The Business Times, 13 December 1993

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    13 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Monday December 13 1993 75'
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Hungarian PM dies in hospital
      55 1 Reuter BUDAPEST Prime Minister Jozsef Antall. leader of Hungary's first post-Commu-nist government, died in hospital late last night. The official MTI news agency reported that Antall. 61. was admitted to hospital almost three weeks ago for cancer treatment. and his condition had deteriorated steadily over
      Reuter  -  55 words
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      Lock icon More time needed for pullout accord: Rabin
      72 1 Reuter CAIRO Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said last night he and Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat had agreed they could not finalise an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho before today's deadline. "We dccidcd to give ourselves a certain
      Reuter  -  72 words
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    110 1 Stock market indices Friday \Ve«k change STII 2.220.40 68 90 KLSE Composite .1.075.85 +51.*>3 Nikkc. 17.257 43 -201.92 Hang Song 10.228.1 +933.75 SET Index Jakarta Composite ...528.46 V6.73 CLSAChina B 1.314 11 <-20.20 Aust All Ord 2.084 9 +37.5 FTSE 100 3.261.3 Do» Jones 3.729 78 f25 99
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    Singapore to invest $1b in leading-edge semicon plant
    688 1  -  By Joseph Rajendran, Claire Leow SINGAPORE The government's plan to push Singapore's electronics industry onto a higher plane will take a decisive step forward with a Ssl billion investment in a leading-edge semiconductor plant. Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM), a member of the
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    Lock icon World trade talks at stalemate
    377 1 AP. KnightRidder Reuter. AFP GENEVA World trade talks reached a stalemate yesterday because of a bitter fight between the United States and the 12-nation European Community over aircraft subsidies and movies. The deadlock prompted a scolding from a top world trade official. Peter Sutherland, head
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    Lock icon Mahathir dismisses rumours of his ill health
    203 1 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says stock market speculators have been spreading rumours that he is ill and will require heart surgery. The Star newspaper yesterday quoted him as saying: "I am saddened that those people are spreading rumours
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  • Article
    S'pore-based firm to advise Mongolian govt on restructuring
    315 1  -  By Kevin Sullivan SINGAPORE A Singa-pore-based consulting firm has been appointed official adviser to the government of Mongolia for the restructuring of the country's private and state enterprises. Kamran Victory, managing director of Fundex Pte Ltd, signed a two-year consultancy agreement with
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    Lock icon KL orders freeze on high-rise projects pending safety studies
    513 1 Hopes of finding survivors fade Reuter. Bernama. AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Urban Development Authority (UDA) yesterday ordered an immediate freeze to all its high-rise projects pending safety studies as hopes faded for survivors in Malaysia's worst building disaster. At 2am this
    Reuter.; Bernama.; AFP; Reuter  -  513 words
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      10 1 Business IT: Pg m Sitex '93 scores on two fronts
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      28 1 Hock Lock Siew: Pg 23 Idris Hydraulic on the way up? World textiles accord almost sewn up, Pg 22 Tokyo to make rice market decision today. Pg 22
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Electricity sales hit 30-month high
        240 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling THE third-quarter industrial production index (pegged at 11)0 in 1992) looks like it will hit the highest level in the last 10 quarters if electricity consumption is anything to go by. Figures released by the Public Utilities Board showed that electricity
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      Japanese firms in Singapore bullish about 1994 prospects
      580 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan MOST Japanese companies in Singapore are optimistic about business prospects next year. A survey conducted by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) here last month shows that the electronics/electrical, finance/insurance, and chemical sectors are the most bullish
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
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        New group to boost arts sponsorship
        105 2 BUSINESSES in Singapore may find it a little easier to sponsor the arts by March next year. Tommy Koh. chairman of the National Arts Council, announced plans on Saturday to form a group that will pair potential sponsors with specific arts groups. The NAC
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        A closer look at day surgery
        97 2 SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL'S Medical Board should accredit doctors before allowing them to perform day surgery procedures, cautioned Singapore's Permanent Secretary of Health. At the opening of the SGH Ambulatory Surgery Centre on Saturday. Dr Kwa Soon Bee said accreditation would ensure that day-surgery procedures
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        S'pore police fight crime with technology
        100 2 SINGAPORE POLICE arc using high-tcchnology as a key weapon in the fight against crime. Police divisions now have computers that help officers file case reports and track criminal records. And now computers enable investigators to match fingerprints found at the scene of a crime
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      SIA ups ground staff pay to catch up with hike in S'pore clerks' pay
      409 2  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Airlines has raised the salaries of its ground stafT in what appears to be an attempt to catch up with the sharp increases in clerical staff pay in Singapore. New SIA ground
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  • THE REGION
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      Lock icon Keating welcomes Mahathir's decision to end diplomatic row
      361 3 Reuter, Bernama CANBERRA Prime Minister Paul Keating has welcomed Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's decision to end a 22-day diplomatic row between the two countries which began after Mr Keating described Dr Mahathir as a "recalcitrant". Mr Keating yesterday said the Malaysian
      Reuter,; Bernama  -  361 words
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      Lock icon Jakarta to buy M'sian Proton cars in exchange for KL buying Indon planes
      184 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia is to buy Malaysian Proton cars in exchange for Malaysia buying Indonesian-made aircraft. The Antara news agency yesterday said the counter purchase agreement was discussed last Friday when Indonesian Research and Technology Minister Jusuf
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      Lock icon US team's visit to Vietnam may herald easing of embargo
      288 3 Reuter HANOI A high-profile visit to Vietnam this week by a senior US official, amid signs that the Vietnamese are losing patience, could herald steps to ease the US economic embargo against Vietnam, say Western diplomats. Assistant Secretary of State
      Reuter  -  288 words
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      Lock icon Indon govt launches campaign to restructure banking industry
      571 3 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian government has launched a tough campaign to clean up and restructure its banking sector while admitting that the process will take years to reach international standards. The restructuring was prompted by an obligation of the Ministry of Finance
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      Lock icon Phnom Penh thanks Bangkok for stopping arms headed for rebels
      359 3 AFP PHNOM PENH Publicly, Cambodia's government has praised and thanked Thailand for preventing a truck-load of arms from reaching this country ostensibly the radical Khmer Rouge, who have ignored the election and still battle government troops. Privately, a government source
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      Lock icon S-E Asia still faces threat of nuclear war: Mochtar
      121 3 Bernama JAKARTA South-east Asia still faces the threat of nuclear weapons although the Cold War has ended. Former Indonesian Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja yesterday said Asean had to continue the struggle for this region to be a Zone of Peace, Freedom
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      Lock icon Patten dismisses fears of turmoil in HK due to reform plans
      510 4 Bloomberg Business News UPI, Reuter, HONGKONG Hongkong Governor Chris Patten yesterday dismissed Chinese reservations about the colony's stability following remarks made by Foreign Minister Qian Qichen. Chinese officials have been quoted as saying that Hongkong may become part of
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      Lock icon China wants mostly Chinese ruling body for new HK airport
      210 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Chinese government wants the ruling body for Hongkong's new airport to comprise mostly Chinese government officials, the South China Sunday Morning Post reported yesterday. The legislation that will turn the current provisional airport authority into
      Bloomberg Business News  -  210 words
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      Lock icon Taipei proposes higher-level talks with Beijing
      240 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan has proposed to China that the two countries hold higher-level talks immediately after a depu-ty-secretary level meeting scheduled here from Dec 18-23, officials here said yesterday. Shih Chi-ping, spokesman for the semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), told reporters here that the
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      Lock icon Beijing warns officials to cut back on festive spending
      260 4 AFP BEIJING Local Chinese officials wanting to see in the New Year in style will have to fund the festivities from their own pockets or face the wrath of the central authorities, according to a government edict published yesterday. The squandering
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      Lock icon Beijing to invest US$43b to upgrade infrastructure: report
      248 4 AFP BEIJING China plans to pour more than US$43 billion (SS6B billion) into priority industries next year in a bid to boost capacity and upgrade infrastructure. the China Daily's Business Weekly said yesterday. The 250 billion yuan (USS43.I billion) investment package targeted
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Japan neighbours Aids nations: minister
        91 4 Reuter TOKYO Japan's health minister told a party rally on Saturday that Japan's neighbours were all "Aids" countries, the country's dailies reported yesterday. "Although I cannot name the individual countries. Asian nations that surround Japan are all Aids countries." Health Minister Keigo Ouchi told the
        Reuter  -  91 words
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        Lock icon Japan's bullet train hits 413 kph
        95 4 AFP TOKYO Japan's new generation shinkanscn bullet train has set the world's second fastest speed of 413 kph, railway officials said yesterday. The speed was achieved by the East Japan Railway Co's nine-car prototype Star-21 shinkanscn during a test run late on Saturday in
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        Lock icon Labelling of non-tropical timber urged
        109 4 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia and Malaysia called on the International Tropical Timber Organisation (Itto) to expand its timber-labelling policy to non-tropical timber producing countries, the Antara news agency said yesterday. The practice was implemented with a 1990 Itto agreement which requires all tropical timber exports to
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        Lock icon Taiwan anti-communist strongman dies
        52 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's anti-communist strongman died of heart failure yesterday in a local hospital. Ku Cheng-kang died at age 93 and had been a close ally of the late Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and a ruling Kuomintang elder. Ku had been hospitalised since 1991 due to poor
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        Lock icon Chinese plane hijacked to Taiwan
        117 4 AP TAIPEI A man claiming he held explosives hijacked a mainland Chinese jetliner to Taiwan yesterday, the Defence Ministry reported. It was the ninth hijacking from China to Taiwan this year and the second in five days. The Xiamen Airlines Boeing 737. carrying 92 passengers
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        Lock icon HK photo sparks ghost story
        131 4 AFP HONGKONG Everyone likes a good ghost story, and this weekend Hongkong got one a spooky, fuzzy image of a mysterious woman, captured on film by a police speed radar near the scene of a fatal traffic accident. Several neyvspapers yesterday ran the night-time colour
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      Lock icon Keating expects few problems from new conservative South Australian state govt
      234 6 AFP ADELAIDE Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating said yesterday he expected few problems dealing with a new conservative state government in South Australia. Latest results from a state election on Saturday indicated the Liberal Party's Dean Brown would command
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      Lock icon Bhutto launches economic programme
      311 6 Plan may help Pakistan secure USsl.3b IMF/World Bank loan AP ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has laid out an economic programme that could prove critical to Pakistan's efforts to secure a loan package from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The international financiers are
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      Lock icon Tea and one tough cookie
      49 6 Reuter BOMBAY Afroze Randerian is the first woman to penetrate Calcutta's male-dominated tea trade and run its auctions the world's second biggest behind London's. Ms Randerian, seen here in her office in Calcutta, says she survives in the business because she is tough. Reuter
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      Lock icon Tokyo plans post-Budget recovery package
      223 6 AFP TOKYO The Japanese government will adopt an economic recovery package soon after its second supplementary Budget is approved by parliament, a newspaper repored yesterday. The policy has been confirmed at a meeting of Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii, International Trade and
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      Lock icon Hosokawa faces toughest week since taking office
      512 6 Reuter TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa faces his toughest week since taking office, with crucial decisions on rice imports, recession management and political reform amid growing talk of a snap election. "The first three days of this week will decide the fate
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon EC leaders endorse new tack to fight unemployment
      544 7 AFP BRUSSELS For all their squabbling and rhetoric, European Community leaders ended their two-day summit here last Saturday putting their stamp on a tough new tack to fight a worsening unemployment crisis. While a dispute over financing for a massive investment project
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      Lock icon VW plans more flexible work hours to cut costs
      214 7 Reuter HAMBURG Loss-making car maker Volkswagen AG (VW), which has decided on a four-day work week, plans to introduce more flexible working schemes to slash production costs, Der Spiegel magazine said last Saturday. Referring to the four-day week, VW's management board
      Reuter  -  214 words
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      Lock icon John Major defends Charles' right to British throne
      284 7 Reuter LONDON British Prime Minister John Major and government officials have stepped in to support heir to the throne Prince Charles against churchled criticism that divorce or infidelity would make him morally unfit to be king. The Sunday Express newspaper said Mr
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      Lock icon Arafat, Rabin meet to finalise Israeli withdrawal plan
      400 7 Reuter CAIRO PLO leader Yasser Arafat flew to Cairo yesterday for a summit with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that will decide whether Israel's historic withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho starts on schedule today. Time has clearly run out for the Palestine
      Reuter  -  400 words
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      Lock icon Less developed countries feel left out of world trade talks
      422 7 Bloomberg Business News GENEVA As world trade talks approach their Dec IS deadline, negotiators for the world's 100 or so less developed countries are complaining about their minimal influence over the final outcome. As one LDC representative put it: "We
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    • Article
      Lock icon Clinton reviewing govt spending to prepare for 1995 Budget
      282 8 Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON US President Bill Clinton is in the process of reviewing the budgets of each executive branch department in preparation for submitting a fiscal 1995 Budget early next year. White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said last Friday. "The
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      Lock icon US economy seeing short-term contraction: Fed official
      218 8 Reuter LOS ANGELES Robert Parry, president of the San •Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, said US fiscal policy and weakness among US trading partners arc having short-term contractionary effects on the US economy. "Counterbalancing these contractionary forces is (US) monetary policy," Mr Parry said
      Reuter  -  218 words
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      Lock icon Bobby trapped
      63 8 Reuter LONDON In jam-packed Covent Garden last Saturday, a policeman was caught by surprise when he was sprayed with foam by a young girl. Hundreds of people braved the cold to watch the annual Christmas pudding race in which teams in fancy dress raced around an obstacle course.
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      Lock icon Mandela willing to share power in S African govt with de Klerk
      298 8 Reuter STOCKHOLM Nelson Mandela said last Saturday he could envisage sharing government power with his fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner. South African President FW de KJerk. "despite all the mistakes he has made and continues to make". The
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      Lock icon Baghdad frees Britons; UK to free some Iraqi funds
      214 8 AP LONDON Britain plans to release U*****,000 (*****.000) in frozen Iraqi funds after three Britons were freed from a Baghdad jail, the Treasury confirmed last Saturday. But a Treasury spokesman said the timing was coincidental. The money a fraction of the
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Eduardo Frei is new Chilean president
        79 8 AP SANTIAGO Eduardo Frei, the candidate for Chile's governing coalition, won a landslide victory in Saturday's presidential election, official returns showed. Results covering nearly half the estimated 8 million votes cast gave Mr Frei 57.37 per cent. Arturo Alessandri, the candidate for the right-wing
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      • Article
        Lock icon Germany's 1994 jobless seen at 3.8m
        63 8 Reuter BONN German unemployment will average 3.8 million next year, with a western average of 2.6 million and an eastern average of 1.2 million, the head of the Federal Labour Office said. Bernhard Jagoda told the weekly Bild am Sonntag, in yesterday's issue, that
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        Lock icon France keeps growth forecast at 1.4pc
        78 8 Reuter PARIS France maintains its forecast for 1.4 per cent economic growth in 1994, French Economy Minister Edmond Alphandery said. He said in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche. "This is realistic and cautious as it is in a range of forecasts from
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      • Article
        Lock icon 48pc of Americans own guns
        65 8 AFP NEW YORK Nearly half of Americans keep a gun in the house and 74 per cent oppose banning handguns, according to a Time magazine and CNN poll released on Saturday. The poll of 500 adult Americans found 48 per cent have a gun in
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        Lock icon Red stranger in town
        93 8 AP BOSTON Travelling by stretch limo instead of by sleigh, a secretive Santa is spreading good cheer on city streets by handing out US$5O (SS80) bills. Most of his beneficiaries get a card with the message, "Yes, Massachusetts, there is a Santa Claus", and signed Kris
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  • Business IT
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      Sitex '93 scores on two fronts
      752 9  -  Singapore's latest computer show, Sitex '93, ended yesterday. Joseph Rajendran gets the verdict from its visitors and exhibitors Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE IT Exhibition (Sitex) '93, which played host last week to some 400 participants from 13 countries, scored on two fronts it was the
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      Seagate aims to be US$6b company by 2000
      678 9  -  At last month's Comdex '93, Joseph Rajendran caught up with the elusive chairman of Seagate Technology, Alan Shugart, who shares his views on the company's strategy and where the disk drive industry is headed Joseph Rajendran DISK drive major Seagate Technology will
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    • Article
      Tandem moving its Asia-Pac HQ
      602 10  -  Singapore is most likely to be chosen, reports Bernard Chew from Cupertino, California Bernard Chew Tandem. the world's leading supplier of fault-toler-ant computers, will be moving its AsiaPacific headquarters away from Cupertino in the United States, to a site in the region. "We've made the
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    • TECH TAKES
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        Lotus Approach 2.1 rated tops
        100 10 SINGAPORE Lotus Development announced that its awardwinning database product. Lotus Approach Release 2.1 has been rated as the top Windows end-user database product by Software Digest, which evaluates software. Approach 2.1 outscored Microsoft Access and five other products in tests conducted by the National Software
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        Retix to expand in Asia through KL
        107 10 SINGAPORE Retix, a supplier of open networking products, plans to expand in Asia through its Kuala Lumpur headquarters with a series of value-added resellers and systems integrators. In Singapore, UIC and FEC are its prime suppliers for advanced, high-performance products. Stephen Miles, regional
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        Lock icon Toshiba to boost chips output
        111 10 Reuter TOKYO Toshiba Corp, a Japanese electronics maker, will build a factory in Mie prefecture to boost its production of 16 mega-bit dynamic random access memory (DRAM) computer chips from between 400.000-500,000 to two million a year, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said last week. Meanwhile,
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        Lock icon Hitachi-TI tie-up bears fruit
        94 10 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO A joint semiconductor memory development agreement between Japan's Hitachi Ltd and Texas Instruments Inc has produced its first samples of 64-megabit memory chips, the two companies said last week. They have produced samples of 64megabit DRAM chips, used to store data in
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        Lock icon AT&T develops high-speed chip
        73 10 UPI HOLM DEL, New Jersey American Telephone Telegraph Co said last week that it has developed an experimental high-speed silicon computer chip that can operate at room temperature and use far less power than conventional devices. The devices, developed by AT&T's Bell Labs, could have major
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    • IT Moves
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        NCR S'pore has new MD
        112 10 SINGAPORE NCR Singapore has appointed a new managing director. Henri Ho. Mr Ho has more than 20 years of sales and senior management experience in Asia and the United States. He comes to the new post after being country manager of NCR Thailand, which he
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        Informix appoints legal counsel
        95 10 SINGAPORE Informix Asia/Pacific has appointed Greg Tanner to be based here as regional senior legal counsel responsible for all contractual and regulatory issues pertaining to Informix's operations in the Asia Pacific. Informix said his appointment was "prompted by the need for 'hands-on' legal counsel to assist
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        Informatics picks managing consultant
        74 10 SINGAPORE Informatics Consulting, a division of Informatics Holdings, has appointed David Yeung as the managing consultant to help provide IT consultancy in the region. Mr Yeung was working as an accountant in Hawaii and later returned to Singapore as senior consultant and electronic data processing auditor
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        Marketing manager for AST
        80 10 SINGAPORE AST Singapore Pte Ltd has appointed Adeline Tan as marketing manager, a newly created position. Besides Singapore, she will support the company's regional expansion plans in Malaysia and Indonesia. She reports to Bohlen Tong, AST Singapore's senior manager for operations. Recently AST Research Inc named
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      All set for a wireless world
      1043 11  -  Claire Leow finds out what lies ahead for Motorola as it takes the road to wireless communications InTerVIEW Claire Leow Motorola has chosen the wireless path to the future, seeing it as the highway tor information transfer. But the road ahead is not without
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      Paging seen to evolve into higher forms in near future
      244 11 808 BECKNELL thinks telecommunications and paging in particular will evolve into more sophisticated forms in the near future. "We believe there will be a number of tiers," he said. "For example, in paging, we see at the first tier, simple
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      605 11  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Angie Chew explains why insurance companies need to adopt the right re-engineering approach Angie Chew The writer, a senior manager with Andersen Consulting Singapore, has more than seven years of experience in the financial services industry THE 1990s has
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      332 12 A marketing study commissioned by Borland has shown that 62 per cent of companies buying the company's Quattro software had never bought Borland's products before Bloomberg Business News BORLAND International Inc's bargain prices have drawn customers from its competition, the computer software company's
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      787 14  -  Toshiba's latest offerings make fine use of cutting-edge technology, as Kenneth James discovers Kenneth James IN THE hotly competitive world of notebook personal computers, market leader Toshiba committed the ultimate sin; it became boring. All the snazzy machines of recent times have come from
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      310 14  -  By Claire Leow BT (formerly known as British Telecom) has launched an international electronic data interchange service, EDl*Net, which will provide users a link to 1,300 locations in more than 100 countries worldwide. Subscribers can access BT's own data communication network. Global Network Services
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      407 14  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computer Dynamics (USA), a management consulting and softw are development firm, and also writes on IT issues "Success depends on three things: who says it. what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what
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      137 14 Winning Through Value-Oriented Marketing 28 January 1994 9am spm The Dynasty Singapore From Conceptual Marketing To Marketing Engineering 28 January 1994 7.30pm 9.30pm SLF Auditorium g 0 t«- mk J f company b a does not belong any market where can't be the Kotler Dr Philip Kotler S C Johnson
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      500 15 Grand Slam Cup AP MUNICH. Germany Petr Korda yesterday upset world No 2 Michael Stich to win the Grand Slam Cup 2-6. 6-4. 7-6 (7-5). 2-6. 11-9. Earlier on Saturday. Korda beat top-ranked Pete Sampras in a marathon match
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      395 15 Golf AP ONNASON, Japan Tomohiro Maruyama of Japan shot a 3-under-par 68 yesterday for a three-shot victory in the Japan PGA tour's final tournament of the season. The 35-year-old Maruyama's triumph in the 120 million yen (551.76 million) Daikyo Open was his first victory
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        141 15 AP Reuter NEW YORK Florida State quarterback Charlie Ward on Saturday won the 59th Heisman trophy. given to the nation's best college player. Ward was the overwhelming choice, receiving 91 per cent of the first-place votes. Ward guided Florida State to an 11-1 record in the regular college
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        238 15 Reuter NEW YORK NBA Saturday: Charlotte 105 New Jersey 99; Miami 111 Boston 80. New York 98 Indiana 91; Washington 108 Atlanta 116; Minnesota 80 Detroit 92; Chicago 93 Cleveland 84; Dallas 103 Phoenix 114; Houston 82 Seattle 75; San Antonio 105 Denver 100; Milwaukee 86 Philadelphia 99; Golden
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        96 15 AP ADELAIDE Matthew Hayden and David Boon shared an unbeaten 94-run partnership yesterday to lift Australia to an eight-wicket World Series cricket victory over New Zealand at Adelaide Oval. Australia dismissed New Zealand for 135 and then cruised 136 for two in reply with more than 11 overs to
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        339 15 AP Reuter Reuter AP STOCKHOLM, Sweden Helen Alfredsson. who won her first major title and was runner-up in the US Women's Open this year, feels she was snubbed by a golf magazine that named Joakim Haeggman Sweden's Player of the Year. "Joakim certainly deserves the award, but what more
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        73 15 AFP TOKYO Muller beat AC Milan goalie Scbastiano Rossi in the 86th minute to strike home a decider, giving defending champions Sao Paulo a 3-2 victory in the InterContinental Cup match here yesterday. Sao Paulo took the lead twice through Palhinha in the 19th minute and Toninho Cerezo in
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        123 15 Reuter TOKYO Japanese amateur wrestlers swept all five titles in the Sumo World Championship tournament yesterday. In the open weight division, Sunao Yasu defeated Mongolia's Badmaanyambuu Bat-Erdene and also led Japan to victory in the team event. Sumo wrestlers from 33 countries took part in the event at
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        35 15 AFP MUNICH, Germany Grand Slam Cup semi-finals Saturday; Michael Stich (Ger) b Stefan Edberg (Swe) 2-6 3-6 6-3 6-3 6-1; Petr Korda (Cze) b Pete Sampras (US) 3-6 7-6 (7/3) 3-6 7-6 (12/10) 13-11.—
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        53 15 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Saturday: Detroit 5 San Jose 3; Boston 4 Chicago 5; NY Islanders 5 Philadelphia 2; Hartford 0 Buffalo 3; New Jersey 5 Edmonton 2: Quebec 5 Ottawa 2; Tampa Bay 3 Pittsburgh 6; Montreal 3 Washington 5: Toronto 3 Calgary I LA 9 St
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      827 17  -  Jackie Wullschlager on the sequels to The Wind in the Willows and Pride and Prejudice Jackie Wullschlaeer FT DID Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy live happily ever after? Did Toad of Toad Hall really reform? Of course you want to know. Characters from great and much loved
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      322 17  -  Susan Tsang checks out the SDT's latest offering Susan Tsang Tomorrow and Wednesday night, the Singapore Dance Theatre will be presenting the fruits of its first Asia-Pacific Choreographic Workshop, organised to provide young choreographers with an opportunity to work with a professional dance company. The workshop attracted a
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      420 17 GENUINE TASTE OF ITALY. Come and dine at Pasta Fresca. Let our wide range of authentic Italian pasta, pizzas, ice-cream and cappuccino thrill you. And of course, don t miss our most-talked about dessert, Tiramisu. PASTA FRESCA DA SALVATORE PTE LTD BIK 833 «0103 ROYALVtLLE BUKIT TIMAH ROAD SNGAPOfIE 1027
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      1392 17 TV RADIO Run Away, 10.30pm, SBC 12 Taiwanese New Wave film set during the turmoil of the Five D\nasties period. Portrait of a W1 bandit gang through the eyes of a girl who they kidnap in exchange for food. This 1984 film won a Golden Horse for kj 7*% >I^B
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      854 18  -  In a world of shrinking executive perks, the private washroom survives. Jill Andresky Fraser finds out why Jill Andresky Fraser NYT IT ISNT always easy being an executive. Richard Winter, chairman of the Executive Health Group, a New York City-based health-ser-vice concern, was frequently approached in
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      481 18 ROYAL Sporting House Pte Ltd has appointed William Thomasson director of group retail operations. Mr Thomasson has over 10 years of retail experience as past owner of Thomasson Enterprises Inc, the largest retail specialty company in Guam. Under his operation were 18 retail stores with sales exceeding US$9
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      941 21  -  First there was the religion of business re-engineering. Now comes the even more revolutionary movement in favour of the horizontal organisation. Christopher Lorenz questions the practical value of this latest fad Christopher Lorenz FT jfBT" T IS easier to be converted up to
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      93 18 LET YOUR FINGERS DOTHEMMG AROUND OUR WORLD. It helps to have connections when you do business abroad and you'll find a wide selection in the TT" 1 Yellow Pages. Look in the Buying Guide (pages 1379-1399), in the Commercial/Industrial Guide yellow pages (pages 1989-2010) for essential business information, products and
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      634 19 We have just what you need for Christmas. Money Get a personal loan from Hongkongßank this And for the holiday season we are offering today for a speedy answer. Or call the number Christmas and you could help yourself to those a special discounted rate of just 5.25%* for all
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    703 22 Many voters ignoring election despite Yeltsin's appeal for strong mandate AP MOSCOW Russians voted yesterday for a Parliament and Constitution for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union, but many were ignoring the election despite President Boris Yeltsin's appeal for a
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    Lock icon Data Gen picks Sydney over HK, S'pore for regional headquarters
    248 22 AR. CANBERRA Data General plans to invest As2s million (5526.7 million) to establish its regional headquarters in Australia. Industry Minister Alan Griffiths yesterday said Sydney was chosen as the location for Data General's field data centre despite fierce competition from
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    105 22 Reuter photo NEW YORK A Soviet spacesuit hanging over a crowded auction floor at Sotheby's. The suit was among hundreds of items from the Soviet space programme that were sold on Saturday from moon rocks (US$442,500 for three) to space capsules (US$1.7 million for the
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    169 22 Reuter ZURICH The Rothschild family, Europe's famed private bankers, has publicly warned against unknown financial operators trying to use its name to raise money. An advertisement placed by three leading members of the family in the Swiss newspaper Ahue Zuercher Zeitung at the weekend said they had
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    Lock icon Global textiles pact almost sewn up
    247 22 Reuter GENEVA Trade negotiators hoped to complete a textiles accord late last night which would include a 10-year of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) starting from 1995. Trade sources said the United States had virtually no hope of other trading partners accepting its proposed 15-year
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    117 22 Reuter GENEVA Japan's Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata says Tokyo will Finally make an announcement on opening its rice market today. Mr Hata returned to Japan yesterday from last-ditch negotiations here to win better conditions. He flew home to brief Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokowa
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    978 22  -  The Bottom Line AMY BALAN AMY BALAN The writer, a BT senior correspondent, has just completed an attachment to The Philadelphia Inquirer under an SPH-Knight Ridder exchange programme IN AMERICA, a country stuffed and overflowing with information, I found myself starving for news of
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      CCL discussing with Viet car distributor for 30pc stake
      341 23  -  Joint venture to target sales of Mercedes-Benzes By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Cycle Carriage Ltd (CCL) is negotiating for a 30 per cent stake in a Vietnamese distributor of Mer-cedes-Benz cars in Ho Chi Minh City where these upmarket vehicles are fast
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      Lock icon FACB returns to the black with interim profit of M$15m
      231 23 MBT KUALA LUMPUR FACB Bhd has posted a pre-tax profit of M$ 15.05 million (559.5 million) for the first six months ended Sep 30 against a loss of M 53.34 million in the previous corresponding period. The profit was achieved
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      806 23  -  HOCK By Agnes Chen SINGAPORE Has Idris Hydraulic finally delivered on its promise? After months of intense speculation, the company announced late last Friday that it was taking over a Myanmar plywood mill. Some brokers have been busy working out
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      379 23 Source: Bridge Info Performance of SHI's Index stocks Dec 10 IjsI Sent ladex Mock sak her factor aovrrs <S> <S) Avimo 2010 0 040 1.33 I 09 (AC 400 0 350 55S 950 (TTI 2.930 0 080 I 94 2 IT (crdm 7 300 0 100 4 82 2.71
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        489 24 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's largest conglomerate, the Salim group, will be the country's first company to raise capital on foreign markets. Investment Minister Sanyoto Sastrowardoyo said two months ago that the government had authorised a private-ly-run Indonesian concern to sell up to
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        Muhibbah to list on KL main board
        345 24 Klang-based firm's shares pegged at M 52.40 each KUALA LUMPUR Muhibbah Engineering (M) Bhd, a marine and civil construction company based in Klang, has received permission from the Securities Commission for a listing on the main board of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange.
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        Lock icon Berjaya takes 40pc stake in exhibition organiser
        243 24 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya Group Bhd yesterday took up a 40 per cent stake in Le Proton Lima Sdn Bhd, the organiser of the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (Lima). Berjaya Group chief executive Vincent Tan signed for his company while Le
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        Lock icon Kulim expects share capital to rise to M$152m
        360 24 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Kulim (Malaysia) Bhd expects its share capital to increase to MS 151.72 million (SS9S million) from M 557.56 million after the completion of its proposed acquisitions and share proposals. The group's net tangible assets will rise to M 52.13
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        Lock icon Tongkah sees granite subsidiary's turnover hitting M$50m in first year
        414 24 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Tongkah Holdings subsidiary. Prime Granite (M) Sdn Bhd is expected to register a turnover of about Msso million (5531.3 million) to Ms6o million in its first year of operations. The company, which is engaged in the cutting
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        Asia's next major bull market is in South Korea
        565 25  -  MARKET By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE From their plush offices in downtown Seoul's Kyobo Building, foreign stockbrokers are discreetly celebrating an extremely rewarding year in the market. South Korea's Composite Index jumped 17.77 points to reach a high for the year
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        Yaohua Pilkington's B shares gain 87.5pc
        215 25 HONGKONG B-class shareholders of Shanghai Yaohua Pilkington Glass made a paper gain of 87.5 per cent when the stock made its debut last Friday in Shanghai. The shares soared to US$l.35 from the issue price of 72 US cents. Fuelled by strong overseas buying,
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        Lock icon GE unit to sell data software package in Latin America
        180 25 Bloomberg Business News ROCKVILLE, Maryland GE Information Services will announce this week a new marketing pact to supply Latin American companies with the technology to communicate directly with each other through modems and computers. The agreement between GEIS, a unit
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        Lock icon Westinghouse talks have failed: Manila
        254 25 Reutcr MANILA The Philippines said talks on a compromise deal to settle claims against Westinghouse Electric Corp for a mothballed nuclear plant have collapsed. Energy Department Secretary Delfin Lazaro. who headed the government panel in talks with the American company, blamed Westinghouse for the collapse
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        Lock icon NEC to inject 7b yen into Bull
        347 25 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Leading Japanese electronics maker NEC Corp will invest seven billion yen (SS 102.6 million) in France's ailing state-owned computer maker Cie des Machines Bull SA. The extra funding came at the request of the French government. which owns 72
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          Lock icon Shanghai rules out listings this year
          58 25 Reuter SHANGHAI The Shanghai Securities Exchange said no more companies would come to market this year, scotching rumours of new listings that had depressed prices over the past several days. Shanghai Securities News specifically denied that Hubei Huaxing, a company at the centre of
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          Lock icon Chinese airlines seek NY listing
          61 25 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Two of China's six state-owned airlines would seek listings on the New York Stock Exchange in 1994, the South China Sunday Morning Post reported. China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines are in the preliminary stages of the listing process and
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          Lock icon Hitachi, Toshiba face big losses
          78 25 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Losses on home electronics would pull down consolidated profits for Japanese electronics makers Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said. A loss of about 30.5 billion yen (***** million) on home electronics would bring Hitachi's consolidated operating profit
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          Lock icon Shell to explore block off China
          70 25 Reuter BEIJING Royal Dutch/Shell Group has signed a contract with China National Offshore Oil Corp to explore a block in the East China Sea. Xinhua news agency said CNOOC signed the contract with two Shell units. Shell Exploration (China) and Pecten Orient, to explore
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        Lock icon IBM close to Federal Systems sale
        362 26 AT&T front-runner in bid for unit, say analysts Bloomberg Business News ARMONK, New York International Business Machines Corp is closer to selling its profitable Federal Systems division, though it probably won't close a sale before yearend, analysts say. In the view of some analysts,
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        Lock icon Apple to take steps to cut inventory next year
        150 26 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Apple Computer Inc says it plans to take a variety of steps, including "pricing and promotional actions" during 1994 to cut swollen inventories. The Cupertino. California, manufacturer of personal computers tripled its inventory to USSI.S billion (552.4
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        Lock icon UK court clears banks, broker in Maxwell case
        393 26 Reuter LONDON Insolvency experts unravelling the collapsed empire of the late Robert Maxwell have lost the first big court case in the affair. Administrators of Maxwell Communication Corp pic. the public heart of the business which has been sold off in chunks,
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        Syndicated loans to China may exceed US$6b this year: report
        379 27  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON SYNDICATED loans to China are likely to exceed US$6 billion (559.6 billion) this year, according to International Financing Review (IFR), a specialist publication on world capital markets. "Chinese borrowing is surging again after a lull
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        NY bank buys Citicorp's currency shipping unit
        140 27 SINGAPORE Republic National Bank of New York has bought over the currency shipping business of rival bank Citicorp, Republic announced over the weekend. The terms and conditions of the agreement were not disclosed. World Banknote Services, operated by Citicorp's global cash management division
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        Lock icon Stanchart hopes California link will make it big, strong and friendly in US
        571 27 MARKET Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Britain's Standard Chartered pic, best known as one of two banks that print and back the Hongkong dollar, now banks on its link with California's First Interstate Bancorp to expand its
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        Lock icon Sweden merges two major banks ahead of privatisation plans
        415 27 FT STOCKHOLM The Swedish government last Friday announced the merger of Nordbanken and Gota Bank, two of the country's five biggest banks. Between them, they have taken the lion's share of state aid which has been handed out since a loan-loss
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      • SMALL CHANGE
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          Lock icon Lloyd's may need £8.6b to meet claims
          65 27 FT LONDON Lloyd's Names may face demands for up to £8.65 billion (5520.6 billion) from the insurance market over the next 10 to 20 years, according to unofficial estimates released last Friday. Chatset, the research company, warned that Lloyd's could need the money
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          Lock icon Subic Power Corp to float bonds
          99 27 Reuter MANILA The Philippines' Subic Power Corp will float US$lO5 million (SSI6B million) worth of bonds in the US and Europe to raise funds to build a power plant at the former US Subic naval base. Subic Power, a joint venture between the local
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          117 27 Reuter TOKYO Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortarii said his country will soon open its doors to foreign banks, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported last Saturday. "Foreign banks will soon be allowed to do business in Mexico," Mr Salinas told Kyodo in an interview
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          128 27 Reuter ROME A recovery in Italy's credibility on financial markets has played an important role in driving official and market interest rates down to near-record low levels. Prime Minister Carlo Azeglio Ciampi said. "When 1 became prime minister, I did not expect to
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          87 27 Reuter LONDON European Monetary Union (EMU) is still probable by the deadline of 1999, given some flexibility on the economic convergence criteria set out in the Maastricht treaty, Norbert Walter, chief economist of Deutsche Bank, said. Contributing one of the "Views on the Future
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        461 28 Reuter DUBAI Opec held its ground last Saturday, resisting pressure to hold an emergency meeting soon or make new output cuts and demanding that other producers help rescue world oil prices. Qatari Oil Minister and Opec president Abdullah bin Hamed al-Attiyah said
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        58 28 Reuter BELGRADE This crispy new 5 billion dinar banknote is worth only US$6 on the black market. But in the hands of Belgrade's children money can still give that feeling of being rich. Yugoslavia recently introduced the new 5 billion dinar note to combat a world-record inflation
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        453 28 Reuter NEW YORK The mortgage refinancing boom has not run out of steam yet, even though a record number of US homeowners have already refinanced this year, industry sources said. If interest rates hover near current low levels, about US$l trillion (SSI.6
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        266 28 Reuter CHICAGO The embattled US beef industry is planning drastic steps to unify the four most prominent industry groups in an effort to recapture and enhance market share, beef industry groups said in a joint teleconference on Friday. The National Cattlemen's
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        140 28 AFP HONGKONG A Hongkong brokerage with an upbeat view of Indochina announced on Friday the first derivative product to allow investors to tap into Vietnam's growth prospects. S G Warburg Securities (Far East) Ltd said its Indochina Warrant, a call option into a
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        270 28 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK Copper prices should recover to US$l per pound in 1994 from the current 76-cent-per-pound level as world consumption grows in a climate of limited supplies, Daniel Roling. securities analyst at Merrill Lynch, said on Friday. Mr Roling said
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        172 28 LAST WEEK was characterised by quiet and listless trading. with news and rumours driving the market in momentary spurts. Market participants were mostly sidelined with volume thinning out towards year-end and the Christmas holidays. The USS/SS market saw range trading prevail through the week
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        2049 28 'Rales are the average of 9 selected banks Trade-weighted index calculated against Spore's top 14 trading partners Base year 198.< BANKS ABN Amro Bank NV 5* ANZ Banking Group 6 Allied I nth Bank PLC 6* American Express Bank 6V; Arab Banking Corp 6 Arab Bank PLC 6 Asahi Bank
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        699 29  -  SiMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP Ng Lim Pak Lai, Meryl Phang MMS International THE DOLLARS bullish outlook was dented last week when the anticipated rally following the release of" an extremely encouraging US payroll data last Friday did not materialise, and faltered at 1.7260 marks. However there was
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        655 29 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON North Sea Brent crude oil prices lost more ground last week, weakened by increasing prospects for a resumption of Iraqi oil exports, while precious metals prices reached their highest point since August. Oil prices, which reached
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      1506 29 Rubber HAS Commodity Exchange (future* dosliif is at lpm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jan~94 *****5 130.25 130.50 525 550 Feb 132.75 132.75 132.00 50 4.275 Mar 134.25 133.25 133.50 450 7,025 Apr/Jun 135.75 135.75 135 50 300 18.075
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      4598 30 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Earn EPS Date TV LY TV LY Com pan) ann (rts) (<*») A1SB* Oct 28 P 2.095 0.334 2.04 0.3 Alliance Tech Sep 30 1 0.490L 0.150 0.5 Alex Hldgs Dec 3 1 12.106 0 844 60.5 4.22 Amal Steel* Sep 27 P
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      753 30 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, Say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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        666 31 FT New York THERE WAS more good news on the US economy last week, and more record-breaking gains in blue-chip stocks. Yet, there was also more concern about interest rates and the outlook for share prices in 1994. It might seem odd
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        286 31 AFP London STOCKS managed a modest gain last week, partly on optimism created by the British budget and the prospect of lower British interest rates, analysts said. The 100-share Footsie index ended the week at 3,261.3 points, up 27.1 points or 0.8 per
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        310 31 AFP Tokyo SHARE PRICES lost ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week on expectations that political uncertainties, including a decision on lifting a ban on rice imports, might postpone the introduction of new economic measures. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues
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        614 31  -  Sun Hung Kai Hongkong THE market finally broke through the 10,000 barrier last week, despite the total lack of good news on the political front and concerns over the consequences of Gatt talks. The only explanation for the passivity of the market
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          110 31 Australian shares gained steadily through most of the week to close firmer on improving sentiment about base metal prices, analysts said. The key All Ordinaries index finished at 2,084.9 points. 37.5 above the previous Friday's level, while the All Industrials index climbed 31.6 points to 3,207.6 and the All
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          77 31 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) added 103.22 points (7.5 per cent) during a holiday-shortened week of heavy trading to close last Thursday at 1,480.63. another all-time high. The average daily volume for the three-day week was 236.07 million shares, up sharply from the average of 142.8 million shares
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          92 31 Trading was brisk on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE), which rose slightly over last week, spurred by the government's announcement that it would submit a longawaited capital market law to parliament next year. The index closed last Friday at 528.457. up from 521.728 the previous week. The banking sector
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          78 31 Share prices shot up during the week in South Korea, with the index hitting a record four-year high, fuelled by a continuing cash inflow into the stock market. The composite index closed last Saturday's halfday session at 866.86, up 45.27 points, or 5.5 per cent, in value from the
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          122 31 The Philippine stock market surged last week due to foreign buying and new buying by local investors who were attracted by a potential boom and better returns than on the money market, analysts said. The composite index at the Manila Stock Exchange hit 2,513.29 last Friday, up 79.12 points
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          64 31 Taiwan stocks rose last week, boosted by improved market sentiment and increased investment by foreign institutions. Extending a 10 per cent jump over the previous week. Taipei's 359-issue weighted price index climbed another 62.83 points, or 1.4 per cent, to close at 4.644.03 points on Friday. Average daily volume
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          76 31 Share prices on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). India's premier bourse, touched new highs for the year over the week on heavy buying. The 30-share BSE sensitive index closed on Friday at 3.401.90. up 182 points from 3.219.23 a week earlier. The 100-share National Index closed at 1.638.68. up
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          2379 31 London Dk 10 Peace Industrials A. A- Corp Adr 43 120 -14/8 Abbey National 46* 770 -8 230 Allied Lyons 621 9 Amcc 119 J Asda Group 52 4/8 uncti B AT Ind 521 -12 4/8 BICC 409 -4 BOO Group 635 unch BOC Group 635 unch BR Petroleum JI5
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          904 31 10.89 Blue-chip stocks rose on Friday to their third record high of the week, buoyed by gains in companies that would benefit from a stronger economy, but secondary shares fell amid further weakness in semiconductor stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 10.89 points at a new
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          280 31 -10.33 Stocks closed a moderate end of week session softer as players stepped in to take profits after a recent bull run. Real estate, transportation and forest products, all of which have climbed solidly in recent sessions, suffered the sharpest reversals. The TSE 300 Composite Index fell 10.33 points
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      2848 32 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE vrturm FAI B50C I». 176.000 Idns Hyd 50c 118.219.000 Kamunling 50c 97.178.000 Metropfcx 50c 89.3 38.000 Pop Msia 78.331.000 AMDB 50c 74.339.000 Rcnong Bhd 50c 65.930.000 General Corp 64.909.000 Ind Oxygen W|95 60.272.000 Kemayan 50c 50.073.000 Menang ("orp 58.567.000 Promet
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        5806 32 Bernama PRICES ON the Kuala Lumpur share market surged on frenzied trading activity last week, with blue chips leading gains on strong institutional demand. Buyers entered the market in droves on bullish sentiment, buoyed by strong fundamentals and anticipation that more companies would report improved
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        7573 33 MAIN BOARD Transaction date: Week ended Dec 10 C»r Cr 1993 Last Vol Week I ..M Quote Div Di* Vjd Net M C«» High Low Com pant Sale C0«0) High Low Buyer Seller S C*r S P/fc *mil INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1400 260 I Acma 1340 +120 1539 1400 1220
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        2000 34  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The powerful surge in share prices at the end of last week is not expected to be sustained this week despite a bullish outlook for US equities and increasing indications that a world trade accord will soon be reached.
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      407 35  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Japanese carriers Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) will disband their marketing partnership called Concord Express Liners at the end of the month. Concord's demise follows the carriers' decision to go their separate ways on the
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      NYK plans direct route to Ho Chi Minh City
      221 35 BANGKOK NYK Line will open a direct service route to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, by restructuring the current Japan-Bangkok service from January 1994. According to a report from The Nation newspaper, NYK Line currently has three sailings per week on
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      OOIL increases size of Beijing property project
      104 35 HONGKONG Shipping group Orient Overseas International (OOIL) is increasing the size of its proposed Beijing property project almost fivefold. According to a South China Morning Post report last week, the authorities in Beijing have given preliminary approval for OOIL's China joint-venture company Hui
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      Uncle Sam cracks down on foreign shipowners
      399 35 NEW YORK The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has confirmed it is in the process of cracking down on foreign shipowners in order to restore Uncle Sam's depleted coffers. According to Seatrade Week News front last week, random audits are being conducted with
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1095 35 Page Col ABC Containerize 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Africa Container 16 5 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 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 15 2 Avant Shpg
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      289 35 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK Echoing London brokers' sentiments concerning the handy-size market, one US-based broker last week described the situation as "a battlefield for owners" as they desperately search the market for business. According to brokers, owners of the 20.000-to-30.000-deadweight-tonne vessels are quickly latching onto any
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      646 35 AP WASHINGTON The Coast Guard will propose tighter regulations on traditionally freespirit inland waterway captains and crews because of an Alabama barge collision that led to 47 deaths in the wreck of Amtrak's Sunset Ltd, administration officials said last Saturday.
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1059 36 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO S«P Voy No Etb/Btr ecord eriod Booking/Balance From To Rstts From ACX Lfec 025A 14/0700 12/1700 13/0700 13/1200 13/0659 13/1159 13/1459 13/0900 13/1400 13/1700 Anro Temjstk 60! 14/0200 12/1500 13/0700 12/1659 13/1159
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      10790 44 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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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1268 51 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1,241 on Thursday from 1,247 on Dcc 8. Rates continued to case for handysize bulk earner tonnage in the Atlantic area, brokers said. Most owners with handysizc tonnage were gloomy about the short term prospects for
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      1373 52 John Clancey, president and CEO of Sea-Land Inc, talks about the hurdles confronting him and his competitors International Transport Journal WHAT is currently the main problem liner shipping is facing? John Clancey, president and chief executive officer of Sea-Land Inc, says: "The biggest problem
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        452 54 Bloomberg Business News AMSTERDAM Dutch aircraft builder Fokker NV expects to get a type certificate for its F7O jetliner by October next year from the Dutch civil aviation authority Rijksluchtvaartdienst. Fokker spokesman Bart van Veen last week said the Dutch certificate
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        220 54 Bloomberg Business News FARMINGTON, New Mexico Mesa Airlines Inc, buying jet-powered aircraft for the first time, placed firm orders for two Fokker 70 jets and took options on six more, making it the first US customer for the Dutch-built jetliners. The twin-engine jets carry
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        40 54 Reuter LANGKAWI Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad in the pilot's seat of the McDonneU Douglas MD-l 1 last Friday during a demonstration flight at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition. The exhibition ended yesterday. Reuter
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        Lock icon Cut-price airline to double size after US$14m placement
        464 54 Bloomberg Business News ATLANTA ValuJct Airlines. a fledgling low-fare, nofrills carricr. said it raised USSI4 million (5522.3 million) through a private placement and will use the cash to double the size of its operations over the next two months. Founded six weeks
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          117 54 Bloomberg Business News NEWARK, New Jersey Kiwi International Airlines will addjt ninth 150-passenger Boeing 727-200 jetliner to its fleet this week as it expands the frequency of service. Kiwi temporarily will double its service between Chicago Midway Airport and the Florida cities of Tampa and
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          89 54 Bloomberg Business News GRAPEVINE, Texas Simmons Airlines said it reached a tentative agreement with the Transport Workers Union on a new. contract covering 400 mechanics and maintenance workers. The agreement ends 10 months of negotiations. Union members are expected to hold a ratification vote in
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          122 54 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO A Honda Motor Co official denied a report in Japan's Sankei newspaper that it plans to begin selling natural gas-powered passenger cars in California in 1996. The newspaper said Honda would use its popular Accord passenger car as a base
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          Lock icon Maltese ship sinks off N France
          78 54 Reuter RENNES, France A Maltese cargo vessel carrying potentially toxic chemicals sank off France's northwest coast last Thursday but its 15-man crew was rescued, harbour officials in Cherbourg said. The ship, Grape One, had on board more than 3,000 tonnes of xylene, a petrol-based
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          Lock icon Miami airport cargo up 21pc
          53 54 Reuter MIAMI Cargo traffic at Miami International Airport rose 21.3 per cent in September from the year-ago period to 101,065 tonnes, the airport said. International freight tonnage was up 22 per cent to 82,360 tonnes, while domestic freight showed a 19.2 per cent increase to
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        Lock icon Nissan buys 900 vans from owners
        459 54 Bloomberg Business News CARSON, California Nissan Motor Corp USA said that so far it has bought 900 of its 1987-90 vans from owners because it would cost the carmaker too much money to make them road-worthy again. Earlier this week Nissan spokesman Mark Adams
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        1735 54 WEF3H ETA n*t rro Iwwj SQ228 2105 Amsterdam KL843 KL837 SQ319 0745 1540 0810 KL832 0020 Auckland S0285 2045 Sari Bagawa n BI421 SQ181 BI429 1105 1410 2030 SQ182 BI422 BI430 0915 1205 2125 Bimkdi SQ69 TG403 AY902 TG413 CX713 SQ061 SV836 SQ182 SQ339 TG409 QF6
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        Lock icon GM unit signs MOU with Polish carmaker
        255 54 Bloomberg Business News WARSAW, Poland General Motors, through one of its subsidiaries, formally agreed last week to study a joint venture in Poland with a Polish carmaker. Two divisions of General Motors Corp's Automotive Components Group (AGC) signed the agreement with Polish carmaker
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      17 35 PERSONAL FINANCE INVESTMENT Every Saturday in I Business Times Can shipping lines be profitable again? Page 18
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      38 35 Fokker expects to get F7O type certificate, Back Page Lines and services represented by Members ef the Registry el Accredited Shipping Agents, Singapore National Ship- [tMSUhJ ping A i inflation For advertising enquiries, contact Shipping Times: Tel 740-2089/740-2090
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      68 35 THE /g FAMOUS to C Kiomuk/ MM atijm ■iMIIIJI* 224 1833 For more information please refer to Pg. 13 [j/l Reliable SZ Efficient Experienced lj/1 Professional Then engage one who is a member of the Singapore Freight Forwarders Association (SFFA). SFFA demands that all its members comply with the Association's
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      428 36 TSKUNE AGENCIES (S) PTE. LTD. I "W Tel: 226-3363 npHN JL «3« JV« I lIMr Fax:226-*****3 J "7 Tlx: RS *****/TSKSIN. qgjggg? TOKYO SENPAKU KAISHA, LTD. CR No: **********0N I [HM<W!IT 0368 0112 1012 »U2 23.12 2442 2M2 C. JUPITER 69 1112 1112 ACX WMET 0218 13.12 15.12 14.12 17.12
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      1961 37 snipping iiuics, muiiunj ltcituiuci i«j i»<i 1394?' NE SM,PP,NG AGENC,ES PET^G j!y^L A 0i ,^77?^*, £75«5342 DOCUMENTATION TEL: *****55 (INWARD)/*****90 (OUTWARD) JgjflfSJtiiTO/YF^M27oe' TEL BOOKINGS TEL: *****80 *****81/ *****82 p OijDANG TEL- *****2/3 FAX' *****4 (OPNS) CFS (PSA F5) TEL. *****21/ *****79 R SAHRIWFL 07-*****0 FAX 07-*****9 CUSTOMER SVC TEL: *****92/*****91/*****93
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      1695 37 ■□WUUIUM THIS WEEK'S ARRIVAL VESSELS VOY ETA EXCHANGE RATES ETA ETA ETA JOH LPK PEN OSAKA MARU 9311 13/12 1.6055 14/12 16/12 17/12 MAERSK HAMBURG 9402 13/12 1.6070 14/12 16/12 17/12 SEALAND EXPRESS 201W 14/12 1.6050 21/12 16/12 17/12 MAYVIEW MAERSK 9309 14/12 1.6040 21/12 16/12 17/12 HAYAKAWA MARU 9312
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      1604 38 AOABA R'DAM/ [I ALSO ACCEPTINQ FROM VESSEL VOY NO SPORE JEDOAH (VIA JED) S TON H BURG A WERP HAVRE WEST MALAYSIA THAMES 20/149 15/12 2/1 5/1 4/1 Port Keiang. Penary KAI 05/349 18/12 27/12 2/1 5/1 8/1 10/1 12/1 Pasir Gudang LA SEINE 33/150 22/12 8/1 11/1 9/1 EAST
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      579 38 FCL Breakbulk Service to: AFGHANISTAN M&M Afghanistan Ltd., Sole Foreign Forwarder in Kabul for all services C.I.S.- Vostochny, Vladivostok, Moscow, Tashkent, Kiev, Minsk, Riga, Baku, Irkutsk, Alma Ata North Korea Vietnam Mongolia Hungary CSFR Poland FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO NORTH/WEST AFRICA FEEDER VESSEL ETA SIN CGM NORMANDIE V.2443 In Pt
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      1250 38 NORASIA i^sHvOY^^^^^^SlNAU^BC^^VA^^w!A^HAS^Bß?^RO^>RT^FE^| NORASIA SING A 9348 3 15/12 05/01 08/01 W/01 09/01 10/01 11/01 12/01 13/01 14/01 I NORASIA SHARJAH 9349 3 23/12 12/01 15/01 16/01 16/01 17/01 18/01 19/01 20/01 21/01 I NORASIA MJBARAK 9350 3 29/12 19/01 22/01 23/01 23/01 24/01 25/01 26/01 27/01 28/01 I NORASIA AL
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      1668 39 Shipping Times, Monday December 13 1993 H STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Ho« Chiang Road #11-01 Koppol Towers Singapore 0208 Tol: *****88 Fax: *****17 Mnew quinea pacific une < A SERVICE 0F CHINA NAVIGATION CO) c«6O TS due swls STRAITS VENTURE W3IE Muara. lab 14-15 D«C 14 Dec 17 D«C
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      2647 39 Page 5 SINGAPORE AGENT: 1 P&O Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd W I tVI W 1 jlllll /i I lIHI 10 Hoe Chiang Road #07-01 Keppel Towers. Singapore 0208 v Te»: 225 2233 Telex: RS ***** PNOCSP Fax: 225 5327/222 7517 V CR Number: **********0Z EXPORT IMPORT VESSEL VOY "PNO
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      559 40 EKA JAYA AGENCIES TEL: *****22 (8 LINES) FAX: *****05 SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN CHARGE MYAHMAH TWAPt PAQEH HANDPHONE/DIRECT WHAM OTP a— *****08/ MSSM2 ilHfld HMTB HO cm MNM CITY henhy HOE 2 now nOMMMMM KELVIW CHAN U»S23 ******27>*****3 ►TO MYANMAR/YANGON SEAM COMTAIMER SERVICE ■™7 M OCEANLINES VS./WT STOtt TBN 21/12 27/12
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      789 40 H ANJIN SHIPPING FIXED WEEKLY SAILING to COLOMBO AND EUROPE DESTINATION TRANSIT-TIME COLOMBO 4 DAYS ROTTERDAM 19 DAYS HAMBURG 21 DAYS FELIXSTOWE 23 DAYS LE HAVRE 25 DAYS ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO TO:AARHUS/COPENHAGEN/AMSTERDAM/ANTWERP/BREMERHAVEN/ OSLO/HELSINKI/MALMOE/STOCKHOLM/DUBLIN/BELFAST/BILBAO LISBON/LEIXOS/VIENNA/WARSAW/PRAGUE/BUDAPEST/GDYNIA/ RIGA/ST. PETERSBURG/MOSCOW PLEASE CONTACT THE FOLLOWING PERSONS FOR ENQUIRIES BOOKINGS: JOE LIM DID *****22 PGR *****50
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      1424 40 d-1 rl "T3"EP"I^ Im ssr use wg ms pus wi oa «t m no uu cms w rtcun mum lec rs> am m ssp I E GUAMY W 044 L3/L2 14/12 20/12 U/U 22/U 24/12 20/12 27/12 21/12 29/12 13/1 25/1 27/1 21/1 7/2 1/2 9/2 11/2 12/2 21/2 4/3
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      2235 41 II II PLEASE DIAL 1-800-*****00 (TOLL FREE) 11 II II FOR ALL BOOKINGS (NOL SERVICES) II II l| *B1 Connecting Naptuna Cyprine 82E In HK6 08/01/94 HI ■I II *B2 Connecting California Saturn 62E in HK6 W/01/94 EXPORT TO: PSW/PNW StNQAPORE CALIFORNIA fXPHIII (WCX) TO: USWC U$ PULP BMPW«r—- USEC
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      1126 41 0 SINGAPORE SOVET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD CR NO: **********0/N ENQUfftIES: *****33 BOOKINGS: *****64, *****51, *****31, *****13 BALTIC: INWARD *****81 OUTWARD *****81 T/S *****77 JjSHjA BLASCO: INWARD *****79 OUTWARD *****80 T/S *****78 FESCO: BOOKINGS *****06 DOC *****07 m MARINE INSURANCE: INVENTORY: *****59 CI M W n AGENTS: KL: 03-*****75/697 PKLG:
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      1439 42 AS AGENTS LINE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (CR No: **********0 M) I TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 I IWT MALAYSIA K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD I H W* TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUTINTERNUSA. 'EL: JKT *****08 f txpofr
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      1026 42 PHILI ORKNT UN(S PT€ LTD 108 Robinson Road #07-00 GMG Building Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22/*****69/*****00 Telex: RS ***** Fax: *****76/*****38 A MEMBER 0F THE SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND/SOUTH PACIFIC FCL/LCL SERVICE 11 DEC SYDNEY, MELBOURNE. BRISBANE, FREMANTLE 11 DEC AUCKLAND, WELLINGTON. LYTTLETON, NEW PLYMOUTH. NAPIER. CHRISTCHURCH 30 DEC
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      1012 43 (PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I I CR NO **********06 VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN VOY S«M~ JKT" SIN eiiDii VQQ rmi 44/10 47/ D 91/19 BUNGA TERATAI 3603 Wl2 21/12 KOTA SURIA KSRSON 14/12 17/12 21/12 EQUATOR RUBY 23N 15/12
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      1496 43 vtssus vot von kambuwc noniitom unmaf thahs ii hmw wlii pi srnus >i3iii is/1? 0001 iQ/oi ii/oi 12/01 n/oi HIIUS mACEDOI* 9431W 22/12 1«/01 20/01 21/°' 01 *</01 Will D oquto 7531W 21/12 22/01 24/01 2b 01 27/01 20/01 Wilt PI TUCAHA 9531W 04/01 29/01 31/01 01/0? 02/02 00/02 •AISO
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      402 43 BSfl A MYANMA pBBk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.KI| Pen P.Gdg MERGU VI2IW 15/17 Det Ifim VI9BW 23/26 OK PAGAN V2O4W 4/ 7 lan MALAYSIA AGENTS BOUSTEAD SWfHG AGENCIES AU. TEI 03-*****00 PKL TEL 03-3Ut7t7 PEN; TEL 04 6U135 PSD TEL 07 *****1
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      57 45 */c VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD I MMmm Established Sincc 1984 OCEAINIA PORTS REGULAR GROUP AGE J|||[ilil|[|||ili|[E^ lcl consolidation AUCKLAND SYDNEY IMPORT EXPORT nAililllf( MELBOURNE FREWAHTLE SERVICES yy FOR BOOKING St SAILING SCHEDULE. CALL THE TOTAL TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE. VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD VISA LCL CONSOL PTE LTD TOLL-FREE TEL:
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      3010 46 Full Container Liner Services Malaysia's Agents: Indonesia's Agents: General Agents: Boohing Agents: Guan Guan Shipping Sdn Bhd Chung Chiao Shipping Sdn Bhd P.T. Global Pntra Indonesia Maritime Costar Shipping Pte Ltd Shipping Freight Bookiing Centre Sdn Bhd 58 Persiaran Paja Mudt Miiu Lei 3.34, 3rd floor, Jl. IK. H. Jus**
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      630 47 (ft FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 20/12 ROTTERDAM 20/12 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 20/12 HAMBURG/BREMEN 20/12 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 14/12 FELIXSTOWE/UK 15/12 BARCELONA/SPAIN 16/12 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 15/12 GENOA/ITALY 14/12 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 20/12 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 19/12 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 14/12 NEW YORK/EC 17/12 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 17/12 VANCOUVER 15/12 BRISBANE
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      1681 47 ITTTTTT in vi miarrrriT ,a J WSj ITmT V VESSEL VOY SN JIT a VESSEL VOY SW Plh ■~1 1 WAMA BHUM 2MS Wad_ 15/12 Sat It/12 V|RA BHUM 2199 Mon fin pT Tua 14/12 H VESSEL VOY S N _e*K i CHAIYA BHUM 30S Fn_ 17/12 J[ug_ 21/12, 5
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      1828 48 LAIMN tbNTAINth LINES n MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINEB) CJ \y *CJn M«c imriltTlff 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 GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN 14/12 15/12
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      183 48 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD EM £T* ET» SfOtt POUT KEIWG PtNANG BLUE INK 15 1? Loading tor Kb* •UVU HUOMU 2V 1? faclw(i.if and loadir( tor Bombay oanw m post Loading for Male nOtCER SUPREME 14/1? SMEO loading foi Male UMCEDH Ml? loading For Male PROGRESS
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      994 48 £> THONG SOON UNES PTE LTD I AY\ 78 SHENTON WAY #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 I I \y TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I I TLX: RS ***** CARRER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK VESSEL VOY SPORE PEST VESSEL |VOT SPORE |PEST EQUATOR JADE 98/3E 16 DEC KUCHING
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      831 49 WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTING BREAKBU.K SOC CARGOES TO/FROM KOBE. YOKOHAMA. NAGOYA. MO I TOKYO*. MAMLA* DAVAO*. Pen ant °P. Keiang Singapore E'Msia* SHAPLAEVERETT VISE 20/21 Dec 22/23 Dec IVYEVERETT V7E 19/20 Jan KARABtVERETT VISE 25/26 Jan 27/28 Jan ACCEPTING BREAKBULK FCL SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CMTTAGONG. CALCUTTA
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      355 49 5[ SLORY WAVifiATMHi GROUP to REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN DIRECT WEEKLY TO PORT KELANG/PENANG •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO TIMBER TRADER 15/12 18/12 26/12 TIMBER GLORY 15/12 27/12 SP PKL HCM HK KAO GLORY SELATAN VII 10/12 12/12 19/12 •ALSO LOADING IN
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      532 49 PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOY 5 KARACHI jjMMjW 143-HW 13/12 23/12 BtHAN 136HW 2«/12 06/01 HYpERABAo mm 11/01 20/01 SARGOOHA 13S-HW .1 23/01 01/02 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY VESSEL mm VOY SHI KG BSN OSA NAG TON SARGOOHA 137 ON 21/12 25/12 29/12
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      542 49 iLumaiißfflfffM FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO DURBAN/ P. ELIZABETH VESSEL SIN DURBAN P.ELIZABETH MCIAQINGME V4B/49 19/12 OS/Ol OS/Ol FEN HC/33 04/01 20/01 23/01 HUA U HE/47 19/01 04/02 07/02 ACCEPTS CARGO TO JOHANNESBURG PRETORIA VIA DURBAN BOOKING AGENT FOR COSCO SIN TO MADRAS VESSEL SIN MDS SIN TIGER ISLAND
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      248 49 SIN FAR EAST 21/12 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 19/12 BANGKOK 19/12 MANILA/CEBU 19/12 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 19/12 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 19/12 BUSAN 19/12 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 19/12 HONG KONG SIN CHINA 19/12 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SjN EUROPE/UK 20/12 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 20/12 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romama/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA 19/12 LOS ANGELES/NEW
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      774 50 HONG KONG/CHINA 15/12 JAKARTA 19/12 BANGKOK 15/12 MANILA 19/12 BUSAN 19/12 KEELUNG 19/12 TOKYO/KOBE 20/12 KAOSHIUNG 21/12 PORT KELANG/PENANG 20/12 YOKOHAMA 19/12 COLOMBO 16/12 FELIXSTOWE/HAMBUR6 19/12 CHITTAGONG/MADRAS 16/12 ROTTERDAM/LE HARVE/ANTWERP 19/12 BOMBAY/KARACHI BARCELONA. MARSEILLES. 6ENOA 19/12 LAX/NYC 19/12 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 16/12 CMT LINER EXPRESS AGENCIES PTE LTD £*gjH|m HOT-LINE 22-007-22 For
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      380 50 Contemn CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 15TH DECEMBER ACCEPTING TO ALL NEW ZEALAND PORTS PENANG 17 DEC PORT KELANG 16 DEC JAKARTA 19 DEC HONGKONG 19 DEC BANGKOK 18 DEC FREMANTLE 16 DEC MELBOURNE 16 DEC SYDNEY 16 DEC ADELAIDE 18 DEC 18 DEC I 'ACCEPTING TO ALL SCANDINAVIA
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      580 50 This Week's Sailings Singapore I II FIRS I FORWARDER IN To: ETD To: ETD asia awarded Singapore Singapore ,so 9002 BV |JI Q A EVERY EVERY Bangkok SUN Jakarta SUN EVERY EVERY Manila SUN Ho Chi Minh FRI (7 |Dl EVERY EVERY V^VyLlSd Colombo TL'E Limassol THUR L-S"J| HTEKNATIONAL SEA
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      177 50 m NIPPON EXPRESS Arrow International (Worldwide Consolidation System) WEEKLY TO: TOKYO/YOKOHAMA/NAGOYA/KAOSHIUNG/ HONG KONG/BANGKOK/KEELUNG/KOBE/ LOS ANGELES (LONG BEACHVNEW YORK/ CHICAGO/SYDNEY/MELBOURNE/HAMBURG/ FELIXSTOWE/ROTTERDAM/DUSSELDORF WE ALSO DEAL IN FCL CARGO WORLDWIDE ARROW EXPRESS (SERVICE TO MALAYSIA) MALAYSIA TRUCK CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore DAILY to K.L. BANGI. SHAH ALAM ARROW EXPRESS BONDED CONSOLIDATION Depart Singapore every
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      1185 51 f jm M CRYSTAL FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD I LSOiiflli TEL N0: *****88/*****88 MWIWWt MBMWWWUII 1«/13 AUCKLAND 24/12 ANTWERP 20/12 bmsan 30/13 ADELAIDE 23/12 FELIXSTOWE 18/12 Sntir Knwri is/13 BRISBANE 30/12 HAMBURG 20/12 Vakabta 31/13 FREMANTLE 17/12 ROTTERDAM 20/12 SURABAYA 21/12 16/12 KEELUNG 15/12 SYUIfcT Wl2 TOKYO* 19/12 I YOKOHAMA
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      210 51 37 GINZA ORIENT SHIPPING CO, SA. (GOSCO LINE) VESSEL VOY %m YANGON GINZA ORIENT 04/N 15 20 DEC 20-24 DEC a. STAR 06/N 20 25 DEC 2S-30 DEC FAR EAST RUSSIA/LATVIA VIA ANTWERP BY CONTAINER DEEPSEA SERVICE VESSEL VOY SM ANTWERP TBN 01/N 10/15 DEC HO lAN ■M/3T HTDBBUK (LOWOtM)
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      252 51 rCONDOR LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND SCHEDULE N0.19 PORTS VOY MJCNOS MONTEVRKO DURBAN JAKARTA r^MQAPORTIHON6 KONOI KAOOSMMA YOKOHAMA" VttKU MKI"' PCKAIHT CTO3 6AAEP SARAP MUD BABfP SAAjD 29/*****/12 10/12 PMOZPWK ERO4 MUD MUD 26/11 10/12 16/12 19-26/12 30/12 PAVLOBRAD ERQ6 26/12-4/1 6ARED 17 16/12 31/12-01/01 03-04/01 09/01 13 21/01 23/01 PETROOVORETS
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      669 52 J, VIGOUR PACIFIC LINES VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE I MANILA I VIGOUR PACIFIC 33W 17/12/93. 25/ LL "IZJ VIGOUR PACIFIC 33ANB 20/12/93 25, 12, 93 j VIGOUR SINGAPORE 69N8 24/12/93 j 1/1/94 j VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE PORT KLANG PENANG SINGAPORE VIGOUR PACIFIC 33N8 17 12 93 19/12/93 20/12 93 PENANG JAYA
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      298 52 ®APPENSHIP /Q\ HAMBURG VTv CONVENTIONAL INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE EUROPE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA AND FAR EAST VESSELS LOADING PORTS DISCHARGE LOADING FOR VASILIY KOVAL PORT SAID 19 1193 SPORE 14/12 BKK 18/12 FORUM AKASAKA ANTWERP 05 1193 SPORE 16/12 HARMONY SEA 13.1193 SPORE 20/12 KOALA CONTAINER LINE SPORE FIX HAM
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      381 52 .3L cosco UKC CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P G. LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 28/12 Rotterdam/Antwerp CHINA CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL PKL PNG P G LOADING FOR: A VESSEL 15/12 20/12 Huangpu/Guangzhou COSCO FULL CONTAINER SERVICES (FCL/FCL) EXPORT TO: CHINA/BANGKOK/HONGKONG EUROPE/CONTINENTAL WEST MEDITERRANEAN AUSTRALIA US WEST COAST PERSIAN GULF/KARACHI Please refer
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      921 53 I Zj. HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARINE CO. Ug. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 [VESSELS VOY PNA I PKE I PGP VESSELS VOY_ SIN RTM ANT* LEH* HAM BKEj EEL MM ADVANCE 033 A 13/12 14/12 16/12 H. COMMANDER 307** 20/12 07/01 07/01 08/01 09/01 09/01 11/01 NOR MALACCA 9351 A
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      482 53 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO t HEAVY LIFTS IHBOUNP VESSELS VESSEL VOV n KK RR COSMC TRADER 42 2S 12 27/12 SOMAI 24 PT 11/12 lAAI RUN 22 PT MARGE MOOR «i PT 12/12 SEALARR 7» PT SERI AREISN 12 1/1 1/1 COSMC MASTER V2l 2/1 TRORM VM
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