The Business Times, 5 November 1993

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    13 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Friday November 5 1993 75*
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      Lock icon Dow Jones down 4.75 points at midday
      44 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue chip stocks drifted lower yesterday, extending Wednesday's losses, as weakness in the bond market continued to undermine equity trading. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 4.75 at 3,657.12 at 1 pm EST.
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      Lock icon Rumours off Soros buying spark gold rush
      90 1 Reuter NEW YORK Comex gold held steady at midday at sharply higher levels hit during the morning, as rumours of buying by famed investor George Soros sparked investor interest, traders said yesterdav. At 1150 EST/1650 GMT, December gold was up USSS.3O at U*****.30
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    112 1 C&ajJI M■mill' btocK mamet inaices rhurMby Change STI1 2.123.85 -3.58 K.LSE Composite 977.06 -4.97 Nikkei 18.949.79 -431.45 Hang Seng 9.204.88 -147.23 SET Index 1.284.93 -18.46 Jakarta Composite ...500.75 +16.5 CLSA China B 1.107.29 +25.94 Aust AM Ord 2.101.6 -6.8 FrSE 100 3.1490 -13.3 Tbareday Preilow lpm do* Dow
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    Anwar's team sweeps Umno's three vice-president posts
    611 1  -  From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim virtually sealed his ambition to succeed Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday when his running mates captured all three vice-presidential positions in the country's dominant political party. Officially endorsed as deputy president of
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    BT crosses the 30,000 mark
    209 1 SINGAPORE The circulation of Business Times is now well past the 30,000-copics-a--day mark. The average daily figure crossed 30,000 in September, and hit 31,600 copies last month a 25 per cent increase on a year ago. Daily circulation is now double what it was a
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    Lock icon Taiwan okays another US$50m of S'pore stock investment
    260 1 Bloomberg News Service TAIPEI Taiwan has approved USSSO million (SS79 million) of new stock funds by an investment arm of the Singapore government, only onesixth of the amount the organisation had sought, the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday. The approval raises
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    Lock icon High-fliers are a down-to-earth lot
    188 1 FT LONDON The average European business traveller is a family man. oflcn careless with his health, more inclined to sleep than cat on long-haul flights and occasionally prepared to play computer games on his portable computer. The portrait was revealed in a survey by Official
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    Lock icon Renewed bank loans jitters drive more Japanese funds to region's bourses
    545 1  -  By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE Japanese investors continued to focus their sights on regional markets as a weakening economy at home and renewed concern over bad debts at major banks sent the benchmark Nikkei Index to an eight-month low
    Source: Bloomberg  -  545 words
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    Regional stocks take a break
    144 1 SINGAPORE After rcccnt surges which sent many regional stock markets to record levels. share prices throughout the region corrected yesterday. In Singapore, the benchmark Straits Times Industrials Index fell 3.58 points from its record high of 2,127.43, which was set on Wednesday. It ended the
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    Political ties undo model China enterprise
    402 1  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG SHOUGANG Corp's muchvaunted political connections have turned out to be its undoing, analysts say, in the wake of a US$7O million (5519.2 million) "emergency" loan by Chinese banks to keep the model steel-maker's mills rolling. Most Hongkong analysts say
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      188 1 M CONTENTS ss.-_. sssw Regional News 3.4.5 Fmancial 14.15 World News 8.9 27 Qob/KLSL StS 19.20 Edrton*' 26 17 Sports 21 TV/Lrtestyte 23 Currencies 15 World Focus 10 Smej/Commo 15.16 SabscripttM Tel **********7 fax *****75 BT Editorial Tel *****18 Fai *****71 V2PRICE DOUBLE DELIGHTS ITk ultimate lunch or Ow.'• for
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      18 1 Hock Lock Sfty: NU v r /j Another Genlmkin the US? THE BOTTOM LINE: Shrewd voting, Back Page
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      21 1 The Bottom Line: Back Pg J Shrewd voting in Umno elections Kepphil makes stunning debut on Philippine stock markets Page 11
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Banks tap interbank funds
        258 2  -  By Paul Leo DLMAND for loans in the Asian dollar market remained steady in mid-year, but deposits continued to decline, pushing banks to seek more funds in the interbank market in July. Department of Statistics figures show that the total assets of the Asian Currency Unit
        Source: Dept of Statistics  -  258 words
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      Fierce bidding for Orchard Towers apartments: JLW
      232 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi FIVE Orchard Towers apartments put up for auction by property agent Jones Lang Wootton were sold yesterday but eight others in Balmeg Court were withdrawn. A JLW official described the bidding for apartments in Orchard Towers, which is in prime
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      One-stop trade info from new TDB service
      289 2  -  By Corinne Kerk LOCAL businessmen now have access to more information relating to trade and investment, thanks to the Trade and Investment Enquiry Service (Ties) launched by the Trade Development Board yesterday. Ties aims to serve as a onestop centre to handle general
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      EDB leads recruitment mission to US
      135 2 THE Economic Development Board is leading a delegation comprising representatives from 14 private and public sector organisations to major US cities to recruit professionals. The team left yesterday and will be in the US till Nov 19. Among the organisations on the trip are
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      Small businesses can submit GST tax returns half-yearly
      496 2  -  By Anna Teo TO LIGHTEN their cost burden, small businesses could be allowed to submit their Goods and Services (GST) tax returns once every six months instead of quarterly. But the cost savings for larger businesses would be debatable, the Inland Revenue
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  • THE REGION
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      Jakarta to list 17 state-owned companies on foreign bourses
      425 3  -  From Maggie Ford in JAKARTA SEVENTEEN Indonesian state-owned companies are to be listed on foreign stock exchanges, starting from the end of next year. Coordinating Minister of Trade and Industry Hartarto said yesterday that the 17 companies would be chosen on
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      Lock icon Power crisis to die out by next August Manila
      256 3 AFP MANILA The Philippine power crisis, which is estimated to have shaved 0.2 per cent off gross national product (GNP) growth this year, will be virtually over by August 1994. Economic Planning Secretary Cielito Habito said yesterday that production loss from
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      Lock icon Islam next target of Western powers: Mahathir
      210 3 The Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR Islam will be the next target of Western powers with the end of the Cold War and the downfall of communism. Umno president Mahathir Mohamad told the party's General Assembly yesterday: "There are already signs that Western countries
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      Lock icon Apec not alternative to Gatt, says Thailand
      338 3 Reuter BANGKOK A senior Thai foreign ministry official says Thailand is likely to reject any US proposal to turn the Seattle meeting into an alternative forum to the Uruguay Round of the General .Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt). It should remain as
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      Lock icon Umno, Golkar agree to step up cooperation
      186 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Leaders of Umno and Golkar have agreed to step up party cooperation to strengthen relations between the two countries. New Golkar chairman Harmoko said yesterday the existing good relations between Malaysia and Indonesia revolved mainly around the executive level and
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Manila to cut forces by 30pc
        105 3 Reuter MANILA The Philippine government plans to cut the armed forces by at least 30 per cent. The military had earlier announced plans for reducing the armed forces by 10,000 from the present strength of 120,000, but Defence Secretary Renato de Villa yesterday said
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        Lock icon Coordinating Asean-China cooperation
        57 3 AFP BANGKOK The Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) has agreed to set up two committees to coordinate and enhance relations with China. A foreign ministry official said yesterday that one of the committees would concentrate on scientific and technological cooperation with China while the other would
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        Lock icon Police arrest Benazir's brother
        49 3 AP KARACHI Police yesterday arrested Murtaza Bhutto, the brother of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, moments after his plane landed, ending his 16 years in exile. Ms Bhutto, 40, and her 39-year-old brother are bitter political rivals. Their feud has split Pakistan's most prominent family. AP
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        Lock icon Beijing objects to Canberra's move
        56 3 Reuter BEIJING China yesterday objected to Australia's granting permanent residency to 28,500 Chinese students and dependants, saying the decision was tainted by politics. Canberra on Monday granted the request of 19,000 students and 9,500 dependants to stay on permanently, extending permits issued after China crushed
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        Lock icon HK industrial output index falls
        86 3 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The colony's index of industrial production dropped 4 per cent in the quarter ended June 30 from the same quarter of 1992. The Hongkong Census and Statistics Department reported yesterday that the dip was largely a result of a fall in
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        Lock icon India's foreign debt rises
        60 3 AFP NEW DELHI India's foreign debt has mounted to US$B5.4 billion (*****.7 billion) after increasing rapidly from the mid1980s. The finance ministry said yesterday that borrowings grew at an average rate of US$6.2 billion a year between 1985 and 1991. The average for the first half
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        Lock icon Higher penalties for tax offences
        95 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The government has decided to impose a higher penalty for offences under the Income Tax Act 1967 by introducing a minimum fine and doubling the maximum fine. Yong Poh Chye, executive director of Tax Advisory and Management Services Sdn Bhd, said yesterday
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      Lock icon China set to approve milestone reforms for full market system
      559 4 AFP, Knight-Ridder BEIJING China is preparing to announce its most important economic reforms in a decade, which will establish a framework for implementing a full-fledged market system, officials and economists said. The reforms will be approved at a plenary meeting
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      Lock icon Clinton-Jiang meeting will address all aspects of ties
      311 4 AFP, Reuter BEIJING Beijing has signalled that all aspects of the troubled US-China relationship will be on the table when presidents Bill Clinton and Jiang Zemin meet at a summit this month. A spokesman yesterday announced that Vice-Foreign Minister Liu Huaqiu was
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      Shanghai to host huge industry fair next year
      282 4 SINGAPORE Reflecting China's eagerness to rise as an industrial power, the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (CMES) is co-organising China's largest international industry fair next year in Shanghai. China International Industry Fair (CIF) '94 is expected to draw over 600 exhibitors, half of
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      Lock icon Beijing warned against breaching HK treaty
      221 4 AFP LONDON Beijing was warned on Wednesday that delays in endorsing Hongkong's laws and its multinational agreements on investment, extradition and air services could risk putting China in breach of its treaty obligations. Foreign Office deputy legal adviser Kevin Chamberlain told the Foreign Affairs
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      Lock icon Taiwan to draft new law for businessmen using HK as base
      362 4 AFP. TAIPEI Taiwan will work out a special law to safeguard the interests of more than 10,000 businessmen who use Hongkong as a base for trade and other activities in China, a report said yesterday. The businessmen face violating
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      Lock icon Japanese firms cut bonuses for third year
      477 5 Bloomberg News Service TOKYO As Japan's reces-sion-pinched companies struggle to cope with tumbling profits, workers are seeing their traditionally massive annual bonuses shrink. Unions today happily agreed to a first round of cuts: at least their memberships remain fully employed. Japan's top electronics
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      Lock icon Taking the law into their own hands
      74 5 Reuter GAY A, India Petty criminals being brought for trial at the "people's court" organised by the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) activists at a village in Gaya district of Bihar state on Monday. The punishment ranges from a few slaps to cutting off
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      Lock icon Japan to scale down Budget to cope with poor tax revenues
      333 5 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) plans to scale down the nation's state Budget for 1993/94 with a second extra Budget in late November to cope with declining tax revenue, ministry officials said yesterday. But the officials said
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      Lock icon Senior Taisei official arrested for alleged embezzlement
      164 5 Knight-Ridder YOKOHAMA Prosecutors yesterday arrested a senior official of Taisei Corp on suspicion of defrauding the major general contractor of about 20 million yen (SS300.000) drawn from a secret company slush fund. Kyodo News Serv ice reported that the Yokohama district public prosecutor's
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      Lock icon Japan rejects EC call to open rice market
      313 5 AFP BRUSSELS Japan was holding fast to its demand that it should not be forced to accept foreign agricultural imports, particularly rice, Japanese Agriculture Minister Eijiro Hata said here Wednesday. He was speaking after a meeting with European Community Agriculture Commissioner Rene
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      Lock icon Hosokawa demands end to stand-off on reforms
      261 5 Reuter TOKYO With a parliamentary deadline fast approaching, Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa demanded yesterday that the opposition give in on political reform an issue he has staked his future on. "We have spent too much time on this," Mr Hosokawa told a
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
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      APB stands up to a stout challenge
      926 6  -  Harish Mehta separates the froth from the facts about brewing in Cambodia Harish Mehta PHNOM PENH Nothing could possibly cheer Frankie Yap more than a happy crowd in a Phnom Penh pub guzzling his firm's ABC Stout. It has cornered 93 per cent
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Mexico can't attract EC, Japan funds without Nafta: experts
      438 8 NYT. Bloomberg Business News MEXICO CITY Contradicting a central argument from the Clinton administration in favour of a free trade accord with Mexico, businessmen, diplomats and trade experts in Japan and Mexico say Mexico is unlikely to be Hooded with new
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      Lock icon Japanese negotiator slams US trade proposals
      312 8 Reuter. AP TOKYO Japan cannot accept key US trade proposals and the two nations remain far apart in talks that are the cen-tre-picce of the Clinton administration's Japan policy, a top Japanese negotiator said yesterday. Yoshihiro Sakamoto, direc-tor-general of Miti's Trade Policy Bureau, also
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      Lock icon Splashes to ashes
      46 8 AFP LOS ANGELES A plane dumps water onto burning brush in Malibu yesterday. Firemen managed to stop flames advancing on Los Angeles as investigators hunted arsonists whose fires have destroyed 200 homes over the last 10 days and killed a 41-year-old man. AFP
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      Lock icon Aids-blood scandal rocks Germany
      167 8 AP. Reuter FRANKFURT A blood transfusion scandal in Germany is approaching crisis proportions as authorities urged millions of people who have had blood transfusions or been in contact with blood products since the early 1980s to take an Aids test. There were fears that German insurers
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      Lock icon US jobs report may be non-event for T-bonds
      356 8 Reuter. AP. Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The longawaited monthly employment report could prove to be a nonevent for the US Treasury market if the so-called "headline" number is in line with expectations. "It seems the market has already discounted (the possibility)
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Bundesbank's interest rates unchanged
        69 8 Reuter FRANKFURT Germany's Bundesbank left official interest rates unchanged after a meeting of its policy-making council yesterday, in line with economists' expectations. Analysts had said it was too soon for another reduction after surprise cuts in leading interest rates two weeks ago. The central bank cut
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        Lock icon Longer vacations to tackle job problem
        79 8 AFP, Bloomberg Business News BONN German Economics Minister Gucnthcr Rcxrodt has suggested that companies offer their workers three months of annual leave as a means of combatting joblessness, the Bila newspaper reported on Wednesday. He said there were other solutions possible besides the four-day
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        Lock icon Common currency high on priority list
        83 8 Reuter LONDON The new European Monetary Institute (EMI) must force the pace of EC economic and monetary union towards the goal of a single currency by the turn of the century, Belgian Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt said. Mr Maystadt, current chairman of EC finance
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      Lock icon Mechanism for converting currencies in EC defended
      370 9 Reuter LONDON Delegates at a conference on EC agri monetary policy heard a ringing defence of the switchover mechanism, which protects farmers in strong currency countries like Germany from price cuts after green rate revaluations. "No EC agriculture minister could tell his farmers
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      Lock icon Slovakia — a tale of three bourses
      346 9 Slovakia a tale of three bourses Reuter BRATISLAVA Western experts are unanimous that the reforming East European countries need a stock exchange. But Slovakia, a country of 5.3 million people which emerged in January when Czechoslovakia split up, has gone one or even three better. It has three competing stock
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      Lock icon OECD sees slow growth in developed countries
      220 9 UPI PARIS The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said that the economic outlook in most industrialised countries remains dim despite moderate growth in the US. The only positive element is the low rate of inflation in most countries. OECD secretary-general Jean-Claude Paye
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      Lock icon Major's attempt to rush rail privatisation bill ends in chaos
      295 9 Reuter LONDON Prime Minister John Major's attempt to bulldoze through parliament a bill privatising Britain's rail network was left hanging in the balance after a day of uproar and near-disaster for his government. In some of the worst scenes of
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      Lock icon Businessman Paul Martin tipped to be Canada's finance minister
      190 9 Reuter OTTAWA Montreal businessman Paul Martin will become Canada's new finance minister. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported yesterday that Roy MacLaren, owner of a publishing business and also a moderate from the right wing of the party, would be international
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  • WORLD FOCUS
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      Lock icon Will US lead the world into economic recovery?
      727 10 As US enjoys a growth spurt, Japan and Germany are mired in recession AP NEW YORK Sales of American homes and cars are surging. Factories are busier. Government number crunchers say the economic outlook should improve even more next year. In Japan,
      AP  -  727 words
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Kepphil makes robust debut on Philippine bourses
      426 11  -  Reports from Rahita Elias in MANILA KEPPHIL Shipyard Inc wowed investors here yesterday during its first day of trading in the Philippine stock exchanges at Ayala and Tektite. As soon as trading began at 9.30 am, the counter attracted a frenzy of buy
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      Keppel to beef up Kepphil operations
      280 11 SINGAPORE conglomerate Keppel Corp plans to further upgrade the operatioos of its newly-listed associate Kepphil Shipyard Inc. Keppel senior executive director Loh Wing Siew told Singapore reporters on Wednesday that the shiprepair operations at Kepphil would be consolidated to just one site the former
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      Informatics sets up two more training centres in India
      182 11 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed Informatics Holdings has established two new computer training centres in India through its international franchise programme. The two new centres, at Thane and Madras City, bring the total to six such centres in India since its franchise pro- gramme
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      Malaysian casino tycoon shaping another Genting in the US
      889 11  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE What do Malaysian tycoon Lim Goh Tong and a small tribe of native Americans have in common? Casinos. Mr Lim, of course, is the man who almost single-handedly created the moneymaking machine known
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      Kay Hian may have placed out 10pc of capital
      318 11  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Stockbroker Kay Hian James Capel appears to have placed out 10 per cent of its capital yesterday. Kay Hian was suspended from trading yesterday pending an announcement and market sources said it was likely to announce that
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      Lock icon Dull trade points to consolidation
      337 11  -  By Joyce Quek SINGAPORE Is it too soon to call Day 4's trading in Singapore Telecom shares a watershed? Are there signs pointing to an apparent stabilisation of prices? Retail investors turned out in even smaller numbers yesterday, trading 1.1 million shares in ST 100
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      Lock icon SUMMARY
      356 11 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Nov 4 Last Semat Index Slock sak hit factor not rrs (S) Awmo I 840 -0.040 1.27 16 33 CAl 7 950 0.050 5.47 -20.41 CWT 2 660 -0.050 1.83 20.41 Ceretoos 7 050 -0.150 4 85 61.22 FAN 15 800
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    • COMPANIES
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        Lock icon KL Industries chief keen on power, road projects in China
        455 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kuala Lumpur Industries Holdings Bhd's (KLIH) Teong Teck Leng is eyeing independent power producer (IFP) and road building projects in China. Mr Teong, who is the president and chief executive officer of KLIH, said yesterday that the
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        Pan Malaysia Cement reports 20pc fall in interim earnings
        343 12  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Listed Pan Malaysia Cement Works Bhd (PMCW) has suffered a 20 per cent fall in interim group earnings to M 56.95 million (554.3 million) for the six months ended Sep 30, compared with M 58.74 million previously.
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        HK bourse tops ratings in Morgan Stanley list
        357 12  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Hongkong has once again topped the 22 developed stock markets monitored by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) indices on a monthly basis. Boosted by US institutional buying, the Hang Seng Index rose sharply in October from 7.676.27 to
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        Morgan Grenfell launches unit trust for CPF members
        232 12 SINGAPORE Morgan Grenfell Investment Management (Asia) yesterday made its debut in the retail market by launching Singapore Premier Trust, a unit trust for CPF members. This trust, said Morgan Grenfell officials, will allow individuals with CPF savings access to Morgan's professional investment
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        Lock icon Transport ministry wins control of Thai Airways
        256 12 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Thailand's Transport Communications Ministry has won authority over Thai Airways International from the Finance Ministry in a long-running battle for control. The two ministries had signed a memorandum of understanding giving the lion's share of authority to the Transport
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          DBS 50 Index: changes to components
          42 12 SINGAPORE From Monday, Singapore Telecom, IPC Corp and Singapore Technologies Industrial Corp will be incorporated into the computation of the DBS 50 Index. They will replace Resources Development Corp. Ssangyong Cement and Insurance Corp of Singapore.
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          Polytek Wearnes appoints adviser
          85 12 SINGAPORE Polytek Wearnes Holdings has appointed ABN Amro (Asia) as its financial adviser in connection with the unconditional takeover offer by Wearnes Brothers. Polytek Wearnes said yesterday that all its shareholders would receive a circular containing the advice of ABN Amro and the recommendation of its
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          Inno-Pacific directors resign
          34 12 SINGAPORE Shahrani Bin Haji Abdullah and his alternate Srecsanthan Eliathamby. as well as Mohamed Bin Hashim and his alternate Mohd Nor Bin Abdul Karim. resigned yesterday as directors of Inno-Pacific Holdings.
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          Lock icon Panglobal unit to build veneer plant
          74 12 Bernama LIMBANG Limbang Trading (Limbang) Sdn Bhd (LTL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Panglobal Equities Bhd. will invest Ms3o million (SSIB million) to build another veneer factory, next to its present plant here. Its general manager and director, Victor Bong Thiam Swee, yesterday said the
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        450 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Maaaferf' print (S) Nov 5 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce I 60 1.68 The Savings Fund I 49 1.56 S pore Prog Fund 0.67 0.70 S pore See Fund 0 98 1.03 S pore Invest Fund 1.12 1.18 S pore Equity Fund 0.77 0.81 Asia Unit Trust
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        Lock icon HK Telecom to expand further after 15pc gain
        222 13 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd, which announced a 15 per cent jump in its interim net profit for 1993/94 to HK53.66 billion (***** million) from HKS3.I7 billion a year earlier, has said it is poised to develop a full range of broadband
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        Lock icon British Telecom 2nd quarter pre-tax profits up 72.4pc
        276 13 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter LONDON British Telecommunications pic yesterday announced a pre-tax profit for the second quarter ended Sept 30 of £743 million (SSI-7 billion), up £431 million or 72.4 per cent on the corresponding period a year ago. It attributed the
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          79 13 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Cheung Kong (Holdings), the main investment vehicle for Hongkong tycoon Li Ka-shing, has sold 91 million shares in Hopewell Holdings, the real estate, construction, hotels and infrastructure group, the South China Morning Post reported. The sale, at a price between HK57.95
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          85 13 IHT FRANKFURT In a strategic return to its roots. Germany's Daimler-Benz AG coupled the announcement on Wednesday that it lost 2 billion marks (SSI.BB billion) in the first nine months of 1993 with the news that its Mercedes-Benz division would reenter formula one car racing
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          Lock icon Akzo and Nobel in merger talks
          72 13 Bloomberg Business News AMSTERDAM The Dutch chemicals and pharmaceuticals group Akzo NV and Nobel Industries AB, a Swedish biotechnology. pulp and paper, and chemicals company, said in separate statements that they are in merger talks. Nobel is controlled by the Swedish government's holding group
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          Lock icon Japanese cement makers earn less
          92 13 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's leading cement makers are expected to report lower current profit for the year through March 1994 because of declining private construction orders and a delay in the execution of public works projects, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said. Onoda Cement is
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          62 13 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Lucas Industries pic signed its first technology transfer agreement for the production of motor components in China, the Financial limes reported. The agreement covers the product and manufacturing technology of a new joint venture company, Hwa Heng, to be set up
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        270 13 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Seagate Technology Inc chief executive officer Alan Shugart thinks the worst is far from over for the battered disk-drive industry. Last month, a spark of optimism carried the disk-drive sector up after Quantum Corp. the biggest volume
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        140 13 Bloomberg Business News EINDHOVEN. Netherlands Philips Electronics NV said it swung to a net profit of 133 million guilders (SSI 11.4 million) in the third quarter compared with a loss of 139 million guilders a year earlier. The company said it would "abstain"
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        439 13 MARKET WATCH Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Hongkong may seem distant and exotic, but United States investors still are pouring money into the British colony's booming stock market. With the Hang Seng Stock Index up 70 per cent this
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        320 13 Reuter SYDNEY New Zealand brewer Lion Nathan Ltd would use its Australian beer brands as a launching pad into Asia, chief executive Doug Myers said yesterday. "Our overseas expansion thrust will be done olf the base of our Australian beer brands."
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          Lock icon Cambodia to revamp banking laws
          108 14 Reuter BANGKOK The new Cambodian government would revamp its banking system and draft new laws which could in extreme cases involve terminating existing bank licences if they failed to conform, a senior central bank official said. Saumura Tioulong. deputy governor of the National Bank of
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          96 14 FT LONDON A sweeping reorganisation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will be announced on Monday by Mr Jacques De Larosiere, the central banker who took over as its president just over a month ago. The restructuring ot the aid bank, whose former
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          32 14 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan has decided to issue licences to 14 locally owned futures brokerages, the island's first legal futures houses, the Securities and Exchange Commission said. Reuter
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          Lock icon Taipei cuts re-discount rate to 5.50pc
          59 14 Knight-Ridder TAIPEI Taiwan's Central Bank of China yesterday announced a cut in its re-discount rate to 5.50 per cent from 5.625 per cent, effective today. The CBC said in a statement it had also decided to lower its secured lending rate to 5.785 per
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          56 14 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's Ministry of Finance announced on Tuesday it would resume the issuance of four-year government bonds, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said. Nikkei Quick, an electronic news service run by the Nihon Keizai, said Tuesday the auction could take place as early
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          77 14 Reuter MOSCOW The International Moscow Bank protested against a decision appointing the Bank of New York to handle clearing operations for Russia's main currency exchange, saying complaints about slow settlements were groundless. "MICEX never complained of our unsatisfactory work," deputy chairman of IMB Yuri Kondratyuk
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        499 14 Reuter CHICAGO The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has approved a proposal to restructure Globex. CME chairman Jack Sandner said. Mr Sandner confirmed information from sources in the Chicago financial community that the plan was approved at the CME's board meeting on Wednesday.
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        219 14 AP BEIJING The People's Construction Bank of China saw record growth in savings deposits from July through October. triple the amount for the same period last year, the official China Daily reported yesterday. The glowing progress report echoes others
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        279 14 Reuter SEOUL South Korea has given the preliminary nod to the establishment of the nation's second joint-venture brokerage house, combining the resources of local industrial enterprises with three foreign partners, including Singapore's DBS group. The tentatively-named Woohak-KB Securities Co will combine nine
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        202 14 AFP MANILA Citibank NA yesterday signed an agreement with the Philippine National Bank (PNB) to underwrite up to US$4OO million (***** million) in Eurobonds in the biggest and most daring flotation by a Philippine institution. The memorandum of agreement for the Global
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        326 15 AFP, Reuter BEIJING A petroleum exchange has opened for trading here in the latest move in the reform of the centrally planned industry, the China Daily reported. The establishment of the Beijing Petroleum Exchange, which opened on Wednesday, will facilitate oil price reform by
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        545 15 Reuter AMSTERDAM Europe's aatural gas monopolies are worried by EC moves to open their pipelines to competitors. For decades they have carefully cultivated their markets, attracting customers with low costs while keeping prices high enough to develop new supplies. But now
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        346 15 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter MELBOURNE Low aluminium prices that have caused a sharp production curtailment worldwide this year are unlikely to improve much ia 1994, an Australian mineral economist said yesterday. Prices have plunged about 50 per cent since
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        99 15 THE US$/Deutschemark drifted lower as the market unwound short DM/yen position. Position adjustment ahead of today's US payroll numbers also added impetus to this US dollar sales. The US$/S$ had another range-trade day with good two-way business. The US$/ringgit market also saw narrow range-trade despite
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        152 15 Reuter LONDON The dollar remained firmly cntrcnchcd below the 1.70 marks barrier during the European session yesterday as traders awaited today's US employment report. It crept a little higher during the day from a slightly weaker start after mildly encouraging US economic data, but largely ignored the Bundesbank's widely
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        402 15 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Oil futures priccs dcclincd yesterday after the Department of Energy underscored an increase in US crude and product inventories. Growing stockpiles in the world's largest cncigy-consum-ing nation, indicate a reduced demand for refined products, notwithstanding growing signs of economic recovery,
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        92 15 AFP NEW YORK The dollar rose slightly except against the French franc yesterday, with investors awaiting US jobless figures today. At 9:20 am. the dollar was at 1.6925 German marks up from 1.6885 on Wednesday and 107.95 yen up from 107.65 yen. In London, the dollar was at
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        1655 15 TraJf-n,tifhinJ imlr\ cakulauxl attamu S pore« lop 14 iraJm/t partners Box year 1985 US$/S$ forward rates Noon Nov 4 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1 5862 1.5877 2-month 1.5851 ***** V-month 1.5842 1.5857 6-month 1.5830 1.5850 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at lfaa M Not 4: Singapore dollars to
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        1287 16 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar interest rate futures edged higher yesterday bolstered by the bearish performance of the Japanese share market and light shortcovering. Contracts held mostly in lacklustre conditions, as investors remained reluctant to adopt positions ahead of the release of US economic
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        KL tin sheds 22 sen on lack of buying
        623 16 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin TIN fell 22 sen lo close at MSI 1.98 a kg yesterday on lack of foreign support as European players withdrew from the market due to the high premium in local prices over LMli in recent days, traders
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          China corn prices edge up
          102 16 TOKYO China FOB corn offers have risen the past couple of days as Ceroilfoods again tries to crack down on traders selling at cheap prices, trade sources in the region said. South Korea, whose tenders lend transparency to China's corn export prices, bought as low
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          97 16 TAIPEI Taiwan's first rice crop of 1994 could be reduced by 15 per cent due to a severe droueht if there is no substantial rain in affected areas by the end of November, an official at the Council for Agriculture said yesterday. A decision would
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          Cocoa producers want to cut output
          92 16 ABIDJAN Members of the Cocoa Producers Alliance representing 90 per cent of world cocoa output, want to reduce their production by 370.000 tonnes over the next 5 years, said Ivorian Minister of Commodities Alain Gauze on Wednesday night. Mr Gauze, who is presiding over
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          75 16 BANGKOK Offered levels for Thai bulk export corn for prompt shipment aren't seen falling below current levels of US$l35 per tonne before 1993-94 (July-June) corn begins to enter the market, a trader said yesterday. Thin crop supplies and strong local feedmill demand mean prices could
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      1639 16 Rubber RAS Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 1pm) RSS 1 Contract (S ccnts/kg) (lose Volume Open Month High Lo» Sett (tonnes) Interest Dcc 93 0.00 000 0 2 200 Jan 94 131.00 131.00 131 00 25 4.725 Feb 132 00 132 00 132.00 50 5.125 Mar 132.50
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        1299 17 -6.8 THE Australian share market ended weaker for the third consecutive session yesterday but managed to claw back to finish just above the 2.100 level. Brokers said the market weakness did not constitute a correction. "This is a softer market on the back of softer markets overseas." said Guy
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        Manila
        613 17 -20.79 Philippine share prices retreated from the previous day's all-time high following declines in blue chips Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT) and San Miguel Corp but analysts said the bullish trend remains. The composite price index at the Manila Stock Exchange shed 20.79 points, or 0.84 per cent,
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        Taipei
        556 17 -22.78 Stocks ended lower on heavy profit-taking from roughly 10 per cent gains over the past three weeks, despite continued hopes the central bank might decide to ease credit further later yesterday afternoon. The weighted index closed 22.78 points down at 4,260.56. off an intra-day high of 4.302.26, in
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        Seoul
        407 17 +9.68 The stock market closed a roller coaster day sharply higher on the back of a late institutional buying spree in blue-chip manufacturings. brokers said. "The market is searching for value. Polarisation of prices is getting more extreme between stocks in demand and those being ignored." said H K
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        New Zealand
        298 17 -2.22 Shares ended steady after slight falls in most leading stocks were outweighed by a sharp gain in Fletcher Challenge, which continued to enjoy the limelight due to its plans to spin off noncore assets. FCL ended at a high for the year of NZ$4.2l. up II cents
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        63 17 +4.09 Stocks were mixed in after hours kerb deals but prices were expected to move up today after the fixing of badla or carry forward costs, anticipated to be at a low of 1.75-2.0 per cent per month, brokers said. The Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share index closed 4.09 points
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        878 17 Britannia Funds Slcrlinf Cash Bid Offer Mim Cap Deposit 6*10 W 6500 Mim Jeno C.ih 0 184) 0 I'M: Mini Ma» Income ****** *1 0«00 L SI Cash Income P1u» Fund 10 7100 11 2800 PS Rcvrve Fund 5 2200 5 2 300 Euro 0 4592 0 49)8 Fir Eaa
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        745 17 -13.3 UK stocks fell for the fourth day running as a campaign of price cuts by J Sainsbury. Britain's biggest supermarket operator, raised conccrns about profit margins for a range of retail and food companies. "When a price war gets hold there tend to be few winners." said Nick
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        99 17 -35.19 Frcnch shares ended easier with the CAC-40 index down more than 1.5 per cent after falls on Wall Street and Tokyo. The index dropped 35.19 to 2.135.97. Paris No* 4 Fr Air-Lutuidr *00 00 -100 Mcacl Amlhom 77| 00 -1100 Elf Vjuil 451 Ml -h 40 (>aic Oc
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        221 17 -21.75 More declines are in store for shares as they lock into a downward correction for the time being, dealers said. Stocks were generally seen overbought recently after the market rose to a high of over 2.100 on Wednesday, and the market used a pessimistic survey on the economic
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        Milan
        176 17 -180 Stocks were hit hard by Wednesday night's speech by President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. denying allegations he took bribes from the domestic intelligence service, traders said. Prices were down across the board, with investors worried about an escalation of political tension ahead of expected elections early next year. The
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        Amsterdam
        280 17 +0.06 Stocks closed mixed as a bout of profit-taking, following the EOE index' climb of more than 2.6 per cent over the past two weeks, offset a rise in Akzo NV and Philips Electronics NV. The EOE index closed up 0.06 point at 391.73 points. Leading the advance were
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        196 17 -20.17 Swiss shares closed more than 1 per cent lower on profit-taking, with selling from abroad in particular. The broad SPI index closed 20.17 points lower at 1.709.86. Zurich No* 4 KrancN MMH Br «28 -4 Bro*n Bo\en Br -2 CS Holding Br *180 -55 (>t Holding Reg 651
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        321 17 1 Gold shares followed bullion higher in steady trade as foreign and local demand buoyed sentiment. Dealers said demand remained in placc for quality shares and a short supply of scrip continued to underpin prices. But the financial rand, which rallied before easing near the close, was seen hampering
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        Toronto
        294 17 -5.57 Stocks backed off late-ses-sion with gold shares and Wall Street stocks to close mixed with an easier bias on Wednesday, traders said. "We backed off with New York's tail-olT." said ScotiaMcLeod senior vicepresident Fred Ketchen. The TSE 300 composite index closed 5.57 points lower at 4.242.74 in turnover
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        832 17 +5.59 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which plunged 35.77 points on Wednesday, was ahead 5.59 points to 3.667.46 at 11 am EST yesterday. The key barometer was down 4 points shortly after the market opened. The New York Stock Exchange composite index was oIT 0.62 to 255.88. while
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      3065 18 Reuter HONGKONG Stocks ended sharply lower for the second consecutive day but met support at lower levels. The blue chip Hang Seng Index tumbled 147.23 points, or 1.57 per cent, to close at 9,204.88 after bargain hunters pulled it back from a low of 9.189. "Some local funds joined
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      CHINA
      451 18 THE Shanghai B market saw active demand across the lx>ard with turnover totaling 12.44 million shares. Most counters closed higher. Tyre Rubber led the league rising 2.38 per cent or 2 US cents with 3.57 million shares traded. The CLSA B Index rose 3.97 points to close at 833.48.
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      2454 18 AFP TOKYO Share prices lost ground sharply yesterday with the Nikkei Stock Average closing 431.45 points or 2.2 per cent lower at 18,949.79. The Nikkei indicator of 225 selected issues in the major first section, which gained 2.12 points the previous trading day, opened lower in the absence of
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      1883 18 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Stocks declined 1.4 per cent in heavy trading yesterday as local investors sold telecommunications and property issues to lock in recent gains amid concern over the possibility of political instability, traders and analysts said. "I think some locals were a bit spooked by political rumors."
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      1091 18 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed higher in bullish trading yesterday after foreign and local Investors scrambled for stocks. The composite index ended at 500.75. up 16.50 points. "Both foreign and local investors were very active on most counters. Overseas sentiment about Jakarta stocks is especially positive." one local broker
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      Lock icon CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2751 19 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume Vidians t'orp 2S.634.000 FATS 50c 27 448.000 MBI Hldgs MX 24 94:.000 Mulphj Inll 50c 20.544.000 Lien Hoc I8.6J8.000 Scl I'rupeitm 17.671.000 Bcrjava (iroup 14,747.000 Idns Hyd 50c 12.182.000 Innmcs! Bhd 11.068.000 kamunting 50c <>.972.000 Mclroplc* 50c 9.568.000 Asia
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        5889 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share prices here closed lower as market players came out to make quick profits yesterday. Second liners and selected blue chips, which were chased up strongly recently, fell back under selling pressure. The main board all-share Emas Index closed at 293.30.
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        Lock icon Profit-taking on Clob drags market lower
        8581 20  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE After two consecutive record closes, share prices here ended weaker yesterday, dragged down by lower Malaysian shares on Clob International. In a day almost completely dominated by trading in Clob shares, the Straits Times Industrials Index closed 3.58 points lower
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        66 20  -  Paul Leo Innovest INNOVEST investors should not panic during the next two weeks as the stock corrects towards Si.4o from yesterday's high of 1.87. Daily and weekly RSIs are above 75, indicating an overbought condition. At 51.40. the stock will start to rally towards 52.40. Investors should take
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      314 21 Golf AP SOTOGRANDE, Spain Nick Faldo said on Wednesday that despite recurring tendinitis in both arms, he would play in this week's rich Volvo Masters the PGA European tour's final event of the season. He said he would not play in next
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        87 21 AP NEW YORK Greg Maddux v\on his second straight Cy Young Award on Wednesday, joining Sandy koufax as the only National League pitchers to win it in successive seasons. Maddux was 20-10 with a major league-leading 2.36 ERA in his first season for Atlanta, and became the first pitcher
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        119 21 AP Reuter BRISBANE, Australia Australian test captain Allan Border scored his 25.000 th run in firstclass cricket at the Gabba Ground yesterday, becoming only the second batsman in history to achicvc the feat. The left-hander passed the milestone when he reached 30 in Queensland's first innings against New South
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        163 21 Reuter HONGKONG Heavy rain forced the postponement of the second round of the 1993 South East Asian men's amateuj team championship for the Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Cup here. Morning showers sparked by severe tropical storm Ira turned into prolonged downpours which left parts of the Royal Hongkong Golf
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        47 21 Reuter NEW YORK NHL WednesdayCalgary 6 Hartford 3; Montreal I Tampa Bay 0; NY Rangers 6 Vancouver 3; Toronto 6 Florida 3; St Louis 3 Winnipeg 0; Ottawa 7 Edmonton 5; Anaheim 5 Dallas 4; Pittsburgh 6 Buffalo 2; LA 3 New Jersey 2. Reutcr
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        488 21 Reuter AFP AFP LONDON Galatasaray enjoyed one of Turkish soccer's most famous successes on Wednesday, holding Manchester United to a goalless draw in their second round second leg match in the European Champions Cup to advance to the last eight on the away goals rule. United's French striker Eric
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        156 21 AFP Reuter PARIS Paris Open 2nd rd Wednesday: Michael Stich (Ger) b Magnus Larsson (Swe) 7-6 6-2: Jared Palmer (US) b Richard Krajicek (Neth) 7-5 7-6; Arnaud Boctsch (Fra) b Scrgi Bruguera (Spn) 6-4 6-4; Mark Woodforde (Aust) b Wally Masur (Aust) 6-4 1-6 6-3; Todd Martin (US) b
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      230 21 AP LAS VEGAS Evander Holyfield figures he threw 23 years of ring experience and a heavyweight championship away in a desperate attempt to knock Riddick Bowe out the first time they met. He vows not to make the same mistake tomorrow night when the
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      430 21 Reuter ADELAIDE Frenchman Alain Prost is hoping to bid a memorable farewell to Formula One motor racing this weekend by claiming the 52nd win of his long and distinguished career in his final race. Sunday's Australian Grand Prix. Prost. who won the Australian event in
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      987 22 business limes, rrioay :>ovemper 3 1 Noll ling Beats A BudTln HV/ifl to wine, dine and entertain OF Alan Ng, food writer of Lianhe Zaobao."lt s a high lea of distinct difference from those we had tried locally." Why go Penang? Princess Terrace Cafe introduces Penang High Tea with favourites
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      256 22 /Every month. Top nary adventure presents spread of French fare. nfhich does justice to the bounty of Burgundy. for fli A Culinary Tout of Frana J wmn it i niiUlWmiMii "J Mamto I am daily l Four sparkling gems from the Philippines ■UE Discover a nite of enchanting music CiiED
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      420 23 Two stamps, used for a letter sent 146 years ago. is now worth 5 million Swiss francs Reuter A MYSTERY woman on Wednesday paid US$3.3 million (555.3 million) for the socalled "crown jewel of philately", an envelope with two stamps sent from Mauritius to a
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      306 23 CHATTERBOX Reuter UPI UPI AP AMERICAN crooner Barry Manilow gave details on Wednesday of a £2 million (554.7 million) musical, based on his hit record Copacabana. which will get its premiere in Britain next year. But the 47-year-old heart-throb said he would not appear
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      726 23 NST WHEN Major-General William Farquhar left Malacca as British Resident in 1818, he took back with him what was described as a unique collection of drawings and material on the natural history of Malaya. The only other major collector of drawings from that period
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      1169 23 TV RADIO Abraham to Bk Eric Roberts' fencing school as janitor, and starts teaching the <•' kids thing or two teachers' methods clash as W Roberts believes in winning at more cautious. M I he land on which an orphan- fV ago stands is bought b\ a pri- jB? \ate
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
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      Dunhill makes its first move into China market
      419 24  -  The luxury retailer remains confident amidst increasing competition. Corinne Kerk reports Corinne Kerk British luxury goods retailer Alfred Dunhill has made its first move into the China market. The company, which deals largely in men's clothing, lighters, pens, and leather products, opened
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      Lock icon UK designers wake up to needs of the older age group
      518 24 FT Forget the youth market. The only growing sector of the UK population is the over 50s. according to Danielle Barr of the 3rd Age marketing consultancy. Census figures indicate the population aged 50-54 will rise by 29 per
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      Lock icon Forget the price war, airlines push their image
      512 24 NYT Discounted air fares arc as common these days as delayed flights out of Atlanta. American Airlines sparked a round of fare cuts to Europe last month. Northwest Airlines started another round of discounting over the weekend. With the focus on price,
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      Lock icon CNN sees 200pc growth in advertising sales in Asia
      396 25 Bloomberg Business News TURNER Broadcasting System's Cable News Network (CNN) will open a news headquarters in Hongkong in late 1994 to capitalise on the region's growing advertising market. "CNN has seen its advertising sales in Asia grow by 200 per cent
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      Lock icon Japan's brewers go regional for not-so-small beer market
      298 25 NYT JAPANESE brewers are waging regional battles. Sapporo Breweries Ltd in June 1985 introduced the Classic beer exclusively in Hokkaido. Japan's northernmost main island. The strategy worked well and encouraged other brewers to target regions with special brands. There are seven regional
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        Singapore's best ads to go on show
        84 25 ADVERTISING judged to be Singapore's best will be on display from Nov 15 to Dec 4. These are the entries that survived the scrutiny of the panel of judges for the 1993 Creative Circle Awards, popularly known as the local industry's Oscar night.
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        Swiss watchmaker appoints agent
        64 25 THE oldest Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin has appointed Luxtime Singapore as its exclusive agent for Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Luxtime chairman Jack Cua said the appointment was made in February, but the announcement was made last week to mark the launch of Vacheron's latest Magellan collection.
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        HK firm to publish Amex magazine
        81 25 MANAGER International Company of Hongkong has reached agreement with American Express to publish Amex's bi-monthly magazine Expression. A memorandum of understanding was signed in Hongkong last week, and a five-year contract starting with the publication of the June/July 1994 issue is now under negotiation.
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        Dupont's friendly gas for car aircons
        97 25 DUPONT has launched an ozone friendly refrigerant gas under the trade name SUVA MP-52 for car airconditioncrs. The company said SUVA'S performance has been proven by a consumer market test conducted on 150 cars in the six months to March. A retrofit is needed,
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      Asians on a shopping spree
      523 25  -  Consumer spending seen as new source of growth, reports Chuang Peck Ming Chuang Peck Ming ASIAN consumers will step up their shopping sprees and become a new source of economic growth in the region, says Hongkong-based Crosby Research. Incomes have shot past a threshold level
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      54 24 EVENT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS A Subsidiary of the Ken-Air Leisure Group WELCOMES TO SINGAPORE John Denver is in Singapore to promote his Official Hotel Hcart t0 Heart **1* T Ut 1994 S WfSBKk Shangri La hotel B r&m. g SINGAPORE BMG PTE. LTD Event Management Consultants (EMC) Pte Ltd Tel: 336
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      34 24 Slpamofl Chickon Vegetables >T \JL V* y Seasonal Vegetable w 0 %o with Black Pu-Tien Fried Bee Hoon MAPLE LEAF Restaurant 390 Victoria Street #01 01/08, Golden Landmark Shopping Centre Singapore 0718 Tel: *****15/6
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    Showdown with Beijing?
    537 26 EDITORIAL THE British Cabinet committee's meeting on November 10 has all the trappings of a political huddle foreshadowing a showdown with Beijing over Hongkong. Word has been carefully leaked out that the 16th round of talks on Governor Chris Patten's political reform proposals on November 19 and
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      Europe's labour up in arms
      260 26 SO, HAS THE post-Keynesian, post-Marxist, postmonetarist order finally arrived in Europe, its steps heralded by the noisy breakdown of the labour consensus? Such, it would appear, is the unhappy case. When, last week, the authorities capitulated to striking Air France workers protesting against an austerity
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      The Moro solution
      213 26 NEGOTIATIONS ON THE future of the Moro minority of the southern Philippines are now in progress. This time, an Ascan approach is being tried for the first time. Indonesia is serving as the mediator. And judging from the turn of events, there is a likelihood that something
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      China, US military exchange
      227 26 UNITED STATES Assistant Secretary of Defence Charles Freeman's three-day official visit to Beijing signified the resumption of military exchange which had been terminated for four-and-a-half years because of the Tiananmen incident. Through this visit, it can be seen that the US is now adopting an objective
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      A budget for consumers
      150 26 BUDGETS ARE characterised by economic terminology like development expenditure, fiscal and monetary policies, incentives for overseas investments, and balanced budgets. For the man in the street, however, his gut reaction is how this will directly affect him and that often involves his pocket. Like the effect
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      Decentralising power
      141 26 THE PUBLIC REACTION to the Oct 23 measures that decentralise part of the investment licensing jurisdiction to second-level (regency) administrations have been mixed. The business community and analysts generally support and welcome the moves but with some reservations. The two main points of the qualified welcome through fundamental
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    Lock icon Bulls still going strong
    1213 26  -  Peter Martin examines the dizzying rise in global share prices Peter Martin FT THERE is a dangerous moment in all bull markets when rising prices become their own justification, when investors find it hard to think of reasons why shares should not head upwards indefinitely. That
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      198 26 BUSINESS TIMES TOLL—FREE TEL. No. 1-800-741-ISS3 FAX:74I-1298 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPAMES ACT. CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF SWEDA TECHNOLOGY rfE&SKPftSELy Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pur*want to Section 308 of the CompantM Act.Cap 50, the Final Meeting of the member* of
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      461 26 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND M THE MATTER OF MELOWA PTE LTD (In Mambsrs' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ttut pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act. Cap. 50. the Final Moating of the members of the abovenamed Company
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      82 26 l }W r Vi ffCP a g r sa a (rm PCT ioo Now HAVC LOOK OF t*w LJHO v \j S pvlvop«VS ON-me RUN V«>J < t w «ASSOCIATED NCMHMM LTO, IM2-IM3 9047 DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU YOU REALLY ARE YOU KID- FIRST OF ALL, YOU GOT THE LIKE THE
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      When a legal foundation is necessary
      2803 27  -  In an interview with Peter Seidlitz, Taiwanese Prime Minister Lien Chan warns all those forgetting in their China enthusiasm that the communist country is facing an uphill battle in its modernisation drive Peter Seidlitz, The writer is China Correspondent for Handelsblatt, the German financial
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      323 27 THE WINNING EDGE IN-DEPTH Egm BUSINESS NEWS "■7! or over two decades Singapore Business has covered t the local and regional business scenes with more depth and breadth from a perspective which is more relevant to local businessmen than any other publication. Some may call it an unfair advantage. We
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    Lock icon US economic growth likely to top 3pc in 4th quarter: Bentsen
    404 28 Reuter, AP WASHINGTON United States Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen expects US economic growth in the fourth quarter to top 3 per cent. "I'll bet you we grow... over 3 per cent," he said yesterday. Gross domestic product expanded by
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    Lock icon Only patriots can run Hongkong after 1997: Deng
    298 28 AFP BEIJING Only "patriots" can be allowed to run Hongkong once it reverts to China in 1997, paramount leader Deng Xiaoping was yesterday quoted as saying as a fresh Sino-British brawl over the British colony loomed. "Patriots must be the main body
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    Lock icon BP profits rise 75pc to £205m
    171 28 AFP LONDON British Petroleum yesterday announced that its net profit for the third quarter on a "historical" basis jumped 75 per cent from the year-earlier quarter to £205 million (Ss4Bl million). For the first nine months, profits jumped to £712 million, a sharp turnaround
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    Lock icon Some EC countries seek meeting to debate impasse in Gatt talks
    563 28 AFP, Reuter BRUSSELS Several European Community countries plan to call for a special EC ministerial meeting later this month to debate an impasse in Gatt world trade talks. A senior diplomatic source said yesterday that such a meeting could
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    Lock icon Jet lands in sea after missing Hongkong runway
    207 28 AP. AFP HONGKONG A China Airlines Bocing-747 (above) carrying nearly 300 people missed the runway and hit the sea in heavy rain at Hongkong's airport yesterday. Rescuers formed a human chain and led all the passengers to safety, Hongkong radio said. The
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    Lock icon Chinese satellite broadcasting
    71 28 AFP HONGKONG China is allow 18 local television stations to broadcast programmes by satellite to South-east Asia next year, starting with Fujian province. The Chinese ministry of radio, film and television gave the go-ahead as part of a move to end the monopoly on broadcasting held by
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    Umno elections: shrewd and sophisticated voting
    776 28  -  The Bottom Line YANG RAZALI KASSIM YANG RAZALI KASSIM The writer is BT's regional analysis editor MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was beaming at the press conference soon after the Umno elections results yesterday evening. The voting had been shrewd and sophisticated, he thought.
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      14 28 Beijing warned against breaching HK treaty, Pg 4 Editorial: Showdown with Beijing?, Pg 26
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  • Shipping Times
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      NYK expands capacity on AEX route
      478 29  -  Japanese carrier to become partner in NOL's Asia-East Coast Express By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Japanese liner major Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) will soon expand its capacity on the Far East-US east coast trade route. From Nov 13, the carrier will become a partner in
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      Lock icon Japanese bank to lend US$ to tanker operators
      573 29 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Ministry of Transportation and the Japanese Development Bank have agreed to start lending money in US dollars, rather than yen, to Japanese shipping companies seeking to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar, according to a report in the
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      Lock icon NZ may ban ships from Siberian ports
      451 29 AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand may ban ships that have visited high-risk Siberian ports after a Russian ship was found yesterday with Asian gypsy moth eggs in its hold, Forestry Minister John Falloon said. A Russian ship docked at Lyttelton, the Ivan Kotlyarevskiy, was
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1119 29 Page Col ABC Containerlinc 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Africa Container 16 1 Ahrcnkicl Liner 4 1/2 Alpha Feeders 18 1/2 Alprimo Freight 16 1 ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3-5 Appenship 18 3/4 Arabian Express 15 3 ASCL 5 5 ASXCLShpg
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      SML clinches its first cruise ship repair deal
      319 29  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Listed Sembawang Maritime Ltd (SML) has won its first contract to upgrade a luxury cruise liner, its parent Sembawang Group said yesterday. An SML spokesman declined to reveal the size of the contract but said the job involved
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        630 30 Vtud Voy No Arrival Departure Jurong Port Batam 11/01/93 )1 alongside 0511/2300 Batam Sayang 11/02/93 )1 alongside 0511/2300 FGA 1378 B 11/01/93 J2 alongside 0511/2300 Hondo 11/02/93 11 alongside 05.11/0500 Largo 4 15 alongside 05.11/2100 L<y Moo LM 08 J8 alongsde 0511/1200 Net kanc ff alongside 05.11.0600
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1603 30 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From to Dac, 0*58 OS/1800 1 04/1500 04/1659 04/1900 to Rose 946A 06/1900 1 04/1500 04/16S9 04/1900 3 05/0700 05/1159 05/1400 4
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      10846 38 This is a list of ships loading al Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimatec dates of arrival and departure fron the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang af
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      313 45 THE freight market report is unavailable. FIXTURES lanker: Tankers rates were viewed as little moved in slim pickings, which have plagued the market all week, brokers said. The Mideast Gulf saw a small increase in VLCC liftings but nothing to lift worldscale levels out of the low 40s.
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      Lock icon Forces working against Danish shipyards
      939 46 A great shipbuilding nation has to contend with a subsidy war, currency devaluations and exchange rate fluctuations 100Al WIDESPREAD international economic instability has slashed economic growth, and forecasts for growth in the developed countries in 1993 suggest that it will continue at a level of
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        Eight-year-old Emirates aims to spread its wings
        401 48  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Emirates, a relative newcomer to the international airline scene, expects to carry two million passengers this year, 21.4 per cent more than last year's 1.65 million. And by the year 2000, it aims to have five million passengers a
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        Lock icon PWA hopes new Canadian govt will help
        290 48 Reuter CALGARY, Alberta PWA Corp is hopeful that a newly elected Liberal government in Canada will support the company in its bid to leave the Gemini computer reservations system and forge an alliance with AMR Corp, PWA spokeswoman Linda Thomas said on Tuesday.
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        Lock icon Trans World emerges from bankruptcy
        415 48 Reuter Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Trans World Airlines Inc officially emerged from bankruptcy yesterday, after nearly two years of operating under federal court protection. The company said its reorganisation plan, which gained court approval in August, would result in US$l billion (551.59 billion) in
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        Lock icon No Taiwan-BAe talks until after polls: report
        315 48 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan Acrospace Corp (TAC) will not resume talks with British Aerospacc pic on their stalled joint venture before Taiwanese elections at the end of this month, TAC chairman Earle Ho was quoted as saying on Wednesday. Any further talks will be
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          62 48 Knight-Ridder LONDON The 33,240t container ship ZuangHe may need to discharge part of its container cargo and drydock. according to Lloyd's Intelligence. The vessel is anchored at Cristobal to evaluate what repairs are needed. The container vessel sustained damage to its bulbous bow after hitting
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          Lock icon US$ loans for Japanese lines
          68 48 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's Ministry of Transportation and the Japanese Development Bank have agreed to start lending money in United States dollars, rather than yen. to Japanese shipping companies seeking to import liquefied natural gas from Qatar, according to a report in the Nihort
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          Lock icon Oakland seeks ties with Ho Chi Minh
          87 48 AP OAKLAND. California A delegation led by Mayor Elihu Harris is scheduled to meet with Ho Chi Minh City officials next week to talk about possible international airline services and establishing a sister-city relationship. "We think it will make a lot of sense
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          Lock icon Airbus aims high in China market
          76 48 UPI Beijing Airbus Industrie is attempting to increase its market share in the world's fastest growing economy by flying the largest plane yet into the world's highest airport. An airbus A 330, a twin-engined wide-bodied plane that scats 335, flew this week into the
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          Lock icon Lloyd's tests safety in Bosporous
          76 48 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Lloyd's Register of London has been commissioned by unnamed US oil concerns to study shipping safety in the Bosporus, the Financial Times reported. The move is meant to relieve Turkey's concerns about the dangers of an increase in tanker traffic as
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          Lock icon UK invites tenders for Belfast airport
          52 48 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The British government has invited applications from potential purchasers for its planned sale of Belfast airport in Northern Ireland to the private sector, the Financial Times reported. The applications must be submitted to accountants Touchc Ross by Dec I. Bloomberg
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      1793 31 U. S. A. /CANADA NEXT AVAILABLE SAILINGS MAERSK JEDDAH V.9310 ETA SIN BTH NOVEMBER 1993 METTE MAERSK V.9310 ETA SIN 9TH NOVEMBER 1993 ANDERS MAERSK V.9318 ETA SIN 10TH NOVEMBER 1993 Vessel Voy ETA ETD Feeder by T" DESTINATIONS This week METTE maersk S3*) CY 10/11 0000 MRS CFS 09/11
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      577 32 FCL Breakbulk Service to: AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd., Sole Foreign Forwarder in Kabul for aN services C.I.S.- Vottochny, Vladivostok, Moscow, Tashkent, Kiev, Minsk, Riga, Baku, Irkutsk, Alma Ata North Korea t Vietnam Mongolia Hungary CSFR Poland coiiTrans AGENCIES (FAR EAST) LTD NOUAKCHOTT-BANJUL-BISSAU-LUANDA-BATA Feeder Vessel IT A SIN NED AFRICA V
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      2151 33 H STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoc Chiang Road #11-01 Koppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tol: *****88 Fax: *****17 IsWIliM new guinea pacific line oTra (A service of china navigation co) CARGO I S DUE SAAS BAIAH BROOKE »27E Muara. Lab 05-0« Nov 07 No* 08 No* FCL LC I CONTAINER
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      585 34 i|K EKA JAYA AGENCIES >3lgr TEL: *****22 (8 LINES) FAX: *****05 SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN CHARGE r~MYANMAH TRADE PAGER HANDPHONC/DIRECtH whuamwee jjsfis24 Tztsmomtn H. 4, TAN/MAWJ MM722 wjk KOHa ami— MO CHI MINH CITY TRADE HENRY HOE 21»0«24 727M«/M41»«4 MJUm«fl 72W7M/M4MM KELVIN CHAN ?1W«? 1 MM7a/MSBW _J TO MYANMAR/YANGON SEMI CONTAINER
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      1976 34 0 HANJIN SHIPPING I FOR VSI S#r~| lit HAUL St* POX f0« VSI PsiniHE HAUI SAV lIM NYC HANJIN ROTTERDAM 0241 11/11 (MRCCT 2/12 4/12 HANJIK TONGHAI 1021 411 M ASM 0121 9/12 10/12 12/12 HANAN FELIXSTOW 019E 18 11 OBICT 9/12 11/12 HANJIN FWXSTOWt 01* 18 11 M EUROPE
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      2298 35 II II sex: 'CALIFORNIA PEGASUS 17E' eta sgp 10/11/93 II II II ARRIVING LOS ANGELES 27/11/93 IN 16 DAYS HI II II AEX: 'NEPTUNE AZURITEI2E' ETA SGP 10/11/93 II H II ARRIVING MEW YORK 03/12/93 IN 22 DAYS HI EXPORT TO: PSW/PNW SINGAPORE CALIFORNIA EXPRESS (SCX) TO: USWC US GULF
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      1157 35 SINSOV SINGAPORE SOVET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD BOOKINGS: BALT ORENT LINE: *****64 FESCO: *****06 ENQUIRES: *****33 BLASCO ODESSA: *****51/*****31/*****13 INVENTORY: *****45 INWARD: *****81 OUTWARD: *****80 TRANSMPMENT: *****78 KL: 03-*****75/697 PORT KELANG: *****43/ *****40 JAKARTA: *****57 PENANG: *****4/ *****8 JOHORE BAHRU: *****1/ *****1 MARINE INSURANCE SERVICE: *****87/ *****87 CR NO: **********0/N
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      1782 36 K44 V W-9* AS AGENTS "K" LIM (SM6APORI) PTC LTD (CH No: 1244I*****0M) M TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX. *****16/7/8/9 I W T li 1 MALAYSIA "K" LINI MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD WrJ TEL SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 1 INDONESIA P.T. SARANA LAITTINTCRNUSA.
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      741 36 PHI LI-ORIENT LIN€S PT€ LTD V" 108 Robinson Road #07-00 GMG Building Singapore 0106 1 Tel: *****22/*****69/*****00 Telex: RS ***** Fax: *****76/*****38 A MEMBER OF THE SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION l AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND/SOUTH PACIFIC FCL/LCL SERVICE 7 NOV SYDNEY. MELBOURNE. BRISBANE, FREMANTLE 11 NOV AUCKLAND. WELLINGTON. LYTTLETON. NEW PLYMOUTH. NAPIER.
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      299 36 GOLDEN LINE A UfiiGUAN GUAN SHPPMG (PTE) LTD w 23. TeW «r» Street StftATOtt 0104 m S343JU (II UKS) rn: *****04 (ct No rnaww) ■TKAITB/PEKBIAW CPLF IMVICI S pore P Kelang Penang SOIDOI KM fcaractn Ouba l(/il Mm TIME GRACE Mr** Dubai 20/30 CHINA IMTICI GOLDEN WONDER China Ports 14/
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      1012 37 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I SSSSS 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I I CR NO: **********06 BmUUaUmI VESSEL VOY SIM BKK SIN VESSEL VOY SIN JUT VN KOTA SABAS KSB24N 7/11 10/11 14/11 3553 S/11 12/11 16/11 KOTA MELATI (BMT) KMLIIN S/11 11/11 15/10 EQUATOR RUBY
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      1740 37 VtSStLS VOT SPOKE HAMBURG ROTHRPAAI AWTWCRP THAMES U HWW VK.lt Ot 111 ANA 9330W 12/11 M/ 12 11/12 >2/12 13/12 14/» ADAM IgMMj 7131W 24/11 14/12 20/12 21/12 22/12 24/12 IHD MMtttUS 9431W 01/12 2S/12 27/12 2»/12 2»/12 31/12 hawsa cmren 733 m w/12 o*ol 04/01 os 01 ot 01
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      410 37 M MYANMA pMHk FIVE STAR LINE 1 (Myanmar National Lira) Loading for Yanfon (Rangoon) Spore P.KIf Pen P.Gd| TAUNGGTI V473W 10/12 Nov PAGAN V2O2W 14/16 No* HPA-AN VI97W 20/22 NOV MAldrsU AGENTS BOUSTEAO SHPPtNG AGENCES KUL TEL 03-*****00 PKL TEI 0 3 36*6767 PEN TEI 04-*****5 PSD TEI 07 *****1/4
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      2124 40 Full Container Liner Services m', General Agents: Booking Agents: Guan Guan Shipping Sdn Bhd Chung Chiao Shipping Sdn BM P.T. Global Potra Indonesia Maritime Costar Shipping Pie Ltd Sleeping Fnigkt Boohing Centre Sdeßhd 58 Ptnuru Pa/a Una Let 3.34, 3rd Fleer, it. IP. H. leanda 111/23 D-E 2 Mistri Port
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      328 40 m SHINYEI SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD 10 Anson Road #15-01/02 International Plaza Singapore 0207 CR NO: **********0N HOT LINE: *****38 (8 LINES) JAPAN FAR EAST PORTS KEELUNO O/tl KOBE/YOKOHAMA 7/11 HONOKOfM/CHINA 7/11 TOKYO/NAQOYA 7/11 BANOKOK 7/11 OSAKA 10/11 SUSAN 7/11 I FOR BOOKINGS, PLEASE CONTACT PORT kelang 7/11 DORIS, 8181,
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      506 40 VESSEL¥OYJAKARTASPOW BANGKOK MANILA GUAM SMUM I FORTUNE AC£ 1 NOV 1 NOV 5 NOV 11 NOV 17 NOV 19 I FORTUNE AC£ 2 NOV 23 DCC 3 D£C 9 O£C 15 O£C 17 I (REEFER CONTAINER AVAILABLE) I FORTUNE ACE 1 NOV 1 ARXTIS BREEZE Vl2 NOV 27 DEC 1
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      585 41 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA. S PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 8/H ROTTERDAM 8/H AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 8711 HAMBURG/BREMEN 8/tl MARSEILLE/FRANCE 14/11 FEIixSTOWE/UK 8/TI BARCELONA/SPAIN tl/11 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 8/TI GENOA/ITALY 6711 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 8/TI LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 7/11 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 7/11 NEW YORK/EC 7/TI FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 12/TI VANCOUVER 8/TI BRISBANE
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      1051 41 Hf]TTrTr i liy? a f umu>amuMm I VEgsCL vov T I VEB&EL VOY PEs B'rj 1 CHAIYA BHUM 248 Ed hi PI _Lli I£ll_ DEJA BHUM 2177 Sat 0/11 ~Mon t/11 g| VESSEL VOY j SN BKK j BHATRA BHUM 02S Sat •m__W^JOn l PERKABA 5/11 Tu- Ki ORA BHUM
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      653 41 Guaranteed Sailings to: BANGKOK LAEM CHABANG JAKARTA PORT KELANG •HO CHI MINH MANILA CEBU •SURABAYA PENANG HONGKONG We also serve other ports: VSA, EUROPE, CHINA AND ALL DESTINATIONS pi PONGNAMA LINE VESSEL SK PNG M PI KM HC HRELJM V3os* 11/11 13/11 14/11 IS/11 26/11 28/11 TW.SOAS VII2H 11/11 28/11
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      1472 42 AJJIMN CONTAINER LINES ZNS/VVM Agent* MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) wV v 'c/M Hoc UMS7MOQM SIBU (064) *****9 KUCHINQ (062) *****3 PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****67 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANQ: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 HKG/TWN/BKK I GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN
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      127 42 INDOJAYA SHIPPING i TRADING PTE LTD i 1 WEEKLY TO MKAKTA/BUHABAVA I Vaaaal eta/etd destination Nantai I 8- 9 Nov Jakarta/ Palombang I Pinang Jaya 12-13 Nov Jafcarta/Palambang I Parita Intan 15-17 Nov Jakarta/Palambang Maajaya 2- 3 Nov Jakarta/Palambang J Nantai H 4- S Nov Jafcarta/Palambang I Waaian 4- S
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      178 42 I SEAWARD SHIPPING AND I TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD ITA n* ET» STORE «*T KELMK POUNC U «K In Pt loafcnf tor Ml* RUVM HUDHU 20/11 ftxlwpnf and lo*fcn| hx Bombay DOfWI 19/11 loadiot Fof Mate nan* sumac lt/u loading for Male UMCHM 12/11 loading for Male piookss i*»rr
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      972 42 fJ> THONG SOON UNES PTE LTD 1 I 78 SHENTON WAY #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 I I \7 \y TR: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I I TLX: RS ***** CARRIER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK VESSEL VOY S PORE IBT* VESSEL IvOY Is PORE IIEST EQUATOR GRACE 103/3E
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      808 43 WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTING BREAKBULK SOC CAAGOCS TO FROM KOH. YOKOHAMA NAGOVA. MO*. TOKYO*. MANILA* OAVAO* Penary* P. Kelanj Smjapore E'Msia* KAMALEVERETT VISE 19-20 No* 21-22 No* KARABtVERETT VI4E 01/02 Dec IVYEVERETT V7E 27/28 Dec 29/30 Dec ACCEPTING MEAKBULK FCL SOC CARGOES TO FROM CMTTAGONG. CALCUTTA
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      341 43 Bt GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ft ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES' CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN IX 15/11 20/11 23/11 3/12 TIMBER ROYAL 5/11 11/11 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN VII 20/11 23/11 28/11 30/11
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      539 43 jdk PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE VI SSI L VOY SIN KARACHI KAGHAN 104 HW «/ll U/ll SARGOOHA 136HW 26/11 5/12 MAKHAN 143-HW 10/12 20,12 BOIAN 143 HW 19/1? Zt/\2 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY VtSStl VOY SJ« WG BSN OS* NAG VOW BOLAN 135 OW
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      540 43 |M—l FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/ P. ELIZABETH VESSEL SIN DURBAN P ELIZABETH SIN HUASMUNHE V4B 49 19/11 5/12 8/12 2S/12 HUAQINGME V4S/49 4/12 20/12 23/12 11/1 ACCEPTS CARGO TO JOHANNESBURG PRETORIA VIA DURBAN BOOMING AGENT FOR COSCO LCL CONSOL SIN TO DURBAN/ P. ELIZABETH SIN TO MADRAS
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      262 43 SIN FAR EAST 09/11 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 13/11 BANGKOK 07/11 MANILA/CEBU 07/11 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 08/11 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 07/11 BUSAN 07/11 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 07/11 HONG KONG SIN CHINA 07/11 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo S|N EUROPE/UK 08/11 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 08/11 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgana/Czech. SjN USA/CANADA 09/11 LOS ANGELES/NEW
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      754 44 HONGKONG/CHINA 14/11 JAKARTA 14/11 BANGKOK 14/11 MANILA 14/11 BUSAN 14/11 KEELUN6 9/11 TOKYO/KOBE 14/11 KAOSHIUNG 13/11 PORT KELAN6/PENAN6 8/11 YOKOHAMA 13/11 COLOMBO 14/11 FELIXSTOWE/HAMBUR6 8/11 CHITTA6ONG/MAORAS 14/11 ROTTERDAM/LE HARVE/ANTWERP 8/11 BOMBAY/KARACHI 8/11 BARCELONA. MARSEILLES. 6ENOA 14/11 LAX/NYC 14/11 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 11/11 CMT LINER EXPRESS AGENCIES PTE LTD ImlHB HOT-LINE 22-007-22 For
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      306 44 Contemn CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 13TH NOVEMBER ACCEPTING TO ALL NEW ZEALAND PORTS PENANG 12 NOV PORT KELANG II NOV JAKARTA 07 NOV BANGKOK 13 NOV SURABAYA 09 NOV HONGKONG 07 NOV MANILA 07 NOV FREMANTLE M NOV MELBOURNE 07 NOV SYDNEY 07 NOV BRISBANE NOV 13 NOV
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      518 44 Next Week's Sailings Siagapore I 105 ETD II To: ETD MR asiawarded Singapore Singapore 9002 lrqa EVERY EVERY Bangkok SUN Jakarta SL'N GBi FVFRY FVFRV k M\ Manila SLN Ho Chi Minh FRI JL EVERY EVERY K Colombo TLE Limassol THL'R L-=-ll MTERNATttRAL SEA FREIGHT FORWAJtDMG Tel: Fax: jam*. AND
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      1282 45 f II¥FSTT CRYSTAL FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD fl TEL NO: *****88/*****88 4||. gyjg FAX: *****88 AMAH POUTS MEW ZEAUWP/austuha EUHOPE BAwnKDk 7/11 AUCKLAND 11/11 ANTWERP 13/11 miQAN ft/11 ADELAIDE 11/11 FELIXSTOWE 13/11 SnXiri KONR 10/11 BRISBANE 18/11 HAMBURG 8/11 VAKARTA 2/11 FREMANTLE 11/11 ROTTERDAM 8/11 QVIBABAYA Q/II MELBOURNE 11/11 KEELUNG
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      205 45 37 GINZA ORIENT SHIPPING CO, SA. (GOSCO LINE) VESSEL VOY SM YANGON GINZA ORIENT 04/N 20 22 NOV 25 27 NOV QINZA ORIENT 03 N 8 11 NOV 13 15 NOV FAR EAST RUSSIA/LATVIA VIA ANTWERP BY CONTAINER DEEPSEA SERVICE VESSEL VOY SIN ANTWERP TBN 01 N IS 20 NOV
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      274 45 LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND PORTS VOY BUENOS MONTEVIOEO DURWAN JAKARTA SMQAPORTH HONG KONG KAQOSMMA YOKOHAMA VESSELS AWES'" N. KWUPSKAYA EBOI MUD SAKED SAUD SAKEP SAILED SAILED PQ/SS DEKAWWST EBO3 SAKED SAILED 28/10 12 18/11 21/11 25/11-02/12 04/12 PWIOZERSK EWQ4 04 11/11 12/11 2S-28/11 10-11/12 18/12 20 29/12 31/12 PAVLOGRAD EBOS
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      575 46 5 VIGOUR PACIFIC LINES VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE I MANILA VIGOUR PACFIC 30NB 05/11/93 13/11/93 VIGOUR PACFIC 30ANB 08/11/93 13/11/93 Si* VIGOUR SINGAPORE 66N8 12/11/93 1 20/11/93 w WT VESSEL VOYAGE 1 SINGAPORE PORT KLANG PENANG SINGAPORE VIGOUR MHDANAO 9329N8 05/11/93 07/11/93 09/11/93 VIGOUR PACFIC 30NB 05/11/93 07/11/93 08/11/93 PENANG JAYA
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      352 46 ©APPENSHIP HAMBURG Wv CONVENTIONAL A INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE S EUROPE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA AND FAR EAST VESSELS 10A0MG PORTS DISCHARGE/LOAWNG FOR YOU MING 23 09 93 SPORE 5/11. BKK 9/11 HMA 111 HAMBURG 07 10 93 SPORE 15/11, BKK 22/11 KANtN ANTWERP 02 10 93 SPORE 13/11 KOALA CONTAINER
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