The Business Times, 2 September 1994

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    12 1 Business Times MITA(P) 010/12/93 Friday September 2 1994 WE KNOW ASIA 75'
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow down 10 points
      54 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks fell at midsession yesterday. At Ipm EDT, in the broader market, declines led advancing issues by a two-to-one margin on volume of more than 169 million shares on the NYSE. At 2pm EDT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 3,903.38,
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      Lock icon Settiement in breast implant case
      37 1 AP BIRMINGHAM, Ala A judge granted final approval yesterday to the largest single product liability settlement in US history a U554.25 billion (556.3 billion) pact between women and breast implant makers. AP
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    161 1 Stock market indices Thursday Change STII 2,336.83 +24.13 KLSEComp 1,156.34 +26.33 Nikkei 20,642.93 +14.40 Hang Seng 9,890.90 -38.49 SET Index 1,525.84 +1.01 Jakarta Comp 512.71 +2.51 CLSA China B ....1,172.00 +9.10 Aust All Ord 2,105.5 -16.6 FTSE 100 3,216.5 -34.8 Thursday Previous 2pm close Dow Jones 3,903.38 3,913.42
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    Govt raises development charges
    440 1  -  By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE The government has raised development charges for residential land by up to 40 per cent to reflect sharp increases in private housing prices. A development charge is a levy paid by developers when they apply to enhance the value of a plot
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    Keppel, Samsung to team up for key industrial projects
    414 1  -  By Peter Osborne SINGAPORE The Keppel group of Singapore and the Samsung group of South Korea have agreed to team up for key industrial projects, particularly in third countries. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) yesterday to collaborate and undertake
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    Telecom extends IDD rate cut to 23 more destinations
    413 1  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom yesterday announced a further 37.5 per cent reduction in its international direct dialling rates (IDD), even as Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan warned that competition might squeeze the company's profit margins. Telecom's announcement of IDD
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    TAS may allow cable TV operators to offer phone services by 2002
    255 1 SINGAPORE The Telecommunication Authority of Singapore may allow cable television operators to offer basic telephone services in the year 2002, before Singapore Telecom's monopoly on such services expires in 2007. Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan yesterday said TAS
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    Indonesian buys 50.3 pc of Transmarco at $6.50 a share
    436 1  -  By Corinne Kerk SINGAPORE Indonesian businessman Sukarman Sukamto is buying Metro Holding's 50.3 per cent stake in mainboard-listed Transmarco for 56.50 per share or $89.9 million. Under Singapore's takeovers and mergers rules, Mr Sukamto will have to make a general
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    S'pore, KL stocks rise sharply
    142 1 SINGAPORE Singapore and Malaysian stocks closed sharply higher yesterday, with the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index breaking through its 1,150 resistance level. In relatively heavy trading, the KLCI added 26.33 points or 2.33 per cent to close at 1,156.34 a surge that dealers described as a
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      39 1 Advertising: p g 11 J Zegna opens flagship store 6 Soon the planes will also be missing Q An angry Dr Mahathir commenting after robbers made off with 12 gold bars from Kuala Lumpur International Airport See Pg 3
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      33 1 Hock Lock Siew: p g is leg Jar dines must play b)\Sfy(>re rulef Talk of record price for Hitachi Tower sends property stocks soaring, Pg 15 Singapore pledges to support Seoul, Pg 14
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      150 1 a lumom Line: Pg 14 v L Imiusting in Malaysians Four fresh faces among NMPs SINGAPORE Four new faces will appear Muslim Professionals; Mr Stephen Lee, presias Nominated Members of Parliament after dent of the Singapore National Employers' the current members end their two-year term Federation; Dr Lee Tsao Yuan,
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Electricity use powers ahead
        239 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling ELECTRICITY consumption by the manufacturing sector in the first half of this year jumped 10.4 per ccnt on the same period last year to 4.105 billion kilowatt hours (kwh), the latest Public Utilities Board figures show. For the month of June, 725
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      Non-oil domestic exports grow at a slower 19.6 pc
      451 2  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE'S non-oil domestic exports, widely read as a barometer of the health of the manufacturing industry, grew at a more moderate pace in July after expanding robustly for three consecutive months. The latest figures from the Trade Development
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      Woon, Soin to stay on as NMPs for a new term
      423 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming LAW professor Walter Woon and orthopaedic surgeon Kanwaijit Soin will stay on as Nominated Members of Parliament after their terms end next Tuesday, the Clerk of Parliament has announced. The other four NMPs Toh Keng
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      Car dealers praise off-peak car scheme
      303 2 CAR DEALERS yesterday praised as fair and equitable the government's new off-peak car scheme, which will replace the weekend car scheme from Oct I. But they remained concerned about rising certificate of entitlement prices. Motor Traders Association vice-president David Tay said: "The government will
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      Former Nabisco chief testifies against Pillai
      428 2  -  Biscuit King trial By Ramesh Divyanathan THE former head of US conglomerate RJR Nabisco, Ross Johnson, told a Subordinate Court yesterday he "went through the roof on learning of certain findings about an investment holding company headed by "Biscuit King" Rajan Pillai. Mr Johnson,
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      Presenting... Mickey Mouse fashion for grown-ups
      404 2  -  By Juliette Walker MICKEY MOUSE has adorned the T-shirts of children for years. But now the worldfamous Walt Disney character is also wiggling his way into the wallets of local teens and adults. Tomorrow, Sunvic Co, the local licensee for the Disney Babies product
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      Private sector lifts R&D contributions to 61pc, science awards ceremony told
      359 2  -  By Jennifer Lien THE private sector is spending more on R&D, said National Science and Technology Board chairman Teo Ming Kian last night. Quoting from the findings of the 1993 R&D survey, Mr Teo said that the private sector
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article
      Lock icon Indon export growth plunges to 2.4 pc in first-half this year
      501 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's total export growth for the first six months of this year plunged to 2.44 per cent with oil and gas exports showing negative growth for the period, according to government figures released yesterday. This compared with
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      Lock icon Ranariddh arrives in Bangkok
      53 3 Reuter BANGKOK Cambodia's First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh (left) being escorted by Thai Foreign Minister Prasong Soonsiri after arriving at Bangkok's Don Muang airport yesterday. Mr Prasong told reporters after meeting Prince Ranariddh that Thailand will ban all top Khmer Rouge guerilla leaders from entering
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon Sabah resort project may be stopped
        96 3 Bernama KOTA KINABALU Construction of the multi-billion dollar Sutera Harbour Resort here may be stopped if the project proves to be harmful to the environment, Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Yong Teck Lee said on Wednesday. Mr Yong, who is also the local Housing Minister,
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        Lock icon Indon-Japan pact on LNG contracts
        107 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's state oil company Pertamina said it has agreed with Japanese buyers to extend liquefied natural gas (LNG) contracts for 12 million tonnes a year. "I can't tell you the prices but for sure the price is better than before," Pertamina general affairs
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        Lock icon Thailand to buy more gas from Unocal
        75 3 AFP BANGKOK The Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT) has agreed to increase its gas purchases from Unocal Thailand Ltd by 48 per cent over the next two years, the company said yesterday. PTT signed amendments to its contract with Unocal to increase its
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        Lock icon KL shuts door on talks with Al-Arqam
        97 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government yesterday said it will not hold talks with leaders of the outlawed Al-Arqam Muslim sect and dismissed reports that an official had met the controversial group in Thailand. "The Al-Arqam has been banned and declared as deviationist.
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        Lock icon A Disney park in Thailand?
        83 3 AFP BANGKOK Three executives from the Disney Development Co are due to arrive in Bangkok today to scout locations for another Disney amusement park, a Thai official said yesterday. The Americans will be looking at potential sites of at least 480 hectares some 150 km
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      Lock icon French-Japanese group wins US$98m Viet cement deal
      219 3 AFP HANOI A Franco-Japanese consortium has signed a US$9B million (S$ 147 million) contract to upgrade a cement plant near Hanoi in a deal backed by loans from two French banks, reports said yesterday. Cle-Marubeni beat six other bidders for a tender to
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      Lock icon Manila-MNLF peace talks face big challenges: Alatas
      227 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said yesterday that the peace process between Manila and the Moro National Liberation Front still faced formidable problems and challenges. Speaking at the opening of the second round of formal peace talks here, Mr Alatas said
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      Lock icon Mahathir hits out at airport staff after theft of gold bars
      365 3 Reuter Bernama AFP KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad slammed officials of Malaysia's troubled Kuala Lumpur International Airport yesterday after 12 gold bars were stolen from the complex, which has also been hit by two fires in three weeks.
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      Lock icon KL tells contractors to complete Sepang airport on schedule
      284 3 Bemama KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government wants contractors involved in the building of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Selangor, to complete the airport by 1997 as scheduled. Works Minister Leo Moggie yesterday warned the contractors that the government would
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      Lock icon Malaysia-Vietnam ties expand in quality, quantity: envoy
      190 3 Bernama HANOI Malaysia's investment in Vietnam rose 115 per cent within the past year, marking further consolidation in economic ties between the two countries. Malaysian ambassador Cheah Sam Kip, speaking at a Malaysia National Day reception here on Wednesday night, was illustrating "the
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      Lock icon Nomura in US$120m Viet industrial zone deal
      257 3 AFP HANOI Japanese financial giant Nomura Group has signed a deal with Haiphong city authorities to build a US$l2O million (SSIBO million) industrial zone in one of the largest investments yet in Vietnam by a firm from Japan. The joint venture, NomuraHaiphong Industrial
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      66 3 CONGRATULATIONS PT CHAROEN POKPHAND INDONESIA AS THE WINNER OF THE ASIAN MANAGEMENT AWARD IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT e" f .<• i X Bank Brussels Lambert, Singapore Branch J I lndover As,a L,m,ted Ta! lee Bant limited BHF-BANK, C The Sanwa Bank Limited, Singapore Branch J Singapore Branch J anq^% na .'f,°'>
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Taiwan lifts cigarette, alcohol ban
        92 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan yesterday lifted bans on almost all foreign cigarettes and aleoholie beverages as part of its bid to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt), officials said. Chao Shih-cha, a spokesman of the business section of the Taiwan Tobacco and Wine
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        Lock icon China investment hurts Taiwan: survey
        112 4 Reuter TAIPEI More than half of all Taiwanese believe investment in China could hurt their economy but want direct transport links with the mainland to aid business, according to a government opinion poll published yesterday. Of 1,600 people interviewed, 56 per cent said they believed
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        Lock icon Beijing orders energy cuts
        82 4 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO In a bid to curb the growth of inventories, China has ordered local authorities to turn ofT electricity and other energy supplies to state-owned enterprises that break production limits, the official Economic Daily said yesterday. Members of the Economic and Trade Commission
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        Lock icon Laotian refugees in China go home
        86 4 Reuter BEIJING A total of 2,917 Laotian refugees have left the south-west China province of Yunnan and gone home voluntarily, Xinhua news agency said yesterday. It said the number accounted for 73 per cent of the Laotian refugees in the province and followed a
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        Lock icon Flooding kills 90 in north-east China
        102 4 AP BEIJING Flooding has killed 90 people in north-east China's Liaoning province and caused nearly US$l.5 billion (552.3 billion) in damages, the official China Daily said yesterday. Some 9.87 million people in 890 towns and villages were affected by heavy rains and typhoons that
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      Lock icon Beijing and Teheran agree on trade, industrial cooperation
      274 4 AP NICOSIA China has agreed to build several cement factories in Iran and to sell four ships to the Iranians. Teheran television yesterday quoted Vice-President Hassan Habibi as saying that, in return, Iran would help build an oil refinery in China with
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      Lock icon Beijing urges lifting of US sanctions to boost trade
      510 4 AP Reuter BEIJING The United States should lift the last sanctions on China if it wants China to buy more of its exports, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday. US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who visited China this week to improve
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      Lock icon Taiwan media want freedom of speech
      57 4 Reuter TAIPEI Journalists from the Independence Evening Post and other news media throwing their mouth-muffles into the air, demanding freedom of speech, during a rally in Taipei yesterday. A business affiliate to Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party took over the island's oldest and most outspoken
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      Lock icon Baoshan Iron and Steel rated China's most efficient firm
      255 4 AP BEIJING The China Statistical Information and Consultancy Service has judged Shanghai's Baoshan Iron and Steel Group Corp the nation's most profitable and efficient firm. The CSICS, a branch of the State Statistical Bureau, released a list of China's top 1,000
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      Lock icon China attacks US over ban on cash from population control fund
      257 4 AFP BEIJING China accused the United States yesterday of vilifying its family planning policy by forbidding any US donations to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to be used in China. "This politically biased act is mostly unfriendly towards
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      Lock icon One-third of Chinese bank loans dead or overdue
      532 4 Reuter BEIJING China said yesterday that one third of loans held by its banks were either dead or overdue, with factory managers resorting to a variety of measures in order to avoid repayment. A sombre front-page article in the Economic Daily said
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      Lock icon China's farmers encourage children to migrate to cities
      378 4 AFP GUANGAN. China When 58-year-old Jiang Deli chose to have three children, his chief concern, like that of most Chinese farmers, was to ensure enough young hands to care for him and work his plot in his old age. But now Mr
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      Lock icon Shanghai wooing upscale foreign tenants for its Bund
      374 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong, watch carefully: this is how China might act when it inherits all kinds of wonderful old buildings in 1997 after taking over the British colony. Shanghai's municipal government has decided to lease some of the most famous,
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon Anwar calls for more technology transfer from Japan
      516 5 Bernama TOKYO Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday called on Japanese corporations to be more forthcoming in the transfer of technology to countries in the region. Mr Anwar, who arrived from Shanghai on Wednesday for a five-day visit, said that while
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    • Article
      Lock icon UN chief to visit Japan for high-level talks
      232 5 AFP TOKYO United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is to visit Japan from Sep 11-14 for talks with Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama and Foreign Minister Yohei Kono, the foreign ministry said here yesterday. During his four-day stay, Mr Boutros-Ghali is also to meet
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    • Article
      Lock icon MTV returns to India via state broadcaster
      236 5 Reuter HONGKONG US pop video channel MTV, locked in a battle with one-time partner Rupert Murdoch, will return to India this month after striking a deal with siate broadcaster Doordarshan. MTV said yesterday that MTV Networks, which split with Mr Murdoch's Star TV
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      Lock icon Quake escape
      42 5 AFP TOKYO A resident escaping from a tall building during a disaster drill here yesterday. The drill aims to help citizens cope with a major earthquake. About 13 million people all over Japan were mobilised for the annual exercise. AFP
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      Lock icon Sri Lankan ceramics sector holds promise
      353 5 Reuter COLOMBO Sri Lanka's ex-port-oriented ceramics industry is increasing capacity to meet rising demand and stands to benefit from new government plans to encourage industries based on local raw material. CT Smith Stock Brokers yesterday described the ceramics sector as "an excellent me-dium-term investment".
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      Lock icon Seoul airs fears that US is moving too fast towards Pyongyang
      513 5 AFP Reuter SEOUL South Korea has for the first time publicly aired its concern that US President Bill Clinton may be moving too fast to tear down the world's last Cold War barrier in its talks with North Korea.
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      Lock icon Australia, US push for free trade agenda in Apec
      406 5 AFP SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating and United States President Bill Clinton are paving the way for an ambitious trade agenda in the 17-member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum. Australian government sources yesterday said Mr Keating had telephoned Mr
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      Lock icon Murayama may postpone China visit
      157 5 Reuter TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama may postpone a tentatively planned trip to China in October following speculation that Beijing could conduct a nuclear test then, Kyodo news service reported yesterday. Kyodo attributed its report to government sources close to the prime minister. A
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Tokyo bows to Chinese pressure
        82 5 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO China said the Japanese government has told Taiwan its President shouldn't appear at the Oct 2 opening ceremony of the Hiroshima Asian Games lest China boycott the event, the Japan Times reported yesterday. President Lee Teng-hui will likely be replaced by
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        Lock icon S Korean net foreign debt at US$9.38b
        96 5 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's net foreign debt totalled US$9.3B billion at end-June, up from U559.34 billion in May and US$7.B7 billion at the end of 1993, the Bank of Korea said yesterday. But the net debt, comprising total debt minus overseas assets, was
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        Lock icon Japanese satellite: agency gives up
        79 5 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's National Space Development Agency said on Wednesday that it cannot get the 42 billion yen (*****.8 million) satellite Kiku No 6 into the right orbit and has given up trying, the Kyodo news agency reported yesterday. The satellite was to
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        Lock icon Bangladeshi exports to S Africa up
        65 5 AFP DHAKA Bangladeshi exports to South Africa are booming as official figures published yesterday showed a 500 per cent jump in earnings during the 1993-1994 fiscal year over the previous year. Dhaka earned US$6 million during the 1993-1994 fiscal year compared to US$l.lB million
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      265 5 AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROSPER IN A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR MARKET. The six countries of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and UAE that together comprise the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) states. The GCC is the fastest growing market in the Arab region with one of the highest per capita income and
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Summit to be held in Miami despite Cuban, Haitian issues
      290 6 Reuter MIAMI The organisers of a summit meeting, scheduled for December here, do not plan to choose another venue despite controversy over Cuban immigration policy and the possibility of a US-led invasion of Haiti. "We have no official word of
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      Lock icon France blasts trade embargo against Cuba
      503 6 Americans holding the country by the throat, says Mitterrand AP Los Angeles Times PARIS French President Francois Mitterrand on Wednesday criticised the US trade embargo against Cuba and said it "seems to me to be completely shocking". "It's the Americans who are holding the
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      Lock icon US labour group warns it will oppose Gatt if workers' rights slighted
      444 6 Reuter WASHINGTON Lane Kirkland, president of the umbrella US labour group AFL-CIO, warned the Clinton administration on Wednesday that the US labour movement will oppose the new world trade pact if its interests are slighted. Mr Kirkland said
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      Lock icon Northern Ireland peace could prove Major's salvation
      325 6 Reuter LONDON For British leader John Major the glittering prize of peace in Northern Ireland could spell political survival. Britain's most unpopular prime minister since opinion polls began could ensure his salvation by finding a peace formula that has eluded all his 20th
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      Lock icon US bipartisan health plan in limelight
      305 6 NYT WASHINGTON With Congress in recess, the search for a compromise health care Bill is focusing on a proposal devised by a bipartisan group of 20 senators. A senior administration official on Wednesday said the proposal deserved serious attention. The official. Health and Human
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      Lock icon British Telecom, Mercury cut cost of UK long-distance calls
      350 6 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Prices for long-distance calls within Britain were cut up to 25 per cent on Wednesday as Mercury Communications followed British Telecommunications pic's lead in trimming customers' bills. British Telecom said its price cuts would save customers about
      Bloomberg Business News  -  350 words
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      Lock icon Bundesbank to keep interest rates on hold for 2 weeks
      536 7 Reuter FRANKFURT The Bundesbank yesterday said it was keeping interest rates on hold for at least another two weeks, sparking some worries on financial markets that the trend to easier German credit may now be over. The German central bank
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      Lock icon Rabin sees further delay in Palestinian elections
      274 7 AFP JERUSALEM Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin foresaw further delays in Palestinian elections now set for Dec 15 in a speech broadcast on state radio yesterday. "The Palestinians hope to get Israeli troops out of the West Bank through the elections and 1 would
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      Lock icon S African muscle may help revive mining in continent
      331 7 Reuter JOHANNESBURG South Africa's powerful mining industry is under scrutiny for the muscle it could lend in reviving long stagnant, but potentially money-spinning, minerals development in the African continent. "The geological potential for major mineral discoveries (in Africa) is present," says
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      Lock icon Winning smile
      46 7 Renter LONDON David Yeomans getting a kiss from his girlfriend Lynne Price after he received a cheque from Littlewoods Lottery for over £2.2 million (555.06 million) on Wednesday. Mr Yeomans, a truck driver, won the biggest payout of money in British competition history. Renter
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      Lock icon Japanese investors not deterred by Turkey's crisis
      361 7 Reuter ANKARA Japanese investors, taking a bullish long-term view of the Turkish economy, are determined to ride out the aftershocks of Turkey's economic crisis and press ahead with ambitious plans for the future. "Japanese investors are about the only ones interested in Turkey
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      Lock icon Waigel unveils plan to simplify German taxes
      296 7 Reuter BONN German Finance Minister Theo Waigel unveiled a 20-point plan yesterday to simplify German tax laws, which are so complex that even the president has complained he does not always understand them. Mr Waigel said he aimed to implement comprehensive reforms, including
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      Lock icon Israel opens import markets to Asian competition
      443 7 Reuter JERUSALEM Israel lowered tariffs yesterday to the point where economists say imports will finally challenge protected domestic industries and shift Israel's trade flow away from the industrialised West towards the Far East. The tariff cuts, averaging five to 10 percentage points on
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      Lock icon US troops in Russia for controversial exercises
      234 7 AFP MOSCOW US infantry troops and hardware arrived yesterday at a base near the south-central Russian city of Orenburg, defence officials said, for controversial eightday joint military exercises to start today. It was the first deployment of US ground troops in the heart
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon India, US debate clothing recall
        105 7 AP WASHINGTON The US and Indian governments have begun talks about skirts that American officials say are too dangerous lo wear. About 250,000 chifTon skirts imported from India were pulled off US shelves three weeks ago in what the US Product Safety Commission described as
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        Lock icon Shoppers throng closing store in US
        50 7 AFP NEW YORK Bargain hunters crowding the Galeries Lafayette at Trump Tower here on Wednesday after news of the French fashion store's impending US closing reached shoppers. The French retail giant, Europe's second largest, will close on Nov 1, three years after opening. AFP
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        Lock icon Mexico mining-metallurgic sector down
        89 7 Bloomberg Business news MEXICO CITY Production in Mexico's mining-metallurgic industry fell 7.6 per cent in May on a year-over-year basis, the second consecutive monthly decline, the government-owned Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografia e Informatica (incgi) reported on Wednesday. A fall-off in the production of lead, copper,
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        Lock icon Venezuela's investor rules on US$
        100 7 Bloomberg Business News CARACAS, Venezuela The government handed down rules on Wednesday that permit foreign investors to send US dollars out of the country, an official said. "In a very short amount of time we will achieve our goal of having a flexible and transparent
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        Lock icon Saudi firm to buy 200 German buses
        94 7 Reuter MANAMA The passenger bus company Saudi Public Transport Co (Saptco) will buy 200 new buses from two German firms, Saudi newspapers reported yesterday. They quoted Saptco's deputy manager Saleh Abdul-Hameed Aqqad as saying 100 buses would be bought from Mercedes-Benz AG and
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        Lock icon EU media proposal may hit Murdoch
        75 7 Bloomberg Business News BRUSSELS Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and dia tycoon Rupert Murdoch may have to sell large parts of their European media interests because of a draft European Commission document obtained by The European newspaper yesterday. The new European Union proposals, which
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      371 6 THE COMPAMES ACT (CAP. 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF SEACAN ENTERPRSES PTE LTD (Members' Voluntary Uquriabon) Al an Extraordrary General Meeting of N members of SEACAN ENTERPRISES PTE LTD duly oorMnad and held at 2 rinlayecin Gmn #10-04 Aria Insurance BuMng c, ~p'T~" 0104 on Tuesday 30 August 1984.
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      187 6 BRASSICA INVESTMENTS PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 306 of the Companies Act. Cap. 50. that the Final Meeting of members of the abovenamed Company wit be held at 4GuiStreet 1 Jurong, Sngapore
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      944 8 ptf Nothing Beats A Bud. HHft'fl where to wine, dine «w entertain U m the Coribbe^ From June Ist 1994 Mischief Pub at the Boulevard Hotel presents*- Caribbean Arts Festival's I Best Performing Band M 9 JVI the Miami MTV sensation Dreadi Ration Time: 8.15pm nightly y (except Sunday) JBe
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      287 8 Ilrnoiaglio Enonigko 11/nougk. "Enough is enough. 35 appetisers, 20 desserts p(us main courses. 'Hften our guests start on the appetiser spread at our monthly international lunch buffet, they never finish. In fact, they always endup conceding that they ve had more than enough. Come try it to believe. jQI) Jor
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Getting into character
      968 9 William Hurt looks back on his career from his first hit movie 13 years ago to his current projects NYT JUST before Body Heat opened in 1981, the film's star William Hurt, then 31 years old, described himself to Judy Klemesrud of The New York Times as
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      Lock icon Horror books reek of the smell of death
      369 9 AP SOME of the horror novels they sell nowadays are enough to turn your stomach. With three copies of Drawing Blood, you don't even have to turn the pages. The three books, copies of a US$5O (Ss7s) limited edition of the novel
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      Lock icon Nimbies are such a scream
      538 9  -  William Tuohy looks at samples of a breed of celebrity campaigners lobbying to protect the English countryside William Tuohy AP ANEW word has been introduced this summer into the lexicon of England's "chattering class" those who consider themselves opinion makers in media and literary circles.
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      Lock icon Director of This Sporting Life dies
      337 9 CHATTERBOX Reuter Reuter UPI BRITISH director Lindsay Anderson, best known for his 1960s films This Sporting Life and If has died aged 71, his secretary said on Wednesday. Anderson, whose films displayed a lightness of touch with serious subjects which enabled them to attract
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      1159 9 Stand By 11pm, SBC S on a two- A ...a jfl,^ day a JMr*~ body. They share j^ stories and secrets, and bond, mni hijiii^^m but the town's hoods are also j I J f iSfll after the body. River Phoenix, i jJ J I 4V, H 4flB9B Wil Wheaton,
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Sampras beats Ullyett to reach second round despite layoff
      730 10 Reuter NEW YORK World number one and defending champion Pete Sampras shrugged away worries over his ailing ankle and summarily dismissed South African qualifier Kevin Ullyett on Wednesday to reach the second round of the US Open. Sampras, who had not
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      Lock icon Japan's top tennis player takes what she can get
      600 10  -  US Open World No 6 Kimiko Date wants to achieve "realistic goals". Harvey Araton finds out why Harvey Araton NYT NEW YORK The best tennis player in the history of Japan has endorsement riches beyond her dreams, a contingent of reporters
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      Lock icon Tests show Modahl has 40-1 testosterone ratio
      657 10 Reuter LONDON World athletics' governing body on Wednesday disclosed British 800 metres runner Diane Modahl had tested positive with an "astounding" testosterone ratio of over 40-1. The normal level is 1-1. A ratio of 6-1 or more is considered positive. However, Modahl claimed
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      Lock icon Uncouth behaviour rears its ugly head in golf tournaments
      686 10  -  Too many unbecoming incidents have marred the greens of late, leading Dan Moffett to believe that the demise of the gentleman's game must be at hand Dan Moffett AP NEW YORK Years ago. a sociologist who wished to study ill-mannered drunks,
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        87 10 AFP LONDON World Number One batsman Brian Lara was frustrated by the rain as he attempted to equal Alvin Kallicharran's county record of nine first-class centuries in a season on Wednesday. The West Indian hit an unbeaten 89 ofT only 93 balls before the weather intervened at Edgbaston also
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        125 10 AFP PARIS The controversy over alleged drug-taking by the World's top cyclist, Miguel Indurain. has widened to include another leading rider. Tony Romingcr. The new development has further cmbarrascd the French, already upset at the leak of a confidential report confirming that Indurian had used a substancc banned in
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        Lock icon Golf
        120 10 AP TOMAKOMAI, Japan Hajimc Meshiai. 1993 Japan PGA leading money winner, downed Kazuhiro Takami 3 and I yesterday in the first round of the Japan PGA Match Play Championship. Tetsu Nishikawa beat defending champion Yoshitaka Yamamoto 2 and 1 and American Todd Hamilton defeated Tsuyoshi Yoneyama 2-up to advancc
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        Lock icon Rugby
        136 10 AFP LONDON England centre Jeremy Guscott will resume training on Monday after 11 months out with injury. Guscott has been resting a deep-seated pelvic problem that cost him seven caps last season. He said: "I will be seeing the England surgeon on Saturday and we will be working out
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        108 10 UPI ROME The swimming world championships opened in Rome on Wednesday against a stunning backdrop and a ceremony featuring laser beams and Italian opera. But the legacy of the drug scandals that have rocked all sports quickly overshadowed the start of the 11-day event. The opening ceremony which heralded
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        Tennis
        363 10 NEW YORK LSS9J6 million (SSI4 million) US Open 3rd day on Wednesday Men's Ist rd: Andrei Medvedev (Ukr x 8) b Gilbert Schaller (Aus) 6-3 6-4 6-0: Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Rus xl 4) b Jacco Eltingh (Neth) 7-6 (7/4) 7-5 6-3; Jaime Yzaga (Per) b Gabriel Markus (Arg) 7-6 (7/4)
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      Lock icon Ermenegildo Zegna opens flagship store
      565 11  -  The maker of top-of-the-line Italian menswear expands in Singapore with hopes of healthy returns here and in the region. A top executive tells Corinne Kerk of the company's plans Corinne Kerk Ermenegildo Zcgna, manufacturer and retailer of luxury Italian menswear, today opens its 2,300 sq
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      Pretty women go to the aid of Tiger beer in Myanmar
      423 11  -  A Myanmese firm is breaking new ground in a highly traditional society, reports Loh Hui Yin from Bangkok Loh Hui Yin WHAT do you do when the sales of your best-selling beer face stiff competition? Send in the pretty
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      Lock icon It all ads up to confusion
      695 11  -  A row over a market research firm's data is sending shock waves through the industry, writes Stuart Elliott Stuart Elliott NYT A DISPUTE over magazine research methodology is upsetting agencies, advertisers, media executives and researchers. They are becoming increasingly concerned that the quarrel could
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        Labatt launches Ice Beer in S'pore
        86 11 SINGAPORE A beer that's brewed under sub-zero temperatures with a higher alcohol content than ordinary beers has hit Singapore. Labatt of Canada, the first brewery in the world to patent its special ice brewing process, today launches its Ice Beer here through Pokka Corporation.
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        PEER is tops in ad growth
        53 11 SINGAPORE The Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) is tops in advertising growth among major publications for first-half 1994. as measured by the Asia-Pacific Adex. FEER's ad revenue rose 37 per cent against first-half 1993, the highest of any publication with ad revenue over US$5
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        Cold Storage offers Super Sandwiches
        40 11 SINGAPORE Cold Storage Takashimaya has just introduced Oliver's Super Sandwiches, developed by the Dairy Farm group in Hongkong. Oliver's offers a range of regular sandwiches, toast ies. giant sandwiches, salads, hot soups and baked potatoes.
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        Lock icon Citibank reviews card account
        94 11 NYT NEW YORK Citibank North America, a unit of Citicorp in New York, has placed its credit-card account in review, with billings estimated at USS6O million. David Kiley, a spokesman for Lowe Partners/SMS, which has handled the account since 1980, confirmed a report of the review
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        Lock icon US Post extends Y&R contract
        58 11 NYT NEW YORK The US Postal Service said on Wednesday that Young Kubicam New York would continue as the agency on its account, after an eight-month review. The decision means that Y&R will retain an account it has had for nearly 20 years, with billings
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      Direct mail distributor eyes growth with $6m building
      318 11  -  By Audrey Tan DIRECT mail and publications distribution company, Caxton Services Pte Ltd, is poised to expand its global reach now that it operates out of its $6 million Caxton Building in Tampines. The building is a regional logistics hub for a
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      Lock icon Burger King returns to selling just burgers
      759 11 US' second biggest burger chain reorganises to stay ahead in the fast food industry Bloomberg Business News WHILE other fast-food restaurants are slugging it out to see who offers more "value", Burger King Corp has decided to redefine the word. For the No
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  • Article
    Future lies in the past
    526 12 EDITORIAL THE primaiy aim of Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's four-nation South-east Asian swing which ended on Tuesday was to find "new guideposts" in Japan's relations with the region and for its first Socialist leader to get a first-hand feel of what the region expects
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      Towards a better balance
      278 12 PARLIAMENT last week passed a bill to give the Supreme Court an advisory role in interpreting the Constitution. It will enable the government to refer any constitutional question to a special tribunal for clarification. This tribunal will consist of at least three Supreme Court judges and
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      Sensible Japanese moves
      201 12 DURING HIS VISIT to four South-east Asian countries including the republic, Japanese Premier Tomiichi Murayama reiterated his country's stance in strengthening friendship and cooperation with countries in the region. The visit shows the critical importance of the region to Japan. Such a stance is applauded. What more,
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      Good for Sino-US ties
      139 12 THE VISIT by US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown to China has been a great triumph for his "commerce diplomacy" and has helped to consolidate the much improved Sino-US ties. He has helped open a path for the US to the "New World" and strengthen Sino-US economic
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      Form proper population policies
      215 12 NEVER BEFORE has a planned international conference been so controversial that it has stirred up a storm of protests from both the Catholic and Muslim worlds. The focus of the UN population conference in Cairo next week is to find ways of solving population problems and
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      Concentrate on priorities
      220 12 FORMER Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif's disclosure that his country already has a nuclear bomb triggered a tidal wave of alarm around the world. In an effort to limit the damage, Islamabad at once restated its longstanding position that although Pakistan has the ability to make an
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    Taiwan gets set to take on Singapore and Hongkong
    1020 12  -  Peter Osborne examines a new report on what Taiwan must do to realise its ambition ot becoming a regional financial and transport centre Peter Osborne THE Taiwanese government is in the final stages of a two-year plan to position Taipei as
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      101 12 I 1 > I SEPTEMBER 1994 $4 I I TEEN I I SPENDERS I I How they're shaping the marketplace I Kir S H I I I H I IMp I I KmpF X mM I I v9f* I H ITi i I The 'Royal Singapore's SES fair I Brothers'
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      Enforcing the straight and narrow, flexibly
      1173 13  -  Maggie Ford discusses the way Jakarta has been handling threatened major corporate bankruptcies these past few years, taking national economic interests into account, and finds lessons which foreign and local banks active in Indonesia would do well to heed Maggie Ford The writer, based
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      Lock icon Pachinko operators shooting to go public in Japan
      1012 13 Big pinball machine companies are doing all they can to build a respectable image of financial propriety for their industry Asahi News Service IN AN ATTEMPT to upgrade the unwholesome image of the pachinko (pinball machine) industry, two operators of pachinko parlours
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      Lock icon A Russian outpost happily embraces Asia
      575 13 Khabarovsk has edged steadily into the orbit of the countries it was created to defend against NYT STRANGE things are happening in the graceful port of Khabarovsk on Russia's Asian frontier. A popular Korean takeout place has opened at the corner of Leo Tolstoy
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    Lock icon Income inequality continues to grow in US workforce
    530 14 Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Rapid job growth since President Bill Clinton took office has failed to offset growing wage and income inequality in America, as workers lacking advanced education and uneasy with new technology find themselves locked out of the middle class.
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    Lock icon US manufacturing index lowest since Nov '93
    472 14 Bloomberg Business News AP NEW YORK Output from America's factories fell last month to its lowest level since November 1993, in a sign that economic growth may be slowing. The manufacturing index fell to 56.2 last month from 57.8 in July, the National
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    Lock icon Economy on solid growth path: Fed official
    276 14 Bloomberg Business News AUSTIN. Texas The United States economy is growing solidly with full employment and retail prices rising about 3 per cent a year, according to Robert McTeer, the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank president. Output of goods and services rose at a
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    Lock icon S'pore pledges to support Seoul on N Korean issue
    430 14  -  By Peter Osborne SINGAPORE The Republic has promised to support South Korea's efforts to end the controversy over North Korea's alleged nuclear weapons programme through continuing dialogue. The long-running dispute over Pyongyang's nuclear capability dominated talks here yesterday between Singapore Prime
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    Lock icon Chinese face money and mafia in Moscow
    458 14 AFP MOSCOW The Russian mafia thug ia gold chains did not have to punch the Chinese trader trying to leave his hostel, a push was enough. The trader put down his pack, handed over a wad of money and was allowed to go
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    Next step for Malaysia — investment in its people
    781 14  - Next step for Malaysia investment in its people The Bottom Line HO KAY TAT HO KAY TAT The writer is Bl's Malaysia correspondent IT WAS. perhaps, a sign of the times in Malaysia that Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's National Day address to the nation was so non-politieal. There was hardly
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    Lock icon Semantic struggle marks day one of IRA ceasefire
    315 14 Reuter BELFAST The first day of an historic IRA ceasefire was marked by a semantic struggle between the British government and its Irish Republican foes over whether the war had been suspended or called off altogether. British pressed the Irish Republican Army
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    Lock icon Kohl's party proposes far-reaching EU reform
    145 14 Reuter BONN Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats (CDU) yesterday proposed far-reaching reform of the European Union and said member states should move at diP ferent speeds towards closer integration In a paper presented by CDU parliamentary leader Wolfgang Schaeuble, the party called for more
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Talk of record price for Hitachi Tower sends property stocks soaring
      429 15  -  By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE Property stocks yesterday rose sharply on rumours that businessman Ong Beng Seng had sold Hitachi Tower for a record $1,900 per square foot about 20 per cent higher than the previous benchmark for prime commercial
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      Malaysia Smelting Corp to list almost 19m vendor shares on KL exchange
      359 15  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Malaysia Smelting Corp, a subsidiary of locally listed Straits Trading Co, is to list on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Straits Trading said yesterday MSC's initial public offer, comprising 18.84 million vendor shares, would
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      When in Rome, Jardine Matheson should do as the Romans do
      919 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE The last time a stock exchange bent its rules to accommodate the mighty Jardine Matheson Holdings (JMH), it ended up getting egg on its face. That was in 1991, when the Hongkong
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      Stamford Tyres buying land in Negeri Sembilan to build warehouse
      218 15 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed tyre maker Stamford Tyres Corporation has set up a Malaysian subsidiary. STC Tyres Malaysia Sdn Bhd (STCM). in a bid to acquire and develop a 75.000 plot of industrial land in Negeri Sembilan. STCM is a shell company
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        MARKET MOOD
        40 15 Firm Market A/***/' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment Brokers polled: Alliance. Daiwa. Fraser. <JK Goh. Kay Hian Morgan Grenfell. Nomura, Phillip and Smith Sew Court
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        HOT STOCK
        117 15  -  By Paul Leo Menang Corporation is likely to begin assaulting the resistance between $1.73 and SI.BO soon. At yesterday's close of $1.55, the stock is oversold as indicated by the daily Relative Strength Index and stochastics. Weekly Moving Average Convergence-Diverence Indicator is still bullish after signalling a buy
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          Heshe appoints company secretaries
          52 16 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed Heshe Holdings has appointed Margaret Tay Mui Kiang and Lynn Wan Tiew Leng as company secretaries with immediate effect. Heshe said that Ms Wan will also be secretary to its subsidiaries and associate companies. The company also announced that Dawn Pamela Lum had resigned
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          New Marco Polo director
          49 16 SINGAPORE Marco Polo Developments has appointed Hongkong resident Quinn Yee-Kwan Law as a director to replace Edward Cheng who has resigned as a director, with effect from yesterday. Mr Law will also take Mr Cheng's place on the company's Share Transfer and Share Allotment Committee.
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          Name change for Hong Fok unit
          35 16 SINGAPORE Property group Hong Fok yesterday said the name of its subsidiary, Crystal Cay Ventures Inc, has been changed to Sui Chong International Ltd with effect from Aug 26.
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          No nod for IPCO project yet
          80 16 SINGAPORE IPCO International said yesterday a joint venture project to lay a submarine water pipeline between Langkawi and the Malaysian mainland had yet to be approved by the Kedah state government despite reports that it had. On Wednesday, Malaysian newspaper The Star reported that
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          Teledata appoints director for KL unit
          37 16 SINGAPORE Listed telecommunications company, Teledata, has appointed Cheang Ing Leong to the board of its Malaysian subsidiary Davotek Sdn Bhd. Mr Cheang replaces Abdul Razi bin Abdul LatifT, who resigned yesterday.
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          Apollo-Furama deal extended
          52 16 SINGAPORE Apollo Enterprises said the last date for the exercise of an options agreement between itself and the owners of Furama Singapore Pte Ltd had been extended from Aug 31 to Sep 30 this year. The agreement is part of a deal in which Apollo will take
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          Changes in JC-MPH holdings
          55 16 SINGAPORE Jack Chia-MPH yesterday disclosed changes in the holdings of its substantial shareholders that took effect from Aug 31. It said Jack Chia had reduced his stake from 101.95 million shares to 96.95 million shares. Jack Chia Holdings (Hongkong) now has 92.96 million shares, while JCI
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          Lock icon Golden Hope posts M$261m profit
          77 16 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Golden Hope Plantations Bhd has reported group net profit of MS26I million (*****.9 million) for the 15 months ended June 30. The company changed its fiscal year from March to June. In a statement, the company provided figures for the
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          Lock icon Genting International's profit falls
          47 16 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Genting International pic, a member of the Genting group, has reported a pre-tax profit of US$B.72 million for the half-year to June 30, down 6 per cent from US$9.3 million in the previous corresponding period. Bloomberg Business News
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        Malaysian, NZ units help lift Hotel Grand Central's interim earnings
        267 16  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Increased contributions from its New Zealand and Malaysian subsidiaries have helped Hotel Grand Central lift its interim net earnings by 8 per cent to $5.9 million. The group's net earnings for the six months ending June
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        Lock icon Asian bourses set to spearhead rise of global stock markets
        551 16 MARKET WATCH MBT KUALA LUMPUR Most stock markets have seen their lows for the year and Asia's "little tiger" stock markets should be at the forefront of rallies back to and eventually through this year's earlier highs. Asia's little tiger
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        Lock icon Poor HK showing may dash Sime Darby's M$1b club hopes
        447 16 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Sime Darby Bhd, which will announce its 1993 results tomorrow, is expected to post its seventh successive year of record profits but analysts doubt whether it would become the fourth member of the M$ I billion club
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        Keppel's Hanoi project taking shape
        178 16  -  Text and picture by Rahita Elias SINGAPORE At a busy cross-junction in the business hub of Hanoi, the eight-storey International Centre is taking shape. The US$lO million (5515.2 million) project at Trang Tien, led by conglomerate Keppel Corp, will be completed in January 1995 with
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        Keppel setting up fund to invest in Philippines
        521 16  -  From Al Labita in MANILA THE Keppel Group, Singapore's largest investor in the Philippines, will set up a fund to diversify its investment portfolio here. Keppel managing director Loh Wing Siew yesterday said the fund would be used to invest directly in
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        Lock icon Golden Plus wrapping up two projects in Malaysia
        218 16 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Golden Plus Bhd is finalising two big infrastructure projects in Malaysia, the New Straits Times reported managing director Teh Soon Seng as saying. Speaking to reporters in Shanghai, Mr Teh declined to disclose details of the projects but said
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        Lock icon MUI expects earnings boost from Pan M'sia Cement buy
        150 16 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Malayan United Industries group expects its future long-term earnings base to be enhanced by the increase in its investment in Pan Malaysia Cement Works Bhd. This follows MUl's open market acquisition of 17.6 million Pan Malaysia Cement
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        Lock icon Chico-Thai Plantation fails to file financial statement, denied SET listing
        281 16 Reuter BANGKOK Chico-Thai Plantation pic has become the first Thai company barred from a listing by the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) despite having received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue shares. Attapol Treemunkong, vicepresident of
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        DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
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        Lock icon HKSE imposes HK$20m profit rule for listing aspirants
        360 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Hongkong stock exchange will require companies applying for a public listing to meet new profit requirements that come into force on Sep 15. A listing candidate will be required to have at least a HKS2O million (553.9
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        Lock icon Westinghouse invests US$100m in China joint venture
        461 17 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI Westinghouse Electric Corp has agreed to invest US$lOO million (Sslso million) for a 35 per cent stake in a joint venture with Shanghai Electric Corp to supply power-generation equipment to China. The letter of intent with Shanghai Electric, which
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        Lock icon Future looks good for Indian Oil as it posts 14pc profit rise
        419 17 Reuter NEW DELHI India's largest company, Indian Oil Corp Ltd, has announced a hefty rise in net profit for the financial year ended on March 31, and predicted a surge in earnings as the group's ambitious expansion plans
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        193 17 Bloomberg Business News NEW DELHI Whirlpool Corp has agreed to buy the 11.83 per cent stake in Kelvinator of India Ltd held by Electrolux AB of Sweden, the Economic Times reported yesterday, quoting sources. The report said Electrolux will receive 157 rupees a
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        Lock icon Shenzhen China Bicycle's 1st-half net down slightly
        225 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The world's largest exporter of bicycles, Shenzhen China Bicycle Co (Holdings), on Wednesday said net profit fell 0.4 per cent in its fiscal year's first half, which ended on June 30, because of Chinese austerity policies and Europe's weak
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        Lock icon Burns Philp posts record A$123m profit
        63 17 Reuter SYDNEY Australian food group Burns Philp managing director lan Clack outside the company's Sydney office yesterday where he announced a record profit of Asl23 million (Ssl37 million), a 12 per cent increase over last year's Asllo.l million. The company is looking to make
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        187 17 AP EINDHOVEN, Netherlands Dutch electronics giant Philips Electronics NV has signed an agreement to produce components for audio and visual equipment in China. Philips and a subsidiary of the Shanghai Electronics Components Corporation will set up a new company, Philips and Sanye Passive
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        Lock icon GE China in Shanghai power project
        199 17 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI General Electric China Co has signed a letter of intent to invest in a joint venture with the Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Co to own and operate the US$2OO million (SS3OO million) Zhabei Power Project. GE China, a unit of
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        Lock icon Hwa Kay Thai net profit falls 43pc to HK$103m
        410 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hwa Kay Thai Holdings Ltd says its net profit has fallen 43 per cent to HK$ 102.89 million (5519.9 million) in the year that ended on March 31, from HK$ 180.61 million a year ago. Net profit
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          Lock icon Ladbroke interim pre-tax profit falls
          90 17 Bloomberg Business News LONDON UK betting, retail and hotel company Ladbroke Group pic yesterday said first-half pre-tax profit fell to £57.3 million (S$ 132 million) from £62.5 million a year earlier. The company also announced its return to casino operations after a break of 15
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          Lock icon BTR Nylex plans to raise A$300m
          66 17 Reuter MELBOURNE Diversified manufacturing group BTR Nylex Ltd has appointed National Australia Bank Ltd to arrange and manage a AS3OO million (***** million) commercial paper (CP) programme. NAB said yesterday. NAB said the domestic programme would allow BTR Nylex, 58.7 per cent owned by
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          Lock icon Pepsi in US$50m China equipment deal
          95 17 AFP HONGKONG US soft drink giant Pepsi-Cola has reached agreement with Italian-based Simonazzi SpA and Saremi SpA for the supply of a bottling and canning line for its new plants in China, the firm said on Thursday. The agreement is expected to be signed
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          Lock icon Brambles incurs A$233m loss
          99 17 AFP SYDNEY International transport group Brambles Industries Ltd said on Thursday it lost A 5233.2 million (***** million) in the year to June from a net profit of A$ 166.1 million the year before. The group was dogged by poor performances from its European and US
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          Lock icon Halla in Shanghai power plant deal
          59 17 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's Halla Group has agreed in principle to build a 1,800-megawatt power plant and fuel storage facilities in Shanghai, a Halla spokesman said yesterday, Halla chairman Chung In Yung and Gu Yin Zhang, Shanghais electricity and industry director, signed a memorandum
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        Lock icon AT&T's China president quits to join General Electric
        177 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The China president for American telecommunications group AT&T has resigned to join US conglomerate General Electric as head of its China operations. Cheng Mei-Wei, 44, had been with AT&T for 22 years and was a key figure in
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        Lock icon AT&T signs US$500m China deal
        122 17 Reuter HONGKONG AT&T Corp has signed a long-term partnership agreement worth US$5OO million (Ss7so million) over five years to support the development of advanced communications in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. Under the deal with the Guangdong Province Posts and Telecommunications Adminis- trative Bureau
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        Lock icon Alarm over surprise public offer price for Japan Tobacco
        432 18 Reuter TOKYO Japanese stocks face a traumatic few months after the Ministry of Financc (MOK) unveiled on Wednesday a 1.44 million yen (5521.550) public offering price for Japan Tobacco Inc (JT) shares on sale this month, analysts said. The price a
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        Lock icon Rolls-Royce engine group lifts interim profit by 29pc to £40m
        363 18 Reuter LONDON Aero-engines and industrial power group Rolls-Royce pic yesterday reported a rise in profits of almost a third for the first half of the year as cost-cutting measures boosted earnings despite a drop in sales. Pre-tax profits for the
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        Lock icon Audi cuts losses by more than half
        146 18 AP BONN Audi, the Volkswagen subsidiary that makes luxury cars, said losses for the first half of 1994 were down 53 per cent from a year earlier. Audi had a first-half pre-tax loss of 93 million marks (SsBB million), down from 198 million
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        Lock icon Kluge merges four firms into global media company
        220 18 NYT NEW YORK Billionaire John Kluge said on Wednesday that he would run a merger of four companies whose new mission would include selling films to Eastern European countries and former Soviet Republics. The new company, Metromedia International Group Inc, will be
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        Lock icon Amcor's net profit crumples under restructuring costs
        425 18 AFP SYDNEY Paper and packaging group Amcor Ltd yesterday said its net profit crumpled to A 5256.6 million (SS2B2 million) in the year to June 30, down 18.5 per cent from A 5314.9 million the year before. The 1993-94 result was dragged down
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        Lock icon Time Warner eyes NBC Network, Walt Disney keen on buying CBS
        340 18 NYT WASHING lON The ownership of one and perhaps even two of the three major Ameriean television networks are on the brink of change. Time Warner Inc is negotiating to buy NBC Network while Walt Disney Co is reportedly
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        Lock icon M'sia's Public Bank latest to cut its base lending rate
        462 19 MBT Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's commercial banks have begun a further round of reduction in their base lending rates. The latest bank to cut its base rate was Public Bank, effective yesterday. The bank's base rate fell 40 basis points
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        Petrochem project partners raise US$678m
        263 19  -  By Quafc Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Two parties involved in the development of the massive petrochemical complex at Pulau Ayer Merbau have put together term loans worth US$67B million ($1.02 billion) to part-finance the project. Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore (PCS) Pte Ltd is raising a US$42O
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        UOB to add smart feature to its Visa cards
        198 19 SINGAPORE United Overseas Bank, the largest credit card issuer here, will soon make its Visa cards "clever". The bank plans to convert the credits cards into smart cards next month starting with 100,000 gold cards in use from Sep 19. The
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        320 19 AFP AP HONGKONG Preparations are underway for the opening of China's first private commercial bank next year. The Hongkong-based Wen Wei Po daily yesterday said the bank, which had been temporarily named the People's Livelihood (Minsheng) Bank, had already started preparing
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        57 19 Reuter BRASILIA, Brazil Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono (left) and Brazilian Economy Minister Rubens Ricupero shaking hands before meeting for talks in Brasilia on Wednesday. The meeting, part of Mr Kono's three-day visit to Brazil, was expected to focus on Japan's resumption of loans
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        Lock icon Bank Bumi eyes expansion into China, South Africa
        500 19 The New Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR Stateowned Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd plans to enhance its presence overseas, especially in new and emerging markets like South Africa and China. Chief executive Abdul Aziz Othman said the bank's economic research department is studying the
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        360 19 NST KUALA LUMPUR BBMB Securities Sdn Bhd, a member of the Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd group, is gearing itself to win a larger share of Malaysia's fast-growing stockbroking industry. Executive director Khairuddin Jaflus said the company is increasing its pool of
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        Simex, Japanese exchanges to discuss market manipulation
        338 19  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE The Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) will meet two Japanese exchanges later this year to discuss measures to curb manipulation and excess volatility in futures markets. The Japanese bourses are the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and the Osaka
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        178 19 AFP MANILA State-controlled Philippine National Bank (PNB) yesterday said it would lower its lending rates in response to the government's cut in interest rates. Meanwhile, the Central Bank, the country's monetary authority, approved a plan by the PNB to establish a subsidiary in
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          Lock icon Krung Thai raises US$150m loan
          75 19 Reuter SINGAPORE Krung Thai Bank's branch in Singapore is raising US$l5O million (***** million) through a 10-year floating rate note issue. Due in 2004, the subordinated deal pays a coupon of six-month Libor (London interbank Offered Rate) plus 98 basis points for the first five
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          Lock icon Wharf likely to issue samurai bonds
          102 19 Reuter TOKYO Wharf (Holdings) Ltd is likely to issue samurai bonds for the first time in the near future, underwriters here said yesterday. The volume is said to be 30 billion yen (***** million) to 50 billion yen and the maturity three to five
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          Lock icon Abbey raises mortgage rate
          93 19 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Britain's second-largest mortgage lender said it raised the cost of fixed-rate mortgages by nearly 2 percentage points, the Daily Telegraph said yesterday. The newspaper reported Philip Carwright of London Country Mortgages as saying, "I am sure rates are now going to edge
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          Lock icon No Amex buy, says Thomas Cook
          82 19 Reuter FRANKFURT Thomas Cook Group on Wednesday denied a report in Frankfurt magazine Travel Tribune, which said American Express Co was buying its "business travel" sector. "There have been rumours about Thomas Cook around since last December. This is just another one of those
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          Lock icon Record seen for Tocom '94 trade volume
          106 19 Reuter TOKYO The Tokyo Commodity Exchange's (Tocom) traded volume for calendar 1994 will set a record high on the back of active trading in gold and rubber futures, a Tocom spokeswoman said yesterday. "If trading volume keeps up in the remaining four months,
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        Lock icon BPM expects to cut non-performing loans to 30pc in 5 years
        220 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Bank Pertanian Malaysia expects to reduce its non-performing loans from 45 per cent this year to 30 per cent in the next five years, said its general manager and chief executive officer Ibrahim Hashim. Speaking at
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        452 19 NYT CHICAGO In an acquisition aimed at expanding its investment banking operations, the Swiss Bank Corp will pay US$75O million (S$ 1.12 billion) in stock to purchase Brinson Partners Inc, an investment management firm. The purchase "fills a strategic gap" for Swiss
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        322 20 NYT WASHINGTON Taking the first big steps to discourage banks from speculating in derivatives, federal regulators said on Wednesday that they were planning to require some banks to hold more capital to cover possible losses on such investments. The Office of
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        46 20 Reuter MALANGAS, Philippines Rescue workers leaving an underground coal mine in Malangas town, southern Philippines, on Wednesday after searching for victims of a gas explosion that killed 82 miners in the worst disaster to hit the Philippine coal mine industry. Reuter
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        390 20 Reuter SINGAPORE Some foreign companies are shying away from processing crude oil at Chinese refineries, unable to weather the uncertainty created by Beijing's repeated clampdowns on the oil sector. "We are going to delay our spot processing deal in China until a
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        406 20 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's palm oil industry reacted bitterly to the government's imposition of an export tax on crude palm oil and oil products, saying the move would choke refining activity and dampen the country's investment climate. Traders said all eyes would
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        Lock icon Prospects for gold finely balanced, says Gold Fields report
        431 20 Reuter LONDON Gold's outlook is finely poised and the price could move either side of the relatively narrow trading range it has occupied this year, according to consultants Gold Fields Mineral Services (GFMS). "The prospects for gold look very delicately balanced
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        Lock icon China rubber shortage fuels demand for Viet imports
        179 20 Reuter HANOI A rubber shortage in China has boosted demand for Vietnamese rubber, and trade across the border is booming, a Vietnamese official newspaper reported yesterday. In the last three months, the price of Vietnamese iatex sold to China had ranged as
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        245 20 NYT MOSCOW Initiating the first Russian-American commercial venture north of the Arctic Circle, Conoco Inc announced on Wednesday that it had begun pumping oil from its Ardalin field in the remote northern tundra. But it is still grappling with the problem
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        193 20 Reuter LONDON The dollar reacted calmly in Europe to US data slightly out of line with expectations and was readying itself for the August jobs report due today. Dealers said the dollar could benefit in today's morning session in Europe from the US holiday on Monday. "Nobody
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        Futures rise amid improved demand, more strike action
        185 20 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Crude oil futures rose for the third day in a row on stronger demand, ongoing industrial action in Nigeria and a threatened strike by Colombia's oil workers. At 4.30pm London time. Brent crude here was 16 cents higher
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        89 20 AFP NEW YORK The dollar dipped against other major currencies yesterday in quiet trade ahead of today's release of the latest US jobless figures. Gold bullion climbed to U*****.80 an ounce from Wednesday's closing price of U*****.30. The dollar was quoted at 1.5789 mark in morning trading from
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        1281 21 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen and Japanese government bond (JGB) futures ended higher on short covering. Dealers said there were few fresh market factors but Euroyen followed JGB futures upwards in the afternoon session. "Euroyen tried the downside yesterday but was unsuccessful so
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        KL tin soars 31 sen on high demand
        682 21 COMMODITY REPORTS KL Tin TIN closed up 31 sen to M$ 13.69 a kg. buoyed by strong demand and a firmer London market overnight. Traders noted initial bids for 238 tonnes against offer of 79 tonnes. Turnover settled at 102 tonnes, against
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          Aluminium supplies tighten
          68 21 TOKYO Premiums for aluminium in Asia are expected to continue to rise due to a series of factors pointing to a further tightening of supply in the region. Threat of a prolonged strike at Australia's largest aluminium smelter, possible closure of another plant in Ghana and talk
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          Colombia raises coffee price
          109 21 BOGOTA Colombia raised its internal coffee price 9.4 per cent yesterday, the first use of a mechanism to automatically readjust its internal coffee price every 15 days, the Treasury Minister announced. The National Coffee Committee, comprised of Cabinet members and grower representatives, increased the internal price
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          China tin exports to drop sharply
          64 21 TOKYO China's tin exports are expected to decline shajply in the second half of 1994 after surging earlier this year. China's exports in the first six months of 1994 have already exceeded an agreed-to 20.000-tonne quota for 1994. Exports of tin and alloys from
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          Lehman stops gold trading in Tokyo
          76 21 TOKYO Lehman Brothers has halted its day-to-day trading operations in gold bullion and other precious metals in Tokyo, citing lack of market interest. The company will keep its precious metals-related derivatives and options trading unit in Tokyo, but all day-to-day spot market trading for
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        1438 21 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Oct 94 187.00 186.00 187.50 825 4250 Nov 177.50 174.50 175.25 675 4775 Dec 173.00 169.00 171.75 575 3950 Jan/Mar 95 170.50 168.00 168.25 1500
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        Australia
        1077 22 -16.6 INVESTORS locked in profits from recent gains and forced the bourse to a lower close. The key All Ordinaries Index finished at 2,105.5 points, down 16.6. The All Industrials Index closed 19.8 softer at 3.032.5 while the All Resources Index shed 14.6 to 1,413.7. Turnover totalled 191.3 million
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        Manila
        646 22 -33.44 Share prices fell 1.07 per cent yesterday as profit-taking pulled the market down. The PSE Index fell 33.44 points to 3,079.39. Turnover was 3.81 billion shares valued at 1.17 billion pesos. "It's just pure profit-taking," a dealer said, adding that at present, "it's a wait-and-see game", for investors
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        Taipei
        558 22 -33.96 The Taipei bourse yesterday dipped 33.96 points to close at 6,974.15 on poor performances by plastics, financials and cement issues. Turnover was to 2.06 billion shares valued at NT599.61 billion. The market opened high and peaked at 7.083.28 points before losing ground amid profittaking. Plastics and petrochemicals issues
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        Seoul
        439 22 +5.00 Share prices rallied for the third consecutive day yesterday amid news that the government would slacken the reins on its tight monetary policy. The Composite Price Index gained another five points to settle at 949.23. Turnover was 36.2 million shares valued at 675.5 billion won. Falls led rises
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        New Zealand
        360 22 18.54 The share market was on a roll yesterday which took it to a five-month high. Buoyed by a better-than-expected result from industrial conglomerate Fletcher Challenge on Wednesday, the market continued a leader-lead rally. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed up 18.54 points at 2,167.02 on a volume of
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        Bombay
        127 22 -50.01 Share prices closed lower on profit-taking after Wednesday's surge, which took the BSE Index to a record high. The BSE 30-share Index closed at a provisional 4,538.15, down 50.01 points. The 100share National Index was up 1.95 at a provisional 2,151.81. "Prices have fallen on profittaking, but market
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        London
        653 22 -34.8 STOCKS declined yesterday as faster-than-expected growth in German industry showed the economic recovery is well under way, making further interest rate cuts unlikely. "There's been a sentiment swing," said a fund manager. "People are now looking for the next rate change in Germany to be upwards." Figures from
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        Paris
        145 22 -34.17 French stocks tumbled 1.7 per cent, their biggest oneday loss in two-and-half months, as investors decided that Europe's interest rate cuts are as good as over. This view was cemented when the Bundesbank's governors opted to leave official money market rates unchanged. The CAC-40 Index fell 34.17 points
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        Frankfurt
        193 22 -15.03 German stocks fell in late trading after the Bundesbank decided to keep its leading interest rates unchanged. As expected, the central bank left its discount and Lombard rates unchanged at 4.5 per cent and 6 per cent respectively. It also extended its freeze on the securities repurchase rate
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        Brussels
        195 22 -2.49 Belgian stocks fell amid thoughts the Bundesbank's decision yesterday not to reduce its lending rates meant the steady fall in European borrowing costs may have ground to a halt. The Bundesbank left all its rates unchanged in an apparent signal that German industry is in no need of
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        Milan
        200 22 -48 Italian stocks closed lower for a third day as investors awaited the release of the 1995 budget at the end of the month. Traders said Italian and US investment funds are staying out of the market ahead of the budget. "It's a wait-and-see game at this point," said
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        Amsterdam
        229 22 -3.33 Dutch stocks fell for a third day, following a decline in European bonds that was triggered by rising German industrial production. The EOE Index closed at 416.11, down 3.33 points. Financial stocks pulled the market lower, causing more than one point of the decline in the index. However,
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        Stockholm
        112 22 +6.15 Swedish shares closed higher, led by Astra, which reported strong earnings growth on Wednesday. The OMX Index closed 6.15 points higher at 1,136.00. Shares in Astra, a Swedish pharmaceuticals company, drove the index higher. Astra's A shares closed seven kronor higher to a threemonth high of 183. Astra's
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        Zurich
        260 22 -17.2 Swiss stocks ended a fiveday rally yesterday amid concern over interest rates, following stronger-than-ex- pected German industrial output figures. The SMI Index of 23 stocks closed down 17.2 points at 2,628.4, with 14 stocks lower, two steady and seven higher. The SPI Index of 350 stocks closed at
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        Johannesburg
        306 22 +35 A building wave of bullish sentiment over the gold price outlook swept gold and mining-related shares to sturdy heights yesterday, overcoming initial investor wariness on the metal's continued consolidation Dealers said there was little institutional interest but "hundreds" of smaller private buyers had placed buy orders after a
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        Toronto
        260 22 -21.21 Stocks stayed soft at midday with players spooked by the price component of the US National Association of Purchasing Management index. "They didn't like the inflation number in the NAPM, so that set them off." one dealer said. The NAPM index for August fell to 56.2 from 57.8,
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        New York
        710 22 -21.04 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which eased 3.88 points on Wednesday, was down 21.04 points to 3,892.38 at 11am EDT. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index was ofT 1.50 to 260.49. while Standard Poors 500-stock Index was down 3.14 to 472.36. Declines clobbered advances 1,238-507 among
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      3032 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks were little changed on concerns about housing prices, the state of China's economy and Hongkong company earnings. The Hang Seng Index closed down 38.49 points at 9,890.90. The index fell as low as 9,830.02 and rose as high as 10,018.60. The All Ordinaries Index
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      566 23 CLSA TURNOVER in the Shanghai B market reached USS7 million, with the index gaining 6.57 points to 897.93. The top performer was Phoenix Bicycle, which moved up 2.5 per cent and the loser of the day was Hero, which fell 4.5 per cent. The Shenzhen B market saw trading
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      2582 23 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended flat despite spirited selective buying of steel, construction and telecommunications shares by domestic investors. Indexes were tethered in a particularly tight range, but trading volumes picked up on active dealer and investment trust activity, traders said. "Don't look at the forest, look at the trees.
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      1809 23 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks ended slightly higher after fluctuating in a narrow range throughout the day on profit taking amid a generally bullish trend. The SET Index closed 1.01 points up at 1,525.84 after fluctuating between 1,516.80 and 1,536.46. Turnover was 16.9 billion baht. Falls led rises 163 to 138.
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      1169 23 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed firm in moderate trading following sustained confidence in the market on supportive firsthalf earnings, analysts said. "Consumer-related counters continued to drive the market up. It regained confidence after profit-taking in the morning trade." one analyst said. The 6.5 per cent GDP growth projection this
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        6165 24 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR The leading index jumped to its highest level since Jan 10, as investors responded to booming world markets and cast aside last week's fears that a major confrontation was brewing between the government and the AlArqam
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        1857 26  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Boosted by strong demand for Malaysian shares and local property counters, the Straits Times Industrials Index yesterday ended 1.04 per cent higher on a much higher volume. Dealers attributed the rise to a delayed reaction by the market to
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      418 27  -  International cruise operator the first to commit a ship year-round to Asian region By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Cruise operator Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is to base a ship yearround in Asia in what is considered a breakthrough for the regional cruise industry. The arrival
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      471 27 Bloomberg Business News COPENHAGEN A P Moeller, the Danish oil and shipping group, said on Wednesday its first-half profit was stable from a year earlier, but that it expected full-year profit to fall because of a decline in shipping earnings. In 1993,
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      213 27 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK Indian seamen employed on foreign ships will get a 10 per cent increase in wages to US$44O (SS66O) a month from US$4OO, with a corresponding increase in allowances, The Journal of Commerce reported on Wednesday. Indian officers will
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      518 28 >; High costs resulting from delays in ships' entry at Map Ta Phut port cited:*: MAP Ta Phut port of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) has repeatedly complained about the deplorable piloting condition at the port, saying it has
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        350 46  -  Loyang Logistics Centre to store $lm in spare parts By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Air express major DHL Worldwide Express has sealed a contract for the storage and distribution of $1 million worth of spare parts with engineering giant Asea Brown Boveri. The express
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        156 46 Reuter ST JOHN'S, Newfoundland Financially-troubled Air Atlantic Ltd. a regional carrier feeding into PWA Corp's Canadian Airlines, said on Wednesday it reached a settlement with four of its major creditors. In addition, chief executive Craig Dobbin has resigned. Mr Dobbin said under
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        321 46 Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES A California state agency has accused Chrysler Corp of reselling car "lemons" to unsuspecting buyers without telling them it had repurchased the cars from previous owners because of defects. The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) said the allegations involve
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      1601 40 in awMN cdNYAINEft lIMI£&. IN6I MAC-NILS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) MV Wcm We SIBU (084) *****9 KUCHING (062) *****3 PENAN& (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****57 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANQ: (08) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 ASIA HKG/TWN/BKKI GENOA/EUROPE I PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN 3/9
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      199 40 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD EH ll* UA rot nat ku«« nwnc am MOt 21/9 SAIED to* IbK RUVM HUDHU 15 9 Loading to» Dubai OOLTMM 15/9 12 9 Loading Toe Mate men sunuK 24 9 Loading Foi Mate UMCIDH 14/9 Loading fot Mai* rWGKSS IBMIT 1/9
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      904 40 JL THONG SOON UNES PTE LTD I I 78 SHENTON WAY #10-01, SINGAPORE 0207 I I V/ V/ TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 J I TLX: RS ***** CARRER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK SINGA EXPRESS SARAWAK SINGAPORE TO THAILAND _JttS£l VOT SPORE PEST VESSEL VOY S'PORE
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      656 41 WSV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACC&TWG OKAMU.R/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM KOBE. TOKOHMU. NAGOYA. MO I, TOKYO*, MAM. A'. OAVAO*, Penanf* P. Ketanj Singapore E'Msia* KAMALEVERET7 V22E 07/0S Sept 09/10 Sep< WYEVERETT Viae 25/26 Sept 27/28 Sept SHAPIAEVERETT V22E 21/29 Sept ACCEPT* MCAKSUU/FCL/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CWTTAGONG. CALCUTTA AMD MONGLA* Satgapore
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      236 41 GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN SINGAPORE TO KOMPONG SOM •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W SP PKL PNG KAO GLORY SELATAN X 1/9 7/9 16/9 GLORY SELATAN X 6/9 8/9 14/9 SP KOMPONG SOM GLORY SELATAN V 13/9 16/9 LINER SERVICE USA, VANCOUVER, VERACRUZ TO
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      514 41 PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE ""wT" SIN KARACH eaim 138-HW lt/9 2s/9 HYPERABAO 133 m 22/9 2/10 SANGOOHA 147-HW 12/10 22/10 MAKRAN 151 HW 19/10 29/10 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY vessei wot "mc bsw"" osa mm" tok BOtAW 140 ON 9/10 13/10 17/10 19/10 21/10
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      674 41 FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO SOUTH AFRICA VESSEL/ VOYAGE SIN OUR JNB* HK< PL* CRT' BEW MPM» TAME 19 11/09 24/09 28/09 06/10 25/09 2S/09 05/10 07/10 JIANME 86 25/09 08/10 11/10 20/10 09/10 12/10 19/10 21/10 HUHE/106 09/10 22/10 27/10 05/11 23/10 2«/10 04/11 0«/U VI HE/102 23/10
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      282 41 li—■ SIN FAR EAST 06/09 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 04/09 BANGKOK 04/09 MANILA/CEBU 04/09 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 04/09 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 04/09 BUSAN 04/09 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 04/09 HONG KONG SIN CHINA (+m*±mmn) 04/09 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG 1 TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo S[N EUROPE/UK 05/09 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 05/09 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA
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      850 42 PHI LI-OH If NT LINGS PTi LTD K 108 Robinson Road #07-00 GMG Building Singapore 0106 1 Tel: *****22/*****69/*****00 Telex: RS ***** Fax: *****76/*****38 P. Kelang: 03-*****98 Penang: 04-*****6 (CR CODE: **********0^ JiSu A MEMBER OF THE SINGAPORE FREIGHT FORWARDERS ASSOCIATION lit J ILHkI 4fJkl BHM i W 4 SEP
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      695 42 Con term CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD AUCKLAND 3 SEPT (Accepting to all Now Zealand porta) PENANG 09 SEPT JAKARTA 04 SEPT PORT KLANG 08 SEPT BAN6KOK 04 SEPT MELBOURNE 07 SEPT STDNET 07 SEPT BRISBANE 07 SEPT FREMANTLE 08 SEPT ADELAIDE 09 SEPT I'ACCEPTING TO ALL SCANDINAVIA PORTS COLOMBO
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      1379 43 ISEAMA^RGENTIN^IN^^^n CONTAINERISED "HUB" SERVICE I I DIRECT TO ARGENTINA/BRAZIL URUGUAY 1 I w I Ummm'l www I •">**> I I t■l I. n I. .1 Hi I.i li Hf I' mi. I I ALEXANDER SCHULTE 003E 07/09 13/10 14/10 19/10 I 21/10 2S/10 I 20/11 CANOPUS 003E 04/10 09/11 10/11
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      424 43 CEYLON SHIPPING CORPN Notional Line of Sri Lonka CONTAINERISED SERV ICE TO UK AND NORTH CONTINENTAL PORTS jg 1 yp, I- yyt I I I j M *11 WCMM UOM> N/W 11/W TI M M/tt >1/10 M/lt I X/ll «tu 111 in Lge n/w 17/w tvn i7/ii M/ii w/is n/is
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      510 43 |5 CONDOR LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND SCHEDULE N0.51 K, ?f AYA PRIMORSK PAVLOGRAO PETROOVORCTS DEKABRIST PRIOZERSK PORTS ESI4 EBIS EBI6 EBI7 ESI 8 EBI9 BUENOS AIRES' Sailed Sailed Salted Sailed 11 13/09 30/08 14/09 »Q«r™XO Sailed Sailed sited 14 16/09 RIO GRAN OO SU Sailed Sailed 16-17/09 SaSad SaMad 21/OSS
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      407 44 79 ANSON ROAD, #21-01, SINGAPORE 0207 TELE: *****92 FAX: *****57 CR **********0N a STRAITS SHUTTLE SERVICE SINGAPORE/PORT KLANG/SINGAPORE SIWGAPORE/PENANQ/SINGAPORE VESSEL VOY I SK PKL VESSEL VOY SN PEN MCC CONVEYOR 9439 31/8/94 (WED) 02/9/94 (FRI) lICC CONVEYOR 9419 31/1/94 (WED) 02/9/94 (FW) VIGOUR SW6APORE 94Q62H 02/9/94 (FW) 04/9/94 (SUN) XOUR
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      302 44 TODAY'S TIDES in metres) HOUR 0000 0100 0200 0300 0400 0500 0600 0700 0800 0900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300 ft 1.4 1.1 09 0.1 0.1 0.9 12 1.5 1J 1.9 2.0 I t 1.6 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.3 15 1J
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      981 45 A HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINECO^TD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 PWA* PKE* P6D* VESSELS VOY I SjH I RTM ANT* L£H* HAM BWEI FEL 31/01 02/09 03/09 SI FREEDOM 312W 05/09 23/09 25/09 26/09 25/09 25/09 27/09 07/09 09/09 10/09 H. COMMANDER 311W 12/09 30/09 02/10 03/10 02/10 02/10 04/10 14/09
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      490 45 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS INBOUND VESSELS VfSSfl VOY Sf HI KUC KK MUX JRI ORANGE »Y 21 J/9 4/9 -1/9 ORANGE MOON 5S IR/9 11/9 (KIN) l«/ 9 (BRA) OWN lIU 2 12/9 14/9 EPOCH ACE 2 5/9 7/9 SHI (UUtSM |7 14/9 16/9 OUTBOUND
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      970 45 JEDDAH/LK/CONTINENT [STORE Id) SIM HBURC AC AM LEH Abe Acctpte* C»(« F«: NOECHSI EXPRESS 10/114 1/9 12/9 21/9 24/9 2C/9 21/9 to«UK toil**!*. BHtnt Out*. KAGA 17/115 7/9 24/9 27/9 29/9 Aotltrfem :to 4 Aaltrtai. o*. HMi STUIIGRRI EXPRESS 05/115 10/9 19/9 2t/9 1/10 1/U 5/10 :tod UK Antoatav Mnl
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      34 46 ,|%,,=^_'\)+[\->[{[}@.'<%^}_;%~ 1 <1*1 ARIA fp 7500A&MdvRo^j|^Mt/302. Accepting Heavylift Breakbulk SOC to from MANILA SUBIC BAY Direct Enquiries Bookings S'pore Tel: 294 5022 Ext. 227 Fax 297 1930 K.L. Tel: (03) 731 6842/3/4 Fax (03) 731-6860
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      321 46 <'$-/}>)@[<@(\{!]"[[|~?+^<`=:`, I^IMC We are an established shipping group with worldwide interests. In view of our business expansion, we have vacancies for. CHARTERING EXECUTIVE (Dry Bulk) Requirements: Degree in Commerce/Economics Member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers is advantageous At least 3 years' experience as Chartering Executive with a shipowning, shipoperating
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