The Business Times, 7 April 1997

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  • 642 1  -  Bat overcapacity looms as firms ditch clinker plants for storage silos By Ronnie Lim [SINGAPORE] Pressured by increased land costs, Singapore's cement industry has switched to trading cement and has even attracted new players like feedmiller Sin Heng Chan. Traditionally, cement plants here
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  • 643 1  -  Several mega issues set to hit Malaysian bourse later in the year W Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Funds raised on the combined Singapore and Malaysian stock markets this year are set to beat the Ssl2 billion garnered last year. Just
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  • 54 1 [SINGAPORE] Silhouetted against the light, members of the Sikh community watched as the stretch from Wilkie Road to Bras Basah Road was lit up last evening to usher in Vesakhi, the Sikh New Year. The light up for Vesakhi, which falls on April 13,
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  • 274 1 Friday's payroll figures add to the uncertainty Reuter [NEW YORK] The outlook for Wall Street stocks has grown increasingly difficult to decipher, with analysts trying to figure how much higher interest rates will climb, how corporate profits will fare and the interpretation to put on
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    • 128 1 gBDK^ UrhnriNfia How does a pineapple tart or homemade cuny make it big commercially? Find outm the first ofa two-pert assessSXEs US-based Cell Computer Coep is shifting its focus to die small and medium enterprise (SME) market in Asia-Pacific with the introduction of its Dimension desktop line, BtadTPfflB Aadi's bead
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    • 17 1 IPC propose* l-for-5 rights issue to raise $S6m, Pg 19 IPO won't hit market: Ting, Pg 20
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    • 52 1 J ,7l I t.'* 1 .j M M V I I 150 YEARS OF HISTORY AND ROMANCE Cartier boubque/ Singapore Millenia Walk, #01-22/23, 9 Raffles Boulevard. Tel: 339 0183 Ngee Ann City, Tower B, #01-11, 391 Orchard Road. Tel: 734 2427 Hilton International, #01-04, The Shopping Gallery, 581 Orchard Road.
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    • 9 1 US March retail sales seen: up 0.6%, Pg 9
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 482 2  -  Parent Volkswagen nay follow suit; spare parts centre also being considered Ven Sreenivasan GERMAN carmaker Audi AG has set up its Asia-Pacific regional head office in Singapore this month to oversee the growth of its Asian market exJapan. The Singapore regional office
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    • 308 2  -  By. Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Office rents and capital values are likely to soften further this year with more new office space becoming available, property consultancy Edmund Tie Co (ET&Co) said in its latest quarterly report. Some 4.1 million sq ft of new
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    • 506 2  -  Claims jumped 12% while premiums grew just 3.7% last year Soh Tiang Keng THE economy's slower expansion curbed growth in premiums in the general insurance industry last year while at same time the number of claims rose sharply. This trend led to
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    • 171 2 THE Choon Heng Group will build $52 million worth of chemical distribution centres by next year in the Asia-Pacif-ic. The bulk of the investment, $28 million, will go to a facility in Singapore the largest, with 25,000 pallets. Located at Tuas, the warehouse will
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    • 322 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Outlook By. Audrey Tan GROWTH in the first half of this year will stay slow because of "continued fluctuations on the external front", the United Overseas Bank (UOB) says. It maintains its full-year economic growth forecast of 6 to 7
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    • 405 2 Llm Chon-Phung has been appointed the new South-east Asia general manager by Hewlett-Packard for the computer systems organisation (CSO). Mr Lim will lead the CSO in South-east Asia, overseeing all of the organisation's business activities. He has been with HP for 15 years, starting as a software development
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 920 4  -  APEC MEETnra Mow that the Apec process Is in its 'action' phase, the early enthusiasm has to give way to dealing with the nitty-gritty By Vikram Khanna WHEN the fourth Apec finance ministers' meeting got underway three days ago in Cebu, Philippines, the expectations were
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    • 207 4 m CEBU Sentiment of ITsiaii public should not be ignored, he says Reuter MALAYSIAN Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday that while the basic issue in Malaysia's recent spat with Singapore has been settled, it will take
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    • 462 4 BANGKOK Action urged on higi rates, falling exports, manufacturing sector AFP THAILAND risks sinking further into the economic doldrums because the government has been too slow in tackling the causes of the current crisis, opposition experts say. Two former senior economic ministers told
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    • 12 4 BT sia moves to develop local bond market for individuals, Pg 23
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  • FOCUS
    • 1193 5  -  The sector's glamour has given way to some harsh global political, economic and technological realities, but it's not all doom and gloom Reports by Lim Say Boon The writer is an associate director with Crosby Corporate Advisory. The views expressed in this article are his
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    • 267 5 [SINGAPORE] On the cellular phone front, increasing penetration in the cellular phone market has been accompanied by declining subscriber quality in many parts of the region. The net result is rising accounts receivables and collection days; consequent bad debt write-offs; and outright fraud. Piltel, for
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 475 6  -  BUSANG GOLD SAGA In mining circles are abac with talk that samples were tampered with Front S N Vasuki in Jakarta HEADS have rolled at the Mines Energy Ministry over the Busang saga amid considerable speculation in the Canadian media that geologists working
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    • 48 6 [PETCHBURI, Thailand] Salt workers in Fetch buri, Thailand's largest sea salt producer. The price ofsalt fell sharply this year as the country's sluggish economy reduced demand in major salt sectors such as the fish sauce, preserved food and fruit industries. REUTER
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    • 374 6 MANILA Bishops'letter warns of chaos if Ramos allowed to run again Reuter THE Philippines' powerful Roman Catholic Church yesterday attacked moves to extend President Fidel Ramos's term in office, warning it could provoke street demonstrations, endanger the economy and destabilise the nation. In a
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    • 336 6 JAKARTA AFP RENEWED unrest has erupted in a small central Java town, leaving several shops vandalised only two weeks after mass riots there, a resident said yesterday. The resident of Pekalongan, central Java, told AFP that a group of people vandalised a
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 561 7 CEBU, Philippines Treasury Secretary points to concerns about huge trade surplus, human rights and HE as obstacles Bloomberg CHINA will face difficulties renewing its most-favoured-nation trading status with the US this year, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin cautioned his Chinese counterpart, Liu Zhongli.
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    • 221 7 BEIJING AFP THE restructuring of China's energy sector is to open the way for foreign investments in the country's power plants, ending the state's monopoly, the China Daily Business Weekly reported yesterday. Under the new system to be put in place by the
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    • SINO Briefs
      • 58 7 Reuter [MOSCOW] Chinese President Jiang Zemin will make an official visit to Russia starting on April 22, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Friday, citing Chinese diplomats here. The Chinese embassy could not be reached for confirmation. During the visit, an agreement on troop cuts along
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      • 56 7 AFP [HONGKONGI Filipinas braving the monsoon season to attend their annual Concert in the Park yesterday. Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon left the territory on Saturday after a two-day visit during which he received assurances from future leader Tung Chee Hwa that Filipina maids can continue
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      • 67 7 Reuter [TAIPEI] Taiwan's top economic policy-maker will visit seven Central American countries this month to secure Taipei's formal ties with them amid increasing pressure from rival China, a local newspaper reported yesterday. The China Times said Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of the cabinet's Council for
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      • 59 7 AFP [BEIJING] China is to step up its search for minerals needed to spur its economic growth by launching a fresh prospecting drive in the north Pacific Ocean. The move to boost Beijing's search for mineral resources in international waters was prompted by the
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    • 433 7 BEIJING City seeks 20,000 skilled personnel each year; Chinese students abroad, foreign experts targeted AFP, Reuter SHANGHAI plans to recruit 20,000 skilled personnel overseas each year, targetting mainly Chinese studying abroad and well-educated foreign experts, a Xinhua report said. The report on Saturday
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  • ASIA
    • 453 8 NEW DELHI Hindu nationalist party sees chance to form a new Indian groerameot AFP Reuter HINDU nationalists yesterday denied speculation that they could bail out India's floundering ruling coalition during a vote of confidence in parliament this week. The Bharatiya
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    • 65 8 [SYDNEY] The majestic sails of the Sydney Opera House stand in stark contrast to the monolithic hulk of Sydney's most hated building the 15-storey apartment block (right) developed by Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd. The building has been targeted by community groups which say it
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    • 359 8 SEOUL Presidential aide says Kim's sod will not escape punishment if convicted in scandal AFP SOME 2,000 radical students yesterday held an anti-govern-ment rally in the southern city of Kwangju, demanding the arrest of President Kim Young Sam's son for alleged corruption, witnesses
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    • 179 8 SEOUL Hiree-year scheme to focus on structural changes, says paper Reuter SOUTH Korea's Ministry of Finance and Economy is preparing a three-year plan to boost the nation's sluggish economy, a local newspaper said yesterday. The Chosun 11 bo newspaper said the 1997-1999
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    • 178 8 TOKYO AFP FORTY-five per cent of Japanese people want to see a revision to the country's constitution which outlaws the use of arms in the settling of international disputes, a poll published yesterday showed. The number of citizens who support an amendment exceeded those
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  • THE WORLD
    • 461 9 WASHINGTON Expected rise will probably keep US stocks and T-bonds under pressure Bloomberg ANYONE looking for the US economy to slow may be disappointed this week when a key government report is likely to show that American consumers just keep on spending. An
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    • 433 10 NOORDWIJK, Netherlands Successful weekend meeting of finance ministers gives EMU much-needed boost after recent doubts Reuter THE political determination to see a single European currency launched in 1999 appears as solid as ever after EU finance ministers over the weekend took another step forward
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    • 334 10 LIVERPOOL Grand National scare leaves thousands stock in Liverpool AFP TENS of thousands of people were forced to sleep where they could find a bed in Liverpool overnight, after an IRA bomb alert forced their evacuation from the world-famous British Grand National horse race.
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    • 167 10 LOS ANGELES AFP THE Heaven's Gate cult may be entitled to a US$39 million (5555.77 million) insurance policy against alien abduction for the 39 members who committed suicide last month, an, insurance lawyer says. John McCarthy, a lawyer specialising in insurance law, said
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    • 477 10 LONDON It also plans to broaden monetary policy advice given to govt on interest rates AFP A LABOUR government would bolster financial regulation in of London, ravaged by string of recent scandals, and set the stage for central bank independence. The Labour
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 76 10 AFP [HONOLULU] The US intends to keep its troops in Japan and South Korea at today's levels even if the tense Korean peninsula is peacefully reunited, Secretary William Cohen said over the weekend. Mr Cohen arrives today in Tokyo amid a push by Japanese
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      • 56 10 AFP [BADHOEVEDORP, Netherlands] Germans are the best business partners, Britons second best, Italians the worst, and the Dutch are too brutal, according to a poll published yesterday by the Dutch employers association. Germans are "reliable, solid and serious", while the Italians are said t to
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      • 68 10 Reuter [LONDON] Britain's Princess Diana is now richer than her ,< ex-husband and (Uture king Prince Charles thanks to a hefty divorce settlement and the death of her aristocrat father. The annual Sunday Times survey of Britain's 1,000 richest people estimated the princess' personal
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 651 11  -  Veteran photographer David Bailey is still making waves, reports Catherine BRmnnk CATHERINE BREMER Reuter PIFTY years after he first picked up a camera, "Swinging Sixties" photographer David Bailey is still waiting to crown a worthy successor. Bailey, now 59, made it to the top
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    • 502 11  -  FILM By\ Holly Harrison [SINGAPORE] It probably won't come as a surprise to learn that in his pet project Looking For Richard, direc-tor/co-writer/co-producer A 1 Pacino does a little dance with narcissism. It is, after all, a probing look into the psyche of
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    • 312 11 OPERA Reuter [MANAUS, Brazil] After 90 years of silence, strains of the music of Verdi, Rossini and Bizet once again fill the small Amazon Theatre as the city of Manaus hosts its first international opera festival. Over a period of two weeks
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    • 533 11  -  MUSIC Shui Lan coloured the concert with intensity and inspiration, but Biret was a letdown By\ Benjamin Loh ONCE again, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's music director Shui Lan proved his mettle in an inspired evening of music-making at the Victoria Concert Hall last Friday. Opening with Barber's
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 208 11 THE WEATMUH Singaporee Showers are expected around midday and early afternoon mainly over the northern and western Singapore. Temperature (34-26) Europe Hi/ho 0 Cood. ftuwliw Hi/Lo* AaU-Paodlo HVLo* Good. AMfcrdM lift! Ctaidy AtUnU 1118 Cloudy Auckland 8/15 (loudy Aim 17/W Shows Buenos Aim IMB Ctaidy Rm#i* WU Cloudy Bert" lt«
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • 394 13  -  It is set to compete directly with new Intel Pentiums By. Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] US-based Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) last week announced worldwide availability of its new "sixth-generation AMD-K6 MMX processors" that are set to compete directly with Intel's MMX-enabled Pentium processors in price
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    • 190 13 Reuter [SAN JOSE, Califbrhia] Intel Corp dominated the market for chips that run most personal computers, with 95 per cent of the US$l5.4 biUion (5521.6 bUlion) in worldwide sales last year, although rivals are expected to gain, according to a market research firm. Dataquest
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    • 586 13  -  Regional head tells of shift in company focas and the introduction of its Dimension desktop line to the region By' Toh Han Shih (SINGAPORE] US-based Dell Computer Corporation is en tering the Asia-Pacific small and medium enterprise (SME) market for the
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    • 128 13 [SINGAPORE] Microsoft Singapore's sales and marketing manager, Darren Lockie, moved last week to Microsoft's regional headquarters in Malaysia to take over as marketing director for Southeast Asia. "The new position will enable Mr Lockie to export Microsoft's enormous success experienced in the past
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    • IT TAKES
      • 91 14  -  Compiled by Lee Kee Yeng [SNG APORE) The Global Reach Intern* Connection (GRIC) has added a new member. Asia Ott-Line, Hongkong's largest Internet Service Provider (ISP), has joined the gk>bal alliance which allows users to roam beyond their regular service areas by accessing other ISPs
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      • 19 14 Collection and Identification exhibition will be held from expected to draw about 5,000 visitors •<; V
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      • 67 14 awarded the contract to fully develop the Singapore Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) website. This follows their wining of the top prize in the SET Pilot Website Design 0 contest organised by the National Computer Board, It* $BT project is pert of tbe Electronic Commerce Hotbed
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      • 66 14 [SINGAPORE] SyQuest Technology Inc has teamed up with the Legend Group, the largest systems manufacturer and distributor in China. The joint venture wffl allow for the manufacture of SyQuest's SyJet and EZFlyer removable cartridge hard drives in mainland China. The 2,780 sq m facility wilTbe located
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      • 79 14 [SINGAPORE} Laos and Cambodia have accepted US$300,000(*****,000) worth of information technology (TT) equipment each from Digital Equipment Asia-Pacific y as part of a technology support agreement between Digital and theAsean Secretariat. This is meant to facflitete communications between the two countries and Asean, Hie Laotian
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      • 64 14 [SINGAPORE} The world's largest semiconductor technology conference and exposition is in Singapore again far the fiftt consecutive year. SemieonTest, Assembly sndPacki«ing97 win be held from May §toB at Sun tec City and wiflflßrture 350 exhibi tors from U countries. There wfll also be IS technical
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      • 59 14 [SINGAPORE] Shiva Asia-Pacific has introduced the Shiva Access Manager, a protocol-independent access management system that is operable on Windows NT and Windows 96. Comprising both security and accounting ftotaree, it eliminates tfce need far similar functions on the qetwork access server, in addition, it will act
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      • 64 14 (JBB& will ba held in Sinfttfore on April 28-29 at the Raffles City Convention Oentrt. It win be held in conjunction with the biannual Joint Meeting. The conference will feature speakers from 12 countriaa covering topics ranging from implementing EDI to the legal challenges involved. Therp
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      • 50 14 Sun Microsystems has appointed internet technologist Gary Leonard Kah as Electronic Commerce Strategic Business Manager Ibr Asia South Mr Koh will alsopLayaroie in positioning Sun Microsystems in Cvbercity ttrotectsln tb6 pmeloiv, DArticulATly in SififspofG, Uolovoio anH thaPhiliniilnM UWI v v. j x ~*y uJ 9 7*>V;
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    • 528 14  -  300 companies to be represented at exhibition By' Toh Han Shih (SINGAPORE! Networld+lnterop (N+l), an international networking summit making its first appearance in Southeast Asia, opens today in Singapore. Roger Yuen, Asia-Pacific general manager of Softbank Forums, which is organising N+l in Singapore with
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    • 207 14 [SINGAPORE] TNT Express Worldwide has launched the Web Tracker on its website (http://www.tntew.com), a tool that allows customers to track their packages around the world. What is unique about this tracking system is that it provides a real-time update for the user. Because it is
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    • 849 15  -  Aimquest chief now controls 90% of Internet 'roaming' worldwide By] Raju Chellam Exactly 12 years ago, a shy, short, studious, science scholar went on a China govemment scholarship to study engineering in the United States. Today, that young man's company co-ordinates up to
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    • 690 15  -  Animasia and VHQ pouring money into technology By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Information technology can give Singapore's fledgling animation industry a competitive edge, say executives from local animation firm Animasia and Video Headquarters (VHQ), a local post-production house. Both firms, which
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    • 619 16  -  By Koh Su Haw The writer is a BT journalist LAST Tuesday, Saudi Prince Al-Wal-eed bin Talal announced his purchase of a 5 per cent stake in Apple, effectively making him the second largest shareholder in the company, according to a San
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    • 659 16  -  Using the Internet as a de facto doctor By Raju Chellam THERE'S a sea change under way in the power relationships between doctors and patients. The key to that change is information or more specifically, the public's access to it and increasingly, that access
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    • 308 16 Reuter. [SAN FRANCISCO] Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates last week wooed programmers to write more software for the Windows software standard by outlining his company's product strategy for the next several years. He said writing software for Microsoft's operating system would
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    • 185 17  -  By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] HewlettPackard last week launched two new colour laser printers priced 38 per cent lower than their predecessor models. Called the Enhanced Colour LaserJet 5 and SM, they offer 1,200 dots per inch (dpi) resolution and "lower the cost of ownership
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    • 159 17 [SINGAPORE] Two desktop PCs from Dell's Dimension desktop family are now available here as well as in Australia, Brunei, Hongkong, Macau, Malaysia and New Zealand. The Dell Dimension XPS Ml66s has an Intel 166 MHz Pentium processor with MMX technology, 512 kilobyte (KB) Single Bank
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    • 432 17 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy said new devices using Sun's Java programming language would help usher in a new era of convenience for consumers, and profit for the company. Mr McNealy spoke last week at Sun's
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    • THE AST EMTERPRISE PAGE
      • 756 18  -  The Food Technology Centre can help bring homecooked favourites onto supermarket shelves, says tam su yen TAN SU YEN OULD you get rich by going commercial with your grandma's "melt-in-the mouth" pineapple tarts? After all, your friends have told you often enough that they're head-and-shoulders-above
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      • 547 18 Local frozen food distributor expects pork ribs business to underpin high growth, expansion C S TAY Foods Pte Ltd, a frozen food distributor, has high hopes thanks largely to the success of its foray into the retail business. The company is eyeing a stock
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 404 19  -  Funds to be used to develop core businesses, pay off short-term loans By Audrey Tan IPC Corporation has proposed a one-for-five rights issue to raise some $66 million to develop its core businesses and to pay off short-term bank loans, the company
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    • 179 19 [SINGAPORE] Tat Lee Bank has beefed up its top management with the appointment of Gan Tjoen Hok as an executive vice-president. Dr Gan, formerly a senior vice-president with the Republic National Bank of New York, heads the treasury and ACU division, the private banking
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    • 708 19  -  MARKET MATTERS They should be allowed to make their own decisions on loans By Eddie Toh MALAYSIA'S central bank governor Ahmad Don has a thankless task. The stock market took it badly when he introduced two prudent measures to curb excessive lending
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    • SINGAPORE & MALAYSIAN COMPANIES
      • 1170 20  -  Problems at Jardine Pacific, Jardine Fleming and Dairy Farm have been dealt with IhJ I Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] WITH two of its core businesses Jardine Pacific and Dairy Farm having taken most of the pain from massive surgery last year, Jardine Matheson Holdings (JMH) expects to
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      • 233 20 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Ekran bhd executive chairman Ting Pek Khing has said the impending listing of Bakun Hydro Electric Corp (BHEC) would not destabilise the Malaysian market, a Malaysian newspaper reported on Saturday. "Some keep saying that we (BHEC) will have to raise M*B
        Reuter  -  233 words
      • 365 20 It will be a power transmission firm with generation, distribution units Bernama [PETALING JAYA] Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) will become a power transmission company with subsidiaries in power generation and distribution beyond the year 2000. Its executive chairman Ahmad Tajuddin
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    • REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 238 21 AFP [BEIJING] One of China's leading chemical companies is considering listing on the Hongkong and Tokyo stock exchanges to raise US$2OO million (SS2B6 million) for an expansion project, a report said on Saturday. According to Wataru Inui, chief Beijing representative with Yamaichi
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      • 523 21 Latest surge seen as linked to firmer fundamentals, not just speculation Reuter [SHANGHAI] China's stock markets are on a new bull run which could last right through 1997 due to a feeling that this time the rises are based less on speculation and more
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      • 674 21 Some 6M stockholders unhappy about Class H stock's fatting price Bloomberg [DETROIT] Some General Motors Corp shareholders are pressuring the company to sweeten the terms of a US$9.5 billion (5513.6 billion) sale of its Hughes defence business to Raytheon Co. Some owners
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      • 445 21 Only 2 have unveiled plans, compared to 9 listed in March Reuter [HONGKONG] Hongkong may see a slowdown in new share offers this month because of weak sentiment, competition from H-share results and a new attention to approvals from Chinese authorities, analysts said.
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      • 69 21 [DHAKA) Dhaka Stock Exchange chairman Imtiyaz Husain (left), along with his lawyer Akhtar Imam, entering the High Court here yesterday to obtain bail, following an arrest order by Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate last week. Imtiyaz and 35 others have been implicated by a government-appointed inquiry
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      • 168 21 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Swire Pacific Ltd, an aviation and property company, denied reports that it has joined with Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd to build a HKSIO billion (551.85 billion) apartment block on a steel mill site on the outskirts of Hongkong. Maise Shun Wah, spokeswoman
        Bloomberg  -  168 words
    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 271 22  -  From Neil Behrmann in London THE Dow Jones index has declined by almost 8 per cent from its peak just under four weeks ago, but its correction is minor compared to the devastation done to some American stocks. According
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      • 322 22 Merrill Lynch cites strong USS, weak European demand for change in status Bloomberg [NEW YORK] International Business Machines Corp (IBM) stock fell after the rating was cut by a Merrill Lynch Co analyst, who cited the stronger dollar and worries that demand in
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      • 328 22 No 1 US steelmaker looking at acquisitions and alliances Bloomberg [PITTSBURGH] USX-US Steel Group, the largest United States steelmaker, is considering growth options including acquisitions, joint ventures or alliances, its president told analysts at a meeting in New York. Paul Wilhelm didn't identify potential acquisition
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      • 128 22 Bloomberg [MILAN] Olivetti SpA, the Italian computer company, said the price for the personal computer division it agreed to sell earlier this year will be 70 billion lire (5560.7 million), with payments spread out into 1999. In a statement, it said that on April
        Bloomberg  -  128 words
      • 440 22 Bloomberg [SCHAUMBURG, Illinois] Motorola Inc is expected to report lower first-quarter earnings today, as sluggish cellular phone and chip sales drag down results. Motorola is being challenged by increasing competition in its cell phone business, while semiconductor sales have slowed as
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      • 280 22 It trays 4 Walt Disney newspapers, will shed online info unit Bloomberg [MlAMl] Knight-Ridder Inc last Friday said it bought Walt Disney Co s four newspapers, including the Kansas City Star and Fort Worth Star Telegram, for US$l.65 billion (552.36 billion) as it tightens its focus
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 347 23 Racketeer alleged to be involved in illegal stock transactions at Nomura Securities AFP (TOKYO) Japan's Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Ltd (DKB) loaned a total of five billion yen (SssB million) from 1989 to a firm run by the brother of a racketeer involved
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      • 422 23 Efforts in line with Apec pitch to grow domestic markets Bernama [CEBU] Efforts are being made to strengthen Malaysia's bond market that will eventually allow for the man in the street to purchase bonds, said Amirsham A Aziz, leader of the
        Bernama; AFP  -  422 words
      • 410 23 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Junk bonds fell 1.5 per cent in the past two weeks, according to Credit Suisse First Boston, as investors pulled money from the high-yield market at the fastest rate in three years. That weak demand and volatility prompted
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      • 126 23 AFP [BEIJING] China is to improve management of its burgeoning treasury bond issues by setting up a unified system for registration, custody, settlement and clearance of the debt papers this year, Xinhua said. The overnight report quoted Gao Jian, the director of the finance
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      • 408 23 Investors find that pat options are turning expensive amid Bow's fall Bloomberg [NEW YORK) Investors who buy options to protect their stock portfolios against a market decline are seeing the price of that insurance soar. Take Howard Schachter, who runs the Needham Growth Fund in
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 573 24  -  Weeklyßoundup Relative fundamentals remain strongly dollar positive By Callum Henderson [SINGAPORE] Any fears that a trade row between the US and Japan might resume were quickly quashed by Robert Rubin, with the US Treasury Secretary taking great pains to avoid alarming financial markets during
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      • 872 24 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON) Oil prices, which had been pegged firmly above the US$24 mark in early 1997, slipped to US$lB per barrel last week, as the arrival of spring in the northern hemisphere reduced demand for heating oil. Analysts said
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    • SINGAPORE WEEKLY MARKET OUTLOOK
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        254 25 SES Another week passed with yet more turmoil over the future direction of US interest rates. The global equity markets took a drubbing as investors reacted nervously to the plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Index during the last trading days. Interest rate sensitive and otherwise overbought markets
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      • Article, Illustration
        154 25 Outlook Robinson and Co, the local retailer and department store holding company, has rallied strongly since it posted better than expected interim earnings. Net profit rose 21 per cent to $13.7 million while investment income jumped an impressive 36 per cent. Contributions from subsidiaries increased over the period and
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      • 265 25 Source: Analysed by Johan Tellvik, a director of Bridge Int'l Broking E-mail: jtellvik@bridge.com Relative Strength Index RSI measures the rate at which prices move. As a rule, an RSI above 80 indicates an overbought condition while RSI below 20 indicates an oversold market. RSI is more effective
        Source: Analysed by Johan Tellvik, a director of Bridge Int'l Broking E-mail: jtellvik@bridge.com  -  265 words
      • Article, Illustration
        150 25 Outlook OUB posted in-line fiscal year 1996 net profit growth of 16.9 per cent to $309.8 million in March. Resilient loan growth around the mid-teens is expected to be the engine fueling Singaporean banks' earnings growth in 1997. Short term loan growth is expected to be weaker but
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 337 26 LONDON AFP LONDON shares fell sharply last week and sank to the edge of the abyss, but did not take the dramatic plunge of sister markets in the United States and Europe. The FT-SE 100 Index closed the week at 4,236.6 points,
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      • 401 26 NEW YORK Some analysts believe the worst of the damage is over -for now AFP STOCKS took a beating on Wall Street in a week dominated by fears of accelerating inflation and higher interest rates, but some analysts said the worst of the damage
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      • 861 26 Q Sydney THE Australian bourse ended the week 2.2 per cent lower after Wall Street's tumble tripped up local stocks, and brokers said the market would remain cautious in the coming week. "The market will probably continue to travel sideways, unfortunately, for the short term because uncertainty
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      • 224 26 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG shares are expected to consolidate this week in cautious trading as the uncertainty over the US interest rate movement has been factored into trade, dealers said. "The worst is not over yet," because investors will keep watch for the latest
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      • 1857 26 CI Paris -&22% FRENCH stocks are expected to extend declines in the coming sessions as the market remains worried about rising US interest rates. Compagnie de Suez and Lyonnaise des Eaux will remain in focus as the companies prepare a merger. Drug-maker Synthelabo SA will post 1996
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      • 363 26 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE share prices are forecast to move in a tight range in the coming week as futures-led and margin-linked selling was peaking out for technical reasons, brokers said. The Nikkei Stock Average 0f225 leading issues closed out the week
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 317 27 Bloomberg, AFP Fl Composite Index -80.86 THE Malaysian share market is expected to continue its bearish trend this week after plunging 6.6 per cent in the week to Friday. "The severity of the sell-down by investors should ease by this week and the market
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      • 179 27 Mum Nrimi 120 TlWlC«p 57.24C.OOC MMM 52.448, 000 MM 46,!*. DOC SkM Darfty 5CK 44,036,000 &Mtt* sot itau.ooo Sort* C40UI 2*477,000 MOTMMSOC 21*70.000 M*e«l50C M.54?,OOC Mm M M.494.000 MWCMIK*) *****,000 UwiM. 24,010.000 19 it SAAGC*r» 4200 ISO MKM 8350 250 ***** too O40 00 SMN 18*0 70 anii 1130 so
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      • 8066 27 mum nun C onimumr products 1997 Last Vel 0ey Net Cep MigK Lw Company Sat* '000 Hlq8 Leet Pit >"* 790 650 Ajinomoto 660 -60 55 735 650 50.4 267.5 448 322 Anqkasa 328 54 808 372 322 9.7 483.6 905 705 Apollo Food Hlq 750 -90 625 840 705
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      • 184 28  -  WARRANT WATCH -By] R Sivanithy IN SATURDAY'S column, we highlighted Commerce Asset Holdings as one of the Malaysian banking stocks that analysts are keeping on their buy lists despite the credit curbs Bank Negara has imposed on banks. Today we feature another bank
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    • 2123 28 malavsmm Gr (r ,997 Last Vol Woo* LartOuota Otv Mv VM Nat MC« Hm> L— ttwa Cwpawy M« COOO) W» L— M>w CMr M <— 478 376 miSOOO AISB50C 382 22 629 422 376 382 384 53 49 137 94 HI 5001 AMOBSOc 975 n.5 5608 109 95
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      • 1415 29 TURMOVfR COOO) VALUC ('000) Mn CI— T»t1 Mln CIO T«m Industrial *****5 ***** 267.662 »7JM FuurtCf 30.554 <9.635 80.189 309.793 75.4J2 3«5.205 Holds 7,740 6,947 14.687 24,553 W.0S1 3«.604 Prop«ft1«S 33,176 76,124 109.300 175.335 91.329 266.664 PlwUtK*. 13,194 '3,194 37,646 37.4JW MMno 3.830 3.830 10,808 10,808 81W 26.316 106.110 132,426
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      • 4640 29 Wi>ck Ended Apr 4] Cr Of M Wt i vai i H k Lost Ouott Dtv Oh YM Net Cip 1997 L ,t ..._RuvVr Sailer Crr P/t $mll Price High Low StNc Company s«4« COOP) Hlgli Low Buyer Setter 5 v INDUSTRIALS 5146 ASE NTS10 200 US- sa
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      • 1138 29 Or Or M Wt 1997 LMt Vol WMk Last Ouoto W* Mv VM Not C«# Av« WM» t— >Wt» Cimply hH rOOO) **> t— —fm U—r CV M 186 131 2000 ABR Hidgj Sc 133 Cd -5 167 141 131 U2 133 3.0 6.0 ftl 190.0 59.2 134 202
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      • Article, Illustration
        68 30  -  -W Ven Sreenivasan KEPPEL CORP, which closed at $9.10 is a strong buy at its current price, according to its technical chart. Not only is the RSI in oversold territory, the counter is just 10 cents above its 52-week low of $9.00 at which price it has solid
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        414 30 SOURCE: Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Research Stocks VotaMM *MBf Hldgs 50c 18.641.000 HKLand US$0.1 17.673.000 *M8F Land Bhd 16.048.000 Excel 20c 14,182,000 UK 14,177,000 •AmsteeiWt 12,665.000 Ijbroy M 20c 12.626.000 NatSte«i50c 11.050.000 •Berjayalnd 10.963.000 *fACB50c 10,075.000 StKtl U08 Foreign 82,737.847 DBS Foreign 82.662.528 City Oev 50c 67,192.855 OCBC Foreign 53.463,675 Keppei
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      • 706 30  -  THE WEEK AHEAD Market showing signs of a pick-np, but caution is likely to reign because of weakness in US bonds By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] 111 last week's column, we spoke of how the heat being applied by Wall Street's stumbles and domestic
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    • 266 31 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young T~~ tHE Easter holidays were l)i toll swing in Europe, however there was still a reasonable amount of |£tivity resulting in a ■umber of interesting deals being concluded. There was less activity jjp the tanker sector with a couple of older handy {ankers
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    • 371 31  -  Shipyard beats international bidders for contract to bnild 2 firefigh ting vessels By Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] Local yard Greenbay Marine, continuing its move into regional markets, has beaten some 10 other shipbuilders to a $20 million deal to build two fire-fighting vessels
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    • 241 31 ED will not bring up the issue before WTO at this time [WASHINGTON] The US and Japan will continue discussions this week aimed at resolving a lingering controversy over access to Japan's ports, while the European Union (EU) has
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    • 529 31  -  LXMER SCENE By David Hughes LINER shipping is a strange business. Shippers and shipping companies sometimes appear to live in totally different worlds. A fortnight ago Clement Yeung, executive director of the Hongkong Shippers' Council, made a heart-felt plea to the
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    • 278 31 Port users, analysts see cost savings and faster turnaround MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] Renewed talk of a merger between two private terminal operators at Port Klang sometime this year has sparked varied reactions from the industry. Port users say a merger between
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    • 249 31 Reuter [BRUSSELS] Measures must be taken to give a sharp boost to the competitive strength of European shipbuilders, which still lag behind more efficient Japanese rivals despite tough restructuring moves, the European Commission said. The European Union executive said last week that the
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    • 180 31 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] San Francisco city officials are talking to Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, run by Hongkong billionaire Li Ka-shing, about revitalising their flagging port. Mayor Willie Brown said recently he will visit Hutchison's facilities in Hongkong, where it handles two-thirds of the traffic at
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    • 203 31 Reuter [HELSINKI] An OECD accord to abolish subsidies to the shipbuilding industry could go forward without the US if the European Union, Korea and Japan are aboard, European Union Commissioner Martin Bangemann said. "If the the Koreans and Japanese accept (the idea of implementing
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    • 194 31 Reuter [BEIJING] China will restrict the building of new ports and will merge or close those port facilities that see too little traffic or are poorly managed, the China Daily said over the weekend. China has enough ports, but they are often hampered
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    • 161 31 BernamaXinhua [MANILA] A big fire destroyed two ships and damaged another at a port in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines. Three crew members suffered burns and had been sent to nearby hospitals. It was feared that some of their companions could have
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    • PORT Shots
      • 63 31 [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) has announced the christening of its new 5,000 TEU post-Panama* containership built at Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Called the NOL lolite, the vessel is scheduled to be delivered in the first half of the year. Equipped with the latest
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      • 59 31 Reuter [VANCOUVER, British Columbia] Canada and China reached a bilateral maritime agreement late last week aimed at facilitating ship traffic between the two countries. The accord, Canada's first bilateral maritime pact, was due to be signed at a ceremony in Vancouver by Canadian Transport Minister David
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      • 72 31 AFP [MIAMI] More than 300 passengers on a Caribbean cruise ship fell ill, prompting federal officials to order the ship to remain in port here. Investigators with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered the Norwegian Caribbean Cruise line ship
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    • 942 32  -  US AIR TRAVEL: CORPORATIONS TAKE ON BIG AIRLINES Business Travel Contractors Corp is teaming up with low-fare carriers to offer cheaper flights to business travellers, who pay 2-4 times as much for last-minute tickets on major airlines as leisure travellers who book ahead ify' Adam
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      • 211 47 Apr 0 Philippines: Day of Valour. Apr 12 Thailand: Songkran Festival Day. Apr 18 Brunei: Hari Raya Hajl. Indonesia: Id-el-Adha. Malaysia: Hari Raya Qurban. Singapore: Hari Raya Haji. Apr 20 Australia: Antac Day. Denmark: St. Bededag. Japan: Greenery Day. New Zealand: Antac Day. Apr 30 Netherlands: Queen's Day.
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      • 934 47 THIS report complied by Cockett Marine OU Ltd. shows price ranges In US dollars Instead of •ingle prtcaa tor a mora comprehensive descrlptlon of the market Price* shown ara baaed on average-sUed item Market movements ara Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the tndl
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      • 386 48 Freight industry advisory group to continue working with US agency Journal of Commerce [WASHINGTON] The Federal Aviation Administration expects to release new cargo security measures within the next week and will keep a freight industry advisory group in place to explore implementing
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      • 202 48 DPA [NEW DELHI] Industrial production and exports have been severely hit as the countrywide strike by 2.2 million truckers protesting against a hike in service charges and insurance premiums on commercial vehicles entered its sixth day yesterday, reports said. Prices of fruit, vegetables and
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      • 258 48 Cathay official warns of impact of proposed fee hike AFP [HONGKONG] At least two airlines could cut flights to Hongkong if its new airport goes ahead with plans to charge twice as much for landing fees as the
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      • 141 48 AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong and the US will sign an air services pact to ensure smooth air links after China regains sovereignty over the territory in July, a government spokesman said yesterday. Stephen Ip, economic services secretary and US consulgeneral in Hongkong Richard Boucher
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      • 340 48 AFP [HANOI] US auto giant Chrysler Corporation is pulling the plug on its US$l92 million (5J274.5 million) Vietnam car plant near Ho Chi Minh City, the country's largest ever auto project. "Sources close to the project say the car manufacturer will
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      • 157 48 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Aerospatiale, the French state-controlled aerospace company, said it has reservations about how the four European partners in Airbus Industrie can turn the plane-maker into a standalone company. Francois Auque, chief financial officer of Aerospatiale, said his company also wanted to keep control of
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      • 199 48 Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines Inc has chosen General Electric Co and Rolls-Royce pic to build engines valued at more than US$5OO million (***** million) for some of the jetliners Delta bought in a 20-year supply agreement with Boeing Co last month. GE will
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      • 253 48 Beijing wants to encourage joint ventures to improve airport management AFP [SHANGHAI] China wants to encourage foreign investors to enter into joint ventures with local partners to construct airports and improve their management, a newspaper reported over the weekend. The Business News
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        • 97 48 [SINGAPORE] Finnair and Danish carrier Maersk Air will jointly offer service® between Stockholm and Copenhagen starting on April 28. There will be three flights on Saturdays and four return flights each day on weekdays and Sunday, all on a code-share basis. Finnair's 122-seat
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        • 102 48 Bloomberg [ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois] American Airlines' pilots union leaders approved a tentative four-year contract, giving members a chance to accept the controversial agreement or trigger another strike as early as June. The Allied Pilots Association board voted 124 to send the contract to the
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        • 77 48 Reuter [MANILA] A Canadian jumbo Jet was yesterday involved in a minor collision with a Taiwanese airliner on the tarmac at Manila's international airport, officials said. The wing of the Canadian Airlines Boeing 747-400—which was being towed for takeoff with 982 passengers ami 16 crew
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        • 81 48 AFX-Asia [MANILA) Hm Philippines and Malaysia foiled to reach a new air agreement on increasing the passenger and cargo entitlements of their respective carriers, a member of a -J Philippine government panel said. He said Kuala Lumpur did not agree to Manila's
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        • 56 48 Reuter [RIG A] Leading airline British Airways was optimistic after launching its first flights between Riga and London. The first British Airways Jet to fly to Latvia landed on Sunday evening. The service runs four times a week and is the first BA service
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    • 963 33 TO EUROPE FROM EUROPE ha* mv sou iflTjlvKsa vot itm ham orv sou in m »T OOCHOfI $147 10/04 01/05 20/04 03/05 OOdMUTAIN 2127 14/01 10/0J 11/03 21/01 00/04 IYM 1147 11/04 17/04 21/04 02/05 03/05 OAXOtf 4127 23/03 22/03 10/03 20/03 10/04 tfIMOOKSU 3147 12/04 02/05 01/05 20/04 20/04
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    • 104 33 ORIENT EXPRESS UNES (U.K.) LIMITED QjjJ, (MANAGER FOR SHREYAS SHIPPING LIMITED) WEEKLY SINGAPORE/MUMBAI (BOMBAY) SHUTTLE VtSSa VOY SINGAPORE IQMIAY VESSEL VOY OOWIAY SINGAPORE NORDKAP 409 10/04 18/04 NORDKAP 408 03/04 10/04 LEERORT 916 18/04 25/04 LEERORT 915 11/04 18/04 SINARTOBA 210 25/04 02/05 SINAR TOBA 209 17/04 25/04 NORDKAP 410
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    • 1251 34 <<r DSR-SENA TOR mmfc Round the World Container Services TO UK/CONTINENT FROM UK/CONTINENT Ivor ST MM WV~ HOW RJI HOT IHA «S«& VQT LM> »W H HM fU AMT _SM HAJUMWTTOUMM "5*717 RM 17.14 »M 31.M 6166 D6HAOSTOCI K7II 166J tjn HONGKONG SMATOfI WF7I6 tZ M M 66.66 66 66
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    • 1325 35 IVtSSCL. VQY WW POU PKO PIN «UW MA BIK IRAN TTYFOUW PJ4.-1223 20/03/W 29/03/87 31/03/97 NUN QHCYAMAT PJL-1220 13/04/97 12/04/97 10/04/97 ***** MAN TAKHTI PJL-1230 18/04/97 13/04/97 aa/oa/97 WAN TAKKTI PJC-Q24 13/03/97 07/03/97 20/03/97 23/03/97 ACCEPTING FULL CONTAINER SHIPMENTS TO INLAND POINTS IN IRAN CIS COUNTRIES I.E. AZARBAUAN ARMENIA. KAZAKHSTAN.
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    • 1759 35 VUtCMOA. I f fttflU Attfft, lUlftl. flttftM. MlWrftflflftfl I iwaiwwi J I SINGAPORE'S GfNERAI AGENTS: 6 SHENTON WAY TEL 226 1900 FAX: *****0S OUTWARD (l/l) *****02 JOHORE OfFKE; COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD #17-MMS lIOG SAUS/IKGS 420SMi/43 INWARD DEFT (D/O> s *****85 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD CH NO: **********0* TOWER
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    • 416 35 IPERKAPALAN DAI ZHUN A jf fy TONGJOO SHIPPING PTE LTD CR NO: **********0 C REGULAR CONTAINERISED SERVICES TEL: (65)535 7793 FAX: (65) 533 2952~ KUCMIM+fASTtST TUAMSIj/ MUAXA-HtIOKITY lEITH MO CHI M/MH-DtDICATED ~~7 GKIM 9747 11/04 GIHO ***** 13/04 GIHOCK 9701 09/04 GISWEE 9744 12/04 GUOO 9749 19/04 GIHUAT A 5157
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    • 999 36 rsn RDM UW HK TV IH UN IHV THP RDIB AHW HBG PKL I SBP f WMWm.HI 11AM BUM 17/W M 6 mm IMS 87/ M E SARLANO RE-044 11/13 13/03 ***** 14/83 IMB 07/04 HUM I SfJfiKoiT IM4 BMB IMB IMB nm 1»5 14J8 QAiWMO RE-067 16/03 IMB IM3
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    • 427 36 NANTAI LINE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO MAURITIUS/SOUTH AFRICA rasa vot |sw nu lam cpt iwgjjgi om ow iym v/w h/h HAXUI PtIMQ 0I«S 10/04 «/Q4 25/04 mm reus om 24/ m oyps a7/os 11/05 KOfti 0145 03/05 11/05 17/05 21/05 MllttlfltHKßS 0145 13/05 21/05 01/04 MjWM QUEEN 0205 22/05 30/05
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    • 761 37 1 BSAnTI M MYANMA WBrn, FIVE STAR LINE (Myomiar Notional Uno) x Loading for (Rangoon) VBS& VOY SIN P«G PW POI PAGAN 241W SID HPA-AN 2 WW SU) MALAYSIA AGENTS: OOUSTIAi) SMIffING AGENCIES KUL HI 02-43-*****00 PU: TH 02-03-*****01 ret Ttt 02-04-*****02 PGO: TH 02-07-*****21/4 BANK LINE (A sarrita tl
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    • 1340 37 HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARINE CO. UP* WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKCte *****32 I pna I Hti I Ka> I vesa vot sm ia I «tb I ant I HMI Wt ~"^""1 03/04 01/04 05/04 Ht COMMOOOtI lOSW 04/04 23/04 24/04 24/04 24/ M 24/ M 29/04 10/ M 10/ M 12/
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    • 37 37 SMIPPINQ PTE LTD Wmrnkfy LCL conmoiktmtfon mmnHomm to MEXICO, CENTRAL A SOUTH AMERICA Accepting cargo tor ports m Mexico. Guetemele. B Setmdor, Honduras, Costs Rica. DomHcm Rep. Puerto Rico. Vtanazuata. 7fMOW Cotomtm. Ecudor. Peru. Chte A Uruguay
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    • 898 38 AMOKOK I PT MIANO IZZI VESSEL VOY SIN BKK VESSEL VOY SIN PKL BAN, bhuM Tua QBAM Thu 10AM JARU "HUM 7323 Mon lln Pt Wad 08/04 MATHU BHUM" 325N Wad OOAM Sat 12/04 BUNQA SEROJA 7077 Tua 08/04 XETHA BHUM 186N Thu 10/04 Sun 10/04 OUBU BHUM 7737 Wad
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    • 448 38 PUL INTERNATIONAL LIME PUL INTERNATIONAL IW/W Immut IUS I 00/041 WK I 11/04| HU 15/041 ISBSSft*' Its I'l/041 nil 110/oiIST I IKCI I vmnum i ai/wi J^sl PflMfOH Mil I 01S I 14/04 I MOW I 17/04 I TMU 111 /04 B DiAOOM lAU IOP I 21/04 1 MOW 1
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    • 824 38 1 ACCORD A SHIPPING PTE LTD m: *****56 (40 Uhm) FAX: *****46 NtTOMK (03) H7 mi J W DIRECT ACCESS TEL *****57 (EXPORT ROOKING) MS* GMMMG (07) 3SI 1J77 225MR7 (EXPORT DOC), *****64 (IMPORT) ffiMW (04) 333 1441 U*L; http://WWW.ACCORD.COM. SO JJUUIMU (It) *49 0779 WAA^ PONT ra SIN PONT
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    • 507 39 Waakly LCL FCL ITODICcII Sarvic*» to Caribbean I W tT hippit o A Central America I SEAVXX* |MAB« HOUSTON 9706 I Port Country 06/04 13/04 I Belize City Belize 10/05 17 5 I Bridgetown Barbadoi 13/05 20/°5 I Cartagena Colombia 12/05 19 5 I Castries St. Lucia 12/05 ,9 5
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    • 560 39 SSSrßlff PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD 111 140 Cecil Stieeft, #03-00 PIL Butklmg, Singapore *****0. I CR NO **********0E I m ■in,, r II f J2.. .1 M ft a w M m m I »QTA wiiAYA MiIAU 14/1 I*42 ?/s Vh 17 i/a ISvl m b gg issß i
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    • 45 42 TOKYO SHINII KAIUN CO PTI LTD Hl!i| 10 ANSON ROAD #30-09 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA S'PORE 0207 *****29 (6 LINES) FAX: *****09 A *****10 C/R**********0E SERVICE TO: FAR EAST/U.S.A/EUROPE 09/04/97 JAPAN, HONG KONG 09/04/97 USA ALL BOOKINGS AND ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT: S'PORE OFFICE TEL: *****25 (6 LINES)
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    • 105 42 P.I PERUSAHAAN PELAYARAN W KALIMANTAN j DIRECT WEEKLY SERVICE TO JAKARTA/PALEMBANG Vmml Vn HA/rTO DESTINATION RAOtMANUCI 111 M/M Afr Jakarta/Patwnbang RAOUAANIKI I 11/11% Jakarta/PaWmbonfl RAOMANUfI I »/f/ IS/HAfr Jakarta/PaUmfaang RACHRUNUH 111 S/*7 21/23% Jakarta/Palwnbang SURABAYA/PANJANG CAIAKA JATA MA6A 07/0# Afr Pll|in«/S«rifetri MA6A 09/10 Afr Snrabayi/Paa|aiig PERAWAN/DUMAI/JAMRI/P'RARU MINI 07/ M Afr
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    • 121 42 UUMIS KAWASAKI KINKAI KISEN KAISHA. LTD. JAPAN/ HONG KON6 STRAITS S port P.Gudang P.Kalang P»n«ng SUN MIGHT« *PT OCEANU QUEEN VIS MPT H*4 LION HEART VII 1W MEERLAT VI 11/04 ORIENT KING VfO IVO4 17/ M TWINKLE ACE VO7 IW4 21*4 ESPERANZA ACE 17M 2M4 'ALSO ACCEPTING CARGOES FOR KUCHING
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    • 119 42 LINE I OVWS£AS TRANSPORT CO, LTD. MAURITIUS Fa TO INDIAN SUB-CONT/ARABIAN GULF/CIS vessel vot sw ooa oxi VMUMDUMI 6W14 01/04 11/ M ALSO ACCEPT TO: NOKDKAP 4M 00/04 IS/04 SAUM WKATMH CWIS IS/04 JAUMIXOA*»A«AIBAS, LffIKXT 91* 17/ M 24/04 lAXII, ISLAMQALA, OtHTCOKO GWH n/04 03/ OS SMAITOOA 110 IS/04 07/05
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    • 57 42 1 FULL CONTAINER SERVICE POLISH SSSSJ? 1 Ore AKi TO: POLAND (GOYNIA) OCEAN RUSSIA (MOSCOW) CIS PORTS INCL ESTONIA LINES LATVIA, LITHUANIA, BELARUS, UKRAINE i II imii tmUHUUm P W K I W 1 am* n?iinniim I™ snimrau (ggjgggg u/x wg| H/M UNE ||WWCIH WO > MWi 'DAILY FEEDCR CONNECTIONS
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    • 425 43 SIN MAA SIN I TIGER WAVE 524N 13-16/04 21-22/04 TK3ER ISLAND 525N 11-12/04 16-2<VO4 25-26/04 I TIGERBRIOGE 526N 14-15/04 20-23/04 28-29/04 I TIGER BAY 527N 17-1804 23-27/04 01-02/05 I TIGER WAVE 528N 21-22/04 27-30/04 05-06.05 I TIGER ISLAND 529N 25-2&Q4 3004/05 09-IQQS I^SsSEL^^^VOYJM^^CA^^SIN| TIGER RIVER 278CN8 10-10/04 16-20/04 26-27/04 I
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    • 558 43 FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS 62 Toh Guan Road, Singapore *****1 Tel: *****66 (60 Lines) Fax: *****33 E-mail: flesin@singnet.com.sg IMPORT SHIPMENTS DELIVERY NOTIFICATION, PLEASE DIAL 567 7866 Shipment Press 1 for ETA Press 2 f or i Invoice charges enquiry enquiry ll****|STA« SNIPPINB A6INCIIS |S) PTE LTD ZIMI MMMUCA CAMIIBIAH UrtKi (t/UTBOUMI
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    • 1456 44 —SAMUDERA INDONESIA (S) PTE LTD 15 McCALLUM STREET #03-01/02 NATWEST CENTRE S'PORE *****5 ■b TEL: *****81-3 FAX: *****08 (OUTWARD) *****69 (INWARD) TLX: R*****0 CR NO. **********00 BOOKINGS CAL I P'RECT LIME: 2 22 2 941/43 A/CEU A/MEICHAN 7 SLGS/WEEK gJJJJJjSQI 3 SLGS/WEEK I VESSEL [VOY t SIN |JAK I VESSEL
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    • 1268 44 TWICE WEEKLY EVERY THURSDAY/SUNDAY gQ2221 ARRIVAL FIXED DAY-MONDAY VOT I W I HTM HAM FXT l£H AM *I*L ¥0Y l£H FXT HAM AM MM SM LMNfiGALAXY A7I4W I 1004 I 03/06 01/05 3004 0405 GIBRALTAR BRIOG6 A7o7t SLD SU) SU) SID SLD 0404 LBNfiSsT J7I4W I IMM ***** 0205 0305
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    • 404 44 Singapore Soviet Shipping flu Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO: **********0N BOMBAY/COCHIN VESSEL VOY SIN MM SEA SUCCESS I 03N 06AM 10AM TRADE FAST TFSIS6 18AM 26/04 MEKHANIK KURAKO MK3IN 23AM 01AM KOTA CAHAYA CAHIBI 20AM 07/06 ANNOUNCING REGULAR MONTHLY RO-RO BREAKBULK SERVICE SIN/BOM/N.SHEVA (vessel voy 5h bom/n.sheva TRANSOCEANIC 06-07 20AM
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    • 420 45 I VESSEL VOY SIN MAA SIN I TIGER WAVE 524N 08-08/97 13-1604 21-22/04 TIGER ISLAND 52SN 11-IZO4 16-20/04 25-2&04 I TIGERBRIDGE 526N 14-1604 20-2304 28-29/04 I TK3ER BAY 527N 17-18/04 23-27/04 01-02/05 TIGER WAVE 528N 21-22/04 27-30/04 05-0605 I TIGER ISLAND 529N 25-2604 30-04/05 09-1006 I^SsSEL^ i^VOYs!l^^CA^^SlN| TIGER RIVER 278CN8
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    • 813 45 OOCL (Sinoopore) Pte lid CFS Keppel Distrpk for bookkg A 79 AasM Rm4 #21-04 (S) *****6 *513 #01-128 t-qvky ((g)) V\ a NO M*****0000H W: 177 7827 caf 3269 180 let *****13 F« 221 3942 Fix: 272 7835 wotTM aimkica i**a/ camapa A austmua TO USA QAf CHI M£M NYC
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    • 461 46 /O SINO EXPRESS SHIPPING re 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE [SINOTRANS I J S (*****7). TEL: *****90 FAX: *****98 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) VESSEL VOYAGE ETA SIN ETAHKG ETA SHA 0. GLORY 9710 12/04 18/04 21/04 6. WELL 9710 19/04 25/04 28/04 G. LUCK 9710 26/04
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    • 188 46 a« MAC-HELS S'PflftE M'SIA I Carrier: MM CONTR LIMES, MG 1 (Vv\ J wmnmum B®U: (064)*****9 MAMLA: (632) *****61 PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK: (682) 23X667 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 P KELANQ: (03) *****77 JtCE (21)*****07 MDM: (61)*****3 TOKYO/YOKOHAMA/KOBE/ OSAKA MV "SEA RANGER" V. N124 ETA SIN 06/04 j NAGOYA I MV
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    • 123 47 LEGEND R Thunderstorm Temperoture X\ A rcwer Weother Wind direction wtfh speed in knot* R <*° A Cloudy Sky Wov# h#, hf Serfoce winds or* indicated by orrowi which My with th« wind VL/ On« Ml circle represents calm of light ond variable winds One hoW Heche represents 5 knots
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    • 57 48 M.V. "PRINCESS" V0Y.109 ARM) 2ND APRIL 1997 Consignees of all damaged cargoes e* the captioned vessel is hereby notified that a general survey will be held on the Bth April 1997 *****200 hours at PT9 (NTY's office). No further survey will be entertained thereafter. A> Agents: "K" LINE KINKAI AB
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