The Business Times, 13 December 1996

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/95 85e SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13,1996
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Major breakthrough on WTO declaration
    643 1  -  Members delighted with consensus reached on controversial issues By Yang Razali Kassim [SINGAPORE] The World Trade Organisation is on the verge of a major breakthrough, having hammered out and nailed down a ministerial declaration of historic significance. When they convene today to close five days
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    Rich pickings for Singapore IT exporters
    394 1  -  Byi Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Singapore exporters, who account for nearly a tenth of the world's trade in information technology (IT) products, stand to gain market access and save millions of dollars in tariff payments as a result of a global pact sealed yesterday on
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    Dow down 13 points
    202 1 [NEW YORK] US stocks moved well off session highs as an early bond market rally faded. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which lost 70 points on Wednesday, gave up another 13 to 6,389.07 in early afternoon trading yesterday after surging nearly 35 points earlier. The long
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    Lock icon Historic tariff-free IT accord is in the bag
    672 1  -  At least 29 nations to sign today intention to take part in deal By Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] The much-her-alded Information Technology Agreement (ITA) is finally in the bag. At least 29 countries, accounting for some 80 per cent of world trade in
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      4 1 More reports, Pg 10-11
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Goh Keng Swee chair at NUS raises $2m, exceeds $1.5m target
      326 2  -  Money will be used to engage economics professors and to fond Master's scholarship By\ Chuang Peck Ming FORMER deputy prime minister and finance minister Goh Keng Swee is a "true" monetarist, his friends all agree he believes in stretching
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      Reuters to shift part of HK set-up to S'pore
      315 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan N£WS and information group Reuters is moving some of its Hongkong-based editorial operations to Singapore as part of a reorganisation of its glob- al operations. u.-t-frThe agency's managing difor East Asia, Philip Malehior, said some 45 editoriI al,
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      Company closures up 70% in Q3
      321 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Company formation By Clarissa Tan THE number of companies dissolved in the third quarter has shot up 70.2 per cent compared to Q3 1995, latest figures from the Registry of Companies and Businesses (RCB) show. Altogether, 1,418 companies were wound
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      GIC introduces checks on credit, trading limits in its forex deals
      398 2  -  Move comes after nine breaches of credit limits found By i Chuang Peck Ming THE Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) has introduced independent checks on credit and trading limits in its foreign exchange transactions after the Auditor-General found
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      Overseas investments seen boosting SingTel's profits
      297 3  -  New revenue most likely to be from countries liberalising telecoms sectors, says company V-P Ry' Toh Han Shih SINGAPORE Telecom is banking on its overseas investments to help shore up its bottom line when competition erodes revenue from traditional telecommunications services after the year
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      SingNet offering e-mail link to handphone
      182 3 FROM today, Sing Net customers with a GSM or PCN handphone, can send and receive email. This is one of four new services announced by SingNet yesterday. The e-mail handphone service, Efone, enables handphone users to receive e-mail in 41 countries, if they sign
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      Teleshop Comers to be set up in Electric City stores
      181 3 TELESHOP, the retail arm of Telecom Equipment, has teamed up with electrical appliances chain Electric City to open a series of Teleshop Corners within the chain. A Teleshop Corner is a smaller version of a full-sized Teleshop. Managed by a
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      SME market for IT worth $600m
      192 3 THE business of selling information technology systems to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) here is estimated to be worth up to $600 million. The estimate came from National Computer Board (NCB) chief executive Stephen Yeo, who was speaking at Sitex *96 yesterday. The exhibition,
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        Canada honours software researcher
        76 3 THE managing director and co-founder of Eutech Cybernetics Pte Ltd, Hari Gunasingham, has become the first Singaporean to receive a certificate of recognition conferred by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Dr Gunasingham was honoured for his software research conducted in collaboration with the National University of
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        Public dialogue on Punggol 21
        49 3 MINISTER for National Development Lim Hng Kiang will chair a public dialogue on Punggol 21 tomorrow. The dialogue, which will take place at 8.30 am at the Ministry of National Development Building, will include issues such as housing mix, shopping centres and transportation plans.
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        SingTel, Ericsson sign switch gear deal
        46 3 SWEDISH telecoms company Ericsson has signed a contract to provide AXE switching equipment for Singapore Telecom's fixed telecommunications network. The contract includes the delivery, installation and commissioning of a nationwide signalling network on a full turnkey basis, said the company.
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      116 2 Renters to close bureau and cut 170 jobs, Pg 24 JAL welcomes you with a special 5-star treat at Hotel Nikko-KL It's always a special treat to fly JAL Because now for the first time, our KL premium packages pamper you with a night's stay and breakfast at the 5-star
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      254 3 Ocean Palace wishes all a Merry Christmas Happy New Year €ves Dim Dank U«an Palacc 24/1 2/96: B.oopm--2.000m wmtrnirrrmm limjiuijiiiijiiii a x 0/ >>^ Menu Salad Shark's Fin Set Whole Abalone Superior Shark's Fin Set I J $98+++ +-f+ I and above $OO Per Person JT O P-Person I and
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  • FOCUS: ADVERTISING MARKETING
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      Westin gets busy in Indonesia
      555 4  -  The hotel chain, which recently opened a hotel in Surabaya, is wasting no time raising its profile in Asia From! S N Vasuki in Jakarta JUERGEN Bartels had just flown into Surabaya on a red-eye flight from Seattle. Barely an hour later, the chairman and
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      Controlling bosses faced with threat of extinction
      332 4  -  Survey of 160 intl companies shows that tomorrow's leader will be a team player By' Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] The all-power-ful, controlling boss may well go the way of the dinosaur in the next decade, according to a leadership survey by executive search
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        Dunhill offers pen set for $18,530
        59 4 MADE using mother-of-pearl, silver, gold and the Japanese lacquerware art of maki-e, the limited edition Namiki pen is no plain writing tool. The collection of four fountain pens has been relaunched by Alfred Dunhill from original 1930s designs. Only 28 sets are available globally.
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        Wisma Atria's mythical touch
        44 4 THE mythical figures of Jupiter, Mars, Neptune and Venus all star in Wisma Atria's latest ad campaign. "We want to appeal to a group of increasingly sophisticated shoppers," said a spokesman for the shopping centre owners, A 1 Khaleej Investments.
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        Promotion takes to the skies
        40 4 THE sky's the limit when it comes to property agent Louis Yeap Associates' marketing strategies. It has put up massive balloons over clients' property sites at Chepstow Close and Maria Avenue as a promotion measure.
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      Showcasing the Net
      154 4 (SINGAPORE) An upcoming exhibition called Internet World International Singapore 97 will be dedicated to the Internet, intranet and Worldwide Web. The Internet World International series of shows is held twice a year in the US and the show in Singapore from Jan 20 to 25 will be
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      MEETING PLACE
      42 4 Duration Title Venue Organiser 0*c M First ASEAN Epilepsy Alison Hotel Singapore Epilepsy Conference Foundation Clinical Neuroscience Society Singapore Tet: 222-3322 Dec 12-15 SITE* '96 World Trade Microcomputer Trade Centre Association (S pore) c/o Technofairs Corporation TH: 338-1789 Source: STPB
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      204 4 Think of Indian sport and you tend to think of white-coated umpires, spectacular boundaries and hoardes of chanting cricket fans. That notion now has some serious competition. For these days Indian fans are also turning on to a different kind of ball game. Football. Though still in its infancy, Indian
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Perwaja rescue will need more than M$1b: Dr M
      391 5 KUALA LUMPUR He says govt still working on plan to privatise the steel company Reuter, Bernama RESCUERS of Malaysia's Perwaja Steel Sdn Bhd need to invest more than Msl billion (***** million) to revive the ailing national steel company, Prime Minister
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      Lock icon Khazanah in M$790m deals
      150 5 KUALA LUMPUR Reuter KHAZANAH Nasional Bhd, the Malaysian government's investment arm, has invested M 5790.62 million (Ss43B million) in six companies involved in strategic and high-technology industries. The national Bernama news agency yesterday quoted Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim as saying that the companies include MCIC
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      Lock icon Yangon warns against civil disturbances
      227 5 ■YANGON Tight security mates latest wave of student unrest Reuter THE Myanmar military government yesterday warned that it will not tolerate major civil disturbances in the tense capital as the latest wave of student unrest was muted by tight security measures. Official media published the
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      Lock icon Hanoi nod for joint ventures soon
      228 5 HANOI Reuter VIETNAM said yesterday that a stack of foreign joint-ven-ture projects would be approved in the coming days, ending a year marred by doubts about investors' appetite for the communist country on an upbeat note. Several top politicians, dressed in smart Western suits,
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      Lock icon The art of French business in Thailand
      29 5 V J?i to l to France the/irst h rench technol °gy exhibition in Thailand, trying to get their bearings vesterdav insi^ AFP
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      Lock icon 350 firms to join Chretien on Asian blitz
      134 5 OTTAWA AFP MORE than 350 Canadian companies have signed up to join Prime Minister Jean Chretien next month on a twoweek sales blitz to South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand, his office said on Wednesday. The mission the third so-called Team Canada
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Tung urges Patten to work with provisional assembly
      402 6 SHENZHEN But governor's office says it will not offer any help AFP HONGKONG'S future leader, Tung Chee-hwa, appealed yesterday to Governor Chris Patten to cooperate with a controversial legislature that Beijing will install in the territory after July 1,1997 handover. But Mr
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      Lock icon China will let HK run own telecoms network: official
      338 6 WASHINGTON Beying also plans to pass new telecoms law by early 1998 Reuter CHINA will allow Hongkong to operate its own telecommunications network after China takes over the British colony next year, a Chinese telecommunications official said on Wednesday. "After the
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      Lock icon China to extend pension scheme nationwide in '97
      141 6 BEIJING AFP CHINA'S ambitious pension scheme will move to nationwide coverage in 1997, but only under the spectre of mass unemployment, Xinhua reported yesterday. Labour Minister Li Boyong told a labour conference in Beijing that China's new pension insurance system introduced as
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      Lock icon Taipei firms get NT$200b credit line
      115 7 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN is to extend NT$2OO billion (5510.2 billion) in loans to help local firms tide over financial difficulties amid an economic slowdown on the island, banking officials said yesterday. The second-tier Taiwan provincial government on Wednesday directed seven state-run banks to jointly
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      Lock icon Beijing must keep tight rein on money supply, says PBOC
      246 7 m BEIJING AFP CHINA'S financial problems are long-term and require a tight rein on money supply to avoid any inflationary rebound, the country's top banking official was quoted as saying yesterday. To sustain stable economic growth next year, the growth
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      Taiwan's industrial safety record in the spotlight
      365 7  -  TAIPEI Mystery illness strikes workers at three plants, killing 2 Byl Bruce Cheesman A MYSTERY disease which struck workers at three factories, including 20 Filipino technicians at Philips Taiwan, has put Taipei's industrial safety record under the spotlight. Doctors are baffled by the
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      Lock icon China downplays threats over Disney film
      213 7 BEIJING Bloomberg Business News AFP CHINA has downplayed its threats to punish the Walt Disney Co for the firm's plans to distribute a film that takes a sympathetic view of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Shen Guofang, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, told
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      1648 7 Commonwealth Bank Commonwealth Bank of Australia ACN 123 123 124 COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA AND CONTROLLED ENTITIES ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE 1996 Balanc* Sheets Statement* of Profit and Los* as at 30 June 1996 for the year ended 30 June 1996 COMMONWEALTN BANK Of AUSTRALIA AM)
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      1177 8 BUSINESS Notices ORADEA PTE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT UNCONDITIONAL TAKE-OVER OFFER (THE "OFFER") FOR ALL THE ISSUED ORDINARY SHARES OF 551.70 EACH ("SHARES") IN THE CAPITAL OF IPCO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED ("IPCO") OTHER THAN THOSE ALREADY OWNED OR AGREED TO BE ACQUIRED BY ORADEA PTE LTD ("ORADEA")
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      442 8 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 ANO IN THE MATTER OF SETA PTE. LTD. (In Ktofnbtrt' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF SPECIAL ANO ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS [Pursuant to Section 290(2)(b)] At an Extraordinary Oeneral Meeting of the Company heid at 20 Cotlyer Quay #17-02 Tung Centre. Singapore *****9 on
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      306 8 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP. 90) AND SHAK NYEN ENTERPRISE PTE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Members' Voluntary Windng-Up) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 336 Smith Street #06-304 New Bridge Centre, Singapore *****6
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      1092 8 STAMFORD TYRES CORPORATION LIMITED ANNOUNCEMENT Proposed issue of 18.000.000 warrants ("Warrants") to subscribe for 18.000.000 new ordinary shares of $0.25 each ("New Shares") in the capital of Stamford Tyres Corporation Limited (the "Company") to be offered to members of the Company by Industrial Commercial Bank Limited ("ICB"). on a renounceable
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      1510 8 TO A DYE KITS I-'. CAM. TO 1 .1. !•'R K K IXOO-741 lSB.il IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER SO AND IN THE MATTER OF FLUID DATA ASIA-PACIFIC PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) Extract ol the Minute* of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the member* of
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      531 8 IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER Of NAM OUAN BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION PTE LTO (Members' Voluntary Winding Up) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Member* of Nam Guan Brothers Construction Pte Ltd duly held and convened on Sth December 1998 at Blk 201E
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Japan draws up strict ethics code for govt officials
      402 9 TOKYO Civil servants banned from accepting gifts, wining and dining with business execs AFP THE scandal-ridden Japanese government is drawing up a strict ethical code for officials who will be banned from accepting gifts or wining and dining with executives, news
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        Lock icon Telstra privatisation gets nod
        61 9 AFP [CANBERRA] Australia's parliament finally approved the controversial partial privatisation of telecommunications carrier Telstra yesterday, paving the way for the nation's largest-ever stock offering. The House of Representatives yesterday rubber stamped legislation allowing the sale of one-third of the national carrier, after the government on Wednesday
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        Lock icon Tokyo plans deregulation in telecoms
        69 9 AFP [TOKYO] Japan aims to carry out drastic deregulation in distribution, telecoms and other basic industries by 2001 in a bid to cut high costs and boost international competitiveness, reports said yesterday. The final draft of the government's five-year economic structural reform plan also includes
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        Lock icon Plan to make it easier to fire workers
        80 9 Bloomberg Business News [SEOUL] South Korea's ruling party says it will seek parliamentary approval this month for an overhaul of labour laws that makes it easier for companies to fire workers. The New Korea Party will "do its best" to get approval
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        Lock icon Japanese household spending down 1.5%
        74 9 Bloomberg Business News [TOKYO] Average Japanese household spending fell 1.5 per cent in October, the fifth decline in the past seven months, ftielling concern that private consumption won't strengthen enough to lead the economic recovery. The Bank of Japan has said it will wait for
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      Lock icon N Korea's options – war, collapse or merger: CIA
      368 9 N Korea's options war, collapse or merger: CIA WASHINGTON Outgoing spy chief says outcome will be known in 2-3 years Reuter, AFP CIA Director John Deutch said on Wednesday that within three years North Korea would be headed for war with South Korea, collapse as a state or be on
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      Lock icon Aussie CEOs give govt poor grades in poll
      253 9 CANBERRA Reuter AUSTRALIAN company chief executives feel the Liberal-Na-tional government has little understanding of their needs and is failing to provide the vision that it should, according to a poll released yesterday. The Business Review Weekly magazine's December quarter poll found only
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      339 9 ENGIHEERtDIT JT(: j w What has a leaf to do with business? of a perfect environment. Groups of Afferent cells combining to create a vibrant organism. One whose I itotol efficiency for exceeds the sum of its components. In short the epitome of synergy. p r UInspired by Mother Nature,
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  • THE WTO MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
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      What they say
      494 10 REACTIONS, compiled by Bloomberg, to the world's leading traders agreeing to scrap tariffs on PCs and computer equipment, telecommunications products and other related items by 2000: 'This is extremely good news for the world economy. This is the biggest trade step forward since the completion of the
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      Lock icon EU,US agree to scrap liquor tariffs
      291 10 Bloomberg Business News THE European Union and the US have agreed to scrap import tariffs for most liquor within five years. The move opens the door to increased exports for European liquor producers, like the UK's Guinness pic and France's Pernod Ricard, which dominate
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      Lock icon Agriculture agenda won't be in final statement
      352 10 Instead there'll be an informal agreement to prepare next year for talks to start in 1999 AFP THE WTO conference is to make no mention of farm exporters' key agenda for further agricultural liberalisation in its final statement, a minister told reporters yesterday.
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      Asm could be the biggest winner from an ITA
      592 10  -  Contrary to appearances, Asia will win big through expanded IT trade and investment says TIERAH EHAVNA VIKRAM KHANNA AT FIRST sight, it may seem that the countries of the Quad group the US, Canada, the European Union and Japan will be
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      Lock icon Beacon of hope for the poorest countries
      548 11  -  Nations like Burundi, Niger, Zambia banking on WTO membership to open doors Ry\ Siow Li Sen FOR SOME of the poorest countries in the world, the WTO is a beacon of hope for their battered economies. Burundi, Niger and Zambia, for example, are
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      Lock icon S'pore-WTO pact to provide training on trade expertise
      284 11  -  Programme to benefit trainees from developing countries By- Larry Wee SINGAPORE and the WTO yesterday sealed an agreement to provide a joint tradeexpertise training programme for developing countries which are WTO members. Under the two-year joint training programme, Singapore and the WTO
      ARTHUR LEE  -  284 words
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      Wording of labour clause a victory for developing nations
      432 11  -  Use of labour standards for protectionist purposes would be rejected Larry Wee TODAY'S WTO Ministerial Declaration will stress a renewed commitment to the observance of core labour standards and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) as the rightful body to deal with
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      Lock icon China blames politics for delay in its admission
      332 11 Reuter. Bloomberg Business News CHINA charged yesterday that politics was holding up its application for entry to the WTO, and said it wanted to join as soon as possible, "The accession of the applicants to the WTO has been slowed down due
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        Lock icon Geneva in 1998
        59 11 AFP THE WTO yesterday decided to hold its second ministerial meeting in Geneva in 1998. A Japanese official said: "There was a consensus that the next meeting will take place in Geneva because of costs and convenience." The decision is scheduled to be endorsed formally by heads
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        Lock icon What about the women?
        83 11 Reuter WOMEN and their role in the world economy are being ignored by the WTO and should be on its agenda. Myriara Vander Stichele, a representative of a leading European action group, said yesterday: "Economic policy making has an impact on women, yet there is absolutely
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        No need to make up Barshefsky's bed
        79 11 THIS has been a bad week for those who like their beauty sleep ministers, delegates and journalists alike. For Acting US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, who has been at the centre of many a negotiation that has dragged on into the early hours,
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        Lock icon Sweet taste of free trade
        86 11 Reuter NEITHER trade barriers nor thousands of sea miles could stop an American mum sending her Navy son his favourite Christmas cookies all 320 kg of them. Andy Norton, a technician on a US destroyer, was overwhelmed yesterday when told his mother and a townful
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      181 10 FOR SUCCESSFULTRADE RELATIONS, YOU HAVE TO MOVE IN THE RIGHT CIRCLES. j jj&. Leaders will always move with leaders.Thats probably one "auto motor und sport", one of Europe's leading motoring And its spacious interior is appointed with sublime luxi reason why the BMW 728 i was chosen as the official
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      Hoping to score with soccer stocks
      627 12  -  etjkopeax view Awn+tini' two Bngn«h Premier Division clubs unveil flotation plans In a play tor more gold HU Kevin Sullivan The writer is a Spain based journalist who contributes to BT MORE people in Britain attend church services on Sunday mornings than football matches
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      Lock icon US Nov CPI up 0.3%, same pace as last 2 months
      453 12 WASHINGTON Figure points to taming of inflation; rate rise unlikely Bloomberg Business News PRICES US consumers pay for goods and services rose in November at the same pace as the previous two months, further evidence that inflation remained tame,
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      Lock icon Dip in inflation may not stop rate rise: economists
      338 12 NEW YORK Bloomberg Business News A COOLING economy next year may not be enough to prevent the Federal Reserve from raising bank borrowing rates next year, a panel of Wall Street's top economists said. The 11 economic advisers of the Public
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      Lock icon Clinton returns to centrist strategy
      266 12 WASHINGTON NYT IN his first major speech since the re-election. President Bill Clinton promised on Wednesday to "forge a coalition of the centre" in his second term, working to balance the federal budget, expand access to education, create new jobs for former welfare recipients and
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      Fed could use Boskin report on US inflation
      765 15  -  THE BOTTOM LOVE OPINION By Lee Boon Keng The writer is a lecturer at the Nanyang Business School, NTU THE BOSKIN Commission reported on Dec 4 that the current way of measuring the consumer price index in the US overestimates the country's
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      128 15 'What an exercise in fatuous triumphalism. Nobody could have accused us of being excessively modest, I do concede, when we were in government. But we never had the hide to walk into this parliament with such a mouse-like set of achievements and announce them as though we
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      Jakarta's sobering year
      604 15 EDITORIAL THIS has not been an easy year for Indonesia Indonesians who took their political and economic stability for granted have received a sobering reality check. 1996 has brought the realisation that some serious soul-searching is in order. The dramatic events this year provided the opportunity for
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      The Thomson debacle
      1118 15  -  France not only angered Daewoo by suspending the sale of Thomson, it created problems for itself By Salil Sarkar The writer is a Paris-based journalist who contributes to BT DAEWOO was outraged, but many French people were gleeful. The thought of Asians, barely out of the boondocks,
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      828 15 US ran* from Asian challenge ASIA is increasingly our present and our future. If you're not convinced, take a look at the comprehensive study just out from University of Southern California's Southern California Studies Centre on the extraordinary dimensions of the increasing black economic dependency. Put
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      Lock icon Gazing ahead to a widening divide
      1159 16  -  Economists believe information technology and economic globalisation will lead to growing social unrest between the haves and have nots Prom Leon Hadar in Washington IN THE early 1990s Robert Reich, then a Harvard University professor who later served as President Clinton's Labor Secretary, suggested
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Not toying around
      787 17  -  juxje xovntE checks out new ideas for toys at a Master of Fine Arts class JULIE IOVINE NYT THE lights burn brightly past midnight. Heads bend over tables as busy hands dab primary reds and blues on plastic airplane wings and stuff the limp limbs of goofy,
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      Time to revive tradition of cooking at home
      757 17  -  SECOND Opinion By Ong Wee Hock THE recent TV show, Mom's Not Cooking, must have been dreamt up by women. The reality of the matter is that mothers all over the city have more or less stopped cooking. This is not a
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      167 19 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 31 altera to testa- l (9) 14 Negotiating a rise, vets appear YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION DOWN quite confident (9) 2 A twit backed up given his 15 Erica is always concerned for head? That's rough on one (6) the environment (9) 3 Garrulous individual, the air- 16 Skilled man
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Pacific Century buys River Valley site for $112m
      333 21  -  Company plans to build 120-nnit condo, with total investment amounting to $145 m By Michelle Low [SINGAPORE] Mainboardlisted Pacific Century Regional Development, controlled by Hongkong magnate Richard Li, has bought a piece of residential land in River Valley for $112.18 million, in
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      Econ details use of rights issue funds
      151 21 [SINGAPORE] Econ International will use $35 million raised through its one-for-two rights issue to buy a property in Jakarta. The rights issue comes amid plans by its new controlling shareholders, an Indonesian company led by the Pribadi family, to invest at least US$255
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      Lock icon Sum Cheong sees HK relisting soon
      319 21  -  By Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Hongkong listed Sum Cheong International, which has been suspended since Feb 1, expects to resume trading of its shares "very soon". The Singapore-based construction and mining company has also not given up on plans for a listing here, said its
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      Isetan interim close to $1m
      219 21  -  By. Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE) Despite tough retail conditions, Isetan Singapore looks poised for a second consecutive profitable year now that it has posted interim group net earnings of $948,000 for the half-year ended Sep 30. Better results are expected for the second half of the
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      SIA unit in US$140m leasing deal
      192 21 [SINGAPORE] A consortium led by a Singapore Airlines (SIA) subsidiary has struck a US$l4O million (*****.6 million) deal to lease a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft to Asiana Airlines of South Korea. The 10-year lease will be administered by SlA's Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (Sale),
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      Road King Infrastructure may yet be king of the road
      532 21  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Quak Hiang Whai THERE is a Hongkonglisted stock with an atten-tion-grabbing name Road King Infrastructure. There's no mistaking what the company does. Listed on July 4 this year, it is controlled by Hong-kong-listed Wai Kee with a
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      Lock icon Jurong Engrg turns Huge Corp into an associate
      399 21 Move will reduce impact of further losses at Taiwan unit Bloomberg Business News [SINGAPORE] Jurong Engineering Ltd has cut its stake in Huge Corp (Pte) Ltd to 50 per cent from 51 per cent, reducing the potential impact on the Singaporean company
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
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        SRI fund rakes in $118m so far
        331 22  -  Front-end charge reduced from 3% to 2% By\ Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Regional Index (SRI) Fund has drawn strong interest from investors, raising $118 million as at Tuesday. Of this amount, $60 million came from retail investors, said Singapore Consortium Investment Management
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        Lock icon Wong's debuts with a 13% premium
        333 22  -  By, Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Wong's Circuits put up a relatively respectable showing in its trading debut yesterday, closing at 99.5 US cents, up 11.5 US cents a 13 per cent premium on its offer price of 88 US cents. Wong's the first US dollar
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        Lock icon KL to have OTC market in '97
        78 22 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is expected to establish an over-the-counter market early next year. Deputy Finance Minister Affifuddin Omar said in parliament. The Malaysian Business Times quoted Mr Affifuddin as saying the new trading facility is under review by the Securities Commission. "There
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        ABR plans to raise CFA stake to 51% as soon as possible
        287 22  -  By] R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Indonesiancontrolled ABR Holdings, which took a 32.9 per cent stake in food manufacturer Consolidated Foods Australia (CFA), intends to increase this to at least 51 per cent as soon as possible. According to the
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        Promet says it may inject some assets into Ipco
        227 22 [SINGAPORE) Kuala Lumpurlisted Promet Group said it might inject some of its businesses and assets into Ipco International in order to boost the Singapore company's overseas operations. However, in an offer document issued yesterday for all outstanding Ipco shares, Promet said
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          Approval for Keppel Bank's placement
          43 22 [SINGAPORE] Keppel Bank has obtained the Stock Exchange of Singapore's approval to place out 52 million new shares at $3.98 each. It has appointed Robert Flemming Co, JM Sassoon Co and Tsang Ong Stockbrokers as its placement agents.
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          Showpla Asia buys rest of subsidiary
          56 22 [SINGAPORE) Showpla Asia has acquired the remaining 35 per cent stake in its formerly 65 per cent-owned unit Sanyo Showpla Manufacturing Pte Ltd for $2.54 million. On completion of the deal, Sanyo Showpla will become the mainboard-listed company's manufacturing arm under a new name,
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          Alexandra Hldgs' earnings down 23.7%
          47 22 [SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listed Alexandra Holdings has reported a 23.7 per cent drop in its interim earnings to $884,653 on a sharp 63.4 per cent plunge in turnover to $3.94 million for the period ended Sep 30,1996. There was an extraordinary gain of $111,894.
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          Trading in L&M resumes today
          24 22 [SINGAPORE] LAM Group Investments Ltd said the trading of its ordinary shares and warrants will resume from 9am today.
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          Rotary takes stake in environmental firm
          60 22 (SINGAPORE] Rotary Engineering has struck a deal to subscribe for 60 per cent of the equity in Rotary Environmental Pte Ltd, which does work like tank cleaning, oil recovery and off-shore marine construction work. The stake amounts to 300,000 shares of $1 each. The
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          New subsidiary for STSE
          38 22 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Technologies Shipbuilding Engineering Ltd has formed a new subsidiary, STSE Engineering Services Pte Ltd, which will be a contractor, developer and subcontractor of engineering and related works and provide turnkey engineering solutions.
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        Compact Metal to build $25m new factory, HQ
        139 22 [SINGAPORE] Mainboardlisted Compact Metal Industries said yesterday it is spending about $25 million to build a new factory and corporate headquarters building in Tuas. The company is leasing a 17,000 sq m plot from Jurong Town Corporation on a 30year deal with
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          Lock icon MCI to close Internet music store
          85 23 NYT [WASHINGTON] MCI Communications Corp will close its electronic music retailing business 800-Music-Now on Dec 31, only weeks after winding down its much-touted marketplaceMCl online shopping venture in the face of poor sales. MCl's retreat is one of the most prominent yet among major
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          Lock icon A taste of Japanese goodies
          54 23 AFP [HANOI] A boy playing a video game at a display stand put up by Capcom, a Japanese electronic game maker, during an exhibition on foreign direct investment in Vietnam which opened yesterday in HanoL V ietnam has drawn some U5524.5 billion (5J34.3 billion) from
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          Lock icon NYSE's ticker to go live on TV
          95 23 NYT [NEW YORK] The New York Stock Exchange ticker, which shows each trade in Big Board Issues seconds after the trade is made, will now be made available to television programmes on a live, rather than a delayed, basis, exchange officials said on
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          Lock icon McGraw-Hill may sell TV stations: CEO
          78 23 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] McGraw-Hill Co's chairman and chief executive Joseph Dionne said the company is considering selling its television stations. Mr Dionne said the company will "give thiBa very serious hard look and we will go from there". The company owns four
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        NTT's plan to go global meets opposition
        401 23  -  Japan's long distance carrier KDD says current law forbids snch a move From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo SIGNS emerged yesterday that the Japanese government's plan to restructure Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) and to give the state-controlled domestic telecommunications giant an international role
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        Lock icon Samsung gearing up for control of US-Korean bank: analysts
        297 23 Industrial group raises stake in KorAm Bank to 17i% AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's Samsung Group has raised its stake in KorAm Bank to become the second biggest shareholder, in a move seen as a prelude to assuming control of the US-Korean
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        Lock icon Daewoo told it may bid again for Thomson arm
        405 23 French minister makes offer while announcing 2-part sale of Thomson AFP. Bloomberg Business News [PARIS] South Korea's Daewoo group may bid again to acquire Thomson Multimedia, French Finance Minister dean Arthuis said yesterday while announcing the government's decision to sell its
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        Kuok unit to acquire Hongkong investment firm
        285 23  -  From. Al Labita in Manila A PHILIPPINE-LISTED unit of Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok is acquiring the entire equity of Hongkong-based investment firm Gipsey Ltd under a stock swap, the company said yesterday. Kuok Philippines Properties Inc (KPPI) said in a report to the
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        Lock icon US stock fund purchases slow down in December
        372 24 Concerns about stumbling stock market affect investors'baying Bloomberg Business News [BOSTON] Individual investors are reducing their purchases of US stock mutual funds in the early days of December amid concerns about a stumbling stock market, fund companies and analysts say. An estimated
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        Lock icon Intel jumps 6% on news of plants running at full tilt
        278 24 Official also says firm bringing costs down more than expected Reuter (SAN FRANCISCOI A top Intel Corp official said on Wednesday the company's chip factories were running at full tilt, a sign of strong demand for computers and other
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        Lock icon Reuters to close bureau, cut 170 jobs in revamp
        201 24 Bloomberg Business News [LONDON] Reuters Holdings pic, the world's largest financial information distributor, will cut 170 jobs at its Reuters America unit and may close a non-US news bureau and fire more workers in a global costcutting drive. Reuters said yesterday
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        Lock icon Bre-X, Barrick told to jointly reapply for Busang deal
        414 25 New application to develop gold find must be made by joint venture firm Reuter [JAKARTA] A senior Indonesian mining official said yesterday Canada's Bre-X Minerals Ltd and Barrick Gold Corp must jointly submit applications for contracts of work to develop the
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        Lock icon Aon set to be biggest in US insurance
        344 25 Buying of Alexander for US$L23b should see it overtake Marsh McLennan Bloomberg Business News (CHlCAGO] Aon Corp agreed to buy Alexander Alexander Services Inc for about US$l.23 billion (551.72 billion), creating one of the nation's largest insurance brokerage companies. The acquisition would
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        AFIC raises US$35m through FRN
        204 25  -  By\ Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] The Singapore based Asian Finance and Investment Corporation (AFIC) has raised US$35 million (Ss49 million) from the capital markets of Singapore and this region through a floating rate note (FRN). This FRN is the biggest offshore fund raising exercise this
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        Lock icon US regulators propose registration for bank brokers
        287 25 Bloomberg Business News [WASHINGTON] The top three US banking agencies are proposing that all bank employees who sell securities take broker licensing exams and have their disciplinary histories on file. The proposal would require these employees to register with the National Association of
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        Lock icon JP Morgan to buy back stock
        185 25 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] JP Morgan Co said it will buy back as much as US$75O million (551.04 billion) of its stock and raise its quarterly dividend, two moves companies use to boost their stock price. The nation's fourth-largest bank raised the quarterly
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        Lock icon Austria's biggest bank to bid for govt stake in rival
        253 25 Bank Austria board okays plan to boy 70% of Creditanstalt Bloomberg Business News [VIENNA] Bank Austria AG, Austria's biggest bank, said its supervisory board approved a plan to bid for the government's 70 per cent voting stake in rival Creditan-stalt-Bankverein
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        Lock icon Shell's US unit to pump US$10b into 9 projects
        503 26 Company plans to begin work on deep-water oil, gas projects in Golf of Mexico before 2001 FT [NEW ORLEANS] Shell Oil, the US arm of the Anglo-Dutch petroleum group, has lined up nine deep-water oil and gas projects in the Gulf
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        Lock icon Euroyen recovers in late trade
        242 26 SSMEXReport Reuter [SINGAPORE) Simex Euroyen futures made a comeback in late trade yesterday as players covered their positions after an early sell-off fuelled by a Japanese rate hike fear. The market made a weak start on a Nikkei Financial Weekly report. quoting a Bank of
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        164 26 Reuter, AFP liQimloii THE dollar got a firm foothold above 1.54 marks and 113 yen as stock and bond markets steadied after a bout of profittaking and as European Union leaders moved closer to agreement on a budgetary stability pact this weekend. EU leaders said yesterday they were
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        Lock icon Asia crude oil prices recover slightly
        312 26 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [TOKYO] Crude oil prices in Asia inched up yesterday after plunging overnight, but prices were likely to remain under pressure from a combination of bearish factors. Traders said the Iraqi deal, weak oil product futures, forecasts for mild weather in the
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        1452 26 DtTERBAME CROSS RATES Dec is A$ C$ »w> ECU Ffr Dw HK$ hid t« Yw Wow M$MZ$NfctsN» SS land Sfr WT$ Balrt Powd US$ Australia 1.079 6.178 0.634 jlW 1??4 .Al4fl 10.677 0.896 6.711 2j003 U36 31.*****.865 IM 3.720 1044 21.825 20.278 0.482 0.794 Canada 0.926 6.119 0.589 WWlflMm 17.302
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1895 27 i-iirn hi-niiri""- i 1 Dec 12 RUBBER (futures closing ts «t 5 30pm RSS1 CONTRACTS cwts/tiq) Month High Close Low Sett Volume (tonnes) Open Interest Jan 97 Feb 97 Mar 97 Apr/Jun 97 Jul/S«p 97 Oct/Det 97 176.50 180.00 183.00 186.25 176.50 176.25 179.25 179.50 183.00 182.75 185.50
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2330 27 LONDON Mistrials Dec12 Nnct AB Ports 267.400 unch AbDey National 706.200 I Allied Oomecq 425 -1 Amec 90 *.600 Asaa Group 121.200 1.800 BAT Ind 491.600 5.600 BICC 266.400 -1 80C Group 893.600 -1.800 BR Petroleum 663.200 -8.200 8TR 253.600 -.400 Bant of Scotland 294 6 Barclays
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      1650 27 Reuter Q Nikkei 22S -®7J8 STOCKS ended feebly yesterday but well off their lows as cautious participants waited for the December futures and options settlement due today. Brokers said Wall Street's sharp sell-off overnight dampened sentiment. The 225-share Nikkei Average closed at 20,501.20, down 67.18 points. Its December futures
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      Lock icon HONGKONG
      1608 28 AFX-Asia -ma SHARE prices closed lower yesterday in a correction triggered by the fall on Wall Street overnight, giving investors an excuse to take profit. Dealers said the market will be subject to jitters caused by a volatile US market in the near term as trading becomes quiet ahead
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      Lock icon CHINA
      677 28 Reuter n Shenzhen B Index -11.33 THE Shenzhen B market fell sharply yesterday as a result of a new crackdown by securities authorities on mainland Chinese buying B shares. The B Index fell 11.23 points, or 6 per cent, to 175.22 on turnover of HK5395.77 million, compared with Wednesday's
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      Lock icon TAIPEI
      387 28 AFP QwPlnfex +2238 SHARE prices finished higher yesterday, boosted by good performances by heavyweight issues, analysts said. "In view of easing selling pressure in the market, some investors bought blue-chips in late trading," said a trader. The TSE Weighted Price Index advanced 22.88 points to 6,825.62. Turnover was 1.61
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      Lock icon WELLINGTON
      261 28 Bloomberg Business News n Wellington *M STOCKS declined yesterday amid concern that prices of pulp and paper would fall further before they recovered. The NZSE-40 Capital Index fell 15.01 points to 2,362.52. Ik 12 ss rtm AN2B*nmrvj 9.00 -0.20 7638 Advantages hmqs US MOOO Air Ne« 2••land (A) 2.70
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      833 28 AFP □set Ma -lan STOCKS fell yesterday, shaken by Wall Street's sharp drop overnight and concerns over the local economy. Dealers said the market was also dampened by a lack of confidence in a new government economic policy, announced on Wednesday, which stressed fiscal discipline. The SET Index lost
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      Lock icon SEOUL
      406 28 AFP PCmpoatolidex -1530 SHARE prices tumbled 2.2 per cent yesterday, with investors increasingly pessimistic about the possibility of government intervention to boost the bourse, brokers said. "Investors went on a selling spree as the government showed no signs of taking market-boosting actions proposed by the ruling party," said an
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      610 28 AFP □AHOrtmaricj -117 STOCKS yesterday followed Wall Street's lead, slumping 0.8 per cent just one day after an official rate cut that normally would have sustained share prices. "You'd expect a rate cut to give the market strength, but I guess we just couldn't ignore the Dow's drop," a
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      751 28 AFP WOmpnateMg +L 33 STOCKS closed higher yesterday on gains by Telkom, while the broader market weakened in line with declines in regional markets and Wall Street's overnight losses. The JSE Composite Index rose 1.33 points to 627.90. Turnover was 220.9 million shares worth 481.5 billion rupiah. Telkom rose
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      283 28 AFP Q Manila -3L66 SHARE prices closed down yesterday reflecting a sharp drop on Wall Street. The PSE Composite Index fell 31.65 points to 3,129.11. Turnover was 6.706 billion shares worth 2.529 billion pesos. PLDT rose five pesos to 1,545. Manila Electric Co A shares fell four pesos to
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        8311 29 Bloomberg Business News I Composite Index -4.70 STOCKS dropped for a second day yesterday after US stocks declined on worries interest rates may rise. "Investors are being cautious over (Alan) Greenspan's remarks on US inflation last week." said an analyst. "The market has had a
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        3778 30  -  WARRANT WATCH -/ft/I R Sivanithy MALAYSIAN telecommunications firm Time Engineering has taken a bit of a beating lately, especially after the Renong-controlled owned firm reported disappointing interim earnings. This, however, automatically means that Time's warrants deserve a second look and when we do, we find that
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        1692 31 TURNOVER COOO) VALUE COOO) Main CtO* Trtal Ck* Total Industrial 28.148 8.472 34.620 86.681 14,830 '01.5'J Finance 3,964 1.736 5.700 49,021 5.484 54,505 Hotels 666 202 868 1.942 306 2-248 Propartias 6,031 2,583 8.614 35.912 2.874 Plantation 533 533 UJ* Mtnma 146 146 355 355 81W 5.090 2.52a 7.618 1.613
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        51 32  -  o u -by! Shiv Taneja BERJAYA INDUSTRIAL is likely to see more downside in the days ahead. Yesterday, it closed seven cents lower at $1.13 on a volume of 1.9 million shares. Weekly RSI is overbought and the directional indicators are toppish. There is support at around $1.
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        Players turn cautious as US bonds take a tumble
        845 32  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY But dealers say that despite the worry, periodic bursts of baying throughout the day helped cushion the fall in bine chips here and in Malaysia By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Local shares took another Wall Street-related hit yesterday, after
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          Teng Fong lands another big one
          141 32 ONCE again, property tycoon Ng Teng Fong has lived up to his reputation as the most aggressive buyer of land in Hongkong. In the latest land auction on Wednesday, Mr Ng's Hongkong-listed Sino Land outbid seven developers, including Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Holdings, to
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          Pay to see the future
          64 32 BRITISH TELECOM is offering British television viewers the chance to watch future episodes of soap operas, so they will know what happens after the current episode. Viewers have to pay extra for this service, which comes over the Internet. Despite the extra fee, the response
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          Stay away from the windows
          71 32 OCCUPANTS of a certain high-rise building in the vicinity of Suntec City have been advised by the building's management not to linger at the windows. According to one little bird, the property's management fear that window-lingerers may be mistaken for having ill intentions, and draw
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          Of bankers, by bankers, for bankers
          98 32 A NEW monthly publication dubbed "a magazine of bankers, by bankers, for bankers" is hitting the streets today. The Asian Banker Journal is published by TAB International Pte Ltd, which was set up in September. Talk has it that the project is being bank-rolled
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          A measure of ignorance
          127 32 THE most important but least understood aspect of growth is technology, according to a report by Emerging Markets Analyst. The ingredients of technology are largely qualitative and hence difficult to measure and analyse. Economists, therefore, label technology's impact on growth as "total factor productivity" or more
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      287 33 Bridge News Reuter AFTER Tuesday's technical shake out and such a severe fall Biffex regained its composure and steadied itself, Clarkson Wolff said in its daily report on Wednesday. Early optimism gave bulls the incentive to push values higher. Little initial trade was seen as sellers soon backed
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      309 33 sa *ooo 1KB *h W CWT Distribution—US unch 2 ChuanHup 0.91 -0.015 301 cotco HNMlfflMl —1.47 *0.01 32 FELS 6.65 -0J0 419 rrotdMUnto 0.64 -0.01 26 G8 Holdings 0.89 *0.005 21 Hal Sun Hup 0.99 "0.005 131 HttacM 2oson 0.805 *0.005 60 Jayo Holdings 1.01 unch 13 Jurong
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      S'pore's box throughput up 9.4% in first 9 months
      424 33  -  PSA's 9.6 m TEUs handled still below that of Hongkong's 9.8 m TEUs By' Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] Singapore handled a total of 9.6 million 20foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers in the first nine months of this year, up 9.4
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      Lock icon Lauritzen sells 48% stake in shipyard to M'sian yard
      195 33 Bernama [COPENHAGEN] Danish shipbuilding and shipping group J Lauritzen has sold a 48 per cent shareholding in its Danyard A/S shipyard unit for US$lOO million (Ssl4o million) to Malaysia's Penang Shipbuilding Construction (PSC). It said that a letter of intent was
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      Lock icon Dispute over need for St Lawrence River pilots
      173 33 Journal of Commerce (OTTAWA) The crew of four Canadian ships who got tired of waiting for pilots that never showed caused an uproar when they took matters into their own hands, navigating the St Lawrence River themselves. The recent action revived the
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      Ukraine govt, not Blasco, owns legal title to arrested ship
      683 33  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By\ Selva Kumar THE English Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court's finding that a vessel belonged to the Ukrainian government although the ship had been listed in the Lloyd's Register as belonging to a Ukrainian company.
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      NYK and Hyundai in space-charter agreement
      272 33  -  J&p&nese line leasing 100 slots on HUH's trans-Pacific service By] Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Two major carriers, Japan's Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line (NYK) and Korea's Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), have entered into a space-charter agreement on the trans-Pacific route. The lines confirmed the deal when
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      Lock icon Tamil Nadu govt planning shipbreaking, repair facility
      217 33 Business Line [CHENNAI] The Tamil Nadu government is examining the possibility of setting up a shipbreaking and ship repair facility near Chennai with private sector participation. The government sees plenty of scope for an advanced shipbreaking facility near Chennai which will feed the
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      Lock icon Taiwan bulk shipping tie-up
      133 33 AFX-Asia [TAIPEI] China Steel Corp unit China Steel Express Corp (CSE) and Taiwan's number two shipping line, Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp, plan to set up a joint venture in the bulk shipping business. Currently. CSE was using Yang Ming Marine and Taiwan Navigation Co Ltd
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      Rotterdam considers building underground storage terminals
      178 33 [ROTTERDAM] The port of Rotterdam is looking into the economic possibilities of underground storage terminals which would offer an attractive solution to space problems at the harbour area. With the construction of subterranean terminals, the port of Rotterdam wants to gain space above ground
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      922 34 AUSTRAT.TAN-OWNEP FLEET: NUMBERS DWINDLING |;With Canberra intent on introducing competition into domestic shipping, international competition codes and work practices are starting to infiltrate the market leading to changes in the owning and operation of vessels Fairplay THERE are only 68 trading ships in the Australianflagged
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      441 34 PAGE Ethiopian 6 AEIOcean 16 EuroHansa 6 AEL 14 E*wgreen 6 AFTShpg 14 Fl-Bright 9 AML 3 15 Abte 16 Famous 7 Accord 8 Farwide 14 Ahrenluel 4 FoongSun 6 Appenship 4 Frota 8 Astro 3 Frt Links 13 Austral 9 frt World
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      SHIPPING GUIDE
      10600 42 EXPORT CTA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser V#M* Voyage Telephone SIN Desrn N«m* Nona Number Number SIN Oest'n Nam* Wmw Number Number WMMMNMMRMMMMHBManMnMMmWMMMNMaMHMMMMnMl RMtnMMnMMWIMi i IMNMMIMI WWRMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMRMMMMM M/B 20/12 I SUM MCC VANTAGE V.M0I *9-*****97 A M/B 20/12 MCC MCC VANTAGE MX 45 *****00 IS/12
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        CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        594 49 Voy No Barth Arrival Dapartura_ tfKff 01* J14 alongside 1512/WOO fitis Oc V9608 J02 alongside 1212/1230 fed Eipress 37 J19 alongside 14.12/0600 Won 12/96 Jt8 alongside 1212/2100 R*jun*IJ2 *****6 J01 alongside 12.12/2300 *****6 J01 alongside 1212/0700 *****6 J01 alongside 12.12/0200 ffTTl-t ***** J01 alongside 12.12/1800 MMV 12/96 J01
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1784 49 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Ritls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From *CI mv M 14/1,00 U 12/1500 12/1659 12/1900 II 12/1500 12/1659 12/1900 2* 12/1700 U/0659 13/0*0 U/1200 U/1459 U/1700 *c«Swn S/0700 M 12/1500 12/1659 12/1*0 12/1500 12/1659 12/1*0 2* 12/1700
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        GLOBAL HOLIDAY
        223 49 DM 13 Malta: Republic Day. DecM Czech Republic Stock market closed until January 7, 1996 inclusive for Christmas/New Year. Bangladesh: Victory Day. Bahrain: National Day. South Africa Day of Reconciliation. Dec 23 Japan Emperor Akihito's Birthday. Deo 24 Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Sweden: Christmas Eve. Germany:
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        879 49 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-sued stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
        588 49 Carbon 180 Mm 990.0 17 14.5 0.10 64 0.00 Dec S Dmltf Water htldM Ask Aluminium Solnirt No abow £25 0 2 0 0 0 0 %M/M 380 Aw 985.0 0J 13.6 0.07 33 0.00 Una 380 MM 996.3 1.2 17.9 0.12 64 0.00 KAtM +*n
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        Lock icon Volvo and Daimler units to team up for engine project
        389 50 Cooperation expected to boost earnings of Volvo Aero and MTU Mnenchen Bloomberg Business News [TROLLHAETTAN, Sweden) Volvo Aero AB and DaimlerBenz Aerospace's MTU Muenchen will enter a project to coordinate technology and product development on low pressure turbines for civilian
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        Lock icon Hoping to soar again
        53 50 [KABUL] An Afghan pilot of state-owned Ariana Afghan Airlines standing next to his 40-year-old Boeing 727 at Kabul airport. The national airline, which has been battered by 17 years of war and reduced to a fleet of just five ageing planes, is attempting to rebuild its
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        Argentina's airports bill to go before Congress
        277 50 [BUENOS AIRES] A congressional committee has reached agreement on the sale of Argentina's 59 airports. According to state news agency Telam, the modifications to the legislation after the Senate asked for change to the initial proposal paves the way for the passage of
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        Lock icon AMI to shift assembly of heavy commercial vehicles to Port Klang
        320 50 BERNAMA [SHAH ALAM] Associated Motor Industries (M) Sdn Bhd (AMI), the vehicle assembly arm of the Tractors Malaysia group, will shift its heavy commercial truck and bus assembly operations to its new plant in Port Klang in January next
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        Lock icon Hyundai to launch new model for Asian market
        269 50 Korean car maker aims to expand market share to 10% AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's largest car maker, Hyundai Motor Co, said it would launch a new "Asia Unique Model" with an ambitious goal of broadening its overall market share in Asia to
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        Lock icon Give up board seats, USAir tells BA
        188 50 AFN-Asia [ARLINGTON] USAir Group Inc called on British Airways pic to give up its three representative seats on the USAir board, and its equity stake of just under 25 per cent in the airline, as a condition of obtaining antitrust immunity for its
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        Lock icon Asiana Air plans to buy up to 53 Boeings, Airbuses
        203 50 Bloomberg Business News [SEOUL] South Korea's Asiana Airlines said it will buy as many as 53 planes from Boeing Co and Airbus Industries over the next 10 years as part of its plan to more than double its fleet. An
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          91 50 Reuter [BRUSSELS] European airports in 1995 generated US$l5.B billion (5522.1 million) in revenues and reinvested 30 per cent of that or US$4 .8 billion in building facilities, the European section of the Airports Council International said on Wednesday. In 1995, revenue grew by 9.8
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          Lock icon Boeing lands US$486m contract in India
          81 50 AFP [SEATTLE) US aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co on Wednesday said it had won a contract worth US$4B6 million (*****.4 million) to supply 10 of its 737 aircraft to Jet Airways of India. The order is for six of Boeing's "next generation" 737-800 and four
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          Lock icon Australia, Indonesia to hold air talks
          83 50 Bridge News [CANBERRA] Australia and Indonesia will meet in early 1997 to further develop commitments made for air services in eastern Indonesia and northern Australia and to review present bilateral air services arrangements, Transport Minister John Sharp said yesterday. "New arrangements are required so
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          Lock icon Kia Group targets 17.5% sales rise
          81 50 Reuter [SEOUL] South Korea's Kia Group said yesterday it has targeted group sales next year at 14.1 trillion won (5523.4 billion), up 17.5 per cent from an estimated 12 trillion won for calendar 1996. Kia Motors Corp, one of South Korea's three largest car
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        Lock icon Hongkong will build Western Corridor passenger rail first: transport secretary
        375 50 Construction of line expected to start inmid-'9B Reuter [HONGKONG] The Hongkong government said it would move forward with the domestic passenger line of its proposed Western Corridor Railway first, leaving the cross-border and freight lines to a later date. Secretary
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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      13 33 Aussie shipowners feel winds of change Number of Aussie-owned vessels dwindling. Page 2
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      166 33 Volvo and Daimler units to team up on engine project Earnings of 2 firms expected to be boosted. Back Pa*e SOUTH ASIA RATE AGREEMENT (SARA) NOTICE TO TRADE FAR EAST/SOUTH ASIA RATE RESTORATION OF USDSO PER TEU In view of escalating operating costs and deteriorating freight rates, the undermentioned Shipping
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      2369 37 3 SAILINGS PER WEEK FOR SINGAPORE EUROPE SERVICE L I SINGAPORE'S GENERAL AGENTS: 6 SHENTON WAY TEL 226 1900 FAX: *****01 OUTWARD (l/l) *****02 JOHOSE OfFKI; COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD #17-01 NS HOG SAUS/MGS *****41/43 WWAXD KFT (D/OJ *****15 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD i Q NO: 117l7tOOQOOM TOWEI TWO
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      200 38 r a EVERGREEN >/'/.////<•' .'.ivi/, j^—Byapj r ir lV .'.'i 1 1 i' 1 I I IXlMllil I^O RT.V SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD M SIA Aq«-nt%: GREEN PENINSULA AGENCIES SDN BHD 133 iAIAN BISAR SHAH AIAV til •> '-M !•>•>» SINGAPOBf /O'OIS KUAMIAS Tft .1J tit <' ••..!•> I*6 DfPf
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      258 38 UIMIGLORY LINE Full Contmnci Set vice APAHIAN PIPSIAN (,UII SIHVICI MAURITIUS SOUIM Al MIC A SIPVKI SOUIM AMI MIC A SI ttVKi rTTvT^— MON(. KON(, SI 1/VIC I y»i «iV MANII A SIPVKI TAIWAN SIKVK I MALAYSIA SIPVICI i 'iij iiß I 1. V 1 LAIMCHABANG SfRVICt RTW SHIPPING |S)
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      719 39 BSA a. M MYANMA WBm. FIVE STAR UNE r (Myaoaar Natioool U»o) 1 Loading lor Yaagoo (Raojooo) Vissa VOT SM KG KN P6U PAGAN M«W 14/11 ■TONATWA 14 JW 10/12 ■AtATSIA AGOTS: OOUSTUO SWPPWG AG6KKS KUL TH 01-01-*****00 PO: Til 02-01-176*101 mk Til 02-64-*****02 PGO; TH 02-07-*****21/4 BANK LINE (A
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      1118 39 MERCHANT MARINE CO. UP. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKQ: *****32 —nu vcsa vorlswi uh I m iw hmi I n I a il/jj ijTYj 14/12 Ml (OMMOOOtE MIW IS/17 01/01 01/01 04/01 04/01 04/01 07/01 10/1? 10/11 MT (BW MIW 11/11 00/01 00/01 11/01 11/01 11/01 14/01 26/11 10/11 10/11 NIAMMAi
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      387 39 (j£ FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES ill-- 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE *****8 HOT LINE: *****33 (30 LINES) TWICE WEEKLY SAILINGS TO BUSAN \SOUTH KOREA V| r 0 FOR ENQUIRY BOOKINGS, PLS CALL OUR HOTLINE *****33( 30 lines) SYLVIA/MICHELLE POH P. KLANG PH: 0203/*****02 (10 LINES) PENANG PH: 0204/*****7 (10 LINES) J.
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      675 40 1 Regional Container Lines y CP NO **********0E JAKARTA BP P E N A N G 3 I nr^i- srjl 1< I "i 1 i i Mil ui iii ii i■ B SK'Bfi inaK:: tifit< mi i ■imm gg mi 4 Bi fi 111 mmn bi y■■ 11 ■Si g2EZ3MLui»..TiLiauElg|
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      760 40 JHAPPM AdlwiigMiiWttM Kwjwuou/ auwn mm VSSSSL v°r I UN I CT» VI—I I VOT MM CCU **PMA 530 I SAT I 14/12 Iwio I It/12 Buogl SPMNO 1 267CN»|mON| 15/12 THU |l»/12 I consictmci 333 I|*o/ia nil 24/12 Ixoua swoapom 230 na 120/12 wh> 125/12" OAfU 006 [THU [36/12 THU
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      278 40 #09-00 NEHSONS BUILDING 24 PECK SEAH STREET SINGAPORE *****4 ■OOKHWWUWiI COI OlOt *****630Q00W TIL: 323 1139 I*l FAX: 221 4053/M/M j* TUC^^R3»IW2SOS^»SHIPjgM^^ VBSa VOY SW ETA SMETD OCTMDKM GHfSUQM 23/* 11/12 2*12 JlMi/NMMG SUNttf 19/91 10/12 12/H- 1W Gt&f DttUO 11/* 12/12 14/12 MGOJUi/rUAW GULF KHAUO 11/* 12/U Vm JMARU/WMN6
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      513 41 Weekly LCL A FCL If ffjDlCfll Sarvkas to Caribbean Central Amarka MUNKBOMABBK SINIVUIVI 9701 628E Port Country 17/12 24/12 Wi» C'rty Belize 20/01 27/01 Bridge**™ Borfeodoi 23/01 30/01 Cartogano Colombia 22/01 29/01 I Castries S». Lucia 22/01 29/01 Fort de France Martinique 23/01 30/01 II I Freeport Bahamas 18/01 25/01
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      651 41 f aa«Pff PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. I CR NO **********06 111 b ffi a ft a K sa 9 SI ill illii AISO A(Cglll6 tUBh PORT SKAK RASSAWA ASSAO VIA MMOMTI |Sh f |#|ft B B B |j>| I im.
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      927 41 ***********2 YOKELS WY MW PAMgTTA L£ HAVRE HAMBURG THAMESPORT RQTTEROtAM VKXE DE CAPELLA TIBW 18/12 29/12 07/01 08/01 1001 11/01 11*01 VNJ-EOEUBRA LI 9M 34/12 04/01 13*01 WOl 1&P1 17/01 iftOl \4LLE P 1 AQUARIUS UIBW 30/12 11/01 2CVOI 21/01 2MH 24/01 28/D1 VM£ PAPULA 07£1 W)1 27AM MW XttFt
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      50 43 To retrieve more schedules, just follow these simple steps... document 740-6000 mr\ will be faxed m M PreSS r the port your Step A Step key in the four number Co( e Key in your Example: i fax number To NEW YORK (NYC) 2275 United States for calls within Singapore
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      1854 44 44 AS AGENTS: H" UNI (MNQAPOW) FT! LTD f ttI»WWW«»IMWN I TEL *****77 TELEX: KAWAKJ R*****5 FAX: *****1&7^9 A lA. WWT MALAYSIA: "K" UNI MAMTMME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD TEL SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 JB *****01 PGU *****256 MOONESIA: P.T.'K" UNI (MDONBU), TEL JKT *****06 IXPORT N. tWWWMT I
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      1101 44 ET TWICE WEEKLY EVERY THURSOAY/SUNOAY ARRIVAL FIXED DAY-MOMMY f mw?**™ m JU? J*J J» woa w icn ntr mm m MWCGSTIY SS!I X? I ?22E GIBRALTAfIBMOGt A643E SLD SLO SLD SLO I I*l2 ■mJgSrt 2X?123 Lj 2£ "23 OWI 1M wngglory sld suj slo slo I zim f mu|TU (w.nrc
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      657 45 a M I i i/ 4 Ju i H*awJRKBMHB| cHd*SI|f 1 P4CL VOY SIN MAA SIN I R WAVE 492N 15-16/12 19-22/12 27-28/12 I R ISLAND 483N 18-19/12 23-20H2 31-01/01 I R BRIDGE 494N 21-22/12 26-2W12 03-04*11 I R BAY 486N 26-24/12 30-02A51 07-0&01 I RWAVE 490N 27-28V12 02-06AJ1 10-11/01
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      419 45 Sea K Land DIRECT SERVICE TO LONG BEACH MUNKEBO MSK V.9701 ETA SIN ETD SIN 17 DEC '96 17 DEC '96 CALL BOOKING HOTLINE TEL: *****33 NOW! SINGAPORE MALAYSIA INDONESIA MAINLINE *****22 KUALA LUMPUR 03-*****28 BANDUNG 022-*****5 MMgiKifcflN) *****00 PORT KLANG 03-*****08 BELAWAN 061-*****3 I CUSTOMER SVC(OUT) *****33 PENANG 04-*****90
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      1445 45 JT NedHoyd 10 lu Nedlloyd Lines (Ug)jjji CH IOOOMMOOON _SB_I 1 MQAPOTE HONE (GENERALi *****69 RATE ENQUIRIES 32'0241/244/240 CFS (PHONE) *****10 CFS (FAX) *****23 TO EUROPE EVERY THURS/nmr 1 K Ki IS CSR Rtai CP RS tit OOCL MOPE /550® 19/12 20/12 11/01 09/01 10/01 07/01 TYNE /1508 20/12 10/01
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      515 46 SAMUDERA INDONESIA (S) PTE LTD 15 McCALLUM STREET #03-01/02 NATWEST CENTRE S'PORE 0106 TEL: *****81-3 FAX: *****88 (OUTWARD) *****89 IIINNUID) TLX: R*****0 CIV Nu. **********00 BOOKINGS CALL DIRECT UME; ********** JESSICA/CELIA/AUDBEY 7 slgs/week 3 slgs/WEEK I VOY |«N JAK [VESSEL |VQY ISM |BUR 3WTWK 907 IVI2 (SAT) 18/12 (WED) BUANA
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      146 46 row tums/ win mumu r. mmm/vmgrog SOUTH lOUIIO «ssa wr iSS gjj DMUSMV sTTR RTmSo! i&l'rfuo mum m —ukm —mm~ Mm sins mm atom WMUMj!! SIMS ?l/l?tSffi TWtSMW mm* {178 gTHjgB MiM bimasmav $Tyg p/iiSi NOtTH KXWD *ssa wr m »a«uf. BMuaoY Wi» jgng jgrgg jmmi an iffinE gjfg muswv
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      214 46 HQEGH LINES |H "jl SASIA EXPRESS LINE w DIRECT LINK TO AMAZON AS/MAN AUS NORTH BRAZIL TRANSIT TIME 30 DAYS (DIRECT CALL) SIMQAPOHE PORT KLANCL PBiAMO: P. OUOAMO. TEL: 02-*****73 TEL: 03-73S00SS TH_ 04-*****83 MMMI«» TEL: 07-*****39 FAX: 02-*****71 FAX: 03-*****40 FAX: 04-*****90 03-73*37* FAX 7a2W2 ACCEPTING MEAKBULX CARGO FROM
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      175 46 SIM FAR EAST 21/12 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 22/12 BANGKOK 22/12 MANILA/CEBU 22/12 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 22/12 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 22/12 BUSAN 22/12 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 22/12 HONG KONG SIM CHINA 22/12 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DAL lAN/SH ANGHAI/XING ANG TIANJIN/OINGDAO/HAIKOU SIM EUROPE/UK 22/12 LON/FLX/LVP/SOU ROM/ANT/LEH/HAM/GOT/OSL also accepting cargo to EASTERN BLOCK COUNTRIES SIM USA/CANADA 22/12 LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK
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      405 46 Singapore Soviet Shippl4F Co. Pte. Ltd. ss CB NO: 100S*****00N BOMBAY/COCHIN I VESSEL VOY I SIN BOM MEKHAMK KURAKO MK2BN 13/12 21/12 TRAMSCORD 061 20/12 28/12 n VANESSA 13N 24/12 02/01 n TRADE FAST TFSI7S 03/01 12/01 'J -t H l REGULAR ILYtCHEVSK SERVICE A j I VESSEL VOY S
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      589 48 SINO EXPRISS SHIPPING (PTI) LTD. I 11 COLLYER QUAY »0«-01 THE ARCADE 8INOAPORE *****7. m m TEL: *****90 (4 UNE3) FAX: *****98 TLX: RS***** SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) Also occepting container cargo to: VtSSfl/VOY ETA SIN ETAHKG ETA SHA W/T HKG: Bofoo,_Ghjwon. GOOD WELL 9607/9608 14/12 19/12 23/i2 Fangcheng,
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      367 48 SYD/MEL/BNE/ADL "ANRO JAYAKARTA" V.OBS ETA SIN 14-12-96 RTM/FXT/HAM "HANJIN FELIXSTOWE" V.OBIW ETA SIN 16-12-96 CAU BOOKING: 220-2022 XIUHUA/HAMIDAH/YEO/PHYUJS BOOKINGS HOTUNE NUMBERS P&O WL SINGAPORE *****61 IPOH -05 *****8 Containers KUALA LUMPUR 03 24«4544 JOHOR IAHRU 07 *****54 Rr»t Clam Connections WORLDWIDE WW KIANO 03 *****67 JAKARTA *****4900 PCNANO 03 *****2
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      305 48 JO6HUA 12/12 22/12 RdnVAtwAJK/Nan )t S AGHIOS MINAS 25/12 30/12 RdnVAtwAJK/Nan I •LaadsE^^MaliysiOndonasl^^^^^^^^^^^^^J KAVO ALEXANOROS Oub^A.Ohab^«Mn^DwnmarVKiiwritH RAINIER Oub«i/A.DhebVßahraferf)anvnan/KiHMftl "Loads Singapore, E7W. Malaysia, Indonesa I I Loading for 1 PAN QUEEN Los Angst Ortaana/Chartaaton/ 1 Norfofc/Camdan I OTRAOA Los Angsles/New OrieanCharissfcxV lim M a B *Lo«ds£-/W. Malaysia, tndonasia J [LOADING FOR
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