The Business Times, 7 April 1995

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  • 13 1 Business Times WE MOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Friday April 7 1995 85 C
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 64 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks edged higher yesterday as the market shrugged off losses in some technology and retailing shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 2.77 points at 4,203.34 at Ipm EDT. In the broader market, advancing issues led declines by a narrow margin
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    • 42 1 AP WASHINGTON Rejecting pleas from Democrats, President Bill Clinton yesterday said he will sign a bill that combines health insurance tax deductions for self-employed Americans with a huge tax break for media mogul Rupert Murdoch. AP
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  • 170 1 Stock market Mm Thursday Change STII 2,095.07 -6.09 KLSE Comp 978.72 -20.07 Nikkei 15,815.87 -66.62 Hang Seng 8,418.18 -73.75 SET Index dosed Jakarta Comp 430.85 +2.3 Manila Comp 2,446.11 +35.76 Taipei WPI 6,575.71 +2.17 Seoul Comp 905.78 -5.83 Bombay BSE30 ....3,488.61 +48.67 CLSA China B 824.69 +1.65 Aust
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  • 513 1  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Property buyers can look forward to a cut in conveyancing fees if the government accepts the recommendations of a committee on the subject. The talk in legal circles is that the committee led by Justice Chao Hick
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  • 368 1  -  By Yu Chin Fun SINGAPORE Stiff competition in the retail industry has forced Hongkong retailer Lane Crawford International to scale down its Singapore operations drastically. It said yesterday that Lane Crawford Singapore would reduce its retail space from 204,000 sq ft
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  • 518 1 Reuter LONDON Institutional investors are once again venturing back to emerging markets after a punishing first quarter, tempted by the old lure of economic growth and now some excellent value, investment managers said yesterday. "It has picked up a lot in the
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  • 477 1  -  By Ruth Wong, R Sivanithy in SINGAPORE INVESTORS in Malaysia were brought down to earth with a bump yesterday, as stale bulls cut short what many had hoped would be an election rally. The benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite
    Source: Bloomberg  -  477 words
  • 459 1  -  By Anthony Rowley, Neil Behrmann in LONDON THE US DOLLAR hit a new post-war record low of 85.11 yen in late Asian trading yesterday as dealers reported widespread stop-loss selling of dollars and large-lot sales by one unidentified South-east Asian central
    Source: Bloomberg  -  459 words
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 328 2  -  By David Mok DOMESTIC EXPORTS of desktop personal computers fell 14.7 per cent in dollar terms last year compared with 1993. Statistics from the Trade Development Board show that computer vendors made and shipped $1.94 billion worth of PCs out of Singapore last year,
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    • 402 2  -  Tie-up with Japan's Xing Inc and Nissho Iwai ready to invest hundreds of millions By Genevieve Cua HOMEGROWN distributor Wywy and two Japanese partners are looking to jointly launch video-on-demand services in Asia within 12 to 15 months. A newly-formed joint venture
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    • 344 2  -  By Agnes Wee THREE Singaporean businessmen who arc involved in developing a New Zealand township arc expanding a shopping ccntrc they bought in Christchurch. They arc Goh Cheng Liang, founder of Wuthclam; Sim Lai Hcc, a property developer; and Tay Kwang
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    • 200 2 THE National Council of Social Service said yesterday it had filed a police report against a former employee allegedly seen removing envelopes containing public donations on Jan 21 this year. The donations were for the Lunar New Year Gift Box Project.
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    • 443 2  -  By A J Leow THE AUCTION of a 1.7hectare residential land parcel in Geylang by order of the High Court took an unusual turn yesterday when three of the four co-owners banded together to snatch the site from established developers. When
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    • 343 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi THE OWNER of two adjoining bungalows in Ewe Boon Road, near the Pinetree Club in District 10, has sold the combined sites for $28 million. Some estate agents said yesterday that houses in the same location cost less
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 898 3  -  Asian Development Outlook But region's growth rate looks set to slow to 7.5% on average in next two years Reports by Vikram Khanna EVEN though economic growth in Asian countries other than Japan looks set to slow to 7.5 per cent on average
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    • 268 3 THE decline of the US dollar vis-a-vis other major currencies could help boost export competitiveness in those Asian countries whose currencies are closely linked to the dollar, the Asian Development Bank's assistant chief economist said yesterday. At a press briefing to mark the
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    • 214 3 AFP, Bernama KUALA LUMPUR A former Malaysian opposition leader who accused Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's ruling party of framing him in a sex scandal, was yesterday cleared by a religious court of sexual impropriety. Religious authorities in Kelantan cleared the
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    • 445 3 Run-up to M'sian elections AFP, Reuter Bernama KOTA BARU Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday kicked off his re-election campaign in the north-eastern state of Kelantan, vowing to speed up development in the rural backwater that he lost to Muslim fundamentalists five years
      AFP,; Reuter; Bernama  -  445 words
    • ELECTION SNIPPETS
      • 59 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Labour Organisation has urged its 145,000 members and all Malaysian workers to continue to support Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's administration in the coming elections. However, the Malaysian Trades Union Congress and the Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public
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      • 81 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Chinese Association has finalised its list of candidates. President Ling Liong Sik said in Kuala Lumpur that about one-third of the MCA list features "new faces". He said MCA expects to get at least eight more state seats and three
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      • 78 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang of the Democratic Action Party, admitting his party was in for a tough battle in upcoming polls, yesterday appealed for the elections to be set for the end of May. "Anything less than two weeks is
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      • 61 3 Bernama ALOR SETAR PAS will unveil its Federal level election manifesto after its Central Committee meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. A state-level manifesto would be announced at a later date, PAS president Fadzil Mohamed Noor said yesterday. The meeting on Saturday would also decide
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    • 445 3 ARE Asian economies vulnerable to the sort of financial crisis that hit Mexico late last year? "No" would appear to be the verdict of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). But it adds that there are lessons to be learned from the Mexican experience.
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    • 9 3 Analysis: An uphill task for Malaysia's opposition, Fg 17
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    • 229 3 Your Neighbours Are: Melbourne City 00m Melbourne University I.skm rmit ikm Victoria Market 400 m BH Lygon Street I.4km Flagstaff Gardens 100 m HH 1 I.4km m. Melbourne Central 800 m HMHHM BHP. iV H Flagstaff 200 m City Loop Tram 100 m DISCOVER The first ever tower apartments in
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 427 4 Reuter SHANGHAI About 110 directors. chairmen and presidents of 56 listed China firms quit or had to leave their posts last year because of corruption, old age and incompetence, harming company reputations, analysts said yesterday. Such frequent changes at the top
      Reuter  -  427 words
    • 310 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan announced yesterday significant consumer inflation last month and the biggest jump in wholesale prices in 14 years, but the central bank said key interest rates should not be raised. "In the near term, we should not raise
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    • 264 4 AFP BEIJING More than one third of Chinese industrial firms are being hit with increased tax bills following last year's fiscal reforms, and the number is expected to rise when current tax breaks expire, a survey said yesterday. While the national survey
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    • 55 4 Reuter BLIJING \oung People's Army recruits on a route march during training near their barracks in Hebei province southwest of Beijing on Wednesday. China has three million soldiers who are recruited from all over the country. They are often called on to perform community services
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    • 326 4 AFP HONGKONG Britain and China have made little headway in talks on resolving major outstanding issues concerning preparations for Hongkong's handover to Beijing in 1997, officials said yesterday. "We did not cover as much progress as we would have liked," Britain's chief negotiator.
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    • CHINA WATCH
      • 74 4 Reuter HONGKONG China will raise US$3 billion (554.3 billion) on the international debt market by the year 2000 to finance investment in its railways, the Beijing-controlled China News Agency said. The first of the railway bonds would be issued as soon as possible, the
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      • 54 4 AFP BEIJING A Chinese company is being sued for pirating the US film The Fugitive, a Chinese film industry official said yesterday. The complaint was filed jointly by China's state-owned film export-import company Chinafilm and Warner Brothers against the unidentified firm operating in
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      • 64 4 AFP BEIJING Chinese authorities have accused followers of the Dalai Lama of stepping up "infiltration and sabotage'' in their campaign for Tibetan independence, "with the help of certain Western countries". The deputy director of Tibet's State Security Bureau, Li Hui, told local television at the
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      • 64 4 AFP SHANGHAI Shanghai's Burials Administrative Bureau has banned the opening of new cemeteries for the next 15 years in a bid to curb a craze for investment in graves, the Youth Daily reported yesterday. According to the bureau, existing grave plots in China's most populous city
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    • 313 4 AP BEIJING Drought, pests and a severe shortage of fertiliser are bedevilling Chinese farmers as they begin their spring planting, the agriculture minister acknowledged in press reports yesterday. That could mean another disappointing year for China's agricultural production. Spring planting accounts
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    • 71 4 THE RAFFLES j CONVERSATION A 'The beauty of Indonesian politics is that it is unpredictable. So, let people guess.' X' i i Indonesian think-tank chief Adi Sasono taks about the complexities of Indonesian politics and why Research and Technology Minister B J Habibie has been so misunderstood. And he explains
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 518 6  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO THE foreign import share of Japan's motor vehicle market rose sharply in March, continuing a' strong upward trend last year, the Japan Automobile Importers Association (JAIA) reported yesterday. The figures show some US carmakers, led
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    • 48 6 Reuter CALCUTTA Some of 38 seriously ill children, who were vaccinated with a faulty batch of drugs, with their mothers on Tuesday at Debogram town in India's West Bengal state. At least 11 children were killed after being vaccinated against polio and measles. Reuter
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    • 368 6 Tokyo fears US backlash if it joins caucus AFP TOKYO Japan will not send its trade minister to a meeting in Thailand later this month of potential East Asian Economic Caucus (EAEC) members, siding with US opposition to the limited economic grouping. "We
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    • 426 6 Reuter COLOMBO The Sri Lankan government has halved the island's inflation rate seven months after winning power, but economists differ on how long consumer prices can be contained. President Chandrika Kumaratunga. who is also the Finance Minister, told foreign investors on Tuesday that
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    • 414 6 AFP MELBOURNE Australian companies should tap into the multi-billion dollar aid industry in the Asia-Pacific region. Trade Minister Bob McMullan said here yesterday. He told a seminar entitled Aid Business, Good Business that opportunities in the AsiaPacific region for Australian business were
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    • 234 6 AP NEW DELHI Most of India's dams are unsafe and could be swept away by Hoods, according to a confidential World Bank document published in newspapers yesterday. The study comes as hundreds of thousands of villagers forced the World Bank to
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 78 6 AFP NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, in a stinging rebuke to his opponents, has been given a free hand to revamp the ruling Congress (I) party after a string of humiliating election defeats. Some 130 leaders of national and state
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      • 73 6 Reuter SYDNEY Australia's jobs market is stili defying expectations of a slowdown with March employment levels coming in stronger than forecast and the unemployment rate dropping to the lowest level since February 1991. Economists said the figures yesterday contributed to the confusion over the strength
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      • 65 6 Reuter PERTH Dennis Bennetts at the spot near where his aluminium jet boat slipped its moorings on the coast of Western Australia last August. The boat recently washed up on a beach in Mozambique, 8.000 km away, without a scratch and was recognised
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      • 92 6 AFP SEOUL Foreign workers in South Korea toil for an average of 11 hours a day and earn USS72O (S$ 1,020) a month, survey results published here yesterday showed. The English-language Korea Herald said a survey by a Seoul professor, Lee Chong Ku,
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      • 117 6 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON Consumer confidence in New Zealand fell in the January-March quarter, mainly because of higher home mortgage rates. The Westpac McDermott Miller Index fell 1.1 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 120.1 points at the end of March and is
        Bloomberg Business News  -  117 words
      • 97 6 AFP TOKYO Japan s Deputy Foreign Minister Kunihiko Saito will be appointed as new ambassador to the United States to replace Takazu Kuriyama. the Yomiuri Shimbun said yesterday. Foreign Minister Yohei Kono has agreed to the appointment, which the ministry is to announce by
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  • THE WORLD
    • 422 9 Reuter LONDON The actual results of the Uruguay Round agreement on world trade liberalisation are disappointing compared to the benefits the rhetoric promised, said a report by the World Bank released on Wednesday. "The agreement on agriculture achieved a
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    • 361 9 FT BONN US officials have put Bonn on notice that they consider resolution of a dispute between General Electric of the US and the east German utility Veag to be "a test" of its commitment to enforce a 1993 USEU pact
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 126 9 Bloomberg Business News NUREMBERG The number of unemployed in Western Germany rose 4,000 to 2,528,000 in March from February, the Federal Labour Office said. The increase, which is adjusted for seasonal variations, was unexpected. Analysts polled by Bloomberg Business News had forecast a decline of
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      • 62 9 AFP PARIS Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Paris yesterday for a 24-hour visit expected to focus on strengthening ties with the European Union. The visit, the first such encounter between an Indian minister and the EU troika countries of France, Germany and Spain, will
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      • Article, Illustration
        31 9 AFP MARSEILLE French Premier and presidential candidate Edouard Balladur (left) chatting with Interior Minister Charles Pasqua on Tuesday during a campaign meeting in this southern city of France. AFP
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      • 72 9 AFP STRASBOURG The European Parliament on Wednesday asked Britain and France to stop nuclear testing and called instead for an unconditional and indefinite extension to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPI). Its resolution asked member states to actively pursue, "in the framework of the
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      • 76 9 Bloomberg Business News BONN Germany will push for thorough reform of the European Union budget so that no single country bears too high a burden of contributions after monetary union, the Financial Times reported in its Tokyo edition, citing German Finance Minister
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    • 344 9 Reuter WASHINGTON The US House of Representatives has completed work on the Republicans' 10-point "Contract with America", winning passage late on Wednesday of the measure's "crown jewel" a US$lB9 billion (SS26B billion) tax cut over five years. But the bill faces
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    • 57 9 Reuter MOSCOW Russian cosmonaut candidate Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya (centre) taking part in the weightlessness exercise as an Ilyushin-76 goes into a deep dive on Wednesday. A group of US astronauts are also undergoing training in Star City Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow for the joint programme
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    • 237 9 AFP PARIS The single European currency should be introduced in 1999 because France will not be ready for the first deadline in 1997, former EU Commission president Jacques Delors said yesterday. Mr Delors said that the single currency should be introduced quickly
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    • 320 9 Reuter WASHINGTON The White House, concerned about a military build-up in Iran, is drafting plans to raise sanctions on Teheran that include banning US firms from buying its oil. White House officials said on Wednesday. Mindful that some Republican leaders in Congress
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    • 303 9 Reuter LONDON Soaring profits, shrinking workforces that's the bitter-sweet story of corporate Britain today. For number-crunchers, the 1994 corporate reporting period now winding down has revealed a picture of marvellously robust earnings and profit growth. Amit Ihaker, research accountant at ABN-Amro Hoarc Govett,
      Reuter  -  303 words
    • 341 9 AFP SEOUL A fresh trade rift between South Korea and the United States emerged here yesterday after Washington complained to the fledgling World Trade Organisation (WIO) about Seoul's quarantine regulations. Officials here said Washington, in its first conflict with Seoul since the
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
    • 652 11  -  Michelle Low meets an 'official guru' who makes a tidy £500,000 turnover a year as a problem-solving consultant cum inspirational speaker Michelle Low SELLING is the most exciting thing you can do with your clothes on, according to sales expert John Fenton. Randy jokes aside,
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    • 154 11 A SINGAPORE print advertisement for the town's coolest new singles bar has picked up honours from New York's top art directors. The full-page colour ad, run in December, was created by Batey Ads for the Raffles Hotel Bar and Billiard Room. The singles in
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    • COPY LINES
      • 68 11 SINGAPORE Auctioneer Christie's will preview its Hongkong spring auction at the Hyatt Regency Singapore from April 22-23. On show will be 20th century Chinese and other oil paintings. Chinese ceramics, snuff bottles, jadeite and Western jewellery, watches, stamps and covers of Hongkong Treaty Ports and
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      • 70 11 SINGAPORE Hot on the heels of its Tiger Beer memorabilia hunt, Asia Pacific Breweries is giving away can-shaped portable TV sets in its Anchor Beer promotion. That the brewery is running promotions for its two flagship brands at the same time is "just a
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      • 77 11 SINGAPORE Batey Ads has pipped two other agencies to create a new ad campaign for Sony's Walkman, Discman and hi-fi products, which will bring $2 million in billings for Batey. Batey already works for Sony International in the Asia Pacific except Japan. Meanwhile, here's
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      • 84 11 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The Interpublic Group of Companies will buy Campbell Mithun Esty advertising agency and several other units from the Cordiant company, formerly Saatchi Saatchi, for US$4O million (SSS7 million). London-based Cordiant will write oflf£l3 million (SS29 million) of goodwill as a result
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      • 79 11 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK PepsiCo will reposition the less expensive of its two ice tea lines, aiming Lipton Brisk at teens and introducing a new tropical fruit flavour. The move comes as rival Coca-Cola Fruitopia introduces teas aimed at the teen market. Coke
        Bloomberg Business News  -  79 words
      • 86 11 Reuter LONDON "Hello, Ugly, can 1 help you?" It's not the kind of phone greeting ordinary companies would choose but for Britain's Ugly Model Agency, it works wonders. "Ugly's such a powerful word," said Marc French, managing director of Britain's top character-model agency, for whom odd
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  • SPORTS
    • 829 12 US Masters Crowd favourite Tiger Woods plays at the 59th Masters despite an injury, Larry Dorman reports NYT AUGUSTA, Georgia It's Masters time down South, and as the first ceremonial tee shot draws near, questions float on the breezes, plentiful as pollen. There is always a
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    • 405 12 Reuter AUGUSTA, Georgia Four subtle but significant changes have been made to the Augusta National golf course for this year's Masters, club officials said on Wednesday. Jack Stephens, chairman of the club and the tournament, said changes had been made to two greens, one greenside
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    • PUTTING SHOTS
      • 111 12 GRFG NORMAN had a quick answer when lie was told that Nick Price had said that at age 35, he had only a few years left to win a Masters. "He is an old 37," Norman quipped. "I am a young 40. So that
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      • 95 12 ENGLAND'S Nick Faldo decided he would get away from preparing for the Masters for a few hours and went fishing with American pro Brad Bryant. Faldo said: "We took off across the water on a perfectly calm day and all of a sudden we were getting
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      • 145 12 AFP NEW ZEALANDER Frank Nobilo, playing his first Masters, found that Augusta National lived up to its billing. ""It's a great place to play golf Nobilo said. "It's one of the two best places in the world to play golf here and St Andrews."
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      • 81 12 AFP SCOTLAND'S Colin Montgomerie has a new motto for the Masters this year: Go for it. "Last year I played defensive and actually missed the cut by a shot," he said. "And I'd rather go out attacking and miss the cut than I would defensive
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      • 100 12 AFP AUGUSTA. Georgia US Open champion Ernie Els may be lacking in Masters experience but he knows where to go for advice. The young South African star has turned to compatriot Gary Player, Masters champion in 1%1, 1974 and 1978, for tips on how to
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    • 464 12 AP AUGUSTA, Georgia If three-year-old Gregory Price decides to take up golfing, his father will have at least one bit of advice. Cross up those hands when you grab the putter. "If you can teach someone from an early age to putt
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 111 12 AFP SYDNEY Rupert Murdoch yesterday claimed victory was at hand in his battle against the Australian Rugby League (ARL) over his plans to set up a breakaway super league. The global media tycoon, speaking on television from New York, said the fight with the ARL
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      • 39 12 Reuter ZARAGOZA, Spain Chelsea goalkeeper Kevin Hitchcock dressed as a Spanish matador on arrival here on Wednesday. Chelsea were due to play Real Zargo/a in the European Cup Winners Cup semi-final first leg match yesterday. Reuter
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      • 94 12 AFP PARIS AC Milan and Ajax Amsterdam look destined for a European Cup final showdown unless Paris St Germain and Bayern Munich can come back from the dead after Wednesday's semi-final first legs. Milan, who beat Paris St Germain 1-0, and Ajax, who emerged from
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      • 107 12 AFP HAMBURG The case of Monica Seles' attacker Gunther Parche was reopened here on Wednesday after the prosecution challenged an appeals court decision earlier this week to allow Gunther Parche to walk free. The prosecution is contesting the judgment which ruled that Parche's original sentence
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    • 574 12 America's Cup AP SAN DIEGO Marketing, corporate sponsors and television coverage. None of these was the main reason why the three US syndicates in the America's Cup agreed they would all sail in the finals. Team officials insisted on Wednesday the 1
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    • 353 12 AP DEARBORN, Michigan Companies spend big money to sponsor multimillion-dollar America's Cup racing yachts, buying prestige and international media exposure. But Ford Motor Co's support for Young America is paying different dividends Ford engineers who helped design the boat learned lessons they
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    • SCORE CARD
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        35 12 NEW YORK NBA Wednesday: Atlanta Cleveland 87; Charlotte 84 Philadelphia 66; Indiana 102 Washington 90; New Jersey 101 Chicago 108; Orlando 128 Detroit 125; Dallas 130 LA Lakers III; Milwaukee 94 New York 114.
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        24 12 SHARJAH, UAE India beat Bangladesh by nine wickets in Asia Cup limited overs match Wednesday. Scores: Bangladesh 163 (44.4 overs), India 164-1 (27.5).
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        74 12 KDINBL RGlf Scotland's squad for May-June's World Cap in South Africa announced on Wednesday: Backs Gavin Hastings (capt): Cameron Glasgow, Ken Logan. Craig Joiner, Tony Stanger: Scott Hastings. Lan Jardine; Graham Shiel. Craig Chalmers; Bryan Redpath. one other player to be selected. Forwards Dave Hilton. John Manson, Peter Wright.
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        27 12 PARIS European Cup semi-final first leg Wednesday: Paris St German (Fra) 0 AC Milan (Ita) I (Boban 91 min); Bavcm Munich (Ger) 0 Ajax (Neth) 0.
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        69 12 AMELIA ISLAND, Florida L *****.000 Baiisch Ixwnb women's Championships 2nd rd Wednesday: l-Conchita Martinez (Spn) b Asa Carlsson (Swe) 6-1 6-2; 3-Magdalcna Maleeva (Bui) b Ruxandra Dragomir (Rom) 7-5 6-2; 5Amanda Coetzer (SA) b Ginger Helgeson Nielsen (US) walkover. 8Sabinc Hack (Ger) b Katerina Kroupova (Cze) 5-7 6-1 6-0;
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 611 13  -  Adec '95 starts today at Suntec City. Corinne Kerk reports Corinne Kerk For most of us, the ocean is just something you sail on, occasionally swim in and more often, what you look at while tanning or barbecuing on the beach. But with more
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    • 273 13 AN INDIAN expat who's only looking for a room to rent, a highly qualified unmarried 30-something woman, a status-conscious mother who won't quit and a father who tries to keep the peace. Add to them a cast of zany characters, among them a sarabal
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    • 562 15  -  UK actor Ralph Fiennes could be on his way to creating a singularly romantic, obsessed Hamlet at the theatre, says Vincent Canby Vincent Canby NYT MOV It success doesn't come cheap. the price sometimes being the loss of family, friends, even the face one
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    • CHATTER BOX
      • 295 15 AP AP AP DUSI IN Hoffman and Lauren Bacall are the latest American actors to be inducted into the prestigious French Order of Arts and Letters. Culture Minister Jacques Toubon honoured the stars at a ceremony on Tuesday, designating Bacall a commander in the
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    • 1295 15 I TV RADIO Four convicts sec a chance tor r <■ i freedom and volunteer tor a routine salvage mission. But a appears. H the captain goes mad. and crew discovers that there's on board, on a savage mission. Johnny Wilson joins the Slaver's motorcycle gang. He has l to
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  • 609 16 EDITORIAL AFTER keeping the nation and its financial markets in suspense for months. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has finally decided that the time is right to seek a fresh mandate for his government. His timing couldn't have been sweeter. Going by all indicators including those
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 258 16 CHINESE activism in the disputed Spratlys is a cause for grave concern, not least because it has stirred up a hornet's nest and forced the other rival claimants to take action. Manila has blown up Chinese markers and dismantled some of the unmanned structures in what
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    • 119 16 TO DATE, the National Productivity Board (NPB) has officially launched 35 franchises, giving entrepreneurs in Singapore opportunities to set up businesses without having to start completely from scratch. Now, for the benefit of Malay businessmen, Mendaki, with the cooperation of the NPB, will conduct a workshop on
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    • 90 16 ALTHOUGH the teenage crime rate in Singapore has not reached worrying proportions, its rise in recent years should not be treated lightly. Smoking, drinking, whiling the time away at discos and other entertainment spots and taking to the company of drug addicts or traffickers are
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    • 186 16 M POOR Bill Clinton has been on the ropes since the ominously historic November congressional elections in the United States, but it bears repeating that his plight is largely of his own making. In 1992, many Americans felt he truly might lead his nation and the
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    • 149 16 THE government finally bowed to "market forces" by legalising the prevailing cement prices which have been hovering at more than 40 per cent above the 1993 fixed local price references since July. We deliberately put quotation marks around the words "market forces" because we doubt that the steep
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    • 193 16 THERE were 10,000 fewer industrial accidents reported to the Social Security Organisation (Socso) last year. This is very good news, indeed, especially in view of the fact that the number of accidents at work has been increasing at an alarming rate in recent years. Consider the statistics
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  • 1103 16 Foreign investors wanting to stop counterfeiters in Thailand often have to do much of the legwork themselves IN RECENT months, the United States and the European Union have given Thailand the thumbs up for its performance in upholding intellectual property rights (IPR). Because of the country's
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    • 287 16 E l'his article is reprinted from the March 27 issue of Business Asia, a fortnightly management report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (Asia) Ltd —Esagi IN-DEPTH Bi BUSINESS lgn NEWS FROM SINGAPORE PERSPECTIVE I or over two decades Singapore I Business has covered the local and J regional business scenes
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1362 17  -  Ho Kay Tat on why the ruling National Front coalition is expected to win the elections handily this time Ho Kay Tat The writer is BT's KL correspondent ".4 new political landscape has emerged in Malaysia, where Jor the first time in Malaysian elections
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    • 1296 17  -  Leon Hadar considers the achievements of the Republicans after their first 100 days in power in Capitol Hill Leon Hadar The writer is BT's H ash i n fit on correspondent IT HAS been a tradition among America's television networks to
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  • 467 18 Reuter BONN The International Monetary Fund believes turbulence on world currency markets might make it necessary for industrial countries to consider coordinating their interest rates. In a draft of its semi-annual World Economic Outlook, obtained by Reuters yesterday, it also said
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  • 420 18  -  From Al Labita in MANILA THE commission looking into the Flor Contemplacion ease does not recommend a break in diplomatic ties with Singapore. "No, no, we did not go that far," commission chairman Emilio Gancayco told reporters
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  • 340 18 Reuter LONDON Bank of England (BOE) governor Eddie George said on Wednesday that Barings pic had broken the law by transferring huge amounts of money to its Singapore operation without informing the British central bank. Mr
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  • 292 18  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA US-BASED Freeport McMoran Inc. operators of a huge copper mine in the rugged and remote province of Irian Jaya, has denied allegations that its workers were involved in reported killings of villagers and suspected separatist guerillas in recent
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  • 105 18 AFP ZURICH Union Bank of Switzerland (ÜBS), Switzerland's biggest banking group, yesterday confirmed that its main shareholder, BK Vision, had filed a criminal complaint against senior bank executives for improper management. It said some of its executives "have been heard for information purposes" by
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  • 911 18  -  The Bottom Line TYE KIM KHIAT TYE KIM KHIAT The writer is a BT correspondent IF THE recent Canberra by-election result foreshadows the Liberal Party's return to power in Federal government, then Asia and Australia must brace for some rough patches ahead
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  • 297 18 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter WASHINGTON The housing and retail fronts provide further signs that the US economy is slowing down, while initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose slightly last week. In February, the number of housing units completed posted
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  • 288 18 Denial follows takeover report in media and Apple's share price surge Reuter, Bloomberg TOKYO Canon Inc has no intention of buying Apple Computer Inc, a Canon spokesman said. "Wc are not about to buy Apple and wc arc not even
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        50 19 Mixed Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-f>pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Alliance. Barings. Credit Lyonnais Securities. Datwa. Fraser. <JK (Joh. Kay Hian. Morgan Grenfell. Ong Co. Nomura. Phillip. Smith New Court. Wl Carr and SO Warburg.
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        106 19  -  By Paul Leo LUM Chang Holdings at $1.20 is a medium-term buy. Weekly Relative Strength Index and stochastics are below 25, indicating an oversold condition. The daily Moving Average Convergence-Divergence indicator will signal a buy soon. For the short term, the moving averages are signalling further consolidation around
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    • 448 19  -  By R Sivanrthy SINGAPORE Business in the local stock market took a severe bashing in the first quarter of this year when compared to same period last year. In dollar terms, turnover on the main board and Clob International fell by almost
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    • 258 19 SINGAPORE Shareholders of Orchard Parade Holdings yesterday gave the nod to the group's proposal to buy more Yeo Hiap Seng shares. A resolution authorising OPH directors to acquire up to 51 per cent of the issued capital
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    • 524 19 SINGAPORE Overseas Union Bank (OUB), named Singapore's Commercial Bank of the Year by financial magazine Asiamoney, is stepping up its regional drive. OUB president Peter Seah told BT that the bank is currently exploring with Indonesian parties
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    • 681 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By David Mok SINGAPORE The share price of components maker CAM Mechatronic hit an all-time high yesterday, trading up to 81.5 cents before settling at 78 cents on 4.2 million shares changing hands. It was
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    • 297 19  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Listed property counter Parkway Holdings has sold stakes in two investment vehicles for $13 million to a company which sources say could be backed by Malaysian tycoons Vincent Tan and Thong Kok Kee.
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    • 285 19 SINGAPORE A change of accounting policy led to listed property company Hong Fok Corp adding $94 million to its turnover in the second half of last year. This was to comply with a rule that profit
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    • COMPANIES
      • 138 20 A BLOCK of 10 million Goldtron shares was crossed at $1.30 a share yesterday morning on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. A spokesman for the Sesdaq-listed electronic products company said he did not know who the buyers or sellers were. But a
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      • 332 20  -  From Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR A GENEROUS general offer by Berjaya Leisure Bhd for Hospital Pantai Bhd shares at MS7 (553.90) apiece sent the hospital counter soaring yesterday. Hospital Pantai shares, which were suspended at M 54.88 on Monday, surged over
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      • 209 20 Reuter MANILA The Philippine Airlines board yesterday voted to defer a proposed rise in the troubled carrier's capital stock until an order from the Securities and Exchange Commission temporarily banning the increase is lifted. An airline source said the motion to defer was made
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      • 615 20 Company believed to be in talks to buy stake from either one of rival parties MBT KUALA LUMPUR The mysterious third party reported to be interested in acquiring a substantial stake in KFC Holdings (Malaysia) Bhd has been identified by reliable
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      • 228 20 Reuter HONGKONG The Indonesian stock market will ride out current volatility and prove rewarding for investors on a twoto three-year horizon, according to US fund manager Fidelity. Yosawadee Charnsethikul, portfolio manager of Fidelity's Indonesia fund, said the Indonesian stock market has dropped
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      • 2405 20 Mmmmi' prtm(D Apr 7 US Gr Fund 0.98 1.02** Singapore Unit Trust UOB Asset Mgt Ltd The Commerce I.S8 1.67 Unifund 1.34 1.40 The Savings Fund 1.43 I.SIxd Unibond 1025 1.050 S'pore Prog Fund 0.58 0.62 United Gr Fund' 1.55 1.62 S pore See Fund 0.94 I 00 United Asia
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      • 266 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Picking Asian stocks? Skip Hongkong and head for Singapore. So says Christopher Day, joint-managing director of Thornton Management Asia Ltd. Hongkong, Asia's biggest stock market outside of Japan, may lag other markets this year as interest rates
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 34 20 SINGAPORE Datacraft Asia, which debuts here on the main board today, has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary called Training Partners to take over its network and data communications training business.
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        • 72 20 SINGAPORE Omni Mold has told the Stock Exchange of Singapore its performance last year was hit by delays in orders and exchange losses on the US dollar. The company last week reported a 2 per cent drop in net earnings to $1.35 million on a 3.5
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        • 45 20 SINGAPORE Main board-listed Van Der Horst said it did not know why its share price and trading volume surged yesterday. Replying to a query from the Stock Exchange of Singapore, it said it was not preparing any announcement.
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        • 37 20 SINGAPORE Hong Leong Finance says foreigners held 19.57 per cent of its shares at Mar 31, 1995. Foreigners held 7.67 per cent of its subsidiary Singapore Finance at the same date.
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        • 25 20 SINGAPORE Jurong Cement has appointed Lena Tan assistant managing director. She is the daughter of managing director Tan Eng Sim.
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        • 70 20 Corrections clarifications IN our report last Saturday headlined "Eltech surprises with $3.78 m loss after accounting error", we said that a miscalculation in the company's interim results "occurred when the financial controller factored US dollar transactions at the prevailing rate when reporting the interim results". Eltech has clarified that there
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      • 222 20 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd, having diversified into property development, expects to derive some Msso million (Ss2B million) to Ms7o million profit in the next two to three years from its various property development projects. Its maiden property development project is the
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      • 488 21 But expectations for HK, S'pore, Indonesia lowered Reuter SINGAPORE Key companies listed on Asian bourses are likely to post robust doubledigit growth this year but some expectations have been toned down, investment analysts in the region said. Hongkong leads the corporate earnings downgrade
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      • 282 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Yizheng Chemical Fibre Co, the world's fifth-largest polyester maker, yesterday said 1994 net profit rose 64 per cent as surging cotton prices bolstered demand for synthetic fibres. Profit after taxes rose to 978.02 million yuan (SSI62 million) from
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 68 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG US investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette is prepared to invest a sizeable portion of its US$l billion (S$ 1.4 billion) global investment fund in the Hongkong stock market, according to the Hongkong Standard. Alfred Pang, president of the company's investment
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        • 49 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Asia Securities International has reported a 1994 net profit of HK561.36 million (Ssl 1 million), down 40 per cent from HK$ 102.96 million in 1993. Earnings per share fell to 10.57 cents from 17.74 cents a year earlier. Bloomberg Busi-
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        • 63 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Shanghai Luoyang Glass, China's largest floatglass producer, made a net profit of 253 million yuan (Ss43 million) for the year ended last Dec 31, a 4.2 per cent drop from 263 million yuan a year earlier. The Hongkong-listed company
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        • 69 21 Bloomberg Business News MELBOURNE Plastics group BTR Nylex is forming a A 517.4 million (SslB million) joint venture in China. Under the terms of the agreement with the First Bureau of Light Industry in the province of Tianjin, the company will take up to
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        • 58 21 AFP TOKYO Japan's Fujitsu has concluded a cross licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics Co of South Korea to provide each other with technology for thin film transistor-type (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD). The deal takes advantage of "Samsung's high aperture ratio efficiency coating technology" and
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      • 367 21 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI Shanghai Forever Bicycle, one of three Chinese bike makers with foreignheld shares, said net profit fell 82 per cent last year as increasingly wealthy consumers began looking beyond bikes. The company reported net profit after tax and
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      • 55 21 AFP TOKYO Kaori Sao of Motorola displaying two portable phone prototypes during the Communications Tokyo exhibition yesterday. The company plans to step into the market of Japan's newly established Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Personal Communications Network Inc to sell portable phones which will be
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      • 180 21 AFP HONGKONG The chief executive of Australia's news agency was elected yesterday as chairman of AFX-Asia Pte Ltd, the first real-time financial news venture dedicated to Asia, which starts up in May. Lee Casey, who heads the AAP Group, will preside over the launch of
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      • 432 21 2 get sterner reprimand for breaching rules wilfully HONGKONG The stock exchange's listing committee has flexed its muscles again, by publicly censuring four directors from two companies for breaching listing rules, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday. The committee on Wednesday issued a
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      • 476 23 IHT NEW YORK Craig McCaw, a visionary of the US communications industry, announced Wednesday he would invest as much as US$l.l billion (551.55 billion) in a company that operates sophisticated nationwide versions of old-fashioned radio taxi networks to make American business more
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      • 294 23 AP PARIS French communications and technology giant Alcatel Alsthom SA, already fighting ofT corruption charges against its chairman, said on Wednesday that its profits last year plunged 49 per cent to 3.6 billion francs (SSI.OB billion). That was down from 7.1 billion
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      • 81 23 AFP HANNOVER, Germany The model of a 'Vario Research Car' a futuristic hybrid combining features of a limousine, convertible and pick-up being unveiled by German car maker Mercedes Ben/ at the Hannover Industrial Fair on Tuesday. The vehicle comes with different tops that can be easily
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      • 194 23 FT LONDON Charles Schwab, the US pioneer of discount broking, has announced a recommended cash ofTer for Sharelink Investment Services, the UK's largest execution-only telephone sharedealing service. His company. Schwab, America's largest discount broker, announced a 235-pence-a--share (555.30) offer for Sharelink. valuing
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      • 333 23 Reuter, AFP STUTTGART, Germany Daimler-Benz AG. Germany's biggest industrial group, said yesterday that it made a huge swing back to profit in 1994 and would pass on the gains to shareholders with a hefty dividend rise. Daimler, the only German
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 389 24  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE Londonbased GNI, one of the leading specialist futures and options brokers in Europe, has opened a regional office in Singapore its first in Asia. Hugh Morshead, marketing director for GNI, told BT yesterday that the
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      • 65 24 AFP LIMA, Peru Apolinario Condori lies buried at a plaza in the Peruvian capital Lima on Wednesday in a plea for the return of his savings. Mr Condori was one of 150,000 clients of a financial office headed by Carlos Manrique, who is accused
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 64 24 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Mitsubishi Bank and Sanwa Bank will lower their short-term prime rate by 0.25 percentage point to 2.75 per cent, effective from Wednesday, April 12, the banks said yesterday. The short-term prime is the rate at which Japanese banks lend money, usually
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        • 60 24 AFP JAKARTA Market share of foreign and joint venture banks has only increased marginally in the last six years. The Kompas daily quoted Finance Minister Mar'ie Muhammad as saying on Wednesday that the market share for foreign and joint-venture banks as of 1994 was
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        • 75 24 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Hokkaido Takushoku Bank will report its first-ever current loss because of the Japanese stock market's decline during the period ended March, said Shinichi Aikawa. the bank's managing director on Wednesday. The bank, among Japan's 21 largest, held a press conference
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        • 82 24 FT LONDON Platinum's price surged to its highest level for 4'/2 years on Wednesday after US group Engelhard said it had developed a catalyst that used the metal to clean up carbon monoxide and ground-level ozone, or smog, already in the air. Platinum's price, which
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      • 249 24 NYT NEW YORK A partner in a prominent London law firm, Simmons Simmons, was charged on Wednesday with suppressing evidence crucial to a probe by the Manhattan district attorney into the failed Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). The indictment, handed
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      • 327 24  -  By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE A European credit rating agency estimates that the total bad debts of Japan's 21 largest banks could be as high as 35 trillion yen, or US$4OO billion (SSS6O billion) at current exchange rates.
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      • 266 24 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Citicorp Securities Inc is cutting its mortgage securities business as the US$7OO billion (SSI billion) industry's slump stretches into a second year. The firm said it will no longer underwrite collateralised mortgage obligations (CMO) issued by government-spon-sored
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      • 361 24 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The securities and banking industries took a step closer on Wednesday to laying out guidelines on how they should treat customers in the purchase and sale of complex financial contracts known as derivatives. A panel of bank and securities
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      • 316 24 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Brent crude oil futures fell, reversing Wednesday's 2.3 per cent surge, led down by US petrol values as supply concerns eased. Petrol futures in New York jumped 3.3 per cent on Wednesday, after the Energy Information Administration reported a
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      • 196 24 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar recovered from a post-war yen low amid concern the rebound against the yen and mark could prove short-lived. The dollar rose to 85.51 yen. from a new low of 85.14. It climbed to 1.3745 marks from an intraday low of 1.3604.
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      • 98 24 AFP NEW YORK The dollar began the day mixed in active trading in New York yesterday, but remained under pressure against the yen after falling to a record low of 85.10 against the Japanese currency on Asian markets overnight. At 1405 GMT. the dollar was trading at 1.3758
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1382 25 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen and Eurodollar futures ended little changed in range trading, dealers said. Euroyen had a quiet opening, then drifted into range trading with a slightly firm undertone. The lead December contract firmed six ticks to 98.42 when the dollar
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      • 671 25 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber TOKYO: Rubber futures fell in all months by the close yesterday. as the yen's gains ignited selling sprees in late afternoon. Prices were 1.7 to 4.0 yen per kg lower. Benchmark September was down four at 150.8. Short-covering from local investors
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 94 25 BRISBANE Australian sugar production is expected to decline for two consecutive years unless good rainfall is received soon over parts of the growing region, according to growers. Dry conditions have already contributed to a reduction in the forecast for 1995-96 sugar production, with the industry
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        • 111 25 BRASILIA Cargill's Bahia-based cocoa grinder, which imported 5.000 tonnes of Ivorian cocoa for processing, has 15 days to produce a certificate of origin for the product in order to help speed its release from port, an Agriculture Ministry official said yesterday. However, that's not the
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        • 111 25 LONDON The price indicators that coffee producing countries have agreed to use to gauge retention levels will be released out of the Association ot Coffee Producing Countries' retention coordination bureau in New York. The organisation was prepar ing its system of information and controls in
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    • 1471 25 SICOM Futures Rubber (futures dosing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest May 95 265.50 650 1525 Jun 263.00 260.50 260.50 1250 3375 Jul 255.30 253.50 255.00 200 1600 Aug 254.50 252.50 253.50 200 1600 Sep 253.50 251.50
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1085 26 -2.1 SHAKES took a breather yesterday after surging more than 5 per cent in a week to close just marginally lower, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index eased 2.1 points to 1,980.3. The All Resources advanced 5.8 to 1,256.0 while the All Industrials dropped 11.5 to 2,941.9. Turnover was
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      • 640 26 +35.76 Share prices bounced back by 1.5 per cent, a development attributed to the return of foreign investors. The Composite Index rose 35.76 points to 2.446.11. Turnover was 895.2 million shares valued at 1.54 billion pesos. Philippine Finance Secretary Roberto De Ocampo said yesterday that an inter-agency task force
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      • 567 26 +2.17 Stocks chalked up slight gains after a three-day holiday, boosted by good performances of textile and electricals shares. The market was closed from Monday to Wednesday for public holidays. The 321-issue Weighted Price index advanced 2.17 points to end at 6,575.71. Turnover was 1.19 billion shares worth NTSSB.6
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      • 419 26 -5.83 Share prices remained in negative territory with most investors sidelined on worries of a continued plunge from an oversupply of share issues. The Composite Price Index dropped 5.83 points to 905.78 in lacklustre trading, with only 15.93 million shares valued at 287.2 billion won changing hands. Falls outnumbered
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      • 345 26 +8.95 Stocks closed higher, but well otT their best for the day, after the morning rally ran out of steam in early afternoon. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed at 2,070.39, up 8.95 points but well oft' the intra-day best of 2,086.80. Trade in Fletcher Challenge dominated the session.
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      • 136 26 +48.67 Sustained buying by operators and local mutual funds pushed share prices up with the 30share BSE Index closing 48.67 points higher at 3.488.61. The 100-share National Index rose 21.16 to 1,682.55. Brokers said most operators bought across-the-board, especially the shares of companies expected to do well in their
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      • 993 26 Britannia Funds Sterling ash Bid Offer Mim Cap Deposit 18 6400 38 6 500 Mim Jersey Cult 0 1893 0.1492 Mim Ma» Income *0 9000 *0 9400 I S$ Cash Income Plus I und 10 0000 10 5 WO PS Reserse Fund 5 4300 5 4400 Sterling Equity Euro Performance
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      • 710 26 10.7 BLUE chips posted their best close for nearly seven months, signalling the prospect of a move to a higher trading range, analysts said. "If we can sustain this level for a couple of sessions, then the next target becomes 3,280," said one analyst. 'It would appear the Footsie
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      • 185 26 17.24 French shares ended higher, shrugging oft renewed weakness in the dollar while basking in the glow of a cut in the French overnight lending rate. But the market closed below highs as the April CAC-40 future reversed a rally to end lower. The CAC-40 Index closed up 17.24
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      • 206 26 +9.43 German shares ended floor trade higher, holding gains triggered by rising DAX futures, dealers said. But cash market volumes, except in Daimler, remain moderate. Market seen steady to slightly higher in post-bourse trade, but dealers say DAX futures will set the pace. The DAX Index ended up 9.43
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      • 167 26 14.79 Belgian shares closed over one per cent higher, driven up by domestic rate cuts mid-morning, a recovery in the dollar from earlier weakness and lower yields in the bond market. The Bel-20 index closed 14.79 points higher at 1,341.46. Volume on the first day of the new forward
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      • 146 26 +5 Italian shares slumbered and brokers don't expect them to stir until after April 23 regional elections. Dealers said some activity could come today when prices will be set for Monday's expiry of monthly options contracts. The Mibtel Index ended five points higher at 9,521. Volume was only some
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      • 272 26 +2.39 Dutch shares closed slightly firmer, above the psychologically important 400-point level on the AEX Index, after tracking the dollar's recovery against the guilder through the day. The AEX ended 2.39 points firmer at 400.22. "It was a typical dollar market and I'm sure we can get well above
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      • 74 26 +0.94pc Swedish shares firmed despite the negative sentiment initially shown by many players. "We had hardly expected this rally with the crown as weak as it is." a broker said. The OMX Index firmed 0.94 per cent to 1,170.56 on a turnover of 2.8 million crowns. "Quite a few
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      • 419 26 +8.3 South African gold shares extended their recent rally as bullion renewed its upward push, dealers said, while platinum's strong run drove related shares sharply higher. Dealers said senti- ment remained bullish and buying interest was expected to continue. Industrials edged higher but lacked conviction after an easier showing
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      • 259 26 10.9 Stocks rose for a second session, led by BCE Inc. as strength in the currency reduced concern about the possibility of higher interest rates. "The Canadian market has a nice tone to it," said a dealer. "The dollar is stronger, which takes the pressure off of interest rates
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      • 757 26 11.76 Stock prices edged higher in active trading early yesterday in a follow-through on Wednesday's performance. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which eased 1.04 points on Wednesday, was ahead 11.76 to 4,212.33 at 1 lam EDT well above Tuesday's record-high close of 4,201.61. The New York Stock Exchange
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      3027 27 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks fell as the US dollar hit a new post-war low for the second time this week. A sudden drop in Hang Seng Index futures prices in the last hour of trading also drove the market lower, brokers said. Trading was very light with total
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      613 27 CLSA HONGKONG H share index slipped 11.91 points to 1,098.31 on turnover of HKSB7.S million. Hampered by the strong yen. Qingling Motors was the biggest loser, down 4.8 per cent to HK.51.57. The Shanghai B market closed down 0.3 per cent on moderate turnover of US$2.7 million. Steel Tube
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      2463 27 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks fell for the first time in three days as the dollar dropped to a post-World War II low against the yen, dealing a blow to Japanese exporters. Electronics manufacturers, heavily dependent on exports, and brokerages, whose fate is linked with the ailing stock market,
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      1200 27 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed mixed in modest trading due to the relatively weak sentiment in regional markets and fears over inflation, brokers said. "Shares failed to sustain early gains on weak market sentiment and a possible rise in inflation." one broker said. "Banks arc likely to raise interest
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    • 2596 28 Of (.r IW Ijm Vol Day I im <>.«■ IN* Di« Md Net M Cay IliRh lj>w (.umpaay Safe (TOO) lltyh law Bayer Srifer O VIY. Smil MALAYSIAN STOCKS 47* 73 m AISB 50c 448 -20 7*7 472 446 44* 456 V0 -2.9 0 2 45 9 120
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      • 6965 28 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks fell as euphoria over Wednesday's announcement of a general election gave way to concerns that the government will raise interest rates to choke inflation after the vote, traders said. Inflation jumped to 3.7 per cent
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      • 1829 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The Malaysian general election rally fizzled out yesterday almost as quickly as it had started. Market watchers admitted that such a development was actually not surprising, as the number of sellers at current and higher levels who
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    • 276 30 LOHHOUXNGSPMVATE UNITED mcorpora wG in in# nopuoiic Of 6liwmaam\ Singapore) MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WMOMQUP NOTICE OF FMAL MEETMG NOTICES HEREBY GIVEN M a Rnd Gananl Maaling d tie Company be hdd on 12ti May 1995 al 1.00 p.m. all Sophia Road 106-22. Pan Canlra. 9ngaporeo922 «ort»fc*Mingpupoaae: 1) TocorsidarftekMdakx'iaaiamart daccouto mowing how
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  • Shipping Times
    • 327 31  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE The freight forwarding industry has established the Singapore Registry of Accredited Multimodal Transport Operators. The registry, inaugurated yesterday, was developed by the Singapore Freight Forwarders Association (SFFA) in cooperation with the Trade Development Board. The need for such a
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    • 368 31 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Ports in Malaysia are expected to attract more business following the successful implementation of the Advanced Immigration Clearance Scheme last Saturday. Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik said that he was confident that the immediate handling and clearance of
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    • 231 31 Knight-Ridder JAKARTA Problems tied to the unloading of rice cargoes are behind congestion problems at Jakarta's port, according to an official at Tanjung Priok Port. But reports of the extent of the congestion are exaggerated, said the official, an executive with PT Persero Pelabuhan,
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    • 123 31 Reuter JERUSALEM Israel's ministerial privatisation committee decided that the government would keep a golden share in Zim Israel Navigation Co Ltd when the shipping line was sold to the public, a government official said on Wednesday. A local public offering is planned
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    • 1034 31 Page Col ABC Containerline 16 1 Able Shpg 7 4/5 Accord Group 8 1-3 •Ahlers Line 12 1 •Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 •ANL 3 4/5 Antaco Mgmt 17 3 •APL 18 1/2 •Appenship 4 4/5 Arabian Express 15 4 •ASCL 5 5 Astro
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    • 276 31  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has set up a shipyard safety consultative committee to provide a forum on safety and health issues faced by members. Zulkifli Mohammed, adviser to NTUC's Occupational Health and Safety Committee, revealed this yesterday at
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    • 76 31 SINGAPORE Keppel Shipyard and its client Woodside Petroleum recently achieved a milestone in their commitment to safety during the $60 million conversion work on the 149,991-dwt tanker Cossack Pioneer. They achieved one million accident-free man-hours and a lost-time injury frequency of below the 6.6 target during the project.
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    • 315 31 FT LONDON The UK government is to campaign in the United Nations for tighter maritime safety regulations requiring shipowners to fit transverse bulkheads to all vehicle ferries, to prevent disasters such as the sinking of the Estonia last year. Transport Secretary
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    • 1350 32 FREIGHT markets are quiet and lacking direction partly due to holidays in the Far East. But in spite of the present slow conditions brokers say there may be a build-up of chartering orders generally and a possible shortage of tonnage. Reflecting the slow activity, the Baltic Freight Index
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    • 552 32 COURSES Title: Understanding Documentary Credits Duration: Apr 18 May 23 Organiser Singapore National Shipping Asfociation Tel: For further details and application forms contact SNSA Secretariat at 278-3464 or fax: 274-5079. Title: Sea Transport Course (SDF 70%) Duration: May 17 Aug 23 Organiser Singapore Freight Forwarders Association Tel: For
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    • 936 33 As governments cut back subsidies to the maritime industries, more owners are tempted to flag out their ships Lloyd's List Source: Lloyd's List OPEN registers continue to advance. At the end of last year the top ten alone totalled half the world's tonnage of
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    • 14795 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. LEGO® PN: ship calls
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      • 613 43 Veut< Voy No Bwth Vrivai Departure Vessel Voy Wo Beith Arrival Dtp*tun r0n P#rt Tunfce. Trad5 9? P02 alongside 06 04/1730 b a *69 19/10 alongside 07 04,0500 Y Nona 002 P01A alongside 07 04/1500 /cr?™ 50 113 0704/1900 9 Oonam 503N P06 alongsde 07 04/1300 ASI
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      • 1473 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookint/Baimce Rslts J Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From it lade 2328 08/1100 2A 06/1700 07/0659 07/0900 3 07/0700 07/1159 07/1*0 4 07/1200 07/1459 07/1780 L4» 061A 08/1500 1A
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      • 326 50 Bernama JAKARTA Indonesia will apply a progressive road taxation system nationwide in a bid to curb the rich from flaunting their wealth to the general public by ownng fleets of luxury cars, local newspapers have reported. Under the system,
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      • 255 50 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter NEW YORK British Airways on Wednesday reported that passenger traffic grew 6.0 per cent in March from a year earlier. Seat occupancy rate, or load factor, rose to a record 72.3 per cent. Passenger traffic measures revenue passenger
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      • 272 50 Bloomberg Business News ROME Italian national airline Alitalia SpA said its 1994 loss narrowed as revenue increased and costs fell. The net loss for the year was 288 billion lire (*****.6 million), compared with 344 billion lire the year before. It is
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      • 241 50 Reuter LOS ANGELES In what it is calling a "major development" in its electric car programme, Chrysler Corp is expected to reveal today one of the batteries it will use in its first mass produced zero-emis-sion vehicles. Electrosource Inc, an
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      • 303 50 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY The Australian government denied a newspaper report that plans to sell the federal airports system for about As 2 billion (Ss2.l billion) would be delayed by at least a year. The government has said it will begin selling
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      • 48 50 Reuter BEIRUT A Lebanese official keeping watch over 39 luxury cars at Beirut port on Wednesday. The cars, worth US$2 million (Ss2.B million), were stolen and shipped to Lebanon from Canada and Western Europe. Lebanese police seized the cars with the help of Interpol. Reuter
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        • 100 50 Reuter DUBAI British Airways pic (BA) will re-introduce flights to Colombo, Sri Lanka, in October, BA World Cargo regional sales manager Paul Byrne said. "We were there some years ago before the political problems began," he said, referring to an uprising of Tamil
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        • 102 50 Reuter SEOUL South Korean shipyards won orders for 34 ships weighing a total 1.24 million gross tonnes in the first three months of 1995. against 33 ships weighing 1.01 million GT a year earlier, the Korea Shipbuilders' Association (KSA) said yesterday. A KSA
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        • 76 50 Reuter WASHINGTON Three US bicycle makers on Wednesday accused China of dumping bicycles in the US market at unfair prices and asked the government to impose duties on the imports. The complaint filed with the Commerce Department and International Trade Commission by Huffy
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        • 82 50 Bernama SHENYANG A stewardess who was fired by the North China Airline company for sleeping on the job, has lost a suit she filed against the company late last year. After conducting an investigation, the Labour Disputes Arbitration Committee in Shenyang announced recently that it
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      • 304 50  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE In a rare display of candidness, SIA chairman J V Pillay said on Wednesday that "Singapore Airlines is not always successful in everything it does". The SIA chief, who runs what is considered as one of
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      • 135 50 Reuter HANOI Vietnam has 2.7 million registered motorbikes and was expected to import 2.35 million more by the end of the decade, the official Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported on Wednesday. The Interior Ministry's traffic department released figures that showed Hanoi had
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    • 912 39 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTDI 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. I I iV CR NO **********0E I VESSEL VOY SIN CMS JIB HOD JED AQJ ADE PZU MSW ASA 0> KOTA BERLIAN BRL29S S/4 13/4 19/4 21/4 23/4 29/4 3/9 10/9 9/9 w KOTA BERK AT BKT23P
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    • 560 42 K) RICHFIELD MARINE AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD H? TEL: *****33 (12 Lines) K FAX: *****15/*****03 n TELEX: RS ***** RISHIP (3 Lines) CR NO.: **********0E ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Vnml Voy IT A Loading For Sporo AiHtntl 38WB 20/04 Mombasa. Djibouti Awab. Massawa Abbay Wonz 43W8 28/05 Mombasa, Ctybouti Assab.
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    • 396 43 [*mm G m n AG sino ixpress shipping (pts) ltd. V M W I 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. J TEL: *****90 (4 UNE3) FAX: *****98 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKG/SHAI SPORE HKQ SHAJ VESSEL VOY ETA I ETD ETA ETP ETA ETP J.
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    • 1641 44 U. S. A. /CANADA 3 TIMES A WEEK MAERSK TACOMA V.9506 ETA SIN 10 APRIL 1995 METTE MAERSK V.9504 ETA SIN 11TH APRIL 1995 ANNA MAERSK V.9508 ETA SIN 12TH APRIL 1995 V«M Voy ETA I ETD S 1 DESTINATIONS Naxt WMk PANAMA N«xl W«k 6TH STRINQ MADISON MAERSK V
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    • 699 45 DIM! g euwopg sgßvtcg i fvESSEL VOY SPORE FIX HAM I RTM I LEH I DKK IHOYAWG MOSCOW WFSIB 1104 08/05 07/05 05/05 1106 yvCOMFLOT SENATOR WFSI9 1704 13/05 11/05 1705 "fcoNTSHIP LA SPE2IA 5603 2004 1505 15/05 17/05 1905 2005 JDSH BALTIC WFS2O 2404 2105 2005 1805 2405 P
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    • 757 45 jhjibkh FULL CONTAINER SERVICE FROM SIN TO MADRAS VESSCL/VOV ETA SIN ETA MAA MV TIGER ISLANO V 13SN SAILED OS-09/04 MV BUNCA TERATAI V TERO33 SAILED Q€ 10 04 MV TIGER BRIDGE V 320N IN PORT 09-12/04 MV PCSTOVO V 12 SAILED 09 10/04 MV SEA DRAGON V 0AG049 06
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    • 968 46 FIXED j*f jL WEEKLY SAILINGS I 111 l j II MELBOURNE [p GP SHIPPING PTE LTD I Call: Kenny/Mas/Peter LIIIIIIU L U IIIVWW lU> >■"■■ LM^M*WW.WV .WM'.T.W. .WW.'AW'.W'.WV.'.WW'.-A^SW.'.WW. I W'.'A .''.W'. l .-.-.^^.^.^-.--.-.^-■-.-•-r>-^-.^>---. J1 f'""'' —■^.■.V.-.....*.«»M• STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD I AGENTS FOR: ZIM CONTAINER SERVICE GOLD STAR
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    • 527 46 y Con term CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 13 APRIL (Accepting to all N»*r Zealand porta) PENANG 14 APH JAKARTA IS APR PORT KLANG 13 APR BANGKOK 9 APR MANILA 9 APR KEELUNG 11 APR MELBOURNE 13 APR SYDNEY 13 APR BRISBANE 13 APR FREMANTLE 20 APR ADELAIDE 20
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    • 690 47 W SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD I 20 McCallum Street #16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22 (10 Lines) FAX: *****05 CR No.: *****8 200 00R 4 m Y.S.N. Ml V——l Hong Kong Singapore P. jMg| Peneng OcW Orchid 15 10-11/4 Sim Ruby 18 In Port 12-12/4 13-14/4 Thnbf Tradf V
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    • 1562 48 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. 19 KEPPCI ROAD .02-01 JIT POM BUIHXHG SINGAPOWt 0208 TEL 225 9966 fax 221 4922 TWICE WEEKLY TO FROM *UK/NORTH CONTINENT EUROPE* FOR ENQUIRY/BOOKING CALL 225-1-225 TO NORTH AMERICA ft CANADA WEEKLY CONTAINERIZED BERVICE I mssn/WYDg nn win» mi m |*aa/*ong Ig»lgt I ow Icw 1
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