The Business Times, 22 May 1995

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    12 1 Business Times WE hXOty ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Monday May 22 1995 Urn-
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Benazir picks new governor for Sindh
      50 1 Reuter ISLAMABAD Pakistani Premier Benazir Bhutto yesterday named a new governor for her troubled province of Sindh. State television said Senate member Kamal Azfar, a member of Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, will replace non-partyman Mahmoud Haroon, who resigned because of ill health. Reuter
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      Lock icon ICI's fresh bid for Grow
      53 1 Reuter LONDON Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries pic yesterday said it had entered a fresh bid in its battle with US rival Sherwin-Williams Co for control of New York Citybased paint maker Grow Group Inc. The announcement came after the 1600 GMT deadline set by Grow
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    162 1 Stock market indices Friday Week change STII 2.158.93 -20.94 Kl.SE Comp 1,011.62 -2.32 Nikkei 16.***** -279.91 Hang Seng 9.013.32 -204.51 SET Index 1.323 74 -36.45 Jakarta Comp 458.71 -1.29 CLSA China B 770.48 +27.85 Aust All Ord 1.993.0 -45.8 FTSE 100 3.261.0 -49.3 Dow Jones 4.341.33 -89.23 Average
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    Cheow Tong sees 7-8% growth over next 2 years
    145 1 SINGAPORE Trade and Industry Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said Singapore's economy is expected to grow by 7 to 8 per cent over the next two years. Singapore should see continued growth in the short term because of the very good prospects
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    SIA profit rises 14.5% to $917.5m, close to forecasts
    741 1  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines yesterday reported enviable group net earnings of $917.5 million, up 14.5 per cent from the previous year and just a shade off analysts' expectations. For the year ended March 31, pre-tax earnings rose just 9.9
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    Lock icon Jakarta bourse goes online to a whole new ball game today
    439 1 AFP JAKARTA When the Jakarta stock exchange opens for business today, local investors will have to adapt very quickly to a new computerised system or suffer the consequences, brokers here warn. The bourse's technological big bang is called the
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    Cautious trading expected on S'pore market
    173 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Trading is expected to be cautious early this week in the local stock market, although brokers agree the general outlook is positive. Tomorrow, the Federal Reserve meets to decide if there is a need to raise interest rates for the
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    Lock icon Fed likely to keep interest rates steady for a while, say economists
    365 1 Reuter WASHINGTON Having jacked up interest rates for a year to curb inflation. Federal Reserve officials are likely to keep rates steady when they meet, tomorrow, and economists predict no change for the foreseeable future. Despite signs that
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    PM raises idea of Shanghai township project with Jiang
    449 1  -  Reports by Alvin Tay in SHANGHAI PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong yesterday raised his proposal of a residential township in Shanghai with Chinese President Jiang Zemin when they met yesterday morning. A Singapore delegation spokesman said Mr Jiang welcomed Singapore's interest
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    Singapore's investment focus to remain in Suzhou, Shandong
    252 1 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong and Chinese President Jiang Zemin yesterday agreed that the focus of Singapore's investments in China should continue to be Suzhou and Shandong. This was to ensure that the projects there attain an even higher degree of success,
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      14 1 Business IT: Pg 9 Wearnes Peripherals' comeback China's first business school opens, Pg 13
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      6 1 Market Matters: p* n Connections count
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      65 1 Bottom Line: Pg 16 Higher Aussie corporate tax a mistake B, The horizon seemed to stretch endlessly. Undaunted, she braced herself and launched into it. It was easy. Far easier than she bad expected. /InJ she was moved beyond words. IHflMK,'' I Tbe Eodia Collection $249 to $419 2 TOSCANO
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      62 1 [the BEST SELLING j COMPACT ZOOM iespiol4o sy I i s it tour V ItCIUStM DtSTHtiUTQ* I jj«m» I J«nn tiMim ■•litllai |l) M lII] I »»I»UI 1 Hi II OOCOtlit nOUSt StItWOIH H4I ut MM>» U» MUIH S'pore companies sign 15 MOUs worth USslb, Pg 2 Prime group moving
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon 1st-qtr investment pledges still strong
        220 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan THE strong Singapore dollar and higher business costs do not seem to have deterred businessmen from investing in the Singapore economy. The first quarter economic growth figures show that total investment commitments remained strong during the period. A total of 1 billion
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      HDB housing grants: room for higher take-up
      479 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi A HOUSING and Development Board (HDB) subsidy scheme to encourage more people to live near their parents has fallen short of expectations. Minister for National Development Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday that the take-up rate for the $30,000 housing grant
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      SMA delegation to Myanmar leaves today
      181 2 A TRADE and investment mission, organised by the Singapore Manufacturers' Association (SMA), leaves for Myanmar today for a five-day visit. The 32-member delegation is the fourth and biggest to Myanmar this year. The group comprises representatives from 21 private sector companies and three government
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      Lock icon Prime group moving into pig-farming
      423 2  -  PM Goh in China Reports by Alvin Tay in SHANGHAI SINGAPORE'S home-grown Tan Chyc Huat Holdings group, which is developing the massive Sunlsland resort in Shanghai, will move into pigfarming in the Chinese city later this year. Tan Hong Khoon, chairman of the group's Prime
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      S'pore firms sign 15 MOUs worth US$1b in China
      445 2 A TOTAL of 15 memoranda of understanding (MOUs) worth about US$l.O5 billion (S$ 1.47 billion) were signed by Singapore companies during their joint business mission to four Chinese cities along the Yangtze River. Wrapping up the nine-day trip to China, which
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Campaigning for Thai general election hots up
      511 3 Reuter BANGKOK Campaigning for Thailand's general election on July 2 geared up yesterday with a flurry of back-room bargaining as old alliances melted away and new ones started taking shape. Despite all the party-hop- ping and factional realignment' expected over the coming weeks,
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      Lock icon Manila unveils 15-year plan to develop separatist Mindanao
      315 3 AFP ZAMBOANGA, Philippines The government yesterday unveiled a 15-year economic development plan for the main island of Mindanao to end the region's "cycle of underdevelopment" which has bred insurgencies and criminality. The plan includes the modernisation of fish processing technology, such as
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      Lock icon KL moves to protect designs
      102 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is drafting an Industrial Designs Act to provide systematic registration of all such designs in the country, says International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz. "It is hoped that the act will be tabled in parliament at this coming session," Ms
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      M'sia to review cost components of electricity rate
      446 3  -  From Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR THE Malaysian government will re-examine the four components of the electricity tariff adjustment formula to determine if any re-calculation is necessary to arrive at a rate that is fair to all parties. Energy, Telecommunications and Post
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon NF plans court action over poll results
        95 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The ruling National Front coalition may seek legal redress from the courts over some results in which it was unsuccessful in the recent general election, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. He cited, for example, the case where a person
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        Lock icon Viet firm wins US$7m Reebok order
        93 3 AFP Minh City shoe manufacturer has signed a US$7 million (559.7 million) deal with US firm Reebok to produce 650,000 pairs of sports shoes for the US market, a news report said yesterday. The first consignment of Vietnamese-made Reeboks made by Hiep Hung Shoe
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        Lock icon Moo-ving experience
        58 3 Reuter CIKARANG, Indonesia An old Indonesian woman who cannot walk after suffering a stroke being licked by a cow on Friday. The cow is believed by the local villagers of this small town in western Java to possess miraculous healing powers. It has attracted thousands of sick people
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        Lock icon Asia-Pac states to publicise arms policies
        64 3 At-r TOKYO Asia-Pacific nations, including the US, Russia, China and Japan, are likely to make public their basic defence policies and military strength to build regional confidence, it was reported yesterday. The measure is expected to be agreed upon by the Asean Regional Forum
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG /TAIWAN
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      No instability after Deng dies: Jardine's China specialist
      404 4  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY CHINA will have relative political stability at least until 1997 after patriarch Deng Xiaoping dies, says China risk specialist Pauline Loong. Ms Loong, head of the China Department at Jardine Fleming Securities Ltd, also believes that China's
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      Lock icon Dismissal of Yuan Mu a blow to China's hardline faction
      339 4 AFP BEIJING The dismissal from the Chinese government of Yuan Mu, spokesman for Premier Li Peng during the 1989 crackdown on pro-de-mocracy activists, is another blow to the hardliners from Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin. Mr Yuan's departure follows the
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      Lock icon Fourth dissident detained in run-up to Tiananmen anniversary
      431 4 Reuter BEIJING Chinese policeyesterday detained former student leader Wang Dan. the fourth dissident to be taken into custody in the run-up to the sixth anniversary of the June 4 crackdown on student demonstrators. "Police came to our house at just after five
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      Lock icon Tokyo cuts aid to Beijing as protest over recent nuclear test
      203 4 AFP TOKYO Japan will announce today a cut in its aid grants to Beijing in protest against China's recent nuclear test, the Kyodo news agency reported yesterday, quoting government sources. The unspecified cutback will be announced by Chief Cabinet
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Clinton agrees to Teng-hui visiting US
        78 4 Reuter TAIPEI US President Bill Ginton has granted a six-day private visit by Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to his old university, the local China Times Express reported yesterday from Washington. Quoting authoritative sources, it said the Ginton administration informed Taiwan's representative in the US
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        Lock icon Rivals cooperated against China
        102 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan and the Soviet Union cooperated as unlikely partners against China in the late *****, the mass-circulation United Daily News reported yesterday. The paper said diaries written in English by former Taiwan government spokesman James Wei had confirmed the long-held suspicion of cooperation between
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        Lock icon World Bank lends Shenyang US$175m
        93 4 AP BEIJING The World Bank will provide loans worth US$l75 million (*****.2 million) to the north-eastern industrial centre of Shenyang to help the city reform unprofitable state enterprises, it was reported yesterday. Of the total, US$l2l million will go to the Shenyang Machine Tools Co
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        Lock icon Police move in on violence-torn camp
        91 4 Reuter HONGKONG Police rounded up and removed the last of a resisting group of boat people slated for transfer from a violencewracked Vietnamese detention centre in Hongkong yesterday. Some 200 people, mostly police, were injured when 1,300 boat people scheduled for transfer to another
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        Lock icon China explosion kills 12, injures 13
        101 4 UPI BEIJING A truck laden with nitroglycerine exploded in central China, killing 12 people and injuring 13, the official media said yesterday. The explosion left more than 70 families homeless and downed power lines in Daguanzhuang village near Huxian city in Hunan province on
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Congress closes ranks behind Rao
      490 4 Reuter NEW DELHI India's ruling Congress closed ranks yesterday behind Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, hitting out at a dissident gathering which triggered a party split as "illegal and unconstitutional". After a late Saturday meeting, the Congress Working Committee (CWC), condemned "in the strongest
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      Lock icon Russian defence minister signs MOU with Seoul
      240 4 AFP SEOUL Russian defence minister Pavel Grachev yesterday initialled a cooperation memorandum with South Korea at the end of a landmark three-day visit. Defence ministry officials said the third memorandum signed since Mr Grachev became the first Russian defence minister to visit Seoul
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      Lock icon Pakistan faces big economic challenges, says World Bank
      465 4 Reuter ISLAMABAD The World Bank, peering into Pakistan's future, says its economy can grow much faster if it can successfully tackle looming social and economic problems. "The magnitude of the development challenges Pakistan will be facing over the next 10 to 15
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      Lock icon Maori tribe to get compensation and apology for land seized 130 years ago
      378 4 AFP AUCKLAND A New Zealand Maori tribe, after a 130year wait, is about to receive compensation from the government for the illegal seizure of their land and, perhaps even more significantly, an official apology. The deal with
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      466 5 George Bass the father archaeology. Bronze Age the The below At these, Bass restricts himself and his divers to a maximum of twenty minutes a time working on the wreck. Accordingly, he times every dive he makes with a Rolex Submariner. i 1 '^kJhBHQ lH Depths of 46m J are
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Iran distances itself from Rushdie fatwa
      199 6 Reuter LONDON The Iranian government does not plan to enforce the death order against British author Salman Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his book The Satanic Verses, the Sunday Telegraph said. The Teheran government said it cannot withdraw the fatwa (death order) on
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      Pragmatism rules over economic dogmas
      755 6  -  Rn WORLD VIEW By Kevin Sullivan WHILE the devaluation of the Mexican peso was limitlessly diverting, the manifest ease with which Latin American finance ministries have steered clear of consequent continental catastrophe has been even more compelling. The Tequila effect has been largely and happily
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      Lock icon Berlusconi to go on trial for alleged corruption
      433 6 NYT ROME In a move that threatens fresh political turmoil, magistrates in Milan announced on Saturday thai they would bring media magnate and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to trial on corruption charges. The indictment against Berlusconi, who gave up day-to-day control
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      Lock icon EU finance ministers to approve Ukraine aid
      243 6 AFP BRUSSELS European Union financc ministers will authorise nearly US$4OO million (Sss6o million) in aid to the Ukraine here today in a signal that they have accepted that the Kiev government is committed to finally closing the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Also scheduled
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Aspin in critical condition after stroke
        76 6 Reuter WASHINGTON Former US secretary of defence Les Aspin was in hospital in critical condition on Saturday after suffering a stroke. Georgetown Hospital spokesman Michael Tebo said that "upon admission he was awake, lucid and speaking. The next several days will be critical but
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        Lock icon Clinton turns tables on photographers
        53 6 Reuter WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton, wearing a photographer's vest, complete with press credentials, taking pictures at the annual awards dinner of the White House News Photographers* Associations last Saturday. He surprised the gathering of photographers in a mock stereotype of the way the media scrambles
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        Lock icon Fresh talks on disputed Gulf islands
        79 6 AFP CAIRO Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are to launch fresh talks in Teheran on three disputed Gulf islands, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati said yesterday. "Teheran is expecting a visit by a UAE official to discuss the conflict over the
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        Lock icon Kuwaiti emir to visit Britain
        62 6 AFP KUWAIT CITY The Kuwaiti emir is to begin his first official visit to Britain tomorrow for talks on the continuing threat posed by Iraq to the Gulf region, diplomats here said yesterday. Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who came to the throne in 1977, will
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Obscure guard gives Rockets lead over Suns; Barkley to retire soon
      740 8 NBA playoffs NYT PHOENIX The Houston Rockets are on their ninth life, and Charles Barkley is about to get a life. A 3-point bomb from Houston's most obscure guard put the Rockets in the victory lane on Saturday, and
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    • SCORE CARD
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        Lock icon Basketball
        114 8 AFP INGLEWOOD. California Magic Johnson has stirred up Los Angeles fans again with hints that he is planning to resume his NBA career with the Lakers. Johnson, now the club's vice-president, would have to give up his S per cent ownership of the club since NBA rules bar owners
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        Lock icon Boxing
        122 8 AP A TLANTIC CITY, New Jersey Forced into a slugfest he didn't want, two-time champion Evander Holyfield took a dramatic first step back in the heavyweight division on Saturday night with a unanimous 10-round decision over Ray Mercer. Flolyfield, 32. survived a bad cut near his right eye to
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        Cycling
        85 8 CANGAS DE NARCEA, Spain iour of Asturias 200 km fifth stage Saturday: 1 Miguel Indurain (Spn) 5:35.45 2 Beat Zberg (Swi) :1 3 Inigo Cuesta (Spn) :39. Overall: 1 Zberg (Swi) 18:07:20 2 Cuesta (Spn) 1:10 3 Indurain (Spn) 1:11. MONTE SIRINO, Italy lour of Italy eighth stage (209
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        Lock icon Golf
        50 8 AFP MADRID Spanish Open 3rd rd Saturday (GB unless stated); 202 Gordon Brand Jr 71 66 65 203 Scvc Ballcstcros (Spn) 70 67 66 206 Mark Roc 69 69 68. Peter Mitchell 66 67 73 207 Ignacio Garrido (Spn) 67 66 74. Jay Townscnd (US) 69 67 71. AFP
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      Lock icon Vijay Singh ahead of the pack in Buick Classic
      729 8  -  Larry Dorman on the Fijian's bid to 'defend' his title Larry Dorman NYT HARRISON, New York If sheer hard work counts for anything, if absolute dedication to beating all the vagaries out of the game of golf has any meaning whatsoever,
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      Lock icon China's star runners fail to qualify for world athletics meet
      302 8 AP TAIYUAN, China Several of China's champion runners performed so poorly in last week's national trials that they failed to qualify for the World Championships in Sweden. The one star who did qualify, world women's 10,000 metre champion Wang Junxia,
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      Lock icon S African town adopts Japanese team
      510 8 WORLD CUR -I 993 AP. Reuter JOHANNESBURG They may not have much chance of winning the tournament but Japan's team in the Rugby World Cup has won some hearts in South Africa. Based in the farming town of Bloemfontein, the Japanese have overcome the
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  • Business IT
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      Wearnes Peripherals maps out radical comeback plan
      814 9  -  The new boss tells David Mok why he is confident the firm will turn around David Mok JUST one month into the job, the new head of Wearnes Peripherals International (WPI) has given the loss-making CD-ROM drive eompany a sharp new focus and
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      Asian operations shine for AST
      650 9  -  A new campaign aimed at the consumer market could boost growth further, Kenneth James learns Kenneth James US PERSONAL computer giant AST Research may still be bleeding in its home market, but its Asia and the Middle East business is an adrenalin rush. Sales in
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      Lock icon Taiwan's Acer makes bid for share of Japan's PC market
      634 9 Bloomberg Acer Inc. Taiwan's top personal computer maker, is setting its sights on Japan with new models and a new approach it hopes will help it lose its al-so-ran image in the world's sec-ond-largest computer market. At a splashy press
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    • It's happenin'
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        Courses on Lotus, Microsoft software
        64 10 SINGAPORE Drake International, an authorised Lotus and Microsoft education centre, is holding courses on the usage of Lotus Notes and various Microsoft applications. Topics include "Basic Notes Concepts" and "Notes Technical User" on May 29 and 30 respectively, and "Microsoft Windows NT Support Fundamentals" from
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        ISS courses in June
        48 10 SINGAPORE The Institute of Systems Science is conducting the following courses next month: Data Analysis Workshop, June 5 to 9; Computer-Aided Decision Making, June 7 to 9; and object-oriented analysis and design, June 26 to 30. For more information, call Magdalene at 772 2096.
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      First Singapore multimedia show opens tomorrow
      280 10 THE first computer show to be held here that is entirely devoted to multimedia begins tomorrow at Suntec City. Called intermedia Asia '95, the five-day event will feature a conference segment with several tracks, and an exhibition beginning on Wednesday. While this is the
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      New multimedia grant schemes from NCB
      485 10  -  The board wants to encourage local content developers, David Mok learns David Mok THE National Computer Board will soon announce new research grant schemes targeted at multimedia content providers. In an interview with BusinesslT last week, the NCB's senior director of industry and technology,
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      Lock icon Japan's PC shipments up 38.5% to 4.5m units
      139 10 Reuter JAPAN'S 23 personal computer makers shipped 4.48 million PCs in the year ended March 1995, up 38.5 per cent from a year earlier, according to the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association. The yearly gain was the largest since 1975 when Japan's
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    • TECH TAKES
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        MRT Corp chooses Ranger PCs
        60 10 SINGAPORE Systems Technology, maker of the Ranger line of personal computers, has won a contract to supply the Mass Rapid Transit Corp with 155 486DX-2 PCs. Systech said that it won the contract, worth more than $300,000, over 10 other vendors. The PCs will be
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        PictureTel in deal with NTT
        50 10 SINGAPORE US-based videoconferencing firm PictureTel Corp has announced that it is working with Japan-based Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) to develop a stan-dards-based videoconferencing system. The product is expected to be available later this year, will be PC-based and will operate over ISDN lines.
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        India business database available
        49 10 SINGAPORE Companies wanting to do business in India may want to check out Vans.Com, a comprehensive database on the Indian economy and its business sector in particular. The database is available on diskette and upgraded regularly. Call Info Access Distribution at 741-8422 for more information.
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      • Article
        Lock icon LG Electronics in Apple contract
        28 10 AFP SEOUL South Korea's LG Electronics has signed a US$24O million (*****.6 million) contract to supply 800,000 personal computers to Apple Computer. AFP
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      When fuzzy logic actually aids precision
      852 11  -  IT THE NEXT WAVE Wang Peizhuang shows why this new mathematics is so important to information processing Wang Peizhuang The writer is a software engineer with the Institute of System Science's Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems (Prism) group. He can be contacted at tel.
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      Go for fat clients, says Sun chief
      537 11  -  Lee Wai Leong learns how Sun differentiates between fat and thin Lee Wai Leong IT COMES across as no surprise that William Raduchel, the No 2 person at Sun Microsystems, is a strong advocate of "fat" clients. After all, the man is quite
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      193 11 Reuter THE threat of Microsoft Corp's planned online service, highlighted by its newly announced partnership with NBC, is sending commercial online services scrambling for a niche that will help them survive. Strategies vary, but all seem to point to the Internet, and specifically to
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      976 12  -  Seamus Phan learns how to get a sophisticated automated voice mail and fax-on-demand system with up to 999 mailboxes without spending 100 times more TEST rumu Seamus Phan The writer is zone partner of McGallen Bolden Associates, quality, training and technology consulting firm. He
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      356 12  -  By David Mok US-based Unix operating system vendor The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) has just launched OpenServer Release 5, the latest version of its flagship product. The company's Asia marketing manager. Gary Kinsley, said that the new product is the "most strategic" that the
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      795 12  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (USA), a Brooklyn-based management consulting and software development firm, and also writes on IT issues. He contributed this commentary to BusinesslT. ALONG time ago in a galaxy not so far away... ...they were
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      469 12 Reuter US FIRM Intel has launched a drive to license Chinese computer firms to use its Native Signal Processing (NSP) technology, which trims computer costs by eliminating the need for some popular add-in hardware. Based on Intel's top-of-the-line Pentium microprocessor, the advance known as NSP
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      679 15 Cannes Film Festival AFP WHATEVER problems women may face in some parts of the film industry, strong females have come out as the real stars of this year's Cannes Film Festival. From jury chairwoman Jeanne Moreau to actress-tum-ed-director Diane Keaton, women have
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      396 15 AFP THE distinguished Mer-chant-Ivory film-making duo launched a controversial bid for cinema's most coveted cultural honour, the Golden Palm, at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, who have never won anything at Cannes despite some nearmisses, are
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    485 16 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia will announce a new package of reform measures this week which economists hope will start dealing with a high-cost economy showing signs of strain amid fears of growing inflation. Economists said agricultural monopolies and distribution bottlenecks across the archipelago
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    372 16 AFP PARIS The US threat to impose trade sanctions on Japan to open its car market will cast a long shadow over this week's annual OECD ministerial meeting, officials say. Ironically, strengthening the multilateral trading and financial system will be a
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    475 16 Reuter BEIJING China's president and Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin said yesterday that Beijing welcomed more foreign investment, but urged officials to ensure overseas money flowed only into channels approved by the government. In a front-page essay in the People's Daily, Mr
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    49 16 Reuter SARAJEVO Two workmen carrying a ladder while erecting a huge blue cloth, suspended between buildings, which acts as a visual barrier to Bosnian Serb snipers overlooking Sarajevo, during the weekend. The United Nations has refused to provide security for the construction of anti-sniper barricades and screens. Reuter
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    180 16 Reuter WASHINGTON Connie Chung, who joined Dan Rather in June 1993 as co-anchor of CBS Evening News, will leave the network after being told late last week that she would be removed from the newscast. The Washington Post reported yesterday. Quoting unidentified CBS
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    314 16 UPI BEIJING China put science and technology at the forefront of its modernisation drive yesterday, proclaiming the two the saviours of struggling state enterprises and strained agricultural production. "Science and technology are the most important driving forces behind economic and social
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    327 16  -  From Neville Stack in LONDON A SCATHING attack on John Major's past and present policies has been made by his predecessor as prime minister of Britain, Margaret Thatcher. Without doubt this will inflame another near-mutiny in the Conservative ranks. Though she left active politics
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    862 16  -  The Bottom Line TYE KIM KHIAT TYE KIM KHIAT The writer is a BT correspondent THE DALLIANCE was promising, but short-lived. In 1993, the Australian government signalled a more competitive corporate tax regime. In the light of the recent Federal
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    225 16 AFP JAKARTA An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale struck the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi on Saturday, injuring 36 people and devastating 400 structures, officials said yesterday. The quake's strongest tremor hit at dawn. Its epicentre was near the
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      504 17  -  PM Goh in China From Alvin Tay in SHANGHAI STRAITS Steamship Land (SSL), the property arm of Singapore's Keppel Group, is eyeing more property projects in Shanghai, said SSL deputy chairman Lim Chee Onn yesterday. Mr Lim, who was speaking at a groundbreaking of
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      Thai company MD says Ipco has no case
      277 17  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK THE managing director of SiChang Thong Terminal Co Ltd, Rouengsak Chouvarath, says that Singapore-based Ipco Marine has no case in its lawsuit against the company. Mr Rouengsak was referring to a 276 million baht (5515.5 million)
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      Connections count — but more often in the mind than in reality
      613 17  - Connections count but more often in the mind than in reality XI MARKET MATTERS By Amy Balan Connections count. Perhaps more so in Asia than anywhere else when it comes to business. And investors love it. Not surprisingly. Van Der Horst's share price shot up 7 per cent on Wednesday
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        436 18  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Indonesia's largest shopping complex, Lippo Village Supermall, has bucked the trend of an oversupply of new shopping malls by leasing out 80 per cent of its retail space even before it opens later this year. The two-level 100,000 sq
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        Thai govt stake in TAC fixed at 10%; way set for SES float
        391 18  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK MOBILE telephone operator Total Access Communication (TAC) has got its way over the size of a stake it will give state enterprise Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT), clearing the path for
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        Lock icon Rothmans chalks up 7.7% rise in pre-tax to M$433m
        185 18 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Rothmans of Pall Mall (Malaysia) Bhd has posted a 7.7 per cent rise in pre-tax profit to M 5433.23 million (***** million) for the year ended March 31, from M 5402.34 million previously. This was achieved on the
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          Lock icon Insas rights issue gets nod
          107 18 NST KUALA LUMPUR Insas Bhd announced that the Securities Commission (SC) has approved its revised rights issue of 189.81 million shares on a three-for-five basis at M$ 1.20 per share. In the revised proposal, the company had dropped its proposed investment in Power Corporation pic,
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          Lock icon Landmarks unit gets power deal
          104 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Landmarks Bhd subsidiary Teknologi Tenaga Perlis Sdn Bhd (M P) has been awarded the licence to finance, construct, own and operate an independent power plant in Perlis. Teknologi Tenaga Perlis has also been informed by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat)
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          81 18 NST KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Tobacco Company Bhd (MTC) has entered into an agreement to sell its 100 per cent-owned subsidiary Top Plant Laboratories Sdn Bhd to its current management team. The company said in a statement the sale of Top Plant was part of MTC's strategy
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          67 18 NST KUALA LUMPUR Businessman Amin Shah Omar Shah, through his 59.3 per cent-owned West Australia-based Marco Corporation Ltd, has bought the entire equity of a luxury cruise company. Ocean Spirit Cruises, for MS 13.5 million. The purchase includes two vessels as well as a
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        428 20 Tingyi's float will raise HK$2 billion for expansion South China Morning Post HONGKONG China's biggest noodle maker, Tingyi International Co, is planning a HKS2 billion (SS36O million) flotation in Hongkong during the seeond half of the year. The firm is a subsidiary
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        159 20 Reuter BEIJING India's Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd is to launch the first Sino-lndian joint venture in southern Guangzhou this week, the China Daily reported. With registered capital of US$5 million (Ss7 million). Ranbaxy (Guangzhou China) Ltd will be 70 per cent owned by Ranbaxy,
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        33 20 Reuter BANGALORE A labourer balancing a heavy computer monitor and a keyboard on his head as he delivers them to a customer in Bangalore, known as India's silicon valley. Reuter
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        371 20 SCMP HONGKONG Brokers are predicting the "hot money" which has swamped China's Ashare markets might raise Hshare prices in Hongkong. The Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share markets for domestic investors have surged 47 per cent and 38 per cent respectively since authorities
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        743 20  -  gu HANG SENG ft INSIGHT By Steve Vines TO put it bluntly, Larry Yung, head of the Chinesecontrolled Citic Pacific, is much more fortunate than the shareholders in his company. Mr Yung, son of Rong Yiren, the famous "Red Capitalist" who
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        289 21 Reuter SYDNEY Foster's Brewing Group Ltd says it has been actively investigating a capital reconstruction but can make no moves until it has finalised the future of its British brewing assets after a year of intense speculation. Chief executive Ted Kunkel
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        47 21 Reuter NEW YORK Travellers at New York's Grand Central station rushing past a laser light display of IBM's new computer operating system, OS/2 Connect, on Wednesday. The new operating system for networks permits computer users to connect with different systems without a server. Reuter
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        250 21 IHT MUNICH VIAG AG, a conglomerate which started in energy, aluminum and fertilis- ers in 1923, is slowly becoming the competitive high-tech nology company of its executives' dreams. Alfred PfeifTer, the company's chairman, on Friday described the recent takeover of
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        333 21 Bloomberg Business News MIDLAND, Michigan Dow Chemical Co has asked a federal judge in Alabama to reconsider a ruling reinstating it as a defendant in thousands of silicone implant lawsuits. In the event that US District Judge Samuel Pointer refuses to reverse his April 25 decision,
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        523 21 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON While Microsoft Corp ducked the immediate prospect of a bruising court fight by dropping its US$2.l billion (552.9 billion) acquisition of Intuit Inc. the software giant may only have put off a larger battle
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        361 21 Reuter LONDON Thorn EMI pitis expected to report increased pre-tax profits tomorrow for its 1995 financial year, with its traditionally quiet fourth quarter showing solid gains and few surprises, analysts said. The year ended March 31 marks a transition for Thorn. In March,
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        273 21 FT LONDON Shares in WH Smith, the UK's biggest newsagent, plunged by 15 per cent on Saturday after it said its profits would be hit by falling sales. The warning underlined the fragile state of UK consumer spending at a time when
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          59 21 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Yugang International, a trading company involved in audiovisual and car products, said that development of the car-manufacturing industry in China had helped boost its net profit by |9 per cent last year. Profit rose to HKSB6.I million (SSIS million) on a
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          Lock icon Toshiba in US$24m China venture
          95 21 Reuter BEIJING Japan's Toshiba Corp plans to invest US$24 million (Ss33 million) in an elevator and escalator venture with Shenyang Elevator Works in north-eastern China, the China Daily reported. The Shenyang Toshiba Elevator Co will have an initial capital of US$l5 million. Toshiba and a
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          69 21 Reuter HONGKONG Jilin Chemical Industrial Co said its H share initial public offering was priced at HKSI.SB a share, lower than the HK$l.6B paid by applicants. The surplus will be refunded, a company statement said. Trade in the shares on the Hongkong Stock Exchange
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          63 21 Reuter SYDNEY North Ltd and Rio Algom have won control of Vancouver-based Musto Explorations, with over 98 per cent of Musto shareholders accepting a joint takeover offer. The two bidders said in a joint statement that the level of acceptance was achieved after
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        188 21 Reuter BOMBAY A European battle for emerging Asian markets spilled over to Bombay last week as Luxembourg's Crown Prince Henri led a team that tried some gentle lobbying to outpace London's push for business. Luxembourg lost its edge last August when London relaxed
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        320 22  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY AFTER weathering Australia's recession, HongkongBank now plans to expand its presence in key areas of the state capitals. The bank will open six to eight new branches each year over the next two to three years, said Hongkongßank Australia
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        39 22 AFP DILLINGER, Germany A firefighter surveying the wreckage of a steelworks which was burned down after a gasometer exploded on Saturday, starting a fire. The blast, in the western Saarland region, injured 10 people. AFP
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        Lock icon Kwong Yik widens interest-free scheme
        102 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kwong Yik Bank Bhd has expanded its interest-free banking scheme to all its 56 branches in Malaysia. A Kwong Yik Bank statement on Saturday said the bank's scheme, launched on Aug 21, 1993, would be automatically available in subsequent branches to be
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        440 22 Abbey offers £1.1b for building society National Provincial FT LONDON Abbey National, the UK home loans and banking group, has offered £1.1 billion (552.4 billion) to acquire National Provincial, the country's ninth largest building society. The bid is part of a continuing shake-up in the UK's savings and loans industry
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        366 22 AFP SHANGHAI China's sudden decision to suspend its 18-month-old experiment with treasury bond futures trading will improve investor confidence in the long term, according to a foreign broker here. "I share the opinion of the local people. I believe the government is taking
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        319 22 FT LONDON The European canned fruit industry, while celebrating the end of apartheid, fears that the European Union's eagerness to welcome the new South Africa will lead to trade concessions that could devastate Mediterranean fruit growers. "If the South Africans get to sell
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        320 22 Move aimed at ending four years of disputes Reuter LONDON The Lloyd's of London insurance market will offer its investors close to £3 billion (556.57 billion) to bail out ruined investors and end four years of disputes, a British newspaper said yesterday. The
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        606 23  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Yumiko Iijima MMS International SINGAPORE The US dollar opened on a positive note last week, benefiting from continued short covering, increased hopes that the US would reduce its budget deficit, and continued beliefs that the soft landing scenario would benefit US
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        Lock icon Coffee market sulks over producers' retention plan
        619 23 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON The coffee market sulked last week over the announcement that Brazil and Ivory Coast would join the world export retention plan, thrashed out in March by the Association of Coffee Producers (APC). The prospect of a fall in
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      753 24 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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        811 25 FT New York "YOU could have made yourself goofy trying to figure out Wall Street recently. Everything seems back-to-front and upside down." Those comments came last week not from some distraught investor, aggrieved at the sudden turn in sentiment that sent
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        Lock icon Stocks fall further as major firms post weak earnings
        419 25 AFP Tokyo JAPANESE stocks lost further ground last week as investors became sensitive to negative factors, such as worse-than-ex-pected earnings results by major firms here, brokers said. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ended
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        Lock icon Prices dragged down by Dow's plunge
        215 25 AFP, Reuter Hongkong STOCKS here fell in step with a weaker Wall Street this past week, causing the Hang Seng Index to shed 204.51 points or 2.21 per cent to finish Friday at 9,013.32. Turnover was lighter, however, with an average daily volume of
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          130 25 The Australian share market finished a depressing week more than 2 per cent down on the previous Friday alter a slump on Wall Street, combined with a new run on the Aussie dollar, send the local bourse crashing below the key 2,000 barrier. The main barometer, the All Ordinaries
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          96 25 The Philippine stock market fell last week in reaction to the downturn on Wall Street, analysts said here on Saturday. The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE,i Composite Index closed at 2,725.96 points on Friday, down 0.23 per cent from the 2,732.27 points posted on May 12. Average daii'y volume fell
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          84 25 A week of political turmoil that ended with the fall of the government cost the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) 36.45 points, or 2.68 per cent, and saw the index close on Friday at 1,323.74 points, brokers said. The average daily turnover was 160.8 million shares, down from i
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          101 25 Indonesian stock prices closed a marginal 0.01 per cent lower as the country's bourse ended its last week of manual transactions, awaiting scripless computerised trading which starts today. After a slight upsurge in the late start to the week, due to a public holiday on Monday, the Jakarta Stock
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          83 25 The Taiwan bourse posted marginal gains in slow trading last week while most investors retreated to the sideline, brokers said. Following a 3 per cent climb the previous week, the 409-issue Weighted Price Index on the Taiwan Stock Exchange advanced 17.63 points, or 0.3 per cent, to finish at
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          76 25 -91.23 South Korean Share prices closed mixed on Saturday on expectations that the government would intervene to boost the sagging market ahead of the June 27 local elections. Compared with a week ago, the index was down 14.48 points, with a 1.63 per cent loss in value. Volume in
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          63 25 Share prices staged a recovery on the Bombay Stock Exchange last week as Indian mutual funds and foreign institutional investors disregarded political instability in New Delhi and returned to the market. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index gained 73.50 points during the week to close at 3,227.68 points on Friday.
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        355 25 AFP London SHARE PRICES here lost ground during the week in the wake of Wall Street's collapse, despite reduced fears of a rise in British interest rates, dealers said. The FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares closed on Friday at 3,261 points, registering a
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        841 25 +0.69 Blue-chip stocks bounced back from an early fall to end with a-slight gain on Friday, showing there was still some life in the bull market despite Thursday's plunge of 82 points. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended up 0.69 of a point at 4,341.33 after recovering from
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        316 25 -7.41 Stocks closed weaker as profit-takers dominated through the market, ending a four-day rally last week, analysts said. The TSE 300 Composite Index fell 7.41 points to 4,367.26 on volume of 54.40 million shares valued at C 5793.46 million. Declining stocks outpaced advances 383 to 330, with 357 stocks
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        7051 26 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian shares ended the week 0.2 per cent lower last week as investors drained ofT profits from strong price rises triggered by a sudden surge of interest by foreign funds the previous week. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-share
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        1928 28  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Compared to the clear sense of optimism which marked the start of trading last week, the outlook for this week is decidedly more clouded. The sharp plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday and the sustained weakness
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      418 29  -  From Tran Dinh Thanh Lam in HO CHI MINH CITY VIETNAM desperately needs a central shipbuilding corporation to supervise and control shipbuilding activities nationwide, said the general director of Vietnam Union of Shipping Enterprises. Nguyen Huu Vuong. The creation of this body
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      888 29  -  PSA's new CEO tells Rahita Elias he wants to further improve efficiency, and at the same time put a more human face on the organisation SHAPE A special focus on people in the shipping industry Rahita Elias SINGAPORE David Lim, the Port of Singapore
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      339 29 SES '000 May 19 S$ Vol CWT Distribution L 1.68 -0.02 3 CWT Distribution A LSI Chuan Hup Holdings 1.17 unch 29 Cosco Investment S 1.78 +0.11 5 Cosco Investment A 1.56 +0.02 2 Far East Levingsto 6.75 +0.20 246 (iB Holdings Ltd 0.79 0 005 8 Hai
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      212 29 SINGAPORE Taiwanese giant U-Ming Marine's Singapore subsidiary is stepping up its operations here. It plans to add three newbuildings to its fleet of vessels operating from Singapore. U-Ming Marine Transport (Singapore) has commissioned Tsu Works, NKK Corporation, to build a 170.000-dwt (deadweight
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      361 29 Reuter OSLO The world's tanker owners, trying to shake oIT a public image as polluters of the sea, will seek ways to strengthen inspection of ageing ships at a meeting this week. Shipowners feel they have become victims of negative public reaction
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      237 29 Reuter SEOUL The European Union (EU) has urged South Korea to freeze its shipbuilding capacity to avoid serious disruption to the global shipbuilding industry, a senior EU official said. Carl Mogens, a European Commission external relations official, said he had asked
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      739 30 Faced with fierce competition and volatile economies, US airlines are grounding their expensive aircraft in the desert while they wait for good times to come back Reuter THEY sit in the hot desert sun and wait for better times, their familiar logos hinting
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      501 30 Page ABC Coot 16 •ANL 3 •APL 12 Able 7 Accord 8 •Ahlers 6 •Ahrcnkiel 4 Antaco 13 •Appenship 4 Arowana IS Aslro 8 Austral 9 Avant 6 B'tarig Mas 12 BSA 9 BTL 16 Bangladesh 12 Batamindo 7 Bengal bridge IS •Blue
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      9765 38 This guide lists the sailing destinations from Singapore. The first date indicates the ETA at Singapore followed by the ETA at the destination. The page number refers to the location of the schedule advertisement. ETA ETA Um Vratl Voyage P| I SIN OmI'r Nmm
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        501 47 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure iurong Port Alma Uyj A74 J1 alongside 19 05 0500 Asian Glory V10 J8/9 alongside 1905 1500 Cattex Excellence J21 J12 alongside 1905.0700 D»i Gunj 05/02/95 J21 alongside 19.05/2300 KM 2103 B J13 alongside 19.05/1700 Komdo 05/06/95 11 alongside 19 05/1300
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        1505 47 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookng/Balance Rslts Ship Voy Wo Etb/Btr Period From To From Ac» Lilac 044B 24/0/00 1A 21/1500 21/1659 21/1900 IB 21/1500 21/1659 21/1900 3 22/0700 22/1159 22/1400 4 22/1200 22/1459 22/1/00 Acx Swan 1Z1A 24/1000 3 22/0/00 22/1159 22/1400 4
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        321 47 MAY 22 Canada: Victoria Day. Sri Lanka: National Heroes* Day. Yemen: Market holiday. MAY 24 Bulgaria: St Cyril Methodius Day. Ecuador: Holiday. Sweden: Half-day market holiday. Switzerland: Zurich bourse closed in afternoon. MAY 25 Argentina: National Day. Austria. Botswana. Denmark. Finland. France. Germany. Indonesia. Ivory Coast, Namibia. Norway:
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        310 48  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Seattlebased Boeing Co has announced a US$l2O-million deal (Ssl67 million) with Shandong Airlines for three Boeing 737-300s. Shandong Airlines, based in Jinan, Shandong province, is the latest Boeing customer in China. This brings to 16 the number of
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        254 48 Bloomberg Business News SEATTLE Boeing Co is looking to Asia for new orders for its latest commercial jetliner, the Boeing 777. Although Chicago-based United Airlines is the launch customer for the new widebody, two-engine jet, nearly half of the 144 firm orders
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        46 48 Reuter LE CASTELLET, France Four competitors of the 11th Shell Marathon, driving on the circuit here near Marseille on Saturday. More than 100 prototypes took part, aiming to complete six laps within 48 minutes using as little fuel as possible. Reuter
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        127 48 Reuter PARIS Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is likely to increase its ex-Paris cargo rates in September/October this year, a Parisbased cargo spokeswoman for the airline said. MAS raised its ex-Paris cargo rates to Kuala Lumpur and other destinations in the Far East and Australasia by
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        315 48 Reuter LOS ANGELES UAL chairman Gerald Greenwald has disagreed with the view that the airline industry is nearing its peak, saying he expects the industry's recovery to continue as it gains momentum from growth in European economies. Last Wednesday, Robert Crandall, head of
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          115 48 AFP HANOI The Vietnamese government has given its approval for the construction of a new terminal for passengers using the international airport in Hanoi, the Vietnam News Agency said yesterday. The first phase of building, estimated to cost US$5O million (5569.5 million), is to begin
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          77 48 AFP SEOUL South Korea's Daewoo Group has concluded negotiations to acquire a controlling 51 per cent stake of FS Leublin, a Polish commercial vehicle maker, at a cost of USS23 million (5531.9 million), the company said recently. Group spokesman Lee Jung Seung said
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          95 48 AP SEATTLE Asiana Airlines has kicked off its new, nonstop Seattle-Seoul service. The Korean airline is using its new widebody Boeing 767-300ER jets on the route. The 12-hour flight is scheduled to run three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Asiana, which started operations
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          67 48 AP MANAMA The regional carrier Gulf Air has signed a US$24O million (*****.6 million) loan with France's Banque Indosuez to partly finance the purchase of six Airbus Industrie Airbus 3205. A Gulf Air statement said the loan would be repaid after 12 years. It said
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        374 48 Reuter BEIJING Three Chinese companies have won a US$573-million (*****.5 million) contract to help to build a subway and an electrified railway in Iran's capital, Teheran, according to the Xinhua news agency. It is the biggest agreement between China and Iran since
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        1415 48 AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS DEPARTURES City Flight ETA Flight CTB Aba Dhabi GF146 1145 GF147 1850 SQ441 1505 K6+M6* SQ228 2120 tmm»n RJ188 1325 Amsterdam SQ323 0745 GA892 0010 KL837 1450 KL838 2300 SQ324 2330 OwddMd SQ288 2040 SQ285 2045 Bahrahi GF149 0710 I Sari Bagawan B1421 1100 SQ182 0915 SQ181 1410
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      23 29 |%S§l ding Lubricant Billions of dollars sitting in the hot sun, Page 2 Chinese airline orders three Boeing 737s worth USsl2om, Back Page
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      1104 32 NORASIAI INTRODUCTION FAR EAST TO MIPPIE EAST SERVICE EFFECTIVE FROM JUNE 1995 WE'RE ACCEPTING CARGOES TO THE FOLLOWING MIDDLE EAST PORTS:DIIBAI (JEBEI AU), BAHRAIN, DAMMAN, KUWAIT FOR MORE DETAILS N BOOKINGS, PLEASE CALL: TAN SEOW CHUAN TEL *****83 DORIS NGE PGR *****08 CALVIN WONG PGR *****46 WILSON SUM PGR *****88
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      2643 35 EUROPE EXPRESS TO FEUXSTOWE, ROTTERDAM AND HAMBURG Sl»,.,trtt Stttr.l A fits T,I (Ginn.lt *****00 t,l»s/9,,k1»l A,.*Cf o*ol CO STAR SHIPPING PTF LTD fx (G—mi: mint chumt: utsui/u4 C /M srt n»r«m« ctmmr mtnt fWwfwVflMl COSMIF ConnnllonH *****50 °<° C.Ktt.Ue:! 421} 741 OOS GIO* T*w*, t C "**********0 HI F.I *****0)
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      861 37 pacific international lines (pte) ltd^ ******5? 140 Ceci Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. j CO NO *****67Q000E VBBBBL VOY SIN CMM JIB HOO JID AOJ AOS MUK PZU MSW ASA KO7A BIRLIAN BRL3IS 29/5 2/6 8/6 10/S 12/8 14/8 20/S Sl/S 24/6 KOTA BERKAT BKT2SS S/S 13/6 IS/S 21/6
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      836 37 CR NO: **********02 VESSELS *H LE HAVRE HAMBURG THAMES ROTTERDAM ANTWERP VALUE DE LIBRA LOBW 23/06 13AM 15m ?7/06 7a*>6 18/06 VILLE OE NORMA NO9W 31/06 20** 22/06 24A» VILE DE CARINA COBW 06AM 27/06 28/06 01/07 02/07 oao7 VH-LE DE SAGfTTA SO9W 13/06 04/07 06/07 0&O7 OVO7 tSO7 ALSO
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      2167 40 44 AS AGENTS: "K" LINE (SMGAPORE) PTE LTD (CR *0:**********01M55T RfG NO M2-*****9M) K TEL *****77 TELEX: KAWAKIRS23I6S FAX: *****16/7/8/9 T W MALAYSIA: "K" LME MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD I Mm TEL SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 JB *****01 P6U *****256 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUT INTERNUSA, TEL JKT *****08
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      1569 40 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. 19 KEPPEL EtOAO <02-01 JIT PQH BUILDING SINGAPORE 0206 MAIN LINE 225 9966 CUSTOMER SERVICE 225-1225 FAX 221-4922 EAGLE VOCE 3219-488 CFS *****59 TO NORTH AMERICA CANADA WEEKLY CONTAIIII 1111 111 SERVICE ivttsiuwTOCt i ptw i m rs* jtt aw |<ts»avorw3i so |sk oak lvm I
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      627 41 (AWmY-OMBSUBSUMYOFNOL) Official Agent of: (SEA ft AIRFREIGHT) WVOUI IUtC TIUNIPOfIT QMBM MAIN LINE: 278 7772 ,NTERNATIO ALE SPED,T ON WEEKLY LCL CONSOLIDATION INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT ETC ETD COLOMBO 29/08 04/06 CHITTAQONO 20/0S 08/00 CALCUTTA 20/08 03/00 BOMBAY /NEW DBLHI 29/08 29/08 KARACHI 01/00 08/00 MADRAS 28/08 29/08 USA/EUROPE KTD ITD USA
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      1527 41 Nedllovd /^r^TOH T [\jgdiioyd Lines DIEMEH/5212 eta S'pore 26/5/95 Brisbane 8/6/95 eta Wellington 16/6/95 (Direct) CR **********0R Pan<F) P*u(F) Stn Pkg M Sou Leh Rtm Am* Ham Orit Mam Sou Rtm<2) Uh Pkg Sin NLL AFRICA /3205 21/5 20/5 22/5 23/5 1/6 11/6 12/6 15/6 16/6 14/6 TYNE /2185 2/5
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      771 41 WML VOYAGE EXCMAMOC RATKS (USS) I II Iti QUI IN QUI I >V |l CALIFORNIA LUNA 73W 74 1 3906 1 4032 M CALIFORNIA ZEUS 61E 1 4032 II H NEPTUNE TOPAZ 41W 41W ***** ***** Z2B* H RHEIN BRIDGE 40E 40E ***** 1 4032 ■I M ANRO ASIA 67N
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      1411 42 MESEBSEaSSm THIS WEEK'S ARRIVAL: NEXT WEEK'S ARRIVAL: VCSSCIS VOY ETA EXCHANGE VtSStIS VOY TO LX^** Gf RATI MAIS MAERSK 9508 22 MAY 1 3905 lAHGSIA* 5605 ORIENTAL BAY 5872 22 MAY ***** COLOMOOOAY 5071 »MAY 4000 MAERSK TACOMA 9607 22 MAY 1»73 MARIE MAERSK 9606 30MAY ***** MAAIT MAERSK 9606
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      758 42 TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF LOADING VOY SfO«E P.KELANG HALIFAX N.YORK NORFOLK M.ORLEANS SAVANNAH TAMPtCO HOUSTON 20 JUN 23 JUN 28 JUN 3 JUL 29JUN 7 JUL 12 JUL "2SESTSL 3*31 MAY 1/2 JUN 7 JUL 10 JUL 13 JUL 20 JUL 18 JUL 24 JUL 29 JUL
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      624 42 IMMIoyd FULL CONTAINER SERVICES ■■a vet sur m_ tgr cm la ham n»/ru wot aw HAMKIR6 SEN WFS23 11* ll* IMS IMS IMS 11* IMS IMS MLTKKOU WGWI IMS IMS ISMS SMS IMS PRACA 144 15* IS* IMS 21* IMS IMS DM ATLANTIC WFS24 ll* 11* 22* 21* 17* ll*
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      797 43 CONSOLIDATION TO BUS AN FIRST FORWARDER IN OFFERING TWICE WEEKLY w&SWKSA LCL SERVICE TO BUSAN Call SANISA at Z>/D 277 /05S ({l ®j)| for bookings NOW!!! FSFI Tel: Fax: Singapore 561 1668 272 9838 INTERNATIONAL SEA freight FORWARDING Jk Also has offices in:- ano logistics services 0* MM MALAYSIA THAILAND
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      334 44 Singapore Soviet Shipping hSr Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO:**********0N BOMBAY/COCHIN I VESSEL VOY [TTI BOM COC SEA GLORY GLRO43 25AM 03AM KOTA MUTIARA MUTO29 31AM 08/06 M. KURAKO MKO6N 08/06 18AM 24AM MANASLU 513 08AM 18AM SEA GLORY GLRO46 18AM 2SAM HOCHIMINH/HAIPHONG I VESSEL VOY SIN MCM HPH VYSOKOGOWSK 005V96
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      154 44 sin far EAST 23/5 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 28/5 BANGKOK 29/5 MANILA/CEBU 25/5 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 28/5 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E MALAYSIA 29/5 BUSAN 28/5 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 28/5 HONG KONG SIN CHINA 28/5 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIN EUROPE/UK 29/5 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 29/5 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech SIN USA/CANADA 23/5 LOS ANGELES/NEW
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      396 44 STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD I ZWKMMMfI SIRVKI GOLD STAR LINE ITD SETH SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (8 LINES) FAX: *****/0 U *****12 (MARKETING) (O NO. 10)*****000-1) N. AMERKA/CARIMEAN SERVKES ft w t5? BVBF ml TOKONAAU HI 4/4 2.CANAM IM 1/7 11/; n/t ZINEIAT AM 15/* 2JIAUA IM 11/7
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      425 44 I VESSEL VOY SIN MAA SIN I TIGER CAPE 332N 22 23m 28 3105 0506/06 I TIGER ISLAND 333N 2527/05 31-04/06 08-10/06 I TIGER BRIDGE 334N 29 30A» 04-07-06 12-1106 I TIGER BAY 335 M 01 03/06 07-11A)6 15-17/06 I TIGER CAPE 336N 05 0606 11 14/06 19 20/06 I
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      221 44 m FR£ "eu tro Mm im tllfW HUDI6 Ml 1M»~ IW IMI VWH UM MUSSEL M 7 1M» 3MI IM7 M*7 11/T* MARTHA ii iw iw aw ?M7~ tt/t7 nm C VEftOIMEMI 3M7 11*1 UO IUM 21M- Auckland wi s» err new chs m ELLEN HUOIC M« 11*6 IM? IM)
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      317 45 NEO SHIPPING nzn AGENCIES PTE LTD Tel: *****29 Fax: *****59 SPORE WEEKLY RO/RO-CONVENTIONAL SERVICE TO HO CHI MIHH TRANSIT 2 DAYS LOADING SINGAPORE ON ALSO ACCEPTING 'FCL' CTNRS TO HAIPHONG 30 MAY 99 HAIPHONG 19 JUN 99 WEEKLY CONTAINERS SERVICE TO BOMBAY TRANSIT 10-12 DAYS LOADING SINGAPORE ON: WEEKLY CONSOL
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      424 45 innwgOT|||j|||||| FULL CONTAINIR MRVICI PROM SIN TO MADRAS VESSEL/VOY ETA SM ETA MAA MV PESTOVO V.IS 20-21/05 25-28/03 SEA DRAGON V DR0055 22-23/ OS TtOER CAPE 132N 22-2VOS 2S-31/0S PRAVDINSK 1* 2S-2MW Jl-01/0« PRIVOLYE V 20 27-2 SOS 02-03/06 TIGER BRIDGE 334H 29-XtoS 04-07/06 BUNOA TERATAI V TERO4I 31-01/06 OS-OaftW
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      283 45 FOUR TIMES/WEEK SAILINGS: P. GUOANG/SPORE VESSEL VOV PASMOUOANQ VOY SINGAPORE KUALA SIAKV ***** 10/06 (THU) 4079N 19/08 (FW) KUALA SIAKV ***** 20/06 (SAT) 4OOON 21/06 (SUN) KUALA SIAK V ***** 24AM (MON) 4061N 23/06 (TUE) KUALA SiAK V ***** 24/06 (WED) 4062N 24/06 (WED) KUALA SIAKV ***** 28A)6 fTHU) 4063N
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      336 45 CHINESE-POLISH HA JOINT STOCK SHIPPING CO CONT AINER/BREAKBULK SIN JUUMG V.14 76 AN TWERP/ROTTERDAM/HAMBURG/GDYNIA JAN DLIiGOSZ V SI M CASABLANCA/GENOA CMOMMGV.II 23* HONGKONGAIUANGPU/XINGANG/DALIAN WIENIAWSKI V.IS 2t/B HUANGPU/KAOSHIUNGAIANYUNGANG/ OINGQAO/XINGANG CHIPOLBAL SHIPPING PTE LTD (A JONT VENTURE BCTWCEN CHNESE POUSH JONT STOCK SUPPING CO. AND BALTIC FAR EAST SHPPING PTE LTD.) 2
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      298 45 ROHUQ ROHUG INTERNATIONAL (S) PTE LTD rorwannaj AjnmjEßi DAILY RECEIVING LCL CARGO TO YANGON ETA Destination 29/05 05/06 Hamburg. Bremen 2905 05/06 London, Manrtieatrr. BMnfKao •1/06 12/06 Johannesburg. Durban. PoftLouta 25/05 01/06 Sydney, Freman tie. Melbourne 29/05 haknr, Madras 24/05 27/05 rt it 29/05 10/06 Yangon WEEKLY CHINA CONSOLIDATION VIA
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      849 46 AFGHANISTAN MAM Afghanistan Ltd., Hairatan, Torghundi, Islamqala (Doqharun) ■wear Ewe c.i.s./russia: Alma Ata. Ashkhabad, Baku, Dushanbe, I Ullrtrnr t. iinru«K Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Korsakov, Moscow, Novosobirsk, Sochi, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Vladivostok, Vostochny nternational Forwarders Mongolia: uiaan Bator N Korea: Pyongyang, Nampo EXPRESS CONTAINER SERVICE TO WEST COAST SOUTH AMERICA ALSO ACCEPTING
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      359 46 \mjkM MN CONTAINER LINES, INC I MAC-WELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) MV/V2J 563U(084)*****8 KUCHMG (062) *****3 PENAMO: (04)*****6 BANGKOK (662) *****67 MAMLA (632) *****61 P. KELAHQ: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21)*****07 SURABAYA; (31) *****0 I ASIA HKG/TWNVBKK GENOA/EUROPE I PFN PK SIN Z, £3. SShh G'bumChagen/S'holm/o*lo 2« 25/5 26/5 SimAffMHH PirMW
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      533 46 STRAUS/JAPAN/STRAITS SERVICE MULTI-PURPOSE ROflO CARRIER SPECIALIZE IN HEAVY LIFT CARGO UPTO 120 TONS RAMP CAPACITY UPTO SO TONS fS UMMKfOt WL»L_!I MGMTVNA 147 75/5 M/S MWUM/5 AMDHKA AMU7NA 4 M/ 5 M/S KIKMMG J/4, MNTUUIS/4 ■1/1 NMtn 17/4 TOCTO It/4, lENMI4/4 omoniw 1/4 jmmta j/1 suracata 4/4 UMSOH rVAK( 14
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      129 47 REGIONAL WEATHER LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperature c y Sfrower Weother Wind direction with speed m knots ••Rom Cloudy Sky Wove height Surfoce winds ore indicated by arrows which fly with the wind One fu« circle represents cokn or light and variable wmds J One half fleche represents 5 knots I—«-
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      128 48 NOTICE TO SHIPPERS FROM SINGAPORE, PORT KLANG AND PENANG TO AUSTRALIA RATE RESTORATION Shippers are hereby reminded that all the following shipping lines involved in the trade from Singapore, Port Klang and Penang to Australia will implement a Rate Restoration of US$5O per 20* Container and Usloo per 40* Container
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      71 48 1) M.V. "BROTHER STAR" VOY 32 ARRD 14TH MAY 1995 2) M.V. "YAYASAN I.APAN" VOY. I ARRD I6TH MAY 1995 Consignees of all damaged cargoes ex the captioned vessels are hereby notified that a general survey will be held on the 23rd May 199. 0900 1200 hours at PTB and
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