The Business Times, 18 April 1987

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  • 13 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C. (P) No. 112/12/86 Weekend Edition, April 18-19, 1987 75 CENTS
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  • 132 1 Tokyo stocks TOKYO investors took advantage of a quiet Easter holiday overseas yesterday and relatively calm foreign-exchange trading to concentrate on pouring money into shares, pushing the stock market index to a record level. The 225-share Nikkei Index climbed 69 92 to its second straight record closing
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  • 63 1 Reuter INDIAN COMPANIES must seek the government's permission to issue bonus shares at least 45 days before the planned issue date, against 30 days now. The Indian Finance Ministry said in a statement that the relaxation, effective immediately, had been made to help companies
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  • 510 1  -  Trading house prepared to play matchmaker By LOH HUI YIN C ITOH, JAPAN'S major trading house, is embarking on a new business strategy which could see it committing more investments in Singapore. BT understands that the shift in business strategy is motivated by
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  • 370 1 Reuter TRADERS in financial centres in Asia generally welcomed the first US night session of futures trading which starts in Chicago on April 30. Traders in Japan, Sydney and Hongkong said they expected the move to bring benefits, but traders and bankers
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  • 541 1 SOUTH KOREA announced a "major turnaround" yesterday in its economic policies, including new checks on its trade surplus, to help avert a trade war with the US. Deputy Prime Minister Kim Mahn-Je told a news conference that the government had devised
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  • 221 1 Reuter JAPAN'S ruling Liberal Democratic Party has drawn up a detailed plan to expand domestic demand and boost imports so it can head off further overseas anger at its trade surpluses, senior party officials said yesterday. They said the measures would
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  • 298 1 Reuter CHINA announced yesterday a dramatic drop in its trade deficit but said many chronic economic problems remained unsolved. A spokesman for the state statistical bureau told reporters that the trade deficit at the end of the first three months of this year was US$l.O5
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  • 67 1 Reuter SOUTH KOREA s Index of Leading Indicators rose 1.9 per cent to 172.9 (base 1980) in February after a 0.8 per cent rise in January to stand 17.2 per cent higher than in February 1986. provisional economic planning board figures showed The index is based on
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 66 2 PROFESSOR ALINE WONG, Member of Parliament for Changkat, will kick off Professional Secretaries Week tomorrow at the Hyatt Regency. The agenda for the week includes workshops, lectures from invited speakers and panel discussions. The organiser, the Singapore Association of Personal Executive Secretaries (SAPES), has also
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    • 84 2 ASSEMBLY. TESTING, packaging and failure analysis of integrated circuits in South-east Asia will be the focus of the Asia Electronics 87 exhibition at the Hyatt Regency from Oct 19 to Oct 22. A two-day international symposium complementing the exhibition, "Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated
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    • 615 2  -  By ANNA TEO COMPETITION in the local health-care industry is expected to intensify over the next 15 years with the sprouting of home health-care, retail health centres, hospices, convalescent hospitals and rehabilitation hospitals As hospitals engage in a keener tussle for market share, accreditation in the industry
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    • 344 2  -  By LIM SOON NEO STOMACHS IN SINGAPORE will go empty in mid-July so that charity coffers will be filled up. World Vision International, a Christian humanitarian organisation, hopes to raise $300,000 with a 30-hour fast starting at 2 pm on Saturday,
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    • 93 2 TRADERS AND CARGO AGENTS can familiarise themselves with the documentation procedures for applying import and export permits at a fourday course on "Trade Classification and Documentation" later this month. The course, organised by the Trade Development Board, will also cover the principles of trade classifi-
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    • 475 2  -  Fears that proposal may cut into gross profit margins By LOH HUI YIN A PROPOSAL by the Ministry of Trade Industry to de-control petrol prices has caused concern among the six oil companies in Singapore The companies say that the proposal, which was
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    • 454 2 THE SKILLS Development Fund has offered another incentive to encourage companies to upgrade the skills of their junior employees The incentive takes the form of a grant, given in advance, to a company that submits a one-year training plan covering at
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 418 3 UPI AMERICAN Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige said he believed a significant revaluation of South Korea s currency against the dollar was the only likely way to curb the expected US$lO billion US trade deficit with Seoul. Baldrige will visit South Korea tor three
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    • 183 3 Reuter SEVEN Western countries had agreed to restrict the export of rocket-related technology that could be used to develop nuclear missiles, the French Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. A spokesman said the measures agreed by Britain, Canada, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan
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    • 874 3 ARRIVALS Operator Service Local From number time MAS MH681 0820 KUL SV SV398 0835 JED/RUH KAL KE624 0840 KUL AC AC858 0850 YYZ/LHR/BOM MAS MH811 0910 PEN MAS MH671 0920 KUL CPA CX710 1015 CGK RBA ***** 1100 BWN GIA GA960 1100 CGK SIA SQ105 1105 KUL
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    • 214 3 Reuter SOUTH AFRICA'S censorship regulations could hamper fair trading on the country's stock exchange, businessmen said on Thursday following a widespread strike at major companies which was not reported by the local media On Tuesday, several thousand workers staged a
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    • 294 3 Bernama MALAYSIA has introduced a new measure to simplify the import procedure to save time, energy and costs. Deputy Finance Minister Loke Yuen Yow said on Thursday. The new measure, known as the Immediate Release System, was introduced by the Royal Customs and Excise
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    • 227 3 AFP THE CHAIRMAN of Indonesia's ruling party has said that the new Cabinet to be appointed next year will not alter Jakarta s current attitude towards Beijing, with which relations have been frozen for 20 years Speaking at a press conference
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    • 190 3 AFP THE GENEVA-BASED International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers (IFPI) has lodged a formal complaint alleging flagrant abuse of intellectual property rights for foreign music works by Indonesia, an IFPI official has disclosed Kasim Cha Tong, the IFPI s Asia-Pacific deputy director, said in
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    • 569 3 NYT PRESIDENT REAGAN s Budget Director, Mr James C Miller 111. has warned the Federal Reserve not to raise interest rates, saying such action could cause a recession next year. Amid deepening concern that the eroding dollar and tensions over trade could provoke a
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    • 262 3 Canadian PM used party funds for renovation paper AP CANADIAN Prime Minister Brian Mulroney used party funds to renovate his two official residences in Ottawa, with one closet large enough for 30 suits and 84 pairs of shoes, the Toronto Globe and Mail said on Thursday. Although use of party
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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  • WORLD BACKGROUND
    • 720 4 Privatisation how have the hopes matched the results Only about 100 companies have been sold worldwide, says IMF AP GETTING the government out of business is popular with many conservative leaders, who see state ownership as the road to socialism But of more than 1,000 plans to privatise state-owned businesses
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    • 595 4 Reuter IRANIAN leaders have been quick to quash rumours of a possible ceasefire in the 614-year-old war with Iraq to mark the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan at the end of April. They have acknowledged continuing international pressure on Teheran
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    • 586 4 NYT RELATIONS between China and Japan have cooled in the past few months, partly because of the resignation of Hu Yaobang as Communist Party leader in January, Japanese and Western diplomats and business executives say. Mr Hu had a reputation as
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 473 4 AP A CONFIDENTIAL World Bank report has sharply criticised subsidies granted to certain commodities by some governments but finds merit in other cases. The report, presented in January by the bank's Country Policy Department to representatives of the 151 member governments that
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    • 330 4 Bernama FALLING oil prices have not only diminished the income of Asian oil exporters but also slowed down oil exploration in the region. Assessing the impact of lower oil prices on the region's developing economies, the 1986 Economic and
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    • 47 4 UPI THE APRIL full moon rises over a small farm in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, shortly after dusk. The spring full moon is a reminder to farmers of the upcoming planting season and the long work days ahead. UPI
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    • 448 4 Crude palm oil futures continued its lacklustre trading on the KLCE yesterday with valuesholding barely steady. Dealers said investigations by the KLCE into the financial affairs of Maika Commodities. a member of the KLCE, had badly shaken the market which saw the lowest turnover of 38 lots traded
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    • 119 4 THE PRICE OF TIN on the Kuala Lumpur tin market eased two cents yesterday to M 516.63 per kilo, in continued sluggish and thin trading. Dealers attributed tha quietness to lack of interest due to the forthcoming long Easter holidays overseas. Reflecting an absence of support, buyers were
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    • 72 4 TOKYO Rubber futures closed narrowly mixed yesterday with gains of 0.8 to losses of 0.4 yen per Kilo in very quiet trading. Spot April gained 0.8 yen in thin trading ahead of its expiry on April 24. After opening slightly steadier, most prices declined quietly on selling by trading
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    • 55 4 TOKYO: Yen-denominated gold futures opened 11 to 16 yen per gramme higher yesterday in reaction to Thursday's declines Fresh buying by major speculators and private investors boosted all months after higher New York prices. But trading here is expected to be very quiet due to the long Easter holiday
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    • 106 4 WHEAT FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade closed 1-1/2 to five US cents a bushel higher on Thursday, with spot May at US$2.B6-3/4 and July contracts forward setting life-of-contract highs Buying was fuelled by trade talk that Egypt bought as much as 200,000 tonnes of US wheat overnight,
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    • 163 4 SOYBEAN FUTURES on the Chicago Board of Trade closed mostly higher on Thursday, ranging one US cent a bushel higher to 1/2 cent lower, with spot May at US$5 13-1/4 and September the only contract posting a loss. Prices remained in a narrow range, reflecting a lack of fundamental
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    • 162 4 FA M A C'ostng prices on April 17 Coconut oil (M$/iook g New drums 131.00 2nd hand drums 126.00 Bulk 117 00 Local in bulk 114 00 Copra (M$/iookg) No 1 (estate) 67.00 No 2 (smallholders) 6200 Palm kernel (ex-milts M$ tonne) Buyer Seller 425.00 /***** Palm kernel
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 231 5 Reuter ASSETS of Bahrain s offshore banking units rose 4.1 per cent to US$55 68 billion in the final quarter of last year to reach the highest level since end-1985, figures in the Bahrain Monetary Agency's (BMA) latest bulletin show. Assets have now risen for
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    • 171 5 Reuter AUSTRALIAN trading bank deposits rose by US$l.2O billion to U5546.54 billion in March after rising US$245 million to U5545.34 billion in February and US$749 million to U5544.55 billion a year earlier. The Statistics Bureau said total loans, advances and bills discounted rose to
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    • 166 5 Reuter FINANCE MINISTER Suthee Singhaseneh said Thailand should not grant new branch licences to foreign banks in the immediate future. There should be new banking laws ensuring foreign banks bring new capital into the country before the government considers outstanding applications from more
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    • 516 5 Japan may adopt UK risk asset ratio system Reuter JAPANESE city bankers have all but given up plans to issue subordinated bonds to boost their capital ratios due to a joint USBritish request to adopt a risk accounting method which would make such issues
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    • 459 5 NYT THE REBOUND in prices of US Treasury debt issues continued on Thursday, with intermediate maturities closing with some of the best gains of the day. The shortening of maturities by investors raised the demand for Treasury bills as well, causing their rates to
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    • 450 5 Reuter ARGENTINE debt negotiators say the agreement they struck with creditor banks this week opens a new. more positive era in the Third World debt crisis. Negotiations produced a 12-year loan of US$l 55 billion, a US$4OO million fouryear trade facility
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    • 677 5 AP TWO YEARS AGO Spain reopened the gate that had cut off Gibraltar from the rest of Europe for 15 years. Now, business in the British colony is booming and the future looks as solid as the monumental rock Gibraltar's economic foundations of
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 196 5 Indicate* the average of the prime lending rates of 12 major banka in S'pore r Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on April 16 us$ DM SWFC Yen 7 days 6 1/2 3/8 9 11/16 9/16 4 3 7/8 1 1/4—1 4 1/8 4 1 mtto 6 3/4 5/8
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    • 362 5 KUALA LUMPUR: The US dollar closed at $2.4810/20 and the Singapore dollar at $116.35/45 yesterday. TOKYO: The dollar closed little changed against major currencies yesterday as operators generally refrained from creating new positions ahead of the long Easter holiday weekend in most markets overseas. The Bank of Japan
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    • 174 5 Doesn't your secretary deserve a $2,500/bonus package Here's a chance to pay her at someone else's expense. Bring your secretary to lunch on Monday. 20th April '87 at The AMARA BALLRtV>M THF AMARA HOTEL At only $28. iV nett person she will en|oy a wonderful afternoon, starting with a five
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS
    • 330 6 NYT THE AMERICAN Express Co said its net income fell 214 per cent in the first quarter Earnings fell to US$252 3 million from the US$32l million reported a year ago. but the figure for the 1986 quarter included a large gain from the
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    • 191 6 UPI PENNZOIL CO has asked a judge to authorise resumption of its US$lO.3 billion court battle with Texaco Inc, and Chairman J Hugh Liedtke says he is ready to talk again about an out-of-court settlement but Texaco must make the first move. Pennzoil asked
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    • 396 6 Reuter STOCKS CLOSED mixed on Thursday as last minute selling related to the expiration of futures and options, a "double witching hour," sent blue chips lower But the broader market scored good gains, emphasising the lock-step relationship with the dollar and bond market. The
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    • 167 6 APR 16 C Inco 23% Int Prov Pipe 49% Abitibi 37)4 1% lu Intl 24% Alcan Alum 55% +1% Kerr Addison 25% unch Algoma Stl 1714 Loblaw Co 13% Bank Nova Scotia 18% unch McMil Bldl 26% Bank Of Montreal 34% Molson A 24% Bell Canada 41% Moore Corp
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    • 207 6 Reuter SIXTEEN WALL STREET stockbrokers have been charged with dealing cocaine, some from a brokerage house federal officials said was deeply involved in drug trafficking as well as trading violations. A total of 19 people were arrested in the federal investigation, eight of them
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    • 629 6 APR 18 US S -IAlcan Alumin 41% 1% Alcoa 46 Alleg Intl 24% Allied Sig 45% Allis-Chalmers 2% unch Am Brands Inc 45% Am Can Co 43% Am Cyanamid 92% 2% Am Elec Pwr 28 Am Express 69% Am Home Prod 84% Am Motors Cp 4% unch Amax
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    • 624 6 Amsterdam APR 16 FLS ABN 520 00 -4 Aegon 91 60 *05 Ahold 106 80 06 Akzo 138 00 f 1 7 Alrenta 145 90 unch AMEV 66 70 -0 1 Amro Bank 80 80 -1 7 Ass Stad 125 80 -02 Berkel 18 80 -02 BOLS 155
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    • 244 6 Reuter THE EXPERIMENTAL Aids drug ribavirin, seen just a few months ago as a potentially powerful treatment for the disease, is getting more attention these days for the questions it raises. The drug was catapulted into the public eye in January when its maker, ICN Pharmaceuticals
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  • ASIAN STOCKS
    • 321 7 APR 17 NT S Kolin 30 10 -1 3 Kuochan Dev 34 70 -1 8 Lee Chang Yuen All Sincere Indus 4 75 -0 24 Chem Indus 36 40 -1 4 Asia Cement 42 40 -0 9 Lien Hwa Indus 27 00 -1 4 Cathay Cons 49 80 -2
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    • 172 7 Reuter BANGKOK: The Stock Exchange of Thailand Index dropped 1.89 on a turnover of 2,072,258 shares worth 297.8 million baht. Reuter Hongkong, Sydney, Manila markets were closed APR 17 BAHT Vo Kham Thai Investment 286 Jangkok Agro-lnd 90 50 3angkok Bank 263 3a nk Ot Ayudhya 206 Thai Wire
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    • 106 7 APR 17 Won KAL 1311 -9 Kong won lnd~ ***** -100 0*H S. ur 3080 10 1 20 600 3850 Doe *00 Corp 1045 -10 Korea Long-Term.... 2150 unch 1290 Daishin Securities 3750 -20 Oriental Bre»ery ***** -390 Dong Ah Pt>ar.„ ***** -40 Oriental Chem ***** -50 Dong Suh
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    • 573 7 TOKYO: Share prices rose to record levels yesterday in active trade as the yen/dollar exchange rate stabilised slightly and investors took confidence from an apparent respite in US-Japan trade disputes, brokers said. The market index rose 69.92 points to a record 23,938.35, after earlier touching a high of 23,989.93.
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    • 127 7 Reuter THE PHILIPPINE Government has approved the privatisation of Petron Corp, a fully-owned subsidiary of Philippine National Oil Co. A finance department statement said that Petron, which represents the merged operations of Petrophil Corp, Bataan Refining Corp and Petron TBA Corp, is the country's largest commercial enterprise in
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    • 378 7 Reuter THE RESIGNATION of India s Defence Minister V P Singh after he ordered an investigation into a payoff on an arms deal has embarrassed Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi s government and depressed prices on Indian stock exchanges, brokers and merchant bankers
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    • 104 7 AFP HONGKONG s Securities Commissioner Ray Astin has advocated that insidertrading be made a criminal offence in the colony. The problem of insiderdealing, under which company officials use inside information for beneficial trading in shares, is currently dealt with in Hong kong by a tribunal
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    • 446 7 Reuter A SENIOR Thai official has called for closer supervision of foreign investors amid growing alarm at soaring Thai stock prices. Deputy Finance Minister Supachai Panitchpakdi also warned about the risks of insider dealing and said he had ordered the Securities Exchange of
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    • 261 7 AFP TWO RIVAL groups considering a merger to enter the Japanese telecommunications market have failed to agree on a plan proposed by the Federation of Economic Organisations, informed sources said on Thursday. The disagreement came at a meeting on Wednesday of eight promoters of the
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    • 163 7 UPI TOSHIBA CORP has signed a cooperative agreement with Computervision Corp of the United States to promote business in the fast growing market for computer aided engineering, design and manufacturing systems in Japan. Under the agreement. Toshiba will invest and acquire 33.5 per cent equity
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  • FEATURES
    • 526 8 MENTION A ROMANTIC, and the first image that comes to many minds is that of a rose-tinted youth whose head is so high up in the sky that he is unfit for most of the jobs that are given to keeping the world going. The romantic
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    • 901 8  -  A revolution in trout fishing is sweeping the English countryside, moving it out from being an exclusive pursuit of the rich and royal to becoming the pastime of a million ordinary people, reports ANDREW HILL. ANDREW HILL Reuter A QUIET REVOLUTION has swept the English
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    • 195 8  -  Letters to the Editor KIM FERNANDO General Manager KHK Needham Standard Sdn Bhd Dear Sir We refer to the article about DDB Needham which appeared in the March 25 issue of Business Times. We want to draw your attention to the sentence in the
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    • 208 8  -  W W MITCHELL Willetton, Western Australia Dear Sir As an Australian who does business in Singapore and Malaysia, and who deeply respects both their differences and their shared cultures. I hope it would not be considered offensive if I comment on the statement of Mr Sidek bin
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    • 352 8  -  CNS Deer Sir I refer to DBS's reply (BT April 11) on the redemption of their S$ 7% per cent convertible unsecured loan stock 1991 (Loan Stock). The question raised was whether DBS had been fair to its Loan Stock holders. DBS, by
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 831 8 ®Q(L>SQKacs)iiiii) CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 9 Make up for a period in the past (2. 3, 4) 10 Finds one makes a quick descent (4. 4) 12 In the dead ot night? (4) 13 Raise and climb onto? (4. 2) 14 Look into the food and find it's quite light (7)
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  • Executive Lifestyle
    • 358 9 THERE ARE big spenders and there are big spenders. A group of Arabs in London recently met for lunch before visiting a motor show. They came to the Jaguar stand, liked what they saw and told the salesman: "We will have this, this and that," pointing
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    • 282 9 TRENDS HIGH-DEFINITION TELEVISION that rivals cinema screen quality is set to change the face of the film industry. For one thing, it may well put cinemas out of business, according to an industry bigwig in the US. Tom Jozwiak, chief of projection and special
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    • 860 9  -  By JEFFREY TSANG MAN HAS AN AMAZING ABILITY to adapt. Witness the example of the finger, created to labour the ground but equally at home tickling 10 keys a -second in the rapid piano arpeggio. Or that of a four-wheeled vehicle, clearly designed for nicely-laid
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    • 923 9  -  r W*" With WALTON MORAIS ONE OF THE most difficult things to do is to take a flight after you've just read about a plane crash. I had to do so recently after three days in paradise at a holiday resort in Bali. Actually
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment, the Arts & Pursuits
      • 795 10  -  TRAVEL By JOHN TAN ONCE CONSIDERED by many as the "Venice of the Far East most of the raving over Bangkok these days is about shopping. Yet. the first-timer approaching this Thai city of rich flavours via Don Muang International Airport during the day is
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      • 507 10  -  CINEMA By JAIME LYE IS PROGRESS getting you down? Is the automatic coffee-maker infringing upon your basic human right to make that cup of java yourself? When you see a patch of grass are you seized by an infinite urge to gather firewood and watch
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment & Pursuits
      • 1009 11 PROFILE Hyatt Regency embarks on a new dinner-theatre season when it presents Educating Rita from May 18 to 20. Educating Rita is the UK-based Cafe Theatre's debut production in Singapore. Derek Woodward, producer, director, actor and partner of the fledgling Cafe Theatre, spoke with
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      • 403 11 SHORT TAKES THE NATIONAL University of Singapore's Varsity Playhouse takes on the subject of suicide in its latest production Night Mother. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Marsha Norman, Night Mother is a morbid tale of a woman who wants to end her life
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      • 757 11  -  FOOD By THE FOOD TEAM "PLEASE CALL THEM baby eels," a Plaza Hotel executive suggested during a preview of its Xiamen Nostalgia Food Fair. The "baby eels" were at first thought to be cordyceps, the "worm grass which the Chinese treasure for
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      • 791 11  -  HEALTH By RICHARD SEAH JUNK FOOD is a term which fast food restaurants are extremely sensitive about. So when Burger King doubled its advertising budget this year, one of its aims was to debunk the belief that hamburgers are junk food of
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      • 755 11 CINEMA Over The Top starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia and Susan Blakely Showing at Cathay: 11; 1 30; 4. 6.30; 9 15. Heartbreak Ridge starring Clint Eastwood Showing at Capitol: 11; 1.45; 4; 6 30: 9 15 and Changi: 11. 1 30: 4; 6 45. 9 15 The Color
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Sports
      • 839 12 SNOOKER AFP STEVE DAVIS, the three-times World snooker champion, sets out in Sheffield this weekend determined to make up for the bitter pill of defeat in the last two World Championship finals. Top snooker manager Barry Hearn describes the World Championship as
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      • 294 12 GOLF Reuter SOUTH AFRICAN Mark McNulty outshone favourite Severiano Ballesteros in the first round of the Cannes Open Championship at Cannes-Mougins on Thursday. McNulty, winner of nine of his last 13 tournaments, collected seven birdies three more than his Spanish playing partner on his way
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      • 755 12  -  Oh TMCK with Brian Miller HE LOOKED A WINNER all over. There he was, striding clear and putting daylight between himself and the rest of the field The scene was the first race on Derby day at Bukit Timah last month. Kenaga
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      • 398 12 UPI MARK HAYES, without a win on the PGA tour for the past decade, broke the tournament record for the front nine on Thursday and shot a 64 to take a two-stroke lead after one round of the U*****,000 Heritage Classic in South Carolina.
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      • 735 12  -  TENNIS By WALTON MORAIS IN THE ONE YEAR since Carlsberg started pursuing a change in marketing strategy, tennis has been a big winner The long cool Danish beer set up its own local marketing company in January last year after a long association
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      • 225 12 UPI HANA MANDLIKOVA and five other players posted straight-set triumphs on Thursday to advance to the quarter-finals of the US$3OO,OOO WITA Championships in Florida. Mandlikova. the second seed, defeated South African Ros Fairbank, 6-2, 6-4, and will next meet unseeded Terry Phelps in
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Personal Investment
      • 1111 13  -  CURRENCIES By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI ONE MAJOR TENET that Personal Investment consistently emphasises is the need to spot investment opportunities before these become history. And in the field of currencies during the past few weeks, we have highlighted the pound sterling as a currency offering the best
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      • 1029 13  -  NEW ISSUE mm wssm by Ramesh Chandiramani ONCE IN A WHILE, there comes a new share issue which not only generates a lot of excitement, but actually inflames the stock market. Avimo Singapore Ltd seems to be just such an issue. Market intelligence
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      • 896 13  -  SHARES BE0innER'5 A CDRHBRiW By LISA LEE THE STOCK MARKET is sometimes likened to a zoo. Not only because the Stock Exchange of Singapore where the actual share trading is done is a really noisy place, but also
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      • 555 13 ART by Sotheby's Research Department THERE WERE only a handful of art work sales in London, New York. Monaco and Paris during the latest reporting week. Among the most significant events were the sales of Old Master paintings in London, where extremely strong prices across
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      • 441 13  -  by Ramesh Chandiramani WHILE there is room for doubt in some instances, the stock market is willing to bet that some Malaysian speculative issues represent exciting turnaround situations. Their technical complexion has started to improve, perhaps indicative of actual change. In any case,
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 2809 10 Kagemusha, jazz and a hunk of Bogart TODAY: Black and white movie stars Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas feature in a sophisticated little comedy about a happily married couple who encounter That Uncertain Feeling (8.30 pm, Channel 12) with a strange pianist friend Bruce Dern and Lee Remick star as
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 28 13 BT welcomes investment ideas and viewpoints from brokers, bankers and other readers. Address all correspondence to: The Editor, Personal Investment, Business Times, 390 Kim Seng Road, S'pore 0923.
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  • SHARE INFORMATION
    • 364 14 MBT MALAYSIAN RESOURCES CORP (MRC) is unlikely to scrap those housing projects already planned and is expected to continue with its on-going projects. The group's major activity will also continue to be in property development, a source said. As land is an asset
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    • 90 14 KUALA LUMPUR Rises Indices UM Ftour 670 30 April 16 April 17 930 15 NST MUMtioH 1687 79 1687.30 200 14 NST Finance 2623.66 2629 17 MolokoH 158 14 NST Hotoh 552.53 552.34 Tim# Engr 160 •M2 NST Proportiot 760.37 ***** N TWnb#< 160 10 NST Tim
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    • 87 14 SEALION HOTELS Limited: 11th AGM at Gateway 4 Room, Level 2, Pan Pacific Hotel. Marina Square. Singapore 0103, tomorrow at 10 30am. INCH KENNETH KAJANG Rubber Public Limited Company: 77th AGM at 5th Floor. Straits Trading Building. 4 Leboh Pasar Besar. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia, on Monday, April 20,
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    • 4270 14 PROFIT-TAKERS dominated trading on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday with share prices closing mostly lower at the end of the day. Some stocks, however, bucked the general downtrend to put on moderate gains. Property stocks, though actively traded, were a few cents lower too.
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    • 2520 14 BID and otter prices officially listed and business In and reported to tbe Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, with the number at shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified. INDUSTRIALS Aono Ajhsomoto (3248) cdo Alan Hlg I—l Akom *****
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    • 124 14 HONGKONG All Industrials Hongkong Index Fridoy closed Friday Thursday closea 2576 3 Thursdoy 1750 21 Week ago 2635 5 Week ago 1777 49 NEW YORK Hang Seng Index fridoy closed Thursday 2721 12 Dow Jones Thursday 2275 99 Week ogo 2766 41 Wednesday 2282 95 Week ago 2339
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    • 279 14 Monagers' prices MARA-Bumiputra for April 18 20 F.rst B'put'O 6 25 6 30 Second B putra 538 5 43 Singapore Unit Trust Th.rd B'putra Fou r, h B'pu'ro 439 503 444 508 The CoiHfte'ce 1 05 1 13 F>*th S«»tf» B'putra 3 16 321* The Sov*ngs Fund 090
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 589 15 Vmm mm™ By HOCK LOCK SIEW THE PLIGHT of Texaco Inc, America s third largest oil company after Exxon and Mobil, has highlighted once again the advantages of having a provision in the bankruptcy code behind which a beleaguered company can find relief while it
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    • 89 15 Bernama ES BOUSTEADCO Singapore Ltd, the diversified trading group, expects its improved performance to continue. In his latest annual statement, chairman Tan Sri Taib Haji Andak said this anticipation was due to a better perception of the market and the on-going impact of cost cuts already
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    • 735 15 MBT THE KUALA LUMPUR Stock Exchange committee is believed to have sent a memorandum to the Ministry of Finance to protest against any issue of new broking licences to commercial banks. The memorandum is said to contain objections to a
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    • 434 15 MBT BANK BUMIPUTRA and United Malayan Banking Corporation, which are reported to be getting new stockbroking licences, said they are still holding talks with existing stockbroking firms. Bank Bumiputra chairman Tan Sri Haji Basir bin Ismail said on Thursday that the bank would go
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    • 591 15 SHARES surged ahead on c Thursday ahead of the Easter break, boosted by a c combination of good economic forecasts, a stron- c ger dollar, new opinion polls favourable to the c Conservatives and Wall Street s renewed strength The Financial Times industrial share index closed up 22
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    • 228 15 Bernama ES CONSTRUCTION and Supplies House Bhd (CASH) has suffered a MS6 8 million write-down in the value of the group s development properties in view of the continuing depressed property market. The write-down was mainly responsible for the group s pretax loss of
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    • 426 15  -  By NAJEEB JARHOM PLANTATION-CUM-PROPERTY group Kulim Malaysia has reported its worst performance in the eighties with group pre-tax profits of only M 52.35 million last year against $16 39 million in 1985. Ever since its record profits of $3062 million in 1984 Kulim
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    • 84 15 Bernama ES KUMPULAN EMAS BHD. adversely affected by substantially lower prices of palm products in the later part of last year, suffered a 58.8 per cent decline in its pre-tax profits to M 52.18 million for the half-year ended Jan 31 from $5 29 million previously.
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 305 15 NOTICE IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 185 VICKERS (S.E.A.) PTE. LTD. (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) Special Resolutions At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of Vickers (S.E.A) Pte. Ltd. duly convened and held at 5. Birnie Avenue, Lidcombe. N.S.W.. Australia, on Tuesday, 14th April 1987 at
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    • 439 15 JEL JUROIMG ENGINEERING LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Unaudited results for the year ended 31 December 1986 The Directors ot Jurong Engineering Limited are pleeeed to make the following announcement The Group The Company Increase'(Decrease) Group Company Retained profit at end Profit after minority interests but before extraordinary
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  • 321 16 Bernama THE UNITED STATES' direct investments in Asean rose marginally to US$9.2 billion in 1985 from US$7.3 billion in 1982, according to the US Department of Commerce and Bureau of Economic Analysis. But when compared to the 1984 amount of US$9.5 billion, this
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  • 153 16 AFP CHINESE LEADER Deng Xiaoping's indication that Hongkong could retain its capitalist way of life for 100 years after its return to Chinese rule in 1997 and his reported statements on political reform in the British colony got a mixed reception in Hongkong yesterday. Mr
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  • 601 16  -  Republic may yet outperform other newly-industrialising countries By BRIAN GOMEZ, Special Correspondent A HONGKONG FIRM of consultants has forecast that Singapore could outperform other newly-in-dustrialising countries (NICs) once commodity prices pick up. Political Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd said that while
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  • 839 16  -  The Sarawak state elections By LUCY NG in Kuchlng THE NATIONAL FRONT has been returned to power in Sarawak, capturing 28 of the 48 seats in the State Assembly. The opposition Maju Group won the remaining 20 seats. .Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi
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  • 198 16 Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday congratulated the Sarawak National Front under the leadership of Datuk Patinggi Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud for winning the state election. "The victory proves that the people continue to have support for and confidence in the NF to
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  • 301 16 Bernama MEMBERS of the new Sarawak Cabinet are expected to be sworn in before Yang Di Pertua Negeri Datuk Patinggi Haji Ahmad Zaidi Adruce Mohamed Noor on Monday. State Assistant Ministers were also expected to be sworn in at
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  • LATE FILE
    • 44 16 Bernama MALAYSIAN Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba, who is challenging Datuk Musa Hitam for the deputy Umno president's post at the party supreme council election next week, yesterday held a closed-door meeting with 100 Johor Umno delegates in Johor Baru. Bernama
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    • 47 16 Reuter TAIWAN and the US ended two days of talks yesterday with an agreement that will allow four more US insurance companies to set up branches in Taipei every year. There are now five US insurance companies operating in Taiwan. Reuter
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    • 49 16 Reuter PRESIDENT Raul Alfonsin of Argentina met the army high command yesterday to discuss the worst military crisis of Argentina's young democracy, sparked by an officers' rebellion. He told a packed national congress on Thursday that his government would not negotiate with the rebels. Reuter
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    • 39 16 UPI THAI Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila will visit members of Asean to form a united position on Cambodia before his trip to Moscow in May, a foreign ministry spokesman said yesterday. UPI
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    • 41 16 Reuter CHINA yesterday invited its one billion people as well as Chinese living overseas to submit designs for a flag and emblem for Hongkong to use when it returns to Beijing's control in 1997. Reuter
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    • 28 16 Reuter A TEAM from the Arab League met President Mitterrand yesterday to enlist French support for a UNsponsored ceasefire in the Gulf War. Reuter
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    • 50 16 Reuter THOUSANDS of South Korean students fought riot police in Seoul yesterday demanding President Chun Doo Hwan's resignation and attacking his decision to postpone constitutional change. Witnesses said 3,000 students from Korea University threw rocks and petrol bombs at more than 1,000 riot police. Reuter
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    • 41 16 Reuter SRI LANKA and the International Monetary Fund have broadly agreed on economic reforms but tough negotiations will be needed to win approval of loans of US$24O million, a government official said yesterday. Reuter
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    • 55 16 AP PRIME MINISTER Margaret Thatcher's visit to Moscow two weeks ago may yield a bonus for UK train-lovers as Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe was able to persuade his Soviet counterpart. Eduard Shevardnadze, to consider shipping one of Russia's fabled P36 locomotives to
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  • 453 16 The 71st Pulitzer Prize awards a who's who of the winners Reuter REPORTS on turmoil in South Africa, photographs of the downfall of Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos and a book on relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel were rewarded with prestigious Pulitzer prizes. The Pulitzer Prize Committee, in its
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  • 83 16 THE COMMUNICATIONS and Information Minister, Dr Yeo Ning Hong, will sign an air agreement with his Omani counterpart, Sheik Hamoud Bin Abdullah Al Harty. today. The agreement will allow Singapore Airlines to fly to the Omani capital, Muscat, from Singapore. It will also
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    • 56 16 See Page 4 J.M. SASSOON CO. (PTE) LTD. Notice of Removal With effect from 20th April 1987, our new address will be> 1 Raffles Place #44-00 OUB Centre Singapore 0104 Telephones *****88 *****66 Telex No RS *****, RS ***** Fax (65) *****56 Our other telephone numbers remain as follows: G.
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 67 16 miMm Outlook: Rain in Mvtril areas In lata morning, axpac tad to claar in lata afternoon. Report for 24 hours prior to 7.30pm on April 17 at tha airport Maximum tamparatura 34.9 Associated humidity 53 Minimum temperature 26.1 Associated humidity 86 Hours of sunshine 9.00 Rainfall in millimetre* Nil Rainfall
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