The Business Times, 7 December 1993

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    14 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Tuesday December 7 1993 75 c
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow up 16 points at mid-day
      64 1 Reuter NEW YORK A strong bond market and a firm showing by cyclical issues helped to keep US stocks trading higher into mid-day despite a decline in the scmi-conductors sector which spilled over into some other technology stocks. At 1 pm EST. the Dow
      Reuter  -  64 words
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      Lock icon Philips plans joint venture with Taiwan
      56 1 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Dutch giant Philips Electronics plans a joint venture with the Taiwan government to build a large silicon wafer plant which will start this month, the company said. The plant will have the capacity to produce 25.000 eightinch wafers per month
      Bloomberg Business News  -  56 words
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      Lock icon Patten sets deadline for partial HK reforms
      56 1 AFP HONGKONG Governor Chris Patten yesterday set a deadline of Feb 23 for the Legislative Council to adopt his partial package of electoral reforms. He said the deadline was to allow enough time to put into place a voter registration list for local-level
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    115 1 Stock market indices Frida> C hang* ST1I 2.147.54 -3.96 KLSE CompoMlc...l.04l II 17 19 Nikkei 16 *40.38 -618.97 Hang Seng 9.609.69 .115.34 SET Index 1.377.41 11.38 Jakarta Composite ...523.54 1.81 CLSA China B 1.305 53 11 62 AuslAIIOrd 2.053.7 +6.3 FTSE 100 3.237.3 +3.1 Mi>nda> Previous I pm
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    HK shares soar on China's pledge to maintain prosperity
    398 1  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG CHINA'S pledges to maintain Hongkong's prosperity despite a renewed Sino-British clash on the colony's political future have triggered a new wave of buying on the bourse. Share prices soared yesterday as investors piled into Hongkong equity,
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    Nikkei plummets as doubts mount over stimulus package
    425 1  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO THE Tokyo stock market plunged again yesterday, accentuating what analysts say is becoming a period of dangerous uncertainty over where the political and economic situation in Japan is headed. The Nikkei-225 stock average shed 618.97 points or
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    Singapore and KL markets stay buoyant
    238 1 SINGAPORE Bullish sentiment continued to buoy the Singapore and Malaysian markets, with share prices ending generally higher yesterday despite a plunge on the Tokyo bourse. In Singapore, key indices BT Composite and BT-MGA hit new all-time highs. The BT Composite Index was 18.66 points
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    Parliament prorogued till Jan 10
    100 1 SINGAPORE Parliament was prorogued yesterday. The new session of Parliament will convene on Jan 10 with President Ong Teng Cheong's address, a government statement said. The recess was effected by an order of the President in the gazette. The term just ended the first session
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    Lock icon Goldman partners each to get at least US$5m in profit
    356 1 FT LONDON Partners of Goldman Sachs have millions of good reasons to celebrate. According to a bank insider, each of the 161 partners of the US-based global investment bank will receive a minimum profit share of US$5 million (SsB million)
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    ER's offer 200 times subscribed
    209 1 SINGAPORE Semiconductor chip distributor Electronic Resources set a new record for Sesdaq yesterday when its initial share offer for the public was subscribed more than 200 times. The previous record was held by Compact Metal Industries which saw its 15 million offered shares 103 times
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    Pan-United Corp launches offer of 138m shares
    365 1  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Marinebased industrial group PanUnited Corporation yesterday launched its initial public offer of 138 million shares. The offer 93 million new and 45 million vendor shares represents 25.4 per cent of the family-owned group's enlarged capital of 543 million shares.
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    Lock icon US and EC signal new accord on farm subsidies
    186 1 AFP BRUSSELS The United States and European Community signalled new agreement yesterday on the thorny question of farm subsidies, but remained locked over several issues in a last-ditch bid to salvage global trade talks. Signs of the farm accord were the
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      16 1 Property:Jg rf S'pore buyers help lift NZ market Overseas investment of Singapore's homegrown companies pushes $5b
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      54 1 Hock Lock Siew: pg 17 Is something amiss eft fCls- Bottom Line: Patten's reform package doomed from the start. Back Page Japan's third quarter GDP expected to shrink. Back Page Confusion over Japan's economic policy. Page 6 Japanese banks play it safe in the Euromarkets, Page 15 Review of Japanese
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      13 1 Thqjkfttom Line: ph 16 doomed reform package Fuller reports on Pages 26, 28
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Demand for executives up 26pc
        305 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling THE banking and finance sector appears to have had its fill of new recruits. The number of vacancies advertised by the sector in the Appointments and Notices section of The St rails limes last month grew by a mere 23 per
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      Reservists become NSmen from Jan 1
      177 2 SINGAPORE will soon do away with military "reservists" or at least the term, that is. From Jan 1, the official term will be changed to "operationally ready national servicemen". For short, they will be called "national servicemen" or "NSmen". In a speech before the
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      Local firm selling plot of land 5 times the size of Padang
      504 2  -  By A J Leow LOCAL construction firm Swee Construction Transport Co has put up a huge family-owned plot believed to be worth at least Siso million for sale by private tender. Located near the Bukit Timah residential corridor
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      Lock icon Singapore firms may have invested S$4.9b overseas by end-1992
      424 2  -  By Schutz Lee THE overseas investments of homegrown companies may have reached 554.9 billion at the end of 1992. the Department of Statistics said yesterday. In a paper on "Direct Investment Abroad of Local Companies. 1991", the statistics department said that
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      No need to give details of amended charge: Attorney-General
      510 2  -  The OSA trial By Ramesh Divyanathan THE Attorney-General sees no need to spell out the details of the amended charge against a Monetary Authority of Singapore economist of having endangered the secrecy of official data. Chan Sek Keong yesterday told a
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      This year's 6 millionth visitor expected on Thursday
      325 2 SINGAPORE is to welcome its six millionth visitor this year on Dec 9, according to the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB). At a press briefing yesterday, STPB executive director Pek Hock Thiam said that this will be the first time that the
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  • THE REGION
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      Vietnam keen on joining Afta on step-by-step basis
      402 3  -  From Al Labita in MANILA MANILA Vietnam has expressed interest in joining the Asean free trade area (Afta) on a "step-by-step" basis. Addressing the 3rd AseanVietnam symposium yesterday, Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien said the move would help economic cooperation
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      Lock icon Call to set up Islamic trade, economic forum
      331 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian Finance Minster Daim Zainuddin has suggested the setting up of an Islamic Trade and Economic Forum to forge greater economic cooperation among Islamic countries. The forum, which should be initiated by the private sector, should also help
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      Lock icon Hanoi aims for 8pc GDP growth in coming years
      214 3 AFP HANOI Prime Minister Vo Kan Kiet. opening a session of the Vietnamese National Assembly yesterday, demanded that economic growth be speeded up "in order to get the country out of poverty". Mr Kiet said the government had set a target
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      Lock icon KL spurns Canberra's offer to operate satellite TV network as row escalates
      564 3 AFP, Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia yesterday spurned an Australian offer to operate a global satellite television network and backed calls for a boycott of Australian goods as Canberra stood firm in refusing to apologise for criticising Malaysian leader
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      Lock icon Escap should provide mechanism for private sector networking: Rafidah
      336 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap) should provide the mechanism for greater private sector networking within the region. Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry Rafidah Aziz said yesterday Escap should also revitalise
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      Lock icon China accuses Britain of sabotaging talks on HK
      486 4 AFP, Reuter HONGKONG China continued its war of words against Britain and Hongkong Governor Chris Patten yesterday with officials saying the British had thoroughly sabotaged the talks on the colony's future. In a dispatch datelined from here the official Xinhua news agency
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      Lock icon Leading HK pro-democracy party wins by-election
      262 4 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong's leading pro-democracy party has won a by-election held amid a new Sino-British row over the colony's political future. Results released yesterday showed Wong Yiu-sang of the United Democrats won the election to a District Board local council in the New Territories
      Reuter  -  262 words
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      Lock icon S Korean riot police cracks down on rice import protesters
      342 4 AFP SEOUL Riot police teargassed demonstrators throwing paint and rocks at ruling party offices in the southern Korean city of Kwangju yesterday as protests against foreign rice imports escalated countrywide. The crackdown followed the reported agreement by Seoul in Geneva
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Vietnam oil exports exceed '92 output
        72 4 Reuter HANOI Vietnam's state oil import-export firm, Petechim, exported 5.545 million tonnes of crude oil in the first 11 months of this year, the official Vietnam News Agency reported yesterday. Customers were in Japan, Singapore and Australia, the agency said. No comparison figure was
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        Lock icon Turning 66
        28 4 AFP BANGKOK Hundreds of Thai students participated on Sunday in traditional festivities to mark the 66th birthday of King Bhumipol Adulyadej in Bangkok's Royal Plaza. AFP
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        Lock icon Taiwanese spending more abroad
        55 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwanese spent US$5.B5 billion (559.4 billion) on overseas travel in the first three quarters this year, up 5 per cent from the same period last year, the central bank said yesterday. "Compatriots are spending more abroad because of the strong Taiwan dollar and rising
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        Lock icon Indon union told to look after workers
        59 4 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian Vice-President Try Sutrisno yesterday urged the country's only officially tolerated union to look after workers' interests. "The SPSI (All-Indonesia Labour Union) should give a fresh atmosphere and a dynamic perspective for workers in the interest of the whole nation," Gen
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      Lock icon China gearing up for another period of fast growth next year
      238 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China's economy is geared up for another year of fast growth in 1994 but the nation's continued moves towards a market system won't be without pain as loss-making state enterprises are forced into bankruptcy, according
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      Lock icon No timetable for tariff cuts on US farm goods: Taiwan
      156 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan has not yet set a timetable to cut import tariffs for agricultural products but is prepared to have discussions with the United States, according to the cabinet's Council of Agriculture. "We have not yet planned to cut
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      Lock icon Confusion reigns over Japan coalition's economic policy
      505 6 Reuter TOKYO Confusion grew yesterday over whether Japan's coalition government plans any moves to boost the faltering economy, battering share prices. "The coalition has no scenario, it has no strategy, it changes every day," said one government source. Hopes that the coalition was
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      Lock icon Socialist Party threatens to quit coalition if Tokyo lifts rice import ban
      483 6 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Socialist Party, the largest in the ruling coalition, could quit the alliance if the government bowed to world pressure and lifted a ban on foreign rice imports, senior party members said yesterday. Prime Minister Morihiro
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      Lock icon Tokyo's new defence minister Aichi takes office
      198 6 Reuter TOKYO Kazuo Aichi formally took office as Japan's defence chief yesterday following his predecessor's resignation over a constitutional row. "I will do my best to secure funds to keep up a balanced defence structure," he told 600 officers and ministry officials in
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      Lock icon Bhutto wants to levy unpopular farm tax to boost Pakistani economy
      347 6 Reuter ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto wants to levy an unpopular agricultural tax, vital to win international funding to underwrite Pakistan's flagging economy for the next three years, an official said on Sunday. Special adviser on finance V A
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon EC finance ministers reject Delors' investment project
      517 7 AFP BRUSSELS A massive 120 billion European Currency Unit (SS2I2 billion) investment project to boost growth and employment in the European Community has been rejected by EC finance ministers. They said on Sunday the plan had been prepared too hastily and with too
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      Lock icon Turkey to sell three state firms
      404 7 Privatisations will proceed despite early obstacles, say officials Reuter ANKARA Turkey would try to jump-start its stalled privatisation programme with the sale of stakes in three partly foreign-owned firms in the new year, privatisation officials said. An official at the privatisation agency (KOI) said
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      Lock icon No extra subsidies for E German firms
      202 7 Bloomberg Business News BONN German industry association DIHT has rejected additional subsidies for eastern German companies despite the "dramatic" situation of many companies there, says Hans Peter Stihl, the head of the association. At a regular meeting yesterday with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
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      Lock icon UK consumer spending steady before Christmas
      326 7 Reuter LONDON British consumers took on a net £311 million (***** million) of credit in October, suggesting confidence remained sturdy in the run-up to the important pre-Christmas spending period. While the net figure was down from £489 million in September the highest figure for
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      Lock icon Little hope for Russia's hostages of the north
      402 7 AFP VORKUTA. Russia Stalinist labour camps have disappeared from the landscape of this coal-mining centre but its 200,000 residents say they face life in Russia's Arctic north under a new jailer: economic hardship. Miners, municipal employees, store clerks and in particular pensioners
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      Lock icon US manufacturers shift to hiring mode
      426 8 NYT CHICAGO When Terry Ochs got out of the Marine Corps last spring after eight years as a helicopter crewman and aircraft mechanic, he journeyed up and down the US west-coast and throughout the mid-west searching fruitlessly for maintenance work with an airline. Finally,
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      Lock icon Mexico will ratify Nafta this week, says Gore
      265 8 Reuter WASHINGTON Vice-Pres-ident Ai Gore said on Sunday the government of Mexico would announce positive action this week in return for passage by the United States of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Critics of Nafta had suggested that the US had
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      Lock icon Leftists win in Italy's municipal polls
      277 8 NYT ROME After decades in opposition, candidates backed by Italy's former communists won municipal elections on Sunday, defeating neo-fascists and other conservatives, computer projections showed. The voting, widely seen as a weather vane for national elections expected in the spring, pitted left-wing alliances against
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      Lock icon UK acts to bolster small firms
      90 8 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The Confederation of British Industry has launched a drive to bolster the efficiency of small businesses by appointing a 14-member working group to study ways to improve management training and support for smaller companies. Phillip Clarke, managing director of Clamason
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      Lock icon Top magazines suffer poor newsstand sales
      197 8 NYT NEW YORK Newsstand sales of leading magazines have declined sharply in the past decade. reflecting profound changes in the industry and in the way readers buy their magazines. A report to be released this week by Vos, Gruppo Capcll, investment bankers and direct
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      Lock icon The east is turning red, say German newspapers
      294 8 Reuter BONN German newspapers expressed concern yesterday at the return of reformed communists as a political force in local elections in east Germany's Brandenburg state. "The east is turning red," the Hamburger Abendblatt declared. "A sad sight for the Christian Democrats." Die
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  • SPORTS
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      Wanted: $10m a year for Sports Excellence 2000 plan
      409 9  -  By Shahiron Sahari SINGAPORE Sponsors were invited to come forward to help meet the $10 million needed annually to make a success of Sports Excellence 2000 (Spex 2000), the new national sports scheme aimed at producing Asian and Olympic Games champions.
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      Lock icon Christmas gift for Germany: Davis Cup from Stich & Co
      435 9 Christmas gift for Germany: Davis Cup from Stich Co AP DUSSELDORF Towards the end of the year, when most of his rivals are either enjoying the sun or thinking about it, Michael Stich plays his best tennis. Two weeks after winning the ATP Tour World Championship in Frankfurt, Stich gave
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        146 9 AP NEW YORK Basketball's Michael Jordan was the richest athlete for the second straight year, earning an estimated US$36 million (5J57.6 million), Forbes magazine reported on Sunday. Boxer Riddick Bowe, who didn't appear on the 1992 list, was second at US$25 million and car racer Ayrton Senna was third at
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        Lock icon American Football
        66 9 Reuter NEW YORK NFL on Sunday: Buffalo 24 LA Raiders 25; Chicago 30 Green Bay 17; Cleveland 17 New Orleans 13; Detroit 0 Minnesota 13; NY Jets 6 Indianapolis 9; Pittsburgh 17 New England 14; Tampa Bay 17 Washington 23; Houston 33 Atlanta 17; Miami 14 NY Giants
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        24 9 Reuter NEW YORK NBA Sunday: Geveland 98 Houston 99; Milwaukee 98 Phoenix 117; Denver 115 Dallas 110; LA Lakers 99 Minnesota 101. Reuter
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        145 9 Reuter BRISBANE Australia posted a record score against New Zealand yesterday in the third and final test in a relentless pursuit of a second successive innings victory. Resuming on 533 for six, Steve Waugh and spinner Shane Wame piled on the agony for the demoralised tourists, and at lunch
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        Lock icon Golf
        119 9 AFP FISHER ISLAND, Florida Japan's Isao Aoki's three-foot birdie putt on the final hole eliminated top money winner Dave Stockton for a victory here on Sunday at the US$lOO,OOO Senior PGA Shoot-out. The event matched 10 top players in a hole-by-hole single elimination format, with ties broken by a
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        Lock icon Swimming
        226 9 Reuter PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spun American Allison Wagner upstaged Chinese ace Dai Guohong but China's women bounced back as the inaugural world short-course swimming championships closed on Sunday with tour world marks in the final session. Wagner accounted for the first, cracking the apparent invincibility of Dai in the
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      Lock icon Price wins golf's richest trophy
      347 9 Golf AP SUN CITY, South Africa Zimbabwe's Nick Price, avenging years of bad luck here, fired a remarkable scven-under 65 and set two tournament records to win golfs richest prize on Sunday at the Million Dollar Challenge. "Without a doubt, it's the finest four rounds
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Their music lives!
      729 11  -  Joyce Quek explores the magical quality of the music and lyrics of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. who left the audience in a timeless trance Joyce Quek "Home where my heart's escaping, home where my music's playing, home.." Homeward Bound. HOME was where Simon and Garfunkel brought
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      Death of a musical genius
      399 11 CHATTERBOX MUSICIAN and composer Frank Zappa, who fused rock, jazz and classical music behind lyrics of scathing, often raunchy satire and social commentary. has died of prostate cancer. He was 52. Zappa died on Saturday evening at his Los Angeles home. The musician, hailed by
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
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      Singapore buyers help to lift NZ market out of slump
      560 12  -  Asians have breathed life into a stagnant sector with NZssoom in deals, reports Abdul Hadhi Abdul Hadhi THE commercial property market in urban New Zealand has shown signs of increased demand over the past year, particularly from Singaporeans. In its
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      PROPERTY WATCH
      248 12 Jones Lang SfSWootton Selected transactions in the past week -wr t x *>* PRIVATE __U Dec 2,1993 1024 Spnng Grove Apt 1012 99LH 738,000 730 Oec 1,1993 1025 Sommerville Park Apt 1948 FH 974,000 500 Nov 29,1993 1027 AllsworthPark Apt 2000 999LH 960,000 480 Nov 30,1993 1027 Astor
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      Pick-up in sight for M'sian property
      1212 13  -  Relaxation of FIC rulings on foreign buying is giving the market a boost, report Alex Chng and Gary Ng Alex Chng,Gary Ng The writers are analysts with the research department of Alliance Securities. THE Malaysian property market is at the end of a consolidation
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        JLW spending more on staff-training
        68 13 SINGAPORE Jones Lang Wootton Asia has started a programme to keep employees up to date with regional property trends. The eourse is conducted by senior JLW stafT in conjunction with the School of Estate Management of the National University of Singapore. JLW has spent more
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        Lock icon Flying treat for Thai condo buyers
        77 13 Bangkok Post BANGKOK Developer Sukhumvit Park flew in 50 buyers from Singapore and Hongkong for the King's Birthday weekend. "It was our way of saying thank you to foreign buyers who bought units about a vear ago." chairman Apichai Sakchalathorn said on Friday. Most
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        Lock icon Building licence time shortened
        79 13 Bangkok Post BANGKOK Builders will in future have to obtain a guarantee from a planning or engineering consultancy before they apply for a housing development licence. Consultancies authorised to give such guarantees will be controlled by the Land Department. The move is aimed at shortening the
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        Lock icon Pricey Melbourne homes in demand
        51 13 Australian Financial Review MELBOURNE Demand for upmarket homes in Melbourne's inner suburbs is picking up with a vengeance, according to valuer Herron Todd White. Expensive properties in money-belt suburbs are back in favour and prices have begun to rise quickly, the firm savs. Australian Financial
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        Lock icon No sharp drop in Aussie office vacancy
        81 13 Australian Financial Review SYDNEY Vacancy levels in the Brisbane CBD commercial market will not fall below 10 per cent until 1997. according to Colliers Jardine. Based on employment projections, the growth over the next four years will absorb only the market's existing empty
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      235 13 VISITING PROFESSOR SAYS: "SUCCESS MB REMARKABLY HIGH AT f HUME FRANCE"*, I .-jj tionist Professor D.J. Naismith from the University of London, recorded some very complimentary remarks about Marie France. Here is an excerpt from the professor's findings: "I was most impressed with the <f Marie France Bodtyiine system, and
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    Time to consider co-opted ministers
    642 14 EDITORIAL EVERY few years, the government sees the need to revamp its pay scales, convinced it has yet again fallen far behind the private sector. Each time it raises salaries, as in the latest round when the revision at the top end is a hefty
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      Dealing with North Korea
      264 14 WHEN US President Bill Ginton announced that the United States would be prepared to resolve all issues with North Korea if it agreed to renounce the nuclear option, the expectation was that Pyongyang would respond positively to his conciliatory approach. But the Kim II Sung regime
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      The need to remain competitive
      160 14 THE VISIT TO Jakarta by Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is significant. It reaffirmed Singapore's commitment to development in the Riau islands under the growth triangle concept. But while both countries begin to enjoy the fruits of the development in the islands, they cannot
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      Civil service wage increases
      213 14 EVERY TIME there is a salary adjustment within the civil service, the private sector will, inevitably, be used as a source of comparison. In principle, there should not be too wide a gap between wages in the two sectors. That public organisations want to be on
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      Playing down golf
      175 14 GOLFs rising popularity is becoming a dubious tribute to this country's rising affluence. Even with abundant land, an obtrusive number of courses would be emblematic of the cloying isolation of the nouveau riche. But as the country develops and virgin acreages shrink, there will be ever fewer
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      Will Gatt be gutted?
      256 14 THE 115-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) has under two weeks to wrap up the Uruguay Round which has lasted seven years, three years past the original target date, before the Dec 15 deadline. After this date will we kiss Gatt, the only world
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    High price to pay in long term
    950 14  -  Tye Kim Khiat feels the diplomatic row between Australia and Malaysia will make it harder to get Australians to think Asian and to embrace the region in totality Tye Kim Khiat The writer is a Melbourne-based journalist who contributes to BT SO AUSTRALIA'S
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      115 14 I I slllkESdMfiLu goes on a househunt How much are private properties going for? Should you buy now, or later? House Hunt gives you the actual transacted prices of all private property sold in Singapore each month. SPOTLIGHTS: IK CORP. INNO-PACIFIC HOLDINGS "i From that, you'll SElftlfti I have a
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      Lock icon Playing it safe in the Euromarkets
      1139 15  -  Japanese banks are scrambling to repay overseas borrowings and liquidate loans. Tokyo Correspondent Anthony Rowley finds out why Anthony Rowley DURING what seemed like a golden age of overseas expansion for Japanese commercial banks in the late 1980s, few people appeared to question how
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      Lock icon More show than showdown
      1034 15 Despite widespread protests, it is wrong to conclude that Europe's trade unions are experiencing a renaissance The Economist EUROPE'S winter of discontent is worsening. On Nov 29, Spain's two main trade unions said they would call a oneday general strike in January unless the Spanish government
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    Lock icon US-EC talks on world trade deal hanging in the balance
    621 16 AFP. Reuter BRUSSELS Talks between the United States and European Community to pave the way for a world trade deal are said to be on "knife-edge" between success and failure although a deal on agriculture is all but completed. EC
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    Lock icon Japan rejects US demand in trade framework talks
    193 16 AFP TOKYO Japan yesterday rejected a US demand to set numerical targets in promoting official procurements of telecommunications equipment, official sources said. The US demand was made during bilateral talks held here in accordance with a trade framework agreement reached in July
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    Lock icon India vows to protect farmers from global patent laws
    252 16 AP NEW DELHI The government yesterday promised to shield farmers from international patent protection plans that would force them to pay royalties on high-yield seeds. In a country where nearly two-thirds of the 880 million people are dependent on farming many
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    Lock icon The power men
    69 16 Reuter NEW YORK Heads of the 'Big Three' carmakers in the United States, Bob Eaton (left) of Chrysler, Ford's Alex Trotman (centre) and General Motors' Jack Smith, as they appear on the cover of Time magazine's Dec 13 issue. It is the first time ever that the
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    Lock icon Cambodian vendors' protest turns into backlash against Thai businesses
    368 16 AFP PHNOM PENH Cambodians turned against Thai businessmen yesterday as 500 vendors protested against the price of stalls in a Thai-built shopping mall, and co-premier Prince Norodom Ranariddh vowed to get rid of the Thaiowned Floating Hotel. The vendors, angry about
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    Lock icon Japan's third quarter GDP expected to shrink: survey
    342 16 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's gross domestic product is expected to contract 2.75 per cent during the third quarter on an annual ised basis. A survey of 11 economists, released yesterday, showed that they predicted GDP. the broadest measure of a country's
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    Lock icon Bomb blasts hit India's luxury trains, killing 1 and injuring 29
    227 16 UPI. Reuter NEW DELHI A series of coordinated bomb blasts ripped through Trans-India luxury trains early yesterday, killing one and wounding at least 29 on the first anniversary of the destruction of a mosque by Hindu rallyists. Railroad authorities
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    Patten's reform package is doomed from the start
    724 16  -  The Bottom Line JACKIE SAM JACKIE SAM The writer is a Hongkong-based political consultant who contributed this commentary to BT GOVERNOR Chris Patten's political reform package for Hongkong is now history. The ironyis that it will begin its passage through the legislative
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    Lock icon China approves trade, Taiwan investment laws
    117 16 AFP BEIJING The government yesterday approved draft laws to greatly liberalise its trade regime and provide protection for Taiwanese investment for the first time. State television reported that the trade law will reform China's trade system to meet the requirements of its shift to
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      Pan-United's share offer to boost expansion plans
      536 17  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Pan-United Corporation's initial public offer, launched yesterday, should give a boost to the marine-based group's plans to expand, diversify and go regional. Net proceeds from the 138-million-share offer are expected to be at least $95.9 million. Of this amount,
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      Investment in Royal Air Cambodge is the kind SIA wants: MD
      342 17 SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines' recent investment in Royal Air Cambodge gives the national carrier just the type of strategic linkage it wants and there may be more such ventures to come. "Royal Air Cambodge was not a difficult decision," said
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      Bt Sembawang replies to SES
      119 17 SINGAPORE Property group Bukit Sembawang said yesterday its interim net earnings were higher than turnover because of a write-back involving development expenses for two projects. The company, which recently announced half-time earnings of $6.24 million on turnover of 51.65 million, said the write-back resulted from
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      Lock icon Is something amiss at PCI?
      755 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Movements this year in the share price of Sesdaq-listed electronics manufacturer PCI have been interesting to watch. The price which was hovering around Si.os in August doubled to $2.10 in mid-November. But in the past week, it has
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      Creative Tech gets new chief financial officer
      231 17 SINGAPORE Homegrown Creative Technology has found a senior executive in the US computer industry to replace outgoing chief financial officer Ken McEwan. Patrick Verderico will join the company's office in Milpitas, California, next month. Mr Verderico is currently chief financial officer and vice-presi-dent
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      Sembawang unit in tie-up to bid for projects in Brunei
      192 17 SINGAPORE Sembawang Engineering has formed a joint venture company to bid for projects in Brunei. The company said in a statement yesterday that it signed an agreement with Dam it Engineering Services on Sunday to form Bruneibased Dam it Sembawang
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      Hong Fok subsidiary sells China property-project stake
      219 17 SINGAPORE Winfoong Investment Ltd, the Hongkonglisted subsidiary of Hong Fok Corp, has hived off its interests in a property project in China with the sale of an investment company. Hong Fok said yesterday that Winfoong had agreed to sell its entire stake in
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      Lock icon SUMMARY
      314 17 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Dec 6 Last Srt* ladex Slock salt Chge factor mo»m (S) Avimo 1.910 1.31 CAC 8050 5.50 CWT 2.720 0 010 1.86 -3 70 Ceretoos 6 650 -0 150 4 54 55 56 FAN 16 100 -0 100 1100 37.04 Gen
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          Lock icon J Megah sells Jasachem to KL Kepong
          81 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Jasa Megah Industries Bhd is disposing its entire one million Msl shares in Jasachem Investments Sdn Bhd to Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd for MS 1.66 million (S$ 1.04 million). It has also acquired 6.5 per cent of Insas Bhd for
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          Lock icon Tenaga on its profit forecast deviation
          104 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Tenaga Nasional Bhd told the KLSE yesterday that the deviation from its forecast consolidated pre-tax profit after minority interest and the actual audited results for the year ended Aug 31, 1993, was caused by a change in generating fuel mix and
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          Country Heights' listing gets nod
          44 18 KUALA LUMPUR Country Heights Holdings Bhd's listing on the KLSE main board has been approved by the Securities Commission. The property and resorts group will make a public issue of 15 million shares priced at MS 1.50 a share.
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          Kamunting unaware of market action
          71 18 KUALA LUMPUR Kamunting Corp Bhd has informed the KLSE that it is not aware of any rumour or other conditions leading to the unusual market action of the company's securities on Dec 2. It adds that there is no material development in the company's business
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          Lock icon CASH to complete rationalisation
          75 18 Bernama KOTA KJNABALU CASH Bhd will complete its rationalisation exercise within four months and thereafter venture into other business activities to boost earnings, its chairman Abdul Mulok Awang Dam it said yesterday. The company is in the process of selling off its subsidiary company, United Plywood
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          Lock icon Lam Soon Huat's profit forecast
          80 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Lam Soon Huat Development Bhd (LSH) has forecast a group pre-tax profit of M 541.24 million for the year ending Dec 31, 1994, after completion of the acquisition of properties and investments from Industrial Oxygen Incorporated (IOI) for M$ 177.5 million. In
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        Berjaya Textiles to buy Jaya Tiasa as part of restructuring
        400 18  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Berjaya Textiles Bhd (BTB) of the Kuala Lumpur-based Beijaya Group Bhd (BGB) is to acquire Jaya Tiasa Plywood Sdn Bhd (JTP) for MS 1.04 billion (***** million). The deal is part of a larger restructuring plan
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        Lock icon Ekran to build inter-budget hotels in all M'sian states
        191 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Ekran Bhd, the construction and cable manufacturing group, plans to build inter-budget hotels in all states in Malaysia. Ekran executive chairman Ting Pek Khiing yesterday said the group would operate about 15,000 rooms in the country by 1996
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        Lock icon Melewar Corp to invest M$50m in four-star hotel
        263 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Melewar Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary Harta Bumi Sdn Bhd. will invest about MSSO million (SS3I million) to build a four-star city hotel. Group managing director Tunku Iskandar Tunku Abdullah yesterday said the 230room hotel project would
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        Lock icon M'sian listed companies group against new accounting standard
        242 18 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Federation of Public Listed Companies (FPLC) has voiced strong opposition to a new accounting standard, issued by the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), which makes it mandatory for companies to write-off goodwill effective from Jan I, 1994. FPLC
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        Lock icon Kumpulan Emas to reorganise operations of subsidiaries
        197 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kumpulan Emas Bhd will reorganise the operations of its wholly owned subsidiary, Salcon Engineering Sdn Bhd, and its other subsidiaries, to venture into sectors where the potential is greater. Kumpulan Emas chairman Datuk Setia Haji Abdul Ghani bin Ali says
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        Lock icon Taiwan's SEC seeks to double upper limit on foreign funds
        370 19 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI The Securities and Exchange Commission has sent a letter to Taiwan's central bank asking to double to US$lO billion (Ssl6 billion) the total amount of funds foreign financial institutions are allowed to invest in the country's
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        Lock icon HK's Champion sets up joint venture telecom firm in China
        193 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Champion Technology Holdings, a rapidly growing Hongkong telecommunications company, has agreed to set up a joint venture telecommunications company in Beijing. Champion and Chinese partner, Beijing Ji Tong Communications Co, will develop, manufacture and sell communication
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        Lock icon Astra's net profit jumps 72pc on increased bank lending
        331 19 Reuter JAKARTA Astra International's 72 per cent increase in net profit in the first nine months over the same period in 1992 was helped by lower interest rates and increased bank lending, according to brokers. Astra, one of Indonesia's largest groups
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        Lock icon Japanese textile firm to close plant; shares suspended
        202 19 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Textile maker Carolina is to close its Toyama textile weaving and agriculture plant by March 31, company president Kosaku Shimada announced yesterday. Mr Shimada, speaking to reporters at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, said the plant closing was forced
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        Lock icon Northern Telecom eyes 20pc of world cordless phone market
        222 19 Reuter LONDON Canada's Northern Telecom Ltd is aiming for at least a fifth of the worldwide cordless business telephones market which it believes could be worth US$3O billion (Ss4B billion) a year by the end of the decade, a senior executive
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        Lock icon Shinawatra to invest US$600m in Philippine project
        208 19 AP MANILA Thai telecommunications giant Shinawatra International will invest US$6OO million (Ss96o million) in a five-year telephone expansion project in the Philippines. Company president Thaksin Shinawatra made the announcement yesterday at the signing of a joint venture agreement with a Filipino communications company,
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        Lock icon Wang New Zealand launches share float
        238 19 AFP WELLINGTON Wang New Zealand, a subsidiary of the American-based computer company which recently came out of bankruptcy, launched a NZ$l5 million (S$ 13 million) share float here yesterday. Forecasts in the offering memorandum put tax-paid earnings by Wang New Zealand for the year
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          Lock icon Top Indian firms' net profits up 36pc
          85 19 Bloomberg Business News NEW DELHI The aggregate net profit of India's top 1,250 companies rose 36 per cent in the half year through September, compared with the same period last year. The Economic Times research bureau reported. "Despite a modest rise of 16
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          Lock icon Nod for Regal Hotels preference issue
          59 19 Reuter HONGKONG Regal Hotels International Holdings said its issue of 125,000 convertible cumulative redeemable preference shares was approved at a special general meeting last Friday. The shares, which carry interest of 5.25 per cent and priced at US$l,OOO (S$ 1,599) each, will raise US$l25
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          Haixin B shares debut
          53 19 HONGKONG Trading in Shanghai Haixin Co Ltd B shares will begin on the Shanghai exchange tomorrow, the company said. A producer of flannel and plush for the toys industry, it completed a private placement with 45 local and foreign institutional investors of 35 million B shares
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          Sincere's interim net profit falls 5pc
          63 19 HONGKONG Hongkong department store and property investment company Sincere Co said its net profit fell 5 per cent to HK526.2 million (555.4 million) for the six months ended Aug 31 from the same period last year. The figures are after tax and payments to
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          Lock icon BHP sells A$500m share plan loans
          57 19 Knight Ridder SYDNEY BHP Co Ltd said it planned to sell up to ASSOO million (SSS3O million) in employee share plan loans to a company managed by Deutschebank Australia Ltd. BHP will be paid according to the face value of the loans and use
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          Lock icon IBM tie-up to go into education
          60 19 Bloomberg Business News BANGALORE Tata Information Systems Ltd, a joint venture between India's Tata Group and International Business Machines, will begin to offer computer education services and franchise its services to private companies, company officials said. Computer training institutes in India grossed 1.3 billion
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        Lock icon LWT rejects Granada's £600m takeover offer
        130 19 Bloomberg Business News LONDON London Weekend Television Holdings pic said it rejected a takeover bid made yesterday morning by Granada Television Ltd, which values LWT shares at £600 million (SS 1.434 billion). "following an approach on Friday evening, the board of LWT, advised by
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        Lock icon NTT mid-year profit the largest...
        732 20 Review of Japanese corporate results Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Telecommunications giant Nippon Telegraph Telephone Corp was the most profitable of all companies that reported earnings for the six months through September. NTT's current profit totalled 103.943 billion yen (SSI.S billion) between April and September, down
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        Lock icon ... while Nissan Motor reports biggest half-year loss
        539 20 while Nissan Motor reports biggest half-year loss Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Nissan Motor, the world's fourth largest car maker, had the largest current loss of all Japanese companies that reported earnings for the half year to September. Nissan, with a current loss of 28.93 billion yen (*****.22 million), was followed
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        Lock icon Property, drug, credit firms post highest profits
        451 20 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Real estate, pharmaceutical and credit companies enjoyed the highest operating margins among roughly 1,970 listed Japanese companies, which reported earnings for the half year to Sep 30. Operating margin, determined by dividing a company's operating profit by its sales,
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        Lock icon Hongkong to speed up debt-clearing system
        403 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the territory's equivalent of a central bank, is introducing a system to speed up and simplify the transfer of Hongkong dol-lar-denominated debt. Called the Central Money Market Unit (CMMU), the system is to be launched
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        Morgan Grenfell's new CPF trust attracts $72m
        187 21  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE Morgan Grenfell Investment Management (Asia) yesterday announced it has raised $72 million for the Singapore Premier Trust, its CPF unit trust, during a three-week initial offer period. Diane Seymour-Williams, managing director of of MGI- MA, said: "We are
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        Lock icon Taipei shipper, developer seek to sell bonds overseas
        321 21 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI A large shipper with plans to expand in Singapore and a property developer with interests in Vietnam are the latest Taiwanese eompanics to seek permission to sell convert ihle bonds overseas, the Securities and Exchange Commission said. U-Ming
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        Lock icon China to issue bonds to finance energy projects
        216 21 AFP BEIJING China plans to issue large quantities of bonds overseas to raise cash to increase the country's electricity generating network, the official China Daily said yesterday. Jiang Shaojun. spokesman for the Ministry of Power Industry, quoted by the Englishlanguage newspaper, did
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      • SMALL CHANGE
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          Lock icon Four more Japanese banks cut loan rate
          94 21 AFP TOKYO Four more Japanese commercial banks yesterday announced a 0.375 per cent cut in their short-term prime lending rates to an all-time low of 3.0 per cent. The four banks are Dai-lchi Kangyo Bank. Asahi Bank. Sanwa Bank and the Bank of
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          Lock icon Italy offers discount in bank sell-off
          77 21 FT ROME THE Italian government is to offer a substantial discount on the shares of Credito Italiano. the country's seventhlargest bank, to launch a privatisation programme over the next two years. Iri. the state holding company, is offering its controlling 64 per cent stake
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          Lock icon Mellon Bank to merge with Dreyfus
          71 21 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Mellon Bank Corp and Dreyfus Corp have agreed to merge in a stock swap worth USSI.BS billion (552.96 million), a Mellon spokesman said yesterday. Mellon, a Pittsburgh-based banking company, reportedly held talks with Dreyfus. America's sixth-largest mutual fund operator
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        Lock icon Asian sugar output rise unable to fill gap in world demand
        514 22 Reuter BANGKOK Sugar production is forecast to rise slightly in key Asia-Pacific producer nations next year but will be unable to fill an estimated gap of around one million tonnes in world demand. Export forecasts for Thailand and India
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        Lock icon December wool demand to offset big offerings
        173 22 Reuter SYDNEY Increased demand to cover significant trade commitments in December and during the mid-season break is expected to help offset big offerings at Australian wool auctions this week and next, the Australian Council of Wool Exporters said. About 146,064 bales, the biggest
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        Lock icon China faces bigger copper shortage next year
        193 22 Reuter BEIJING China's shortage of copper in 1994 will worsen from this year's level, with the increase in supply unable to match demand, the Ministry of Internal Trade said. Writing in the Economic Daily, unnamed ministry officials said that, while this shortage will
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        Lock icon Japan's oil industry to seek tax break if sales tax rises
        247 22 Reuter TOKYO Japan's oil industry will seek a break in oil taxes if the nation's general sales tax rate is raised from the current 3 per cent. According to a Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) official, oil
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        Lock icon Beijing likely to import even more steel
        156 22 Reuter BEIJING China will need to import a large amount of steel next year to meet soaring domestic demand, officials of the Ministry of Internal Trade said. The Economic Daily quoted them as saying that consumption of steel this year will rise by
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        Lock icon Australian interest to buy oil, gas properties from Sante Fe
        233 22 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australia's Bridge Oil Ltd said its US subsidiary. Bridge Oil (USA) Inc. will purchase a number of producing oil and gas properties and exploration acreage from Houston-based Santa Fe Energy Resources Inc. The transaction, involving cash
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        Lock icon Opec chief expects oil prices to improve soon
        205 22 Reuter MANAMA Opec president Abdullah Bin Hamad alAttiyah of Qatar said the current oil price weakness could not be explained merely by the balance of supply and demand, and expressed the firm belief that prices would improve soon. In a statement sent
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        Banque Indosuez REGIONAL CURRENCY REPORT
        121 22 IT WAS another day of tight trading ranges in the regional currency market. The local market inherited a lower US$/S$ from the offshore European and American markets which had seen some selling of dollars for Ss. The US dollar opened at 1.6010/20, down from the
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        London
        196 22 LONDON The dollar was just over a pfennig down on the mark late in Europe, having recovered from a fall through widely-touted support in the 1.7050 mark area. "The dollar's inability to break the shackles of 1.70/1.73 marks suggests it's found its level to the new year," said a
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        1628 22 rrade-»eighted index calculated against S pore 5 lop 14 trading partners Base year 1985 USS/SS forward rates Noon Dec 6 sT Bid Offer 1-month 1.5981 1.59% •-month 1.5975 1.5990 J-mooth 1.5972 1.5987 6-monlh 1 5958 1.5978 Sovrtr OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 10am m Dae 6:
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        Lock icon South-east Asian palm oil prices seen steady
        226 22 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Southcast Asian palm oil priccs arc likely to move within a narrow band this week, with expectations of lower Malaysian output in November not seen sparking a major rise in consumer demand, regional traders said. Singapore palm oil traders expect
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        New York
        92 22 NEW YORK The dollar s failure to make good on positive US payrolls data on Friday continued to depress the US unit three days later, dealers said. The dollar opened at 1.7090/95 marks in the US, more than a pfennig below its 1.7195/05 mark close Friday. It also
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        Lock icon Eurodollars firmer, yen little changed
        1343 23 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex December Eurodollars ended firmer in thin trade as the absence of inflation fears in the United States boosted Simex sentiment. "The market has been pretty quiet, nothing much happened but Eurodollar sentiment remains very firm," said one senior dealer with
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        KL tin ends slightly lower
        603 23 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin TIN reversed recent uptrend and ended slightly lower yesterday on keen selling prompted by falls on the LME. The metal settled at MS 11.87 a kg. down two cents from last Friday's close. Traders said light East Asian covering helped checked the
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          Taiwan may buy S African maize
          69 23 TAIPEI Taiwan may buy 33,000 tonnes of No 1 or No 2 yellow maize from South Africa for February shipment following the outcome of a tender, an official at the Feed Industry Association said. The official said representatives from South Africa's Maize Board visited
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          Zambia may curb flour imports
          53 23 LUSAKA Zambia could take action against imports of subsidised flour from South Africa which farmers say has killed demand for locallygrown wheat. Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture Austin Sichinga said the Zambian government was looking at the issue after complaints from the Zambian
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          Russian crude exports fall
          78 23 MOSCOW Russian crude exports outside the former Soviet Union totalled 1,457.3 thousand bar- rels per day, falling short by 29.5 per cent of tht original export schedule of 1496 thousand tonnes according to the Fuel and Energy- Ministry. Tht exports were affected by severe storms which
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          China tin shipments to KL down
          50 23 KUALA LUMPUR China's shipments of tin concentrates to Malaysia for smelting dropped to 5,700 tonnes in the Jan-Oct period from 7,500 a year earlier. Malaysian smelters say. One representative said: "Hongkong firms have confirmed that there is not much concentrate coming out of China."
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          Malaysian palm oil stocks up
          58 23 KUALA LUMPUR The US agricultural attache here has revised upward its forecast for Malaysia's palm oil stocks to a total of 1.05 million tonnes at the end of December from an estimate of 980,000 made last month. But end-December, stocks would be lower than 1.1
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1647 23 Rubber HAS Caaiawdlty Exdiaaga (fvtnr*« dasiag as at lpai) RSS 1 Caatract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jan 94 132.00 131 50 131.50 425 T875 Feb 133 00 133.00 133.00 50 3.275 Mar 135.00 134.25 134.25 250 6,525 Apr/Jun 137 00 136
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        Australia
        1260 24 +6.3 SHARLS closed higher in thin trade, shrugging on the influence of a weak Tokyo market. "The market basically saw nothing to worry it overseas and so kept a slightly better than even keel on low turnover." one broker said. The All Ordinaries Index finished up 6.3 points to
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        Manila
        539 24 +38.28 The two stock exchange trading floors abandoned trading before the markets were due to open as Typhoon Lola swept aeross the main Philippine island. Luzon. Spokesmen for the Manila and Makati exehanges said trading was expeeted to resume today. The Manila composite index rose hv 38.28 points to
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        Taipei
        645 24 +99.44 Stocks ended at their highest level since May in hectic trade as waves of buying in plastics before the close led interest across the board, brokers said. The index surged 99.44 points to end at the intra-ses-sion high of 4.708.17. on hectic turnover of N1 $66.88 billion. Plastics
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        Seoul
        451 24 +4.90 Persistent healthy interest in blue-chip manufacturings pushed the stock market up for the third consecutive session despite an institutional sell-oIT of financials and shares with low price-to-book ratios (PBRs) which cancelled an early 17point advance, brokers said. They expect immediate prof-it-taking today. The composite stock index added 4.90
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        New Zealand
        272 24 -3.48 New Zealand share prices ended little changed in typically featureless Monday trade with the NZSE-40 capital index slightly down, although mainly because several stocks shed dividends. It closed down 3.48 at 2094.79. The underlying tone of the market is still quite positive and with optimistic noises coming
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        Bombay
        68 24 -59.97 Stock prices closed slightly lower over fears of violence breaking out on the first anniversary of the demolition of a mosque in northern India by Hindu zealots that triggered bloody communal riots across the country. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) 30-share index closed at a provisional 3.159.26 down
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        784 24 Britannia Funds sterling Cash Bid Offer Mim < ap Dtpoxl MMOO 38.6300 Mim Jene> (.ill o IMJ 0I»)2 Mim Mj* Income *1 (WW *1 1000 I S$ ash Income Plus Fund 10 6200 11 14M> PS Ri-otc Fund V2200 5 2 MO Sterling hquiti Euro Performance 0 4V#? O 4^IK
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        London
        671 24 +3.1 Share prices were mixed on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. At the close, the Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index was up 3.1 points, or 0.09 per cent, at 3.237.3. The Financial Times 30share index closed at 2.438.4. down 10.3 points, or 0.42 percent. Volume was 601.9 million shares,
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        Frankfurt
        183 24 -0.09 pc The DAX index of 30 leading German shares closed lower as profit-taking pulled share prices off their highs with the dccline seen continuing in post-bourse trade. DAX closed official trading down 0.09 per cent at 2.118.80 after hitting a record intradav high of 2.133.31. December DAX futures
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        Stockholm
        202 24 unch Swedish shares ended the day slightlv higher to unchanged after listless trade with only index-heavy Ericsson lifting the market. "We have gone over to a three-day working week, nothing happens on Mondays and Fridays." a dealer said. The OMX-index edged up 0.19 per cent to 1044.35. while the
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        Zurich
        286 24 +6.45 Strong Nestle and Roche helped Swiss shares to reach another record close. However, the bourse indices closed below earlier highs as some players took profits in the light of conflicting news of a lower dollar on the one hand and hopes for lower interest rates on the other
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        Brussels
        133 24 14.75 Derivatives related basket buying helped drive Belgium's Bcl-20 stock index 14.75 points higher to a new closing high of 1,438.42. beating the record set on Friday. The index also touched a new intra-day high of 1.442.32. and more gains arc seen. Brussels Drf 6 FORWARD MARKET M. tin
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        Milan
        144 24 3.34pc Shares stormed upwards, buoyed by optimism following local election results which showed some consistency in voting patterns over the country. A further boost came from a strong response to the start of C'redito Italiano's privatisation, priced at 2,075 lire a share. The Mibtcl Index was up 3.34 per
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        Amsterdam
        238 24 1.94 Shares maintained their powerful performance, spiking up to a new intra-sev sion record high of 392.32 before easing back to 392.20. Buoyant bonds and bullish stock markets across Europe provide solid support. The EOF index was at 392.20 up 0.50 per cent or 1.94 points. Royal Dutch gained
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        Johannesburg
        314 24 10 Industrials closed down despite good demand for selected stocks yesterday while gold shares held onto small gains in line with the firm but static gold price. The Gold Index gained 10 points to 1.923 and the Industrial Index shed 13 points to 4,945. The overall index added 16
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        Toronto
        246 24 +9.13 Stocks gained in quiet early trading as precious metals and media issues overcame losses in transportation and consumer products. The TSE 300 index rose 9.13 points to 4398.94 in early turnover of 4.30 million shares valued at C 543.52 million. Advancing issues led declines 164 to 128. with
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        New York
        782 24 +6.70 Stock prices moved slightly higher in light trading early yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange boosted by strength in US Treasury securities. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which added 1.96 point on hriday, was ahead 6.70 points to 3710.77 around II am Est. The New York
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      3056 25 Reuter HONGKONG Share prices closed sharply higher, with the main index surging 3.29 per cent on heavy demand from overseas despite rising friction between Britain and China over Hongkong. brokers said. The Hang Seng Index soared 315.34 points to end at 9.609.69. Turnover swelled to HKS7.I9 billion from HKSS.7B
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      CHINA
      457 25 MARKET correction continued in both the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets on thin turnover. The Shanghai B Index closed 16.69 points higher at 969.19. Dazhong surged by another 6.0 per cent. Among the gainers were Jinqiao and Outer Gaoqiao, which both advanced 4.5 per cent on active trading. Vacuum was
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      2463 25 TOKYO Stocks ended sharply down, with the Nikkei average closing below 17.000. Sentiment was damaged as investors feared the government might not unveil a package of economic stimulus measures as early as they had hoped because officials appeared to lack a consensus on it, brokers said. The Nikkei average
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      1127 25 Reuter JAKARTA Jakarta share prices closed mixed after quiet late trading, with several largecapped stocks finishing the day lower, brokers said. The official index rose 1.81 points to 523.54. "Prices have been mixed today. Investor sentiment turned weak in late trading." a local dealer said. Astra International, the market
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      Lock icon CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2719 26 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info Gr Gr 1993 Last NoJ Da) l«tt OM( l«» Dh \td Net M Cap 11i K h Low C ompan) Sate (1100) llinh Low Buyer Seller Or P/E Ml MALAYSIAN STOCKS 102 MSB 50c 203 cd +13 163 208 194 203 205
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        Lock icon Index hits new high
        5813 26 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The KLSE Composite Index, which tracks 85 quality shares on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, hit a new all-time high of 1,041.11 points yesterday. The benchmark indicator wrapped up a hectic trading day 17.19 points or 1.6 per cent above last Friday's close
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        7220 27 MAW BOARD fqtoMCtkffl dir. Dec 6~" Cr Cr 1993 Us! Vol Day Last Qwte Dh Di» YM Net M Cap High Low Coaipaay Sale (*000) High Low Bayer Seller Or P/E Saul INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1380 260 I Aetna 12)0 30 223 1260 1220 1240 1230 12.5 2.1 1.0 54.1
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        Lock icon Shares surge as investors go on buying spree
        1742 28  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Share prices surged on the Singapore stock market yesterday despite a 618-point plunge in the Nikkei Average on fears that the Japanese government would delay its economic stimulus measures. Nearly all of the market's key indices recorded all-time
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        Johan Holdings
        160 28  -  HOT STOCK By Paul Leo JOHAN Holdings' bull run from a low of 30.5 cents since August 1992 is likely to be followed by a big correction and soon. Investors, exercise caution and get ready to take profit. Applying wave theory, the current upmove from 72 cents in
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      Uniglory to take over 10 Evergreen ships
      478 29  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Taiwanese carrier Uniglory Marine Corporation is taking over 10 containerships from associate Evergreen Marine Corp to expand its liner service network and upgrade existing services. In a statement last week. Uniglory said the ships will be under charter from
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      Lock icon North Korean ship carries gifts from Japan
      446 29 AP NIIGATA, Japan It looks like any other trim cruise ship until you notice the plainclothes police watching on the dock. But the Xtangyongbong '92 is something very different: an economic lifeline for North Korea. The ship's weekly load of businessmen, schoolchildren and
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      Lock icon Subic hopeful of bright future as businesses move in
      456 29 Reuter SUBIC, Philippines Just over a year ago, Subic Bay seemed without a future as the Americans closed down their last military base in the Philippines. Now it brims with hope as it begins to transform itself into a bustling free
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS^
      850 29 Page Col ABC Containcrlinc 12 I Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrcnkiel Liner 4 1/2 •APL 5 3-5 Appenship 18 1/2 •ANL 3 1/2 •ASCI 5 5 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 Bank Line. The 9 5 Barbican Line 4
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      Lock icon 1,300 saved from stricken Finnish ferry
      481 29 Reuter HELSINKI Rescuers evacuated about 1.300 passengers and most crew on Sunday from a ferry that ran aground off Finland's western coast in heavy wind and snow. The H'asa Queen ferry was later refloated after passengers were taken safely to the mainland and returned
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        715 30 Vmd Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jurong Port ElonaSC264C 060EC* P01A 0612<i:00 06 1? 1900 Ak«a 0193 17/8 alongside 0712/1800 Elona SC264C 07KC* P01A 0712/1100 07 12/1900 Batam Murm 12/02/93 J1 alongsde 07 12/2315 Equator Hawk 1/31 P02 0712/0730 0812/0600 Batam
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1584 30 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookint/BaUnce Riits Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Aci Swn 095A 08/1500 2 06/1700 07/0659 07/0900 4 07/1200 07/M59 07/1700 Ad Gonch»ro» S&SI93 07/1800 1 06/1500 06/1659 06/1900 m
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      8735 38 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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      SHIPPING AGENTS
      3343 43 A Xm.BC Containerline NV: Belsin Shpg Agencies Pte Ltd (SVMarine Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SyAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). Albatros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ltd
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      COURIER SERVICES
      278 43 Abacus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fa*: 545-1898. Air Express Travel Tel: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144. Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fax: 542-3716. *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188. Fax: 273-8283. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. City-Link International Td: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450. Cluster Link Supplies Services Tel:
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      AIR FORWARDERS
      1471 43 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: 545-8031 Fax: *****05. Aerospeed Tel: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Td 542-5454 Fax: *****06. Air Express International Tel 542-7666. Fax: *****74. *****50 Air
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      PORT CONDITIONS
      2316 44 ALBANIA Duress: One vessel discharging bulk wheat, 2 vessels in roads of which 1 for loading chrome ore, 1 for discharging roof tiles. ANGOLA Luanda: Spanish fishing fleet has now sailed from the port. Berths available at container and general cargo quays. No congestion reported. Lobito, Namibe: Both
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      Lock icon SHIP SALES & TANKER RATES
      1121 44 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES AFP IN LINE with recent weeks, interest has been more noticeable in the tanker sector, although modern products tankers, rather than modern aframaxes have provided the lead feature, mainly as there are so few of the latter seriously available for sale. Meanwhile the major movement in
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      AIR FREIGHT SCHEDULE
      554 44 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Flight Type 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 SEL NCA KZ204 B747F 0335 1 BKK/NRT JAL JL6I7 B747F 0345 I TYO KAL
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      CRUISE & FERRY SCHEDULES
      628 44 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Dtp Name of Vessel ETA t ID Ports of Calls Port Agent Telephone No DECEMBER 07 07 Island Pnnccss 0800 2359 Port Klang Sin Straits Shpg 225-0788 Am penan 07 07 Sea Goddess 2 0700 1700 Port Klang Sin Jardine Shpg Agencies 224-1052 Port
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1343 45 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates remained unchanged at 1,253 on Friday. Pace quickened for handysized and handymax bulk carriers on the freight market in the Atlantic, but rates have yet to move significantly, broke rs said. LD-Seals paid US$l4,OOO daily for a Tess
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      COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
      844 45 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      Lock icon A secondary market in contract rates
      1041 46 European forwarders are offering better rates than the ocean carriers they use American Shipper US freight forwarders are finding it increasingly difficult to compete with the largest European forwarding organisations, largely as an unintended result of the serv ice contract provisions of the Shipping
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        Lock icon Asian airlines to buy 3,000 planes over 18-year period
        462 48 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Asian airlines are expected to acquire 3,000 aircraft valued at about USS24S billion (***** billion) between this year and the year 2010, says the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group. The amount was more than 30 per cent of the
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        Lock icon British Rail allays fears over Eurostar
        298 48 FT LONDON British Rail last week moved swiftly to counter fears of further delays to its high-profile Eurostar passenger services through the Channel Tunnel after revealing an embarrassing technical problem on the British end of the route. The Eurostar prototype, which is being tested
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        346 48 Reuter BONN German railways could break even as soon as 1994 as a result of its privatisation which includes having its debt written off. chairman Heinz Ducrr said last Sunday. Mr Duerr told the Well am Sonntag newspaper, however, that this forecast depended
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          72 48 Reuter TOKYO All Nippon Airways Co Ltd (ANA) will pull out ot the Narita-Brussels service it operates with Sabena Belgian World Airlines at the end of March 1994, an ANA spokesman said yesterday. Demand has fallen for the route and ANA has increased
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          55 48 Reuter MANILA Typhoon Lola swept across the Philippines yesterday. spawning floods and landslides and shutting down Manila airport. After a night of heavy rain and strong winds. Manila airport was closed until at least the afternoon when Lola was due to have moved out into
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          128 48 Reuter WASHINGTON Twenty-three people were pulled from raging seas after their fishing boat capsized in Chesepeake Bay on Sunday and one later died in hospital, the Coast Guard said. The El Toro. which operates from Ridge. Maryland, sent a distress signal at 2.25pm EST
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        254 48 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Midland chairman Michael Bishop has said he suspects some airlines that announced plans for a price war on selected routes last week are using state funds to achieve the reductions. "I'm sure they are using state aid
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      1148 35 0 SINGAPORE SOVET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD CR NO: **********0/N ENQUIRIES: *****33 BOOKINGS: *****64, *****51, *****31, *****13 BALTIC: INWARD *****81 OUTWARD *****81 T/S *****77 MSJOk BLASCO: INWARD *****79 OUTWARD *****80 T/S *****78 FESCO: BOOKINGS *****06 DOC *****07 m MARINE INSURANCE: INVENTORY: *****59 WIMW (I AGENTS: KL: 03-*****75/697 PKLG: *****43/ *****40
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      956 37 f PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I IV CR NO **********0F I VESSEL VOY SIN CMB JIB JED AQJ AOE HOD PZU ASA KOTA WIRAWAN WRNO3S It/12 23/12 29/12 1/1 3/1 31/12 1/1 4/1 KOTA WUAVA WJAO3S 27/12 1/1 7/1 9/1
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      646 41 (it FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD #15-21 INTERNATIUNAL PLAZA, S PURE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 13/12 ROTTERDAM 13/12 AARHUS/ COKtNHAIit N 13/12 HAMBURG/BRtMtN 13/12 MARStILLt/fRANtt 14/12 FLLIXSIOWL/UK 13/12 BARCELONA/SPAIN 9/12 LEHAVRE/ERANCE 13/12 GENOA/ITALY 11/12 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 13/12 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 12/12 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 8/12 NEW YORK/EC 10/12 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 10/12
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      1099 41 "«^->r*».¥:'W^RS*Bbwfegs:^R^^M mm*hiuWtn? 11 I ;vessel voy SN JKT VOY PIN HBKUkHiHBH >| WANA BHUM 20SS W«L _|/12_ _Ssl_ U/12. j B SEROJA 740N Fri 110/12 M K| VESSEL VOY SIN »KK i CHAIYA BHUM 29S __F n 10/12 Tw 14/12 PERKASA 11M Fn 10/12 Tw 14/lir I^B l| XETHA BHUM
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      604 41 Guaranteed Sailings to: BANGKOK *LAEM CHABANG JAKARTA PORT KELANG HO CHI MINH MANILA CEBU •SURABAYA* PENANG HONGKONG We also serve other ports: USA, El ROPE, CHINA AND ALL DESTINATIONS pi DONGNAMA LINE COHT/UHPMID BgWV>CE BTRAITB/BtW/IWC/BW «ssu sk nie aw w b»mc HRELJM V3O4N 9/12 11/12 12/12 13/12 24/12 2C/12 TtISOAS
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      1667 42 ■JkflMN CONTAINER LINES I MAC-NELB SPORE: *****22 (24 LINEB) Uv 'c/w Mac ÜBOS7MOOOC SJBU (064) *****9 KUCHING (062) *****3 PENANQ: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****57 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 I HKG/TWN/BKK GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN 8/12 9/12
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      126 42 INDOJAYA SHIPPING TRADING PTE LTD J i 1 WEEKLY TO JAKARTA/SURABAYA 1 jj J Vaaaal ETA/ETD DESTINATION J n Nantai I 17-10 Dac Jakarta/Palambang a Pinang Jaya 14-15 Dac Jakarta/Patambang Parita Intan 4- 6 Dac Jakarta/Palambang Maajiya 7- t Dac Jakarta/Palambang Nantai II 9-11 Dac Jakarta/Palambang a Waaian 14-15 Dac
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      185 42 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD ETA £T» rr» SFOM POUT KOAK PtNANG BIU MUX 15/12 loading lor KUIt KUVU HUDHU 25/12 Divharpng and Lojdmj tor Bombay oanw 9/12 Loading For Ma» HOME* SUPKME 14/12 U/12 lojdifl| For Mate UMCEDH 20/12 Loading For Malt NIOGKSS LBOtTT 18/12 Loading
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      706 46 5 VIGOUR PACIFIC LINES VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE MANIA VIGOUR SINGAPORE 68NB 10/12, 93," T 18 12 93 VIGOUR SINGAPORE 68ANB 13/12 93 93 IOAHNG EVERY VIGOUR PACIFIC 33N8 17/12/93 25/12/93 Y MID K*®** VIGOUR PACIFIC 33ANB 20/12/93 25/12/93 pokt klan<vp£nanq full VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE PORT KLANG PENANG SINGAPORE VIGOUR SINGAPORE
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      912 47 1 HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 VESSELS VOY PNA PKE PGP VESSELS VOY_ SIN RTM AWT* LEH* HAM BKEj FEL NORASIA MALACCA 9334 A 08/12 09/12 10/12 H. FRONTIER 308* 13/12 05/01 06/01 OS/01 01/01 01/01 04/01 HMM ADVANCE 33A 15/12 16/12 17/12 H.
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      492 47 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS INBOUND VESSELS YISSU 101 Jf Ml ROC AR COSMIC TUMI (2 IS/12 27/12 cosibc noon u sio in THIS mo (I 1/12 11/12 SOM4I 24 11/12 11/12 MM HUI 22 12/12 ORARCI MOOR 40 1/12 10/12 SIMMS 70 IS 12 SMI
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