The Business Times, 22 November 1995

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 194/12/94 85< SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1995
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
    71 1 BXCEAMBE BATES US* S3 UH. 1.412 t iji64_. ±m m. „—ti7M 1JN 11* ..._§J86 1.J91 Ml UN... .0.166 HKI 9M. 0.183 BAHT (M .0.066 HUPIAH101 ..0.044. 0 062 PUXEIATES SINGAPORE* 144 KUALA LUMPU* 7.95 JAKABTA 1750 BAMTOOK 14.50 MANILA 11.00 9.00 TAiPtI—,—, A 00 STOMFT- 10.75 TOKYO 180 saoiiL
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    Lock icon JB prime office space overtakes KL prices
    528 1  -  Price surge fuelled by lack of supply and rise in foreign interest, especially from Singaporeans By, Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] The average price of prime office space in Johor Baru has begun to overtake the price of similar space in Kuala Lumpur, the country's
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    International media gears up for the Leeson stake-out
    306 1  -  By\ S N Vasuki [SINGAPORE] "Leeson-fever" is in the air. So intense is the interest in the imminent arrival of Nick Leeson, the futures trader who broke Barings, that British and American media organisations are said to have made bookings on every
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    Lock icon China: broad tariff cuts will offset tax on machinery
    160 1 AFP Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] China will cease to exempt from taxes imported machinery and equipment for foreign enterprises as part of a cut in import tariffs starting next year. Henry Tang, chairman of the Federation of Hongkong Industries, said yesterday
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    The real Ardmore Park
    51 1 You could say it's a case of condo confusion. In yesterday 'sBT we ran a picture of Ardmore View on our front page and called it Ardmore Park. Sorry. This is the real Ardmore Park which Marco Polo Developments plans to tear down and re-develop in
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    Indon minister disbands privatisation committee
    365 1  -  Finance Minister will personally take charge of all future flotations From. Maggie Ford in Jakarta INDONESIAN Finance Minister Mar'ie Muhammed has disbanded Team Seven, the committee in charge of privatisation of state-owned companies, and wiU personally take charge of all future flotations. The move follows
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    Foreign funds spur regional markets
    146 1  -  By] Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] South-east Asian share markets ended higher yesterday as foreign institutions began buying again. In Singapore, the Straits Times Industrials Index gained 15.76 points to 2,102.64 as foreign Arms bought blue chips, particularly bank shares. The buying pattern was reflected in the
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      9 1 Tapes of Leeson's phone calls to wife, Pg 3
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Kohl has simple expectations from Europe-Asia summit
      424 2  -  Visiting German leader says frank exchange at summit will allay fears of a Fortress Europe By! S N Vasuki GERMAN Chancellor Helmut Kohl said that he had "simple expectations" about next year's Europe-East Asia summit and he endorsed Singapore's view that the meeting
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      Wah Chang bags HK airport contract
      360 2 It will build $45m aviation fuel hydrant distribution system WAH CHANG International has won a $45 million contract for construction works in Hongkong's new Chek Lap Kok airport the first Singapore company to secure a piece of the action in the world's single biggest
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      Lock icon Double-digit growth seen in 4Q
      344 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY GDP By, Anna Teo DOUBLE-DIGIT economic growth is likely to return in the fourth quarter, predicts investment bank JP Morgan. Last year saw two quarters of doubledigit growth 12 per cent in the first and 11 per cent in the third.
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      Credit Suisse beefs up local office to regional centre
      346 2 CREDIT Suisse has made its Singapore office a regional centre for South-east Asia and appointed a new management team to help it expand. Alex Widmer, who has been appointed managing director of the office, said yesterday it was now regional headquarters
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      Lock icon Singapore firm spearheads tie-up with Thai company
      365 2 $100 m particle board plant will also involve German firms The Straits Times SINGAPORE-BASED KEC Resources is to lead a consortium of mainly German firms in a joint venture with a Thai company, Sahachai Particleboard, to build a $100 million particle board plant
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      Adam Garden put up for en bloc sale
      274 2 THE owners of the 10-unit Adam Garden in Bukit Timah have banded together for an en bloc sale that could reap each of them a hefty $1.8 million to $2 million. If successful, the sale would be the second en-bloc transaction in
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      S'pore jumps to seventh place in world's top exporters list
      456 3  -  Exports of goods surge 31% to beat Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, says WTO report By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE was the seventh biggest exporter in the world last year, says the World Trade Organisation. Its report on International Trade Trends
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      Region-bound businesses get tax (info) break
      220 3 LOCAL businesses venturing into the region can update their knowledge of tax policies and investment laws at a conference here this week. The conference, Recent Developments in Emerging AsiaPacific Economies Taxation, Investment and Legal Framework, is jointly organised by the Inland Revenue Authority of
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      Hitachi sets up new sales unit in S'pore
      142 3 JAPANESE electronics giant Hitachi yesterday set up a new subsidiary company in Singapore to manage sales of consumer and information media products in the Asia-Pacific. The unit, Hitachi Home Electronics Asia (S) Ltd (HHES), wUI also develop new markets in countries such
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      Lock icon Leeson's phone calls with his wife recorded on tapes
      373 3 Officials probing Barings'collapse said to have studied tapes UPI OFFICIALS probing the Barings Bank collapse have studied previously undisclosed tapes of rogue trader Nick Leeson's telephone conversations, recorded just before he fled Singapore, a source close to the investigation said yesterday.
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        Two islands created, three merged
        54 3 THK Land Office yesterday announced some changes involving offshore islands around Singapore due to reetamatkm works. Two new islands ha we been named Ptdau Punggol Barat and Pulau Ptinggol Timor, while Chichir, Pulau Kuching and Pulau Merawang, which hwe haim anMlpmafaH erift HiatiMtnhmt, Hate f;
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        NTUC Income's assets to hit $2.4b
        67 3 NTUC Income will have assets totalling $2.4 billion by the end of this year, a huge jump from the share capital of $1.2 million that it started with in 1970, said the Minister for Labour and chairman of the NTUC Income Board of Trustees,
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        Lock icon Three-country transport link proposed
        84 3 The Straits Times THE Singapore Institute of Architects, together with its Malaysian and Indonesian counterparts, is to table a privately initiated proposal to link the three countries through a system of bridges and tunnels. Details of the $55 billion project will be presented at Arcasia Forum
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  • PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
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      Woes hit India mart
      700 4  -  FTOID MANAGER'S DIARY Economic growth rates humdrum, reform process in doldrums By Deep Kapur The writer is a director at Koeneman Capital Management in Singapore with investment responsibilities in global asset allocation and currency hedging. POR INVESTORS with a short memory, the bear market in Indian
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      Lock icon Families don't discuss money till it's too late
      191 4 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Parents often don't talk about money to their children until it's too late, according to a survey by Prudential Securities. Though most people think they should discuss financial matters with their children, they're uncomfortable doing so because
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      Lock icon Simex Nikkei: Will it revisit 20,000 level?
      494 4  -  TECHNICAL VIEWPOINT By] Naresh Verma The writer is a manager of technical analysis advisory (South-east Asia) for Dow Jones Telerate. His views are not an invitation to trade, neither do they represent the views of his employer THE weekly bar chart for the
      Source: Telerate; FRANCIS  -  494 words
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      Boost stock holdings: Fraser
      517 4  -  By. Lee Yoke Har INCREASE your stock holdings as 1995 draws to a close, said Fraser Securities Pte Ltd, which holds the view that prices should be around 15 per cent higher on average within the next 12-15 months. Fraser expects the benchmark Straits Times Industrials
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      Lock icon Hard currency in teakwood could yield solid returns
      306 4 Bloomberg Business News (AMSTERDAM) If you're willing to risk your money and save the rainforest at the same time, try buying a share in a teakwood plantation in Costa Rica. Tens of thousands of Dutch private investors have done so, investing US$ll,OOO
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Asian central banks take out a necessary insurance policy
      643 6  -  ASIAMVXEW Battle against currency speculators will be more effective if more Asia-Pac nations Join By Vikram Khanna BY agreeing to provide liquidity to one another in the event of a crisis that threatens any of their currencies, the central banks of
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      Lock icon Philippine central bank raises borrowing rate to shield peso
      195 6 MANILA Bloomberg Business News THE Philippine central bank raised its overnight borrowing rate to stem speculation against the peso, for the second time in less than a week. The bank also said it will have US$2.5 billion (553.5 billion) to fight
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      Lock icon Manila's trade deficit increases 7.9%
      125 6 MANILA AFP THE PhUippines' trade deficit widened 7.9 per cent to US$6.4l bUlion (Ss9 billion) in the first nine months to September from the same period a year ago, as electronics imports continued to surge. The National Statistics Office said in a report that imports
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      Lock icon Minister defends Malaysia's growing trade deficit
      261 6 KUALA LUMPUR AFP Bernama MALAYSIA'S Deputy Finance Minister yesterday defended the country's widening trade deficit and forecast that it would quadruple this year. He said the deficit was mainly due to capital goods imports by foreign investors. Affifuddin Omar told parliament that the expanding
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        Lock icon Manila takes a leaf from Chile experience
        68 6 AFX-Asia [MANILA] The Philippines is considering the possibility of privatising its pension fund industry, Trade and Industry Secretary Rizalino Navarro said. He added that the privatisation of pension ftinds in Chile had resulted in an increase in domestic savings to 28 per cent
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        Lock icon ADB keen on financing Manila plant
        61 6 Reuter [MANILA] The Asian Development Bank and the US Export-Import Bank have expressed interest in financing construction of a US$BOO million (511.12 billion) coal-fired power plant in the Philippines, an official with the consortium building the project said. The consortium includes Bechtel Enterprises of
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        Lock icon KL and Belgium sign tax pact
        82 6 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia and Belgium yesterday signed an agreement to avoid double taxation in a bid to boost bilateral trade and investment, said a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. The pact updated an earlier agreement signed in 1973. Mr Anwar also
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        Lock icon Kiwi embassy opens in Vietnam
        77 6 Reuter [HANOI] New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger opened an embassy for his country in Vietnam yesterday, endorsing links that are expected to grow as Vietnam's market reforms boost its trade with the rest of Asia. Mr Bolger's visit to Vietnam, which became the seventh
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        Lock icon Malaysian unionists claim trial
        49 6 Bernama [PETALING JAYA] Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) president Zainal Rampak and former Transport Workers Union (TWU) general secretary V David claimed trial in the Session's Court here yesterday to seven counts of criminal breach of trust involving a total of M 590,516.78 (5550,330). Bernama
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      Thai PM orders bids be called for highway project
      385 7  -  BANGKOK Decision a rebuff for tollw&y company in which Thaksin has shares By. Loh Hui Yin THAI Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa yesterday ordered that bids be called for the construction of a highway north of Bangkok instead of giving the contract
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      Lock icon Thai coalition to discuss cabinet revamp
      254 7 ■BANGKOK Move follows ftiiia to sack finance minister and his deputy Reuter SENIOR officials from the six parties in Thai Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa's coalition government are due to meet today to discuss calls for a cabinet reshuffle, government sources said. They said the
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      Lock icon Flood relief in full swing
      123 7 KUALA LUMPUR Reuter MALAYSIAN relief officials worked around the clock yesterday to evacuate hundreds of people affected by floods which have so far claimed five lives, the national Bernama news agency reported. The latest victim in the country's seasonal year-end floods was an 83-year-old man,
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      Lock icon Sirivudh charged with plotting to kill Hun Sen
      202 7 PHNOM PENH Reuter KING Norodom Sihanouk's half brother Prince Norodom Sirivudh was arrested and charged yesterday with plotting to kill Cambodian co-pre-mier Hun Sen, officials and family said. "The prosecutor has charged him with attempting to murder the second prime minister," Information
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      Lock icon Target of much hope
      47 7 [MANILA) Illegal gun-makers manufacturing copies of various handguns in a clandestine workshop yesterday. The sleepy city of Danao is waiting anxiously for something that could make its fortune legalisation of the ancestral art of making perfect copies of guns of all makes. AFP
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      Lock icon Key to security lies in cooperation: Asean army chiefs
      221 7 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama MILITARY cooperation among Asean and Asia-Pacific armies will greatly help ensure regional security in the fliture, Asean army top brass said at a security conference here today. Army Chief Jen Che Md Noor Arshad said the Malaysian army
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Double-digit growth for China trade
      254 8  -  P TOKYO tßy Anthony Rowley sTHE trade liberalisation measures announced by China at £|ast week's Apec summit in dpsaka should help it achieve V'double-digit growth" in foreign trade for several years to fcome, Hongkong Financial Secretary Donald Tsang said yesterday in Tokyo. The measures praised
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      Lock icon China to adopt BOT system
      176 8 BEIJING AFP CHINA will embrace a build, operate and transfer (BOT) strategy in its search for foreign investment in crucial highway projects over the next five years, Communications Ministry officials said yesterday. Until now, China has been suspicious of the BOT system, under which the
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      Lock icon Govt arrests renowned dissident Wei Jingsheng
      290 8 BEIJING UPI CHINA announced yesterday the arrest of Wei Jingsheng, the country's most renowned dissident, on charges of engaging in activities aimed at overthrowing the communist government. Wei, 44, "is accused of violating the criminal law, a criminal offence," said the official Xinhua News
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      Lock icon Fast food, slow talk
      46 8 [BEIJING] Two elderly men chktting under a painting of a giant hamburger yesterday. Western fast-food has captured the imagination of the population in China's three main booming cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou leading to a change from traditional eating habits. AFP
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      Lock icon China to build its biggest refinery
      162 8 BEIJING Reuter CHINA, Saudi Arabia and South Korea plan to jointly invest US$l.6 billion (552.25 billion) to build China's biggest petrochemical refinery in Qingdao city, in the eastern province of Shandong. "Next year we will start construction, mainly with investment from Saudi Arabia, and
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  • SINO Brief
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      Lock icon China has over 1m millionaires
      80 8 AFP [BEIJING] More than one million Chinese have admitted to the tax authorities that they are millionaires In yuan terms, a newspaper report said yesterday, pie Aim, equivalent to US$l2O,OOO (*****,000), isthehig&endaf China's wealth scale, according to the tax administration. But the China Daily reported
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      Lock icon Beijing shuts public phones hit by scam
      79 8 AFP (BEUING] Bering's telecom authorities have dosed down hundreds of public telephones in the capital rfki students discovered a way of decoding the phones and making long-distance calls for one mao (US$O,Ol5), a report said yesterday. Several hundred booths in the university district
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      Lock icon Deng's daughter says he is in good health
      75 8 AFP [MOSCOW] Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping's daughter Deng Rong said on Monday that her father was in good health, reading newspapers and watching television every day, Itar-Tass news agency reported. Speaking shortly before leaving Beijing to promote her book on her
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      Lock icon Taiwan, Australia sign trade agreement
      77 8 AFP (TAIPEI] Taiwan and Australia yesterday signed two trade and investment agreements in Taipei to promote bilateral business exchanges. Lin Yi-fU, director of the Board of Foreign Trade, and Colin Heseltine, senior representative of Australian Commerce and Industry Office in Taipei, signed a pact on
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      170 8 The SIA Cargo 8747-400 Mega Ark now flies to the Windy City the gateway to the entire U.S. Mid-West. Chicago is the latest U.S. city to experience the wind of change. In the shape of the largest, most advanced commercial cargo aircraft in the world. This once weekly service leaves
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      469 9 George Bass has the archaeology. In for none than a Bronze Age years known the 46m below the surface Bass restricts himself and his clivers to sßg^Pl^^^^^BX a maximum of twenty minutes time working on the wreck. Accordingly, he times every dive he makes with a Rolex Submariner. BF^ 8
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Govt acts as Roh case sparks rumours
      258 10 SEOUL One has it that military ig planning t coup after feeling slighted on TV AFP PROSECUTORS yesterday launched a crackdown on rampant rumours stemming from former South Korean president Roh Tae Woo's slush fund scandal, including one about an imminent mUitary coup,
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      Lock icon Clothing foreigners
      45 10 {CHITTAGONGI Bangladeshi women at work in a garment factory of Siam's Superior (HK) Ltd, which is located in the Export Processing Zone of this port city. About 27,000 Bangladeshis work in 62 export-only companies, of which 37 are foreign-owned, in the zone. REUTER
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      Lock icon Korean industries poised for slower growth next year
      318 10 SEOUL But think-tank sees buoyant period for shipbuilding, semiconductor businesses AFP Bloomberg Business News MOST South Korean industries are poised for slackening growth next year, but the shipbuilding and semiconductor businesses would remain buoyant, an economic thinktank said yesterday. The Korean Institute
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      Lock icon Aussie strike ends as unions win battle
      201 10 SYDNEY Bloomberg Business News THOUSANDS of striking Australian workers agreed yesterday to end a crippling industrial dispute after the nation's top union body won a major victory against mining giant CRA Ltd over individual pay awards. Australia's highest arbitration court, the Industrial Relations
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      Lock icon Indian cabinet plumps for Mumbai in place of Bombay
      121 10 NEW DELHI Reuter THE Indian cabinet decided yesterday to change the name of its financial centre and movie capital, Bombay, to Mumbai, a government spokesman said. The change follows a demand from residents of the western state of Maharashtra, led by
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        Lock icon Indonesia, Australia, PNG talk tourism
        73 10 AFP [JAKARTA) Australia and Papua New Guinea have proposed forming a tourism "growth triangle" with Indonesia, the state news agency, Antara yesterday quoted a senior tourism official as saying. The growth triangle would enjoy special trade and investment regulations aimed at increasing tourism. "Senior officials
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        Lock icon Bases' lease: Murayama on legal path
        67 10 Reuter [TOKYO] Japan's Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama decided yesterday to take legal steps to allow him to overrule local officials and sign leases extending the life of some US bases on Okinawa. It was the latest development in a saga that has threatened US-Japan
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        Lock icon Lankan troops advance to Jaffna town
        94 10 Reuter [COLOMBO] Elite Sri Lankan troops advanced cautiously yesterday towards the city centre of Jaffha, the Tamil rebel base for 10 years, now a booby-trapped fortress sheltering a clutch of guerillas against a final army assault. The army said that troops gradually began moving
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        Lock icon Child labour rampant in India: report
        69 10 AFP [NEW DELHI] India has millions of child labourers and the economic exploitation of minors "appears to have increased over the recent years", according to a United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) report Several million Indian children, most over eight years of age, are engaged
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon WTO chief calls for competition rules for private sectors
      305 11 GENEVA Need to study links between competition and trade policies Reuter WORLD Trade Organisation chief Renato Ruggiero has suggested that WTO member states should consider rules that would help ensure private companies did not work together to hinder foreign trade competition.
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      Lock icon EU vow to open doors to E. Europe faltering
      169 11 BRUSSELS AFP JUST as the new democracies of eastern Europe are completing their economic recovery from the collapse of communism, the European Union appears to be having second thoughts about its promises to open its doors to them by the end
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      Lock icon Philip Morris under fire
      90 11 BRUSSELS Reuter THE European Commission yesterday sharply criticised an advertising campaign by US tobacco company Philip Morris, saying it failed to acknowledge that smokers can damage the health of others. "The public should not be misled by this publicity," said Social Affairs Commissioner Padraig Flynn, citing
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      Lock icon Picking up the pieces
      27 11 [WASHINGTON] A National Parks Service employee cleaning up Lafayette Park, across the White House, as federal workers returned to work on Monday. REUTER
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      Lock icon Deal to end Bosnian conflict reached
      132 11 WASHINGTON AFP THE warring sides in the Balkans have reached a comprehensive agreement to end the 43-month-old war in BosniaHerzegovina. US President Bill Clinton yesterday said the deal to end the conflict in Europe included a unified Sarajevo under Bosnian control. Other provisions include
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon UK trade gap widens
        62 11 UPI [LONDON] British government figures yesterday revealed the highest trade deficit with countries outside the European Union since 1988. The Central Statistical Office said the trade gap rose to £1.19 billion (552.6 billion) in October from £696 million the month before. Exports suffered a 6.8 per
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        Lock icon Chile seeks infrastructure investment
        51 11 Reuter [SANTIAGO] Chile has invited private contractors to invest in an US$ll billion (5515.5 billion) plan to replace the country's antiquated infrastructure with new highways, tunnels, railroads and airports between now and 2000. The plan includes 12 highway projects proposed by Public Works Minister Ricardo Lagos.
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        Lock icon G-7 to hold conference on jobs
        113 11 AFP [PARIS] The Group of Seven leading industrial nations will hold a conference on employment in Lille, northern France, on April 1 and 2. The office of French President Jacques Chirac yesterday said the meeting would be held in line with a suggestion by
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        61 11 AFP [CAIROJ Egypt and Israel yesterday conferred on arrangements for a regional development bank to be based in Cairo. Israel's ambassador to Egypt David Sultan said Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minster Rauf Saad had met an Israeli delegation headed by his Israeli counterpart Ode Eran to
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      829 12  -  THE BOTTOMLXVE OPINION By M Kuppusamy The writer is a BT journalist IF THE Sri Lankan government is to be believed, Jaffna town, the stronghold of the Litn eration Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is about to fall, perhaps today. And, if Deputy Defence
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      92 12 Pretty much every regional publisher I have spoken to thinks it is the publishing equivalent of Nick Leeson's bet on the Japanese stock market' Nigel Oftkm managing director of the Bangkok Post, on the expected launch of Asia Times on Dec 6. 'US foreign policy has oscillated
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      471 12 EDITORIAL CONSIDERING the initial disabilities under which the Osaka summit laboured, the happiness with its outcome is entirely understandable. In fact, anything short of a collapse would have deserved a welcome. In the event, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum's third summit was a
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      Rothschild feels heat of competition
      1005 12  -  Merchant bank's present chiefs lack founder's astuteness, say critics From Neil Behrmann The writer is a London based journalist who contributes to BT in London "IT REQUIRES a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when
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      824 12 Apse's Action Agenda APEC's "Action Agenda" has been hailed as important, yet ambiguous. The 18 Apec economies drew up the 78page agenda, styled as a road map with target dates for lowering tariffs, eliminating nontariff barriers, cutting through red tape and making trading regimes more transparent.
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      40 12 DOONESBURY By Gary Trudeau t/UEL/YME BACK rHRH TOPAS WS6OTA SURPR&B WtLL IT FINALLY HAPPSNBP HHHH: pv« FORWJ. evBRSJNcei hisnamb/snzil!anp R6OONSID6FEP" 1 OUTEP MYSSLF ON THE AIR. Hd'S WITH US IN TUB STUPIO MARK. 1 I US ABOUT Zm ■>& roc»yj£uo«£,wc> 1S&S;
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      940 13  -  A new biography paints a sympathetic picture of the author despite his creepy side, reports MfOHTKO gAftuiAMl MICHIKO KAKUTANI NYT SINCE its publication more than a century ago, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has produced a mind-boggling array of interpretations. It has been analysed
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      696 13  -  BOOK REVIEW In her latest book Amy Tan once again explores the links between generations By Michiko Kakutani NYT THE cultural gap between America and China, the gap of age and values between mothers and daughters: these themes have defined the emotional territory
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      Speaking volumes about a green Singapore
      225 13  -  BOOK REVIEW By' Tan Su Yen GREENING the Bottom Line, a slim, elegant volume, aptly printed on recycled paper, sets out to show corporate Singapore that being green is not necessarily at odds with making money. The book, produced by the National Council on
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      524 14  -  MOVIES China's film industry is opening up, and a monopoly on distribution is to be broken in 19M By\ Seth Faison NYT [SHANGHAI] Hollywood executives are itching to get into China. And their day may finally have come, after years of waiting. China's film industry looks like
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      735 14 PROFILE 15m people in the UK watch Di talk about her problems NYT [LONDON] The failed marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales has finally reached the modern celebrity age: both parties have gone on television to give their side of the story. On
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      Creamy terrine and interesting pastas at Pete's Place
      392 15 EATING OUT MTE's Place at the Hyatt Refcy Singapore has got to be i of the few restaurants e that's managed to keep a gffular clientele over the (§tny years it's been around. 'It's almost always full «Atether for lunch or dinner,
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        80 16 Reuter BAIUUlAStre&andU making a film about slain Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Araftt to run on the Showtime cable station next year. The film, Two Hands Thai Shook The World, will be produced by Streisand's Barwood Films and Jsuzbo Productions and
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        146 16 UPI JOHN P Kennedy Jr maybe America's most sought after bachelor, but actor-director Warren Beatty is reputed to havehadoneofthebusieet romantic careers in rbt men sat down recently fbr an interview being published in Kennedy's hew magaatne, George, Kennedy aaid that ifßeattyeverran i for public office "the tosgpi
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        50 16 UPI recordings as The Rutks, British comic Eric Idles v "mockumeniary" of the Lads from Liverpool, and for very youngfanz, Bugs and Friends sin# the Beatles In which' Bugs Bunny, Dafly Duck, KimerFuddandtbeTfcsmanian Devil perform their favourite Beatles songs as the Furry i- Pour.-BPt
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        89 16 UPI COMEDIAN George Burns may have cancelled his scheduled 100 th birthday performances in Las Vegas, but !«hat doesn't mean he*jlletting the occasion pass unnoticed Burns will celebrate in style on Jan 16, four days before his birthday, throwing a party at the Four Seasons
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      847 16  -  MUSIC The Beatles' Anthology is bonnd to get cynics'flak, but it still some By I Stephen Williams NYT FOR this, we waited 25 years? Affection and nostalgia notwithstanding, Free as a Bird, the "new" Beatles song, taken on its musical merits, contributes little to the lads'
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      Lock icon Armstrong launches main board IPO
      444 19  -  Precision component maker offers 445 m shares at 40 cents each By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Precision component maker Armstrong Industrial Corporation launched its main board initial public offering (IPO) of 44.5 million shares yesterday. The float the 11th on the main board and 18th on
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      298 19  -  By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Continuing a five-day slide, Creative Technology ended the top loser in dollar terms on the Singapore Stock Exchange yesterday. It shed 70 cents to a threemonth low of $13.50 before closing at $13.80 with 67,650 shares traded. Analysts
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      Creative bets on right horse but margins of glory days are over
      726 19  -  HOCK LOCK SXEW By David Mok THE Comdex Fall *95 computer trade show one of the largest and most important in the industry was to be something of a trial-by-flre for Creative Technology. The homegrown multimedia firm had
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      Lock icon HLI revises share plan for 2 firms
      242 19 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Hong Leong Industries (HLI) and Malaysian Pacific Industries (MPI) yesterday announced that there will be a change in participation in the share capital of MPI Paper Mill (MPIPM) and Malaysian Newsprint Industries. In a joint statement here, they said the
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      MAS shares fall on rumours of new issue
      363 19  -  Talk of private placement of up to 10% of share capital From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA Airlines' shares bucked the positive trend on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday, falling on rumours that the national carrier will issue new shares
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        431 20 510b rapiah deal will also see the firms merge with the two tycoons' listed Apac Centertex AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] Businessmen Bambang Trihatmodjo and Johannes Kotjo plan to fully acquire and merge two textile firms into their listed concern PT Apac Centertex in a
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        Lock icon OYL to buy part of APV business for £19m
        211 20 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] OYL Industries Bhd will acquire the refrigeration and freezer business of APV for a total cash consideration of £19 million (5541.6 million). OYL said its wholly-owned subsidiary, McQuay Inc (AMI), had entered into a sale and purchase agreement
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        Waterfront sinks 11% on inquiry call
        492 20  -  Philippines senator says land lease disadvantages govt By. Al Labita in Manila THE shares of Malaysian-con-trolled property developer Waterfront Philippines fell 11 per cent yesterday after a lawmaker called for a senate investigation into a contract between the company and a government agency. The
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        193 20 Bloomberg Business News [KUALA LUMPUR] The stock of Kampong Lanjut Tin Dredging, a real estate company, rose as much as 13 per cent after its merchant bank said the company plans to buy a 20 per cent stake in banking group
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          GP Batteries issue raises US$36m
          66 20 [SINGAPORE] GP Batteries International said yesterday its bonds with warrants issue has been successfully completed, raising U5536.4 million (5151.3 million). The bonds were privately placed with investors by Citicorp Investment Bank (S). The warrants were also fully taken up. They expire in 2000 and will
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          L&M director resigns
          19 20 (SINGAPORE] L&M Group Investments yesterday aajd Putra Masagung resigned as a director with effect from yesterday.
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          Flextech in dark over price increase
          38 20 [SINGAPORE] Flextech Holdings yesterday said its directors were not aware of any material information or circumstances which could have led to the increase in price and trading volume of the company's shares.
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          NOL pref shares conversion closes soon
          62 20 [SINGAPORE] The final conversion date of NOL's irredeemable convertible cumulative preference shares (ICCPS) is Dec 2. Buyers who have not registered the ICCPS transfers in their names should do so before the book closure this Friday. On mandatory conversion of all outstanding ICCPS on
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          Sesdaq Fund sells 1.13m GB Hldgs shares
          58 20 (SINGAPORE] The Singapore Sesdaq Fund has sold 1.13 million shares in ma inboard-listed GB Holdings, or 1.51 per cent of the company. One million shares were sold at $1.34 and 133,000 shares were sold at $1.37. Alter the transaction, it holds 4.66 million
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          50 20 Bloomberg Business News [KUALA LUMPUR] The stock of Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd will begin trading on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange tomorrow, the exchange said. The company publishes The Star, a daily newspaper based in Petaling Jaya in the Kuala Lumpur suburbs. Bloomberg Business News
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        Lock icon Thai brokers pledge to back US$1.2b stock rescue move
        216 20 Reuter [BANGKOK] Thai brokerage firms yesterday pledged they would contribute towards restoring public confidence in the Thai bourse by making a US$l.2 billion (Ssl.7 billion) market rescue package a success. Representatives of brokerage houses said after a meeting that they do
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        Lien Hoe unit to turn building into hotel
        216 20  -  By\ Surinder Singh in Sydney LH Properties Australia, a subsidiary of Malaysian-based Lien Hoe Corporation Bhd, has been given the go-ahead to refurbish the John Fairfax Holdings Ltd building it bought last year into a hotel and retail complex. The central Sydney
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        650 20 Earnings plunge 56%, shares take a beating and the fntnre is not rosy either Bloomberg Business News [KUALA LUMPUR] It seems everything went wrong for Malaysia's big plywood company Aokam Perdana Bhd in its 1995 financial year. Don't expect things to improve this year,
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        533 21 Focus on future earnings, not past upheavals, says new Coles Myer chairman [MELBOURNE] Australia's largest retailer, Coles Myer Ltd, must stop dwelling on its recent upheavals and focus instead on increasing earnings, the company's new chairman, Nobby Clark, said yesterday. "We have been through
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        498 21 Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] As a rule, investors prone to motion sickness can always reach to utUity stocks to steady themselves against distressing price swings. Hongkong is the exception that proves it. The territory's two biggest utUity shares, Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd and China
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        Lock icon Bridgestone in talks to form tyre joint venture in India
        292 21 Plans to invest 3b rupees in factory to chnrn ont lm tyres a year from 1998 Bloomberg Business News [BOMßAY] Bridgestone Corp and Associated Cement Companies Ltd said they are in talks to invest about 3 billion rupees (Ssl3s million)
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        Lock icon 460-m tall financial centre for Shanghai
        141 21 AFP (SHANGHAI] Forest Overseas Co Ltd, a unit of Japan's Mori Building Group, would develop the world's tallest building in Shanghai together with more than 36 other investors, a top company official said here yesterday. Minoru Mori, president of the Mori group, told reporters
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          68 21 Knight-Ridder [HONGKONG] Michael Kadoorie, chairman of Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd, said yesterday that the company had been granted a 40-year investment licence for its US$lO3 million (Ssl46 million) joint venture development project in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam. The Hongkong-listed* company has a 65 per
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          71 21 Bloomberg Business News [BEIJING] Oil company Royal Dutch/Shell Group has K: JS begun work on a US$24 million plant to manufacture lubricants for the Chinese market The official Xinhua 1 news agency yesterday said the plant, located in the eastern port city of TianJin, is
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          Lock icon Warner Bros to open stores Down Under
          85 21 Bloomberg Business News [MELBOURNE] Warner Bros has signed an agreement to a\» set up its Studio Stores retail operation in Australia and nil New Zealand in a partnership with cinema and entertainment company Village Roadshow Ltd •> s shopping centre operator Westfleki Hokhnas
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          Lock icon RJR sues LeBow, Icahn
          90 21 Reuter [NEW YORK] RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp has filed suit against investors Bennett Leßow and Carl Icahn, saying they conspired to buy a controlling interest in the company in order to win its tobacco business. RJR said in ,j its suit, filed in US District Court
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        411 22 He gets foothold in region by teaming np with media giants in satellite venture Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] News Corp has teamed up with some of the biggest media firms in Latin America on a US$5OO million (Ss7os million) venture to beam
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        212 22 Cable Wireless declines comment on bid report Reuter [LONDON] A spokesman for Cable Wireless pic said the company has no comment on a newspaper report that US cellular telephone billionaire Craig McCaw may be preparing a takeover bid for the company. "We don't comment on speculation," the spokesman said. The
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        Lock icon Revlon to follow Estee Lauder into IPO arena
        359 22 Reuter {NEW YORK] Cosmetics giant Revlon Inc, taking its cue from the highly successful public launch by competitor Estee Lauder Cos Inc, said on Monday that it planned to hold an initial public offering early next year. Investor Ronald Perelman, who owns
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        Lock icon AT&T names execs for spinoff systems unit
        140 22 Reuter [NEW YORK) AT&T Corp has appointed key executives for the new systems and technology company that will be formed as a result of its restructuring into three separate companies. The new US$2O billion (Ss2B billion) company will produce a range of public
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        Lock icon Fidelity now largest Chrysler shareholder
        326 22 Mntu&l fond company overtakes billionaire Kerkorian with new stake of 14.4% Bloomberg Business News BOSTON Fidelity Investments has surpassed billionaire Kirk Kerkorian as Chrysler Corp's largest shareholder. The Boston-based mutual fund company increased its stake in the carmaker during the third quarter to 55.1 million
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        Lock icon First Interstate says 'no' to Wells Fargo's sweetened bid
        399 22 Stage set for a proxy fight as it backs First Bank's offer Bloomberg Business News [LOS ANGELES] First Interstate Bancorp rejected Wells Fargo Co's sweetened takeover bid, reiterating its support for First Bank System Inc's U5510.29 billion (5514.5 billion) offer and
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        Lock icon Japan exchange chiefs deny Daiwa-Sumitomo merger
        150 22 Bloomberg Business News [TOKYO] The heads of the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges have denied reports that a merger is in the works between Daiwa Bank Ltd and Sumitomo Bank Ltd to create an Osaka-based superbank. "We have asked them about the merger reports
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        Lock icon Kyocera unveils huge rise in profits, but shares respond by tumbling
        279 22 Reuter [OSAKA] Semiconductor component maker Kyocera Corp unveiled its strongest firsthalf profits in a decade, but its shares fell all the same. "Domestically, it was a difficult period," Kyocera president Kensuke Itoh told reporters. "But strong sales overseas, Asia
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        352 23 Hanoi expected to settle debts of USs7oom-sBoom before tapping capital markets Reuter IHANOI] Vietnam's communist government is preparing to test its credit rating in world debt markets with an international bond issue of several hundred million dollars in the next few months, bankers
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        Lock icon Japanese banks keen on Taiwan
        122 23 Reuter [TAIPEI] Three of Japan's top 10 banks have set up a presence in Taiwan, and the rest are interested to follow them next year, as the island works to turn itself into a financial centre, a finance ministry official said. "All the other seven
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        53 23 [ZUUBAYAN, MONGOLIA] Texan Ken Kidneigh, operations manager of Nesco Oil Company, walking past new storage tanks at a formerly abandoned Russian oilfield in the Gobi desert on Monday. With new technology to retrieve the crude oilfrom a shallow depth of6sometres, the company plans to have a
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        Big Aussie nickel find sparks fever
        252 23  -  From Surinder Singh tra Sydney THE Western Australian goldmining centre of Kalgoorlie is abuzz, not with talk of the yellow metal, but with nickel fever. Details just released of a rich strike by a Finnish and Melbourne-based group reveal that the find is a
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        Lock icon Paine Webber, Merrill plan to axe upfront bonuses to new brokers
        281 23 Move follows report by industry panel on improving image of brokerages NYT Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK) Paine Webber Group Inc and Merrill Lynch Co plan to stop offering signing bonuses to lure brokers from other firms. The two
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        Lock icon Opec warns non-members of potential price war
        305 23 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [VIENNA] Opec president Erwin Arrieta opened a conference of the cartel yesterday venting its frustration at the uncontrolled rise in oil output from nations which do not belong to it. Mr Arrieta, Oil Minister of Venezuela, said in a speech
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        159 23 AFX-Asia AFP Loodon THE dollar was near the day's highs in rangebound mid-af-ternoon trading, but with few players prepared to take freah positions ahead of today's US September trade data. A dealers said trading hy; been dominated by short-tenn technical trades, with a bias towards the dollar's upside.
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        795 24 [KUALA LUMPUR] Tin price on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market closed seven sen lower at M 515.92 per kg yesterday, despite the unchanged performance on the overnight London Metal Exchange. A dealer said the market managed to end off its lows despite a higher offerings recorded yesterday, due
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        1135 24 Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Eurodollar futures ended steady but off their highs on profit-taking as the market paused for a breather after Monday's rally. The initial euphoria over the budget agreement between US President Bill Clinton and Congress had worn off as investors took a closer look at the
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          Taiwan firm in soybean bid
          100 24 [TAIPEI] In a departure from convention, Taiwan's Charoen Phokphand Enterprises will today tender for a cargo of US soybeans slated for Jan-Feb shipment to China, the company said yesterday. CP will tender for a 50,000-tonne cargo of US soybeans to be delivered to Tianjin, China.
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          Japanese-Thai aluminium deal
          113 24 (TOKYO] Japan's Calsonic Corp has established a joint venture with Siam Auto Parts Co of Thailand to make aluminium alloy radiators for local car production, according to a spokesman. The Siam Calsonic Co will be capitalised at 100 million baht (555.6 million), 49 per cent owned by
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          India grain storage problems ease
          91 24 [NEW DELHI] India's foodgrain storage problems have eased due to heavy rice purchases in the past few months by exporters, said a senior official at the state-run Food Corp of India. Having signed contracts to export 1.8 million tonnes of rice in fiscal 1995-96 (Apr-Mar),
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          Thai venture to mine for gold
          94 24 [BANGKOK] Thailand's Tongkah Harbour Public Co Ltd expects a venture that will produce about 32,000 ounces per year of pure gold to come onstream in late 1996, the firm said yesterday. The company has applied for mining licences to cover three areas in Thailand's
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          France's new sugar futures option
          82 24 [PARIS] French futures exchange Matif confirmed yesterday the launch of its new sugar option contract, but it did not make any volume forecast. The contract is scheduled to be launched on Dec 8 and responds to the needs of professionals in the sugar industry. Matif
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          LME lead at new 1995 highs
          93 24 [LONDON] Lead rose to a new 1995 high of US$722 (S$l,018) yesterday morning after news of another big fall in London Metal Exchange stocks. Analyst Adam Rowley of Macquarie Equities said the fall 0f4,550 tonnes in lead stocks highlighted the fact that "basically the
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1236 24 SI COM FUTURES Nov 21 RUBBER (hrtarrs ctosinq (5 S30pa) RSSI CONTtACT{S ctnts/M) Close VotWM Opoo MMtfc Hlqfc Uw Sott (to«>os) Interest Dec 95 241.00 235.50 237.00 225 1000 JM 96 239.00 236.00 236.00 400 1850 ft 96 239.00 236.00 236.00 400 1475 Mar 96 239.00 236.00 236.00
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
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        Tokyo
        2313 25 *050 STOCKS were little changed as concern over computer chip demand and bad debt counterbalanced optimism about profits from economic growth. Declines in banking and technology shares offset advances in steel, shipping and textile stocks. "Many of these low-priced, high-cap shares have been ignored, even though their earnings are
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        Sydney
        627 25 ♦123 Share prices closed higher after a truce in the industrial battle raging between unions and CRA sent investors flocking to resource stocks. "The market moved up when rumours began to circulate that the strike was over," a broker said. The All Ordinaries Index rose 12.3 points to 2,138.7.
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        Manila
        381 25 *55.76 Share prices recovered on bargain hunting and a technical rebound from sharp losses over the past week. An analyst said the rise was due to bargain hunting and a technical rally, adding that it was "filling in the gap from the sharp fall yesterday". The PSE Composite Index
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        Taipei
        321 25 ♦55JS Shares closed higher as bargain hunters picked up cheap stocks following steep declines in the past weeks. "Some investors returned to pick up low-cost shares after six consecutive losses," said a trader. The 321-issue Weighted Price Index recovered 55.95 points to 4,621.67. Turnover was 471 million shares worth
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        Seoul
        503 25 jgjy Stocks fell for a third day on concern that former president Roh Tae Woo's slush fund scandal will have a negative impact on the economy and companies, traders said. Roh was arrested on suspicion of accepting US$3OO million (***** million) in bribes from 30 companies. State prosecutors have
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        Bombay
        193 25 -4&54 Share prices finished broadly lower in weak end-account trading, brokers said. The 30-share BSE Index fell 48.54 points, or 1.6 per cent, to a provisional 3,062.69. The 100stock National Index was down 8.98 at 1,398.25. "The selling pressure grew towards the close," said a dealer. "There were sellers
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        Wellington
        363 25 -3.49 Shares were mixed as a rally in bonds helped Telecom, and forester Carter Holt Harvey declined on earnings concerns. Carter Holt has also been hurt by pulp and forest product company downgrades in the US. Telecom gained as the yield on bonds due November 2006 fell to their
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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        London
        671 25 -24.7 SHARES fell as a string of profit warnings took their toll on the market, with poor results from De La Rue making traders think about the likely profit levels of other companies. The FT-SE 100 Index fell 24.7 points to 3,604.1, knocked down by drug companies such as
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        New York
        735 25 AM Stocks were mixed as gains in the Dow Jones and makers of consumer products balanced sliding technology Issues. Computer and other high-tech stocks tumbled for a third day after Dell Computer said profits in the three months ending Jan 31 might not grow from the third quarter.
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        388 25 hMwr latt hi US* ««V «n %«v %«r *#r Ha»ti MX— Off atmrn Ctmmf awm Cham* Chain* wwu sks -at t2.5 -0.0 10.9 o.o ha t UFt 578.4 -03 23 03 13 0.1 43 turap* 587.0 -0.4 9.4 0.0 13.0 0.0 16.7 Pacific 772.4 Oil -X? Oil -73 ai -4.9
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      2321 26 Reuter Fl Hang Seng +78J8 STOCKS shrugged off early losses and finished sharply higher on a late buying spree, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index surged 78.18 points to 9,452.09, recovering from a low of 9,310.87. Turnover was HK53.22 billion. "Blue chips have been oversold across the board and
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      700 26 Reuter n Shanghai B Share Index -dOl SHANGHAI B shares closed mixed with the index little changed after institutions bought selectively to support the market. Most retail investors stayed on the sidelines as the market had lost direction, brokers said. Sentiment was weak, the market having been losing for
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      1086 26 Q Composite Index jMK92 STOCKS yesterday rose for the first time in five trading days as Indosat recovered from the all-time low it hit on Monday. The Composite Index rose 0.92 point to 454.05. "The stocks that really count are recovering a bit because they got so cheap in
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      1178 26 Bloomberg Business News n SET Index ♦12.70 THAI stocks rose as investors reassessed the risk that economic concerns would hurt corporate profits. "The market has been flailing since July, the same time the new government came to power/' said a fund manage. "Inflation, high interest rates and poor profits
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        Lock icon Foreign funds return to bid up blue chips
        6974 27 KUALA LUMytlKifepoffe Bloomberg Business News H Composite ladei +23.41 STOCKS staged their biggest gain in more than six months as foreign investors bid up shares of banks and other big companies they found inexpensive after the market's sharp decline. The KLSE Composite
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    • WARRANTS & OPTIONS
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        Bandar Raya: still attractive
        3643 28  -  WARRANT WATCH By\ Paul Leo BANDAR RAYA TSR 1997, which took the third position on the gainers list in percentage terms on the local bourse yesterday, still looks attractive. It has the trappings of a reasonably priced warrant with good upside potential a low premium and
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2286 28 MALAYSIAN STOCKS Cr Cr >995 Last Vo4 Day Last Ouota Div Otv VM Net M Cap Hlqh Law Stno Company Sale COOO) High Law Buyer Seller C*vr P/C Sm4l 478 196 5000 AISBSOc 402 Cd -8 375 412 308 402 404 10 49 0.4 83.4 412 3 127
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        2155 29 TURNOVER COOO) VALUE ('OOO) M*tn Clot Til Main CM ToUl lf«u»tri*i 72.613 11.961 84,574 151.927 21.026 172,953 Fin*nc» 4.037 6.406 10,443 36.589 9.13# 47.727 Hotaft 2,111 1,347 3,458 5.002 1.801 6.802 Proewttts 9,976 4,500 14,476 42,475 5,347 47,822 PWnUtton 3.851 3.851 3,040 3.040 MMng 1,324 1,324 2.978 2.978 Bt# 6,006
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        HOT STOCK
        65 30  -  By Shiv Taneja Sesdaq-listed HBM Print saw a sharp lOcent rise to 65 cents yesterday, but any further upside will be limited to a few cents at best, as daily and weekly RSIs are now pretty overbought The directional indicators MACD and moving averages charts also look toppish.
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        Hopes of sustained rally as trading volume soars
        899 30  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Foreign buying boosts confidence bnt an analyst say that the rise could be a technical rebonnd By Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] Buying interest from foreign institutions returned yesterday with a bite, driving stock prices higher and raising hopes that happy
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
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          The Awakening
          93 30 THREE CHEERS! After weeks of being in the living-dead mode, the stock markets in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur suddenly bounced back to life yesterday. Various theories have been bandied about for this awakening. One suggests that a big European fund has a US$4OO million (***** million) order to
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          Blur like sotong?
          81 30 STOCKBROKERS' reports get more colourful the duller market sentiment becomes. We reproduced below not a verse from the latest Dick Lee's song but an item straight off Philip Securities Research Far East Weekly Report. "Overheard at a corner coffee-shop: "Ah Fatt, why you blur like sotong? "No
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          Block deal at Inno-Pacific
          147 30 A BLOCK of 11 million Inno-Paciflc shares was crossed at 66.5 cents yesterday afternoon. Like ants lured to sugar, punters quickly pounded on the counter, so that it ended the day as the most active stock with a volume of 19.66 million shares, or 8.33 per
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          SOH what is the story at Bescorp?
          113 30 BESCORP BHD jumped MSl.Oltocloeeat M 55.55 after 1.89 million shares ware swapped yesterday. Market participants have been hearing many stories about the company which makes precast concrete piles. One unconfirmed report suggests Soh Chee Wen ofPromet and Inno-Paciflc feme is one suitor but
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          Market's down, sell Sathirathai
          71 30 RADIO talk shows In Bangkok have been bombarded by phone calls from irate listeners who questioned the wtedora of the government setting up a 30 billion baht (S$ i .9 billion) rescue fund for investor*. Some oi their vitriolic were directed at Finance Minister Surakiat Sathirathai
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      MAIN BOARD
      4407 29 6r 6» M wt 1995 Last Vol Day Last Quota Dtv 01* VM Not Cap Avg UN* Low StWo Cai—anr Sata fOOOl Htgh Low Buyer »o«or C*r P/t %mM Prtce INDUSTRIALS 210 176 1258 AcorSOc US180 unch 98 180 180 180 181 12.2 298.0 490 318* m t
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      SESDAQ
      963 29 Cf Cf M Wt "95 Last Vol Day Last Oust* Dlv Otv YM Nat Cap Ava H*9» L— »W Clin w« COOOl !%> L— Buyr 1—ar Cw Pfl Sin Prtera SESDAQ 322 40 a 2000 ABRHidgsSc 297 »8 577 306 291 297 298 18.0 6.9 0.3 64.6 131.3 299
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      867 30 Singapore Closing Share Prices 21/11/1995 CLOSE PREV LOW HIGH al—lr uss uss uss uss Allif# Jardine Matheson. 5.75 5.70 5.60 5.85 IffSDODHI Jardine Strategic 2.60 2.62 2.61 2.64 A Da,f y Farm 076 076 0.78 0.76 Hongkong Land 1.70 1.72 1.70 1.73 ■vavOHM Mandarin Oriental 1.13 1.15 1.12 1.13 UlttUliai
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
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      Lock icon DAILY FREIGHT
      306 31 Reuter Knight-Ridder THERE wasn't much news of chartering activity, brokers said. In the Panamax sector, there were questions surrounding the exact value for late December tonnage available to cover cargoes from the US Gulf to Japan. Rates for tonnage loading early Dec grain cargoes on the key route
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      MARITIME STOCKS
      298 31 us WKKHKKKKM ■*a a iw Opt Distribution 1.44 -0.01 SS Choan Hup 1.13 *0.01 114 Coscolnv IN -0.03 >6 rtLS 5.70 -0.05 212 FreiqM LMu 0.73 -0.02 124 06 Holdings 129 *0.03 1851 Hal Sun Hup 0.905 -0.005 375 HKKNZHM 1.05 *0.01 69 IMC Heidb*s HK 5.60 JayaHoidtags
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      Lock icon Multi-purpose ships face redundancy
      335 31  -  More cargoes being shipped in containers, says Drewry report By' Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] Multi-purpose ships face the threat of becoming redundant as more and more cargoes are transported in containers. According to London-based Drewry Shipping Consultants in a recent report, "Multi-pur-pose Cargo Ships and Their
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      Lock icon Sinotrans to buy US$1b worth of vessels
      170 31 Reuter [BEIJING] Sinotrans, China's leading shipping firm, is planning a US$l billion (551.41 billion) fleet expansion that will boost capacity to more than 3.0 million deadweight tonnes (dwt), the China Daily Business Weekly said. The company will purchase new and second-hand vessels with
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      How many will follow safety rules spelt out by IMO this week?
      689 31  -  STRAIT TALK By\ Seafarer SINGAPORE topped the polls in last week's election to the International Maritime Organisation's council. The other members endorsed its election with 105 out of a possible 117 votes. That is good news for Singapore
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      Lock icon Ship operators agree to doubling of THCs: Ling
      289 31 Higher charges for feeder cargo to be introduced in stages MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] Ship operators have stopped their opposition to the government's proposal to double terminal handling charges (THC) for import and export cargo via a third country and instead agreed that
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      Lock icon Belgium violated lines' rights, says court
      202 31 Reuter [STRASBOURG, France] The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Monday that Belgium violated the rights of shipping firms by changing its laws and barring them from suing pilots who damaged their vessels. The court ordered Belgium to pay costs and expenses of
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      NYK luxury liner sails into S'pore
      288 31  -  Japanese line's newest cruiseship on its maiden voyage By] Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Nippon Yusen Kaisha's (NYK) newest luxury liner Crystal Symphony sailed into Singapore for the first time yesterday morning. Speaking at a maiden voyage ceremony onboard the ship yesterday, NYK Line chairman Jiro
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      Lock icon Future may well be offshore
      765 32  -  NORWEGIAN SHIPPING: WEIGHED DOWN BY TAXES With signs that Norway is unlikely to change its tax structure to help the industry, shipping companies now steer clear of anything that commits them to staying put and are even considering moving overseas fly: Patrick Neylan-Francis Fairplay Around
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      Lock icon Fewer and bigger
      228 32 Fairplay RECENT takeovers have emphasised a growing trend in Norwegian shipping towards consolidation. The industry is tending towards bigger companies wielding greater power. Last month, the protracted battle for control of Norwegian America Line (NAL) ended with Bergesen taking control ahead of rival Wilh Wilhelmsell. The lengthy
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      496 32 PAGE ABC Cant 17 AMI 3 API 14 Able 7 Accord 8 Ahlers 6 Ahrenkiel 4 Air Mm 20 Appenship 4 Arowana 15 Astro 12 Austral 9 AVint 6 B'tang Mas 8 BSA 9 BTL 13 Bangladesh 14 Batamndo 7 Bengal Br tS
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      SHIPPING GUIDE
      13707 40 V ETA ETA Advartlsar Vmm* Voyaga Pg ETA ETA Advartlsar vtiul Voyaga Pg SM OtD'n Mwn* Nam* No. No. SIN Dast'n Nama Nam* No. No Hi A C«tu k 24/11 03/12 NOL MERKUR BAV 02N 17 AWIWS 15/11 0VU MOt INTR BHUM 20E 17 23/11 M/12 Maarsk RECINA
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        CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        603 49 v»«*l Voy No Berth Arrival Dtpartui Jvoai Port Ji aonptat 2Z.n/093( (ITUpMi Jaya 7/95 JI Mongvd* 22.(1/1030 3/95 JI ttonqsxH 22.1t/I700 (BT) BSM||I Hud* 17/95 JI HonquOt 22.11/0100 Mm Murn. n/6/95 Jt2 atompide 22.11/2300 B««Wi 1 J16/I7 alongside 22.11/070C DwJSwa 11/02/95 J21 ttonqstdf 22.I1/230C joy Venture V18/I9 J1S/I9
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1490 49 RECEIV1H6 Of PtPQNT FCt CONTAINERS AND LCI CAR60 Booklng/Manc* Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Portod From To From *t« J*4t 2658 23/1700 2A 21/1700 22/0459 22/0900 3 22/0700 22/1159 22/1400 4 22/1200 22/1459 22/1700 AcilJ* 0496 24/2359 4 22/1200 22/1459 2~2/l700 AW Mirack ***** 23/MOO tt 21/1500 21/1459
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        GLOBAL HOLIDAY
        342 49 NOV 22 Germany: (Tentative) Buss und Bettag. Lebanon: Independence Day. NOV 23 Japan: Labour Thanksgiving Day. United States: Thanksgiving Day. NOV 28 Panama: Independencia de Espana. NOV 30 Philippines: Bonifacio Day. Yemen: Holiday. DEC 1 Central African Republic, Romania: National Day. Ghana: Farmers' Day. DEC 2 UAE: National
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        835 49 THIS report, compiled by Cock ett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        Lock icon HK offers Canberra new air traffic concessions
        345 50 Colony trying to settle protracted dispute over Qantas' intra-Asia rights AFP {SYDNEY] Hongkong has offered the Australian government new concessions in an attempt to end the protracted dispute over Qantas Airways' intra-Asia traffic rights, airline sources said here yesterday. The colonial administration is
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        54 50 [ROME] The Fiat Bravo (left) and Brava were named 'Cars of the Year'on Monday by an international jury of 56 motor journalists from 21 European countries. It was the first time in its 30-year existence that the prize went to the same car maker two years
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        Lock icon McDonnell's credit rating may go up if it merges with Boeing
        294 50 Boeing's financial position very strong, says SAP Bloomberg Business News fNEW YORK] McDonnell Douglas Corp's potential merger with Boeing Co could help boost its 888 senior debt rating, Standard Poor's said on Monday. The two aircraft makers are discussing
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        Lock icon Opel to start investment talks with Polish govt
        205 50 Reuter [WARSAW] General MotorsAdam Opel AG will start talks tomorrow with the Polish government on an investment programme in Poland, which could involve a 400 million mark (*****.2 million) greenfield project, an industry ministry spokeswoman said. "General Motors will present concrete plans
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        Lock icon US renews JAL's repair station certificate
        178 50 AFP [NEW YORK] Japan Airlines has regained clearance to offer full maintenance services to US-registered airliners after adjusting procedures to comply with US requirements, JAL said on Monday. The airline said the overseas repair station certificate issued by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
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        Lock icon Vauxhall faces strike threat amid industry unrest
        204 50 Reuter [LONDON] General Motors faces the threat of a strike at its British car-making company Vauxhall after union leaders won a resounding vote of support on Monday to fight for more pay and less hours amid mounting car-industry unrest. The unions called for
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        Lock icon Washington, Manila sign aviation accord
        249 50 US carriers' cargo rights expanded; open skies policy deferred AFP [MANILA] The Philippines and the US signed an aviation agreement on Monday expanding cargo rights to US carriers but deferring the implementation of an open skies policy. "The accord is a partnership in the truest
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          Waco holds EGM in Bangkok
          78 50 [SINGAPORE] The 22nd Extraordinary General Meeting of the World Air Cargo Organisation's Waco System was held recently in Bangkok. About 80 delegates representing 53 countries attended the one-week long conference. Waco comprises major independent air cargo agents who cooperate on a worldwide basis in the
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          Lock icon 30 Merc showrooms in China next year
          85 50 AFP [BEUING] Mercedes-Benz will have a network of 30 showrooms and after-sales centres in China next year, a company official announced yesterday. By the end of October, the German carmaker had sold 50,000 vehicles in China, 40,000 of them cars, said Mercedes board
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          Lock icon Canadian Pacific to revamp rail ops
          70 50 AFP [MONTREAL] Canadian Pacific announced on Monday that it would streamline its rail operations in a move likely to see 1,450j0bs cut The reorganisation will involve the formation of a separate subsidiary company to operate the railway division. The parent company will take a
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          Lock icon No talks with Skoda: Russian carmakers
          76 50 Reuter [MOSCOW] Major Russian carmakers said Skoda, the Czech company looking for a partner to start assembling its Felicia model in Russia early next year, has not discussed the venture with than. Officials at Skoda, a unit of Germany's Volkswagen AG, said last week
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
        1457 50 CITY FLIGHT ETA FLIGHT ETD QF006 »40 AbuDhaW 0KIS6 1735 S0442 2000 Fdwafca SO999 1730 S0990 QIC 0*«7 2020 Gdwra SM83 2205 S0227 2030 Hanoi VH741 1310 S0176 1130 A— KJW2 1440 BJ1B3 2225 S0175 1910 VN740 WW Amsterdam KL843 0545 KU32 2335 Katyal MI893 2000
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      225 31 Hongkong offers Canberra new air traffic concessions Attempt to end dispute over Qantas. Back Page ASIA/WEST COAST OF I H SOUTH AMERICA SERVICE I Compania Chilena de Navegacion Interoceanica S.A. (CCNI), Kawasaki Kisen |H Kaisha (K-Line), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd (MOL) and Nedlloyd Lines are pleased to hereby announce calling
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      1403 32 I north AuemcA i omen oesruunoM "I i north amerka i PtRECT CALL TO WEST COAST WCIQ 1 COAST Of CEWTRAL AMEBK> (MA*»ABfTA SEHWCt) MMQAPOWE CAUFOWHIA EXPRESS (ptRBCT FWOW WEST COAST) 1 vasa w mat mm u om vat su ml hou ok wi mncoorr vna |m aw rMiwiM|iMM4|iMMHiiMM ft
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      258 32 Lines and services represented by Members of the Registry of Accredited f? fejlt Shipping Agents, Singapore National Shipping Association. For advertising enquiries, contact Shipping rimes. Tel 740-2089 H 1 II ■AURORA 21/11 RdnVAtwAJtC/Nanteß BELLE 21/11 RdnVAtw/UK/Nartm l~ EDO 27/11 FttiVAtWßm I apil 8/12 12/12 HdnVAtWVJKAteUM I Maays»a, Indonawa J j
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      1217 33 EXPORT TO: TO: JEDOAH/UK/CONTINENT jvissu m m i'md now riuvm sum in I also accepting cargo FOR: ,4 5 W ,J 1J 14 /U H/'J GIASGIOW GRANGEMOUTH NfDUOYD AFRICA 1475 M/ll 01/11 21/12 20/11 17/11 10/12 un tAnrufuiriw HAAS 1475 01/12 17/12 10/12 21/12 21/12 m WUTMSMIIIDS DAMUOI 1405 05/12
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      1254 34 I NORASIA I VESSEL VOY ISM ALO LAS BCL VAL HAM Mi ROT ANT PEL LHA NORASIA FRMOURG IMU 22/11 IW2 IVI2 I*l2 17/12 16/12 17/12 IS/12 I*l2 I*l2 21/12 NOT HONGKON6 IM7-3 2*ll I*l2 I*l2 21/12 22/12 2*12 2*12 2*12 2*12 27/12 2*12 NORSHAAiAM 1640-3 o*l2 2*12 2*12 3*12
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      633 34 JAPAN/HONQKONO/BTRAITB REGULAR SCRVtCF*" LOADING FOR PORT KLANO/PENANQ vessel voy rni psuoajm ~fu |pbi ,J URANUS 17 28N0V a MQV FORTUNE CUPPER 5 27 NOV 3SNOV DOM JIN 4 21 MOV r O€C CHUN KUAN 12 21 NOV MNOV 88KM PINE 4 21 NOV »1 DtC TATAam MTU n 38 NO<
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      942 35 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD I ABET 10 Ho# Cll,aa l Road *11-01 Ktpptl Towers Singapore 0208 Tol: *****88 Fax: *****17 mew guinea pacific lime aNGATOfIE ttflSEsf (A SERVICE OP CHINA NAVIGATION CO) to etd vaflyy STRAITS STAR VNK 23 No* 25 Nov Muan Laotan 1 Kota KlnaOaHi CARAXA JN M-22
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      2227 35 P&O Containers P& Containers (Singapore Agencies) Pte Ltd xr TJ? r mm%n B 10 Hoe Chiiuig Ro.d, #07-01 Keppel Towers, Singapore 0208 rirst Llass Connections WORLDWIDE Tel: 225 2233 Tekx: RS ***** PNOCSP Fax: 225 5327/222 7517 CR Number *****9 *****/. J XPOWT IMPORT RIGIIS" MAERSK 9612 20m 21m M/
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      524 35 WffWUWB wa. PBI jaw SW HUE MO TO KH TO> TQK MAC ICOt OSKMOJIUS Buxcflow* mm im 2*ll 22/11 23-24/11 27/11 2*ll ami 12/12 M/ 12 I*l2 H/12 N/12 WAN HAI 223*111 22/11 W»» 21-27/11 WWwt mt~ I*jT W"W ~WV~ WAN HAI 211*04 2*ll 27/11 2*ll 3MI/12 M/ 12 K/12
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      63 35 SENLIM SHIPPING PTE. LTD. 133, Naar Bridga Road, *06-06. QHntomx Point A S*p(M *****3 Tot *****0 C Fax: *****04 Tatax: RS ***** SENLIM WEEKLY REGULAR SERVICE 10 EAST/WEST NTSIA INN Ciitimii mi (iwiliud Carp) VBSQ VOT EUSK 9M KUOWG PBMNS MBM6 IMIESOM IA/W 17/11 IM6UU 2V*5 25/11 77/11 S/ll MMMd
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      1133 36 A pgPl| W-TW*—^ EUROPE/UK/SCANDINAVIA/FINLAND/RUSSIA MP RDM ANW HBG THP IHV LMV THP RDM ANW MBG PW. SGP I E. REFINE MHD 25/11 IS/12 IVI2 17/12 15/12 21/12 E. GLOWING RE-033 2S/10 30/10 1/11 2/11 J/11 27/11 21/11 E. REPUTE RW-M1 2/12 20/12 21/12 22/12 24/12 25/12 E. GARDEN RE-061 4/11
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      755 36 PERSIAN GULF SERVICE Joy top m m mm tm mn m 074-«nw 2*ll a/u o*l2 vm an; on? on? 037V078V1 OZ* 1 U"l2 ill? IV I2 &1? Mm I*l2 2*12 2wi2 nrn ani am 10 8377-022W 15/12 2*12 2*12 27/12 21/12 2*12 »12 TWO Fa TO DOHA. SHAAJAM JEKL MJ
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      672 36 RICHFIELD MA«NrrQo3c!es"mFrE LTD TEL: *****33 (12 LINES) FAX: *****15/*****03 ZZ TELEX: RS ***** RISHtP (3 Unas) CR NO: **********0E j I3Q ETMOWM SMPPM UM* f (NattoMlLkmoTEiUopia) 2? ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL ETA I Loading tor Spor« 15/12 "wawi Andnrt 42W8 15/01 MombMa. Djibouti M KIEN HUNG LINE FULLY CONTAINERISED REGULAR
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      2640 37 CARGO TO VARNA, ODESSA ANO CONSTANTZA VIA UMASSOL SlK§tftrtt Stntnl Aflttt Til (Gimrtl/ 22$H«0 Altacr Dipt COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD 'mm? ClKilw ChUlkh Src S/l 42HH2 Opintttt CtaUlair 4tsS7tf '«»"«*»f cl'L urtitioiL m *mm» O/O tn»7U CmhMhii <;h74( Ml»/«» rmr 2 ira n. rrtn f ?WffW Sre Dsct iZtS7St Hilpmtil
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      598 37 I FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE *****8 HOT LINE: *****33 (30 LINES) I DAILY SAILING TO ATTRACTIVE RATES! CALL FAMOUS FREIGHT FOR BOOKING SYLVIA KANG IVY I *****33 I P. KLANG PH: 0203/*****02 (10 LINES) PENANG PH: 0204/*****7 (10 LINES) J. BAHRU PH: 0207-*****22 QLOBEUNK FORWARDERS PTE
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      736 38 VESB£L vOY JKT vessel vov SIN PEW IWANA BHUM 3013 Wxj In Pt ~S«i 25/11 CHU TIAN 5613 Thu 23/11 St 29/11 H [0000 EASY' Z_23S Fh_ 24/11 _Lg_ aqi_ OURU BHUM 5163 St 25/,1 Tu* 38/11 ISRA BHUM I 128 SB Fh_ CHUTUN 5615 Moo 27/11 Thu 30/11 M
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      926 38 79 ANSON ROAD, >21-01, SINGAPORE 0207 CR **********0N STRAITS SHUTTLE SERVICE kssel PQPT KLANQ PENANG W g S VEB<EI VOY I SIN PB» 23Q1_THy 2401 FBI N DRAGON NIAS 69N 27/11 MOW 2911 WED "FARO MrtlJHy 2501 SAT 1 SUSAK ***** 29m WED 01/12 FBI S£ALMJftf 2401 FRI 2601 SUN
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      669 39 BSfl ia. Mft MYANMA mmmk FIVE STAR UNE (MjfNMr National Mm) i Loading far Yoagoa (Roagooa) vtssa VOT SM m m Nil JMYA 140W 13-27/11 SID I AVA 134W 24-27/11 IMPT BAUTSU AGfMTV MX/STUD SMPPING AGOKXS WL TH. 01-03-*****04 KL TH 02-43-37*4101 TH 02-44-*****02 NO: TH 42-47-*****21/4 BANK LINE (A
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      939 39 asaaftf# pacific international lines (pte> ltd I 140 Cecii Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. CR NO **********0E vmsML voy bin cna jib moo jao aoj ADa nu ma KOTA BBRAM 8MM250 SO/11 4/12 10/12 11/12 14/12 19/1 M 18/12 17/12 18/12 14/12 KOTAWUAYA WJAB3B a/12 14/12 21/12 23/12 20/12
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      927 39 H ICR NO: *****MQ000Z VESSELS VOY LE HAVRE HAMBURG THAMESPORT ROTTERDAM ANTWERP ~j VW-L£ DC CAPELLA TI2W 23/11 12/12 14/12 lfl/12 17/12 IS/12 VKXE DC LIBRA LI2W 28/11 20/12 21/12 23/12 14/12 26H2 VILLE OE NORMA NI2W 08/12 28/12 30/12 01AM 08/OI o*ol VtLLE OE CAfttNA CI2W 12/12 00/01 04/01
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      57 41 1/1(7 VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD fit JfjjlgF Established Since 1984 OCEANIA PORTS REGULAR GROUPAGE LCIjCOIHS< SLIfIAJION AUCKLAND SYDNEY IMPORT I f EXPORT BRISBANE w\ MELBOURNE FREMANTLE FOR BOOKING at SAILING SCHEDULE, CALL THE TOTAL TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PIE LID VISA LCL CONSOL PIE LTD TOLL-TREE TEL: 1800-*****66
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      407 42 4 BKAPAL KRIS Shipping Pte Ltd 701DUXTON ROAD, S'PORE *****9 W: *****76 Fax: *****77 (R NO. 1073W*****G ———————_mmmmm*——i—__.__ SYARIKAT PERKAPALAN KRIS SENDIRIAN BERHAD 30MWHoau sumac mswss amii#mlamSS4/I,IBM*MT*RO.IOXI42I ***** ITOIMGMKSBAIIWt. TR: *****77/70/70 MX: *****07 1HO: Ml 304J5 IMWO I m I I WHM I IUWMHI *VBSB. VOY ETDSPOtf VfSSR VOY ETtSNH
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      570 42 m S wy i" ffOttST PRODUCTS SERVICE) FUN; 1.K7 CWKMT/ IMMLf EAtT TO: FAH EAST DIRECT MONTHLY gAIUNOS tlWOfl SItVKI VBSa/WT SW LAM QUIA* HOWWOMC «»M»? msa u TM SM PR NTS DM CT TAW S*N KKU TMA RfiAMVIII OA (in tj/n «/n n/n»/u ii/«i n/ii h/«i »/»i a/n hah>t
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      496 43 I VESSEL VOY S!!^M)7SIN| TIGER ISLAND 386N 2i-2VII 29-03/12 07W12 I TIGER BRIDGE 386N 0306V12 11-12/12 I TIGER OCEAN 387N 30-02/12 06-10/12 14-16/12 I TfGER CAPE 388N 04-05/12 10-13/12 18-19/12 I TIGERISLAND 389N 07-09/12 13-17/12 21-23/12 I TIGER BEIOGE 390N 11-12/12 17-20/12 25-26/12 I VESSEL VOY SIN CAL SIN TIGER
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      1626 43 Nedlloyd Lines TWICE WEEKLY TO EUROPE II SSTf CR **********0* »l Pen(F) P*u(F) Sin Pkl 1-1 ■*"> Mem Brt. M i-»i Pk« Sk. ,465 M/" 22/" 24/11 22/11(F) 14/12 16/12 10/12 U/12 13/12 NIL NORMANDIE /2445 03/11 05/11 Ol7u 23/11 NLL AFRICA/3475 26/11 26/11 28/11 29/11 17/12 18/12 21/12 22/12
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      259 43 m W SUNSHIP AGENCIES PTE LTD 20 McCallum Street #16-01/03 Asia Chambers Singapore 0106 Tel: *****22 (10 Lines) FAX: *****05 CR No.: *****8 200 00R Y.S.N. |VEMEI VOY HOWGKOWG SHtCAPOftt| P.KELAMC ffMAWG OH—Hit—rttt H 2«-27/11 11-12/1? IHV» c«nt»i Qmm m IM7/11 myi; CUMWOfOtw M IMt/12 1112/12 13-14/12 IS-H/12 «44fi414l 51
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      1972 44 7 AS AGENTS "K" UNE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (CR NO 1?*****0000*G5T HtC NO *2-*****996) J TEL *****77 TELEX KAWAKJ R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/&S ZJ V V MALAYSIA: K" LINE MARTHME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD W M TEL SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 J8 *****01 PGU*****256 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAUT INTERNUSA, TEL
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      1169 44 19 KEPPEI ROAD #02-01 JIT POH BUILDING SINGAPORE *****8 (Q NO.;**********0/W) CUSKMNEK SOVKE 225-1-225 DOCUMENTATION FAX 224-0-644 GtNCRAI UNI 225-9-H6 GCNEKAI FAX 221-4-922 We Cany Youi Confidence CFS TO 270-5-065 EAGIi VOICE 321-9-4 M TO AMERICA A CANADA WBKIY COHOMNMOTB SERVICE |p»| m I I*t i«»H7»OTte m inmummt Iha| uu
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      859 45 ACCEPTING LCL CARGO TO Trans-Link Express Pte Ltd Singapore totkatk*___ CfS tkskj day Soto* Day FIRST FORWARDER IN Ho Oh Mail Evtfv WtdMsdov lv«rv FrU» ASIA AWARDED Sotl, ISO 9002 BY LRQA y tv<ry Frhjay Ivory S-fcy rh Ivory FiMay EwrySwrfoy Rtttwdn Evtfy Saturday Evefy Monday WW\ U—ml Pfe«*»Pko«o is
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      1181 45 J{Q HAM SOU i£M MM RTM DMT WW® fl.ll ft.ll 11.11 il.lf Hit 11 1f 13 12 14 If 22 12 NOftMAMK ?aa*> Mil* BB4fi fifi! BEI jjffT—HW IHWI MSTYK ,4a *11 ail- an UII 14-,J Mil STSST* Mi! 2 L„ 22T 22 22 all- 211 tl I!" mTum an.
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      786 46 .r •i Maersk's Year-end loader to USA... v i 9- »>* t »»v* t" lr l Edinburgh Maersk v. 9601 J_ £to 37 December 1995, OAOOhrs Etd 31 December 1995,1500hrs Closing Time 30 December 1995 I I 2359hrs(cy) I V 1600 hrs (cfrj 7 i t r I 5 For
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      666 46 TO E. CANADA —US ATLANTIC —US QULF I LOADING VOY SPORE PXELANO" HAUFAX N.YORK NORFOLK N.ORLEANS SAVAfMAH TAkmrn umKrrr*. I HOEOMOOKE 0632 28/29NOV »JAN 12 JAN 16 JAN 22 JAN UJA*I I HOEOH MWANOA 0732 11/12 DEC 06 DEC 27 JAN 30 JAN 31 JAN 07 FEB 03Fa» lira I
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      390 46 II PHILI-Oni€NT PT€ UP ®TEL: *****00 (16 UNES) FAX: *****76/*****38 CR COOK: 10M*****00H P. KELAMQ 03-*****96 Pimno fM mm w SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, AUCKLANO, WELLINGTON, LYTTLETON, 31 NOV f NAPIER, CHRBTCHURCH. NEW PLYMOUTH I LONOON, FEUXSTOWE, LE HAVRE, 27 NOV ROTTERDAM. HAMBURG. ANTWERP I ANO ALL INLANO DESTINATIONS WITH* EUROPE 27
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      614 47 Singapore Soviet Shipping Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO: **********0N BOMBAY/COCHIN |vom voy sm bom coc KOTAMUTUAA MUTO3B 23/11 01/12 XOUR OCMINI 412 06/12 13/12 MEKHAMK KURAKO MKI2N 1(V12 18/12 26/12 |SCA OLOHY QUWfIS 13/12 21/12 HAIPHONG SERVICE ✓ESSEI VOV SIN MPH KUMLSK 575V96 24/11 2#/11 PIOWEH KJRGI 135V96 2AMI 03/12
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      488 47 SIN PAR EAST 28/11 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 26/11 BANGKOK 26/11 MANILA/CEBU 26/11 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 26/11 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 26/11 BUSAN 26/11 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 26/11 HONG KONG SIN CHINA (+S*±*fen) 26/11 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIM EUROPE/UK I 26/11 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU I 27/11 R DM/HAM/ANT /LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech.
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      643 47 II I STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD AOMNTSFOft ZIM CONTAINER SERVICE GOU) STAR LINE LTD SETH SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (8 LINES) PAX: *****70 Ms *****12 (MARKETING) (CR NO. *****6500<XH) N. AMERKA/CARItKAN SERVICES msvm/VM vcsa Ivor m Immum Ita I ci Iwl m I w mua is b/ii liwvi
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      1149 47 II II SCX: 'NEPTUNE TOPAZ 45E' ETA sgp 29/11/95 ED II ARRIVING LOS ANGELES 16/12/95 IN 16 DAYS I #wirfc l| AEX: 'CALIFORNIA ZEUS 64E ir ETA sgp 29/11/95 ARRIVING NEW YORK 23/12/95 IN 23 DAYS EXPORT UNOUtfOWI CAUFOHNU PtPKSSB (SCX) TO: UfWC -CAWAOA f VOV «W LOS OAK VAN
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      124 47 rrf i ml. TOKYO SNINBI KAIUN CO PTE LTD Il!!5l 10 ANSON ROAD #23-15 -J J U|ij NTERNATONAL PLAZA STORE 02©* TEL: *****25 (6 UNES) t FAX: *****06 A *****10 I C/R: **********0E ->| SERVICE TO; FAR EAST/CHINA/EUROPg I 27/11/95) TOKYO, YOKOHAMA, KOBE NAQOYA I 27/11/95) OSAKA, USA J —-i
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      664 48 m n SINO EXPRESS SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. M M I 11 COLLYER QUAY *06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. v TEL: *****00 (4 UNES) FAX: *****08 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKQ/SHAI SPORE HKO SHAI VESSEL VOY ETA ETP ETA I ETP ETA ETD CHANGYING 9513/9514 gffli &v\ mi
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      536 48 MNUUN I AINtKJJNE^INir^ Agants: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 UNES) KUCHING: (082) *****3 I j ~PVt\- J C*NO 1«X»*****0« SOU: (094) *****9 MANILA: (632) *****61 N PENANG: (04) *****8 BANGKOK: (882) *****87 SURABAYA; (81) *****0 P KELANG: (03) *****77 JKT: (21) *****07 MON: (81) *****3 BANDUNQ: I ASIA HKG/TWN/BKK l GENOA/EUROPE
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      31 48 GEMARTRANS TTO-WEEKLY SERVICE QMMINH Snui 7S H&il Sftl OUUKA UT* NAM B-I7 UN M/ 11 <11/12 W»»My LCt rvtc* to HOI oompXMlx ratai Alx> *cct>Wng FCL Cfao to malor Inland <t—tlntton*
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      133 48 iff MFL SHIPPING (INT'L) 5 SS£g? PTE LTD SUBSIDIARY OF HAI SUN HUP GROUP FCL/LCL CONSOLIDATION SERVICES HOT LINES; *****43/345 IM VBSII VOY ETA (SIN) KSTMAJKM "fj GLORIA I 544VN 23/11 lUSAN AMBASSADOR BRIDGE 62E 24/11 HONGKONG >" UN! SUPERB V*****N 107 24/11 KEELUNG ASIAN PEGASUS *460 24/71 OSAKA Z
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