The Business Times, 13 March 1996

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/95 Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes SINGAPO RE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13,1996 85<r
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon URA eases restrictions in land sales policy
    777 1  -  Developers get more leeway in dealing with fnnds and financing By, Abdul Hadhi, Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has eased the conditions on its land sales, with the most significant change being the lifting of restrictions on developers' use of
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    Lock icon Regional markets make tentative recovery
    433 1  -  Local market's upside intact despite US volatility: brokers By. R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Regional stocks yesterday regained some poise following a confi- dence-boosting overnight gain in US stocks and bonds, but observers here still say the outlook remains uncertain at least until further signs of stability
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    Dow down 50 at 1pm
    91 1 [NEW YORK] Wall Street stocks fell In early trading yesterday as a renewed downturn in bonds spurred a wave of profit-taking following the previous session's huge gain of more than 110 points. At 1 pm EST the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 50.22 points to
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    SIA expected to post no profit from aircraft sale
    479 1  -  Talks with Pakistani airline to sell 8 planes aborted By Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines is expected to report no profit from aircraft sale in the financial year ending March 31, having aborted its talks with Pakistan International Airlines to sell
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      14 1 Regional stock markets, Pg 19-24 Hook Look Slew: Will market go higher? Pg 15
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      No lack of laksa in Shanghai
      618 2  -  Chinese city has three places with Singapore-style food; more set to sprout By 1 Teh Hooi Ling YOU'RE in Shanghai, and you have a craving for such Singapore delights as laksa or carrot cake. Where to go? Rest assured Shanghai has at least three
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      Lock icon Wholesale prices up again
      353 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Prices By Teh Hooi Ling WHOLESALE prices picked up in January this year, the latest figures from the Department of Statistics show. The Manufactured Products Price Index for the month was 82.2 —1.6 percentage points higher than a year ago. This is
      Source: Dept of Statistics; BCRUZ  -  353 words
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      Chase Manhattan lays off staff
      269 2  -  No more than 15 people retrenched, more cuts expected By\ Siow Li Sen SOME employees at the Chase Manhattan Bank here have become the first Singapore victims of Chemical Banking Corp's US$ll billion (5515.4 billion) acquisition of Chase Manhattan Corp. A source told BT that
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      Election budget? Wrong, says Dr Hu
      652 3  -  DfMBUAMHMT No need to resort to such gimmicks, he says, adding Take maths lesson By Chuang Peck Ming THEY got it wrong and what they asked for is redundant that about sums up Finance Minister Richard Hu's reply yesterday to members of parliament who
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      Acquitted defendants can seek redress in civil law
      393 3  -  Suggestion to award costs to defendants in some cases not viable: Jayakumar By\ Diana Oon LAW Minister S Jayakumar said in Parliament yesterday that defendants acquitted in criminal prosecutions could seek redress in civil law if they felt they had been victims
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      Lock icon JTC sets aside record $1.2b for land purchase
      421 3  -  Move prompted by needs of wafer fabrication industry By\ Diana Oon THE government's drive to develop a wafer fabrication industry has spurred Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) to raise its land purchase budget to a record $1.2 billion for the current financial year
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      Lock icon Asian-American magazine seeks Singapore investor
      342 3  -  By, Jennifer Lien A FIVE-YEAR-OLD US magazine targeted at Asian-Ameri-can readers is looking east to Singapore for an investor. A. Magazine, founded by a group of Asian-American Harvard graduates, is looking for an Asian party to buy a 25 per cent stake costing US$5OO,OOO (S$700,000)
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      Duff & Phelps to set up first Asian office here
      184 3 Duff Phelps to set up first Asian office here DUFF Phelps Credit Rating Company (DPCR), the third largest US rating agency specialising in emerging markets, plans to set up its first Asian office in Singapore. At a BT Securities Corporation Emerging Markets Securitisation Forum yesterday, DPCR group vice-president William Hayes
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  • FOCUS: PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
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      Lock icon There's method in the madness of markets
      470 4  -  TECHNICAL VIEWPOINT By Naresh Verma The writer is a manager of technical analysis advisory (South-east Asia) at Dow Jones Telerate. The opinions in this column are personal and do not represent the views of the writer's employer. His views are also not an
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      Lock icon Viable contenders out to get car distributorships
      713 4  -  By i Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] The recent changes in car distributorship point not merely to the inability of former franchise holders to meet quotas in a competitive market but the presence of viable contenders, industry sources say. Many big companies and deep-pocketed individuals
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      Lock icon Money matters
      367 4 and enhanced security features. These features will help protect US currency from advancing technologies which could be used for counterfeiting. There will be no recall or devaluation of any US currency. As old notes reach the Federal Reserve, they will be replaced by the redesigned currency. Whether old
      BCRUZ & JEN CHUA; Source: US Information Service, Singapore  -  367 words
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      Lock icon February a bad month for macro funds; prospects for March improve
      456 4 Strome Offshore lost 20% of its value while Qn&ntum Fond was down 7.9% in Feb Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] February was not a kind month for the type of funds that bet on macroecb nomic trends around the
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • NOTE Book
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        Exemption from property levy in Penang
        46 5 [PKNANG] Foreigners who bought properties in Penang worth more than M5250.000(5*137,5Q0) end not far industrial use before Oct 27 last year are exempted from the M*loo,ooo levy, said the State Land and Entrepreneur Development Committee on Monday.—MßT < v". v x
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        Lock icon KL to fight labour-human rights links
        50 5 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia will otgect to discussions on labour issues linked to human rights at the upcoming Apec finance mtaJetars' meeting InKyote, Japan. Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim satrt Malaysia wanted its economic programme to be viewed purely from an "economic angle". —AFP
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        Lock icon Gifts for Khmer Rouge detectors
        37 5 Reuter CORAL DISTRICT, Cambodia] Cambodian co-Premier Hun Sen showered gifts on Khmer Rouge defectors and their families yesterday while pledging to repay their trust in the government by developing this harsh region.—/teufer
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        Lock icon Thai PM defends his Myanmar trip
        20 5 AFP intended tobuild mutuaitnist and promote cooperation with a future member of Asean. —AFP
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        Lock icon Viet Cement to cut prices by 2%
        34 5 AFP [HANOI] Faced with a slump in demand, the Vietnam National Cement Corporation has decided to lower retail prices by 2 per cent in Hanoi and Haiphong.—AFP
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      Lock icon Contemplation case: court clears 15 officials
      190 5 MANILA AFP A SPECIAL court yesterday threw out charges of criminal neglect against the former secretaries of foreign affairs and labour and 13 other Filipino officials in connection with the hanging of a Filipina maid in Singapore last year. A presidential commission which investigated
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      Lock icon Rising to the occasion
      59 5 [SULAWESI, Indonesia] President Suharto holding a bunch of rice stalks at a harvest ceremony on Monday. Mr Suharto was launching a month-long national campaign to mobilise grassroots movements to accelerate rural development The widening gap between a rich urban population and an often poor and backward
      AFP  -  59 words
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      Lock icon Calm again in Irian Jaya after the riots
      326 5 JAKARTA AFP Reuter FRAGILE calm returned to Irian Jaya late yesterday after thousands of local residents rioted around the giant USowned copper and gold Freeport mine, leaving three dead, a local church source said. "Timika is currently calm," the source said by
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      Malaysian govt to repay all loans by ailing Perwaja
      446 5  -  KUALA LUMPUR Bnt new financing facilities for national steel firm will net be encouraged: Anwar By Ho Kay Tat MALAYSIA will repay aU loans taken by troubled national steel company Perwaja but wiU not encourage new financing facilities until an audit
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      Lock icon Tenaga in difficult talks with Ekran over dam agreement
      129 5 KUALA LUMPUR Reuter MALAYSIAN state power company Tenaga Nasional HM (TNB) is having "tough negotiations" with the builder of the Bakun hydroelectric dam over a power purchase agreement, Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday. Dam builder Ekran Bhd said last
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      Asem wise to avoid human rights issue
      742 5  -  ASIIVfIBW But Asia most show its values are universal By Yang Razali Kassim WHEN Asia and Europe met recently at the Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem), the potentially explosive issue of human rights was skirted. It was a compromise of sorts. It allowed both sides
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      196 5 jJUt 9 Traditions of II 1 lour and jr'.'k ,r hospitality H jgß Tke spirit of Singapore is §&s&?*/'■) w 4s? rNs** 11 1 ""f' .-iy.it- 'f'Ui captured in a unique kotel. Tke Hotel Inter-Continental Singapore §1®®®???-* J" blends modern facilities vitk B B vi ti f old world ck
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      External shocks could hurt economy, HK warns
      530 6  -  CHINA-TAIWAN TENSIONS Financial Secretary says forecast of 5% GDP growth was made before military standoff Prorri Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong EXTERNAL SHOCKS arising from the showdown over Taiwan could severely hurt the Hongkong economy even as businessmen investing in the region insisted
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      China starts latest war games as scheduled
      194 6 TAIPEI CHINA defiantly embarked on its latest war games in the Taiwan Strait yesterday, stepping up pressure on the anxious people of the nationalist island and increasing the concern of other nations. The Taiwanese Defence Ministry issued a statement saying "Chinese Communist forces"
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      Take tougher stand, Clinton urged
      466 6  -  WASHINGTON Republicans call for military aid to Taiwan; Kissinger cautions Washington By\ Leon Hadar REPUBLICAN lawmakers and the party's leading presidential candidate have called on the Clinton administration to adopt a tougher posture in response to China's war games. But former US Secretary of State
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      Hardline generals in control of Taiwan policy: SCMP
      108 6 HONGKONG HARDLINE generals have seized control of the Communist Party's Leading Group on Taiwan Affairs, the country's highest de-cision-making body on reunification, the territory's South China Morning Post reported yesterday. And military strongman General Zhang Wannian has suggested that President Jiang Zemin
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      Harris starts work on US$60m IC plant in S'pore-Suzhou park
      251 6  -  SINGAPORE Production operations expected to begin next year By 1 Teh Hooi Ling US SEMICONDUCTOR manufacturer Harris Corporation's subsidiary in Suzhou yesterday began work on its US$6O million (SsB4 million) integrated circuit (IC) assembly and test facility in the Singapore
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      Lock icon Sharp rise in transfer of funds from Taiwan to southern California
      341 6 LOS ANGELES CHINA'S stepped-up military threats against Taiwan over the past week have led to a sharp increase in the transfer of money from Taiwan to southern California banks, put trans-Pacific business deals on hold and prompted a rush
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      Lock icon China downgraded as investment destination
      204 6 TOKYO AFP MITSUBISHI Research Institute Inc of Japan yesterday downgraded China as a destination for direct investment, citing the scaling back of special tax policies for foreign businesses operating there. The institute, affiliated with Mitsubishi Bank Ltd, said in a report that China had cut
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      Lock icon Parliament considers major reform of legal system
      146 6 BEIJING Reuter CHINA'S parliament yesterday began considering a major reform of its legal system which would assume the innocence of defendants until proven guilty, protect against arbitrary punishment and improve access to lawyers. The National People's Congress also began considering a new law
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  • FOCUS: WORLD BANE IN VIETNAM
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      World Bank plans more Viet loans
      1267 7  -  Two new loans totalling USs3lom are expected to be approved before the bank's 1995-96 fiscal year ends in June, says its Hanoi representative By Harish Mehta [HANOI] THE World Bank, which has given Communist Vietnam about US$l billion (Ssl.4 billion) in the last three
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Analysis expect poor profits from Aussie companies in 1995
      282 8 SYDNEY Reuter CORPORATE Australia has delivered its most disappointing set of results since the country's 1991 recession, prompting analysts to further trim back profit estimates for the remainder of financial 1995-96. The earnings season for companies for the period ending in
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      Lock icon New Australian govt to slash spending by A$4b to A$8b a year
      561 8 CANBERRA Budget deeply in the red, no surplus as promised by Labor, says day-old conservative govt Reuter, Bloomberg Business News, AFP AUSTRALIA'S day-old conservative government announced massive ongoing spending cuts yesterday, saying the budget was deeply in the
      Reuter,; Bloomberg Business News,; AFP; Source: Bloomberg; ALLAN  -  561 words
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      Apec meet to look at infrastructure funding gap
      483 8  -  ■TOKYO Mobilising private and public sector resources is the challenge for finance ministers By. Anthony Rowley INITIATIVES to bridge the gap between public and private sectors in providing Asia with infrastructure will be proposed this weekend when finance ministers from the Asia
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    • ASIA Notes
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        Lock icon Indian budget passed by voice vote
        76 8 Reuter [NEW DELHI] The lower house of parliament passed the Indian government's budget by a voice vote on Monday after most of the opposition walked out The sitting is likely to be this parliament's last. A general election is due by July 7 and
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        Lock icon Japan loan for China projects
        65 8 AFP [TOKYO] The Export-Import Bank of Japan (EIBJ) said it signed a contract yesterday with Bank of China to offer a 96.9 billion yen (S|l .31 billion) loan for domestic industrial projects in China. The loan, extended on a semi-commercial basis, is aimed at helping
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        Lock icon Labor's new leader-to-be wins poll
        83 8 AFP [PERTH] Ten days after its crushing election defeat in tha Australian election, the Labor Party's new leader-to-be, former minister Kim Beazley, finally claimed victory in his seat yesterday. After a nail-biting count in his marginal electorate of Brand in Western Australia, Mr Beazley held
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      469 8 Mc= CLC^s y //K\ THE BUSINESS TIMES LIFESTYLE EXCLUSIVE THE PTPateSt =An alabaster cast of this Egyptian time measurement water receptable can be found ~J at the Karnak Temple, is dated 1415-***** T BC and also called a clepsydra. 11l ■iJla^fe* BB 1 ft ii —■—=V*T m lUJJ-» uii i
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon A US$54b boon for East Asia
      583 9  -  WOULD BANK TABLE 1996 E Asia, Pacific region are top recipients of foreign direct investment flows to developing nations Reportsby. Leon Hadar in Washington FOREIGN direct investment (FDI) in developing countries has more than tripled in the past five years with the East Asia
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      Official aid to developing nations at lowest level since 1973
      328 9 THE optimism about future private flows to developing countries cannot be extended to official flows. After growing for a number of years, concessional assistance to developing countries from official sources peaked in the early 1990s and has been declining since,
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon German current account deficit shrinks
        78 9 Reuter [WIESBADEN, Germany] Germany's current account I deficit narrowed 29 per cent to 24.8 billion marks (5523.5 billion) in 1995 on the back of robust export growth, the Federal Statistics Office said yesterday. The current i account deficit was 34.7 billion marks in 1994. Germany,
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        Lock icon Clinton attacks Congress on environment
        67 9 Reuter j [HACKENSACK, New Jersey] President BUI Clinton, unveiling a plan to stop the decay of urban America, accused the Republican-led Congress on Monday of mounting the most aggressive anti-environment campaign in US history. Speaking at Fairleigh Dickenson University, Mr Clinton called for US$2 billion
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        Lock icon Yeltsin lifts arms ban on ex-Yugoslavia
        35 9 AFP {MOSCOW] President Boris Yeltsin has ordered a lifting of the embargo on arms sales to the former Yugoslav republics, in force since 1991, a Kremlin spokesman said yesterday—AFP
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      Asia-Pac economic growth outpaces rise in external debt
      206 9 THE East Asia and Pacific region has the fastest-growing external debt, with a 12 per cent increase in 1995 lv* times the developing-country average of 8 per cent. The region's combined debt outstanding hit US$473 billion (***** billion) at the end of
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      Lock icon US current account deficit hits eight-year high of US$153b
      269 9 WASHINGTON But final 1995 quarter figure shows sharp fall of 23% Reuter THE nation's deficit with the rest of the world in goods, services and investments swelled to its highest level in eight years during 1995, the Commerce Department said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Jury is still out on US economy, says Blinder
      297 9 NEW YORK Payroll data alone not enough to assess strength of economy Reuter A SINGLE report, even as stunning as the US February payrolls, does not provide sufficient information to assess the strength of the economy, former Federal Reserve vicechairman Alan
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      Lock icon Higher rates won't stall US growth, says Fed official
      433 9 WASHINGTON Bloomberg Business News, Reuter RISING long-term interest rates won't harm the nation's economic expansion, Robert T Parry, the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank president, said on Monday. The yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond jumped about a quarter percentage
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      All signs now point to rise in the rupee
      839 10  -  OPINION THE BOTTOM LDVB By Prem Shankar Jha The writer, former editor of The Hindustan Times, contributed this article to BT THE fourth sharp fall within six months in the value of the Indian rupee that took place last month plunged
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      114 10 I think the yen has remained at its current level of about 105 to the dollar only because of a series of very artificial and temporary factors. The outlook is for the yen to rise to at least 100 and probably well into the 90s within the
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      The civil service's new gameplan
      599 10 EDITORIAL Dismantling internal bureaucracies, empowering front-line employees, focusing on quality and the customer —that's what progressive business corporations the world over do to stay ahead of the competition. Now it is also the gameplan of the Singapore civil service. In the words of Finance Minister
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      Cyberspace wars
      1049 10  -  AT&T's move into Internet access raises the question: will online providers be pushed off-line by phone companies? By. Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent STEVE CASE, the founder of America Online (AOL), is regarded as a high-tech wonderboy. In the tradition of Microsoft's Bill Gates and
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      Ideas for progressive companies
      477 10  -  MAILBOX Dr R C Cooper Coopers Pte Ltd Singapore 1025 IN CONSONANCE with the progressive outlook and innovativeness of Singapore, time has now come for some of the more prominent companies to consider and adopt a couple of successful ideas in the international corporate arena for
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      422 10 iMrprifMrit THE striking feature of the current wave of mergers is how many. are driven by sound business logic. In a disinflationary world, they are a means of increasing profits through cost-cutting, when consumer resistance makes it harder to increase revenue. That provides part of the
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Older folks tickled pink by Birdcage
      351 11 MOVIES NYT [HOLLYWOOD] Robin Williams, the star of The Birdcage, voiced one reason for the resounding and unexpected success of the film, which opened last Friday. "It's basically very funny, and now, with all the primaries in the news, people want some kind of
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      Style means money in hair care
      850 11  -  KEVDisuLLiVAif takes a slick look at the lucrative hair business KEVIN SULLIVAN IPUT gel on my hair this week. An act of extraordinary recklessness, no doubt, like Hitler's invasion of Russia, or Christopher Columbus' decision to sail West. Gel is sticky; it makes the
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      Lock icon Turning a whim into whimsical books
      454 11 ■BOOKS Pentagram's mini series covers a range of arcane subjects NYT [NEW YORK) Whole books have been written on the subject of cigars. But to devote an entire book to cigar papers, those outrageously colourful labels and bands that adorn cigars and cigar boxes?
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    • CHATTER Box
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        Lock icon Coppola to chair Cannes jury
        133 11 AFP [PARIS] Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, will chair the Jury of this year's Cannes Film Festival in May, festival officials said on Monday. Accepting the job, Coppola, who won the Cannes Golden Palm award in 1974 and 1979 for
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        Lock icon Graf does it again
        31 11 AFP [INDIAN WELLS, California] Steffi Graf returning a backhand on Saturday during the State Farm Chris Evert Cup at Indian Wells, California. Graf defeated Kristina Triaka 6-0,6-I.—AFP
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        112 11 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Forrest Gump would be proud. Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc, plans to capitalise on its hit film Forrest Gump by launching a nationwide chain of restaurants, called Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. The restaurants will be tied to the hit
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        106 11 Reuter [LONDON] British pop star Jarvis Cocker was cleared on Monday of assaulting three children appearing on stage with Michael Jackson at a music awards ceremony in London last month.' 'Jarvis Cocker has fully cooperated with police who have considered the complaints and have
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        Lock icon Congo, Mel Brooks' film most boring
        109 11 Reuter [LOS ANGELES] Congo and Mel Brooks' Dracula—Dead and Loving It were awarded the dubious honour on Monday of being chosen as the most boring movies of 1996 by the Boring Institute. The New Jersey-based body has only one member, founder Alan Caruba, who
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      461 12 WORLD CUP Tiufa ami Anfftr*Ha expected to be sorely tested by unpredictable rivals AFP [ISLAMABAD] The West Indies and Sri Lanka, the World Cup's loosest cannons, go into the semi-finals marked by anarchy and chaos. The Australians and Indians, meanwhile, have looked to impose
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      906 14 FASHION His latest collection is for the real world, not a pretty pretend one NYT [MILAN] It is easy to forget, as fashion marches on, crushing its own past in a thuggish attempt to declare everything new, what fashion might be like without a Giorgio
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      587 14 ART On display are works by some of the world's finest artists Reuter [HALLE, Germany] Fans of modern art can declare a picture the work of a great artist. Their opponents may retort that it could have been done by a small child. In
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      Ball to raise funds for children's society
      340 14  -  CHARITY By i Corinne Kerk [SINGAPORE] Cosmopolitan Ball '96 sounds like some bigtime fashion event for high society, but if you do go, don't expect to see the latest fashion being paraded down a catwalk. In fact, the ball this Saturday is a
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      Strong Sings, higher interest costs take toll on NOL results
      483 15  -  But 28% drop in group net earnings to $45m still better than what analysts had forecast By\ Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] National carrier Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) posted a 28 per cent drop in group net profit to 'I&5.1 million for
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      Ipco completes Phase 2 of Indon power plant project
      256 15 USsll3m contract finished one month ihturi tf schedule [SINGAPORE] Specialist infrastructure developer Ipco International has completed Phase n of its Cikarang Power Station project near Jakarta a 'month ahead of schedule. The project, which includes engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of
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      Will market scale new heights or be a disappointment in '96?
      672 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By R Sivanithy THE collapse in local stock prices and the tentative recovery seen yesterday begs the questions: what next? Will the market eventually recover its poise and go on to scale new heights, or, after
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      FLEH to raise $29m via 2-for-4 rights issue
      364 15  -  By Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] Sesdaq-listed Freight Links Express Holdings (FLEH) plans to raise $28.8 million through a rights issue of 40 million new shares with 20 million detachable warrants. The rights issue will be made on the basis of two rights shares
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      ST Capital posts 58% earnings rise to $16m
      317 15 STIC nnit attributes good profits to growth in earnings assets [SINGAPORE] ST Capital s earnings for the year ended last Dec 31 surged nearly 58 per cent to $16.79 million, underpinned by a robust growth in its earnings assets. Interest income grew
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      Times Pub and UK firm form educational software venture
      205 15 [SINGAPORE] Times Publishing (TPL) and UK-based Systems Integrated Research pic (SiR) are setting up a joint venture company here to develop, sell and market educational multimedia software. TPL said yesterday it will hold 51 per cent of the joint venture, while
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        Vikay's profit soars to $2m, but below analysts' forecasts
        305 16 [SINGAPORE] Liquid crystal display (LCD) maker Vikay Industrial yesterday announced a 312.8 per cent jump in net profit last year to $2.1 million. This was a dramatic recovery from the 87.8 per cent net earnings drop in 1994, and the 8.2
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        Lock icon Analysts find Amcol expensive after forecasts
        394 16 They say over-valuation underpinned by speculation of a takeover Bloomberg Business News [SINGAPORE] Amcol Holdings Ltd's stock looks expensive based on new, lower forecasts of its earnings for 1996, two analysts said. The stock rose 6 cents to $3.62 yesterday after dropping 18 cents
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        Far East Holdings group pre-tax jumps 34%
        216 16 Record earnings attributed to rue in oil palm production [KUALA LUMPUR] Far East Holdings Bhd's group pre-tax profit for the year ended December 31, 1995 rose 34 per cent to M 522.29 million (5512.33 million) from M 516.61 million posted in the previous
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        Lock icon Gadek Capital public share offer over 18 times subscribed
        167 16 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Gadek Capital Bhd's share offer for the public has been oversubscribed 18.37 times, MIDF Consultancy and Corporate Services Sdn Bhd said yesterday. A total of 452,055 applications for 652.856 million shares were received from the public for 33.699
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        Lock icon PAL hits the road to raise US$3b
        274 16 AFP [MANILA] Philippine Airlines (PAL) wiU begin this week a local and international roadshow to raise funds for a US$3 billion (554.2 billion) refleeting programme, a PAL official said yesterday. "We wiU start our roadshows with the local market on Friday," said Manolo
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        Lock icon Strong response to Transocean share offer
        178 16 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Transocean Holdings Bhd's public share offer of 2.31 million shares was oversubscribed by 84.58 times when 123,694 applications for 195.393 mUlion shares were received, it was announced yesterday. "Of the 1.617 million shares offered under the public cate- gory, a total
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          Ssangyong names liquidstor for unit
          74 16 [SINGAPORE] The board erf directors of Ssangyong Cement (Singapore) has appointed Wee Phui Gam of PG Wee and Partners on March 8 as the liquidator in the voluntary winding up of its wholly-owned subsidiary Ssangyong Digital One (Singapore). Digital One's liquidation will not have any
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          GRP,Scotts adjust interim dividends
          59 16 [SINGAPORE] With the revision of the Singapore corporate tax rate to 26 per cent for the year of assessment 1997, the directors of GRP Ltd have recommended an interim dividend of 2.5 per cent less an income tax of 26 per f§ cent, andScotts Holdings will
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          UOB ups stake in UIS
          38 16 [SINGAPORE] The United Overseas Bank group, which owns 39.4 per cent ofUnitedinternational Securities, has acquired an additional 309,000 UIS shares for $363,*****. Its shareholding in United International Securities is now 39.63 per cent.
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          Mitsubishi ups Jurong Cement stake
          61 16 [SINGAPORE] Mitsubishi Materials Corp has bought 119,000 shares in Jurong Cement from Nomura Singapore for $523,600. This brings Mitsubishi's holdings in Jurong Cement to 2.76 million shares, or 6.27 per cent. Following the transaction, Nomura holds 2.23 million shares, or a 5,07 per cent stake,
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          Tat Lee Securities' new appointment
          58 16 (SINGAPORE] Tat Lee Securities has appointed Teo Chai Seo as executive director and stockbroking member. Mr Teo has more than seven years experience in the stockbroking industry. He holds a Bachelor of Accountancy degree and a Diploma in Systems Analysis from the National University of
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        140 16 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Wembley Industries Holding Bhd said it has withdrawn a proposed 1-for-l rights issue of 144.475 million shares of Ms 2 each that was to have partly funded a mega-mall complex development. The company said in a statement late on Monday that the action
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        Astron gets 25-year lease for Atlas' copper mine
        355 16  -  Mine expected to net USs47m profit in 2nd year of operations From. Al Labita in Manila MINING firm Astron Ltd, an affiliate of Malaysia's Safuan Group, yesterday won the approval of stockholders of Ma-nila-listed Atlas Mining during its annual general meeting to
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          Lock icon TI Group pre-tax profit up 23%
          79 17 Bloomberg Business News [LONDON] TI Group pic'sl99s pre-tax profit rose 23 per cent as profit and sales at its three primary engineering business Increased. The maker of industrial seals, aircraft landing gear and car brake systems said pre-tax profit rose to £182 million (*****
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          Lock icon Orange share sale stirs up interest
          79 17 Bloomberg Business News [LONDON] Orange pic said 95,000 private individuals have expressed interest in buying shares of the company when the mobile telephone network operator sells 25 per cent of its equity later this month. Orange issued a prospectus for the share sale yesterday.
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          Lock icon Knight-Ridder in talks to sell THR stake
          67 17 Bloomberg Business News [MIAMI) Knight-Ridder Inc is negotiating to sell its 50 per cent stake in cable television company TKR Cable Inc to its partner Tele-Communications Inc, the companies said. TKR, based in Warren, New Jersey, has 744,000 subscribers in New York, New
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          Lock icon Icahn raises stake in RJR Nabisco
          84 17 Bloomberg Business News [WASHINGTON] Investor Carl Icahn increased to 5.8 per cent the stake he holds in RJR Nabisco Holding Corp with Bennett Leßow. Mr Icahn's High River Ltd partnership purchased 1.56 million shares at U5533.88 to US$35 a share between March 5 and
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          Lock icon Hitachi to build 1b yen Thai plant
          80 17 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Hitachi Ltd yesterday said it would build a new manufacturing plant in Thailand at a cost of one billion yen (5513.3 million), expanding car parts production there by as much as 10 times. Output of starter motors and alternators at
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        Lock icon Microsoft, DirecTV plan new multimedia service
        214 17 Reuter [SEATTLE] Microsoft Corp and DirecTV Inc on Monday said they would team up to develop a new class of multimedia services that would be beamed by satellite directly to personal computers in the home. DirecTV is a unit of General Motors Corp's Hughes
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        Lock icon GE chief's pay packet bulges to US$10.6m
        275 17 Bloomberg Business News [FAIRFIELD, Connecticut] General Electric Co chairman and chief executive Jack Welch received US$lO.6 million (5514.9 million) in salary, bonus and stock-appreciation rights last year, making him among the highest-paid CEOs in the US. Mr Welch's salary rose 8.1 per cent
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        Lock icon Daewoo on verge of acquiring Lotus
        416 17 Korean group said to have signed letter of intent to buy all or part of British sports car maker FT DAEWOO, the South Korean industrial group, is understood to have signed a letter of intent to purchase all or part of Lotus, the British
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        59 17 [CRAIOVA, Romania] Workers signing their names on thefirst Romanian buiU Daewoo car during the official production launch here on Monday. South Korean conglomerate Daewoo is investing US$l billion (SSI. 4 billion) over the next three years in its majority-owned plant at Craiova, 230 km west of Bucharest,
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        Lock icon Lower diamond prices push Ashton profit down by 47%
        352 17 But 1996 outlook positive with demand, prices likely to rise, says company Bloomberg Business News [MELBOURNE] Australian diamond mining company Ashton Mining Ltd said lower rough diamond prices reduced its 1995 net profit by 47 per cent. The outlook, though, is
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        Lock icon Prudential operating profits rise 16%
        404 17 Good results despite rough home market; acquisition on cards Bloomberg Business News Reuter, [LONDON] Britain's biggest life insurance group Prudential Corp pic yesterday announced a 16 per cent rise in 1995 operating profits despite a difficult home market. Operating profits for the year increased to
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        Lock icon Fidelity reshuffles 26 portfolio managers to lift performance
        511 18 The personnel shifts also involve creating smaller teams with clear objectives NYT [WASHINGTON] In one of the largest management shifts in its history, Fidelity Investments, the country's largest mutual fund company, is reassigning 26 of its equity-portfo-lio managers in an effort to
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        Lock icon Dah Sing Financial's net profit up 19%
        376 18 Focus on retail and insurance business helps gronp exceed analysts'forecasts SCMP [HONGKONG] The banking and insurance group Dah Sing Financial Holdings on Monday reported a net profit of HK5476.5 mUlion (5586.7 million) for 1995,19 per cent up on the previous year and at
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        Lock icon Plan to list Kobe rubber futures index in M'sia faces hurdles
        313 18 Reuter [SINGAPORE] A proposal to have the Kobe Rubber Exchange (KRE) rubber futures index listed on a Malaysian exchange faces a host of legal and other hurdles that could scuttle the plan, Asian traders said yesterday. "The idea of
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        Lock icon Sydney, Nymex link to include metals contracts
        160 18 Bloomberg Business News [SYDNEY] The Sydney Futures Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) said they intend to extend their electronic link to include gold, silver, copper and platinum contracts from April 12. Nymex energy contracts began trading on the Sydney exchange
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        Lock icon Poor 1995 results seen for France's Big 3 banks
        205 18 Reuter [PARIS] Hurt by dismal credit demand and a long-running property slump, France's Big Three retail banks are set to report another bad year, in contrast to their British peers which have been on a recordbreaking profit rim for 1995. "We
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        Lock icon Eurodollars slip in dull trade
        249 18 sii—u« Report Reuter [S! An overnight rally in US Treasury markets failed to inspire Simex Eurodollar futures which finished fractionally easier after holding steady most of the day in lacklustre trade. Dealers said sentiment remained bearish despite a bout of short-covering on US markets as
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        145 18 Reuter, AFP London THE dollar was marginally better bid in European although current tight ranges look set to keep the US currency in check for now. Despite reasonably positive underlying sentiment the dollar is reluctant to push much higher given the vulnerability of global asset markets to further
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        Lock icon Gulf oil producers tell Opec to make way for Iraq
        296 18 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON] Influential MiddleEast oil producers, including world leading exporter Saudi Arabia, yesterday warned fellow Opec members to curb rampant output now or face a big oil price fall should Iraq make a quick return to world oU
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      2320 19 LONDON Mvstriiis 1*8 hKI *h A. A. Corp Adr 63 *21/4 AB Ports 304 unch Abbey Nation*! S3S -20 Allied Lyons 504 -4 Amec 97 2 Argyll 305 -4 Asda Group 1041/2 1/4 BAT tad 537 -17 BiCC 325 5 BOC Group 918 *4 BR Petroleum 531
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      1621 19 Reuter HXikk«22S ****** SHARES ended firm but off the day's highs following a strong overnight recovery on Wall Street. Traders said the market lacked the momentum to push the Nikkei above the 20,000 mark as most investors were sidelined, worried by the parliamentary impasse over the state budget. The
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      1709 20 Reuter Q Hang Seng ♦206.00 STOCKS closed sharply higher, though they came off the highs reached on initial enthusiasm about Wall Street's rebound overnight. The Hang Seng Index, which had slumped 7.3 per cent on Monday, ended up 205.00 points, or 2 per cent, at 10,602.45, off the day's
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      655 20 Reuter Shanghai B Share Index *OJ3 THE Shanghai B Index ended up on a technical rebound in low volume, but uncertainty kept most investors out of the market. The index rose 0.13 point to 50.34 on a volume of 6.1 million shares worth US$2.4 million. Brokers said the market
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      379 20 AFP CI WP Index -1103 STOCKS closed lower as late selling pressure eroded early gains amid concerns over China's military exercises in the Taiwan Strait. "Most investors were confused over how many rounds of military tests China is intending to conduct, so they just retreated to the sidelines," said
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      685 20 Bloomberg Business News Composite Index +1&32 STOCKS rose as investors shrugged off concerns about high interest rates and turned to the earnings potential of companies for leads. "We had some panic sellers yesterday," said an analyst. The Composite Index rose 16.32 points, or 3 per cent, to 560.86. On
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      844 20 Bloomberg Business News SET Index +189 BANKS and finance houses led a stock rebound even as investors waited to see how the government plans to tackle a widening current account deficit. "We're not likely to see any great improvement in the market until it's clear what measures Cabinet will
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      Lock icon MANILA
      347 20 AFP C 3 Manila -6179 STOCKS fell as tension in the Taiwan Strait continued to dampen foreign interest and local investors took profits. The Composite Index fell 6.79 points to 2,803.86 on a turnover of 13.5 billion shares valued at to 1.9 billion pesos. Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co
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      407 20 AFP n Composite hdg -XB4 SHARE prices closed lower as the market mood remained sour in the absence of encouraging factors, brokers said. The Composite Price Index eased 3.84 points to 844.42. Turnover was 25.6 million shares worth 491 billion won. Falls beat rises 426 to 296 with 154
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      618 20 AFP NAD Ordinaries +4LI SHARE prices rose as investors reacted positively to the revised budget projections. They regained half the ground lost on Monday when the market was ravaged after Wall Street took a rough tumble. The All-Ordinaries Index gained 41.1 points to 2,228.5. Turnover was 256.0 million shares
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      289 20 AFP rl Wellington +11-23 SHARE prices closed firmer but substantially off their highs. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended 11.23 points higher at 2,102.45 but off the day's peak of 2,110.59. Turnover was NZ$9O million. AFP ■re n *h mm ANZ Banking 6 90 0.05 6750 AOvantagoi HldQt 1.50 unch
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        376 21 KPALA Lvnurunßeports Bloomberg Business News Composite Index +1(195 SHARE prices recovered, led by Tenaga Nasional and Telekom Malaysia, after US bonds rebounded from Friday's declines, driving down interest rates and making stocks appear relatively more attractive. "With the US rebounding yesterday, a lot
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        3737 22  -  WARRANT WATCH By. R Sivanithy THE KLSE Second Board looks the place to be, judging by its performance yesterday, when the index hit a record high, gaining 3.05 per cent to 426.59. Investors with a penchant for risk and quick punts could thus be
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        842 24  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Analysts say the outlook for today is for a mixed to uncertain finish, depending on whether Wall Street continues to stabilise By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Wall Street's overnight advance restored some stability to local stock prices yesterday, although conditions were
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          84 24 THE Hong Leong group is giving 13 of its general managers and branch directors each a poet-Lunar New Year hongbao in the form of a spanking new BMW 5-series. The property and finance conglomerate splurged $2.5 million on the "fleet replenishment exercise" (as the company
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          182 24 THE normally cheerful-looking Tony Tan, chairman of Parkway Group, looks downright glum in the cover photograph of the latest Asiaweek magazine. When we turned to the cover story we realised why. The subject of his interview was headlined: "It's a matter of life or death". That's a pretty
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          141 24 A COMMEND ABLY upbeat preee statement arrived in the office, stating that tourism figures for Northern Ireland in 1986 reached record figures. "(They) have not only exceeded expectations, but people want to come back for more," the Northern island Economy Minister, Baroness Denton, was quoted as
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      271 25 Knight-Ridder, Reuter OWNERS appeared generally more confident about freight market prospects on Monday, but brokers saw few indications of market direction. Panamax rates were creeping up in the Atlantic and demand for Capers in the Pacific was still strong, brokers said. But there was no evidence of better
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      363 25  -  Need to meet logistics demands of Asia-Pacific, says Kah at conference By] Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] Singapore, in line with its commitment to help its business partners to regionalise, will continue to improve its international transport infrastructure to meet the logistics needs of the
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      283 25 Reuter [MANILA] Shipping costs are bound to rise because of the high tension between China and Taiwan, and freight rates and insurance premiums will both go up if the crisis persists, industry officials said on Monday. Shipping executives around Asia said
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      197 25 AFP [NEW DELHI] A senior executive with a visiting US business delegation here said on Monday India should work out steps immediately to ease pressure on its ports before this had a negative effect on the economy. "There is a need for augmenting
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      127 25 AFP [TOKYO] Japanese shipping companies are "very con- cerned" about growing tensions between China and Taiwan and have diverted more than a third of their sailings in the area, an industry spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman said about three Japanese ships were being forced to take
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      675 25  -  STRAIT TALK By Seafarer SEAFARER makes no apologies for returning to the issue of oil pollution and who pays for it But the particular aspect of this subject that has recently been raised by a prominent owner is one which is
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      150 25 [SINGAPORE] Japanese luxury liner Asuka (above) which is on its maiden round-the-world tour called at the cruise centre here yesterday. The five-year-old ship set sail from Yokohama on March 1 on a 96-day voyage that includes 28 port calls at 18 countries. Singapore was
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      204 25 Knight-Ridder [LONDON] UK Transport Secretary George Young on Monday told Parliament that the government intended to push for new laws covering merchant shipping safety in the wake of an oil disaster in the Shetland Island three years ago. Mr
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      105 25 AFP [BUENOS AIRES] Britain has resolved a maritime incident with Argentina and another with Chile, in moves reflecting London's willingness to come to terms with a maritime convention on the Antarctic. The Argentine ship, forced to pay Britain for a licence to fish in
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      996 26  -  AJKBRICAN MUITWB INDUSTRY: IN UNUSUAL POLITICAL HAVEN After intense lobbying by American maritime unions, shipping lines and powerful politicians from coastal states, the US House has passed a new programme for more subsidies to protect the interests of the shipping industry Byi Christopher Drew NYT
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        832 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett 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 individual
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        399 43 MARIS Belarus: Constitution Day. Hungary: Anniversary of 1848 revolution. MAS 16 Iran: (tentative) Martyrdom of Sixth Imam. MAS 18 Inland: St Patrick's Day. MAS 19 Iran: Oil Industry Nationalisation Day. Malta: St Joseph's Day. Nepal- Ghode Jatra, (for the Kathmandu Valley only). Spain: (tentative) Father's Day. MASaO Iran:
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        441 44  -  Its share of total trade has grown from 38% In 1973 to 61* in 1993, conference told By'. Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Strong intraAsian trade movements are driving the growth of the region's air cargo industry, said the world's two leading plane manufacturers yesterday.
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        248 44 Commission wants to nse funds to build roads, railways Reuter [BRUSSELS] European Union finance ministers clashed with the European Commission on Monday on plans to use 1.7 billion European currency units (Ss2*.9 billion) in unused EU funds to help finance a string of
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        193 44 Reuter [BRUSSELS] An open skies deal to liberalise civil aviation relations between the EU and Washington remained a distant prospect on Monday as EU transport ministers continued to drag their heels. EU Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock argued for a 15-prong approach to
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        170 44 Bloomberg Business News [MINNEAPOLIS] Mesaba Airlines said on Monday it agreed to buy as many as 72 airplanes from Sweden's Saab Aircraft International AB t replacing the carrier's entire fleet in three years. Minneapolis-based Mesaba said it placed Arm orders for 50
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        227 44 Bloomberg Business News [SAGINAW, Michigan] General Motors Corp'B Delphi Automotive unit and China's Dongfeng Motor Corp have agreed to jointly assemble steering systems for cars built in China. The 50-50 joint venture between Delphi Saginaw Steering Systems and a Dongfeng affiliate, Shanghai
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        200 44 Bernama [TßONOH] Malaysia should venture into manufacturing of aircraft spare parts and components or set up maintenance centres for the aerospace industry, a British professor said yesterday. Prof B L Clarkson said this was a better way to reap the growing market than going
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        366 44  -  Plan to expand in the fastest growing region in the world By] Dexter Lee [SINGAPORE] Swedish heavy vehicle maker Scania officially opened its new South-east Asia regional office in Kuala Lumpur yesterday 7- a move that is part of an aggressive expansion plan
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          80 44 Bloomberg Business News [LONDON] BAA pic taki its seven UK airports handled&2 million passengers in February, an Increase of 12 per cent from the same month In 1996. as traffic across the North Atlantic and to Ireland surged. The UK airport operator yesterday said North
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          65 44 Reuter [KUWAIT] Cargo volume rose 4 per cent and passenger traffic grew 7.7 per cent at Kuwait airport in calendar 1996, the directorate ceneral of civil aviation said. Air cargo volume was s record 124,000 tonnes and the airport handled a record3.3s9 million passengers.
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          87 44 AFP [TOKYO] A Japanese plane carrying 74 people was forced to make an emergency land ing at I tami airport in Osaka yesterday after developing an engine malfunction. Airline officials saidthe Japan Airline System (JAS)MD*7 aircraft was at an altitude 0f6,000 metres during a flight
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          79 44 Bloomberg Business News lb AN FRANCISCO] General Motors Acceptance Corp said ordertorefundat text USS2JS mflflon (Smn>ttltea> la lrnuir«T>oj> pnawinmi to people who financed their cars through the company SaganHmto SuperlorCourt Judge Jamee Long ordered the refunds In a (tension Issued late last week
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          82 44 Reuter rruKYUjMazoa Motor Corp said on yesterday it has introduced ajwttially remodelled Proceed Marvie 7 seater sport-utility vehicle (SUV) in Japan. The sales target is 800 vehicles per month. Mazda has no plans to export the SUV The remodelled Proceed Marvie comes with a 15-litre turbo-charged
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        277 44 Reuter {NEW YORK] US aerospace companies are gearing up for a contract that could be worth US$l trillion (511.41 trillion) to build the next generation of US fighter planes, the New York Times reported yesterday. It said the
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      467 30 BTSL: 2M0193 (12 UNU) wot ttsTtiwfsmn met- M 38H9 MNP (3 Una* C« NO *****M****** ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL F A Atoyo* 43W8 IMM 152u1L2^ H-miM 43MJB 20*06 MombMi^DJtooui HI KIEN HUNG LINE FULLY CONTAINERISED KEGULAR UNCT ggpyiry ACCEPTING BOTH FCL/LCL ALSO ISCMSOC «P— P.UMI |n*W JNi IcTOwir Vnftm WWII
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      383 31 f 2 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE *****8 HOT UNE: *****33 (30 LINES) I DIRECT SERVICE/ j WEEKLY SAILING ATTRACTIVE RATES OFFER LMM. *mr< -^vSr Y*' i*# I a- Cat V nH9l|H| tl# jgW ill. »>. f ..Jm w ]M larnaca iBMS i:i v;i. £ok*r LIMASSOL ALSO
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      105 32 M TELOK tUWGAH NMD M2-S2 OTTONT CWTM «TOHf MM TEL *****1 (6 lints) FAX: *****06 TIX RS ***** CR NO. 20P*****000W waa mm eto kstmotm MMMk MM IMM HIM $tWAMW6C*ESOW umm mm nmm mm wmSST L,U ■MMI MM UMM MMM MMMONIMUK UMM MM MM amm fmimmi ■MBA MM MMM 2MM
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      743 32 1 1 DUXTON HILL, SINGAPORE *****5 C* **********0N PORTKLANG FENANG Iwr m Z wr m m afiJS WH M3W |jg "owcm* ws M/pwi w/ww MMomaow m SmS mfav m pi ii/naw mm ton omUw SSHiu "g—ftg M» ii/biw IVBW "9KB! on mm rwai rtoKiun MH li/MTut IVWTHU MBBW* m liira
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      702 33 I BSA n. %UU|k MYANMA \BBk FIVE STAR UNE (MyiMior National Lin*) loading for Yaiqoa (Rangoon) VBSB VOY SM «G PEN PGU HUWUMTINI 7JW IM PT PATMM IMN IS/03 MALAYSIA AGMTV KXfiTIAO SMPPMG AGfNdiS NIL m 03-03-2417)00 PU: Til 02-03-37*4101 rat m 03-04-2****** pgo: tb 02-07-*****31/4 BANK LINE (A ssrvks
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      643 33 I aggPll PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD _^a*gl4o Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Stngapore *****0. CP NO: *****67X006 FASTEST TRANSIT direct service 10 DAYS: SYDNEY 12 DAYS: MELBOURNE f 15 DAYS: ADELAIDE MV "KOTA HARTA" VOY 015 ETAPKG: 29 MAR 96 ETA SIN: 30 MAR 96 FOR ENQUIRIES/BOOKINGS PIL CUSTOMER
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      924 33 **********0Z VESSELS VOV SN DAMCTTA LE HAVRE HAMBURG THAMESPOHT ROTTERDAM ANTWERP V-LE DE LYRA YI3W 13(03 24/03 02AM 03AM OGAM 06AM 08AM SALLE DE VELA "TTaw 20*)3 31AM 08AM 10AM 12AM 13/04 ISAM VILLE DE CAPELLA TI4W 27/03 OfiAM 18AM 17AM 19AM 20AM 22AM V-LE DE ÜBRA LI4W COJO* W>4
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      494 37 IWBsS^^^v^^^siNiEEksl^^l TIGER BAY 416N 16-1803 20-2403 29-3003 I TIGER CAPE 416N 19-***** 24-27/03 01-0204 I TIGER ISLAND 417N 22 2303 27-31/03 064*04 I TIGER BRJOGE 418N 26-2403 31-03(04 08-0804 I TIGER BAY 419N 29-3003 0347/04 12-1304 I TIGER CAPE 420N 01-02/04 07-1004 15-1004 I I VESSEL VOY SIN CAL SIN
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      709 37 Sea EE Land r DIRECT CALL TO NAHA BMMum m-Sm"VBT 1MB! MHBA* W WWWIWW 3—IBM l»W 27/N 27/H IBM m ItM IVM M/M IV* M/M IVM B/M B/M BAM M/B IBHM Iftfl M/M M/M IBMM MB M/M M/M B/M B/M B/M M/M 27/ M RjN «A «W MM M/M M/M
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      971 38 AS AQBfTS. "IC UNI (MNQAPOME) PFB LTD (CR WOMMn MB I®: MMOI7MM) TH_22IB977THIXMWAKIRS23I66FAX;3Z322I67/&9 T T akjl? MALAYSIA: IT LM MAfVTMM (MALATMA) KM WHO IPj TEL SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 JB *****01 PGU *****256 >r MDONESIA: P.T. SARAMA LAI/T H—HHA, TK. JKT *****06 OMMMLi MH—MWWB'tffWIHWW A Mrtl M. uhlflß
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      971 38 P 19 UPf& KMD M2-41AT PON MJUMC SMSAPORf OMOSt fawo-iiomnm/w) CUSTOMS! SBVKX W5-1-2JS MKMMNWBHMX 2H++44 «B«AIUW 225-MM GBMULFAX HI-MB Wc Carry Your Confidence. 1 UW4M EAMfVQKK 321 -MM mm* mmmiwu mm nm mmmmm mm "55T mi SF" nm IZr I-—- I-I?.-iw im ma mm m.vmjm mm um mimctoit mm rvm
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      817 39 1 IMPORT FCL/LCL CONSOLIDATION j 1 ITALY/SINGAPORE 1 i. V Marshalling Forwading Services (MPS) I 1 vie Genoa and Milan T wTPowfAMnw At Your service: NICHOLAS/SALH A/MARIA aotrnntS*. Napi«Sfc> DID 277-1077/71/7$ bi AND LOOBDCS MKMCSS I i t, a i SUPER EXPRESS SERVICE TO SEA p ;If lAL SNIPPING AGENCY
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      1120 40 mr* SAMUDERA INDONESIA (S) PTE LTD -BP 15 MqCALLUM STREET #03-01/02 NATWEST CENTRE S PORE 0106 fmmmm TEL: *****81-3 FAX: *****36 (3 HUNTING LINES) TLX: R*****0 jIOOKIMBS CALL DIRECT LIME :*****41/2222>43JESSICA/CELI A 7 SLQS/WEEK 3slos/WEEK ivcttEL TOT PBK ww. ivavim \um ASCARYA. "K2 14/03 (THU) Ifl/Q3(SAT) ORIENT INDEPENDENCE 973 17/TO(SUN)
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      300 40 I I® PHILI-OmtNT I V** LINfS PT€ LTD i ®TEL: *****00 (16 UNEB) FAX: *****76/*****38 CR COOK: **********0H R KB-AMO 03-*****98 NMMO44INM fsYwlS^wwwSs^^^^^^^?ssf| I AUCKLAND, WELLMQTON, LYTTLETOH 16 MAR I I NAPCR, CHRISTCHURCH, NEW PLYMOUTH I i^wmw^uHAwT^^^^^irMA?|;; ROTTERDAM HAMBURG, ANTWERP ~f— AND ALL MLAND DGBTMATIONS WTTHM EUROPE IS MAR KOBE,
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      477 41 X Singapore Soviet Shipping jfflt Co. Pte. Ltd. MIL AAMIMIIAIUMI Cn NO: **********0 M M——■ pRa voy sw bom coc MA GLORY autoes 14/03 23/03 4HJR GEMINI 410 10/03 20/03 ORIENT STRIDE 001 20/03 20/03 MBKHAMK KURAJCO MKION 27/03 04AM MEBIMAII IYICHEVBK ttlHflCt IVBSBEL VOY B'POflE tLYCHEVOK grew gather ooee-oeew
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      368 41 mom SIM FAR EAST 19/03 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 17/03 BANGKOK 17/03 manilaa:ebu 17/03 JAKARTA/BE LAWAN/SURABAYA 17/03 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 17/03 BUSAN 17/03 TOKYO/YOKQ/KOBE/NGO/OSA 17/03 HONG KONG SIN CHINA 17/03 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/OINGDAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo SIM EUROFEAJK 17/03 LDN/FLX/IVP/SOU I 18/03 ROM/HAM/ANT/LEH/QOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poiand/Bulgaria/Czech. SIM USA/CANADA
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      488 41 I STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD mxSaSm service GOiD STARUNC LTD SHNSHtPfttIG CORPORATION TIIIPHOMfc 220-4666 (8 LINES) FAX: *****70 fcfc *****12 (MARKETMG) (CSNO. **********0-f} N. AMERKA/CARIMEAN SERVICE m ma, Iwr I« I— lim «n im ft ZMMOUMM m M/M LJMMKAH 17/ M M/M M/M M/M M/M mmmmm tarn «/m
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      128 41 TOKYO SHmiIKAiUN 00 PTE LTD IHIJI 10 ANSON ROAD *23-16 lllU MTBMATIONAL PLAZA S a PO9«oao7 r^ > seskskw,. C/lb **********01 j SERVICE TO; F*R EAST/CHINA/CUROPSI 18/09/00) TOKYO, YOKOHAMA, KOBE NAOOYA 18/03/06) OSAKA, USA ismmi HONOKONQ AND ALL CISNA PORTS 16/03/00) HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM SOUTHAMPTON fc# v ALL BOOKMGS AND ENQUIRES,
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      658 42 Sm—\ UNO ixmu SHIPPING (ni) ltd. M M I 11 COLLYIR QUAY #06-01 THE ARCAOC MMQAPOM 0104. y—Jl—J TIL: *****00 (4 LINES) FAX& *****00 TLX: VMS36II MNOCX BlliOTllAti> HANOHAI (CONTAINER »IWVCI) SIN/HKQ/»HAI STOW HKO MM VES3B. WY ETA ETD ETA ETP ETA ETP CHftWOYHQ WDMfltt SMB. Qftffifl ia/m iatea imb
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      235 42 Lowest RATES to:HAMB/FXT/R'DAM mv'HANJIN FELIXSTOWE' VO2BW ETA 18/3 USs2o++ i HONGKONG mv "WAN HAI" 222 V. N023 ETA 17/3 BANGKOK mv "RATHA BHUM" V.99N ETA 16/3 CALL: EILEEN, PHYUSS, XIUHUA MU. p y "H m W Jw g rn T I -gr it! J «aSr*g m —j~ Iffij I w
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      210 42 I ATTRACTIVE I FCL/LCL RATES TOT Indian Sub-Continent Ports- —I MADRAS BOMBAY CALCUTTA /COLOMBO/ CHITTAGONG M NHAVA SHEVA liwi >NTAINER UN^ QUIRIES BOOKINGS*. PLS CALL ,J?fc TEL: 224 6744 "ag Astra SWpphg Pte Ltd I WEEKLY CONSOLIDATION SERVICED r TEL: 220-4045(12 UNB) FAX; 315-40 M _J 1 tun -s 3
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