The Business Times, 9 January 1995

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    12 1 BUSINESS TIMES WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Monday January 9 1995 75'
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon US growth exceeded 4.5%: report
      65 1 Knight-Ridder TOKYO The US Federal Reserve Board believes infla-tion-adjusted growth in GDP for the fourth quarter of 1994 exceeded a 4.5 per cent rate, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday. This makes it almost certain that the Fed wilt raise key short-term interest rates by
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      Lock icon Franc to stay in ERM
      39 1 Bloomberg Business News PARIS French Budget Minister Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday ruled out any possibility of taking the franc out of the European exchange rate mechanism as a way to spur economic growth in France.
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  • Article
    MARKET SUMMARY
    159 1 Stock market indices Friday Week chance STII 2.209.37 -30.19 KLSEComp 955.43 -15.78 Nikkei 19,519.46 -203.6 Hang Seng 7,683.25 -507.79 SET Index 1,363.10 3.01 Jakarta Comp 481.22 +11.58 CLSA China B 892.00 -26.94 Aust All Ord 1.867.7 -45.0 FTSE 100 3,065.0 -0.50 Dow Jones 3.867.41 +32.97 Average of prime
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    Goldtron's Russian venture plans to raise capital on Nasdaq
    611 1  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE The recentlyformed New Telephone Company (NTC), a joint venture between Singapore's Goldtron group and several Russian companies in Russia's Far East port city of Vladivostok, plans to raise capital on America's Nasdaq. At the same time, it
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    Lock icon HK govt will not act to shore up sagging property market
    158 1 Reuter HONGKONG Governor Chris Patten has said the Hongkong government will not intervene to support the sagging property market. He said on Saturday that it was dangerous for governments to intervene too directly in the property market. "Short-term movements
    Reuter  -  158 words
  • Article
    S'pore stock market likely to stay weak
    161 1 SINGAPORE The outlook for the local stock market this week is the same as it has been for the past two weeks prices are expected to finish mixed with a downward bias, in low volume. Brokers do not see any upsurge in interest,
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    Lock icon China to phase out some tax perks for foreign investors
    399 1 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China plans to phase out some of the preferential tax rates now offered to lure foreign and domestic investors to hundreds of designated Economic and Technological Development (ETD) zones across the country, the official China Daily
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  • Article
    Indon IPOs raised 6 trillion rupiah in '94
    453 1  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE The number of initial public offerings in Indonesia last year more than doubled to 47 from 20 in 1993, raising a total of 6.1 trillion rupiah (554.02 billion) against 1.29 trillion rupiah the year before. Forty IPOs are
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    Forex watchers expect US dollar to rally
    538 1  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON FOREIGN exchange analysts expect the US dollar to rally on expectations of a United States Federal Reserve interest rate hike at the end of January. At least another half-per-centage point is likely to be added to the overnight
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      10 1 Management: Pg 10 Inchcape and discipline Answers on Pg 19
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      20 1 B tom Line: Pg 20 ong US perception of China Beijing to expand network of state-level economic zones, Pg 4
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon December down in the dumps
        285 2  -  By R Sivanithy IF NOVEMBER was a bad month for the stock market, December was worse. Turnover on the main board and Clob last month was the lowest for the year, with just 1.66 billion units worth $4.75 billion traded. The previous low of $5.7
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      STPB gives its board composition a private-sector flavour
      199 2 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) has appointed mostly private sector individuals to its board in line with its desire for greater pri-vate-sector involvement in tourism efforts. Joining the STPB are Alan Choe, Sentosa Development Corporation chairman; Rafiq Jumabhoy, managing director of
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    • Article
      Wee Poh wins road upgrading job
      115 2 WEE POH Construction has won the Public Works Department (PWD) tender for the upgrading of Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim from Jurong Town Hall Road to Corporation Road. Wee Poh outbid 18 other parties, including Lim Eng Tuan Construction and RDC Construction, with its $12.8 million
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    • Article
      Jurong Island project tenders to be awarded this month
      344 2 TENDERS for the first phase of the Jurong Island petrochemical project will be awarded later this month. An AFP report yesterday quoted a Singapore government official as saying that six international companies and two local-foreign joint ventures have submitted their bids
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    • Article
      Lock icon Aussie food company to expand in S'pore, South-east Asia
      435 2 Reuter EVERY night, a jumbo jet leaves Perth in Australia bound for Singapore loaded with 10,000 to 12,000 litres of milk the advance guard of a big push into the region by Australia's National Foods Ltd. The milk is sold in
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article
      Malaysia pips S'pore as top Asean investor in Manila
      411 3  -  From Al Labita in MANILA MALAYSIANS edged out Singaporeans for the first time as the Philippines' biggest Asean investors last year, the Board of Investments (BOI) says. In its year-end report, 801 says Malaysians pumped in an unprecedented 3.7 billion pesos
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      Lock icon Indonesians waiting to flee East Timor after last week's racial unrest
      408 3 AFP BAUCAU, East Timor Hundreds of Indonesians are waiting to escape the latest racial flashpoint in East Timor on the eve of a new round of UN organised talks on the troubled enclave. The fatal stabbing of a Timorese
      AFP  -  408 words
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      Lock icon All tenders for KL International Airport to be let out by June
      362 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR All tenders for the construction of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang would be let out by this June as the groundwork on the airport was now 50 per cent completed, KL International Airport
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      Lock icon Broking agent changes plea to not guilty
      263 3 AFP NST KUALA LUMPUR A broking agent charged with stealing religious funds entrusted to a securities firm for investment has switched his plea from guilty to not guilty, news reports said yesterday. Haron Jambari, 33, changed his mind on Saturday, a day after
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon KL minister on why magazine banned
        104 3 Bernama KAJANG Deputy Home Affairs Minister Megat Junid Megat Ayub said the Muslim Media International magazine, which had its publishing permit withdrawn since Dec 15, had published an article which could cause enmity between Muslims who support Umno and those who do not support
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        Lock icon M'sian opposition parties' electoral pact
        99 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Opposition parties aligned under the Gagasan Rakyat will face the Barisan Nasional in a one-to-one contest in the coming general elections, coalition chairman Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said here yesterday. He said talks to forge cooperation among the "gagasan" member-parties were proceeding smoothly.
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        Lock icon Cambodian govt will not extend amnesty
        94 3 Reuter PHNOM PENH The Cambodian government will not extend a six-month grace amnesty for Khmer Rouge guerillas which expires in one week despite recent mass defections, a senior government minister said. "The government has no plan to extend an amnesty for the Khmer Rouge.
        Reuter  -  94 words
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        Lock icon Manila eases aviation policy
        109 3 Reuter MANILA Philippine President Fidel Ramos has issued an executive order liberalising the government's international and domestic aviation policy. The new policy will allow a second carrier to be designated as official flag carrier along with lossmaking Philippine Airlines (PAL). PAL will also face greater competition
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • Article
      Lock icon China's exports will slow as yuan gains stability, says official
      421 4 UPI BEIJING A senior trade official predicted yesterday that China's exports will slow as its fcurrency adapts to market forces and the government Nvrestles with bloated foreign exchange coffers. "Exports are unlikely to May on the roller coaster in ,1995
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      Lock icon Sales of gold, silver coins jump 200% in China
      322 4 Reuter UPI BEIJING Sales of gold and silver eoins in China last year rose 200 per cent over the level in 1993. the China Daily reported yesterday. The newspaper, which gave no figures, said the reason for the sharp rise was
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      Lock icon Portrait of a peasant as an artist
      63 4 AFP SHANGHAI Ruan Sidi, 89, paints chickens in her room at the Jinshan Academy of Peasant Paintings. Ruan, who learned to draw at the age of 72, is one of 16 illiterate women in Jinshan county of Shanghai who were chosen for the
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      Lock icon China to step up development of forex market
      170 4 AFP BEIJING China has pledged to step up efforts to develop its foreign exchange market this year, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. Among the measures to be implemented in 1995 will be expanding the number of currencies traded on the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Beijing to expand network of state-level economic zones
      389 4 AFP BEIJING China is to expand its network of state-level economic zones, with inland provincial capitals to join 32 cities in coastal areas that have set up such foreign investment havens, a report said yesterday. The director of the Office for Special
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    • CHINA WATCH
      • Article
        Lock icon Sharp drop in approved investment
        91 4 Reuter BEIJING China approved foreign investment projects with contracted investment of US$6B.5 billion (5599.5 billion) in the first 11 months of 1994, down from nearly US$lOO billion in the same 1993 period, the Economic Daily reported. It said that actual foreign investment in the period
        Reuter  -  91 words
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        Lock icon Japan denies making pledge to China
        68 4 AFP TAIPEI Japan has denied press reports that it is giving a written pledge to China that it will not invite Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to November's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Osaka, the Foreign Ministry here said yesterday. "Our representative Lin Chin-chin checked
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        Lock icon 41% of Chinese state firms in red
        69 4 AFP BEIJING Some 41.4 per cent of China's state-run firms lost money in the first 11 months of 1994 as officials called the situation "very serious" despite a slight improvement. Some 3,238 enteiprises pulled themselves back into the black during the year, bringing
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        Lock icon Taiwan's 1994 gold imports fall 7.4%
        60 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's imports of gold bars, coins and plate fell 7.4 per cent in 1994 to 125.67 tonnes from 135.78 tonnes in 1993, the Finance Ministry said. Gold imports in December 1994 jumped 110 per cent to 12.39 tonnes from a year earlier,
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        Lock icon Daya Bay nuclear reactors safe: report
        91 4 AFP BEIJING The two nuclear reactors at China's biggest power station achieved "safety and high efficiency" in 1994, a report said yesterday amid criticism of some 13 shutdowns at the plant in its first operating year. "Since the two reactors at Daya Bay nuclear
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        Lock icon HK police smash major triad faction
        78 4 AP HONGKONG Police said yesterday they have smashed a major faction of Hongkong's largest triad and arrested 14 people in raids throughout the colony. Police said the suspects, including a woman, were arrested following 70 simultaneous raids by 350 police officers. Those arrested were
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • ASIA NOTES
      • Article
        Lock icon No invite please, Tokyo tells US
        78 6 Reuter TOKYO Japan has asked the United States not to invite it to a major ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War 11, a major newspaper reported yesterday. The Asahi Shimbun said Japan took the action to avoid having
        Reuter  -  78 words
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        Lock icon S Korea to lift curbs on petrochemicals
        85 6 Reuter SEOUL South Korea is to scrap a rule which has prevented new entries into the petrochemical industry and facilitate expansion within six months, a leading daily reported. "We will lift the guideline in February at the earliest," yesterday's Dong-A Ilbo quoted a
        Reuter  -  85 words
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        Lock icon Earthquake-hit Japan braces for more
        67 6 Reuter TOKYO Japan picked up the pieces yesterday from three strong earthquakes in 14 hours and seismologists warned people, including residents of the capital, to expect even worse tremors in the next month. But mixed in with the frayed nerves was satisfaction among disaster officials
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        Lock icon Strike cripples Indian state
        76 6 AFP NEW DELHI A strike called to protest the killing of nine civilians by Indian troops crippled the eastern state of Manipur yesterday, the Press Trust of India reported. AH vehicles kept off the roads as shops and businesses stayed shut across the state in response
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      Lock icon Aussie manufacturing growth levelling off: survey
      182 6 AFP MELBOURNE Strong Australian manufacturing growth was showing signs of levelling off at high levels, according to a quarterly survey of industry released here yesterday. Manufacturing peaked during the December quarter and was expected to maintain strong levels in the new year, Australian Chamber
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      Lock icon Clinton, Japan PM to discuss trade, N Korean nuclear issue
      504 6 AFP WASHINGTON Trade and the North Korean nuclear issue will be high on the agenda when US President Bill Clinton meets Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama here on Wednesday. The trade issue has calmed down considerably since a summit last
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      Lock icon Majority of Japanese say yes to Security Council seat: govt poll
      207 6 Reuter TOKYO The majority of Japanese support Tokyo's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, a government poll released yesterday showed. The foreign policy survey of 3,000 adults by the Prime Minister's Office was conducted last
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      Lock icon Murayama meeting fails to remove threat of party split
      367 6 Reuter TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama came under a real threat to split his Socialist party yesterday after an apparently heated meeting with a rightwing rebel leader. "We failed to agree on when to set up a new party," rebel
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      Lock icon Indian unions sign pacts to end child labour
      235 6 AFP NEW DELHI Two major Indian trade unions have signed pacts with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to try to eliminate child labour, a union leader said yesterday. The Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) and Centre of Indian Trade Unions (Citu)
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon US House budget chief aims to cut defence spending
      445 8 Reuter WASHINGTON The Republican chairman of the US House of Representatives Budget Committee said he would target the defence department for programme cuts, along with slashing domestic spending. "We're going t0... have the greatest downsizing of the role of the federal
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      Lock icon World Bank, IMF have failed in their mission: Shultz
      204 8 AFP WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund and (the World Bank have failed in their mission to support freemarket reforms in the world and should be merged into a new institution, said former US secretary of state George Shultz on Friday. Mr
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      Lock icon Russian deputy PM says army gave weapons to Chechnya
      309 8 AFP Reuter MOSCOW Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Shakhrai on Saturday launched a fresh attack on the armed forces, saying they had been responsible for handing over huge amounts of weapons to the breakaway region of Chechnya. Mr Shakhrai, a leading
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      Lock icon Russia to complete work on Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant
      252 8 Reuter NICOSIA Russia has agreed to complete work on a nuclear power plant on Iran's Gulf coast in a deal worth US$BOO million (SS 1.16 billion), the plant's acting director said on Saturday. Two German firms began work on the Bushehr
      Reuter  -  252 words
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      Lock icon Retired US general disappointed with Gulf states' security
      284 8 AP KUWAIT The former commander of the US Central Command said on Saturday he was disappointed with Gulf states' security arrangements to protect themselves from possible attack by Iraq or Iran. "The GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) as an organisation has not worked
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      Lock icon Feeling their way to the right strings
      70 8 Reuter PARIS A couple of hopeful visitors scrutinising some antique violins among the 1,000 stolen instruments which the Paris police exhibited in an unusual identification parade at the Drouot-Montaigne auction hall on Saturday. Hundreds of musicians from France and other Kuropean countries queued
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      Lock icon Support for Quebec sovereignty on the rise: poll
      206 8 AFP TORONTO Support for an independent Quebcc has been rising sincc the separatist Parti Quebecois won the September elections, but a majority of Qucbeckers still oppose a split, a Financial Post poll showed on Saturday. The results of the poll carried out
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    • Article
      Lock icon France plans ties with Iraq despite US, UK objections
      283 8 FT PARIS France said it would soon re-establish a limited diplomatic presence in Iraq, drawing a sharp rebuke from the US and Britain for relaxing pressure on Baghdad. Diplomats said the move could start a series of disputes among UN Security
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • Article
        Lock icon Labour MPs worked for KGB: Tory MP
        101 8 AFP LONDON Two Labour members of parliament, including one senior party member, were among prominent people recruited by the former Soviet KGB as "agents of influence" in Britain in the '70s and '80s, according to a Conservative Party member of parliament quoted in
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      • Article
        Lock icon Peso devaluation hits Mexican banks
        100 8 Reuter MEXICO CITY Mexican banks have become the latest casualty of last month's peso devaluation, and analysts say only government intervention may save some of the smaller banks from collapsing this year. A slowing economy, high inflation and rising interest rates are about as bad
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      • Article
        Lock icon Republican charged with tax fraud
        113 8 NYT NEW YORK A top Republican Party fund-raiser in Massachusetts has been charged with tax fraud as part of a federal investigation of corruption in the US Marshals Service. Officials familiar with the investigation said the fund-raiser, Peter Senopoulos. had agreed to plead guilty to
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      • Article
        Lock icon New York expects more spending cuts
        91 8 AP NEW YORK With tax revenues falling precipitously, the administration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has ordered New York City's agencies to prepare to cut spending by an additional 3 per cent this year even if it means eliminating more programmes and services. In a
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        Lock icon China's condolences to S African party
        61 8 Reuter BEIJING China's Communist Party (CP) yesterday said it had sent a telegram of condolence to the South African Communist Party on the death of Joe Slovo. praising him as an outstanding patriot and socialist theorist. Mr Slovo. 68. housing minister in the government
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • Article, Illustration
      Networking the brightest spot on Singapore's IT job scene
      885 12  -  Lee Wai Leong on the skills that are much sought after by IT firms Lee Wai Leong THE "hot" jobs in the IT industry in 1995 will be in networking. open systems, high-end development tools and high-end software applications, say IT
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      Creative's video-conferencing product makes notable debut
      651 12  -  Hello, MS-DOS. This is Mac. What say you we interface, via Share Vision. Kenneth James has the story Kenneth James AVIDEO-conferencing product from Singapore's Creative Technology made a notable doubledebut last week, linking up with Apple Computer in a demonstration at a major computer
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      Apple wants bigger bite of Asia's booming market
      543 12  -  Kenneth James, in San Francisco for the Mac World Expo, finds out how Apple is muscling into Asia Kenneth James Apple computer expects an explosion in demand for its computers in the Asian region, fuelled by very strong interest in its products
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      Lock icon IT staff in the finance sector are the best paid, survey shows
      554 13  -  The study found that professionals in the manufacturing sector were paid less, says Lee Wai Leong Lee Wai Leong A RECENT survey has found that IT professionals in Singapore's finance sector are better paid than their counterparts in
      Source: Hay Group  -  554 words
    • TECH TAKES
      • Article
        Digital sells Alpha plant
        86 13 SINGAPORE Digital Equipment Corp has sold its South Queensferry, Scotland plant to semiconductor giant Motorola for an undisclosed sum. The facility manufactures a variety of semiconductor products including Digital's Alpha microprocessor family. The sale comes at a time when industry observers have been sounding the death
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      • Article
        Turn photos into PC screen savers
        45 13 SINGAPORE Microsoft Singapore has released Microsoft Scenes screen savers for Windows which allows users to turn Tfortnal photographs into high-quality images for PCs. A single screen saver collection sells for around $48. For more information, call Microsoft at 329-9415.
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      • Article
        ITS appointed Cisco distributor
        32 13  -  Compiled by David Mok SINGAPORE Systems integrator ITS Asia-Pacific Australasia has been appointed a distributor for networking company Cisco Systems' products in Vietnam, China, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand.
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    • It's happenin'
      • Article
        Seminar on Novell, Compaq solutions
        34 13 SINGAPORE UIC Computer Systems is holding a seminar focusing on Novell's Unix connectivity solutions and Compaq's rackmountable servers on Jan 18. For more information, call Hooi Ming at 390-2116.
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        Speech systems seminar
        32 13 SINGAPORE The Japan Singapore Artificial Intelligence Centre (JSAIC) is conducting a seminar entitled "Speech and natural language human-computer interface technologies and applications" on Jan 20. To register, call 779-3088.
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      • Article
        Windows NT Server training courses
        45 13 SINGAPORE ECS Computer's training division is holding a series of training courses on Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5 targetted at systems administrators. Courses run from Jan 23 to 27 and from Feb 13 to 17. For more information, call 472-6228.
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      • Article
        Course on object-oriented technology
        25 13 SINGAPORE Elixir Technology is organising a three-day course on the LORE object-oriented method starting on Jan 25. To register, call 322-8575.
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        Help Desk Asia '95
        44 13  -  Compiled by David Mok SINGAPORE AIC Conferences is organising a three-day conference on IT Help Desk technology, equipment and management starting March 20. Speakers will discuss strategies to minimise user down time and maximise network efficiency. To register, call 222-8550.
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      Microsoft targets SQL Server as enterprise database solution
      615 13  -  The company is planning for the day when mainframes become extinct. David Welcher reports David Welcher FIRMLY convinced that Client Server systems and distributed processing will supplant corporate mainframes, Microsoft is targeting developers with a comprehensive set of tools for database development
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      636 14  -  U THE NEXT WAVE Jean-Luc Lebrun reveals that Chinese speech recognition systems are now but a whisper away Jean-Luc Lebrun The writer is manager of the Apple-ISS Research Centre. He can be contacted at 772-6571 CHRISTMAS 1995, somewhere in Singapore. A man sits in
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      873 14  -  NET WATCH) TRACKING THE NETWORKING WORLD Tommi Chen shows how easy it is to use electronic mail Tommi Chen The writer is the managing partner of Net Centre Pte Ltd, which provides specialist networking services. His Internet address is tommi@technet.sg. IN IHIS and the
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      1017 15  -  Juha Saarinen and Lars Lindkvist test the two flavours of the latest version Juha Saarinen and Lars Lindkvist The writers are Singapore-based IT commurin ations consultants. WITH the media focusing on Windows 95. it is easy to forget Microsoft's ugly duckling, Windows
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      628 15  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (US.4). a Brooklyn-based management consulting and software development firm. He contributed this commentary to BusinesslT. PERHAPS more than any other aspect of IT, software distribution really needs some help. And the solution is in
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      1160 17  -  Michael Kimmelman reports on how a career-threatening hand injury led pianist Murray Perahia to rethink his approach to music Michael Kimmelman NYT WHEN the pianist Murray Perahia cut the thumb of his right hand in May 1991 (he says he no longer remembers how), he
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      15 17 Starting 2nd January, Air India flies direct From Singapore to Bangalore every Tuesday and Friday,
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      208 17 I WEATHER Singapore: Occasionally windy, with passing showers in the late morning and afternoon. Temperature (23 30*) Ma-Pacific W/IV bnp* Ht/lo* Ctm* Buenos Ares J6U Ckxx* •uUrt 21/14 Ckxjdy Amsterdam I/5C Cloud* Ccago 01 2 Stiowe< Bana..* 36/24 Ctajdy Athens 1309 SKo«w Murx*A, 27 21 aoudy 08/ 2 Clowly Berlin
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      503 18 National Football League Playoffs AFP SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco and Pittsburgh won lopsided National Football League playoff matches on Saturday, earning home field advantage for the games that decide who plays in the Super Bowl. William Floyd ran for three touchdowns and Steve Young scored
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      676 18  -  By Tom Friend NYT SAN FRANCISCO Hit Steve Young cheaply and you must answer to 48 different 49ers. Shaun Gayle crossed that line on Saturday, just after Young crossed the Chicago Bear goal line, and the result was an uncivilised scrum in the
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        23 18 NEW YORK NFL playoff games Saturday American hootball Conference: Pittsburgh 29 Cleveland 9. National Football Conference: San Francisco 44 Chicago 15.
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        44 18 NEW YORK NBA Saturday: Atlanta 102 New Jersey 85; Charlotte 106 Boston 98; Cleveland 92 Chicago 78: Washington 105 Portland 114; Houston 83 Indiana 88: Denver 100 Phoenix 109; Utah 111 Philadelphia 90; LA Clippers 88 San Antonio 103; Sacramento 96 Miami 95.
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        66 18 BRISBANE Australia scored 252 for five in 50 overs in its World Series limited-overs match against Australia A on Sunday. Australia A. who has won two of its five matchcs in the eompetition. must now heat tngland in Sydney on Thursday if it is to join Australia in the
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        253 18 CARLSBAD, California LSSI million Mercedes Championship 3rd rd Saturday (IS unless noted): 205 John Huston 67 66 72 209 Fred Couples 73 68 68. Craig Stadler 71 65 73 211 Bruce Lietzke 71 69 71. Steve Elkington (Aust) 69 71 71. Boh F.stes 69 68 74. Lee Janzen 72
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        54 18 ADELAIDE, Australia I 5532K.000 Australian Hardcourt championships finals Sunday Singles: 3-Jim Courier (US) h Arnaud Boetsch (Fra) 6-2 7-5. Doubles: Courier/Patrick Rafter (US) b 3-Byron Black (ZimVGrant Connell (Can) 7-6 (7-3) 6-4. JAKARTA I SSI6I,250 WIA Indonesian Open final Sunday: Sabine Mack (Ger xl) b Irina Spirlea (Rom \6)
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      Lock icon John Huston finds the going easy at La Costa
      695 18  -  Golf Larry Dorman spots a predictable leader after three rounds Larry Dorman NYT CARLSBAD, California Ordinarily, the first official tournament of the year on the PGA Tour is not the place for players to be true to form. If they aren't
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      408 18 AP ADELAIDE Jim Courier used a clubbing forehand to beat Frenchman Arnaud Boetsch 6-2, 7-5 yesterday in the final of the Australian Hardcourt tennis championship and end a 17-month drought. The powerful American, seeded third, won the 15th singles title of his
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      Lock icon Creating the Agassi look
      39 18 Reuter BEAVERTON, Oregon Andre Agassi preparing to give Nike employee Sara Winterfeld a crew cut like his own as part of an Agassi look-alike contest held at the Nike World Headquarters here last Eriday. Reuter
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        115 18 AFP GEORGE, South Africa The race for the Bells Cup took on the look of a three-horse race as local hero Ernie Els overtook the overnight leaders by shooting a 69 in difficult, rainy conditions to lead at 11 under par. American Scott Dunlap.
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        45 18 AFP PERTH Boris Becker and Anke Huber of Germany, winners of the Hopman Cup tennis tournament holding up the winner's trophy here on Saturday. The pair defeated Natalia Medvedeva and Andrei Medvedev of the Ukraine 3-0 in the mixed doubles.
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        89 18 AFP AUCKLAND Former world No 1 Mats Wilander failed yesterday to qualify for the New Zealand Open when he was beaten by Australian teenager James Sekulov. Wilander, who won seven Grand Slam titles before taking a break from the professional circuit, went down
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        82 18 AFP BRISBANE The Australian cricket team reacted furiously yesterday to reports that genius leg-spinner Shane Warne was on a programme of painkilling injections to get him through the season. Manager lan McDonald was upset when he heard of the reports, which claimed Wame was
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      Hanging the Sword of Damocles over his own head
      910 19  -  Inchcape chairman David Plastow tells Chuang Peck Ming about corporate governance and how his company is developing Chuang Peck Ming David plastow, chairman of the United Kingdom-based Inchcape, will be promptly sacked if he misbehaves on the job. Such a fate
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      683 19 CALL Inchcape a trading company and you are likely to spoil David Plastow's day. "We're not a trader." he objects. "That's an old-fashioned, colonial term." Inchcape is a modern, marketing company, its chairman insists. "We provide the infrastructure, the marketing
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    595 20 UPI BEIJING A senior Chinese economist yesterday urged the United States to return to the bargaining table and called for both sides to halt retaliatory sanction threats over violations of intellectual property rights. "China and the United States have become so economically
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    38 20 AFP TAIPEI Three black-crowned squirrel monkeys from South America cuddling together to keep warm at Mucha Zoo, in suburban Taipei, on Friday as a cold front brought the city's temperature down to six degrees Celsius. AFP
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    431 20 AFP TAIPEI A Taiwanese delegation left for China yesterday in a bid to promote legal exchanges with its long-time political rival, as Taipei unveiled plans to ease curbs on Chinese investment on the nationalist island. A 12-member delegation, led by Shi Hwei-you,
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    Lock icon China's biggest bribery trial now on in Shenzhen
    316 20 Reuter SHANGHAI China's biggest bribery trial is underway in Shenzhen, a newspaper reported yesterday, part of a crackdown against official corruption that has become one of the greatest threats to communist power. A mid-level official and a senior company manager in the
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    200 20 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Regulators moved yesterday to block the planned sale of a 15.2 per cent government stake in China Steel Corp. Taiwan's largest steelmaker. on worries that certain large shareholders may try to gain control of the company, the
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    225 20 Reuter HANOI Vietnam's Health Ministry has set rules under which foreign investors can open hospitals, clinics, consultancies and medical-technical services, a field previously reserved largely for the state, it was reported yesterday. The Vietnam Investment Review (VIR). a weekly published by the State
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    957 20  -  The Bottom Line CHUANG PECK MING CHUANG PECK MING The writer is a BT correspondent FIRST. America blocked China's reentry into Gatt because it said the Chinese economy was not open enough to qualify for membership. Now, America says it wants to
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    329 20 Reuter LONDON Britain will refuse any significant new constitutional changes in the European Union for the foreseeable future. Prime Minister John Major said yesterday. He told BBC television he would veto any moves to tighten the political bonds between
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      305 21  -  From Catherine Ong in CALCUTTA SINGAPORE'S Parkway Holdings group is planning to sign up joint ventures by the middle of the year to set up private hospitals in India. "We hope to reach agreement by mid-1995 and start construction by early 1996,"
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      Promotions mark latest management reshuffle at Renong
      226 21  -  From Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR A MANAGEMENT reshuffle at Renong Bhd, in which Faber Group Bhd managing director Aminuddin Yusof Lana has moved to Metacorp Bhd, seems to indicate that there is more to come, analysts say. But movements this time may
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      Lock icon Pernas expecting reduced pre-tax profit of M$36m
      282 21 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Pernas International Hotels and Properties Bhd (PIHP) expects to register a reduced pre-tax profit of M 536.06 million (5520.5 million) for the financial year ending Jan 31, 1995, with the implementation of its planned share proposals. The profit is, however,
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      258 21 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Actacorp Holdings Bhd is expecting to generate an extraordinary gain of about MS 1.8 million (551.02 million) for the financial year ending June 30, 1995, from the proposed disposal of two pieces of vacant freehold land in Cheras, Selangor. The
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      601 21  -  HOCK jaatlllF By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Ever wondered why certain stocks appear so often in the daily actives list? At the height of the 1993 bull market. Idris Hydraulic. Promet, MBf Capital, Golden Plus. Multi-Purpose, Kamunting and a few
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      156 21 SINGAPORE DBS Bank, through stockbroking arm DBS Securities Holding, has increased its stake in an Indonesian securities company from 35 per cent to 55 per cent. The Indonesian joint venture, PT Gadjah Tunggal DBS Securities, is now called PT DBS Securities Indonesia. DBS
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        306 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Mobikom Sdn Bhd, the operator of Mobifon 800, expects to have 100,000 new subscribers this year from its current rate of 30,000, said its chief executive officer Zamani Zakariah. To achieve the target, Mobikom had allocated some Ms 26 million
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        508 22 Managers' priCM Jan 7 9 US Gr Fund 0.94 0.97" Singapore Unit Trust UOB Asset Mgt Ltd The Commerce 1.63 1.72 Unifund 1.40 l.46xd The Savings Fund 1.57 1.66 Unibond 1.02 1.045xd S'porc Prog Fund 0.60 0.64 United Cir Fund' 1.67 l.74*d S'pofe Sec Fund 0.95 1.01 United Asia Fund
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          107 22 AFP MANILA Ascada Holdings, investment arm of Malayan United Industries, has increased its stake in the luxury hotel firm Shangri-La Plaza Inc (SLPI) from 24 per cent to 34.28 per cent, it was learned yesterday. The company said in a report to the
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          42 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Mulpha International Bhd said it has received an investment licence for the proposed establishment and operation of a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam, through its whollv-owned subsidiary. AF Investments Ltd. Bernama
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          70 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Pegi Malaysia Bhd said in reply to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange that it has via AGB Properties Sdn Bhd acquired an additional 9.5 per cent equity interest comprising 760,000 ordinary Msl shares in Tenaga Insurance. As a result, the company
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          75 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Pacific Bank Bhd said the total shareholding beneficially owned or controlled by foreign persons as at Dec 31, 1994 amounted to 30 per cent of the bank's issued ordinary share capital and the share registrars will not register additional shares in
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        191 22 KUALA LUMPUR Property developer Talu Corp Sdn Bhd, which is eyeing a main board listing by middle of this year, plans to make a reverse takeover of a manufacturingbased publicly-listed company before the first quarter is out. Managing director Ro/ali Ismail, who
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        175 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR John Master Industries Bhd said all the land it had proposed to acquire at Kajang, Ulu Langat, arc of freehold title and that an independent professional valuation is currently being carried out on them. Payment amounting to M 52.89 million (551.65
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        Lock icon Kleinwort Benson to set up regional office in KL
        398 22 MBT KUALA LUMPUR UKbased Kleinwort Benson Group pie intends to make Kuala Lumpur the base for its Asean operations as part of its business expansion plan in the region. To this end. the group hopes to set up a company this
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        577 22 No Company Sector No of Offer Amt Listing Lead underwriter shares price raised date r rupah) (bnrupiah) 1 Ades Alfindo Putrt Setia Mineral water 15.00 3.850 57.75 Jun 13 Pentasena ArthaS 2 Aneka Kimia Raya Chemical distributors 15.00 4.000 60.00 Oct 3 Lippo
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        499 24 Eastern Express HONGKONG After dazzling growth in 1993, the main-land-controlled companies on the Hongkong stock exchange through the so-called back-door listings lost their shine last year. Those "red chips" that used to be the darlings of Hongkong investors
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        China's biggest fibre producer growing rapidly
        305 24 HONGKONG Yizheng Chemical Fibre Corp, China's largest chemical fibre and raw material producer, has made significant advances over the past decade. According to a South China Morning Post report, statistics have shown that Yizheng has produced 3.47 million tonnes of polyester products since it
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        540 24 Reuter SYDNEY The Australian share market should rebound in 1995 after being battered by rising interest rates in 1994 but not without pain before the gain, market analysts polled by Reuter said on Friday. The analysts forecast on
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          106 24 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided to at least temporarily halt a public share offer of the state-run China Steel Corp, local newspapers said yesterday. SEC deputy chairman Chen Shu was quoted by the Economic Daily Ne*s as saying: "We
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          79 24 Reuter SEOUL Daewoo Corp of South Korea plans a listing on the London Stock Exchange in the first quarter of this year, an official at Daewoo Securities said yesterday. Daewoo, a trading and construction arm of the Daewoo Group, would issue US$7O million (S$
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          62 24 AFP NEW YORK Time Warner Inc is close to a deal to buy all or part of cable TV operator Cablevision Industries, a report said last Friday. The Wall Street Journal, citing sources close to the talks, said the deal could be worth US$2.5 billion
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          Lock icon Jardines selling funds unit: paper
          70 24 Reuter HONGKONG Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd is believed to be in talks on the sale of its mutual fund unit, Matheson pic, to a European-based bank, the South China Morning Post said yesterday. Sources said the sale of Matheson pic, which is 70 per cent
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          Lock icon Sales at Formosa Plastics up 26%
          57 24 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Formosa Plastics Corp, one of Taiwan's largest industrial companies, yesterday said sales rose 26.5 per cent in December from a year earlier to NT$3.2 billion (S$ 176.47 million). Sales for last year rose 25.2 per cent from 1993 to NT$34.O
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        Lock icon US pet food maker sells baking subsidiary for US$556m
        386 25 Reuter ST LOUIS Pet food maker Ralston Purina Co said on Friday that it agreed to sell Continental Baking Co, maker of Wonder bread and Twinkies snacks, to Interstate Bakeries Corp in a deal worth more than US$55O million (*****.6 million).
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        Lock icon Seagram to buy Dole's juice business for US$285m
        489 25 Bloomberg Business News MONTREAL Seagram Co said it will buy Dole Food Co's juice business for US$2B5 million (Ss4l4 million), reinforcing its position as the world's largest fruit-juice maker. The purchase is part of the Montreal-based beverage giant's campaign to increase worldwide
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        Lock icon Hospital group's earnings fall 24% following asset divestment
        524 25 Bloomberg Business News SANTA MONICA, California National Medical Enterprises Inc said earnings fell 24 per cent in the fiscal second quarter. Revenue declined because NME operated fewer hospitals in the period than a year ago. Net income for the quarter ended Nov
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        440 25 Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES Sears, Roebuck Co led all its major competitors for the second consecutive December, but its sales gains were smaller than a year ago typical of what analysts described on Thursday as a generally disappointing holiday shopping
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        Lock icon India's mutual funds expected to grow sixfold by 2000
        379 26 Reuter BOMBAY India's fund managers are gearing up for a massive expansion with investments in mutual funds expected to grow sixfold to US$l27 billion (S$ 184.4 billion) by 2000, participants at an annual seminar on the mutual fund industry said on
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        167 26 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Last year, China's steel industry recorded its worst performance in 13 years, with output increasing only 2.75 per cent over 1993 levels to 92 million tons, the official Financial Times newspaper reported. The paper, citing Ministry of
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        188 26 Bloomberg Business News ZURICH Union Bank of Switzerland said it sees "an improvement" in 1995 earnings, following 1994 earnings that will be lower than the record 1993 net profit of 2.27 billion Swiss francs (552.53 billion). Union Bank of Switzerland said in a letter
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        Lock icon Western life insurers in the Gulf lose ground to Islamic firms
        297 26 Reuter DUBAI Western-style life insurance, dismissed by some devout Muslims as immoral, is facing serious competition from Islamic insurers. Recent surveys show that Islamic insurance, similar in its operation to mutual funds, is gaining ground in the Gulf. Saudi
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        239 26 Reuter SINGAPORE Gas oil traders in Asia, pleasantly surprised by unusually high prices, say they expect the firm tone to last for at least another two weeks. Beyond that, the outlook is clouded by supplies from newly expanded Korean refineries
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        445 26 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The decline in bank stocks is jeopardising several major bank acquisitions. slashing the value of the stock-swap agreements and prompting the buyout targets to demand better terms. Two transactions on the verge of collapse are New York Bancorp's
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        617 27  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Yumiko Iijima MMS International SINGAPORE The US$ opened well bid against the mark and the yen as the generally firm dollar tone appeared to have carried over into the new year. Forex trading activity did not start in earnest early
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        625 27 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON The prices of previous metals fell under a wave of selling by investors in the United States in the first week of trading in 1995. Investors turned away from gold, silver and platinum, feeling that their attractions
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      1367 27 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (future* dosing as at 5.30p<n) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Feb 95 240 00 240.00 239 00 425 1250 Mar 241.00 417) Apr 242.50 237.00 243.00 625 3525 May 242.50 237.00 243.00 625 3525 Jun
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      4668 28 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Kara EPS Dale 11 LV PV LY Company *no (Sa) (Sa) (eti) (cts) ABR Hldgs Sep 19 1 1109 1365 2 5 3.3 Aetna Sep 16 1 48 926 19 517 71.0 28.6 MSB* Nov 21 P 3.05 7L 2 095 2 04
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      753 28 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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        873 29 AP AFP New York US STOCKS should get a boost from upcoming quarterly profit reports. But if the Federal Reserve pushes interest rates higher this month as expected, earnings and stock valuations may start to suffer. Fourth-quarter earnings are
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          100 29 Beset by investor apathy, a flat domestic bond market and official data showing that Australia had plunged deeper into the red, the local bourse finished down last Friday for the fourth consecutive day in a week shortened by the New Year holiday. The key All Ordinaries Index crashed through
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          89 29 The Taipei bourse suffered heavy losses in the first holi-day-shortened week of the year as foreign investors and domestic fund managers continued taking profits, brokers said. Following a 3.69 per cent jump the preceding week, the 413-issue Weighted Price Index on the Taiwan Stock Exchange dropped 191.79 points, or
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          82 29 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index added 3.01 points, or 0.2 per cent, during a holiday-short-ened week to close on Friday at 1,363.10 points, brokers said. The average daily turnover during the week was 64.8 million shares, up from 56.48 million shares the week before. But the average
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          82 29 Share prices shot up on Saturday, ending a four-day New Year decline prompted by the government's tight monetary policy aimed at curbing inflation, brokers said. The Composite Price Index gained 13.48 points to close the week at 988.80 points, with 33.8 million shares worth 683 billion won changing hands,
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          74 29 Philippine share prices fell 1.06 per cent over the week amid intense speculation leading up to a blockbuster US$l.63 billion land deal the previous Friday, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Index shed 29.59 points from Dec 29, the last trading day of 1994, to close at 2,756.22 points.
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          91 29 Share prices took a severe beating through the New Year week on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), India's largest bourse. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index lost 161.28 points during the week to close on Friday at 3,765.62 points. The 100-share National Index shed 68.35 points to close on Friday
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          86 29 Trading returned to normal at the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) after the previous week's high level of transactions but the government's decision to hike civil servants pay helped push the index above 380, analysts said. The JSE Index closed on Friday at 381.222, compared with 369.640 the previous week.
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        180 29 AFP London THE London stock market marked time last week, as losses at the start of the week were offset on Friday, when the market rose by a firm 1.1 per cent. For the week as a whole. the Footsie Index slipped by a tiny
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        374 29 Reuter Hongkong SHARES are seen sliding further this week, spooked by fears about property weakness, climbing interest rates and possible US trade sanctions against China. Last week, the blue chip Hang Seng index shed 507.79 points or 6.20 per cent to 7,683.25, its
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        298 29 AFP Tokyo SHARE prices lost ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the first trading week of the year as market players failed to find new factors to stimulate the sluggish market. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues in the first section
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          805 29 16.49 Blue-chip stocks closed with moderate gains on Friday after profit-taking nearly halved the market s biggest rally of the new year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which was up more than 36 points earlier in the day, ended with a gain of 16.49 points at 3,867.41. For
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          317 29 •8.78 Stocks finished lower as weak gold issues and concerns about interest rates outweighed a strong performance south of the border. The TSE 300 Composite Index eased 8.78 points to close at 4151.65 in brisk turnover of 55.44 million shares valued at C$771.57 million. "We've got our own problems
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          2229 29 London Jan 6 Pepce Industrials A. A. Corp Adr 55 6/8 -.120 AB Ports 271 4 Abbey National 438 6 Allied Lyons 542 I Amcc 68 4/8 f 2 Argyll 256 4/8 I 4/8 Aid* Group 66 2/8 2/8 BAT Ind 450 II BICC 349 -J BOC Group 716 8
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      2225 30 Gr (ii l»*W« Last Vol »(tk l-«s( QutXr LH» IX« lid N« M (»p H%h Low CtMvaay Sate (DOO) High Low Bayrr Seller Or VIt Smil MALAYSIAN STOCKS 39* 160 m AISB 50c 271 uj -J 328 306 268 271 273 30 -29 03 27* 206 105 m
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        6712 30 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian share prices ended the first week of 1995 broadly lower in languid activity, uninspired even by renewed speculation of early polls, brokers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's Composite Index, the key market barometer that tracks 86 quality
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        1976 32  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Although we are only one week into the new year, 1995 is beginning to look remarkably like the old year. The US interest rate fears which bedevilled the market for almost all of last year, were again in
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
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      483 33 Washington Post WASHINGTON Three senior officials of a Louisiana shipping company, caught in a federal crackdown against dumping into US waterways, on Thursday pleaded guilty to criminal charges that they regularly disposed of oil, engine parts, chemical waste and other garbage
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      224 33 AP CONSTANTA, Romania Four more bodies washed ashore from two cargo vessels that sank in a Black Sea storm, and authorities on Friday held out little hope of finding survivors among the 40 seamen still missing. "1 believe most of the crew are
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      229 33 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong planners should take heed of Taiwan's sudden decision to partially liberalise its ban on direct shipping links to China when forecasting future port expansion needs and not to draw up expansion plans based on transshipment growth, a senior shipping
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      202 33 AFP SEOUL South Korean shipyards won foreign orders totalling 6.37 million gross tonnes in 1994, down 33 per cent from the previous year, battered by a strong offensive mounted by Japanese rivals, manufacturers said on Thursday. Year-end global figures were unavailable,
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1038 33 Page Col ABC Containerline 16 1 Able Shpg 7 4/5 Accord Group 8 1-3 ACL 9 1/2 AhlersLine 13 5 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 ANL 3 4/5 Antaco Mgmt 17 3 APL 18 1/2 Appcnship 4 4/5 Arabian Express 15 4 ASCL 5
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      1251 34 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1,967 on Thursday from 1,961 on Jan 4. There was a surge in Panamax rates as activity started to pick up with several new cargoes quoted, brokers said. Trading eased during the Christmas-New Year period causing
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      1030 35 Seatrade Review Monthly THE GOOD news is that liability claims against shipowners and operators are beginning to level oft and that the world economy is at last showing signs of picking up. Freight rates, in particular, are finally moving in the right
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      13437 42 This is a hst of ships loading at Singapdre for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LESEND PN: ship calls
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        444 45 Vwsd Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure m- )ltr«n( Pert Br«t« 1 2 94 P03 0901 0900 0901 2300 aw Now 3 M/4 Hoop* 0901 1400 Caaka KI30 ***** POJ 09 01 0/00 1001 1400 Gkb 01/96 117 IS 0901 0800 CM
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        1591 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING Of EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND ICl CARGO Record Boofcinf/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From m taBhum 5505 10/7300 1A 08/1500 08/1659 08/1900 IB 08/1500 08/1659 08/1900 taw M* *6852 11/0300 3 09/0/00 09/1159 09/1400 4
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        Asia Pacific airlines expect better profits in 1995
        531 52  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Most Asia Pacific carriers expcct higher profits this year, although a sizeable minority forecast a decrease in yields and load factors. But the clearest signal from the airlines' response is still "an innate optimism" and an expectation of
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        344 52 AP DETROIT Ford's Taurus was the nation's top-selling car for the third time in a row as foreign and domestic automakers finished a strong year and predicted another. Year-end reports on Thursday showed Ford sold 397,037 Taurus sedans and station wagons last year
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        Lock icon British Airways cuts fares on flights from United States
        457 52 Reuter Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK British Airways pic said on Thursday that it cut its fares steeply on flights from 18 US cities to 42 destinations around the world. The reduced "World Offer" fares are available from Jan 5 to
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        Lock icon Chinese air passenger traffic jumps 19%
        303 52 AFP Reuter BEIJING More than 40 million people travelled by air in China last year, a 19 per cent jump from 1993, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said, reflecting continued expansion of the domestic sector. Domestic airlines carried a total 40.27 million
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        Lock icon Daimler and Tata unit in car talks
        182 52 Reuter CALCUTTA Germany's Daimler Benz AG is exploring the possibility of making family cars in collaboration with India's Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co Ltd (Telco), Daimler Benz chairman Edzard Reuter said on Friday. Daimler Benz would invest an estimated 500 million marks (*****
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          90 52 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Negeri Scmbilan yesterday proposed that its Port Dickson sea resort be linked by rail to Sepang and Malacca to promote tourism and ease road traffic congestion. Mentri Besar Haji Mohamed lsa Abdul Samad said a proposal to this effect had been forwarded
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          Lock icon Yard suspended from Oslo bourse
          96 52 Reuter OSLO Troubled Norwegian shipping company Vard A/S was suspended from the Oslo stock exchange on Friday at its own request because it is seeking to refinance a loan, the bourse said in a statement. "The company is in final talks on its refinancing plans.
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          81 52 Knight-Ridder LONDON The 7,828 dwt freighter Bergen, whieh suffered a fire in mid-Atlantic, entered UK search and rescue waters at 0400 on Friday, under the escort of two bulk carriers, according to Lloyd's Intelligence. The fire-damaged freighter was escorted by the bulk carrier Federal Danube and
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          94 52 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's automotive market remained buoyant and hit a new year high in November, with 33,480 cars sold compared with 31,355 units in October. A monthly report produced by the country's largest car assembler, PT Astra International, showed a constant rises in
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        293 52 AFP HANOI Vietnam Airlines expccts to be hard hit this year by a massive tax hike on aviation fuel which came into force on Jan 1 but has ruled out immediate price increases, a report said yesterday. "We will lose a
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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      299 39 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES —80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE 0106 HOT LINE: *****33 (30 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 16/01 ROTTERDAM 10/01 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 16/01 HAMBURG/BREMEN 10/01 MARSEILLE/FRANCE ***** FELIXSTOWE/UK 16/01 BARCELONA/SPAIN 13/01 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 10/01 GENOA/ITALY 14/01 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 10/01 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 13/01 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 12/01 NEW YORK/EC 13/01 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 12/01 i; VANCOUVER 13/01 BRISBANE H7Ol TORONTO/MONTREAL
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      865 40 79 ANSON ROAD, #21-01, SINGAPORE 0207 TELE: *****92 FAX: *****57 CR **********0N PORT KLANG PENANG WY I ptg vessel IWT roT| LAU<ttL 3S2N 11/1 (WtD) H/l XOUB lAYA ***** 13/1 (fWI 15/1 (SUN* BAUHWIA %00?K is/1 (SUN) ma conveyor wo< ivi (sum i;/i (Hp StA LAUIttL 3b» 15/1 (SUN) 16/1
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      1186 41 ADVANCE CONTAINER LINES (PTE) LTD A Z 140 CecN Street, #12-00, PH. Building. Singapore 0100 Lb Z TEL: 221M31 *****19, TELEX RS ***** ACLPI mwd«6fc AirftiA I JakaAJA (I Oatfmea/Wee* to PAT. 2 OaMnge to MIT, 1 OaMn« la LCH) (1 0a»m«/Week) WMB. VQY UK W~| VIOOII VOY~ "TT" -UtT
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      569 41 Ib bsa£ Mgk MYANMA «BBk FIVE STAR LINE V (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) Spore P.KIf Pen P.Gdf HTA-AN V2O7W 10/12 lan PAGAN V2I7W 15/11 lan MALAYSIA AGENTS BOUSTEAO SHPPMG AGENCCS KUL: TU 02 03 *****00 1*1: Ttt 02 03 3(167(7 PE* TU 02-04-*****2 r® TEL 02-07 *****21/4
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      1805 44 TO EUROPE FROM EUROPE reran ikl ftw nono vsi sTtmt uh itm hum boh fx? p«l stob M 6 row> >o» a—zu ngo tow BSC/SBM 5004/5004 1711 07.01 M). HOW6HOW6 2U4 10.01 21.01 21.01 30.01 MB? *> 1514 12.01 14.01 1701 20.01 2001 23.01 23 01 24 01 BSC/SBM 5001/5001
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      434 44 IIAAMM CbNTAiNERIBIHtINe I I -K=A"l A 9 #nU: MAC-NELB SPORE: *****22 (24 UNEB) v X C/r HOO<7WOOOK SIBU (064) *****9 KUCWWQj^|4244p PENANQ: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****57 MANILA P.KELANQ: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 ASIA HKG/TWN/BKKI GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN j 9/1
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      54 45 Z FULL CONTAINER SERVICE SPORE TO FREMANTLE VESSEL VOY SPORE FTLE ACCEPTING FEEDER CONTAINERS WtNOWARO ***** 16 Jan 23 Jan FROM PENAMQ, HAHNE BAKKE ***** 29 Jan 6 Feb JAKARTA AND SURABAYA. PORT SHOTS The latest in sea, air and land transportation Shipping Times Monday to Friday SINGAPORE rn Business
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      233 45 I VESSEL VOY SIN MAA SIN 1 TIGER BAY 126N 09 10/01 15-22/01 27 28/01 TIGER SPEED 314N 13-14/01 19 25/01 30-31/01 TIGER ISLAND 127 17-18/01 (FOR DISCHARGE ONLYI CAPE HERMES 204N 17 18/01 23-29/01 0203/02 I TIGER CAPE 013 22-23/01 28-04/02 0910/02 TIGER BRIDGE 315N 23-24/01 29-04/02 09-10/02 I
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      353 45 Pl DONGNAMA LINE COHTAINPMiO MRVTCB STRAIT t/BLW/INC/BtW KSSI (M») SGP PC UN PMC MC B» nASDAS V4I4R 12/11 14/01 is/tl 2S/01 21/11 SMOMC TWO VMM 14/01 11/01 10/01 20/01 01 02 02 ■UTHN VMM 21 01 21/01 2VOI 0( 02 00 02 HNM VMM 20/01 31/01 01/H 02/02 12/12 11/«2
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      412 45 SRICHFIE^n^RIMM^ENCIE^SM'T^U^I TEL: *****33 (12 Line*) FAX: *****15/*****03 TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Line*) CR NO.: **********0E I® ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES f (National Urns of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL VtM«l Voir ETA Loading For Spore Abbay Wonj 42W8 25/01 Mombasa. Djibouti Assab Massawa Andmet 38WB 20.03 Mombasa. Dpbouti Assab. Massawa
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      1477 46 pamjaaiima THIS WEEK'S ARRIVAL: NEXT WEEK'S ARRIVAL: VESSELS VOV NRT ETA EXCHANGE VESSELS VOV NRT ETA EXCHANGE J RATE RATE t LIVERPOOL BAY 5506 ***** 09/01 1.4655 PARIS MS 9502 ***** 16/01 1.4630 SL VOYAGER 223W ***** 09/01 1.4700 NANTAI PRINCE 062N 16/01 MS ALGECIRAS 9502 ***** 09/01 1.4655 MS
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      801 46 AFGHANISTAN M&M Afghanistan Ltd., Hairatan. Torghundi Islamqala (Ooqharun) C.1.5./RUSSIA: Aim. Ala, Ashkhabad. Baku. Dtishan- I be. Irkutik, Khabarovtk. Krasnoyarsk. Korukov. Moscow. Sochi Novosobirsk. Tashkent. Tbilisi. Vladivostok. Vostochny. etc. N Korea: Pyongyang. Nampo Mongolia: Ulaan Bator FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO NORTH/WEST AFRICA VESSEL SIN DKR Ville De Titana V.TO7W 14/01 13/02
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      815 46 TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF LOADING VOY SPORE P KELANG HALIFAX N YORK NORFOLK N ORLEANS MOBILE TAMPICO HOUSTON HOEGH DYKE 0628 11/12 Jan 13/14 Jan 24 Fet> 27 Feto 2 Mar 8 Mar 11 Maf 14 Mar 19 Mar HOEGH CAIRN 0128 31/1 Fett 2/3 FeO 16
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      619 47 AH Zm M M flf fa m W WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY Of BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE M ACCEPTING BREAXBU.X SOC CARGOES TO/FROM KO6E. YOKOHAMA. NAGOTA, MO*. TOKYO*. MAMCA*. OAVAO*. Penanj" P. Kelanf Sm(apore E'Msia* KAMALEVfRETT V24E 14/15 )an 16/17 Jm KARABCVERETT V2IE 21/22 Feb KAMALEVERETT V2SE 12/13 Mar ACCEPTWG BREAKBU.K FCI
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      198 47 IftL GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP to REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN SINGAPORE TO KOMPONG SOM •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W KAO SIN PKG PNG GLORY SELATAN VII 5/1 11/1 13/1 15/1 GLORY SELATAN X 3/1 10/1 12/1 14/1 SIN KOMPONG SOM GLORY SELATAN VIII 8/1 11/1 SINGAPORE ASEAN
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      675 47 Jtffe PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL W)T SIN KARACHI MAKRAN IS3HW 06/01 16/01 BOtAN 144-HW 20/01 HVDERABAD 137 HW 07/02 17/02 SAHr.OOHA li/HW 21/02 02/03 «l Mil CUI OIF ro»TS SUBCCI TO MMCCKNT FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY VESSEL "voT SIN HKG BSN OS* MAC YOK
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      682 47 UUHSllllilliliM FULL CONTAINER SERVICE FROM SIN TO MADRAS VESSEL/VOV ETA SIN ETA MAA MV TIGER BAY V 126N 09 10/01 15-22/01 MV PRAVOINSK V 1 I 12 13 01 18-19/01 MV BUNGA TERATAI V TERO2S 13-14/01 19-20/01 MV TIGER SPEED V 314N 13-14/01 19 25/OI MV CAPE HERMES V 204N
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      293 47 SIN FAR EAST 10/1 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 8/1 BANGKOK 8/1 MANILA/CEBU 8/1 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 9/1 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 8/1 BUSAN I 8/1 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 8/1 HONG KONG SJN CHINA 8/1 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG i TIANJIN /QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIN EUROPE/UK 9/1 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 9/1 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSI/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA
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      807 48 3 FIXED L I WEEKLY 1 SAILINGS I" Tel: 261-3595 111 Fax ;26j|*|$78 *"J1 /i™' MELBOURNE- j Q) GP SHIPPING PTE LTD 1 Ca//; Kenny/Mas/Peter L__—->_>—— Wl SJN FRCM Mf LB STO MtCK ITTT ANTNfiIKN 340 >7/01 M/ 01 01/02 01/02 11/02* ELLEN HUNG Ml 05/02 12/02 18/02 22/02 2S/02
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      435 48 y Con term 9 CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 18 JANUARY (Accepting to all N«w Zealand porta) PENANG 13 JAN JAKARTA 15 JAN PORT KLANG 12 JAN MANILA 15 JAN BANGKOK 15 JAN MELBOURNE 12 JAN SYDNEY 12 JAN BRISBANE 15 JAN FREMANTLE 12 JAN ADELAIDE 15 JAN I
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      1101 48 CONSOLIDATION TO BUSAN I FIRST FORWARDKK IN OFFERING TWICE WEEKLY LCL SERVICE TO BUSAN dh Call SANISA at DID: 277 1058 for bookings NOW!!! r^rl Tel: Fax: Singapore 561 1668 272 9838 INTERNATIONAL SEA FREIGHT Also has offices in:- FORWARD**; MM MALAYSIA THAILAND PHILIPPINES mmSvm. AW LOGISTICS SERVICES OF HONG
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      1665 49 SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD 20 McCallum Street #16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 tTel: *****22 (10 Lines) FAX: *****05 CR No.: *****8 200 00R M Y.S.N. LI""— V——< Hong Kong Singapore P. KelanQ^^^^^Penan^^^^ Orintol Prld* 74 Salted In Port 10-11/1 12-12/1 B<g* 9 11-11/1 12-13/1 ChW Ol Chroh— 48 Sailed In
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      390 49 CEYLON SHIPPING CORPN National Line of Sri Lanka CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO UK AND NORTH CONTINENTAL PORTS urea iotl gw|«o|a«lHaMiTml—m|ww KD »»lUWG OSSW 21/1 M/l MP OWE KOH6 OMW M/l HI jjgMM WIU ttOl 3 «/l 17/1 4/2 5/2 4/2 IWIASI* mi »M 2 3 l«/l g/1 11/2 12/2 13/2 MP
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      803 49 VESSEL VOYAGE^^^^EXCHANG^ATC^^H H I IN OUT IN OUT II 10 m I KASUGA I 39W 40E 1 4642 1.4535 H HAKONE MARU 19E 19E 1 4543 1 4543 *999 OOCL FRIENDSHIP 48W 48W 1 4687 1 4687 jZr u ANRO GOWA 18N 19S 1 4688 1 4688 I JT NEPTUNE
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      1581 50 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. 19 KEPPfI ROAD «Q2 01 lit POH BUILDING SINGAPORE 0208 TEI 225 9966 Fa. 221 4922 ALSO OFFERING SERVICE TO/FROM *PRC *CIS VIETNAM *EAST RUSSIA 'CARIBBEAN ♦LATIN AMERICA *EAST MEDITERRANEAN CALL 225-1-225 FOR BOOKING OR ENQUIRY >T0 NORTH AMERICA A CANADA WEEKLY CONTAINERIZED SERVICE msai/wrm ftH
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      2347 50 V V-M AS AGENTS "I" LINE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (CJt NO **********0M/GST REG NO: M2-*****W-6) TEL: *****77 TELEX-KAWAKI R*****5 FAX 3P*****/7/8/9 I V W MALAYSIA "I" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD I m m TEL SA *****00 PK 367%7 f j KN MWi'/'t y. r i' PGU *****25/6 1 INDONESIA
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      488 51 HYUNDAI MEBCHANT MABINE COITD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 (~PNA [~PKE PGD VESSELS VOY SW RTM AMI LEH HAM BREJ Ftt "71/01 13/01 U/oT H. COMMANDO 313* ISToi 03/02 05/02 04/02 05/02 05/02 OT/OT" 18/01 20/01 21/01 SI MARINER 314* 23/01 10/02 12/02 11/02 12/02 12/02 14/02 25/01 27/01 2S/01
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      356 51 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE MUITI-PURPOSE RORO CARRIER SPECIALIZE H HEAVY LH CARGO UPTO 120 TONS RAMP CAPACITY UPTO 50 TOWS KSSfI I WOT ISM PK lOAOMG FOR COSMIC iun 53 111 «NANC 1/1 COSMIC MASTER 30 hPt KEMMAN 7/1 ORE NT LET 7/1 »/l ORANGE MOON 51 7/1 »/l KUCHMG
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      600 51 JEDDAH/UK/CONTMENT n «n I SPORE Ito STOW M BURG RDAMLEH Aiu C«t« For !i 21/1 31/1 2/2 Southampton :toal UK dntiutwv Brtlist and DuMn I*/} J/2 1/2 Rotterdam :to al Antwerp. Aimttrdam. Olio Hchriu iH! ,V\ 11/2 11/2 15/2 :toal UK dntnation. BcNnt and DuMn FRANKFMI EXPRESS 77/103 25/1 11/2
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