The Business Times, 5 May 1995

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    13 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA~~ MITA(P) 194/12/94 Friday May 5 1995 85 c
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow up 30 points
      47 1 Reuter NEW YORK The stock market extended its rally into record ground yesterday. At 1 pm EDT, the Dow Jones average was up 30.78 points at 4,403.93. Advances led declines 12-7 on volume of more than 243 million shares on the NYSE. Reuter
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      Lock icon US to adopt new economic gauge
      65 1 Reuter WASHINGTON The Federal government yesterday said it will scrap the way it measures the pulse of the economy in favour of a radically new yardstick. It is the first step in the largest overhaul of US economic data in nearly four decades. The
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    169 1 Stock market indices Thursday Change ST1I 2,069.98 +3.63 KLSE Comp 951.38 +0.70 Nikkei closed Hang Seng 8,319.75 +20.08 SET Index 1,283.06 +39.46 Jakarta Comp 424.32 +0.93 Manila Comp 2,472.12 +27.54 Taipei WPI 5,699.14 -80.54 Seoul Comp 922.05. +1.32 Bombay BSE30 ..3,104.23 +34.98 CLSA China B 742.16 -5.30 Aust
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    Developers show growing restraint in bids for sites
    431 1  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Reflecting a growing caution in the private residential property market, developers are showing more restraint when bidding for sites. Bids for a 70,958 sq ft parcel in Stevens Road in a tender that closed on April 20 were
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    Lock icon Margin calls, forced selling put lid on KL market
    490 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE More of the same could just as well describe the Malaysian stock market yesterday as the new cabinet announced by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad the day before. Continuing to overhang the market were margin calls and forced
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    Lock icon Taipei to allow direct shipping to China
    214 1 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's cabinet in a landmark decision approved a detailed plan under which direct shipping with China will be allowed for the first time since 1949, a government spokesman said. "The cabinet meeting this morning passed the offshore transhipment centre plan,'' Jason
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    Lock icon Murdoch looks set to win battle to keep Fox Broadcasting
    405 1 AFP, Reuter WASHINGTON Federal authorities plan to allow Rupert Murdoch to keep intact his US holdings including Fox Broadcasting following an inquiry on foreign ownership of his broadcast properties, officials said. The Federal Communications Commission has decided that Mr Murdoch's
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    Thai cellular phone operator to float shares on SES
    500 1  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK SINGAPORE investors will get to buy another telecommunications stock when Thailand's Total Access Communication (TAC) offers its shares tentatively priced at 150 baht (558.40) apiece in a primary listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore.
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    Lock icon Two Shougang execs get suspended death sentences for graft: sources
    370 1 AFP, Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Two senior executives of Chinese steel giant Shougang, embroiled in scandals that led to the resignation of the company's chairman in February, were sentenced to death for economic crimes, official sources said yesterday. Shao Jun,
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      36 1 Advertising: Pg 8 China's fledgling ad industry Mahathir keeps political pundits guessing, Pg 12 KLSE allows 3 firms to keep shares suspended, Pg 15 Lawyers 9 comments on move to update S'pore patent laws, Pg 2
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Cargo volume continues to grow
        282 2  -  By Rahita Elias THE dynamism of the local and regional economies continues to boost cargo volume through the Port of Singapore. The latest figures show throughput grew 7 per cent year-on-year in January to 24.1 million tonnes. Since September last year, throughput has grown between
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
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        US$28m sales secured at India show
        48 2 MORE THAN 45 Singapore-based companies clinched sales worth some US$2B million (Ss39 million) at the recent Procurement Electronics India exhibition in Bangalore. This is US$B million more than that of Singapore companies at the 1993 exhibition, organiser Global Exhibition Services, said yesterday.
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        Mandarin Oriental HK voted best
        45 2 MANDARIN Oriental Hotel Group has won high acclaim in the 1995 Euromoney Magazine Business Travel Poll, with Mandarin Oriental Hongkong voted the world's best hotel for the third year running. In Singapore, The Oriental was voted among the best here.
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      QAF in $12.5m cold store joint venture
      183 2 FOOD group QAF has set up a $12.5 million cold store facility for fruits and vegetables in a joint venture with 15 fruit wholesalers. QAFs vehicle in the joint venture is its subsidiary. NCS Cold Store. It will hold a 51 per cent
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      Patents Act differs little from international pact: lawyers
      458 2  -  Compulsory licensing aspects of local legislation the main variation, they say By Ramesh Divyanathan THE use of a patent without the owner's permission is the main provision in Singapore's Patents Act that differs from an international intellectual property rights agreement, lawyers said
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      Pontiac Marina expects $165m rental income from Millenia
      547 2  -  By Jenny Lam PONTIAC Marina, the developer of Millenia Singapore, expects to earn annual rental income of about 5165 million from its mall and two office blocks based on current market rates. Millenia Mall would contribute 27 per cent of this rental
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      Simex earns praise for handling of Barings debacle
      287 2  -  By Paul Leo THE Singapore International Monetary Exchange gained worldwide credibility through its smooth handling of the Barings debacle, a US investment adviser said here yesterday. The president of Cargill Investor Services, Hal Hansen in town to inaugurate the firm's new Singapore
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      Canadian firm sells Toronto apartments in S'pore
      311 2 A CANADIAN property developer is in town to sell apartments in Toronto, in a bid to ride the wave of Asian investors who have become the key movers in the condominium market in Canadian cities. L&A Development (Canada) is part of a Hongkong
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Malaysia's crowded telecoms market tipped to see forced mergers
      416 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's overcrowded telecommunications market is facing a major shakeout that will see forced mergers of competing companies, a senior industry executive said yesterday. The shakeout is inevitable and has been delayed by five to 10 years largely due
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      Lock icon Foreign investment in Indonesia outpaces domestic for first time
      246 3 AFP, Bernama, Reuter JAKARTA Foreign investment in Indonesia exceeded domestic investment in the first four months of the year, Investment Minister Sanyoto Sastrowardoyo said here yesterday. "What we see this year is a first, that foreign investment is higher than domestic,"
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      Lock icon Washington vows to fulfil commitments to soft-loans arm
      423 3  -  ADB annual meeting From Anthony Rowley in AUCKLAND ASSISTANT Treasury Secretary Jeffrey Shafer yesterday pledged that the US will pay its debts to the Asian Development Bank's soft-loans arm, the Asian Development Fund. But he declined to set dates for replenishment negotiations
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        Lock icon Manila to tap US$1.8b foreign loans
        55 3 AFP MANILA The Philippines had agreed to tap US$l.B billion (552.5 billion) in foreign loans in the three months to March, 93.7 per cent ot which were yen-denominated. The Central Bank yesterday said the majority of the loans would finance public sector projects in
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        Lock icon Viet year-on-year inflation hits 21%
        57 3 Reuter HANOI Vietnam notched up monthly inflation of one per cent in April, taking the year-on-year index to 21.1 per cent compared to 20.5 per cent in March. The cumulative price increase in the first four months of this year was 8.6 per cent, the
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        Lock icon Thailand's Islamic Bill sent for review
        99 3 AFP BANGKOK A proposed amendment to the country's Islamic Bill, which would have allowed a woman to become the spiritual leader of Thai Muslims, was sent to a committee yesterday for further review. The Lower House voted 80-16 on Wednesday against a Senate proposal
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        Lock icon Marcos, Honasan get sect's backing
        76 3 Reuter MANILA An influential Christian sect has endorsed the son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and a former coup leader in Senate elections, underlining the importance religion still plays in Philippine politics. The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), a Christian sect whose three million members traditionally
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      Lock icon Golkar chief: stop talking about succession issue
      182 3 Reuter JAKARTA The chairman of Indonesia's ruling Golkar party said the sensitive issue of who would replace aging President Suharto should not be discussed until his current fiveyear term ends in 1998, the official Antara news agency reported yesterday. "If anyone has a
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      96 3 Everyone who prefers the Audi has different reasons for doing so. But they all agree that it is a technologically superior car. n f ac t» the Audi A 6 is so advanced, it comes with a three year warranty on spare parts and maintenance, and a ten year warranty
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Japan will never become a military power: Murayama
      447 4 AFP BEIJING Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama yesterday sought to ease Chinese concerns over militarist voices in Japan, and hinted that Tokyo might consider war-related compensation claims from Chinese individuals. Mr Murayama, whose fiveday visit coincides with the 50th anniversary of the
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      Lock icon Taiwan chip sales seen trebling to US$10b by 2000
      282 4 Bloomberg Business News SAN FRANCISCO Sales of Taiwanese semiconductors would more than triple to US$lO billion (Ssl4 billion) about 5 per cent of the global chip market by 2000, Morris Chang, founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp, said on Wednesday. Taiwanese
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      Lock icon China gets nod for US$50m loan for tax reforms
      322 4 AFP Reuter BEIJING The World Bank has approved the extension to China of a two-part US$5O million (5569.5 million) loan to finance a pilot project to help the country's tax reforms, Xinhua reported yesterday. The World Bank's represen-. tative office here
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      Lock icon HK legislature rejects bill to set up Court of Final Appeal
      227 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong's legislature rejected for the second time a bill which would have set up a new Court of Final Appeal for the territory. Britain and China agreed in 1984 to set up a new supreme
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Shanghai calls for greater work safety
        73 4 AFP SHANGHAI Shanghai leaders are urging greater work site safety after a cable holding a gondola snapped at a bridge construction site, killing or wounding 14 workers, news reports said yesterday. Party secretary Huang Ju was quoted as saying: "We must reduce the rising
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        Lock icon Moves to curb wage, spending growth
        85 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING The Chinese government has ordered the strict control of wage growth and institutional spending this year to keep the inflation rate down, the China Securities newspaper reported yesterday. Workers' pay rises for state-owned enterprises would be linked to the increase
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        Lock icon US ban on Taiwan head's visit to stay
        68 4 AFP WASHINGTON The US administration said on Wednesday it will not modify its ban on visits to the US by Taiwan's president despite a resolution passed by lawmakers calling for an easing of the policy. A non-binding resolution approved 396-0 on Tuesday
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        Lock icon Foreign-funded China firms 40% unionised
        75 4 AFP BEIJING Some 40.6 per cent of foreign-funded enterprises in China have established labour unions, a report said yesterday as a Chinese official accused certain foreign employers of abusing workers' rights. An official from the state-run All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the only union permitted
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      1264 4 fin millions of Canadian dollars) as at October 31 1994 1993 for the years ended October 31 1994 199) Assets Interest Income Cash Resources oans 57,261 $7,389 Cash and deposits with Bank of Canada 1,141 1,346 Securities 1,414 1,290 Deposits with other banks 8,295 6,534 Depoutsw.thb.nks 331 299 M 36
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Australia plans to amend laws to check Packer's move on Fairfax
      359 5 Tycoon's stake increase sparks new look at cross-media ownership Reuter CANBERRA Australia is planning new laws that would bar media magnate Kerry Packer from boosting his holding in John Fairfax Holdings Ltd at the expense of his rivals, Canada's
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      Lock icon S Korea's imported cigarette sales up
      92 5 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL Sales of imported cigarettes grabbed 11.7 per cent of the South Korean market during the first quarter of this year, up from 8.6 per cent for all of last year, the Ministry of Finance and Economy said yesterday. The rise
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      Lock icon Extremists found in Aussie defence unit
      80 5 Reuter SYDNEY Australia's Defence Department has suspended five suspected right-wing extremists after police raids uncovered weapons, police said yesterday. A federal police spokeswoman said the five were suspended after police raids in Canberra netted 15 weapons and 20,000 rounds of ammunition. The raids last
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      Lock icon Indian help sought to fight Tigers: sources
      76 5 AFP NEW DELHI Sri Lanka has sought military help from India following a renewed offensive by separatist guerillas Tamil Tigers which shattered a fragile three-month-long truce, diplomatic sources said yesterday. "The request has been made at the highest levels" of the two governments,
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      Lock icon Over 100 arrested in Nepalese strike
      65 5 Reuter KATHMANDU Police arrested more than 100 people in Nepal yesterday as protesters clashed with police and stoned buses and cars during a day-long strike sponsored byTHWiioist political party, party officials said. Shops and schools in three cities were closed as private vehicles stayed
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      Lock icon German business leader favours India over China
      306 5 Reuter NEW DELHI The head of a leading German industrial federation says India offers a more favourable political climate than China for investment by small and mediumsized German businesses. Dieter Haerthe, director of the German Federation of Small and Medium Industries (BVMW), said
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      Lock icon Aussie export surge averts current account deficit blowout
      398 5 AP SYDNEY Australian financial markets reacted positively to the second largest current account deficit on record, mainly through relief that the figure was not the disaster the market had been expecting, economists said yesterday. Strong performance by exports for the third month
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Bundesbank leaves rates unchanged
      74 6 Reuter FRANKFURT The Bundesbank said it left official German interest rates unchanged after its fortnightly council meeting yesterday. The discount rate remains at 4 per cent and the Lombard rate at 6 per cent. The central bank last cut rates in late March when it cut
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      Lock icon Strong mark could slow growth: Rexrodt
      59 6 Reuter BERLIN German Economics Minister Guenter Rexrodt said the strength of the mark could lead to a slight weakening in economic growth in the second half of 1995. In a speech prepared for delivery in Berlin, Mr Rexrodt said there was so far no
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      Lock icon Oklahoma claims could top US$125m
      86 6 Reuter RAHWAY, New Jersey Insured property damage from sites surrounding the Oklahoma City blast could reach US$l25 million (S$ 173.7 million), an insurance industry group said on Wednesday. The estimate does not include damage to the Alfred P Murrah Building, which is owned by the
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      Lock icon Some headway over renewing purchase of American parts
      403 6 US-Japan car talks Reuter VANCOUVER Negotiations between the United States and Japan on car and car parts trade took a step forward on Wednesday when Japanese negotiators agreed to discuss a key American demand. Japanese International Trade and Industry Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto
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      Lock icon A case of artistic Liberty
      44 6 Reuter CADAQUES, Spain A version of New York's famous Statue of Liberty standing at the entrance to the Spanish town of Cadaques. The statue is based on a sketch by surrealist artist Salvador Dali, who lived in Cadaques. Reuter
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      Lock icon Taiwan and China top nations dealing in fake goods
      389 6 Reuter MIAMI Street vendors sell "Rolex" watches for US$2O and "Disney" T-shirts for US$2, but the real price tag is US$2OO billion (Ss27B billion) the amount the International Trademark Association estimates that product counterfeiting bleeds from legitimate businesses each year. The
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    • Article
      Handheld computer market up 39% last year
      382 6  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE The market for handheld computers grew 39 per cent last year, with almost one million devices shipped, says consultancy firm Dataquest Inc. The market is expected to grow to 5.6 million units by 1999, the California-based firm adds in
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      Lock icon London-based firm eyes former USSR's huge phone market
      454 7 Reuter NEW YORK In Russia you can wait for 10 years for a telephone, and being put on "hold" for 15 to 25 years in some areas is not unheard of. A London-based company seeks to change that, taking on the vast
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      Lock icon Gulf states urged to ease curbs on foreign investments
      555 7 AFP ABU DHABI Gulf Arab states need to improve their investment laws to attract foreign capital and revive their economies that have slowed down due to weak oil prices, officials and experts said. Although most of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
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      Lock icon Back on the chain gang
      57 7 Reuter HUNTSVILLE, Alabama State prison officers taking chained prisoners out to start work on Wednesday. Three hundred and twenty prisoners were ordered into leg irons at the Elkmont exit of Interstate 65 here to begin the first day of work after the state reintroduced the
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      Lock icon Another boom year seen for computer network industry
      323 7 Bloomberg Business News SAN FRANCISCO Computer network equipment makers will see another year of "explosive growth", limited only by a shortage of people who understand how to install the sophisticated equipment, a top industry analyst says. "There still aren't many people who
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
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      DY&R signs up Pakistani agency
      214 8 SINGAPORE-based multinational Dentsu Young Rubicam (DY&R) has signed on one of Pakistan's top agencies as an affiliate, and may sign a similar deal in Vietnam by year-end. DY&R said the agreement with Spectrum Communications (Pvt) Ltd would allow it to service its clients in Pakistan
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      The rocky road to a saner advertising industry in China
      501 8  -  Beijing acts on misleading advertisements but more needs to be done, reports Michelle Low Michelle Low IT HAS BEEN three months since China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) instituted its new advertising law. While agencies agree it is
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    • Article
      Lock icon United Airlines goes underground in new advert offensive
      245 8 Bloomberg Business News STARTING this month, commuters on the London underground train system will be able to fly the friendly skies of UAL Corp's United Airlines without ever seeing the light of day. United, the world's largest air carrier, said it will
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        Lock icon Newspaper group to raise prices
        111 8 Reuter PERTH West Australian Newspapers Holdings will raise its cover prices and advertising rates to compensate for higher newsprint costs. "The price of newsprint is expected to rise from July 1 by about 25 per cent in Australian dollars," the company said. "As newsprint comprises
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        Lock icon Qantas account flies to New Saatchi
        102 8 NYT LONDON Australian airline Qantas has followed British Airways in dismissing Saatchi Saatchi Advertising Worldwide and awarding its international account to the New Saatchi Agency in London. The two airlines' billings with Saatchi Saatchi were estimated at US$4O million. The Qantas switch, on Wednesday
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        Lock icon Smoke ads ban to hit media income
        88 8 UPI KUWAIT Kuwait is likely to ban smoking in public and ban tobacco advertising. The country's national assembly has unanimously adopted legislation that outlaws lighting up in restaurants, food shops and while driving. "We expect the law to be applied soon," a Health
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      Lock icon KL steps up car-pool drive to ease traffic jams
      239 8 AFP MALAYSIA has intensified its bid to encourage car pooling with new advertisements which suggest ugly mobile urinals would hit the roads unless motorists in traffic-choked Kuala Lumpur comply with the campaign, a newspaper report said. "The advertisements suggest that these
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Aussies finally smash Windies
      872 9 AP KINGSTON, Jamaica Australia ended the West Indies' 15-year undefeated streak in Test cricket on Wednesday, winning the fourth and final cricket Test by an innings and 53 runs on the stroke of tea on the fourth day. With the victory, Australia became the first team
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      Lock icon Kiwi Blake has sights set firmly on the prize
      461 9 America's Cup Reuter SAN DIEGO, California When Peter Blake's yacht Black Magic completed its remarkable run through the America's Cup trials to nail down the challengers' slot, there was no explosion of triumph among Team New Zealand. "Well done," said Blake,
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      Lock icon England's captain blasts rugby union officials
      411 9 AFP LONDON England captain Will Carling has hit out at the English rugby establishment in a sports programme being screened yesterday. He claimed in Channel 4's new programme Fair Game that an antiquated rugby set-up was being run by "57 old farts". Team-mate Rob
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        Lock icon Basketball
        225 9 UPI Reuter NEW YORK Karl Malone scored 21 of his 32 points in the second half on Wednesday night and grabbed 19 rebounds to lead the Utah Jazz to a 95-82 victory over the Rockets in Houston and a two games-to-one lead in their Sjening round Western Conference ayoff
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        Tennis
        219 9 HAMBURG Switzerland's teenage marvel Martina Hingis scored the biggest victory of her career on Wednesday by upsetting former Wimbledon finalist Jana Novotna in the second round of the Hamburg Open. Hingis kept her nerve in a three-set battle against the Czech third seed to win 6-1. 2-6. 6-2 and
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        Lock icon Boxing
        177 9 Reuter NEW YORK World heavyweight champion George Foreman gave his then-manager U5525,000 (5534,735) to bribe the referee of his 1974 fight with Muhammad Ali, he wrote in an autobiography due out this week. By George chronicles Foreman's rise from street hoodlum to 1968 Olympic champion, from world heavyweight champion
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        Lock icon Cycling
        165 9 Reuter BEIJING China is to hold an international cycling race along part of the Silk Road in July, the China News Service said yesterday. The 1.000 km race would start from Dunhuang in western Gansu province on July 21 and end in Urumqi, capital of the north-west-ern Xinjiang region,
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        Soccer
        22 9 PARMA, Italy Uefa Cup final Ist leg on Wednesday: Parma I (D Baggio sth) Juventus 0. second leg on May 17.
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      Lock icon Daly is upbeat as he begins defence of BellSouth Classic
      374 9 Golf AP MARIETTA, Georgia John Daly feels his game is finally coming together. "I don't know if it's a win or not, but it's not far from being there," Daly said before beginning his defence yesterday of the Bell South
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      Lock icon Once-mighty Hawks have now become chicken-feed
      412 9  -  NBA Playoffs Mark Bradley reports on the fall of Atlanta's NBA team Mark Bradley AP ATLANTA There used to be a National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise here. I saw it myself. We all did. There used to be a basketball team that played vibrant
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Making films from position of strength
      675 11  -  Film director Pauline Chan talks to Susan Tsang about her theories on why women seem stronger than men in her films Susan Tsang PAULINE Chan has led a life that would make a good movie, but the Australian director of Traps, screened at the
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      Lock icon Wedding bells for Princess Stephanie?
      200 11 CHATTtHBOX AP UPI AP AP IS THE reformed bad girl of Monaco ready for marriage? Princess Stephanie had her two children baptised last month, paving the way for her to wed their father, live-in boyfriend Daniel Ducruet, according to French press reports. Reports of impending
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      1143 11 killing McKay's fiance and John Saxon unites three renegade cops to infiltrate partner. the crime world in Maximum Force, 8.30pm, Ch 5 "7 8-30 Tell Me Why. 8.00 Spatz. -iSHHfiJe 900 Hustle Brother. 8.30 The New Adventures of 11.00 AM Sei-a-Vision. 930 Chicken Minute. Black Beauty. 1.00 PM The Home
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    Clinton's unilateral sanctions
    485 12 EDITORIAL PRESIDENT Bill Clinton announced on Sunday an intriguing decision to impose unilateral trade sanctions on Iran. Mr Clinton's executive order bans purchases of all Iranian exports by American companies and any of their overseas subsidiaries. The order also blocks all US exports to Iran, except humanitarian
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      Saarc: An end to politics?
      266 12 NEARLY a decade after it was launched, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) may be poised at last on the brink of tangible achievement. Among the many pledges adopted at the group's current eighth summit, the most far-reaching is clearly the decision to
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      Maid to order, but for how long?
      180 12 AN INDONESIAN maid agency has decided to raise the minimum salary of its workers to $275 per month. The decision can be seen as taking advantage of the Philippines' decision to cut off supply of maids to Singapore. But the agency has cited
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      No other choice
      148 12 SINGAPOREANS need to understand that once the country is recognised as developed, it will have to compete with other more established countries. Inevitably, the competition will filter down to the ordinary citizen and everyone will have to keep on improving and keep re-training to survive. Repeated calls
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      Crimes against Mother Earth
      139 12 DESPITE doubts one may rightfully have about the applicability of the outcome, few people are likely to dispute the fact that the initiative to hold the discussions now underway in Cairo on ways to punish those responsible for international crimes against the environment are timely. But
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      Those who play with fire
      219 12 MEMORIES of the stock market's meteoric rise in the late-1980s have been over-enduring for some. Last Fridays protest at the stock exchange by about 100 speculators who had lost their shirts trying to fight a volatile market was a pitiful sight. Yesterday's meeting of the
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      KLCE needs to diversify
      132 12 POOR RESPONSE from the trade prompted the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) to stop providing prices for the RSS One, SMR 20, tin and cocoa contracts from yesterday. The KLCE, launched in October 1980, was hailed as the world's only commodity exchange in a producer country
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    Mahathir keeps political pundits guessing
    618 12  -  Malaysian PM proves too wily to pin down, reports Ho Kay Tat Ho Kay Tat The writer is BT's KL correspondent DR MAHATHIR Mohamad has proven once again that it was futile for anybody to try and guess what he has up his sleeves. Many
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      100 12 I I Clubs: Which ones to buy? Business on the Internet I Spotlights: STIC, Jardine Strategic I I MAY 1995 SINGAPORE ~4 I BUSINISf I H I North I I Guide to Johor 7 s property market I I Gelang Patah: What progress? I I Crucial year for residential property
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  • ANALYSIS
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      Growth cities go for blue-chip investors
      1861 13 China's western Pearl River delta region looks poised to eclipse the faster but shallower development east of the river. The cities of Foshan, Panyu and Shunde seek long-term investment in contrast to the rush for quick profit along the Shenzhen-Dongguan-Guangzhou corridor Traversing the western
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      Paths to wealth diverge
      521 13 FOREIGN investment must not make the mistake of viewing the Pearl River delta as a single uniform area. Sinee 1984 when Beijing extended investment opportunities out from Shenzhen and Zhuhai to the surrounding delta region, strategies to attract foreign investors have tended to be atomised, each
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      523 13 E These articles were reprinted from the April 17 issue of Business China, a fortnightly management report by Ihe Economist Intelligence Unit (Asia) Ltd I I I Keppel Finance Limited I (Incorporated in the Republic ol Singapore) H I NOTICE OF ANNUAL I I GENERAL MEETING I I NOTICE IS
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    Lock icon KL economy not overheating despite strong growth: Anwar
    448 14 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's economy was not overheating despite eight consecutive years of robust growth and would need no major fiscal policy adjustments, Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday. "We seem to be able to control inflation and 1 don't see any
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    Asean, EU officials form 16-member group to chart course for summit
    546 14  -  By Yang Razali Kassim SINGAPORE Asean and the European Union said the proposed Asia-Europe summit in March in Thailand will bring together two of the most economically dynamic regions in the world. Senior officials, concluding a three-day meeting, said
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    Lock icon Children of a lesser god?
    52 14 Reuter I ■if""*' MAE SOT, Thailand Young Karen refugees peering from their hut at the Shoklo Karen refugee camp near the Thai-Myanmar border yesterday. Thousands of refugees, the target of a spate of raids by renegade guerillas from Myanmar, have fled to this forest camp.
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    Lock icon Suharto urges energy diversification
    251 14 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian President Suharto yesterday urged the Mines and Energy Ministry to diversify from oil and to cautiously study the nuclear option. "Our energy needs will continue to rise in future in line with economic growth. If we are late in procuring energy it will
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    Lock icon US budget cuts may spark chain reaction
    133 14 Reuter PARIS US budget cuts for overseas aid threaten to undermine the entire international aid effort by prompting other countries to follow suit. Carol Lancaster, deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAid), yesterday said a meeting of aid donors in
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    Lock icon US jobless claims soar to nine-month high
    285 14 Bloomberg Business News Reuter, WASHINGTON The number of Americans filing new claims for state unemployment benefits shot up by 20,000 last week to the highest level in more than nine months. The government said yesterday new claims for unemployment pay in the week
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    Lock icon Hoechst seals US$7.1b takeover of US drugmaker
    363 14 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT Hoechst AG signed the contract for its US$7.l billion (SS9.B billion) acquisition of US drugmaker Marion Merrell Dow Inc yesterday, wrapping up months of negotiations and giving the German chemical and drugmaker a crucial foothold in the US pharmaceuticals
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    Lock icon Weak US$ draining oil producers' energy
    180 14 Reuter LONDON The weakness of the dollar is a big worry to oil producers whose revenues have shrunk as a result but they seem to agree there is no viable pricing alternative to the US currency, Opec officials and oil analysts say. Iranian Oil
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    Now's the time for S'pore firms to invest in the US
    780 14  -  The Bottom Line VIKRAM KHANNA VIKRAM KHANNA The writer is BT's regional economics editor OVER the past few years, it's been smart strategic thinking for Singapore to have invested in places such as Malaysia. Indonesia, China. India and Vietnam.
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        MARKET MOOD
        52 15 Mixed Market Mood indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment Brokers polled: Alliance. Barings, Credit Lyonnais Securities, l)aiwa. Fraser. G A Goh. Kay llian. Morgan Grenfell. Ong Co. Somura Phillip. Smith Sen Court, H Can and SG
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        HOT STOCK
        94 15  -  By Quak Hiang Whai VAN DER HORST is still trapped in the band of $4.20 and $4.80. Daily RSI is moving into oversold zone while other daily and weekly indicators are neutral. The consolidation could go on for some time but the monthly charts have traded well into
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      KLSE allows 3 firms to keep shares suspended till May 19
      467 15  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR THREE companies Khong Guan Holdings (M) Bhd. Malaya Glass Bhd and Timah Langat Bhd have won a reprieve against the lifting of trading suspension on their shares. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange
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      SingLand's Raffles Place offices valued at $2,280 psf, annual report suggests
      553 15  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Singapore Land has valued its offices at Raffles Place at no less than $2,280 per square foot, its latest annual report suggests. Released yesterday, the listed property company's 1994 report showed the book value
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      Pan-United plans executive share option scheme
      263 15 SINGAPORE Pan-United Corporation plans to implement a share option scheme for fulltime executives employed by the group. The group said in a circular issued on Wednesday that the total number of shares allocated under the scheme would not exceed 5 per cent of Pan-Unit-ed's
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      Clearer skies ahead for MAS, even at home
      613 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Ruth Wong KUALA LUMPUR Although Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS) is heading towards recovery, the national carrier is still facing difficulties on its domestic routes. Running the domestic routes, which has been described as a social responsibility, has
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      Pidemco hotel project: S P Tao's firm not in
      299 15  -  By Agnes Wee SINGAPORE Govern-ment-linked property group Pidemco Land is going ahead with its Yangon hotel project without the participation of tycoon S P Tao's Shing Kwan Investments. But its two other partners Hotel Equatorial, a whollyowned subsidiary of Lim Kah
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      Informatics sets up 8 new training centres in India
      156 15 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed Informatics Holdings, which plans to treble its network of computer training centres within five years, yesterday announced eight new training centres in India. This brings its tally to 83 centres in 16 countries, with 17 of the centres in
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    • COMPANIES
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        Lock icon Pacific Bank plans to set up unit trust next month
        438 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Pacific Bank Bhd plans to set up a new mutual trust fund next month, in a move to expand further its banking operations and financial products, said chairman and chief executive officer Lin See Yan yesterday. "We
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        Lock icon Shah Alam Properties in 200 ha Johor project
        226 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Shah i Alam Properties Bhd (SAP) i has proposed a joint venture with Cahaya Baru Development Bhd to develop 200 hectares of land in the Felda Cahaya Baru land scheme in < Pasir Gudang, Johor, into an i integrated
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        Lock icon M'sian Mosaics expects to maintain profitability
        219 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Mosaics Bhd expects group profitability to be maintained in the current year as the group's business units are operating in an environment of improved sales opportunities. Chairman Lau Gek Poh said in the company's latest annual report yesterday that the
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        Big guns set for HK investfest
        264 16  -  By Amy Balan SINGAPORE More than 60 of Asia's top companies will showcase themselves to some of the world's biggest institutional investors in Hongkong next week at what is billed as the regional corporate event of the year. Investors Forum 95, from May 8
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        Lock icon Philippine steel firm gets cash boost from Wing Tiek
        176 16 Reuter MANILA Wing Tiek Holdings of Malaysia will invest up to 2.6 billion pesos (SSI39 million) in the Philippines' National Steel Corp (NSC) over the next two years to modernise its steel mills on southern Mindanao island. Joseph Chong. the new
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        Compact shareholder raises stake
        66 16 SINGAPORE A substantial shareholder of Compact Metal Industries, Shining Holdings Pte Ltd, has raised its stake in the company to 28.11 per cent from 27.95 per cent previously. Shining Holdings, which is linked to four Compact directors, bought 108,000 shares at $1.35 apiece. Meanwhile, Compact has
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        Chevalier gets property unit
        27 16 SINGAPORE Chevalier Singapore Holdings has acquired a shell company, which will be renamed Chevalier Properties (S) to deal in property investment and development.
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        Liang Huat ups subsidiaries' capital
        76 16 SINGAPORE Liang Huat Aluminium has raised the paid-up capital of two wholly owned subsidiaries L H Realty and Liang Huat Industries from $2 to $2,000. Liang Huat will subscribe for 1.99 million new shares in each of the companies. Liang Huat also said its first
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        Teledata shareholder raises stake
        24 16 SINGAPORE A substantial shareholder of Teledata (Singapore). Shamsuddin bin Abdul Kadir, has raised his stake marginally to 16.13 per cent.
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        Lock icon Britain's Kwik Save profits dip 6%
        353 17 Reuter LONDON Kwik Save Group pic, Britain's leading discount supermarket chain, yesterday announced bad news on sales and profits, but showed its confidence of an upturn over the course of the year by boosting its dividend. "Despite the tough trading conditions, which are unlikely
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        Lock icon Cathay says bid not takeover prelude
        94 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Cathay Pacific Airways managing director said moves by a Chinese company to start a Hongkong airline were not an attempt to force a mainland takeover of the territory's flag carrier, the South China Morning Post reported. Analysts have suggested China
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        Lock icon Vroom with a view
        43 17 AFP SEOUL A convertible Daewoo No 1 being presented by a model at a motor show in Seoul on Wednesday. The concept car, designed by South Korean car manufacturer Daewoo Motor Co, features a 1.6 litre 16-valve engine. AFP
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        Lock icon Textile firm gets nod to raise US$150m
        80 17 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Shareholders of Far Eastern Textile Ltd, one of Taiwan's largest textile companies, yesterday backed 3 management plan to raise US$l5O million (SS2IO million) in an overseas stock sale in the second half of 1995. Far Eastern expects to use
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        Lock icon US firm to build US$420m resort
        106 17 Bloomberg Business News LAS VEGAS Bally Entertainment Corp will unveil plans for a new US$42O million Las Vegas resort at its annual meeting on May 16, said Arthur Goldberg, the company's chairman and chief executive. The company also expects to detail plans for a
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        Lock icon Win Win vice-chairman quits amid probe over criminal record
        449 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Win Win International Holdings Ltd yesterday said its vicc-chairman resigned after the Stock Exchange of Hongkong learned he was an ex-convict. Lam Kam Chucn, who told exchange officials in January 1994 that he had no previous conviction
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        London-based news agency to broadcast in Asia via satellite
        313 17  -  TV network WTN signs lease deal with Asia Sat By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Worldwide Television News (WTN), an international television news agency backed by the ABC news network of America, will be broadcasting to Asia with the latest deal for a
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        Lock icon Property sale lifts HK's Star Paging profit to HK$125m
        251 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Star Paging (International Holding) Ltd, one of Hongkong's largest paging companies, said 1994 net profit rose almost 25 per cent as it sold a leasehold property. Bolstered by a HK520.27 million one-time gain from the sale of
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        Lock icon Chrysler takes battle against Kerkorian to stockholders
        497 18 Reuter DETROIT Chrysler Corp made its first direct appeal on Wednesday for stockholder support in fighting Kirk Kerkorian's takeover bid and said it would proceed with plans to meet informally its biggest institutional shareholders. A spokesman for Mr Kerkorian said meanwhile that the
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        Lock icon Currency conversion masks Nestle 1st-qtr sales growth of 8.5%
        315 18 Financial Times ZURICH Nestle, the world's largest foods group, said its first quarter sales were down 1.5 per cent to 13 billion Swiss francs (5515.9 billion), with currency conversion effects masking unit sales growth of 8.5 per cent. The group also
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        Lock icon Swiss Bank Corp looks to become big player via Warburg merger
        528 19 Reuter ZURICH Swiss Bank Corp (SBC) could become a major player in European investment banking with a merger of the S G Warburg business, but only if it finds a way to hold on to key staff and reverse
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        Chase Futures to sell its Simex seats
        150 19 SINGAPORE Chase Manhattan Futures Corp is giving up its seats on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange. Chase Futures and Simex have refused to comment. But sources say parent Chase Manhattan Bank told Simex last week about a restructuring plan that involves selling its
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        Lock icon Market guru tips agro commodities
        65 19 Reuter SYDNEY Cocoa, wheat, corn and soybeans are tipped as the best commodity investments in coming years by financial markets guru Marc Faber. Mr Faber, nicknamed "Dr Doom", also claims another financial crisis is imminent. He said gold will have a bull run but not
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        Lock icon Sun Hung Kai to launch loan
        59 19 Reuter HONGKONG Sun Hung Kai Properties is expected to launch a Hongkong dollar-denominated syndicated loan, initially of HKS2.S billion (*****.5 million), banking sources said. "(The issuer) hasn't decided yet (on the amount). It's just started contacting the potential underwriters," said one banker, who said
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        Lock icon Salomon plans S Korea venture
        60 19 Reuter SEOUL Salomon Brothers, Salomon Inc's global investment banking and securities unit, plans to set up a joint-venture stock brokerage in South Korea with a group of local firms, a Salomon official said. He said details of the plan would be released only after an
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        Lock icon Indonesia power firm plans bond issue
        94 19 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's state electricity company, Perusahaan Umum Listrik Negara (PLN), said it planned to issue 680 billion rupiah (*****.6 million) of straight bonds this year. "We hope to go ahead with the PLN VI bonds some time in August or September," a company
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        Lock icon Thai bank to sell US$100m notes
        90 19 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Industrial Finance Corp of Thailand, the country's only development bank for the industrial and capital market, will sell US$lOO million (SSI39 million) in five-year floating rate Euro notes next week, according to investment bankers. The notes will pay interest semi-annually
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        More fund managers use HK as springboard into region
        292 19  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE More and more international fund management companies arc using Hongkong as a marketing centre for the Far East region, according to a publication of the Hongkong Trade Development Council. Hongkong Trader. Hongkong Traders said Warburg Asset
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        Greenback-yen turmoil will end soon, says economist
        514 20  -  By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE The currency turmoil caused by the plunge of the US dollar against the yen will come to an end soon, says the chief economist and research director of HSBC Markets, Roger Bootle. The pressure on the Japanese to do
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        Lock icon KLCE waiting for a financial futures lifeline
        425 20 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Clinging to just one palm oil futures pit for its survival, Malaysia's sole commodity exchange is counting on diversification into financial futures trading to remain viable, industry officials say. Until that happens, the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) formerly the
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        Lock icon Comex silver rallies to six-year high pushed by shrewd speculative plays
        244 20 Reuter NEW YORK Silver rallied strongly in New York's Comex late on Wednesday and settled above USS6 an ounce for the first time in over six years, as shrewd speculative plays continued to prod the market upward, traders said.
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        Lock icon Four in US charged over bribe scheme
        338 20 Trader accused of giving kickbacks to 3 bankers for rights to broker loans Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Third World loans were the subject of a US$6 million (SsB.3 million) trading scheme involving three former bank officers and a trader, the Manhattan district
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        Asian crude falls on ample supply outlook
        295 20 SINGAPORE Spot crude oil prices fell in East Asia as market participants calculated that global crude supplies were sufficient to meet demand. Prices of light, low-sulfur oil in Asia appear to be following North Sea Brent futures lower. Brent prices have declined for
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        185 20 Reuter LONDON The dollar firmed slightly in early European trade but was expected to remain range-bound with thin liquidity and markets awaiting further developments from USJapanese car talks and today's US jobs data. With the Tokyo markets closed until Monday, when London will also be on holiday, traders
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        88 20 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was slightly down in early trading yesterday against the other major currencies in active New York trading. Gold was up US$l.BO from Wednesday's closing price to U*****.80 an ounce. At 1340 GMT. the greenback was at 1.3690 marks against 1.3743 late Wednesday and
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
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        Euroyen, Eurodollars futures mark time in lacklustre trade
        1211 21 j^^SIMEXjJEPORT^i SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen and Eurodollar futures finished little changed in listless trade due to the Golden Week holidays in Japan, though dealers saw some buying in Eurodollar futures. The lead December Euroyen ended at 98.41 against a previous close at 98.42.
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        S'pore rubber eases as buyers back out
        669 21 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber SINGAPORE: Rubber futures erased some of the overnight gains and moved lower on news that overseas buyer were backing out. Prices of RSSI, RSS3 and TSR2O contracts were off by two to three cents from overnight levels. Brokers said reports
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        Nigerian govt orders debt payment
        99 21 LAGOS Nigerian head of state General Sani Abacha has ordered the immediate payment of debts it owes the foreign firms operating joint ventures with the Nigerian state oil company, according to a Finance Ministry official. He said: "The debt arrears as at Dec 31 was
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        Brazil oil refining normal
        65 21 SAO PAULO Despite a strike by oil workers Brazilian oil refining on Wednesday was norm? and production was near normal, with operationexpected to improve, a spokesman for sUte oil monopoly Petrobras SA said. Oil refining oi Wednesday was put at 1.480 million barrels, repre senting what
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        Sugar exports: Mills seek govt okay
        99 21 NEW DELHI India's sugar mills will lobby the government for permission to export 500,000 tonnes of white sugar. The National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories Ltd soon will meet the government on the issue, a federation official said. The federation also will seek a
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        Imco recycles more aluminium
        49 21 NEW YORK Imco Recycling Inc on Tuesday reported a 33 per cent increase in total aluminiun recycling volume in the first quarter of this yeai Imco's total processing volume in the first quartet was 304.5 million pounds, compared with 229.4 million in the 1994 quarter
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1406 21 SICOM Futures Rubber (future* dosing as at 5.30p«) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) dose Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonne*) Interest Jun 254.00 254.00 254.00 50 1175 Jul 247.50 245.00 246.00 150 2575 Aug 245.00 242.50 243.50 150 1950 Sep 242.50 240.00 241.00 150 1725 Oct/Dcc 237.50
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
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        1189 22 +27.8 Better-than-expected current account data, a jump in News Corp shares and a rally on Wall Street lifted shares to an eightmonth high at the close. The All Ordinaries Index rose 27.8 points to 2,065.4, its highest close since Sep 7, 1994 when it closed at 2,104.4. The All
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        Manila
        566 22 +27.54 Stocks rose for the first time in seven sessions, led by Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co, as investors raised bids for companies with strong first-quarter earnings. PLDT shares soared 3.3 per cent to an eight-month high after announcing last week that January-March profits jumped 44.1 per cent. "People
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        Taipei
        600 22 -80.54 Stocks fell to a 12-month low as investors bid down paper counters amid concern these shares will fall after the sale of a 19 per cent government stake in a pulp company. Stocks also fell on concern about a report that the youngest son of Chinese senior leader
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        448 22 +1.32 Stocks were mixed after seven days of gains as investors reassessed the impact of marketopening measures announced on Wednesday that are to be implemented on July 1. The government said overseas investors will be allowed to buy up to IS per cent of the outstanding shares in most
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        322 22 19.97 Shares rose, led by forestry companies Fletcher Challenge and Carter Holt Harvey, on a drop in bond yields and a rally in New York stocks. "The rally in bonds really helped our market, and we had the Dow up 44 points, too," said a trader. A decline
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        80 22 +34.98 Stocks rose as India's mutual fund operators bid up prices. India's largest fund operator, Unit Trust of India, was doing most of the buying, traders said. "They're keeping the market propped up," said a trader. "But it's temporary. They'll be coming in to sell soon to meet their
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        757 22 1.7 UK's leading stock index retreated from a 14-month high set early in the day as bank stocks declined and concern grew about a rise in UK interest rates. The FT-SE 100 index of leading British stocks closed up 1.7 at 3,264.3 after initially leaping 23.8 to 3,286.4, its
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        123 22 -24.88 French stocks fell, tracking bonds lower amid speculation presidential candidate Jacques Chirac would hold a referendum on European monetary union. The CAC-40 Index fell 24.88 points, or 1.26 per cent, to close at 1,946.19. The drop came after the index jumped 16.1 points to 1,987.56 in the first
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        191 22 -3.84 German stocks turned lower in late trading, dragged down by a slide in the dollar and by Schering AG's plunge after Wednesday's disappointing first-quarter earnings. "When you see the dollar retreating you get cold feet," said a trader. "That's the biggest reason; all the other factors about are
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        275 22 +0.5 Dutch stocks retreated from a 12-month high set early in the day as investors declined to take positions ahead of a US employment report today that could indicate the future direction of interest rates. Led by gains in Philips Electronics and insurer Aegon NV, the EOE Index rose
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        146 22 +6.71 Sweden's benchmark stock index rose to a 15-month high amid robust company earnings. Banks and insurers gained the most as a stronger krona and rising bonds boosted the value of their large bond holdings. Shares were brought ofT their highs, however, after Electrolux AB posted firstquarter earnings shy
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        837 22 +2.07 Stock prices were slightly higher in heavy trading early yesterday after recovering from an earlier dip despite strong bond prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which surged 44.27 points to a new re-cord-high 4,373.15 on Wednesday, was ahead 2.07 to 4,375.22 at 1 lam EDT. The NYSE
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        171 22 +11.84 Belgian stocks rose for the lltn day as falling bond yields made returns on stocks more attractive. Banks, insurers and utilities, which are particularly sensitive to interest rates and hold large bond portfolios, were among the biggest advancers. Those stocks account for 39 per cent of the Bel-20
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        179 22 +106 Italian stocks closed higher, mirroring rises in other European markets, as expectations grew that US interest rates have peaked. Traders said shares also benefited from expectations that Prime Minister Lamberto Oini's government will stay in power until later this year and will succeed in cutting spending on Italy's
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        263 22 +23.1 Swiss stocks closed at an 11week high, led by exporters such as Swatch watch maker SMH and financial stocks, which rose on a buoyed bond market. Wall Street's continued ascent to new highs more than offset concern about the weak dollar, analysts said. The Swiss Market Index of
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      2999 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks were little changed as a small rally in property and financial stocks fizzled out in a market slowed by the absence of investors from Japan, which is celebrating its Golden Week holiday. The Hang Seng index rose 20.08 points to 8,319.75. The All Ordinaries
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      568 23 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index gained 6.31 points to 1,052.98 on turnover of HK555.4 million as further reports of corruption in Beijing were largely discounted. Shanghai Petrochem was the most active counter, with HKSI9 million worth of stocks traded. It finished up one per cent. Turnover slumped
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      1861 23 Reuter BANGKOK— Stocks rallied to a strong close with the index up 3.2 per cent or 39.46 points at 1,283.06 on heavy foreign buying of mainly finance and banking counters. "Foreigners led buying, and big-time local players followed suit and pushed the index up," said a Wall Street Finance
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      1174 23 Reuter JAKARTA Shares were mixed on profit-taking plus a noted absence of foreign buying. "Local players had expected that the upside would not be sustained. When they saw that foreign buying was drying up, local players started off-loading their counters and took profit," one broker said. Losers led gainers
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        6951 24 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Share prices closed mostly lower but gains in some key blue-chip stocks kept the market's benchmark index in positive territory. The KLSE Composite Index rose 0.70 point to 951.38. The broader Emas Index fell 1.47 to 265.08.
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        1967 26  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Instead of boosting sentiment here, the US markets' gravity-defying aets on Wednesday extracted a toll on the local market yesterday continuing a pattern seen since the end of last year. Malaysian second liners were battered by renewed rounds
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      448 27  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Pan-United Corp will spend about $20 million on a new 45,000 deadweight tonne (dwt) dock at its Tuas yard. In the company's 1994 annual report, released this week, managing director Henry Ng says: "Management remains committed to
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      236 27 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK The tanker market was generally quiet in mid-week late trading except for a little activity in the Caribbean area and a few more cargoes for very large and ultra large crude carriers in the Persian Gulf. New public business remained scarce,
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      333 27 Lloyd's List LONDON American President Lines (APL) plans to sell its six oldest container ships to Matson Navigation Co for US$l66 million (*****.7 million) as part of a 10-year strategic alliance between the two lines. John Lillie, chairman of
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      224 27 SINGAPORE Hamburgbased classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) achieved a 6 per cent increase in gross income to 189.4 million Deutschemarks (S$ 191.5 million) last year on an 8 per cent rise in turnover to 190.4 million marks. The society attributed the improvement
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      333 27 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian International Boat Show at Shah Alam, which enters its fifth year, is expected to hit Msss million (5531.1 million) in sales this year, up from about Ms4o million in sales of boats and water sports
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      172 27 Reuter HO CHI MINH CITY Twenty ships have been waiting for a week near Saigon port to load their cargo because of a temporary ban on Vietnamese rice exports, traders say. The suspension of exports was ordered to stabilise domestic prices of the
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      125 27 AFP BOMBAY A British shipping firm announced on Wednesday that a direct container serv ice is to be launched between Britain and the Indian subcontinent. Lord Runciman, chairman of Andrew Weir Shipping Ltd. said the service would be launched in July with
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      1999 28 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 2,344 on Wednesday from 2,351 on May 2. Trading was still fairly active despite the Japanese Golden Week holiday and rates were holding firm. Brokers said the volume of non-Japanese business in the east was sufficient
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      209 28 COURSES Title: Sea Transport Course (SDF 70%) Duration: May 17 Aug 23 Organiser Singapore Freight Forwarders Association Tel: For further details contact SFFA Secretariat at 253-7550 or fax: 253-2303. I itfte: International Freight Forwarding I (SDF 70%) Duration: May 25 Aug 3 Organiser Singapore Freight Forwarders Association Tel:
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      869 29 The recent Saint Malo mishap has raised a number of safety questions about high-speed catamarans Lloyd's List Although a major disaster was averted when the Saint Malo hit a rock off the Jersey coast last month, embarrassing television images of passengers
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        614 46  -  Govts under increasing pressure to liberalise aviation market: SIA official By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Asian airlines are likely to fly into freer skies and a more competitive environment in the next 10 years, but the industry will not change beyond recognition.
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        68 46 Reuter FORT WILLIAM, Scotland Artist George Wylie standing in front of his life-size wooden sculpture of a locomotive falling into Loch Linnhe. The sculpture symbolises the demise of the century-old Fort William sleeper threatened with closure this month and which has stirred up a barrage of
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        205 46 AP SILVER SPRING, Maryland An international service begun on Wednesday aims to improve aviation safety by sharing weather data and forecasts among nations. "Today we commence a remarkable new service" providing standardised, accurate weather information, said William Fromme of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, based
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        424 46 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong's airport authority has enough money on hand to keep construction going through part of 1996, Provisional Airport Authority chief executive Henry Townsend said. "The HK536.6 billion (556.57 billion) already advanced is more than adequate to
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        105 46 Los Angeles Times NEW YORK Avis Inc and Budget Rent a Car announced a "multiyear, multimillion-dol-lar" agreement on Wednesday under which Avis will provide a variety of computer services for Budget. The deal requires an expansion of Avis' WizCom Intl Ltd
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        332 46 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Should computer poker games and other gambling devices be allowed on international flights? Federal regulators are asking for comments on that question. Profits would surely flow from the sky-high holding and folding. But there are also nagging safety
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          72 46 SINGAPORE Mexican shipping line TMM has announced the start of a weekly container service to Panama to tap the growing trade in the region. The company, Latin America's biggest integrated transport comapny, already has a weekly service covering Gautemala. Honduras, El Salvador and Costa
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          103 46 Reuter SEOUL South Korean shipyards won orders totalling 1.78 million gross tons comprising 46 ships in the first four months of 1995, up from 1.24 million gt for 46 ships a year ago, the Korea Shipbuilders' Association said yesterday. An association official said all
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          102 46 AFP ISLAMABAD Foreign and local airlines will be asked to pay a security surcharge at airports in Pakistan, airport security force chief Rashid Ali Malik said in a statement published on Wednesday. The government will implement the proposal soon, newspaper Dawn quoted him as
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          75 46 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan Airlines Co, the largest airline in Japan, will contract part of its international air cargo operation to Southern Transport, a major US air cargo company based in Miami, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said yesterday. The deal, due
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          79 46 AFP TOKYO Bullet trains heading north out of Tokyo were stopped for two hours yesterday after a crow's nest on an overhead cable triggered a short circuit, railway officials said. Seven trains on the Tohoku Shinkansen line were cancelled, inconveniencing some 25,000 passengers. Many
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        188 46 Reuter BRUSSELS Belgian airline Sabena, which is to sign a partnership agreement with Swissair at 0930 GMT yesterday, will get fresh capital of 10 billion Belgian francs (SS49O million) under the deal, L'Echo newspaper reported. Swissair Schweizerische Luftverkehr will put
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      477 32 rt SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD I ETA ETA ETA SPORE PORT KELANG PENANG BLUE JAOE 17/5 15/5 Loxfeng tor Male I IRUVAi HUOHU 22/5 Loading tor Japanese Ports iPKMER SUPREME 25/5 loadng tor Male UMMEEOH 205 Loadng tor Male PROGRESS LIBERTY 306 Loading for Bangkok PIONEER
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      1295 32 HANJIN SHIPPING BOOKINGS TEL: *****35-237 OPERATION TEL: *****41-253 SALES TEL:- *****30-233 DOCUMENT TEL: *****71-275 FOR VSL ran UNE HAUL SEA YVR POX FOR VSL SIN LINE HAUL SAW IL* NYC HANJM BARCELONA 023E 11/5 DIRECT 1« Vt M HANJM XUNSANIISE 12A M PROGRESS 838E 15* 1M 1M HANJM LEHAVRE 030E
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      2323 33 1 EUROPE EXPRESS BH FELIXSTOWE, ROTTERDAM g AND HAMBURG Sltftftftt Smrt! Afttti Til tt*a*m): IttltH lilM<Mttof Affcy Otfi Kn COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD r £JiSS?JkS2 m e tm t 4l/144 C ~'L'ZXI. o„»».. cm.** *mm E, <- f tH§»t§» Wif §17-$$ T»I0I.I$$JO COSHIP CltvNMM#' 41$$$$$ i DO 4?***** Ciawmtlmmal 4?§5744
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      570 33 jfZ FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE 0106 HOT LINE: *****33 (30 LINES) NEXT 6ROUPAGE SERVICE T. SHANGHAI ETA: 08TH MAY. 95 CONTACT: KEN SIM/SYLVIA HOT LINE: *****33 (30 LINES) 0 P KLANG PH: 0203/*****02 (10 LINES) PENANG PH: 0204/*****7 (10 LINES) J. BAHRU PH: 0207-*****22 k QLOBEUNKFORWARDERS
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      178 34 HajifJiM lAHmnenvEU none Shfrpfag J TIMBER PLYWOOD SERVICE TO U.K./CONTINENT KKU S PORE PKL LOADING FOR MELOI SLO SLO SID FLU/ROT/ANT/UK LEDI SLD IN PT FLU/ROT/ANT/UK CELTIC 105 15/5 1W FLU/ANT/ANT/UK •Loads SabaMndonesia C R NO. **********0H CONTIPAC SHIPPING PTE LTD 1W: 2MMM Fax: 2X7449 fUL MOLTIPORT SON BHD. TIL:
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      928 34 70 ANBON ROAD, #21-01, SINGAPORE 0207 TEL: *****92 FAX: *****87 CR **********0N STRAITS BHUTTLE SERVICE PORT KLANQ PENAHQ VtMtL VOY M Ptt VESSEL VQY I SW jg S£AL uftEL 384N 056 (FRI) XOURJAYA ***** 03/5 (WED) 05* (FRI) JSgL wccwvtYQß 07/5 (SUM. XOUR GEMINI 9501 OK 056 (FRI) 076 (SUN)
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      837 35 HSQIM PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. cn NO **********06 I I went VOY MN OMB JM HOO JBD AOJADB«U MBWAAA f OT bswaib smuts is/s urn aon ss/s mn ss/» ao/s an 4n ai/e j I KOTA WUAYA NAW 1H 23/S 88/S
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      805 35 j ICR NO: **********0Z IWWI VOV "TN" 1 LEHAM« HAMBURG THAMES ROTTCTDAM ANTWERP VEIEOEVELA *06W 00>Q6 30*06 01*10 03/06 04AM 06/06 ■ALncaKOu ttmw iiW6 woe 14/06 n*o6 moe VIXE DE ÜBRA LOW 2VDB IVO6 16*06 17/06 I*o6 16*06 VKXEDE NORMA NO6W 3006 BXOB 22/06 H« 2SS 2M6 ALSO ACCEPTING CAROO
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      564 35 r7jggg^^~ MYANMA 1 IBBk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Lina) w Loading lor Yangon (Rangoon) l>M P.U« PCM P.Qfg PAGAN V2IRN SID SITTWE V67E 05/05 PAGAN V22OW 15AK WUSTEAO SHIPPING AGENCIES SI?"!! 17 1 TEI 82-83-*****11 P€* 18. 82-84-*****82 PGO TEI 82-87-2512J21/4 NIGERIAN NATIONAL SHIPPING LINE SPORE FOR TBN aoflK
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      497 38 I IV TIL: *****33 (12 UNO) I K FAX: *****18/*****03 I jm TILBX: M ***** MSMP (3 Unas) I CR NOi **********01 ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL KM StA Loadhtq *or apora MomfegM Dlfeoutf Atuyww 4«ve zi*x mum «UQ7 Djibouti MUHW *mO ®*VI MuttWS Ft LLY CONTAINERISED REGLIVK UNER SERVICE ACCEPTING
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      529 38 bh |pg| ik AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd., Hairatan, Torghundi, Islamqala (Doqharun) mwmmmwm c.i.s./russia: AJma Ata. Ashkhabad, Baku. Dushanbe, I mittrnr t lii ,n/»h Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Korsakov, Moscow, Miiiuef aMuncri Novosobirsk, Sochi, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Vladivostok, Vostochny utaan Bato N Korea: Pyongyang, Nampo EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO WEST COAST SOUTH AMERICA
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      286 38 I ASIA HKG/TWN/BKKI GENOA/EUROPE I »MWS I 1 I SB IOS 11/5 HKG/MKXEE/KHH rH?S/iH m 1 -/ii, l »/i«, w 12/5 13/5 HKGyBWCKEEKHH S s!®?® 7/5 SHANGHAI/DALIAN JPMOREA/MAMLA XIAMEN/BEUING Manlla/Cabu 5/5 6/5 7/5 Tokyo/Osa/Yoko 7/5 8/5 9^5 AMSTBALIA/lIEW ZEALAND Bu a* 10/5 11/5 B<is USA/CANADA 9/5 10/5 11/5 Sydney/Melbourne wiywwww
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      382 39 I n |I I ff~\ SINO IXPRESS SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. X MM I 11 COLLYER QUAY *06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. TEL: *****00 (4 LINES) FAX: *****08 TLX: R*****1 S4NOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKQ/SHAI STORE HKQ MAI VESSEL VSY ETA ETP PA ETP jTA PD LATMOS 931/932 8/5 9/5
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      1000 39 lima KM pjuw imi¥lB fl m a mm mw put *mr Eft UK—JO fiSflft BH MI M ■Q—JBBBLjS— MS THAWS 317* UN MM MM* 11M tIM BM MM 8M MM IM LAtBMMM MM* MM MM MS. LALOMV 117* MM MM' MM* 23 M MM MM tIM Ml APMCA4IM MM MM
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      1362 40 ■gaßHsaaaza MAERSK LINE YOUR GLOBAL CONNECTION RELIABLE PARTNER k VtaMl Vby EW ETC 1 DESTINATIONS IM«wiiwwi* wntw—kgTwaTwwo mathuie maersk \tsaos angers maersk vissio I^j CY-9MOBOOMM CV 1M 1200 MM QM. CMS CLZ LOB MEM MM NYC OAK PHL KM (w-Mimtw OTm WWS MffHKMMMK MO* 0006 10(06 OMB 09MB OB*B OS/OS
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      637 40 MMloyd FULL CONTAINER SERVICES IDM AMERICA NfUl Vm IMA >1/M IMS IW IHil VOLYM Mill IM( JM» K>H M« H« IMS J7« IMS I CTCHMCi Nfl» MM MM IMS I 7« (Ml Ml KM IMI I VlffU *6511 IM6 DMI HW JMB MM IMt IMI IMI I HMMUM KH Wfin
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      703 40 TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF LOADING VOY SPORE P.KELANG HALIFAX N.YORK NORFOLK N.ORLEANS SAVANNAH TAMPICO MOUSH^* HOEGHDRAKE 0430 IVlBMey 9May(-) 20Jur 23Jun 28Jim 3JU »Jun 7Jul 12J»i HEOGHDYKE 0630 27/2BMay 22 May O 7JU 10Jul 13Jt4 20Jul 18Ji4 24JU 29J14 HOEGH CAIRN 01» 7JunH 28 Jul 31 Jii
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      1034 41 TWO SAILINGS/MONTH EX AUCKLAND ■■■■HfflPfllJllniiwwlllPlwlM I i Container /Boßo Break Bulk Service j JMIJwiHEIAfSfA/ W l mm mm i/Af£s fiiPiviiiriiiiHiimi'illltl I SERVICE: SQP/S.E. ASIA PANAMA/NORTH AMERICA (INCL HOU*) fW TjSp rw tor ii* UK I mm 1 at uy\i lai mu luv I w iim;o« I «st i mom! m
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      673 41 PAKISTAN NATIONAL SHIPPING CORPORATION KARACHI BREAKBULK A CONTAINER SERVICE VE« SEL VOT SIN KARACHI ISLAMABAD 134-HW SABCOOHA 156-HW 05/06 IVM SOLAA 15A-HW IMC 28/06 MAKWAW IM-HW 73/00 OXB7 VSt Will CALL GUIF fOKTt WUtCT TO MOUCtWNT FAR EAST CONTAINER SERVICE ONLY [VESSEL I VOY I SIN I HUG iTn^S^MAG^oT"™ IhYPEBASAP
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      989 41 aiiiiii SIM FAR EAST 9/5 KEELUN6/KAOHSIUNG 7/5 BANGKOK 7/5 MANILA/CEBU 8/5 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 7/5 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 7/5 BUSAN 7/5 T OKY O/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 7/5 HONG KONG SIN CHINA 7/5 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU OALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QING DAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIN EUROPE/UK 9/5 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 9/5 R DM/HAM/ANT /LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/
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      652 42 iSTAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD I 1 AOmtTSFOR: ZIM CONTAINER SERVKE GOU) STAR LINE LTD SITH SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (8 LINES) FAX; *****70 fct *****12 (MARKETING) «3t NO. **********0-Q N. AMERKA/CARMEAN SIRVKES WHS Ivor SM IMAMUNU IGI I IST I SAV I HTC IMI STUBS —rar TTTf nmDKBiW
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      359 42 Singapore Soviet Shipping <a» Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO: **********0N BOMBAY/COCHIN I VESSEL VOY !IU BOM OOC KOTA MUTIAIU MUTO27 07/06 1M» MANABLU 512 12AM 21AM M. KURAKO MKO4N 17AM 20AM 01AM SEA GLORY GLRO43 23AM 01AM HOCHIMIHH/HAI PHONG I VESSEL VOY am HCM MPH VYSOKOOORSK 075V96 OSAM 14AM GIHO
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      118 42 Conform CONTERM FREIGHT (F.E.) PTE LTD. AUCKLAND 18 MAY (Accepting to a* Now Zoatend ports) PENANG 14 MAY JAKARTA 9 MAY PORT KLANG 11 MAY BANGKOK 30 APR MAMA 30 APR KEELUN6 12 MAY MBBOURRE 11 MAY SYDNEY 11 MAY BRISBANE 11 MAY FREMANTIE 18 APR ADBAIOE 20 APR 'ACCEPTNKi
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      470 42 CONSOLIDATION TO LIMASSOL l u u^ r L ACCEPTING LCL CARGO AT I ATTRACTIVE RATES 150 9002 BY i ruashipmeni a>«ii«Me to Beirut, Lattakia via Limassol Call Te at DID 277 1064 I for bookings NOW!!! c If, MTERNAHONAL SEA FPBOHT Singapore 561 1668 272 9838 FORWMOMG ANO LOGISTICS SERVICES
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      1789 43 FW_ SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD 5 20 McCallum Street #16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 5 Tel: *****22 (10 Lines) FAX: *****06 CR No.: *****8 200 OOR I i Y.S.N. J Kna vor f stafini. puim« pm«i tommiPM 1 iSTSST FT* HA S»ta 79 SAILED 2-2fl J-4* J a»»■*¥ 9 7J/5
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      365 43 (A VMOU.Y-OMED SUBSDMfIY OF U.) Official Atfont of: (SEA AIRFREIGHT) IIiKV TRAMPORT OMBM P INTERNA TKMALf WtOtTION MAINLINE: 278 7772 WEEKLY LCL CONSOLIDATION INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT ETD ETA COLOMBO 09/06 10/06 CHITTAOOMO 12/06 16/06 CALCUTTA 12/06 16/06 BOMSAY/NBW DELHI 06/06 14/06 KARACHI 06/06 14/06 MADRAS 12/06 16/06 USA/EUROPE ■TO 6TA USA
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      719 43 CALIFORNIA JUPITER 8T ETA SGP 11/05/95 11 II II ARRIVING LOS ANGELES IN is days H I HAEX: 'OCEANUS OSAKA 39E' ETA SGP 10/05/95 I] NEW YORK IN 23 dats ll EXPORT SINGAPORE CALIFORNIA PPW (PCM) T0» ttSWB VESSEL SOP LOS IOAM VAM UT ATI. I CC<B |HOU MPM TW|MOtl
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      1528 44 f AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. KgPPEL ROAD 102-01 JU POH 9UIUXG SINGAPORE 0808 MAIN LINE 225-9966 CUSTOMER SERVICE 225-1225 FAX 22H822 EAGLE VOCE 3219-4 M cys 270I WCgiay COfTO»mgg>»CM« g IttmLVOfHX IP» Iwa rw jkt imi fiamrnnet on 1 wow chi |mi jnou I wi lure |»o» ms 1 F
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      1340 44 44 AS AGENTS: H" UNE iW) PTE LTD (CR m mwrwmMMT WfG m MMW7MM) TEL *****77 TEL£X: KAWAKJ R*****5 FAX *****16/7/59 W T MALAYSIA: "K" UNE MARITME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD TEL5A*****00PK*****75PEN*****20J*****101 PGU*****256 WOONESJA: P.T. SARANA LAUT XIEIINUIA, TEL JKT *****06 fliUNHiy N. Mwiwmwc fOVTIMWT IMPORT H. AMERICA-PACIFIC SOUTH-WEST N SSL*SS
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      529 45 a A HYUNDAI I ■l MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. f WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 PWA PKE PGO VtSSELS VOT I SIN KTM ANT I LEM HAM BK| FIT] 03/05 05/05 06/05 SI FREEDOM 316W 08/05 26/05 2S/05 ***** 28/05 28/05 *****~~ I 10/05 12/05 13/05 H. FRONTIER 316W 15/05
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      961 45 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE MULTI-PURPOSE 1 RORO CARRIER SPECIALIZE M HEAVY LfT CARGO UPTO 120 TONS RAMP CAPACITY UPTO 50 TONS ETA IETA ttSSEL wr P« KMOWC FOB OMNGE MOON (3 M BANGKOK 12/S Q€2 NOUS 2 11/5 15/5 J®*" <1 IR/5 11/5 KUCHMG 15/5. MUMA 17/5 COSMIC PIONEER 44
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