The Business Times, 28 December 1993

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  • 12 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Tuesday December 28 1993 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 58 1 Reuter NEW YORK Wall Street stocks continued their rally in early afternoon trading yesterday. with oil and cyclical issues leading the way for blue chips. The Dow was up 26.27 points at 3.783.99 at Ipm EST. US Treasuries were narrowly mixed, with the long bond
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    • 69 1 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Rothmans (Far East) said in a statement yesterday that a unit of its Singapore subsidiary. Rothmans of Pall Mall (Singapore) Pte. has entered into a joint venture to manufacture and sell cigarettes in Myanmar. Rothmans Myanmar Holdings Pte will take a
      Bloomberg Business News  -  69 words
    • 58 1 Bloomberg Business News FORT WORTH. Texas Radio Shack, a division of Tandy Corp. said yesterday that it has signed an agreement with Trident Group Inc to distribute and market its consumer electronics products in Russia. The Trident Group, an international distribution company, will open its
      Bloomberg Business News  -  58 words
  • 109 1 Stock market indices Monday Change STI1 2 J 78.43 +52.09 KLSE Composite...1.205 28 +26.82 Nikkei 16.819.88 -321.23 Hang Seng closed SET Index 1.608 12 -43 Jakarta Composite ...565.94 +5.14 CLSA China B closcd Aust All Ord closed FTSE 100 closed Monday Previous I pm close Dow Jones 3.783.99
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  • 462 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE The bulls continued to rampage across Asia yesterday, pushing the Singapore, Malaysian, Thai and Philippine markets to record finishes. Regional exchanges shrugged off losses in Tokyo, where shares closed weaker because of disappointment with a new government
    Source: Bridge Info; Reuter  -  462 words
  • 448 1 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter, AFP TOKYO Japanese companies will continue to reduce capital spending on expectations that the country's economy will remain depressed, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported yesterday. During the July-September period, major Japanese companies invested 12.27 trillion yen (*****.9 billion)
    Bloomberg Business News,; Reuter,; AFP  -  448 words
  • 309 1 Reuter NEW DELHI Most people in India's five major cities have scant respect for politicians, think the country needs a dictator and would rather work abroad, according to an opinion poll released yesterday. The survey by the Marketing and Research
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  • 402 1 Reuter BEIJING China yesterday threatened to throw out all three tiers of Hongkong's elected government when it takes over the British colony in 1997. The threat by the Cabinet's Hongkong and Macau Affairs Office to sack elected District Board and Municipal Council
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  • 343 1  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Vietnam has asked Singapore architect and town planner Liu Thai Ker to prepare a masterplan for a new 37-hectare International Town in Hanoi for foreign embassies and international organisations. Mr Liu, a director of RSP Architects Planners and
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 286 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling WHOLESALE priccs regained flat last month, latest figures from the Department of Statistics show. J- The manufactured products price index was 80.3 in November, almost unchanged from October. The index, which measures changes in the ex-facto-ry priccs of a range of local
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    • 366 2  -  PM Goh's visit to Thailand Reports Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK A MORE relaxed mood between Singapore and Thailand is taking the two Asean members into a new era of partnership. Fresh initiatives to further cement bilateral ties are likely to follow. Already on
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    • 273 2 THAILAND and Singapore have agreed that there should be some form of linkage between the fledgling Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) and the much bigger North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) to give Asean goods continued access to the important United States market.
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    • 236 2  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE The Singapore arm of US-based investment banker and broker Smith Barney Shearson has merged with local broker Hoare Govett Securities to form Smith Barney Shearson HG Asia. The merger follows the acquisition this year by Smith Barney of a 20
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  • THE REGION
    • 428 3  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Vietnam has opened bidding by foreign oil explorers for three unproven fields off the country's southern coast. The blocks, in the Gulf of Thailand, each measure about 6,000 sq km. The state oil firm Petrovietnam has just started
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    • 177 3 AFP BANGKOK A Thai parliamentary committee has called on its counteiparts in other member countries to head off a bid by Myanmar to join the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean), an official said yesterday. In a letter to four Asean
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    • 194 3 BANGKOK A Bank of Thailand official denied yesterday that there was any likelihood of a baht devaluation in the foreseeable future, the Bangkok Post reported. "The exchange rate is not an issue," said Bandid Nijathaworn, deputy director of the central bank's Economic Research
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    • 268 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Legal action will be taken against developers who defy the cabinet's order to stop construction work on all high-rise projects in hilly areas and ex-mining land. Law Minister Syed Hamid Albar said yesterday. "There are sufficient laws that
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    • 435 3 AFP, Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Mousedeer will sprint off the assembly line in July. Malaysian officials said yesterday. Mousedeer, "Kancil" in Malay, is Malaysia's second national car, a vehicle modelled on an updated version of Japan's Daihatsu Mira. The car is named
      AFP,; Bernama; Reuter  -  435 words
    • ASIA NOTES
      • 70 4 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian company, Atlantic Outline Capital, has received the nod from Myanmese authorities for a major tourism project on an island off the southern tip ofT Myanmar, according to press reports yesterday. The company said its wholly-owned Atlantic Outline Myanmar, will
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      • 103 4 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian government has set up a team to scrutinise the performance of 28 state firms under the industry ministry to determine whether they could be privatised, the Kompas daily said yesterday. It quoted Industry Minister Tungky Ariwibowo as having said the team
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      • 83 4 AFP BANGKOK More than 400 Thai companies are being investigated by police in connection with a million-dollar tax fraud scheme, a local daily reported on Sunday. Police announced they were examining records from companies they suspected had falsified data on tax forms over the
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    • 516 4 NYT TOKYO Japan's output and export of consumer electronics products are shrinking rapidly, says the Electronics Industry Association of Japan. New figures show that the nation is having difficulty retaining its manufacturing base for colour televisions, compact disc players, video-cassette recorders and other
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    • 163 4 AFP TOKYO In opening its construction market, Japan proposed to scrap an accord with the US which favoured American builders when bidding for large public works contracts, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday. The economic daily said Japan's plan to gradually abolish
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    • 455 4 Reuter NEW DELHI India's top English-language newspapers told Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao yesterday to reject a resignation offer by Finance Minister Manmohan Singh, architect of the country's radical economic reform programme. Editorial writers joined the chorus from business leaders urging rejection
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    • 421 4 AFP BEIJING Jiang Zemin's starring role in Sunday's celebrations to mark Mao Zedong's centenary gave the Chinese head of state and party chief maximum opportunity to play the role of paramount-ieader-in-waiting. "It really was like a coronation ahead of schedule," a western diplomat said yesterday,
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    • 230 4 Reuter Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Muramoto Construction Co Ltd. Japan's largest company to become insolvent. has received court approval to restructure. Muramoto. based in Nara prefecture in western Japan, filed for court protection from creditors on Nov I with 530 billion yen (557.6 billion) in
      Reuter; Bloomberg Business News  -  230 words
    • 238 4 AFP HONGKONG The colony is planning to allow professionals from China to work and eventually settle here, an official said yesterday. The new scheme, which Security Branch officials are studying, will allow top professionals from China to come to the territory, but
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  • THE WORLD
    • 579 5 Economic momentum is sustainable, say analysts Reuter NEW YORK All cylinders appear to be firing in the United States economy in the final days of 1993, and economists say the strong performance should carry into the new year, albeit at a
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    • 410 5 Reuter PARIS French company profits arc expected to rise strongly in 1994. mainly due to falling interest rates and a moderate increase in wages, analysts say. These expectations pushed the Paris bourse CAC-40 index to a record closing high of 2,251.48 points last
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    • 227 5 AP NEW YORK Rules governing American trade sanctions are so loose that corporations arc able to get around them to do business with Cuba and Libya, the AW York Times reported yesterday. The newspaper says corporations use their foreign subsidiaries to take advantage of
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 66 5 Reuter DUBAI King Fahd is due to convene Saudi Arabia's appointed Shura (consultative) Council this week in the kingdom's first major step towards political reform. Official sources and Western diplomats in Riyadh said the king was expected to hold the first session of the 60-member
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      • 47 5 AFP PAMPLONA, Spain No, it's not a swimming pool. This lake-like arena is the La Magdalena sports stadium in Pamplona which was totally flooded by heavy rain at the weekend. The wet weather hit many regions in northern Spain. AFP
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      • 79 5 Reuter BONN German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said on Sunday that he would push Nato next year to provide formerly Communist East European countries with a sense of security. Mr Kohl said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allf>emeine Sonntaxszeitung newspaper that the recent
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      • 85 5 Reuter ZURICH Switzerland's gross domestic product (GDP) should expand by 1.8 per cent in 1995 as cuts in interest rates since mid-1992 stimulate higher investment in construction and new machinery, says a leading Swiss bank. The Union Bank of Switzerland said in its latest
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    • 412 5 Reuter LONDON Some of the best-paid researchers in drug companies today are not scientists but economists. The number of "health economists", whose job is to assess the costs and benefits of therapies, is growing fast as firms seek to prove that new
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 803 7  -  Barbra Streisand will be performing to sell-out crowds in Las Vegas. Little wonder Vernon Silver says Vernon Silver NYT MIKE Myers says that Linda Richman, his character from the Coffee Talk skits on Saturday Night Live, is all "farklempt" about seeing Barbra
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    • 352 7 CHATTERBOX Reuter AP AP AP THE rumour around Microsoft in Medford, Washington, is that the boss, founder William Gates 111, is tying the knot with his long-playing fiancee. Melinda French, on Jan 9 in a very hush-hush ceremony. French, 28, is a product
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 1142 7 TV RADIO •iTT7W!TTTTr^S A drama centring around an A classic tribute to the Gibb brothers tonight in amusing farce about an English Music Motion, 12.15 am, SBC 5 art appraiser who is sent to buy a long-lost Renoir from a fami- 9-30 A Kind Of Magic 7.00 Regional Mews (C).
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  • SPORTS
    • 903 8  -  By Dave Anderson NYT NEW YORK For the Jets, it was their coldest game ever. \ri(i almost one of their proudest ever. Almost. Never before had the Jets played with the windchill factor at 28 degrees below zero, as
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    • 457 8 AP EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey Armon Gilliam, starting because of Derrick Coleman's Illness, had 18 points and 13 rebounds on Sunday night in the Nets' 91-87 victory over Atlanta. It was the fourth straight home victory for the Nets, who played without
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    • 425 8 Reuter. AP SYDNEY The Sydney-to-Hobart ocean yacht race hit rough weather yesterday and one boat sank, the first to go down in the event's 49-year history. All seven crew members of the 10.8 m Clwyd from Tasmania were rescued after it sank
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    • SPORT SHORTS
      • 72 8 Reuter WASHINGTON Results of games played on Sunday: Cincinnati 21. Atlanta 17; Detroit 20. Chicago 14; New England 38. Indianapolis 0; Green Bay 28. Los Angeles Raiders 0; Philadelphia 37, New Orleans 26; Buffalo 16. New York Jets 14; Seattle 16. Pittsburgh 6; Cleveland 42. Los Angeles Rams
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      • Article, Illustration
        45 8 Reuter NEW YORK Results of games played on Sunday: Cleveland 107 Indiana 103 (OT); New Jersey 91 Atlanta 87; Miami 109 Sacramento 95; Golden State 108 Portland 106 (OT); San Antonio 99 Boston 85; Denver 100 Minnesota 97; Houston 118 LA Lakers 93 Reuter
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      • Article, Illustration
        90 8 AP MELBOURNE Continuing rain washed out the second day of the first Test between Australia and South Africa at the Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday, leaving officials facing financial losses of up to US$5OO,OOO (*****.000). Umpires Darrell Hair and Terry Prue abandoned the second day of play mid-afternoon without Australia
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      • Article, Illustration
        117 8 AP MELBOURNE Two days of torrential rain forced the organisers of the Colonial Classic tournament yesterday to switch venues and consider extending the exhibition for a further day. No play was possible Sunday or yesterday on the grass courts at Kooyong. forcing tournament director Colin Stubs to move the
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      • 75 8 AP ST PETERSBURG, Russia Olympic champions Yekaterina Gordceva and Sergei Grinkov became Russia's pairs figure skating champions after winning the freestyle contest on Sundav. Gordeeva and Grinkov are coached by Vladimir Zakharov, and their programme was prepared by the former Central Army Club figure skater. Manna Zuyeva. Top-seeded
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      • Article, Illustration
        48 8 Reuter NEW YORK Results of games played on Sunday: Hartford 3 Ottawa 2 (OT); NY Islanders 4 Buffalo 3 (OT); St Louis 3 Chicago 2: NY Rangers 8 New Jersey 3; Florida 3 Tampa bay 1; Washington 7 Pittsburgh 3; Los Angeles 3 Anaheim 2 Reuter
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
    • 424 9  -  But outlook for condos still solid, reports Abdul Hadhi Abdul Hadhi AFTER almost five years of strong growth, the landed property market in Johor Baru will ease over the next three years, says a leading Malaysian property analyst. Rahim Co Research says in a
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    • 278 9 Bloomberg Business News THE record price paid by the region's real estate magnates for a piece of residential land in Hongkong at auction earlier this week will be justified as home prices and rents continue to soar, say analysts. Robert
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    • 311 9 Jones Lang $fsWootton Selected market transactions in the past week vptjirWvl* PWVATE Dec 18,1993 0512 j Faber Hifc Condo Apt J1808 FH 680,000 376 Dec 16,1993 f 0922 CaimhiH Plaza Apt 2820* FH 1,142,000 405 Dec 16,1993 0922 Hill Court Apt 2023 FH 961,000 475 Dec 17,1993 j
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  • 513 10 EDITORIAL THE WARNING by Chinese President and Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin of a possible social upheaval in the wake of faster economic reforms in the coming year is a reconfirmation if this were ever needed that China's high-flying economy, which has grown at a
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 243 10 RECONCILIATION between the Cambodian People's Pafty (CPP) and the United National Front (Funcinpec), the two leading political forces, has proceeded remarkably well since the elections in May. But long-term stability has not been secured because the Khmer Rouge, which boycotted the polls and tried to
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    • 196 10 THE RISE in vehicle Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices has alarmed many Singaporeans including the various chambers of commerce, which have issued an appeal to the government. While there are good reasons for being alarmed because the increase will raise the costs of doing business, the
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    • 233 10 IN CONJUNCTION with the move to corporatise the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) at the end of next year, the government plans to set up a new regulatory body called the Singapore Broadcasting Authority, to control the quantity and quality of new channels. While opening our doors
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    • 230 10 THE MTR's plan to spend HK$B billion over the next seven years to improve services, increase train frequencies and relieve congestion on the Nathan Road corridor should come as welcome news to all users of Hongkong's underground railway. Carping at the fact that passengers will have to
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    • 168 10 A VITAL INGREDIENT which will ensure that we keep our competitive edge is research and development. Minister of International Trade and Industry Rafidah Aziz said recently that Malaysian businessmen must not rely only on comparative advantages due to the availability of natural sources but should also rely
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    • 229 10 HISTORY BOOKS will mark Dec 22 as the formal demise of apartheid, when the South African Parliament rescinded the system of white rule it spelled out in 1948 and voted itself out of office. This little bit of history has been three years in the
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  • 1050 10  -  With his popularity sliding, the Japanese prime minister has created a new body to coordinate economic policy within his coalition. Anthony Rowley reports Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo Correspondent FACED with increasing political assaults on his coalition government amid signs
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 996 11  -  Fifty years ago, 10 workers supported every retiree in Europe. By 2020, there will be just three workers to pay for every pensioner. As the well dries up, Paula Dwyer reports how European policymakers plan to cope with this looming dilemma. Paula Dwyer IT'S
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    • 992 11  -  With the gap between haves and have-nots widening, today's China isn't what Mao had in mind, says Dan Biers Dan Biers AP WITH A red carnation on each table and imported crystal chandeliers overhead, the Dream Shanghai restaurant is a popular haunt
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  • 557 12 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI Shanghai has promised five foreign banks limited access to local currency business, drawing a cautious welcome from those selected but anger from those left out. Foreign banks have been battling Chinese authorities for years for permission to handle renminbi
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  • 48 12 Reuter MANILA Philippine President Fidel Ramos driving one of 131 garbage trucks which the Japan International Cooperation Agency donated during the turnover ceremony held in Manila Rizal park yesterday. The donation aims to support a programme to improve waste management. Reuter
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  • 270 12 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's top trade union body has recommended severe punishment for managers and officials involved in a saga of bribery and negligence which led to 84 deaths in a toy factory blaze mid-last month, the official
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  • 197 12 AFP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government has decided to reintroduce English as a medium of instruction in universities and other institutions of higher learning. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. "We have to be pragmatic. We will use English where necessary
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  • 100 12 Reuter MOSCOW US President Bill Clinton will visit Russia from Jan 12-15. the press service of Russian President Boris Yeltsin said. A statement said the two leaders would discuss bilateral relations, control over nuclear arms and regional conflicts. It is the second summit meeting
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  • 370 12 UPI TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, who has staked his political future on reforming Japan's money-powered politics, was No 92 on a list of the richest members of the powerful House of Representatives yesterday. The richest lawmaker in Japan
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  • 268 12 AFP SEOUL South Korea yesterday freed eonglomerates from restrictions on buying shares and land as President Kim Young Sam called for bold deregulation to prepare local firms for post-Uruguay Round competition. The Finance Ministry said that as of Jan 20, all but the
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  • 637 12  -  The Bottom Line REGINALD DALE REGINALD DALE The writer is a columnist with the International Herald Tribune, where this commentary first appeared. WHEN the Iron Curtain parted. grim warnings went out from Western economists. The ominous theme of the day was that
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  • 144 12 Reuter NEW YORK After record sales and unusually robust returns from many US mutual funds this year, the industry should see a pullback in 1994 amid expectations of higher rates and a correction in US stock prices, fund managers said. With US
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 343 13  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Orchard Parade Holdings, the listed hotel and property group controlled by Ng Teng Fong. will include an $18 million pre-tax profit from the sale of its West Bay Condominium project in its 1993 financial results.
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    • 203 13 SINGAPORE Tough competition and slack demand in the marine industry has led to a sharp drop in profit for Ses-daq-listed Metalock. The group yesterday reported a 73.9 per cent fall in operating profit after tax to $442,000 for the six months to Sep
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    • 223 13  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE In its second Indonesian foray, Horiguchi Engineering has signed a joint venture agreement with a Japanese trading house and two Indonesian companies to set up a company at Karawang International Industrial City in Java. Horiguchi has signed with
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    • 1041 13  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Take two condominiums. One is under construction at the far end of Bukit Timah. near the Yeo Hiap Seng factory. The other, newly refurbished, is 20 years old and is a stroll from Orchard Road. Both have freehold titles
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    • 300 13  -  Performance hit by lower interest rates By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Investment firm HTP Holdings Ltd. which was recently a takeover target of the powerful China Everbright Holdings, has reported lower interim sales and profits. The group reported a 23.9 per cent drop
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    • 373 13  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE The Malaysian government is reported to have begun acquiring land in the Sepang district for building the new Kuala Lumpur International Airport and the adjacent townships. And several plantation companies stand to win lucrative
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      351 13 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's l!»dex stocks Dec 27 Last Smm IWet Slock tale Chge factor aotm <S) (i) Avimo 2.170 0060 134 169 C*C 8 850 0.250 5 46 7 04 CWT 3 000 -0.100 1.85 -2 82 Ceretoos 7 900 0 300 4 87 8 45
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 39 14 SINGAPORE United Industrial Corp will go scripless on Feb 3. Shareholders are advised to deposit their shares with the Central Depository directly, or through member firms, between Jan 7 and Feb 2.
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        • 43 14 SINGAPORE Fraser Neave said its shares are being traded cum-dividend until Feb 9. They will be traded ex-dividend between Feb 14 and Feb 16. A final dividend of seven cents a share will be fully paid on Feb 25.
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        • 43 14 SINGAPORE The Orix group sold 2.4 million shares in United Overseas Land for a total consideration of $5.36 million on Dec 24. This reduces Orix' stake in the company to 10.59 per cent, from 11.07 per cent.
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        • 57 14 SINGAPORE Hong Fok said general manager Lim Poh Guan will resign with effect from Jan I. He will also step down from six subsidiaries. Meanwhile, the registered office of Hong Fok and its subsidiaries will be changed to 300 Beach Road #41-00, The Concourse,
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        • 40 14 SINGAPORE DBS Land has told the Stock Exchange of Singapore that it has issued a further 1.089 million ordinary shares arising from the exercise of 1.089 million warrants. The move took effect on Dec 24.
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        • 66 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Linatex Process Rubber Bhd's shareholders yesterday approved the proposed sale of assets and business for M 538.5 million (5523.9 million), the acquisition of 20 million shares in Phileo Peregrine Securities Sdn Bhd for Msl6o million, an increase in authorised share capital, a name
          Bernama  -  66 words
        • 87 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd said that Bank Negara has approved its application to acquire land in Jalan Tun Razak for its headquarters, but subject to three conditions. The conditions are: the plan and cost of construction of its headquarters building must
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        • 76 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Gamuda Bhd is optimistic of continuing its growth and profitability in the current financial year by securing new contracts. Chairman Talha bin Mohd Hashim said in the company's 1993 annual report that Gamuda, which is into the business of civil engineering construction,
          Bernama  -  76 words
      • 166 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Renong Bhd's takeover offer for Park May Bhd presents long-term opportunities for Park May although it does not appear attractive to the company's minority shareholders, according to TA Securities Sdn Bhd. The stockbroking firm said Park May's growth in the
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      • 811 14 MARKET WATCH Reuter MANILA Jubilant brokers broke into wild applause as Manila's two stock exchanges wound up before Christmas with record highs capping a phenomenal year. They left on holiday knowing they were sitting on one of the best performing
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      • 439 14 MBT KUALA LUMPUR In a year of record performance, the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) introduced some new systems and regulations to ensure that the market not only sustain its growth but also that it do so in an orderly manner. New
        MBT  -  439 words
      • 433 14 BANGKOK An in-princi-ple agreement has been reached between Kumagai Gumi and Ch Kamchang on the purchase of 65 per cent of Bangkok Expressway Co Ltd (BECL), according to The Bangkok Post. The agreement was reached at recent talks between
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      • 214 14 AFP HANOI US food and tobacco giant Philip Morris has protested against the illegal production of Marlboro cigarettes in Vietnam, according to a news report. The trade union newspaper Lao Dong, in its latest edition received here yesterday, said a lawyer for
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      • 206 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR TA Securities recommends a strong long-term buy for Rothmans of Pall Mall (Malaysia) Bhd as it is fundamentally strong and financially sound. Technically, the company's share price was firm at its current level, it said, adding that the upside potential
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      • 525 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Maaaflw*' prim Dcc28 t mhond 106 109 i_ia y mii i United tit Fund' 1.72 1.79 iMglpflrr MM Iran United Asa Fund 2.06 2.I4« The omracrre 1.17 1.46 NTUC Utmhi The Savings Fund I.7J 1*2 Spore Prat Fund 0.77 0.81 l«ome Bond Polio 4 68 4.85 S
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      • 695 14 Paymeat Ex Books Pay dale closc date AISB SO* b 5 Dec 31 Jan 14 Jan 21 Amal Steel 30* b 14 Dcc 2 Dcc 16 Jan IS Amlck En» 20* F 6TE Dec IS Dec 21 Dcc 30 Antah Hldgs 50* b 6 Dcc V Dcc 23
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      • 555 15 Reuter NEW YORK The bull market in US stocks has been charging along for over three years and 1994 may be the year when it takes a temporary breather, analysts say. The current bull market leg has seen US stock prices
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      • 269 15 NYT NEW YORK The chairman of Viacom. Sumner Redstone, faces a tough decision in the battle with QVC Network for Paramount Communications, say media analysts. He can increase the capital to raise his offer but if he docs, he may face costly
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      • 115 15 Knight-Ridder, Reuter TOKYO In an effort to ride out a business slump. Japan's Mazda Motor Co announced a tighter business tie-up with US partner Ford Motor Co yesterday. Mazda is to increase permanent executives from Ford from the current one to four. One of the
        Knight-Ridder,; Reuter  -  115 words
      • 379 15 HONGKONG Swire Pacific Industries will push ahead with its USS22 million (5534.9 million) acquisition of Taiwan Coca-Cola Bottling Co (TCCBC), although it has failed to get 100 per cent take-up of its general share offer, said the South China Morning
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      • 389 15 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Walt Disney Co could emerge as the next takeover prize in the multimedia sweepstakes, Susan Putnam. a portfolio manager with Moran Associates, said at a Bloomberg Forum last week. Ms Putnam also said the shares of the
        Bloomberg Business News  -  389 words
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 65 15 Reuter BANGKOK The Stock Exchange of Thailand gave Samart Corp pic its "designated stock" tag. requiring it to trade strictly on a cash basis after the satellite dish and computer firm staged a strong rally following its debut last Thursday. Samart surged to close
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        • 68 15 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japan's Finance Ministry ordered Toyo Securities Co yesterday to suspend operations in stock index options trading from Jan 5 to Feb 1 as punishment for illegal practices. Kyodo news Said. It said Toyo manipulated transactions in stock index options by buying and selling
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        • 67 15 Reuter SEOUL The Korea Securities Market Stabilisation Fund, established to bail out the sagging bourse in 1990. said it would liquidate up to 800 billion won (551.58 billion) of the shares in its portfolio. "We will start liquidating after considering the market condition." said
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        • 82 15 AFP TOKYO Japan's Toyota Motor Corp said yesterday it was reducing the number of divisions within the company from 222 to 219 from Jan 1 as part of its annual reorganisation. The changes are "aimed at breaking down barriers between divisions and enabling them to respond
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      • 314 15 Reuter NEW YORK Equity has emerged as the key currency driving the revival of merger activity in the United States, but analysts warn that some of today's deals might turn out be be flops, just as many in the 1980s
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      • 225 15 Reuter TAIPEI The Taiwan government's offer of 18 million shares in Chung Kuo Insurance Co under its privatisation programme was 89 per cent paid up at the deadline on Dec 22. chief underwriter Chiao Tung Bank said. Underwriters will take up the shares
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 469 16 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian ringgit fell to a sixmonth low against the US dollar yesterday but the slide is likely to be temporary, dealers said. The loeal currency hit 2.5800 to the US dollar for the first time since June 30.
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      • 345 16 Bernama KJUALA LUMPUR The Scheme for Insurance of Large and Specialised Risks will be implemented on Jan 1 to develop expertise in risk underwriting among local insurers and to reduce the deficit in the services sector. Bank Negara said yesterday.
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 74 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd has garnered more than MS 100 million (5561.8 million) in deposits and investments as at Dec 23 since the launch of its interest-free banking system in March this year. Chief executive officer Abdul Aziz Haji Othman said yesterday
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        • 53 16 Reuter JAKARTA PT Modernland Realty, a residential property developer, said it would offer 100 billion rupiah (SS7S million) of straight bonds due 1999 at par. The bonds will bear interest from Jan 13, payable every three months, at 15 per cent fixed rate for the
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        • 64 16 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Bank lending to finance capital investment at Tokyo and Osaka-based companies continues to decline, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported, citing a Bank of Japan report. Total outstanding lending by banks to companies in Tokyo and Osaka declined by 1.13 trillion
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        • 39 16 Reuter LONDON The UK Financial Intermediaries. Managers and Brokers Regulatory Organisation is going to investigate funds worth up to £2 billion (SS4.B billion) managed by independent financial advisers. The Observer newspaper reported. Reuter
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      • 274 16 Knight-Ridder TEHERAN Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aghazadeh has called on Opec to cut production by 4 or 5 per cent to stabilise oil prices. In an interview with the Hamshahri Daily published last Saturday. Mr Aghazadeh said he was not optimistic
        Knight-Ridder  -  274 words
      • 649 16 A review of Malaysia's financial sector in '93 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's financial sector gained another milestone in 1993. despite having to manage inflationary pressures and excess funds. Assisted by a strong economy, the year saw projections in the finance industry not
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      • 199 16 Reuter NEW DELHI India's stateowned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and the Oman Oil Company (OOC) have agreed to set up a USSI.7 billion (552.7 billion) oil refinery in India, company officials said on Sunday. They said that under an agreement signed
        Reuter  -  199 words
      • 182 16 Bloomberg Business News DUESSELDORF. Germany This year's tumble in long-term capital market rates has accelerated the trend towards long-term borrowing, said Reimut Jochimsen. president of North Rhinc-Westpha-lia's regional central bank. "The trend towards long-term borrowing" continues. Mr Jochiinscn said in a statement issued
        Bloomberg Business News  -  182 words
      • 328 16 Knight-Ridder KUALA LUMPUR Banks have an important role to play in nurturing an aetive secondary market in Malaysia for private bonds, according to a report by accounting firm Price Waterhouse Associates. Banks have the infrastructure and ability to play a wider role in
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      • 188 16 AFP NEW YORK The dollar rose against other major currencies in early New York trading yesterday in a very quiet post-Christmas market that saw the abscncc of many traders and with some European markets closed. Gold meanwhile rose USSI.IO an ounce to U*****.90. The US dollar was trading
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        1691 16 I rjJi -Meithu J index <ah ulaleJ jimi/m S'pon-\ lop 14 iradintt partner* Ban' year /W I FOREIGN CURRENCY j NOTE RATES As at 10am on Dec 27: Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer \ustralian dollar 1 0750 1.0920 Canadian dollar 1.1920 1.2160 NZ dollar
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1366 17 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex interest rate futures contracts barely budged from late Friday levels as the holiday doldrums and the absence of institutional players dulled trade yesterday. Euroyen interest rate futures ended marginally softer on thin speculative profit-taking, barely reacting to the
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      • 586 17 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin KUALA LUMPUR tin ended higher yesterday on fresh Japanese and European covering ahead of the New Year holiday and prompted by the long holiday closure in LME. traders said. The metal finished at MS 12.09 a kg. up three sen from
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 101 17 SINGAPORE Indonesia's total 1993 domestic investment in the palm oil industry had reached 1.744 trillion rupiah (SSI.3 trillion) as of Dec 15. up 19.7 per cent from a year earlier, the Bisnis Indonesia reported yesterday. The daily said investments included a 97.8-million-rupiah oil palm estate
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        • 66 17 BANGKOK Thailand exported 800 tonnes of corn in the period Dec 17-23. bringing the total for the year to date to 166.750 tonnes, the Thai Maize and Produce Traders Association said yesterday. Shipments Jan 1-Dec 23. 1992 totalled 121.772 tonnes. The Dec 17-23 exports comprised 500
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        • 97 17 TOKYO Increasing demand in the US and Europe, combined with tightness in supplies of concentrates, should prompt lead prices tor threemonth delivers on the London Metal Exchange to climb past USSSOO a tonne this week or next, traders here say. Lead for three-month delivery
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        • 83 17 TOKY O Japan's refined copper production rpsc 0.8 per cent from a year before in November, to 99.344 tonnes, according to figures released by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry yesterday. Production of refined zinc fell 5.2 per cent from a year before to
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    • 1630 17 Rubber RAS Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 1pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jan 94 000 OOO 132.25 0 0 Feb 0 00 0 00 133.25 0 4.275 Mar 0.00 0 00 135 00 0 6.925 Apr/Jun 137.50
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1182 18 Australia l>ei 24 If fA CHI \M< < >R «M0.0 10 0 «TVi MMI HM uiKh m Xdelaidc Steamship DO I 0 1120 XdtanceBank »M60 2 0 <*l Vi.KknIiJ SMI IO no Xkan XunIijIij .1*5 0 5.0 10 \ilip«il I \pknjlKH1 *4*0 !4.>~ Xrgo InxoJmt'niN 2'l 0 10 460 \imm>
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      • 688 18 173.16 SHARE prices shot up to a new record high close as demand continued to rise in a bullish market, brokers said. "We've been saying for some time now that the market should correct. but it refuses to consolidate due to too much demand." said Noel Reyes, vice president
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      • 856 18 171.3 Stocks surged 3.2 per cent to close at a 29-month high in heavy trade as enthusiastic investors flooded into the market amid bullish sentiment. The weighted index hit an intra-day high of 5,530 and closed 171.30 points higher at 5.491.68. its highest finish since 5,591.96 on July 5.
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      • 504 18 12.46 The Seoul stock market ended higher in hectic trading after a late wave of institutional buying overwhelmed sales by individuals. brokers said. The composite stock index stood 12.46 points higher at 873.88. compare with the day's low of 863.08. Brokers forecast that the strong momentum would help shares
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 1543 18 London l)ec 24 Pent* +T Industrials A A (orp Adr 45 4/8 I 2/1 \hhr> National 495 4/8 M4K \llied L\ons 1 Xmcc 119 4 8 -4.1 MiGmp 5Cf* TM BXT Ind M" x bk i m B<x (iioup IT2 5 B(X (iiiwp -5 BR Petri4eum MO uikh BIR W>
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      • 139 18 l.llpc THE CAC 40 index closed at a record high for the third straight day at 2.276.55 points, up 1.11 per cent on Friday's close. Although analysts fear an increase in short-term US interest rates in the next three months, most investors are hanking on a drop in European
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      • 147 18 -o.oBpc Swedish shares ended slightly weaker after rising debt market yields erased early gains on the stock market. The OMX-index fell 0.05 per cent to 1.084.39 and the blue-chip top-16 index also slipped 0.05 per cent to 1.458.44. The all-share index lost 0.08 per cent to 1.366.56 in low
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      • 194 18 +31.14 The DAX spot index closed at a new record at 2.253.98 points, up 31.14 points, or 1.4 per cent higher than at close on Thursday. A DC} Bank analyst said the market was strongly supported by the futures market. Among blue chip shares, the strongest increases were recorded
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      • 273 18 +5.2 Swiss shares closed at another record as investors kept faith in the strong Swiss franc and the positive latest economic indicators, traders said. The Swiss Market Index. or SMI. which tracks the top 18 blue chip stocks closed up 5.20 points at 2.972.60. with 10 shares advancing and
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      • 256 18 +5.43 Dutch shares eked out modest gains in languid post-Christmas trade to close at a new record high. With several influential markets shut for the Christmas break stocks were pushed ahead by limited domestic retail buying, dealers said. "Turnover is desperately low. but the market's not running out of
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      • 218 18 +46 Italian stocks rose 0.4 per cent in dull post-Christmas trading, led bv telecommunications stocks Sip and S{et. Fcrruzzi Finanziaria SpA fell 5.5 per cent as buying of its new shares issued to raise badly-needed capi- tal dried up. traders said. Shares of Montedison SpA. Fcrruzzi's main operating company,
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      • 304 18 +87 South Africa's surging shares continued their bull run as a steady gold price, foreign interest and lack of stock overcame a lethargic post-Christmas start, dealers said. Although gold shares softened in late trade in light profit-taking as a result of an overlv-cnthusiastic start, the gold index closed 51
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      • 935 18 12.3 The Dow Jones industrial average, which slipped 4.47 points on Thursday, was ahead 12.30 points to 3.770.02 at 11 am EST well above its all-time high of 3.764.43 set on Dec 13. The New York Stock Exchange composite index was ahead 0.47 to 258.96. while Standard Poor's
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    • 2930 19 I he Hongkong market was closed yesterday for the Christmas holiday Vol I)tv HKS High 1 jm (*000) PK \SM Pacific 4000 unch 4 000 4 000 16} \WI World Transport 2 025 +0025 2 025 2 025 10 12 0 Acme Landis M4II) unch I MM) I MX)
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      2461 19 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended sharply lower, but above the day's lows, in light trade yesterday. The Nikkei average fell below 17,000 for the first time since Dec 8. Investors were discouraged as Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa failed to offer concrete economy-boost-ing steps on Friday, brokers said. the Nikkei Stock
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      1893 19 Reuter BANGKOK Thai shares surged 2.75 per cent or 43 points, breaking through the 1,600 level to a new closing high of 1.608.12 in active trade, brokers said. The SET index broke the previous high of 1.565.12 reached on Friday. Gainers led losers 197 to 102 with 59 stocks
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      1149 19 Reuter JAK.AKIA Share prices closcd higher in moderate trading. with local players dominating market activity, brokers said. The official index rose 5.14 points to close at 565.94. "It is also undeniable that window-dressing pushed share prices up." one foreign broker said. Agribusiness counter Smart provided the focus of the
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    • 2818 20 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume FAf B SOc 2U72JHO \\II)H MK. 21 IUW PriMtKI I «».*<» I.000 Monang < orp I6.74J.000 Madh n>l MlIUjM Insjs Bhd 15 6KO.OOO kamunling MV' 15.434.000 I'cgi Mmj 14.9521**) t'aher tiroup I4.49S.(**( Mctroplex TSK 13.583.000 IdnsHvdSK. I3.3IW.OOO IndOwgon VM95
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 6199 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share prices here ended the first day of the final week of 1993 off their highs after mild profit-taking ahead of the close parred earlier gains. The market held up well on continued strong demand as investors were undaunted
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 7277 21 Cr Cr 1993 Last Val Day Last QMt W» Di» YU Nat M Cap Kith l-ow (oiapaay Sale ("000) Mifh l>ow Bayer Seller CV P/E $aiil INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1400 260 I Acma 1210 -10 13 1230 1210 1200 1220 12.5 2.1 1.0 52.4 834.0 310 220 I j Alex
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      • 1784 22  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE There were no post-Christmas holiday blues in the stock market yesterday as the buying spree in last Friday's half-day session spilled over to push the market to another record close. Frantic buying of second and third liners,
        Source: Bridge Info  -  1,784 words
      • Article, Illustration
        122 22  -  By Quak Hiang Whai ANYONE who intends to buy Insas at current prices should be used to betting on long odds. All current and long-term indicators point to a heavily overbought stock. Indeed, it is already trading in uncharted territory, with more downside risk than upside potential. The share
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  • Shipping Times
    • 320 23  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Hongkongbased freight forwarder PiffEurobox has opened a second office in Spain to carve a bigger share of the cargo market between Spain and Singapore. The new office, in landlocked Madrid, will complement Piff-Eurobox's office in Algericas which was set
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    • 583 23 Investors confused as groups push for different plans Reuter ST PETERSBURG. Russia The port of St Petersburg, built nearly three centuries ago as Russia's major outlet to the West, is facing new challenges as it searches for investment to take the place of Soviet-era
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    • 835 23 Page Col ABC Containcrlinc 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 •APL 5 3-5 Appcnship 18 1/2 •ANL 3 1/2 •ASCL 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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    • 419 23 BANGKOK The Thai parliament has passed legislation establishing a Shippers Council, which is expected to give shippers bargaining power in their dealings with maritime transport companies, according to a report in The Nation. The law is to become effective early next year, after which
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    • 614 23  -  This is a monthly column that highlights important shipping court cases By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE A commercial court in England has upheld a London maritime arbitrator's interpretation of a war risk clause when a ship was caught in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Despite a
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 758 24 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Juroflg Port Aungsuyu 754 08* 9» P01A 2812 0800 28 12 2300 Mitts Sea V9303 15 6 alongside 28 12 0700 Batam Speed3 ***** J P01A 2812/0700 28 12 0900 Batam Bahagia 12/05 93 111
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      • 1811 24 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookine/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Ac. Swan 098A 29/1500 2 27/1700 28 0659 28 0900 4 28,1200 28/1459 28'1700 Anda *****N 29/1100 2 27/1700 28 0659
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    • 8239 32 This is a list of ships loading at I Singapore for ports around the j 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
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    • 3292 37 Containerline NV: Belsin Shpg Agencies Pte Ltd (SVManne Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SI/Accord Contr Line (PK/PN). Vdkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). Mbatros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ltd (S). Alfred
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    • 275 37 Abacus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fax: 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 Tel: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450. Cluster Link Supplies Services Tel:
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    • 1468 37 Abex Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7821 Fax: *****20. Aerotink Freight International Tel: 545-8033 Fax: *****05. Aerospeed Tel: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454 Fax: *****06. Air Express International Tel: 542-7666 Fax: *****74. *****50. Air
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    • 2558 38 ALBANIA Duress: Four vessels in port discharging of which 2 bulk wheat. 1 bagged flour. 1 bagged clay, I vessel in roads waiting to discharge gasoil. ANGOLA Luanda: Port operating normally, all berths occupied, no vessels waiting. I.obito, Namibe: Ports quiet. All crude oil export terminals reported as
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    • 1084 38 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES RUMOURS indicate that a resale double/double aframax (delivery April 1994 at Samsung) may have been sold at around US$4B million. Initial enquiries indicate this could be the tanker Pacific Order and that the buyers are Far Eastern (either Japanese or Proc). It is also reported that
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    • 555 38 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Flight Type ETA T From Op Flight Type ETD T To TODAY TODAY NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 I NRT SIA SQ802 B747F 0230 2 SYD/AKL KAL KE697 B747F 0150 I SEL NCA KZ204 B747F 0335 I BKK/NRT JAL JL617 B747F 0345 I TYO KAL
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    • 265 38 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Arr Dep Name of Vessel ETA ETD Ports of Calls Port Agent Telephones* i DECEMBER 29 29 Wind Spirit 0800 1600 SEA Cruise Harpers Shpg 221-1388 29 29 Leisure World 1300 2015 Cruise to Nowhere Lauw Sons Travel 227-8284 30 30 Ocean Pearl 1200 1900
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    • 303 39 COURSES Title: Transport Disciple Duration: December Organiser The Chartered Institute of Transport Tel: For more information contact CIT Secretariat at 226-3433 or fax: 226-2477. TitJe: International Freight Forwarding (SDF 70%) Duration: Jan 20 Apr 7 Organiser: Singapore Freight Forwarders Association Tel: For more information contact SFFA Secretariat at
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    • 536 39 The Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1,220 on Friday from 1,221 on Dec 23. There was little trading on the freight market with most brokers taking advantage of a long Christmas holiday weekend. Time-charter activity included BTC fixing the 41,500-dead-weight-tonne Aton for
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    • 921 39 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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    • 1251 40  -  Elizabeth Canna looks at the revamped corporate structure of this German shipping company Elizabeth Canna American Shipper WE ARE businessmen. We are not shipowners or aircraft captains. After six months at the helm of Germany's largest transportation group, HapagLloyd AG. that's how Bernd
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    • AIR AND LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 542 42 Reuter NEW YORK Major US airlines will aggressively pursue turning ownership over to employees in 1994 and dramatically reshape their operations following industry leader UAL Corp's decision to give its workers a majority stake in the company, say industry officials. The transfer
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      • 623 42 NYT WASHINGTON Although Amtrak is getting closer to self-sufficiency in its operating budget, the government-owned railroad needs a massive infusion of federal money to replace dilapidated equipment and property, federal and Amtrak officials say. Amtrak passengers paid 80 per cent of the
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      • 287 42 Bloomberg Business News ZURICH Swissair president Otto Loepfe said the airline would post "heavy losses" in 1993 in its core flight services business. "We have fallen well short of our target for flight operations," said Mr Loepfe in the Swissair internal
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      • 283 42 Reuter SEATTLE The US Federal Aviation Administration is warning pilots to stay at least five miles behind Boeing Co 757 jets because of turbulence that may have caused a jet crash recently that killed five people. FAA administrator David Hinson
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        • 80 42 AFP INFANTA, Philippines Sixteen Indonesian and six Taiwanese crew members of a cargo vessel which ran aground near this town over the weekend have been rescued by police, officials said yesterday. Senior superintendent Enrique Cuadra. provincial police director, said all hands of the Panamanian-registered MV
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        • 78 42 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Honda Motor Co's new Accord has been named the 1993-94 Japan Car of the Year. The selection committee cited the new vehicle's superior safety and environmental features, and an improved engine that offers both better fuel efficiency and power, says
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        • 111 42 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Britain's three largest travel agency chains. Thomas Cook, Lunn Poly and Going Places, are cutting holiday prices by 11 per cent, the Financial Times reported. All three are discounting summer holidays while Lunn Poly is also cutting winter holiday
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        • 79 42 Bernama-Kyodo TOKYO The transport ministry has decided that Japan's first 24-hour airport, the new Kansai international airport, on a 511-hectare plot of reclaimed land skm off Osaka, will be opened on Sep 4 next year. The government officially endorsed the opening date at a
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      • 315 42 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter FRANKFURT German electrical engineering group Siemens AG may win a big South Korean contract to build a high speed rail link, even though the order has been awarded in principle to GECAlsthom, Die Welt reported. The
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    • 19 23 If you want it therej yesterday, <r m Fly it with** us today, ,a > MtntaAEM j GRIFFIN KINETIC-*****331 MP
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    • 67 23 £±M±R7 M R FORWARDING PTE LTD WEEKLY CONSOL TO EUROPE CALL: *****00 A new Hapag-Lloyd emerges after reshaping, Pg 18 More US airlines may see employee buyouts, Back Pg 'or r >S!^ v R—-/*•; -C; O -»t 0> kin n< *<k r~':: y 5-P? •C.-r ;-V s?M££W§i ■5 :s£-gg^^ LOOKING
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    • 492 24 TSKUNE AGENOES (S) PTE. LTD. |Z V WJkTp Tel: 226-3363 JL •JtlXt LANIi Fax: 226 1972 3 r§tAy -7 w— <■.—i Tlx: RS *****/TSKSIN. TOKYO SENPAKU KAISHA, LTD. CR No: **********0N I I EXPORTS TO HON6KONG. MANIA. TAIWAN t JAPAN "TWICE WEEKLY" I wimbb nor m in I ai I■»
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    • 83 24 YEAR END LOADER TO USA Vessel/Voyage ACX DAISY V 0478 ETA 31/12/93 1100 HRS ETD 31/12/93 2200 HRS CY CLOSING 31/12/93 0700 HRS CFS CLOSING 30/12/93 1700 HRS For BOOKINGS please call *****51/2/3 KUALA LUMPUR WW KELANO PENANG JOHOR BAHRU JAKARTA NYK AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD NYK AGENCIES (M) SDN
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    • 2184 25 OOCL (8) PTE LTD JAR DINE SHIPPING AGENCIES JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES SON. BHD. TEL *****13 FAX: *****42 PETALING JAYA TEL: 03-*****76 FAX: 03-*****42 DOCUMENTATION TEL: *****55 (INWARD)/*****90 (OUTWARD) PENANG TEL: *****4 FAX: *****1 CFS TEL: *****6 BOOKINGS TEL *****80 *****81/ *****82 IPOH TEL; *****3/4 FAX: *****6 CFS (PSA F5) TEL:
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    • 67 25 ■EmH.HHWH THE FINAL COUNTDOWN "MAERSK YEAR END LOADER 1993" TO USA DON'T MISS IT 4 VESSEL DETAILS Vessel/Voyage N. SUN V.9347E ETA 31/12/93 ETD 31/12/93 OTHER AVAILABLE VESSEL: AXEL MAERSK V.9402 ETA SIN 29/12/93 For your BOOKINGS please call 228-6611 Sea K2 Land AXEL MAERSK 9402 ETA 29/12 ETD 30/12
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    • 1687 26 AQABA R OAM/ [i ALSO ACCEPTING FROM VESSEL VOY NO SPORE JEDOAH (VIA JED) S TON H BURG A WERP HAVRE MALAYSIA DANUBE 11/151 29/12 15/01 16/01 18/01 Poft Kelang. Penang STUTTGART EXPRESS 01/351 1/1 10/1 16/1 19/1 22/1 24/1 26/1 Pasir Gudang KAGA 33/152 5/1 22/1 £2£! EAST MALAYSIA
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    • 1844 27 JpW STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Ho« Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 NEW GUINEA PACIFIC LINE (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CARGO out SAILS STRAITS VENTURE ¥32E Mjwa. Lib 28 29 0k 30 D«t 31 Dec FCL, LCL CONTAINER AND BREAK BULK SERVICE
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    • 1502 27 SINGAPORE AGENT: Atlf"Q "f fIAVC P&O Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd X VJVFJIIIdAIIWX 10 Hoe Chiang Road #07-01 Keppel Towers. Singapore 0208 Tel: 225 2233 Telex: RS ***** PNOCSP Fax: 225 5327/222 7517 V v CR Number: **********0Z EXPORT IMPORT VESSEL VOY *PNG *PKG SIN ALG SOU ANT ROT HAM
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    • 42 27 PMG FLOTA MERCANTE CiRANCOLOMBIANA S A (NATIONAL LINE OF COLOMBiAI |ii POl COMPANIA ANONIMA VENEZOLANA DE NAVEGACION (NATIONAL LINE OF VENEZUELA) STRAITS TRANSPORTATION PTE LTD ft 13-01 ONG BUILDING. 76 SHENTON WAY (SPORE 0207) TEL: *****22 FAX: *****90/*****10 PK *****53 PENANG *****7/8
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    • 540 28 EKA JAYA AGENCIES TEL: *****22 (8 LINES) FAX: *****05 SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN CHARGE pLTAHWAB THAPE PA«F IttANPftIOHE/PIReCT iAWOJ MMM ho cm wmi CITY HENRY HOE 21*0624 KELVIN CHAN *****2& »»7«/M?aW TO MYANMAR/YANGON SEMI CONTAINER SERVICE M OCEANLINES va *01 I yangow spow IBN 30/12 5/1 14/1 YANGON GEN. AGENT: MYANMAR
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    • 813 28 0 HANJIN SHIPPING COUNTDOWN 1993 YEAR END LOADER TO USA LAST VESSEL/VOYAGE HANJIN HAMBURG VOI6E ETA 31st Dec '93 PLEASE CONTACT THE FOLLOWING PERSONS FOR ENQUIRIES BOOKINGS: PAUL LIM DID *****26 PGR *****99 FREDERICK PHUA DID *****29 PGR *****48 RADIYAH DID *****35 NEVINE CHUAH DID *****33 LINKS EXPRESS 62 Toh
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    • 2792 29 I I sex: 'CALIFORNIA LUNA 62E' eta sgp 29/12/93 II II riL I ARRIVING LOS ANGELES 15/01/94 IN 16 DAYS HI II AEX: 'HAKONE MARU 13E' ETA SGP 31/12/93 II II I ARRIVING NEW YORK 24/01/94 IN 23 DAYS HI II *M Connecting Neptune Cyprine 05€ In HKG 08/01/94 I
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    • 1227 29 9 SINGAPORE SOVIET SHIPPING CO PRIVATE LTD CR NO: **********0/N ENQUIRIES: *****33 BOOKINGS: *****64, *****51, *****31, *****13 WVf BALTIC: INWARD *****81 OUTWARD *****81 T/S *****77 MSJajk BLASCO: INWARD *****79 OUTWARD *****80 T/S *****78 r lSr FESCO: BOOKINGS *****06 DOC *****07 i rn MARINE INSURANCE: INVENTORY: *****59 W lIVI Wn AGENTS:
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    • 1746 30 V v M AS AGENTS "K" LINE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (CR No: **********0 M) TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 I B T*J ftp MALAYSIA "K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 1 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUT INTERNUSA. TEL
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    • 970 31 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I I cr no iooeo67ooooe I VESSEL VOY SIN CMB JIB JED AQJ ADE HOD PZU ASA < KOTA WIRAWAN WRNO37 29/1 3/2 10/2 13/2 15/2 12/2 14/2 17/2 21/2 KOTA WUAYA WJAO3S 30/12 4/1 10/1
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    • 1128 31 VtSStIS VOT STOW HAMBURG ROTURDAM ANTWERP T HARKS H HARVt Vl.Lt D *qui* 7531W 2*/12 73/01 75/01 ?t/01 28 01 30 01 VR.lt 01 UK MM 9531W 03/01 77/01 79/01 30 01 31/01 07/0? Will DC ITRA 7731W 1? 01 04 0? ot/0? 07/07 OS 0? 10/07 Wilt PI VESTA
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    • 407 31 BSfl i>. mm MYANMA PHk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.KIf Pen P.Gdf PAGAN V2O4W 31/ 2 )an MP* AN VI97W 5/ 7 lan PAGAN V2OSW 17/19 lan HAJ.ATW AGENTS BOUSTIAD SHTPttG AGENOES Ml TEL 03 *****00 PKL TEI 03-36M767 PEN TEI 04 *****5
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    • 2577 34 Full Container Liner Services General Agents: Booking Agents: Guan Guan Shipping Sdn Bhd Chung Chiao Shipping Sdn Bhd P.T. Global Putra Indonesia Maritime Costar Shipping Pte Ltd Skipping Freight Booking Centre Sdn Bhd 58 Pemaran ffa/a Muds Mesa Lot 3.34, 3rd Floor, 11. IK. H. Juanda 111>73 0-E rM g
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    • 606 35 (fc FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 3/1 ROTTERDAM 3/1 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 371 HAMBURG/BREMEN 3/1 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 171 FELIXSTOWE/UK 3/1 BARCELONA/SPAIN 30/12 1 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 3/1 GENOA/ITALY 04/01 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 3/1 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 2/1 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 1/1 NEW YORK/EC 30/12 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 31/12 VANCOUVER
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    • 986 35 a VEBBEL 1 VESSEL VOY SIN f-f* I 1 y* WA BHUM 209S Wgd 2>/12 _Sat 1/1_ BUNGA SEROJA 4001 Thu 30/12 Sat 1/1 BH VESSEL VOY SIN BKK CHAIYA BHUM 32S Fri 31/12 Tut «/1 PERKASA 14N Fri~ 31/12 ~~Tua 4/1~ j|| XETHA BHUM 2»N Tin 29/12 Fri 31/12
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    • 600 35 Guaranteed Sailings to-. BANGKOK LAEM CHABANG JAKARTA PORT KELANG •HO CHI MINH MANILA CEBU •SURABAYA PENANG HONGKONG We also serve other ports: USA, EUROPE, CHINA AND ALL DESTINATIONS pi DONGNAMA LINE CONT/UNPMgD SCTVICE STRArTS/BLW/WC/—tt VESSEL SPG PNG BIN P* BSW MC HONGKONG Q.ORY V3I3N 1/1 3/1 5/1 14/1 lt/1 MEIM
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    • 1767 36 AABMN CONTAINER LINES I~K-/Y^n A 9 #nt MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) LJ V/ > C/R Noc *****7500Q0E S»BU (064) *****9 KUCHING (062) *****3 PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****67 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 HKG/TWN/BKK GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN
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    • 188 36 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD ET* ETA CM SPORE rat KELMG POUNG BLUE MIX 3/1/94 loading lor MaK *UVM MUOMU 51 94 Oisthaiprg and loading lo« Bombay DOtPHP ?8 1? loading for Matt riONEUt sumac ivi 94 loading For Male UMEEDH SMED loading For Max PROGRESS IHI
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    • 20 39 \Cw''J* I TIGERS Nobody covers East Asia like we do. j The Region. Everyday. m Business Times ww atom Am
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    • 577 40 _j_ VIGOUR PACIFIC LINES VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE MAMLA VIGOUR PACIFIC 9401N 31/12/93 08/01/94 VIGOUR PACIFIC 9401 AN 03/01/94 08/01/94 LOAMNG EVERY VIGOUR SINGAPORE 9402N 15/01/94 FWMY MOND Y VESSEL PORT KLANG PENANG SINGAPORE VIGOUR PACIFIC 9401N 31 12, 93 02/01/94 03/01/94 PENANG JAYA 825 03/01/94 04/01/94 06/01/94 VIGOUR SINGAPORE 9402N
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    • 298 40 @APPENSHIP (3\ HAMBURG [7\J CONVENTIONAL INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE EUROPE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA AND FAR EAST VESSELS LOADING PORTS DtSCHAJTCE/LOMNNG FOR FORUM AKASAKA ANTWERP 05.11.93 In Port HARMONY SEA 13.11 93 In Port FRUITION ANTWERP 23.11.93 SPORE 6/1 BKK 11/1 KOALA CONTAINER LINE STORE FIX HAM ROT lEH DKK CS
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    • 956 41 I HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 VESSELS VOV PHA I PKE PGP I VESSELS VOT ISW I RTM AHT* LEH* HAM Bttj FEL MM ADVANCE 034 A 27/12 28/12 30/12 H. INNOVATOR 307W 03/01 21/01 21/01 22/01 23/01 23/01 2S/01 NOR MALACCA 9401 A
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