The Business Times, 3 March 1998

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    12 1 The BusinessTim es MITA(P) IHVI2/97 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes TUESDAY, MARCH 3,1998
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    67 1 Psrn 1610.64 (4.74) BT-SRI ***** (-9.42) BTCOMP *****4 (-5.82) BTMGA 847JL7 (+0.12) B MARKET MOOD: Mixed STOCK MAMETIHDICES Monday Change KLSECOMP 746.12 -014 NIKKEI *****.34 >432.67 HANG SENG -161.86 SET INDEX .538.17 *975 .JAKARTA ttlMP 496.73 +14,16 MANILA COUP 2180.56 +1416 TAIPEI WP! 9277.09 +74.63 SEOUL COMP 574.35
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    FINANCE
    78 1 EXCHANGE SATES USS S3 iUS$ 1.628 1.661 2.704 DM 0565 0.903 YEN 100 0.801 1 304 MS 0.276 0.449 HK$ 0.129 0210 BAHT 0.023 0.037 RUPIAH 100 0.011 0.018 Interbank rata PRIME BATES SINGAPORE* 7.85 KUALA LUMPUR _..10.45 JAKARTA ....2100 BANGKOK 15.25 MANILA 17 50 HONGKONG 1018 TAIPEI .8.80
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    Listed firms may post some nasty earnings shocks
    479 1  -  Singapore earnings forecasts range from 14% fall to 5% rise; Taiwan profits seen to be strongest By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Don't be surprised if the earnings season in Asia produces a few nasty shocks, market watchers say. As regional companies struggle
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    Singapore market shakes off post-budget jitters
    357 1  -  STII shows its resilience after 2% fall in shaky start By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The Singapore stockmarket proved to be surprisingly resilient yesterday in the face of what many had labelled a disappointing budget. After a shaky start, selective buying of index stocks and
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    S'pore clinches bid to host top travel show for 10 years
    376 1  -  Pata Travel Mart finds permanent exhibition site here Ny Frances Lui [SINGAPORE] The tourism industry in Singapore has pulled off a coup it has won the bid to host the Pacific Asia Travel Association (Pata) Travel Mart for 10
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    Property glut will take a while to clear, say consultants
    995 1  -  Cut in '98 land sales not going to help for next 12 to 18 months By] Diana Oon [SINGAPORE] The future supply of new private housing units might have been put in check by the government's latest decision to cut
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      127 1 DCSTOE The Property Column Developers would have to cut prices of new units if the resale supply grows, says Lee Han Shih, Pg6 Set to dash Indonesia yesterday appeared headed on a collision course with international opinion as US special envoy Walter Mondale arrived in Jakarta with a message that
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      39 1 Whimpering kittens "The economic turmoil has reduced the Tigers to whimpering kittens and forced them to seek help from international agencies." -M'sianPM Mahathir Mohamad in unleashing a new attack on currency and stock market speculators. Full report, Pq 9
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      9 1 After the Budget, Pg 2 Market report*, Pgs 22-26
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      8 1 Price war hinges on resale market, Pg 6
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  • SINGAPORE
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      More SMEs can tap into enterprise finance scheme
      523 2  -  AFTER THE BUDGET Eligible are companies with fixed assets of up to $8m and total outstanding loans of less than $8m Ihr Carol Eng MORE small companies will now be able to tap the Local Enterprise Finance Scheme (LEFS) for standard factory
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      Manufacturers lukewarm on tax incentives
      281 2  -  By. Annette Pau MANUFACTURING companies are not particularly excited by the latest tax incentives for industrial noise and chemical hazards control, though most reckon they would benefit in some way. Jerry Rodrigues, chief executive and president of listed printed circuit board maker Gul Technologies, said:
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      Lock icon Inflation: top income groups hardest hit
      351 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Inflation Ihji Audrey Tan INFLATION hit households in the higher income groups hardest last year, mostly through higher transport and housing prices. The Department of Statistics' latest figures show the highest 20 per cent of house- noias ranked oy income
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      S'pore Unit Trust launches Global Tactical Fund
      230 2  -  H,,\ Shiv Taneja LIKE Rip van Winkle. Singapore Unit Trust (SUT) has awoken after a 20-year slumber to launch a unit trust with a global investment mandate. A pioneer in the local unit trust industry. SUT manages a clutch of locally authorised unit
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      Lock icon NTUC revamps media operations
      153 4 THE National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has restructured its media operations un der one organisation NTUC Media Co-operative Ltd. Its publications NTUC News and Lifestyle, and broadcasting station Radio Heart now come under NTUC Media. Goh Chee Wee, chairman of the new co-operative, said the restructuring
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      Changi Airport retailers get rebates
      563 4  -  CAAS offers tenants variable rebates of up to 10 per cent on a monthly basis Hi, Jenny Lam RETAILERS at Changi Airport hit by a drop in passenger traffic have been offered rental rebates by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS). Sources told BT
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      Lock icon The Straits Times takes on a new look on March 23
      372 4  -  Ri/i Clarissa Tan THE familiar face of The Straits Times, Singapore's most widely-read English daily, is all set for a major makeover. The flagship newspaper of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), along with the Chineselanguage Lianhe Zaobao, are headed for
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      276 5 DA!KIN wise Dai km and you uion't have to pag the price. Even today, Daikin's revolutionary "no mater" UAII central air-con system saves over $130.000 a year in a 25-storey office building. Imagine gour savings in the future! The building in question is John Hancock Tower. By installing cooling. Its
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Price war depends on what happens in resale market
      597 6  -  THE PROPERTY COLUMN Developers would have to cut prices of new units if resale supply grows I<U Lee Han Shih HOW bad is the private housing market that the government has to cut back its land sales for the second time
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      Sino rakes in HK$2.2b as 82% of project snapped up
      450 6  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE Hongkong property market showed some signs of recovery over the weekend as Ng Teng Fong's Sino Group raised HKS2.2 billion (*****.2 million) from the sale of its Majestic Park flats in Kowloon. The
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      Chuan govt easing out foreign ownership plan
      599 6  -  Analysts fear foreign investors will now avoid investing in Thai property From Harish Mehta in Bangkok IN stealthily choreographed moves, Thailand's new Chuan Leekpai government appears to be scuttling a 10-month-old proposal by the previous Chavalit government to allow foreigners to own freehold
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      IT firms most keen on business parks: survey
      387 6  -  Industrial firms among those who say costs are mnch higher By. Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] Close to half of 69 firms surveyed said business parks could meet most or some of their needs. But onethird of the firms said these parks, designed
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  • MARKETS IN TURMOIL
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      Lock icon Jakarta looks set to clash with its main benefactors
      821 7  -  February inflation up 12.76%, placing pressure on Suharto to stabilise rupiah From S N Vasuki in Jakarta INDONESIA yesterday appeared headed on a collision course with international opinion as an emissary of US President Bill Clinton arrived in Jakarta with a
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      Wider use of yen likely to be focus of Tokyo-KL talks
      422 7  -  Japan's vice-finance minister meets Anwar today From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo WIDER use of the yen as a settlement and reserve currency in Asia is expected to figure prominently in discussions today in Kuala Lumpur between Malaysian Deputy Prime
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      Lock icon Time ripe for new global monetary order: Japan
      508 7 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's top financial diplomat, Eisuke Sakakibara, said the time may be ripe for creation of a new world monetary agreement to deal with financial crises such as the recent one in Asia, a newspaper said yesterday. In an interview with
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      Lock icon 10 banks to arrange US$1b Thai loan
      185 7 BANGKOK Reuters THAILAND and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday gave the names of 10 leading banks, including Singapore's DBS Bank, which would lead arrange US$l billion (551.62 billion) in loans brokered by the ADB to help boost Thai exports, a finance ministry
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      Lock icon Philippine traders in mass protest against high rates
      290 7 KORONADAL Reuters HUNDREDS of traders closed shop and brought this city to a standstill yesterday in the first mass protest by Philippine businessmen over Asia's financial turmoil. The businessmen launched a protest motorcade across two provinces on southern Mindanao island, appealing to
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      Lock icon Foreign net buying of Korean stocks hits 2.2t won in Feb
      541 7 Composite stock index has risen nearly 50% since beginning of year Reuters [SEOUL] Foreign net buying the driving force behind South Korea's stock rally hit a record high of 2.18 trillion won (552.3 billion) in February, and analysts yesterday
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  • FOCUS
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      The politics behind IMF-Plus
      1148 8  -  ELECTION WATCH New solution will enable Suharto to regain the initiative in stabilising the rupiah while keeping to his IMF commitment By Yang Razali Kassim WHEN President Suharto mentioned the idea of •'IMF-Plus" in his speech of accountability to the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) on Sunday,
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      Announce currency board now and set it up later: official
      579 8  -  Implementation can come later when 3 conditions will make it effective: Tanri Prrnn Yang Razali Kassim in Jakarta THE Currency Board System (CBS), which President Suharto sees as an answer to the volatility of the rupiah, must meet three conditions
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      6 8 "Imagination /.v more IMPORTANT t/icin KNOWLEDGE
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  • REGION
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      Lock icon Speculators reduce Asian Tigers to 'whimpering kittens': Dr M
      377 9 KUALA LUMPUR M'sian PM also hits oat at international bodies for hindering region's recovery Reuters MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday unleashed a new attack on currency and stock market speculators, saying they had reduced Asia's Tiger economies to "whimpering kittens".
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      Lock icon Thai consumer product prices up 18% since July
      297 9 BANGKOK AFP THAI consumer product prices have soared 18 per cent since the shock floatation of the country's currency last July, official figures showed yesterday. Internal Trade Department director-general Suchai Jaovisidha said he will inform the cabinet of the price rises which
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      Lock icon Thai govt faces motion of no confidence
      362 9 BANGKOK Opposition accuses 3-month-old govt of graft, inefficiency AFP THAILAND'S opposition yesterday filed a motion of no confidence against the government, accusing it of corruption and inefficiency, officials said. Former premier Chavalit Yongchaiyudh handed the motion to parliamentary speaker Wan Mohammed Noor who
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      Lock icon Malaysian tourism revenue down RM1b last year
      245 9 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S tourism revenue in 1997 fell by one billion Malaysian ringgit (5J448.2 million) or 14 per cent from a year earlier but was likely to improve on the back of a lower ringgit, a minister was quoted as saying yesterday.
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  • ASIA
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      Early trends show BJP, allies ahead with 181 seats
      560 10  -  INDIAN ELECTION Congress and United Front, ahead in 203 seats so far, will team up: analysts By\ Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi THE Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies appeared to have made significant gains as counting got
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      Lock icon US, Europe put pressure on Tokyo to deregulate
      404 10 TOKYO Top US, EU trade officials in Tokyo for talks Reuters JAPAN yesterday came under fresh pressure from the United States and Europe to loosen the official ties that bind its economy and hamper imports. "I expect to make progress and I
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      Lock icon Nikkei leaps 2.6% to highest level since October
      232 10 mTOKYO Reuters TOKYO stocks posted strong gains yesterday, as the key Nikkei average surged to its highest closing level since October on policy-makers' comments on the possibility of additional steps for the economy, brokers said. The benchmark Nikkei average finished up 2.57
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      Lock icon Asia woes hit Aussie economy
      149 10 CANBERRA Reuters AUSTRALIA'S conservative government, possibly facing an election as early as July, talked up the economy yesterday despite poor trade data marring its second anniversary in power. Prime Minister John Howard and Treasurer Peter Costello told parliament's opening session for 1998 that the economy
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      Lock icon Scuffle halts voting on South Korean PM
      237 10 SEOUL Opposition MPs' blank vote* draw protests in assembly AFP VOTING on the approval of a new South Korean prime minister halted yesterday as mayhem erupted jn the National Assembly when ruling and opposition party members scuffled on the floor of the house.
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      57 10 Results of tender for taxable book-entry Government Bond 1998 due 15 November 2004 to be issued on 5 March 1998 Amount Offered Allotted *****,000,000 LAmount Applied *****,000,000 f Interest/Coupon Rate 5.125% p.a. Average Yield Price on Allotment 4.20% p.a. and 106.916% Cut-off Yield and Price 4.23% p.a. and 106.737% Cut-off
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon US output new orders on the rise in Feb
      322 11 WASHINGTON Manufacturing's strong showing could see economy growing up to 3% in Q1 Bloomberg US MANUFACTURING strengthened in February as production and new orders rose, the National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM) said. The NAPM's factory index increased to 53.3 last
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      Lock icon Speculation mounts over Credit Lyonnais' future
      510 11 PARIS a Several international Institutions hoping io acquire the bank AFP SPECULATION mounted over the future of Credit Lyonnais Ijßnk yesterday when German, Japanese and British fiinstitutions were said be interested in acquiring *ihe state-controlled giant be.ing rescued for the third time. The bank's
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      Lock icon Bush junior wins presidential straw poll
      309 11 BILOXI, Mississippi Reuters TEXAS Governor George W Bush won a presidential straw poll of Republican activists from southern states on Sunday and a large majority also Said they thought he would be the party's White House nomi- tiee for 2000. Mr Bush, son of
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      Lock icon Kohl says he sees good chances for Sept victory
      264 11 BONN Reuters GERMAN Chancellor Helmut Kohl said yesterday the defeat of his Christian Democrats (CDU) in Lower Saxony state on Sunday was disappointing but that he saw a good chance of winning the general election in September. The Social Democrats (SPD)
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Watch out for gene pirates from the West
      747 13  -  THE BOTTOMLDVE OPINION By Yogi Aggarwal The writer is a Bombay-based journalist who contributes regularly to BT IN ONE of their rare acts of co-operation, India and Pakistan have decided to jointly fight the granting of a patent to a US company,
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      124 13 'My reaction is that free speech not only lives. It rocks.' -Oprah Winfrey US talk show host, on the vitality of democracy. 'Elections have become auctions.' -US Senator Byron Dorgui after the latest effort to overhaul the nation's campaign finance laws was shot down once again on
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      When caution is called for
      712 13 EDITORIAL AS was widely expected, Singapore's 1998 budget had a lukewarm reception in the markets. But it was significant that after opening on a strongly negative note, the STI Index closed the day just under 5 points down. Of course, fiscal policy cannot be guided
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      Lock icon Failed seers of Asia's future
      1111 13 They were overly optimistic but the few who gave warning have been vindicated by recent events The Economist ASIA'S currencies and stock markets have plummeted. Mass bankruptcies and sackings loom in Thailand and South Korea. Japan is stagnant. Lethal riots are breaking out in Indonesia.
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      826 13 Suharto's accountability INDONESIAN President Suharto's accountability speech delivered to the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) must have been the toughest he has had to prepare since 1973... Achievements have been overshadowed, in some cases even eliminated, by the economic crisis that has gripped the country. This year's
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • CYCLE & CARRIAGE GOLF PAGE
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      Nothing short of a fabulous course
      1086 16  -  The Erinvale course in South Africa is superbly designed with a spectacular backdrop, says mickl&us D'csuz NICKLAUS D'CRUZ The writer's trip to South Africa was sponsored by RCI, the vacation timeshare company. RCI has an qffiliated Crown Status resort at Sun City the Sun
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      Catch hot new golf products at Golf Asia '98
      580 16  -  By\ Nicklaus D'Cruz GOLFERS attending Golf Asia '98 from March 12-15 at Suntec City can look forward to catching a slice of the recent PGA Merchandise Show held in Orlando early this year. It is at this US show that major
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Inchcape Motors profit shrinks 14% on higher tax provisions
      511 17  -  Group could have reversed downward earnings trend if not for $7.4 m previsions Reports by Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] If not for provisions for higher taxes following investigations by the Customs Excise Department, listed Inchcape Motors could well have reversed a downward
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      SembCorp sells 10m more Jurong Shipyard shares
      297 17  -  Sale, raising some $75m, reduces its stake to 59.84% W Ven Sreenivasan {SINGAPORE] Sembawang Corporation has sold another 10 million Jurong Shipyard shares, representing 7.17 per Cf nt of the latter's capital. At $7,531 per share, the sale would have helped SembCorp raise
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      ST Engineering would do well to publicise its skills
      676 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW David Boey ALTHOUGH a hefty 60 per cent of Singapore Technologies Engineering's annual turnover of $1.4 billion comes from defence-related work, precious little has been said (let alone written) about its core skills in defence science and weapons
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      Inchcape pic to focus on motor business
      301 17 [SINGAPORE] Inchcape pic will undergo a major restructuring that will see it sell or spin off about one-fifth of its businesses and make it a focused motor group. In an announcement released yesterday, the Londonbased international player said it would de-merge its South
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      KepFels posts 63% fall in net profit to $20.3m
      397 17  -  Provision for losses on Saga Petroleum job included Hy< Conrad Raj (SINGAPOREI Keppel Fels, the rig building arm of local conglomerate Keppel Corporation, reported a 63 per cent plunge in net profits to $20.3 million for its 1997 financial year, after
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      OUS net asset backing falls 15.4%
      172 17 (SINGAPORE] Overseas Union Securities (OUS), the closed-end fund of Overseas Union Bank, yesterday announced a 15.4 per cent fall in the group's net asset backing per share to $2.64 for the year ended Dec 31,1997. Turmoil in the region's currency and equity markets led
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        Falling rents wipe out Metro's China project gains
        556 18  -  Group has hoped to see profits from I Guangzhou, Shanghai projects by this year :b>,< Teh Hooi Ling Z {SINGAPORE] Plunging office w rentals in Shanghai and Guangzhou have wiped out the anticipated profits of Met>ro Holdings' China projects > this year.
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        Lock icon Hutchinson Whampoa buys British port
        216 18 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Hutchison t Whampoa Ltd, Hongkong's biggest conglomerate, bought a British port, extending a t campaign to boost its UK car;l go capacity. Hutchison International > Port Holdings Ltd, the compart ny's port unit, said the compaj ny bought Harwich Internals tional (Holdings) Ltd
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        Lock icon Profit at CDL Hotel's M&C unit up 32%
        200 18 AFP, Reuters [SINGAPORE] A foreign arm of CDL Hotels International Ltd, part of the Singapore property developer. City Developments group, said pretax profits rose 32 per cent from the previous year to £63.5 million (*****.5 million) in 1997. The profit at Millennium
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        49 18 [MANILA] A Filipino worker installs additional telephone lines in the northern mountain resort city of Baguio on Sunday. Local telephone companies have until this year to complete their rollout programmes to install up to 700,000 land lines so that their provisional licences will not be revoked. REUTERS
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        Lock icon Ayala Land to swap shares for property
        185 18 Bloomberg [MANILA] Ayala Land Inc said it will swap 700 million new shares for properties, signalling plans to expand during an ebb in the Philippine real estate market. The shares are valued at 14 billion pesos (***** million) at the current market price
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        Not much in Hagenuk deal for IPC, says Tiptel
        377 18  -  GSM business not included in parts of firm Tiptel is buying By. Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Mainboardlisted IPC Corp may end up getting nothing from its 37.5 per cent stake in Hagenuk Telecom GmbH, said an executive of Tiptel AG which emerged
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        No offer to sell Stanchart shares
        112 18  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Ho Kah Yin (Ms) Group Financial Controller Goodwood Park Hotel Limited WE refer to the BT March 2 article headlined "Teck Puat offers to sell his Stanchart stake: report" about Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat's shares in Standard Chartered Bank
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          OCBC transfers its Kim Seng stake
          44 18 [SINGAPORE] OCBC Bank has transferred its interest in Kim Seng Properties to Eastern Realty through the allotment of Kim Seng's 225.65 million ordinary shares of $1 each to Eastern Realty. Both companies are fully-owned subsidiaries of the bank.
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          New ruling on CPF-approved unit trusts
          40 18 [SINGAPORE] Cash can now be used to buy CPF-approved unit trusts, the Central Provident Fund said yesterday. Previously, only CPF savings could be used to buy CPFapproved unit trusts under the CPF investment scheme.
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          OCBC, HSBC to lead $245m to Everbuilt
          53 18 [SINGAPORE] OCBC Bank and Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation have agreed to lend $245 million to Everbuilt Developers, a subsidiary of Marco Polo Developments. This amount is in the form of a five-year syndicated transferable loan to finance the land and development costs
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          Poh Lian buys Delta Lane property
          49 18 [SINGAPORE] Poh Lian Holdings has bought a piece of property at Defu Lane from Ngai Mee Packaging Industries. The purchase price is 18.5 million. Poh Man will use the property for fabrication of scaffolds, and repair and maintenance of gondolas and work platforms
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          Acer associate reports 64.7% fall in profit
          75 18 [SINGAPORE] Acer Computec Latino America, an associate of ma in board-listed Acer Computer International, has reported a 64.7 per cent drop in net profit to US$l5.3 million (5524.9 million) for the year ended Dec 31. This fall, according to the company, was largely
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          Lock icon Shinawatra reports loss of US$134m
          72 18 AFP [BANGKOK] Thai telecommunications giant Shinawatra Computer and Communication pic posted a massive net loss 0fU*****.3 million (*****.5 million) last year on the back of the falling baht, the firm said in a statement yesterday. Shinawatra recorded a loss of 5.64 billion baht (*****.5 million)
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          Lock icon National Petrochem posts 3.6b baht loss
          82 18 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] National Petrochemical pic said it lost a greater-than-expected 3.59 billion baht (SSI33 million) last year, from a profit 0f584 million a year earlier, mainly because its foreign debt increased following a currency devaluation in July. Per-share loss at the Bangkok-based chemical producer
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        Corrections & clarifications
        64 18 Corrections clarifications IN A report on Feb 28, we said that shareholders of CAM International had approved the company's package of self-help measures. This is incorrect What was approved were the FY96 financial accounts and other resolutions contained in the notice of the annual general meeting. CAM will hold another
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        Lock icon Texas Utilities offers £6.17b for Energy Group
        450 19 Mm to oust PacifiCorp from struggle for British ptwer company Bloomberg [LONDON] Texas Utilities Co agreed to acquire Energy Group pic for £6.17 billion (5516.7 billion) in cash and assumed debt in an attempt to knock PacifiCorp out of a struggle for control
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        Lock icon Owens-Illinois to buy BTR packaging unit
        130 19 Reuters [TOLEDO, Ohio] Owens-Illi-nois Inc said Sunday it signed a definitive agreement to acquire the worldwide glass and plastic packaging businesses of BTR pic in an all-cash transaction valued at US$3.6 billion (555.9 billion). The deal is expected to be accretive in 1999 and
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        Lock icon Glaxo shares fall 2% after conflicting reports on its moves
        229 19 Reuters [LONDON] Shares in Glaxo Wellcome pic dropped 2 per cent in early trade yesterday after conflicting reports around the drug company's likely next move following its abortive merger with SmithKline Beecham pic. Glaxo shares traded 34p lower at £16.66
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        Lock icon US banks to face new investment scrutiny
        342 20 Guidelines to ensure safety when they invest in derivatives Reuters [HONOLULU] US banks may soon undergo a new type of federal regulatory review, which aims to ensure banks operate safely when they invest in financial derivatives and other products, a Federal Deposit Insurance
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        Lock icon Euroyen up amid easier cash rates
        226 20 «i—u» Jjeport Reuters [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures were steady to a touch firmer yesterday as easier cash rates offset the negative impact of stock market gains and renewed talk of further economic stimulus measures. "That should be negative for the Euroyen, but I guess
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        Futures up with 6.5-point premium to cash
        178 20  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES Cecilia Loh Cecilia boh, service dealer, Refco S'pore Pte Ltd [SINGAPORE] The Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures contract rose 3.80 points with a premium of 6.5 points to cash at its close. Banking and other financial stocks led the
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        Lock icon UK funds find oil shares tempting
        225 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Rock-bottom crude prices have made investors wary of oil stocks but some British fund managers yesterday said the time to buy again might be approaching. Even so, a study of company and market fundamentals would be critical for success, they
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        255 20 AFP THE yen remained firm early yesterday afternoon on the London forex market, still supported by speculation about new government measures for stimulating the Japanese economy, traders said at lunch-time. The US dollar was trading at 125.07 yen against 125.11 in the morning and 126.11 yen on Friday
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      1532 21 AFP *****7 JAPANESE share prices rallied yesterday on reported remarks by a ruling party leader calling for the use of funds from postal savings to bolster the stock market, brokers said. The Nikkei stock average of 225 selected issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 432.67 points or 2.6
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      1461 22 AFP Q Hang Seng -MLB6 HONGKONG stocks closed sharply lower yesterday, led by profit-taking in index futures and China plays, with brokers cautious on the nearterm outlook. "We saw profit-taking in futures leading the index down and profit-taking in red chips," said Tom Leventhorpe, director of sales and trading
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      586 22 Bridge News QShenzhenßlndex -OJ7 SHANGHAI B shares rose 0.34 point yesterday to 59.07, while Shenzhen B shares ended the day down 0.97 point to 96.97 in light trade. Both A share markets closed down with Shenzhen falling 13.73 points to 385.33 on disappointing year-end results from some large-capitalisation stocks,
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      364 22 AFP QWPUn *7153 TAIWANESE share prices rose 0.8 per cent yesterday to their highest level so far this year on strong buying of cement and plastics issues by investors who switched their attention from technology plays, dealers said. "Investors shifted their interest from technology issues to other plays," Lai
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      245 22 AFP W Wellington +U3 SHARES ended 0.1 per cent higher yesterday, heartened by stable Asian markets. The NZSE-40 Index closed at 2,288.40, up 1.93 points. Turnover was NZ567.2 million. "It was a touch weaker in the morning but firmed later in the afternoon," said a broker—AFP *r i vs
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      800 22 AFP SET Into: *175 THAI shares closed 1.8 per cent higher yesterday as investors hunted for bargains in blue chip stocks and the export sector, analysts said. Analysts said foreign investors weighed in to buy large capitalisation stocks in the banking and telecommunication sectors, pushing the market higher for
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      398 22 AFP rlOmpogita Index +15.37 SHARE prices closed 2.7 per cent up on the Korea Stock Exchange yesterday on foreign buying as sentiment was boosted by the won's rebound and a record February trade surplus, dealers said. They said the expanded daily trading limit also reduced speculative trade and diminished
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      585 22 AFP NAD Ordinaries +0J& SHARES closed barely higher yesterday after late profit-tak-ing pared strong gains in the morning, brokers said. The Australian Stock Exchange's main indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, gained half a point to 2,697.9. The All Resources Index closed up two points at 1,138.8 while the All
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      658 22 AFP frjftmpoßtefalg ♦1436 INDONESIAN shares rose 3 per cent yesterday, following gains in selective big stocks on technical-driven trading, dealers said. "If you look at the volume, it's actually thin. Although the index was up, the only explanation is it's on the back of big cap gains," said Adnan
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      291 22 AFP giumh *um PHILIPPINE share prices closed 0.6 per cent higher yesterday due to last-minute buying, analysts said here. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 14.26 points to close at 2,280.56 points. Turnover fell to 2.128 billion shares worth 2.415 billion pesos compared to 2.418 billion shares worth
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        Lock icon Trading quiet on lack of fresh leads
        397 23 AFP n Composite Index -&24 MALAYSIA'S key stock index closed barely changed yesterday in quiet trade on a lack of fresh leads, with selective buying offset by profit-taking, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-share weighted Composite Index ended at 745.12 points,
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        L&M wrt: play it safe for now
        231 24  -  WARRANT WATCB By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of infrastructure-based L&M Group Investments jumped to the top of the actives list yesterday, gaining eight cents or 12 per cent to 73 cents on a volume of 41 million shares. Dealers and analysts seem to
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
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        MAIN BOARD
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        212 26 Stacks Votomt L&M 50c._ 40.966.000 Easyknit HKIOc 37.276,000 'Renoog Bhd 50c 13,749.000 JurongShip 50c 10,218.000 Keppei Land50c 8,513,000 IPC Corpn 5c 8,277.000 DSSLand 7,947,000 STEnqglOc 7,709,000 'Refcapacific Bh 6,879,000 Wing Tai 25c 6,409,000 Stacks JurooqShip 50c t 77,245,500 DBS Foreign 32,440,565 SU Foreign 30,745,102 U06 Foreign 27,809,102 L&M 50c 21,038,415
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        Market recovers after dive in early post-budget jitters
        629 26  -  STOCK MARXBT COMMENTARY Shares prove resilient as light but steady baying keeps STII above key 1,600 level By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] After threatening to go into a freefall in the first half hour of trading, Singapore stocks recovered on the back of
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        HOT STOCK
        58 26  -  by Shiv Taneja IPC Corp closed one cent lower yesterday at 20.5 cents on a volume of 6J27 million shares compared with its 10-day traded average of 7.8 million shares. In the near term, there is more downside, according to the daily RSI and Stochastics. But the medium-term
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          Another global fund
          105 26 US INVESTMENT management giant Alliance Capital Management will make its unit trust debut in Singapore later this month with the launch of a unit trust with a global investment mandate. Although the fund will be sold through third-party distributors like Standard Chartered Bank, Alliance has been beefing
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          Brunei to up stake in MAS?
          47 26 BRUNEI is widely expected to increase its investment in Malaysian companies after the visit by its monarch last week and one potential beneficiary could be Malaysian Airline System. The sultanate already owns a stake of 9.09 per cent in the airline.
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          Maybank MD sitting on paper profit
          87 26 CONSERVATIVE banker Amirsham Aziz, managing director of Malayan Ranking, is now sitting on a paper profit of about 2,600 Malaysian ringgit (551,165.32) on his recent investment in the bank. His two lots of Maybank are now worth RM28.600. His cost was RM25.995, based on
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          Thinking about the budget
          38 26 A STOCKBROKER had this to say about BT's fi-ont page headline on Saturday, "A thinking man's budget": "Yah, we're all thinking about what we could have got out of the budget but didn't get."
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          Something to chew on
          125 26 IT IS not as if Indonesia does not have enough trouble. Now a research, published In the magazine Conservation Biology, Is warning that the overuse of pesticide is killing bees, birds, butterflies and other pollinators. This in turn threatens the yield of major food crops, not
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          Bubbling costs
          77 26 THIS is beginning to sound familiar The latest report from Taiwan said major soft-drink makers will raise prices by 10 to 15 per cent in July to reflect higher production costs. These companies are hit by a double blow of higher material costs— cans, bottles, PVC bags, glass,
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          Regional blues
          89 26 SINGAPORE companies are not the only ones to be hit as a result of going regional. Talk is that many Chinese companies, especially the contractors, are also suffering for the same reason. A case in point is a subsidiary of a company from a southern province which issued
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      Lock icon DAILY FREIGHT
      297 27 Bridge News, Reuters RATES are still strong in the Far East with Japanese charterers active, brokers gffVL A few charterers misreading the market had been holding back cargoes and some are still quoting for round voyages and trips back to the Atlantic. But tonnage remains tight for the
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      MARITIME STOCKS
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      Bangladesh to upgrade ports, cut delays
      626 27  -  Government taking steps to solve problems at Chittagong port, shipping minister says By Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Bangladesh is taking steps to upgrade and expand its port facilities, with the help of private investment, and cut down on congestion and berthing delays at its main
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      Lock icon Aussie port strikes cost Patrick A$4m so far
      384 27 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Chris Corrigan, chairman of Patrick stevedores, said a bitter dispute over control of Australia's wharves has so far cost the company As 4 million (Ss4.36million). In an interview with the Bloomberg Forum, Mr Corrigan also said Patrick might use wage
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      Lock icon Van Ommeren, Pakhoed to merge
      278 27 Reuters {AMSTERDAM] Dutch shipping and tank storage firms Van Ommeren and Pakhoed said yesterday they would merge under the name VOPAK. Holders of one depositary receipt for a share in Pakhoed would receive one VOPAK share, while one depositary receipt for a Van Ommeren share
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      766 28 JAPAMBSB OAR INDUSTRY Many Japanese carmakers face losses as their heavy investments in Asia are hit by the region's financial crisis AFP CARMAKERS In Japan are crumbling under the strain of Alia'* financial crisis aa their heavy Investments in the region bring only pain. With
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        838 41 THIS report complied by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. »how* price ranaea In US doUan lnttead ot dngle price* ft* a mora comprehenalve description of the market. Prlcee ahown are baaed on average- lied item. Market movement* are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        443 42  -  Carrier recently made an investment of nearly USs6om in two secondhand 8747-200s By] Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] United Parcel Service (UPS) has demonstrated its long-term confidence in the Asian market with the purchase of two Boeing *****0s for deployment in the region.
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        383 42 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Rolls-Rpyce pic is close to clinching deals worth well over US$2OO million (320 m) to upgrade Boeing 747 engines for British Airways pic and Qantas Airways Ltd, industry sources said. If the deals went ahead, they would substantially increase cargo capacity on
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        147 42 Reuters [FRANKFURT] German airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG said on Sunday it did not wish to comment on media reports that it was in negotiations to buy a stake in Thai Airways International. "We do not wish to make a statement for
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        114 42 AFP [HAMBURG] The head of Britain's Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Graham Morris said in an interview published here on Sunday that a takeover of his company by a foreign group would bring more opportunities than risks. He told the Sunday edition of Die Welt that
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        414 42 pbobbs nrro air crashes Pilot error to blame for crash, say news reports Reuters [TAIPEI] As Taiwan's news media reported that pilot error was to blame for the island's worst air crash, officials said on Sunday no conclusion had been made yet. "Aviation
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        414 42 AFP [MANILA] The Philippines Air Transportation Office (ATO) and the pilots of a jetliner that crashed killing all 104 people on board were both at fault in the tragedy, an insurance investigator was reported as saying on Sunday. "Based on our assessment,
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      23 27 Driving gets tough in Asia Many Japanese carmakers face losses as their investments in Asia are hit by the financial crisis. Page 2
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      493 27 SinttSTort Kuehne Nagel's executive vice-president Peter Kruse will be speaking at the Logistics Asia Conference to be held on Mar 26. Vtt,. Conference topics include discussions on electronic commerce, manufacturing and distribution partnerships and creating a regional distribution system in Asia. Logisitics Asia, International Maritime Conference and the Shipbuilding and
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      22 27 UPS bays 2 jets for Asian routes Carrier recently made an investment of nearly US|6om in two secondhand 8747-200 S. Back Page
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      108 29 ORIENT EXPRESS UNES (U.K.) LIMITED OEi, (MANAGER FOR SHREYAS SHIPPING LIMITED) WEEKLY SINGAPORE/MUMBAI (BOMBAY) SHUTTLE VESSEL VOY SINGAPORE lOMIAY VESSEL VOY WjgjT SIWGAPOtE SS SINGAPORE 100 03/03 12/03 CAPE BONAVISTA 001 22/02 06/03 SINARTQ6A 225 06/03 15/03 OOCL ADMIRAL 013 25/02 09/03 OOCI ADMIRAL 014 09/03 18/03 KEDAH 012 01/03
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      45 38 To retrieve more schedules, Just follow these simple steps... document 740-6000^^1^^ tep be faxed the port Step key in the four number /M AJ| digit code Key in your Example: L, fax number To NEW YORK (NYC) 2275 »for calls within Singapore Unitod St teS
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      160 42 Call 740-6000 Pre* 1 key in Document Code Key in fax number Enter your phone number INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT FORWARDING I EffETB Art you conversant with the roles and responsibilities as a contractual cairier or a forwarding agent? Modelled after the UNCTAD TRAIN MAR course, this training session enables A*\ participants
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