The Business Times, 20 January 1992

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  • 16 1 Business Times MITA (P) 35/12/91 Monday, January 20, 1992 THE BUSINESS PAPER FOR S-E ASIA 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 69 1 TOKYO Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) is to enter the semiconductor market for the first time by selling large-scale integrated circuits, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported yesterday. The telecommunications giant has led the Japanese development of semiconductors but has not previously entered the
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    • 45 1 DHAKA Bangjadcsh plans to divest 40 public scctor industrial companies as part of its continuing privatisation programme and efforts to strengthen the market economy, Industries Ministry officials said. The government will sell 26 of the units to the highest bidders.
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    • 27 1 AS UNEMPLOYMENT worsens, the Australian government is under growing pressure from within its own party and the Liberal coalition to reduce immigration numbers. Page 7
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    • 41 1 A COMMITTEE comprising Malaysian federal and state representatives has been formed to co-ordinate all official trade missions going overseas to ensure that their efforts will lead to a fair distribution of industries in the country. Page 7
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    • 22 1 CHINA'S trade minister has pledged to implement an agreement with the US on protection of intellectual property rights Page 8
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    • 34 1 A MEMBER of the Federal Reserve Board said he did not think additional reductions in interest rates would do much to boost consumer confidence or reinvigorate the US economy Page 9
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    • 23 1 A LOOK at the alternatives available to the United States as its bases' treaty with the Philippines ends Page 10
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    • 24 1 RICK MILLER, president of US-based Wang Laboratories, talks about what it takes to turn around the 42-year-old computer company. Page 11
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    • 29 1 SIAN EDWARDS, the first woman ever to wield the baton at Covent Garden, is asked the rather cheeky question of sex in music. Page 17
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 36 1 NESTE, Finland's state-owned oil and chcmicals conglomerate, said it was holding preliminary talks with a Malaysian consortium to take part in the country's MSBOO million natural gas distribution network Page 3
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    • 29 1 HAI SUN HUP was the best performer among Singapore stocks last year while Polytek Wearnes Holdings lost 40 per cent of its value. Page 3
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    • 33 1 JAPAN'S Sansui Electric Co Ltd expects to suffer a net loss of 36 billion yen (***** million) in the year to December 1991, almost twice its original forecast Page 4
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    • 34 1 MICROSOFT Corp's secondquarter earnings of 90 US cents a share were a penny above Wall Street's consensus estimate and analysts said the company's gross margins were at record levels Page 5
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    • 40 1 HONGKONG'S Philip Tose and Francis Leung of the Peregrine Group have emerged as Asia's outstanding merchant bankers of the year while Teh Hong Piow of Malaysia's Public Bank was voted commercial banker of the year Page 6
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    • 29 1 NORWAY'S Bank and Securities Inspectorate said Bank of England had requested assurances regarding the financial state and managers of the country's two biggest banks. Page 6
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    • Article, Illustration
      27 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 745.53 +0.45 Kuala Lumpur 569.6 +4.42 Tokyo 21.321.37 -290.82 Hongkong 4,454.89 +42.75 Sydney 1,671.8 -1.9 New York 3,264.98 +15.43 London 2,536.7 -4.9
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    • 24 1 Exchange rates USS S$ 1.6500 00 Yen S$ 1.2891 MS SS 0.6095 Money market rates Overnight 2 1/2 -I 3-month 3 unc h
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    • 31 1 ||„LL KllOOCf S'porc Feb I30.00*/kg +1.00 M'sia Feb 215.50Vkg unch KL Tin Turnover 50 tonnes -30 Spot MSl4.29/kg -0.19 Crude palm oH Turnover 1,314 lots -209 Feb MS905 /tonne -8
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  • 460 1  -  Asean Summit Easing of currency constraints among proposals By Kenneth James SINGAPORE Asean's business representatives have proposed a timetable for achieving intra-regional free trade, and say they will also ask Asean governments to ease currency constraints and clarify unclear rules. The proposals from
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  • 324 1  -  By BT Summit team SINGAPORE Asean senior officials yesterday wrapped up a two-day preparatory meeting that covered Asean cooperation on the political as well as social and cultural fronts. They finalised proposals that include the support of a stronger United Nations, the
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  • 139 1 Bernama JOHOR BARU Malaysia will discuss with Singapore and Indonesia ways in which it can participate in the Economic Growth Iriangle involving Batam Island, Johor and Singapore. International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said yesterday the meeting would be
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  • 272 1 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong's television industry was plunged into turmoil on Saturday after top executives quit but company officials denied the resignations were linked. Nicholas James, assistant general manager of Television Broadcasts (TVB), and Robert Chan, president of fledgling satellite channel STAR TV, announced their resignations
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  • 538 1  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE THE economic slowdown last year coupled with the trend among some Singaporeans to live it up on credit led to a rise in the number of bankruptcy and winding-up suits for the first time in five years. Last year 1,714
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  • 267 1 NYT WASHINGTON Saudi Arabia is pressing the Bush Administration to organise a large covert action campaign in Iraq aimed at dividing Iraq's army and toppling Saddam Hussein, United States and allied officials say. The Saudi initiative seeks an allied effort to supply arms
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    • 21 1 PM Goh, Mahathir expected to inaugurate gas supply next week, Interviews with V ietnamese and Cambodian leaders about Asean, Pg 2
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  • FOURTH ASEAN SUMMIT
    • 456 2 SINGAPORE The Prime Ministers of Singapore and Malaysia are expected to inaugurate the supply of natural gas from Trengganu to the Republic next week after the close of the Asean summit. A Malaysian official here for the Summit preparatory meetings
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    • 300 2  -  Summit reports by Yang Razali Kassim, Kenneth Junes, Loh Hui Yin, Chuang Peck Ming,Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Little headway was made to advance the concept of the East Asia Economic Caucus when it was raised yesterday at the second-day meeting of Asean senior officials. "If anything substantive
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    • 567 2  -  While in Vietnam and Cambodia recently, Harish Mehta talked to Vietnamese and Cambodian leaders about Asean Harish Mehta VIETNAM'S accession to the Asean Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in South-east Asia is the natural path of events dictated by the trend in global developments,
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    • 1185 2 HE IS considered a rising star in Hanoi. Vietnam's Deputy Foreign Minister, Le Mai, has served as an ambassador to Thailand and as negotiator in tough talks with the United States on US troops allegedly missing in action in the Vietnam War. Here
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    • 526 2 ASEAN nations are well placed to win lucrative contracts for the economic reconstruction of Cambodia, says the country's ViceForeign Minister, Sok An. This was because they had two advantages, he said. They were geographically close to Cambodia and the economies of most Asean
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    • 165 2 THE question of Cambodian participation in Asean may be considered by the Cambodian National Assembly after elections in 1993, says Prime Minster Hun Sen. In an interview with BT, Mr Hun Sen said: "Personally speaking, I feel Cambodia should join Asean because this is
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • 330 3  -  From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR NESTE, Finland's stateowned oil and chemicals conglomerate, said it was holding preliminary talks with a Malaysian consortium to take part in the country's MSBOO million (about Ss4Bo million) natural gas distribution network. "Our main interest
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    • 253 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Acidchem, a subsidiary of Palmco Holdings, is set to become the biggest fatty acid producer in the country with its acquisition of Palmchem and the implementation of plans to expand production tyBy the third quarter of this year, Acidchem's
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    • 816 3  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN By Alvin Tay SINGAPORE Banking giant DBS has been holding back the merger of its two wholly-owned subsidiaries, DBS Finance and Great Pacific Finance, for almost three years now. A major obstacle to the long-awaited marriage has been
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    • 742 3  -  The best and the worst performers of 1991 By Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE Where did you put your money last year? If your bet was on Hai Sun Hup, you picked a winner. The marine group was the best performer among Singapore stocks
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    • 286 3 NST KUALA LUMPUR Far East Holdings Bhd's (Far East) wholly-owned subsidiary, Kampong Aur Oil Palm (Co) Sdn Bhd (KAOP), has agreed to buy 4,481.3 hectares of plantation land in Keratong/Rompin, Pahang, from Majlis Ugama Islam dan Adat Resam Melayu Pahang (MUIP)
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 59 3 KUALA LUMPUR Federal Cables, Wires Metal Manufacturing Bhd has posted a three-fold increase in group pretax profit of M$ 10.57 million (about 556.4 million) for the year ended Jun 30, 1991 from the previous M 52.62 million. Group turnover was. however, 23 per cent lower
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      • 72 3 KUALA LUMPUR The chairman of Esso companies in Malaysia, Datuk C D Roxburgh, has been appointed executive vice-president, Exxon Co International. Esso said in a statement over the weekend that Datuk Roxburgh will assume his new post in the US on Feb 1. Current
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      • 87 3 SINGAPORE Austral Amalgamated Tin Bhd said the Malaysian Capital Issues Committee (CIC) had approved its bonus issue and the acquisition of Danau Kota Development Sdn Bhd (DKD). The CIC has however revised the purchase price for DKD from M 552.5 million to M 547.5 million, to
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      • 62 3 SINGAPORE Wing Tiek Holdings Bhd told the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange that Kota Tanjung Realty Sdn Bhd (KTR), of which it was buying the entire share capital, was an investment holding company. Wing Tiek said the tenure of the land owned by KTR was 99
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      • 73 3 KUALA LUMPUR Kanzen has paid the first instalment of M$ 100,000 (about S$60,000) for the purchase of a piece of industrial land in Batu Caves, Selangor. The second instalment of M 5342,500 will be paid within 95 days of the date of the agreement while the
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      • 55 3 KUALA LUMPUR Bank Islam Malaysia made a lukewarm debut on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange main board last Friday, closing at M 52.20 for a premium of 20 cents over its issue price of M 52.00. But with 4.38 million shares traded, it was the most
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      • 65 3 SINGAPORE Federal Hour Mills Bhd said its subsidiary Stock Trade Ltd had sold its entire stake in Citic Pacific for HK52.25 (about 50 Singapore cents) a share, or HKS 130.04 million. Stock Trade made an extraordinary gain of HK552.12 million from the sale. Another subsidiary,
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 93 4 Shinawatra buys 18.8pc of Int'l Trust Finance BANGKOK The Shinawatra group has agreed to take over International Trust and Finance Co (ITF) by initially acquiring an 18.8 per cent share from Overseas Trust Bank (OTB) of Hongkong. Cathay Trust Co and Wardley Thailand Ltd, as representatives of OTB, and Dr
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      • 80 4 FRANKFURT Lurgi AG said it had won a 170 million mark (about Ssl73 million) contract to build a fatty alcohol plant in Indonesia from the Salim Group. A company statement said that the plant was scheduled to go on stream by the end of 1993.
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      • 104 4 TOKYO Sewing machine maker Brother Industries Ltd set up a manufacturing unit in China earlier this month that will produce 30,000 sewing machines monthly. Zhuhai Brother Industries Ltd, based in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, is capitalised at about 500 million yen (about 556.5 million) and is
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      • 63 4 TOKYO Japan's Fanuc Ltd will set up a 50-50 joint venture in Taiwan with a local concern this month to manufacture and sell production systems centring on industrial robots. A spokesman of Fanuc, the world's top maker of digitally-controlled equipment for machine tools, said the venture
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      • 111 4 TOKYO Nippon Mining Co Ltd expects to post a group current loss of 500 million yen in the year ending March 31, 1992, against a June forecast of a current profit of 15 billion yen. Nippon Mining, a non-ferrous metal and oil company, posted actual group
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      • 64 4 PERTH CRA Ltd said its Assoo million (about SS6SO million) iron ore project at Marandoo in the Pilbara region of Western Australia had been delayed because the state government had ordered more studies of the site. CRA's whollyowned Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd was informed that
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    • 365 4 Agencies TOKYO Japan's Sansui Electric Co Ltd said last Friday it expected to suffer a net loss of 36 billion yen (about ***** million) in the year to December 1991, almost twice its original forecast. The troubled audio equipment maker, whose biggest
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    • 430 4 EIE Development raises its stake to 95pc HONGKONG Although the tug-of-war for control of Regent International Hotels appears to have ended with Wharf Holdings backing off, industrial analysts say the game may be far from over. The pervading assumption was that a
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    • 298 4 Reuter SEOUL Trouble is raining down on South Korea's giant Hyundai Group its car workers are locked in what could be a violent labour dispute, the tax authorities have pounced, and now bankers say creditors are balking. But Chung Ju Yung, the crusty septuagenarian
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    • 262 4 NYT TOKYO Japan's public broadcasting network will for the first time seek international bids for a broadcast satellite, the company said recently. Previous satellites purchased by the Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK) were developed for NHK by the Japan's National Space Development Agency (Nasda)
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    • 344 5 Reuter SEATTLE, Washington Microsoft Corp's sccond quarter earnings of 90 US cents a share were a penny above Wall Street's consensus estimate and analysts said the company's gross margins of 83.9 per cent were at record levels. Revenues for the second quarter rose 48
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    • 438 5 Reuter NEW YORK International Business Machines Corp reported a huge fourth-quar-ter loss but sought to assure investors that the company is on the road to recovery. IBM shares rebounded from an early rout after IBM told the investment
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    • 315 5 FT AMSTERDAM Lovers of traditional ale are facing the possibility that a famous British brewer could be taken over by a fashionable Dutch lager company. Ruddles, the Leicester-shire-based brewer of real ale founded in 1858, is in talks with Grolsch, the Dutch
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    • 260 5 Reuter PARIS State-owned Air France broke even at the operating level and might even show a small profit in 1991 after making heavy losses in 1990, the airline's chairman, Bernard Attali, told a news conference. The improvement, plus cash from asset sales, meant
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    • 374 5 NYT NEW YORK Westinghouse Electric Corp said on Friday that it had returned to profitability in the fourth quarter after losses in several earlier periods. It has been working to shrink its troubled financial services subsidiary, which was heavily invested in real
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 96 5 NEW YORK The mystery surrounding last year's sale of the Empire State Building has cleared as US investor Oliver Grace was identified as the buyer, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Mr Grace, a second cousin of chemical giant W R Grace and
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      • 90 5 PARIS French drinks group Remy Cointreau confirmed Grand Metropolitan pic is exercising its option to sell 20 per cent of the firm back to Remy's controlling shareholders. Grand Met's drinks arm International Distillers and Vintners owned shares in a unit of Remy et Associes,
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      • 73 5 WESTPORT, Connecticut More than 1,000 chief executives of US corporations got failing grades on a test of their marketing know-how, according to the research and consulting firm, Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. During an in-depth, one-hour quiz in January and February 1991, the people in charge of
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      • 67 5 PARIS Diversified utility and construction group Lyonnaise des Eaux-Dumez plans to sell its remaining four per cent stake in media group Havas when the time is right, chairman Jerome Monod told French daily Le Figaro. Lyonnaise-Dumez sold three per cent of Havas last year. Mr
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 140 6 BANGKOK Bank of Thailand governor Vijit Supavit has pledged to offer assistance to Cambodia's National Bank, the official Phnom Penh news agency SPK reported yesterday. The pledge came in a meeting in Phnom Penh on Friday between Mr Vijit and Phnom Penh
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      • 102 6 TAIPEI Taiwan has decided to lift a four-decade-old ban on investments by banks in China, the local media reported. Officials of the cabinet's Mainland Affairs Council, which formulates policy towards China, the Finance Ministry and the central bank resolved to allow subsidiaries of financial institutions in
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      • 64 6 TORONTO Toronto-Dominion Bank president Robert Korthals said the bank's non-performing loans and net loan losses for the first half of 1992 will be in the same "order of magnitude" as 1991's levels. Non-performing loans rose to CS 1.5 billion in 1991 from Cs92B million
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      • 62 6 PARIS Axa SA plans to sell its stake in the holding compoay that controls French reinsurer Ste Comraerciale Reassurances SA (Scor), Axa chairman Claude Bebear said. "Scor is destined to fall into UAP's moneybag, and we aren't going to stay put," he told
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      • 95 6 BRUSSELS The European Community has warned that financial services such as banks, insurance companies and pension funds, should not continue to consider themselves exempt from the EC's competition rules. Sir Leon Brittan, the EC's commissioner for financial services and competition, said that about US$26 billion
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      • 59 6 WASHINGTON The US Office of Thrift Supervision is proposing to make it easier for troubled mutual thrifts to recapitaliqp before they require government financial assistance. Under the proposed rule, mutual savings institutions that fall below minimum capital standards would be allowed to sell stock
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    • 444 6 Parent firms urged to take responsibility for non-bank affiliates' losses NYT TOKYO The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is instructing commercial banks to take responsibility for bad loans made by their affiliated nonbanking financial institutions, according to BOJ and other industry sources. Many
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    • 680 6  -  Teh Hong Piow, Philip Tose, Francis Leung win accolades By Said Abdullah SINGAPORE Hongkong's Philip Tose and Francis Leung of the Peregrine Group have emerged as Asia's outstanding merchant bankers of the year while Teh Hong Piow of Malaysia's Public Bank was
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    • 275 6 Reuter OSLO Norway's Bank and Securities Inspectorate said Bank of England in a letter had requested assurances regarding the financial state and managers of the country's two biggest j banks, Den norske Bank (Drtß) and Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse. Both banks, with subsidiaries in London,
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    • 275 6 NYT TOKYO The Securities and Exchange Council will tell the Finance Ministry at the end of the month that about a year should be spent to work out ways to liberalise the system of regulated brokerage commissions on stock trading, sources close to
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    • 464 6 NYT NEW YORK Salomon Brothers on Friday predicted a "modest" profit in the quarter ending Dec 31, 1991, which would leave Salomon Inc, its parent company, with a US$3O million (5549.5 million) loss for the quarter. The firm attributed the loss to the
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    • 399 6 Reuter COPENHAGEN Denmark's two biggest banks, Den Danske Bank A/S and Unidanmark A/S unit Unibank A/S, will report a swing back to profit in 1991 in spite of again posting large loan loss provisions, according to share analysts. But loan losses are
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    • 539 6 Reuter TOKYO Orix Corp has cleared a major hurdle by writing off a large amount of bad loans but Japan's biggest leasing firm faces a long road to recovery due to a slowing economy and lending exposure to the property market, analysts said.
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  • THE REGION
    • 615 7  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY AS unemployment worsens, the Australian government is under growing pressure from within its own party and the Liberal coalition to reduce immigration numbers. And the government could be forced into cutting the numbers sharply for the next
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    • 314 7 PULAU LANGKAWI The Langkawi Development Authority (Lada) has revoked its approval for 30 projects after the firms involved failed to start work on the projects, Mentri Besar Tan Sri Haji Osman Arofif, said on Friday. New Straits Times quoted him as saying
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 77 7 DHAKA A Myanmar dissident student leader said on Saturday that forces opposed to the Yangon military government, inspired by the Nobel peace prize for Aung San Suu Kyi, were gathering in border regions to launch an armed struggle. Myanmar students and other opposition forces
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      • 102 7 BANGKOK Potential candidates in Thailand's general elections set for March 22 are "selling" themselves to political parties for as much as 35 million baht (552.26 million)), the Bangkok Post reported on Saturday. Sompong Amornvivat, campaign manager of the military-backed Samakkhi Tham Party, said he has
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      • 87 7 LAGOS Nigeria should follow the example of Malaysia in boosting economic growth, Nigerian Central Bank deputy governor Victor Odozi was quoted as telling a visiting Malaysian trade delegation on Friday. Malaysia, which in the infancy of its palm oil indust|7 in the 1960s took seedlings from
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      • 108 7 HANOI Police estimate that Vietnam has 70,000 drug addicts and over 3,000 opium dens, reflecting the spread of drug abuse in the country. Tuan Tic Tuc (Weekly News) on Saturday reported that police data show that in the past two years the police had seized
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      • 64 7 COLOMBO Sri Lanka's national airline Air Lanka will partially restore its crippled services from Saturday with the induction of two small air force transport planes, the airline said on Saturday. Two HS-748 twin-turboprop transport planes will be flown to Trivandrum and Tiruchirapalli in southern India, using
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    • 361 7 KUALA LUMPUR A committee comprising federal and state representatives has been formed to co-ordi-nate all official trade missions going overseas to ensure that their efforts will lead to a fair distribution of industries in the country, New Straits Times reported on Saturday. International
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • 645 8 But US officials say Beijing needs to do more AP BEIJING China's trade minister has pledged to implement an agreement with the US on protection of intellectual property rights. But US trade officials and businessmen raised concerns over whether the agreement meant that
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    • 353 8 IHT MILAN A month after Russian President Boris N Yeltsin visited Rome to drum up support and business for the troubled Russian economy, few positive results of his visit remain. Italy, Russia's second-larg-est trading partner after Germany, is now hesitant to go
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    • 281 8 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Community executive is expected to seek a rise in the ceiling on how much money it can spend in the next five years to meet the lofty goals of monetary and political union set out in the Maastricht treaty.
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    • 429 8 IHT NEW DELHI During a recent meeting of the IndoUS Joint Business Council here, Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao hosted a private dinner for Donald Kendall, chairman of the council and of Pepsico Inc. It was an attention-grab-bing gesture in a
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 63 8 MEXICO CITY Foreigners invested US$9.2 billion (S$ 15.1 billion) in Mexico last year, largely from the sale of Telefonos de Mexico, but the flow will slow in 1992. Fernando Sanchez, the Commerce Ministry's Subsecretary for Foreign Investment, said on Thursday that privatisation of phone giant Telmex
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      • 72 8 PRAGUE Czechoslovakia's two privatisation ministers, fearing a black market is emerging ahead of a massive sell-off of state companies, have agreed to a 10-day halt in registering investment vouchers. Tomas Jezek, in charge of privatisation in the Czech republic, and his Slovak counterpart Ivan Miklos,
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      • 66 8 ABU DHABI Iran which needs cash to rebuild its war-hit economy, has sought help from major Gulf oil producers to prop up sagging oil prices, an Iranian official said here on Saturday. "We realise that without Gulf help, prices will not go up
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      • 70 8 LISBON French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas has reiterated his government's hardline position on the Gatt trade talks, saying Paris would not sacrifice its agriculture for the sake of a new world trade agreement. "We cannot compromise the essential things of (European) Community life, notably agriculture, and
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    • 146 8 AFP PARIS Pakistan is capable of building atomic weapons but is concentrating on development instead, Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif said on Friday after an hour of talks with French President Francois Mitterrand. "No doubt we have the capability (of building atomic weapons)
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    • 415 9 Moves won't boost consumer confidence much: Fed board member AP COLCHESTER, Vermont A member of the Federal Reserve Board said he didn't think additional reductions in interest rates would do much to boost consumer confidence or reinvigorate the US economy. Board member
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    • 418 9 AP WASHINGTON The productivity of Japanese factory workers has risen twice as fast as that of their US counterparts over the past 30 years. The US Labour Department said on Saturday that if that growth continues, Japan will surpass the US in productivity
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    • 124 9 NYT SOFIA The Bulgarian government will investigate companies that it believes siphoned millions of dollars from state funds and spirited them abroad, a high-ranking Bulgarian official says. A committee under presidential control will be created, probably after a runoff yesterday in which President Zhelyu Zhelev
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    • 420 9 NYT NFW YORK The nation's spirits have yet to revive from last autumn's recessionary levels, according to the closely-watched University of Michigan Survey of Consumer Sentiment. "Sentiment has remained largely unchanged" from December. its report to subscribers said. The sentiment index edged
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    • 566 9 Survey finds no notable anti-Japanese sentiment Reuter CHICAGO The United States trade deficit with Japan, put at USS3.4 billion (555.5 billion) in the latest government figures, worries many American consumers but does not seem to affect their shopping habits. "I think
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 814 10 As lone superpower after the breakup of the Soviet Union, it sets its own agenda for change IHT DOES the fact that Saddam Hussein remains in control of Iraq mean that the Gulf War failed? Does it make a mockery
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    • 1149 10  -  The Philippines' decision to end the bases treaty with the US comes at a time when the US is restructuring its armed forces globally. Salil Tripathi looks at the alternatives available to the superpower Salil Tripathi THE agreemcnt-in-principle between Singapore and the United
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    • 609 10 AP HONGKONG, the capitalist jewel in the South China Sea. has always been king of quick profits. But with six years left before China takes control of the colony, the yen for a fast buck is accelerating. Armed robbery,
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT 1
    • 915 11  -  Joseph Rajendran talks to the man who has the task of turning Wang Laboratories around Joseph Rajendran A CHIEF executive officer alone cannot turn around a company. It takes every individual in the firm to do it. This straight talk comes from 51-year-old Rick Miller, president,
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    • 622 11 I itle: 21st-century Management: Keeping Ahead of the Japanese Chinese Author: Dan Waters Publisher Simon Schuster Reviewer Salil Tripathi THERE is a new mythology taking shape in the popular media, and it is the mythology that East is Best. Its icons are the Walkman and Toyota
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    • 860 12  -  Salil Tripathi talks to the chairman of the AEG board about his company's plans for the region Salil Tripathi IN THE YEAR in which Ernst Georg Stockl, 47, has been chairman of the board of the German giant AEG Aktiengesellschaft, his company has broadened
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    • 848 12  -  Laura Fisher reports on the latest word on team-work Laura Fisher NYT MEET Arleigh Jorgenson. who has one word for the *****: "Mush!" And he's not talking about the US economy either. Jorgenson is a professional sled dog racer and he has in mind selling the corporate
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  • SPORTS 1
    • 802 14 Australian Open Reuter MELBOURNE World number one female tennis player, Monica Seles, the hot favourite for he. second Australian Open title, struggled to beat a determined Leila Meskhi in three sets to move through to the quarterfinals yesterday. Her win sets up a repeat of
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    • 353 14 Reuter TOKYO Hawaiian manmountain Konishiki has fumbled a golden chance to become the first foreigner promoted to the top rank in sumo wrestling, Japan's national sport, Tokyo dailies agreed yesterday. "Konishiki's nightmare" said the headline in Sports Nippon after the SamoanAmerican, who
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    • 252 14 AP NEW YORK A pair of American figure skaters will make history at the Winter Olympics next month no matter how well they per- form. Mark Naylor and Elaine Asanakis, both Americanborn, will be the first figure skaters ever to compete for Greece
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    • 240 14 AP BOSTON Robert Parish of the Boston Celtics has quiJ etly joined the ranks of the National Basketball Associai lion's all-time greats, even i though he'll never be comj pared with Kareem Abdul- Jabbar or Wilt Chamberlain. "A miracle," the 38-year-old Parish said
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 164 14 WASHINGTON Too much attention may not be too good for sponsors who shell out millions of dollars to get their names tied to college football bowl games, golf tournaments or other sports events. The Internal Revenue Service says that acknowledging a sponsor
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      • 82 14 MARIBOR, Slovenia Vreni Schneider established herself as the favourite to beat at the upcoming Winter Olympics, skiing the fastest second run by 21 hundredths of a second and winning Saturday's World Cup slalom by nearly a second. Third after the first run with a relatively slow 36.51
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      • 101 14 OTTAWA Ben Johnson finished dead last in his 50-metre sprint on Saturday at the Ottawa International Indoor Games, but the former world record holder called it a promising outing nonetheless. "Everything is there now," said Johnson, moments after finishing fourth in a time of 5.88 seconds.
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      • 90 14 MOSCOW A planned meeting between lOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch and Russian leader Boris Yeltsin on the formation of a unified Olympic team representing the former Soviet republics was postponed on Saturday. The men were due to discuss how the former Soviet Union will be represented at Albertville
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    • 394 15 Reuter BERMUDA DUNES, California Long-hitting John Daly, who burst into prominence hv winning the PGA C hampionship last August, is now battling turmoil in his private life. Daly split up with Bettye Fulford shortly before Christmas last year but seems headed for a bitter
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    • 283 16 us Nothing Beats A Bud. where to wine, dine KING OF BBERS^^C ORGANISE YOUR OWN KARAOKE! It's your very own Karaoke party! King's Hotel has come up with a weekend Karaoke package for groups of 10-200 people from 12 noon to 5 pm. After your Penang Buffet Lunch, the Ist
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    • 347 16 UNIQUELY HYATT i Brannigan's is a pub unlike others it specialises in fun! Cocktails, snacks and live entertainment awaits you in the basement of the Hyatt nightly. Opening hours: Monday to Sunday- spm to lam Friday and Saturday spm to 2 am y T HWT Regencylsmgapore 10-12 Scotts Road. Singapi
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    • 296 16 X SPICE II UP AT IE ;f CAFE PLAZA I/*? 2 3 1 J I AR 1 kv\ Y|" Ayam Patifigang. Adobo Pork. JP J»L Green Gurry (thicken. As a Vif> 1%/ seasoned diner, you'll find our laf Asean buffet a real treat Anytime. V& A fifl Tbll-free reservations at
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    • 679 16 TELEVISION AND RADIO "I rp SBCI2 Aerobics Oz Style (Stereo). 4.50 Kojak (Cont'd). BUSINESS ON RADIO -PT I Q YYi DT* OH H I Afl/Yfl w 5.10 The Great Escape II The 5.30 Saber Rider and the Star A Adllllllvl illlvl O 7.30 AM CNN International (L). Mt (Oiildren). 5.55
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  • THE ARTS
    • 1262 17  -  Sian Edwards, the first woman ever to wield the baton at Covent Garden, has now been appointed the next musical director of the English National Opera. Christian Tyler raises with her the rather cheeky question of sex in music Christian Tyler FT SIAN EDWARDS showed from
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    • 719 17  -  British Prime Minister John Major will be marooned on a mythical tropical isle this week. Barry James reports on a national institution Barry James IHT GEORGE Bernard Shaw was "too busy with more important things", but few other Britons have turned down an invitation to
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    • 305 17 m. yr W 1: ■&*> Classical Japanese Food Prepared In The True Kaiseki Style. Complete set Lunch from $18.00+ Sushi Set Lunch from $18.00+ Tempura Chawanmushi Set Lunch at $20.00+ You Don't Have To Be A Member to Enjoy Fine Dining Nishikj Restaurant Marina Bay Golf Country Club 6 Marina
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4871 18  -  By Shoeb Kagda HAVING overcome its initial hesitation last week and surging 44.44 points, the Straits Times Industrials Index (STII) is poised to continue its upward trend in the coming days. Market analysts feel the recent gains were not excessive and the stock
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    • 79 20 "I've bought a $100 ticket "Our mother is not happy but "We cannot tell the kids not to hero worship, but my seat's only in she's supportive because she They need someone to be their role model, the seventh row!" was once an Elvis Presley fan." But I would advise
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 5067 21 MBT SHARE prices surged on the Kuala Lumpur stock market towards the end of last week and created the impression of the start of a Chinese New Year rally. The run-up coincided with rallies across much of Asia. Markets were buoyant in Hongkong, Taipei, Bangkok
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 285 22 Company Date Year Group Net Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) per share dividend ('000) (cents) Goodwood Park Jan 10 Sep 91 $22.137($2l,216) 49 2(47 1) 80(50) H Ms.a Ian 10 Sep 91 $429($1,886) 26(11 4) 15(20) SPH Dec 24 Aug 91 J*****2($133.374) 62 6(54 3) 25(30)
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    • 143 22 Company Date Year Group pre-tax Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) per share dividend (000) (cents) NST Jan 16 Aug 91 M$82 007(580.274) 30 9(33) 20(10) Kl Hepong Dec 27 Sep 91 M$85,468($84.804) 15 3(14 8) 15(15) Pacific Can Dec 24 Sep 91 $138($l,387l) 0.2(—) Vail Der
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    • 487 22 Company Date Half-year Group pre-tax Interim ann to profit/loss (L) dividend ('000) Pegi Msia Jan 15 Sep 91 M$76($3.212) Polytek Dec 31 Sep 91 M89L($1,958) Sateras Res Dec 31 Sep 91 M$2.023($462L) FACB Dec 30 Sep 91 M$5.255($4.861) Set Dredge Oec 30 Sep 91 MJ2.391 ($579e) -<-) Imatex
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    • 340 22 Jan 16 Neptune Orient Lines plans to give up its 10% stake in CWT Distribution as it will have its own warehouse and distribution centre through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Orient Container and Warehousing Services Pte Ltd by next year. Sembawang Shipyard has successfully tapped investors for $216 m
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    • 2116 22 Trans Registered Substantial Buy/ No. of Amount Shareholding Stock Date Holder Shareholder/Director Sell shares Before *k After SIA 13/01/92 Temasek Hldgs (P) Ltd B 2.000 26,677 200 348.428.586 54 33 348 430 586 54 33 Semb Maritime 13/01/92 Street Names Temasek Hldgs (P) Ltd »B 10.000 64.292
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    • 495 22 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for payment date close payable the year last year AIS8 50c I2%<b) Ok 30 fan U fan 21 12% 10% Amal Steel 50c 10% Dec 9 Oec 23 fan 20 20% 20% Asm Pacific 18%N fan 9 fan 21 fan 29
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    • 538 22 Main Board Last Full Year Company Penod Sate Yew Net EPS Gross Net announced endnj (cents) <tv profit last year ($000) EMS Final Nov 6 Mil 91 30IE 17.8781 Centrepomt Interim Jan 25 Jun 92 50 58 ***** Khon| Guan Interim Jan 31 Apr 92 4 0 619.218L
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    • 216 22 Malaysian Plantations Bhd: EGM at Anggerik Room. Equatorial Hotel, Jalan Sultan Ismail, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Wednesday. Jan 22. at 10am Amalgamated Steel Mils Bhd: EGM at Room 506. sth Floor. Wtsma SPS, 32 Jalan Imbi. ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Wednesday, Jan 22. at 10 30am Central Industrial
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    • 118 22 Conversion Special Trdg Scripless Conversion deadline Period Trading Companv starts (I DP) (SO starts ("in He* Dec 26 Jan 16 Jan 6 Jan 16 Jan 17 H \e«ara Nov 25 Dec 12 Dec 3 Dec 12 Dec 13 HIP HMrs Sep 16 Oct 10 Sep 30 Oct 10
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    • 214 22 RECORD HIGHS LOWS BT Composite Index ST ndus trials Index ImzS? 1 InS'i! < !f/i I 1?! 1992 *****1 (17/1/92) iSlZL IfiS 1992 km: 1479.35 (2/1/92) J 2 SS nln q 1991 1565 58 (3/6/9,) Sii ssi fi s 1991 *****8 <i6/,/9i) 35 iS' SS'S ,n! !'2 1990 1607 12
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    • 176 22 Company Rights Issue Asm Pac Land Four for seven M$0 SO pet share Ei4ate Ian 3 Books close Jan 17 Acceptance Payment NYA City Oev RenounceaNe fights issue on the basis of one for ten 85 per share Ei-date Dec 9 Books close Dec 19 Acceptance Payment Jan
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    • 410 22 In local curr In S$ In US$ d> yr d> yr dy yr Jan 16 Index chge chge chge chge chge chge World 407 X -0.1 119 -0.5 6.7 -0.2 12.9 JIM I 49X.5 -0 1 6.0 -0.2 -0.7 0.0 5.0 I. u rope 42X2
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    • 515 22 Company Rights Issue Mbnce lech One l>" one «.> $1 60 p»r sNte Bolton Issue of $90 9/8m rummat amount of 35 W-'-kwul*' Unsecured GuafanUH-d Bonds 1991 with IS detarhatte •naoants ,wi Ihe basis of I? nominal amount ot M foi evwv ttwt* eiistimj shares held l.wry nominal
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 810 23 POLITICAL expediency made a virtue of intellectual honesty last week as both the US President and the chairman of America's biggest bank stared reality in the face. For George Bush the occasion was a campaign visit to New Hampshire, where after assuring
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    • 255 23 AFP SHARE prices hit a 15month low last week, as the Nikkei Stock Average fell to 21,321.37 at the close of trading on Friday for a weekly loss of 1,060.53 points or 4.7 per cent. The closing level of the 225-selected Nikkei
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    • 493 23 STRONG Wall Street-in-spired mid-week gains on the Australian Stock Exchange offset weakness out of Tokyo, with the market closing marginally higher for the week, brokers said last Friday. Resource stocks were heavily traded throughout the week. At the close of trading Friday the All Ordinaries Index had
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    • 249 23 HONGKONG ON THE back of the buoyant overseas markets as well as the compromise between China and the US over the Special 301 negotiation, the Hang Seng Index rose 105 points to close at another all-time-high of 4,454.89. Although the results
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    • 929 23  -  By Ray Heath THERE is an old, and crude, stock market investment strategy which says that money can be made by investing this year in the market or sector which performed worst in the previous year. The corollary to that, of course, is that the
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Dow sets new record in active trading
      • 391 24 INDICES TURNOVER NEW YORK Close Pre* ions Jan 17 Dow Jones SAP 500 Turnover (million) 3,264.98 3,249.55 418.86 418.21 287.4 336.2 +15.43 +0.65 -48.8 LONDON Financial Times 30 FTSE 100 Turnover (million) 1.966 8 2,536.7 684 2 1.958.3 2,541.6 643.3 8.5 -4.9 +40.9 FRANKFURT DAX Index 1,670.99 1,666.34 +4.65 AMSTERDAM
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      • Article, Illustration
        1283 24 BLUE-CHIP stocks rose modestly on Friday, again in busy trading, aided by the expiration of stock and index options and major market index futures. While smaller stocks showed weakness, the Dow Jones Industrial Average clicked off yet another record, ending at 3,264.98, up 15.43 points for the day
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        764 24 EARLY gains on Friday on sentiment that the British economy had turned the corner in the wake of Thursday's reduction of interest rates on home loans were wiped out after news of an increase in inflation and an easier opening on Wall Street, traders said here. The FT-SE 100
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      • 168 24 DUTCH shares closed a little firmer last Friday on balance after retreating from their early highs as the dollar lost ground and Wall Street made an uncertain start. Profit-taking after a rally which took the Dutch market to a new 18-month high last week also weighed on selected stocks
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      • 221 24 THE Frankfurt stock market ended the week on Friday with a winning session, as the DAX spot trend index gained 4.65 points on the day to end at 1,670.99 points. The Commerzbank index was up by 10.70 points on the day to 1,918.1. Convincing winners on the day included
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      • 241 24 THE PARIS Bourse marked time on Friday, as the CAC 40 stock price index ended the day and week at 1,859.95 points, down a mere 0.01 per cent from the Thursday close in sustained trading rounding out a busy week. The indicator opened with a 0.15 per cent dip,
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      • 248 24 PROFIT-TAKING knocked Italian shares lower at the close last Friday, with the strong buying of Pirelli SpA and Olivetti failing to spark a rebound, brokers said. "There was not a clear trend like in recent sessions, it was a selective market," one broker said. The MIB share index dipped
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      • 360 24 SWISS shares closed lower Friday, with blue chips consolidating upon recent gains. Brokers said volume was high, but not as large as in past days. The all-share SPI index eased 2.2 points to 1,104.5. Against last Friday's close, the index surged 1.53 per cent. Blue chips lost more ground,
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      • 172 24 BROAD gains, mainly among blue chip shares, helped the Stockholm bourse indices recover from declines triggered by sharply weaker Astra shares on Friday, dealers said. The bourse general index rose 0.2 per cent to 971.08 in high turnover of 663 million crowns. Blue chips gained 0.32 per cent on
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      • 275 24 BELGIAN shares closed the past week higher in active trading, boosted by a 4.1 per cent rise in Belgium's flagship holding company Ste Generale de Belgique and a surge in steel shares, traders said. The Bel-20 index of leading shares closed up 7.58 points, or 0.66 per cent, to
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      • 254 24 THE TSE 300 closed down 7.7 at 3,658.3 last Friday. The 300 rose nearly 65 points during the week. Advances led declines 380 to 252 on heavy volume of 34.95 million shares valued at C 5456.86 million. Stocks remained slightly weaker at midday, as institutions took profits in some
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 408 25 NEW YORK Reuter THE US DOLLAR ended sharply lower on Friday after the Bank of Japan and the Federal Reserve intervened to sell US dollars against yen, catching the market by surprise. The joint intervention, coming shortly after mid-session, was reported by dealers and an
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    • 789 25 REPORTS AFP MOST Asian currencies fell against the US dollar during the week as the yen was pulled down by the weakening of the German mark, but Australia's currency steadied after early central bank intervention. The New Zealand dollar was down on expectations
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    • 380 25 Cross rates Jan 18 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr A$ NZS USS 1.6350 2.6925 1.5890 124.15 0.5559 1.4040 1.3459 1.8416 SS 0.6116 1.6468 0.9719 75.9327 0.3400 0.8587 0.8232 1.1264 MS 0.3714 0.61 0.5902 46.1096 0.2064 0.5214 0.4999 0.6840 Dm 0.6293 1.0289 1.6945 78.13 0.3498 0.8836 0.8470
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    • 468 25 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The first floating rate note (FRN) issue in Malaysia, to be launched today by the national mortgage firm Cagamas Bhd, is expected to elicit a good response and boost the country's secondary bond market, dealers said. Tenders for the
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    • 536 25 Reuter PARIS A seemingly unforeseen side-effect of a new tax rule, could freeze many new French bond issues. State-controlled financial agency Caisse de Refinancement Hypothecate (CRH) has already had to put off an issue. French securities regulator, the COB, said CRH could not
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    • 456 25 TWO WEEKS into the new year and spot gold prices have ranged between a low of U*****.30 on January 6, 1992 and a high of U*****.60 on January 10, 1992. The narrow range is just slightly above last year's low of U*****.30 and
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    • 421 25 BANKS International Bank (S) 7% ABN Amro Bank NV 7* '"ST™* NedCTtonden Allied Irish Bank PLC 8'/ 2 t a "V ,n American Express Bank 7V, Bancano J2£!!k?Lc 0fp 7 K—Sfflwte <* Ban Hin Lee Berhad 7V, !S orea E^ cha e 8 SiR«^' ale 7 Kwangtung
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    • 156 25 COMEX Jan .6 COLD nmntst 100 oz) USS/oz Open High Low Settle Change Jan 92 356.40 2.30 Feb 354.20 359.00 354.10 357.00 +130 Mar 357.90 +2.20 Apr 356.50 361.00 356.10 359.00 2.20 Jun 358.50 363.00 358.30 361.20 +2.20 Aug 363.90 363.90 363.90 363.40 2.30 Oct 366.80 366.80 366.80
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    • 530 25 Interbank rates SS Bid Offer Overnight 2 1/2 2 3/4 1-month 3 3 1/8 2-month 3 3 1/8 3-month 3 3 1/8 Overnight mode: 3-3/4 IS$ High IjOw 7 days 4 3/16 4 1/16 1 month 4 3/16 4 1/8 2 months 4 3/16 4 1/16 3 months
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 439 26 Reuter NEW YORK Bullish seasonal trends, an expected US economic recovery and depleted inventory levels will prompt an upswing in commodity prices, analysts said. "Commodity prices in general are in a bottoming phase, including industrial commodities, energy and precious metals," said Mike Oliver,
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    • 290 26 Reuter LONDON Saudi Arabia is staying mute over its plans for any oil output cut while the rest of Opec bleats. The series of voluntary cuts announced by some Opec members impressed the market but not hardened oil industry executives, and is
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    • 923 26 REPORTS AFP BRENT crude, the benchmark for North Sea petroleum output, gained ground last week after a number of Opec members announced unilateral reductions in output, increasing hopes of agreement on production cuts at the organisation's meeting on Feb 12. The crisis
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  • 1191 26 Rubber Wi(llHiMii) S cents/kg Int I RSS Close Jan 13 128.75 Jan 14 129.25 Jin 15 130.25 Jan 16 129.00 Jan 17 130.00 MWttJ (t» \m M cents/kg Int 1 RSS Close Jan 13 214.00 Jan 14. 214.50 Jan 15 215.00 Jan 16 215.50 Jan 17 215.50 UWWW (Jaw
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 539 27  -  LETTER FROM KYOTO ✓///x By James Sterngold PASS through the weathered wooden gate of Kyoto's huge Daitokuji temple complex, walk along the mud and stone walls of hidden gardens, turn up a narrow walled path and, to the left, enter the gate marked with a
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    • 151 27 At at 3pm: Local dollars to one unit of fofetgn currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.2155 1.2320 Canadian dollar 1.4122 1.4407 NZ dollar O.S775 0.9130 Sterling pound 2.8903 2.9294 US dollar 1.6410 1.6490 Local dollars to 100 anits of foreign cwrency Austrian schilling 14.30 14.60 Belgian
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    • 74 27 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Feb 14-23 International Turin, Italy Torino *****569 Feb 22-37 International Stuttgart. Messe Stuttgart (49)*****89 1992 Fair of Holidays Esposiuom >992 Trade Fair for Germany International Tourism A Sport} S.p.A the Hotel. Feb 16-11 Automotive Wembley MGB Exhibitions
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    • 401 27 BUSINESS TIMES Toil free Tel No: 737 0043 Fax No: 734 3698 TAT LEE BANK LIMITED ANNOUHCtMtNT Pursuant to Article 6(lKa) of the Articles of Association of the Bank, it is hereby announced that declarations received by the Bank as at 31st December 1991, regarding the beneficial ownership of the
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    • 320 27 COMPAMES ACT, CAP. 99 AND M THE HATTER OF UM HO 4 SONS MVESTMEMTS PTE LTD («n —Mawf VeHa«ar> LlfwHHpn) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION H an Extraordnary General Mh»tq of tie members of UM HO A SONS MVESTMEMTS PTE LTD duly held and cxri varied at X, Phaap Street •0240. SMgapOW
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 151 27 charged (4) 6 King likely to be spell- when told (7) 26 I m back and lights are bound (4) 24 Oblique reference to South turned off completely. Powerful tug provided by London gardens (4) Z7 Go on! Holiday? (3 4) constantly loyal support 25 One military formation (4) 28
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    • 163 27 Singapore Ootiook: Fair with showers ia the aAeraooa Report Maximum temperature 30.2 Assoc humidity 68% Minimum temperature 23.4 Assoc humidity 95% Hours of sunshine 5.45 Rainfall in mm Trace Rainfall this month. 70.1 Rainy days this month 7 HI, |j ttotki report Asia-Pacific Hi/La* Cond. Auckland 24/17 Cloudy Bangkok 33/19
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  • 338 28 Japanese team delivers message to Viet Deputy Premier AP BANGKOK The Japanese government, which is considering resumption of aid to Vietnam after a 13year hiatus, has told Hanoi that it wants increased economic ties, an official Vietnamese report said. The written message
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    20 28 TAIPEI Taiwanese pupils, wearing fire-fighter helmets, witnessing an exercise undertaken by fire-fighters in an annual exercise on Saturday.
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  • 237 28 Reuter JERUSALEM Two small far-right parties quit Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's coalition government yesterday, ending his majority in Parliament and clearing the way for early national elections. Israel Radio said yesterday that the five members of the Tehiya and Moledet parties in the
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  • 351 28 Reuter DAMASCUS Syria and Lebanon, accusing Israel of intransigence, say they will boycott talks in Moscow which constitute the third stage of the US-brokered Middle East peace process. But Egypt, which has played a key role in coaxing a reluctant Syria into peace talks
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  • 274 28 AFP TAIPEI A civil service disciplinary committee has punished a public prosecutor for her investigation into Taiwan's biggest stock scandal after she was impeached by the Control Yuan. "We decided (last) Friday to give her a demerit because she neglected the proper procedures
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  • 349 28 SEOUL A huge force of riot police was poised yesterday to charge through barricades of hijacked vehicles to evict thousands of striking workers occupying the premises of South Korea's largest car maker, witnesses said. Police sources said the raid on
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  • 529 28 Meeting will help smooth edgy US-EC relations Reuter WASHINGTON Ministers and top officials from more than 50 states meet this week to coordinate billions of dollars in aid to the former Soviet republics. The unprecedented Jan 22-23 talks, to be opened by
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  • 303 28 Reuter KUTAISI, Georgia The new rulers in Tbilisi are starting to impose control over the forces of ousted president Zviad Gamsakhurdia. who is making a desperate bid to recapture power from his stronghold in west Georgia. Late last Saturday, Gela Lanchava, Tbilisi's
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  • 207 28 Reuter BANGKOK An army-ap-pointed panel is to confiscate assets worth 608 million baht (5539.3 million) purpoitedly owned by Thailand's former commerce and foreign minister Subin Pinkayan. A panel spokesman, announcing Saturday's decision, said Mr Subin became "abnormally wealthy" while he was commerce
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    • 365 29  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Danish carrier East Asiatic Company (EAC) is planning to acquire four new 3,800-TEU containerships over the next two years to boost Eacben's service capacity on the Far EastEurope trade. The move is in line with expectations that
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    • 196 29 AFP TOKYO Japan will propose a plan to build joint facilities in South-east Asia to combat oil pollution in the sea from such sources as damaged oil tankers, Japanese government officials said on Saturday. The proposal will be tabled A a meeting of experts from Sooth-east
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    • 317 29 SINGAPORE Shippers wishing to export goods worth at least US$lO,OOO ($16,200) to Zimbabwe in Africa must now submit the goods for inspection before shipment. The new requirement was imposed by the Zimbabwe government on Jan 1 to ensure that goods entering the country were free
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    • 260 29 UPI FORT WORTH, Texas A jet engine designed to separate from its aircraft in the event of trouble was working properly and should not have fallen from a Boeing 737-200 during takeoff two weeks ago, a newspaper reported last Saturday. After the Jan
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    • 246 29 UPI LOS ANGELES Bowing to intense political pressure, county transportation officials last Saturday suspended a controversial US$l2l million (SS2OO million) contract to build rail cars that was awarded to a Japan-based firm. The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission (LACTQ will review the
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      • 70 29 AMERICAN makers of small airplanes sold only 1,021 planes last year a decline of 11 per cent, and fewer than at any time since World War IL Also: one major manufacturer, Piper, is in bankruptcy, while another, is up for sale. But making
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      • 56 29 THE NUMBER of US aircraft accidents hit a record low in 1991 the number of commuter aircraft deaths was the highest ever, the National Transportation Safety Board said last Friday. The Board said four fatal accidents occurred in 1991 among large commercial
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      • 54 29 NEW YORK Citv and New York State sued Hertz on Friday over its two week-old surcharge for renters from four New York City boroi«ha, catting it illegal discrimination Hertz said it was doing nothing wrong and would Me the city and state
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      • 113 30 MANAMA, Bahrain Saudi Arabia's National Chemical Carriers Company (NCC) said last Saturday that it was buying three bulk carriers worth a total of 845 million riyals (***** million). A company statement said an agreement to build the tankers would be signed in Riyadh
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      • 85 30 KARACHI Pakistan's main port in Karachi is facing acute tanker congestion because of renovation work on two of its four piers, a port official said. Some of the 14 tankers waiting to berth have been in Karachi since Dec 29, he said, and the problem
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      • 69 30 HONGKONG The government says it has invited tenders from six prequalified contractors for site formation work as part of the project to build a new airport. The work preparing for a suspension bridge and motorway interchange is on the northwestern part of Tsing Yi island.
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      • 88 30 TOULOUSE, France British Aerospace will build an assembly plant in this city in south-western France, next to a new plant producing the Airbus 340, for which the British firm makes landing gear, the business journal Midi Presse Service reported. The real estate group handling
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    • 1076 30  -  John H Cushman, Jr discusses the tough times American small plane makers are facing John H Cushman, NYT AMERICAN makers of small airplanes sold fewer last year than at any time since World War 11. One major manufacturer, Piper, is in bankruptcy; another, Cessna, is up
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    • 795 30 CHARTERING activity in the dry cargo freight market on Thursday was on the increase and rates for panamax ships rose, brokers said. They reported tightening supply of spot panamaxes with nearly all panamax routes higher amid Thursday's four point rise in the Baltic Freight Index to 1,525. Wednesday's
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    • 791 30 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Lid, 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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    • 6435 38 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for a maximum
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      • 435 45 Mitoal Oapartw IM VeyHe BartH ktM Papartge SmTSr« if,^0M2 l M05 ix«a)* 2001/2300 1 2SA SOI aior«s«k 1901/1900 HmvWi 2/92 M03 Mfsdi 20 01/1200 Sw ban 38EB S03 Honprt 1901/2300 Hoeho Mam 9221N M01 *<«Hk 2001/2300 Fujanh 101 S01 2001/0830 22.01/1100 M Hebe 9203 M02 20.01/2130 21.01/2359
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      • 888 45 RECEIVWC OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCI CARGO Racwd BmUri/Nmm Mi 9# Vay No Etb/Btr PwM From T# From Aa Contort 25W 22/1500 3 20/0700 20/1159 20/1400 4 20/1200 20/1459 20/1700 ACX Jasmn 02 22/0700 3 20/0700 20/1159 20/1400 4 20/1200 20/1459 20/1700 M hn 64A 21/0100 1
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    • 225 46 UPI WASHINGTON The number of US aircraft accidents hit a record low in 1991 although the number of commuter aircraft deaths was the highest ever, the National Transportation Safety Board said last Friday. In its annual air safety report, the NTSB said
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    • 322 46 NYT NEW YORK New York City and New York State sued Hertz on Friday over its two-week-old surcharge for renters from four New York City boroughs, calling it illegal discrimination. At a City Hall news conference announcing the suit, the state attorney
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    • 142 46 Reuter MANAGUA, Nicaragua Workers opposing the proposed sale of Nicaraguan national airline Aeronica have forced the suspension of the carrier's flights to Miami, an official said on Saturday. The Miami flight was suspended on Friday and again on Saturday after union members refused to allow the Boeing
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    • 138 46 UPI CAIRO The Arab league asked the UN Security Council to mediate the dispute between Libya and western countries over the blowing up of US and French airliners, Arab league sources said on Saturday. Arab league secretary-general Esmat Abdel Meguid of
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    • 439 46 UPI LOS ANGELES Nineteen people who have been awarded damages they suffered in a 1986 crash of an Aeromexico jetliner have yet to be compensated by the US government, the Los Angeles Times reported last Saturday. The delay is being caused
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    • 583 44 Bonterml CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E) PTE LTD. GUARANTEED WEEKLY CONSOLIDATION TOUR FIRST CHOICE TO:— AUCKLAND 26 JAN NEW PLYMOUTH, WELLINGTON, LYTTLETON, NAPIER, HAMILTON. CHRISTCHURCH, DUNEDIN, PORT CHALMERS BANGKOK 22 Jan EUROPE 26 lan FREMANTLE 23 Jan PENANG 28 Jan PORT KELANG 28 Jan JAKARTA 28 Jan MELBOURNE 22 Jan SYDNEY 22
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    • 511 44 CUJi con mv mTEßmopni\ 1 J LCL/FCL SERVICE FROM jFSLf f I HI im mCUJi O P QTm S over 600 iwrninaJstoffices in U.S.A. II iflß \CWI "maintains over 36,000 tractors A trucks. II iSS\ MRU! services over 60,000 points *1 U.S A pjpi m CWI otter reliable LCL/FCL services.
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    • 116 45 Oc vOc vO c >O c vO c vOcvOc > PREMIER CARRIER > Q RELIABLE SERVICES Q o COMPETITIVE RATES u ?3 BARGES OPERATION TAILORING TO YOOR NEEDS Q SINGAPORE BATAM I 0 ENQUIRY BOOKING: A V 274t00i einfk V Om m 0 ■iifflMigM WSXLY CONSOLIDATION SERVICES TO BJROPE, USA
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    • 1140 46 CHARTPOINT Every Saturday in Business Times HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. EASTBOUND FEEDER TO PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST TO PACWC NORTH-WEBT fttPtK mmi pcd |aw lm mm wt mo uh owt g« uhi mm. wt mo tcm/» nt MMG CHUN N136 13/01 14/11 li/tl M. PW€£* 24/11 14/02 13/02 14/02 MMBOW OHDCI
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    • 47 46 NOTICE On a one-off basis, we have 2000 cu. m. of cargo space available on our general cargo vessel which will be load ready in Singapore about 2nd February 1992. For enquiries, contact: Austen Maritime Services Re Ltd Tel: 535 0305 Fax: 533 2016 Telex: R*****9 Vessel
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    • 580 46 CHARTPOINT Every Saturday in Business Times I We have 2nd Hand Disposable Reefer; I I Open-lop Containers Cabin Offices I available (or Sale with I I Competitive Rates Offered. I I Interested Parties please I lei; 227 4613 CTC Mr. Leo J FREIGHT MANAGEMENT GROUP BELGIUM 26/01 INDIA 25/01 FRANCE
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