The Business Times, 8 December 1999

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 046/12/98 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8,1999
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    63 1 □m must (+56.03) MVT-SKI LJ 87U7(+20.08) □smsca nrroiES 317J0 (+4.50) STOCK MARKET INDICES Tuesday Change KLSE COMP 730.28 +184 NIKKEI 1&583J6 +8676 HANG SENO 16.073.09 4&£3 SET INDEX ***** 4*4 JAKARTA COUP __621.K -174 MANILA OOMP —1,***** +1J8 TAIPEI WP1 7387.06 47.41 SEOUL COMP mn ♦IM CLSA CHINA
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    75 1 FOOT BATES US! SS USS 1.679 £(US8/S$per£) 1.624 17*7 EURO(US$/S$/E) 1.024 1.720 DM 1410 0.871 YEN 1018 1.633* RM 3.800 0.442 HKJ 7.774 6116 BAHT 88.82 0.943 BIJPIAH T909 him* ■w* v.v*m 'StUUtunUs PUKE BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.25 JAKARTA .40.00 BANGKOK 10.00 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.25 TAIPEI
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    Lock icon Asia yet to pay for recovery, says World Bank
    888 1  -  But it gives an otherwise fairly bright outlook for Asia over the next few years Front Anthony Rowley in Tokyo ASIA has yet to pay the bill for financing recovery from its recent crisis and the costs could be very large,
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    Lock icon STI jumps 2.5% to all-time high of 2,299
    462 1  -  Banks, bine chips surge, but broad market languishes By\ R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Thanks to continued buying of bank stocks and a handful of other blue chips, the Straits Times Index yesterday surged 56.03 points or 2.5 per cent to a second consecutive
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    Lock icon Vickers to outsource risk assessment to US firm
    499 1  -  -j i exclusive It also plans to buy into a European investment bank Byi Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Stockbroking firm Vickers Ballas is planning to reduce its trading risks by tying up with an American company which will take over the assessment of
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      87 1 DHBPB Top stories Expat businessmen in Asia rate S'pore one of the region's least stressful places, ffovf Page Only KepTatLee ventures into land of hi-tech start-ups. Pg4 DBS acquires JP Morgan's stake in Philippine bank. Pg4 Wee Cho Yaw's firm set to buy Mandalay Court for $52m. Pg 11 Bank
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      58 1 p 4?* v steaKfejfe€\ -f < w* 1 S. ;'V Hgßr 1 r 1 iJ I The people who made money in the gold rush are not the people looking for gold. The peopie who made money are the ones who sell picks and shovels to the other people who
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      4 1 Market comment, Pg 6
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      Lock icon S'pore is 2nd least stressful place in Asia: poll
      640 2  -  Fere survey finds anxiety levels among expatriates in most countries of region have come down By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Expatriate businessmen in Asia rate Singapore one of the least stressful places in the region, second only to Japan, a survey has
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      Lock icon Meet the pioneer Net Cerfer
      985 2  -  PEOPLE The Father of Internet is busy on Interplanetary Internet, a mission to go where no network has gone before By i Catherine Ong THE Father of the Internet may not be as well known as his electronic child but he is equally intriguing. Vinton
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Melewar set to submit Clob offer
        78 2 BINTANG Melewar, which is controlled by Negri Sembilan prince Tunku Abdullah, is expected to submit its finalised Clob proposal to the Singapore Exchange tomorrow. The prince has fine-tuned the plan to unlock the 172,000 Clob accounts, which hold more than RMI6 billion (517.1 billion)
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        Lock icon Faster than Masnet
        59 2 LISTED serviced apartment player Scotts Holdings held a briefing on Nov 18 to introduce some senior executives and to present the group's plans. The appointments became effective a day later, but guess when the announcements were made on Masnet Dec 6. It's faster to read staff changes
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        Lock icon ISP wars hot up
        105 2 THE battle between the Internet service providers looks set to hot up in the next few weeks. Pacific Internet has fired the first salvo by setting up a "Free ISP's: are they worth it?" section on its Web site, making an indirect reference to Star Hub
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  • WEB entrepreneurs
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      Lock icon Taking the plunge in Silicon Valley
      597 3  -  By' Toh Han Shih YOU don't have to be special to be an entrepreneur, even if it means going abroad to realise your dream, according to a Singaporean who's been there and done that. Naresh Parshotam started his business right in Silicon Valley and
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      Lock icon Firm aims to bring TV-Web link to S'pore
      314 3  -  WebChoice.com's technology lets students use TV, PC as learning tools Toh Han Shih ROBERT Chua, a TV entrepreneur, plans to adopt an innovative technology linking TV with the Web from a US start-up, Web Choice.com, and bring it to Singapore. A Singapore
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      107 4 T7D I 1 KINGBQARD COPPER FOIL HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda on 10 September 1999) INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING 215,000,000 Ordinary Shares Issue Price: 550.53 each Applications for shares under the public offer may be made by way of printed Application Forms or Electronic Applications as referred to in the Prospectus
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon KepTL first bank to venture into hi-tech startups
      476 4  -  Other local banks have yet to set up scheme to finance this high-risk group By\ Siow Li Sen LOCAL banks other than Keppel Tat Lee Bank are not quite ready to embrace the new business of financing risky high-tech startups. Most bankers
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      Lock icon $8m loan deals for three startups
      539 4  -  Loans come from $50m fond; bank also gets stock options in companies By, Jennifer Lien KEPPEL Tat Lee Bank's TechFinancing Centre yesterday said it had signed loan deals worth $8 million with three technology startups. The two-month-old centre has received 100 applications for startup
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      Lock icon DBS acquires JP Morgan's stake in Philippine bank
      323 4 Manila central bank says DBS aiming for 30% of merged entity Bloomberg [HONGKONG] DBS Group Holdings Ltd bought JP Morgan Co's 12 per cent stake in the Bank of the Philippine Islands, the head of the Philippine central bank said. "They did
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      Lock icon Schroder's Parkway stake a blessing for DBS Land?
      709 4  -  |!K»iHlocksiew kalpana rashiwala PARKWAY Holding's founding Tan and Ang families agreed last Friday to sell a 19.6 per cent stake in the company to Schroder Capital Partners (SCP). That appears to have put a spanner in the works for DBS Land's healthcare
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      Lock icon Kingboard IPO shares priced at 53c
      410 5  -  About $66m from total IPO proceeds of $86 Jm will be used to increase production capacity By. Andrea Tan KINGBOARD Copper Foil yesterday launched its initial public offer of 215 million new and existing shares at 53 cents each for a mainboard listing. The
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      Lock icon Dragon Land bags $42m Shenyang project
      463 5  -  Chinese partner has guaranteed sale of 75% of the project By Jeanette Pang CHINA property developer Dragon Land has struck a deal to carry out a $42 million public housing project in Tiexi district of Shenyang City. Called Lion City Garden, the project will
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      Lock icon Pan Pacific Public in Internet venture with Ezyhealth
      385 5  -  Web-based education portal plans listing in three years By i Carol Eng TEXTBOOK publisher Pan Pacific Public Co has teamed up with Internet startup Ezyhealth Asia Pacific to set up a Web-based education portal with a view to listing it in three
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      Lock icon Chemical Industries sells UK properties for £16.25m
      99 5 Reuters CHEMICAL Industries (Far East) Ltd said yesterday that it had sold its London properties for £16.25 million (5544.3 million). It said in a statement its subsidiary Proctor House Ltd had sold Proctor House and the adjoining 111 High Holborn. It added that
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      Lock icon DBS Bank launches $878m bond issue
      570 8  -  $50m tranche for retail investors can be raised to $100 m if demand is high By' Teh Hooi Ling DBS BANK is launching today an $878 million bond issue out of which $50 million is set aside for retail investors as part of the
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      Lock icon Jade Tech's flat earnings below analysts' forecasts
      261 8  -  Netherlands-based nnit helps boost turnover by 3-7% By\ Ling Su Ann JADE Technologies yesterday reported a 3.7 per cent gain in revenue to $67.3 million, while its net profit remained unchanged for the year ended Oct 2. The semiconductor component maker, which is
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      Lock icon Keppel T&T's US$100m bonds oversubscribed
      182 8 KEPPEL Telecom Transportation said its US$lOO million (Ssl6B million) convertible bonds, which include a greenshoe option of up to US$l5 million, have been oversubscribed. The lead manager, Robert Fleming Co, has just exercised the greenshoe option that can be taken up within three weeks of
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon SALE delivers leased jet to US airline
        102 8 SINGAPORE Aircraft Leasing Enterprise has delivered a brand new A 320 aircraft to North America's newest low-fare airline, Jetßlue Airways. The aircraft, the first in Jetßlue's fleet, was delivered directly from Airbus Industrie's Toulouse plant This is the first of two A32os which
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        Lock icon Chuan Hup buys three vessels for $5.8m
        87 8 CHUAN Hup Holdings said it has acquired three vessels for $5.8 million. The purchase of the two barges and a tug will increase the group's fleet of vessels to 146 and cater to the expanding needs of the group's customers in the coal
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        Lock icon Kian Ho in deal to sell property
        98 8 KIAN Ho Bearings has entered into an option agreement with a third party for the sale of its property located at 8 Tuas Ave 20, Singapore, for $3 million. Completion of the sale is subjert to approval being obtained from the Jurong Town
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        Lock icon 96.8% acceptance for Mayfran issue
        69 8 MAYFRAN International has received acceptances for 128.41 million rights shares with warrants, representing 98.8 per cent of its 2-for-l rights issue. It also received excess applications for 4.73 million rights shares, representing 3.6 per cent of the rights issue. Mayfran is issuing a renounceable rights
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      488 6 Stocks Volume MIT 10c 35,103.000 Asia Food&Prop US$ 31,609,000 PCI A 17.000,000 CM Telecom HK75c 16.377,000 Golden Agn US10c 16,316,000 China Toll 20c 14,970,000 'Gen ting Int 14,902,000 SingTel 15c 12,522,000 GMG Global 5c 10,551,000 OCBC DB eCW*****7 9,871.000 Stocks > 0C8C 101,770,306 DBS Grp 70,931,806 SingTel 15c 41,196,890 OUB
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      Lock icon Blue chips soar but broad market lags way behind
      555 6  -  I :j comment STOCKS r.sivanithy THE recent similarities between trading in the local stock market and Wall Street continued yesterday with the benchmark indices propelled to new highs but with the broad market lagging far behind. Also, like in the US
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      Lock icon SPH covered wrt attractive despite time factor
      168 6  -  WARRANT WATCH R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Press Holdings has outperformed all recent expectations and yesterday the shares ended the day in the stock market at $35, an all-time closing high. For those who may not be aware of it, there is a cheaper way
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      Lock icon F&N falls 0.7% on profit-taking
      258 6  -  HOT STOCK Ry Wong Wei Kong FRASER Neave shares bucked the trend and fell yesterday, as some investors took the decision to take profit ahead of major announcements by the group in the next few days. F&N shares ended down 5 cents or 0.7 per
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      Lock icon Diary of events Wednesday, Dec 8
      135 6 Singapore ♦6.90 am. Arthur Andersen seminar on the succession planning business and family wealth ♦11.30 am. Telstra launches the world's fastest portable satellite communication system In Asia ♦1.30pm. PSB launches new product certification scheme United States CMotpi 1.45pm. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president
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      Lock icon Euro stages sharp rebound on German industry data
      510 6  -  I :j comment CURRENCIES But the greenback sees weakness all round except against the yen larry wee THE euro staged an unexpectedly sharp rebound overnight against the US dollar and yen after testing sub-USsl levels for the third session in a row,
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      150 7 r Raffles Holdings Limited INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING 300,000,000 New Shares at 550.85 each CLOSING 9 December 1999, 8:00 a.m. V Applications for Offer Shares may only be made by way of printed Application Forms or Electronic Applications as referred to in the Prospectus dated 1 December 1999. Applications for Placement
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      129 8 f If you want total control over your share trading or you want to trade regionally, there's a new website that has the power to WBE9A help you do just that. Introducing GohDirect, cutting-edge technology on the web to help investors trade stocks regionally, faster and more efficiently, any time,
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      16 8 Lost uour* A Try finding it at Classification 821 (Found) of cats. The Straits Times Classified,
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon PM and Miyazawa hold talks on free trade accord
      426 10  -  Proposal for S'pore, Japan pact will be brought up in meeting with Obnchi From Eugene Low in Tokyo PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong met Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Tokyo yesterday to discuss the feasibility of establishing a free trade
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      Lock icon New dimensions to the rise of the Asian century
      1239 10 Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew shares his thoughts on post-crisis Asia These are excerpts from Mr Lee's interview with the Los A ngeles Times Question: It wasn't too long ago that people were talking of the 21st century as the Asian
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      Lock icon SP buys Korean power plant for US$160 million
      352 11  -  Purchase is company's third regional acquisition in as many months for total of SsB2om By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Power (SP) has made its third regional acquisition in as many months a 100 per cent stake in Samsung General Chemicals' (SGC) co-generation
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      Lock icon A Net portal to trade steel
      362 11  -  iSteelAsia.com targets USssb annual sales in 2002 By 1 Toh Han Shih ASIA is trading steel over the Internet for the first time with iSteelAsia.com, an Internet portal targeting the region's multibillion dollar steel industry. iSteelAsia.com hopes to have US$5 billion (SsB.4 billion) of
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      Lock icon 6-7% growth is achievable: OUB
      316 11  -  141=1 on the economy economic growth !ty. Audrey Tan SINGAPORE'S cyclical upswing is sustainable and economic growth of 6-7 per cent is achievable in 2000, says the Overseas Union Bank. Economists at the bank say that there is "plenty of momentum" to keep Singapore's economy
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      Lock icon Wee Cho Yaw's firm set to buy Mandalay Court for $52m: sources
      358 11  -  Ftf exclusive The Novena site can be redeveloped into 100 apartments of 1,200 sq ft By] Kalpana Rashiwala WEE Cho Yaw continues to strengthen his hold in the Novena area. His privately held company Kheng Leong is close
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      Lock icon River Valley site going for $24.6m
      281 11 CHESTERTON International is marketing a small 15,333 sq ft freehold plot of land at River Valley Road and is asking for $24.6 million. Including an estimated development charge of about $2.8 million, the land cost works out to $638 per sq ft of potential
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      Lock icon We don't time disclosures with share movements: NEL
      321 11  -  MAILTETTI Chay Yee Meng Chief Financial Officer Nat Steel Electronics Limited WE refer to the letter from Lewis Tan Kiat Hin (BT, Nov 30) and would like to clarify the facts on the various issues raised. We are in total agreement with
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      Lock icon A wasted $30 taxi trip
      287 11  -  Ho Eng Neo Singapore I READ the article "City Cab driver cheated maid" (BT, Dec 3). Until then, I had always thought that City Cab was the most efficient taxi service. I had booked a City Cab taxi to take my maid to the agent's
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      Lock icon Corrections & clarifications
      59 11 Corrections clarifications IN our story yesterday, "Singaporean startups to get a boost in Silicon Valley", we reported that the National Science and Computer Board supported a plan by a group of entrepreneurs and high-tech investors to start a business incubator in the Valley. The correct name should be National Science
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      Lock icon 3 groups set up to help digital TV panel
      204 11 THREE sub-committees have been formed to assist the National Digital Television Committee in the further development of digital TV in Singapore. This national committee is an industry-led group formed in September to advise the Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA) on development and
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Asean wants to do too much, too fast
      682 12  -  iTTT^ bottom line OPINION al labita The writer is BT's Manila correspondent ASEAN may be biting off more than it can chew in trying to fast-track globalisation of its sputtering member economies. It wants too much, too soon At its third informal
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      134 12 The British population is now the most intensely surveilled in the world. The terrorist's loss of privacy is progressing to the ordinary citizen's.' Tony Geraghty author of 'The Irish War', on how the British use surveillance systems to trace suspected enemies of the state. The police have
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      Lock icon Black eye for world trade
      642 12 EDITORIAL BEYOND the recriminations, the failure of last week's world trade talks in Seattle will hit the very groups and countries that felt, in the immediate aftermath of the fiasco, a false sense of triumph. The message that was forgotten, amid all the noise, was
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      Lock icon Was it Clinton's blunder or bis masterstroke?
      1172 12  -  Those who say he lost in Seattle underestimate US president's snperior political instincts By] Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent THE conventional wisdom is that the outcome of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Seattle, Washington, has been a
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      930 12 Past, present, fature ONE of the reasons the popular prognosticators of the past never got us right is because they tended to envision our lives as filled with the same things they already had, only better. They didn't conceive of computers or faxes; they thought about
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon All power systems fully Y2K ready, says Tenaga
      103 13 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S power giant Tenaga Nasional yesterday said all its systems were fully Y2K compliant for the transition to the new millennium. The final series of tests on Nov 27 indicated that all power stations, transmission and distribution systems were
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Genting and Resorts World rebound
        149 13 AFTER taking a beating because of new anti-gambling regulations, gaming counters Genting Berhad and Resorts World were higher yesterday on reports that sister company Star Cruises might be buying into NCL Holding, owner of Norwegian Cruise Line. Hongkong-listed Star Cruises is 27 per cent owned
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        Lock icon New listings in favour
        124 13 RECENT listings were among those heavily traded yesterday, with Malaysia Airports and property-based UDA Holdings finishing among the top 10 most active stocks. Malaysia Airports was higher by eight sen to RM3.10 with 7.7 million shares traded and UDA was up by 13 sen to RM1.82
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        Lock icon Politically-linked stocks rally
        95 13  -  Compiled by! Diana Oon Abdullah POLITICALLY-related counters rebounded yesterday after losing ground on Monday, chalking up heavy volumes. Prices of Renong Berhad, MRCB, Pan Malaysian Industries and MUI Berhad all made gains yesterday. Renong was higher by three sen to RM2.04 with a volume of 3.5 million,
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      Lock icon Renong spearheads plan to merge transport firms
      496 13 KUALA LUMPUR Monorail, bus companies finding it hard to repay RM&3b in debt Bloomberg RENONG Bhd, Malaysia's largest industrial group, is spearheading a plan to merge Kuala Lumpur's monorail and bus firms as they struggle to repay about 8.3 billion Malaysian ringgit (553.7
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      Lock icon MRCB opposes RHB Bank's plans
      201 13 [KUALA LUMPUR] Key shareholder Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd (MRCB) is opposing RHB Bank Bhd's plan to merge with four other financial institutions, Bernama news agency quoted MRCB chairman Abdul Rahman Maidin as saying. As of end-Sept, MRCB holds a 22.69 per cent stake in Rashid
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      Lock icon Five to six merger plans submitted
      405 13  -  KL BANK MERGERS Applicants inclnde RHB, Hong Leong, Arab-M'sian and EON banks Frrrm Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S central bank has so far received five to six proposals for new merged banking groups ahead of the end-January deadline. Bank Negara governor Ali Abul
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      Lock icon M'sia's Oct industrial output down 1.1% from Sept
      567 14 KUALA LUMPUR Gains in electronics pulled down by fall in mining output Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S industrial output fell more than expected in October from the previous month as a drop in mine output eclipsed gains by electronics manufacturers. Industrial output dropped 1.1 per
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      Lock icon Petronas in deal with Brunei's SKBB
      159 14 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIAN oil company Petrol iam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) signed a pact yesterday with Brunei's SKBB Holdings Sdn Bhd to collaborate on petroleum and related businesses. The agreement would enable SKBB to import, store and sell Petronas petroleum products through retail stations
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      Lock icon Proton to push plans to make cars in India
      181 14 NEW DELHI Bernama PERUSAHAN Otomobil Nasional Berhad (Proton) is likely to approach India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) in February for approval on its project to manufacture Proton cars in India, the Economic Times reported quoting sources. The Malaysian carmaker had
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      Lock icon KLCI undervalued by 35%, says broker
      296 14 KUALA LUMPUR THE KLSE Composite Index (CI) is about 35 per cent undervalued based on the earnings yield of the 100 component stocks, The Star reported yesterday, quoting stockbroking house KAF Seagroatt Campbell. The CI should be around 1,000 points currently, KAF said in
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      231 16 JAKARTA Bloomberg A EUROPEAN Union (EU) boycott of Indonesian palm oil after 85,000 tonnes were found contaminated with diesel fuel in October is costing the country U5566.7 million (Ssll2 million) a month in lost exports. Asep Thoyib, the head of the joint marketing
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        69 16 AFP [MANILA! A twin-engine plane bound for the northern Philippines yeeterday went missing with 17 people on board, including a Japanese man and a British passport holder, officials said. Asian Spirit, a small domestic airline, said the Csech-made Let-flO aircraft left Manila early yesterday
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        64 16 AFP [BANGKOK] Thai Petrochemical Industry, one of Thailand's biggest delinquent debtors, said it would raise about US$l billion (551.68 billion) by the end of2ooo spiling new shares. Thai Petrochem and more than 100 creditors are in to restructure about US$3.5 billion of delinquent debt.
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        50 16 Reuters [JAKARTA! Indonesia's director-general for taxes Ansari Ri tonga yesterday said he opposed plans announced by Investment Minister Laksamana Sukardi to offer tax holidays to encourage investment. "Our law does not recognise tax holidays. It's not in line with the law," he said. Reuters
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        72 16 Reuters [BANGKOK] The Thai cabinet yesterday approved a finance ministry proposal for state-owned Thai Airways International to tap local and foreign loans to finance aircraft purchases. Government spokesman Akapol Sorasuchart said the government agreed to let Thai Airways take out up to 10.5
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      327 18 HONGKONG Rating firm points to recovery, autonomy Bloomberg, Reuters HONGKONG'S "A" credit rating w£p affirmed by Standard Poor's and its outlook raised to stable from negative because of the city's economic recovery and confidence in itsfpolitical autonomy from China. Hongkong's rating is able to
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      117 18 HONGKONG Reuters PIRACY buster Business Software Alliance (BSA) yesterday said that software piracy in Hongkong offices remained a serious problem and warned that it could derail the territory's aims of developing a high-technology hub. Hongkong's overall piracy rate, at 59 per cent,
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      265 20 BANGALORE Reuters FIVE more Indian information technology companies are set to list on the US Nasdaq stock exchange next year, a leading industry official said on Monday, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported. "Five infotech companies are going
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      288 20 CHUAN SOON HUAT INDUSTRIAL GROUP LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT CHUAN SOON HUAT INDUSTRIAL GROUP LIMITED (THE "COMPANY") OFFER FOR SALE BY THE DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE LTD OF 41,000,000 WARRANTS ("WARRANTS") TO SUBSCRIBE FOR 41,000,000 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.10 EACH IN THE CAPITAL OF THE
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      532 21 WASHINGTON Court finding could open software giant to damaging civil lawsuits Reuters A FEDERAL judge's finding that Microsoft Corp used its monopoly power to punish competitors puts new pressure on the software giant to settle the US government's anti-trust case or face the
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      441 21 NEW YORK Strong economies, Net push spending above forecast Reuters STRONGER-than-expected economies worldwide and a surge in business from Internet companies boosted advertising spending above forecasts this year, and it is on track for further gains next year, two leading media experts said on
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      179 21 ■LONDON Reuters THREE national telecoms firms are joining with Lon-don-based brokerage company Tullet Tokyo to launch an electronic exchange in cross-border telephone calls, reports said here yesterday. The exchange, Tirex, will be jointly owned by Tullet Tokyo, the Australian telecoms leader
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      557 21 PEOPLE NYT, Bloomberg DOUG is gone. Long live Doug. And don't confuse the two. Douglas Ivester and Douglas Daft the outgoing and incoming chief executives of Coca-Cola respectively share a name and have worked together closely during their combined 50 years at the
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      606 22 WASHINGTON Figures seen blunting threat from inflation, reducing risk of Fed rate hike Bloomberg US worker productivity rose in the third quarter at the fastest pace in seven years and labour costs fell for the first
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      276 22 WASHINGTON He says reliability of the figures has helped boost growth AFX-Asia FEDERAL Reserve board chairman Alan Greenspan said the lack of political influence on the collection and reporting of US GDP data by the Commerce Department has helped boost the US Growth
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      371 22 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE authorities insisted yesterday that they were guiding the world's second biggest economy to recovery, despite gloomy figures which showed a contraction in the three months to September. Economic Planning Agency (EPA) director general Taichi Sakaiya said authorities were sticking to the
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      314 22 SEOUL Bloomberg SOUTH Korea said it's leasing land for free to certain overseas electronics, telecommunications and computerrelated companies, in a move to lure more foreign investment into the country. Commerce, Industry and Energy Minister Chung Duck Koo said the government
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      192 22 WASHINGTON AFP THE US Federal Reserve Bank on Monday approved the repurchase of Republic New York by HSBC. The Fed imposed no conditions on its approval, saying the buy-back would not create a dominant position for the bank on the New York market. Republic
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      671 25 SINGAPORE Korea has world's highest proportion of online stock trades; deregulated fees will boost growth Reuters CYBERSPACE trading isn't yet a tradition in Asia, where phone lines, let alone personal computers, are in short supply in some countries. But there are signs online
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      358 25 NEW YORK Companies foresee little Y2K disruption; ready to roll out new investments poll NYT WITH several weeks to go before Year 2000 computer problems are most likely to be widely apparent, some pollsters and survey takers are already beginning to ask,
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      411 22 I mi ■ifum MAYFRAN INTERNATIONAL LTD 9 (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT RENOUNCEABLE RIGHTS ISSUE ("RIGHTS ISSUE") OF 130,000,000 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.15 EACH ("RIGHTS SHARES") WITH 16,250,000 DETACHABLE WARRANTS ("WARRANTS") TO SUBSCRIBE FOR NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.15 EACH IN THE CAPITAL OF MAYFRAN INTERNATIONAL LTD
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      145 23 A Member of American International Group, Inc. Little wonder, AIA is Singapore's first and only insurance company conferred with the People Developer Award by Singapore Productivity and Standards Board. We are honoured to receive this mark of distinction. At AIA, we consistently set higher standards for ourselves. Always eager to
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      3937 24 W THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN, LIMITED Head Office's Address: 3-3. Marunouchi 1-chome. Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100, Japan BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 1999 NON-CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS I NON-CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME NON-CONSOLIOATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS' EOUITY (in millions of yen) (in millions of yen) (in millions of yen)
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      231 26  -  SGZ Derivatives TnMo&Reports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming EXUBERANCE reigned in the Singapore stock market yesterday. Providing the fuel was the mighty fund-buying of blue chips and finance issues, leading the benchmark Straits Times Index to its second straight record close. Viewed
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      152 26  -  MSCI Taiwan futures Matthew DenBleyker Refco Singapore THE SGX MSCI Taiwan Stock Index Futures yesterday slid 3.8 points, or 1.05 per cent, to 356.8 after reaching an intraday high of 362.5. Several large-capitalisa-tion shares were sold by investors who switched to more popular high-tech
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      258 26 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Buoyant oil prices paused near nine-year highs yesterday as traders waited eagerly for clear signs of how long Iraq's export stoppage might last. Benchmark Brent futures for January delivery were 18 US cents lower at U5525.61
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      336 26 Reuters London EUROPE'S single currency rallied to two-week peaks of US$l.O3 yesterday on new evidence of the strength of German economic recovery but swiftly fell back as traders leapt to lock in profits. A 29.000 drop in Germany's jobless in November was more than four times larger than
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      1251 26 PITERBAirg CROSS RATES Dec7 AS C$ Bwt Euro Ffr Dm HK$ tnd Is Ihalah Yw Won m N2$ m> S$ Band Sfr MT$ Mrt Pomt US$ Australia 0.936 6.178 0.631 4.140 1235 4.917 27.465 45.698 0.646 7.274 2.404 1.254 32.792 Z5.850 1.066 3.901 0.990 20.044 24.628 0.391 0.635 Canada 1.070
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      1908 26 SICOM FUTURES Dec 7 RUBBER (futures closing n *15.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTS centsAq) Close Volume Open Mocth Hlqh Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jan 00 H3.50 Feb 00 115.00 100 Mar 00 118.00 100 Apr/Jun 00 124.00 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US MiitsA?) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jan 00
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      2831 27 Reuters n Hang Seng -95JS3 HONGKONG stocks closed lower yesterday as profittaking trimmed the Hang Seng Index one day after it closed at its highest level since the start of the Asian financial crisis. The blue-chip index closed down 95.53 points, or 0.59 per cent,
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      995 27 Reuters ffl Shenzhen B Index -0.55 SHENZHEN'S B shares ended lower in sluggish trade yesterday, with concerns about the profit prospects of most B share companies continuing to nudge buyers away. The B share index slipped 0.55 point, or 0.67 per cent, to 81.18 on turnover of HK$17 million
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      351 27 AFP □wp Index -87.41 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.9 per cent lower yesterday in lacklustre trading due to a lack of confidence in the market, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 67.41 points to 7,827.05 on turnover of NT$115.19 billion. Falls led rises 343 to
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      1950 27 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 +86.76 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.5 per cent higher yesterday, with investors chasing export issues and technology shares, brokers said. "There is no change in the market's trend of weighing high-tech and information technology issues heavily," Okasan Securities chief
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      8125 28 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products 1999 Last Vol Day Net Cap Hign Low Company Sal* 'OOO High Low Pit $"rtl 440 255 Ajtnomoto 300 19.0 jg-* 174 46 Angkasa 87 unch 9 87 86 128.3 404 220 Apollo Food Hlg 320 "JO 294 115 Berjaya Land 159 3 54 160 158 5.1
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      436 28 AFX-Asia Q Composite Index +£84 MALAYSIAN share prices closed higher yesterday in modest trade on a technical rebound after days of sustained losses, dealers said. Genting Bhd and Resorts World Bhd also staged a recovery after both stocks came under pressure over concerns that
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      787 29 AFP Dl SET M« -fts4 THAI share prices closed down 0.1 per cent yesterday in thin trade, with some selective buying in telecommunications stocks, dealers said. A recovery in PTT Exploration and Production's share prices after it announced a gas find in the Gulf of Thailand helped sustain the
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      278 29 AFP n Manila +LGB PHILIPPINE share prices closed slightly higher yesterday due to last-minute bar-gain-hunting, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 1.68 points to close at 1,942.62. Volume totalled 19.3 billion shares valued at 3.08 billion pesos. —AFP Ok 7 Pasa COOO) MRCAMed 0.70 -0.02 390
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      708 29 AFX-Asia CI Composite Index -174 INDONESIAN share prices closed lower yesterday with investors taking profits on PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia after reports that the government wants to sell a majority stake in state-run telecommunications firms, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 2.74 points, or 0.4 per
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      275 29 AFP 1 Wellington -20.35 SEVERAL leading stocks were thumped in New Zealand trading yesterday as the market slid 0.9 per cent, surrendering almost all of Monday's gains. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 20.35 points at 2,126.54 on turnover worth NZ599.4 million.—AFP Ok 7 COOC) Advantage HOS 3.50 0.07
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      588 29 AFP n All Ordinaries -27.4 AUSTRALIAN shares feU 0.9 per cent yesterday amid heavy profit-taking that dashed hopes of a record day's trading, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index finished the day near its lows, down 27.4 points at 3,105.90. The All Industrials Index fell 48.7 points to 5,399.70
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      307 29 AFP U Composite Index +LBl THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index yesterday closed up 1.81 points at 999.92. Volume was 282.8 million shares worth 4.9 trillion won. Ok 7 Arum $mi UtOO -1150 Bratn TKfi W5S -155 Ctntrjl Bank 2410 -220 ChMConxn *****0 5500 OMCuBank 3210 -320 OMungCorp 3440
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      300 33 Bridge News, Reuters THE dry cargo freight market got off to its customary slow start to the week with few fresh identifiable trends, brokers said. Capesize activity was limited and there was a possibility that rates might decline in the short-term, while panamax conditions were generally quiet, they
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      538 33 Proposal could move Genting into lucrative American cruise business Bloomberg [OSLO] NCL Holding, the Norwegian owner of the world's No 4 cruise operator Norwegian Cruise Line, said yesterday that it has held talks with Malaysian-owned Star Cruises on a possible partnership.
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      740 33  -  STRAIT TALK By\ Seafarer IT is safe to say many shipowners have been less than enthusiastic about the International Safety Management Code (ISM). Some even went to considerable lengths to make sure their vessels were designated "general cargo ships" rather
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      226 33 [SINGAPORE] Asian shipowners said last week that a proposal by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) for ships to be fitted with "black boxes" similar to those found on aircraft would not help prevent accidents. The 6th meeting of the Asian Shipowners Forum (ASF) Safe Navigation
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      326 33 Boost in orders helped by weaker won against yen Bloomberg [SEOUL] South Korean shipbuilding orders more than tripled in November from a year earlier, as a weaker won helped boost Korean companies' competitiveness against Japanese rivals. Hyundai Heavy Industries Co, the world's largest shipbuilder,
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        440 34 HK's long-haul carrier will form a new HK-based cargo hub with DHL Worldwide Express Bloomberg [HONGKONG] CATHAY Pacific Airways, Hongkong's only longhaul carrier, has said that it will team up with DHL Worldwide Express, a closely held delivery service company, to form a new Hong-kong-based cargo
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        251 34 Bloomberg (TOKYO] Nippon Express said it will launch a new, more efficient delivery system in January that will allow it to cut prices by up to 20 per cent. The company, which transports materials and goods mainly between corporate clients, said it
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        474 46 Carbon 180 Mu 992.1 0.9 18.1 0.11 79 0.09 Ok 2 Density Wrttf IrsMut Ask Aluminium Sediment No tboi* E25 5 0 16 1 0 0 2222 380 Ave 982.6 0.4 12.4 0.06 29 0.02 l„„ 380 Mil 990.8 14 15.3 0.12 67 0.04 M/iri »m/m
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        512 47 AIRLINE SAFETY Lawsuit filed in Delaware last week accuses Boeing of negligence Reuters [WILMINGTON, Delaware] Boeing Co, the world's largest aerospace company, was accused of negligence by the spouses of two women who were among 104 people killed in 1997 when a
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        208 47 Bloomberg [CANBERRA] Australia's government granted foreign investment approval for Virgin Holdings pic to establish a new domestic low-fare airline, Virgin Australia. London-based Virgin said on Nov 28 it would set up a service to rival the duopoly now held by Qantas Airways Ltd,
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        638 47 NYT [MIAMI] Sabre Tech Inc, the aircraft maintenance company that safety investigators concluded had improperly packaged the oxygen generators linked to the 1996 crash of ValuJet Airlines Flight 592, was found guilty on Monday in a subdued federal courtroom of improperly
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      212 33 Cathay-DHL tie-up Hongkong's long-haul carrier to form new HK-based cargo hub with DHL Worldwide Express pag*2 Airline safety Spouses of two Silk Air crash victims sue Boeing. Contractor found guilty in trial on ValuJet crash. Boeing tells airlines to inspect wiring on 737s pag# 15 We are an international IT
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      1678 36 DSR-SENATOR LINES TO UK/CONTINENT TO MmJfiUJtRANEANOANADA Vtssa VOT T»r" LEH »T» Wl HOI W» (U VtSSiL «>* SW GIT IK HIS W.C MTW PUNJAB SENATOR 001OW OJI2 1112 20 12 21 12 23 12 24 12 25 12 CAUFOMM StNATOfI D939W (212 1» 12 2112 al2 25 12 0101 HANJM
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      1063 36 am MAfi-MELS S'POftE M'SIA I Carrier. MN CONTR UNES, INC P. GUOANG: (07) *****28 I l-|V"/\** J CM NOc **********0 C SIBU: (064)*****9 MANILA: (632)*****24 V PENANG: (04) *****36 BANGKOK: (662) *****57 SURABAYA: (31) *****11 P. KELANG: (03) *****77 JKT: (21) *****45 KUCHWG (062) *****1-3 MANILA HO CHI MINH MV
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      1843 37 VESSEL VQY KHM HKG SIN PKG PQfl DXB DMM IBA BIK IRAN BATTARI PCL-131 01/12 03/12 07/12 08/12 17/12 18/12 19/12 21/12 23/12 IRAN BAAKERI PCL-132 08/12 10/12 14/12 18/12 24/12 28/12 28/12 28/12 30/12 IRAN TEYFOIIRI PCL-133 18/12 17/12 21/12 22/12 31/12 01/01 02/01 04/01 08/01 IRANSHAHRYAR PCL-134 22/12
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      996 37 20 KC *9 EYiVY MONDAY 1 TO lOMDEAOI -19 DATS I TO OAKLAND 21 DAYS J I ?AX*i G Jm»i. S 2S A 2fi k #0 ROIINSOM ID TEL 226 1900 PAX: *****08 OUTWARD (l/l) *****02 JOHORE OFFICE; I SAIiS/IKGS *****57/43 INWARD DEPT (D/ 0) *****65 COSTAft AGENCIES (M) SDN
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      925 37 EUROPE EXPRESS SCTVICE EXPORT I IMPORT KCBTM CAKOiS TO t BO* 11 MEMO. NHKOUtt* MOSCOW ST PFTBSOHK VIA NAN 2) ANIYRP VIA On TRANSPACIFIC SERVICE EXPORT -wuKmNKa/i2-ooMBNOiT/soN-wanMMßiooirnAMK2vii| IMPORT VBSO VOT UN ui OAK VOT LGB OA* r~m Ota 00* J2/12 ;30/12 04/01 HJ COLOMBO fO34W 22/11 14/11 KJnJMG OIK 10/12
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      1427 38 EUROPEAJK/SCANDINAVIA/FIMLAND/RUSSIA rSGTI ROM ANW HBG THP ZEE LHV LHV THP RDM ANW HBG P*l I SGP E DEVELOP RW-009 11/12 2W12 01/01 30/12 03/U1 01/01 05/01 E REWARD RE 036 18/11 20/11 10/11 21/11 23/11 12/12 13/12 E DECENT RW-012 10/12 6WI 12/01 08/V1 10/01 11/01 12/01 E. REFINE RE-023
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      1205 39 WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN TO NORTH AND LATIN AMERICA 'CAR RORO HEAVYUFT SERVICE' I VESSEL VOY RAMP HEIGHT SIN I LAX CRL MIA SAV BAI OCF NYC WW MM TOBA AMI 1 4001 MS 6.3 M 13/12 09/01 11/01 21/01 23/01 2S/01 26/01 2S/01 01/02 07/02 TARONGA AHOOI 400 Ton 6.3 M
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      50 41 FAR EAST EUROPE I Direct Breakbulk/Container/LCL Service to i Manila/Guam/Saipan FAR EAST-USA Agents: V-Grow Shipping Pte Ltd See Page 7 Daily FULL CONTAINER EXPRESS SERVICE Wallenius T Wilhelmsen Turn To Pg 5 New Europe To rB MIDDLE EAST I S.E. ASIA service China Shipping (S) Agencies Pte Ltd p 7
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