The Business Times, 6 March 1995

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    10 1 BUSINESS TIMES WEi&bW-ASIA* MITA(F) 194/12/94 Monday March 6 1995 85"
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Austria opts for open skies pact with US
      60 1 Bloomberg Business News TOULOUSE, France The Austrian government yesterday confirmed it will defy European Union wishes and sign an"open skies" agreement with the US later this week. An official said during a visit to an Airbus Industrie factory here that a team
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      Lock icon Finland warned against joining Nato
      33 1 AFP HELSINKI A senior Russian diplomat yesterday warned neighbouring Finland against joining Nato, saying a decision to join the Western military alliance could provoke an international crisis. AFP
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    160 1 Stock market indices Friday Week change STII 2.133.00 +18.48 KLSE Comp 979.64 9.19 Nikkei 17,039.62 -433.32 Hang Seng 8,185.15 -33.80 SET Index 1.262.33 -3186 Jakarta Comp 452.88 -1.81 CLSA China B 816.73 -3.57 Aust All Ord 1.902.4 -8 70 FTSE 100 3.025.1 -12.6 Dow Jones 3.989.61 -22.13 Average
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    Leeson near breakdown before fleeing
    728 1  -  Trader apologises for leaving colleagues in predicament in resignation fax By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Nick Leeson, the futures trader behind the collapse of Barings, Britain's oldest merchant bank, fled his post here saying that the pressures he was under had become too much to bear
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    Barings' collapse due to lack of internal controls: PM Goh
    225 1 SINGAPORE The collapse of Barings was due to lax internal controls and has had minimal impact on the Singapore market. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, commenting publicly on the Barings debacle for the first time yesterday, said reports from investigations
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  • Article
    Property, finance sectors to stay top earners next two years
    382 1  -  By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Corporate earnings last year were largely boosted by profits from property and financial activities and will continue to be so for the next two years as the flood of projects launched in the last two years
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    Lack of support may see US$ slipping further
    537 1  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON THE FAILURE of central banks to support the US dollar last week could lead to a further slide in the coming days, currency specialists say. "There's a risk that there will be another dollar crisis," said Jurgen
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      37 1 Business IT: p% u The next video attraction £100 million bonuses... that's what directors of Barings reportedly want for themselves and their staff. Prospective buyer ING is reluctant, but two others are talking. Story on Page 3
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Electronics, machinery lead growth
        319 2  -  By Michelle Low SINGAPORE'S manufacturing output grew 10.8 per cent in December, resulting in an on-track growth of 12.9 per cent last year. Leading the growth once again was the clcctronics industry, which rose 18.5 per cent in December. The year's growth was 22 per cent
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      S'pore, Australia to set up panel for investment tie-ups
      416 2  -  By A J Leow SINGAPORE and Australia have agreed to set up a high-level body to explore opportunities for strategic economic and investment tieups in the region. Speaking to reporters yesterday at the Istana after a courtesy visit by the Australian
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      Freehold residential land in Geylang area up for auction next month
      253 2 A LARGE tract of residential land in the Geylang area will be put up for sale by public auction next month following a High Court order. The 1.7-hectare freehold site, which forms part of Siang Lim Park, is bounded
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      20 Singapore companies take part in Europe's IT fair
      160 2 SINGAPORE'S burgeoning information technology (IT) industry will get a strong showing at Europe's premier IT trade fair this week. Led by the Trade Development Board (TDB), 20 companies will take part in CeBIT '95 in Hannover, Germany. The week-long show, starting
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      Taiwan company to make 486 chips for AMD
      316 2  -  By Claire Leow TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) will begin making 486 chips for US-based Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which has a plant in Chai Chee, in the third quarter of the year. TSMC is a foundry in Taiwan which manufactures chips
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      Lock icon S'pore, US firms in US$27m TV deal
      80 2 Reuter STAMFORD, Connecticut Westinghouse Electric Corp's Group W Network Services said it had formed a venture with Yarra Films Pte Ltd, a Singaporean video and television production company, to build and run a television hub. Each company will own half of the joint
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  • THE BARINGS DEBACLE
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon ABN Amro, Smith Barney to bid for parts of Barings
      471 3  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON DUTCH bank ABN Amro and US investment bank Smith Barney have been allowed to bid for parts of Barings, said a spokesman of the British merchant bank's administrators Ernst Young. The two suitors have been
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      Lock icon Ex-Barings staff claims she warned management
      141 3 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY A London-based Australian banker warned executives at Barings pic nearly two years ago of problems in its derivatives business, the Sun-Herald newspaper reported. Former Barings futures broker Catherine Mcßride, who turned down an offer to run Barings' office in Singapore,
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      Early warning: directors refuse to comment
      677 3  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON BARINGS directors yesterday refused to comment on revelations by Singapore financial authorities that they had been forewarned of a potential financial disaster as far back as three years ago. They also refused to comment on a statement from Price
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      Lock icon Japan banks hold 68b yen in uncollectable Baring assets
      176 3 AFP TOKYO Fifteen Japanese banks hold uncollectable assets worth 67.66 billion yen (Ssl billion) in the Tokyo branch of Baring Securities, the stock broking unit of Britain's collapsed Barings pic, a daily said yesterday. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said Sakura Bank
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Mahathir orders cargo . handlers to raise efficiency
      368 4 Mahathir orders cargo handlers to raise efficiency AFP Bernama NST KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday told cargo handlers to step up efficiency at Malaysia's premier port, following a report that it was losing billions of dollars of business a year to neighbouring Singapore. "It is not that we
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      Lock icon M'sia PM dismisses Fortune's report on ringgit
      197 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday described "as nothing more than a prediction" a report by Fortune magazine that the ringgit is one of seven currencies in emerging economies at risk of being devalued based on its claim that the country
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      Lock icon Manila in no danger of Mexico-style crisis: Ramos
      172 4 Reuter MANILA President Fidel Ramos began yesterday a 12day trip to the Middle East and Europe to assure investors the Philippines was not in danger of a Mexican-style financial crisis and to seek islamic support to stop the smuggling of arms to
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      Lock icon On shaky foundations
      62 4 AFP HANOI A ietnamese labourer on Saturday carrying bricks past a house that was torn down recently because it was built illegally on a dyke that protects Hanoi from the Red River. Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet has ordered an inquiry into a widening scandal over construction
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      Lock icon Tourist resort plan boosting investment in Vietnam
      315 4 Reuter HANOI A US$264 million (Ss3B3 million) plan by a Bahamas company for a tourist complex in the southern Vietnamese resort and oil industry base of Vung Tau has given a much-needed lift to investment, authorities said yesterday. The complex, licensed last week,
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        Lock icon Pertamina discovers oil in East Timor
        54 4 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's state-owned oil company Pertamina has discovered oil deposits in East Timor, the official Antara news agency reported yesterday. Covalima district head Herman Suyono said Pertamina's survey had achieved positive results but added that the oil content of the deposits had yet
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        Lock icon Napocor sees 416% boost in profits
        106 4 Reuter MANILA The state-owned Philippine National Power Corp (Napocor), widely savaged for an energy crisis that plunged the country into prolonged "brownouts", posted a 416 per cent profit in 1994 compared to 1993. Last year's profits rose to 7.04 billion pesos (***** million) from
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        Lock icon More jobs amid M'sian boom: Daim
        89 4 Bernama SUNGAI PETANI, Malaysia The Malaysian economy will continue to gain strength and employment opportunities will increase for both Malaysians and foreigners, economic adviser to the government Daim Zainuddin said yesterday. Malaysia was now employing about one million foreigners, including those from Bangladesh and
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China to bar banks from trust investment, securities business
      425 6 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Chinese state banks are to be barred from operating trust investment and securities businesses. Premier Li Peng said yesterday. In his annual parliament address, Mr Li said various financial reforms were needed to bolster the central bank's
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      HK must tackle problem of shrinking revenue base
      471 6  -  From Stephen Vines in HONGKONG LAST YEAR. Hongkong's Financial Secretary Hamish Macleod was hailed in newspaper headlines as "Sir Generous" because the 1994/5 budget seemed to give a lot away. This year the Financial Secretary was hailed as "Sir Prudent", because he
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      Lock icon China can still be WTO founding member, says diplomat
      441 6 Bloomberg Business News Reuter BEIJING China can still become a founding member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) if it joins in the first half of 1995, a Western diplomat said yesterday. Premier Li Peng's annual address to parliament signalled China
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Taiwan wary over air link call
        91 6 Reuter TAIPEI Despite calls by a Beijing airline official to open direct air links, Taiwan's top negotiator with China said yesterday the island would consider such links only when its dignity and safety are safeguarded. "We hope the direct transportation links will start under
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        Lock icon Taiwan grants financing licence
        69 6 AFP TAIPEI The Taiwan Finance Ministry has granted the first bills' financing licence issued in 17 years, breaking a monopoly of the business by three local firms, a finance official said yesterday. In a liberalisation move, the Finance Ministry licensed Tachung Bills Finance Company to operate
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        Lock icon China allows foreign bids to run roads
        85 6 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's eastern province of Shandong will allow foreign and domestic companies to bid for the right to operate two of its expressways, the government-owned China News Service reported. The winners will be offered a share of toll income from
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        Lock icon China to buy more Russian subs
        59 6 Reuter HONGKONG China has agreed to buy six submarines from Russia to boost its naval arsenal, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has also ended preliminary discussions to buy another 12 Russian submarines later this decade, the
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        Lock icon President Lee may speak at Cornell
        74 6 AP TAIPEI President Lee Teng-hui will be invited to speak at Cornell University, the American school where he studied, despite possible protests from China, a newspaper reported yesterday. The United Daily News quoted unidentified Taiwanese officials as saying a delegation from Cornell would visit
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        Lock icon HK police close Internet providers
        97 6 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong police searching for computer hackers closed down most of the colony's Internet providers, cutting up to 10.000 people off from the computer superhighway, industry sources said yesterday. Only one dedicated commercial gateway to the Internet was left operating, they said. A government
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      144 6 China to close futures exchanges, limit trading by local firms, Fg 23 How to make sure your faxes follow you when you move. 2HHSTJS.^itE^i-lHi^^r* 1 IM r» «U1 IIM uu .f JBfci. tmKr Anyone can do it. All you need is Redirect Fax service. If you're changing your fax number
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Japanese minister admits blunder in botched bailout of credit unions
      350 7 AFP TOKYO Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura yesterday admitted that his ministry mismanaged a botched credit union rescue plan it had put together with the Bank of Japan. "I think the Finance Ministry must assume its responsibility for it sooner or
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      Lock icon New Delhi police bust racket in share certificates
      309 7 AFP NEW DELHI Nine men have been arrested here after detectives busted a multi-million-dollar racket in share certificates involving many of India's leading companies, the police said yesterday. Police seized nearly 780,000 share certificates from six sub-brokers and a computer operator who
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      Lock icon Australian minister says US becoming more isolationist
      250 7 AFP SYDNEY Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans said yesterday he regretted that the United States was becoming more isolationist and warned the trend could harm international operations, especially humanitarian responses. "I think that's a matter for regret that the US is turning inwards
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon China, India end border talks
        99 7 AFP NEW DELHI China and India ended three days of talks on their protracted border dispute here on Saturday with an agreement to open two new border points for meetings between their military personnel. The India-China Expert Group said the opening of the two meeting
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        Lock icon Do Muoi to visit Seoul
        63 7 AP SEOUL The head of Vietnam's Communist Party will visit South Korea next month to improve economic and political ties between the two countries, a newspaper said on Saturday. Secre-tary-general Do Muoi will meet President Kim Young Sam and other high-ranking South Korean officials during
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        Lock icon Aussie aid ignores Asia: minister
        81 7 Reuter MELBOURNE Australia's foreign aid budget is unfairly targeted towards Africa while ignoring Asian countries, Federal Minister for Development and Co-operation Gordon Bilney said on Saturday. Mr Bilney told a conference, "Australians for an Ecologically Sustainable Population", that Africa received from the Western world eight
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        Lock icon N Korean leader appears in public
        63 7 AP TOKYO North Korean leader Kim Jong 11, who rarely appears in public, received a storm of applause when he attended a mass gymnastics performance yesterday, the North's official news agency said. Mr Kim "warmly acknowledged" the cheers from army officers and men in
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      Enquiries run hot on NZ plan to ease foreign investment rules
      365 7  -  From Mike Simms in AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND tax consultants say their telephones have been "running hot" with overseas enquiries since the government announced proposed liberalised foreign investment rules last week. The proposals, which substantially widen tax relief for foreign
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLDWATCH
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        Lock icon Balladur rebukes foreign minister
        110 8 AFP PARIS Prime Minister Edouard Balladur rebuked his foreign minister, Alain Juppe, on Saturday, saying that a decision announced last week to close six French embassies and 15 consulates for budget reasons had "no foundation". Mr Balladur, who is running for the French presidency, indicated in
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        Lock icon Russia, IMF reach accord on loan
        71 8 AP MOSCOW Russia and the International Monetary Fund have reached agreement on a US$6.3 billion (Ss9.l billion) loan and will finalise its details in talks this week, a top government official said on Saturday. Economics Minister Yevgeny Yasin said the agreement came on Friday
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        Lock icon Gingrich's plan to balance the books
        78 8 Reuter DULUTH, Georgia US House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich said he wants to freeze military spending as part of a plan to bring a balanced federal budget proposal to a vote by May. Fresh from a Republican defeat to pass a bill that
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      Lock icon Mexico's Banpais seized for not meeting capital requirements
      435 8 Bloomberg Business News AP Reuter MEXICO CITY Mexico's Finance Ministj7 has seized Grupo Financiero AsemexBanpais SA after the company's banking and insurance units failed to meet capital and reserves requirements. The group, known as Banpais, owns Mexico's eighthlargest bank, Banpais SA, and
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      Lock icon Hurd urges Tories to stand firm against isolationism
      197 8 AFP LONDON British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd on Saturday called on Conservative Party colleagues to avoid resorting to "isolationism" as it battled to present a united front on policies regarding Europe. In a speech to pro-Europe-an Conservatives in Warwickshire. Mr Hurd said
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      Lock icon US says it has the votes to maintain sanctions against Iraq
      334 8 The Washington Post UNITED NATIONS The United States has won enough votes on the UN Security Council to block an effort by Russia and France to lift the oil embargo against Iraq, US officials said on Saturday. After a
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Sweet success for Candy Lady
      1261 10  -  Juliette Walker meets a fun-loving American who makes a business out of introducing novelties from her homeland Juliette Walker PEOPLE whether age five, 15 or 50 studiously pore over these candy racks. The younger ones usually look a little bug-eyed. After all, they're making a
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      239 10 When the best choice for If an organisation cannot adapt, its future dies. flr If people are retained for reasons of loyalty rather than need, and are then under-utilised, their skills die. tßi The responsible organisation retains its ability to < change and grow through sensible loyalty to its people.
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Multimedia firms take front seat for next video attraction
      799 11  -  Firms here launch video CD players to tap future multi-billion-dollar market, David Mok reports David Mok SEVERAL local multimedia firms have begun making video CD players to get a head start in what promises to be an explosive market within the
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      New boss all fired up to make Apple Asia a market-share machine
      637 11  -  Apple's regional chief tells Kenneth James how she aims to cut Apple a larger slice of the Asian PC pie Kenneth James TWO months into the job, Apple Computer's new MD for Asia has spelt out her strategy
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      AMD to ship its new K5 microprocessors in third quarter
      486 11  -  By Lee Wai Leong Microprocessor maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is to start shipping its first K5 microprocessors, AMD's answer to Intel's popular Pentium, in the third quarter of this year. Disclosing this at a press briefing last week, Vijay
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      Lock icon Asia-Pacific PC shipments up 37.8% last year
      179 11 Reuter TOKYO Personal computer shipments in the Asia-Pacific region surged 37.8 per cent to 7.89 million last year, helped by economic growth in the region and major inroads into the Japanese market by US vendors, researcher IDC Asia/Pacific said. "The exceptionally fast adoption
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      Multimedia sets tone for local firms at Cebit
      384 12  -  Small companies will get their chance to shine under the banner of the Trade Development Board, David Mok learns David Mok SINGAPORE'S growing reputation in multimedia will set the tone at most of the booths put up by local computer firms at
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      US networking firm sets up S'pore logistics centre
      535 12  -  By Lee Wai Leong Networking giant Bay Networks has established an Asia/Pacific Logistic Centre in Singapore which will provide same-day spare parts delivery to customers in Asia. The company has also established an Asia/Pacific technical response centre in Australia that will give
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      Sequent sets ambitious target for S'pore HQ — to grow 70-100%
      289 12 Sequent sets ambitious target for S'pore HQ to grow 70-100% SINGAPORE Leading client/server company Sequent Computer Systems has set its newly-formed Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore an ambitious target: grow 70-100 per cent each year. Dave Gunderson, Sequent's vice-president for Asia Pacific operations, said at a press briefing last week: "We're
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    • TECH TAKES
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        Digital to build low power Rise chips
        70 12 SINGAPORE Digital has licensed Rise architecture from Advanced Rise Machines Ltd (ARM) for the development of a new family of high-performance, low power microprocessors. Under the agreement. Digital will develop the StrongAßM family of 32-bit Rise products to complement the existing ARM product
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        Creative launches video output device
        48 12 SINGAPORE Creative has launched TV coder external, an external video output device that allows users to connect PC output to virtually any video display device, such as a TV, video recorder, or RGB projector. It has a suggested retail price of U*****.95 (5J333).
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        New OS/2 Warp
        43 12 SINGAPORE IBM has announced OS/2 Warp with WINOS2, which will help run Windows programs from OS/2 Warp without Microsoft Windows. It costs $288. Users of OS/2 2.0, 2.1 and 2.11 can upgrade to OS/2 Warp with WIN-OS 2 for $217.
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        Digital launches Pentium servers
        34 12  -  Compiled by Lee Wai Leong SINGAPORE Digital Equipment has launched Prions HX, a new class of scalable, Pentium-based, symmetric multiprocessing application servers. Its price is expected to start from $7,800.
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    • It's happenin'
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        Intel LANDesk seminar
        25 12 SINGAPORE Intel Singapore is holding a launch-cum-semi-nar on its LANDesk Management Suite 2.0 on Wed. To register, fax Intel at 292 8896.
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        Share/Guide conference
        56 12 SINGAPORE The Share/Guide Association Singapore will be holding its sixth annual conference at the Hilton International on Mar 16-17. IT professionals from the US, UK, France and Singapore will address a topics such as large systems strategies, systems management and enterprise storage and application redevelopment. For more information,
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        Graphical applications workshop
        44 12 SINGAPORE lAS is conducting two sessions of Gupta's Quick Start Workshop, hands-on courses in designing and building graphical applications on computers. The workshops will be held on Mar 24 and Apr 28. For more information, call Chin Ling at 320 2083.
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        Courses on object-oriented technology
        55 12 SINGAPORE ISS is holding a series of courses on object-ori-ented analysis, design and implementation. Object Orientation for Managers will be held today and tomorrow, Object Oriented Analysis and Design from Mar 13 to 17, and Object Oriented Implementation from Mar 27 to 31. For more information,
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        33 12  -  Complied by David Mok SINGAPORE Elixir Technology will hold a three-day course on Win32 programming for Windows NT and Windows 95 from March 27-29. For more information, call 322 8575.
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      Wonders of workgroup computing
      668 13  -  Vimal Goel explains how collaborative computing enhances office productivity I IT I THE NEXT WAVE Vimal Goel Vimal Goel is involved in WindowsS YMBOL 228 f Symbol' software development and technology transfer at the Institute of Systems Science. He can be contacted at 772-6774 or vgoel(a)iss.
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      Cyberspace will make us all global citizens
      851 13  -  NETWORKING WORID Tommi Chen looks at the I-Way's influence on freedom and culture Tommi Chen Dr Tommi Chen is an Internum and managing partner of Netcentre Pte Ltd which provides specialist networking services. His Internet address is tomnu(a>technet. sg. WHAT a coincidence! In
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      Lock icon Could Microsoft go the way of IBM?
      839 13  -  In the computer world, longevity is never assured, says Edmund Andrews Edmund Andrews NYT REM EM BLR the "IBMcompatible" computer? Only 10 years ago. IBM's power was so great that it singlchandcdly decreed the technical standards for most personal computers. But today, that
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      Now Microsoft targets, the large-account database market
      891 14  -  Juha Saarinen takes an early look at SQL Server 95 and compares it to its competitors Juha Saarinen The writer is a Singapore-based IT communications consultant ONE AREA still resists Microsoft's otherwise all-con-quering software: the large-scale database management system (DBMS) market. So far,
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      Buyer perception overshadows reality
      641 14  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (USA), a Brooklyn-based management consulting and software development firm, and also writes on IT issues. He contributed this commentary to BusinesslT. A FEW years ago. a friend travelling in the Middle East was both shocked and
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      15 11 Computers Increase Efficiency, Boost Productivity And Streamline Operations. 0 Unless Of Course, They're Delivered Late.
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      Lock icon England confident of trouncing Scotland in Twickenham decider
      490 15 Five Nations Championship Reuter LONDON England captain Will Carling is confident his side will overcome the nightmare of five years ago when they meet Scotland in the Five Nations Championship decider at Twickenham on March 18 their last match before the World
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        31 15 NEW YORK NBA on Saturday: Utah 98 Portland 81; Cleveland 76 NY 89; Indiana 101 Boston 107; Philadelphia 94 Chicago 106; Dallas 91 Detroit 98; LA Clippers 89 Denver 101.
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        Boxing
        32 15 ATLANTIC CITY American Pernell Whitakcr won his fourth world title last Saturday by defeating Julio Cesar Vasquez of Argentina by unanimous decision to take the World Boxing Association junior middleweight championship.
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        187 15 AP CHIBA, Japan The Japan Professional Golfers Association donated 8 million yen (*****,400) for earthquake victims and an equal amount to help fight cancer after a charity tournament yesterday. This year's tournament followed an earthquake that killed more than 5,460 people on Jan 17 in and around Kobe. AP
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        63 15 PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand Sri Lanka led the New Zealand Academy XI by 218 runs with all 10 second wickets standing at close of play on the second day of their four-day match yesterday. Scores: Sri Lanka 257 (C Mcndis 75) and 94 for no wicket (AGurusinha 54 not
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        109 15 Reuter Reuter LONDON Former top referee Ken Aston has claimed in the Sunday Express newspaper he was targeted by an East Asian betting syndicate to help fix premier league matches. Aston says he was offered £25.000 (5557,500) by two Indians in a Singapore restaurant to pass on the names,
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        62 15 INDIAN WELLS, California L *****,000 Evert Cup s-finals on Saturday: 4-Natasha Zvercva (Bela) b l-Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spn) 7-5 6-3; 8-Mary Joe Fernandez (US) b 5-Naoko Sawmatsu (Jpn) 6-4 6-1. SCOTTSDALE, Arizona L *****,000 Mass Mutual championships s-finals on Saturday: Mark Philippoussis (Aust) b 1Todd Martin (US) 7-6 (7-3)
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        Rugby
        39 15 JOHANNESBURG Super 10 tournament on Saturday Pool A: Transvaal 21 New South Wales 18; Western Province 21 Otago 33 (at Cape Town). Pool B: Queensland 24 Canterbury 6 (at Brisbane); Orange Free State 21 Auckland 15 (at Bloemfontein).
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      Lock icon Odds favour Norman in exhilarating Doral-Ryder
      679 15 Golf NYT MIAMI One by one. they charged across the submissive Blue Monster on Saturday, firing at pins and draining putts from everywhere. It was a full-frontal assault by the stars of the game, and when the final birdie fell at the formerly impregnable
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      Lock icon Thinking of the Phantom fondly
      769 17  -  Jaime Ee savours the sumptuous grand premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and finds it an unforgettable aflair Jaime Ee KALLANG Theatre was a far cry from London's Her Majesty's Theatre when the Phantom's chandelier shattered all doubts of his existence
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      223 17 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN (Eaimlftll Pause Open Daily Lunch 11.30 am 2.30pm Dinner 6.30pm 10.30pm (Last order 10pm) Western Japanese Set Lunch at $1250+ Monday to Saturday 160 Orchard Road #81-01, Orchard Point, Singapore 0923. Tel: 737 4564,734 4956 Fax: 736 1922 Ski ma's yakim'kw CoodworfPukHoitl ERVE( AT
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      10 17 AIR-INDIA TO PERTH EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY EFFECTIVE MARCH 2 ^'-_]=',]=.|~&}!:><_`;="}].|%?(
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      189 17 WEATHER I Singapore: Showers over several areas in the afternoon. Temperature (24 32*) AuaPacfflc Hi/la* Cud. tarat* W/IV Camt Bumot AM* -26/17 Auckland 24/14 Cloudy Amsleidam 06/01 sno«m Chicago --4/-9 Baro«* 35/27 Sumy Athens 19/14 «a» HonoAAj 25,-20 iJ** 05/01 Cloxly 8«»" fT 0 Houston 13,07 C^T Bo"*-* 30/19 Sum*
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      1036 17 TV RADIO I Dr Sun Yat-Sen, 10pm. Ch 12 Biopic from China about the --mmkt "4BB^k>*f V Father of Modern China, Looking at his mental state at £>. the critical points of his life, 3SM(kA%% \Mf- 4 this 1 9S 7 won nine Gold- fl It\ en Roostcis. including best
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    Lock icon China admits making major mistakes on inflation policy
    539 18 Reuter AFP BEIJING China made policy mistakes at all levels of government in 1994 that allowed inflation to reach a post-1949 record. Premier Li Peng told 3,000 delegates at the National People's Congress yesterday: "Inflation aroused great resentment in the masses." In
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    Lock icon World borrowing hits new high of US$955b
    242 18 Reuter PARIS The total volume of borrowing facilities arranged in 1994 hit a record US$955 billion (S$ 1.385 trillion) despite worldwide tensions on longterm interest rates and uncertainties in foreign exchange markets, the OECD said yesterday. The sum, up 17 per cent from
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    53 18 Reuter MADRID Mourners reciting a funeral oration as they carry a tiny coffin with a dead sardine through Madrid streets last week. The cortege was part of an annual parade organised by the 'Joyful Guild of the Burial of the Sardine' to mark the end of
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    Lock icon US leading economic indicators steady in Jan
    321 18 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON A key gauge of US economic growth over the next half year held steady in January a sign that higher interest rates are restraining, though not crippling, business activity. The index of leading economic indicators was unchanged in January
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    Lock icon Exit polls tip HK's Democratic Party to win key seats
    377 18 AFP Reuter HONGKONG Vote-coun-ting was underway early this morning after Hongkong's first municipal council polls under Governor Chris Patten's electoral reforms, with the Democratic Party tipped to win key seats. With 25.8 per cent of more than two million eligible
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    Lock icon Pentagon explains decision to reverse East Asia troop cuts
    410 18 AFP WASHINGTON The US decision to abandon a strategy of gradual troop reductions in East Asia was intended in part to counter the perception of a power vacuum in a region of crucial economic importance. US officials said. The Pentagon said
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    French fight to link labour and trade provokes Asia
    852 18  -  The Bottom Line SHADA ISLAM SHADA ISLAM The writer, a Brussels-based correspondent, contributed this article to Business Times FRENCH demands for a direct link between international trade and labour standards look set to become an important irritant in Asia's growing relationship
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    Lock icon Pressure grows on Nato chief in corruption probe
    118 18 Reuter BRUSSELS Pressure grew on Nato secretary-general Willy Claes yesterday to resign over a defence contract corruption scandal amidst concern in Belgium that the affair will damage the centre-left coalition in May elections. One of his former aides is in detention after
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      11 18 China to bar banks from trust investment, securities business, Pg 6
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Better year expected with robust tourist growth
      276 19 IT was a fairly good year for hotels but mainly because of property. Hotel Properties' earnings in the next few years, for instance, will depend very much on property development profits from its Nassim and Scotts Road projects. Ditto for Orchard Parade and
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      Lock icon Outlook for Orchard Road likely to worsen
      233 19 THE MAJOR retailers CK Tang, Metro and Isetan are expected to report even larger retail losses this year. All have blamed intense competition from new players, rising staff and rental costs and full-day Central Business District traffic restrictions for the decline. Shoppers' preference
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      Lock icon Property: famine after the feast?
      675 19  -  Corporate earnings: How the sectors fared; what's expected Reports by Amy Balan PROPERTY developers probably have never had it so good. Unusually strong demand for private residential properties 9,680 new units sold in 1994 against the 4,0005,000 annual take-up in previous years has meant fat
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      R&D success the key to future profits
      559 19 UNTIL three years ago, there were only about half a dozen listed companies in electronics. The numbers have since soared. Depending on which broking firm you talk to, the numbers now vary from 18 to over 30 companies grouped in as many as
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      Lock icon Analysts divided about finance sector's prospects
      307 19  -  Earnings/EPS data compiled by Julie Wee ANALYSTS seem to be in two minds about the finance sector. HG Asia said loan growth could falter by June on slower property, hire-purchase and signature lending activities. Others fear rising interest rates could force interest spreads to
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      Industrial sector in different stages of recovery
      563 19 HOCK INVESTORS like recovery stories. And if there is one major recovery story, it would be that of Singapore Airlines. After four years of falling profits, analysts see higher earnings for SIA on the back of strong traffic growth worldwide, particularly in Asia.
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      How the other sectors perform
      852 19 Company Earning. (SSm) <6 94 93 I >5 j 94 93 STetocom* 1344.6 1201.5 1005.3 8.8 7.9 6.6 Teledata 2.61 U 4.8 3.4 3.0 Total 1348.4 1204.*****7.2 13.6 11.3 9.6~ Percentage change 12% 20% 20% 18% LKH* 3.01 1.71 4.0 2.3 1.4 3.3 VanPerHorat* 33J_
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          Lock icon Bolton to sell a subsidiary
          87 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Bolton Properties Bhd has agreed to dispose of its wholly-owned subsidiary Faseiteam (M) Sdn Bhd to Empire Legacy Sdn Bhd for M 52.082 million (SSI.IB million) cash. Faseiteam owns three pieces of vacant land in Kuala Lumpur measuring 18,548 square feet. The
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          Lock icon Sony, Texas in joint venture
          78 20 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Electronics and entertainment company Sony Corp has agreed with Texas Instruments to jointly develop a next generation of image display equipment that could replace cathode ray tubes and liquid crystal displays, the Nihon Kcizai newspaper said. Digital Micro-mirror Display equipment projects
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          Lock icon HK's New World to invest S$172m
          100 20 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Hongkong's New World Development Corp plans to invest an additional one billion yuan (S$ 172 million) in projects in the Chinese city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei province. China's official Xinhua News Agency quoted a company board member as saying the money
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          Lock icon China Steel's profit soars
          65 20 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI China Steel, Taiwan's biggest steelmaker, said February pre-tax profit rose to NTS 1.324 billion, up 175 per cent from a year earlier, the Commercial Times reported. It attributed the improved result to increased demand from steel processors. China Steel was the most
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        Malaysia's Zalik gets Manila approval for investment house
        311 20  -  From Al Labita in MANILA THE Philippines' Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a plan by Malaysia's Zalik Group to set up a 100 million pesos (555.7 million) investment house. Called Zalik Investment House Inc (Zihi), the new company is to engage
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        Lock icon United Plantations' after-tax profit inches up
        262 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR United Plantations Bhd posted a 5.8 per cent increase in its group profit before tax to M 538.956 million (5522.107 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1994. This came on the back of a 6.3 per cent drop in turnover
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        Consortium to get nod to set up phone grid in Philippines
        291 20  -  From Al Labita in MANILA THE Philippine government said over the weekend that a consortium of nine telecommunications companies, including a unit of Singapore Telecom, would receive approval within the year to set up a new telephone grid in
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        Lock icon Better results at Tasek Cement
        184 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Tasek Cement Bhd turned in a group pre-tax profit of M 531.92 million (SSIB.II million) for the six months ended Dec 31, 1994. This was achieved on the back of an 18.7 per cent rise in turnover to M$ 131.65 million from
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        Lock icon OSK turns in lower pre-tax profit
        140 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR OSK Holdings Bhd posted a lower pre-tax profit of MS 137.85 million (5578.2 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1994, against MS 148.19 million previously. Turnover also fell to M 5258.27 million compared with M 5261.40 million in 1993. The
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        Lock icon Californian city sues Merrill Lynch over Orange County losses
        414 22 Bloomberg Business News IRVINE, California The city of Huntington Beach, California, has sued Merrill Lynch Co, alleging that it was defrauded by America's largest securities broker through its participation in the Orange County investment pool. The city had U5543.6 million (5563.2
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        Lock icon Earnings at Dah Sing hit by Hongkong bear market
        176 22 SCMP HONGKONG The bear market of last year hit Dah Sing Financial Holdings' earnings, with the bank posting attributable profit of HK5396.62 million (5574.32 million) and a 264 per cent rise in bad and doubtful debt provisioning. The result included a
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        Lock icon Italy's spectacle frame maker bids US$1.1b for US Shoe
        252 22 NYT NEW YORK Italian-based Luxottica, one of the world's leading spectacle frame manufacturers, last Friday announced a surprise US$l.l billion (SSI.6 billion) takeover bid for US Shoe, a troubled US retailer operating 2,333 women's clothing outlets, spectacle stores and shoe shops.
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        549 22 M•■■pri' priCM Mar 6 US Gr Fund 0.99 1 03** Singapore Unit Trust UOB Asset Mgt Ltd The Commerce 1.61 1.70 Unifund 1.34 1.40 The Savings Fund 1.45 l.53*d In .bond 1.015 1040 Spore Prog Fund 0.59 0.63 United Gr Fund! 156 1.63 Spore See Fund 0.95 1.01 Unilcd Mia
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        Lock icon SEC intensifies supervision of mutual fund trading practices
        375 23 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Securities and Exchange Commission, after a year of warnings, is taking legal action against mutual fund managers. Current and former fund executives at three companies Oppenheimer Management Corp, Kemper Financial Services Inc, a unit of Kemper Corp,
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        Lock icon Futures industry opposes Chicago board plan for managed accounts
        251 23 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Futures industry leaders are opposing a Chicago Board of Trade plan for a new type of managed futures account because they say it lacks consumer protection. The Board of Trade's proposal, pending before government regulators, is designed
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        44 23 Reuter LONDON Virgin tycoon Richard Branson posing with a capital "P" during the launch of a range of PEPs (Personal Equity Plan) on Saturday. Mr Branson claims that Virgin's new financial arm Virgin Direct will revolutionise the British financial sector. Reuter
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        Lock icon China to close futures exchanges, limit trading by local firms
        390 23 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI Chinese regulators are likely to elose some of the country's futures exchanges and will limit trading in futures markets in the wake of a trading scandal involving one of China's largest securities firms. The official Business
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        Lock icon Taiwan to sign deals on futures with HK, Japan
        120 23 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Finance Ministry yesterday said it would soon sign agreements with Hongkong and Japan, allowing Taiwanese investors to trade directly on futures exchanges in the two markets. Vice Finance Minister Day Lin-in said the Securities and Exchange Commission would
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        Lock icon Shakeout in regional textile industry expected in 3rd qtr
        662 24 Reuter HONGKONG Historically high cotton prices and tight world supply will force a shakeout in the regional textile industry, as prices can only go higher and supply can only get tighter, experts and traders said last Friday. "Supply (of raw cotton)
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        Lock icon Brewing a marketing strategy for Yunnan Coffee in China
        508 24 Reuter KUNMING, China If Huang Zhaoqing's dream comes true, by the end of this millennium, Yunnan Coffee will be to China what CocaCola is to the United States. But not only will things go better with the Yunnan brew, Mr Huang
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        Lock icon Hanoi sets 1995 cement output target
        103 24 Reuter HANOI Vietnam plans to produce 6.5 million tonnes of cement in 1995 and 20 million tonnes by the year 2000 to meet demand from Vietnam's construction boom, the official Vietnam News said on Friday. "The target is a challenge to the national cement
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        Lock icon German industrialist warns against underestimating mark's strength
        316 24 Reuter BONN The dangers of the mark's strength against the US dollar are being "greatly underestimated" said Hans-Olaf Henkel. head of the Federation of German Industry. In an interview with yesterday's Well am Sonntag newspaper. Mr Henkel said the mark's strength would have
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        Lock icon India likely to fall short of tea output target
        272 24 Reuter COONOOR, India Dwindling exports and lower domestic consumption will slow down India's efforts to achieve its ambitious production target of one billion kg of tea by the turn of the century, planters said. They said the target of one billion
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        2237 24 Rates are the average of 9 banks I rude in-t*hird inJrx tab ulated against S'pure'i /<»> 14 traJiitf partners Bate year I9H* 1 Pllw tending ritf As on Mar 2 BANKS ABN Amro Bank NV 7 1 AN/ Banking Group Allied Irish Bank PLC American fcxpress Bank 7 Arab Banking
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        Lock icon Dollar down on bad news
        621 25  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Yumiko Iijima MMS International SINGAPORE There were a number of negative events last week which sent the US$ extending sharply on the downside, clocking record lows of 94.85 against the yen and 1.4350 against the mark before a large-scale intervention by
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        Lock icon Cotton prices soar on reports of poor harvests in Asia
        658 25 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Never in dealers' memory have cotton prices jumped as high as they did last week, soaring on particularly poor harvests in India, China and Pakistan, and as speculators swarmed into the market. Cotton appeared to
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        COMMODITY PRICES
        1350 25 Rubber Mar 2 Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) (lose Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Apr 95 263.50 263.50 265.00 300 1175 May 264.00 2800 Jun 263.00 2250 Jul/Sep 266.00 261.00 261.50 1125 7050 Oct/Dec 263.50 260.00 261.00
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      5000 26 JSH# Sep 20 I 180.5 I3J.I 22.4 168 /^/~vd n/\r* i i*r» n IF TC Jurong Ship Mar I P 32.878 63.125 47.7 59.0 I UKrAjKA 11 KbdtLlS Kamunhng* Do. 21 I 28 302 24 61J 3.6 J.I Kemayan* Mar I I 10.837 7 24 4
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      752 26 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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        Lock icon Weak greenback dampens hopes of a soft landing
        703 27 AP New York THE stock market has ridden hopes for a soft landing to new highs in recent weeks. But the plunging dollar may dash that optimism. The dollar skidded to new lows against the yen and fell sharply against the mark
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        Lock icon Good company results soften Barings impact
        464 27 AFP Reuter London SHARE prices eased slightly last week as the negative influence of the collapse of Barings merchant bank was offset by positive company results, dealers said. The FTSE-100 Index ended the week down 12.6 points at 3,025.1 points. Prices fell lower at
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          119 27 International shocks masked mostly positive company profit results and led the Australian stock market to a lower weekly close on Friday, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index eased to 1,902.4 points, 8.7 points below the previous week's finish in a seesaw week's trade. The index slumped one per cent
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          75 27 Philippine share prices fell for the third week in a row with no good news to bring back investors, scared away by an earlier fall in the Philippine peso, analysts said. The Composite Index closed at 2,488.25 points on Friday, a 3.8 per cent drop from the Feb 24
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          113 27 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index fell 31.86 points during the week to close at 1,262.33 points. The average daily turnover was 54 million shares, down sharply from 77.1 million shares the previous week. The average daily value of shares changing hands was 4.8 billion baht, also down
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          85 27 The Jakarta Stock Exchange slumped during the week in the wake of the Barings crisis as foreign investors withdrew from the market. Closing last Friday at 454.694, the Composite Index fell sharply as trade opened on on Monday, but recovered to end at 452.878 as the market closed early
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          88 27 Share prices on the Korea Stock Exchange surged on Saturday, bringing the index higher for the third consecutive day, on reports that the government had approved loans to minimise impact from a recent bankruptcy. The Composite Price Index jumped 11.19 points to close Saturday's half-day session at 919.15 points
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          60 27 Taiwan share prices ended slightly higher after a modest session in which most investors remained on the sidelines, preoccupied by concerns over inflation, brokers said. The Weighted Price Index closed 13.91 points higher at 6,530.74 points on turnover of NTS2B billion. Brokers said that concerns over inflation crimped trading
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          106 27 Share prices recovered marginally at the Bombay Stock Exchange as speculation on the electoral fortunes of India's ruling Congress (I) cheered up business. Analysts said indications that the government would also introduce forward trading in stocks in a bid to restore liquidity in the market was also responsible for
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        331 27 Reuter Tokyo AFTER a week of wild fluctuations, the Tokyo stock market digested the collapse of British merchant bank Barings, but analysts said on Friday they were still not too optimistic. The shock from Barings' collapse hit shares and the Nikkei average
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        284 27 Reuter Bloomberg Business News Hongkong HONGKONG stocks are seen drifting downwards in cautious trading in the week ahead, said analysts. The recent free fall of the US dollar against the yen will continue to be a concern as investors watch
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          825 27 +9.68 NEW YORK Blue chip stocks posted modest gains on Friday on Wall Street despite a weak dollar and higher interest rates as investors looked to signs that growth remained steady. The market fell in early trading, but the Dow Jones Index rebounded to close at 3,989.61 points,
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          276 27 15.83 TORONTO Toronto stocks closed higher, ending the week on a positive note, following gains on Wall Street, traders said. The TSE-300 Composite Index rose 15.83 points to 4,097.04 on volume of 51.66 million shares valued at C 5722.95 million. Traders said Toronto stocks held up despite losses in
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        6989 28 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian shares closed their two-day trading week higher after local investors shrugged off the downfall of British merchant bank Barings to lead the market to a rebound. The Composite Index gained 9.19 points before ending the week on Tuesday at
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        1939 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Hot on the heels of the Barings debacle comes the plunge of the US dollar, which is set to overshadow company earnings reports in this week's trading. Since the start of this year, stock prices here have been
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      432 31  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE United Arab Shipping Corp (UASC), which recently moved its Far East regional office from Tokyo to Singapore, plans to order up to 10 container ships to upgrade its fleet. UASC vice-president for Far East Trade, Bjarne
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      183 31 AFP TOKYO A ship heading for Japan with a cargo of highly radioactive nuclear waste on board is now not expected to pass through the Panama Canal, a news report said here on Saturday. An activist aboard the international environmentalist
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      60 31 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Exports through the port of Kobe fell US$l.7 billion (SS2.S billion) in January from the Jan 17 earthquake, down 40.7 per cent from a year ago, the Japan External Trade Organisation reported on Friday. Imports fell by 33.1 per cent to
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      202 31 SINGAPORE Chinese shipping line Sinotrans will double the frequency of sailings on its Far East-Europe service to twice a month from early April. The carrier also said recently that it had signed on Hanjin Shipping Line of South Korea as a slot
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      414 31 Reuter NEW YORK Nearly 83 years after the Titanic sank, a British television documentary has come up with a new theory to explain why a fire in a coal bunker was responsible for one of the great sea disasters of all time.
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1205 32 STRONG freight conditions prevailed in most parts of the world, securing eight more points for the Baltic Freight index (BFI), but brokers say the index does not take the private deals on key routes into account. The BFI ended at 2,052 just 19 points short of the all-time
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      579 32 COURSES Title: Principles of Shipping Opertns Practices (SDF 70%) Duration: Mar 7 Apr 21 Organiser: Singapore National Shipping Association 'I'el: For further details and application forms contact SNSA Secretariat at 278-3464 or fax: 274-5079. Title: Effective Written Communication in Shipping Management (SDK 50%) Duration: Mar 7 May 9
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      1311 33 Lloyd s List THREE million tonnes' worth of new shipyard capacity is well on its way to completion in South Korea, beyond the last-minute efforts in December by shipbuilders in the European Union and elsewhere to get the Koreans to stop. The EU wanted to
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      11145 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. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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        494 50 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Federal aviation experts expect global economic growth will keep airline passenger traffic growing at more than 4 per cent a year over the next decade, a trend that could prolong last year's recovery in the US airline industry.
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        396 50 Reuter WASHINGTON Belgium has become the second European nation in two weeks to reach an agreement with the United States to end restrictions on travel between their countries, the Transportation Department said on Thursday. An "open skies" agreement with Switzerland was announced
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        431 50 Bloomberg Business News INDIANAPOLIS A US Federal Aviation Administration official said the original flight manual foi the Frenchbuilt ATR-72 that crashed in Indiana in October killing 68 people did not have a warning about flying in icy conditions. John McDonald, a
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        244 50 Reuter ZURICH Swissair Schweizerische Luftverkehr AG said comments made by its chief executive Otto Loepfe about Fokker 100 aircraft on Thursday were not aimed at the aircraft itself, but how the aircraft fitted financially into Swissair's own, high cost structure. "There is
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        56 50 AFP NEW DELHI Children playing near a storage area of confiscated pedicabs impounded by the Indian government on Friday. As the traffic in New Delhi gets more and more congested, police regularly raid and confiscate pedicabs if the driver fails to show a
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        188 50 AFP NICOSIA Cyprus Airways has been forced to refuel abroad, merge some flights and cancel others because of a strike by tanker drivers at Larnaca and Paphos international airports, airline officials said on Saturday. The tanker drivers refused to refuel aircraft
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          91 50 Reuter WASHINGTON The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued an order altering taxi procedures of airplanes between sunset and sunrise at US airports after a spate of near collisions, an FAA spokeswoman said on Saturday. Under the order issued on Friday and which took effect immediately,
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          98 50 AFP HANOI Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet has signed a 15-year masterplan to upgrade Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest in Vietnam, an airport official said on Friday. This masterplan, which will cost about US$4.O billion (Sss.B
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          102 50 Bloomberg Business News HOUSTON Continental Airlines is conducting another review of its in-flight food policies after eliminating meals last year on many of its US flights. Food service is the area of the airline's operations to most recently come under scrutiny, said spokeswoman Peggy Mahoney. "We
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          69 50 AFP DEARBORN, Michigan The first shipments of US-made BMWs are heading to dealerships after passing the German company's standards on its luxury-performance cars. Buyers will not be able to detect any difference between the German-built 318 i sedan and its American cousin rolling off the
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        265 50 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Trans World Airlines Inc was slapped with a U*****,000 (S$508,000) fine for failing to tell test callers that flights would be operated by another airline under a "code-sharing" arrangement, the US Department of Transportation said on Friday. Code sharing lets
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      593 37 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE 0106 HOT LINE: *****33 (30 LINES) NEXT GROUPAGE SERVICE TO CHINA ETA: 07th MAR. 95 CONTACT: KEN SIM/ SYLVIA HOT LINE: *****33 (30 LINES) P. KLANG PH: 0203-*****02 (10 LINES). PENANG PH: 0204-*****7 (10 LINES) J. BAHRU PH: 0207-*****22 GLOBEUNK FORWARDERS PTE
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      918 38 79 ANSON ROAD. #21-01, SINGAPORE 0207 TELE: *****92 FAX: *****57 CR **********0N SHUTTLI MBVtCt PORT KLANG PENANG VESSEL *0Y 5? WM- VESSEL VOY SW PEN St* LAUBEI 366W 02 3 03 3 < rw > MCC CONVEYOB 5014 03/3 (fRI) 05 3 (WED£ EACIE BBEE2E 12 3 02,3 (THU) M
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      997 39 iPACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD SSSS 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. tSSSSSSSSK CR NO *****6700Q0E •1- VESSEL VOY SIN CRM JIB HOO JEO AOJ AOE PZU MSW ASA IKL KOTA WIRAWAN WRNS3S 8/3 13/3 19/3 21/3 25/3 27/3 1/4 5/4 4/5 J/4 Hk KOTA BE RANI BRNISP
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      955 39 ¥CSStIS si U mm HAMBURG THAMES ROTTERDAM ANTWCRP WLII D€ VUA WW 11/03 29/03 31/03 02/04 03/04 04/04 WUE W TIT*N» IOM 17/03 OS 04 07/04 04/04 10/04 11/04 HUE 01 LBRA 10«W 22/03 11/04 13/04 15 04 It/04 17/04 Wilt 01 NORMA NO«W 20/04 22/04 24/04 25/04 26/04 **LSO
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      607 39 BSfl aJ wginag|iiHHß|||g«Bß^^p M MYANMA |A FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yanfon (Rangoon) Spore P.Kit Pen POife MP A AN V2OSW 05/07 Mw 1' PATMEIN VI3IW M PT j." PAGAN V2ISW 13/lC Mar _i* MALAYSIA AGENTS BOUSTEAO SHPPWG AGEMCKS KUI TEI 02 03 *****00 PK L: TEI
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      567 42 m RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD W TEL: *****33 (12 Lines) K FAX: *****15/*****03 ttf TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) CR NO.: **********0E l® ETHIOPIAN SWPPINB LINES J (National lirm of Cthtoqva) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL VMM* Voy ETA I Loading For Spore Andinet 38WB 12/04 Mombasa. Djibouti
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      610 42 AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd., HAAH Hairatan, Torghundi, Islamqala (Doqharun) MWM&cMwm C.1.5./RUSSIA: Ima Ata, Ashkhabad. Baku. Dushanbe. I Irkutsk. Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk. Korsakov. Moscow, Mllltzer Muncn Novosobirsk. Sochi, Tashkent, Tbilisi. Vladivostok. Vostochny International Forwarders Mongolism uiaan Bator n Korea: Pyongyang, Nampo EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE to west coast south america I ALSO ACCEPTING
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      492 42 l-K=A~~~l AB#nU: m *C-NBLB BPORC: *****22 (24 LINeS) uv/ P.KELANQ: (03) 3662f177 SCwmg (zfffegaW SURABAYA: (31) *****0 I ASIA HKG/TWN/BKK| GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN 3/3 4/3 5/3 HKG/BKK/KEE/KHH G'burg/C'hagen/S'holm/Oslo 5/3 6/3 7/3 7/3 8/3 9/3 HKG/BKK/KEE/KHH Piraeus 6/3 7/3 8/3 14/3 15/3 16/3 HKG/BKK/KEE/KHH Ldn/Fli/Rtm/Ant/Ham/leh
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      418 43 SINO EXPRESS SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. V Mm I 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. TEL: *****90 (4 LINES) FAX: *****98 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKG/SHAI S'PORE HKG SHAI VESSEL VOY ETA ETD ETA ETD ETA I ETD LATMOS 925/926 7/3 8/3 13/3 14/3 17/3 18/3
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      1109 43 rtssu skm. mlang poung ieh sou mm bbh btm out kd «ssti nu sp«f mkg fusan wt kmh smku ngo tto EUROPA 3095 06.03 07.03 04.03* 27.03 20.03 29.03 553 0704 1C.04 B. PtIANGI 1075 10.03 11.03 15.03 10.03 MS OK 1005 10.03 09 03* 00.03* 01.04 30 03 7003
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      1471 44 THIS WEEK'S ARRIVAL: NEXT WEEK'S ARRIVAL: VESSELS VOY ETA EXCHANGE VESSELS VOV ETA EXCHANGE RATI RAIE EDINBURGH MS 9504 08 MAR 1 4517 LIVERPOOL BAY 5541 13 MAR 1 4530 LARGS BAV 5028 06 MAR 1 4517 SHENZHEN BAY 5032 13 MAR 1 4530 MS ALGECIRAS 9504 06 MAR 1
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      717 44 I MMM r uLL QNTAiNER services In OKU Mm M 0305 03 Ml) M«]ll<3WW 03 M Mill lomw TOM 10 03 UUIV 03 M o'o4 MO4 10 04 U/M I 0 lUCHM UOM 10 03 »03 23 03 12 04 14 04 It/04 17/W 11/04 oiau ion »03 »03 30/03
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      753 44 TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF K°^^, l(}ANinA 0728 PRELAf G HALIFAX N.YORK NORFOLK N ORLEANS SAVANNAH TAMPICO HOUSTON °H2 30/31 Mar 7/2 a™ 0" 2 Ma 3 May 11 May 7 May 15 May 20 May CLIPPER 0228 16/17 Apr 12 2** *5 18 Ma 24 23 Ma
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      530 45 WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCETTM MENUM.K/SOC CAHGOfS 10/ FROM KOBE. YOKOHAMA. NAGOTA. MO* TOKYO*. MANIA*. OAVAO* Penarj* P. Kelanj Smjapore E Msia* KAMALEVERETT V2SE U/19 Mar KARABCVERETT V22E 22/23 Apr KAMALEVERETT V26E 07/08 May ACCEPTMG BftEAXBU.K FCI. SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CMITAGONG. CALCUTTA AND MONGLA* Singapore P.
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      204 45 Bl GLORY NAVIGATION GROUP to 4/L1 REGULAR LINER SERVICE TAIWAN TO SINGAPORE ASEAN SINGAPORE TO KOMPONG SOM •AT ATTRACTIVE RATES* CR NO: **********0W KAO SIN PKG PNG GLORY SEIATAN VII 4/3 10/3 12/3 14/3 GLORY SELATAN X 3/3 9/3 11/3 13/3 SIN KAO GLORY SELATAN VIII 7/3 13/3 SINGAPORE ASEAN
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      623 45 jhi PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE TZZ sw KMACHI BUjjjMD 132 HW M/ 03 L3Z23 SWGOOHA 153-HW U/03 23Z°3 MAM AH 156 HW H/03 03 HTOtHABAO IW-MW K/M •nuuuau pwtj omct to wuaum FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY ""voT HUG KM OSA N»G_ TON tmwumo mow
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      686 45 FULL CONTAINER SERVICE FROM SIN TO MADRAS VESStL/VOY ETA SIN ETA MAA MV TIGER BRIDGE V.318N 06-07/03 12 IS/M MV TIGER BAT V.132N 09-11/03 IS-19/03 MV SEA GALLANT V GLTO 11 09-10/03 15 16/03 MV PRAVDWSK Vl4 12-13/03 18-19/03 MV TIGER CAPE V 016N 13-14/03 19-22/03 MV BUNGA TERATAI V
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      326 45 SIN FAR EAST 14/3 KEELUNG /KAOHSIUNG 12/3 BANGKOK 12/3 MANILA/CEBU 13/3 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 13/3 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 12/3 BUSAN 12/3 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 12/3 HONG KONG SjN CHjNA (*lS#±«;en) 12/3 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LGL cargo SIN EUROPE/UK 13/3 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 13/3 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIN USA/CANADA 10/3
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      734 46 p——mm—————m——m—t———mtmiinw——m———>————— m—m—————————— "in jii FIXED L I WEEKLY Tel: 261-3595 i Fax mmm MELBOURNEi (p GP SHIPPING PTE LTD I Call: Kenny/Mas/Peter K mT ".v.'v.'..-.'..'.'.v..'.v.v SSSSSSSSSSSSZ*— •.yy" STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD I AGENTS FOR: ZIM CONTAINER SERVICE GOLD STAR LINE LTD SETH SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (8 LINES)
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      383 46 Calling: FAR EAST, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, U.SJL GST CMT Liner Express Agencies Pte Ltd Hot Line i 22-007-22 BINTANG MAS SHIPPING PTE. LTD. 39 NEM. ROM), SWGAPORE 0208 »TEL: *****88 FAX: *****64 TLX: R*****5 SINMER CR No: **********0W Receiving Cargo at PTI I Btntulu I I
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      385 46 y Con term CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 13 MARCH (Accepting to all Nm ZaalarxJ port*) PtNANG 10 MAR JAKARTA 12 MAR PORT KLAN6 9 MAR BANGKOK 12 MAR MANILA 12 MAR MELBOURNE 9 MAR STDNET 9 MAR BRISBANE 14 MAR FREMANTLE 23 MAR ADELAIOE 9 MAR I^^bothSSlßG^^^iimal^^^^l 'ACCEPTING
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      1137 46 CONSOLIDATION TO BUS AN Smpip<wrl FIRST FORW ARDER IN OFFERING TWICE WEEKLY LCL SERVICE TO BUSAN HK Call SANISA at DID: 277 1058 for bookings NOW!!! Tel: Fax: Singapore 561 1668 2 2 9838 MTERNATIONAI. SEA FREIGHT a Also has offices in:- fornmong MM MALAYSIA THAILAND PHILIPPINES nmmrn MO LOGISTICS
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      1688 47 W SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD 20 McCallum Street #16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22 (10 Lines) FAX: *****05 CR No.: *****8 200 OOR I Y.s.N. a gwwl Voy Hong Kong Singapore P. Ktlmt P«nnfl S UtojM Jay 17A Salted In Port jj Spic* 68 Soiled In Port $-9/3 jj
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      394 47 rfjis CEYLON SHIPPING CORPN National Line of Sri Lanka CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO IK WD NORTH CONTINENTAL PORTS mm. wr Wlla g i» g waum !WWH i/I t/i j ITT KD BMtaiOM Win i/3 10/J T I I ft MOTWMOK MW 16/3 M/j ~JJT iJT ~jjT MO TO*TO «2R 11/3 U/l
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      765 47 VESSEL VOYAGE EXCHANGE RATES II S I IN OUT IN OUT II I MAKONE MARU 19W 19W 1 4538 1 4533 H M OOCL FRIENDSHIP 49W 49W 1 4585 1 4585 II K I ANRO FREMANTLE 19N 20S 1 4565 1 4565 ZmEZ MWI NEPTUNE AMAZONITE 13E 13E 1 4547
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      1447 48 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. 19 KEPPEI ROAD «Q2 01 JIT POH BCMICMNC SINGAPORE 0208 HI 225 9966 r»» 321 4922 TWICE WEEKLY TO FROM *UK/NORTH CONTINENT EUROPE* J FOR ENQUIRY/BOOKING CALL 225-1-225 TO NORTH AMERICA CANADA WEEKLY CONTAINERIZED BKIIVICB wsstL-WTWt 55 no r« wi aw *ssa/WTAg Isa[" s« oak j
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      1733 48 K* MV ft AS AGENTS: LINE (SINGAPORE) PTIITO (CI NO: **********0M/GST REG NO: M2-*****99-C) TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 T IVI Mi* MALAYSIA: K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON IHO m m TEL SA *****00 PK *****75PEN *****20 JB *****01 PGU*****25/6 INDONESIA: P.T. SAAANA LAUTINTERNUSA. TEL: JKT *****08 /WOWT
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      136 48 BANGLADESH SHIPPING CORPN. REGULAR SERVICE TO/FROM CHITTAGONG VESSEL VOYAGE CHTTAGON6 SINGAPORE MONGLA CHTTAGONG BANGIAR «0« 07/03 17/03 23/03 BANGLAR MOW SSL 11/03 U/03 25/03 27/03 BANGLAR ROW 47W 23 03 31/03 06 04 mwa.A> mow 27/03 03/04 M/ 04 11/04 BANGLAR HOW 4SW j Ofe 03 14 04 ?0 04
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      482 49 A HYUNDAI I 9ff"■ fiTiP,-— WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 [mm fpi(E PSD VESSELS VOY SH RTM ANT LEH HAM BREJ FEL M/ 03 10/03 il/oT H. FRONTO 315W 13/03 31/03 02/04 OITS 02/04 ***** 04/04 15/03 17/03 18/03 H. COMMANDER 314* 20/03 07/04 09/04 08/04 09/04 09/04 11/04 22/03
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      388 49 ISBBHj STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE MULTI-PURPOSE I ROfiO CARfiER SPECIALIZE M HEAVY UFT CARGO UPTO 120 TONS RAMP CAPACITY UPTO 50 TONS ETA lETO I VESSEL ¥OT SM n LOAOMG FOR GOLDEN SEAWAV J SID lAKARTA 3/3 ORENT LIT 5 SID 7/3 APPLAUSE 5 7/3 KARANA SEMBIAN 2 12/} COSMC
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      576 49 JEDDAH/UK/CONTINENT I STORE ID RDAM H'BURG BMH S TON UH •Mm Aucptint C»t* ELBE 1005 10/3 20/3 2t/3 30/3 1/4 Southampton :toM UK dnMuten. Bdlut ml Out* NDLIOVD HONG KONG 1105 17/3 2/4 4/4 0/4 ft/4 R*tt«tf«n :to M Artworp, Aimtcrdan. o*. HtM fEDLIOTD AFRICA 3115 20/3 30/3 13/4 12/4
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