The Business Times, 10 October 1994

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    14 1 SINGAPORE Business Times M ITA(P) 010/12/93 Monday October 10 1994 WE KNOW ASIA 75*
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      Lock icon Haiti to be democratic again soon: US
      59 1 Reuter WASHINGTON The US expects democracy to be restored in Haiti in a matter of days after military leader Raoul Cedras steps down. White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta told NBC's Meet the Press yesterday that he could not confirm reports that
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      Lock icon Violence against foreigners in Germany
      44 1 AFP BERLIN Violence against foreigners erupted in two German cities at the weekend, when a band of skinheads tried to throw a foreigner from a Berlin train and extreme rightists in Magdeburg attacked four asylum-seekers, police said yesterday. AFP
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    161 1 Stock market indices Friday Week change STII 2.330.09 -2.54 K.LSE Comp 1,122.33 -7.43 Nikkei 19.744.75 +180.94 Hang Seng 9.284.88 -236.36 SET Index 1.459.78 -25.93 Jakarta Comp 515.05 CLSA China B —1.163.27 -37.07 Aust All Ord 1.967.5 -61.2 FTSE 100 2,998.7 -27 6 Dow Jones 3.797.43 -45.76 Average of
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    US reaps US$ l.7b profit from S'pore investments
    628 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Singapore yielded US$l.7 billion (552.5 billion at today's exchange rate) in profits for the United States last year, a 19.6 per cent return on a cumulative investment of US$B.B billion in book value terms. Though down marginally
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    Some Asian countries see profits again in US
    335 1 SINGAPORE After three consecutive years of losses in the United States, some Asian countries are making money there again on direct investments. Hongkong and Taiwan turned in profits of US$74 million (Sslo9 million) and US$4 million respectively in 1993, after recording negative
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    Precincts for upgrading to be increased to 15 next year
    323 1  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE The Government will increase the number of housing precincts for upgrading from 10 this year to 15 in 1995, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said during his visit to the Chai Chee precinct upgrading exhibition yesterday.
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    Lock icon China probes Taiwan role in stock market plunge: source
    593 1 Reuter AFP SHANGHAI Chinese securities authorities are investigating the role of Taiwan money in the recent stock market plunge, with some officials worried about political sabotage, a source said yesterday. The source said that the China Securities Regulatory Commission held a
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    Lock icon Global recovery bolsters case for US rate hike
    545 1 Reuter WILLIAMSBURG. Virginia A turnaround in the economies of Europe and Japan is stretching United States output to the limit and bolstering the case for higher interest rates from the Federal Reserve, top US executives say. The Business Council, a gathering of
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    Lock icon Demand for KL homes still strong despite rising prices
    386 1 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Spiralling residential property prices in Malaysia's booming capital city do not seem to have dampened buyer enthusiasm, property analysts say. A report by Phileo Peregrine Securities, released during the weekend, said prices for houses in prime suburban areas
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Manufacturing seen leading growth
        277 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan THE manufacturing scctor, which expanded by 13.8 per cent in the second quarter of this year, is expcctcd to lead growth in the Singapore economy for the rest of the year. A Business Times poll of 20 forecasters has yielded an average third-quarter
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      HDB incurs $518 m deficit from sale of flats
      400 2  -  By Joseph Rajendran THE Housing and Development Board incurred a deficit of $517.82 million from the sale of flats in its financial year ended March 31. 1994. compared with $624.24 million in the previous year. In its income and expenditure statement
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      Ad business roars ahead as revenue doubles over 5 years
      368 2  -  By Corinne Kerk TOTAL advertising revenue doubled from $810 million in 1987 to $1.61 billion in 1992, and businesses involved in advertising-related services should do well in the years ahead. These are findings by the Department of Statistics in its
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      Kan Seng urges Malays to step up community involvement
      275 2 MORE Malay Singaporeans should participate in grassroots organisations in a multi-racial setting, the Minister for Home Affairs, Wong Kan Seng, told the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) at their third anniversary dinner yesterday. "The Malay community must always be plugged into
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      664 2 f T The Bank of Yokohama, Ltd. (Incorporated in Japan with Limited Liability) Balance Sheets Statements of Income March 31,1994 and 1993 Years ended March 31,1994 and 1993 Millions of Yen Millions of Yen 19*4 1993 I 4 1993 AHth Income: Cash and due from banks 1,189,77* V 1,039,159 i,
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Thai telecom tycoon, banker put forward as PDP ministers
      517 3  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK TWO captains of Thai industry, telecommunications tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra and banker Vichit Suraphongchai, are being proposed as ministers under coalition government partner Palang Dharma Party's cabinet line-up. Dr Thaksin, who is found-er-owner of the Shinawatra
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      Lock icon China expects trade with Asean to double to US$ 20b by year 2000
      143 3 Bloomberg Business News AFP BEIJING Trade between China and the Association of South-east Asian Nations is set to double between now and 2000, reaching US$2O billion (5529.6 billion), a senior official of the Chinese foreign trade ministry
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      Lock icon Manila raises economic targets, calls for more reforms
      285 3 AFP MANILA Philippine officials have raised macroeconomic targets for 1994 but called for more reforms if the country is to surmount looming obstacles to growth, documents obtained here yesterday showed. Despite the expected progress, a Central Bank report said that "a number
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      Lock icon Business as usual
      56 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR A follower of the Al Arqam sect wheeling her business supplies down a street in Kuala Lumpur yesterday despite Malaysian police checks on the banned sect and its business activities. The Malaysian government ordered the ban on Al Arqam's activities on Aug 5 as
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      Lock icon Over 67,000 grads swelling Indon jobless ranks yearly
      124 3 AFP JAKARTA An average of about 67,000 university graduates each year join the ranks of Indonesia's unemployed, currently estimated at some 30 million, the Antara news agency said yesterday. Antara quoted the planning and development chief of the manpower ministry. Yudo Sasono,
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        Lock icon Earthquake rocks eastern Indonesia
        156 3 AP JAKARTA A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 rocked part of eastern Indonesia yesterday, injuring at least 25 people. Ariyo Fau/.i of the Geophysics Agency said the quake struck at 6.44 am local time (2144 GMT) about 250 km south of Tcrnatc, the
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        Lock icon No expulsion of foreigners: Ranarriddh
        83 3 Reuter PHNOM PENH Cambodian Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranarriddh has pledged that there will be no mass expulsion of foreigners following the recent passing of an immigration law criticised by neighbouring Vietnam and international organisations. "In my capacity as First Prime Minister, with His Excellency
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        Lock icon Tax a setback for Manila: Bear Stearns
        71 3 Reuter MANILA The US firm Bear Stearns Cos Ine said continued imposition by the Philippines of a 20 to 35 per cent tax on sale of asset-backed securities could jeopardise the government's housing programme. A company paper said the tax constitutes a tariff
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        Lock icon Indonesian cement hoarders arrested
        87 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's military has arrested several hoarders of cement because they had provoked public unrest. Fcisal Tanjung, the armed forces chief, was quoted by the Antara news agency as saying the authorities would continue to take swift action against hoarders for causing cement prices to
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        Lock icon Mekong ban on hazardous waste
        98 3 AFP BANGKOK Four countries along the Mekong River have banned the transport of toxic or hazardous waste on its 4,160 km path. China, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos signed the pact in Vientiane on Saturday blocking commercial and staterun companies from hauling dangerous waste on the
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  • CHIN A /HONGKONG /TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China official blames US for trade friction on eve of talks
      510 4 Bloomberg Business News AP BEIJING With high-level US-China trade talks to begin today, a Chinese official has blamed the US for trade friction between the two countries, the state-run China Daily reports. The friction centres both on the si/e
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      Lock icon HK rejects Beijing's call for fresh bids for container port project
      412 4 Reuter AFP HONGKONG The Hongkong government does not intend to call for fresh bids for the container terminal nine (CT9) project, said Anson Chan, Chief Secretary. Lu Ping, head of China's Hongkong and Macau Affairs office, on Saturday called
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      Lock icon Flags of freedom
      52 4 Reuter HONGKONG Two residents of Hongkong's Tiu Keng I*ng, a pro-Taiwanese district in the British colony, walking past columns of Taiwanese flags on Saturday. Taiwan celebrates its national day today. The Hongkong government plans to break up the district before the colony is returned to China in
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      Lock icon Top 10 China steel groups target 80% output share by 2000
      309 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's 10 big steel groups will raise their share of output to 80 per cent by the year 2000, as part of an ambitious plan to expand the steel industry, the China Daily reported yesterday.
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Beijing to raise spending to help farmers
        129 4 AP BEIJING China will increase spending by two billion yuan (***** million) a year in an effort to lift all farmers above the poverty line by 2000, an official report said yesterday. About 80 per cent of China's population lives in rural areas.
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        Lock icon Chinese cities face parking woes
        90 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's fast-track economic growth has left planners with a worsening headache: Where are all the new cars thronging the cities' thoroughfares going to park? "We were not psychologically prepared for so many cars."Jing Dongxin, head of Beijing's Municipal Research Institute for
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        Lock icon Taipei rakes in higher taxes
        106 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan has netted NT5320.3 billion (SSIB.I billion) of tax revenues in the first quarter of fiscal 1995 which started on July 1, the largest in three years, the Finance Ministry reported yesterday. The amount was an increase of NT543.4 billion, or 15.7 per
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        Lock icon Taiwan narrows deficit with Japan
        82 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's trade deficit with Japan US$l4 billion (5520.7 billion) last year may shrink this year due to a steady increase in the Japanese import of Taiwanese goods, the Central News Agency (CNA) reported here yesterday. Japan-bound shipments surged 23.1 per cent in July
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        Lock icon Portuguese military mission to China
        54 4 AFP LISBON This week Portugal will become the first European Union nation to send a military delegation to China since the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 1989. a diplomat here said on Saturday. Air Force chicf-of-stafT General Mendes Dias will head the team, accompanied by
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      Lock icon Taipei to shelve plans for more foreign funds in bourse
      340 4 AFP Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan will temporarily halt its plan to allow more foreign investment in the local stock market until the basic trading order of the local bourse is established, the governor of the central bank has said. "To avoid
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      Lock icon China on brink of major consumer boom
      272 4 Reuter LONDON Sales of blue jeans, compact discs and cosmetics are poised to skyrocket in China as decades of pent-up demand is unleashed over the next 10 years. A report to be published today says the country of 1.2 billion people is on
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      Lock icon Taiwan president calls for end of ideological struggle with China
      134 4 AFP TAIPEI President Lee Teng Hui, on the eve of the island's national day, yesterday called for an end to "ideological struggle" with China in order to achieve peaceful competition between Beijing and Taipei. "It is time for the Chinese
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon Apec leaders likely to agree on free trade pact: Aussie minister
      444 5 Reuter AFP SYDNEY Australian Trade Minister Bob McMullan yesterday said there was a better than 50-50 chance the Asia-Pa-cific Economic Cooperation (Apec) leaders summit in Indonesia in November would conclude a tree trade agreement. He said that despite the
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      Lock icon Seoul predicts another banner year for electronics industry
      241 5 AFP SEOUL South Korea's electronics industry boom will survive cut-throat competition from Japan and continue through 1995, led by thriving sales in chips, a business thinktank predicted. "Helped by a revitalised global economy, South Korean electronics manufacturers will be buoyant in the
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      Lock icon A multi-purpose garden
      62 5 Reuter TOKYO A voung couple walking through a plaza in Sapporo Breweries Ltd's \ebisu Garden Place, which has offTice, housing and amusement facilities, opened at its former brewery plant in Tokyo on Saturday. The facilities include a 40-storey office building, high-rise housing buildings, a department store, a
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Former Posco chief returns from exile
        94 5 Reuter SEOUL Park Tae Joon. the founder of South Korea's Pohang Iron and Steel Co (Posco). yesterday returned home from selfimposed exile to attend his mother's funeral and face possible charges of corruption. News reports said Mr Park. 67, later this week would face
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        Lock icon Merry Christmas for Aussie business
        86 5 AFP SYDNEY Australian manufacturers are heading for their happiest Christmas quarter for at least five years, according to a survey released yesterday predicting solid growth in production and sales. The Australian Chamber of Manufactures (ACM) September quarter survey found 90 per cent of manufacturing companies
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        Lock icon Hindus protest over language
        75 5 Reuter BANGALORE, India Hardline Hindus protested peacefully in the south Indian city of Bangalore yesterday, keeping up their battle against Urdu-language broadcasts despite the suspension of the television news programmes. The toll in three days of violence rose to 20 with the discovery of two rotting
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        Lock icon Russia unwilling to return Kuriles
        65 5 Reuter TOKYO Russia is unwilling to hand over four islands held in the Kuril chain to Japan despite increasing Russian public support for their return. Sakhalin governor Yevgeni Krasnoyarov was quoted as saying. "The Kuril islands will remain Russian territory," the governor of Russia's Far
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      Lock icon NZ hopeful that inflation data will confirm growth
      480 5 AFP WELLINGTON Inflation figures due out tomorrow are being tipped here as the key signal on whether the longawaited New Zealand boom is for real or just the beginning of yet another bust. Statistics New Zealand last week reported gross domestic product
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      205 5 |1 |H B1 H If you think the Germans are fussy about their cars, YOU SHOULD SEE HOW THEY TREAT THEIR PLANES. I" automotive industry, the world acknowledges Germany's technical and from Airbus Industries or Boeing that touches down in South Africa. We also are contracted to do all ma,ntenance
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Iraqi economy feeling the bite of UN sanctions
      580 6 Los Angeles Times WXSHINGTON Behind Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's latest act of military bluster lies the harsh reality of an economy imploding under the weight of international sanctions. Analysts and economists said on Saturday that Baghdad's complaints about the sanctions reflect the
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      Lock icon Austrian coalition retains majority but far-right gains ground: exit poll
      356 6 Reuter VIENNA Austria's twoparty coalition lost ground but retained an absolute majority in yesterday's general elections, while the far-right Freedom Party upped its support to a record 22.2 per cent, a television exit poll said. The Social Democrat party of
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Delors catches up in popularity poll
        105 6 AFP PARIS Outgoing president of the European Commission Jacques Delors. seen as a potential Socialist candidate for next year's French presidential election, would score almost as well as the favourite and current Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. a poll published on Saturday showed. The IFOP
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        Lock icon Give up Fininvest, Italian PM told
        113 6 Bloomberg Business News MILAN A committee of three legal experts asked to advise on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conflicts of interest has recommended that his Fininvest SpA media company be either sold or placed in a trust and be independently managed. Mr Berlusconi
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        Lock icon Congress okays animal rights bill
        87 6 AFP WASHINGTON Congress gave final approval on Saturday for a US$lO million (5514.8 million) five-year programme to help save rhinoceroses and tigers, which are threatened by demand for animal parts in Asia. The US Department of the Interior will use the money for grants to
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        Lock icon NY city managers win overtime pay suit
        105 6 NYT NEW YORK A federal judge has ruled that 435 managers employed by the city are entitled to millions of dollars in unpaid overtime over a four-year period. Lawyers for the managers calculated that the bill for the unpaid overtime, doubled by damages
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        Lock icon Let Peru's First Lady run in poll: panel
        69 6 AP LIMA An Organisation of American States panel ruled that First Lady Susana Higuchi should be allowed to run for president against her estranged husband, Alberto Fujimori, La Republica newspaper reported on Saturday. The OAS' human rights commission ruled that the government
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      Lock icon Greenspan warns bankers about lax loan terms
      567 7 Days of excessive lending seen making a comeback NYT NEW YORK With banks suddenly flush with extra capital, federal regulators warned on Saturday that the days of easy money and risky loans may be returning, just a few short years after excessive realestate
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      Lock icon Haitian leader to quit
      239 7 AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Haitian leader Raoul Cedras will resign today and his No 2 commander will take over as army chief under an agreement worked out by his representatives in Washington, sources close to the Haitian military said on Saturday. Also leaving in a shuffle of
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      Lock icon US Senate approves SEC's budget after delay
      460 7 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The US Senate passed a new budget for the cash-strapped Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Saturday. The Senate approved the fiscal 1995 package of US$l25 million (SslBs million) for the SEC, which had to trim fees, curtail operations
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      Lock icon Thatcher's son reaped 12m from brokering Saudi arms deal: UK newspapers
      235 7 Reuter LONDON The son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was allegedly paid £12 million (5528.2 million) for helping broker a major arms deal signed by his mother, British newspapers said yesterday. The allegations could prove politically embarrassing
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      Lock icon Kohl set for re-election but govt's fate unsure
      410 7 Reuter BONN One week away from Germany's general election, Chancellor Helmut Kohl is heading for a return to power but his government cannot be so sure. Mr Kohl looks set to lead the largest parliamentary party, the Christian Democrats for another four
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  • FOCUS
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      Control of Russian budget key to revolt
      902 8  -  Reports from John Helmer in MOSCOW THE BOTTOM line for the Russian parliament, which began its autumn session last week, is not whether a majority of deputies have confidence in the government because they don't. But a vote to replace Prime Minister Viktor
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      Who will run Russia if Yeltsin falls ill?
      844 8 WHEN President Boris Yeltsin's aircraft landed at Shannon. Ireland, en route home from the United States two weeks ago. the president was either in the middle of a deep sleep, and could not be roused to meet Irish officials waiting on the
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon China's women start track assault with gold in marathon
      883 10 Asian Games AP HIROSHIMA China's women, complete champions of the swimming pool, started their assault in track and field yesterday as Zhong Huandi won the marathon by nearly seven minutes over another Chinese runner. South Korea's Hwang Young Jo, the 1992
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      Lock icon Canada scores upset victory over US
      707 10 Dunhill Cup AP ST ANDREWS. Scotland Canada took advantage of blunders by Tom Kite and Fred Couples to score an upset victory over the United States yesterday and win the £1 million (552.35 million) Dunhill Cup for the first time. Although Curtis Strange shot
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      Lock icon SPORT SHORTS
      461 10 AP HIROSHIMA Jordan's Princess Haya was taken to the hospital yesterday after falling from her horse during equestrian competition. The 20-year-old princess, the daughter of King Hussein, fell from her horse when it failed to clear the fifth obstacle on the jumping course. She stood 23rd after preliminary
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      Lock icon Cricket
      66 10 Reuter RAWALPINDI, Pakistan Australian fast bowler Damien Fleming took a hat-trick on his test debut and Pakistan captain Salim Malik completed a record-broking double century as the second test ended in a draw yesterday. Pakistan, who followed on 261 behind, were all out for 537 on the fifth and
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      Lock icon Golf
      199 10 AP SI ANDREWS, Scotland Alfred Dunhill Cup semi-finals Sunday: 1- US b 5-England 3-0 (Tom Kite 69 b Mark Roe 70: Fred Couples 68 b Howard Clark 74: Curtis Strange 70 b Barry Lane 71). Canada b 3-Sth Africa 2-1 (Ray Stewart 70 b David Frost 75; Rick Gibson
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      England lifts TNT Express Cricket Sixes trophy
      223 10  -  By James Dallmeyer SINGAPORE England's cricketers demonstrated all of their skills and professionalism to overcome the challenge from nine other international sides to win the three-day TNT Express Worldwide Cricket Sixes yesterday. In front of about 5,000 baying fans at the Padang, the
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  • Business IT
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      Informatics '94 signals end of cash-and-carry emphasis
      628 11  -  The organisers of the show want to shift its profile. But have the exhibitors got the message? David Mok finds out David Mok SAY GOODBYE to Informatics as you know it. Singapore's best-known information technology (IT) show opens this Thursday with its organisers
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      Lock icon Competition hots up as Compaq and Intel invade each other's turfs
      837 11 Bloomberg Business News THE WORLD'S largest chipmaker and the world's largest personal computer maker are on a collision course into each other's territory. As margins shrink and price wars hot up, Intel Corp is increasing its penetration of the
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      IBM plans US$ 100 m marketing blitz for new version of OS/2
      589 11  -  Almost 10 per cent of the amount is targeted for the Asia-Pacific region, Lee Wai Leong learns Lee Wai Leong COMPUTER giant IBM will spend US$lOO million (SSI4B million) in the next three months alone to market the
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      Novell expands its Asean headquarters in S'pore
      309 12  -  David Mok looks at the company's marketing and support groups that now make their base here David Mok Novell inc has beefed up its Sin-gapore-based Asean headquarters with the addition of several marketing and support groups. This follows the software giant's restructuring that
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      IBM unveils minicomputer series with RISC chips
      274 12  -  By Lee Wai Leong IBM last week launched a new range of minicomputers intended to replace its ageing System/36 line. Called the AS/400 Advanced 36 series, the new computers will be the first IBM systems to use a 64-bit RISC processor based on
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      HP records 39% surge in Singapore sales
      265 12 SINGAPORE Hewlett Packard expects its Singapore sales for the year to October, 1994, to top US$7O million (SSIO3 million), an increase of nearly 39 per cent over the previous financial year, said Valerie Tan, HP's country marketing manager, Computer Products Organisation, South-east Asia.
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      Epson cuts its prices across the board
      431 12  -  By Joseph Rajendran EPSON Singapore, in an effort to keep up with market pressure, has cut its printer prices between 6 and 26 per cent and personal computer prices by between 3 and 15 per cent. The move is the first general across-the-board
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      Integral Peripherals packs more punch into 1.8-inch drives
      266 12  -  By Joseph Rajendran DISK DRIVE maker Integral Peripherals has unveiled 1.8-inch drives with record-breaking capacities of 260, 340 and 420 megabytes. The company will build these drives, named the Viper (260M8 and 340M8) and Cobalt (420M8), at its new manufacturing facility in
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        NEC introduces new PCs
        67 12 SINGAPORE NEC Singapore has introduced new desktop (D) and minitower (M) personal computers in the Powermate series. These PCs comprise: model 4100 M running an Intel 486DX4 chip at 100 MHz. models 466 D and 466 M which use the lntel4B6DX2/66 and model 33D comes with
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        Radius appoints Micro as distributor
        59 12 SINGAPORE Computer peripheral maker Radius has appointed Micro Express Sales as its exclusive distributor for its Radius and Super Mac products in Singapore. Micro Express will carry the full range of offerings include 24-bit colour video cards and monitors. The Singapore firm will provide service
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        New sound tool from Creative
        52 12 SINGAPORE Multimedia firm Creative Technology has launched Vienna SF Studio, a new editing software package that allows users to create, edit and download sounds onto the company's Sound Blaster AWE 32 audio card. For the current AWE 32 users, the new option is available at
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        Apple and IBM in software talks
        103 12  -  Compiled by Lee Wai Leong NEW YORK Apple Computer Inc is negotiating with International Business Machines Corp to accelerate development of a computer that would run Apple's Macintosh operating system and Microsoft Corp's Windows system, the Wall Street Journal reported. Analysts told the paper
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        Intelligent systems for managers
        38 12 SINGAPORE The Japan-Singapore A 1 Centre will conduct the Intelligent Systems for Managers course from Oct 12-14. The course aims to help managers take advantage of intelligent systems. Call Nora at 770-3143 for details.
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        Implementing open systems
        42 12 SINGAPORE The Institute of Systems Science will hold a course on "Implementing Open Systems" from Oct 12-14. The course will provide the technical knowledge necessary to implement open systems in an integrated environment. For details, call Vasu at 776-2096.
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        Compaq seminar on servers
        51 12 SINGAPORE Primefield will hold a seminar on Rack Mountable Server Technology on Oct 27 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Paul Dixon. Compaq's director of engineering (Asia Pacific), will speak on the changing role of the server and the development of rack mountable technology. Call Primefield at
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        How to surf the Internet
        49 12  -  Compiled by Lee Wai Leong SINGAPORE The Singapore Computer Society will hold a half-day presentation on the "What, When, Where, and How s of the Internet" by Tommi Chen on Oct 29 at the Hilton International Hotel. For bookings, call Nancy Lee at 776-0783.
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      US networking firms set up regional offices
      282 12 UNITED STATESBASED companies Net Frame and Avalon Software Inc have set up regional offices here to tap into the increasingly lucrative Asian market for computer networking products. Net Frame specialises in high-end computer servers while Avalon's focus is on cli-ent-server software solutions for
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      Why automatic text categorisation is vital
      727 13  -  IT THE NEXT WAVE Angela Wee on the importance of getting organised in dealing with a deluge of textual information Angela Wee The writer is a software engineer of the Multi-Language Processing group at the Institute of Systems Science. For more information, please contact
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      Lock icon It's boom or bust for multimedia
      794 13  -  For some programmers, just the rush of adrenalin seems to justify the risk, reports Amy Harmon Amy Harmon AP FROM Apple Computer and Silicon Graphics and Walt Disney Co and a host of lesser-knowns they come, ambitious computer programmers and creative professionals determined to
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      Apple bites back with new printers, TV-ready PCs
      708 14  -  In a bid to maintain its local market share, the company launched several new products here last week. Joseph Rajendran reports Joseph Rajendran APPLE Singapore, wholly-owned subsidiary of USbased Apple Computer, has just launched three sleek Macintosh multimedia personal computers, two printers
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      Power at your finger tips
      488 14  -  Lee Wai Leong tries out the latest portable screamer from AST TEST RIJIMI Lee Wai Leong AT 26.4 cm, the AST Ascentia 900N's active matrix colour screen is probably the largest and most vivid of any notebook computer available on the market. And while the
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      Ivory tower isolationists endanger Internet
      914 14  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (USA), a Brooklyn-based management consulting and software development firm, and also writes on IT issues. He contributed this commentary to BusinesslT. THE Internet is due for a heavy dose of reality quite soon now. Despite
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      Lock icon IBM upgrades computer lines, lowers price of parallel system
      139 14 Bloomberg Business News INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp has upgraded its RS/6000 computer lines with more and faster processors, launched a new desktop personal computer workstation, and lowered the entry price of its parallel computer system. The upgraded RS/6000 system allows two
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      Animated proposition
      662 15  -  John Bittleston's books for children may be turned into films, reports Chuang Peck Ming Chuang Peck Ming IT BEGAN as a retirement hobby, but 62-year-old John Bittleston's dabbling in writing story books for children has led to a serious business proposition: there are investors now keen to develop
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      EXECUTIVE MOVES
      413 15 KEITH UNDERWOOD has been appointed group managing director of Jetset/Tour East in Asia. Based in Singapore, Mr Underwood will also be attached to Jetset Holdings Corporate Australia, the parent company. He will concentrate entirely on strategic alliance and strategic development issues. Mr Underwood has extensive travel experience in
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      Lock icon He's stressed, she's stressed
      595 15 Men and women react similarly to job pressure, says a psychologist NYT EVERYONE is driven nuts by work once in a while, but do men and women react differently to job stress? If conventional wisdom, backed by conventional social science, is correct, work is more central
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      79 15 DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU m STILL SCHMOOZING ll MELI, ANSWR ISUJTS! INTERESTIN6. YOU KNOW, UJtTH SENATE UIANNA3E PLANNED MY SENATE MICHA£L~ROY, THE NEVER MIND. W MICHAEL-ROYHUFFIN6TON. CAMPAIGN, lUNEP UP CLOSER-1 LOOK AT YOU I'M SURE UJHA7? y in MYAPVERJISIN6 TEAM, I AND YOUR. RECORD, 1... 1- ITS JUST WHAT* PEOPLE ASK
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      304 16 "ff WHAT'S HAPPENING [J jfc, ON TUESDAY NIGHT JjL jjr AT THE NEPTUNE. Every Tuesday night, The Neptune is reserved 1 for all who love ballroom dancing 1 SfKiid' set dinner menu available at Jj J per penon I mm» j| I 7th floor Ovrnen Union House Collycr Quay Singapore
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      In celebration of life and love
      524 17  -  P Y Van reviews the SSO's delivery of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony last Friday P Y Van OLIVIER MESSIAEN's 10-movement Turangalila Symphony was given a most impressive performance last weekend by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Choo Hoey and British guest soloists
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      Music from past millenia
      808 17  -  John Helmer discovers the beauty of human voice in the Rustavi Choir in St Petersburg John Helmer WHEN THE first bass chord is sounded and the "krimanchuli" strikes the ear for the first time, you can hear a sound that has come direct from the Middle
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      213 17 Singapore: Slightly hazy Showers over several areas m the afternoon Temperature 25 32) »sia-Paci*c Ml/la* Cm*. Cany* M/la* Cmi. Buenos Mm 21/ M Oautt AucMand 15,09 Cotd Amsterdam 14/11 Cloudy Cftcago 18/08 Cloudy Bano«* 35/26 St**i, Athens 22/16 Sumy Honolulu 29/22 Cloudy Be*ng 21/06 Cloudy Bertn 15/07 Cloudy Houston 27/14
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      957 17 TV RADIO Fred Savage does not enjoy his JSflsjf wonder years. As a lad stricken fights against the inhumane *MKmwy' treatment and unsanitary con- aMu^jdSUrJtS^ftK^^r/jf ditions of his nursing homo. WMKeJ'u cey arc the unsympathetic stafT who find themselves going to court in this 19 1 telemovie, ffgj l^d a
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    640 18 Western troops arrive in Kuwait to counter increase in Iraqi forces near border Reuter AFP BAGHDAD Iraq yesterday repeated demands for an easing of United Nations sanctions as United States and British forces arrived in Kuwait to counter the build-up of more than 60,000
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    Lock icon NTUC Fair Price to source foodstuffs from Dalian for Singapore
    427 18  -  SM Lee in China From Schutz Lee in Dalian NTUC FAIRPRICE, which obtained full approval to start its first outlet in China yesterday, will source foodstuffs from Dalian city for its Singapore consumers. Ng Ser Miang, chairman of Fair Price
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    423 18 Bernama SHAH ALAM Umno vicepresident Muhammad Haji Muhammad Taib yesterday said Umno Youth deputy head Nazri Aziz had been rude to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad over the issue of Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik. Criticising Mr tor his statement, Mr Muhammad said the former should
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    Lock icon Build-up unlikely to disrupt oil markets but traders uncertain
    460 18 Bloomberg Business News Reuter DUBAI Oil traders yesterday said an Iraqi military build-up on the Kuwaiti border was unlikely to disrupt world oil markets but an upheaval could not be ruled out because the market sees President Saddam Hussein as unpredictable.
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    362 18 AFP LUXEMBOURG European Union finance ministers gather here today to receive mid-term reports on the progress of their respective economies on the path to a single European currency. But 10 out of 12 of them will be sent home with the words
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    Gutting Gatt in US Congress: a historical blow to free trade
    947 18  -  The Bottom Line LEON HADAR LEON HADAR The writer is BT's Washington correspondent PRESIDENT Bill Clintons trade agenda suffered a major blow last week as both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives postponed votes on the
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    210 18 Reuter LONDON One of the world's rarest falcons, rescued from near-extinction by a wildlife charity, has eaten one of the world's rarest pigeons, the charity said yesterday. The Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, founded by zoologist and author Gerald Durrell. said the drama
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      Prima, Gold Coin vie for Viet flour mill contract
      494 19  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Two local flour millers listed Prima and a consortium led by Gold Coin are competing for a contract to build a flour mill in the port city of Danang, central Vietnam. "It's a case of one bride
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      Tibs unit in US$ 29m bus venture in China
      174 19 SINGAPORE A subsidiary of local bus operator Tibs Holdings is to establish a US$29 million <5542.9 million) joint venture company to manufacture about 4,000 vehicles a year in China. A memorandum of understanding was signed here on Saturday by Tibs China
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      Lock icon B South pays M$ 360m for stake in sewerage firm
      296 19 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Garment manufacturer Berjaya South Island (BSouth) has bought an 80 per cent stake of private sewerage firm Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd for MS36O million (*****.9 million) and is negotiating for the remaining 20 per cent stake,
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      Will Insas become investor's stock or punter's play?
      785 19  -  HOCK By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Insas Bhd is in a big hurry to hit the hig time. Barely 18 months after a major restructuring exercise that brought the property-to-fi-nance group back from the brink of collapse, it's nearly there. Under managing director
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          YHS keeping Bukit Timah site
          64 20 SINGAPORE Yeo Hiap Seng will keep its Bukit Timah factory site and will not enter into any joint ventures on the land, said Y Y Wong, who heads the company's newly formed executive committee. Mr Wong, who was interviewed by the local press yesterday, said
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          Foreign stake in OUT at 19.86%
          31 20 SINGAPORE Overseas Union Trust (OUT) has said that foreigners owned 19.86 per cent of the issued share capital of the company as at last Friday.
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          Lock icon George Kent's pre-tax profit down 5%
          96 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR George Kent (Malaysia) Bhd has posted a 5 per cent fall in group pre-tax profit to MS 14.22 million (558.35 million) for the first six months ended July 31, 1994. After a tax bite of M 53.26 million (M 54.63 million
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          Lock icon Repco Hldgs profit slumps 18%
          62 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Repco Holdings Bhd has suffered a fall of 18 per cent in group pre-tax profit to MS 1.38 million (S$811,000) for the year ended June 30, 1994. This was despite a higher turnover of M 524.85 million from M 521.88 million. Earnings
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        Lock icon AP Land to develop M$ 4b township over next 15 years
        364 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Asia Pacific Land Bhd (AP Land) is taking a quantum leap in property development. The company intends to develop a Ms 4 billion (552.3 billion) township on a recently purchased 1,080.7-hectare piece of land in Rawang
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        Lock icon Petronas to bid for Sepang airport air-con contract
        458 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Petronas is keen to build a novel and environment-friendly air-con-ditioning system using the country's plentiful gas supplies for the new Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. Its president, Azizan Zainul Abidin, said Petronas' jointventure company with Tokyo Gas, Mitsubishi
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        63 20 Reuter HO CHI MINH CITY The New World Hotel Saigon, a U5562.5 million (5592.5 million) Hongkong venture billed as the biggest hotel in Indochina, opened its doors on Saturday in time for the autumn tourist season. Hotel manager Regis Catoire said the 14-storey, 541 -room building
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        Lock icon Tradewinds expects M$ 700m from Indon project
        170 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Tradewinds (M) Bhd anticipates its oil palm plantation joint venture project in Indonesia, undertaken through whollyowned subsidiary Tenaga Lestari (M) Sdn Bhd, to bring in returns of about MS7OO million (SS4O6 million) over a period of 20 years. Its chairman
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        Lock icon Legislation to protect auditors to be passed in Hongkong
        326 21 Eastern Express HONGKONG Laura Cha, executive director of the Securities and Futures Commission, said legislation would be passed within 14 months to protect auditors from being sued by listed companies. "There will be statutory protection in place so that an auditor
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        Lock icon India's Bajaj Auto delays Euroissue
        220 21 Reuter BOMBAY India's Bajaj Auto Ltd, the world's second biggest scooter and motorbikes maker, is delaying the launch of its Euroissue of equity by a week, a top official in the company said. He said the company will start the roadshows for the issue from
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        Lock icon Dharmala's core businesses eager for expansion
        283 21 Eastern Express HONGKONG Nearly a year after its listing on the Hongkong stock exchange, In-donesian-controlled Dharmala Holdings is continuing its quest to build itself up as a mini-conglomerate to be reckoned with. "The market tends to categorise listed companies according to the kind of
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          Lock icon Rolls-Royce in Japanese venture
          67 21 AFP TOKYO Britain's Rolls-Royce. Westinghouse Electric of the US and Canada's Hydro Quebec will participate in a huge Japanese project for generating electricity with hydrogen power, a daily said here yesterday. Some 300 billion yen (554.4 billion) will be spent on the 27-year project to be
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          Lock icon Lane Crawford's president resigns
          69 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Department store group Lane Crawford Ltd said its president and director Fred Doe has resigned from those positions, effective last Friday. Mr Doe, 62, will continue to be an adviser to the board until March 31, 1995, the company said. An executive
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          Lock icon Sales by Taiwan's Microtek up 54%
          57 21 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Microtek International Inc. one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer scanning equipment, said sales in September rose 54.4 per cent on the year to NT5367.6 million (5520.7 million). Sales for the first three quarters of 1994 rose 22.9 per
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          Lock icon HP in Taiwan hard-disk venture
          81 21 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Asia-Pacific Investment Co has reached initial agreement with US-based Hewlett-Packard Co to jointly invest NTS3.S billion in producing computer hard disk drives in Taiwan, the Economic Daily News said. This would be the first investment by the planned Asia-Pacific, expected to hold
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        China firm unfazed by poor showing of power plant listings
        387 21 HONGKONG Unfazed by the lukewarm response to the overseas share offerings of two Chinese power plants, Shandong International Power Development (SIPD) will price its shares not less than its precedents, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday, quoting an
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        Lock icon First Pacific to buy Nanyang's IDP stake
        218 21 Reuter HONGKONG Nanyang Holdings Ltd said it has agreed to sell all of its 19.8 million shares, a 30 per cent stake, in Island Dyeing and Printing Co Ltd (IDP) to First Pacific Co's First Pacific Davies Ltd for an initial HK5213.84 million
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        Lock icon Construction begins for Suzhou's Sino-American pharmaceuticals plant
        169 21 AFP HONGKONG Construction work began last Friday in Suzhou, near Shanghai, for China's first joint venture in pharmaceutical manufacturing. The US$3O million (5544.4 million) Sino-US pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, Upjohn Suzhou Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, was being built by Melbourne-based construction company Hooker Cockram Ltd.
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        Lock icon IBM may take equity stake in Apple: report
        298 22 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO AppleComputer Inc, recently the subject of persistent takeover rumours, may instead accept an equity investment from IBM Corp. The San Francisco Chronicle reported during the weekend that the deal would be aimed at challenging Intel Corp and Microsoft Corp,
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        Lock icon Schneider's first-half profit up 58%
        484 22 Bloomberg Business News PARIS French electrical engineering company Schneider SA has increased its net profit by 58 per cent to 345 million French francs (Ss96 million) in the first half of 1994, from 218 million francs a year earlier. The improvement was largely attributable to
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        46 22 Reuter PARIS Renault employees stopped trading on the options and futures market when they occupied the Pans bourse last Thursday morning to protest against the forthcoming privatisation of the company. But they left peacefully in the early afternoon, exchange officials said. Reuter
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        Lock icon Microsoft's talks with China in deadlock
        175 22 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Microsoft Corp has failed to break a deadlock over sales in China of its Chi-ncse-languagc software, despite 10 rounds of negotiations with the government, the official China Daily reported. Microsoft has a Chinese version of its Windows 3.1 operating software
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        Lock icon German metals group MG likely to post 100 m mark profit
        272 22 Reuter FRANKFURT Metallgesellschaft AG (MG), the German metals group which almost went bankrupt in January, will report an operating profit of more than 100 million marks (Ss9s million) in 1994/95 and cut costs further. The company said on Friday
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        Lock icon Foster Wheeler to buy Enserch's environmental unit
        428 22 Bloomberg Business News CLINTON, New Jersey Foster Wheeler Corp, broadening its hazardous waste cleanup services, last week said it agreed to acquire Enserch Environmental Corp for US$97 million (S$ 143.3 million). Based in Clinton. New Jersey, Foster Wheeler will merge the company with
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        Lock icon Japanese banks set to pump more loans into Asian markets
        401 23 Reuter TOKYO Major Japanese banks are expected to pump more funds into loan markets in other Asian countries to meet robust demand from governments and private-sector companies in the region, banking sources said. "Japanese loans to Asian markets have expanded
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        Lock icon Credit Lyonnais cuts provisions by more than lb francs
        234 23 NYT LONDON Credit Lyonnais, the financially-troubled French banking group, reduced the level of provisions it was planning to make for the first half of the year by more than one billion francs (***** million) after last-minute discussions with regulators. This reduced
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        Lock icon Deutsche Bank to decentralise German operations
        477 23 Reuter FRANKFURT Deutsche Bank on Friday announced a new strategy to cast off its image as an aloof monolith cut off from the needs of its customers. Germany's most powerful commercial bank, put on the defensive this spring by hefty criticism over its role
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        Lock icon Prudential stops selling door-to-door insurance
        229 23 Bloomberg Business News LONDON As customers and insurance products become more and more sophisticated. there is little place for the monthly call from the man in the grey suit bestowing smiles and peace of mind. Recognising this. Prudential Corporation, the UK's largest insurer, announced it
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        Lock icon Rubber conference optimistic about striking new deal
        290 24 Reuter GENEVA The president of an international conference on rubber said last Friday he was optimistic that negotiators from 39 countries could still hammer out a new world pact by the end of this week, a United Nations spokeswoman said. Peter Lai of
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        Lock icon Vietnam expects record rice exports to US and Asia despite floods
        341 24 AFP HANOI New market openings in the United States and the Asia are likely to boost Vietnamese rice export to a new record this year despite floods that look set to devastate the harvest in the Mekong Delta, a
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        Lock icon Malaysian palm oil output tipped to taper off soon
        223 24 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's palm oil output is expected to taper oft" from mid-Octo-ber onwards after reaching its seasonal peak in September, a crop forecaster said. "The crop left on the palms were less than what was seen two months ago.
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        177 24 Reuter MANILA Sugar producers are asking the Philippine Senate to increase proposed tariffs on imported sugar to counter subsidies given to overseas producers. Officials of the Philippine Sugar Millers Association (PSMA) and the Confederation of Sugar Producers Association (Confed) told a Senate committee that
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        246 24 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY The pricc of Australian wool dropped for the third week in a row after hitting a four-year high last month. The widely watchcd Eastern Market Index dropped 17 ccnts, or 2.2 per cent, to 739 ccnts per kilogram
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        649 25  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Meryl Phang A WIDELY expected trade accord between the US and Japan, albeit partial, led to a firmer dollar at the start of Wellington trading. After news of the partial trade accord. New Yorkers were enthusiastic dollar buyers while Asian players
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        790 25 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Aluminium soared during the week, rising to its highest level for almost four years as the metal appeared, almost daily, to show improved prospects. Demand, which is already strong in Europe, continued to
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        1318 25 Rubber Oct 7 Singapore Commodity Exchange Physical Prices (futures closing as at 5.30pm) Buyers Sellers As at 12 noon (S cents/kg) RSS I Contract (S cents/kg) PJ— —v-,,,-. rr— RSS 2 Nov 94 211.00 212.00N H» uo. 38SSS5 Nov 94 214.75 200 2600 RSS 5 Nov 94 201.00
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      753 26 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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        736 27 FT New York THESE can be confusing times for anyone who follows Wall Street. Consider this: the US economy is in its fourth year of growth and about to enter a fifth, corporate profits are healthy, consumer spending is strong, inflation is low,
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        636 27 Sydney Australian share prices plunged during the week, closing on Friday about A$8 billion cheaper, brokers said. Investors were nervous about a possible interest rate rise in the US that could trigger similar action by Australian authorities. The bourse's key barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, fell 3
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        268 27 AFP Hongkong STOCK PRICES dived in volatile trading last week, triggered by lingering concerns over further US interest rate increases. The Hang Seng Index, the main barometer for blue chip stocks, shed 236.36 points to close the week's trading at its
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        406 27 AFP London THE London Stock Exchange again registered a chaotic week, continually buffeted by worries of inflation in the US economy and the fear that this would lead to a rise in US interest rates. The FT-SE 100 Index of
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        453 27 AFP Tokyo SHARE PRICES rebounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week with brokers relieved at news that Tokyo and Washington had narrowly averted a breakdown over disputed trade negotiations. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues in the first section
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          787 27 +21.87 Blue chip stocks broke a three-day losing streak on Friday after oil stocks rallied and bond market interest rates stabilised. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 21.87 points at 3,797.43, breaking a slide that began on Tuesday in which the index lost more than 70 points.
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          800 27 14.48 STOCKS staged an afternoon rally and closed higher on Friday, but many analysts remained cautious about the outlook for this week. "You can't stretch a string tighter than its elasticity," said technical analyst Ron Meisels. The TSE 300 Composite Index rose 14.48 points to close at 4,290.80 in
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        5987 28 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian share prices ended the week lower on profit-taking and reports of Iraqi troops being mobilised against Kuwait. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index the market barometer which tracks 86 blue chips slipped 7.43 points, or 0.66 per cent,
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        1875 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The direction of trading for both Singapore and Malaysian stocks this week is uncertain, with investors expected to tread cautiously while awaiting further developments in the Gulf and the release of two key US economic indicators. Friday's sell-off of
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      413 31  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE The Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement (TSA) is projecting 7 per cent growth in eastbound cargo for trans-Pacific shipping lines during the next 12 months. The TSA, which met last week in Southern California, cited the economic recovery in the US,
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      381 31 Lloyd's List HAMBURG A revolutionary concept in reefer cargo shipping has been unveiled by a new German/Danish joint venture. The automatic seaborne pallet handling (ASPH) system is the result of two years' collaboration between insulation specialist Kaefer, mechanical handling company Westfalia System-technik,
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      395 31 Lloyd's List LONDON Mosvold Shipping, the Norwegian drilling rig operator, has asked B Skaugen Shipping to expand its recent stake building into a full takeover bid and make public its plans for Mosvold's US subsidiary Dual Drilling. The company fears that Skaugen
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      1081 31 Page Col ABC Containeriine 16 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahlers Line 13 5 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 ANL 3 1/2 Antaco Mgmt 17 3 APL 5 4/5 Appenship 4 4/5 Arabian Express 15 5 ASCL 5 5 Assist Marine 6 1 Avant
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      330 31 AFP KARACHI Pakistan has launched a multi-million-dollar plan to modernise the country's port facilities to cater to growing transit cargo from Central Asia, officials said last Friday. Mirza Tahir, general manager for engineering of Karachi Port Trust (KPT), said the
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      149 31 Reuter COLOMBO Tamil rebels bombed a cargo ship off Sri Lanka's northern shores early yesterday and it was listing, according to military sources. They said the vessel was attacked off the Vettilaikerni beach while taking food supplies to the Tamil-rebel controlled Jaffna peninsula.
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      1806 32 m IrHE Baltic Freight Index burst through the 1,700 level in its largest daily rise this year, with caper coal toutes showing striking gans, brokers paid. The BFI rose 30 to 1,723 on Thursday. Brokers said ATIC paid a very firm US$B.75 per tonne for 110,000 tonnes coal
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      13634 40 This is a list of ships loading at c Singapore for ports around the s. world. It tabulates, by destination, N the name of the ship, the shipping jj line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore.
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      940 49  -  After the Estonia disaster, things will never be the same again for Scandinavians for whom ferry travel is almost a way of life, reports Christopher Brown-Humes Christopher Brown-Humes Lloyd's List IF ANY ferry is going to find it hard to attract
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        381 50  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE BMW's new 7-series cars will be available in Singapore by the year-end. And although buyers have not seen the car except in brochures, about 100 units of the three-litre 730 i model at $368,000 including Certificate of
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        404 50 AFP HO CHI MINH CITY Vietnam needs to boost training of pilots, air traffic controllers and maintenance crews if safety standards are to keep up with the massive growth in air traffic, a conference heard last Friday. At a conference organised by
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        146 50 Bloomberg Business News ATLANTA Delta Air Lines is test-marketing a new way to travel, one where you don't have to have a ticket to fly. Selected frequent travellers on Delta Shuttle flights between Washington-New YorkBoston will test a state-of-the-art card about the size and thickness
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        Lock icon Proton cars head for France, Belgium and Luxembourg
        320 50 Bernama PORT KLANG Proton has despatched 570 units of its 1.5 and 1.6 models of the Wira Sedan and Aeroback to France, Belgium and Luxembourg, its first batch to the three European countries. Some 5,500 units of the Wira were expected to
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        352 50 Reuter NEW DELHI India's biggest car maker Maruti Udyog Ltd, half-owned by Japan's Suzuki Motors, plans to take equity in two new finance firms to stave off future competition from global car makers. Ravindra Chandra Bhargava, Maruti's managing director, said
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          74 50 Reuter BOMBAY Raj Aviation Ltd (Rajair), a private Indian airline, said it has signed a US$4O-million (5559.2 million) deal with Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH of Germany to buying three Dornier 3285 aircraft. KFW, a German bank, is funding 89 per cent of the cost
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          75 50 Bloomberg Business News WOLFSBURG. Germany Car maker Volkswagen AG said it had received 23,000 advance orders for its new subcompact, Polo, by the end of September, about twice as many as expected. As revealed by chief executive Ferdinand Piech at the Paris car show
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          129 50 Bernama-Kyodo KOBE Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd last week launched what it touts as Japan's first, and the world's largest, aluminium alloy high-speed car ferry. The ferry, named Hayabusa, is 100 metres long and can carry 94 cars and 478 passengers. The ship's light weight 2,250 tonnes
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          71 50 AFP WASHINGTON Legislation authorising US$lB4 million (*****.3 million) to study the potential for high-speed passenger rail lines passed the Senate last Saturday, heading to President Bill Clinton for his approval. The money would be doled out over three years to finance studies and planning
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          118 50 Reuter WASHINGTON The Air Line Pilots Association ended talks with USAir Inc on hundreds of millions of dollars of contract concessions after the airline announced plans to reduce and possibly end its transatlantic service, the Washington Post reported in its Friday editions. The standoff
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        272 50 Reuter DETROIT While US car makers complain about a closed market in Japan, two of the largest Japanese car makers announced last week they plan to sell more American-made cars abroad. Honda Motor Co Ltd said it expected to export more than
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      448 36 Shorter Transit Time to KOEEA, JAPAN, U.S.A. RTA' Arrving every Wed to Hong Kong, Pusan Incheon lAX Arriving every Fri to Tokyo, Osaka Yokohama PSW Arriving every Fri to Longbeach, Oakland San Francisco. (Including all MCB MLB points) For Enquiries Bookings, please call Chiu *****27 Pgr *****49 I Paul Lim
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      109 36 r=T SIM SWEE JOO SHIPPING KA SDN. BHD. REGULAR SERVICE TO BMTULU/MRI VESSEL |VOY PKL PGP KUC SIBU BTU MIRI' »Wtt LONO «ATU 72 13/10 15/10 _18M0 19/10 WUAW JAYA 282 18/10 16/10 23/ '0 2*' '0 JUTA JAVA _2J2. 9 10 J4MO 15/ 10l ACCEPTING FCL CONTAINERS. ICL CONSOLIDATION.
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      2291 37 TH,S WEEK'S ARRIVAL/DEPARTUR^To7l<^^47lO)^^^^^^^H| 11 II VESSEL VOYAGE EXCHANGE RATES (USS) HI M HI IN OUT IN OUT I B HI KOTA SURIA 02S 03N n CALIFORNIA JUPITER 75W ***** ■I hSC NEPTUNE CORAL H M NEPTUNE TOPAZ 37W 37W 1.4855 1 4855 ■1 HI RHEIN BRIDGE 36E 1 4936 1
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      1151 37 I A I MULTILINE SHIPPING PTE LTD wm (a member of SINSOV Group) CR NO: **********0 C ENQUIRIES: *****33 y 4 -—BOOKINGS: *****64, *****51, *****31. *****13 BALTIC: INWARD *****97 OUTWARD *****10 T/S *****10 A BLASCO: INWARD *****65 OUTWARD *****2S T/S *****46 FESCO: BOOKINGS *****99/*****01 DOC *****07 MARINE INSURANCE: *****87 INVENTORY:
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      1299 38 44 AS AGENTS: "K" LINE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (CI NO: 1244J*****0M/GST RE6 NO: M2-0017WJ-4) K TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 W W lkT W7* MALAYSIA: "K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BNO j TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 JB *****01 PGU *****25/6 I A INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA
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      876 38 79 ANSON ROAD, #21-01, SINGAPORE 0207 TELE: *****92 FAX: *****57 CR **********0N PORT KLANG/BELAWAN GUDANG vessel I vot I aw I na Biw vessel »oy mi pct pqj MCC COWVEYOR 4MI 11/10 (TUE) 13/10 (THU) SEA LAUREL 327N 12/10 (W€D) 14/10 (FW) AGOUR SWGAPORE ***** 13/10 (THU) 14/10 (FW) MCC
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      241 38 /W, GOLDEN LINE A guan guan shipping ®SXX (PTE) LTD 1 23, Mln Stmt smew* 01M TR 5343 MS (II UHB) Fas: SMKM (at ib. mztsmm) imm/rmmi oclt ggg S pore P. Ket»ng Pemng GOLHN STM Karachi/OutMi/Kuwart 11/21 Oct bOUXN HMNEST lUrad«/Dub»/Kiraait 10 Mm C—4 UITKI T SM UO HuMfpu/XinfMi
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      977 39 (PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I I fli CR NO **********0E VESSEL VOY SIN si<K SIN VESSEL VOY SINJKTSIN SRIMANEE (THAI FLAQ) SRMO39 11/10 14/10 IS/10 KOTA INTAN INTOI3 12/10 15/10 19/10 SIAM BAY i BMT) 97N 12/10 15/10 19/10 EQUATOR
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      938 39 VtSSUS SIM It HAVRE HAMBURG IHMKS "T~ ROTTERDAM ANTWERP Vlllf 0 HYDRA Hos* 10/10 02/11 01/11 05/11 /U M/U MUE Ot LYRA YOSW 11/10 05/11 10/11 1?/lt 13/11 IS/11 Villi K VIGA GOSN 30/10 21/11 12lU 24/11 W/11 tl/ll Villi D€ VIIA VOSW 21/11 ?</11 ?7/11 ?,/tl •AISO ACCIPIING CARGO
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      629 39 BSA MYANMA FIVE STAR LINE r (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) S'pore P.KIf Pen P.Gdj SITTWE V64W In Poft AVA VI3OW In Port 13/15 Oct In Port PAGAN V2I4W 15/1S Oct MALAYSIA AGENTS BOUSTEAO SHIPPMG AGENCIES KU 'El 03 *****00 PKL TEL 03 36*676 7 PEN TEL 04
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      52 41 VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD Q Established Since 1984 OCEAWIA PORTS regular LCL CONSOLIDATION AUCKLAND SYDNEY BRISBANE import export MELBOURNE FREMANTLE SERVICES "yt FOR BOOKING SAILING SCHEDULE. CALL THE TOTAL TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE. VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD VISA CONSOL PTE LTD TOLL-FREE TEL: 1800-*****66 TOLL-FREE TEL: 1800 2247! 34 FAX:*****86
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      2451 42 FIXED date DIRECT TO SOUTH AFRICA WEST AFRICA SOUTH AMERICA LTD s~Hir rriw™i27£zzr; 70a zuz t w 9mo m Mi bhd sr»& GS7 «Q: M 2 00S640SX COSTAJgIMCUSfi) Mj.. Tp: y.s. East Coast To: Hongkong/Ckta From: U.S.A. East Coast Fre«: CNna/Honf Konf "ZTZI *c m c« r»i.M wc b« c«
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      1237 42 FOR BOOKING 1800-*****00 (TOLL-FREE) OUTBOUND Pftl PfN )0H SJN HUG KAO lAI *tt TKY I QS MOl WAN MAI 20S NOM 09 10 11 10 1? 13 10 1/10 19/10 —IS vu KAO 22 10 2i 10 WAN HAI A'. NO(1 16 10 TTTo 1/ l« .0 22 10 23
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      377 43 (it FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RO. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 17/10 ROTTERDAM 17/10 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 17/10 HAMBURG/BREMEN 17/10 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 14/10 FELIXSTOWE/UK 17/10 BARCELONA/SPAIN 17/10 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 18/10 GENOA/ITALY 17/10 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 17/10 LOS ANGELES/WC/CI 14/10 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 12/10 NEW YORK/EC 14/10 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 13/10 VANCOUVER ***** BRISBANE
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      834 43 firm'™""' aJ fß| VOY 1 1" JKT Ytirn vov ~~im ptN H H a wana bhum MM w«d 12/10 sot 15/10 MIUM mqh 1i» rT wod uTio" H VESSEL VOY SJN SKK JSRA_BHUM 72S Fri 14/10 Wod 10/10 AKA BHUM 154N/0 Tuo 11/10 Thu IVIO Bg XETHA BHUM OON Mow
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      193 43 Qmmramt—d SmHlnM* to:|BWWOK/LM>I OWAWC/LAOSj 15/10 (SAT). 11/10 (Til) POUT KELAHG/rtWAHG 13/10 (TW), 14/10 (FIB) HONG KONG 14/10 (FIB). 1«/10 (TOE) MKMTA 15/10 (SAT) MAHLA/CEBU/SMWC BAT 17/10 (MOW) HOCHMHH 14/10 (FW) SWABAVA 10/10 (SUM) BUSAN T</10 (SUN) l-° i DONGNAMA LINE WWI (IBS) M PW MC OM mm Miw i(/n ivw
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      539 43 IfoS^cSSnW IIH TEL: *****33 (12 LinM) I IRI FAX: *****15/*****03 IKS TELEX: R8 ***** RISHIP (3 LinM) la=;I a=; CR NO.: **********0E I Vmm* V®* ETA Losing For Sport I I Abbay Worn 41WB 15/11 MombeM. Djibouti I AaMb. MtIWW I Ab*>ay Worn 42W8 15/12 MombMi, o*bouM I A—b. Muuwi
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      1462 44 IAIMM B6HTAINEFtUNBfc INC K=/\~-~ AgwilK MAC-NELB SPORE: *****22 (24 UNeB) Vj V v J rrnii_ minima BIBU (064) *****® KUOUNO (082) *****3 PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (682]>*****57 P.KELANQ: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA. (31) *****0 ftSlfl HKG/TWW/BKKI GENOfI/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN 9/10 10/10 11/10
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      189 44 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD Elk (H Ilk sron rati mutt nwuc am MIX 11/10 s»w loading to< Mate nWM HUDHU 21/10 loading tot Dubai DOWN 20 10 loading Foe kbit fwck sum* it/10 I*lo loadtrg Fot Malt UMKCDH Saikd loading for Malt PSOGWSS IHRIT 22 10
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      799 44 P THONG SOON UNES PTE LTD I /\V\ 78 SHENTON WAY #10-01, SWGAPORE 0207 I I TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I I TLX: RS ***** CARRER, RS ***** JENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK S |NGAPORE TCrmAM.AND VESSEL VOT S PORE PEST VESSEL VOT I SPORE lAKKO* EQUATOR ROYAL
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      645 45 M y m. ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTING BMMBU.K/SOC CAAGOtS TO/FROM KOK. YOKOHAMA, NAGOYA, MO*. TOKYO*. MAN*.A* OAVAO* Penanf* P. Ketanj Srjjpof* EMsia* KARABfVERETT Vl9€ 20/21 Oct KAMALEVERETT V 23€ 15/16 No* SHAPtAEVERETT V23E 23/24 No* ACCEPTttt BREAKBU.X/FCI/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CHTTAGOHG. CALCUTTA ANO MONQ.A* Sin(apore P. Ktlw|* Penmj*
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      210 45 5[ Sumy 558f8i 55? REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN SINGAPORE TO KOMPONG SOM •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W KAO SIN PKG PNG GIORY SELATAN X 4/10 5/10 7/10 GLORY SELATAN VI 6/10 13/10 14/10 SP KOMPONG SOM GLORY SELATAN V 8/10 11/10 SINGAPORE ASEAN TO TAIWAN SBJ
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      588 45 jdk PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOT aw KARACHI Mjjgjjg 147 HW 14/10 24/10 HAKRAN 151 HW 25/10 3/11 BOIAN 142-HW 7/11 27/11 ISLAMABAD 126-HR) It/11 20/11 FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY VESSEL VOY SIN 'KG BSN OSA WAG [TO* HYDERABAD 134 OW 23/10 21/10
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      726 45 lLlUH»jliliiliii|| FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT CONTAINER SERVICE SIN TO SOUTH AFRICA MSMU VOYAGC SIN OUR JNB' MRf Pl 2 CPT* B£W MP*HUHt/lOS 09/10 22/10 27/10 OS/11 23/10 26/10 04/11 06/11 Yt HE/102 23/10 OS/11 06/11 16/11 06/11 09/11 13/11 IS/11 SHUN HC/107 06/11 19/11 23/11 01/12 20/11 23/11 30/11 02/12 TAO MC/89
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      331 45 S|N FAR EAST 11/10 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 16/10 BANGKOK 11/10 MANILA/CEBU 16/10 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 18/10 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 16/10 BUSAN 16/10 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 15/10 HONG KONG SIN CHINA (*Sl*±*«n) 15/10 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIN EUROPE/UK 17/10 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 17/10 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA 16/10 LOS
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      1056 46 [FIXED jgf L WEEKLY SAILINGS Tel; 261-3595 Fax :261-0978 |j MELBOURNEGP SHIPPING PTE LTD I Call: Kenny/Mas/Peter r...M...r W .»i..rf^^>^^V....---i. W^.^.-^^-:-«^^^^^^^^::;,;V;.V;\ v Calling: I FAR EAST, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, U.SJL j or CMT Liner Express Agencies Pte Ltd Hot Line 22-007-22 I FOONG SUN V SHIPPING
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      422 46 y Conform CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 16 OCTOBER (Accepting to all N*w Zealand ports) PENAN6 14 OCT JAKARTA W OCT POUT KLANG 13 OCT BAN6KOK 16 OCT MELBOURNE 14 OCT SYDNEY 14 OCT BRISBANE 14 OCT FREMANTLE P OCT AOELAIDE 21 OCT 15 OCT 'ACCEPTING TO ALL SCANDINAVIA
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      860 46 CONSOLIDATION TO BUSAN Siftgaporr I MRS I M>K" ARDKR IN OFFERING TWICE WEEKLY LCL SERVICE TO BUSAN Call SANISA at DID: 770 5014 for bookings NOW!!! I^^FS3l Tel: Fax: MTERMTIONU St* FHI6HT Singapore 778 6522 *****38/*****36 FORWARtXNG jyfl Also has offices in:- Ate logistics services \CISU MALAYSIA THAILAND PHILIPPINES Mf
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      1534 47 ISEAMA^IRGENTIN/UlN^^&ri CONTAINERISED "HUB" SERVICE I I DIRECT TO ARGENTINA/BRAZIL URUGUAY 1 I Z" m P. <*>« UWMI* M WVWO OT Ml FRANCiSCA SCHULTE 005E 30/10 OS/12 07/12 13/12 I 14/12 19/12 I 13/01 ALEXANDER SCHULTE 005E 22/11 28/12 30/12 05/01 I 06/01 I 11/01 I 05/02 BIROIT NABER 003E 13/12
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      411 47 CEYION SHIPPING COKPNI National Lino of Sri Lanka CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO IK AND NORTH CONTINENTAL PORTS jB-r: .1 wrl mi I cso Tihl ww I rm| |xn I MUi MTUU "hoST 11/10 J5/10 «/M »3/l» W/ll M/ll —r" *T* MO* IVH 17/10 00/11 10/11 11/H tta Mm n/io m/io ivti
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      553 47 LINE SEMI-CONTAINERISED SERVICE EASTBOUND SCHEDULE N0.52 I VESSEL FAVLOORAD ETROOVORET DEKABRIST PRtOZERSK N.KRUFSKAYA PRIMORSN FONTS ESIS EBI7 EBIB EBI9 EB2O i 162 1 BUENOS AIRES' Sailed Sailed 18 20/08 05 17/08 12 18/10 18-21/10 MONTEVIOCO Sailed SaHed 21 22 09 10-17/10 RIO OH AN DO SU Sailed IS 20/10 OUNSAN
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      720 48 H —w— SAMUDERA INDONESIA (SI PTE LTD I 2 15 McCALLUM STREET #03-01/02 NATWEST CENTRE S'PORE 0106 J Tel: *****81-3 FAX: *****38 (3 HUHTIM6 HUES) TLX: R*****0 z BOOKINGS CALL DIRECT LINE: *****41/*****43 JESSICA/CELIAj iIIUJIHUII 7 SLGS/WEEK j.iil;M:M'lii 3 SLGS/WEEK VESSEL VOY SIN IJAK VESSEL VOV SIN BUR PELOPOR 1153
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      282 48 [^2ZSB9 AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd., Hakatan, Torghundi. Islamqala (Ooqharun) C.1.5./RUSSIA: Voßtochny, Vladivostok, Moscow, Baku, Tashkent, Irkutsk, Alma Ata, Aahgabad. Dushanbe, Kiev N Korea: Pyongyang. Nampo Mongolia: Ulaan Bator LCL TO CIS EASTERN EUROPE VESSEL SIN DKR Ned America V.2354 11/10 14/11 Cgm Korrlgan V.2364 19/10 16/11 Cgm Normartdle V.2374 25/10
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      370 48 f*}MS (k W OLLY OWIIEB SUSWUY OF MOL) MAM UNI: 222 0255 AIRFREIGHT: 545 4255 WEEKLY LCL CONSOLIDATION INDIAN SUB CONTINENT ETDETP USA/EUROPE/AUST/NZ ETD ETD COLOMBO 13/10 17/10 USA (ALL INLAND POBfT) 16/10 23/10 CHfTTAOONO 17/10 24/10 EUROPE (ALL BASE PORTS) 17/10 24/10 CALCUTTA 13/10 19/10 NEW ZEALAND (ALL PORTS)
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      604 49 ▲HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. ITP. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 (7nr PKF PCD* VESSELS VOY SM RTM ANT* LEW HAM tm Ftt li/To ii/io is/To" h. challenger 312*" 17/10 04/11 06/11 05/11 06/11 06/11 01/11 11/10 21/10 22/10 H. PIONEER 311* 24/10 11/11 13/11 12/11 13/11 13/11 15/11 20/10 21/10
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      340 49 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE SPECIALIST IN RO-RO HEAVY LIFTS IHBOUMP VESSELS VESSEL WY SP PR RUC KK MM MT BAABUUAH 20 11/11 COSMC LEADER 47 MPI 12/11 TRANS AUTO 71 11/11 KEBMUN 33 12/11 11/11 MPT 11/11 ORANGE MOON U MPT 12/10<RTN) 15/10(RM)OUTBOUHO VESSELS SP BATAM/JKT 11/11 BAAB ULLAH V2B
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      599 49 JEDDAH/UK/CONTNENT |STORE IKS STON HUM RDAM LEH *Mm Accptt* CJTK Fa RMMHRA 30/140 12/11 21/10 1/11 3/11 SwßwpMi :MM MR Omßhßm. BM mt DM OK 24/344 17/10 24/10 2/11 S/U 7/11 1/11 MMm :M M hmhr4m o*. MUM THAMES 25/141 11/10 5/11 1/11 10/11 SwUwplw :t»M UK MMta. Mm! mt
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      308 49 TODAY'S TIDES (height in metres) HOW 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 17 23 25 21 2.4 2.0 1.5 1.2 1.0 1.0 1.2 IS 2.3 2.9 3.1 3.0 2.7 2.1 1.5
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      61 50 +~']}{'/.)^<\<*'=!|}(~?+`~:=,]- A leading Indian Multimodal Transport Operator (NVOCQ and Freight Fowarder require the following personnel for their Singapore office Marketing Executives Operations Executive Documentation Executive Incumbents possessing experience in the Indian trade along with knowledge of the Indonesian and Malaysian trade may apply with 2 passport size photographs, as required
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      81 50 DneygracL-a..-.. 1 SEPARATORS FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY FROM STOCK IN SINGAPORE BRAND NEW COMPLETE SEPARATORS WITH ELECTRO MOTOR, TOOLS, LIFTING TOOLS AND SET OF STANDARD SPARES; FOLLOWING MODELS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN STOCK AT VERY ATTRACTIVE PRICES; MARX 207 MAPX 204 MAPX 309 WE ALSO CARRY STOCK OF SPARES FOR THESE AND
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