The Business Times, 5 January 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2000
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    65 1 □m UNkIS (-52.79) BT-SEI M&3S (-20.94) riSMSCI FUTURES mm 344.40 (-4.70) STOCK HAIKET INDICES Tuesday Change KLSE COMP ***** -1.09 NIKKEI 19,***** +6812 HANO SENG 17,***** -»M1 SET INDEX ..498,46 16.54 JAKARTA COMP ***** +2130 MANILA OOMP —*****8 +11.41 TAIPEI WPI 8.76C66 +307.71 SEOUL OOMP 1,069.94 +30*7 CIS
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    Lock icon FINANCE
    75 1 FOBEX BATES USI SI USS 1.661 £{US$/S$ per 1.634 169? EURO(US$/S$/E) 1.024 1.690 DM 1JH9 9.884 YEN 103.0 1.602 RM 3.800 9.434 HKS 7.777 9112 BAHT 36.88 0.94* RUPIAH 7,969 9.923 'Stto ltOunits FUME BATS SINGAPORE* 5.80 KlIALA LUMPUR 716 JAKARTA 40.00 BANGKOK 10.00 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.25 TAIPEI
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    Lock icon Callback operators gear up for advertising blitz
    742 1  -  :idexclusive Blanket advertising ban on callback operators lifted bnt mass media ads are still no-go By( Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Callback operators have been given the green light by the government to advertise on buses, taxis, magazines and billboards to woo customers to their
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    Lock icon Moderate bids seen at next govt sales of 99-year sites
    903 1  -  Analysts cite 8,400 nnlaunched private homes and alternative presented by collective sales By\ Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Property pundits expect developers to bid moderately when the government resumes sales of 99-year private housing sites, expected anytime now. They cite the still
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    Lock icon Fears mount over Indon central bank controversy
    703 1  -  Missing loans may derail reforms, cost bank governor his job From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S economic reform programme is once again in jeopardy as the government attempts to fend off a growing controversy swirling round the central bank a development that is
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    Lock icon European stocks plunge 4%
    279 1 Dow slips 139 points at 11am EST on fears of Fed rate rise Reuters, Bloomberg [NEW YORK] European stock markets fell sharply by some four per cent yesterday the sharpest in about 15 months as the holiday euphoria gave way to fears of higher interest rates
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      90 1 INSIDE Top stories S'pore-registered ship raided in Colombo port. Shipping Tim—, P9l Individuals, not funds, behind Dec surge in S'pore stocks. Pg 3 TDB unveils four initiatives to help firms expand global reach. Pg 7 Nissan beats Toyota to top spot for 1999 car sales. Pg 7 Clear road map
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      24 1 Wiranto oonld lose job in Cabinet reshuffle, Pg 11 Singapore «took» retreat on profit-taking, Pg 4 SIA, "Venture join the above-$2O league, Pg 3
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Dot-com predictions for 2000
        162 2 HERE are some Internet predictions for 2000 from an analyst with a pretty impressive record: another Internet stock correction is on the way, profitability will become a virtue for dot-coms, Microsoft will break up. The look in the crystal ball is by Frank Gens, senior vice-president
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        57 2 SINGAPORE-BASED TheGlobalGrocer.Com Pte Ltd is dangling a big bunch of carrots to draw visitors to its food Web site at www.theglobalgrocer.com. One thousand prizes that are redeemable for food will be given away and the top prize is US$lOO (Ssl66) of food
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      Lock icon Asian currencies rocket as stocks fly
      552 2  -  US$ will end 2000 at 55L51,1,040 Korean won and NTs3os currency strategist By\ Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] Asian currencies hit multi-year highs yesterday, as other Asian stock markets reinforced Monday's 100-point rally in Singapore's Straits Times Index. Even for someone like Simon Flint, who predicted
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      Lock icon Outlook positive despite slight fall in purchasing managers' index
      548 2  -  Encouraging signs as new orders and output picked op last month Byi Anna Teo DESPITE a slight drop in the overall index, the latest purchasing managers' index (PMI) numbers paint a positive picture of the manufacturing economy in the year ahead.
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      Lock icon Shaping up for battle: how Wee Cho Yaw does it
      394 2  -  PEOPLE UOB staff told to think of themselves as owners and be accountable for their actions By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Wee Cho Yaw, the hard-driv-ing chairman of United Overseas Bank (UOB), has put his staff on notice that they
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon SIA, Venture join the above-$20 league
      678 3  -  Datacraft, at US$lO.6O, also looks set to enter the elite group W Teh Hooi Ling THE new century bulls have sent a few stocks hurtling into the above-$2O league, joining the likes of Singapore Press Holdings, DBS Group Holdings, Pacific Century Regional Development (PCRD)
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      Lock icon Lots of steam left in bank stocks: analysts
      561 3  -  Focus is on cranking np ROEs through capital management By\ Siow Li Sen THE increasing focus on more efficient capital management to boost shareholder value will keep Singapore bank stocks on the boil and this is despite the surge on Monday that
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon Alternate director at Kep Hitachi Zosen
        44 5 KEPPEL Hitachi Zosen has appointed Hoe Eng Hock as the alternate director to Teo Soon Hoe with effect from Jan 1. Mr Hoe is president of Philippine-listed Keppel Philippines Inc and Mr Teo is chairman of Keppel T&T.
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        Lock icon VDH adds comment to results
        62 5 INFRASTRUCTURE and engineering company Van der Horst yesterday added a comment to its ftill-year results announcement on Dec 29, saying that between Sept 30 the end of its financial year and Dec 29, "no event has occurred that may haye a material impact on the
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        Lock icon GES finance and ops V-P resigns
        30 5 GES International disclosed yesterday that its vice-president of finance and operations and joint company secretary, Vincent Khor, had resigned with effect from yesterday itself.
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        Lock icon Omni Ind appoints exec director
        23 5 ELECTRONICS group Omni Industries yesterday appointed Khaw Kheng Joo its executive director and president of the electronics division.
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        Lock icon Tiong Woon buys 51% of Grande Engg
        48 5 CONSTRUCTION and marine transportation firm Tiong Woon Corp has bought 51 per cent of Grande Engineering Construction for $51,000. It said yesterday that Grande, though newly incorporated, had secured $400,000 worth of projects in piping and blinding work on Jurong Island.
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        Lock icon Chew Eu Hock gets Bangladesh contract
        45 5 CHEW Eu Hock Holdings has secured a road improvement contract in Dhaka through a 50-50 joint venture formed by wholly-owned subsidiary Chew Eu Hock Construction and Bangladesh-based Monico Ltd. The company did not disclose the value of the contract.
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        Lock icon Dragon Land shareholders cut stakes
        51 5 DRAGON Land said yesterday that two substantial shareholders, Teh Kiu Cheong and Andrew Cheng, havte sold 6.47 million shares each or 1.82 per cent of the company's shares through Grand Orient Securities. Following the sale, their stakes in the company are now 4.75 per cent
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      Lock icon OUB forms nominating panel to pick key people
      233 5 Move is part of Hay's liberalisation package OVERSEAS Union Bank has formed a five-member nominating committee to vet and identity potential board members and key executives foe the bank. The committee, with three representatives from outside the bank, is chaired by Tan
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      Lock icon Clear road map needed of the route F&N is taking
      756 5  -  lock siew| ven sreenivasan IT looks like stockmarket investors have decided to give Fraser Neave the benefit of the doubt. The group's shares are showing signs of picking up after having fallen almost 7 per cent last month following the
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      Lock icon Individuals, not funds, behind Dec surge in S'pore stocks
      436 5  -  Lipper figures show fond investments actually fell 2.2% from Nov to USs&Bb Byy Wong Wei Kong WHO has been driving up the Singapore market? Not the big global fund managers, according to data from Lipper Asia released by Reuters yesterday. During
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      Lock icon ST Assembly signs up 26 brokers for S'pore IPO
      390 5  -  Documents filed with RCB, road show expected next week By, Jennifer Lien ST ASSEMBLY Test Services (Stats), which plans to go for a share listing on Nasdaq and in Singapore, has signed up 26 brokers for its Singapore retail offering, sources
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      Lock icon Craft Print secures Sesdaq listing nod
      126 5 PRINT specialist Craft Print Iniernational has received inprinciple approval front the stock exchange for a listing on Sesdaq. The company was silent on details of its offer yesterday but said it had, over-the past decade, gained a foothold in the global market. For financial
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      513 4 Stocks Volume ChuanHup 20c 40,751,000 Gotdtron 20c 34,402,000 Hotung Inv NT5 33,693.000 Benefun HK10c 31,430,000 Kingboard US10c 28,288,000 I-One 5c 26,106,000 Nam Lee 10c 25,108,000 Datapulse 5c 22.297.000 GES Intl Ltd 20c 21,899,000 IPC Corpn 5c 21,609,000 Stocks SIA 70,468,416 JIT Hldgs 10c 68,800,200 Omni Ind 10c 63,884,240 DBSGrp 63,358,625
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      Lock icon Global Tech stock better value than the warrant
      174 4  -  WARRANT WATCH tiy Ven Sreenivasan THE stock and warrant of Hongkongbased cellular phone handset and accessories maker Global Tech Holdings has risen sharply since the beginning of December in tandem with many other electronics sector counters. The stock was the third biggest
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      Lock icon S'pore market retreats on profit-taking, US carrectkm
      564 4  -  l-i comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE Singapore market saw its first significant correction in months as punters and stockists locked in profits yesterday following several days of sharp rises in stock prices. The fall also came on the heels of a correction on
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      Lock icon Chuan Hup support seen above 40 cts
      266 4  -  HOT STOCK Ry Wong Wei Kong MARINE stock Chuan Hup Holdings ended up as the most heavily traded issue yesterday, with most signs suggesting that the stock is finished with its recent consolidation phase. Chuan Hup's shares, adjusted for the company's recent share
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      Lock icon Diary of events
      127 4 Wednesday, Jan 5 Singapore ♦9am. SME21 plan to be launched at Small and Medium Enterprise Conference ♦10.30am. DMG Asia/Keppel Securities/ Lim Tan Securities launch voice-activated share trading ♦2pm. Intracomm signs memorandum of understanding with Ngee Ann for e-commerce development of coldfusion technology ♦3pm. Uraco Holdings' extraordinary general
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      183 5 1 c^^Ofl^nnrlCllLJlL i THE FINANCIAL TRAINING H H COMPANY- H Come t0 our CF Presentation £p A PRESENTATION Evening and find out about both EVENING H the Chartered Financial Analyst 7 Date 11 January 2000 (Tuesday) g (CFA) qualification and the CFA rime 6.30pm courses offered by the Financial Venue:
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  • MONEY matters
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      Lock icon Buy Asian units on weakness
      1045 6  -  I=i comment CURRENCIES Watch S$ 1.6650 closely as a possible cap to US dollar upside larry wee THE first sessions of 2000 explosively confirmed the mini-bull markets established for Asian currencies and stocks over the last month. And, while choppiness and volatility are likely to
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      Lock icon SG upbeat on Asia in 2000
      367 6  -  liy\ Larry Wee NEW drivers will power Asian economic growth in the years 2000 and 2001, and not the crisis-rebound factors behind 1999 growth, predicts SG Emerging Markets Equity Research. Foremost among these: the best external environment since the early *****; Japanese recovery; higher
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      Lock icon Asian currencies off to a good start
      597 6 AS readers ponder strategies for Asian currencies at the start of the New Year, IDEAglobal.com reports that players are bullish for the first week of 2000. Overall, our poll suggests that regional will enjoy good gains, assuming the Japanese yen trades in a
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      135 6 era FOUR PRIME FREEHOLD LAND AT MERGUI ROAD: Plat A Mergui Court 18,524 sq. ft Plot B Northern Mansion 15,063 sq. ft Plot C Mergui Lodge 10,061 sq. ft Plot D Norfolk Court 16,631 sq. ft Total site area 60,279 sq. ft P/ot rot/o 2.8, up to 20 storeys Central
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon M1 money supply up 15% in Nov
      308 7  -  l=H=4 on the economy money supply By I Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE'S Ml money supply cash in circulation and current accounts expanded more rapidly in November last year than the month before, according to the latest figures from the Monetary Au-' thority of
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      Lock icon Nissan beats Toyota to top spot for 1999 car sales
      385 7  -  Total units sold surged 40% to 10,705; market share rose to 21.84% By I Soh Tiang Keng NISSAN has overtaken Toyota to clinch the No 1 spot in motor car sales in Singapore. Tan Chong and Sons Motor, the distributor
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      Lock icon StarHub misinterpreted scope of deal: SingTel
      440 7  -  MAILBOX Foo Kim Leng (Ms) Senior Corporate Communications Manager Singapore Telecom WE REFER to the letter "Star Hub gave Sing Tel lots of notice" by Shae Hung Yee (BT, Dec 29, 1999). Ms Shae mentioned that since the interconnect agreement was signed between Sing
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      Lock icon TDB unveils four initiatives to help firms expand global reach
      751 7  -  Trade 21 to leverage on Net, make S'pore global centre for trade hnb services By] Marissa Chew THE Trade Development Board is urging local compa-" nies to sprout a "third wing" to take their business beyond Asia, after seeing how
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      Lock icon Chancery Lane site asking for $15m, St Michael for $23m
      323 7 TWO smallish collective sale sites, one each at Chancery Lane and off St Michael's Road, are being put on the market with a combined asking price of about $38 millioh. Both freehold sites are roughly the same size and have
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      Lock icon No Saturday afternoon free parking: HDB
      239 7  -  Wee Kiat Sia Head. Car Parks Section for Chief Housing Administration Officer Housing Development Board IN his letter, "Free parking on Saturday afternoons?" (BT, Dec 27,1999), Jeffrey Tan suggested that the free parking scheme on Sundays and public holidays (7am to 10pm) in HDB
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      Lock icon Perhaps Powergrid could take on SCV
      201 7  -  Denis Distant Singapore YOUR report, "SCV puts the heat on broadband Net service providers" (BT, Dec 30, 1999), quoted Singapore Cable Vision president Yong Lum Sung as claiming that "by the end of February. SCV will be ready to install cable modems throughout the
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      Lock icon ST telecom arm sees US$10m from HK venture this year
      263 7  -  Andrew Wee INFOCOMMUNICATIONS operator Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte Ltd has formed an electronic commerce joint venture in Hongkong that it expects to generate US$lO million (5516.5 million) in revenue by yearend. The telecommunications arm of the Singapore Technologies group will
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      Lock icon PM Goh to meet Indon president in Jakarta
      134 7 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid and Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong will meet in the Indonesian capital on Jan 13, a report said here yesterday. "The meeting will discuss Singaporean investors' plans to do business in Indonesia," the state Antara
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Foreign firms play the bully in Jakarta
      768 8  -  E7TH bottom line OPINION shoeb kagda The writer is BT's Jakarta correspondent WHICHEVER way one looks at the issue, Indonesia's new leadership is in no-man's land when trying to deal with the massive energy and gas contracts endorsed by the former Suharto government
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      139 8 'I guess I can't win. If my efforts of the last 18 months were successful and Y2K is an anti-climax, then I'm part of a giant con. If the worst happens and the lights go out or you can't access your bank account or get your e-mail,
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      Lock icon Washington puts world on hold
      662 8 EDITORIAL PUNDITS in Washington suggest that the continuing US military supremacy and its amazing economic boom are clear indications that the next 100 years will probably be another American Century. One, of course, has to treat such forecasts with a large grain of salt; just
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      Lock icon Stock market bulls have history on their side
      1207 8  -  75 years of data say yon most be in stocks if your long-term view for the US economy is optimistic Tom Petruno LAT-WP THE 20th century now is history, and investors trying to build or preserve wealth in the new century may
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      927 8 What 2K? THE millennium bug has turned out to be a phenomenally expensive anti-climax. The estimated US$400 billion (S$664 billion) spent on making computers recognise the year 2000 would have been more than enough to write off the debt of the world's poorest countries. Despite all
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Tokyo stocks hit two-year high in 1st session
      554 10  -  Glitch-free trading boosts sentiment; BO J intervenes to stem yen's rise hYom. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S equity market began the New Year on an optimistic note yesterday when the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) reopened for a halfday's trading and prices closed
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      Lock icon Pre-tax profit growth to top 30%: Gamuda
      303 10  -  Better performance to come from group's 3 core businesses From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur TOLL-ROAD and construction group Gamuda Berhad expects to improve on last year's 30 per cent pre-tax profit growth for the current financial year ending July, managing director
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      Lock icon Thai shares soar on Y2K relief
      481 10  -  Market expects return of foreign fnnds soon From] Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAI stocks rocketed to a new five-month high yesterday, the first trading day for the year, as hopes soared that foreign funds would return to Thailand after a glitch-free Y2K rollover, analysts
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      Lock icon Dr M confident KLCI will break 900 by year-end
      389 10 PUTRAJAYA Bernama, AFP THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's (KLSE) Composite Index may continue its upward trend to breach even the 900 point mark by year-end, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. He based his forecast on the general all-round endorsement and
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      Lock icon MAS sees threat, opportunity in Virgin, SIA tie-up
      267 10 KUALA LUMPUR NST MALAYSIA Airlines is viewing the proposed merger between Singapore Airlines and Virgin Atlantic Airways as both a "threat and opportunity" to its operations. Chairman Tajudin Ramli said the proposed merger would provide impetus for MAS and the country's avia-tion-related
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      Lock icon US rate rise fears cool HK market
      287 10 HONGKONG Bloomberg, AFP AFTER rising more than 2 per cent on Monday, Hongkong stocks fell yesterday amid profit-taking and on concern the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next month, a move that will push the city's borrowing costs higher. With 30-year
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      Lock icon Multi-Purpose still on prowl to boost anchor bank status
      397 11  -  It's starting talks to buy Amanah Merchant Bank but is unlikely to emerge as M'sia's No 2 bank hYom Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE smallish Multi-Purpose Bank, which is controlled by associates of Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin, has managed to
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      Lock icon Thai Petrochemical okays debt restructure scheme
      260 11 BANGKOK Framework includes plans for USslb capital increase AP ONE of Thailand's biggest problem debtors said yesterday that its board has approved an agreement with creditors on a debt restructuring framework that includes a planned US$l billion (Ssl.7 billion) capital increase. Thai Petrochemical Industry
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon May bank goes up, PhileoAllied down
        90 11 MAYBANK'S plan to buy PhileoAllied Bhd, the owner of PhileoAllied Bank, has generated mixed reactions. Maybank rose 10 sen to RMI4, while PhileoAllied Bhd tumbled 12 sen to RM3.56. According to the grapevine, Maybank is expected to strip PhileoAllied Bank from its listed parent.
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        Lock icon Unrequited love
        53 11 MALAYSIAN Plantations, which owns Multi-Purpose Bank, shed 27 sen to RM2.87 on news that it has failed to woo PhileoAllied Bank. PhileoAllied Bank has decided to merge with Maybank instead. In its place, Multi-Purpose Bank has found Amanah Merchant Bank. However, the deal may not be big enough
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        Lock icon Ringing endorsement
        63 11 TWO major telcos Technology Resources Industries and Time Engineering hogged the limelight yesterday. TRI, controlled by Tajudin Ramli, rose 29 sen to RM3 on talk that it will soon resolve its debt woes. Time, which is part of the Renong group, inched up 8 sen to RM1.68 on
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        Lock icon Malaysia Airports astir
        98 11  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh MALAYSIA Airports Holdings Berhad rose 4 sen to RM3.24 on reports that Malaysia Airlines may join an airline alliance to compete with Singapore Airlines in the wake of the latter's purchase of a 49-per cent stake in Virgin Atlantic Airways. Malaysia Airports owns
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      Lock icon The annual pre-holiday crush
      52 11 [JAKARTA] Passengers yesterday cramming onto a train at Jakarta's railway station as people head back to their home towns four days ahead of the Aidil Fitri holiday. As a result of the country's prolonged economic crisis, the number of residents leaving the capital has dropped this
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      Lock icon Wiranto could lose job in Cabinet reshuffle
      535 11 JAKARTA 8 ministers said to be affected in shakenp, expected next week AP, Reuters SEVERAL Indonesian government ministers, including powerful security chief Gen Wiranto, could lose their jobs in an impending Cabinet reshuffle. officials and the media said yesterday. Speculation about a shakeup
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      Lock icon Overseas Indians may lose special investor status
      345 11 NEW DELHI THE new year may turn out to be unlucky for non-resi-dent Indians (NRIs). The government is planning to end their special investor status, treating them on a par with domestic investors, the Economic Times newspaper said yesterday. The financial daily said
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      Lock icon Foreign investors in Pakistan repatriate US$38m
      166 11 KARACHI Bloomberg, Reuters PAKISTAN allowed foreign investors to repatriate their earnings from the sale of shares, a move that is expected to build up confidence and boost investment in the stock market, analysts said. The decision of the central bank announced during the weekend
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      1309 10 GLOBAL TECH (HOLDINGS) LIMITED NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thai the Annual General Meeting of shareholders of Global Tech (Holdings) Limited will be held at Aberdeen Room, Marriott Hotel, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong on Monday, 31st January 2000 at 3:00 p.m. for the following
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      1416 11 NOTICES To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 HI IA ANN BROTHERS PTE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) IXBT OF SHARE CHOTHICATV NOTICE a hereby given thai share certificate No HAB 0007 covering 1.500 shares in the name of TON* i KHENG LAY has been
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      312 11 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 LEE HONG MOTOR TRADING CO PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At on •xtroordinary general mealing of the company held at 135 Middta Rood #o>l3/14, Bylonds Building, Singapore *****5 on 30 December 19V9 the Mowing special and ordinary resolutions were duly
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Investors brace for Fed rate rise as Y2K fears fade
      673 12 WASHINGTON Market pricing 50-basis-point move in Ql; Treasury prices down sharply Reuters, NYT INVESTORS breathed a sigh of relief yesterday over the uneventful passing of the millennium bug, but celebrations were overshadowed by mounting fears that US interest rates may
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      Lock icon US economists euphoric about 2000
      374 12 WASHINGTON Most see growth continuing to make it longest US economic expansion ever AFP THE 53 economists surveyed semi-annu-ally by the Wall Street Journal were nearly unanimous in their projections for 2000, predicting the US economic expansion will become the longest in history. the leading
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      Lock icon Vodafone may have to pay US$60b more for Mannesmann
      369 12 BERLIN Amoant needed to bay oat minority shareholders FT MANNESMANN chairman Klaus Esser has warned that Vodafone AirTouoh of the UK could have to pay "unheard of' sums in cash to Mannesmann minority shareholders to take full control of the German
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      Lock icon Closing bell tolls at Wall St tavern
      47 12 [NEW YORK] People on Monday entering New York's historic Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan. The place where George Washington bid farewell to his officers in 1783 has a notice posted indicating that the Wall Street watering hole is closing. AP
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      200 12 LONDON FT AT the start of last year, the oil industry seemed like a rabbit mesmerised by the headlights of a speeding car. To some industry observers, average prices had not just fallen temporarily from their long-term range of US$l5-$2O or so
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      312 12 SEOUL Bloomberg FORD Motor Co stepped up its bid to buy Daewoo Motor Co, saying its top Asia executive will meet today with Korea Development Bank (KDB), the automaker's biggest creditor. Paul Drenkow, Ford's Asia-Pacific executive director, is returning to Seoul
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        53 13 Bloomberg [HOFFMAN ESTATES, Illinois] Sears, Roebuck Co said fourth-quarter profit will beat forecasts because it sold more goods at full price and improved its credit-card business. Profit from operations will rise by a "high-teen to low-twenty percentage rate" from last year's US$l.4B a share,
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        54 13 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi said yesterday he was too busy pushing a pump-priming Budget to call an early election. "To shift Japan's gross domestic product (GDP) into positive growth after two years of negative growth is what the people strongly request of the
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        55 13 Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] Mattel Inc said chief financial officer Harry Pearce will retire in March, becoming the latest high-ranking executive to exit the slumping company in the past two months. Mattel also named Bernard Stolar, former president of Sega of America Inc, to be
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        52 13 Bloomberg [DUSSELDORF, Germany] Metro AG said it sold real estate with a book value of 5.4 billion Deutsche marks (554.6 billion) to a company it created with Westdeutsche Landesbank in which it has a 49 per cent stake. Metro said the sale should help boost
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        65 13 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's manufacturing sector expanded for the seventh month in a row in December, hitting its highest growth rate for more than three years, the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) said yesterday. Its latest report said that its Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI)
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      594 13 SINGAPORE Market may have spotted turning point after nnit went below US$l in Dec AFP A YEAR after its launch, the euro looks a good buy for Asian central banks eager to diversify their US dollardominated reserves, analysts say. Central banks and
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      57 13 [SANTA ROSA, United States] The Bucher family reading a giant get-well card signed by hundreds of fans for cartoonist Charles Schulz at a skating rink in Santa Rosa, California, on Monday. Schulz, who was diagnosed with colon cancer in November, had his last daily "Peanuts "comic
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      317 13 SAN FRANCISCO Reuters VA Linux Systems Inc, a developer of systems and services tailored to the alternative Linux operating system, said yesterday that it would announce a hosting service for so-called open source software projects. The Sunnyvale, Califor-nia-based company, which went public last
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      190 13 BEDFORD, New Hampshire Reuters TEXAS governor George W Bush opened the 2000 election year yesterday by winning the valuable endorsement of Elizabeth Dole, a former rival for the Republican presidential nomination. Mrs Dole ended her bid for the White House in October after
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      544 13 BERLIN DIW sees moderate upturn rather than boom; raps ECB for refinancing rate rise Reuters THE German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) yesterday cut its growth forecast for Europe's largest economy this year to 2.4 per cent from 3 per cent, saying
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      329 13 LONDON Bloomberg GOLD dropped almost 3 per cent, its largest decline in two months, after the beginning of the new year failed to disrupt computer programs and the world's financial markets, prompting investors to sell the precious metal. Some
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      248 13 LONDON Reuters BRITISH wholesalers made the final shift from imperial to metric measurements yesterday but said many customers were confused by the system despite years of preparation. "If I quote in kilos customers look at me with great distrust. So for them,
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      427 13 PEOPLE Kim Jong Pi! to quit early next week and hand mantle to Posco founder and president of riding ULD party Bloomberg [SEOUL] The founder of Pohang Iron Steel Co, the world's largest steelmaker, will become South Korea's new prime minister,
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      233 14  -  SOX Derivatives TmOlngßeports MSd Singapore Index Daphne Tay Jardirye Fleming INVESTORS jammed their brakes on the local bourse yesterday, stalling the recent magnificent rally on concerns that US interest rates may be lifted in the next round of Federal Open Market Committee
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      204 14  -  MSCI Taiwan futures Matthew DenBleyker Refco Singapore IN the first day of trading for the new year yesterday, Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures rose 16.2 points or 4.14 per cent to 407.9 while the underlying MSCI cash index gained 16.38 points or
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      248 14 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Crude oil and petroleum products fell yesterday as traders unloaded supplies bought to guard against possible computer-re-lated disruptions to supply channels in the new year. Demand for petroleum products, such as heating oil, diesel
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      355 14 Bloomberg New York THE dollar yesterday had its biggest gain against the yen in two months after the Bank of Japan sold yen for the 13th time since June in a bid to keep the currency's strength from derailing the nation's economic recovery. Traders said the Bank of
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      2706 15 HONGKONG Reuters Q Hang Seng -29&81 HONGKONG stocks closed lower yesterday, dragged down by losses overnight on Wall Street where blue chips plunged and benchmark bond yields rose. The Hang Seng Index closed down 296.81 points or 1.71 per cent at 17,072.82.
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      1943 15 TOKYO AFP □Nikkei 225 +<j&52 JAPAN'S stock market rallied 0.36 per cent yesterday to its highest close in over two years as smooth operations bolstered confidence that the millennium bug had been exterminated. "The market cleared the hurdle safely," said Nikko Securities
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      1045 15 Reuters Q Shenzhen B Index +L85 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B shares closed solidly higher yesterday, lifted by a strong performance on the domestic A share market and a surge the previous day on the Hongkong stock exchange. The Shenzhen B share index rose 1.85 points, or 2.18 per cent,
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      369 15 AFP QWP Index -»307.71 THE Taiwanese bourse surged 3.6 per cent yesterday in the first trading session of the new millennium with gains across the board spurred by rallies in neighbouring markets the previous day, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index soared 307.71 points to 8,756.55,
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      425 16 AFX-Asia n Composite Index -L09 MALAYSIAN share prices closed mixed in brisk trading yesterday as blue chips succumbed to profit-taking while lower liners extended their rally on strong retail interest, dealers said. They said the sharp run-up on Monday provided investors with an opportunity
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      610 17 AFP All Ordinaries -28.4 AUSTRALIAN share prices yesterday closed lower on the first day of trading in 2000 as fears of rising US and domestic interest rates weighed heavily on the bond market and shares in the banking sector, dealers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed down 28.4 points
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      800 17 AFP D SET Index +1654 THAI share prices surged 3.4 per cent yesterday as the market shrugged off Y2K concerns after little or no disruption was witnessed here or elsewhere, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand Index rose 16.54 points to 498.46 in heavy trade worth 12.1 billion
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      291 17 AFP Manila +1L4I Philippine stock market closed 0.5 per cent higher yesterday due to a rise in shares of dual-listed telecommunications giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 11.41 points to close at 2.153.18. AFP COOO) MUM 0.73 0 05 2010 Abac us
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      691 17 AFP Q Composite Index +213 INDONESIAN share prices rose 3.4 per cent yesterday, the first trading day of the new century, on easing concerns over Y2K problems, dealers said. A Trimegah Securindo sales representative said trade was robust amid relief that fears of millennium computer glitches had not materialised.
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      307 17 AFP PI Composite Index +30.97 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index yesterday closed up 30.97 points at 1.059.04. Volume was 195 million shares worth 3.8 trillion won.— AFP H»* Won Anam Semi .9560 1240 Brain Tech 1840 240 Central BM 2990 390 Cheil Comm ***** 2600 DaeGuBan* 3645 385
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      387 21  -  Samudera Shipping Line's container vessel loses part of cargo; four arrested By. Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] A Singaporeregistered container ship was raided by pirates on Sunday night while anchored in the port of Colombo. Sri Lankan police managed to arrest four members of the gang
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      300 21 SES '000 S$ W CWT Distribution 1.30 -0.03 138 Chuan Hup 0.46 0.02 ***** Cosco Investment 1.14 -0.04 78 Freight Links 0.31 -0.01 1100 G8 Holdings 0.92 unch 21 Hal Sun Hup 0.85 -0.01 725 IMC Holdings-HK 5.60 unch 0 Jay* Holdings 1.22 -0.02 295 Jurong Shipyard —8.00
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      324 21  -  Oil firms, tines can team np to counter growing foreign competition From] Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi [NEW DELHI] A tie-up between India's oil companies and shipping ventures has been proposed to keep local share in crude oil transportation from falling. The
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      143 21 AFP [OSLO] Norwegian-British construction and engineering group Kvaerner said that it is to build a cruise ship for US giant Carnival Cruise Lines worth US$375 million (*****.5 million). The 84,000 tonne cruise liner, the eleventh vessel to be ordered by Carnival from Kvaerner, will be
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      63 21 [SEATTLE] A cargo container ship named OOCL Faith sits in the fog behind a barge as it was secured on a Seattle dock on Monday, after 12 Chinese men were captured hiding in a container. The men, smuggled in a ship travelling from Hongkong to Seattle, have been
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      721 21  -  STRAIT TALE By- Seafarer A YEAR or so ago it was not difficult to find sceptics who thought Star Cruises would not .survive the Asian crisis. The Malay-sian-owned company has proved them wrong in spectacular style by buying Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). It
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        518 22 Test of whether market-opening steps can break 'open skies' deadlock Reuters [WASHINGTON] United States and British negotiators hold their first formal aviation trade talks in more than a year this week, testing whether small market-open-ing steps can break years of
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        179 22 Reuters [CHICAGO) A power surge briefly knocked out radar screens at an air traffic control facility serving Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Monday, forcing two short postponements of airplane take-offs and landings. The initial two-min-ute radar outage at the Elgin, Illinois, facility, which monitors
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        438 35 i80 Ma. 992.1 2J 19.0 0.06 66 0 09 30 P*"»«T Wrtf teHdwe Art Aluwtmuwi No abow £25 5 1 25 0 0 0 «M/H 360 Aw 985.2 0.4 13.3 0.06 32 0.02 ■CAri U T 380 992.5 0.9 17.5 0.07 72 0.04 M/Wi M/M »m/m
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        136 35 Jan S Sweden: Financial Market Close. Jan 24 New Zealand: Market and Public Holiday, Wellington Anniversary Day. Jan 31 New Zealand: Market and Public Holiday, Auckland Anniversary Day. Feb 8 New Zealand: Public Holiday, Waitangi Day. Germany: Epiphany Day. Sweden: Epiphany Day. Maris Taiwan: Market Holiday for Presidential
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        772 35 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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        409 36 Malfunction at air traffic control centre causes delays at Boston, New York airports AP [NASHUA, New Hampshire] A computer malfunction at the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Boston Center delayed flights at airports in Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York. The main computer
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        66 36 [ISTANBUL, Turkey] Passengers look out of a window as they wait to board their plane at Ataturk Airport's new international terminal. The new terminal, able to handle 14 million passengers a year and built at a cost of USs3o6million (Ssso7.96million), was opened on Monday, eight months ahead
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        148 36 AFX-Asia [TAIPEI] The Ministry of Transportation and Communications will agree to a possible price cut for the China Aviation Development Foundation's prospective sale of a 35.5 per cent stake in China Airlines Co Ltd to overseas buyers if the need arises, Minister
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        148 36 AFP TRIO DE JANEIRO] Brazilian airlines Tam and Varig plan to add to their fleets, with Tam buying from Airbus and Varig from Boeing, sources at each company said. Tam will add two A 320 planes to its fleet in February, two in
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        138 36 AFP [FRANKFURT] DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) is one of a number of foreign investors which is interested in buying a 30 per cent stake in the South Korean aircraft manufacturer, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported. KAI comprises the former
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        328 36 Airline the first foreign carrier to start flights to famed temples AP [PHNOM PENH, Cambodia] Vietnam Airlines will commence flights to Cambodia's famed Angkor temples this week, on the 21st anniversary of Vietnam's takeover of Phnom Penh from the Khmer Rouge,
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      797 26 f PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD I 3SSSS3M fffa 140 Cecil Street, *03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. M^_^______Cfl NO **********0E I Lisas VPT rtg rn STP amwg*» «i rtc I Uti I iota ft* wis a rwiw; ;/i u/i Wn -iwi f%~ tmkmwl M l/l ~m~ *>/i M/ 1 m/
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      445 26 SO TEL OK BLANGAH ROAD M 2-02 OTIPOfIT COfTTtt STORE *****0 TEL: *****11 (6 lines) FAX: *****05 TLX: RS ***** CR NO. **********0W VESSEL VOY ETA ETD DESTINATION MABUKWA 02/2000 0601,7060 0701/2000 PKL BALAM OU6UKVM mgm 1101/2000 1201/2000 MUNTOK NABUKWA 04/2000 1601/2000 1701/2000 PALBMAN&fKL BALAM MNTK H-MAMUI 01/2000 1(01/2000 1401/2000
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      412 27 BSA mm MYANMA wßm FIVE STAR LINE (Myomnar National Line) Loadiag for YongoM (Rangoon) VK» VOY SM ML PfN PGO MAWLAMYIM 17W SU) STTWI 91W 15/01 MALAYSIA AWNTS: OOOSTtAO SHIPPWtG AGfNCIES WIL TIL (03) *****00 PKL TH (03)37*6101 PIN: m (04)*****02 PGO: HI (07)*****21/4 BANK LINE (A service of Andrew
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      948 27 WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN TO WORTH AND LATIN AMERICA "CAR RORO HEAVYUFT SERVICE" IIVESSa VOT tw HEIGHT SIN UU CRL IMMIUV m I ntt I IWWI n. 1 TOURCOING HIS? 63M 3/0 ,7/M 20/02 ?VO2 24/02 75/01 77/07 02/03 06/03 tap™? ItJS! 2,/0 23/02 01/03 05/03 07/03 09/03 0/03 12/03 14/03 19/03
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      1771 28 INDONESIA NATIONAL LINE TO AUSTRALIA I FULL CONTAINER SERVICE *a *ri_ wc sm m m stp m m ta hb KOIBMIM n, It/01 M/tl JJ/OI M/Vl 27/01 mwarr H> iT/oif n/oi w/oi ji/»i n/n~ yiiwßutD i» g/oi M/w o*/n mm "ii/r msumi m_ m/n u/ir i»/r 21/r N/ri~ FEEDER SERVICE
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      63 31 MALDIVES nn NATIONAL UNE 3UM 1 IRAN AFGHANISTAN See Our Ad on Page 4 under Turn To Page 6 Seaward Shipping Cross Ports Agencies Pte Ltd. Intercontinental Pte Ltd COLUMBUS LINE Singapore Pte Ltd Look out For Our Providing You With More Schedule Every Tuesday Than 90 Direct Ports of
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      809 33 SHIPPING LINE LTD 72 A"*®" *06-01 to 03, Singapore *****1 UMf/OUTWARD; S3? HM INWARD (DID): 437 23M IMPORT STATUS (WOfc 437 2371 MVINTORT (IND): 437 2470 W«bslt« http://www.samud*ra.<om CI NO. **********0 D 6266 (Celia/Jessica/Mei Chon Jeslynn/Doro/Honim) mSSMSBESMSM SSLGS/WEEKLY onnnjinniM 3 SIGS/weekly ¥0Y SIM I JAR Vfsstl VOT SIN UK firm
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      835 33 SIN TO SRI LANKA, INDIA, CANADA, US/EC/GULF, MEXICO OS SB 81 SSS_ _|W. POO (Ml KX> HAL NYL OOF SAV HCW~ TAM HCHJ HOtOH OWE /0554 U/o]—7o/01 W/01 31/01 W/02 05/Q7 15/07 10/07 U/03 17/03 11/03 71/03 75/03 30/03 03/04 HOICH MHANPA /0754 04/<» 11/ l» .WO? Jf„ ~ytlST -gjg-
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      927 34 JIL FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS Tel: *****11 Fax: *****77 E-mail: flesin@singnet.com.sg DIRECT CONSOLIDATION SERVICE TO ALEXANDRIA COPENHAGEN MAHE PHNOMPENH BUENOS AIRES HELSINKI MANZANILLO SAN ANTONIO CEBU ISTANBUL MEXICO CITY SANTOS VALPARAISO IZMIR NHAVA SHEVA XINGANG SUVA NOUMEA MALTA SANTO DOMINGO PLEASE CALL OUR TOLL FREE Ll^^ 1800-*****66 FOR BOOKING PROJECT SHIPMENT
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      18 34 Send out 46,000 copies of your WE& Jittnq fcMriff around Asia. PUce an ad SHIPPINGTIMES HQO* mim« »Mm
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      74 34 CONVENTIONAL SERVICE VESSEL ETA ETD DESTINATION JUBILANT 0401 05/01 CALCUTTA CHAHAYA VICTORY 15/01 16A)1 JAKARTA/PANGKAL BALAM CHAHAYA STAR 15/01 16/01 VtSAK/CALCUTTA REGULAR DIRECT COMTAMER A BREAKMJLK SERVICE TO PORT LOWS 4 PURBAM EXPORT VOY SIN PTL DON ALS EXPRESS 11WB 09/01 20/01 25/01 ALS ENDEAVOUR 01WB 10/02 21AJ2 26/02 ACCSTING
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