The Business Times, 7 February 1992

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    16 1 Business Times THE BUSINESS PAPER FOR S-E ASIA MITA (P) 35/12/91 Friday, February 7, 1992 75'
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
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      Drop in US jobless benefit claims
      70 1 WASHINGTON The number of people claiming unemployment benefits fell slightly in the fourth week of last month, the US Labour Department said yesterday. New benefit claims in the week to Jan 25 totalled 450,000, down from 460,000 the previous week. But in spite of
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      Earthquake hits southern Sumatra
      41 1 HONGKONG A severe earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted southern Sumatra yesterday, Hongkong's Royal Observatory said. A series of tremors had rocked central Java since end-January, leaving about 1,500 families homeless, reports from Jakarta said.
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
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      Dow lower
      21 1 PRICES on Wail Street fell 2.01 points (0.06 per cent) to 3,255.59 five minutes after the market opened yesterday.
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      Footsie lower
      28 1 LONDON share prices were lower at midday yesterday. At about 1200 GMT, the FTSE 100-Share Index was down 7.3 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 2539.8.
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      STOCK INDICES
      28 1 Thursday Change BT-MGA 743.24 +4.67 Kuala Lumpur ....575.81 +5.17 Tokyo 22,104.92 +168.55 Hongkong closed Sydney 1,594.6 -8.3 Wednesday Change New York 3,200.13 -1.35 London 1,970.91 -7.8
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      CURRENCIES
      24 1 Exchange rates USS SS 1.6230 100 Yen SS 1.2943 MS SS 0.6226 Money market rates Overnight 3 1/8 -1/2 3-month 3 1/4 -1/4
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      COMMODITIES
      26 1 Lorahm GoW AM fix USS356.25 USS1.95 KL Tin Turnover UOtonnes -50 Spot M$14.15/kg -0.66 Crude palm oil Turnover 269 lots -217 March MS889 /tonne -11
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    S'pore merchant bank gets big Shinawatra job
    571 1  -  CS First Boston picked to arrange financing for Thai phone bid By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Thai telecommunications giant Shinawatra has appointed Singapore merchant bank CS First Boston to arrange the financing to back its multibillion dollar bid for the supply of a telephone
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    Lock icon Vouchers, tax breaks in US health-care plan
    365 1 Bush expected to curb spending for existing govt schemes AP WASHINGTON US President George Bush will propose giving US$lOO billion (Ssl62 billion) in vouchers and tax breaks to the poor and to many middleclass Americans to help them pay their health-care bills, said
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    Lock icon Report links Tokyo group and gangster to Honshu affair
    255 1 AFP TOKYO A Japanese gangster is suspected of having used 50 billion yen (SS6SO million) obtained from transport group Sagawa Kyubin to speculate in stocks of leading paper maker Honshu Paper Co Ltd, it was reported yesterday. Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK)
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    Lock icon Tokyo Parliament paralysed by opposition boycott
    393 1 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Parliament was paralysed yesterday as the opposition pressed on with a boycott of budget debates to back demands that colleagues of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa testify on political funding scandals. Raising the stakes, opposition parties now demand that 18 people testify
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    Inefficient Thai banks run risk of folding up
    421 1  -  From Michelle Rowe in BANGKOK THE SIGNALS are clear for Thailand's small commercial banks shape up or ship out. Under the liberalisation of the country's banking sector and looming foreign competition, minor players with inefficient management and operations will be elbowed out
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    Lock icon Japan central bank chief to G7: No quick fixes
    152 1 Reuter TOKYO Japan's central bank chief yesterday warned the Gnmp of Seven (G7) major nations against quick fixes for economic slumps and trade imbalances, while piedieting the US may take some time to pull out of recession. Each G7 nation must
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
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      Lock icon White House sees sluggish growth in first quarter
      368 2 US economy expected to improve later in the year Reuter WASHINGTON The White House expects the US economy to remain sluggish in early 1992, with first-quar-ter growth at one per cent or less, but improvement should follow later in the year, a
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      Lock icon Two French banks suspend business with six S Korean banks in credit row
      332 2 AFP SEOUL Two French banks have suspended business with six South Korean counterparts for refusing to pay for exports by a now bankrupt local firm as the row threatened to damage South Korea's image, the banks said
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      Lock icon US productivity up 0.2pc
      473 2 AP WASHINGTON The productivity of American workers barely rose in 1991, the government said on Wednesday, as the nation struggled to shake off recession and meet competition from Japan and Europe. Productivity output per hour of work grew just 0.2 per cent for non-farm workers after
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      Lock icon Japanese, US chip makers to meet next week
      304 2 Reuter TOKYO US microchip makers and government officials will meet their Japanese counterparts in Hawaii next week to discuss progress towards boosting American chip makers' share of Japan's market, officials on both sides said. A five-year microchip pact signed last year after
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      Lock icon Businessmen in Japan see need for change
      576 2 Reuter TOKYO Japan's business community is beginning to face the fact that if it wants friends overseas, it has to change its ways. A growing number of business leaders are asking whether the nation should bite the bullet and reconsider the foundations on
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      Lock icon Land prices still high, says Japan's central bank head
      300 2 Reuter TOKYO Japanese land prices have not yet fallen far enough, Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Yasushi Mieno told a group of businessmen. Land prices have declined in big cities, and upward pressure has ceased in rural areas, he said. "But
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      Lock icon Vietnam launches first US$90m export-processing zone project
      429 2 Joint venture marks Taiwan's biggest investment in Vietnam Reuter HO CHI MINH CITY Vietnam yesterday officially launched the construction of its first export-processing zone, a US$9O million (S$ 146 million) joint project with two Taiwanese firms that marks Taipei's biggest single investment in
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      TDB to open offices in Taipei and Brussels
      352 3  -  Board spending $7.2 m on trade promotion By Schutz Lee THE Trade Development Board plans to open offices in Taipei and Brussels, in addition to the Ho Chi Minh City office that it said it would open this year. Yeo Seng Teck,
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      All systems go for sea cargo
      303 3 SINGAPORE may become the first in the world to do away with manual checking of sea cargo when a new system is introduced in two months' time. This will be done by linking the computer system of the Port of Singapore Authority with Tradenet,
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      Ngee Ann Poly setting up quality centre
      229 3 THE Ngee Ann Polytechnic is establishing a Centre for Quality to help local enterprises and non-profit organisations improve productivity and quality of their work. The polytechnic said in a statement yesterday that the Centre for Quality is part of the polytechnic's $26 million
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      Hong Leong Corp executive director fined $5,000
      509 3  -  By Sangeeta Mulchand HONG LEONG Corporation's executive director Kwek Lcng Keow was yesterday fined $5,000 for an offence under the Companies Act. Kwek, originally accused of corruption, pleaded guilty to making improper use of information obtained while an agent of the corporation. This
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
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        Indonesia-Singapore videoconferencing linkup
        68 3 INTERNATIONAL videoconference service between Singapore and Indonesia is now available, Singapore Telecom said yesterday. The public can hold a videoconference between Indosat's public studio in Jakarta and Telecom's public studio at the Customer Services Centre, Comcentre branch. Indonesia is the eighteenth destination for videoconference service since it
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        Loan for building Thai hospital
        88 3 THE local unit of the Bank of Nova Scotia has arranged a syndicated offshore facility of US$l5.7 million (5525.48 million) for Chiangmai-Ram Hospital Company Ltd to finance the construction of a hospital in Chiangmai province. The agreement was signed last week between representatives of five
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        Stanchart cuts interest rates
        69 3 STANDARD CHARTERED Bank has lowered its prime lending rate from 7.375 per cent to 6.625 per cent. Housing loan rates at the bank have also been reduced by half a percentage point since Monday. The new rates are 6.25 per cent for loans between one and
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      New OUB loan scheme for HDB resale flats
      128 3 OVERSEAS Union Bank is offering a new loan scheme for potential buyers of resale Housing Development Board flats. The scheme is called Resale Link and it offers a loan of up to $100,000 to make up the difference between the purchase price
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      Main users of toll-free lines
      143 3 THERE are now 5,889 tollfree lines from more than 600 subscribers, most of whom are companies from the services industries. With the introduction of time-based charges for local calls, companies who rely on receiving calls from customers have subscribed to the toll-free facility. The subscriber
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Indonesia awards three oil production contracts
        83 4 JAKARTA Indonesia has awarded the first three oil production-sharing contracts for 1992, worth a combined investment of more than US$l5B million. Britain's Enterprise Oil Indonesia Ltd was awarded the offshore Natuna II block in the South China Sea, and Indonesia's Risjad Salim Resources International
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        Plan to restructure power network
        50 4 PHNOM PENH A Japanese company, EPDCI, wants to spend US$2B million to restructure the Cambodian capital's dilapidated electricity network, the official news agency SPK reported. But the company will have to wait for permission from the Japanese government and cannot begin until 1993, SPK said.
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        Daewoo in Vietnamese venture
        62 4 SEOUL South Korea's Daewoo Electronics Co Ltd, a unit of the Daewoo Group, will build a joint venture factory with Vietnamese government-funded Dongda Corp to produce plastic cabinets for home electronic appliances, a Daewoo spokesman said. Daewoo will provide capital and technology and Dongda will supply
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        Taiwan to privatise state firm
        72 4 TAIPEI The Taiwan government will sell a majority stake in BES Engineering Corp as part of its drive to privatise state enterprises. BES will apply in March for a stock market listing and sell a 51 per cent stake to the public later this year.
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      Sime UEP expects another good year
      306 4 MALAYSIAN property giant, Sime UEP Properties Bhd, is expecting another good year. Its managing director, Mr Mohamed Said, said that the group's current year profit will at least match that of the last financial year which ended 30 June, 1991. At worst, the company
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      Acma releases its offer document for Gold Coin
      354 4  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Cash-rich Gold Coin Ltd could face liquidation within two months if its new controlling shareholder, Acma Ltd, fails to inject a new business into it. The prospect of liquidation, while remote given Acma's year-long preparation in acquiring
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      NTUC Fair Price limits share ownership to prevent speculation
      404 4  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE NTUC Fair Price has capped the number of shares its new members may own to quell speculation in the counter. The new policy, which came into effect on Jan 8 this year, limits new members of the
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      Lock icon NEC unveils world's smallest mobile phone
      298 4 Reuter TOKYO Japanese computer giant NEC Corp unveiled a mobile telephone yesterday which it says will be the smallest on the international market and the lightest made by a Japanese company. "It's very convenient small and light enough to slip into a shirt pocket,"
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      Daewoo plans to invest in Aussie coal
      173 4 AUSTRALIA The Australian subsidiary of South Korea's giant Daewoo conglomerate is considering plans to spend around As3oo million (Ss36o million) on coal production in New South Wales and Queensland in Australia's coal industry, The Australian Financial Review said on Wednesday. The managing director
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      Bangkok Land's shares surge in debut trading
      412 4 BANGKOK Bangkok Land Co's shares surged on the first day of trading in Thailand's largest-ever flotation on Wednesday, the Bangkok Post reported. As expected, the counter, which closed at 154 baht, was the most active stock on the main board with a turnover
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      Lock icon TV3 preparing master plan for new office
      334 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Bhd, better known as TV3, is currently in the process of preparing the master plan for its proposed new office and transmission complex. Chairman Datuk Mohd Noor Bin Yusof said in the company's latest annual report here
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      Lock icon Analysts predict exciting year ahead for Malaysian bourse
      628 4 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Securities and investment houses, both local and foreign, are generally bullish about the Malaysian bourse in the Year of the Monkey. The consensus is that the current negative elements gripping the economy as well as influencing investors should have
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      Lock icon Intel, Sharp in memory devices deal
      328 5 FT TOKYO Intel, the US semiconductor maker, and Shirp, the Japanese electronics company, on Wedrtesday announced a partnership to defelop flash memory devices, one of the fastest-grow-ing products in the electronics industry. iThe agreement is likely to provoke controversy in the US since Intel
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      Lock icon US retail giant Federated emerges from bankruptcy
      472 5 Reuter NEW YORK Federated Department Stores Inc emerged from bankruptcy on Wednesday, ending a twoyear struggle by the huge US department store owner to cut a mountain of debt to a manageable molehill. Federated parent of Bloomingdale's, Abraham Straus, Jordan Marsh and others
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      Lock icon Olivetti expects to break even this year
      251 5 NYT DAVOS, Switzerland Carlo de Benedetti, the chief executive of Ing C Olivetti Co; the Italian computer maker, announced on Wednesday that his company would break even or at best make a small profit in 1992 after heavy losses in 1991. His statement,
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      Lock icon New UK issues gaining momentum
      745 5 Well-known companies expected to cash in on economic recovery MARKET Reuter LONDON New share issues are gaining momentum on the London stock market, with Guinness Peat Aviation, Parker Pen and other internationally known companies expected to cash in on economic recovery and demand for equities.
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Philips to buy 25pc of US media firm Whittle
        104 5 AMSTERDAM Philips, the Dutch electronics group which is steadily expanding into the software side of the consumer electronics industry, is paying US$l75 million (SS2BS million) for 25 per cent of Whittle Communications, the US media company. Philips will acquire its shares
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        Times Mirror posts 4th qtr loss
        81 5 LOS ANGELES, California Times Mirror Co, citing one-time charges of U*****.3 million (S$ 174.9 million), reported on Wednesday a fourth-quarter loss of US$l3 million, compared with earnings of U5545.6 million, or 35 US cents a share in the fourth quarter of 1990. Fourthquarter 1991
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        Carbide rejects criminal charges
        69 5 DANBURY, Connecticut Union Carbide Corp said on Monday it is not subject to criminal laws in India after a judge there demanded that company officials appear to face charges related to the 1984 Bhopal gas leak that has killed 3,800 people. In 1989, in a pact
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        Exor, allies must bid for Perrier
        67 5 PARIS French stock market regulators said on Thursday that holding company Exor SA, controlled by Italy's Agnelli family, and its allies had to make a joint bid for shares in the mineral water and cheese group Source Perrier SA. The Conseil des Bourses de
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
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        Osaka Stock Exchange adopts daily disclosure
        94 6 TOKYO The Osaka Stock Exchange said on Wednesday it will disclose details of all deals in index-linked options and futures after every trading session starting from yesterday. The move was aimed at boosting the transparency of options and futures that have been swaying the
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        AMP raises stake in Westpac
        69 6 SYDNEY Westpac Banking Corp said its board approved the issue of 73.15 million new shares in Westpac to the Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP) at A 54.13 a share, taking AMP's stake to 15 per cent from 10 per cent. Westpac said it expects the
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        Bankers Trust (A) posts profit
        60 6 SYDNEY Bankers Trust Australia Ltd has posted a 30.9 per cent rise in profit for calendar 1991, consolidating its position as the most profitable foreign bank in the country. BT's A$ 161 million (S$ 194.5 million) profit for the 12 months to Dec 31, 1991,
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        Japanese broker closes offices
        86 6 TOKYO New Japan Securities Co Ltd said it will close four offices as of March 27 in a bid to increase efficiency and cope with the slump in securities markets. Three offices to be closed are located in the Tokyo/Yokohama area and the other in Nagoya,
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      UOB cutting prime and deposit rates
      229 6 SINGAPORE In step with Singapore's other major banks, United Overseas Bank is cutting its prime lending, fixed deposit and savings rates, effective tomorrow. UOB will pare its prime lending rate by 0.75 of a percentage point to 5.75 per cent. This brings the rate
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      Lock icon Fraud involving cancelled bonds seen widening
      373 6 Dozens of big US companies hit, say officials Reuter NEW YORK An investigation of an international scam involving worthless cancelled corporate bonds has expanded to include nearly 900 issues representing dozens of big American companies, officials said on Wednesday. Depository Trust Co, a clearinghouse
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      Lock icon Muslim bank offers Pakistan's biggest stock flotation
      471 6 Reuter KARACHI Pakistan's privatised Muslim Commercial Bank (MCB) said on Wednesday it had offered 14.4 million shares worth 808.7 million rupees (5553.58 million) in the country's biggest stock market flotation. "It is the biggest share issue in Pakistan's (44-year) history," Karachi Stock Exchange
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      Lock icon Kuwaiti banks told to merge or boost capital level
      291 6 Reuter KUWAIT Kuwait said its banks must either merge or boost their capital to internationally required levels after the government clears them of about US$2O billion (5532.67 billion) in bad debts. "Merging appears to be necessary," the Kuwaiti News Agency quoted
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      Oiltanking S'pore taps market for $18m
      236 6  -  By Dawn Tan SINGAPORE Oiltanking Singapore Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ham-burg-based Oiltanking GmBH. is again tapping the market for cheap funds through an $18 million bond issue. The company is raising funds to refinance its borrowings for its Pulau Seraya oil terminal
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      Lock icon Amex to set 3 rates for Optima cards
      252 6 Reuter NEW YORK American Express Co said holders of its Optima card will pay one of three interest rates based on their credit history. Two of the rates will be lower than the 16.25 per cent interest now charged on Optima cardholders,
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      Lock icon Bush admin wants to ease thrifts' capital requirements
      313 6 Reuter WASHINGTON The Bush administration will press legislation this year to ease capital requirements for thrifts with real estate subsidiaries, as part of its move to improve credit availability. Office of Thrift Supervision director Timothy Ryan said postponing the 1994 deadline to
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      Lock icon BCCI fraud started in 1970s: report
      261 6 Reuter LONDON The Bank of Credit and Commerce International had been operating a worldwide deception scheme since the early *****. producing fictitious profits and inflating its own capital, an auditors' report presented to Parliament has alleged. Operations of Abu Dhabicontrolled BCCI were shut down
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  • THE REGION/THE WORLD
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      Thai group defends plan for Asean free trade area
      340 7 Federation of Thai Industries chief says local industry will benefit BANGKOK An umbrella organisation of the Thai private sector has come out to defend the government's grand scheme to create an Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) within 15 years, in a
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      Prague urged to share technical expertise
      306 7 BANGKOK Thailand has urged the Czechoslovak government to cooperate with it and some Indochinese countries in the production of heavy industrial goods, the Bangkok Post reported. Commerce Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula made the approach to Czechoslovak Prime Minister Petr Pithart on Monday during a visit
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      Lock icon Myanmar-US ties hinge on rights record
      352 7 Reuter WASHINGTON Better Delations between the US and Myanmar will depend on improvements by the Myanmar government in human rights, the US ambassador-designate to Yangon said. Mr Parker Borg said on Wednesday that US relations with Myanmar had been strained since 1988 because of
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      Lock icon Sales drive
      37 7 Reuter SYDNEY US President George Bush appearing in a dictionary advertisement on the side of a Sydney commuter bus. Driver Paul Sutton, who is taking a break, looks over his shoulder from the window. Reuter
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      Lock icon Venezuela's failed coup may hit investments
      372 7 But officials say oil sector not affected AP CARACAS, Venezuela Worries about Venezuela's political stability in the wake of a failed coup may cause investor confidence to drop, at least in the short term, according to business analysts on Wednesday. National oil company officials
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      Lock icon Bangkok approves plan for US$2.7b coal power plant
      271 7 Reuter BANGKOK The Thai cabinet has approved a proposed US$2.7 billion (554.4 billion) project for the government to build a coal-fired power plant and related transmission and coal moving facilities in south-east Thailand. A cabinet spokesman said the first two 700-megawatt generators
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      Lock icon Carbon tax could hurt Aussie industry: report
      285 7 Reuter SYDNEY A tax aimed at reducing global warming would cripple Australia's coal exports and shut down its aluminium industry by 2005, according to a study funded by mine owners which was released on Wednesday. The study by British forecaster London Economics said
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Malaysian consumer prices up 4.4pc in 1991
        123 7 KUALA LUMPUR The average consumer price index (CPI) for the whole of 1991 increased by 4.4 per cent to 104.4 over that of the same period in 1990 of 100.0, the Statistics Department said yesterday. The CPI for December last year was 4.2
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        Thailand to liberalise oil industry
        118 7 BANGKOK The National Energy Policy Committee has agreed to liberalise the oil industry by allowing free establishment of oil refineries, according to a senior government official. Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Phaichitr Uathavikul, told reporters here on Wednesday that the move is aimed at
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        Japanese to probe dumping claim
        93 7 TOKYO The Japan Spinners Association plans to investigate claims that Indonesia is dumping cotton yarn on the Japanese market, association chairman Keita Taguchi was quoted as saying on Wednesday. Mr Taguchi reportedly told a news conference in Osaka that monthly imports of cotton from Indonesia
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        Laos premier to visit Thailand
        93 7 Bangkok Laos Prime Minister General Khamtai Siphandon is scheduled to make a five-day official visit to Thailand this month for the first time since he was appointed last August, a Thai foreign ministry spokesman said yesterday. Spokesman Sakthip Krairiksh said Mr Khamtai will be accompanied
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        Japan to aid Cambodian refugees
        104 7 BANGKOK Japan will give another US$B million (5512.9 million) worth of emergency aid to Cambodian refugees, an official of the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok said on Wednesday. Minora Shibuya, an embassy counsellor, said the aid package decided on Jan 27 is to be given through
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka confident of aid despite human rights criticism
      452 7 Reuter COLOMBO Sri Lanka, despite criticism of its human rights record, is expected to get the full US$B5O million (S$ 1.39 billion) in aid it has requested from donors, a senior Treasury economist said. "We will get the money. The human
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
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        Chamber chief gloomy about Tokyo economy
        71 8 TOKYO The Japanese economy may decline further in the second half of this year, a business leader said yesterday. "A sense of economic recession is becoming stronger" among businesses, Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry chairman Rokuro Ishikawa was quoted by a spokesman as
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        Reynolds new Irish PM?
        125 8 DUBLIN Albert Reynolds, a self-made man, former band leader and finance minister, was expected to become elected leader of the Fianna Fail Party and to become Prime Minister of Ireland in succession to Charles Haughey yesterday. The 77 members of Fianna Fail, the dominant party in
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        CIS to seek more farm credits
        86 8 WASHINGTON The Commonwealth of Independent States will seek another US$2 billion (553.2 billion) worth of GSM agricultural credits through this summer, including a US$6OO million request from Russia, said Democratic Congressman Dave Nagle on Wednesday. Mr Nagle, who said he had talked with "people
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        Boost for eastern Germany
        90 8 BONN West German companies will boost their planned investment in former East Germany by eight billion marks (SsB billion) to 44 billion this year. Citing a study by the Ifo institute, Economics Minister Juergen Moellemann said on Wednesday that the government-commissioned study showed that Bonn's policies
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        More housing for Shanghai
        58 8 BEIJING Shanghai will build five million square metres worth of dwellings this year to alleviate the chronic housing shortage in China's largest city. Mayor Huang Ju, quoted yesterday by the China Daily, said the plan was to benefit 20,000 "households in dire straits", with an average
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        Korean summit to be discussed
        74 8 SEOUL North and South Korea will discuss an unprecedented meeting between their presidents when senior officials of the two countries meet later this month, news reports said yesterday. The English-language Korea Times said South Korean Prime Minister Chung Won Shik would formally propose the summit
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      Lock icon EC seeking middle ground in debate over industry policy
      490 8 Battle brews over funding plans Reuter BRUSSELS The European Commission is groping for the middle ground in an ideological debate over how far the EC should go in helping European industry compete with the onslaught from Japan on world markets. For
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      Lock icon Joint embassies proposal rejected
      209 8 IHT BRUSSELS In the first test of new foreign policy ties, European Community nations have rejected proposals to set up joint EC embassies in some of the former Soviet republics, diplomats said on Wednesday. Belgium said it was deeply disappointed that a French idea of joint
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      Lock icon Slow road to common product standards for Community
      522 8 Reuter BRUSSELS The EC's dream of creating a single market for manufactured goods relies heavily on the painstaking, unglamorous task of developing hundreds of product standards. "It's nitty gritty, and there's not a lot of sex appeal, but it's quite important if
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      Lock icon Russia plans to lease or sell half its oil sector to foreigners
      276 8 AFP PARIS Russia intends to lease or sell half of its oil industry to foreign interests, both for exploration and production. The Russian governme«fc» was preparing two Bills to aa! low foreigners to take uB; large stakes in
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      292 8 FT WASHINGTON American Secretary of State James Baker has urged the US Senate to support swift ratification of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the former Soviet Union. In testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, he said the treaty was
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      Lock icon China showing signs of joining nuclear accord, says Baker
      288 8 Reuter WASHINGTON China has sent the US a letter indicating it may be about to join an international pact to block the spread of ballistic missiles. US Secretary of State James Baker told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that
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      639 8 BUSINESS TIMES Toll free Tel No 737 0043 Fax No: 734 3608 r THE COMPAMES ACT, A CAP. SO AND IN THE MATTER OF MHIOtO OVCKSCAS iNOiNimm m LTD (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINOMGUP) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the creditors of the abovenamed company, which is being voluntarily wound up. are
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      Salim on the expansion trail
      1594 9  -  Over the years, the Indonesian Salim Group has rapidly expanded its operations in the Philippines, unruffled by the country's political and economic woes. A 1 O Labita reports from Manila on the company's growth and its plans for the future Al O Labita INDONESIA'S Salim
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      98 9 INVESTMENTS IN Pi BusinessTrnes' special ISUSIIICSS limes feature is "New Zealand Gathering Strength for Recovery". The feature will SPECIAL FEATURE a i so CO j n cide with a seminar in February 17,1992 Singaporeon investing in New Zealand. Readers can look forward to vital information on business opportunities given by
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    Investment: questions remain
    496 10 EDITORIAL GARNERING $3 billion of manufacturing investment commitments last year was, by any standard and certainly in the circumstances, no mean feat. Amid mounting concern about shifting American and Japanese investment patterns, growing competition from investment sites old and new, and, at home, manpower and cost trends
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      Asean spirit in baku
      275 10 THE Malay language tends to be taken for granted in Singapore. Laymen often assume that all Malays speak it correctly and that all Malay speakers in the region understand each other perfectly. The decision by the Malay Language Committee in Singapore to introduce and promote Standard
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      Preserving heritage
      121 10 PRESERVING our national heritage is something that had been neglected in the past because of the heavy emphasis on economic development. Singapore has lost much of its heritage. Many collectors have found other museums more inviting to house their prized artifacts. Beside proper housing of collections, Singaporeans first
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      New missions
      97 10 WITH CHANGES IN the international political and economic situations, the missions and functions of the United Nations have also changed. Economic powers which emerged after World War 11, such as Japan and Germany, are hoping to play a bigger role in the UN. This issue was discussed at
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
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      The human rights issue
      216 10 JOHN MAJOR'S plan to give China another list of imprisoned dissidents is in keeping with his promise to raise the issue at every opportunity with the Chinese. When he became the first Western leader to visit Beijing since Tiananmen Square, he submitted a list of 37
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      Some questions on Awacs
      132 10 THE past two decades have seen changes of historical proportions in the way the world is run and the expectations of its peoples. Some degree of confusion has now arisen over whether the military is actively considering the purchase of Advanced Warning and Control System (Awacs)
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      Nipping it in the bud
      182 10 JAPAN served notice at last week's UN summit that it expects to be a permanent member since it pays 12.5 per cent of the UN budget which is more than that of both Britain and France combined. Germany is also keen on a permanent membership,
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    The last governor
    740 10  -  As 1997 looms ahead, many in Hongkong are pressing the British to appoint a local Chinese as the colony's final governor. Jackie Stun reports from Hongkong Jackie Sam The writer is a Hongkong bated* political consultant WITH the holidays upon them and little else to talk about,
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      The beginning of a new chapter
      1250 11  -  R W Apple Jr examines the demise of the Cold War and its profound effect on American politics R W Apple Jr WITH THE Cold War's end, the whole terrain of American politics is undergoing fundamental change, from the kinds of issues that preoccupy
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      One country, three economies
      2152 11  -  What is the outlook for the Cambodian economy this year? Well, it depends on which economy you are talking about. Harish Mehta reports on the proliferation of parallel economies that thrive in this Indochinese country Harish Mehta CAMBODIA has at least three mutually exclusive parallel economies
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      500 12 Nothing Beats A Bud, I KINO or $Ti I Toss to happiness, prosperity and health. With Yu Sheng, or raw fish salad, prepared in exquisitely classic style. Partake of this age-old Chinese New Year tradition at Tien Court, where the ambience fittingly rekindles the mood of festivity and celebration. 2
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      283 12 fr The freshest salmon, smoked to L 7 M f AfVIM perfection Marinated Prawns, rv I y/J it/ft Pickled Herrings, Rock Oysters and other Scandinavian f favourites are in our sumptuous buffet. You 11 fall for it hook, fJsTh\ line and sinker. f -v. I Ala arte Continental dinner j/
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      656 12 TELEVISION AND RADIO lll l, l ,i, ***PTTttrttTlllll^tlffltlWt^Wllfllir")HWWtWWWMMßlßMWMlWMMWflMf'tlWft'llWlMtliriW > l]TWTirffril[¥lilL^DlliOfcMjJWJWi 1 WjWBUUW][OM(UI^WWWIW^IOWiJLKttJ]JtJMIIU^tWMIWWWWWMMUW-WWMI)BBBWWWBWWBOMWMII)WMWWMWM.HmMmmyMWHit' 11 l> i" J J nu hi jimim.HL. mm MniiMW mm* MQ> QH»—MM—WW aimr¥Trr»~TT~Tri itMMMMntnrrTTIMIMi rrrr —I»TnilfrimmTm'WTWMrirWWßr^WMriTTrTnTT^ MM M M M l M MMM MIIIIIII l ,ll l> I<| FTH A "5rTl9 7.30 The Science Sh<m BU^E^IMRADIO —t.M
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon In the eye of the beholder
      931 13  -  Despite the recent furore over breast implants, American women are still flocking to plastic surgeons to boost their assets and self-esteem, as Lena Williams finds out Lena Williams NYT ON MOST people's beauty scale, Stacey Stetler would be a 10. A blonde, blue-eyed, 1.8
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      Most expensive homes are in Tokyo, Honolulu
      643 13 HOMES fit for business executives cost the most in Tokyo and Honolulu among 59 leading markets around the world, a real estate company said on Wednesday. The prices of homes varied widely by city, with US$9OO,OOO (551.46 million) buying a 144 sq m
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      Lock icon Captain America to the rescue
      798 13  -  Falling sales and rising costs have become the bane of French comic strip artists. They look towards their US counterparts to save them from commercial demise, reports Alastair Mac Donald Alastair MacDonald Reuter WHOOOOSH! Zkraakk! Ptoom! Wonder Man and a bunch of his ail-American superhero
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      170 13 AND ENTERTAIN Monday Western Delights Tuesday Chinese Savouries Wednesday Malay Temptations Thursday Indian Favourites Lunch in a Flash Different types of carvery and salad buffet lunch every day. 12 noon to 2.30 pm. $19.50++ per person. A ANA HOTEL SINCAPORE 16 NatWn H*. >»gipw ifflS Tatophorw (65) 732 1223 V"
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      63 13 CHINESE NEW YEAR AT marina bay china china restaurant Set menus from $8872 persons 10 WBB7lO persons A U carta menu from $14 to 60 per dish NBHKI JAPANESE RESTAURANT j SCt mCnUS from 53 A $357 person r *»H An» Utei ■<■*!> Sm** jifli *ma a i n'a c
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        Jordan suspended for first time in career
        102 14 PHOENIX, Arizona Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan was suspended for the first time in his career on Wednesday for bumping a referee. Jordan, who led his team to the National Basketball Association championship last year, was fined US$5,OOO and missed Wednesday's game against
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        Dubai Classic tees off
        96 14 DUBAI Three of the world's best golfers are competing in the four-day Dubai Desert Golf Classic which began yesterday at the lush United Emirates golf course. The tournament brings the European PGA tour to Dubai. Spaniard Severino Ballesteros, Briton Nick Faldo and Welsh dynamo lan Woosnam
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        Walker to hang up shoes
        123 14 AUCKLAND One of the world's most durable milers, New Zealand's John Walker, yesterday told the New Zealand Herald that he is retiring from the sport. "I have run my last race," said Walker, who won a gold medal in the 1,500 metres at the 1976
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        Thoms humbles Lendl
        99 14 MILAN Arne Thorns counts himself among the unknowns waiting to ambush the likes of Ivan Lendl. Each week, the German explained, Lendl "plays guys who want to kill him". Thorns' chance came on Wednesday and he caught Lendl at the right time looking slow and probably taking
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        England leads NZ
        103 14 WELLINGTON Alex Stewart, with his third century in four Tests, led England to 239 for five at close of play on the opening day of the third Test against New Zealand at the Basin Reserve yesterday. England captain Graham Gooch won the toss for the first time
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        Courier closes in
        99 14 SAN FRANCISCO Jim Courier inched closer to the world's No 1 ranking on Wednesday night by rallying to defeat Mark Woodforde of Australia 7-6, 5-7, 7-5 in a firstround match at the Volvo San Francisco. Courier, ranked second in the world and the tournament's top seed, would
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      Lock icon Powell, Foster lead field for Millrose Games
      364 14 AFP NEW YORK World re-cord-holder Mike Powell and three-time world champion Greg Foster head a starpacked field for the 85th Millrose Games track and field meet at Madison Square Garden tonight. Nine world record-hold-ers, seven 1991 world champions and four indoor world champions
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      Lock icon Round-the-world balloon flight to lift off soon
      622 14 NYT AKRON, Ohio Despite a spate of minor but troublesome mechanical problems, a projected round-the-world flight by balloon is expected to begin on Sunday or Monday, its handlers said on Wednesday. "Things look pretty chaotic around here, but it's all coming together," said
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      Joyner-Kersee aims for Barcelona and beyond
      572 14 NEW YORK Jackie Joy-ner-Kersee is aiming for another pair of gold medals at the Barcelona Olympics this summer but the long jumper and hepathlete has a longer range plan in mind. The athletics star wants to compete in the 1996 Atlanta Games. "Nineteen-eighty-four was
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      351 14 AP WASHINGTON Major league baseball will be guilty of discrimination if it rejects a Japanese-led group's offer to buy the Seattle Mariners, a US congressman from Washington said on Wednesday. Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan, has agreed
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      412 14 AP CHAMBERY, France Athletes at this month's Winter Olympics will take a French-developed sex test that the inventor says will prevent the embarrassing sexual mix-ups of previous Games. The new test will make it virtually impossible to repeat the few instances where genetically male Olympian
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      41 16 ——i—————-———_ OUSIIICSS A MUCSI NU»J JTUIUSIJ 177* H as 1 •.'*■> Kyi: p""v*?" -j£.i r>:;.' "■;>■ V,!-'''',' >•• r -■,< j <. J& v>v.' *!>.'%:■ x 35 "W /.tiW'i'- >>: MM 3ES Sf? 2L. P m ss. t ■>. I |S ags I ft 3K5 SSflr yii-. /J i
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      293 18 II wr f I Vorsprung durch Technik I"' i Now for this morning's German philosophy lesson. I When you make cars like Audi do, you make them I better, simply because of your thinking. 50... i i i i 5 First, offer Quattro permanent 4-wheel drive as t f i
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      Investors focusing on Malaysian stocks
      4102 19  -  By Chew Eng Han THE Singapore and Malaysian stock markets inched higher yesterday, although interest was subdued by the Lunar New Year festive season. The Straits Times Industrials Index ended 4.88 points higher at 1,530.85 while the KLSE Composite Index closed 5.17 points higher at
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      Lock icon HOT STOCK
      71 19  -  JL Chew Eng Han Comment UMW exceeded the first target of $2.75 but fell short of the second target of $3.00. This stock continues to be a buy on dips. Support at $2.35-$2.40 will probably contain any weakness. Daily stochastics have turned up again, and weekly MACD is
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    STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 2
    2889 20 *OCBC Foreign1200 +40+3.4* PBS 1200 20 +1.7* 995 20 +11* iuroSi Ship 50» 1060 +20 +1.9* KcppdCWt 575 +20 +3.6* ShsMi-U 600 20 3.4* Prima 585 +15 +2.6* Spore Land 580 +15 +2.7* Fan wt 200 +12 +6.4* City Dev 50* 436 +10 2.3* ICeppd
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    STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 3
    3205 21 Leader U 442 +14 +3.3% A ma I Steel 50* 246 +10 +4 2% Esso 50* 420 +10 2.4% Hume M 362 +10 +2.8% MISC Foreign 535 +10 +1.9% Oriental Hldgs 570 +10 +1.8% UMW 268 +8 +3.1% MAS 430 6 +1.4% MUI 159 +6
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      52 21 Nf' e v e r Aga i n n ~/k Tay Soo Wan talks about his stint as Singapore's HjWW r» national football team manager. And swears he will never be manager again. [QlfiSfll Jy j Why? new, news, SHi, y? Find out in the Tay Soo Wan interview today.
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
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      Lock icon Stocks close higher on bargain-hunting
      4879 22 Scattered selling erodes good morning gains Bernama, Reuter SHARE prices closed higher on the first trading day of the Lunar Year of the Monkey on index-linked buying and bargain hunting activity, but trading was restricted as some big players are still on holiday, brokers said.
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
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      RESULTS FORECAST
      378 23 M tmi LMt M 1m Fane* M M MPn* IPS ■1 In n tai pi tap tan tmm taM tat jr tatag (cts) (IIM) (SSa) (cts) Mi Stafi I Feb 18 Jun 92 116 13.0 16.894 10.0—19.3 8.0-15.5 Sh«MriM F Feb 21 Dec 91 19.0 90 22.060 21.3—25.2
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      PRELIMINARY RESULTS
      121 23 Cowpwy Dal* Year Qrmp pr*-tax Net Minings 6mi m to praftt/kss (L) put tktrt tkMmi COOO) (cwrts) Public Bank Jan 27 Dec 91 *$164,626(1128.235) 129(9.7) 85(6) NST Jan 16 Auc 91 M$82 007(SS0.274) 30 9(33) 20(10) KL Kepong Dec 27 Sep 91 *$85.468($84,804) 15.3(148) 15(15) Pacific Can Dtc
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      INTERIM RESULTS
      351 23 Ci»M»y Data IWf-yMr Croup prt-tax latertai mm to profit/Ws» (L) dhtoMtf C000) BMT Jan 30 Dec 91 $697($600) 50(50) M Banking Jan 28 Ok 91 MIS272.141 (S181.960 8(6) Rotyison Jan 27 Dec 91 Sl«,116(111,586) 6(5) Khong Guan Jan 24 Oct 91 $346(1139) Centrepowt Jan 23 Dec 91 110.063
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      OTHER RESULTS DUE
      167 23 MM Last U Ymt Cmm Mi Mi im w few m MMd mdk t (ets) pnfll m fMr (s$m) SB Fral Nov 6 U 91 3.0TE 17,8781 6 TiibMIii Fral Feb 6 Dec 91 11 10.0 1.691 Kappd Rmk* Final Feb 13 Dec 91 58 5.0 5,276
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      AUDITED RESULTS
      231 23 Cifiiy Date Y Mr 6tm» Net ttet Cms mr to prtftt/lMS (L) pmr shan 4M4»nd COM) (CMt») As»a Pacific Jan 24 Sep 91 $65.969($55,737) 52.1(44) 28N(2W) FIN Jan 24 Sep 91 157.443(553.080) 32.6(30.1) 13N(12W) Goodwood Part Jan 10 Sep 91 $22,137($21,216) 49.2(47.1) 80(50) H Msta Jan 10 Sep
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      CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS
      991 23 Jan 31 Oriental Hokfinp Bhd's subsidiary, Teck See Plastic Sdn Bhd has set up a new company, Hicom-Teck See Manufacturing Bhd, to make plastic motor car parts in Malaysia. Berjayi Group Bhd's stake in Inter-Pacific Capital Sdn Bhd wiH be increased from 30.1% to 70.3% following its proposed
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      SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDER/DIRECTOR TRANSACTIONS
      1443 23 Trias Ragfetarad Substantial Bay/ t SbarsfcaMtag Stock Date MoWar SkaralMMw/Diracter Ml tharas Batera After J Cement 31/01/92 Mitsubishi Materials Corpn Toshiya Kubota B 63,000 175.770 1,959.000 5.56 2,022,000 5.74 J Cement 31/01/92 Nomura Trading Co Ltd Htrosht Teroyama B 63,000 175,770 1,959,000 5.56 2,022,000 5.74 DBS Foreign
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      358 23 Cwrwit Ex Seeks Date Tetal tar Tetal far piyHMfft Ml dOM piy|||| tlM yUT list JfMT •MFFT 42%(e) Feb 7 Feb 21 Feb 28 7 7% 5 75% ham Find USlOC(b) Mar 10 Mar 20 Mar 30 US10C US10C Awna 20c 12.5%TE Mar 3 Mar 13 May 15
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      APPROVED ISSUES
      107 23 Company Rights Issue Am Pac land Four-lor-sewn MJO 50 per stare Ei-date ton 3 Books dose: ton 17 Acceptance Payment Mar 5 Jads M Two-tor-one SI 00 per share Ei-date ton 8 Books dose ton 20 Acceptance Payment Feb 28 Tech liMrcn Four-lw-fNe MSI 30 per share Ex-date
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      PROPOSED ISSUES
      512 23 y I rooipiny Rights Issue Itmu Teth Orator-one $100 per share Boftm Issue of $90 978m nomral amount of 15% Redeemable Unsecured Guaranteed Bonds 1991/96 with 45.489m detachable warrants on the bass of $2 nominal amount of Bonds for every three existing stares held Every $2 nomral amount
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      COMPANY MEETINGS
      76 23 Fraser I Neave Ltd: 93rd AGM EGM at its registered office, 475 River Valley Road, Singapore 1024, on Friday, Feb 14, at 10am Chin Teck Plantations Bhd: 33rd AGM at No 1071 Changkat Tambi Dollah. off Jalan Pudu, ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday, Feb 15, at 10am The
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      SCRIPLESS CONVERSION
      32 23 Conversion Special Trdg Scriptess Conversion deadline Period Trading Company starts (IDP) (ST) starts Jacks Int Jan 29 Feb 20 Jan 29 Feb 20 Feb 21 SPH NYA Times Pub NYA
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      RECORD HIGHS & LOWS
      143 23 RECORD HIGHS LOWS BT Composite Index ST Industrials Index 1992 Nftc 1295.54 (6/2/92) 1»2 Nfh: 1545.92 (27/1/92) 1992 tor. 1232.84 (2/1/92) 1»2 tow: 1479 35 (2/1/92) 1991 hi* 1333.08 (3/6/91) 1565 58 (3/6/91) 1991 Inr 1022.52 (16/1/91) tow 1M9.08 (16/1/91) 1990 htft 1435.43 (16/7/90) hi* 1607 12 (27/3/90) 1990 1M:
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      MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
      323 23 In local curr In SI In USS dy yr dy yr S d> S vr Feb 5 Index chge chge chge chge chge chge World 408.7 0.3 0.1 0.2 -1.0 0.3 -1.3 *EAFE 501.6 -0.1 -0.1 0.2 -1.7 0.3 -2.0 Europe 430.8 0.1 4.8 0.6
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND
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      Lock icon Heavy trading in property sector gives market a boost
      2150 24 UPI SHARE prices closed higher in steady trading on the Thai stock market yesterday with the Stock Exchange of Thailand Index rising 7.68 points to close at 771.09. "Investors' attention was concentrated on the property development sector, especially in Bangkok Land
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  • JAKARTA STOCK EXCHANGE
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      Stocks close higher in active trade
      1226 24 JAKARTA stock prices closed higher in active trade yesterday, pushing the index 2.41 points up to 288.46, brokers said. They said locals were active on the market, with strong buying interest in banking sector. Turnover fell to 8.16 million shares compared with Tuesday's 14.2
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    • Philippine shares close higher in narrow trade
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        MANILA
        433 24 PHILIPPINE shares yesterday settled firmer in narrow-range trading of constantly changing favourites, which brokers said reflected the hazy picture of the country's politics. Focus shifted within a select group of a few blue chips and secondary stocks, brokers said. Manila's composite index inched up 5.50 points lo 1,252.37. Combined
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        SEOUL
        753 24 SHARE prices edged down in active trading yesterday on the Korea Stock Exchange which reopened after a long Lunar New Year holiday period. The composite index finished at 690.84 points, off 0.53 points from the previous session on Saturday. Advances led declines 409 to 341 among the 806 issues
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
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      Lock icon Futures-linked buying pushes up Nikkei
      2615 25 Reuter TOKYO stocks closed firmer on small-lot buying and fu-tures-linked programs. Political and industry moves to prop up the market and reduce futures-tied volatility improved sentiment, but buying centred on smaller issues and lacked the energy for a decisive move up. The 225-share Nikkei Average
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      2273 25 Reuter INVESTORS in Sydney moved to the wings yesterday, causing the Australian stock market to trade steadily lower, closing just above its lows for the day. The market opened slightly down after overnight falls in New York and was quickly dominated by offshore
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        1488 26 STOCKS on Wall Street closed mixed in heavy but choppy trading on Wednesday as some investors turned cautious while assessing the implications of the Treasury's quarterly refunding. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which surged 38.69 points to a record high 3,272.81 on Tuesday, gave back 15.21 points to
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        865 26 REVELATIONS by the leader of Britain's third-largest party that he had an affair with a former secretary heightened political worries on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday, unsettling share prices to push the key index lower at the close. The blue-chip Financial Times Stock Exchange 100-share index slipped 9.7
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        192 26 SHARES firmed slightly in Frankfurt on Wednesday and the DAX index showed a gain of 10.22 points to 1,686.62 while the Commerzbank index rose 9.20 to 1,943.10 points. Analysts said trading had been boosted by the rise on Wall Street on Tuesday. The best performers were car stocks. BMW
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        248 26 SWISS shares closed mostly firmer on Wednesday on moderate turnover as market consolidation continued. Some engineering shares seen as cyclic traded lower amid signs that the Swiss economy was still in a recession. But a firm Frankfurt bourse provided some support. Despite firmer money market rates, investors took the
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        100 26 PRICES on the Stockholm bourse closed broadly higher on Wednesday in active trade following Wall Street gains and in reaction to Tuesday's Electrolux result. Dealers described market sentiment as optimistic. The bourse general index rose 0.84 per cent to 967.43 in turnover of 587 million crowns. Electrolux free B-shares
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        251 26 EARLY gains on the Brussels stock exchange lost momentum by the end of Wednesday's trade and shares closed mixed to slightly higher. The Bel-20 index of leading shares was barely changed at the close, up 0.25 point tCL>vi 1,170.82 after peaking at 1,175.16. Traders said the earlier gains were
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        361 26 TORONTO stocks on slipped about 10 points in the last half-v. hour of trade to end moderately weaker >;» at the day's low. Players said investors^» were simply taking profits following v Tuesday's nearly 24-point gain. The TSE 300 composite index lost. 12.22 points to 3,605.85. Declines ledr.. advances
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        147 26 DUTCH shares closed mixed in moderate trading on Wednesday. At its current price levels, the market was in a deadlock with both buyers and sellers staying sidelined. Operators were uncertain whether the EOE index would break through a resistance level of 296 points or drop in a correction to
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        162 26 EUROTUNNEL and Elf bounced back from their recent losses on Wednesday, breathing a little life into the Paris bourse. The CAC-40 index ended 9.31 points higher at .1,865.79 after bobbing in a 15-point band the whole day. Traders said the market is likely to stay mired in range trade
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        204 26 ITALIAN shares were firmer on Wednesday with most blue chips gaining ground in volumes that were slightly up from Tuesday's 106 billion lire. Brokers said signs in the past twp days some of the country's large industrial groups like Fiat and Olivetti were heading towards a solution of their
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        325 26 Feb 5 Cloae Pre*iow NEW YORK Dow Jones 3.257.60 3,272.81 -15.21 SAP 500 413.84 413.85 -0.01 Turnover (million) 262.44 233.68 +28.76 LONDON Financial Times 30 1,970.9 1,978.7 -7.8 FTSE 100 2,547.1 2.556.8 -9.7 Turnover (million) 440.2 429.5 +10.7 FRANKFURT DAX Index 1,686.62 1,676.40 +10.22 AMSTERDAM EOE Index 295.56 295.58 -0.02
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      1205 27 REPORTS THE US DOLLAR ended more than half a pfennig lower in Tokyo yesterday than overnight New York closes but came ofT early lows on late short-cover-ing, traders said. It ended nearly unchanged against the yen. Active interbank dollar sales, led
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      358 27 Cross rates Feb 6 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS, 1.6265 2.6130 1.5810 125.40 0.5504 1.4110 1.3432 1.8501 SS 0.6148 1.6065 0.9720 77.0981 0.3384 0.8675 0.8258 1.1375 MS 0.3827 0.62 0.6051 47.9908 0.2106 0.5400 0.5140 0.7081 Dm 0.6325 1.0288 1.6528 79.32 0.3481 0.8925 0.8496
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      534 27 Irtterbank rates SS Bid Offer Overnight 3 1/8 3 1/4 1-month 3 3/16 3 5/16 2-month 3 3/16 3 5/16 3-month 3 1/4 3 3/8 Overnight mode: 3 LSS Bid Offer 7 days 4 4 1/8 1 month 4 4 1/8 2 months 4 4 1/8 3 months
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      653 27 Top priority now is fighting inflation, says central baijfeer Reuter DAVOS, Switzerland Hungary's currency, the forint, will be fully convertible by the end of next year. National Bank president Peter Akos Bod said. Meanwhile a domestic interbank market for foreign
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      539 28 Reuter LONDON The world is awash in Opec oil and, unless the cartel cuts back, petroleum industry analysts agree that prices could tumble from already precariously low levels. The glut exists despite declining output from the world's biggest producer, the former Soviet Union,
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      393 28 AP LONDON The United States on Wednesday rejected proposals put forward by Colombia for a new international agreement to lift and stabilise depressed world coffee prices. "The US will not agree to a stock retention scheme," according to a paper presented
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      562 28 REPORTS MALAYSIAN crude palm oil prices closed marginally lower on a lack of buying interest that reflected losses on the futures market yesterday, dealers said. They said sentiment was also dampened by the absence of news. Trading was very quiet as
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      646 29  -  POSTCARD FROM KHAO SAM ROI YOR, Thailand By Denis D Gray IT WAS the sea-washed rim of a tropical Eden: jagged limestone hills, lush mangroves and marshes, cliffs that plunged into waters teeming with life. Thousands of migrating birds found a haven in Khao Sam Roi
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      152 29 As at 3pm yesterday. Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.2055 I.222S Canadian dollar 1.3640 1.3920 NZ dollar 0.8690 0.9050 Sterling pound 2.9400 2.9805 US dollar 1.6200 1.6280 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 14.40 14.75
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      47 29 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Mar 10-12 Cadcam NEC, EMAP Intl 071-*****47 Mar 10-13 3rd Bangkok Shangri-La Headway Trade 852-*****64 1992 International Birmingham Exhibitions Ltd (fax) 1992 International Royal Orchid Fairs Ltd (fax) Show Jewelry Fair Sheraton Hotels, Bangkok
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      167 29 Singapore Outlook: Showers over a few areas in the afternoon. Report Maximum temperature 32.1 Assoc humidity 61% Minimum temperature 24.1 Assoc humidity 94% Hours of sunshine B.IS Rainfall in mm Nil Rainfall this month Nil Rainy days this month 0 World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland 24/17 Showers Bangkok 33/23
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    593 30 Russian President raises dictatorship threat AFP PARIS Russian President Boris Yeltsin, arriving to a welcome fit for a tsar, plunged into key issues in his talks with French officials yesterday, warning against the threat of dictatorship in Russia and walking away with
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    311 30 Reuter JOHANNESBURG South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party headed for a clash over political reform with the rival African National Congress (ANC) yesterday by proposing blacks remain voteless until the final stage of a shift to democracy. Firing the first shots at
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    222 30 AFP TOKYO North Korea has executed more than 10 people for a plot against Kim Jong IL, who took over North Korea's military command in December from his father, President Kim II Sung, a Japanese newspaper reported yesterday. The Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported from
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    288 30 Reuter WASHINGTON The US may accelerate the phasing out of the worst ozonedamaging chemicals because of new forecasts of a growing hole in the ozone shield over the Northern Hemisphere, The Washington Post reported yesterday. It quoted US Environmental Protection Agency
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    529 30 Reuter BRUSSELS The 12 European Community governments will today sign a Treaty on European Union, their blueprint to shape the EC into a true superpower with a single market, one currency and one voice on the world stage. Foreign and finance ministers will
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    397 30 Reuter UNITED NATIONS The Security Council retained its trade embargo against Iraq on Wednesday and criticised Baghdad's refusal to expose its weapons industry and sell oil under UN terms. While the continuation of sanctions was expected, the tough wording of a council statement showed
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    369 30 UPI LONDON Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, dogged on a European tour by questions about the East Timor killings, on Wednesday insisted that the territory's residents favoured Jakarta's rule but ruled out any vote on the issue. Mr Alatas also acknowledged
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    168 30 Agencies ALGIERS Security forces and Muslim fundamentalists waged new clashes yesterday in the eastern city of Batna, where three days of fighting have claimed at least 11 lives, authorities reported. An army captain was among those wounded in Batna and the authorities reported the first
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      393 31  -  Most of the rate restoration will come into effect on March 1 By Selva Kumar SINGAPORE Member lines of the Transpacific Westbound Rate Agreement will impose another round of freight rate increases in the next two months. In a statement from
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      223 31 AFP CAIRO German ships will be barred from transporting arms for Syria after one vessel was intercepted last week with a cargo of Czechoslovak tanks, German Defence Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg said here on Wednesday. Mr Stoltenberg spoke following talks with President Hosni
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      190 31 Reuter BONN Germany has announced plans to turn its loss-incurring railways into a market driven business, restructuring the state-owned network and merging the west German Bundesbahn with the east German Reichsbahn. Transport Minister Guenther Krause said on Wednesday that the Cabinet had authorised him to
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      201 31 UPI ZURICH Switzerland's national airline reported on Wednesday a sharp decline in 1991 business, with passenger traffic falling for the first time in eight years. Swissair said the number of passengers last year dropped by an average 8.2 per cent to 7.99 million the first drop
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      Meng Horng's ship released by Bangladesh
      418 31  -  By J Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Six months after Bangladeshi authorities impounded a Meng Horng Shipping vessel for colliding with one of their naval ships, the Singapore-based common feeder operator has managed to get the containership's release. After an out-of-court settlement of US$2.4 million (553.9
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      219 31 AP TOMBALL, Texas A television commercial that opens with Japanese dive bombers attacking Pearl Harbour and ends with an appeal to buy US-made cars and trucks is being aired by auto dealers in this Houston suburb. "Fifty years ago Americans woke up
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        A deal that may backfire on US
        55 31 AUTOMOTIVE executives, economists and other experts say that unless American suppliers swiftly adjust to the vastly different priorities set by Japanese car companies, President George Bush has shaken hands on an agreement that may hasten the decline of the American parts industry. Doron
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        US jet fuel stocks up on weak demand
        56 31 US JET FUEL inventories stand well above recent winter levels due to sluggish airline demand and unusually mild winter weather, industry experts said. Some of the nation's airlines, which typically buy extra fuel for stockpiling when supplies swell and prices fall, are
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        Airbus workers hit out at Boeing deal
        49 31 THE works council at the French state-controlled Aerospatiale company, which builds the Airbus, has written to the government expressing concern about a contract by Air France to buy three US Boeing 767-300 and to take an option on three more Back Page
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        SAS to decidel on sale of Linjeflyg soon
        40 31 AB AEROTRANSPORT, holder of Sweden's 43 per cent stake in Scandinavian Airlines System, said SAS's board would consider within 10 days whether to approve ABA's purchase of the domestic airline Linjcflyg. BackPage
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        Holed Colombian ship stable in Pacific
        56 32 LONDON The 15,649-dwt Colombian vessel Ciudad de Pasto is stable after it began taking in water in the Pacific on Monday, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence Service said. But its engine-room is flooded. The Swedish tanker Flamenco has arrived at the scene but is unable to
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        Repairs begin on Cypriot bulker
        74 32 LONDON Necessary temporary repairs are under way at Pylos roads on the Cyprus-registered bulker Forum Product fallowing its alleged contact with the tanker Mesogios in Piraeus roads, Lloyds Shipping Intelligence reported. A survey was carried out on the 38,822-dwt Forum Product but permanent repairs have
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        Refloated bulker resumes voyage
        58 32 LONDON The Liberian bulker Pacocean, earlier reported refloated off the Baltic coast of Germany, is undamaged and has resumed its voyage for Korea from Poland, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence Service said. The 38,870-dwt vessel, which ran aground on Monday with a cargo of 36,956 tonnes of steel,
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        VW studying Polish possibility
        81 32 BONN Volkswagen AG, Europe's largest car maker, said it was exploring the possibility of assembling cars in Poland, but talks were still at a preliminary stage. A VW spokesman said the talks followed an offer by the Polish government last iponth that Fiat SpA, General Motors
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        Airbus prototype in maiden flight
        83 32 TOULOUSE, France The second prototype of the new Airbus A-340 made its maiden flight on Monday afternoon over the Toulouse region, in southern France, sources said at the Airbus Industrie consortium. The flight lasted for five and a half hours, they said. Like the first
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        Continental's Jan load factor up
        63 32 HOUSTON Continental Airlines Inc said January load factor rose to 59.4 per cent from 56.5 per cent a year earlier, while revenue passenger miles advanced 6.8 per cent to 3.30 billion from 3.09 billion and available seat miles increased 1.6 per cent to 5.55 billion
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        72 32 MCI Communications Corp said said it grew at nearly double the long distance industry rate in 1991, with calling traffic up 11.5 per cent in the fourth quarter versus the like period a year before. "We had a great quarter and a great year considering
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      813 32 VOLUME in the dry cargo freight market on Wednesday was limited as operators marked tipie, hoping for US grain credits to the former Soviet Union, brokers said. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has various meetings with US Agriculture Department officials this week and its has asked for
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      1516 32  -  Experts say that unless US suppliers swiftly adjust to the vastly different priorities set by Japanese car companies, President George Bush has shaken hands on an agreement that may hasten the decline of the American parts industry. Doron P Levin reports Doron P
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      6143 40 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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      Lock icon French Airbus workers complain about Boeing deal
      241 48 AFP TOULOUSE, France The works council at the French state-con-trolled Aerospatiale company, which builds the Airbus, has written to the government expressing concern about a contract by Air France to buy three US Boeing 767-300 and to take an option on three more.
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      Lock icon SAS to decide on sale of Linjeflyg soon
      269 48 Reuter STOCKHOLM AB Aerotransport, holder of Sweden's 43 per cent stake in Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), said SAS' board would consider within 10 days whether to approve ABA's purchase of the domestic airline Linjeflyg. ABA last month said it had an agreement
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      319 48 AP WASHINGTON Employee health care costs add USS 1,086 (551,774) to the price of the average car made by the Big Three domestic automakers, a researcher told Congress on Wednesday. That means health care costs as much per car as the
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      195 48 Reuter MONTREAL A takeover of PWA Corp's Canadian Airlines by AMR Corp's American Airlines "would pose a formidable obstacle" to Air Canada and might force it to reassess its own strategy, Air Canada said. Chairman Claude Taylor reiterated Air Canada's view that a merger of
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      487 48 Mild winter and fall in air traffic dampen demand Reuter NEW YORK US jet fuel inventories stand well above recent winter levels due to sluggish airline demand and unusually mild winter weather, industry experts said. Some of the nation's airlines, which typically
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      705 34 f EAIPAC IEH VICE DRECT SOUTH PACfIC flg SIN MOU SUV PPT IMPERIAL 3302 EB 21-21/2 12/03 ISAM 20/03 PALEMBANQ 3301 EB 25-27/3 7/4 10/4 14/4 Tr«*M Ttm» (13) (1«) (22) also acccptem caroo m sum to lautoka. paoo paoo. HTM. NUKUALOFA, P. MLA FASTEST ag TO 01/PtRU SIN CLX
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      1538 34 Dniaiia ura REGULAR INDEPENDENT FULL CONTAINER SERVICE WESTBOUND FOR EUROPE WL 7w SM AL6 9CL HAM IRE ROT ANT HEL LNA (WA (VM (MA ALO) HAM) KOT) 4 NORASIA PRMCESS 9149-3 09/02 20/02 01/03 09/03 09/03 07/03 00/03 00/03 10/03 NORA3M PEARL 9149-3 15/02 07/03 09/03 12/03 14/03 13/03 15/03
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      1892 35 W W STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD MEH 15 Hoe Chiang Road #09-01 Sanford Building Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fat: *****17 *c«fio M SAtS s«*£ B'KOK RAJAM BROOKE VO4C Mum Lab KK 07-M Fab In Pt 09 Fab P€GASUS PROGRESS V.704N 11-12 FEB 15-16 FEB STRAITS HOTC VO2E Ito.! Sk«., Taw
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      1991 35 < SINGAPORE AGENT: PXtO pAfltslltlPl*C PAO Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd JL 9 15 Hoe Chiang Road #08-02 to 06 Sanford Building. Singapore 0208 WT V Tel: 225 2233 Telex: RS ***** PNOCSP Fax: 225 5327/222 7517 W w V CR Number: **********0Z I EXPORT IMPORT VESSEL VOY *PNO 'PKQ
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      456 36 CR NM **********0-0 EXPRESS SEMI CONTAINEBHIP SERVICES TO EUROPE VSL/VOY S-PORE EMM/ADAM XBURG MOO ANTWERP MTMMI/31W 24/2 30/3 5/4 8/4 12/4 PAST TRANSIT TME ACCEPTING BREAK BULK/CONTAINERISED CARGO Sutofoct to Inducifnint Also icctptino ctfpo to Ctublinct, Part Said, Poet Alexandria, Qanoa, TrtMto. ALSO ACCEPTMG BOTH CONTNNBtS. CONVENTIONAL CARGO VIA T/S
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      1354 36 0 HANJIN SHIPPING "■EBSBEEI LVL J* OAR FOB VS. M I LIE HNA SAV IN NYC 0/2 MECT 2/3 5/3 NNUM KMNCYANG SBSE 10/2 M PLEASURE 124E 11/3 28/3 22/3 2EJ J'l ii' 2 KUBAN 171E 17/2 M. KEELUNG 035E 26/3 27/3 21/* !*!gg.*gL 1/3 OKCT a/3 25/3 nwaaao bat
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      1692 37 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL: *****77 (CR NO: **********0E) NEPTUNELINK TEL *****00 (TOLL-FREE) DOCUMENTATION DEPT *****44/*****14 TERMINAL OFFICE *****22 KB IMPORT -CFS-MB2: *****69/*****96 Mpi EXPORT CFS MB2: .*****53/*****50 #MHS nepline sdn bhd Malaysia jPy K.L.-<O3) *****33. P.Krt«nfl-(03) *****87, Penang-(04) *****0, J.BaHru-<O7) *****3, *****4 •2 yr PTI INTI TRIDENT NUSANTRA
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      1002 37 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKING: *****51/ *****64/ *****59 (FESCO LINE) ENQUIRIES: *****33 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 JAKARTA: *****57 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 (REGULAR INDEPENDENT SERVICE) FULL CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES EASTBOUM)—CTSCHMONG WOTBOUW-LOADWC Tt/XOHPPCD VW HOTTHOOM "m w law |mj> me |i |m imt In.
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      1573 38 —————————.1 K 4 4 "W" AS AGENTS: KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD ICR No: **********0 M) W W l^T 1 WT\ TEL *****77 TELEX: KAWAKIRS23I6S FAX: *****07/^9 I M MALAYSIA: *K* LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD I JL U JL JL MmJ TEL SA *****00 PK *****01/5 PENANG *****0 JB *****1
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      1009 38 PHILI ORKNT LINCS PTC LTD 4* 108 Robinson Road #07-00 GMG Building Singapore 0106 A Ta(: *****22/*****69/*****00 Taiax: RS ***** FAX: *****76/*****38 BY AIR, LAND OR SEA.... A WE TAKE ON THE WORLD FOR YOU QB MEMBER OF SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION 15 FEB SYONEY, MELBOURNE. BRISBANE, FREMANTLE 17 FEB
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      1107 39 asssg I PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTC ml m flu PIL Building, 140 CecH Street #0340, Singapore 0106. CR NO **********Q1 j| JH 111 J 741 ***** 'IVJ T IMKABTA 1 1 1 VI MEL VOY SIN JKT SIN VEBSEL VOY BIN BKK SIN t BUNQA TERATAI o*3 9/2 11/2
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      1178 39 EacßenV P OASS OOmUNER TRANSPORT FEEDER VESSEL PENANG PKELANG OCEAN VSt/VOY SIN SOU (1) RTM (2) HAM (3) GOT"^ ANSON/TBN 712 8/2 BENAVON 2052 n/2 28£2 1/3 2/3 4/3 ANSON/TBN 14/2 15/2 JUTLANOIA 2062 18/2 6/3 8/3 9/3 11/3 ANSON/TBN 21/2 22/2 SELANOA 2072 2S/2 13/3 15/3 16/3 18/3 ANSON/TBN
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      486 39 ZT MYANMA W* FIVE STAR UNE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) S'poro P.KIf Ptn P.Gdf BAGO V3s* 0/10 F«t> HPA-AN VI73W 10/12 Feb MYOMA YW A VI39W 16/11 F«b PAGAN VISOW 23/25 F#b THE BANK LINE (A Mrvlc* o< Andrvw Wslr Shipping) VT SEMI-CONTAINER SERVICE V HEAVY LIFT
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      633 40 ggnumßi I SPECIALIST M RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS I IN BOUND VESSELS I "P» m V N IK u I I MNUI II ft| U I I ASA! TUMI IS 7/2 |/I I I TIAK AITI l/I I CWMPHU II 12/2 14/2 I I ASM am U« 13/2 11/2 I I
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      79 40 \REGULAR COWENTIQwtISERVICE^/ I S pore P.Kelang Loading for I I to Rdm/Atw/UR/Nanles/Valencia fl I V* Barcetona/ftlbao/Atw/UK I NORMAN MMMII 2/2 li/2 Rdm/Atw/UK/Nante I [Spore Loading for I GLOBAL STAR 7/2 Jeddah/Aqaba I GLORY SKY 10/2 Muscat/Dubai/Dammam/Kuwait I PAH RISER 25/2 Dubai/Dammam/Doha/Kuwait I IS'pore Loading PAN LIBERTY Los Angeles/New Orleans/ I
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      100 40 :km 1 1 *t>\ jM BEUING CHANGCHUN CHANGSHA^^Ipfc^ CHENGDU CHONGQING FUZHOU GUILIN HARBIN KUMMING NANNING QUANZHOU SHEKOU SHENYANG SHENZHEN O jm WUHAN XIAMENXIAN ZHENGZHOU n| smmmm /shenzhin shipping Tel: 227 4788 Fax: 227 2Q83 Sf__ ISBSI EUROPE/S.E.A. BREAKBULK SERVICE I fimL VESSEL KIUKIANG CAREER UMUDEN 10-14/1 ANTWERP 22/1 TO PORT
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      894 41 /ag NEDLLOYD GIVES YOU EUROPE EXPRESS FEEDER VESSEL PUG PEN OCEAM VESSEL S* lEH(3) RTM(I) HMI(2) BW FIX SOU 60T VESSEL «rt Mb J" %a u jjf JS/J H"""* y ,-llllW >W"(0 T«"P Bhum/556 —B. Seroja 827 8/> 6/2 Ned Hoorn 2W42 11/2 29/2 1/3 3/3 4/3 2/3 3/3 4/3
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      754 42 TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND |Sh iFrwi |Ma* |»ri lAuck |M |P. CNM.M mmiw 12M ~nn i75~ i*/i 13/3 n/i 7175 aiw hum nT is/3 22/3 w3 *75 s/4 t/3 BRUSKI 7U S/4~" 11/4 11/4 lt/4 25/4 M/ 4 c krolme m 15/4 u/4 Hi* 575 5T5 1575 TO USA/CANADA *5 [5
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      809 42 EXPORTS TO HONGKONG. TAIWAN, MANIA 1 JAPAN "TWCf WEEKLY" MALACCA STRAITS SERVICE OUTIOIH) YOY PKI PEN WT SM MM jjS KAO KH TYO TOR SM2 NOP KoTll VESSa WY |SW |PKL PEN 1W SW HBUWA I 120 *5 2 *7 2 7 2 11-2 15.2 17.2 21-2 227 22 2
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      248 42 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD eta n* n* JPORE PORT KELANG PENANG BILK IAOC 112 Port Loading lor MM RIMAI HUDHU 10/2 loadwf tor Calcutta DOLPMN 14/2 Load** For Male POKE* SUPREME 6/2 loadmj For Mal« DONAKUUO m Port Loaded for Felrararu progress unir 15/2 Loadinj (or
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      1434 42 nrfim" "N is? CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING COMPANY FULL CONTAINER LINER SERVICE MUTSWI MEifTl; SINGAPORE'S GENERAL AGENTS "©ONESW-S MEKtt COSTAR SHPPING PTE LTD P. KLANC TEL :NM IIU :M MM TEL: *****00/*****33 PEIWNG TEL 620*41 TU: MA 461 M TEH: K *****/1 COSHP *T TEL: (621)*****7, MI7M GUAN GUAN SHIPPING SON
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      554 43 (ft FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE *****33 24 LINES LIMASSOL/PKEAUS 9/2 ROTTERDAM 9/2 HAff A/ASHDOO/ ALEXANDRIA 9/2 HAMBURG/BREMEN 9/2 MARSEHLE/FRANCE 9/2 FELIXSTOWE/UK 9/2 BARCELONA/SPAIN 972 LEHAVRE/ANTWERP 9/2 GENOA/ITALY 9/2 GOTHENBURG/SCANDINAVIA 9/2 LOS ANGELES/WC/W 9/2 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 9/2 NEW YORK/EC 9/2 FREMANTLE 13/2 VANCOUVER
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      935 43 TEL: *****33 (12 Unm) m FAX: *****18/*****03 ItXII TELEX: R8 ***** RISMP (3 UnM) ETMOPIAII SMPPMG LMES V (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL VESSEL VOY ETA ILOAOMO FOR SPORE AB6AY WOHZ 31WB 13/02 DARESSALAAM. MOMBASA OJIBOUTI ASSAB, MABSAWA ABYOT MWB 30/03 DARESSALAAM MOMBASA. OJMOUTI ASSAB. MASSAWA 15
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      794 43 ■JAKARTA BANGKOK IMA SWUM IMS I/R2 U/02 IMU OHUM 1M bPi 07/02 Ml 10/02 Km OHUM 203 12/92 15/02 WART* OHUM 7M Sm» 01/02 MM 12/92 MA BHUM 130S 15/02 U/R2 SM MRT 412R Mw ljflt 13/02 KfTI BHUM 21S 19/92 22/92 MAHA BHUM# 05H 9h4 12/92 Sat IS/02 MA
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      1249 44 raMaMMMMMMMtMMMMMMHMMiMMMtMMIMIMaMMaiMBMMMMMIMManMaiaaMMIMaaaaiaMaaMMMttMaaHHMHHMMMaaMHMaaMaiIHaaaMiMtaHMMaMMMMBHaHMMHHMMte S'PORE gg^SSS PENANQ: (04) *****6 SIBU: (084) *****9 KK: (088 *****0 TAWAU: (089) *****9 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****32 KUCHING: (082) *****3 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 P EN pfn PK SIN 9/2 10/2 11/2 Ldn/Fh/Ddm/ltot i u/j !S/J 10/2 11/2 12/2 15/2 13/2 14/2 15/2 Syd/IMb/Bri 8/2 9/2 10/2
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      383 44 BLUE star line TO FROM INEW ZEALAND AND T/S TO FIJI TO AND FROM NEW ZEALAND PORTS SM NPI ML LTT SM MULBERA 25S 10/2 22/2 VU NPI 23/2 12/3 MAHSURI OSI4 19/2 2/3 VU NPI 4/3 21/3 PROSPECT ITS 4/3 10/3 MA NPI lt/3 4/4 FULLY CONTAINERISED SAIUNQS DISCHAROINO
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      1073 44 I THONG SOON LINES PTE. LTD. Jf; 77 ROBINSON ROAD #15-00, #16-00 SIA BUILDING SINGAPORE 0106 TEL: *****88 FAX NO: *****11, *****22 TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO coNVBwnoMAL/cottTAiMM i MffTftflßß tBHYHM fr, SINGAPORE TO WEST MALAYSIA SINGAPORE TO WEST MALAYSIA vessel Kg leta Itn ffssa m
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      827 45 COMPANIA PERUANA DE VAPOREB "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" *CJ»T!N6 BREAKBULK/FCI/SOC CARGUtS TO/FROM CALIAO, kMTMAM, 10* OTHER PERUVIAN PORTS* AT KOBE ON CPV THROUGH 811 OF LADMG. "EVERETT ORIENT LINE" .JST JAMH/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACOTTWG brembulk/soc cargoes to/from KOBE, YOKOHAMA, NAGOYA, HOI. TOKYO*, WNU*, DAY AO*, Pananj* P. Kaiar* Saifapara E'Msa
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      495 45 ICZ3Z I M ESS N.AMERICA/CARRIBEAN SERVICES KESiD. Ivor law awoMCi Not Lax >ist [sat Ntc fcw II UEUHmk m 27/2 m UVOBB m 27/3 9/4 1/4 11/4 13/4 JMJttKA 7if 1/7 mHP AN u_ ZLi. 2iO_ 2U_ 2U_ m PHAtUS 13g 15/2 BMLAWWQ 27/3 5/4 0/4 11/4 13/4 Acta** cjrt*
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      443 45 MULTI-MOOE SHIPPIM PTELTD MIDDLE-EAST/PERSIAN GULF ACCEPTING FCL/LCL DUBAI. OAMMAN SHARJAH. DOHA MUSCAT BAHRAIN. ABU DHABI. BANOAR ABBAS JEDOAH FAR EAST ACCEPTING FCUICL PENANG. P/KELANG. JAKARTA. BANGKOK HONG KONG. TAIWAN. JAPAN MAN*. A KOREA UK/EUROPE ACCEPTING FCL/LCL LONDON, FELIXSTOVYE. LEEDS. TI BURY ABERDEEN. LE HARVE. HAMBURG. ROnEROAM, ANT*EP. GOTHENBURG COPENHAGEN 4
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      518 45 IjKjfJUBH ASEAN/CHINA SERVICES VESSEL MP PK PNG P BUDANG KTN FOR Q. SHAN 22/82 —K—— P. 0U 03/83 DALIAN/QBKOAO MAD RAS/COLOMSO/BOMIAYAARACHI SERVICES MP N NG YANGOON RTN FOR 1. TMG 17/82 HARAOO/COLOMB T. YANG 28/82 COLOMBO SMGAPOREAIADRASAIIMAPORE FCIAXL SStVICES OOP RN TBN 18-12/82 17-10/02 TON 17-10/02 24-25/02 TON 28-27/02 04-85/03
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      428 45 MEEB SM FM EAST > 10/2 KEELUNG/KAOHSJUNG 09/2 BANGKOK :f 12/2 MANILA/CEBU > 10/2 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 09/2 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. Malaysia 10/2 BUSAN t 10/2 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 4 t 11/2 HONG KONG w QjjM 11/2 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU 4 T DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU .*> also accepting LCL cargo C SM EUtOPE/UK It 10/2 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU i
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      694 46 «T FIL CONTAINER SERVICES PTE LTD MADRAS CALCUTTA VBl BIN/MADBAB VBL SIN/CALCUTTA SM MM SM $M CAI SM KIT AVMIWIE S4 2C-2S/01 (2-03/02 NUT SUABLE 23-24/01 3043/02 00-10/02 20-27/01 01-03/02 00-09/02 20-27/01 02-00/02 12-13/02 30-31/01 00 00/02 14-15/02 01-02/02 00 12/02 11-IJ/02 JAKARTA DUBAI HONGKONG VBL BIN 7 JAKARTA VBL
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      415 46 BontermJ CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. GUARANTEED WEEKLY CONSOLIDATION YOUR FIRST CHOICE TO:— AUCKLAND 10 FEB NEW PLYMOUTH, WELLINGTON, LYTTLETON, NAPIER, HAMILTON, CHRIBTCHURCH, DUNEDIN, PORT CHALMERS BANGKOK 15 Feb EUROPE 16 Feb FREMANTLE 13 Feb GOTHENBURG 16 Feb PENANG 12 Feb PORT KELANG 12 Feb JAKARTA 18 Feb MELBOURNE 19
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      455 46 MLJm Next Week's Sailings I M > P Port Kelang 14/2/92 Los Angeles 16/2/92 (Onforwarding To Mid West Port Louis 18/2/92 East Coaster USA) f% Singapore Tel: 778 6522 C9IA Fax: 779 2738 Esther Yap JfP Johore Tel: 07-*****8 V Fax: 07-*****3 Alfred Ng ■■■I 77&WS-Z/A//C INCHCAPC SHIPPING SERVICES (S)
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      417 46 MANILA ETA VIGOUR PACIfC 55N8 1/2 VIGOUR SINGAPORE 19NB 8/2 BANGKOK 8/2 16 2 BUSAN 3/2 10/2 HONGKONG 7/2 15/2 DURBAN/PT LOUIS 5/2 18/2 KEEIUNG 10/2 17/2 USA 3/2 10/2 PT KELANG 4/2 8/2 KO6E 3/2 10/2 PWtfUS 15/2 21/2 OSAKA 5/2 12/2 JAKARTA 4/2 8/2 "DUBAI 11/2 19/2 CHINESE-POLISH
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      174 47 vQc vC>c vQc vOc vQc vQc V VAN OMMEREN CETECO GROUP U TRANSPORT DIVISION > A VOTAINER CONSOLIDATION SERVICES: 0 J THE ONLY CONSQUQCTRWgtti<OBLDWIDE NETWORK A V w«tty FCU-Cl StOKK Ttvfran II r USA EUROPE BAD pact V o SKsssra sasssffl asaraast o A X 0 aasaga aapar" >—— Q
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      1141 48 CHARTPOINT Every Saturday in Business Times HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. EASTBOUNO FEEDER TO PACIFIC NORTH-WEST Ftaa toi m wp aw ukjiml iioiuo ii oi» a mi uo taut* m WMWU2U N27 29/91 30/01 31/91 H. CHOIUWB W M/K 27/12 21/12 TOW MDCI Ml 12/12 01/03 9MHN2N MM 05/12 01/02
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