at MSI per share with 10m detachable TSR on the basis of 1 CRPS with 1 TSR for every 4 CRPS Ei-date Jun 7
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    • 601 18 June 25 GP Batteries International has teamed up with Japan-based Toshiba Battery to form a 50-50 joint-venture company. TG Batteries, which will produce and distribute high-end batteries in China. Hai Sun Hup has joined forces with Eastern Car Liner of Japan to form a project forwarding venture Shares
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    • 1094 18 Prices as at 26.06.91 Conversion terms Premium/ Expiry i (discount) Amount Optional** using issued j -1 Company (mil Wrts Share Loan Conv Exer LnstK Cash Cash Loan Gearing Date Mths units) stock ratio price nom Stk Left j value is s s Burw.ll 115 2 0
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    • 210 18 Highlands Lowlands Bhd: 16th AGM at the Anggerik Room. 4th Floor. Hotel Equatorial, ialan Sultan Ismail, ***** Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. Jun 27. at 11 30am. Sembawang Maritime Ltd: 20th AGM at the 4th Storey, NOL Building, 456 Alexandra Road. Singapore 0511 on Thursday. Jun 27. at 9
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    • 496 18 Company Rights Issue Botton One-tor tour M$2 00 per share Issue of $90 978m nominal amount ot 3 5« Redeemable Unsecured Guaranteed Bonds 1991 with 45 489m detachable warrants on the basis of 12 nominal amount of Bonds tor every three eiisting shares held Every $2 nominal amount
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 4421 19 Bernama SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market closed mixed yesterday as cautious investors took profits in the afternoon following earlier gains. The KLSE Composite Index ended just 1.01 points higher at 624.08 but the Industrial Index fell 2.48 points to 1.175.49. Gainers
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    • 1248 19 BUSINESS TIMES TELEPHONE: 7 3 0-577 1/5772/5773 FAX: 734-4982 IN THE MATTER OF THE I COMPANIES ACT. CAP 60 NARITA PTE. LTD. (In Voluntary Liquidation) At en Extraordinary General Mee!ing of the members of NARITA PTE. LTD duly convened and he'd at i 0 Ja an Besa' #10-01 Sim Lim
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    • 190 19 IN THE MATTER OF HAI YIEN SHIPPING PTE LTD (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act (Chapter SO) that a Final General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company will be held at the office of the
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2220 20 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS dosed easier yesterday. After a morning surge, the market drifted aimlessly in the absence of factors until falling futures prices and a sell-off of issues linked to one of the scandal-tainted Big Four houses sparked a drop just
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2109 20 Reuter HONGKONG STOCKS ended sharply higher yesterday, a rise fuelled largely by bargain-hunt-ing in an abscnee of selling, brokers said. They said window-dressing ahead of the end of the quarter and half-year was partly behind the rise. "It's a window-dressing week," a broker said. "There
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Thai stocks bounce back strongly
      • 906 21 THE Thai stock index recovered strongly yesterday after losing 62.86 points since June 17. The SET index rose 19.67 points, or 2.6 per cent, to close at IMA*) on a turnover of 3.61 billion baht. Most blue chips moved up. Bangkok Bank gained four baht to 340, Thai Farmers
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      • 802 21 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS closed higher yesterday on a mixture of local buying and selling as investors postioned themselves for the end of the financial year. Brokers said institutions caught in short positions were selling across the board while others with cash surpluses in superannuation funds were buying to maximise tax
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      • 611 21 SHARE PRICES in Jakarta took anoth- er beating, falling across the board but turnover was a fairly light 3.6 million shares. "We're on a downward drift," said a foreign broker who added that the market desperately needed liquidity from local investors who are now shunning the market. The official
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      • 85 21 SHARE PRICES in Taiwan finished sharply higher yesterday but dealers predicted the market would meet small corrections in the near term as investors were cautious. The weighted index jumped 150.44 points or 2.6 per cent to close at 6,023.18 compared with Tuesday's 5.872.74 finish. Turnover fell to NTS2B.S billion
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      • 531 21 SHARE PRICES closed mostly higher in a rally sparked by US assurances that it would not abandon an air base in the Philippines despite damage from an erupting volcano north of the capital. The Manila Stock Exchange composite index rose 24.20 points to close at 1.048.88. "There was a
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      • 764 21 THE Seoul stock market ended higher for three consecutive days after fluctuating in a narrow range. Brokers said trading centered on construction shares. "The market opened weak but shortterm punting by speculators played with today's trade." David Kim. an analyst at Schroders. said. The composite stock index added 2.39
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      • 53 21 NEW ZEALAND SHARES took off in afternoon trade to end higher on improved turnover and strong demand. The Barclays index estimate ended about 17 points higher at 1.441. Total turnover was 9.94 million shares, worth NZS 15.52 million. "The two-way traffic was all very vigorous." Peter Halligan of
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      • 83 21 BOMBAY share prices fell sharply for the third day running on growing fears that the government was keen to introduce harsh measures in the forthcoming Budget, brokers said. "The government has made it clear that it intends to raise railway freight and coal prices," said broker Anand Diwan, referring
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      • 1032 21 !"re*ious June 26 SYDNEY All <>rdinanes Index I,MX* 1 1,411.8 f 7 I All Industrials Index 2.326.8 2,316 5 t IO.J All Resources Index 8714 874 X f4.6 Turnover (million) 88.71 12.24 -3.45 BANGKOK SET Index ***** ***** 1167 Turnover (milium haht) .1.61(1 2,UK! t 720 JAKARTA Composite Index <6(1.11
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Dow recovers from afternoon selling
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        1307 22 US STOCKS ended an uninspired session on Tuesday with small losses, as earnings and interest rate worries continued to dampen buying interest. Wells Fargo became the latest company to issue a disappointing secondquarter forecast when it announced an increase in loan loss reserves. The news rippled through the
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        977 22 LONDON SHARES were knocked off early afternoon highs by slight weakness in the New York market and a weaker June FTSE futures level, dealers said on Tuesday. The FTSE 100 index closed only 2.9 points higher at 2,461.2 after a small amount of early morning buying and a stronger
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      • 235 22 GERMAN share prices closed little changed on Tuesday at the end of a moderately active roller-coaster session that saw the 30-share DAX index finish down 0.09 point at 1,691.47 after having gyrated in an 11-point band. "We have ended practically unchanged. Tokyo calmed the nerves after Wall Street's heavy
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      • 258 22 DUTCH SHARES closed weaker in thin trade on Tuesday, trailing the performance of other bourses and able to offer no inspiration of their own. "We are just walking behind other markets," said dealer Robert Jabroer of Kredietbank Nederland. The CBS general tendency index lost 0.2 to 94.2. hav ing
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      • 165 22 FRENCH STOCKS on Tuesday erased early gains and came down sharply on the back of a faltering Wall Street to close hardly changed. The CAC-40 index ended at 1,775.53. virtually unchanged from Monday's two-month closing low of 1,775.63. Volume was 2.7 billion francs, due largely to two large blocks
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      • 144 22 SHORT-COVERING focused on insurers after three consecutive sessions of heavy selling helped Italian shares rebound and close slightly higher on Tuesday, brokers said. The MIB share index, which was down 1.6 per cent at 0900 GMT, closed up 0.44 per cent to end at 1,135. Brokers termed Tuesday's recovery
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      • 276 22 SWISS share prices ended little changed in another day of quiet trading on a reduced volume after selective buying alternated with profit-taking, brokers said on Tuesday. The SPI all-share index slipped 0.3 point to 1,104.6, recovering almost all of an earlier four-point loss. The SMI index of leading shares
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      • 173 22 BELGIAN SHARES ended mostly easier but above the day's lows in dull trading amid concerns about high interest rates. Traders said prices picked up towards the session end due to Wall Street's firmer opening. Earlier. Wall Street's heavy losses on Monday had weighed on the market. The BEL2O index
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      • 374 22 LEADING industrial shares in Johannesburg continued the downward correction started on Monday during a quiet Tuesday session, but gold shares consolidated. Dealers said the overbought market needed a healthy cooling down phase, given the unrelenting gains over the past month to record highs, mainly due to perceived political improvements
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      • 240 22 TORONTO STOCKS ended a slow Tuesday session flat after trading within a seven-point range during the day, dealers said. A slight rebound in Tokyo after sharp losses in recent sessions added some support, offsetting fears over company earnings prospects and higher interest rates. The composite index officially closed otY
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      • 134 22 June 25 C lose Previous NEW YORK Dow Jones 2.910.11 2.***** -2 90 NYSE Financial 147.26 148 82 -I 56 SAP 500 370.65 ***** 4)29 Turnover (million! 157 138 +19 LONDON Financial Times 30 1,921.6 1.921.1 +0.5 FTSE 100 2.461 2 2.458 3 +2.9 Turnover (million) 410.3 326.5 *-83.8 AMSTERDAM
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1213 23 REPORTS THE American dollar eased against the mark in a day of narrow range trading yesterday, pressured by a slight recovery of the German currency in cross trading. Dealers said the market had tried to push the US unit lower several times
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    • 376 23 Cross rates June 26 I USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.7705 2.7845 1.7975 138.30 0.6143 1.5530 1.3038 1.7331 SS 0 5648 1.5727 1.0152 0.7811 0.3469 0.8772 0.7364 0.9789 MS 0.3591 63.58 0.6455 0.4967 0.2206 0.5577 0.4682 0.6224 Dm 0.5563 0.9850 I 5491 76.94
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    • 504 23 Beijing could issue Eurobond at a price Reuter LONDON Debt issued by the People's Republic of China in European bond markets might be acceptable to the authorities, but would incur steep costs and arouse scant interest among Western investors, sources say. "If China is willing to pay up then a
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    • 1192 23 SIMEX EURODOLLAR Open High Low Sett Est Vol Op/lnt Vol Sep 91 93.47 93.47 93 46 93 46 5300 ***** 4500 Dec 91 92.87 92.87 92.85 92.86 3200 ***** 3772 Mar 92 92.71 92.73 92.71 92.72 950 8301 1275 Jun 92 92.32 92.32 92.31 92.31 80 1151 210
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 297 24 Reuter HOUSTON US producers of natural gas, stung by falling prices, arc bracing for another round of mergers and asset sales. "I think we're heading for some consolidation," said George Gaspar, analyst with Robert W Baird and Co. "There's no question it
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    • 192 24 Reuter i VIENNA Iraq may sell some of its gold reserves to help rebuild its economy once United Nations sanctions are lifted, a gold consultant said on Tuesday. But Timothy Green, consultant to Gold Fields Mineral Services Ltd, told a Financial
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    • 827 24 REPORTS THE PRICE of tin slipped one sen to M$ 15.40 per kg on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market yesterday in spite of reports of lower stocks on the London Metal Exchange. Traders said the market tone, however, appeared to have steadied
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  • 1444 24 Rubber June 26 MS (tob hi bait*) S cents/kg Noon Close Int I RSS Prompt 145.75/146 75N 145.75/146 75N Int I KSS July 91 147.25/147.75 147.25/147.75 Int I RSS August 148.50/149 00 148 50/149 00 Int 2 RSS OP 145.00/147 OON 145 00/147 OON Int 3 RSS OP 143.50/I45.50N
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    • 753 25  -  POSTCARD FROM GUATEMALA By Shirley Christian UNDER the dry, penetrating sun of the Guatemalan highlands, a jewelry maker from Berkeley strung heads, a South African draft dodger dug into a plate of waffles and a young woman from London seasoned a broeeoli and tomato salad.
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  • 413 26 Two top broking firms linked to organised erime Reuter TOKYO Japan's Finance Ministry, fending off criticism of its cosy ties to stock brokerages, said yesterday that it would investigate possible share price manipulation by the country's largest brokerage. Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto also
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  • 248 26  -  By Kooi Cho Teng SINGAPORE Polytechnic, responding to the needs of the financial industry, has launched a three-year course in financial trading for "O" level school leavers. Potential employers such as money broking firms, banks and securities firms have shown keen interest in
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  • 372 26  -  By Hong Lee Tiam SADE-DFS will re-bid for all six concessions that it gave up at Changi Airport Terminal 2 on May 31. BT understands that the partnership between Singapore Airlines Duty-Free Emporium and San Franciscobased Duty Free Shoppers could not continue carrying
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  • 272 26 AP Reuter BANGKOK Communist Party general secretary Nguyen Van Linh and other top party leaders were replaced at a party congress yesterday, Japan's Kyodo News Service reported. Seven of the 12 members of the party Politburo, which Mr Linh headed, resigned at
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  • 186 26 AS MORE Asia-Pacific countries adopt the same United Nations standards for electronic data interchange. intra-Asia-Pacific trade which has been on an uptrend will be given an added boost. This is because UN/ Edifact (United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administration.
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  • 103 26 Reuter LONDON lax inspectors raided offices of the private company which distributes Nissan cars in Britain, looking tor documents in what the Inland Revenue said was the largest ever such search. About L*s officers were involved in raids on 1.1 locations yesterday, including the
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  • 655 26  -  The Bottom Line KENNETH JAMES KENNETH JAMES The writer is BT's Economics Correspondent THE IDEA of an Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) is nothing new. That it is to be seriously considered at the highest levels of the grouping is. and the development is significant.
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  • 351 26  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG UNCERTAINTY continues to surround Hongkong's controversial airport project following yesterday's denial by the British colony's Chief Secretary. Sir David Ford, that tenders due at the end of this month have been postponed. A day after Governor David Wilson warned
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 377 27  -  By Selva Kumar THE TRANSPACIFIC Westbound Rate Agreement (TWRA) will, from next month, lower its currency adjustment factor (CAF) surcharges for cargo destined from North America to Singapore and Japan. The surcharge for Singapore will be reduced by one percentage point to 7
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    • 509 27 AP VIENNA A month after a Lauda Air jetliner crashed in Thailand, killing all 233 people on board, experts are still looking for a cause. An airline official says a definite answer could be weeks off. Theories abound. The latest said lithium
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    • 207 27 Reuter NEW YORK Texaco Inc said it was doing a feasibility study on the costs of building new US ships to comply with the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which requires double hulls for tankers trading in US waters. "We've asked them (US
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    • 623 27 NYI DETROIT Sales of domestically made US cars and light trucks fell 2.4 per cent in mid-June, but the decline did not dampen hopes that the car market is recovering. The nine US and Japanese car makers that
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    • 388 27 AFP SINGAPORE A local company operating a weekly charter flight to Phnom Penh aimed mainly at foreigners will fly Singaporean businessmen there if they have approval of the Singapore authorities, a senior company official said on Tuesday. Patrick Ho. operations manager
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    • 216 27 Reuter HONGKONG A new airport due to open in southern China next year plans to urge the Beijing government to grant private Taiwan airlines landing rights in China, the airport's general manager said on Tuesday. "We will propose to the
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    • NEWS SUMMARY
      • 37 27 BRAZILIAN exporters are losing their competitive edge due to a lack of efficient ports. James Brooke reports on the complex web of problems that Brazilian ports have become entangled in Page 2
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      • 64 27 A GENERAL strike on Tuesday paralysed Cameroon's main port and several other key cities, but the political capita] Yaounde was hardly affected. There were scattered reports of violence on the first day of an indefinite stoppage called by opposition parties demanding a national conference with
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      • 37 27 JAPANESE automakers and car importers say they will pay the fees to transport and scrap abandoned cars beginning on July 1, according to the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Back Page
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      • 43 27 HOPES for a return to profitability in the Lloyd's of London insurance market have risen amid indications that the market's underwriters have been able to push through increases in marine insurance rates over the past month Back Page
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 69 28 SINGAPORE The Port of Singapore Authority has lifted the guidelines for the berthing and unberthing of licensed port limit tankers at berths K3O to K34. The change, which became effective from June 22, is because a portion of the road link from the main island to
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      • 54 28 LONDON Britain's biggest banana importer Geest pic said it had entered into long-term charter agreements for two refrigerated cargo ships. The vessels, each with a cargo capacity of 600,000 cubic feet, will be built by Danyard A/S of Denmark for delivery in 1993 and cost
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      • 63 28 SEOUL Ten people died and more than 40 were seriously injured yesterday when a truck smashed into a bus in the southern port city of Pusan. South Korean police said. The 11-tonne truck skidded off a main road and smashed into a church bus carrying
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      • 34 28 TOKYO Japanese shipbuilders concluded export contracts for 12 ships totalling 816,340 gross tonnes in May, down 41.3 per cent from a year earlier, the Japan Ship Exporters Association said yesterday.
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      • 67 28 RIO DE JANEIRO A five-day-old pay strike by 1,500 workers has paralysed the important Brazilian coffee shipping port of Vitoria, a union spokeswoman said. Two ships are sitting in the port waiting to unload and another 15 are in the bay waiting to dock, she said.
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      • 64 28 TORONTO Eleven Soviet fishermen defected to Canada on Tuesday from a fishing ship anchored off the Atlantic coast at Corner Brook, Newfoundland, police said. A total of 21 Soviet fishermen have now defected since four factory fishing ships came to buy cod and herring from local fishermen
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      • 56 28 HELSINKI Finland's Neste Oy said in a statement its Neste Shipping division and privately-owned Hollming Oy Shipping agreed to operate jointly specialised chemicals tankers in a pool from January 1992. The venture, called Crystal Pool, would consist of ice-strengthened, double-hulled tankers ranging in size from
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    • 1202 28 THE DRY cargo freight market on Tuesday saw the long awaited start of Soviet chartering while rates were generally fairly steady, brokers said. A 28,000 long ton cargo of wheat/barley was fixed by Soviet charterers Sovfracht from Vancouver to Nakhodka for U5527.50 and there were unconfirmed reports of
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    • 1233 28  -  Brazilian exporters are losing their competitive edge due to a lack of efficient ports. James Brooke reports on the complex web or problems that Brazilian ports have become entangled in James Brooke NYT THE NUMBER of containers handled in Santos, Latin America's largest port, tripled
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    • 852 28 THIS twicc weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 12432 36 I 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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    • 3328 41 A.BC C ontainerline NY: Belsin Shpg Agencies Pte Ltd (SVVlarine Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN) Accord <iroup: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SyAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business orpomtion Philippine: Calsourve Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). Albatros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ltd
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    • 252 41 Abacus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fa*: *****98 Air Express Travel Tel: 533-5771. Fax: *****44 Airborne Freight C orporation Tel: 542-8844 Fax: *****16, *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188 Fax: *****83. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: *****75. City-Link International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: *****50. Cluster link Supplies A
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    • 1527 41 Abex Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7822. Fax: *****20 Aeroiink Freight International Tel: 545-8033. Fax: *****05. Aeraspeed Tel: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express International Tel: 542-7666. Fax: *****74, *****50. Air
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    • 1217 42 ARGENTINA Buenos Aires: l abour: Stevedores continue to arrive halt' an hour late for work and to leave half an hour early. There are also stoppages of one full hour during each shift, reducing the effective working time per six hour shift to four hours. Port busy; all
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    • 464 42 ARRIVALS I DEPARTURES Op Flight Type ETA T From Op Flight Type ETD T To TODAY TODAY KAL KE697 B747F 0150 I SEL KAL KE697 B747F 0440 1 BKK NCA KZ203 B747F 1930 1 NRT SIA SQ822 B747F 0715 2 DXB/LON KAL KE685 A30F 2345 I SEL/MNL
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    • 559 42 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES Reuter AFP VESSELS SOLO FOR FURTHER TRADING Udotor tankers The Happy Tine: 130,363 dwt and built 1974, sold within Norway at about US$l2.6 million. The Bertina: 65,979 dwt and built 1982, sold on subjects to Singapore buyers in the region of US$23 million. Tankars Phillips Oklahoma
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    • 352 42 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Pep Name of Vessel ETA ETD Porta of Calls Port Ageat JUNE 27 27 Andaman Princess 1100 1600 Cruise-To-Nowhere Lines Int Holding 28 28 Cora Princess 1000 1800 Sin-Jakarta-Sin Sembawang Johnson 28 28 Andaman Princess 1500 2000 Cruise-To-Nowhere Lines Int Holding 30 30 Orient
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 598 43 Vend Voy No Berth Arm* Departwe I Vessel Voy No Berth Arrive Oep*ti*e Keppei Wharves Jurong Port Kota Pusaka £903 K31 Jtoflgs.de 2606/1500 Algemb JU atongside 27 06/2300 KotaWangi E 897 K32 atongside 0107 0600 Bangkaia RCS/90 J9 alongside 26 06/2300 Orient Sun 01 (P) K29 alongside
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      • 1211 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booiunf/Biance Rsfts Shp Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACX Oasy 15 28/0700 2 26/1700 27/0659 27/0900 3 27/0700 27/1159 27/1400 Ana Bhum 502N 28/1800 1 26/1500 26/1659 26/1900 4 27/1200 27/1459 27/1700 Mirqab 56 28/0815 2 26/1700
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      • 200 43 fOWQrf rOn Berth: 1: Jenwm; 2; Bunga Geiang; 3: Ava. Pernas Proton; 4: Xing Su Hai. 5: Sanko Laurel; 6; Ikan Seiangat 01 jetty: Vrtyuyusk. Bom Han. DCJ: Hotoku. Out on June 26: Grigony Ordzmomktdze. Seraya. Kris Maruh. Bunga Mas. Hati Baik, Barge Et Offshore. Due on
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    • 228 44 Reuter YAOUNDE, Cameroon A general strike on Tuesday paralysed Cameroon's main port and several other key cities, but the political capital Yaounde was hardly affected. There were scattered reports of violence on the first day of an indefinite stoppage called by opposition parties demanding a
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    • 375 44 NYT TOKYO Japanese automakers and car importers say they will pay the fees to transport and scrap abandoned cars beginning on July 1, according to the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association. Local governments now bear the cost to move and scrap cars whose
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    • 262 44 AP LOS ANGELES Salvagers announced on Tuesday that they have discovered the wreck of the sidewheel steamer Atlantic with an experimental 19th Century submarine atop it in Lake Erie. The Atlantic, running as a floating casino, went down on Aug 20, 1852, after colliding
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    • 198 44 AFP PARIS Traffic of French domestic carrier Air Inter was expected to return to normal yesterday, following a 24-hour strike on Tuesday by part of the company's pilots and flight engineers. But one of the unions pushing the protest threatened to file a
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    • 368 44 FT LONDON Hopes for a return to profitability in the Lloyd's of London insurance market have risen amid indications that the market's underwriters have been able to push through increases in marine insurance rates over the past month. Lloyd's was expected yesterday to
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    • 51 27 A* Forwarders 15 Air Freight Schedule 16 Cockett Report 2 Container Schedule 17 Courier Services 15 Cruise Ferry Schedules 16 Daily Freights 2 Info to Advertisers 3 Port Conditions 16 Shipping Agents 15 Shipping Guide 10,11 St»psales/Tanker Rates 16 SNps in Port 17 Singapore Tides 17 Weather and Sea Conditions
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    • 75 28 APPOINTMENT 1 rtoijjiummniuufi The appointment is with an established Singapore office. The ideal candidate will have a Master's Certificate and will have had previous experience in all aspects of day-to-day ship operations in dry cargo sector. Considerable emphasis will be placed on communication skills and commercial awareness. Brief but comprehensive
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    • 2277 29 :==r m= AMVIVA 200 Cantonment Road #12 05 Southpoint. Singapore 0208 \lllfr fel *****11 TELEX NO RS 241/') ■vcmmvi terminal,cfs th *****18 220 BOOKINGS Tel *****34 258 L Vfflf M PCSAKA JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES SON BHD KELANG TEL *****18 TELEX NO MA*****/MA***** w pf N ANG TEL *****4 TELEX NO
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    • 1221 30 ROTTEDAM/I VOY NO S PORE SOUTHAMPTON HAMBURG ANTWERP IE HAVRE THAMES 06/325 30/6 17/7 19/7 22/7 23/7 LA SEINE 19/126 4/7 25/7 23/7 22/7 IgfekSAUj BREMEN EXPRESS 03/326 7/7 24/7 26/7 29/7 30/7 1. Mi. IKSTBOVND P. HONGKONG EXPRESS 02'127 11/7 1/8 30/7 29/7 KELANC PCJIAN6 CARGO KAGA 19/327 14/7
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    • 2195 31 Steamers Maritime Holdings Ltd 1 W gf PfrO ffM STRAITS SHIPPING l' 3 Stofapori to BrwMi, East Malaysia, Containers mLm lAMikllallii3AKUAiii2laUrilkiill3kiyaluaMßH 0 v Voy No -fftn/ ♦-Phi Spore Alg Sou Ant Rot Hb( CH lIC* MMtSft 910* 22 M 24, Of 21 Of 11/07 14/07 15/07 17/07 ACCIfTJ M SMS
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    • 656 32 Mbmmj CR NBR **********0 D EXPRESS SEMI-CONTAINERSHIP SERVICE TO EUROPE VSI VOT SPORE ROAM ADAM HBURG BflfMfN ANTWERP MATARAM 29W8 22 6 22 7 21 1 31/7 3/8 SRIWIAt* 32*8 1 4 8 3 9 9 9 12 9 14 9 XUTAI 23*8 25/1 26 9 MO 610 10 10
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    • 2168 33 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL *****77 (CR NO: **********0E) BOOKINGS: NEPTUNE LINK TEL: *****00 USA SERVICE *****16 TERMINAL OFFICE *****22 UK/EUROPE SERVICE *****19 DOCUMENTATION DEPT: *****44/*****14 mm AUST/INDIA/PAK SERVICE *****18 CFS: K27 EXPORT: *****53/*****04 FAR EAST SERVICE *****48 CFS: K27 IMPORT: *****69/*****50 NEPLINE SON BHD MALAYSIA K L (03)
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    • 1941 34 f AS AGENTS KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD ICR No: **********0 M) MjK W W TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKIRS23I6S FAX: *****79 I m 4 M MALAYSIA "K" UNE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD 1 JL MmJt JL X MZJ TEL: PJ *****22 PK *****01/5 PENANG *****5 JB *****1 KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA LTD
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    • 1454 35 SSggPfi/ PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD B m UKK pil Building, 140 Cecil Street »0300, Singapore 0106. Jakarta "1 [bangkok 1 VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SIN EQUATOR MAS 09N 30/6 2/7 7/7 «,°,I fym SF/5 a/7 miiiAA tpqatai mi -»n,a 2/7 7/7 KOTA BINTANG 9119 27/0 30/6 3/7 Jr, o,T
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