The Business Times, 18 January 1995

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    12 1 BUSINESS TIMES WE KXOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Wednesday January 18 1995 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow up 0.34 point
      55 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks were a fraction higher at mid-session yesterday as the market paused after two days of large gains. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 0.34 point at 3,932.68 at 1 pm EST. The index gained 24 points on Monday following a
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      Lock icon Dollar's safe-haven status waning
      52 1 Reuter NEW YORK During recent turmoil in global currency markets, investors and central bankers have followed a growing trend toward seeking safe havens in local trading blocks. US analysts say Asians and Europeans have broken from traditional use of the dollar and instead stockpiled yen and
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    165 1 Stock Marfcot indicts Teesdey Change ST1I 2,106.04 -1.35 KLSE Comp 926.76 +16.01 Nikkei 19,241.32 -89.95 Hang Seng 7,606.51 +102.27 SET Index 1,265.15 +12.51 Jakarta Comp 449.10 +1.80 CLSA China B 839.94 -4.55 Aust All Ord 1,880.6 +1.5 FTSE 100 3,054.4 -22.3 Taeaday Prtnon lpm EST doM Dow Jones
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    Lock icon Damage from Japan quake may reach US$40b
    596 1  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO THE damage wreaked by the disastrous earthquake that hit the Japanese port city of Kobe early yesterday morning is estimated to be as high as US$4O billion (SssB billion), or roughly one per cent of Japan's gross domestic
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    S'pore bank branches, airline flights still in operation
    341 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Except for some delays and minor hitches. Singapore flights and banking business in Osaka appeared to be in order yesterday despite the massive earthquake which struck western Japan. Singapore Airlines flights to and from Kansai
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    S'pore, M'sia sign landmark pact to facilitate cooperation in defence industry
    491 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Malaysia and Singapore yesterday signed a landmark agreement on cooperation in the defence industry, after kicking off their first defence forum. Both governments will facilitate direct contact and cooperation between defencerelated companies of the
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    Asian bourses firm up as currency fears ebb
    261 1 SINGAPORE Regional stock markets yesterday ended firmer as selling pressure on their respective currencies eased. Also helping confidence were indications from the US that an interest rate hike may not emanate from the Federal Open Market Committee meeting at the end of
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    Gates sells vision of life on the infobahn
    151 1 SINGAPORE It was. in the words of someone in the audience, a master sales pitch from a master salesman. And Microsoft Corporation chairman and chief executive Bill Gates (left) addressing 3,000 computer executives and invited guests at two presentations yesterday was marketing
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    Quake-hit yen takes heat off regional units
    298 1 SINGAPORE The Japanese yen was among the casualties of a powerful earthquake that devastated the western Japanese city of Kobe. Dealers reported that the yen fell on worries about the impact of the earthquake on the Japanese economy. One dealer said it was
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Office automation output up 29%
        284 2  -  By Claire Leow THE HUMBLE typewriter was pushed aside further in favour of printers and fax machines last year, after estimated growth in office automation (OA) industry output of 29 per cent to a record $2.9 billion output. Typewriter output fell 25 per cent, while
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      Lock icon Bill Gates' visit yields exchange programme for S'pore, US groups
      485 2  -  By Kenneth James SINGAPORE Microsoft Corporation president and chief executive Bill Gates met top officials of Singapore Telecom and the National Computer Board yesterday. One result: an exchange programme for engineering personnel of the giant Seattlebased software company and the
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      Career diplomat is ambassador to Thailand
      97 2 CAREER diplomat Wong Kwok Pun has been named Singapore's ambassador to Thailand. Mr Wong, 45, who takes up his appointment today, joined the foreign service in 1975. He has previously served as first secretary in the Singapore embassy in Washington and as counsellor in
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      Forum for entrepreneurs
      36 2 THE Global Entrepreneurship Forum 1995 dubbed the first international conference of entrepreneurs in Asia kicks off tomorrow at the Raffles Convention Centre. The two-day symposium brings together well-known authorities in business and technology.
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      Sisir plans broad-based technology, quality strategies to upgrade local industry
      189 2 INDUSTRY-WIDE programmes, national quality strategies and broad-based technology will be at the forefront of plans by the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir) to upgrade local industry. This was announced yesterday by Sisir chief executive Khoo Lee Meng,
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      Marketing success of two condos diverges sharply
      380 2  -  Reports by Abdul Hadhi THE marketing of two condominium projects has met with sharply differing success. In the first project. Far East Organisation is understood to have sold slightly less than 50 of the 176 available units in Phase I of its Dover
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      Lock icon Ho Bee Group launches 24-unit Holland Hill condominium
      325 2 THE Ho Bee Group has launched a 24-unit freehold luxury condominium, 9 Holland Hill, at $1,100-51,200 a sq ft. Speaking at the launch yesterday, Edmund Tie, managing director of marketing agent Jones Lang Wootton, said the units were targeted at high net
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      Robertson Quay condo site up for tender
      235 2  -  By Lilian Ang ANOTHER industrial site in the Robertson Quay area, off River Valley Road, is set to make way for a condominium project. A Michelin Tyre Company subsidiary Societe Des Matieres Premieres Tropicales (SMPT) plans to sell its premises through a public
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      Corrections and clarifications
      69 2 IN YESTERDAY'S report headlined "Uncut Lunar New Year banknotes" we said the Board of Commissioners of Currency had issued a "Prosperity Hong Bao" set of uncut Singapore banknotes for the Lunar New Year. The board has clarified that the banknote sets are actually packaged and sold by
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      Lock icon Lingle case: all 5 fined for contempt of court
      328 2 The Straits Times ALL FIVE parties charged with contempt of court over an article by American academic Christopher Lingle were yesterday found guilty and fined a total of $20,500. High Court judge Goh Joon Seng, in passing judgment, said that there
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Malaysia caught up with the NIEs long ago, says BG Lee
      677 3  -  BG Lee's visit to Malaysia Reports Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR ALTHOUGH Malaysia has never officially been called a newly-industrialising economy, in reality it caught up with the NIEs long ago, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said
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      S'pore, M'sia can team up to boost region's influence
      560 3 SINGAPORE and Malaysia may have different views on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) grouping but more important is that both countries are strong advocates of regional cooperation. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. "1 know that Malaysia and Singapore
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon KL warns against panic house buying
        88 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR People should not rush to buy houses out of fear that prices might increase, as many housing projects are in the pipeline. Housing and Local Government Minister Ting Chew Peh yesterday said panic buying would lead to an increase in house
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        Lock icon Manila cuts public sector deficit
        96 3 AFP MANILA The Philippines has drastically reduced its consolid r PUb, S o r deficit to 7 3 bi,,ion (SS43I million) in 1994 from 34.3 billion pesos the previous year. Finance Secretary Roberto de Ocampo yesterday said that this year's shortfall represented only 0.4 per
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        Lock icon Keen competition for investment
        83 3 AFP JAKARTA China and Thailand are Indonesia's most likely competitors in attracting future foreign investment. CoordinSting Minister Hartarto Sastrosunarto yesterday said "we have to work hard to attract foreign investment because competition is quite strong within Apec, that is China and Thailand," referring to the Asia-Pacific
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      Lock icon Mahathir displeased with delay to electric train project
      253 3 Bernama KLANG Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday expressed dissatisfaction over the delay in the completion of the MSI.S billion (*****.8 million) dual track project of Keretapi Tanah Mclayu (KTM) Berhad. He said the electric train service would not be launched early this
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      195 3 Born in the engineering laboratories of Toyota, tested on AYI racetracks and confirmed with victories from some of the world's That's the sum of knowledge and experience that went into the ssJI creation and refinement of the new Celica GT. B Slicing through wind, the Celica GT cuts a CTK
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Beijing faces problems repaying foreign loans
      393 4 AFP BEIJING China is facing difficulties repaying foreign loans due to volatile exchange rates and the use of funds for low-profit or badly organised projects. A senior foreign trade official yesterday said that although there had been no "major problems" until now in repaying
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      Lock icon Li Peng on plans to step up steel exports, curb imports
      298 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's Prime Minister Li Peng said the government will take measures to increase steel exports and tighten restrictions on importing, the China Daily has reported. China's steel production rose just 3.2 per cent to 91.53
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Taipei to limit capital outflows to China
        80 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan is to set ceilings for investment in China in a bid to curb growing capital outflow to the mainland, economic officials said yesterday. The Economic Ministry will unveil a set of measures to screen China-bound investment, under which investment in
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        Lock icon China clamps down on dumping
        58 4 Reuter BEIJING China has ordered customs officials to check the prices of exports before approving them to prevent companies from dumping goods on foreign markets, the China Daily said. New rules issued by the General Administration of Customs authorise customs offices to check prices agreed
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        Lock icon Bank deposits by Chinese grow 33.5%
        85 4 Reuter BEIJING Deposits by individuals in banks have grown by an average annual 33.5 per cent since 1978 and accounted for 53.1 per cent of all bank deposits by the end of last year. Individual deposits at the end of 1994 totalled 2.152 trillion
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        Lock icon HK labour market still tight
        58 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The colony continues to have a "tight" labour market, the government said yesterday. Hongkong's unemployment rate from September to November 1994 was 2.1 per cent, and the underemployment rate was 1.4 per cent, according to the latest labour force statistics from
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      Lock icon China developing more attractions for tourists
      332 4 Reuter BEIJING Tourist arrivals from East and South-east Asia are rising rapidly and China is scrambling to develop more diversified attractions to meet demand. Liu Jiaxiang. chairman of China International Travel Service (CITS), a huge stateowned conglomerate that handles most arrivals from overseas. yesterday
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      China's GDP forecast to grow 9.3%
      440 4  -  By. Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE China's gross domestic product growth will fall to 9.3 per cent in 1995 and inflation will adjust downward to 17-18 per cent, says Hongkong-based brokerage Sun Hung Kai Research (SHKR). It sees The slowdown in China's economy, from 1994's
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon Brown announces fresh deals for US firms in India
      454 6 Reuter NEW DELHI United States Commerce Secretary Ron Brown yesterday announced more deals for American companies, bringing the total amount reaped during a ground-breaking trade mission to India to US$4 billion (555.76 billion). Mr Brown announced US$2.6 billion in fresh agreements
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      Lock icon Japan seeks subsidies to keep jobs in country
      254 6 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Labour Minister Manso Hamamoto yesterday asked an advisory panel to consider an amendment that would extend and strengthen an existing Japanese law designed to encourage exportoriented companies to keep jobs in Japan despite the effects of the strong yen. Ministry
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      Lock icon Swaying to the music
      38 6 Reuter BOMBAY Dancers from the central state of Gujarat performing at a folk festival organised here on Sunday. Folk artists and craftsmen from all over the country took part in the 10-day festival. Reuter
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      Lock icon Canberra approves A$100m rifles sale to Indonesia
      290 6 AFP SYDNEY The Australian government has approved the sale of military rifles to Indonesia in what would be one of its biggest and more controversial defence deals with Jakarta. A foreign affairs department spokesman said yesterday that approval in principle was given last
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Co-op plan problematic: Japan official
        62 6 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Ryutaro Hashimoto, head of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, yesterday repeated that an "unprecedented" plan by the Bank of Japan to rescue bankrupt credit co-operatives is "problematic". The BOJ announced in eariy December that it will set up a new bank
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        Lock icon Seoul defers financial reform plan
        76 6 AFP SEOUL The South Korean government has decided to temporarily shelve a reform plan that would have allowed individuals to invest in real estate overseas. ofTicials said yesterday. The decision came amid concerns over the rapid exodus of funds from the local real estate market,
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        Lock icon 4 Indian firms plan infrastructure tie-up
        81 6 Bloomberg Business News BOMBAY Hoping to capitalise on the huge demand for infrastructure, four Indian companies plan to set up a joint venture that will finance and build roads, ports and airports, the Economic limes reported yesterday. The new company, tentatively called Maharashtra Infrastructure
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        Lock icon Indian state bans alcohol sales
        68 6 Reuter BOMBAY The new government in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh imposed a ban on most alcohol sales yesterday despite protests from liquor shop and bar owners and the annual loss of US$4OO million (SSSBO million) in revenues. The ban is expected to
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      Lock icon NZ core inflation rate close to breaking ceiling
      239 6 Reuter WELLINGTON Inflation figures released yesterday confirm suspicions that New Zealand's core inflation rate is near breaking the central bank's inflation ceiling, forcing it to defend its credibility, economists say. Under the Reserve Bank Act, the Reserve Bank is mandated to keep
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      158 6 ft At Federal Express we take a highly balanced view of all we do. Which is why we believe in shipping heavy freight with the same efficiency and speed as smaller packages. Simply because that's the way the real world operates. For example, what good is shipping a customer's software
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon German growth set to slow with new taxes
      430 7 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT The German government is reaching deeper into consumers' pockets this year with new taxes that promise to slow growth in Europe's largest economy. Germans, already hit with tax increases in recent years, are being asked to cough up
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      Lock icon 180 countries prepare for anti-poverty summit
      190 7 AFP UNITED NATIONS The United Nations anti-poverty summit next March has ambitious goals and a controversial agenda lifting one billion people out of poverty, creating 800 million jobs and increasing social spending. A total of 180 countries on Monday began the last preparatory meeting
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    • WATCH
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        Lock icon France's 3rd qtr GDP grew 0.8%
        150 7 Reuter PARIS The French national statistics office, Insee, has revised slightly upwards its figure for economic growth in the third quarter of last year. Figures released yesterday showed gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.8 per cent in the three months from July to
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        Lock icon Chretien vows to lower budget deficit
        91 7 Bloomberg Business News OTTAWA Prime Minister Jean Chretien has renewed his pledge to lower the budget deficit to 3 per cent of GDP in two years' time, with the help of strong economic growth. Mr Chretien's comments on Monday followed last week's 50-basis point
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        Lock icon Dole may run for US president
        105 7 Reuter WASHINGTON United States Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole is leaning towards standing for president in 1996, although he has stopped short of making a formal announcement of his intentions. "We have an exploratory committee. I think we're leaning in that direction," Mr Dole
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      Lock icon Long arm of the law
      82 7 Reuter MOGADISHU, Somalia A man accused in the Northern Mogadishu Syariah court of drinking being given 40 lashes by a judge on Sunday while passers-by looked on. Syariah law, implemented in certain parts of Mogadishu, has served to brine down the level of lawlessness in
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      Lock icon UK to open all sectors of electricity market
      156 7 AFP LONDON Britain's electricity supply industry regulator said on Monday all sectors of the market should be open to competition by 1998. Stephen Littlechild, director general of Office of Electricity Regulation, said he wanted to see increased competition in all markets, with
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      Lock icon European Commission prepares for confirmation vote
      304 7 Reuter STRASBOURG, Francc The incoming European Commission ended a day of talks on Monday to prepare for a possible showdown with the European parliament in a confirmation vote later this week. Commission president-des-ignate Jacques Santer said he and his 19 colleagues had agreed not
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      Lock icon US govt files charges against disaster loan fraudsters
      474 12 AP LOS ANGELES In what is believed to be the biggest ease of disaster loan fraud in US history, criminal charges have been filed against 10 suspects who allegedly took part in a scheme to defraud the government of millions of dollars
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      Lock icon Cutting capital gains tax good for economy: Fed governor
      257 12 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Cutting the tax rate on income from capital gains would bolster US economic growth, Federal Reserve Governor Lawrence Lindsey said yesterday. On the other hand, a middle-class tax cut, as currently proposed, isn't large enough to give
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      Lock icon For the rights of sheep
      70 12 Reuter BRIGHTLINGSEA, England Police trying to remove animal rights protesters from the front of a Range Rover belonging to local sheep farmer Richard Otley, who was trying to make his way to Brightlingsea port on Monday. Protesters successfully tuned away a single lorry attempting to
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      Lock icon Brazil underestimates December trade deficit to the tune of US$1b
      320 12 NYT SAO PAULO Brazil's government has underestimated the country's trade deficit for December by up to US$l billion (551.45 billion) due to a series of mishaps and errors. The unexpectedly big deficit will renew concern about rising imports and the
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      Lock icon American retailers bigger, but Asians and Europeans bolder
      381 12 Bloomberg Business News LATWP NEW YORK US retailers outdid their foreign rivals in size in a survey of the world's 100 biggest retailers, but European and Asian retailers were bolder when it came to expanding abroad, according to the consulting firm Management
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  • WORLD FOCUS
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      Republicans see room for cuts but will the heartland agree?
      1323 13  -  Washington's balanced-budget amendment From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON NO OTHER proposal in the Republican "Contract With America" has created as much controversy as the bal-anced-budget amendment. Critics say the proposed amendment to the US constitution is a legislative smoke-and-mirrors mechanism,
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      932 13 Epson unleashes 720 dpi color ink-jet printer that produces near-photographic images Using a proprietary its R&D expense seems to have L. r paid off. The quality of images provided by Epson piezoelectric print head technology, Epso contrasting its output to that of Canon's 360 dpi BJChas managed to squeeze high-resolution
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Becker, Ivanisevic, Sabatini knocked out in 1st round
      718 14 Australian Open Reuter AP MELBOURNE First it was Goran Ivanisevic, followed by Gabriela Sabatini. Then, deep into the evening, Boris Becker. Three of the biggest names in tennis fell at the first hurdle yesterday at the Australian Open tennis championships after seeds
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      Lock icon Rafter: new Aussie hero and heart-throb of teenaged tennis fans
      371 14 AP MELBOURNE He doesn't wear a checkered headband and has yet to win Wimbledon. But Fat Rafter has more in common with Pat Cash than first names. Like Cash, Rafter has lots of ability, a similar attacking game and has
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      Lock icon Europeans lining up strong squad to face Americans
      595 14 Golf Reuter LONDON The drive for Ryder Cup points shifts up a gear with the start of the new European golf season this week, but already the team to face the Americans in September has a healthy look about it. The stalwarts
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    • SPORT
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        Basketball
        110 14 INDIANAPOLIS Karl Malone scored a season-high 42 points as the Utah Jazz won their 13th straight toad game, matching the second longest road streak in NBA history with a 99-98 win over the Indiana Pacers on Monday. The Jazz equalled the road streak of the 1964-65 Celtics. The all-time
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        Cricket
        46 14 AUCKLAND The West Indies won the second match of their New Zealand tour, against Auckland yesterday, by 105 runs. Scores: West Indies 206 for nine in 50 overs (W Benjamin 74). Auckland 101 in 35.2 overs (W Benjamin four for 10, KArthurton four for 26).
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        Lock icon Golf
        145 14 Reuter PONTIC VKDRA, Florida US PGA Tour leading money winners this year (US unless noted): 1 John Morse U*****,000 2 Steve Elkington (Aust) 180.000 3 Tom Lehman 140,850 4 Bill Glasson 117,600 5 Bruce Lietzke 108,000 6 DufTy Waldorf 105,600 7 John Huston 67,450 8 Mark Brooks 61,450 9
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        Lock icon Motor-racing
        79 14 Reuter LONDON The British Pacific Formula One motor racing team confirmed on Monday that Japanese businessman Ko Gotoh was taking a major shareholding in the team. The deal took cficct on Dcc 30 last year. Gotoh is establishing a separate company in Japan to attract and develop sponsorship for
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        Tennis
        328 14 MELBOURNE Australian Open Ist rd, second day yesterday Men; Patrick McEnroe (US) b 3-Boris Becker (Ger) 6-3, 64, 7-6 (7-4). Patrick Rafter (Aust) b Jakob Hlasek (Swi) 6-3 1-6 5-7 7-6 (7-5) 6-3; 2-Andre Agassi (US) b Grant Stafford (SA) 6-2 64 6-2; Mark Woodforde (Aust) b Arnaud Boetsch
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        Lock icon Yachting
        49 14 Reuter SAN DIEGO America's Cup racing was cancellcd on Monday when winds 15 to 20 knots and confused seas of up to 7.6 metres made it impossible for the boats to safely leave the harbour and race. The racing day will be rescheduled later this month, officials said.
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      405 14 Run-up to Superbowl XXIX AP SANTA CLARA, California Should they even bother to play this game? Carmen Policy, the president of the San Francisco 49ers, said in his euphoria that the Super Bowl would be anticlimactic after his team met its year-long goal
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      673 14  -  Can the Chargers look at the video of the first 49ers game and make changes that turn the game their way on the big day? Thomas George poses the question Thomas George NYT SAN FRANCISCO They bolted to a 21-0 lead. It was all
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      486 17 British actor Nigel Hawthorne is given two days off from his London engagement to boost his Oscar chances Reuter Hollywood loves British actor Nigel Hawthorne so much that it paid a London theatre to close for two days so he could go on a US media
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      216 17 AP PINK M&M's anyone? How about purple or blue? Sweet-toothed Americans began voting on Monday for the newest colour to be added to the bags of coated chocolate drops. M&M-Mars is looking to spice up its 55-year-old candy to reflect the changing colour preferences of
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      302 17 tUMlt—BMt AP AP AP AP FAYE DUNAWAY and Andrew Lloyd Webber are making beautiful music together again. The composer and the onetime singing star of the Los Angeles production of Sunset Boulevard, who was dumped before the show opened on Broadway, announced a private
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      1129 17 Heart of 8.30pm, Cfi A hunting expedition becomes an unplanned rescue mission. We look a ißn who puts personal safety when people tioors need to he sa\cd. X Migrating Wildebeests, 9pm, 1 Chl2 r m The wildebeest or gnu is one of Jfc '^gg the largest antelopes in Africa. ;;9
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    497 18 tiBDITORUM K.i. m A TEMPORARY SOLUTION appears to be in sight for Mexico's three-week old currency crisis. Over the weekend, the Clinton Administration in a major confi-dence-building move agreed to provide Mexico with US$4O billion in loan guarantees. Though details of the bailout are still being worked
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      Hold moneymen to their word
      260 18 A BETTER UNDERSTANDING of how fund managers work may explain why they are far from infallible investors. They may start out with a concept, but soon get sidetracked by the need to be expedient, as they live and die by the monthly performance tables and
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      Reflect actual value of income rise
      127 18 THE AVERAGE INCOME of middle-aged households increased in 1993. The households have been able not only to consume more and better goods and services, but they have also enhanced their asset holdings. This was revealed by figures in an occasional report on household statistics
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      Towards a more beautiful city
      158 18 THE UPGRADING of three old blocks in Kim Keat, which took two years, has finally been completed. The new look of Kim Keat Court can dispel all worries of other residents waiting for their flats to be upgraded. Those who voted against the upgrading programme
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      Lessons of a deflated bubble
      126 18 BEGINNING in 1987, years of consistent economic growth and high savings coincided with financial deregulation to leave Japan with mountains of cash with precious few places to go. The result was an orgy of speculation and spiralling asset prices that has now become famously known
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      It's tough serving two masters
      224 18 THE LONGSTANDING SPLIT between China and the Vatican is in no one's interest, and it is heartening that priests and nuns representing the state-sanctioned Catholic church prayed with Pope John Paul in Manila, and expressed spiritual allegiance to him. Those are steps in the right
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      Can they make the charges stick?
      176 18 IT WOULD BE comforting for Hongkong's lawabiding citizens to know that droves of key members of the territory's largest triad society were under lock and key if there was any guarantee that they would stay there. Unfortunately, if history repeats itself, they will not.
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    850 18  -  He was once a symbol of stability; now he's a threat to it, says Georgi Arbatov, who advocates support for democracy rather than for a crumbling pillar Georgi Arbatov The writer is director of the Institute for USA and Canada Studies in Moscow
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      703 18 INDONESIA MALAYSIA TAIW^ N C**' LIMITED s Incorporated in Singapore NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Thirteenth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Crescent Room A, Level 2, Four Seasons Hotel, 190 Orchard Boulevard, Singapore 1024 on Tuesday, 21 February
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      M'sia: higher growth with 'zero inflation'?
      1589 19  -  Special to BT ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 95 GHAZALI ATAN GHAZALI ATAN The writer is chief economist with SJ Securities Sdn Bhd, based in Kuala Lumpur GIVEN the inflationrelated growth phobia in the United States and elsewhere, Malaysia's performance in 1994 has left many economy watchers
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      1668 19  -  BT's countrv-bv-countrv assessment of regional economies HO KAY TAT HO KAY TAT The writer is BT's Kuala Lumpur Correspondent Engineering executive Alan Boudville (not his real name) is a very happy man. He greeted 1995 with a monthly pay packet that is three times the M
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      81 19 KEPPEL FINANCE LIMITED (IncapotaM N ftefaiMc ol Sinflapow) ANNOUNCEMENT Foreign Shareholdings Pursuant to Article 23(4) of the Articles of Association of the Company, it is hereby announced that from declarations received by the Company from shareholders and from information supplied by the Central Depository (Pte) J Limited, 10.29% of the
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    Lock icon US Industrial output jumped 1% in December: Fed
    483 20 Reuter Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Production at US factories and mines surged ahead strongly in December, the Federal Reserve said yesterday, as businesses ran at their busiest rate in piore than 1S years. Total industrial output rose one per cent, the strongest
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    363 20 Reuter MOSCOW George Soros, one of the world's most influential investors, is worried Russia's hard-line policy on Chechnya is spilling over into Economic policy. "I'm very disturbed by the prospects in Russia," said the Hungarian-born financier, who has billions of dollars at his disposal
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    Lock icon Berlusconi ministers left out of new cabinet line-up
    349 20 Bloomberg Business News MILAN Italy's prime min-ister-designate, Lamberto Dini, yesterday presented a list of ministers that doesn't include any members of outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's cabinet. The exception is Mr Dini himself, who will remain Treasury Minister the position he held
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    Japan, US move closer on Apec agenda
    293 20  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO JAPAN and the United States have come closer to agreeing on a common agenda for the development of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. following last week's summit meeting in Washington, officials said last night. Yoshihiro Sakamoto, viceminister
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    Lock icon Geneva boasts highest quality of living worldwide: survey
    308 20 AP Reuter GENEVA Citizens here enjoy the highest quality of living in the world. A survey of 118 cities, published yesterday, showed the Swiss lakeside city was followed by Vancouver, Vienna, Toronto and Luxembourg. Singapore was the leading Asian city, in ninth
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    EU's new executive team to pay more attention to Asia
    928 20  -  The Bottom Line SHADA ISLAM SHADA ISLAM THE CHANGE of guard at the European Union's Executive Commission on Jan 25 is being viewed with a mixture of relief and apprehension by diplomats working in Brussels. The 20 commissioners getting ready
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    202 20 Bernama NEW DELHI The ExportImport Bank of India has impressed upon Indian exporters to take advantage of the growing markets of South-east Asia, which is being hailed as "the engine of world economic growth", A recent Exim study found that the cumulative
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      249 20 TECHNOLOGY Tomorrow in Business Times Reach the ASEAN Electronics Market through asiaHS —-GL6CTRONICS '95 "Towards Mimatwization Conference and Exhibition on Miniaturization and Portable/Handheld Electronics Design The 11th exhibition of electronics components, parts and assembles for electronics manufacturing 27 30 September 1995, Suntec City, Singapore I Don't fall behind in the
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      15 20 Tomorrow in Business Times The writer, a Brussels-based correspondent, contributed this article to Business Times
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        MARKET MOOD
        46 21 Mixed 'Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Alliance, Baring, Daiwa, Fraser, GK Goh. Kay Hian. Morgan Grenfell. OngCo, Nomura, Phillip, Smith New Court, WI Carr and SG Warburg.
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        HOT STOCK
        105 21  -  By Quak Hiang Whai DESPITE its seven-cent rise to $2.25 yesterday, Wing Tai Holdings remains an attractive stock at the current level. Daily and weekly RSIs and stochastics are still in the oversold region and are turning upwards, showing some signs of bullish divergences. The daily MACD also
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      Cosco to buy shophouses from Scotts group for $37.2m
      354 21  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Scotts Holdings expects to make a profit of $8 million on the sale of 13 shop houses to Cosco Investment (Singapore), the locally listed subsidiary of the China Ocean Shipping Co. Scotts said yesterday its wholly owned
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      Glamourette MD to buy Alliance's 49% stake
      217 21  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE Alliance Technology and Development Ltd intends to sell its 49 per cent stake in Glamourette Plus Trading Pte Ltd for $4.3 million to Glamourette managing director Choong Kian Haw. The sale comprises 980,000 shares of 1.00 each. Glamourette is
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      Lock icon IPC, NEC and Motorola each bidding for 10% stake in Bull
      218 21 Reuter PARIS Japan's NEC, America's Motorola and Singapore's IPC, the French holding Quadral and probably a consortium led by Dassault Eletronique's Dassault Automatismes have each bid for a stake of at least 10 per cent in Bull, a newspaper
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      Hitch a ride on hotel sector's upward climb
      857 21  -  HOCK LOCK SiEW By William Chia SINGAPORE The recent plunge on the Singapore bourse, as on other South-east Asian stock markets, has thrown up bargains, among which are some hotel stocks. Hotel stocks were among the top gainers last year as investors
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      Stic arm joins hands with DHL for logistics venture
      192 21  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE The logistics arm of Singapore Technologies Industrial Corp (Stic) has signed a memorandum of understanding with DHL International Singapore to jointly market and provide express logistics services in the region. In a joint statement yesterday, the partners
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      Sembawang, L&M form building firm in India
      184 21 SINGAPORE Sembawang Construction (Semcon) and the listed L&M group have formed a 50-50 joint venture company to tap the construction market in India. An agreement for the new company was signed yesterday. The two groups said it would undertake building and infrastructure projects,
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          OCBC declares foreign holdings
          29 22 SINGAPORE Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp said yesterday that foreigners held 39.25 per cent of its issued share capital and 39.68 per cent of its warrants 1995.
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          Berger liquidates Thai associate
          58 22 SINGAPORE Berger International has liquidated a dormant associate called BSH Thailand. The associate was incorporated with paid-up capital of 1 million baht (5557,700), ot which 490,000 baht was from Berger. Berger said there was no need for the associate after the group acquired a paint operation
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          Marco Polo refutes report
          45 22 SINGAPORE Marco Polo Developments has refuted a Business l imes article on Jan 14 reporting rumours that it was trying to sell Ardmore Park for about $900 million. It said it was "not engaged in any negotiation to dispose the property".
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          DBS Land sets up new subsidiary
          53 22 SINGAPORE DBS Land has incorporated a wholly owned subsidiary, Hollandale Realty, to develop a bungalow site of 30,000 sq m in the Holland Road residential area. Hollandale Realty has an authorised and paid-up capital of 1 million. The 99-year leasehold site can accommodate about
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          Southern Bank to have two quotes
          59 22 SINGAPORE Clob counter Southern Bank will have two quotes from today. Shares not entitled to any dividend or other distribution which may be declared for the financial year to Dec 31, 1994 will be quoted as Southern Bank Bhd A, while those entitled to
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        Austral Enterprises sweetens rights issue with bonus offer
        260 22  -  From Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR PLANTATION-based Austral Enterprises Bhd plans a major cash call with a two-for-three rights issue to raise M 5202.7 million (S$ 115.2 million). In a statement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, the company also proposed
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        Bank Negara economics adviser to join broker
        249 22  -  From Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR ONE of Malaysia's top three central bankers, economics adviser Zainal Aznam Mohamed Yusof, has opted not to renew his contract with Bank Negara and will join brokerage Kleinwort Benson Research (Malaysia) as its South-east Asian regional economist.
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        Lock icon Derivatives, by any other name
        353 22 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The recent craze in the securitisation business in Asian markets has brought about the emergence of instruments which, on close examination, are nothing but some forms of derivatives. Managing director of Advanced Risk Management Solutions Pte Ltd, Ralph Yiehmin Liu, said such
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        Lock icon MGIC broking arm expands to serve institutions
        174 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian General Investment Corporation Bhd (MGIC) is geared to expand its stockbroking business to be more institu-tion-based, its executive vicechairman said yesterday. Mohd Ghazali Mohd Khalid said its wholly-owned subsidiary, Charles Bradburne Co (1930) Sdn Bhd, would double its staff
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        Berjaya presses on with Philippine air-con plant
        301 23  -  From Al Labita in MANILA MALAYSIA'S Berjaya Group was pushing ahead with plans to set up an air-conditioning equipment factory in the Philippines, its Manila partner said yesterday. "The project will proceed and we are trying to find a suitable area," said the
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        Lock icon Wang in talks to sell rest of Taiwan stake to President
        204 23 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Wang Laboratories lnc is negotiating to sell the remainder of its stake in what used to be its Taiwan subsidiary to President Enterprises Corp. The Massachusetts-based computer maker that emerged from bankruptcy protection in September
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        Lock icon Ayala plans to raise funds through convertible notes
        177 23 Reuter MANILA Ayala Corp of the Philippines plans to launch dollar-denominated convertible notes and peso-denominated preferred shares simultaneously by the middle of the year, a company official said. Vice-president for strategic planning, Rufino Luis Manotoc, said in an interview that Ayala, one
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        Lock icon Rolls-Royce seeks partners in Indonesia for expansion
        257 23 Bernama JAKARTA British aerospace and industrial manufacturer Rolls-Royce pic is seeking Indonesian partners to expand its business here, including making components for gas turbines. "I think within the next five years we will be able to expand our business in Indonesia," the Jakarta
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          92 23 Reuter TAIPEI Tuntex Distinct Corp, one of Taiwan's leading chemical fibre and construction firms, expects to issue a stock dividend of NT$2 (S$0.11) a share this year, company chairman Chen Yu-how said yesterday. "We will suggest to our board of directors and shareholders' meeting to issue a stock
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          Lock icon Benetton's sales rise 4%
          56 23 AP PONZANO VENETO, Italy Benetton, Italy's leading clothing manufacturer and frequent target of controversy for taboo-break-ing advertising, reported on Monday that 1994 sales rose more than 4 per cent. The group also announced it sold 64.5 million garments worldwide last year, a 12.7 per cent increase
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          Lock icon Coke to market iced teas
          86 23 Bloomberg Business News ATLANTA Coca-Cola Co plans to introduce iced teas shortly under its Fruitopia brand, which includes only juice drinks. A person familiar with the plan confirmed it on Monday after a report in Brandwcek magazine. A spokesman for Coke declined to comment on
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          Lock icon Kao to invest US$15m in China
          69 23 AFP TOKYO Japan's Kao Corp yesterday said it will inject US$l5 million (5521.7 million) into its Shanghai joint venture to finance an increase in production capacity for hair and skin care products. The leading cosmetics producer said the joint venture, Kao Corp Shanghai, will
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          Lock icon Mcintosh Securities unit in merger
          49 23 Reuter MELBOURNE Australia's only listed stockbroker, Mcintosh Securities Ltd, yesterday said it has agreed to merge its whollyowned Roach Mcintosh with privately-owned broker McKinley Wilson Ltd. Mcintosh is 20 per cent owned by Baring Securities pic. Roach Mcintosh is Mcintosh's private client unit. Reutcr
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        466 23 MARKET WATCH Reuter KARACHI Pakistani stocks, hit by political uncertainty, bleak economic prospects and a global downturn in emerging markets, could stay in the doldrums for the first six months of 1995. "We are looking at a very stagnant market which, apart from
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        Lock icon Saatchi calls shareholder meeting to change name
        540 24 Reuter LONDON Strife-torn British advertising group Saatchi Saatchi Co pic yesterday brushed aside the impact of a month of chaos and announced an extraordinary shareholders meeting on March 16 to discuss changing its name. It said in a statement it had also set
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        Lock icon Nichimen plans Turkmenistan cable project
        118 24 AFP TOKYO Japan's Nichimen Corp plans to lay a 967-kilo-metre optical fibre cable network in Turkmenistan as part of a trans-Eurasian network from Frankfurt to Shanghai, a spokesman said yesterday. The Japanese trading house said it would provide finance, procure the equipment and build the
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        Lock icon Dutch telecom company seeks to speed up New York listing
        373 24 IHT AMSTERDAM KPN, the Dutch post and telecommunication and monopoly undergoing privatisation, said on Monday that it would likely seek a listing on the New York Stock Exchange as early as September. Koninklijke PTT Nederland NV wants to speed up
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        Lock icon Walt Disney, phone companies may tie up in video programming
        153 24 NYT NEW YORK Walt Disney Co and its three partners Ameritech, SBC Communications and Bell South are close to investing a total of US$5OO million (***** million) in a venture to help provide video programming to their telephone customers, according
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        Lock icon Canada's 3 tobacco giants face C$3m class action suit
        400 24 Bloomberg Business News TORONTO Canada's three biggest tobacco companies are being sued by three Ontario smokers for Cs3 million (553.07 million) in what could be the country's first class-ac-tion tobacco liability lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed on Friday in a Toronto court,
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        Lock icon Sanyo in cordless phone venture in China
        227 24 Bloomberg Business News AP TOKYO Sanyo Electric Co, a major Japanese electronics manufacturer, will set up a joint venture to manufacture cordless telephones in China. Sanyo yesterday said its 50-50 joint venture with Tianjin Telephone Equipment Factory of the Ministry of Posts and
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        Asean currency investors keep their cool despite Mexico crisis
        413 25  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE Retail investors in Asean currencies have kept their cool, despite the upset caused by the Mexican financial crisis. Treasury managers said yesterday there had been no panic withdrawal of offshore deposits in Asean currencies. A bank
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      • SMALL CHANGE
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          Lock icon Bank of Thailand's swap facility
          56 25 Reuter BANGKOK The Bank of Thailand's (BOT) special one-week 9.5 per cent swap facility will be available to foreign banks today, a BOT spokeswoman said. The BOT is also considering allowing small Thai banks, which may have baht liquidity problems, to use the facility, the
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          Lock icon Thai firm delays 1.2b baht bond sale
          58 25 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK International Engineering pic, the country's largest distributor of mobile phones, has delayed its planned sale of 1.2 billion baht (Ss69 million) worth of bonds with attached warrants because of poor market conditions. The Nation reported. The company had planned
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          Lock icon Hongkong Bank's new chief in KL
          78 25 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Hongkong Bank Malaysia Bhd has appointed Michael Roger Pearson Smith as the executive director and deputy chief executive effective Thursday to replace Chris Tatham who will assume a senior position in Midland Bank, UK. Hongkong Bank in a statement yesterday said
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          Lock icon Orange County's new underwriters
          69 25 Bloomberg Business News SANTA ANA, California Orange County has been advised by "interim Treasurer Thomas Daxon to hire Goldman Sachs Co, and AG Edwards Inc as underwriters, to assist it if the county tries to sell bonds to cover this fiscal year's US$l72 million (***** million)
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        Lock icon Siam City Bank plans joint venture with ING Bank
        296 25 Reuter Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Siam City Bank has signed a memorandum of understanding with Internationale Nederlanden Bank NV Group (ING Bank) to apply for a licence to establish a new venture Siam City ING Asset Management Co Ltd. The joint
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        Lock icon Sydney exchange planning to list Asia's equity derivatives
        515 26 Reuter SYDNEY The head of the Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) said the SFE hopes to become Asia's main centre for trading equity and commodities derivatives and is studying plans to list equity derivatives of the region's top stocks. By 2000, Asia-Pacific will
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        Lock icon Oil refineries in S'pore shut in March for maintenance
        230 26 Reuter SINGAPORE Production at Singapore's five refineries is expected to stay high until March when a 90,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude distiller at Singapore Refining Co (SRC) is scheduled for a 10-day maintenance, trade sources said. SRC sources added that
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        Lock icon Aramco cuts off crude to Rabigh refinery: report
        195 26 Reuter MUSCAT Saudi Aramco cut off crude oil supplies to the Rabigh refinery effective Jan 1, because of financial disputes with its joint venture partner, a Saudi oil source said on Monday. The refinery, on the Red Sea coast north of Jeddah,
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        Lock icon Vietnam set to overtake Indonesia as top coffee exporter in Asia
        324 26 Reuter AP SINGAPORE Vietnam is set to overtake Indonesia as the top Asian coffee exporter in three to four years, said Adrian Mallet, managing director of ED&F Man Commodity Services Pte Ltd. "In the next three to four years
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        Lock icon Phased plan for gas field dashes Kazakh hopes
        336 26 FT LONDON The western and Russian partners in the proposed development of the huge Karachaganak natural gas field in Kazakhstan have decided to adopt a phased approach to the project, thus dashing the Kazakh government's hopes for an early commitment to full-scale
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        Lock icon Reduced supplies in Asia send Chicago Board of Trade rice futures limit up
        355 26 Bloomberg Business News CHICAGO Rice futures at the Chicago Board of Trade soared the daily trading limit amid speculation that reduced supplies in Asia will bring buyers to the US. Rough rice for March delivery rose the
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        1557 26 rode wetfhied index eakulaltxl again.\t S'par'i lop 14 trading partner, Base /W USS/SS forward rates Noon Jan 17 ss Bid Offer 1-month 1.44)2 1.4447 2-month 1.4402 1.4417 3-month 1.4378 1 4393 6-month 1 4302 1.4322 Stnnr (X BC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9m on Jan 16
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        295 26 ENERGY REPORT Reuter LONDON International oil prices firmed for the second consecutive day yesterday as US petrol continued to set the pace for the rest of the energy complex, brokers said. Atlantic Basin benchmark Brent crude for March delivery on the International Petroleum Exchange stood
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        189 26 Reuter LONDON The dollar got a short-lived shot in the arm by upbeat US capacity utilisation and industrial production data for December after failing to maintain gains made in the wake of a devastating earthquake in Japan. The stronger-than-expected figures reign ited expectations the Federal Reserve will
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        89 26 Reuter NEW YORK The dollar rose slightly yesterday after the government announced US industrial production in December rose one per cent and the factory operating rate was at a healthy 85.4 per cent. At 9:50 am (1450 GMT), the dollar traded at 1.5335 German marks unchanged from Friday.
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        1288 27 SIMCX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollars were easier and Euroyen futures were firmer at the close. Dealer said trading in Eurodollars was volatile with the lead June contract reaching an intra-day high of 92.72 before closing lower on profit taking. "It looks like a lot of
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        Steady London prices boost KL tin
        672 27 COMMODITY REPORTS KL Tin TIN price on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market closed five sen higher to MS 15.35 per kg, in line with the steadier performance on the London Metal Exchange overnight. Three-month tin on the LME rose USSS to U556,185 per tonne.
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          73 27 LONDON The Western world aluminium market will experience an 850,000-tonne supplydemand deficit in 1995, compared with a deficit of 470,000 tonnes in 1994, according to Angus MacMillan. analyst at LME ring-dealing member Billiton Metals Ltd. Billiton estimates that Western World production will rise to IS million
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          84 27 SYDNEY Australia's drought-stricken sorghum production is under threat from a potential mice plague in southern Queensland. The state government authorities there said mice numbers had been building and are now on the verge of plague proportions in the grain-producing Darting Downs region. Department of Lands
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          68 27 HANOI Vietnam expects to raise coffee export by 20 per cent in 1995, from 2.5 million 60-kilo gram bags of coffee beans in the 1994 crop, indus try officials here said. The Cocoa and Coffet Association said three million bags are likely to b< exported
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          Zambian copper producer to sell mint
          78 27 LONDON Zambia Consolidated Copper Mine (ZCCM) announced yesterday it was offering it: Chambishi copper mine for sale by tender. The proposed sale has been approved by the ZCCV board and the Zambia Privatisation Agency and i;. expected to start before the end of this
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1397 27 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchiitgo (fHtHTM dMiMf m at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Feb 95 248.00 248.00 249.00 ilo 825 Mar 248.75 248.75 250.50 125 1125 Apr 254.00 254.00 252.50 250 3750 May 254.00 254.00 252.50 250 3800
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        Australia
        1060 28 +1.5 The Australian share market closed fractionally firmer yesterday as strength in some of the blue chips led the market out of a small dip into negative territory, brokers said. "There's been a lot of trade in the major stocks they've really held up the market today," said John
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        Manila
        632 28 +69.99 The Philippine stock market shot up 2.8 per cent but analysts said this was largely a technical rally and declined to say if it could be sustained. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose by 69.99 points to hit 2,554.40 points after a 2.37-point rise on Monday, the
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        Taipei
        556 28 -20.86 The Taipei bourse yesterday chalked up a marginal loss in light trading amid wait-and-see sentiment, dampened by textiles and pulp and paper shares, dealers said. The 414-issue Weighted Price Index on the Taiwan Stock Exchange declined 20.86 points, or 0.32 per cent, to settle at 6,515.79 points, after
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        Seoul
        470 28 -0.92 Share prices finished in negative territory for the fourth consecutive trading day yesterday on the Korea Stock Exchange, despite government efforts to boost the market, brokers said. The Composite Price Index inched down 0.92 point to close at 956.96 points, on moderate trading volume of 32.8 million shares
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        New Zealand
        310 28 +7.4 Blue chip share index posted a modest gain on reasonable volume which brokers said was the heaviest for the year so far. The NZSE-40 Capital Index gained 7.4 points to 1,935.58 although the smaller companies index fell 12.45 to 3,884.61. C S First Boston broker Phil Hardie-Boys
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        97 28 -16.87 Share prices lost ground on the Bombay Stock Exchange, India's largest bourse, yesterday. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index slipped 16.87 points to 3,636.30 points. Analyst Ajit Ambani said trading was mixed with foreign and domestic financial institutions continuing to pick up offerings. Associated Cement Co was unchanged at
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        London
        651 28 -223 Shares closed lower, depressed by growing fears of US interest rate hikes and a general lack of investor interest. The FTSE 100 Index finished down 22.3 points at 3,054.4 but dealers noted that selling pressure had been very modest. Shares opened a shade higher following Monday's gains. But
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        Toronto
        320 28 -6.49 Stocks fell early as a battered Canadian dollar undermined gains in several heavyweight sectors, traders said. The TSE 300 Index dropped 6.49 points to 4158.24 in light volume of 8.47 million shares valued at C 5114.29 million. Declining issues outpaced advances, 175 to 161, with 216 stocks unchanged.
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        Paris
        137 28 -15.87 French shares ended a lacklustre day lower as stronger than expected US data weighed on a market which had no direction of its own. Shares had started firm on dollar stability but lost ground at midday even before US December industrial production and capacity utilisation data were published.
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        Frankfurt
        161 28 -1.77 German shares sliped to minor losses by close of bourse session as supportive shortcovering faded and DAX futures drifted lower. Weaker dollar was also unsettling players. Shares were seen to be flat to slightly lower in post-bourse trade. The DAX Index ended down 1.77 points at 2.083.87. March
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        Amsterdam
        253 28 -1.49 Shares opened ahead but lost their early momentum and took a late knock after Wall Street fell on strong US economic data, perceived as increasing the chances of a rate rise to brake growth. The AEX Index fell 1.49 points to 413.89, with the January future down 1.81
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        Brussels
        164 28 -9.24 Belgian shares resumed their recent downtrend, edging lower throughout most of the day as buyers deserted the market. Higher bond yields, strong US data and a relatively easier dollar all weighed on sentiment. The Bel-20 Index of leading shares closed 9.24 points or 0.67 per cent lower at
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        New York
        736 28 -8.07 The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 8.07 points to 3924.27 at 11 am EST. The key barometer was down 12.78 points shortly after the market opened. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index was ahead 0.24 to 256.05, while Standard Poors 500-stock Index was up 0.72
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        Zurich
        250 28 -5.98 Swiss shares slipped into negative territory in afternoon trading on a lack of positive stimulus, dealers said. Market sentiment was depressed by lower share prices on Wall Street and better than expected data for US industrial production, dealers added. SMI index of leading shares was down 8.7 points
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        Stockholm
        112 28 -4.35 Swedish stocks finished mixed yesterday amid declining European markets, as lower prices for Astra AB and LM Ericsson helped pare morning gains. The benchmark OMX Index of 30 leading Swedish stocks fell 4.35 points, or 0.37 per cent, to 1171.05 after rising as much as 7.88 points earlier
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        Milan
        130 28 -119 Italian stocks slumped minutes before the close, finishing 1.11 per cent lower on the day, amid speculation that the list of ministers proposed by prime ministerdesignate Lamberto Dini won't get enough support to enable him to form a government. The Milan all-share Mibtel Index closed 119 lower at
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        Johannesburg
        304 28 -91.8 South African shares finished another bearish day sharply lower yesterday as concern about foreign investor sentiment and a lack of support factors left buyers sidelined for the second straight day, dealers said. Dealers said most declines had been on limited volumes, but some key shares had attracted steady
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      2960 29 HONGKONG Shares rallied for the second day in a row on continued foreign buying as the market started to recover from deep losses last week. But selling emerged as investors moved to lock in profits on the counters posting strongest gains. Futures remained volatile. "I think it's veiy questionable
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      570 29 CLSA HONGKONG H shares continued Monday's upward trend on enlarged trading volume. The CLSA H Index ended up 8.6 per cent on turnover of HK595.7 million, doubling the previous day's volume. Bohai Chemical Maanshan Steel were the largest gainers, up 18.4 per cent and 15.1 per cent respectively on
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      2504 29 AP AFP TOKYO A devastating earthquake in western Japan sent shock waves through financial markets yesterday, prompting a selloff in the Japanese yen and of stock in companies likely to suffer from the quake. Shares of non-life insurance companies were sold heavily, but stocks of construction and glass companies
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      1742 29 Reuter BANGKOK Thai stocks closed higher on bargainhunting in blue chips and new listing Electricity Generating, though overall sentiment was cautious, brokers said. The SET Index closed 12.51 points up at 1,265.15, off the day's high of 1,271.57 on turnover of 6.76 billion baht. Monday's turnover totalled 10.8 billion
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      1121 29 Reuter JAKARTA Jakarta share prices closed higher in moderate trading with the market driven mainly by local players as foreign fund managers remained net sellers, brokers said. "Local buyers are prevailing on the market although this is really just margin trading. Foreign investors are still net sellers," one foreign
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      2468 30 (>r Cr 1994/95 last V.I Day Lmt OmMt Dh Dt» VM Nrt M Ca» High La* C«w Sale C000) ll«h Un. B»>er Sdfcr CV P/t Smi) MALAYSIAN STOCKS 398 IM> m MSB 50c 219 »d f I 18 219 218 237 24S 10 -2.9 0 4 24 5
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        6529 30 Reuter AFP KUALA LUMPUR Strong gains in some key blue-chip stocks helped to push the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's Composite Index up 16.01 points, or 1.8 per cent, to 926.76 at the close, brokers said. "Except for some blue chips and second liners, the
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        1918 32  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The local stock market showed further signs of a modest recovery yesterday. with most property counters firmer following indications that US interest rates may not be raised at the end of this month. Shares were also helped by the
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
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      Hongkong beats S'pore to become top container port again
      399 33  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Hongkong topped the container port league in 1994 again beating arch rival Singapore to the finish line. The British colony, which will revert to China in 1997, handled about 11 million 20foot equivalent units (TEU) last year
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      458 33 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will continue with the proposed plan of asking shipping lines to pay for the upkeep and safety of the Straits of Malacca, though the existing international maritime conventions do not provide such a clause. Transport Minister
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      106 33 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Shanghai Hai Xing Shipping Co, which has a virtual monopoly on crude oil and coal shipments along China's eastern seaboard, spent U*****.7 million (S$ 155 million) for eight new vessels to add to its fleet. Shanghai Hai Xing listed 1.08 billion shares
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1045 33 Page Col ABC Containerize 16 1 Able Shpg 7 4/5 Accord Group 8 1-3 ACL 9 1/2 Ahlers Line 13 5 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 ANL 3 4/5 Antaco Mgmt 17 3 APL 18 1/2 Appenship 4 4/5 Arabian Express 15 4 ASCL
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      175 33 SINGAPORE Keppel Bason Shipyard and Engineering, a member of conglomerate Keppel Corp, recently completed its first drydocking job in Vietnam worth US$lOO,OOO (S$ 145,000). Singapore-based TL Geotechnics (S) had awarded the job to Keppel Bason's shipyard on the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh
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      225 33 ITJ BONN Seaports are an important element in European transport policy and from the German point of view, it is particularly important to ensure that they are linked with the other intra-regional transport systems in the trans-Euro-pean network. This was the view
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1575 34 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 2,067 on Monday from 2,060 on Jan 13. Rates remained firm for Panamax and capesize tonnage in trading hampered by a holiday in the east, brokers said. In the Atlantic, the 1980-built. 62,267-deadweight-tonne Merchant Prelude was
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      1151 35 International Transport Journal THE year that has just I ended, the interim reports on the business progress of sev- eral of the larger shipping lines have given rise to a spark of hope that liner shipping has reached the bottom and, in places, is
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      11912 42 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. IffttWr PN: ship calls
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        407 45 Vnui Voy No 8«rth fcrivai Departure Vnsd Voy No Berth Arrival Departurt N«1 Bit am Spwft ****** POU H 01/0/00 1801 0900 Hon 8/ ****k 1801 0600 B>asi« 1 A3 95 TOJ 1/01 /1500 1/01,7300 Batan Man 01,04/95 B *<*•** 1801/2300 Couun 1 4113 P08A 1801/1500 2001,1500
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1304 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bootunf/Babnct Rslts Slfl Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Ac>«y 0588 20/2359 3 18/0/00 18/1159 11/1400 4 H/1200 18/1459 18/1/00 Mi lam* 0060A 19/0200 1« 17/1500 1/1659 17/1900 18 17/1500
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        Lock icon US frequent-flier programmes making millions for airlines
        494 52 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Frequent-flier programmes, far from becoming a money-losing gimmick, are attracting millions of members and making millions for the airline industry. The airlines have achieved this by extending the reach of their frequent-flier programmes, so that even the infrequent
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        Lock icon UAL Corp cuts back plans for roomier Pacific flights
        452 52 Reuter NEW YORK UAL Corp, parent of United Airlines, said on Monday it has scaled back plans to develop a roomier business class section on its trans-Pacific flights. The second-largest US airline, which originally had planned to remove seats from the
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        Lock icon M'sian firm part of Indon rail project
        252 52 Bernama JAKARTA A Malaysian company dealing in railway construction, Mastrak Sdn Bhd, on Monday entered into a joint cooperation with two local companies to participate in laying a 21 km second track from Depok satellite town to Bogor, West Java. Mastrak chairman Mohamad
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        Lock icon Aerospatiale wins Thai satellite order
        198 52 Reuter PARIS French state-owned aerospace group Aerospatiale said on Monday it had won a contract from a Thai company to build a telecommunications satellite for launch in 1996. Industry sources said the contract with Shinawatra Satellite pic to build Thaicom 3 was worth US$2OO million
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        Lock icon Aussie, Indon controllers warn of collision risk
        193 52 AFP SYDNEY Australian and Indonesian aviation authorities are trying to overcome air space coordination problems, fearing they could result in a major mid-air collision. The Australian newspaper reported on Monday. Fifty-nine incidents resulting from inadequate communication between air traffic controllers in the neighbouring
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        90 52 Reuter LONDON Airline accidents around the world killed 1,385 people last year, with human error and bad weather the top culprits. "The 1994 world total of airline fatalities rose by 25 per cent compared with 1993, reaching 1,385, but the number of fatal
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        Lock icon Dubai container traffic up 11.9%
        69 52 UPI DUBAI, United Arab Emirates The Dubai Ports Authority on Monday said container traffic at ports Rashid and Jebel Ali rose by 11.9 per cent to nearly two million 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) in 1994. The number of vessels using the twin terminals rose by
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        Lock icon Delta studies cargo rate increases
        103 52 Reuter ATLANTA Delta Air Lines Inc is studying the cargo rate increases being put into place on March 1 by a number of European carriers, including British Airways and Deutsche Lufthansa AG, a spokeswoman said on Monday. "We are aware that a number of European
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        100 52 Reuter LONDON UK airports operator BAA pic said its seven airports handled 6.1 million passengers in December, a rise of 8.2 per cent on the same month in 1993. Passenger traffic in the full year jumped 7.4 per cent to 86.8 million in
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        67 52 Reuter OSLO Trading in Norway's troubled shipping firm Vard A/S, which was suspended on Jan 6, was permitted again on Monday, the bourse said. Vard on Friday refinanced its expired loans with a new loan of US$62 million (Ss9o million). Vard shares, which stood at 15.5
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        268 52 Reuter PARIS A lawyer representing families of pilots who died in a test flight of an Airbus jet asked a magistrate on Monday to begin investigation of the company for manslaughter. Roland Rappaport told Reuters he had asked the investigating magistrate to open
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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        257 52 AFP HONGKONG China's newest and most advanced airport in Zhuhai is likely to become an expensive white elephant if it is not granted international status, a Chinese airport official was quoted as saying on Monday. Bao Chi, the deputy general manager of the
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      26 33 Lines and services represented by Members of the Registry of Accredited [ffHjSß} Shipping Agents, Singapore National Shipping Association. For advertising enquiries, contact Shipping rimes. Tel 740-2089/740-2090
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      46 33 LAW PAGE Every Thursday in Business Times Shipping looks ahead to a new orientation, Pg 3 US frequent-flier programmes making millions for airlines, Pg 20 \fw"' EYE ON THE TIGERS Nobody covers East Asia like we do. The Region. Everyday. rn Business Times WE KNOW ASM
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      418 35 ANL. IT'S AUSTRALIAN FOR SHIPPING j TO AUBTBAUA (EAST COAST) I FROM AUOTRAUA (EAST OOA«t) K»a/wv kt ms scr aw jto mo out hob «sm<»wr "me jre mm m hob ['wT'W A ASIA 45$ 13/01 11/91 10/01 01/02 M/ 02 17/02 M/ 02 MKMPMfT MR 00/01 04/11 20/01 21/11 120/41
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      1351 36 JM W IB W I H ■AM y M A t A HB M W AQABA R'DAM/ IE VESSEL VOY NO SPORE JEDOAH (VIA JED) S TON H'BURQ A WERP HAVRE KIRtSHIMA 06/102 18/1 4/2 7/2 5/2 DRESOEN EXPRESS 20/302 21/1 30/1 7/2 8/2 11/2 13/2 15/2 FRANKFORT EXPRESS 77/103
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      452 36 jfSSIIIPIIHIIPRk I S pore P Kelang Loading for FORUM AKASAKA 25/1 30/1 Rdm/Atw/UK/Nantes I VLAHERNA 5/2 9/2 Rdm/Atw/UK/Nantes •Loads E./W. Malaysia. Indonesia I I Loading for ENERGETIC Dubai/Bahrain/Oamman/Kuwait I SEA VENUS Hodeidah/Jeddah/Aqaba 'Loads Singapore. E./W. Malaysia. Indonesia U I Loading for DONA V Los Angeles/New Orleans/ I Charleston/NorfolK/Canrxlen H OCEAN
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      1215 36 NORASIA ■01 WEEKLY DIRECT SAILING TO HONO KONG, BUSAN KEELUNO 1 ALSO ACCEPTBWfi IS DALIAN, QINGDAO XINGANG (VIA BUSAN) I SHANGHAI, CHIWAN HUANGPU (VIA HONG KONG) I FOR MORE DETAILS, PLEASE CONTACT: jj MS TAN SEOW CHUAN/MS FELICIA PEH I S PORE general MOT NORASIA AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD 1
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      1787 37 jW W STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Mi 10 Mm Chiang Road #11-01 Koppol Towers Singapore 0208 Tal: *****80 Fax: *****17 MMIMBM.HMIMWMUMM.«iIMWJW NIW OUINBA PACIFIC UNI fyMjgff (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CMCO DU SAILS BMy •Hl® MIC KK, Sun. Ttw M PORT 19 bn fcl. LCL container ano
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      2043 37 PAO Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pie Ltd 10 Hoe Chiang Road, #07-01 Keppel Towers, Singapore 0208 Rrst Class Connections WORLDWIDE **>«" pnocsp.f«.: 225 5127/222 7517 IMPORT 1 MM VOY -ma 'MO MN too ANT NOT HAM NOT MS LCN ANT OOT NOT MAM BNC IOU UN ALO JCO MN -P«B *NMN
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      643 37 FOR BOOKING 1800-*****00 (TOLL-FREE) OUTNOONO PRL PtN IQH SW HKG MO TAI REE *06 OSX HOI BUS WAN HAI 211/N025 15/01 16/01 IS/01 1919 01 73/01 75/01 77/01 -T/SiuMO- 31/01 01/02 03/07 04/02 WAN HAI 707/N075 laToi liToI 21/01 22 23/01 27/01 29/01 30/01 06/02 07/02 08/07 WAN Ml 213/NO2O
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      463 38 w efp„ JOIIIT VENTURE SAMUDERA INDONESIA SIR RICXMERS Win SINGAPORE CHINA GREEN EM VOT 316 12 MM QMGDAO DASA SENIUM VOY 3MB OS FEB XMOWG SHANGHAI MDUCEMENT CALL P.KELAMG MDUCEMENT CALL HK, P.GUMNG, BELANAN, TG MAN XIAMEN. 2NANGJIGANG UTAMA HARTA f V WEEKLY FULL CONTAINER SHIP FEEDER VESSEL NAME VOY
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      1155 38 HANJIN SHIPPING BOOKING TEL:- *****35-237 OPERATION TEL: *****41-253 SALES TEL:- *****30-233 DOCUMENT TEL: *****71-275 m m lie hala st* yy* pox fo« vm Ilk hma u« u ntc HMUH HONMONE 04 7t 21/1 DEKCT 9/2 10/2 11/2 HMUN BIBMI ISIE 22/1 M. MUtCX 01* 23/2 24/2 2C/2 NMUN SEATTLE 03K
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      223 39 (ft FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES —80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE 0106 HOT LINE: *****33 (30 LINES) GROUPAGE SERVICE TO CHINA WEEKLY CALLlNGishanghai XINGANG QINGDAO DALIAN XIAMEN HAIKOU WHAMPOA CONTACT: SYLVIA OR KEN SIM HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) P. KLANG PH: 0203-*****02 (10 LINES), PENANG PH: 0204-*****7 (10 LINES) J. BAHRU
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      819 40 79 ANSON ROAD. #21-01. SINGAPORE 0207 TELE: *****92 FAX: *****57 CR **********0 PORT KLANG M «BWCI "IIL «sa vot aw pkl vessel vot sw ftw St* LMJWL 354W 18/1 (ttO) 20/1 (FBI) MCC COWEYO* M(ft 20/1 (FIB) 22/1 (SJN|~ J5» 20/1 (OB) 22,1 (SUI) XOURIATA npn H/KSUN) M/l (Hlf St*
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      1135 41 1 H ADVANCE CONTAINER LINES (PTE) LTD A I 140 CocM 31 root, #12-00, ML Building, Singapore 0108 Lb I TIL. *****21, FAX *****10, TELEX :RS ***** ACLPL f tIAiMIWfftMTKIIM"A'BtfBBWBf I "^^TTllWTWni'' J T'^^F'ywi >*!» I VOT K I I JKT MM f OU TOW CWYOTAL |MM |(0t) |11/1 |(T—>
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      960 41 WW it H»¥o£ HAUBUK THAMES WOTTEWP<UW MIT WW wut oi warn uc7w woi w/02 10/02 12/02 13/02 14/02 WUf f* 107W 23/01 15/02 17/02 H/02 20/02 21/02 MUf DC CMM CO7W 01/02 21/02 23/02 25/02 20/02 27/02 MUE m WITT* SO7W 00/02 01/03 03/03 05/03 20/03 ***** •Also ACCCPTMG CAMO
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      554 41 MYANMA \flBßk FIVE STAR LINE W (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) S'pore P.Kit Pen P.Gdf PAGAN V2I7R 20/23 lan TMMN AH V2W 20/24 lan ■Mum worry boustuo miw acences kul ra 02«24i7m m m moyjutw P» m 02-04(***** PCD: IU 02-07 *****21/4 taA NIGERIAN NATIONAL SHIPPING LINE SPORE
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      1529 44 TO EUROPE FROM EUROPE FEEDE* I*l PEN MOTHER «l STCK UH ITM HAM BBH f*T "Wl PKI STOBt HBG fUMW KOK SHOKU I MO TOW BSESSM MOI/SOU 14.01 14.01 ND AHBCA 2494 17.01 04.02 04.02 M.02 0102 09 02 WD OCEAMA 1524~ 1101 20*1 23*1 21*1 21*1 »*> BSE SBM
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      359 44 I VESSEL VOY SMGAPORE BANGKOK MA Nil A GUAM SATAN K Oft OR ASIAN HWSCUS 6 FEB 3 JAN 30 FEB 9 FEB 20 FEB 22 ASIAN OR CHE 33 FEB 19 FEB 15 FEB 25 MAM U MAR 13 (REEFER CONTAINER AVAILABLE) I VESSEL VOY ETA STORE GUAM (T/S)
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      418 44 IfLAfIMN CONTAINER LINES, l(*C. A #nt#: MAC-NEL3 BPORE: *****22 (24 LINEB) v —> w v 'cm h* 12C*****000C SIBU (064) *****9 KUCWNQ PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****67 MANILA (632)61Mf11 PXELANQ: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: flljlßfeo I ASIA HKG/TWN/BKKI GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 S/HWGS/WKK PEN PK SIN
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      160 45 CONVENTIONAL/BREAK-BULK SERVICES VESSEL VOY SINGAPORE COLOMBO SITRA 1 8 18-19/1/95 23-24/1/95 SUN PULSE 8 5-7/ 2/95 12-13/2/95 T BOOKING/GENERAL AQENT: RICK MARINE ASSOCIATES PTE LTD ■wnmmmnmm wmn suwAPow/wETimi sawct i WSSUS VOY NO ETA ITO OCSTMtTION GU OMH 1/05 M POUT 19/01 HO CM MMH CITY E 25 25 818
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      286 45 IVESSCL VOY SIN MAA 8M I TIGER ISLAND 12SS 19-20/01 (FOR DISCHARGE ONLY I TK3£R CAPE OI3N 23-24/01 29-05/02 10 11/02 TIGER BRIDGE 315N 27-28/01 02-06/02 13-14/02 TIGER BAY 128N 29-30/01 04-11/02 16-17/02 I TIGER ISLAND 127N 28-29/02 03-09/02 14-15/02 I IVESSCL VOY SM CAL SIN I TIGER RIVER I9BCNB
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      354 45 I^^TTicsnsrMSsisrTiSsciE^s^T^T^i |W TEL: *****33 (12 Linw) I K FAX: *****15/*****03 I ED TELEX: R8 ***** RIBHIP (3 Lines) I CR NOj **********0E I ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Vmml I Voy jjTA Loading Far Abbay Wonz 42W8 29/01 Mombosa. Dfrboutl Aaaab. Maiaawa Andtnot 38WB 20/03 Mombasa. Djibouti Ataab. Maaaawa FULLY CONTAINERISED
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      1582 46 ■UW.H.HHWI* NO DETAIL TOO SMALL NO EFFORT TOO GREAT VMM 4 Vo* ETA ETO DESTINATIONS Next majestic maersk V9SO2 I—■ CY 23/01 0800 ws ■■■i CF S 22/01 2359 MRS OAK LGB SFO MEM ATL MIA CMS BAL PML NYC TOR MAJESTIC MAERSK 9502 23/01 24/01 11/02 13/02 12/02 11/02
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      721 46 MOsUqH FULL CONTAINER SERVICES 22j-£SLi—jjn_■ IltlHU 10W 21 01 12/11 NOl 15 MI? M II IJ »,W 11.11 MM own M Ml W Ol tl am H/01 10 01 o cmm an nOl »01 u/« 11 u «01 vOl it 01 1 EMXtMM MM 01, 01 M.Ol 00 01 11/01
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      812 46 TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF LOADING VOY SPORE P KELANG HALIFAX N YORK NORFOLK N ORLEANS MOBILE TAMPICO HOUSTON HOCGH CAIRN 0128 2/3 Feb 4/5 Feb 16 Mar 19 Mar 22 Mar 28 Mar 31 Mar 3 Apr 8 Apr HOEGH DUKE 0528 18/19 Feb 20/21 Feb 2
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      568 47 WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY Of BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTMG KMBU.K/SOC CJWGCKS TO/FROM KOBE YOKOHAMA. NAGOTA. MOI. TOKYO*. MAM.A*. DAYAO* Ptnwf* P. Ketai( Sirjipore E'Msia* KAMALEVERETT V24E tn PI/16 Jan 17/18 Jan KARABEVERETT V2IE 24/25 Feb KAMALEVERETT V2SE 14/15 Mar ACCf?TMG MEAKBUU FCI/SOC CAJtGOES TO/FROM CHTTAGONG. CALCUTTA MO MONO.A*. Singapore P. Keiant*
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      200 47 6LOBY WAVICATMiW CBOUP 4 REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN SINGAPORE TO KOMPONG SOM ♦AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W KAO SIN PKG PNG GLORY SELATAN VII 16/1 22/1 24/1 26/1 GLORY SELATAN X 19/1 25/1 27/1 29/1 SIN KOMPONG SOM GLORY SELATAN VIII 17/1 20/1 SINGAPORE ASEAN TO
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      565 47 jdk PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEI aw KARACHI HYDERABAD 137 HW 15/02 25/02 BIAMABAO 132-HW 03/03 13/03 SAR6OOMA 151 HW 01/03 U/03 MAKRAN 155-WW 15/03 25/03 ra Ml call euu ran mcct to maton FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY VESSEL WOT law |mc |bsn OSA
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      727 47 FULL CONTAINER 6ERVICC FROM 6IN TO MAORA6 VESSCL/VOY ETA SIN ETA MAA MV CAPE HERMES V 204N 18 19/01 24-30/01 MV- PESTOVO V 08 19-20/01 24 25/01 MV TIGER CAPE V.013N 23-24/Ot 29 05/02 MV SEA DRAGON V DRGO39 24 25/01 30-31/01 MV TIGER BRIDGE V 315N 27 28 Ol
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      292 47 SIN FAR EAST 22/1 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 22/1 BANGKOK 22/1 MANILA/CEBU 22/1 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 22/1 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 22/1 BUSAN 22/1 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 22/1 HONG KONG SjN CHINA 22/1 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SjN EUROPE/UK 23/1 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 23/1 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romama/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA 21/1 LOS ANGELES/NEW
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      899 48 j|| FIXED jjr L WEEKLY SAILINGS t! Tel: 261-3&S Fax:26l-0978 j| MELBOURNE j m GP SHIPPING PTE LTD I Call: Kenny/Mas/Peter Lmm AFGH A N IST AN- M AMAf aha nittanTtcT^^^^^^^ t I HLJH HLJH Hairatan, Torghundi, Islamqala (Doqharun) I EweCfcEwl C.1.5./RUSSIA: Alma Ata, Ashkhabad. Baku, Dushanbe. I I *****
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      680 48 y Content! CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 20 JANUARY (Accepting lo all N*w Zaalarvd ports) PENAN6 20 JAN JAKARTA 22 JAN PORT KLANG 26 JAN BAN6KOK 22 JAN MANILA 22 JAN MELBOURNE 25 JAN SYDNEY 29 JAN BRISBANE 3 FEB FREMANTLE 26 JAN ADELAIDE 28 JAN 21 JAN •ACCEPTING
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      1178 48 CONSOLIDATION TO BUS AN KIRS I FORWARDER IN OFFERING TWICE WEEKLY .^Vw d RQ d A LCL SERVICE TO BUSAN Call SANISA at DID: 277 1058 for bookings NOW!!! Tel: Fax: Singapore 561 1668 272 9838 MTEMMTIONM. SEA FREIGHT -A MAlivSIA CCS '"'THAILAND PHILIPPINE A «DiSS?SrCES HONG KONG VIETNAM INDIA
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      1774 49 W SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD I 20 McCallum Street #16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22 (10 Lines) FAX: *****05 CR No.: *****8 200 00R y.s.N. V——< Howa Kong Stowport P. Kotonfl Ptunfl Sir Hi* 15 IN POUT 24-25/1 2«-27/1 Qlofc* Emfrtd 1 24-2S/1 **2 9j» Ruby I? W/2 7
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      391 49 sgEs CEYLON SHIPPING CORPN (53^1 National Line of Sri Lanka CONTAINERISID SERVICE TO L K AND NORTH CONTINENTAL PORTS —ft m ll<■ I f I <■> 1)— t WO»MM> MI nu 3 »/i a i 11? im in w hulj* wm> nn it/i mp how mm a/i ui aww m«n
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      1612 50 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. f 19 KIPWL ROAD »Q2-Ol JIT POH BUH.DING SINCAPOWt 0208 TIL *****66 fix 231 4932 ALSO OFFERING SERVICE TO/FROM •PRC *CIS "VIETNAM 'EAST RUSSIA 'CARIBBEAN 'LATIN AMERICA 'EAST MEDITERRANEAN CALL 225-1-225 FOR BOOKING OR ENQUIRY ;TO NORTH AMRRICA CAMP* WHKLY COWTAiNtRgIP BRRVICE Iregt/WMg Iwi rut Ifa
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      1890 50 K» AS AGENTS: 1,1,1 (SmGAPORE) PTI LTD (d NO: **********011/6 ST REG MO: MM0173J9-J) W v TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKIRS23I6S FAX: *****16/7/8/9 I ■IV ■J MALAYSIA LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHO I TE L: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 JB *****01 PGU *****25/6 I INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUTINTIRNUSA. TEL:
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      133 50 BANGLADESH SHIPPING CORPN.■ REGULAR SERVICE TO/FROM CHITTAGONG ~T VtSgl WTRCE CFBTTAGONG SW6APORE MONGLA CHTTACONC BAWGLAA MOW 40W 14/01 Qj WM w i7/oi zvoi I 5/oi I MHO.* MOW 41* 21/01 gyp; H/Q2 BANGLAR WN 44W 30/01 07/02 13 02 15/02 BANGLMMOM 4?W 110? 19/02 25/02 Z\ Mm acctpWnf FCI Con(«n*r
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      335 51 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE MULTI-PURPOSE 1 RORO CARRfR SPECIALIZE M HEAVY LIFT CARGO UPTO 120 TONS RAMP CAPACITY UPTO 50 TONS KSSEL ¥0T SM P* LOAONC FOR pakarti seaman 1 sio sio OCtMI BLUE 9 H/l MUARA 21/1 SONBJU II 2/2 BAT AM 5/2 JAKARTA 1/2 COSMIC CHALLENGE* 3t 1/2
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