The Business Times, 20 February 1995

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    12 1 BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 194/12/94 Monday February 20 1995 m/WpwASiA y?ry x Bs<
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon German engineering workers set to strike
      62 1 Reuter FRANKFURT Thousands of German engineering workers looked set yesterday to plunge the industry into its first full-blown strike for 11 years. The giant IG Mctall union is to ballot 165,000 workers in the south German state of Bavaria today on whether to strike
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      Lock icon Algerian privatisation
      39 1 Reuter TUNIS Algeria is !o set up a ministry of privatisation to oversee the transfer of stateowned companies to the private sector. State-run Algerian radio yesterday said privatisation would involve property, public services and administrative management. Reuter
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    162 1 Stock market indices Friday Week change STII 2.***** +6308 K.LSE Comp 995 24 +14.86 Nikkei 18.020.51 -270.84 Hang Seng 8.043.01 +30.19 SET Index 1.304.27 +2.3 Jakarta Comp 453.14 -0.17 CLSA China B 824 89 -18.67 Ausl All Ord 1.856.2 +10.2 FTSE 100 3.044.2 -65.7 Do» Jones 3.953.54 +14.47
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    Car transfers banned for first 3 months after registration
    562 1  -  Open category cars excluded Reports by Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE The government has accepted a recommendation to ban transfers of ear ownership in the first three months after registration. But in a major modification to the original recommendation, the ban will not
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    Summary of the new rules
    169 1 Ban on transfers of cars in categories 1 to 4 in the first three months of registration. Open category cars exempted. An additional fee on top of the current transfer fees will be imposed for transfers made within the next three months. Three-month ban will
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    Ban on transfers too strict: car dealers
    218 1 SINGAPORE The threemonth ban on transferring ownership of cars is too harsh, say distributors. Motor Traders Association vice-president David Tay said: "The car belongs to the individual. it's the owner's money, it's his wages. The ban impinges on personal ownership, so it has
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    S'pore bourse faces two forces
    216 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The local stock market this week is cxpcctcd to be buffeted by two opposing forces optimism stemming from expectations of a Malaysian general election, and pessimism following the sharp plunge in US equities on Friday. Brokers last week said they cxpcctcd
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    Greenback: Where's the bottom?
    325 1  -  From Neil Behrmann WITH the US dollar plunging through key support levels in New York last Friday to close at 97.3 yen and 1.48 marks, the big question must be: When will the slide stop? The answer will not be easy. Investors and analysts who have
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    Businessmen hope budget surplus will lead to cut in corporate tax ...
    696 1  - Businessmen hope budget surplus will lead to cut in corporate tax Run-up to the Singapore Budget By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE With an eye on what looks like a record budget surplus last year, businessmen are looking forward to a cut in the corporate tax rate when Finance Minister Richard
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    ... but most economists don't see a cut coming
    282 1  - but most economists don't see a cut coming By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE The government is unlikely to offer a corporate tax cut in next week's Budget, say economists. Most economists polled by Business Times believe the government would stick to a neutral budget this year, despite calls by businessmen for
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Jingle tills for stores in December
        351 2  -  By Jenny Lam DtCEMBKRs festive spending brought some respite for the dismal retail scene. Overall retail sales at current prices picked up by 15 per cent in December over the previous month, retail sales figures released yesterday by the Department of Statistics show. Sales
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      World can get information on S'pore via Internet next month
      389 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi THE government will introduce an electronic database about Singapore on Internet tentatively named Singapore Infomap next month. The Minister for Health and Information and the Arts, Brig-Gen (NS) George Yeo. disclosed this at a dialogue session after
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    • Article
      130 firms to showcase plastics, rubber technology
      149 2 PLASTICS Technology Asia9s, an exhibition for the plastics and rubber industry, will open tomorrow at the World Trade Centre. More than 130 companies from 19 countries are taking part in the show which ends on Friday. These include locallybased foreign companies such as
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      First multi-tenanted building opens at Science Park II
      281 2 SINGAPORE Science Park Pte Ltd (SSPPL) will today launch The Alpha, the first multi-ten-anted facility at Science Park 11 on Pasir Panjang Road. In a statement yesterday, SSPPL said The Alpha named after the first letter in the Greek alphabet will also
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • Article
        Electronics seminar tomorrow
        60 2 AN electronics seminar called "Strategic Management Issues Shaping the World Electronics Industry" will be held tomorrow. The key speaker is Dr Dennis Gross, a senior consultant from BPA (technology and management) in the United Kingdom. Organised by the Trade Development Board and the Singapore Manufacturers' Association, the
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        Work on Seletar Expressway
        60 2 PART of Seletar Expressway, between the Boh Sua Tian Flyover and the Lentor Flyover, will be temporarily closed to traffic from Feb 21-23 between lam and sam. This is to facilitate the Public Works Department construction of the Tampines Expressway/Seletar Expressway Flyover. Signs will be put
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article
      Lock icon Vietnam's planned oil hub may be sunk by its poor location
      521 3 AFP QUANG NGAI Vietnam's plan to create an Asian oil and industry hub in one of its poorest regions is threatened by investors' rejection of the controversial location. The authorities are pushing for Dung Quat, on an isolated stretch
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      Lock icon Hanoi faces US$700m budget deficit
      270 3 AFP HANOI Vietnam is facing a budget deficit in excess of US$7OO million (Ssl billion) in 1995. The business weekly Vietnam Investment Review yesterday quoted a Ministry of Finance report as saying the 1995 budget was expected to top 55.4 trillion Vietnamese dong (557.45 billion)
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      Lock icon Rafidah accuses Asiaweek of sowing discord
      271 3 AFP NST KUALA LUMPUR International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz has accused a regional weekly of conspiring to disunite the government after it said she could lose her job because she had many enemies among cabinet colleagues, civil servants and Umno rank and
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      Lock icon Manila once thought of dropping claims to Spratlys: Ileto
      346 3 AFP Reuter MANILA The Philippine government once considered dropping claims to the Spratly islands and the Malaysian state of Sabah because it knew they could not be defended, a former dcfcncc secretary has said. Local newspapers yesterday quoted Rafael Ileto as
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon 3 M'sian papers face ban
        80 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR A government minister yesterday said three daily newspapers in Malaysia may be banned unless they stop printing stories that affect racial harmony or relations with neighbouring nations. Declining to name the newspapers. Deputy Home Minister Megat Junid Megat Ayob said the owners
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        Lock icon Qatar, Thailand postpone gas MOU
        58 3 Reuter DOHA. Qatar Qatar and Thailand have postponed signing a memorandum of understanding for buying gas from one of the Gull state's ambitious liquefied natural gas projects. A Qatar Cieneral Petroleum Corporation official yesterday said Qatar and a three-man delegation from the Petroleum Authority of
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        Lock icon Thai trade fair a big hit
        116 3 AFP BANGKOK About 750,000 Thais have Hooded a fair billed as the largest of its kind in South-east Asia, causing miles of traffic jams and the emergency drafting of Thai Marines to keep order. Officials yesterday said the Board of Investment (BOI) Fair 1995,
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        Lock icon White-collar crimes on the rise
        78 3 NST KUALA LUMPUR White-collar crimes, each involving several million ringgit, increased by 142 per cent last year compared to 1993 despite tougher laws including mandatory jail and whipping. A senior investigating officer from the federal police commercial crime division in Bukit Aman, deputy superintendent A
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        Lock icon Aussie minister to visit Indonesia
        70 3 AFP JAKARTA The Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Gareth Evans, will visit Jakarta tomorrow as part of a regional tour to strengthen ties. The Australian embassy yesterday said Mr Evans would meet his Indonesian counterpart Ali Alatas and Coordinating Minister for Industry and Commerce Hartarto.
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      Indonesia to spend 1.65 trillion rupiah on 7 sugar mills
      246 3 JAKARTA Indonesia is constructing seven sugar mills, most owned by the Salim Group, with a combined processing capacity of around 62,000 tonnes of cane per day and total investments of 1.65 trillion rupiah (SSI.OB billion). The Jakarta Post quoted M
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon James Capel fires six dealers suspected of irregular trades
      568 4 SCMP HONGKONG James Capel Asia has fired six of its seven stock exchange floor trading dealers in a covert regulatordriven investigation into rat trading and front running. The HSBC Holdings-owned brokerage said it decided on its course of action in a
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      Lock icon Third of China's steel firms in the red
      259 4 AFP BEIJING Some 32 per cent of China's steel enterprises lost money in 1994 as high imports, sluggish demand and rising raw material costs continued to take their toll on business, the China Daily said yesterday. The newspaper, in its Business Weekly
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      Lock icon Raise the red lanterns
      72 4 AFP BhIJING Chinese businessman Xuan Guoyi leaving an auction hall here yesterday after placing the winning bid of 13.8 million renminbi (SS2J6 million) for two large red lanterns (in the background) which have hung from Tiananmen Gate since the establishment of the People's Republic of China
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      Lock icon China bank to increase loans to Taiwan ventures
      121 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's main foreign exchange hank said it will continue to support overseasfunded ventures on the mainland. especially those financed by Taiwanese interests, the official China Daily reported. The Bank of China will increase assistance to Taiwanfunded ventures and
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      Li Ka-shing warns of oversupply of commercial land in Hongkong
      376 4 BEIJING Property tycoon Li Ka-shing has warned of an oversupply of commercial land if the government fails to curb reclamation around Kowloon Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. According to a South China Morning Post report on Saturday, Mr Li said
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      Lock icon Taiwan one step closer to Gatt membership
      190 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan has reached bilateral agreements with four countries under the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt), taking it a step closer to membership of the world trade body, economics officials here said yesterday. Authorities here will soon
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon US$1.2b ADB loan for China
        111 4 AP BEIJING The Asian Development Bank is expected to loan China US$l.2 billion (551.72 billion) this year, a US$33 million increase over last year, a report said yesterday. This year's loans will be mainly for power, transportation, agriculture and telecommunications, all areas considered bottlenecks in
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        Lock icon Li Peng to tour southern region
        96 4 UPI HONGKONG Chinese Premier Li Peng is scheduled to tour southern China next month in a trip to inspect new infrastructure projects and reassure the public about the health of aging paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, local media reported yesterday. Sources in China told Hongkong's
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        Lock icon Fake dollar bills surface in HK
        106 4 AFP HONGKONG The territory is being "flooded" by fake USSIOO bills which might be the work of North Koreans in Macau, a Hongkong newspaper said yesterday. The Hongkong Standard said U*****,000 worth of the notes have surfaced at local banks since US$lOO,OOO of the
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        Lock icon Guangzhou needs US$70b
        101 4 Reuter BEIJING The south China city of Guangzhou needs US$7O billion (S$ 101 billion) for infrastructure projects, one third of it from foreign investors, by the end of this century, the China Daily said. The money will go to build a subway, expressways, wharves, elevated railway and
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      154 5 HnjP| v .i Australia is one of the most open countries on earth. Only 22 people for every 7,682,300 square kilometres. The skies seem bigger, the longer and the horizons vaster. We love the wide open spaces so much in fact, we've just increased the legroom in Qantas Business Class
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • Article
      Lock icon Foreign businessmen shrug off Indian plague scare to return in record numbers
      454 6 Reuter NLW DLL HI Five months after an outbreak of plague caused an exodus of tourists out of Indian hotels and airport terminals, foreign visitors are forgetting their fears and flooding into the country's major cities in record
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    • ASIAN OTES
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        Lock icon Saarc meeting postponed
        83 6 AP COLOMBO The annual summit ofleaders of the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) scheduled to be held in April is being postponed following a request by Pakistan, officials said yesterday. The New Delhi meeting, at which the leaders of all the states must be
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        Lock icon Lower tariff on car imports sought
        76 6 Bernama MELBOURNE With the imminent introduction of Malaysia's Proton Wira to the Australian car market, a leading Australian car manufacturer has urged Asian governments to lower tariffs in line with Australia. Toyota Australia senior vice-president John Conomos told The Australian newspaper it was "hardly
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        Lock icon Dhaka protest over food price rise
        75 6 AFP DHAKA Riot police stopped a protest over food price rises yesterday by several hundred members of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) who attempted to march to the food ministry. There was no violence reported. The protest came one day after some 1 (X)
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        Lock icon Aussie minister visits Jordan
        56 6 AFP AMMAN Australian Trade Minister Bob McMullan met Jordan's King Hussein here on Saturday and discussed means of boosting trade and economic ties, official sources said. Mr McMullan. who arrived on Friday, also met Jordan's Agriculture Minister Mansour bin Tarif and members of the chamber of
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      Lock icon Keating attacks Packer's bid for Fairfax newspaper chain
      410 6 AFP Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating launched a fierce attack yesterday on magazine and television magnate Kerry Packer's bid to control the prestigious Fairfax newspaper group. Mr Keating said Australia's richest man had been disingenuous in suggesting he
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      Lock icon Sure beats equity highs
      82 6 Reuter SKOUL Steve Fossett, 50, head of a US broking firm, waving from a gondola just before taking off in a hot-air balloon to cross the Pacific Ocean for San Francisco, 8,800 km away. It is said to be the first time anyone has attempted such
      Reuter  -  82 words
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      Lock icon S Korean business welcomes govt delay on moves to cool economy
      149 6 AFP SEOUL South Korean businesses reacted with relief yesterday at a government decision not to impose strong measures to curb inflation and credits. "Although it has come belatedly, we feel saved." said an official at the nation's leading Samsung
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      Lock icon Kobe quake to slash company profits by 270b yen
      288 6 AFP TOKYO The devastating earthquake in western Japan last month is expected to cut profits of listed companies by some 270 billion yen (553.9 billion) for the year to March, a daily said yesterday. Nihon Kcizai Shimhim said the amount is
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  • THE WORLD
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      Baltimore conference to give investment lowdown on S'pore
      334 8  -  From Leon Hadar CLOSF to 100 US companies will take part in a conference in Baltimore, to the north of Washington, aimed at attracting trade and investment to Singapore. The one-day event Trade and Investment in Singapore" will be held on Feb
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      Lock icon Mexico business group's near default on loan raises new fears
      315 8 AP Bloomberg Business News MEXICO CITY A near default by a business conglomerate has raised worries that other private companies may also fail to meet their obligations, worsening Mexico's economic crisis. Markets stabilised last Friday after Grupo Sidek reversed itself
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    • Article
      Lock icon Brown gets pat from Clinton despite probe
      218 8 AFP WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton gave a vote of confidence on Saturday to Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, the first public statement from Mr Clinton on the man whose personal finances are under investigation. "The questions that have been raised are being looked into
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      Lock icon Dole sees momentum building for significant changes to US tax code
      372 8 Bloomberg Business News LbBANON. New Hampshire Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, doing some early season presidential campaigning in New Hampshire, said momentum is building for significant changes in the US tax code. Changes are possible, but not in this
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      Lock icon Caught red-handed
      59 8 AFP STAVROPOL Russia A Greenpeace video-frame grab showing an unprotected factory worker examining ovens used to burn hazardous wastes in Stavropol last November. The environmental activist group launched an international report yesterday accusing Australian mining giant Pasminco Ltd of shipping to the Caucasian city more than 200 tonnes
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    • Article
      Lock icon Former Labour chief was KGB agent: report
      303 8 AFP LONDON Former Labour Party leader Michael Foot was an "agent of influence" for the Soviet KGB in the *****, the Sunday Times reported, citing retired KGB officers whose statements were quickly denied by the politician. "Former Soviet spies have revealed that the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Don't sell Yeltsin short, says US defence chief Perry
      274 8 AFP Reuter WASHINGTON Defence Secretary William Perry expressed confidence on Saturday in Russian President Boris Yeltsin's staying power and said he saw no signs of "a man on a white horse" riding to power in Russia. "1 will not sell Boris
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Fujimori under fire for ceasefire terms
        92 8 AFP LIMA President Alberto Fujimori, running for re-eleetion in April, has eome under fire for the terms of a ceasefire ending a three-week border conflict with Ecuador. Mr Fujimori's political opponents maintain that the ceasefire signed late on Thursday in Brasilia requires Peruvian forces
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        Lock icon Wales assembly bad idea: Clarke
        80 8 Knight-Ridder LONDON Plans by the UK's main opposition Labour Party to set up a national assembly for Wales, if it came into government, would destroy jobs and business there, Chaneellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke warned on Friday. "I warn any Welsh business both the
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      • Article
        Lock icon US urges UK to scrap Tridents: paper
        75 8 Reuter LONDON The United States is putting pressure on Britain to scrap some of its Trident weapons, the backbone of its independent nuclear deterrent, as part of a new round of global arms cuts, a newspaper reported yesterday. The Independent on Sunday said
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      • Article
        Lock icon Soros favours single European currency
        78 8 AFP LONDON US financier George Soros, the man who gained a fortune beyond the dreams of common mortals by speculating against sterling, said on Saturday tnat he favoured a single European currency as it was the only means to avoid the current currency instability. "All
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      Lock icon Canada, EU in war of words over fishing in Atlantic
      472 9 Reuter OTTAWA Canada and the European Union appeared headed on a collision course on Saturday over the issue of overfishing in the Atlantic ocean with Canada demanding adherence to quotas and the EC seeking to circumvent it. Canadian officials, echoing
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      Lock icon Taking a stand sitting down
      39 9 AFP PARIS French students during a sit-in in front of riot police here last Thursday. About 2,000 students took to the streets for renewed protests against a planned reform of French higher education. AFP
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    • Article
      Lock icon G-7 to hold pioneering talks on managing the information society
      491 9 Reuter BRUSSELS Dozens of superstars of the information superhighway will join ministers from Japan, North America and Europe in Brussels later this week for pioneering talks on how to promote and manage the communications revolution. The Group of Seven (G-7)
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    • Article
      Lock icon Fired star trader claims innocence in Kidder scandal
      385 9 AP NEW YORK Joseph Jett, a former star bond trader accused in a bogus money-mak-ing scheme that led to Kidder Pcabody and Co's demise, says in his first televised interview that he's innocent and the profits were real. Mr Jett's assertion, to
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Hastings buries French, England beats Wales
      634 10 Five Nations championship AFP PARIS Six games into the Five Nations championship Scotland are unbeaten and rivalling England for the Grand Slam while France are in stunned disarray. The Scots won 23-21 against France in Paris on Saturday while England beat Wales 23-9 at
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      Lock icon Senior holes pressure putt to land Aussie title
      452 10 Golf AFP MELBOURNE Australian Peter Senior sunk a pressurepacked putt on the final hole to snare his second Australian Masters golf title on the Huntingdale course here yesterday. The Queenslander holed a six-metre putt from his "broomstick" putter to take the title
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    • SCORE CARD
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        Basketball
        42 10 NfcW YORK NBA on Saturda): Charlotte 110 Detroit 88: New Jersey 75 Cleveland 82; Philadelphia 95 Denver 89: Milwaukee 118 Chicago III: San Antonio 111 Atlanta 97; Utah 108 Boston 98: Golden State 117 Seattle 129; Sacramento 109 LA Clippers 92.
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        Lock icon Cricket
        71 10 AP AUCKLAND Australia qualified for the Centenary limitedovers series final with a comfortablc 27-run victory over New Zealand at Eden Park yesterday. Australia remains unbeaten in the four-nation tournament with two wins in as many matches. New Zealand and South Africa, with a win each from two games, will
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        Golf
        116 10 INDIAN WELLS, California I SSI.2 million (551.75 million) Bob Hope Classic 4th rd on Saturday (US unless noted): 265 Kenny Perry 63-71-64-67 267 Tommy Tolles 66-69-68-64. Curtis Strange 64-73-67-63. Harry Taylor 66-64-66-71, David Duval 67-68-65-67 269 Mark OMeara 69-68-65-67, Mark Brooks 67-68-69-65. HONOLULU U*****,000 Hawaiian l adies Open final
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        Tennis
        139 10 PARIS Steffi Graf swept past Czech Jana Novotna on Saturday to set up a showdown with Australian Open champion Mary Pierce in the final of the U*****,000 Paris Open. World No 2 Graf continued her comeback from injury by crushing third seeded Novotna 6-3 6-2 in the first semifinal
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        Yachting
        98 10 SAN DIEGO America's Cup 3rd rd trials on Saturday Challenger Elimination Series: Team NZ b Rioja de Espana by 6 min 59 sec: One Australia b France 3 by I min 5 sec; Tag Heuer Challenge b Nippon by 7 min 34 sec. Standings: 1 Team NZ 28 pts
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      Novell has big plans for Asia
      832 11  -  Novell Asia's chief, formerly arch-rival Microsoft's top man in Singapore, outlines his priorities to Joseph Rajendran Joseph Rajendran Us COMPUTER giant Novell aims to expand its business in Asia with aggressive marketing and an equally aggressive defence of its intellectual property rights in the
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      KT Tech goes with Novell DOS
      507 11  -  The local firm believes it can buck the MS-DOS/Windows trend. David Mok reports David Mok IN A move that goes against the industry-wide trend, local PC maker KT Technology will ship all its personal computers with Novell DOS 7 instead of Microsoft Corp's de
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      643 11 NYT A JAPANESE entrepreneur crowned himself the king of American computer trade shows last week after his company agreed to pay US$BOO million (S$ 1.2 billion) in cash to buy the organisation that runs the huge annual Comdex exhibition. While analysts
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      3Com sees stronger growth in Asia
      416 12  -  By Lee Wai Leong Despite a bumper 1994 that saw revenue growth of 100 per cent in Asia, computer networking giant 3Com says it is is poised to do even better this year. And to support its rapid growth in the region, the company
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      Unisys plans to push harder into China
      375 12  -  By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE The Si ngapore-based Asian headquarters of computer firm Unisys plans to push harder into the China market following a relatively flat performance in 1994. Thomas Yam, newly-ap-pointed president of Unisys Asia, said the firm's China operation had moved from
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      IBM bullish about AS/400 push
      287 12 IBM Singapore last week pushed ahead into the Japanese multinational market in Singapore by selling eight AS/400 mid-range systems valued at $1 million. Company managing director K. B. Low said: "The signing ceremony proves that the Japanese business segment continues to be a major business
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      261 12 AFP EX PORTS by South Korea's big three semiconductor makers boomed in January, thanks to windfall orders in the wake of a worldwide trend to producc higherversion computers, business sources said. Hyundai Electronics Co said its exports jumped 115 per cent to
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        60 12 SINCiAPORL Hongkong multimedia firm Maruda Tech Vision has launched a video converter, a device that enables a personal computer to use a normal large-screen television sets as its monitor. Called the MV-100, the company claims the new product is the world's smallest and lightest video converter, measuring
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        InterNet service for local companies
        69 12 SINGAPORE Local IT company Accel Infotech has launched Singapore Online, a commercial InterNet World Wide Web server dedicated to the promotion of Singapore businesses. The company said that with the new service, advertisers would be able to include multimedia material and even video clips with
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        CSA deal with Cimage
        40 12 SINGAPORE CSA Automated has signed an agreement with Cimage International Inc to sell and support its Document Management System here. The system enables business-critical information to be accessed in a multi-host or multi-vendor environment, CSA claims.
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        HP cuts price on colour Deskjet
        54 12 SINGAPORE Hewlett-Packard has announced price cuts on two of its olTice colour inkjet printers the Deskjet 1200 C and 1200C/PS (PostScript). The suggested retail price of the 1200 C has been reduced to $1,899 from $2,795. The SRP on the I2OOC/PS has been cut
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        New Compaq servers
        67 12 SINGAPORE Computer Computer has launched two new server targeted at the mainstream Novell NetWare users market. The ProSignia 300 is available with either a 75 Mhz or 90 Mhz Pentium chip, and has CD-Rom capability and optional rackmountable platform. Prices start at under $4,300. The ProLiant 1500
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        Entry level hub from 3Com
        63 12  -  Compiled by David Mok SINGAPORE US-based networking company 3Com Corp has introduced an entry level "mini-hub" for small, standalone workgroup environments. Called the Linkßuilder TP/8, the hub can also provide additional ports in larger networks. The new product is about the size of a standard
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        Business process re-engineering
        58 12 SINGAPORE The Institute of Systems Science (ISS) will hold a four-day course on Business Process Re-engineering, a technique which enables organisations to achieve quantum leaps in performance and profitability by reshaping their business functions. The course will be held from Feb 27 to Mar 2 at the
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        53 12 SINGAPORE Epson will be holding two half-day seminars on scanners and scanning technology on Feb 24 at the Marina Mandarin. The seminars will show how scanners can improve productivity and help users produce professional-looking documents and presentations on both PC and Macintosh platform. For registration, please call
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        Share/Guide conference
        73 12 SINGAPORE The Share/Guide Association Singapore, a nonprofit association of users of medium to large-scale IBM computers, will be holding its sixth annual conference at the Hilton International from Mar 16 to 17. IT professionals from the US, UK. France and Singapore will be addressing a wide range of
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        Seminar on legal issues
        93 12 SINGAPORE Singapore Computer Systems will be holding two seminars on the legal issues surrounding electronic commerce and electronic banking. The first seminar. Trading by Computers: Some Legal Issues, will be held on Mar 30. The second seminar. The Ixgal Issues Of Electronic Banking Services, will be
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      Creative aiming to be the PC world's third pillar
      1119 13  -  Does Singapore's Creative Technology have what it takes? Chew Farn Chyi talks to the man behind the dream Chew Farn Chyi CREATIVE Technology's chief executive officer, Sim Wong Hoo. says there are currently two pillars in the world of personal computers
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      Putting Internet security in perspective
      816 13  -  Tommi Chen says that while most fears are overblown, basic security procedures should not be ignored NET WATCH TRACKING THE NETWORKING WORLD Tommi Chen The writer is an Intirnaut and managing partner of NilCentre Pte Ltd which provides s/mialist networking services. I lis Internet address
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      Muddling through Middleware
      687 13  -  Surjatini Widjojo shows why this class of software is important to businesses IT THE NEXT WAVE Surjatini Widjojo The writer is a staff member of the Institute of Systems Science. She can be contacted at 772-6240 or tini@iss.nus.sf;. PSST! The latest buzzword in Information Technology is out.
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      Microsoft targets NetWare users
      341 14  -  By D; David Mok Microsoft Corp is aiming at the core of rival Novell Inc's business with new software that makes Windows NT Server look like a NetWare 3.x-com-patible file and print server to Netware clients. The software, called File and Print Service for NetWare, is
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      516 14 Reuter SAN ANTONIO, Texas Apple Computer Inc, which has added a Japanese electronics company to its small list of Macintosh clone makers, said it would license more companies this year. "You can anticipate there will be others," said Apple USA president James Buckley in
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      Teleconferencing won't replace live meetings
      596 14  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (USA), a Brroklyn-based management consulting and software de\elopment firm, and also writes on IT issues. He contributed this commentary to Business IT lAM 11,200 m above some part of the Lastern Atlantic ocean, about two
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      833 15  -  Most senior executives say people are their most important asset, but a wide gap exists between rhetoric and reality, reports Barbara Presley Noble Barbara Presley Noble NYT THOSE who stand upon the promontory that allows them to train their field glasses on the distant
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      451 15 Reuter Before employees at Tucson Electric Power Co began volunteering outside the office, corporate bonding meant an annual dinner at a local hotel with speeches by top managers. These days, many of the company's 1,400 employees meet several times a year to paint buildings, tutor
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      554 17  -  P Y Van enjoys a quality evening with the SSO P Y Van WITH glimpses of a possible rising stockmarket in the air, it was perhaps appropriate for the Singapore Symphony Orchestra to come up with a programme of musical blue chips last Friday evening. Starting with
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      187 17 WEATHER Singapore: Showers over several areas In the afternoon. Temperature (24-32*) Asia Pacific W/U' Cm* Etmpa */L»" Caad. Buenos ton 28/18 Cloudy Auckland 23/11 CkxxJy Amsterdam— 06/02 Cloudy 03/ 5 Cloudy Bangkok 34/25 Sonny Athens 16/08 Sunny HonoMu .27/18 Cloudy Be*"* OT/S Cloudy Bertn 04/1 Clou* Houston 21/09 Sunny Bombay
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    531 18 Reuter BEIJING Beijing and Washington have made progress in talks on curbing intellectual property piracy in China and will launch higher-level meetings this week to head ofT a looming trade war, a US negotiator said yesterday. Diplomats said China's invitation
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    Lock icon Cheung Kong not involved in steel mill scandal: Li Ka-shing
    346 18 AFP Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Tycoon Li Ka-shing has distanced himself from a fraud scandal involving Beijing's principal state-run steel mill, saying his blue chip flagship group should not be affected. Mr Li's comments came after Shougang Corp, China's largest
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    49 18 AFP TAIPEI Taiwanese sculptor Chen Forng Shean, 39, showing off his new work the world's smallest Chinese chessboard. The bron/e sculpture measures one cm in diameter and the 32 chess pieces are 0.2 mm in height. Mr Chen took eight months to complete the work. AFP
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    422 18 AFP JAKARTA The younger sister of a leading former tycoon has emerged as Indonesia's top taxpayer, reports said yesterday. Sinta Dewi Sampoerno. who had previously not featured in the annual top 200 list; ranked first among Indonesia's biggest individual taxpayers in 1993, Finance Minister Mar'ie
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    459 18 The Straits Times CEBU More exchange visits between Singapore and Philippine leaders and businessmen could lead to increased trade and investment which would benefit both countries, said President Ong Teng Cheong. Wrapping up his five-day trip to the Philippines at a press conference with Singapore
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    196 18 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK The United States' eeonomie expansion remains solid despite relatively weak data recently, and that is likely to trigger at least one more tightening by the Federal Reserve in the first half of 1995, economists at Salomon Brothers
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    149 18 Bernama LANGKAWI, Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday said the Barisan Nasional (BN) supreme council meeting to be held on Saturday will focus on the coming general election. He said that among the matters to be discussed were preparations for the general election, the
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    863 18  -  The Bottom Line SHIV TANEJA SHIV TANEJA The writer is a BT journalist IN LESS THAN four years after Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia came to power in the first free elections since the country's independence from Pakistan in 1971 and
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      Creative unveils ambitious game plan for PC market
      566 19  -  By Kenneth James SINGAPORE Flush from its first US$l billion (551.44 billion) sales last year, Creative Technology has revealed an ambitious game plan to make the Singapore multimedia firm the third "pillar" or defining influence in the personal computer (PC) arena, alongside
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      337 19 MBT KUALA LUMPUR KFC Holdings (M) Bhd's extraordinary general meeting was adjourned shortly after it was convened at the Equatorial Hotel in Kuala Lumpur at 10.00 am on Saturday. The EGM was adjourned by the chairman and the date for the next meeting was
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      743 19  -  |f HOCK^ By Amy Balan SINCiAI'ORE Robinsons is a paradox. Mere is a company thai frequently features on brokers* recommended buys even though its management resolutely declines to see analysts. Its main business should be retail yet it has nearly five times more cash $240
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          124 20 Bloomberg Business News IRVING, Texas Exxon Corp signed agreements on Friday with Hindustan Petroleum Corp to begin selling oil in India after an 18-year absence. The agreement allows Hindustan Petroleum to blend and sell lubricants and other specialty petroleum products under the Esso brand
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          Lock icon Faber to quit Dagangan Warisan stake
          91 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Faber Group Bhd is proposing to dispose of its 70 per cent stake in Dagangan Warisan Sdn Bhd, which owns Tanjung Jara Beach Hotel in Kuala Terengganu, lerengganu. It is selling its 8.4 million shares in Dagangan Warisan, which is held
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          Lock icon Hard to maintain growth: Woolworths
          154 20 Reuter MELBOURNE Australia's largest food retailer Woolworths Ltd said it will be difficult to maintain its growth rate in the six months to Dec 31. The company last week announced a 19.1 per cent rise in net profit to AS 130.8 million (*****.6 million) in
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        589 20  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA INDONESIA'S powerful Salim Group, the diversified conglomerate controlled by tycoon Liem Sioc Liong. will reshuffle some of its most lucrative assets in a move to streamline its corporate holdings. But the plan by Salim's cement maker,
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        361 20 AFP LONDON British mining and industrials conglomerate Lonrho has informed the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange of a "bizarre plot" by a Libyan group to buy a 10 per cent stake, London's Sunday Times newspaper reported yesterday. Lafico, the Libyan
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        201 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Siah Brothers Corp Bhd (SBC) has proposed to sell about 64 hectares of land to Sinaran Naga Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of SBC's subsidiary Siah Brothers Land Sdn Bhd, for M 59.3 million (555.3 million).
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        Thai firm buys stake in Petrocorp in Philippines
        241 20  -  From Al Labita in MANILA THAILAND-listed Thai Petrochcmicals Industry (TPI) has bought a 10 per cent stake in Petrocorp, a new firm linked to Indonesia's Salim Group, said a senior investment banker yesterday. The deal was sealed by TPI president Pramuan Leophairatana
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        144 20 AFP BEIJING German chemical and electronics giant BASF plans to invest a massive one billion marks (***** million) in China by 2000, a top company executive was quoted as saying yesterday. "BASF has great confidence in China's continuing economic development,"
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        Lock icon Time Warner seeks US$10b loan to fund restructuring
        417 21 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Time Warner wants to borrow as mueh as US$lO billion (5514.5 billion) from banks to buy two cable television companies, shuffle its businesses and refinance debt, bankers familiar with the situation said. A loan agreement would be
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        Lock icon Revamped Philips set to post profit of up to 2.05b guilders
        435 21 Reuter AMSTERDAM Dutch electronics giant Philips Electronics NV, mulling over new products to take it into the next century, will report surging 1994 annual profits on Wednesday, analysts said. The group, world market leader in music, appliances and lighting
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        Lock icon HP chief gets 28% jump in pay
        144 21 Bloomberg Business News PALO ALTO, California Hewlett-Packard Co chairman and chief executive Lewis Piatt got a 28 per cent raise in 1994, while the price of HP stock has increased significantly in the 18 months he's been running the computer company Mr Piatt's
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        380 22 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO BankAmerica Corp said on Saturday that it would sell the vast majority of its institutional trust and custodial services operations, citing the benefit to shareholders of moving into higher-margin businesses. After 60 years in the institutional trust business, BankAmerica
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        501 22 Bloomberg Business News SANTANDER, Spain Banco Santander, Spain's largest commercial bank, will seek a core of related shareholders that will allow it to control 70 per cent of Banesto, Santander chairman Emilio Botin said. "We are very satisfied with the progress made by
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        Lock icon Ex-president of US loan provider pleads guilty to bank fraud
        347 22 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The former president of Sterling Resources Ltd, a defunct home-improve-ment loan provider, pleaded guilty to fraudulently making US$BO million (SSI 15.2 million) of loans to poor, unqualified borrowers and then reselling the loans to major
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        Lock icon China to find out true size of banks' bad loans
        190 22 AFP BEIJING Chinese auditing authorities are to investigate the true level of bad debts carried by state banks, currently officially estimated at US$3B billion (5555.07 billion), a report said yesterday. State Auditing Administration official Xiao Yuancai said the bad-debt burden
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        488 24 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO In the wake of last month's massive earthquake in Kobe, Japanese non-life insurance companies and the Ministry of Finance are considering making earthquake insurance compulsory with purchases of fire insurance, a ministry official said. They are also discussing increasing the maximum
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        Lock icon Low tin prices may lead to M'sian mine closures
        274 24 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Tin's continued low prices in world markets will lead to more mine closures and cut Malaysia's production to about 6.000 tonnes, the lowest level since the World War 11, producers said at the weekend. "We see tin production
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        254 24 Reuter LONDON Insurance broker Sedgwick Group pic will tomorrow announce a rise in 1994 pre-tax profits of around 30 per cent and may also please investors with a dividend increase, analysts said. Pre-tax profit forecasts are bunched around £89-97.7 million versus £70.5 million (*****.44
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        163 24 AFP SYDNEY Australia is confident of securing a larger share of China's wheat imports despite possible new import restrictions and subsidised competition from the United States, a Senate committee was told on Friday. The Australian Wheat Board (AWB) told the upper
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        627 25  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Yumiko Iijima MMS International SINGAPORE It was a disappointing week for US dollar. It dropped sharply across the hoard, losing its ground 35 pfenning against the mark and nearly two yen against the yen within the week. Lingering concerns
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        639 25 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Rubber prices slumped last week, after soaring for months, dropping 8 per cent as speculators quit the Asian markets, dealers said. Analysts said the market had been overheated and was ready for a correction. Tyre manufacturers were
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      753 26 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 TOO/ [(up
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        554 27 Bloomberg Business News New York STOCKS rose to a record 3,987.52 on Thursday before retreating on Friday as the expiration of options worsened a drop in technology issues begun when Motorola Inc warned that its cellular phone sales were slowing. For the week, the
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          96 27 Australian shares edged up 0.6 per cent during the week to Friday as bullish company profit results pushed industrial stocks ahead of a stagnant resources sector, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index finished at 1,856.2 points, up 10.2 points on the previous week's close. The All Industrials Index climbed
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          70 27 Philippine share prices closed 0.6 per cent lower last week as investors cashed in on gains from the past two weeks, analysts said on Saturday. The PSI Composite Index was down 14.71 points to settle at 2,624.47 on Friday. It was up week-on-week on Feb 3 and 10. Average
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          112 27 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index, spurred by a record-setting charge on Wall Street, added 2.30 points during the holiday-shortened week to close on Friday at 1,304.27 points. The average daily turnover was 72.5 million shares, down sharply from 113.4 million last week. The index fell 18.00 points
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          100 27 The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index experienced a roller coaster ride last week, but still managed to stay above the 450-mark to end the week almost where it started. The JSE Price Index closed on Friday at 453.143, compared with the previous week's 453.315. On Wednesday on the back
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          99 27 The Composite Price Index of the Korea Stock Exchange slumped below 900 points on Saturday for the first time since last June but the market later recovered and closed mixed following institutional buying. The index finished the half-day session at 909.44 points, down 0.78 points from Friday, on a
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          76 27 The bourse extended an upward trend on bargain-hunt-ing amid improved sentiment among investors during the last week, brokers said. Following a 3.9-per cent gain the previous trading week, the Weighted Price Index put on another 91.47 points to settle at 6,646.25 points on Friday. Average daily turnover expanded to
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          73 27 Selling pressure and poor buying support prompted share prices to tumble on the Bombay Stock Exchange last week. The 30-share BSE Index fell 138.25 points from the previous week's close to 3,383.89 points on Friday. The 100-share National Index was down 67.12 points at 1,640.83 points. Analysts said political
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        328 27 AP London A SERIES of worrying political and economic developments put a dampener last week on the London Stock Exchange. The Financial Times share price index of 100 leading British companies closed 65.7 points lower over the week at 3,044.2. The week's
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        396 27 AFP Tokyo SHARE prices continued declining on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week on heavy selling of high-tech issues by foreign investors. The Nikkei Stock Average dropped 270.84 points or 1.5 per cent last week to 18.020.51 points after falling 247.62 points
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        463 27 Reuter Hongkong THE Hongkong market appears to be reaching the top of its recent short-term trading range and brokers say they expect the index to gird up in the week ahead to test recent resistance levels. "In the next week, we may
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          771 27 -33.98 US blue-chip stocks closed with double-digit losses on Friday as options expirations combined with profittaking pressure ahead of the three-day holiday weekend. The Dow Jones Index closed 33.98 points lower at 3,953.54, ending a two-day run of high closes and a bid to surge through the 4,000level.
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          300 27 1.44 Stocks closed slightly higher on Friday after a dull day marked only by the expiiy of futures and options in both Canada and the US, dealers said. The TSE 300 Index closed up 1.44 points at 4,101.17 in volume of 46.37 million shares valued at C$526.44 million. Advances
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        7165 28 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Share prices rose for the third week with second-liner stocks outdoing blue chips after strong participation by local investors ended a fortnight of dominance by foreign funds. The 86-stock weighted KLSE Composite Index climbed 14.68 points to 995.24 from 930.38
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        1911 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE In Hongkong, there's a saying that a long-term investment is a stock that you hold through lunch. A really long-term holding is a stock that you actually pick up and pay for. Going by these definitions and judging
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      215 31  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Jurong Shipyard has completed construction of two white-oil product carriers, each costing $16.5 million, for Neptune Associated Lines. The ships, which were delivered recently, are now on time charter. One has been hired to a Middle Eastern charterer and
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      236 31 AFP TAIPEI A Taiwanese naval ship has accidentally hit one of the four minesweepers just delivered to Taiwan from the United States, causing damage to the vessel's port, the navy headquarters said here yesterday. The navy ship Han Yang was forced off course by
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      139 31 Reuter MANILA The Philippines' Lorenzo Shipping Corp, partowned by Neptune Orient Lines of Singapore, plans to raise up to 600 million pesos (5534.5 million) in an initial public share offer this year to fund its modernisation. The company told the Securities and Exchange Commission
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      136 31 AFP SYDNEY Australian mining giant Pasminco Ltd denied a Greenpeace report yesterday alleging that it had shipped more than 200 tonnes of toxic waste to Russia. The environmental organisation said the waste contained heavy metals, including lead, cadmium and arsenic, and was exported on
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      213 31 Knight-Ridder CINCINNATI A federal grand jury here handed down indietments last week charging what was once one of the United States' largest towboat companies with dumping pollutants into the Ohio and Mississippi rivers for 20 years. M/G Transport Services Inc. its former port
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      336 31 AFP LONDON Eurotunnel, the Channel tunnel operator, on Friday lost its High Court battle to stop its competitors, the airlines and ferries, from selling duty-free goods that bring in millions of pounds in annual revenue. The High Court took the unusual
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      250 31 KnightRidder NEW YORK The tanker markets were only just alive on Thursday with rates "barely holding their own", brokers said. They described the Caribbean sector as being "dead as a mackerel". But one broker suggested that "a fair amount of business must be fixing privately as
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      1435 32 A FLOOD of strong Pacific fixtures boosted sentiment in the dry-cargo freight market on Thursday after sluggish trade the day before, and the Baltic Freight Index rose by two points to 1.983. The Atlantic market remained quiet but the Far East was active with all sizes of tonnage
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      373 32 COURSES I ilk: Principles of Shipping Documentation and Practices (SDK 70%) Duration: Feb 23 May 25 Organiser Singapore National Shipping Association Tel: For further details and application forms contact SNSA Secretariat at 278-3464 or fax: 274-5079. Title: Principles of Shipping Operations and Practices (SDF 70%) Duration: Mar 7
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      1083 33  -  Difference in opinion between the large and small shipbuilders reflects fundamental difference in their industries. Joseph Bonney reports Joseph Bonney American Shipper American shipbuilders are divided over an international agreement to curtail shipyard subsidies. The agreement is supported by the Shipbuilders Council of
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      10386 40 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. LEGENO PN: ship calls at Penang after
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        Lock icon GM's Asia-Pacific sales up 10%, more gains expected
        292 50 Bloomberg Business News DETROIT General Motors Corp said its vehicle sales in the Asia-Pacific region rose 10 ptr cent in 1994, and could increase another 10 per cent to more than 600,000 this year. "New model introductions and expanding markets will refurther
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        348 50 Accord expected to create tens of thousands of new jobs Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON American President Bill Clinton and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien will sign an agreement this week that could create tens of thousands of new jobs by reducing restrictions on
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        347 50 Bloomberg Business News HIGHLAND PARK, Michigan Chrysler Corp plans to spend U5522.9 billion (5533.1 billion) during the remainder of this decade on product development, technology, supplier relations and international operations. The United States' thirdlargest carmaker, in its 1994 annual report to be
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        107 50 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Chrysler Motor Corp is seeking potential partners to establish a joint venture to produce vehicle parts in Taiwan as part of its effort to reduce the cost of components, the China Post reported here on Friday. Chrysler chairman Robert
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          83 50 Reuter TOKYO China's largest carmaker, Shanghai Automotive Corp, is not happy with the terms offered by Toyota Motor Corp for a potential joint venture, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday. "The plan is too vague," the Chinese company's chairman told the newspaper. "There isn't
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          55 50 Reuter MEXICO CITY Daimler-Benz AG unit AEG-Daimler Benz Industrie has opened an automotive electronics plant in Cuautla, Mexico, to supply customers in the North American market, company officials said on Saturday. The Cuautla plant is expected to generate sales this year of 240 million pesos
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          89 50 AP DETROIT Government regulators in the United States and Canada are investigating the safety of seat belts used in more than six million Japanese vehicles sold in the two countries, a newspaper reported on Friday. The seat belts, made by Takata Inc and
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          109 50 Reuter BRUSSELS Airlines operating at Brussels airport have appealed to Belgian Communications Minister Elio Di Rupo to intervene in an air traffic controllers* strike which has crippled flights since Wednesday. "No negotiations are currently taking place between management and unions and there is a
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          66 50 Bloomberg Business News CHICAGO United Airlines will expand its low-cost Shuttle operations in April by adding more daily trips to eight current markets and offering service to Portland, Oregon. The airline unit of Chicago-based UAL Corp will boost the number of flights in its Shuttle
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        413 50 NYT DENVER It has been hailed as a technological marvel and derided as a civic booster's overpriced field of dreams. Whatever it is, the new Denver International Airport is set finally to begin operating on Feb 28 a year and
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        274 50 Bloomberg Business News MIAMI British Airways pic and USAir Group lnc have held talks with Dade County airport officials in Florida on sharing a new "super terminal" with at least 15 Latin American and Caribbean airlines within a year.
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        203 50 Reuter BONN German car body producer Wilhelm Karmann GmbH, maker of the famous Volkswagen Beetle cabriolet, said it will develop a new car with South Korean carmaker Kia Motors Corp. Karmann chairman Rainer Thieme said in an interview with Friday's Handclsblati newspaper
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      1621 35 i Bfs STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD flBSf Sf 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 MitlMlilMlJJittWßrfilflMlllJisjdliJlM new guinea pacific line (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CARGO OUE SMLS STRAITS VENTURE V9MSC Mumj. Lib. KK In PI 20 Feb FCL. LCt CONTAINER AND BREAK BULK
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      2085 35 > PC Singapore Agent: X AEI 9 C jOHI r) 1 P& ContainerB (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd fr Bl s* 1! 10 »<* Chi** Road. #07-01 keppel Towers. Singapore 0208 First Class Connections WORLDWIDE ,el: 225 2233 ,clc RS ***** pnocsp eF« 225 5327/222 7517 t R Number: *****9 *****/
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      670 35 FOR BOOKING 1800-*****00 (TOLL-FREE) OUTBOUND PHI PEN Km SW HAG MO TM REE *38 OS* MOI BUS WAN HAI 211 NO 26 18 07 19 07 71 07 77 73 07 21 02 01 03 oToT TS«a MO loU" 11/03 WAN HAI 707 NO/6 22,02 23 07 7b 07 767;
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      424 36 SAILS DIRECT TO \SEATTLE PORTLAND Every Friday ETA SEATTLE THURSDAY ETA PORTLAND SATURDAY For Enquiries Bookings, please call: Paul Lim *****26 Pgr *****99 James Gwee *****31 Pgr *****61 Radiyah *****35 Looi *****30 LINKS EXPRESS 62 Toh Guan Road, FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS DISTRIPARK. Complex i. Ground Floor Singapore 2260 <mSBr Jb
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      3222 37 VARIU (BULGARIA) CONSTANTZA (ItOMANIA) ID UMAMR 3 SAILMG PER MONTH —f'» W fO«HT»<: mini Salnßootiu. Oa»t: rnCTIP CUIOOIU/ 1 orr Irn ru fGamwal): 22*1 tee Cotttmintr: *****41/844 Conftntr S»c *****02 Operation— Cortiwr *****15 tUol** bnlrrlN6 ric LTD Mc »l» COSHIP CnmntM; <*****0 O/O; *****05 C»mr*****44 4 StMtM w«r «17-00 Cff
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      600 37 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE 0106 HOT LINE: *****33 (30 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 27/02 1 ROTTERDAM j AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 27/02 HAMBURG/BREMEN 27/02 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 23/02 FELIXSTOWE/UK 27/02 BARCELONA/SPAIN 24/02 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 21/02 i;: GENOA/ITALY 25/02 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 2V02 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 24/02 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 22/02 j NEW YORK/EC ***** FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 23/02 VANCOUVER ***** BRISBANE
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      1114 38 1 I™** 1 I VOY I f* 1 T 1 1 j VWUBHUM 1228 Tu* 21/2 Fri 24/2_ jg |INTRA BHUM 502* Mon lln Pt Wad nr> I F»1 VESSEL VOY SIN BKK 1 WAHA BHUM MBS Wod 22/2 Brt 2S/2 1 THAN A BHUM 100N ~fiT ~21«" ~^T pfi
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      915 38 79 ANSON ROAD, #21-01, SINGAPORE 0207 TELE: *****92 FAX: *****57 CR **********0N -J STRAITS SHUTTLE SERVICE PORT KLANG PENANG vessel I OPT I m PKL VESSEL VQY SW PO» j St* LAUBEI 364W 23/2 (THU) 24/2 (FRI) MCC COWVEYOfi 6012 22/2 (WED) 24/2 (fM) MUR GEMW WW 24 2 (FIB)
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      925 39 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD i 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I CR NO **********0E I r T r 1 l~< VESSEL VOY SIN CMB JIB HOD JEO AQJ ADE PZU MSW ASA 1 KOTA BERK AT BKT2IS 27/2 4/3 11/3 13/3 H/3 It/3 IS/3 22/3 24/3
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      976 39 vtsstis vor sm u mm Hamburg twmis xontnow ANTwtHf VK.LI OHYDPA HO7M 23/0? IVO3 17/03 19/03 ?0, 03 21/03 vtlt M LYRA TO7W 02/03 22/03 24/03 26/03 27/03 21/03 VILE DC VELA VO7N 09/03 29/03 31/03 02/04 03,04 04/04 VILE OC TITANA TOW 04/04 07/04 09/04 10/04 11/04 •ALSO ACCCPTMG
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      602 39 I BSA iiJ MYANMA VBk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon^ Spore PKI( Pen P.Gdf HP* AN V2O7W 22/24 Feb PATHEIN VI3IW 27/01 Mv PAGAN V2IBW 28/01 M* MALAYSIA AGENTS BOUSTEAO SUPPING AGENCIES KUL TEL 02 03-*****00 PHI TEL 02 03-*****67 4 PEN TEL 02-04-2(***** PGO:
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      667 42 Brickfield marine agencies (S) pte ltd TEL: *****33 (12 Lines) FAX: *****15/*****03 TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) CR NO.: **********0E kraem SHAPING Mp r__ (National litm of Ethiopia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Voy ETA Loading For Spof* Andinel 38WB 12/04 Mombasa. Djibouti Assab. Massawa Abbay Wonz 43W8 08/05 Mombasa.
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      740 42 AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd., Halratan, Torghundl. Islamqala (Doqharun) mwm&LMwm c.i.s./russia: ma Ata. Ashkhabad. Baku. Dushanbe. I Irkutsk. Khabarovsk. Krasnoyarsk. Korsakov. Moscow. Mlinzer a Muncn Novosobirsk, Sochi. Tashkent. Tbilisi, Vladivostok. Vostochny International Forwarders Mongolia: uiaan Bator N Korea: Pyongyang, Nampo EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE to west coast south america I ALSO ACCEPTVM
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      288 42 TTTv FOONG SUN V SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. WHOLESALE CENTRE, BLOCK 1, #03-10 SINGAPORE 0511 BOOKING/ENQUIRIES CR NO: **********0W TEL: *****55 (12 LINES) FAX: *****16/*****25 TLX: R*****0/***** FSSHIP VESSEL VOY EJA E]o DESTWATIOW SUN RAY 4/95 27/2 2S/2 PIAJU PALEMBANG SEAMAR 2/95 23/2 2S/2 PONTIANAK/SWTETE WANUAKU 1/95 27/2 1/3 BENGKULU/PAOANG SUN
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      329 42 MhABMN CONTAINER LINESiUNfS I\=AV *9* n l« MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 UNEB) > 'c/n nm i2OOS7S9OOOC SIBU (064) *****9 KUCHINQ (082) *****3 PENANG: (04} *****6 BANGkOK (862) *****67 MANILA (632) *****61 P-KELANQ: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) 8P***** SURABAYA: (31) MyO ASIA HKG/TWN/BKKI GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKI SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK
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      221 43 K JIB &WPR SINO EXPRESS SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. MM J 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. 1 TEL: *****90 (4 LINES) FAX: *****98 TLX: R*****1 3INOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKG/SHAI 3'PORE HKG BHAI VESSEL VOY. ETA I ETD ETA I ETD ETA I ETP J. FASTER 901/902
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      1234 43 «t»a vok miane hmk tot m mm bbn tm m a na ra mt fumn mt dm mku mo tto N> HOMSMJ 7025 20 02 lt.tr 1I 0T 13.03 12.03 1113 10.03 24.03 2113 HONE ROME 1055 21.02 22.02 20.02 01.03 03 03 Ml) NOMHK 7035 20 02 27.02* 20
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      1375 44 5>3 EB=ESSniZI3I THIS WEEK'S ARRIVAL: NEXT WEEK'S ARRIVAL: VESSELS VOY ETA EXCHANGE VESSELS VOV ETA EXCHANGE RATE RATE LONDON MAERSK 9504 20 FEB 1 4610 MAERSK HONGKONG 9504 27 FEB 1 4520 SL VOYAGER 225W 20 FEB 1.4570 PROVIDENCE BAY 5024 27 FEB 1 4520 OSAKA BAY 5530 20 FEB
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      781 44 I SMMIoyd FULL CONTAINER SERVICES I» otm low "zToT 27 UO2 0] 12 03 24 03 »*****32t 03 I Dint Mm MO3 05 03 00 03 20 03 31 0) UM 01/04 04 04 OtITMM TOO* 10 03 11/U 15 03 05 04 0) 04 00 04 10 04 11/
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      707 44 TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF if*®* 1 VOY, SPORE P. KELANG HALIFAX N YORK NORFOLK N ORLEANS MOBILE TAMPICO HOUSTON HOEGH DUKE 0528 22/23 Feb 24/25 Feb 2 Ape 5 Apr 8 Apr 14 Apr 17 Apr 20 Apr 25 Apr "«GH MIRANDA 0728 13 Mar OPT 21
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      609 45 WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTMG BftEAMBULH SOC CMGOCS TO/FROM KOK. YOKOHAMA. NAGOTA, MO I, TOKYO*. UAM.A*, DAVAO*. Penanj* P Keianj Srjapore E'Msia* 1 KARABfVERETT V2IE 27/28 Feb 01/02 Mar KAMALEVERETT V2SE 16/17 Mar •> KARABfVERETT V22E 20/21 Apr ACCEPTMG BMAKBULK FCI SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CHTTAGOKG. CALCUTTA AM)
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      191 45 W&L CLOWY WAVICATION CROUP REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN SINGAPORE TO KOMPONG SOM •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W KAO SIN PKG PNG GLORY SELATAN VII 18/2 24/2 26/2 28/2 GLORY SELATAN X 19/2 25/2 27/2 29/2 SIN KAO GLORY SELATAN VIII 16/2 22/2 SINGAPORE ASEAN TO TAIWAN
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      630 45 jdbt PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE VESSEL VOY UK KARACHI HYDERABAD 137 HW 21/02 2/03 ISIAMABAO 132 HW 27/02 M/ 03 SARCOOHA 153-HW 12/03 21/03 MAMAN IMHW 17/03 27/03 rti Mil c«i air rain subkct 10 «®uu*r FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY VESSEL VOT SIN 'kg
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      707 45 FULL CONTAINER SERVICE FROM SIN TO MADRAS VtSSCL/VOY eta sin eta maa MV TIGER BRIDGE V3I7N 19-20/02 26-02/03 MV PRAVDINSM Vl3 23-24/02 01-02/03 MV TIGER BAY V 130 24-25/02 02-06/03 MV BUNGA TERATAI V TERO29 24-25/02 02-09/03 MV TIGER CAPE V.OtSN 28-01/03 06 11/03 MV PESTOVO V.IO 02-03/03 08-15/03 MV
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      308 45 UN FAR EAST 28/2 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 26/2 BANGKOK 26/2 MANILA/CEBU 26/2 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 27/2 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 26/2 BUSAN 26/2 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 26/2 HONG KONG sin china 26/2 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIN EUROPE/UK 27/2 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 27/2 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romama/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA 25/2 LOS ANGELES/NEW
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      1148 46 i»*. ipSSSSSSSS^ FIXED k WEEKLY §AlLlNGS^^^^^^^Hb^ ■■■11l I| I I I ft Tel: *****95 |fFax-:26p»78: ||ipPfSsj9Hp MBLBOWNEI w GP SHIPPING PTE LTD I Call: Kenny/Mas/Peter STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD I AGENTS FOR: ZIM CONTAINER SERVICE GOLD STAR LINE LTD SETH SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (8 LINES) FAX: *****70
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      441 46 y Con term CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 26 FEBRUARY (Accepting to all New Zealand porta) PENAN6 22 FIB JAKARTA 26 FEB PORT KLANG 23 FIB BANGKOK 28 FEB MANILA 26 FEB MELBOURNE 22 FEB SYDNEY 22 FEB BRISBANE 6 MAR -h FREMANTLE 23 FEB ADELAIDE 23 FEB I6OTHENBURG
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      1095 46 i CONSOLIDATION TO BUSAN HRSI KORWARDKK IN OFFERING TWICE WEEKLY isomS LCL SERVICE TO BUSAN HK Call SANISA at DID: 277 1058 (f/g)t)[Vl for bookings NOW!!! I Tel: Fax: Singapore 561 1668 272 9838 INTERNATWHAI SEA FREIGHT Also has offices in:- FOWARONG mm mM Malaysia Thailand Philippines Jttbk and logistics
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      1604 47 rjj SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD 20 McCallum Street *16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 E. Tel: *****22 (10 Lines) FAX: *****05 CR No.: *****8 200 OOR Y.S.N. V——t Howfl Kong Singapore P. Kalang Penang 8— Giant 36 SaMed 22-23/2 24-25/2 Maju Jay 17A 1-2/3 3-4/3 Spica 66 23-1/3 $-7/3 6-6/3 r
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      391 47 CEYLON SHIPPING CORPN National Line of Sri Lanka CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO UK AND NORTH CONTINENTAL PORTS ml 1 wl 111 laTwil 11 —1 m iat*a« Howaiowt m? i n/2 ivt "uTT is/j i\u MP SWMWH IW a/1 M inuai smm mm 1/1 t/j »/j vn ztji MP) IMOIOWA Otll i/j
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      775 47 I VESSEL VOYAGE EXCHANGE RATES (US$) I Vv I IN OUT IN OUT H I NEPTUNE PEARL 18W 18W ***** 1 4550 ■fL NEPTUNE BERYL 206 21W 1 4522 1 4522 H Mi M I KASUGA I 40W 41E 1 4529 1 4537 KB MANHATTAN BRIOGE 75W 75W 1 4585
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      1554 48 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. 19 KEPPtI ROAO .0201 JIT POH BUICHNG SINGAPOPt 0208 TEL 325-9966 f»« 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 TO NORTH AMERICA CANADA WEEKLY CONTAINERIZED SERVICE «s»i/WH*g kn m m m |«sgi/wug
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      1879 48 K*4i_ V AS AGENTS: "K" UNI (SINfiAPOM) PTE LTD (CR NO: **********QM/GST REG NO: M 2-*****99-6) TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 I 1 IVI MALAYSIA K" UNI MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON IND M I f l TEL SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 JB *****0 1 PGU *****25/6 INDONESIA:
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      138 48 BANGLADESH SHIPPING CORPN. REGULAR SERVICE TO/FROM CHITTAGONG j VtSStL VOYAGE CHITAGONG SINGAPORE MONGLA CHTTA6ONG B«WGIX MOW 42W 12/02 n/ 02 K /Q2 BAWCI >oB> 1» 02 26/02 04 03 06/03 j! BANGIAR MOW 43W 26/02 05/03 11/03 13 03 BANG lA* ROW 46W 06/03 12 03 26/03 IS/03 IMBUE MOW
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      488 49 ▲HYUNDAII s mijjyjji fiTP,-— TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 -fpf«A [nil pgd vessels voy sm rtm ant leh ham brej fe "22/02 24/02 25/0T H. PIONEER 313»T 27/02 17/03 19/03 18/03" 19/03 19/03 21/03 i 01/03 03/03 04/03 H. FRONTIER 315N 06/03 24/03 26/03 2S/03 26/03 26/03 21/03 01/03 10/03 11/08
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      387 49 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE MULTI-PURPOSE I RORO CARRIR SPECIALIZE IN HEAVY UFT CARGO UPTO 120 TONS RAMP CAPACITY UPTO SO TONS I f™ l tn> vtsstl yoy sm n ioaomgfor ANDHKA UMMTNA 4 20/2 MRI 24/2. lANIONG UAMS 26/2 BMIULU 27/2 OCEAN BIUE M 25/2 It/2 BANGKOK 1/3 GOLDEN SEAWAY
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      614 49 JEDDAH/UK/CONTNENT STORE £D S TONH-BURG BOX ADAM lEH Aho Accept.* Carp fm KAI 12/107 22/2 U/3 14/3 12/3 Swthwvtor to <1 UK tfntoutav Bdlnt ato DutoAr HMMOVER (IPRESS 24/307 25/2 (/3 15/3 11/3 20/3 22/3 Rotted*. :to Artmrp Airetodjm. (Mo. HcMu NYK AIT AC 02/101 1/3 11/3 21/3 10/3 SwOuhvlx
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