The Business Times, 21 July 1998

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 110/12/97 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes TUESDAY JULY 21, 1998
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  • 67 1 Dsn *****2 (+7.22) BT-SBI 479J4 (-0.07) BTOOMP 534J3 (+4.58) BTKGA (+9.66) CI MARKET MOOD: U Mixed STOCK MARKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COMP ***** -*.03 NIKKEI Hn—H HANG SENO 8,***** 156.68 SET INDEX 297.74 +146 JAKARTA COMP __48&68 +146 MANILA COMP 1.734.46 -6181 taipei wpi mm SEOUL COMP
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  • 77 1 FOBEX KATES USS SI USS 1.707 £(US$/S$per£) 1.644 1806 DM 1.781 0.968 YEN 139.4 1524* RM 4136 0.413 HKJ 7.749 0520 BAHT 41.06 0.042 RUPIAH 14,350 0.012* 'Stto 100 units PBIME RATES SINGAPORE* 7 88 KUALA LUMPUR 11.50 JAKARTA 28.00 BANGKOK H75 MANILA .22.96 HONGKONG 10.25 TAIPEI .8.80 SYDNEY
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  • 648 1  -  Rise in Jane non-oil figures seen as a blip; exports to growth markets slowing By. Andrey Tan [SINGAPORE] The regional economic crisis could lead to a 4.5 to 5.5 per cent shrinkage of Singapore's total trade this year, the worst contraction
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  • 417 1  -  By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] The outlook for Singapore's electronics exports, which account for 70 per cent of non-oil domestic exports, is dim over the next six months. This was the assessment of senior Trade Development Board officials at yesterday's press briefing on trade figures
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  • 681 1  -  M'si&n miller owns firm with rights to sell Pfizer products Frorri Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur A LITTLE-tracked Malaysian feed and flour milling company, Gold Coin (Malaysia), may reap rich dividends by riding the Viagra craze, analysts said. They said Gold Coin could see
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  • 630 1  -  USs2sm negligence suit expected to be first of several By\ Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] A US$25 million (5542.6 million) negligence suit has been filed in the United States against Boeing, the Seattle-based aircraft manufacturer, by a victim of the Silk Air
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  • 694 1  -  Bnt S'pore banks not overexposed to sector, it stresses By Lee Han Shih, Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] The Monetary Authority of Singapore is looking into setting up a mortgage corporation, but said that such a corporation should not be seen "as a
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    • 142 1 mgPE JTC www bank* The Jurong Town Corporation is trying to sell its expatriate housing scheme to the financial sector, apparently the only sector that has shown little interest in it, Pf 2 Hie Property Column Lee Han Shih on the discrepancy between the policies of theCPF Board and the
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 481 2  -  Least interested sector told how JTC flats can help cnt high housing costs Ry< Conrad Raj THE Jurong Town Corporation is trying to sell its expatriate housing scheme to the financial sector apparently the only sector that has shown little interest in
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    • 202 2 JURONG Town Corporation is releasing another 12 hectares of industrial land for lease under its open application system, following good take-up for its first launch in April. For this second quarterly launch this year, 11 sites in five estates are
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    • 130 2 FROM Aug 1, the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore (TAS) will implement a "One-Stop Service" scheme for consumers who want to use cellular phones purchased overseas. With the new scheme, consumers will be able to apply directly to cellular service providers for individual connection approval
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    • 494 2  -  Bat there will be no deferred payment draw as homes are already bnilt Hy\ Diana Oon PROPERTY developer Wing Tai has taken the term "buyers' market" one step further, asking buyers of three of its 99-year projects to "name a
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    • 303 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Industry By 1 Teh Hooi Ling THE number of outgoing international telephone calls grew just 6.3 per cent year-on-year in June; compared to last year's average, growth has come down by close to two-thirds. Compared with the preceding month
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    • 570 3  -  Reports in 2 industry newsletters warn of falling Asian imports By\ Ronnie Lim INDONESIAN oil consumption has fallen drastically perhaps by as much as half— and this has hit the Singapore oil industry, say two reports on the impact of the
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    • 420 3  -  Banks are reluctant to refinance package to unemployed By Catherine Ong BANK employees who have been enjoying attractive staff housing loans may find that very perk working against them when they are retrenched. Industry sources say there have been cases
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    • 221 3 SWISS international business school, the Institute of Management Development (IMD), will hold its International Alumni Event in Singapore on July 30 and 31. This is the first time the event will be held outside Europe. The theme of the event will be
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
    • 585 4  -  THE PROPERTY COLUMN CPF says housing renovation is consumption, not investment. But IRAS dooms otherwise Ru Lee Han Shih DESPITE appeals over the years by members, the Central Provident Fund Board has stuck firm to one policy that CPF money cannot be used for
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    • 767 4 Property auctions coming up THURSDAY, JULY 23 (1.30pm) Grand Plaza Parkroyal, Ballroom II Residential: 23 Kampong Sireh: 3 1/2-sty semi-0,3.717 sq fl/FH** 28 How Sun Walk: 3-sty terrace. 2,174 sq ft/99 yrs wef 1993" 22E Lor How Sun: 2-sty terrace, 2,458 sq fW=H* 79 Jin Kasau: 3-sty
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    • 260 4 [SINGAPORE) A resort hotel development along the west coast of Canada has sold 35 per cent of its units after two weeks of marketing in Singapore. The 123 cottages at Salt Springs Island Village Resort cost between C$191,000 (S$216,800) and C$395,000,
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    • 376 4 FREE! If you have found something, you can advertise for free in Classification 821 (Found) to seek its owner. Call C.A.T.S. at 1800-737-1166. m Another Classified Service JTC detached factory at Loyang Way Site area ***** sq.ft Floor area ***** sq.ft Tenure 23 years left Ample carpark space Ceiling height
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
    • 380 5 Disbursement of funds to Indonesia slower compared to Mexico, Russia Bernama [WASHINGTON] Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has accused the International Monetary Fund of double standards in the way it disburses funds to ailing economies. "Disbursement to Mexico was fast, and in the
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    • 428 5  -  From Harish Mehta in Bangkok FORMER US presidential candidate Bob Dole and expresident George Bush are shopping for bargain investments in Bangkok where stakes in troubled companies are being offered at sharp discounts. Mr Dole is looking at a stake in the national
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    • 311 5 Central bank chiefs forecast based on filed statements Reuters AFP [BANGKOK) Thai banks are expected to report total net profit of six to eight billion baht (*****-332 million) for the first half of 1998, central bank chief Chatumongkol Sonakul said yesterday. The forecast
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    • 522 5  -  Refusal will delay Indon recovery, other creditors may reconsider: analysts Front Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta IN a turnaround that could have severe implications for Indonesia's already weak economy, Japan, its largest benefactor, may be unwilling to roll over its debt, Finance Minister
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    • 145 5 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's economic growth may slip to an eight-year low of 5.5 per cent on the back of the regional economic crisis, government officials and analysts said yesterday. "Taiwan's industrial output has not fared very well with a year-on-year growth of
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    • 355 5 AFP [KUALA LUMPURJ Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has embarked on a nationwide tour to explain the country's economic ills to the people, a top official said yesterday. "The prime minister will go to all the states. There will be exchange of views.
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    • 344 5 It is also threatening to pat another 270,000 out of jobs Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand said yesterday that a severe liquidity crunch is set to close up to 800 debt-ridden factories and throw up to 270,000 more workers out of
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    • 280 5  -  By] R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] After weeks of tracking movements in Japan, regional equity markets were left to their own devices yesterday following the closure of the Japanese market for a public holiday, resulting in mixed finishes. Here, the Straits Times Industrials Index managed a fourth
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 362 6 KUALA LUMPUR 100% foreign equity allowed where M'sia is made distribution centre for product Bernama FOREIGN companies can now hold 51 per cent equity in the trade sector, particularly wholesale and retail trade, from 30 per cent previously, Minister of Domestic
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    • 551 6  -  RUM-UP TO AggAM MMBBMIL MEETING Grouping expected to comment on Mm, Pakistan, Japan bnt not intra-regional concerns By Al Labita in Manila ASEAN foreign ministers meet in Manila this week amid moves by some members to alter the regional grouping's conservative outlook. They are expected to
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    • 315 6 SURABAYA Reuters ANGRY mobs in Indonesia's East Java have attacked shops and homes owned by Muslims they accuse of supporting ethnic Chinese traders, religious sources and residents said yesterday. Residents said that a crowd of about 200 people drove through the Mumbulsari, Silo and
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    • 323 6 JAKARTA Mnhimmiiltyali in^ Nahdlatul Ulama plan to fight polls Reuters INDONESIA'S two largest Muslim groups have said they will form political parties to contest next year's general elections, newspaper reports said yesterday. Republika daily quoted Muslim leader Amien Rais, one of those
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 420 7  -  Latest rise comes from restaurant, retail, construction sectors, bringing the jobless to 145,000 From, Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong THE number of unemployed continued to climb, hitting 4.5 per cent a 15-year high in June as Hongkong verges on recession. At that level,
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    • 525 7 HONGKONG Passenger ops now normal, cargo handling being restored, he says Reuters HONGKONG leader Tung Chee-hwa visited the city's new US$2O billion (5534.1 billion) airport yesterday for the first time since it opened to passenger and cargo chaos and said he was
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    • 283 7 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG'S residential property market has been lifted out of the doldrums by a successful sale of new flats over the weekend, but the market has not yet bottomed out, analysts said yesterday. A crowd of thousands the sort of buyers'
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    • 170 7 BEIJING Reuters CHINA registered a government budget surplus of 24.9 billion yuan (SSS.I billion) in the first half of 1998, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday. Revenues totalled 425.8 billion yuan in the first six months, up 9.2 per cent from the same period
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  • ASIA
    • 423 8 BOMBAY If sentiment does not improve, even good companies will suffer, it says Reuters A TOP official at one of India's leading credit rating agencies yesterday warned of extensive loan defaults in the commercial sector if economic sentiment did not improve. "If
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    • 155 8 NEWDELHI AFP INDIA'S fragile coalition is facing new threats of a walkout from a rebel leader within the minority alliance, reports said yesterday. Jayalalitha Jayaram, a maverick regional politician whose support is crucial to the coalition's survival, is demanding immediate action on issues in her
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    • 418 8  -  Violence feared as they go ahead and dismiss over 4,000 hYont, Jennifer Veale in Seoul SOUTH KOREA'S car giants closed their factories yesterday, fearing violent clashes with angry workers after announcing they will press ahead with mass layoffs. Hyundai Motor, the largest car maker,
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    • 328 8 SYDNEY National Party chief warns of need to slow pace of change AFP A SENIOR member of the ruling coalition warned Prime Minister John Howard yesterday that unless he starts listening to the people he is doomed to become Australia's first
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    • 232 8 ISLAMABAD Reuters MEMBERS of Pakistan's ruling party are planning to ask Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down because of political uncertainty after nuclear tests and economic sanctions, a local newspaper said yesterday. The Muslim quoted informed political sources in the
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  • THE WORLD
    • 513 9 WASHINGTON Statistics show Asian crisis has started to take a bite out of US growth Reuters WHEN Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan takes to Capitol Hill this week to deliver his semi-annual report on the US economy, his message is
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    • 382 9 LONDON Weak growth, high interest rates plagne economy: economists AFP THE British economy, recently seen as dynamic and fast growing, is becoming the "sick man of Europe", condemned to low growth and high interest rates, economists said yesterday. Investment bank Salomon Smith
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    • 206 9 PARIS Bloomberg FRANCE Telecom SA and the French government yesterday said they will sell shares in Europe's No 2 phone company worth as much as US$9 billion (5515.3 billion) this autumn in the biggest share sale in Europe this year. The sale will
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 777 10  -  THE BOTTOM LIME OPINION By Prem Shankar Jha The writer, former editor of The Hindustan Times, contributed this article to BT THE belief that the Indian ministry of finance has been trying to instill in the people that sanctions will not hurt India greatly
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    • 150 10 Japan remains a consensus society. We may have had strong leaders in the past in some cases I can think of a couple but they were not very successful. The consensus makers were rather more successful as prime ministers.' Yoshio Hatano a former Japanese representative to the
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    • 649 10 EDITORIAL AFTER a chaotic, angstfllled fortnight since its opening, Chek Lap Kok airport in Hongkong is finally beginning to come up to speed But the economically vital air cargo centre is still limping There are fewer complaints from passengers about delayed flights and missing bags, and flight
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    • 1176 10  -  Corruption-riddled heavy industries reel from commodity price crash in wake of Asian crisis By) Peter Seidlitz, David Murphy The writers, based in Beijing, contributed this article to BT EVERY morning in his office in Zhongnanhai, Prime Minister Zhu Rongji is confronted with the grim reality of China's
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    • 848 10 US on wrong side In Rome WHEN the Rome conference agreed on a charter for an international criminal court...attention focused on the compromises and the politics. But what happened in Rome last week was more important than the details. I think it will be seen as
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 871 12  -  He is just the 12th player since 1934 to win two majors in the same year, says cbaig imuch CRAIG DOLCH NYT YES, Mark O'Meara can win a major. After Sunday, that bears repeating. Mark O'Meara can win another major. In less than four months,
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    • 641 12  -  DANCE Four choreographers showcased works focnsing on themes such as prostitution and nrban living By i Chua Soo Pong [SINGAPORE] The shared aspiration to create dances conveying contemporary social meaning drew four choreographers from Singapore, Malaysia and the US together in the New Dance Lab, presented
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    • 923 12 I ASEAN FUND LIMITED I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) I The Board of Directors of ASEAN Fund Limited wishes to make the following announcement: I UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE HALF YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 1998 I 1 Nov 97 to 1 Nov 96 lo I 30 Apr 98
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 619 13  -  But some see a silver lining- Sicom may be forced to switch to order-driven trading By I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Commodity Exchange (Sicom) is facing its greatest challenge yet as the Osaka Mercantile Exchange (OME) prepares to launch a
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    • 297 13  -  Byi Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines passengers will, from Aug 1, be able to earn points on Air New Zealand's frequent flyer programme when they fly to destinations where the carriers have a code sharing agreement. The tie-up follows an SIA announcement that
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    • 795 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Quak Hiang Whai WITH the current economic downturn, banks in Singapore, like those elsewhere in the region, have been very cautious in their lending. In the once-lucrative area of unsecured personal loans for instance, some banks
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    • 523 13  -  HER, 6IC and Hong Leong hold 30% each in residential project Fromi Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong HONGKONG-LISTED HKR International has made a provision of HKSI.2 billion (***** million) for its share of a massive residential development near the new airport at Tung Chung
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    • 379 13  -  By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The Asean Fund, which is facing redemptions in November, has plunged deeper into the red, reporting a massive loss of U5529.2 million (5549.8 million) for the six months ended April 30 as the regional meltdown continued to savage its
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
      • 450 14  -  It is believed to be claiming more than RM900,000 from Ganda Plantations From, Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur BELEAGUERED Malaysian businessman Joseph Chong is facing another lawsuit, this time lodged by WTK Holdings a listed timber firm that used to
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      • 247 14 It mnst also present plan to sell assets and pay its creditors Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Arab-Ma-laysian Corp (Amcorp), which controls Malaysia's seventh-largest banking group, said the High Court of Malaya gave it time till Oct 31 to reorganise as well as present a
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      • 167 14 [SINGAPORE] Oilfield equipment and spares supplier Mid-Continent Equipment Group Ltd (MES), which is seeking a listing on Sesdaq, says its offer is 19 times subscribed. At the close of the offer yesterday, there were 792 applications for the 500,000 shares which were offered to the
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      • 335 14 It's set to kick off HK banks'worst results in a decade Bloomberg [HONGKONG] International Bank of Asia Ltd is about to kick off Hongkong banks' worst earnings in more than a decade. IBA, one of the city's smaller banks, is likely to
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      • 287 14  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Chong Huai Seng vice-chairman Panpac Media Ltd I REFER to the Bloomberg report headlined "Panpac may sell part of company" carried by BT on July 18. The report is misleading: ♦Panpac Media Ltd is no longer a private company, having launched its
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    • COMPANIES
      • 420 15 It should cot losses and redeploy funds into mm profitable areas, say analysts Reuters (AUCKLAND] The board of Brierley Investments Ltd began a meeting in Auckland yesterday to decide on the future of the investment firm, as speculation grew it may
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      • 322 15 Reuters [NEW YORK] Car parts maker SPX Corp has struck a US$2 billion (553.4 billion) pact to buy General Signal Corp, a struggling industrial company that is nearly twice its size, according to sources familiar with the situation. The transaction, which
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      • 293 15 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Microsoft Corp scrapped an attempt to eliminate its biggest rival in the US$l4 million (Ss24 million) market for Korean-language word processing software, after a public outcry that could deter foreign investment in South Korea. The world's biggest software company offered
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      • 306 15 Semiconductor lmit likely to post a loss of lb marks this year Bloom berg FRANKFURT] Siemens AG, Germany's largest electronics and engineering company, said it does not rule out the closure of semiconductor plants as it looks at ways to cut production capacity to
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      • 421 15 Am slowdown, drop in PC sales role out positive surprises Reuters [NEW YORK] International Business Machines Corp (IBM) is expected to show tepid year-to-year growth in its second-quarter results amid the economic slowdown in Asia, sales declines at its troubled personal computer
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 438 16  -  It Is unlikely to lure business away from Simex, which is cheapen analysts From, Laurence Eyton in Taipei TAIWAN is scheduled to open its futures exchange today, with officials hoping to draw away some of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange's business. But analysts said
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      • 375 16 It responds to report that it may merge back-office ops with rival ANZ Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Westpac Banking Cofp said it has no current arrangements to merge its back-office processing operations with a rival bank. In a statement, Westpac said that it is continuing to
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      • 121 16 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Barclays Capital Asia Ltd, an arm of Barclays Bank, said it would lead the effort to raise US$2O5 million (*****.3 million) in foreign currency debt to fund tpe Bina Power Project, a coal-fired plant, in India, i Aditya Birla Group of India and
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      • 396 16 Bloomberg {LONDON] Jim Mellon collects paintings of voluptuous peasant girls in classic French Salon style. The millionaire fund manager's choice of investments, however, is far from classic. The chairman of investment company Regent Pacific Group Ltd buys in undeveloped, high-risk markets. Regent's largest exposure is to
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      • 316 16  -  Low premiums at only 20% of prevailing rates for the first three years By\ Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] Great Eastern Life Assurance (GE Life) will soon offer a critical illness insurance policy that is tailored for people hit by the economic slowdown
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      • 244 16 him nx Report Reuters (SINGAPORE) Simex Euroyen futures eased in very quiet trade yesterday with activity dampened by a holiday in Japan. "You can teU there's hardly any activity from the volume. June is seeing some spread trading but other than that, there isn't
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      • 179 16  -  MSCX TAIWAN FUTURES Charlie Kuo Charlie Kuo, service dealer, Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Index futures declined as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC) the largest semiconductor maker in Taiwan reported a 46 per cent fall in its second-quarter net profit from the
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      • 231 16 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Crude oil fell after a consulting firm headed by former Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad Zaki Yamani said production cuts won't boost oil prices until next year. It will take that long for the oil cuts
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      • 267 16 Reuters AFP Bloomberg London The dollar was weak against the mark yesterday in a market awaiting the IMF decision on a loan package for Russia. The IMF was meeting yesterday to decide on a first tranche of a U5522.6 billion (5538.5 billion) loan to Russia. The dollar was
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      1480 18 AFP □HuiSeag •135.68 HONGKONG share prices closed 1.6 per cent lower yesterday, as the government announced 15-year high unemployment underlining the territory's economic problems. OCBC director Peter Lai said "investors are very worried about the macroeconomic climate greater selling pressure emerged after they saw the market was unable to
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      640 18 Reuters AFP Q Shenzhen Blndex +0.44 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B shares extended a technical rebound to close up in sparse trade yesterday, as investors waited on the sidelines for the first batch of corporate interim results, analysts said. The B Share Index gained 0.44 point, or 0.6 per cent,
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    • 387 18 AFP □wp Index +7.87 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.1 per cent higher yesterday amid thin trading as investors took to the sidelines ahead of the opening of the island's first futures exchange, dealers said. "Investors were cautious before the Taiwan International Mercantile Exchange begins futures trading tomorrow," said Cooper
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      710 18 AFP f% Composite Index +145 INDONESIAN share prices closed 0.5 per cent higher yesterday, propped up by lastminute buying, dealers said. "If you look, the gains were really in the last few minutes of trading," a trader with a Japanese brokerage said. "I do not think it is genuine
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      778 18 AFP PSETInJei *2.46 THAI share prices gained 0.8 per cent yesterday amid speculation of a cut in interest rates on the back of better liquidity, dealers said. Analysts said central bank forecasts that Thai banks would report total net profit of six to eight billion baht (*****.9-*****.9 million) for
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    • 310 18 AFP n Manila -5181 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 3 per cent lower yesterday on concerns that corporate profits for the three months to June would fall short of expectations. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 52.81 points to 1,734.45. Turnover reached 250.9 million shares worth 1.51 billion pesos,
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    • 274 18 AFP CI Wellington -4.01 NEW Zealand stocks eased 0.2 per cent yesterday in slow trading which received a late boost. The NZSE-40 Index lost 4.01 points to 2,168.34 on turnover of NZ$B2.7 million. Brierley Investments Ltd was down one NZ cent at 98 NZ cents, while brewer Lion Nathan
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    • 432 18 AFP flOompoMte Index +2LOO SOUTH Korean shares soared 6.1 per cent yesterday as foreign investors snapped up in-dex-leading blue chips amid strong interest in futures, dealers said. "Foreign buying was amazingly bullish," a Hanhwa Securities dealer said. The futures market turned stronger in the afternoon as well, helping the
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    • 591 18 AFP Q All Ordinaries -2(18 AUSTRALIAN shares closed down nearly one per cent yesterday as investors cashed in profits made during last week's surge, brokers said. The benchmark All Ordinaries Index closed down 26.8 points at 2,787.9. The All Industrials Index finished down 42.3 points at 4,887 while the
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 8475 19 MDUSTMALS ConswMf prefects Last Vol Day Net Cap I— OOP High Low P/t $mH 310 180 Ajinomoto 189 -11 10.4 76 6 148 41.5 Angkasa 46 5 2 41 49 46 11 68.6 290 123 Apollo Food Hlg 143 4 2 57 2 388 »90 Berjaya Land 224 4 116
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      • 409 19 AFP Q Composite Index -0.03 MALAYSIA'S key stock index closed barely changed yesterday on profit-taking amid uncertainties over the political leadership in Japan. Three candidates are fighting it out to replace Ryutaro Hashimoto as Japan's prime minister with pledges of painful reforms to rescue the
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    • WARRANTS&OPTIONS
      • 3207 20 BOMBS, LOANS ft WAMANTS MM .Last Va4 Day Last Ouota *»1 nigh Low St no Company Sal* oar- COOO) High Law Buy or Setter Price 215 9 3000 mAMP8cSSOnjnVl* w< I I I 9 lis 20 5 5 3160 "Acer ******1 US$ 5.5 5 6 95 83 3164 Acma ******4
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      • 176 20  -  WARRANT WATCH -By] R Sivanithy A WARRANT that hasn't been featured in this column for some time is Freight Links Express' 2002 instrument which at 5.5 cents, is one of the "cheapest" in the local market especially for the time left to expiry. A review
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 221 22 Stocks Volume SingTel 15c 11.006.000 *M Resources 6.765,000 UIC 5,886.000 DBS Foreign 5,259,000 •MBf Capital 4,836,000 OCBC Foreign 4,732,000 OUB Foreign 4.588,000 •TanChonglntl50 3,522,000 UOB Foreign 3,497,000 •Metroplex 50c 3,416,000 Stocks DBS Foreign 51,522,866 OCBC Foreign 30,832,630 SingTel 15c 28,800,536 SPH 24,650.018 UOB Foreign 20,520.744 OUB Foreign 17,023,709 SIA Foreign
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        76 22  -  by Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Land closed 12 cents higher yesterday at $3 42 on a volume of 1.51 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 552,400 shares. The counter is well off its 52-week low of $2.16, and in the near term upside for this counter
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      • 651 22  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Trading quiet due to lack of leads from Japan; better trade figures discounted, leading to afternoon selling R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] With the closure of the Japanese market yesterday, local currencies and stocks were left to their own devices, resulting
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
        • 146 22 DISCOUNT stockbroking hasn't really made Its presence felt in Singapore, but in the US, it's been taken to new heights. In its latest advertisement, National Discount Brokers (NDB) asks the question "Who says there are no guarantees in the stock market?". The Arm goes on to
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        • 90 22 MERRILL Lynch is holding its third annual Asia-Pacific telecommunications conference on Sept 22 and 23 and this year's theme will be "Surviving The Crisis". It will look at how the region's telecom companies are developing their strategies to cope with the regional economic crisis. Speakers will include Lee
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        • 72 22 WHO says equity analysts aren't a brave and independent lot According to a Reuters report yesterday, analysts at HSBC Securities lowered earnings estimates on parent HSBC and Standard Chartered pic and downgraded investment ratings on the two to "add" from "buy," dealers told Reuters. One does wonder,
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        • 103 22 HONG Leong Holdings Ltd's "How lucky can you get" centrespread promoting its North Oaks executive condominium that appeared In full colour in The Sunday Times over the weekend has apparently drawn a bit of flak from the Board of Commissioners of Currency Singapore (BCCS). It is
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        • 80 22 MORE Malaysians seem to be switching to the diminutive national car Kancil amid rising retrenchments and pay cuts. In a car park in Kuala Lumpur, at least three owners of Toyota and Honda were spotted driving the economical national marque. It is not clear whether the
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        • 105 22 A BROKER'S dealer representative yesterday spoke of the exam he would have to take in order to be able to deal in the upcoming equity index futures which will be launched by the Singapore International Monetary Exchange. "You know in Singapore, you don't have
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 333 23 Bridge News A STRONGER US$l4.OO without combination ports was rumoured agreed on the run from the US Gulf to Japan, brokers said. Far East Panamax activity has also been brisk. Capes ize rates continued to drop. Talk of a tightening in the Atlantic Panamax sector helped to push
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    • 391 23  -  Changes from next month will enhance service quality and schedule reliability By Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) will enhance its Trans-Pacific services through a phased refinement of schedules with the re-deployment of ships from August this year. Several initiatives are being taken with
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    • PORTShots
      • 92 23 Reuters [BEIJING] China has begun construction of the first phase of a port channel Cor 100,000-dwt ships in Xiamen city in the south-eastern province ofFitfian, the official Xinhua news agency said. The first phase of the 250-metre-wide channel would cost about 105 million yuan
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      • 104 23 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] Throughput at the Kwai Chung port in June fell 2.8 per cent year-on-year to 785,746 TEUs (20-ft equivalent units), the South China Morning Post reported. Richard Yuen, secretary of the Port Maritime < Board, was quoted as saying that the terminal operators at
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      • 55 23 AFX-Asia [TAIPEI] Taiwan's China Shipbuilding Corp and a shipbuilding company from China have decided to go into a venture to build two 175,000 tons of bulk carriers, the Economic Daily News reported. China Shipbuilding estimates the investment will be around NT$lOO million (554.9 million),
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    • 231 23 [PANAMA CITY] Panama Canal toll revenue and traffic in the first nine months of fiscal 1997/98 surpassed forecasts, despite a slowdown in March to June due to El Nino and the Asian crisis, the Panama Canal Commission (PCC) said. PCC administrator Alberto Aleman Zubieta
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    • 492 23  -  It offers weekly sailings on* fixed day schedule By] P T Bangsberg [SINGAPORE] A new direct service between Singapore and South Africa will offer dedicated Maersk Line vessels in weekly sailings on a fixed day schedule. The first left Singapore on Sunday, with the
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    • 240 24 PACE DSR-Senator 4 ACL 9 Danveron 4 ANL 3 Djak Lloyd 9 Accord 6 Oongnama 3 Appenship 5 ECL 5 Astro 3 E «W 6 Austral 9 8 BSA 7 6 Lifl<l A Batamindo 7 Gemartr40s 8 Bays.ater 6 GenShM 9 B'tang Mas
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    • 711 24  -  CHINA SHIPPING Talk of a forced merger between Cosco and Sinotrans to create an interraodal giant is rife but issue is very political By P T Bangsberg Maritime circles are again buzz ing with talk of a merger between China's largest shipping line and its
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    • 23863 32 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT 2? A<, |J!™ S r Vo Tetepftone I ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone N4m Numt> Number I SIN Destn Name Nam, Number Number I MHHMHMMHHHHHMNHNHNHHHHHHNNNMMHHHHHttMMHI A I 04/06 29/08 Evergreen E GOVERN 4-072W 65-*****11 I 04/01 29/08 Triestlno EVER GOVERN 0224-072W 65-*****35 To ABIDJAN
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      • 189 37 Jul 21. Belgium: Independence Day. Au|L Switzerland: National Day. Aof 3. Ireland Republic Of: August Holiday. Anf 10. Singapore: National Day Holiday. South Africa: National Women's Holiday. Au( 12. Thailand: HM The Queen's Birthday. Atif IS. Austria: Assumption Day. Belgium: Assumption Day. France: Assumption Day. Greece: Assumption Day.
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      • 882 37 THIS report, complied by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars Instead of single prices Tor a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on average-sized stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 273 38 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian car sales plunged 82.4 per cent year-on-year in the first six months of 1998, reaching only 35,789 units, industry statistics showed yesterday. A snap survey of car sales for the first half of 1998 issued by the country's largest
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      • 78 38 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] The Indonesia Association of Airlines (Inaca) has asked the government to approve a rise in domestic airfares of between 35-47 per cent, the Kompas quoted Inaca secretary-general Benny Rungkat as saying. Mr Rungkat said the rise is part of the adjustment of the
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      • 326 38 Modest gains from operations wiped oat by forex transaction losses, much higher financing charges AFP [MANILA] Philippine Airlines (PAL) said yesterday its unaudited net loss nearly quadrupled from a year earli- er to 391.6 million pesos (5515.9 million) in the first
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      • 70 38 [BEIJING] A plane flies above Chinese farmers before landing at Beijing's airport yesterday. China signed a letter of intent earlier this month to buy 10 next-generation Boeing 737 aircraft. The aircraft are in addition to the 50planes that China committed to buying during President Jiang Zemin's
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      • 209 38 AFX Asia [SYDNEY] Ansett Holdings and Air New Zealand Ltd are to hold talks about the possible integration of their engineering and maintenance operations from 1999, the Australian Financial Review said. The paper said a high-lev-el meeting with union
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      • 442 38 It may be delayed till late this year, analysts say Reuters (BANGKOK) Asia's Financial jitters may delay the further privatisation of Thai Airways International pic until late this year, aviation analysts said yesterday. Analysts said the statecontrolled airline had shown little progress on
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      • 283 38 Reuters [LONDON] UPS, the largest package delivery service company in the United States, is likely to order up to 100 A3OO-600 aircraft from European aircraft maker Airbus Industrie in a deal worth £3 billion (SsB.l billion), The Sunday Times reported. The
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    • 27 23 Merger of Chinese giants up against turf wars Talk of a forced merger between Cosco and Sinotrans is rife but the issue is very political. Pag® 2
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    • 594 27 EASTERN CAR UNER, LTD/^t^lT 1 fAi KL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD •I STtOAUZt IH ROUP t HiAVY UfT IHTO 122 TOWS ECI (SINGAPORE) fTE LTD LOADING FOR YAI J^ T CALCUTTA/CHENNAI MV TRONO V.134 MV "BRIGHT PESCADORES" V 1 ETA SIN 23/07/98 ETA YGN 27/07/98 ETA SIN 24/07/98 EUSL3SB7/W ETA CTG
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    • 1738 28 MAC-NELS S'PORE M'SIA Carrier MN COUTH UNES, INC p.gudan*mm*m I i\-/ J OW WO. IMM7MOOUI SOU: (064) *****9 MAMLA: (632) *****24 p^ScßgiS, S2K&2X ROTTERDAM/FELIXSTOWE SYDNEY/MELBOURNE MV fl v ,9w mv *hum- v.403 ETA SIN. 24/07/98 ETA SIN: 24/07/98 TYO/YOK/OSA/UKB CANADA MV "ASIAN POLLUX" VN266 MV "HANJIN KAOHSIUNG" V.036E ETA SIN:
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    • 393 28 NANTAI LINE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO MAURITIUS SOUTH AFRICA VESSEL I VOT I SM j PLU I PUK I CFT »/MT NANUinONQ ¥023S 24/07 W/Oi 14/08 MAMUI VBHiS \tO2«S 03/W 11/08 14/01 21/pj ?4/M GOIDEN WAGON tOO4S 10/01 20/01 24/ M 21/01 HAKSA CASTHIA VOOIS 14/ M 2S/0I 2VM 03/W
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    • 388 29 j BSA mm MYANMA pBßk FIVE STAR LINE (Myonmor National Lk«) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) VtSSQ VOT SIN Pftl PEN PGU •OWU 15W SID HTTOI liw su> MALAYSIA AGINTS: BOUSTIAD SHIPPING AGENCIES KUL IK (03)241/300 PKL- Til (03) *****01 PEN: IE (04) *****02 PGll; TH (07) *****21/4 M BANK LINE
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    • 987 29 JjYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO., LTD. 13&—sppj?jq,qrriq^& alsljsjal S24W 24/07 14/08 15/01 09/08 11/06 NOLAMAZONFTI 0161 29/06 04/07 01/07 02/07 173 NOLfYW* 006W 27/07 12/0)13/08 15/08 18/08 HYGBCRAL 3121 01/07 07/07 02/07 04/07 125 HY BARON 314W JO/07 17/08 22/08 19/08 20/08 NOLMIS 003 C 10/07 11/07 05/07 07/07 -IS NOIIOUTI
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    • 776 30 BANGKOK/ MAP TA PHUT/ LAEM CHAEAHQ JAKARTA/PAN J A NO VESSEL VOV SIN BKK MTP LCH VESSEL VOY SIN JKT PJN CHANA BHUM: 27N In Pt 24/07 ANRO JAYAKARTA' 048 ~lnPt 23/07~ BANI BHUM 107N In Pt 25/07 24/07 THANA BHUM 29CS 22/07 23/07 SINO OCEAN OCNQ97 22/07 2S/07 GURU
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    • 515 30 BINTANG MAS SHIPPING PTE. LIT 39 NEIL ROAD, SINGAPORE 0206 TEL: *****68 FAX: *****64 TLX: R*****5 SINMER CR No: **********0W Receiving Cargo at PTI I Plntulu I I Muiri VESSEL VOT SJN |TU yUMi VOY SIN MUA I Sent V9814E 22 23/07 28/07 MGoU V9814E 27-21/07 02/0 BSwn V9815C 04-05/
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 403 31 INDONESIA NATIONAL LINE TO EUROPE SEMI-CONTAJNERtSeP SERVICE VOY SPORE I < H'BURG OBEMEM AMI WE I »¥EttEL 1510 I 20/10 25/10 OMIT 05/11 TO AUSTRALIA FULL CONTAINER SERVICE g SHlffltl owe I syo I mb. I hm I am. In am nun am mm ion i&u API MOULD ps xm
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    • 863 31 I, ADVANCE CONTAINER LINES (PTE) LTI "#\f* 140 Cecil Street #12-00, PIL Building. Singapore *****0 TEL: *****21, FAX *****19, TELEX :RS ***** ACLPL CR NO. **********0E OPERATIONS: *****60/ *****05 _l BAHQKOK JAKARTA (Wttkly 5 Slfls mn Sift LCH/1 Sl| BUT) (3 Satlltft/WM*) VKStt VOY SIN BKK VESSEL VQY SIN JOCT
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  • Page 33 Advertisements
    • 48 33 Slrffc Dial 740-6000 on demand —(Retrieve more schedules!) St|m Press "1" ct jL\ Select the port and key in the four digit code eg: To New York (NYC) 2275 Key in your fax number your phone number Another Innovative servke offered by document Will be Shipping Times s^b)
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    • 48 35 Dial 740-6000 on demandl —(Retrieve more schedules!) Press 1" Select the port and key in the four digit code eg: To New York (NYC) 2275 Key in your fax number STEfcjEnter your phone number Another Innovative service offered by The document Wi 11 be SffIPPING TIMES !3P «SS,£££_
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
    • 127 37 LEGEND: R Thunderstorm Temperature o c Sh°w#r Weather Wind direction with speed m knots ee Roin f J Cloudy Sky Wove height Wta. or. dieted by arrows which My With the W,„d I ™U# C rCI represents calm f and variable winds J__ One hotf fieche represents 5 knots Wove
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  • Page 38 Advertisements
    • 204 38 International Shipping Company requires CHARTERING BROKER (Pry Cargo Worldwide) for their Thailand Branch. Competence and diligence is more important than nationality, age or sex. Please apply with full references and C/V in English Fax: 65-2-*****95 E-mail: HALI@LOXINFO.CO.TH NOTICE TO INTRA-ASIA TRADE The undermentioned shipping lines in the Intra-Asia trade would
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