The Business Times, 8 December 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MTTA (P) 023/12/96 85* SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes MONDAY, DECEMBER 8,1997
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    FINANCE
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    Weakness in Asia goes beyond the financial: survey
    1133 1  -  Economists find fundamentals of most Asian economies worrying By, Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] Several Asian economies rank consistently poorly on economic fundamentals, as their fragility extends beyond weaknesses in their financial systems, a BT survey found. The notable exceptions are Singapore, Taiwan and
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    Lock icon Rising car loan defaults put repo men in overdrive
    738 1  -  Number of repossessed can could top 1,000 a month: BT survey By\ Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Car repossessions are soaring, and the number may already have doubled from a conservative estimate of 500 a month previously, going by a BT industry survey.
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    Lock icon Anwar's move offers way out for banks to cut back loan exposures
    690 1  -  Titsn commitments need not be honoured unless projects viable By Meera Tharmaratnam in Kuala Lumpur FINANCE Minister Anwar Ibrahim may have provided an important way out for bankers to cut back on their property and infrastructure loan exposures
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      200 1 (taring op fir boom Mobile phone operators Sing Tel Mobile and I®. are pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into their marketing efforts and network build-up by 1999. Pfl There's goochiews this Christmas for notebook computer buyers. Vendors have slashed prices by up to 94 per cent Who's offering what?
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      63 1 B'pore to review '98 growth forecast, Pg 2 r < ia* .il* *w/A l*ill lit v t M liimm I* .i!: y "Ml I in 11>\»« i*. (M i ll.imJ RIMII. lit >-) I >" M I <\i 12. I .ik .i vli m».»v ,i N-jn \iiii iv. 1.1 22S
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Mobile phone operators gear up for expansion
      668 2  -  Capacity to hit L 25 million users or tin 10 adults by the year 1999 By Teh Hooi Ling IN THEIR attempt to win as many customers as possible ahead of further market liberalisation in the year 2000, mobile phone operators Sing Tel
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      Govt to review '98 growth forecast
      275 2 THE government will review its 5-7 per cent economic growth forecast for 1998 because of recent developments in South Korea, Minister for Trade and Industry Lee Yock Suan said yesterday. His ministry and the Competitiveness Review Committee, which is due to finish its feport
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      Lock icon Job ad volume down 2% in Nov
      314 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Jobs By Frances Lui THE volume of recruitment advertisements in the local newspapers (lipped in November the first fall since March this year. After signs of cooling labour demand in October, total job ad volume fell 2 per cent
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      Lock icon SM to broach future of Suzhou Park with Jiang
      513 2  -  He will also meet Vice-Premier Zhn Rongji Prom Loh Hui Yin in Beijing SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew is expected to raise with President Jiang Zemin today the question of the ftiture of the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) in Jiangsu province,
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon M'sia posts RM 1OOm trade deficit in October
      346 3 KUALA LUMPUR Exports growth led by 35.7% rise in electronics exports on weaker ringgit Bloomberg MALAYSIA posted a surprise 100 million Malaysian ringgit ($42.8 million) trade deficit in October, even as the ringgit's devaluation triggered a jump in electronics exports, Bernama news
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      Lock icon Sudomo reassures public on Suharto's health
      376 3 JAKARTA President ordered to take 10-day rest after long trip AFP THE head of the Supreme Advisory Council has called on the Indonesian public not to speculate about the health of President Suharto, who was recently ordered to take a 10day rest, reports said
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      Lock icon For sale; 'Former Rich' T-shirts
      59 3 [BANGKOK] Kittisak Kurawatchat shows a T-shirt at a stall next to newspaper clippings of his story at the market forformerly rich in Bangkok yesterday. Mr Kittisak has gone from financial executive to unsuccessful taxi driver before becoming a T-shirt vendor after being laid off as
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      Lock icon Factors pile up to tarnish Philippines investor image
      565 3 MANILA Presidential election, drought, kidnappings among worries Reuters RAMPANT kidnappings, a Supreme Court with a penchant for blocking economic reform and drought are tarnishing the Philippines' image among investors, who are already put off by financial crisis tearing through Asia. On top
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      Lock icon Philippines plans stiffer fines for forex violations
      109 3 MANILA AFP THE policy-making Monetary Board plans to impose higher fines and other penalties on Philippine banks that breach their foreign exchange positions in possible peso speculation, central bank sources said yesterday. Sources said the bank is looking at increasing the 5,000 pesos
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      Lock icon Vietnam's economic engine slows down
      226 3 HO CHI MINH CITY AFP THE former Saigon, the economic locomotive of Vietnam for the past decade, is running desperately short of steam. Signs of a slowdown abound in the normally bustling metropolis of four million people. Sales of electronic consumer goods are off 40
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  • MARKETS IN TURMOIL
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      Lock icon Indonesia's problems have intensified despite aid: analysts
      451 4 Reuters AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's financial woes have intensified despite a huge IMF aid package five weeks ago, but analysts said yesterday that much of the troubles were beyond the government's control. In the past week, the rupiah slipped past 4,000 to the US
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      Analysts upbeat about M'sia's latest corporate measures
      1203 4  -  REACTION TO ANWAR'S PACKAGE Moves including freeze on restructuring seen helping to restore investor confidence From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur ANALYSTS see Malaysia's latest move to promote good corporate governance and transparency as a first step towards restoring investor confidence in the
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      Lock icon Package will boost confidence: Dr M
      176 4 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday expressed optimism that the latest measures to strengthen economic and financial stability would help restore investors' confidence. "Certainly, it is clear that we are taking the necessary measures to restore confidence in the economy," Dr
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      Lock icon S Korean financial crisis deepens despite IMF bailout
      410 4 Coryo Securities collapaes on Friday, Halla on Saturday AFP [SEOUL] South Korea faces the prospect of a deepening financial crisis and widespread corporate failures following the back-to-back collapses of the Halla Group (the brother conglomerate of the giant Hyundai Group), and a
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      Lock icon BIS warns of wider fallout from SEA crisis
      545 4 Japanese banks lead the Urge numbers exposed to the region Reuters [ZURICH] The Bank for International Settlements said yesterday that the large number of banks exposed to South-east Asia, especially Japanese banks, suggested broader repercussions from the region's currency turmoil. BIS also
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      Lock icon Tokyo considers stricter definition for banks' bad loans
      368 4 Move could triple the declared value of unrecoverable loans Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan's Ministry of Finance said it is considering a stricter definition of "unrecoverable loans", soothing investors' concerns about hidden losses but possibly tripling the declared value of banks' bad loans. The
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      Lock icon Booty in foreign exchange
      140 4 AFP [SEOUL] South Korean police yesterday were quoted as saying that thieves had reaped a foreign exchange bonanza while robbing the residences of the rich during the country's financial crisis. The Korea Times quoted one 32-year-old thief as telling police he had picked up US$6O,OOO (5596.960)
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China building giant industrial conglomerates
      500 5 BEIJING But economists see tragic results in move to 'seize the bi£ Reuters WHILE giant conglomerates are crumbling in South Korea, an undaunted China is moving at full speed to construct its own industrial behemoths. The results, say economists, could be just as tragic in
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      Lock icon Offshore banking coming to Shanghai
      375 5 SHANGHAI China hopes to attract foreign foods, boost city as international fiminrifti centre Reuters CHINA'S move to allow banks to conduct offshore banking business soon on a limited basis will attract foreign funds and is a step towards making Shanghai an international financial centre, bankers
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      Lock icon Naf Naf goes to China
      52 5 [SHANGHAI] Chinese children modelling clothes by French label Naf Naf at a fashion show here on Friday. Naf Naf has just entered the Chinese children's wear market and hopes to turn a profit in two years as Chinese parents tend to splurge on their only
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      Lock icon Hongkong property will bounce back: Salomon Bros
      367 5 HONGKONG Prices will rise 10% next year as interest rates come down Reuters HONGKONG'S chronic housing shortage and high demand will bring the property market quickly back on an uptrend once the currency turmoil ends and interest rates come down, a prominent property
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      Lock icon Teng-hui's popularity rating at 37%: poll
      243 5 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN President Lee Tenghui's approval rating has dropped sharply from a high of 89 per cent seven years ago to just 37 per cent now, an opinion poU showed yesterday. The Gallup poll also showed 49 per cent expressed unhappiness in the
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Howard govt faces rout if election held, polls show
      423 6 SYDNEY Anssie premier ready for early election over defeat of native title legislation AFP AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard has committed his government to an early election over its defeated native title legislation as polls published yesterday showed it is facing
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      Lock icon Japan's export ratio hits 11-yr high
      237 6 TOKYO AFP COMBINED exports by Japanese manufacturers in the six months to September accounted for 22.9 per cent of their overall revenue, the biggest export ratio in 11 years, a daily reported yesterday. The Nihon Keizai Shim bun said the ratio, up from the
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      Lock icon Political void, weak rupee sap Indian growth
      425 6 BOMBAY RBI expects fl% growth this year, analysts see 5J>% Reuters POLITICAL uncertainty, the prospect of higher interest rates and a weakening currency are hobbling India's economic takeoff, analysts said. Economic growth was 6.8 per cent last year (April 1996 to March 97),
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      Lock icon NZ's first woman PM faces uphill task
      375 6 WELLINGTON Shipley takes op job today, but must focos on saving coalition AFP WHEN Jenny Shipley takes up her new job today she will have little time to savour becoming the country's first female prime minister and will instead have to focus on
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      57 6 Reach Japan in a flash with SingTel's ATM link. Sing Tel ATM (Asychronous Transfer Mode) is the latest technology that enables your office j|H nOQririlV* networks to exchange huge multimedia computer files across continents in milliseconds. t^ It was recently made available to North America and now, to The Land
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  • THE WORLD
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        Lock icon US changes policy on nuclear war
        66 9 AFP [WASHINGTON] The handlers of US nuclear warheads have been given new targeting guidelines, the Washington Post reported yesterday. The guidelines, issued by President Bill Clinton, change the long-held policy that the US military must be prepared to win a lengthy nuclear war. The
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        Lock icon Arab funds abroad abrad US$ 850b
        40 9 AFP v (ABU DHABI) Arab states owijnearly US$B5O billion (SSI.4 trillion) in overseas investmefcjlcilthough hundreds of billions have come home in tbft'past six years, a top banker said in press comments published yesterday. —AFP
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        Lock icon EU takes hard line on greenhouse gases
        76 9 Reuters [KYOTO] The European Union's top environmental official said yesterday the EU will not accept cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that are different from the US and Japan. Taking a hard line on the eve of the start of make-or-break ministerial talks on
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        Lock icon Italian govt dilutes pension deal
        76 9 Reuters [ROME] Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has agreed to dilute a recent pensions reform, already criticised as too weak, in a move aimed at easing the passage of the 1998 budget through parliament. The decision, approved by the Lower House budget committee yesterday, raised
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      Lock icon G-8 to discuss Internet crimes
      301 9 WASHINGTON It hopes to develop global strategy for nabbing cyber crooks AFP PROSECUTORS and police around the globe are stumbling over geographical barriers in their quest to nab Internet criminals ;who cross international boundaries with ease. Seeking to develop an international strategy to put these
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      Lock icon Balance of power among exchanges may shift: BIS
      389 9 ZURICH Developments to come from restructuring of European derivatives CTchanges Reuters A RESTRUCTURING of European derivatives exchanges could profoundly alter the global balance of power between different exchanges and further increase the industry's concentration, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Lying in wait for a flight
      99 9 [LOD, Israel] An Israeli woman waiting for her flight to Paris, showing her despair yesterday as she rested on a foam cushion atop a security check counter in Ben Gurion Airport during the fourth day of Israel's general strike. Talks broke down on Saturday
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      Lock icon Russian economy set to grow alter 7 years: OECD
      524 9 PARIS It warns of structural i" financial and banking systems AFP THE Russian economy will grow this year for the first time in seven years and growth should accelerate in 1998, but serious structural problems remain, notably in the tax, financial
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      47 9 I You can now send bursty transmissions to China with Sing Tel International Frame Relay Service. V'-v- J i v ,-e;i <*- p- I 1.-'V- I IB H I And what better time to do so, now that the rates have been reduced by up to 40%. H
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Lock icon Intel to propose new standards for digital TV on computers
      182 10 Bloomberg SANTA CLARA, [California] Intel Corp next year will introduce new technical standards to allow personal computers to display digital television programmes, as the chipmaker seeks to move into untapped markets. It wiU, in the first quarter, propose a set
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      Price war breaks as notebook vendors compete for Xmas sales
      741 10  -  HP 6 Compaq fuel posh with up to 34% price cats across region By Raja Chellam [SINGAPORE] There's good news this Christmas for notebook computer buyers, with vendors rushing to slash prices and push sales throughout the Asia-Pacific. As a
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      Sing Tel will pass technology savings back to Magix customers
      388 10 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel) has emphasised that it will pass savings back to its customers, including customers of its Magix service, when lower-cost technology becomes available. In a statement to BT, SingTel said it objected to a report in
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      New MD for Compaq Singapore
      114 10 [SINGAPORE] Compaq Computer Asia-Pacific has appointed Wong Heng Chew as managing director of Compaq Computer Singapore. Mr Wong comes from Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd, where he was marketing director. The appointment is effective from Jan 1. Compaq said Tan Kok Hin will continue to be
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    • IT TAKES
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        New Singapore manager for Cisco
        43 11 [SINGAPORE] Cisco Systems has promoted Loke Yoon Kun to country manager of Singapore. Mr Loke will be responsible for all sales, systems engineering support and channels development in the republic. Previously, Mr Lok was Cisco's Singapore sales manager.
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        Sim Wong Hoo receives award
        52 11 [SINGAPORE] Creative Technology founding chairman Sim Wong Hoo was presented with the ISCE 97 Excellence in Technology award at the 1997 lEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE 97) sponsored by the Insititue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (lEEE), held in Singapore on Dec 3
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        Internet training course
        68 11 [SINGAPORE] Cyberville Technologies is offering Internet training courses. They include "Basic Web Publishing" (using FrontPage 97) on Dec 9 and 15 and Jan 7 and 14,1998 (course fees $199), "Advanced Web Publishing" on Dec 16 and 17 and Jan 15 and 16,1998 (course fees—s499) and "Web Server
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        Numetrix opens Singapore office
        43 11 [SINGAPORE] Canadian software firm Numetrix recently opened an office in Singapore and announced a $1 million donation to Nanyang Technological University (NTU). The donation will enable NTU to offer a specialised software course in its two-year postgraduate logistics programme.
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        Datacraft network for Chinese court
        71 11 [SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listed Datacraft Asia, a network systems integrator, has won a US$3OO,OOO (SI483.000) contract from the Shanghai High Court. Datacraft will connect the Shanghai High Court and its 26 intermediate courts, providing high-speed communication services among them. Datacraft's network allows voice, fax, video, local area
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        View Sonic deal with Digiland S'pore
        56 11 [SINGAPORE] View Sonic International Corporation, a supplier of monitor and display products, has signed a distribution contract with IT firm Digiland Singapore. This contract enables View Sonic to leverage Digiland's distribution channels to promote its products in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific. Digiland is a
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        Learn how to make buildings smarter
        50 11  -  -Compiled by Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Nordx/CDT, a subsidiary of New York Stock Exchange-listed Cable Design Technologies, offers technology in Singapore to create intelligent buildings. Its Enhanced Category 5 System combines a range of components to support high-speed applications for multimedia applications within buildings.
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      SGI targets strong growth in East Asia
      430 11  -  It says economic problems in region an opportunity and not a threat to IT firms By 1 Toh Han Shin [SINGAPORE] US computer firm Silicon Graphics (SGI) plans to increase East Asia's contributions to its revenues from 17 per cent today to a
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      Java helping to rev Sun's sales to manufacturers
      361 11  -  By Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] Companies are quickly accepting Java as a serious software platform and that is helping Sun Microsystems strengthen its grip on the vital manufacturing market, a senior Sun executive says. Jim Breslauer, Sun's business director of manufacturing industries (international),
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      Software AG ties Microsoft NT to Unix and mainframes
      299 11  -  By A. Shaflque [SINGAPORE] Software AG, an enterprise software developer, is linking Windows users to mainframes and Unix applications through a software. Known as EntireX, the software helps unite the disparate worlds of desktops and mainframes. Gerhad Hill, the Germanbased company's
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      64-bit computing – useful but not for everybody yet
      573 12  - 64-bit computing useful but not for everybody yet By Krishna Arani The author is marketing manager, IBM RS/6000, Asean/South Asia THE 64-bit phenomenon is taking the industry by storm and corporate customers are coming under pressure from vendors, and their own management, to join the bandwagon. Companies need to first
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      'Smart move' to deploy Internet telephony in Asia
      636 12  -  Internet phone networks capacity about eight times more efficient than normal phone networks Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] IT IS "most intelligent" to put Internet phone networks in Asia, said Tom Kershaw, Unisys Corporation Internet services manager, at Voice Asia 97, a computer
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      Lock icon 3Com, Rockwell expect 56-kilobit modem standard by January
      275 12 Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California} Rival modem makers 3Com Corp and Rockwell International Corp said they expect companies in the computernetworking industry to agree on a standard for 56-kilobit modems as early as January. About 30 telecommunications companies met in Orlando, Florida, this
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    • ON THE SHELF
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        Adobe Publishing Collection package
        53 13 Adobe Systems has announced a comprehensive, integrated publishing solution incorporating six of the latest Adobe suite of products. The products include PageMaker 6.5, Photoshop 4.0, Illustrator 7.0, Acrobat 3.0, Streamline 4.0, and Dimensions 3.0. Adobe said this Christmas offer would be available between now and March
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        ALR's Evolution 4000 launched
        52 13 ALR International has launched the ALR Revolution 4000 (above), a hetwork-centric corporate desktop computer designed with NetPC features, but fully integrated with multimedia capabilities, and with expansion slots and storage bays. ALR said the system's price starts at 551,146 and is available from ALR's five distributors
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        Compaq's Professional Workstation 5100
        54 13 Compaq Computer Asia has launched the Professional Workstation 5100, an NT-based system that supports two Pentium II processors running at either 266 MHz or 300 MHz. Compaq said prices start at 555,600 and the. systems will be available in Singapore from ACA Pacific Technologies and UIC
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        Adobe Photo Deluxe 2.0 available now
        65 13  -  -Compiled by! Raju Chellam Adobe Photo Deluxe 2.0, a new generation of photo-editing software for non-graphically trained users, is now available. Adobe said the package would run on Win9s and Mac platforms and offers customers "monthly access to additional new features and capabilities from
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      Double joy for HP palmtop pioneers in Singapore
      506 13  -  World's first colour palmtop to ship was designed and engineered here By Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] There were double celebrations for Hew-lett-Packard's Singapore team last Friday when the American computer giant became the first vendor to ship a col-our-display palmtop PC. That's because
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      Microsoft unveils the upgraded Exchange Server 5.5
      184 13 [SINGAPORE] Microsoft's Exchange Server 5.5, an upgrade announced at Comdex last month, is now available in both standard and enterprise editions. Microsoft said a trial, 120-day version is available on the Web at http://www.mlcrosoft. com/exchange. Enhancements in this version include unlimited message storage,
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      708 16  -  Theatre Works' latest play conveys the bleak message of familial disintegration, says bem kdmboe BEN MUNROE LIFE'S a beach, and then you drown. Ait latfiag lotto lati ■> play by TheatreWerkSyChay Yew's MaflTLiaa, there la not even much point trying to swim
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      676 16  -  music Two well-known and well-liked works by Mozart and Mahler fill the air By P Y Van THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra had what one might have called an M and M concert last Friday. The programme featured two wellknown and well-liked works by Mozart and
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      311 17  -  Counter likely to close at about $1 JO today: analysts By] David Boey [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Technologies Engineering stock debuts today and is expected to be the flavour of the day. Analysts expect the counter to dip to about 90 cents from its theoretical value of
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      412 17  -  Tender fail* to bear fruit; owner seeks partner to redevelop site into condo By. Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] Hotel Equatorial will close next June instead of this month after no purchaser emerged at the right price to develop the site into a
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      540 17 It faces challenge from Microsoft's DirectX software Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] For Creative Technology Ltd, the start of the holiday shopping season has been a rude awakening. US shares of the Singaporebased multimedia products maker plunged 23 per cent last week, its biggest one-week drop
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        247 18 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Makindo, Indonesia's biggest brokerage, said it hopes to raise 367 billion rupiah (*****.6 million) in an initial public offering. The figure is near the bottom end of an amount projected by the company last month. With the benchmark
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        494 18 Results reflect rising interest rates, fall in trading on ELSE, moderating growth MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] AMMB Holdings Bhd, which controls Malaysia's largest merchant bank, posted a 30.07 per cent decline in group pre-tax profit to Malaysian ringgit 303.07 million (5J129.7 million) for
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        243 18 AFP [MANILA] Philippine food giant RFM Corp expects to enjoy a 25 per cent rise In net profit next year despite the economic slowdown and will even benefit from one of its contributing factors, the El Nino phenomenon. RFM said in a
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        358 18 It expects palm oil prices to remain high till next year Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Plantation and property-based company, 101 Corporation Bhd, is confident that its plantation sector will bring in big profits to the group for the year ending June 1998 following good performance
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        196 18 Bernama [JOHOR BARU] Johor Corporation on Friday apologised to 126,116 unit holders of Amanah Saham Johor (ASJ) because of its inabUity to make good its promise of lifting the price of its unit trusts to five ringgit each since the trust fund was
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        265 19 The USsl.6b project is postponed indefinitely because of financing problems AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's emerging Dongbu Group on Friday shelved a US$l.6 billion (552.6 billion) project to enter the crowded semiconductor business in partnership with International Business Machines Corp (IBM). "Our project
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        156 19 Reuters [HONGKONG] Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd said its sales revenue in the current year might fall 10 per cent to 20 per cent from its previous estimates, the South China Morning Post said on Saturday. Property sales in this financial year (ending June
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        332 19 Fate ofNTs49b chemical plant will be pot to votes local chief Reuters [TAIPEI] German chemicals group Bayer AG's multimil-lion-dollar investment project in central Taiwan faced a new blow after a newly-elected local chief vowed to hold a referendum to decide its fate, media reported yesterday.
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        197 19 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Peregrine Investments Holdings Ltd, a Hongkong-based investment bank, denied it was looking to sell its property and cosmetics unit, Kwong Sang Hong International Ltd. It was the biggest gainer on the Hongkong stock exchange last Friday. It surged as much
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        400 19 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Gilbert Amelio received a U556.74 million (5510.9 million) severance package from Apple Computer Inc after being ousted as chairman and chief executive of the ailing computer maker, according to a regulatory filing. Separate from his exit pay, Mr Amelio received
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        185 19 Reuters [NEW DELHI] Shareholders of India's RPG Transmission Ltd approved its merger with KEC Transmission International on Saturday with 99.9 per cent voting in favour of the move, a company statement said. Shareholders of KEC Transmission had approved the merger on Nov 17, it said.
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        323 20 Move will fit with plan to open DFS G&lleria stores and expand Sephora specialty stores outside Europe Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCOJ LVMH Moet-Hennessy Louis-Vuit-ton's DFS unit said it is considering a bid to acquire bankrupt Barney's Inc to broaden its base as an upscale
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        314 20 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] 3Com Corp is accused in a lawsuit of inflating the company's share price by making false statements involving its US$B.54 billion (5513.8 billion) acquisition of US Robotics Corp, according to lawyers who filed the legal action. The suit was filed in US
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        239 20 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] Belgacom, the Belgian national phone company, will announce before Christmas a plan to expand abroad, chief executive John Goossens said in an interview. Mr Goossens wouldn't say exactly what announcement the company will make. Belgian Communications Minister Elio di Rupo
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        World's raw materials prices slide up to 37%
        452 21  -  S-E Asian currency problems, S Korean crisis, slow Japanese economy blamed From. Neil Behrmann in London FROM cotton to copper, the crisis in North Asia and South-east Asia has caused a slump in raw materials prices. From their highs this year, prices
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        558 21 Unfavourable market conditions cast doubt over its ability to help local players Reuters [SINGAPORE] Brokers and insurers reacted coolly on Friday to the creation of a commercial insurance pool by 12 domestic Singapore insurers designed to help local players compete with underwriters in the
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        59 21 [PONTELAND, Northumberland] A policeman and an onlooker getting a noseful of thefoul-smelling waste dumped at the door of the Nat West bank here on Friday. Farmer David Cannon left more than a tonne of the waste outside the bank in protest against the way it treated him
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        328 21 AFXAsia Bloomberg (TOKYO] Sumitomo Bank Ltd and Societe Generale of France will jointly take a majority stake in Yamaichi International Capital Management Co, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said. They reached a basic agreement on Friday to assume about 90 per cent of the moneymanagement
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        309 21 Floor-trading linkage fails as trading on computers soars Bloomberg [CHICAGO] The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) will end their fledgling trading link, a sign of the growing influence of
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        320 21 Bloomberg [EDINBURGH] British Petroleum Co pic and the Royal Dutch/Shell group are still the biggest oil companies in the UK market, though their dominance is slipping, said the Royal Bank of Scotland. More companies are looking for and producing oil in British waters
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        543 22  -  SIMfflK Weeklyßowidup Tighter monetary policy needed and this will lead to sharp slowdown Callum Henderson [SINGAPORE] We see no end in sight in the near term to the weakness in Asian currencies. The full economic effects of the currency crisis have yet to be felt. Indeed,
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        821 22 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Coffee prices boiled over last week amid fresh fears of damage to crops in Indonesia, the world's top producer of robusta, which prompted large-scale buying by investment funds. Heavy downpours also lashed central America, and
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        79 23 Fraser Neave THE company is expecting its FY97 earnings to fall 27 per cent due to the slow down in demand for residential properties. F&N has heavy investments in marketing Tiger beer in China and earnings are affected by the startup costs of its breweries in China, Cambodia and Thailand.
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        107 23 Creative Technology has outperformed the STII since the beginning of the year. Last week the stock nosedived from a high of $43.70 to a low of $33.60. The plunge reflects a combination of profit taking and panic selling on prospects that electronics sales in the US may fall
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        276 23 SES THE Strait Times Industrials Index soared 3.2 per cent to 1,733.17 points for the week. Institutional funds came in to buy fundamentally sound blue chips, which were quite attractive in price. The funds are parking their funds in Singapore, which is known as a safe haven. Institutional
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        494 24 NEW YORK Stocks also seen benefiting from Asian crisis as Fed onlikely to hike rates Bloomberg US STOCKS will probably extend their gains in the days ahead, spurred by optimism that the domestic economy will continue its expansion and offset any drag on sales
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        884 24 Q Sydney +92J AUSTRALIAN share prices would mark time in the coming week after a bullish start to the month on the back of improved sentiment on Asian markets, brokers said on Friday. "We will see a bit of sideways movement for the next couple of sessions,
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        310 24 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG shares are expected to face a stable week ahead, dealers said on Friday, after the bourse registered a series of gains. "There's nothing really positive on the horizon, but nothing really negative either," said a
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        1462 24 n Paris *L 78% THE FYench CAC-40 Index fell 4.36 points, or 0.15 per cent, to 2,910.09 on Friday. Still, it gained 1.78 per cent in the week and is up 25.6 per cent this year. Concerns that US interest rates could rise after a stron-ger-than-expected employment
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        460 24 LONDON AFP THE London stock market made impressive gains last week, encouraged by the maintenance of the Bank of England's interest rates and the traditional end-of-year rally in stock prices. The Footsie-100 Index of leading shares rose by 311.1 points, or 6.44 per cent, to
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        267 24 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE share prices are likely to be in the doldrums in the coming week with investors sidelined due to the delay of a long-awaited economic rescue package to be released by the country's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), brokers said. "Investors
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        450 25 AFP P*! Composite Index +€L 96 VOLATILITY is expected to reign in the Malaysian stock market despite an 11.4 per cent surge in the week to Friday, analysts said. "There will be pressure on banking and property stocks following a clamp on property loans.
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        206 26  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy THE keen warrant hunter would have at the top of his list these criteria: the instrument has to be cheap in absolute terms as well as command a low conversion premium, it should offer good gearing of
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        67 28  -  -by Shiv Taneja Nat Steel Ltd closed 26 cents lower on Friday (5/12) at $2.74 on a volume of 3.07 million, compared with its JO day traded average of less than one million shares. In the near term, there will be more downside, but investors should prepare to
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        703 28  -  THE WEEK AHEAD Foreign funds have been moving in some amount of long-term money but there are still deeper concerns which have not been addressed yet By R Sivanithy SO, HOW "genuine" was Friday's bounce? Was it really a case
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      1407 28 Sunday Classified -tftaaAfMt at Clarke Quay L^ Every Sunday, 9am spm BUSINESS Notices To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 i i NOTICE m Philippine National Bank USD 100 mio Negotiable United States Dollar Floating Rate Certificates of Deposit due in June 1999 In accordance with the provisions of the Certificates
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      488 28 IN THE MATTER OF !THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP JO AND IN THE MATTER OF JINCXIN ELECTRONICS <S) PTE LTD (la Vohaiary Liquidation) NOTICE Of RKSOLLTTON Al an E*trao»daary General Meeting of the member, of JINCXIN ELECTRONICS IS) PTE LTD duty convened and held al 133 New Bridge Road. #15-45 CkiaaHei
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      272 28 IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 80 AND IN THE MATTER OF Q AND M SHIPMANAQEMENT PTE LTD ON LIQUIDATION) Extract of the Minutes from the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 4th day of December 1997:That the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to
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      274 29 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young WHILST the tanker sector has seen a few fresh deals, there has been a dropping off of serious interest for larger dry bulk tonnage and for a change there are no Panamax bulker sales to report. But a major move in the capes
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      265 29 OKI a <m CWTOWHbeWen 0.76 -002 S awanHm 06?s *aos 40 cmnwumwi -0.79 FrMfNLM* 0.295 -0.025 3» OJI -0.005 HM tun Hup -an unch 44 HRacM Zosan 0.505 unch 90 IMC HoMngt HK 5.60 Jtyt I loMnqj 0.47 *001 211 JHTM( Si#y«r4 9.05 H.10 *092 MpoalCarp 5.60 *013
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      103 29 Reuters [BEIJING] China has combined its leading port construction firm and 10 of its subsidiaries into the China Harbour Engineering Group as part of a campaign to make state firms more (competitive, the People's Daily said yesterday. China Harbour Engineering Group comprises the China Harbour
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      Four lines to set up Australia Asia Alliance
      443 29  -  New alliance comprising MISC, Mitsui, OOCL and PIL expected to begin next June By] Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Just when the musical chairs among consortium members appear to have settled down somewhat in the collective wake of the newly created NOL-led alliance and
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      360 29 ESTONIA SDCKZMO [SINGAPORE] Allegations have risen again that an explosion inside the Estonia was engineered by the Russian military secret service anxious to stop her transporting sensitive Russian military technology to the West. The Russian plot theory has emerged again just as a three-nation commission
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      582 29  -  DOCKYARD By: David Hughes KOBODY within the shipping or shiprepair industries in Asia should need to be told that China's shiprepair capabilities have grown rapidly in recent years. At the recent Shipßepatr Conversion Conference in London two senior managers from Shanghai Machinery
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      164 29 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Total traffic using the port of Amsterdam is set to reach another record this year, the port authority Said in a statement. "Based on the quantity of goods transhipped during the last nine months, the port authority expects that the transfer of goods
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      837 30 EUSCTRONXC AIRLINE TZCKZSTZNO WMe ticketless travel has been around since 1995, analysts say the real takeoff is only just about to come Bloomberg PAUL Klaassen, president of Sunrise Assisted Living Inc, doesn't think "love" is too strong a word to describe his feelings about electronic airline
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      410 30 PAGC Evergreen 6 AMI 3 ExpOrient M Able 16 FL-Bright B Accord B Famous 7 Altrenkiel M Farwide M Appenshtp 5 Foot* Sun 8 t Astro 3 Frota IS Austral 9 FrtUnks 16 Avant 16 C Link 4 B'tang Mas 0 Gemartrans 8
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      19225 38 EXPORT ETA ETA Advortlaar Vassal Voyaga Talaphona ETA ETA Advortlsar V«Ml Voyaga Tataplwna SIN Dwfn How Nama Numbar Njjmbar_ SIN Past"!) Nama Nama Numbar Numbar 0/12 24/12 00CL KOTA MART* 127 45-*****13 A B/B 01/01 PIL KOTA HARTA 527 45 3214*5 3 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 o/b 2VB
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        1729 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Bolonco Rttls Ship Voy Wo Etb/Btr Ported from To Frew Ac. NMm 00U 04/0700 M 07/1700 M/0J94 04/0400 20 07/1700 04/0651 *****C J 01/0700 om OVMM 4 ot/Boo o«/Mn oa/mo kilM* 0M OT/BOO S WWO 222 n 07/1700 04/0651 04/0400
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        200 45 Dm 8 Argentina, Austria, Brazil (some cities), Chile, Colombia, Italy, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal. Spain, Switzerland (some areas) Dm 10 Thailand: Constitution Day Dm 12 Kenya, Mexico, Russia Dm 13 Sri Lanka Dm If Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, S. Africa Dm 23 Japan: Emperor's Birthday. Dm 24 Austria, Bulgaria, Czech
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        868 45 THIS report compiled by Cockett Marine OU Ltd. show* price range* in US dollar* Instead of single prices for more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on iverage-sized stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index chance and the individual changes
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        360 45 Cortoo 180 ttu 993.9 12 17 J 0.09 56 0.04 Ok S OMtttv Mar htMw As* MmMm SifciH Ho atOM £25 2 1 2 0 0 0 380 Aw 985.1 OJ 12.2 0.06 34 0.02 lo*. 380 Mu 997.0 0.9 16.6 0.10 91 O.Ot »t/WI %M/li
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        152 46 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways announced tough new measures to curb drunken passengers. Passengers who appear drunk will not be allowed to board aircraft and air crews will stop serving drinks to people who appear on the verge of drunkenness. Cabin crews are also being
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        266 46 56m guilders to be paid in second quarter of 1998 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Administrators for bankrupt Dutch planemaker Fokker have said they will soon pay some 56 million guilders (5545.2 million) to a first group of creditors, including former employees of the
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        332 46  -  Service deal is express distribution industry's first global accord with an airline By] Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] TNT Express Worldwide has forged an alliance with Qantas in what is said to be the express distribution industry's first ever global agreement with a commercial
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        361 46 Britain's second biggest carrier to start HeathrowManchester service Reuters [LONDON] Short-haul airline British Midland (BM) is preparing to launch a major assault on British Airways with the start of services between London Heathrow and Manchester, in northern England. Well-placed industry sources said Britain's second
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        477 46 AFP [WASHINGTON] Weeklong hearings into what caused TWA Flight 800 to crash into the Atlantic Ocean off New York City in July 1996 are expected to focus on the airline and aircraft maker Boeing when they begin today. With the FBI
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        450 46 Bloomberg [BEIJING] US and European car makers face stifler competition as declining currencies boost Japanese and Korean exports, fuelling trade friction, said Ford Motor Co's chairman. The Japanese yen has dropped almost 7 per cent against the US dollar
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        1764 46 CITY FlIGHT fTA FLIGHT ETD AmttrtM $0327 0620 KL844 0125 M 0< 1310 W42 ®W5 *1837 1540 CA994 2245 I WIT<0 KL838 2335 MM TC407 S40 TG400 IMS 0L26 2355 WW 2B0 IWW MB W tm MM AY097 *50 ATOM 2135 Auckland ****** 2045 ****** 2045
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        44 46 [KYOTO] A solar car leads 26 low emission vehicles including electric, natural gas and hybrid cars during a parade in downtown Kyoto to commemorate the United Nations global warming convention that aims at fixing legally-binding cuts in the greenhouse gas emission. AFP
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        232 46 Bloomberg [ZURICH] SAir Group, the operator of Swiss national airline Swissair, said it will announce several Asian partnerships early next year to increase its network in the Far East. SAir spokeswoman Beatrice Tschanz said the airline would announce partnerships with airlines
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      23 29 All excited over electronic airline ticketing Around since 1995, ticketless travel's real takeoff is only just about to come, analysts say. Page 2
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      250 29 FORMATION OF ASIA-AUSTRALIA ALLIANCE On Ist December 1997, four Lines comprising Malaysia International Shipping Corporation Berhad (MISC), Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), Orient Overseas Container Lines (OOCL) and Pacific International Lines (PIL) concluded an agreement to form a new consortium called Asia Australia Alliance. Also known as the "Triple A", the
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      94 29 TNT teams tip with Qantas in world first Service deal is express distribution industry's first global accord with an airline. BaokPage 4'dW ill |!ill ">r- -V If 9 I 4 'I* '*I»M r 4 w il« J r J (EKdk.. m** W r I 1 /sf™ Visa Freight mm Services
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      603 30 Lin* MfVCM represents i 101 !j by Memoers of the Registry of fflTßl Singapore Freight Forwerdei VpHPK' Shipping Agents UUv Assocwion Singapore Shipping Association Shipping Times -a Iris Lim 740-2044 Jarrod Leong 740-2088 EXPORT 3 x Jopon •2 x Honqhom •1 x MonjjojJ x Kowhtong, Kwhtng jAcfpHnq F& to HO(/HAHA/SINOAI/CI>U/ICH1
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      108 31 rtS?T ORIENT EXPRESS UNES (U.K.) LIMITED fgf? 3 {MANAGER FOR SHREYAS SHIPPING LIMITED) WEE|aY SINGAPORE/MUMBAI (BOMBAY) SHUTTLE VESSEL VOY SINGAPORE KMHIAY VESSEI VOY IOHiAY SINGAPORE SINARTOBA 220 12/12 21/12 SINAR TQ6A 219 30/11 -12/12 POO. ADMIRAL 010 15/12 24/12 OOQ ADMIRAL 009 03/12 15/12 KEDAH 009 19/12 28/12 KEDAH 008
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      1699 33 ACCirrHM CMMO TO/PKOM "I: JHCKOU ft HUANGPU I WIIKIT PitiCT WtilW JM: IMKATOM'S GOItIU HMNTS: 6 SHENTON WAY TIL 224 IWO tt JIMIM OUTWUD «/l| COSTAR SNIPPING PTE LTD *17-MMSHM SAUS/IKGS 4205M1/43 MWAXD DOT (D/ 0) *****8S COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD g NO: 117t7IOOOOOi> TOWtl mo (omo*) COWYIimOmi 4205«50/S5
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      534 33 EASTERN CAR UNiR, \yjtj ECL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD I SPKIAUZI IN RORO A HEAVY LIFT lIPTO 122 TOWS ECL (SMGAPOKE) PTE LTD LOADING FOR j PORT KLANG/BIsfTUUJ/Mm T LAEM CHABANG/KUCHING/ a.V^cyT'^lL muara/ kota kinabalu wwai 1 T,l MV "OCEAN BLUE" V.49A EWSN 28/11/97 EHLCBOI/12/97 HA KUC 04/12/97 j ETA BR
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      1143 35 IA HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARINE CO. UP. i VFSSIL VOT SW LXM Iml AMI I HAM IH PR I VtSSa VOY lUN I OKI 1 NAM FB AMI ITM~nn HYMGMNSS 300W 00/12 25/12 2*/12 2S/12 2S/12 2S/12 31/12 NY WPEROR 3001 12/11 15/11 15/11 11/11 17/11 10/11 07/12 HYOARON HOW
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      686 35 M FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES JIPB 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE *****8 J/T" HOT UNE: *****33 (30 UNES) WB MGt ADDRESS: wwwfanta.coa.si f IWIII mmm HHBlMlli Ila l| BARCELONA/SPAIN 14/12 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 12/12 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 14/12 HAMBURG/BREMEN 12/12 GENOA/ITALY 12/12 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 12/12 GOTHENBURG/SCAN 11/12 ROTTERDAM 12/12 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 11/12 FELIXSTOWE/UK 15/12 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 12/12
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