The Business Times, 29 July 1996

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/95 Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes SINGAPORE MONDAY, JULY 29,1996 85*
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    57 1 hiftl M UillMii tU-.L wee* Chuff sin .1129.99.. -7185 KLSE COMP 1.064.06 -4132 NIKKEI 21,124.90.. -351.39 HANG SOW ...10,705.37.. -139.93 SET INDEX —1.110.23. -7115 JAKARTA COUP *****.. .-18.76 MANILA COMP .3,064.6.. -163.7 TAIPEI WPl 6,053.7.. —-156.91 SEOULCOMP 814.03.. -25.55 CLSA CHINA B 871.78.. +34.06 AL'ST ALL OBD 2,*****..
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    FINANCE
    72 1 EXCHANGE BiTCS USS St uss 1.417 s 1.556 2.203 DM VIM am 1.307 Ht •481. 0.569 BKI IlMl 0.183 BAHT 0.040. 0.066 RUP1AH 100... 0.043._ 0.061 PIOB KATES SINQAPORE* J. 44 KUALA LUMPUR. 8.15 JAKARTA 1800 BANGKOK 13.75 MANILA 14.50 HONGKONG J.75 TAIPH. .8.00 SYDNEY; 10.75 TOKYO .180 SEOUL
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    Lock icon S'pore-based banks see surge in 'exotics' trade
    729 1  -  Average daily volumes in ringgit, baht and rupiah rise 50% in a year By By Siow Li Sen and Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] Trading in "exotic" regional currencies is fast becoming an important business for Singapore-based banks. Bankers here say there has been a
    Source: Bloomberg; ALLAN  -  729 words
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    Lock icon Suntec Investment takes a big slice of Dome pie
    561 1  -  Flans afoot to list Suntec Dome in 3 to 5 years By, Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Suntec Investment, the investment vehicle for a group of well-known Hongkong tycoons, has taken a 51 per cent stake in Dome Holding Singapore (DHS) which owns
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    Jakarta woman denies link with Amcol
    502 1  -  Bank officer says she is surprised to be dragged into scandal By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] A woman to whose bank account Amcol Holding's Mauritius partner had remitted US$3OO,OOO (*****,000), said she has nothing to do with the troubled property and trading group or
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    Lock icon Govt boost for Thai bourse
    135 1 Reuter [BANGKOK] Thai financial authorities will keep foreign stock brokers better informed about economic policies in a move to bolster confidence and shore up sagging investment on the bourse. Speaking to reporters after an emergency meeting with advisers on Saturday, Finance Minister Bodi Chunnananda said
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      110 1 diszde TVe pen is mightier Montblanc's CEO sums up the luxury-pen maker's corporate vision: "We are selling eternity'. Pff 2 Techno-retreat for Asian bigwigs 27 CEOs went back to school last week for the first IT bootcamp held in Asia, m New pastures for trading giants Japanese trading houses are
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      20 1 More reports, Pg 17 Indonesian markets set to tumble today, Pg 3 Wall Btjpins hope on obscure indicator, Pg 7
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Hold eternity in your hand -via a pen
      745 2  -  COMPANY VISIT MONTBLANC Why a Montblanc pen is not seoi as jost a hoary instrument used far writing By: Kevin Sullivan PLATT, chief executive officer of the German luxury-pen manufacturer Montblanc, conjures up a noteworthy corporate vision. "We are selling eternity," he
      CHRIS LOH  -  745 words
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      New NUS postgrad course for the busy exec
      431 2  -  MBA coarse will be tffered in Mandarin as well as English L Nicholas Fang TOE National University of $tagapore has come up with a postgraduate degree course that caters to top executives Who are too busy to take extended leave to pursue
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      Voting for HDB upgrading via Internet
      129 2 RESIDENTS of a Tampines North precinct will have the distinction of being the first to vote for an interim upgrading programme over the next two weeks via the Internet. From yesterday, those living in Housing Board blocks 408 to 417 can vote for the
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      Lock icon Catering business slows further
      290 2  -  E7EOMTHEECONOM7 Commerce By, Jenny Lam THE slowdown in the catering business which began in March continued into May as the catering trade index registered a 1.8 per cent fall in volume terms compared to a year ago. At current prices, the May index nudged up a
      Source: Dept of Statistics; ALLAN  -  290 words
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      Business team to visit Thailand
      299 2  -  By Loh Hui Yin A TEAM of Singapore businessmen, mainly from small and medium-sized enterprises, will visit Bangkok next month to find out about investing in Thailand. The mission, to be led by Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister, Yeo Cheow Tong, will also visit the
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      Machine tool maker spends $10m to expand Jurong plant
      430 2  -  By Jennifer Lien JAPANESE machine tools maker Yamazaki Mazak has expanded its Jurong plant at a cost of $10 million. The expansion allows Mazak to make complete tool machines here. Previously, the plant made only components, which were shipped to Mazak's
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      EXECUTIVE MOVES
      345 2 Jan Verschoor: has been appointed General Manager of Nedship Merchant Bank (Asia) Ltd in Singapore. Mr Verschoor is responsible for the overall management and development of Nedship's business in Singapore and the region. He has 15 years of experience in the banking and shipping industry. Mr Verschoor holds
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Stock market rupiah expected to be hit today
      441 3 JAKARTA Saturday's rioting over disputed PDI HQ seen affecting foreign and local investors Reuter INDONESIAN markets are likely to tumble when they reopen today in the wake of rioting and a crackdown on opposition party activists, economic analysts said. Currency dealers and
      Reuter; AFP  -  441 words
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      Lock icon M'sia plans incentives to increase savings
      234 3 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S savings rate is too low and the government will soon unveil fresh incentives to encourage Malaysians to save more, Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said. Mr Anwar said the national savings rate should be raised to increase Malaysia's internal financial
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Open up Chief Exec's selection, urges Patten
      418 4 HONGKONG If his successor is chosen behind closed doors, there conld be I credibility problem Reuter AFP HONGKONG Governor Chris Patten called on Beijing yesterday to open up the selection process for his successor after the British colony reverts to Chinese rule in
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        Lock icon Triwan's loading economic index up 1.1%
        57 4 Bloomberg Business News [TAIPEI] Taiwan's index of leading economic indicators rose 1.1 percent in June from May, its second increase in five months, the government said. The index rose on growth in exports, stocks, wholesale prices and housing permit applications, said the Council for
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        Lock icon Foreign financial institutions' profits
        94 4 Reuter [BEIJING] Overseas financial institutions in China reported gross capital of US$19.14 billion (S$27.1 billion) at the end of 1995, and post-tax profits of US$139 million, the People's Daily Overseas Edition said. Offices of 519 overseas financial institutions and 142 business bodies, run by overseas financial
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        Lock icon Shanghai oustoms collection up 51%
        73 4 Reuter [SHANGHAI] Shanghai customs collected 10.77 billion yuan (S$l .8 billion) in Import tariffs and duties in the first halt up 51.1 per cent on the same 1995 period, the China Daily Business Weekly said. This figure accounted for 76.7 per cent of the target
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        Lock icon Taiwan minister to visit Haiti, Paraguay
        107 4 Reuter [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Foreign Minister John Chang is to leave for Haiti and Paraguay on Aug 5 to cement the island's ties with its two diplomatic allies, the state-run Central News Agency said. The visit by Mr Chang, his first overseas trip since taking
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      Lock icon Fighting the floods with revolutionary fervour
      362 4 WUHAN, China Reuter CHINA has banked on Cultural Revolution-style fervour to mobilise millions of soldiers, police and volunteers in the battle against fierce floods ravaging central and southern China. In the industrial city of Wuhan in central China, red banners reading "If I'm alive,
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      Lock icon Shake up management in state firms: economist
      383 4 BEIJING To reach 2010 target, high tech, more competitive products also needed AFP HIGH technology, a management shake-up and more competitive products are China's only hope of becoming a moderately developed country by 2010, a top economist warned yesterday in the China Business
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      Lock icon Firms going abroad need licence: China
      195 4 BEIJING AFP AN ESTIMATED one third of Chinese companies active overseas are not registered with Beijing, according to a top official, who warned that tough reforms to end the "chaos" were imminent. A three-year study by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation
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      622 4 BUSINESS Xotices 'lu A|K,|s| 1 i<>i i-iki i inn* I H DIAERCRAFT ASIA UD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) I NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the shareholders of I the Company will be hekJ at 6 Shenton Way
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  • ASIA
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        Lock icon India to reject nuclear test ban treaty
        92 5 Reuter (NEW DELHI] India will not relent cm its decision to reject a proposed global treaty banning nuclear test explosions, Foreign Minister Inder Kumar Gujral said yesterday. "The treaty in its present form is aimed at asking India to give up its nuclear
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        Lock icon Aussie PM cancels Asia visits
        42 5 AFP [SYDNEY] Australian Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday that he had cancelled his August visits to Japan and Indonesia as his wife Janette was to undergo a major operation scheduled for early in the coming week.—AFP
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        Lock icon Lankan flour, bread prices up 15%
        58 5 AFP [COLOMBO] Sri Lanka raised the prices of wheat flour and bread by up to 15 per cent yesterday, the second increases in four months. The sharp rise is bound to have a major impact on the official cost of living index, which gives
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        Lock icon Pusan train crash hurts 83 people
        51 5 AFP [SEOUL] Eighty-three people were injured, six of them seriously, when a passenger train smashed into a stalled truck at a level-crossing in the southern port city of Pusan, reports said yesterday. The Saturday night smash hurled four carriages of the train off the
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        Lock icon Kim meets Seoul officials on floods
        88 5 Reuter [SEOUL] South Korean President Kim Young Sam has cut short his vacation after torrential rain in the country killed at least 50 people and left tens of thousands homeless. "He has returned from his holidays and is having meetings with relevant government officials
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      Lock icon Japan-Taiwan row over disputed isles escalates
      331 5 TOKYO Patrol ships on alert as Taiwanese flotilla stages protest over lighthouse: reports Reuter JAPAN'S row with Taiwan and China over islands claimed by each nation escalated yesterday with reports that Tokyo's coastguard ships were on alert to use force if necessary to repel
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      Lock icon India's defence budget pruning a concern: analysts
      380 5 NEW DELHI Reuter INDIA'S decision to steadily prune the defence budget supporting one of the world's largest armies may signal it is lowering its guard in a tense region bristling with weapons, analysts said yesterday. "We are possibly the only major nation in
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      Lock icon Green buys
      42 5 [TOKYO] Japanese Greenpeace staff selling promotion goods as a masked staff member looked onat Yokohama Osanbashi pier on Saturday. Greenpeace is on the last leg of its Japanese tour* to promote its international activities to prevent further environmental destruction. AFP
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      Lock icon No mediation if rebels seek separation: Sri Lanka
      301 5 ■COLOMBO AFP SRI Lanka may opt for international mediation to resolve the protracted civil war if Tamil guerillas renounced their goal for a separate state, Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar said yesterday. Mr Kadirgamar told foreign correspondents here that third-party peace brokers would
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  • FOCUS
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      New pastures for trading giants
      1220 6  -  Japanese trading houses move into manufacturing, raw material processing in Asia By' Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE! AFTER reinventing themselves as manufacturers, investors and developers in North America, the Japanese trading giants like Itochu, Marubeni, Mitsui, Sumitomo and Mitsubishi are making use of their newfound know-how
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Greenspan focuses all eyes on labour cost index
      390 7 WASHINGTON Index measuring wages, benefits could determine direction of interest rates Bloomberg Business News FEDERAL Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has put Wall Street on notice: central bankers will be paying particular attention to a relatively obscure economic indicator tomorrow as they decide
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Turkish prisoners end hunger strikes
        56 7 AFP {ISTANBUL] Turkey's biggest wave of prison hunger strikes by leftist inmates, which has left 12 dead, ended peacefully yesterday, after the government agreed to make concessions. The strikers had demanded the closure of Eskisehirjail, where inmates are kept in isolation cells, but later agreed
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        Lock icon Russian navy celebrates anniversary
        60 7 Reuter [VLADIVOSTOK, Russia] Ships from five fleets, including the first Japanese warship to visit Russia in more than 70 years, moored in this Far Eastern port yesterday as Russia marked the 300 th anniversary of its navy. Thousands of local people turned out in rain to
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        Lock icon Egypt's Mubarak on four-day US visit
        54 7 AFP [CAIRO] President Hosni Mubarak left Cairo yesterday for Washington for a four-day visit during which he will discuss the peace process with President Bill Clinton. Mr Mubarak will meet Mr Clinton and Vice-President A 1 Gore tomorrow, after talks with Secretary of State
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      Lock icon Lawmakers speed up to pass major new laws
      181 7 WASHINGTON Reuter AFTER months of partisan bickering and charges of a "do-nothing Congress" lawmakers are suddenly on the brink of passing major new laws including health and welfare reform and a minimum wage increase. The burst of activity has been motivated by
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      Lock icon Bomb in cargo hold ripped off the front of TWA jet: CNN
      336 7 NEW YORK Fed investigators leaning towards sabotage theories AFP THE TWA jetliner that exploded last week continued its flight 26 seconds after the jet's black boxes stopped recording, investigators said over the weekend, indicating the aircraft appears to
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      Lock icon G-7 meets to fight terrorism
      275 7 AFP [PARIS] With the Atlanta bombing fresh in their minds, world powers will gather in Paris tomorrow for a summit on terrorism aimed at deciding a gamut of concrete measures to combat the global scourge. Scheduled well before the weekend's bombing shattered the mood of
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      474 7 I^^^^^BayeriMheLandes^^ f Girozentrale NSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE CONSOLIDATED PROFIT AND LOSS T AS AT 31 ST DECEMBER 1995 ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1995 (Figures in DM '000) (Figures in DM '000) 1995 1995 245,355 issued by public Interest income from of exchange eligible a) Lending and money market with central banks
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Lock icon Head honchos get a lesson on IT know-how
      615 8  -  Computer Associates' Charles Wang talks about the exclusive bootcamp, held for the first time in Asia By] Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] For 27 CEOs from around Asia it was back to school last Wednesday except that school was the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore,
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      European IT group acquires local company
      333 8  -  Hove to invest $84m over six years in Asia By. Poo-Cheong Wai Ming [SINGAPORE] Europeanbased IT services group Cap Gemini has set up its first Asian unit here, kicking off a move to invest US$6O million (SsB4 million) over six years in an Asian
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    • IT WORLD
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        New Intel-Sony Internet technology
        73 8 [BURLINGAME, California) Intel and Sony will test a new way of transmitting video images over the Internet next month. The new technology known as "streaming" bypasses the need to download and store video and sound data before viewing and allows users to have "real-time" access to
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        Cisco aoquires Mica Technologies
        102 8 [SINGAPORE] Cisco Systems Inc. the world's largest internetworking company, has announced its agreement to buy Telebit Corp and its modem ISDN channel aggregation (Mica) technologies for US$2OO million (Ss2Bo million). Cisco will pay the sum in cash, net of option proceeds which translate to shareholders receiving
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        Toshiba buys land for expansion
        72 8 [TOKYO] Toshiba Corp has announced plans to buy a plot of land adjacent to one of its main semiconductor plants in Oita in southern Japan with a view to future expansion. The company plans to use the land for the construction of a plant to
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        Intel's futuristic hardware
        68 8 [BURLINGAME, California] Intel Corp has announced it will be providing souped-up multimedia chips, three-dimensional graphic controllers and other futuristic hardware for mainstream personal computers next year. To allow PC users to make the best use of these technologies, the company urged content developers to be more aggressive
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        Apple, IBM in Japanese venture
        60 8 [TOKYO] Apple Computer Inc and IBM-Japan will jointly devetop a small notebook-style computer tor the Japanese market, said Marco Landi, Apple's Chief executive officer. The notebook, to go on sale early next year, will carry an Apple logo and be an Apple product. IBM will
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      Asean target set by Indian software firm
      302 9 [SINGAPORE] The National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), an Indian software firm, aims through its Singapore subsidiary to be one of Asean's top three companies providing IT solutions to the manufacturing sector within the next three years, according to NIIT Asean president Rahul
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    • IT TAKES
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        Internet tools from SunSoft
        75 9  -  Compiled by Poo-Cheong Wai Ming [SINGAPORE] Internet software company SunSoft has released Solaris Internet Access Plus Pack, a tools suite for Internet users of the Solaris operating environment on Sparc or Intel-based computers. Applications from the suite will enable Solaris users to develop Java applets and
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        Bay Networks goes Soho
        53 9 [SINGAPORE] The small office/home office (Soho) market is being targeted by networking services company Bay Networks' Netgear, a new family of connectivity software which has just been launched. Products include various options for hubs, switches and ISDN routers. The switches and routers are expected to ship
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        Exabyte's new portable tape drive
        65 9 (SINGAPORE] Tape storage product manufacturer Exabyte Corp has released a new portable tape drive, the Eagle Nest TR-3 Tape Drive, designed for workgroups or multiple PC environments. This consists of a tape docking bay or "Nest", which installs in a PC's 5 v« -inch drive
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        Fujifilm introduces CompactFlash
        56 9 [SINGAPORE] Fujifilm has introduced CompactFlash, a multimedia storage card, which is based on SanDisk Corp's 32Mbit flash memory technology. This is to promote CompactFlash as a global standard for small form factor Storage cards. It will be available in capacities ranging from two to 15 MB, and
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        AMD processor to be used in FIC PCs
        79 9 [SINGAPORE] First International Computer (FIC) will be using Advanced Micro Devices' AMD-K5-PR90 processor in its new desktop computers, the LEO Titan 995 and Safari Patabook. Features of the former, which is priced at under US$1,000 (S$1,419), include a 1.2 GB hard drive,
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        FaxSav sets up fax node in Hongkong
        52 9 [SINGAPORE] Fax services company FaxSav has activated in Hongkong its second Internet fax point of presence (POP) outside the US to broaden services available to Pacific Rim users. This also promises cost-savings to users of both its Internet-based desktop fax services and standard
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        Lexmark appoints Gopeng in Malaysia
        38 9 [SINGAPORE] Printer maker Lexmark International has appointed Gopeng Technologies Systems Sdn Bhd as its new distributor for Malaysia, authorising the latter to market and sell its products as well as provide customer support.
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      Electronic village coming up soon in Queesland, Australia
      392 9  -  When ready, every home there will be linked to a broadband net By] Poo-Cheong Wai Ming [SINGAPORE] An electronic village is being built in Queensland, Australia, with every home linked to a broadband net. Springfield, 22 km south-west of Brisbane, is a
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      Lock icon E-mail on your fax machine?
      111 9 Reuter (AUCKLAND] A New Zealand company claims it has developed software to allow anyone with a fax machine to receive email on their machine and advertise on an Internet Web page. Faxmail Marketing Services Ltd said designer Bruce Simpson had come up with software providing
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      WPI eyes larger share of CD-ROM drive market
      246 10 [SINGAPORE] WBL Corp associate Wearnes Peripherals International (WPI) has unveiled plans to develop a series of products for the CD-record-er market in a bid to corner a larger share of the world CDROM drive market. The first product to be launched is
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      Iomega acquires Penang plant
      291 10  -  Facility, bought from Qnantnm Corp for $39-sm, to have an 'aggressive schedule' By\ Poo-Cheong Wai Ming [SINGAPORE] Storage solutions company lomega Corporation has bought a hard-drive manufacturing plant in Penang from Quantum Corporation for US$2B million (5539.5 million). The facility will initially produce lomega's Jaz drives
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      Lock icon Intel unveils software for phone calls on the Internet
      420 10 It has also made software available over the World Wide Web Bloomberg Business News [SANTA CLARA, California] Intel Corp has unveiled free software that lets personalcomputer users make phone calls on the Internet more easily than with current products. It has
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      Don't ignore risks of the virtual office
      617 10  -  ByEl\ Elizabeth Cruz-Curry The writer, a lead manager at Arthur Andersem Singapore's Computer Risk Management (CR\ft service group, has been involved in tHe development of information systems audtt methodology tools for the group* W THE growing number of laptop and notebook computers, combined
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      Lock icon Corel to install software on Packard Bell computers
      218 10 Bloomberg Business News (OTTAWA! Corel Corp has reached an agreement with Packard Bell Electronics Corp to install its WordPerfect suite and other software in all Packard Bell computers. The agreement with Packard Bell, the leading US maker of personal computers, will boost
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      Lock icon Netscape, 25 others to develop scheduling technology
      235 12 Bloomberg Business News [MOUNTAIN VIEW, California] Netscape Communications Corp is working with 25 companies to develop technology for setting up schedules and making appointments over the Internet. Netscape played host to companies including HewlettPackard Co, International Business Machines Corp's Lotus unit, Novell Inc,
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      At last: Computer age camera comes with budget price
      532 12  -  Casio's QV-10 has a price tag of under $700 M. Vikram Khanna UP TO now, digital cameras which need no film and no processing have been one of those luxuries that only the most extravagant of shutterbugs would go for. There
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      3Com launches budget SuperStack
      284 12  -  By Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Big networking player 3Com has started shipping its latest stackable networking system, SuperStack 11. The US-based firm's product manager, Gordon Hutchison, said the attraction of SuperStack II is its high performance, especially in broad bandwidth, at a budget price. And the
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      168 12 Bloomberg Business News [WASHINGTON! The Ingram family of Nashville began a plan to sell stock in Ingram Micro Inc, the world's largest wholesale distributor of microcomputers with some US$B.6 billion (Ssl2 billion) in annual sales. The Santa Ana, California, company filed with the Securities and Exchange
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      57 12 LAST week's review of the EZFlyer 230 said that the removable cartridge drive from Syquest could not be temporarily on a client machine and needed a formal install procedure. Syq4- est has clarified that a command, "VISIT', does provide th*t functionality. The drivers, however, cannot be loaded high and
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      680 13 FILM Slick trailers build excitement among audiences in advance of a film's release NYT [NEW YORK] When the producers of this summer's blockbuster, Independence Day, saw the first special-effects footage, they knew they had the makings of a great movie preview. And so
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      667 13  -  Two radio-TV writers offer their views about programming in Singapore to kevdvsdluvax KEVIN SULLIVAN WHITHER public broadcasting? The question has preoccupied many since TVI2 came on the scene last year. Downmarket, appears to be the apt response. Two British radio and television writers recently offered their
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      531 13  -  MUSIC The conductor's swan song was generally a positive one By. Benjamin Loh IT HAS been 17 years since the inception of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and judging from last Friday's commemorative concert in honour of conductor Choo Hoey, Singaporeans can be proud of
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  • OLYMPICS 1996
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      Lock icon The Games are no longer games
      778 14  -  But to cancel the Games would be a surrender to the evil cowards who planted the pipe bomb By: Dave Anderson NYT [ATLANTA] In the darkness before dawn broke over Centennial Park's bloodied pavement, Francois Carrard, the deputy general of the International Olympic Committee,
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      Lock icon In the line of duty for world-class badminton
      335 14  -  By] Doug Cress NYT [ATLANTA] To be honest, this started as a joke. Badminton was a sport I knew only from lawn parties, where both beer and bare feet played prominent roles, and you only whapped the birdie around long enough to
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      Where's sportsmanship?
      891 14  -  Athletes who cry fool without cause ought to bow in dignity when they lose By] Denesh Divyanathan IT IS a routine that is almost to be expected these days in major international sporting events. An outsider wins the gold from well-known favourites and immediately the sporting fraternity cries
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      1023 16 12am ROUND-UP Two Russian medallists, a Lithuanian tested positive for drugs AFP DONOVAN Bailey ran a world record 100 m and added the Olympic gold medal to his world title, while Gail Devers retained her 100 m title. Some 80,000 people cheered Bailey's win and
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Amcol, CMB seen adding to S'pore market's gloom
      491 17  -  Analyst sees counters like UPP, Van Der Horst and UM taking a hit too By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Carnaud Metalßox's massive write-down of its China projects, coupled with the Amcol affair, is expected to further depress the Singapore stock market this week.
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      Some Amcol problems known before June
      760 17  -  THE AMOOL SAG A Problems identified by Merrill Lynch in review of operations By\ Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] At least some of Amcol Holdings' problems were known well before the company came under the control of its independent directors in June. In January, Amcol's board
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        Tenaga to propose new power tariff formula in September
        371 18  -  By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Tenaga Nasional is working on a proposal for a new tariff, which it will submit to the Malaysian government in September this year, for approval by year end. Analysts who recently met the company's management said that
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        253 18 FT [BANGKOK] Worries about the profitability of Thailand's two mobile phone operators, Advanced Information Services and Total Access Communications, are growing after the Thai government reversed a decision to establish a duopoly in the mobile phones sector. Thailand's Council of State ruled on
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        Electronics downturn: S'pore most vulnerable in S-E Asia
        498 18  -  Bat fall is temporary as industry is likely to revive towards end of the year, says Crosby report By, Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Singapore is the most vulnerable of Southeast Asian countries to the current global electronics downturn, says Crosby Securities in a
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        Maybank shares come under heavy selling
        385 18  -  Slide sparks talk that earnings may be well below expectations From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur HEAVY selling of Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) shares late last week has sparked rumours that Malaysia's premier banking group could turn in lower-than-ex-pected earnings next month. The Maybank
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        332 18 Reuter [JAKARTA] Indonesian conglomerate PT Bakrie Brothers, best known for its rubber and oil plantations, plans to become a regional telecommunications player with ventures into Uzbekistan, Australia and Vietnam, officials said yesterday. Bakrie's senior vice-presi-dent and chief financial officer Nalin Rathod told Reuters:
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          Lock icon Angkasa in two China joint ventures
          70 18 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Angkasa Marketing Bhd's wholly-owned subsidiary, Angkasa Transport Equipment Sdn Bhd, has entered into two joint ventures in China. Angkasa Transport proposed to subscribe SO per cent equity interest in a joint venture company, Hunan Chang Fa Automobile Engine Co Ltd, said
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          Lock icon Amanah Harta Tanah PNB income up 9%
          59 18 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Amanah Harta Tanah PNB recorded a 8.85 per cent increase in net income before tax of M 18.65 million (Ss4.B million) for the six-month period ended June 30,1996. It said the net book value in investment in properties was M
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          Lock icon Lai Sing pre-tax profit up 34%
          53 18 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Lai Sing Holdings Bhd recorded a 34 per cent rise in group pre-tax profit to MS 14.18 million (557.9 million) for the financial year ended May 31,1996. Turnover rose to M 5135.54 million from M 586.12 million in the previous corresponding
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          Lock icon Apex Equity pre-tax jumps 84%
          77 18 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Apex Equity Holdings Bhd, a stockbroking firm, posted a group pre-tax profit of M 552.99 million (5529.7 million) for the year ended June 30,1996, an 84 per cent jump and a turnover of M 587.42 million, up 91 per cent. Apex Equity
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          Corrections and clarifications
          62 18 IN our report headlined "Banks keep mum on Amcol exposure" on Saturday, we quoted a Vickers Ballas investment research report which said 53.5 million Amcol shares were pledged by Henry Pribadi with OCBC and two other banks. OCBC has written to say that Mr Pribadi has not
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        Econ wins US$2.8m Indon waste-water plant contract
        330 18 But shareholders most give the nod before it can proceed [SINGAPORE] Econ International has clinched a US$2.B2 million (554.2 million) project to design and construct a waste-water treatment plant in Indonesia. The company said over the weekend that the project would be handled
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        Lock icon Tin miner Timah's interim profit up 64% to 70b rupiah
        184 18 Bloomberg Business News [JAKARTA] Profit at leading tin miner PT Tambang Timah rose nearly twice as fast as sales in the first half of 1996 as interest income jumped following last year's initial public offering and tin prices rose. Timah's
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          Lock icon Ford to sell US$83.5b in leases
          66 19 Bloomberg Business News [DEARBORN, Michigan], Ford Motor Co will sell US$l.B billion (552.5 billion) in leases to Bank America Corp, and another US$l.7 billion to a partnership formed by Ford and Bank America, the companies said. The US$3.5 billion in leases represent all the
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          Lock icon Tomen plans UB$2l5m loan to Viet firm
          74 19 AFP [HANOI] Japanese trading house Tomen Corp plans to lend US$2l5 million (Ss3ol million) to a Vietnamese state firm to build a fertiliser plant, a report said yesterday. The planned factory, expected to be built in the northern province of Quang Ninh, will
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          Lock icon Guardian Royal profit expected to fall
          75 19 Bloomberg Business News [LONDON] Guardian Royal Exchange pic first-half pre-tax profit before investment gains is expected to drop as much as 33 per cent because of higher weather-related losses and a poorer result from UK insurance underwriting. The UK general insurer is expected to
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          Lock icon M'sia is one of Oracle's largest markets
          81 19 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is Oracle Corporation's third largest market in the Asia Pacific, with Telekom Malaysia Bhd alone contributing 38 per cent of the US$2O million (Ss2B million) of its turnover in the Asean market last year. Oracle's business development director of
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          Lock icon Cordiant denies bid for French group
          70 19 Reuter [LONDON] Cordiant pic, the advertising and marketing giant, has denied recent press speculation that it is bidding for BDDP, France's third largest communications group. "We are not in negotiation for BDDP. We held a series of discussions a month ago and there has
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        Lock icon UK, China award HK mobile phone licences
        462 19 Bid by HK Telecom rejected; winners include three of HE'S largest companies Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] After a yearlong dispute, Britain and China have agreed to award six new mobile-phone licences, rejecting a bid by the territory's largest phone company. Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd,
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        Lock icon Enron signs 20b rupees Indian joint venture to sell liquefied gas
        328 19 Firm's Qatar unit has signed MoU with Gqjarat Gas Co Bloomberg Business News [AHMEDABAD, India] Enron Corp lined up its second venture in India when its Qatar unit signed an agreement with an Indian gas supplier to sell liquefied
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        Lock icon Investors concerned about Viet handling of Peregrine affair
        276 19 Reuter [HANOI] Vietnam's investigation into the activities of Hongkong-based investment house Peregrine appears set to deepen, but foreign investors contacted this weekend voiced concern over Hanoi's handling of the affair. Local officials in Ho Chi Minh City announced earlier this month that
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        Lock icon Projects in China: most Taiwan firms lose money
        147 19 Reuter [TAIPEI] Most listed Taiwanese companies with projects in China suffered losses there in fiscal 1995/96 (July-June), the mass circulation China Times newspaper reported yesterday. The paper, quoting a Securities and Exchange Commission report, said only 27 of the total 83 Taiwan
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        Lock icon Write-off, revenue fall worsen Hansom's loss
        155 19 Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] Hansom Holdings Ltd, whose businesses range from consulting to cement production, has posted a HK524.31 million (554.44 million) net loss for the year ended March 31. The after-tax loss, up from HK514.17 million last year, was a result of a
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        Lock icon Analysts hail Allianz's sale
        384 20 Disposal of health insurer DKV allows it to keep Vereinte, solve cartel woes Reuter [FRANKFURT] The sale by German insurance giant Allianz AG Holding's of health insurer DKV on Friday surprised analysts but they saw the deal as pragmatic banishing the spectre of cartel office action
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        Lock icon Lockheed Martin to divest construction materials stake
        235 20 NYT [WASHINGTON] Lockheed Martin Corp, seeking to reduce its debt burden after a major acquisition and focus on its core operations, will divest an US$B4O million (Ssl.2 billion) stake in the construction materials business. The Bethesda, Marylandbased company, the world's largest aerospace and
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        Lock icon Bertelsmann, Kirch bury hatchet to develop common decoder standard
        329 20 Deal marks abrupt new torn in digital TV battle Reuter [BONN] German publishing giant Bertelsmann and archrival media magnate Leo Kirch on Friday buried the hatchet in their bitter digital TV battle by announcing they would develop a common decoder standard.
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        Lock icon Kellogg falls victim to price war
        187 20 Bloomberg Business News [BATTLE CREEK, Michigan] Kellogg Co last Friday said second-quarter earnings fell 44 per cent as a price war cut into its cereal sales. The maker of Special K and Frosted Flakes said profit from operations fell to US$95 million (*****.5 million),
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        Lock icon UK bonds seen attracting foreign investors
        339 21 Stowing economic growth and a lack of inflationary fears make gihs a good boy Reuter [LONDON] Slowing growth in the British economy and few signs of imminent inflationary threats could help British government bonds attract international investors during the next few months, market analysts
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        Copper prices up, but unlikely to hold
        428 21  -  Dealers say banks with Sumitomo stocks engineering a squeeze From. Neil Behrmann in London COPPER prices have risen in the past month, but analysts warn that the hike may not be genuine given that supply still outstrips demand. The three-month copper futures contract
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          Lock icon Korea First Bank gets C/D rating
          108 21 Reuter [LONDON] IBCA, the European credit rating agency, said cm Friday it assigned an individual rating of C/D to Korea First Bank, one of the largest commercial banks in South Korea. "It shares many features in common with its peers among the former government-owned
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          Lock icon China to introduce new bank bills
          99 21 Reuter {SHANGHAI) The central People's Bank of China has ordered the nationwide introduction of new kinds ofbills and papers used by banks from Aug 1, the Financial News reported on Friday. The new bills, made of higher-quality paper and using high technology designed to
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          Lock icon Individual deposits rise
          78 21 Reuter [BEIJING] Individual deposits in the state-owned Bank of China reached U5514.47 billion (5520.3 billion) at the end of June, up by U***** million from the start of the year, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. However, the growth was US$54O million less compared with the
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        Lock icon De Beers, Russian gem polishers may head for clash
        434 21 Reuter [MOSCOW] Russian gem polishers and South African diamond giant De Beers may be heading for a row over how many Siberian sparklers should stay in Russia rather than be exported, top industry leaders said. A former Moscow gem chief now
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        Lock icon Death knell for French housing lender
        299 21 Reuter [PARIS] The French government sounded the death knell for housing lender Credit Foncier de France on Friday when it announced a "managed wind-down" of a group brought to its knees by reckless property investment. Hundreds of Credit Foncier employees took to the streets
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        Lock icon Room for further repo easing
        580 22  -  mMhi-iii Weeklyßoundup Inflation data suggest domestic demand very weak while M 3 growth is slowing off Callum Henderson MMS International [SINGAPORE] The Bundesbank did it again! In the run up to the council meeting, comments from several leading officials, including Bundesbank president Hans Tietmeyer himself,
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        Lock icon Copper returning to normal, with price piercing US$2,000 barrier
        866 22 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP (LONDON) A month and a half after the shock of the Sumitomo affair, copper is returning to normal, and has broken through the psychological US$2,OOO barrier, to approach its levels prior to mid-June. The metal's price is now
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      COMMODITY PRICES
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      Lock icon CHARTING SERVICE
      750 23 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory it ranges between zero and 100. In practice, however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: *****0/[(up average/down average)
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        Lock icon A graceful arc, then a solid bump, for small-cap stocks
        811 24 NEW YORK Cash now flowing towards funds with more conservative investment philosophies FT AMERICANS got their first genuine Olympic moment on Tuesday. It came in the person of Kerri Strug, a wisp of a gymnast, as she executed her final
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        Lock icon Volatile week ends with Hang Seng Index losing 139 points
        124 24 HONGKONG AFP SHARE prices fell 1.3 per cent over the week to Friday in the absence of fresh incentives and a volatile Wall Street, dealers said. The Stock Ex- change of Hongkong's key Hang Seng Index fell 139.73 points during
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        Lock icon Foreign investors push shares to 4-month low
        370 24 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE share prices hit a four-month low last week, depressed by active selling by foreign investors, but recouped some of the losses on bargain-hunting towards the week's end, brokers said. The Nikkei Stock Average of the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell 351.39
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        Lock icon Footsie follows Dow's gyrations to close 1% down
        322 24 LONDON AFP THE London share market again lost ground last week, suffering from Wall Street reversals, new pessimism about the outlook for UK interest rates, and some disappointing company news, traders and analysts said on Friday. The Footsie 100-share Index finished on
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        ASIAN MARKETS Roundup
        868 24 n Sydney »1U THE ups and downs of Wall Street and weaker commodity prices left the Australian share market 0.7 per cent lower over the week despite a strong rally on Friday. The Australian Stock Exchange's barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, ended the week at 2,143.0, 14.6
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        1788 24 QPuji -2197 FRENCH shares closed off 0.6 per cent on Friday despite a firm opening on Wall Street, having lost 1.5 per cent or 29.97 points on the week. The blue-chip CAC-40 index closed down 11.81 points at 1,962.86. Total volume was 4.46 billion francs inflated by
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        8049 25 Bloomberg CI Composite Index -4132 MALAYSIAN share prices plunged 3.8 per cent over the week to their lowest level in four months as a bearish market was swept by concern about rising interest rates and worsening trade deficit for May. Analysts said investors' sentiment
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        3923 26  -  WARRANT WATCH -By] R Sivanithy ELECTRONIC stocks have taken a bit of a hammering lately after news that industry leaders like Creative Technology and Aztech are chalking up losses. In the US, Nasdaq has also suffered a beating, as everyone seems to think the sector is
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        77 28  -  -%1 Paul Leo INVESTORS should trade the &ceni rang* between fUO -106 on KLI Holdings. With daily Relative Strength Index reaching oversold territory following a ScentJbU *> ft.94 on Friday, the dob counter Is a buy. Watch for a possibk mane back to the upper end of the
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        1132 28  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY IBM's surge on Wall Street likely to boost technology stocks bntCMB writedown, Amcol saga will weigh on sentiment By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] As always, it is going to be a combination of overseas and domestic factors that will
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      284 29 Simpson Spence Young THE general lack of interesting deals in the market continues. There was a little more activity in the wet market where the always active Tanker Pacific were reputed to be the buyers of the Honam Jade (186,000/76) at about US$7.2 million. The demolition market remains
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      497 29  -  Shipyards and oil terminal operators welcome go-ahead for in-honse pilotage services By' Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) expects its newlyintroduced pilotage exemption scheme to more than double the number of shipmasters holding exemption certificates. Last
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      294 29 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Piracy on the high seas surged in violence in the first half of the year, with nine fishermen killed and pirate attacks breaking out for the first time in years in Thailand. "No statistical analysis can adequately describe
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      585 29  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes LATE JULY marks the start of the traditional summer holidays in Britain. It is when workers take time off for family holidays and when foreign visitors plan their UK trips to take advantage of the good weather. However
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      398 29  -  Removal of 5 per cent shipbuilding rebate will benefit foreign competitors From Selva Kumar in Sydney AUSTRALIAN shipyards are up in arms over the government's insistence on removing a 5 per cent shipbuilding rebate, with one builder warning of possible loss of
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      57 29 [BREMERHAVEN, Germany] The hull of the world's largest combination ferry being launched into the water at Schtchau Seebeck shipyard, a subsidiary of thefinancially troubled Vulkan AG shipbuilding union, over the weekend. When completed the ferry, which is owned by Deutsche Faehrgesellschaft Ostsee MbH, will measure 200
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      280 29 Parent's ship purchases will keep company busy Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] Cosco Pacific Ltd sees rising profits this year boosted with its parent, China's largest shipping line, buying more container ships and selling its subsidiary some assets. China Ocean Shipping Co has purchased more than
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      220 29 Reuter [LONDON] British shipping and property group P&O has confirmed that its Channel ferries are suffering from a heated summer price war with the Channel Tunnel, but says it sees signs of improvement. "Rates remain under pressure, exacerbated by Eurotunnel's recent tariff reduction for
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        110 29 AFP [WASHINGTON] Five cruise ship crew members were killed and dozens of passengers injured on Saturday in a fire that broke out in the laundry room of the vessel off Juneau, Alaska, authorities said. The blaze on the Universe Explorer, owned by World
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        93 29 Reuter [COPENHAGEN! Danish wholesale and shipping group East Asiatic Company (EAC) dismissed late last week calls by a Danish pressure group campaigning for democracy in Myanmar to withdraw from all its activities in Myanmar or face a boycott. "EAC risks losing trust, reputation and
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        103 29 Reuter [NEW YORK] For more than a year, the governors of New York and New Jersey have pushed for a plan to dredge and dispose of the millions of tonnes of toxic mud that has begun to clog New York harbour. On Wednesday,
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      952 30 JAPANESE AIR TRANSPORT: YOKOHAMA SEEKS RIGHT CONNECTIONS To revitalise its slumping economy, Yokohama's business leaders are intent on luring a new airport to the area to handle fast-growing demand for flights in the Tokyo area which is swamping Narita and Haneda NYT TO TRY
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        478 45 Carbon WO Max 994.9 0.9 17.9 0.12 46 0.01 M12 Density K«ttf NiMm Ash AiuMtmwn Sediment No above E25 3 0 23 4 0 0 380 Am 987.8 OJ U.8 0.07 19 0.00 b>« 380 Mix 993.0 1.0 17.4 0.10 40 0.01 M/M*i in M/w %ljg
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        378 46  -  German car maker launches SLK in a month-long programme From Christopher Tan in Florence, Italy UNDER the watchful gaze of Michaelangelo's David at the Galleria dell'Accademia, Mer-cedes-Benz Ag director of passenger car development Helmut Petri announced the German company's new set-in-stone strategy for "long-term
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        215 46 Reuter [CHICAGO] Business travellers in search of a place to plug in their laptop computers aboard an airliner may yet see it happen. Olin Aerospace Co has developed a system that provides plug-in power, equivalent to that from a car
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        217 46 Bloomberg Business News [BEIJING] China, the world's biggest bicycle producer, made 24 per cent fewer bicycles in the first half of the year due to weak demand at home and abroad, an industry official said. "Some factories have suspended or partially suspended
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        321 46 Car makers cut output, delay lannch of new models AFP [NEW DELHI] Indian car man ufacturers are slashing output or delaying plans to launch new models due to a glut in the passenger car market, industry officials said. India's Escorts group, which has
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        187 46 Bernama [LANGKAWI] The Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang can be used by Sep 15 next year, a senior manager involved in its construction said. Liang Hian Ching said construction of the airport was already 35 per cent completed.
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          73 46 Reuter (HOUSTON] Continental Airlines Inc said it will retire its entire fleet of 31 Boeing 727s and expand an order with Boeing Co under a new fleet plan that will reduce the average age of its aircraft. The company said late last week its
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          73 46 AFP [LONDON] A consortium led by British Aerospace (BAe) and the US company Boeing has clinched an order to supply the British air force with 21 maritime patrol aircraft, the ministry of defence has announced. The consortium, which includes other British companies, will
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          67 46 Bloomberg Business News [DETROIT] The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it's stepping up an investigation to determine if seat belts in Chrysler Corp minivans are defective. The investigation follows complaints from consumers who say the seat-belt latch cover can slip, pinching the release button
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        289 46 Reuter {KUALA LUMPUR] After a bumper 1995, car sales in Malaysia have shifted into lower gear following a government crackdown on consumer spending, car industry analysts and economists said. "Overall, we believe the passenger car market will experience a slower growth
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      682 34 TEL: *****33 (12 UNES) FAX: *****18/*****03 TELEX: RS ***** RtSMP (3 Lima) Cfl NO: **********0E ——y 1® ETHIOPIAN SHIPPING LINES Y (NadoMriLfaasof Etttflfia) ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Vmil Voy ETA LowNng tor Spore Afayot 4SWB 31/06 "Z2T* o****0**** lw ffW T NDMnK 44W8 28/08 H KIEN HUNG LINE FULLY CONTAINERISED
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      1037 35 HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARINE CO. UP. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKCb *****61 UN Wl PGO VPSH/VOY VOY I ii I r» I ANT I LBI IM I Ml I B 11/07 01/07 03/07 NT COMMAND!! IIIW 05/N 13/N 15/N 17/N 15/N 15/N 17/N 07/07 09/07 10/07 MICOMMOOORI 30IW 11/N M/N 01/09
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      527 35 tig FAMOUS CONTAINER UNES JJf mm 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE *****8 y HOT LINE: *****33 (30 UNES) BARCELONA/SPAIN 02/08 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 03/08 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 02/08 HAMBURG/BREMEN 02/08 GENOA/ITALY 30/07 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 02/08 GOTHENBURG/SCAN 05/08 ROTTERDAM 02/08 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 05/08 FEUXSTOWE/UK 05/08 LOS AWGELES/WC/IPI 30/07 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 31/07 NEW YORK/EC 01/08 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 30/07 VANCOUVER 31/07
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      507 37 1 fr ROPICAL Wooklv LCI A FCL SwvicM Shippings-- MAAGRETHE Si. RACER MAERSK96OS 007E fort Country 06/06 13/08 City Belize 09/09 16/09 cridgttown Barbados 12/09 19/09 ■Cartagena Colombia 11/09 18/09 CasJnei St. Lucia 11/09 18/09 Franc* Martinique 12/09 19/09 ffOaport Bahamas 07/09 14/09 ■Kfgston Jamaica 09/09 16/09 a Pitre GuacUuope
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      764 37 CagSaggQll PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. I CR NO **********06 m»m m wt i a 1;, w tft. ffi. B, W Tn~\ m B l «SI li lis Ili I I ffiwAwm wSJm ~n/T i?» ft ft i?» ff» BS n/i
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      914 37 **********0Z VESSELS VOY SN QAMCTTA LE HAVRE HAMBURG THAMEBPORT ROTTERDAM ANTWERP \fILLE DE CAPELLA TI6W 3V07 11/08 20*08 21/08 23*08 24/08 28/08 VILE 06 ÜBRA LI6W 08*08 18*08 27/08 28/06 30*08 31/08 QB/08 CAUFORNUOMON W9H 12/06 23*08 02/00 00*00 08*08 08*00 0U» VU-E D-AQUtA AIBW 2MOB 31/06 06*00 1008 12/09
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      47 39 To retrieve more schedules, just follow these simple steps... document i 740-6000 e^ be faxed m^T you* Press"l" the port your ste P key in the four number code Key in your Exampte: i i fax number To HAMBURG (HAM) 2150 Germany for calls within Singapore 7
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      1841 40 4*_ AS AGENTS: "K" UNE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (CT MO: **********0HC5T REG MO: M2-0B1738M) K T TEL *****77 TELEX KAWAKIRS23I6SFAX: *****16/7/B^9 Malaysia- tune marttvme (Malaysia) son end I I Pv TEL SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 JB *****01 PGU *****25^ 1 INDONESIA: P.T. SARANA LAVT MIUMUIA, THj JKT *****08
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      1149 40 *****1 TWICE WEEKLY EVERY THURSOAY /SUNDAY ■I.',I:M:H ARRIVAL FIXED DAY-MONDAY vena wrr mh m in am wssel voy leu fit ham am MING WEST J679W|2M7 I IVOB 1608 1708 1908 MING STAB A623C SLO SLO SLO SLO 2»07 DOVER BROGI MSXJtt I 0108 I 2AOB 2208 ?1« 2608 MALACCA BRIOGE
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      578 41 I TKjER ISLAND 4S3N 26-27/07 31-/W/08 09-1008 I TIGER BRIDGE 454N 29-3007 04-07/08 12-1308 I TIGER BAY 4SSN 02-03/08 07-11/08 16-1708 I TKSER WAVE 456N OS-0&08 11-14/08 19-2<VOB I TIGER ISLAND 457N 09-KVOB 14-ISOB 23-24/08 I TIGER BRIDGE 458N 12-1306 18-21/08 26-27/08 IVSEL^^VOYSI!^^CA^^sin| TIGER SHARK 092CN8 26-27/07 01-0608 11-1208 I
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      1088 41 Sea K Land j DIRECT SAILING TO SHANGHAI LAUST MS V.9609 ETA SIN ETDSIN I 7 AUG'% BAUG '96 iwa wt wa noai awcmtygg wr w. 5 oo «c w|inlw I m 1 1 mm —nm~ »*/m ram wr ■w w-WS7H twt tut sytr w tttst UMOOiMS NO* 01/00 11/00
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      1438 41 WEII(lY T0 I Nedlloyd Lines east coast south america Psf/'Ls en ************ I l| SINGAPORE PHONE (GENERAL) *****09 RATE ENQUIRIES *****41/248/200 CFS (PHONE) *****10 CPS (FAX) *****23 TO EUROPE EVERY WEDSj/FM/SAT S.r Sou L»5 Stni JCT H« Ml NLL EUROPA /5306 01/08 23/08 21/08 22/08 19/08 NLL HONGKONG /1306 02/08
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      789 42 SAMUDERA INDONESIA (S) PTE LTD I I 15 McCALLUM STREET #03-01/02 NATWEST CENTRE S'PORE 0106 TEL: *****81-3 FAX: *****36 (3 HUNTING LINES) TLX: R*****0 CR NO. **********00 IBOOKIN6S CALL DIRECT LIME:: J *****41/*****43 JESSICA/CEUA 7 slgs/week 3 slgs/week VFIUfFI VOY fsm JAK I VESSEL |VOV |SIN |SUR EQUATOR EMERALD §31
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      388 42 TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF LOADING VOY SPORE "I P.KELANG* HALIFAX N.YORK NORFOLK N.ORLEANS SAVANNAH TAMPICO HOUSTON HOEGH DYKE 0636 IN PT 06 SEP 06 SEP 12 SEP 16 SEP 16 SEP 23 SEP 27 SEP HOEGH MINERVA 0636 07AM AUG 01 AUG 25 SEP 26 SEP 29
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      153 42 SIM FAR EAST 30/07 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 04/08 BANGKOK 05/08 MANILA/CEBU 05/08 JAKARTA/BE LAWAN/SU RABAYA 05/08 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E MALAYSIA 05/08 BUSAN 05/08 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 05/08 HONG KONG SIM CHINA (+B#±»*o) 05/08 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGOAO/HAIKOU m eupqpe/uk 05/08 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 05/08 RDM/ANT/LEH/HAM/GOT/OSL also accepting cargo to EASTERN BLOCK COUNTRIES SIM USA/CANADA 05/08 LOS ANGELES/NEW
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      528 42 9. Singapore Soviet Shipping Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO: **********0N BOMBAY/COCHIN I VESSEL VOY SIN BOM KOTACAHAYA CAHIOI 30/07 07/06 MEKHANIK KURAKO MK2IN 03/06 11/00 VANESSA 06N 06/06 10AM XOUR GEMINI 422 13A» 21/06 REGULAR ILYICHEVSK SERVICE 1 VESSEL VOY SPORE ILYCHEVSK NUOVA LLOYDIANA 0116-009W 30/07 27/06 NUOVA GENOVA 0119-012W
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      1013 43 |W IMPORT FCL/LCL CONSOLIDATION lH li tmihii. j. V. 11 S IGERMANY/SINGAPOREI Jf i -J^ W Marshalling Forwarding Services (MFS) SfP* V"\ \C via Bremen and Hamburg Sl K «n \«N rS i Laipzig <i Our staff at your servicr: k Francis DID: *****54 Maria DID: *****73 fir 8r Nicholas
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      570 43 "THRICE WEEKLY BAICT TO HO CHI MINH CITY EXP OUT TO HO CHI MIHH CITY IMPOHT FHOM H§ CHI MIHH CITY[ mm 1 »w «r w rTHHTHI mm rasa m not nm MAMHIAtMAMM TM OA/17) 07/ V) 91* 9W M/M MMMIMMIMM 7B M/M M/V (l« wraA MM 0»/*n (M/ 17)
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      712 44 f XC SINO EXPRESS SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. MM j 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE *****7. > m m 1 TEL: *****90 (4 LINES) FAX: *****08 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) Also accepting container cargo to: VESSEL/VOY ETA SIN ETAHKG ETA SHA W/T HKG: Beiiiao, Chiwan, JIN
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      914 44 MM CONTAINER LIIIES. IMC Agents: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) kuchmq. (082) *****3 I -K~/\ J C»MOsia00B*****0« 8BU: (064)*****9 MAMLA: (632) *****61 PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK: (862) *****67 SURABAYA: (31)*****0 P. KELAWG: (03) *****77 JKT (21) *****07 MOW: (61) *****3 BANDUNQ: (22) *****96 20TH ANNIVERSARY OFFER:-(Lowest-Lowest Rates) PORTS VSL/VOY ETA
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      392 44 IjSKI WENDER CONTAINER LINES ATTRACTIVE FCI7LCL RATES TO: Indian Sub-Continent Ports MADRAS BOMBAY CALCUTTA COLOMBO CHITTAGONG/ NHAVA SHEVA PORT KELANG PENANG MADRAS WWSHPG FWDG (P) LTD TEL 9144-534 0450 FAX 9144-534 0200 BOMBAY WWAGENCIES PVT LTD TEL: 91-22-207 5832 FAX 91-22-207 5831 PKLANG SUASA MASYHUR SDN BHD TEL 02-03-368 9199
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      230 45 CONSOLIDATION, WAREHOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, HOUSEHOLD REMOVAL AND AIR CARGO SERVICE EXPRESS PTE —J LCL CONSOLIDATION SERVICE An tmid§ ol Mltail OSK Llim/Hai Sun Hup Group PMUfIATWfI HA l£2fli r~ZanZ —Mi TOKYO/YOKOKAMA/NAGOYA/KOet 04/08 11/08 18/08 (OMVO), Th* Areada mf r gr)rTrT MO4 \f MONO KONG »1/Q7 07/08 14/08 9W WW JMI SSuSSSi
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      73 45 RW SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD 81*809 FRENCH ROAD #06-166 KITCHENER COMPLEX SINGAPORE *****9* TEL 295 MOO* FAX: 2tt 9639 CR: **********0N (RW) CALL US NOW!! ATTRACTIVE RATES FOR REGULAR FCL/FCL SAILINGS JAKARTA SHANGHAI HONGKONG HOCHIMINH SURABAYA COLOMBO BANGKOK CALCUTTA LAEMCHABANG MADRAS P.KELANG BOMBAY PENANG TEL 295 8490 6 LINK
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