The Business Times, 6 October 1992

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    17 1 Business Times MITA (P) 35/12/91 Tuesday, October 6, 1992 THE BUSINESS P IPER FOR S-E ASIA 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
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      Opening of English Channel tunnel delayed
      72 1 LONDON The opening of the rail tunnel under the British Channel will be delayed until December next year, seven months later than planned. Managing company Eurotunnel, which originally planned to open the underwater link from England to France in the middle of next year,
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      Claim of corporate bribes to Italian parties
      64 1 ROME Italian businessmen have routinely paid bribes to political parties to win lucrative contracts for the last 20 years, according to a disgraced official of the huge IRI state holding company. "They had to do it it was part of the way things
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      Green move on cars
      29 1 THE Environment Ministry may ban the import of cars that contain ozone-eating chemicals in their air conditioning systems, said Environment Minister Ahmad Mattar Page 2
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      Banks' new packages
      24 1 LOW interest rates are prompting several banks in Singapore to come up with new financing packages to woo customers Page 2
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      Not investing enough
      39 1 MALAYSIAN International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz yesterday hit out at the private sector in Southeast Asia for not investing enough in the fast-growing region, preferring instead the economies of Japan and Europe Page 9
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      US tax Bill approved
      32 1 CONGRESSIONAL negotiators have approved a tax Bill that offers more than US$27 billion (Ss43 billion) in tax breaks and investment incentives in the next five years. Page 11
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      Good vision
      30 1 SINGAPORE company Polycore Optical Pte Ltd owns the technology to a new eyeglasslens making process which has big US and European lensmakers following its industry lead Page 15
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      Shippers' call
      30 1 LOCAL shippers called on the Singapore National Shippers' Council and the government to take a more active role in addressing issues affecting exporters here. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKET SUMMARY
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      Dow plunges
      76 1 WALL STREET stocks fell sharply yesterday morning, with the blue-chip Dow index losing 70 points in the first hour of trading. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 69.43 points at 3,131.18 at 10:30 am EDT. Dealers said investors sold stock after last Friday's sell-off and losses in
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      Footsie lower
      31 1 LONDON share prices were sharply lower at midday yesterday. At about 12:30 pm (1130 GMT), the FT-SE 100share index was down 60 points, or 2.4 per cent, at 2,489.7.
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      Renong eyes Cambodia
      22 1 RENONG Bhd is aggressively looking at hotels and telecommunications projects in Cambodia to expand its Indochina business Page 3
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      Lum Chang in talks
      33 1 THE Lum Chang group has begun negotiations to go into a US$2O million joint venture to renovate and expand a hotel in China's famous Huangshan tourism district Page 3
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      Centrepoint studies
      27 1 CENTREPOINT Properties Ltd is still exploring ways to take advantage of its flagship Centrepoint Shopping Centre's close proximity to the Somerset MRT station Page 3
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      STOCK INDICES
      28 1 Monday Change BT-MGA 650.68 -2.33 Kuala Lumpur ....594.33 -0.26 Tokyo 17,101.50 -222.57 Hongkong closed Sydney 1,467.1 -15.8 Friday Change New York 3,200.61 -53.76 London 2,549.7 -22.6
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      CURRENCIES
      22 1 Exchange rates USS s$ 1.5900 100 Yen SS 1.3328 MS SS 0.6365 Money market rates Overnight 1-1/16% +1/16 3-month...\ 11/2% -1/16
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      COMMODITIES
      35 1 London Gold AM fix USS348.75 US$0.75 Rubber S'pore Nov 143.75*/kg -0.25 M'sia Nov 221.50*/kg unch KL Fin Turnover 20tonnes -13 Spot M$15.75/kg -0.25 Crude palm oil Turnover 634 lots +112 Dec MS871 /tonne +3
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    Govt may have to ease business rules
    554 1  -  Lee's suggestions: More leeway for pioneering firms Make it easier for S'poreans to accept overseas postings From Lee Han Shih in SHANGHAI THE GOVERNMENT may have to take steps such as relaxing some rules for business if Singapore companies are to catch up
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    Local banks claw back bigger share of loan deals
    638 1  -  Regional thrust and more aggressive lending bring more business By Kooi Cho Teng SINGAPORE Homegrown banks are enjoying a larger slice of the loans and deposits market. And they are likely to attract a bigger slicc still, given their aggressive lending
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    Lock icon Indon military closing ranks to back Try for vice-presidency
    246 1 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's military is closing ranks against a challenge by technocrats and putting its weight behind its Commander-in-Chief, Gen Try Sutrisno, for the post of vice-president and probable successor to President Suharto, diplomats and military sources said yesterday. Diplomats said
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    Simex trading volume hits new high for third month
    236 1  -  By Amir Khalil SINGAPORE Trading volume on Simex passed the million mark for the third consecutive month in September, hitting a record 1,351,026 contracts, equivalent to a daily average of 63,763. This was 10.76 per cent up on the previous best
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    Lock icon China set to cut red tape for foreign business
    304 1 Currency convertibility and access to domestic markets to be addressed Reuter BEIJING China plans to cut red tape for foreignfunded companies in the near future, possibly allowing them to freely convert Chinese renminbi to foreign currency and to seek greater access
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      9 1 Suharto urges military to focus on development, Pg 10
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      86 1 Banks rushing to offer new financing deals, Pg 2 IB BlancpaiN OlliiliH The uhfd slirr ftUch Since 1735 there has NEVER BEEN A QUARTZ BLANCPAIN WATCH. And there never will be. Singapore IMF HOUR GLASS l.urky Pl«**a TH 7M242CV1 Scoffs Tel Centrepoint 7H 7141VNU60? Peninsula Plata TH H7HIOWIMVfti PaU*<« Renaissan<c
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
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      Govt may ban import of cars with CFC aircons
      391 2  -  Environment Ministry studying the matter Reports by Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE The Environment Ministry may ban the import of cars that contain ozone-eating chemicals in their air-conditioning systems. Environment Minister Dr Ahmad Mattar yesterday said ENV was studying the feasibility of prohibiting
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      Japanese firm looking for licensees for ozone-friendly cleaning systems
      222 2 SINGAPORE A Japanese manufacturer of water-based ozone-friendly cleaning systems for the electronics industry is scouting for licensees in Singapore for its technology. S&C Co Ltd's president, Yoshihide Shibano, expects tremendous demand for his company's systems over the next couple of years
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      Ex-director fined for continuing offence
      273 2  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE An ex-com-pany director who persisted in not filing a statement of affairs to the Official Receiver. was once again fined and convicted. According to the Official Receiver's Office, it was the first time that anyone had been convicted of the continued
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      Banks rushing to offer new financing deals
      332 2  -  Chase, Stanchart launch low-interest packages By Dawn Tan SINGAPORE The current loan drought has led to a deluge of new financing packages by banks. Chase Manhattan and Standard Chartered have just launched packages targeted at executives and professionals shopping for low-interest loans. Stanchart
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      Searching for survivors
      46 2 AMSTERDAM Eire fighters searching for survivors in two mined apartments blocks yesterday after an Israeli El Al cargo jumbo jet ploughed into the buildings. Several hundred people were feared killed in the Netherlands' worst air crash. Full report in Shipping Times, Pg 2
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      US company settles dispute with Creative Tech
      172 2  -  By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE American company Media Vision has settled its copyright tussle with Singapore-based Creative Technology out of court for an undisclosed sum. Under the settlement. Creative will also license its Sound Blaster card technolo- gy to Media Vision, showing that the
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      Lock icon Japanese investors still wary of Indian reforms
      262 2 Reuter NEW DELHI Japanese investors are watching India's sweeping economic reforms warily and worried that the changes are vulnerable without a legal framework, according to a senior Japanese official. Japanese diplomats yesterday quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Koichiro Matsuura as telling Indian officials last
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      Lock icon Gorbachev denounces travel ban as illegal, political move
      358 2 AFP MOSCOW Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday denounced the travel ban against him as "illegal" while former communist hardliner Yegor Ligachev told Russia's constitutional court that Mr Gorbachev had "opened the way to nationalist separatism" in the former Soviet Union. Mr
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      Lock icon Bill Gates heads Forbes list of America's richest
      299 2 Reuter NEW YORK US presidential candidate Ross Perot is a very rich man. but his fortune pales in comparison with those of Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates. Metromedia's John Klugc and a host of Wal-Mart heirs. According to Forbes magazine, which publishes
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
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      Renong seeking to widen its reach into Indochina
      324 3  -  Overseas expansion By William Chia SINGAPORE Malaysian conglomerate Renong Bhd, which last year secured a massive contract to develop a satellite city in Vietnam, is aggressively looking at hotel and telecommunication projects in neighbouring Cambodia to expand its Indochina business. Mr Lee
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      Times Pub, Dharmala in Indon venture
      165 3 SINGAPORE Times Publishing Ltd and the Jakartabased Dharmala Group have set up a joint venture to move into the bookselling business in Indonesia. The joint venture, incorporated in Singapore and named Times-Dharmala Pte Ltd, will be managed through Times The Bookshop Pte Ltd and
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      Lum Chang group in talks on US$20m Chinese hotel tie-up
      233 3  -  From Lee Han Shih in SHANGHAI SINGAPORE'S Lum Chang group has started negotiations on a US$2O million (5531.8 million) joint venture, which will renovate and expand a hotel in China's famous Huangshan tourist spot. This was disclosed by Wu Chang
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      Jacks International turns around in first half
      198 3 SINGAPORE Jacks International Ltd, whose ultimate holding company is Malaysia's Johan Holdings Bhd, has reported a turnaround in its half-yearly group results, due to a better showing by its Singapore and British operations. But recession, inflation and a labour squeeze have hurt its
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      Chuan Hup renews its fleet
      321 3  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Marinebased Chuan Hup Holdings had sold off 18 of its older vessels, while adding six newer ones to its fleet in the last financial year, in keeping with its policy of maintaining a young and competitive armada. The older vessels, with
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      FCC's divestment exercise a move in the right direction
      528 3  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN I By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE News that First Capital Corporation (FCC) has divested its interests in six trading companies linked to the Guoline group may have escaped the attention of all but the most avid watchers
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      Centrepoint expansion still under study
      279 3  -  By Colin Tan SINGAPORE F&N subsidiary Centrepoint Properties Ltd is considering how best to use the higher floor space limit granted for its flagship Centrepoint shopping centre. In its latest annual report, released yesterday, CPL chairman Michael Fam says the company hopes to come up
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      Lock icon Johan to hive off non-core activities
      196 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Johan Holdings Bhd is talking to several parties to weed out investments in non-strategic areas and concentrate on certain core business activities, chairman Tan Kay Hock said yesterday. Speaking to the press at the release of the company's interim results, Mr
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        OCBC buys more Harimau shares
        52 3 SINGAPORE The OCBC Bank group has bought 1.29 million units in Harimau Investments Ltd for about $1.3 million. The purchase on Oct 2 brought OCBC's direct and indirect interest in the closed-end fund to 20.14 million units, or 40.23 per cent, up from 37.66 per
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        New director for L&M Group
        37 3 SINGAPORE L&M Group Investments Ltd has appointed Kuik See Juan, 49, as a company director. Previously, Mr Kuik was an associate director for sales at Kay Hian James Capel, a stockbroking firm.
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        George Kent profits soar to M$8m
        69 3 KUALA LUMPUR Kent (Malaysia) Bhd has more than doubled its group profit after tax and minority interest to M 58.17 million (555.22 million) for the half year ended July 31, 1992, from Ms3.l million in the previous corresponding period. Turnover rose from M 552.85
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        Lion Land sees future in PCs
        101 3 KUALA LUMPUR Lion Land Bhd, the former Supreme Corporation Bhd, has identified the personal computer industry as an industry of the future and with growth potential. Lion Land, which proposed to subscribe for a 40 per cent equity interest in Likom Technology Sdn Bhd,
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        FCW now an Ekran unit
        43 3 KUALA LUMPUR Federal Cables, Wires Wires Manufacturing Bhd is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ekran Bhd pursuant to the completion of the compulsory acquisition on Oct 3, Commerce International Merchant Bankers Bhd announced on behalf of Ekran yesterday.
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Thai trading firms in Polish joint venture
        110 4 BANGKOK Three of Thailand's largest consumer goods trading firms will set up a joint venture in Poland by mid--1993 to handle East European market expansion, says the Bangkok Post. Yip In Tsoi Group, Saha Union Group and Sahaphat Group had agreed in principle
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        NZ Telecom to merge firms
        86 4 WELLINGTON Telecom Corp of New Zealand has said it will merge its four regional operating companies into a single national organisation. Telecom's national telecom operations director Jim Harrison said yesterday that the details of the changes were yet to be finalised. Company secretary Martin Wylie
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        SHK Properties riding high
        101 4 HONGKONG Record development profits and rental income have boosted Sun Hung Kai Properties' net profit by 36 per cent to HK$4.6B billion (*****.1 million) for the year to June 30. Total property sales amounted to HK57.77 billion, compared with HK57.73 billion in the previous year, while
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        Contract not recognised
        66 4 HONGKONG Accountancy firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has refused to recognise a 25-year management contract awarded by the insolvent owner of the Ritz-Carlton Hongkong. Deloitte partner Joseph Lo, joint receiver of the hotel's owner, GGS Hotel Holdings, said the company's collapse meant Ritz-Carlton's 25-year management contract was "not
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      Lock icon Beef dish to follow US-made sushi into Japan
      281 4 AFP TOKYO A Japanese restaurant chain, already set to sell low-cost US-made sushi by bypassing Japan's ban on rice imports, is not stopping there in its challenge to culinary nationalism. Sushi Boy Ltd, a chain of 44 low-priced sushi shops in and
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      Lock icon Foreign investors set to increase Tokyo holdings
      473 4 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Foreign investors are expected to increase their holdings of Japanese stocks in the second half of the fiscal year (April-March), believing the Nikkei has bottomed out. "It's a good time to buy into Japan, since it's at the bottom of its
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      Lock icon China's first national securities firm opens
      164 4 AFP BEIJING China's first national securities company, Guotai Securities Corp, opened yesterday in Shanghai as efforts to increase the role of financial markets gained speed, an official newspaper said. Guotai is one of three national firms to be approved by the central bank, the
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      San Miguel buys Indon brewer PT Delta
      453 4  -  Filipino giant aims to cash in on region's thirst for beer From Al Labita in MANILA PHILIPPINE food and beverage giant San Miguel Corp has bought a leading Indonesian brewer as part of its plan to cash in on the growing regional thirst
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      Korean steel maker Posco to boost presence in region
      329 4  -  By Colin Tan SINGAPORE South Korea's largest steel maker, Pohang Iron and Steel Co (Posco), plans to increase its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, especially South-east Asia. Posco Singapore's deputy general manager, Kim Sung Ki, told BT that the regional steel
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      Lock icon Posco board rejects chairman's resignation
      214 4 Reuter SEOUL The board of the Pohang Iron and Steel Co (Posco) has turned down a resignation letter from chairman Park Tae Joon, saying its members would resign en masse if he left the company. The board met in an emergency session after Mr Park
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      Lock icon Major hot issues cast shadow over Hongkong's stock market
      618 4 MARKET TALK Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong, one of the most buoyant bourses in Asia, will be hard-pressed this month to bounce back smoothly from some of its biggest make-or-break crises in quite a while. Several issues have clouded market sentiment in the
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
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        Ranks Hovis rejects Hanson's £780m bid
        108 6 LONDON Ranks Hovis McDougall, the British food company, said yesterday that it was rejecting the £780 million (552.17 billion) takeover bid announced earlier in the day by Anglo-American conglomerate Hanson. The company said there was "no commercial logic" for the bid which "seriously undervalued"
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        More layoffs at British Gas?
        59 6 LONDON Management consultant MacKinsey Co has been hired by British Gas to perform an efficiency study of its 3,500-stafT in its central headquarters, the Independent on Sunday said. The review is expected to lead to large layoffs among British Gas's 80,000 employees, 2,500 of whom
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        BIL has 24pc of Gibbs Mew
        85 6 LONDON New Zealand investment group Brierley Investments Ltd said it picked up another 4.38 per cent of British brewer Gibbs Mew pic shares on Friday, giving it a total of 24.08 per cent. BIL said this represents over 60 per cent of Gibbs Mew's
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        Kmart goes into fashion
        68 6 NEW YORK Kmart Corp is undertaking an intensive effort to persuade sceptical women that they can find fashionable clothing amid aisles of appliances, weed killer and toothpaste. To help in this arduous task, one of Kmart's agencies, Calet, Hirsch Ferrell Inc in New York, is introducing
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        Du Pont wants to join project
        64 6 TOKYO US chemical and electronics giant Du Pont is seeking to join a Japanese-government directed research project into superconducting technologies, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported. Participation by prestigious foreign companies like Du Pont at the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry-directed International Superconductivity
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        Blues over a Green Giant
        87 6 LONDON Grand Metropolitan, the UK food and beverage company, faces poor results from its Green Giant frozen food subsidiary in the US because of a com surplus that has driven down prices to an eight-year low, the Sunday Telegraph reported. In a reflection of Grand
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      Lock icon Microsoft's new strategy opens more Windows for growth
      496 6 Reuter BELLEVUE, Washington Microsoft Corp has a determined strategy to push its evolving Windows software into every field of computing, a plan analysts say bodes well for continued strong earnings growth for the world's largest software maker. At its annual strategy session
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      Lock icon Formosan Rubber director arrested for alleged stock scam
      296 6 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Bureau of Investigation yesterday recommended charges of manipulating stocks against a director in a company that is at the centre of the island's biggest stock scandal, a bureau spokesman said. Alex Hsu, a member of the board of directors
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      Lock icon Marlboro's cowboy may be riding East
      214 6 Reuter BRUSSELS The "Marlboro Man" may have to ride on into the East. As wealthy nations grow "greener" and healthier by the day, they are starting to get tough on tobacco and Philip Morris, the Marlboro maker, knows it's time to look elsewhere. "It's
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      Lock icon IBM launching new models for notebook market
      235 6 Reuter NEW YORK International Business Machines Corp was due to launch three notebook computers yesterday in an effort to close a gap in its belatedly introduced line. IBM entered the fastgrowing notebook-computer market only last March, when it took the wraps off two
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      Lock icon Sematech gets environmental research job
      448 6 Chip consortium to spend lOpc of USsloom budget on pollution, safety studies NYT NEW YORK Congress took the unusual step over the weekend of mandating that 10 per cent of the Sematech computer chip consortium's US$lOO million (S$ 159 million) 1993 budget be used for
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      Lock icon Financial questions leave Sears investors uneasy
      865 6 NYT NEW YORK Pity those investors who get what they want. That's the moral of today's story of the continuing financial squabbles at Sears, Roebuck Co. Sears should be a company whose stock is riding high. After all, last week the US company finally
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      131 3 I IN THE MARKET PAGES SES hurt by weak bourses 19 KLSE dampened 23 Bank stocks fall on SET 24 Bluer than blue chips 26 Seoul market dives 26 dlk THE BEST OF BREITLING Since the establishment de P endat>ilit y Worn fl > rers of Sincere Watch in 1954,
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
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        Midland, Barclays losing market share
        95 8 LONDON Midland Bank pic and Barclays pic are both losing corporate banking business to Royal Bank of Scotland and continental European banks, the Independent on Sunday said. One fifth of 670 finance directors who responded to a survey by the Manchester Business School said they
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        Japanese banks' ratings low
        88 8 TOKYO Finance Ministry measures to help Japanese bank will not be enough to relieve downward pressure on their ratings, Moody's Investors Service said. The Moody's report entitled "Implications of the Japanese Government's Economic Measures for the Banks said Japan's banks will need several years to improve
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        New chief for Siam Commercial
        63 8 BANGKOK Siam Commercial Bank directors appointed Dr Olarn Chaipravat president of Thailand's fourth largest commercial bank. Dr Olarn, one of Thailand's leading macroeconomists, succeeds Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda, who resigned last week to become finance minister. Bank policy is expected to be little affected as Dr Olam
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        Bundesbank to end arrangement
        70 8 SCHWERIN, Germany The Bundesbank said it will abolish special banking arrangements for eastern German institutions from Nov 2. The German central bank said in a statement it will adjust its so-called rediscount quota for eastern German banks to be in line with those quotas applicable to
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        Bank of Spain lifts controls
        86 8 MADRID The Bank of Spain said it had lifted some of the capital controls introduced on Sep 23, in what had been an attempt to control speculative operations against the peseta. A new circular published yesterday lifts the obligation to set up a 100 per
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      Lock icon Some Japanese banks opt to write off stock losses
      333 8 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Despite a regulatory easing by the Ministry of Finance that opens the way for Japan's banks to avoid writing off unrealised stock losses at the end of the fiscal half-year, a number of major banks will do it anyway,
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      Lock icon Bank of China to issue bonds overseas annually
      275 8 Reuter SINGAPORE Stateowned Bank of China (BOC) will issue bonds overseas annually in future to help finance China's massive development plans, a senior bank official said. Huo Tuanjie, deputy general manager of the foreign exchange department in the bank's head office in
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      Managing risk integral part of management
      352 8  -  Third Asia-Pacific Risk Management Conference By Amir Khalil SINGAPORE Risk management should be an integral part of management practice, the new Insurance Commissioner, Lim Shu Chiau, said yesterday. Risk management was not merely the provision of insurance cover, Mrs Lim told delegates attending an
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      Lloyd's will not feel impact of Andrew
      446 8  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE A Lloyd's underwriter said yesterday that Hurricane Andrew, which devastated parts of the US recently, is not likely to have a great impact on the London insurance market. Michael Payne told the Third Asia-Pacific Risk Management Conference that
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      Lock icon Sang Kancil keeps losses small to preserve capital
      617 8  -  THE By Paul Leo The Sang Kancil weekly column tracks the profit/loss of a US$5O,OOO live account set up by futures house Refco. Relying on both technicals and fundamentals, the account will trade in currency, interest rate, commodity and stock index futures.
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  • THE REGION
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        KL to retaliate over Austrian timber rules
        78 10 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia plans to retaliate against Austria for requiring tropical timber products to carry special labels. Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik said yesterday. Dr Lim added that at an agriculture ministers' meeting next week in Bandung, Indonesia, Malaysia would ask its
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        GSP benefits for NIEs
        78 10 SEOUL The European Community is expected to continue extending Generalised System of Preference (GSP) benefits to South Korea and other newly industrialising economies (NIEs) until the end of next year, sources at the Korea Trade Promotion Corp said yesterday. The extension was contained in a recent
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        Call to free Aung San Suu Kyi
        78 10 YANGON Myanmar's last democratically elected prime minister, U Nu (right), said yesterday the ruling junta should free Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Aung San Suu Kyi. In a rare interview at his home here, U Nu, now 85 and himself recently released from house
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        Philippine bases still open to US
        79 10 MANILA President Fidel Ramos intends to grant US warships and aircraft continued access to bases in the Philippines even after American troops stationed there are evacuated next month, Senate president Neptali Gonzales said yesterday. He told reporters that Defence Secretary Renato de Villa had
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      Lock icon Private sector not investing enough in region: Rafidah
      443 10 Few ventures taking off despite Afia tax perks Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz criticised the private sector in South-east Asia for not investing enough in the fast-growing region, preferring the economies of Japan and Europe. "I
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      Lock icon Unity the theme as Brunei celebrates sultan's 25th year
      520 10 Reuter BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Brunei's monarch Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, reputedly the world's richest man, marked 25 years of his rule in grand style yesterday and urged his subjects to unite behind him politically. Sultan Hassanal, 46, presided over a glittering ceremony
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      Lock icon Suharto urges military to focus on development
      220 10 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Suharto yesterday urged the military to focus its non-defence energies on national development. "To back the attainment of national development aims in the coming new era, there is a need to continuously improve the quality of Abri's (the armed
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      Lock icon Fed-style central bank? Not for HK, says Macleod
      484 10 Sunday Morning Post HONGKONG Hongkong's Financial Secretary, Hamish Macleod, has given the strongest indication yet as to what form the British colony's proposed central monetary authority will take. In an interview with the Sunday Morning Post published at the weekend, he dismissed
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Congressional negotiators agree on new tax Bill
      617 11 of breaks and incentives puts Bush in political bind NYT WASHINGTON Congressional negotiators have on a tax Bill that of--'-fers more than US$27 billion -<about Ss43 billion) in tax breaks and investment incen- t Tives in the next five years, many of them
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      Lock icon Japanese cut back spending on food and clothes
      374 11 Bloomberg TOKYO Three years ago, Japanese shopt. pers became famous for their reckless purchases of Gucci bags, Rolex watches and ijBMWs. But now, squeezed by one of Japan's worst post-war economic slumps, they're not only shunning luxury goods but are even searching
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      Mandela gets Beijing doctorate
      47 11 BEIJING African National Congress President Nelson Mandela holding aloft an honorary doctorate bestowed upon him yesterday by Beijing University president Wu Shuqing. Mr Mandela later addressed a crowd of about 300 students, where he talked about human rights and the ANC's anti-apartheid struggles.
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      Lock icon Pretoria's first trade show outside Africa
      320 11 Reuter DUBAI South Africa will hold its first trade show outside Africa in the Gulf emirate of Dubai this week, taking another step towards ending decades of commercial isolation. According to a South African official on Sunday, more than 100 South African companies will
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      Lock icon Worry mounts over Japan's planned shipments of plutonium
      409 11 Tiny Nauru joins ranks of protesting Pacific nations NYT TOKYO As president of one of the world's tiniest nations, Bernard Dowiyogo of the Republic of Nauru usually follows a simple rule of economic and foreign policy in the Pacific: Stay out of
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      Lock icon Peasant campaigner tipped for Nobel
      341 11 Reuter OSLO Guatemalan human rights campaigner Rigoberta Menchu and the Salvation Army are favourites for the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize to be announced on Oct 16, Norwegian national television said on Sunday. NRK television, which has often correctly predicted the Nobel winner, said Ms Menchu
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      Lock icon Study rates US well-being at lowest point in 22 years
      352 11 NYT WASHINGTON With reports of child abuse and teenage suicide on the rise, and with older Americans spending more of their income on health care, America's overall social well-being has skidded to its lowest point since the study began in
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Demand for Taiwan to secede from China
        76 11 TAIPEI About 5,000 opposition supporters, beating drums and gongs, marched through Taipei streets on Sunday to demand Taiwan's formal secession from China. Wearing yellow headbands, they shouted such slogans as "one Taiwan, one China, our only way out" and "security, dignity and independence
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        In Fujimori's footsteps
        69 11 LIMA Japanese-Peruvian engineer Jaime Yoshiyama Tanaka, who has gathered a record 516,227 signatures for his New Majority Party, appears poised to take a congressional seat in legislative elections in November. Like President Alberto Fujimori, Mr Yoshiyama is descended from Japanese immigrants who settled in the Andes. Before
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        Schultz awarded peace prize
        112 11 SEOUL Former US secretary of state George Shultz received the Seoul Peace Prize here yesterday in recognition of his contributions to world peace and helping the 1988 Seoul Olympics to take place peacefully. Mr Shultz, who served as secretary of state in 1982-89, said he would
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        Chinese musicians arrested
        68 11 BEIJING Chinese police have detained at least 30 young anti-establishment musicians and artists on suspicion of using and selling drugs and have allegedly employed beatings and coercion to force confessions, associates of the detainees say. During a month-long dragnet that apparently followed months of preparation by the
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        Lebanon gets World Bank loans
        84 11 BEIRUT The World Bank has agreed to grant Lebanon two loans totalling US$3OO million (about ***** million) for reconstruction projects in the first organised effort to help the country rebuild after 15 years of civil war. Members of a nine-member team from the World Bank
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        PMs call off meeting
        82 11 PRAGUE The Czech and Slovak prime ministers said on Sunday that they would not go ahead with talks planned for today to settle a dispute over the dissolution of the Czechoslovak federation. The row erupted four days ago when the federal Parliament unexpectedly rejected a federal
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      131 11 Tomorrow's market. Open Todar One of Asia's largest capital markets has fust open its doors to the world's institutional investors. For the first time in over 40 years, virtually any kind of foreign institution can now invest directly into India's capital market Fundamentally strong, the market has weathered recent storms
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    The Sagawa saga
    449 12 EDITORIAL THE Sagawa Kyubin bribery scandal involving Shin Kanemaru, kingmaker of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, evokes an unmistakeable sense of deja vu. Once again, powerful politicians have admitted accepting monetary gifts from businessmen of questionable repute. After having pretended to reform itself, the establishment has again rallied
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      The write way to wisdom
      182 12 SINGAPORE WRITING in the English language is still in its infancy. But the current proliferation of short stories, drama, novels and poetry in English, the child whose very conception was fraught with such soul-searching and self-doubt in the '60s has eagerly taken its first bold
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      Restraint needed in Gulf
      123 12 A BLOODY CLASH on the border between Saudi Arabia and Qatar has revealed another potential flashpoint in a Gulf region already edgy over a territorial dispute involving Iran. The Qatar-Saudi Arabia row comes amid growing unease in the oil-rich region over the row between the United
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      Wishy-washy Perot
      189 12 H ROSS PEROT decided two-and-a-half months ago that he was withdrawing from the presidential race, and now he is re-entering it. With his chop-and-change style, he can hardly expect the electorate to give him their full support and to have any more faith in him, especially when his
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
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      Does Gatt approve?
      156 12 SO AUSTRIA has becomes the first country to impose a mandatory labelling requirement on all products made from imported tropical timber following its enforcement of a new law at the beginning of last month succumbing to the pressure of European non-governmental organisations (NGOs) campaigning against logging activities
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      A necessary new law
      164 12 PALANG DHARMA's move to make all of its 11 ministers publicly disclose their assets and liabilities, along with their wives', before taking office is sensible and timely. It should be promptly adopted by the Chuan Cabinet as an official regulation. In addition to a Cabinet decision,
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      Looking beyond Patten
      178 12 HONGKONG hardly dares stare too intently into a crystal ball. Confidence ebbs and flows in line with the mercurial Hang Seng Index. Certainty is the one commodity in desperately short supply. But the governor has done a thoroughly professional job of endearing himself to the ordinary people.
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    Lock icon A king who rules a modern-day Camelot
    920 12  -  As he celebrates 25 years on the throne, the Sultan of Brunei is seeking to consolidate the authority of the monarchy. Michael Richardson reports Michael Richardson IHT IN A palace as large and opulent as Versailles, Sultan Muda Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei held
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      65 12 DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU I\B GOT AN IPBA. IF HE BRINGS HIM UP IN THE 60R5AmncNs veaAiß, I'll justsw, 'i but you sure, but gore HEY, HONEY' UJHAJ FRANCJS BACON KNEW FRANCiS BAOON, FRANCIS PIPNT Mx/r KNOW NOCUf A LOT IN HIS BACON tUASA FRIENPOFMHE, fcffQUJ THAT'MHO IS j 800K..X A
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  • ANALYSIS
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      Doing more business closer to home
      1305 13  -  For 20 years. South Korea concentrated on exporting to the developed countries the US, Japan and the EC, in particular. Lately, it has realised that the Asian region oners exciting trade prospects, says Florence Chong, who was in Seoul recently Florence Chong, The writer
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      Lock icon Will the door be wide open for the crooks?
      948 13  -  Barry James says the coming European single market appears woefully ill-defended against criminal onslaught Barry James IHT WHEN the European Community (EC) opens up to the free movement of people, capital and goods in less than three months, organised crime will
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      267 13 Serious? Lotus 1-2-3 and a CD-ROM Drive for just *****? Yes! Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows (with Multimedia cleaning mechanism). It is compatible with all Smart Help) worth $699 and the award-winning standard DOS, Microsoft Windows as well as Laser Mate CD-ROM Drive in a special bundle. Multimedia PC software on
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY 1
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      SynOptics opens S'pore office, eyes region
      404 14  -  Teh Hooi Ling looks at the US company's expansion plans Teh Hooi Ling US COMPANY SynOptics Corp has opened an office in Singapore to better tap the huge regional market for linking computers. And plans are on the cards for another office in Japan
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      Lock icon Is Apple overselling Newton?
      561 14  -  Louise Kehoe wonders if it has misread the market for its latest marvel Louise Kehoe FT AS a veteran Apple Computer watcher, one learns to tolerate hyperbole. Apple is a company whose vision has frequently overreached its ability to execute. Newton, the "personal digital assistant" that
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      Lock icon US plugging its supercomputers into single network
      414 14 NYT THE keepers of the National Science Foundation's supercomputer arsenal have created a blueprint for combining their 21 machines into a continental weapon capable of attacking the most formidable scientific problems. Equipped to tackle such grand challenges as decoding the human genome and
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      Lock icon Recycling the huge mountains of tyresome waste
      330 14 FT THE global mountain of several billion old tyres represents a tempting store of materials and energy and several ambitious projects are underway in the US and Europe to recycle used tyres and/or burn them in power plants. A machine for recycling tyres
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      Lens maker with a vision
      842 15  -  Three years ago, Polycore Optical bought into Califomian-based Dicon Inc, the producer of machines tot use the Ins Jens method to make eyeglass lenses. That move is now paymg off. Helen Chang reports Helen Chang A TECHNIQUE deA veloped through the American space pro gramme
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      Lock icon Pharmaceutical giants going back to basics for drug discoveries
      1036 15  -  r Marjorie Shaffer looks at the resurgence of interest in plant medicines Marjorie Shaffer FT THE WORLD'S pharmaceutical companies are conducting a romance with mother nature. Lured by the novel compounds that only nature can concoct, established giants such as SmithKline
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      Lock icon An intelligent fax machine
      597 15  -  Say good-bye to busy tones when you are trying to send a fax. Robert E Calem shows you how. Robert E Calem NYT FAX MACHINES have be- c come part of the interna- I tional business landscape, f They are convenient, but they are j hardly
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      192 14 Who has the best Unix system in the world? Rory Roybel of AIM Tech- nologies recently said: "Unisys clearly dominates the mid-range server categories in performance and price/performance". T Pretty strong statement from the non-partisan Technical Director of independent Unix tester, m AIM. But not remarkable when 1 you study
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      795 16 Nothing Beats A Bud where to wine, dine OF A "Heavenly" Feast From 21 Aug to 20 Sept, order the $388++ set menu and receive one complimentary bottle of courvoisier FCN. The spread includes Shark's Fin with Crabmeat, Smoked Salmon, New Zealand venison with ginger and spring onion, and much
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      242 16 *fthe7)7 pofe the utorkf at lingerhps. International Buffet October 1-31,1992 Noon to 2Jopm 7 Adu,fc i y/ Child under l(fc $18++ Top of the M goes international hRj this month. Come savour Slftgapore cuisine from around the world. At Top of the M, we put the 'ETC world at your
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      656 16 TELEVISION AND RADIO "W" W j *1 a 7.00 From the Newsroom follow- SJO Mighty Mouse and Friends »»<*»»*«!»«» I I rvf 01l f\■ C? W* ed by Talkabout (Game (Cartoon). L 7.25 PM Opening followed by la- 7.30 ttm(M) 6*30 BC J** 2 m VHF Sand l 1 pan
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon A century of Tennyson
      1097 17  -  Today marks the centenary of the British Poet Laureate's death. Audrey Woods traces the ebb and flow of his reputation since then Audrey Woods AP WHEN Alfred Tennyson was a boy of 16, he wrote a poem on the death of his grandmother. His grandfather gave
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      Jackson loses voice so no show in Istanbul
      636 17 CHATTERBOX ONLY a few hours before his Istanbul concert, a voiceless Michael Jackson cancelled his appearance and flew to London on Sunday, organisers said. Jackson caught a cold during his previous concert in Bucharest, Romania, and his private doctor was called to
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      Lock icon Making some quick moves
      847 17  -  Producer Scott Rudin did a double take on news of Bobby Fischer's comeback. William Grimes reports on the movie maker's latest work William Grimes NYT IT WAS thrilling news for chess fans when they heard that Bobby Fischer would come out of retirement to play his
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      8 17 Fischer and Spassky draw yet again, Pg 18
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  • SPORTS
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        Edberg set to meet McEnroe and Agassi
        116 18 SYDNEY Stefan Edberg (above) faces a potential quarterfinal with John McEnroe and a semi-final encounter with Andre Agassi as he attempts to hold onto his world number one tennis ranking here this week. Edberg, ahead of Jim Courier by just three computer points,
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        Lane clinches German Masters
        107 18 STUTTGART Barry Lane birdied five of the last six holes for a final-round 68 last Sunday, and in spite of a bogey on 18, posted a two-stroke victory in the US$l million (Ssl.6 million) German Masters. Lane found a bunker on 18, failed to get out
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        Jones wins Toronto Marathon
        116 18 TORONTO Steve Jones of Wales took the field apart last Sunday, winning the Toronto Marathon in a course record of two hours, 10 minutes and six seconds. "He just destroyed us," said runner-up Don Janicki of the US, who trailed by more than three minutes in
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        Cricket Sixes prove to be a hit
        106 18 HONGKONG The all-round success of the first ever World Sixes tournament played here over the weekend has given cricket an entire new ball game applauded by players and spectators alike. The tournament, featuring six-a-side teams battling out encounters of two five-over innings, now
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      Lock icon Europe stuns US to win Solheim Cup
      159 18 AP, NYT EDINBURGH It wasn't supposed to happen. The US sent its most powerful women's golf team abroad to defend the Solheim Cup against Europe. US Open champion Patty Sheehan was on the team. So was Lottie Mochrie, who leads the LPGA tour's
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      Lock icon Colbert reigns in rained out Vantage tournament
      376 18 AP CLEMMONS, North Carolina Jim Colbert was declared winner of the Vantage Championship when rain washed out the final round of the Senior PGA Tour event on Sunday. Tournament officials decided more than 7.5 cm of rain had made the Tanglewood course unplayable
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      Lock icon Bilardo building Sevilla's challenge around Maradona
      336 18 Reuter SEVILLE, Spain Diego Maradona and Carlos Bilardo, the men behind Argentina's 1986 World Cup triumph, have joined forces again in a remarkable coup bringing a powerful Argentine connection to ambitious Sevilla. The Spanish club, aching for success after winning nothing for more than
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      Lock icon Fuel gamble pays off for Rahal
      441 18 AP NAZARETH, Pennsylvania Bobby Rahal gambled that he could run an extra 15 laps than expected on a tank of fuel and won on Sunday, beating Michael Andretti to the chequered flag by .788 of a second in the Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix.
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      Subotica wins Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
      57 18 PARIS Subotica (left), one of the leading French hopes, fighting off the challenge of English-trained Triple Classic-winning filly User Friendly (right) at the home stretch to win the US$l.5 million (552.4 million) Prix de IWrc de Triomphe on Sunday. Ridden by Thierry Jarnet,
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      Lock icon Fischer and Spassky draw yet again
      759 18 NYT BELGRADE Bobby Fischer played to win a pawn, and Boris Spassky went for checkmate, but the wild course of their game came to a sudden halt last Sunday at Move 33 when Fischer produced a knight sacrifice to force a draw by perpetual
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
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      Weak showings overseas haunt local market
      3728 19  -  By Quak Hiang Whai UNCERTAINTY overseas continued to dampen the Singapore stock market yesterday, with investors staying on the sidelines and the benchmark Straits Times Industrials Index slipping five points. Dealers said there was little interest after last Friday's 53-point slide in Wall Street
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      Lock icon HOT STOCK
      76 19  -  By Quak Hiang Whai UNITED Overseas Bank Foreign is trading near its shortterm support at $6.50 and any drop towards that level could be an opportunity. The weekly RSI is treading along the level of 25, signalling the selling could have been overdone. A recovery could see the
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    3385 21 Uniphocmx 159 +23 +16.9% MISC Foreign 464 +12 +2.7% Fsso 50* 396 +10 2 6% Sungei Way 249 +7 +2 9% Gcntings 50* 805 +5 0.6% Sime Darby 50« 278 +5 1.8% Amal Steel 50« 171 +4 +2.4% Dunlop Est 300 4 +1.4% Sg Way
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      37 21 BUSINESS TIMES Toll free Tel No 737 0043 Fax No: 734 3698 "It was plain sailing selling my cabin cruisec" i er jj^Kup" Viiii w, *x+*icjm 1 I •?u.2 ,u i Call today for results tomorrow. *****66
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      192 21 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 56 AND IN THE MATTER OF LIAN LEE HENG FARM PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308(2) of the Companies Act. Cap. 50 that the Final General Meeting of the above named company will be
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      260 21 COFFICIAL NOTICE We. PAN UNION SHIP PING PTE LTD of 70 Shenton Way #06-02 Manna House. Singapore 0207 hereby give notice that in consequence of our purchase of a ship, we have applied to the Registrar of Singapore Ships under Section 386 of the Merchant Shipping Act (Chapter 179) in
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      AUDITED RESULTS
      153 22 C«H»My Date Year Group Met Net earnings Grots ann to profit/toss (L) per share dividend ('000) (cents) Rash*) Hussain Sep 24 May 92 M$4l.098($42.037) 24 4(33) 5(5) MCB Sep 15 Mar 92 M$497(M$2.411) 3(3) 25(2.5) M Plantations Sep 15 Mar 92 M$3,U8lg(M$3,598) -(0 2) 1(1) Kamunting Sep 15
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      PRELIMINARY RESULTS
      316 22 Company Data Yoar Group pro-tax Mot earnings Cross ann to proflt/loss (L) per sharo dividend (•000) (cents) Amalgamated S Sep 30 Jun 92 M$134,025 (M$ 143.495) 164(13) 12(10) Metal Cta.ners Sep 30 Jun 92 $l,699l($5.911l) 1(05) Lum Chang Sep 29 Jun 92 $8,152($7,856) 25(2) 2(2) Amtek Eng Sep
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      CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS
      291 22 Sep 30 Guthrie GTS Ltd has acquired a shelf company in Malaysia through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Guthrie Construction Retrofitting (S) Pte Ltd. Sep 29 Directors of CMB Packaging Singapore Ltd are seeking shareholders' approval to turn the firm into an investment holding company and change its name to
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      1021 22 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for payment dote dose payable t*e year last year Acma 5% (I) Sep 18 Sep 30 Oct 15 5% 122% UMPP 50c 3.5%(b) Sep 10 Sep 24 Oct 23 35% 35* Bedford 50c 1* Nov 2 Nov 16 Dec 7 1*
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      421 22 Company Rights Issue G<*ten Hop* One-tor so <& MSI 50 per share Ei-date Aug 27 Boohs dose Sep 10 Acceptance Payment Oct 22 IMS One-tor-one M$5 00 per share Ex-date Sep 7 Books dose Sep 21 Acceptance t Payment Nov 2 OC8C One-tor-five (a. $3 00 per local
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      COMPANY MEETINGS
      104 22 Wini Ta Hokfc<s Ltd: EGM at the Summit Room (Valley Wing, lobby level), Shangri-La Hotel, Orange Grove Road, Singapore 1025, on Wednesday, October 7 at 9.30 am Sriwai HoldnfS Bhd: EGM at Ferringhi Beach Hotel, 12.5 km, Batu Ferringhi Road, Batu Ferringhi, Penang, on Thursday, October 8 at
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      SCRIPLESS CONVERSIONS
      394 22 Conversion Special Trdg Scriptesi Conversion deadline Peri od Trading Company starts (IDP) (ST) starts J X 1 Sep 28 Oct 22 Oct 12 Oct 22 Oct 23 Apollo Sep 14 Oct 8 Sep 28 Oct 8 Oct 9 BAT Sep 14 Oct 8 Sep 28 -Oct 8 Oct
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      361 22 In local cutt la S$ la USI dy yr dy S yr %dy jt Oct 2 1Mb chge chgc dp chge ctege dg World 374.4 -0.5 -8.3 -0.8 -9.1 -0.8 -7.5 tEAFE 437.3 -0.4 -12.9 -0.7 -12.5 -0.7 -11.0 Europe 393.9 -0.7 -4.2 -1.4 -5.6
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    593 22 Relative Strength Index: This indicator measures the rate at which prices move up or down, and theoretically ranges between zero and 100. In practice, it normally fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100
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      Lock icon Sentiment dampened by weaker overseas bourses
      5273 23 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR share prices extended last week's losses yesterday but closed off the day's lows on bargainhunting among selected issues, brokers said. Prices had earlier weakened on lack of buying support and further liquidation, with poor leads from abroad affecting sentiment, they said.
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    CHINA STOCK EXCHANGES
    294 24 THE Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia (CLSA) All China Index, launched in May, is the first index to track all shares on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges. It is backed by four subindices which monitor separately the A and B shares on the two bourses. All the
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      Share prices close broadly lower in dull trading
      955 24 JAKARTA stock prices closed mostly lower yesterday in dull trading and brokers expected the market to remain quiet for the rest of the week. The Official Index edged up 0.92 point to 300.78. "We don't see anything to freshen up the market,"
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      Lock icon Property, bank stocks ease on profit-taking
      2135 24 Reuter BANGKOK share pjrices ended mixed yesterday as investors took profits from properly firms and banks which rose strongly last week and turned to buy building materials issues, brokers said. The SET Index ended down 3.11 points at 877.60 on active turnover of 14.66
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
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      2565 25 Reuter TOKYO stocks, succumbing to Monday blues, ended down for the seventh day in a row, though off lows. The Nikkei briefly dipped below 17,000 but, helped by public fund buying, recovered some losses in thin trade, brokers said. Overseas weakness and the yen's
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    1904 25 The Hongkong stock market was closed yesterday for a public holiday. Below are Friday's closing prices. Vol Oct 2 HK$ High Low (TOO) PE ASM Pacific 1.600 -0.060 1.640 1.600 476 8.2 Allied Ind Intl 0.620 unch 7.8 Allied Oversea 0.580 0.010 0.590 0.580 3839 4.6
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  • AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE
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      Lock icon Blue chips bear the brunt of Monday blues
      2022 26 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN share market closed at an 18month low yesterday, with blue chip stocks across the board bearing the brunt of weakening offshore markets. Brokers said market leaders BHP, CRA, ANZ and National Australia Bank led the falls, sending the All
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Seoul stocks fall sharply on political jitters
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        INDICES & TURNOVER
        51 26 INDICES TURNOVER OM Oct 5 PfwiOM NEW ZEALAND NZSE-40 Capital 1,412.00 1.423.43 -11.43 MANILA Composite Index Turnover (mil pesos) 1,442.65 306.40 1,428.54 ***** 13.87 •156.2 TAIPEI Weighted Price Index Turnover (NTS billion) 3,720.45 24.8 3,704.25 +16.20 22.08 +6.5 SEOUL Composite Stock Index Turnover (billion won) 502.22 94.58 513.12 99.98 -10.90
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        SEOUL
        829 26 A SELL-OFF on fears of political instability put further pressure on Seoul share prices to threaten the psychological 500 level yesterday, and most brokers were unsure of the wobbly market's direction. The Composite Index shed 10.90 points to 502.22 with turnover at 94.58 billion won from 99.98 billion on
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        NEW ZEALAND
        322 26 THE NEW ZEALAND share market closed lower but off its lows after a lacklustre session yesterday. The NZSE--40 Capital Index ended 11.43 points down at 1,412.00. Volume was light at NZ$l2.6 million. Forestry stocks Fletcher Challenge and Carter Holt Harvey dominated the day. FCL ended three cents down
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        MANILA
        576 26 MANILA SHARE prices closed stronger yesterday as aggressive buyers came in at mid-session to accumulate stocks ahead of a long-awaited fourth-quarter climb. The Manila Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 13.87 points to end at 1,442.65. "I see the momentum through midweek and a correction towards the close," said one
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        TAIPEI
        525 26 LATE PROFIT-TAKING trimmed earlier gains in Taiwan share prices yesterday, and brokers expect a correction after last week's sharp rises. The Weighted Index, which surged more than 70 points at one stage, ended 16.20 points up at 3,720.45 compared with Saturday's 3,704.25 close. Turnover was NTS24.B billion against NT522.08
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
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      Greenback ends easier but off lows in Tokyo trading
      1204 27 REPORTS THE US DOLLAR ended easier against the mark and the yen in Tokyo, but was off its lows after morning rebounds on short-covering were trimmed in the afternoon on continued expectations of a US credit easing, possibly after today's Federal
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      INTERBANK FOREX RATES
      411 27 Cross rates octs USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.5890 2.4940 1.4020 119.70 0.5817 1.2290 1.3976 1.8382 SS 0.6293 1.5695 0.8823 75.3304 0.3661 0.7734 0.8796 1.1569 MS 0.4010 0.64 0.5621 47.9952 0.2333 0.4928 0.5604 0.7371 Dm 0.7133 1.1334 1.7789 85.38 0.4149 0.8766 0.9969 1.3112
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      MONEY MARKET
      544 27 Interbank rates S$ Bid Offer Overnight 1 1/16 1 3/16 1-month I 5/16 I 7/16 2-month 13/8 11/2 3-month 1 1/2 I 5/8 Overnight mode: 15/16 IS$ Bid Offer 7 days 3 1/16 3 3/16 1 month 3 1/16 3 3/16 2 months 3 3 1/8 3 months
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      Lock icon New issues in Eurobond market drop 15pc
      356 27 IHT PARIS LED by a collapse in the ECU market and a marked slowdown in the high-yielding European sectors, overall new-issue activity in the international capital market dropped 15 per cent in the third quarter, data supplied by Salomon Brothers shows. In the
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      FINANCIAL FUTURES
      1474 27 SIMEX EUOOOOU-AO Open High Low Sett Est Vol Act/Vol Op/Int Dec 92 96.92 %!93 3650 ***** ***** Mar 93 96.91 96.91 96.88 96.89 2750 ***** ***** Jun 93 96.59 96.61 96.59 96.60 1100 4376 ***** Sep 93 96.24 96.24 96.22 96.24 240 1696 3603 Dec 93 95.69 95.69
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      Lock icon Cotton faces tough battle to retain market share
      356 28 Reuter LONEX)N A fall in prices and an upbeat marketing drive might help cotton to hold its own against synthetics in the coming years, industry sources said. The energy for that drive comes from the United States, the world's second largest producer,
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      Lock icon Japanese wary of LME's new aluminium futures contract
      264 28 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japan's secondary aluminium community is likely to take a wait-and-see attitude for at least the first few trading sessions of the London Metal Exchange's new futures contract. The exchange will begin official trading today of secondary aluminium ingot, produced from
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      Lack of buying demand depresses KL tin price
      756 28 REPORTS LACK of buying demand on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market pressured the tin price to close easier by 25 sen at M$ 15.75 per kg yesterday. Dealers said the KLTM was taking its cue from the lower London Metal Exchange which
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      PRICES
      1476 28 Rubber HAS Co—wdtty Exdiawg (hitwts dostag as at lpw) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Nov 92 000 OOO 143.75 250 2.450 Dec 142.25 141.50 141.75 1,275 4.200 Jan 93 139.00 138.25 138.75 1,200 5,175 Feb 138.75 138.50 138.50 275 5,500
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    959 29 City Right ETA Flight CTD City Flight ETA Flight tip Abu Dhabi GA887 1230 GA892 0100 MH642 1220 SQ106 1045 GA893 1400 GA886 2340 SQ108 1145 cnooo oft-jc nP&i ootfv* SQ107 1305 MH641 1315 n 2025 QF82 2205 SQ109 1405 MH610 1410 Aantartfaai KL837 1340 MH609
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      Italian rococo art unleashed
      635 29  -  POSTCARD FROM LECCE By Ian Thomson WATER is in short supply in Lecce, a province situated in the heel of the Italian boot. Rainfall is so light that Horace honoured the region with the epithet siticulosae thirsty. To combat the dryness you might sample a glass
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      FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES
      151 29 As at 10am yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.1312 1.1475 Canadian dollar I.2S70 I.282S NZ dollar 0.8548 0.8720 Sterling pound 2.7222 2.7610 US dollar 1.5850 1.5950 Local dollars to 100 anits of foreign currency Austrian schilling 15.75
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      WORLD TRADE EXHIBITIONS
      73 29 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Nov 2-7 9th Hongkong Hongkong Headway Trading (852)827-5121 International Convention Fairs Ltd Fax: 827-7064 Furniture Fair Exhibition Centre Nov 7-15 International Barcelona. Foire De (34)3/*****51 Caravanin* Show Spain Barcelone Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Nov 10 Telecommunication Inn on the Tama Starlev.
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      176 29 DOWN 11 A bar brawl (5,6) YESTERDAY'S SOI lITIAN 2 Many of you in France, 14 S«> w, s the overbarbecued titUAT 5 SULUIION absorbing the unfamiliar steaks get (5,5) li li 111 i h |i 101 l Bwl I liiliiliili 1 I air (7) 17 Embarrassed at being a
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      163 29 Singapore Outlook: Showers over many areas in the pre-dawn and early morning. Report Maximum temperature 30.0 Assoc humidity 75% Minimum temperature 23.8 Assoc humidity 97% Hours of sunshine 0.90 Rainfall in mm 10.4 Rainfall this month 55.6 Rainy days this month 3 World report Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland 16/10 Clear
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    Lock icon EC foreign ministers battle to maintain unity
    509 30 Powers of European Commission may be restricted AFP LUXEMBOURG European Community foreign ministers were battling to patch up a facade of EC unity here yesterday amid turbulence around the Maastricht Treaty, currency uncertainty and strained Anglo-German relations. Diplomats said the ministers would be
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    Lock icon Pound plunges to record low against mark
    317 30 Major hard-pressed to end financial turmoil and slide in popularity Reuter j LONDON The pound plunged again yesterday, heaping pressure on Prime Minister John Major to calm turmoil in the financial markets and in his Conservative Party during this week's annual party conference.
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    Lock icon Roh quits ruling party to show neutrality
    273 30 Reuter SEOUL President Roh Tae Woo quit South Korea's ruling party yesterday to show neutrality in elections to pick his successor, expressing sadness about leaving the party he created and which put him into power. "I am personally sad to be leaving the
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    Lock icon Clinton says he won't sign Nafta in its present form
    321 30 H a vJVTVJV. NYT RALEIGH, North Carolina Governor Bill Clinton said on Sunday that he endorsed the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), but also said that as president he would not sign it in its current form. The Democratic
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    Lock icon US businessmen visit Manila to look at investment opportunities
    376 30 UPI MANILA Senior executives of 27 US companies arrive here today to take another look at investment in the Philippines amid a perception of increased stability and economic reform under the new government of President Fidel Ramos. The delegation, which includes
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    Patten roadshow leaves business community jittery
    762 30  -  The Bottom Line JACKIE SAM JACKIE SAM The writer is a Hongkong-based political consultant who contributed this comment to BT THE governor has taken a back seat since Chris Patten entered Government House in Hongkong. Chris Patten, former MP, has taken over and has
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    Lock icon Indian air force hit by parts shortage
    126 30 UPI NEW DELHI The Indian air force, which flies many Soviet-model aircraft, is facing a serious problem because of a disruption in supply of replacement parts from former Soviet states. Air Chief Marshal N C Suri yesterday said his force was using spares
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      Shippers call for more active council, govt
      439 31  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Local shippers called on the Singapore National Shippers' Council and the government to take a more active role in addressing issues affecting exporters here. The call was made at a recent conference held in Singapore on Asean freight. While
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      Lock icon Film on Exxon Valdez spill to be aired only after US election
      289 31 Reuter ANCHORAGE, Alaska A made-for-television film about the Exxon Valdez oil spill will be aired in the United States in December, angering Alaska environmentalists who say voters should see it before election day. The BBC-Home Box Office co-production
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      901 31 Page Col ABC Containerline 12 I Accord Group 8 1-3 APL 5 3-5 Alpha Feeders 6 1 ANL 3 1/2 Asia Cont Lines 14 5 •ASCL 5 9 Avia Airways 9 3 Bait Canada Line 7 4/5 Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 Bank
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      Lock icon Compulsory piloting in Malacca Straits proposed
      243 31 Bernama JAKARTA Indonesia has suggested compulsory piloting for ships passing through the Straits of Malacca as a means of preventing accidents in the busy waterway. Indonesia's 'director-gener-al of Maritime Transportation, Soentoro, said yesterday that his country would take up the proposal for discussion with
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      Lock icon Stowaways risk death for new life
      523 31 Reuter ROTTERDAM Almost overpowered by the stench, the dock workers gingerly opened the container. Peering in, they saw the decomposing bodies of two young men, stowaways from Nigeria. Dreaming of a new life, they had hidden in a container loaded onto a ship in
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      Lock icon Russian ferry prefers cargo of Japanese cars to circus animals
      266 31 AP TOKYO Russia's famed Bolshoi Circus took a back seat to a fleet of used cars and missed the boat home. Crew members aboard a Russian ferry decided they were more interested in taking back nearly 190 Japanese used cars
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        New director for GM Hughes Electronics
        125 32 DETROIT The appointment of Gregory J Ruselowski as director of finance of GM Hughes Electronics Corp was announced on Friday by Robert J Schultz, vice chairman of General Motors Corp and chairman of GMHE. Ruselowski, 35, will be based in detroit and report to
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        Abex to close aerospace plant
        104 32 OXNARD, California Abex Aerospace Co, citing the shrinking aerospace market, plans to close down its southern Califtxtiia hydraulic aircraft parts plant within nine to 15 months, idling 550 workers, a spokeswoman said. Abex, of Michigan, said in a news release that it may try to
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        Mexico shuts down nine ports
        73 32 MEXICO CITY Mexico's transport ministry said it had closed nine ports along the Gulf coast due to heavy rains and restricted five others to large ships laden with 100 or more tonnes of cargo. The ports of Nautla, Tecolutla and Tonala have been closed to
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        TNT Freightways names VP
        49 32 BUFFALO GROVE, Illinois TNT Freightways Corp's Contract Logistics unit said it named Chuck E Davis vice president and general manager for Canadian operations. Contract Logistics provides dedicated transport vehicles, warehousing and inventory management to businesses. TNT Freightways provides overnight and second-day delivery of less-than-truckload freight.
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        Drop in oil floating storage
        112 32 LONDON The National Iranian Oil Co has seven tankers totalling 1.82 million deadweight tonnes being used for floating oil storage in September, down 610,000 dwt from August, according to figures released by shipbrokers John I Jacobs. The company has seven tankers off Kharg Island. But
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        Beirut port strike continues
        37 32 LONDON Vessels and cargo movements at Beirut have been paralysed for the second day running by a dispute by employees over a reorganisation of managerial positions at the port, according to Lloyd's Intelligence.
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      Lock icon USAir pulls ahead in lobby war
      1261 32  -  Struggling USAir has gone one up against its formidable competitors by gathering strong lobby support for its deal with British Airways, reports Agis SalPukas Agis SalPukas NYT IN THE lobbying game in Washington, the spoils often go to the side that can make its
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      10185 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. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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      SHIPPING AGENTS
      3303 45 Containerline NV: Belsin Shpg ■Agencies Pte Ltd (SVMarine Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SV Accord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). I burros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ltd
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      COURIER SERVICES
      259 45 Abacus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fax: *****98 Air K\pms Travel Tel: 533-5771. Fax: *****44. Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fax: *****16 *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188 Fax: *****83. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: *****75. City-link International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: *****50. Cluster Link Supplies A Services
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      AIR FORWARDERS
      1472 45 Abex Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7821 Fax: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Tel: 545-8033. Fax: *****05. Aerospeed Tel: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454. Fax: *****06 Air Express International Tel: 542-7666. Fax: *****74, *****50. .Air
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      PORT CONDITIONS
      3363 46 ALBANIA Durrev I hree vessels in port of which I discharging bulk wheat. I discharging glass. I arrived Sep 26 and will discharge fertiliser. ARGENTINA No report available. AUSTRALIA Queensland Abbot Point: One coal vessel due Sep 28: no delay llay Point: Coal: 2 vessel operating: 13 vessels
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      AIR FREIGHT SCHEDULE
      559 46 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Flight I >pe ETA T From Op Flight Type ETD T To TODAY TODAY NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 1 NRT SIA SQ802 B747F 0230 2 SYD/AKL KAL KE697 B747F 0150 I SfcL NCA KZ204 B747F 0335 I BKK/NRT JAL JL6I7 B747F 0345 I TYO
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      CRUISE & FERRY SCHEDULES
      276 46 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Vrr Dyp Namt of V essel L'l A LTD Ports of Calls Port Agent Telephone No OCTOBER 01 01 Mikhail Shoiokhov 0900 2100 Cruise-to-Nowhcrc Jardine Shpg Agencies *****95 02 07 Nippon Maru 0900 1700 SEA Cniise Mitsui OSK Line 225-2311 06 07 Fantasy World 1000
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      855 46 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES The information was contributed by Simpson Spence Young VESSELS ON OFFER Bulk Carriers Anna: 26,704 dwt and built January 1976 Austin Pick: loading Borneo for discharge Jeddah where open midOctober Oilers invited. Sirinada: 26.641 dwt and built June 1974 Namura. eta Rotterdam (Xt 5 to discharge
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        666 47 tof No Barth kiittt Dyartire VhmI fey fa |g» Arwd Pqwrttn Jnrwig P«rt Equator 3 72/92€ P03 0610/0730 07 10/0600 Eng Too 7 J1 alongsrie 06 10/0600 kimawa 21/92 P06 0610/0700 0610/1900 Putau Jawa U/92 12/3 alongside 06 10/2300 tsabeia 36/92 P04 06 10/0700 06.10/2300 Rachmanuel I
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        IN MALAYSIAN PORTS
        221 47 JohorePwt Berth: 1: Johan I; 2: Hong Hwa; 3: Vietrancimex, Pernas Proton; 4: Jin Ji Ling; 5: Peter Tomasewh; 6: Bunga Butang. 01 jetty: Jubilee Venture, Aditya Vaibhav, Santi, Sukun. DCJ: Golden Frontier. Dw on Oct 5: Anax Puma, Eastern Tera, Jambongan, Johan, Sahiwal Express, Ryokoh 1,
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULE
        1577 47 Enj2 ,111 S* Voi No ConUrars nrahble a* Voy No Contatan vliable 00a Front* 05W *****2 1350 Penraular B 0402 COO(EST) 05 1092 1500 Elbe Star 904 *****2 1500 llm Master BS-103 COO(EST) 05 1092 1500 Sea Ink 243N *****2 1500 ACX Swan 338 COO (EST) *****2 2300
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      940 48 DRY CARGO brokers reported large volumes of grain shipments out of the US Gulf on Friday and the Baltic Freight Index (BFI) rose one point to 1,035, having hit five-year lows during the week. The BFl's Gulf/Japan grain and Gulf/European grain routes were slightly higher. Gulf/Taiwan heavy grain
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      TRANSPORT DIARY
      761 48 Oct 5 6: Conference on Quality Control in Asian Shipping, organised by IBC Technical Services Limited at the Marina Mandarin. For further details please contact IBC Technical Services at tel: 732-1970 or fax: 733-5087. Oct 13-16: Seatrade Asia-Pacific Cruise Convention, organised by Seatrade. The event will take place
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      Govt support necessary for private projects
      405 50  -  Conference on Investing in Malaysian Transport By Rahita Elias KUALA LUMPUR Government support and quick action are essential in ensuring the success of any city's transport project funded by the private sector. In a joint presentation on Transit Systems in Asia Lessons for Kuala
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      Lock icon Aeroflot will still use obsolete planes
      433 50 Reuter MOSCOW Russian state airline Aeroflot will have to continue using many obsolete aircraft for up to 10 more years because it cannot afford to buy new airliners, a senior official said. Viktor Gorlov, deputy technical director at Russia's air transport ministry, said the
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      528 50 Police fear up to 200 may have died AP AMSTERDAM An Israeli cargo jet crashed into an apartment complex and triggered a fire that raced through a crowded suburb. Police said they feared up to 200 people may have died. The El A
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      387 50 AP AMSTERDAM Here are other crashes of the same type as Sunday's accident involving a Boeing 747 cargo plane which crashed into an Amsterdam suburb: The worst such accident occurred on Aug 16, 1987 in Detroit, Michigan, when a Northwest Airlines DC9 crashed onto a
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      Lock icon Eastern creditors get compensation
      396 50 NYT WASHINGTON A ghost that has haunted the Eastern Airlines bankruptcy case was put to rest last week. Judge Burton R Lifland has approved an agreement between Eastern creditors and Continental Airlines, compensating Eastern creditors for being shortchanged in a scries of transactions when it was
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      1445 33 Find out how sellers are reaching out to buyers in Advertising and Marketing. Every Thursday in BT 4 I Ik v If B VSI/VOY SJh NYC ML I OKf I S*V~~l ■wn ii/ti 21/11 n/n »/ii w u I at HWI >1 VII 16/U 11/12 12/U wu SMIO ROSA M
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      478 34 FCL Breakbulk Service to: AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd.. Sole Foreign Forwarder in Kabul for all services C.1.5.-Vostochny, Vladivostok, Moscow, Tashkent, Kiew, Minsk, Riga, Baku North Korea t Vietnam Mongolia Hungary CSFR Poland ocwans AGENCIES (FAR EAST) LTD NOUAKCHOTT-BANJUL-BISSAU-LUANDA-BATA Feeder Ve»»ei ETA SIM VILLE DE CASTOR 08/10 VILLE DE VEGA 16/10
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      1945 35 K STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Ho« Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 mnn IIC ACCtriS CARGO DUI SAtS SINGAPORE PMOUK FfNH h M 07 011 lIS PKINCLSS V 9207 07 Ott 12 Oct num «miw 1 m I*' 12 011 ASIAN PRIM WO2 13
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      2565 35 SINGAPORE AGENT: q 1 n At*C P&O Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd X J 10 Hoe Chiang Road #07-01 KEPPEL TOWERS. SINGAPORE 0208 Tel: 225 2233 Telex: RS ***** PNOCSP Fax 225 5327/222 7517 CR Number **********0Z EXPORT IMPORT '.j; VISS£L WO* pPNG 'KO SM ALG SOU AKT HOT NAM
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      682 36 I CR NBR **********0-D I EXPRESS SEMI CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES I TO EUROPE I HJL/WY STOK ROAM, AO AM ITOlfi BREMEN ANTWERP nnAI/2«NB 9-13/10 9/11 15/11 20/11 23/11 I MAI ARAM 33*6 25-21/11 30/12 2/1 5/1 10/1 I 1 FAST TRANSIT TIME I ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/CONTAINERISED CARGO I Subt«ct to Indue amcnt.
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      1457 36 HANJIN SHIPPING FOR VSI SM LM HAUL LGB OAK FOR YSI SM ILM HAUL SAV XM NYC HANIN IE HAVRE 019E 11/10 DMCT 1/11 4/11 FBHGUARO BAY 2UN 5/10 M AHMICA 005E 12/1113/1115/11 HANIN OAKLAND 019E 18 10 H BARCELONA 001E 8/11 10/11 HANXN CHEJU OI7E 12,10 H. KOBE 039E
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      1900 37 NEPTUNE AGENCIES PTE LTD SINGAPORE TEL: *****77 (CR NO: **********0E) Z. BOOKINGS (FOR ALL NOL SERVICES) NEPTUNELINK TEL *****00 (TOLL-FREE) USA SERVICE TERMINAL OFFICE *****22 FAR EAST SERVICE *****00 IMPORT CFS F9: *****69/*****96 UK/EUROPE SERVICE (TOLL-FREE) EXPORT CFS F9: *****53/*****50 SERVICE NEPLINE SDN BHD MALAYSIA 2 NEPTUNELINK TEL: (03) *****23
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      1098 37 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKING: *****51/ *****64/ *****06 (FESCO LINE) ENQUIRIES: *****33 MARINE INSURANCE SERVICE: *****87/ *****87 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 JAKARTA: *****57 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 lOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 (REGULAR INDEPENDENT SERVICE) -1 i FULL CONTAINERSHIP SERVICES I wn»M<D-wcn««a»6 wcstboimi—kwmic imofgi nonaom I vot
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      1685 38 K"W AS AGENTS: KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD (CR No: 1244******0 M) W W TEL *****77 TELEX KAWAKIRS23I6S FAX: *****07/^9 M MALAYSIA: "K" UNE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD i Am ■mJL 1 MLrnd TELSA *****00 PK *****01/5 PENANG *****0 JB *****1 HHHB KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA, LTD INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUTINTERNUSA TEL
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      1055 38 PHILI-OMCNT UN€S PT€ LTD if &ib BY AIR, LAND OR SEA.... •S®U WE TAKE ON THE WORLD FOR YOU MEMBER OF SING APORE FREIGHT FORWARPERSAgOaAnON^^ WUttiMn T 8 OCT SYDNEY. MELBOURNE. BRISBANE. FREMANTLE UAPIPB rHRiSTrHHRCH 15 OCT AUCKLAND, WELLINGTON. LYTTLETON, NEW PLYMOUTH, CHRIS 29 OCT SUVA. NOUMEA. PAPEETA. APIA, LAUTOKIA.
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      1228 39 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. Tel: *****33 CR NO: **********0E il 4n [I J k F 4 IHHII k I V'lL 3! vCi 3• Jln :i: ["JAKARTA 1 BANGKOK 1 VESSEL VOV SIN JKT SIN VESSEL EQUATOR HAWK UN TVIO lA/« fl/m
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      1316 39 EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO UK-NORTH CONTINENT-SCANDINAVIA WEEKLY p P GUDANG PENANG P KELANG OCEAN VSL/VOY SIN SOU (1) RTM (2) I HAM (3) GOT (4) E 2/10 2/K) 3/10 BENARTY 2392 6/JO 23/10 25/10 26/10 28/10 9/10 9/10 10/10 ALSIA 2402 13/10 30/10 1/11 2/11 4/11 Q 16/10 16/10 17/10
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      275 39 °BSA° TRANSPORTATION MYANMA ifflßk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) S'pore P.KIf Pen PGdf MAMDALAY V3SW Std In rt PATHEK ****** 4/5 Oct t" HPAAN *1 tm 14/18 Oct PAGAN VII7W 04/10 Oct NIGERIAN NATIONAL SHIPPING LINE NIGERIA EXPRESS SERVICE RIVER MAJE V.50 SPORE 16 Nov
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      2468 42 Full Container Liner Services Malaysia's Agents: Indonesia's Agents: j General Agents: Booking Agents: Cum Gum Shipping Sdn Bhd Chung CMm Skipping Sin Bhd F.T. Ghhal Putra ludMetu Maritime Costar Shipping Pte Ltd Stmmg FrtifM tookmg Ootre S* BM 58 Persiaran Ra/a Muda Musa Lot 3.34. 3rd Floor, ji iR H
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      281 42 smmbu mmmesia (S) pn ltd 15 McCALLUM STREET #03-01/02 NATWEST CENTRE Singapore 0100 T«*«c R*****0 Tel: *****01-3 Fu: 225 4039. 227*138 FOR BOOKINGS CALL MRECT UNE TEL: 2222M1/*****43 HN/JAK SERVICE VESSEL VOY SIN JAK MERKUR DELTA 942 IN PT 10/10 (SAT) OERAJAT 1002 07/10 (WED) 10/10 (SAT) LAWANTI 980 09/10
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      630 43 (ft FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) LIMASSOL/PIREAUS 8/10 ROTTERDAM 8/10 HAIFA/ASHDOO/ALEXANDRIA 8/10 HAMBURG/BREMEN 8/10 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 8/10 FELIXSTOWE/UK 8/10 BARCELONA/SPAiN 8/10 LEHAVRE/ANTWERP 8/10 GENOA/ITALY 8/10 GOTHENBURG/SCANDINAVIA 8/10 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI TI/10 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 10/10 NEW YORK/EC tl/10 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 15/10 VANCOUVER 11/10 BRISBANE
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      717 43 rS RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD l aw TEL: *****33 (12 Lines) l=l FAX: *****15/*****03 {rrj TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Line*) ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES (National Lines of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL VfSSCL Ivor ETA LOADING FOR SPORE ANOtNET 20WB 18/10 DARESSALAAM MOMBASA DJIBOUTI ASSAB MASSAWA ABBAY WOHZ
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      506 43 JAKARTA BANGKOK \mm [will W \m MAMA BHUM 161S 07/10 10/10 PIYA BHUM## 2S3M Tu« MPT W 09/1R «WA BHUO4 47S 10/10 13/10 MAHA BHUM# 127* Ned 07/10 Swi 11/10 NANA BHW 162S 14/10 17/10 IMtU BHUM 45* frt 09/10 Man WW \lLi? "Z' o NANTA BHUM HON Ut Ned
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      1525 44 groupage I I\~/\ JPENANG: (04) *****6 SIBU: (084) *****9 KUCHING: (082) *****3 w v P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****32 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 I HKG/TWN/BKK I GOTH/U.K/MED PORTS PEN PKL SIN PEN PK SIN 7/10 8/10 9/10 Honf Kong Ldn/Fh/Rdm/Ant 8/10 9/10 10/10 11/10 12/10 13/10 Honj Kon( G'burg/C'hagen/S'hotm/Osk) 11/10
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      307 44 BLUE STAR LINE SINGAPORE TO AND FROM NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC ISLANDS SM AKL LYT SM MULBERA 29S 15/10 27/10 29/10 15/11 AUST STAJt 0530 26/10 7/11 9/11 26/11 PROSPECT 21S 6/11 18/11 20/11 6/12 FULLY CONTAINERISED SAILINGS DISCHARGING AT AUCKLAND, LYTTELTON. ACCEPTING FCL Si LCL FOR NEW PLYMOUTH. NAPIER,
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      1185 44 THONG SOON LINES PTE. LTD. Mi 77 ROBINSON ROAD #15-00, #16-00 SIA BUILDING SWGAPORE 0106 TEL: *****88 FAX NO: *****11, *****22 TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK SINGAPORE TO WEST MALAYSIA VESSEL JvOY [S POKE IPEST VESSEL VOT SPORE P. AEUUIC EQUATOR 111 72/92E
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      136 46 UP. LIVING IT EACH WEEKEND, put up your cxecutivc feet, and let us shuffle through your imagination. We usually tread lightly, but even when we don't, you'll know you're alive after that exciting, exacting or simply emaciating week of work. So don't throw in the high-flying towel, or take shots
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      111 47 FOR SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT OF YOUR BUSINESS Stories on labour and its relationship with management, management concepts in practice, 'yr profiles of leading managers in Singapore and 1 j relevant book reviews. (y rv/k l) ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT, in Business Times every Monday, is must J-i —-j reading for managers who want
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      304 48 1 WSjk LIAN HUAT SHIPPING CO (PTE) LTD. I 10 Anson Road, #14-19/21 International Plaza, Singapore 0207. Tel: *****11 (16 lines) Fax: *****94 Tlx: RS ***** AB LENHUAT Daily receiving cargo at Pasir Panjang Terminal PT4 Tel: *****97 FULLY CONTAINERISED AND CONVENTIONAL SERVICE TO MYANMAR (YANGON) VESSEL ETA ETD DESTINATION
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      317 48 i. cosco UKC CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 28/10 Rotterdam/Antwarp CHINA CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P.O. LOAOINO FOR: A VESSEL 15/10 20/10 Huangpu/Guangzhou COSCO FULL CONTAINER SCR VICES (FCL/FCL) EXPORT TO: CHINA/BANGKOK/HONGKONG EUROPE/CONTINENTAL WEST MEDITERRANEAN AUSTRALIA US WEST COAST PERSIAN GULF/KARACHI Please refer above
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      210 48 BCTJH CONTAINER LINE f [■■■■IfiflJ 2 FELIXSTOWE WEEKLY <_ CONSOLIDATION V. s Inland Destinations: LONDON -LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL! MANCHESTER SOUTHAMPTON DUBLIN v t BIRMINGHAM -ABERDEEN bDUBLIN M MANCHESTER BIRMINGHAM* FEUXSIbWE Tel: 538 0155 OWENS CONTAINER LINE (S) PTE LTD SOUTHAMPTON -JJSSy 133 New Bridge Road #09-06 Chinatown Point S'poreolos SINGAPORE/INDONESIA/SINGAPORE REGULAR
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      41 48 ©ORIENT FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD TEL: *****92, FAX: *****85 C/R NO. **********0 D WEEKLY FCL/LCL TO THE FOLLOWING PORTS: BOMBAY KEELUNG JAKARTA KARACHI KAOHSIUNG BUSAN MADRAS HONGKONG TOKYO CALCULTTA BANGKOK YOKOHAMA COLOMBO PENANG MELBOURNE CHITTAGONG PT KELANG FREMANTLE DUBAI MANILA SYDNEY
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      1124 49 I A HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARINESJM. lIP. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE VESSELS PHA+ PKE PCP I SW I MM WT' LBT HUM «t| Ffl SI. FREEDOM 301W 09/10 09/10 09/10 11/10 30/10 30/10 31/10 31/10 31/10 03/11 SI. MARINER 301W 23/10 23/10 23/10 25/10 13/11 13/11 14/11 14/11 14/11 17/11 H
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      87 50 Every Saturday in Business Times Stories on labour and its relationship with management, management concepts in practice, profiles of leading managers in Singapore and relevant book reviews. ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT, in Business Times every Monday, is must reading for managers who want the competitive edge. Plus an occasional look at successful
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