The Business Times, 13 August 1988

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 Weekend Edition, August 13-14 1988 75 CENTS
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  • 264 1 Reuter Dow Jones down NEW YORK stock prices lost more ground yesterday morning as rising interest rates kept downward pressure on the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 10.32 points to 2,028.98 in the first hour of trading. Declining issues outnumbered advances by more than five
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  • 140 1 LATE SELLING of US dollars in Asia, particularly Singapore, sent the American currency closing lower against the West German mark yesterday. But it rose marginally against the yen. Dealers said traders were generally cautious, preferring to wait for the release next Tuesday of
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  • 469 1  -  Price of $120m-slsom being tested in the market By LEE HAN SHIH and CORRINA LIM IN THE LATEST of its many deals, the listed United Industrial Corporation (UIC) is planning to sell The Promenade along Orchard Road. Property sources say UIC has been testing
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  • 122 1 REGIONAL STOCK markets ended yesterday on an uneasy note ahead of the weekend and next Tuesday's release of US June trade figures. In Singapore, prices were generally firmer in early dealings. But profit-taking and a lack of follow-through buying in the afternoon saw most of
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  • 549 1  -  By CHUANG PECK MING PARLIAMENT yesterday gave its support to the principle of constitutional safeguards for the country's reserves and the integrity of the public service. A bill for a popularly elected president, based on a White Paper tabled recently, will be ready
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  • 332 1 Reuter BURMESE LEADER Sein Lwin has resigned as chairman of the socialist ruling party and state president after five straight days of nationwide violent demonstrations demanding his removal, according to a state radio report. The 64-year-old former brigadier took over
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 282 1 iko The World's Finest Photographic System. Full report, PAGE 14 Regional markets, PAGE 16 World markets, PAGE 17 mi LIKE EVERYTHING else, peace has a price. With the return of peace to Iran and Iraq, the price is the collapse in the black-market prices of gold and the dollar, leading
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    • 202 1 1 iko: Th« World's Finest Photographic System. K4&. V L -V V m Rights of passage Page 7 NpsmH THvtai The times they are a-changing Page 7 The king of Italian wines Page 9 How much is too much? Page 9 Weekend programmes; next week's top slots Rebel with a
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 554 2  -  By FOO CHOY PENG THE SECOND and last day of the debate on the proposal for an elected president saw several MPs urging the government to hold a referendum on the plan and/or to refer it to a Select Committee. While most were
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    • 479 2  -  YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT By ANNA TEO FINANCE MINISTER Dr Richard Hu spoke yesterday about why an elected president is the best way of protecting the country's reserves. The powers vested in the president need not be extensive, but they should include
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    • 477 2 TOURIST arrivals in Asean last year topped the 12 million mark for the first time, a rise of 13 per cent over 1986. Asean's first attainment of double-digit growth since 1981 provided a rosy picture for Asean tourism in the years to come,
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    • 197 2 MR ROY MACKIE has been appointed general manager, special projects by Singapore Newspaper Services Re Ltd (SNS). The appointment takes effect from Aug 15. Mr Mackie will be responsible for business development, marketing and management of the company's Teleview project. SNS is a member
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    • 200 2 THE OVERSEA-CHINESE Banking Corporation has become the first local bank to organise a mass walk-in recruitment exercise in an attempt to solve its shortage of clerical staff. The exercise, organised by the bank's personnel department, took place at the Westin hotel on
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    • 371 2 SINGAPORE CONTRACTORS are going after building jobs at home and overseas with a vengeance. In Taiwan, they are fighting for $120 million worth of building jobs, including a project on the Taipei Mass Rapid Transit system. At home, they have
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    • 73 2 SCANDINAVIAN Airline* (SAS) will increase its weekly scheduled flights to Singapore to five starting on Aug 30. The new flight leaves Copenhagen on Monday, arriving in Singapore on Tuesday. It departs from Singapore again at 9.35pm on Tuesday The other four flights leave Singapore on
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  • 1235 2 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES Iron WiU Surabaya II J8/9 12 alongside alongside 13.06/1830 1308/2300 VUMl Bfth Arrival Departure Yeong Dor 606 Aulia Serayo 12 Jl alongside 13 08/0300 13.08/0600 14.CV2300 KEPPEL WHARVES Dwei Serayo J2 13.06/1600 16 Co/0500 Dengyun Golden Hoven Koto Wongi lan Petoling 3 K29 <33
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    • 135 2 Welcome to the new comforts of home There are changes in the air at Hotel W* t Equatorial Kuala Lumpur. Most ifRV /Ly/ important is the total make-over in 1 our rooms and suites, now in a modem, contemporary style that's charmingly comfortable. A new refreshing kx>k greets you at
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 430 3 AFP HONGKONG'S anti-graft body yesterday said merchant bank Wardley Ltd was wrongly named in six of 25 bribery charges filed against eight past and present Hongkong Stock Exchange officials. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said: "Due to a typographical error the name
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    • 175 3 Reuter THAILAND'S new Finance Minister, Pramual Sabhavasu, said he had no plans to privatise state enterprises but he would streamline money-losing agencies to help them compete with the private sector. Mr Pramual reiterated on Thursday statements made by leaders of his dominant Chart Thai (Thai
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    • 918 3 ARRIVALS Operator Sorvlco Local From number tfcTM MAS MH607 0920 KUL ACA ACS 88 0925 YYZ/LHR/BOM SU SQ103 0950 KUL CPX CX710 0955 CGK CAL 0806 1000 CGK GlA GA960 1100 CGK SU SQ105 1105 KUL RBA BU2t 1130 BWN TMA TL361 1130 BEY/SHJ StA SQ201 1145
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    • 469 3 Reuter THE US AGRICULTURE Department has predicted that the US drought, considered the worst in half a century, would lead to dramatic declines in this year's harvests of corn, soybeans and wheat. The department's monthly crop report estimated US farmers would produce 4.48 billion
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    • 162 3 AFP THE US Commerce Department has said it will loosen some restrictions placed on Japanese memory chips that forced chipmakers to price them artificially high. The changes apply to two kinds of chips covered in a 1986 anti-dumping agreement between the United States
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    • 114 3 AFP JAPAN WILL EASE restrictions on exports of business computers to China later this month, Tokyo government sources have said. This policy will be in line with an agreement by the 16 members of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (Cocom) to
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    • 225 3 AFP THE US SENATE on Thursday approved by an overwhelming majority a US$2B2-billion defence budget with a tough message for US allies. The message, in essence, was: "We expect you to pay a fair share of the allied defence bill."
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    • 399 3 AFP WEST GERMAN monetary authorities sought on Thursday to head off a dispute over interest rates with the United States, but warned that a further rise in the dollar's value would be "problematic". Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg said that the recent appreciation of the
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    • 147 3 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has set a minimum 3-per-cent pay rise for the country's 7.3 million wage and salary earners from Sep 1. 1988. The commission said workers would be entitled to a further ASIO a week increase six months
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    • 163 3 AFP THE Bank of England warned on Thursday that inflation in Britain could rise in the short term but that an annual economic growth of 3 per cent was sustainable. Domestic demand, growing at nearly 7 per cent for the year ended
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    • 62 3 f I iM \l j£ If I \M The business person's choice, every I I II 111 I Tuesday. Thursday, Saturday and I 1 l|\ 1 w\ \l II m Sunday. Leaving Changi Airport at _L 1 X 22:05 hours and arriving at Lester B. Pearson International Airport the following
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    • 169 3 ■A &jjfe zlj n&frifcf c H a W, i,- 9K ■> <V. H /'lw: •it* m C. m cA f C: 4 T v ♦V. Burberry r** Authorised Dealers: DAIMARU ISETAN-HAVELOCK, ORCHARD LE CLASS I QUE METRO GRAND LUCKY PLAZA ROBINSONS SOCO A/W EAST REPTILE HOUSE F J BENJAMIN CHANGI
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 45 3 Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU AFTER you've GIVEN THEM THE 6PANP TOUR, TAKB THEM UP TO THE OBSERVATION PECK, ANP I'LL LANPtNTHEJET HEUCOPTER! THEN S f Y THEN YOU ALL JIMP OUT AND YELL, "SURPRISE!* BRJLUANT. GOP, TM LEARNING A LOT FROM YOU! 1 1 mm
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 364 4 Asian dollar deposit rates closed at firmer opening levels yesterday after a day of light trading. Dealers said most operators were awaiting the day's release of US July producer price index figures. Short-dates firmed between 1/8 and 1/4 point at the outset due to a surge in
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    • 1698 4 Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Reuter SINGAPORE: The American currency finished easier yesterday against most major currencies. Against the Singapore dollar, the US dollar closed easier at $2.0385/95 in erratic trading. It traded within a range of $2.0420 and $2.0395. It opened initially at $2.0400/10. The greenback closed higher against
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    • 71 4 THE OVERNIGHT rate on the Singapore money market rose 1/4 point yesterday to end at 4-1/2 per cent. The one-month term rate rose by 1/16 point while the two and threemonths rose by 1/8 point each. S$ Interbank rates at the close yester day: OffW MO night 4
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    • 105 4 Treasury bills 1 Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity BID OFFfR HIGH LOW 3 months BQ*****T 10.11.88 4.10 4.05 4.10 4.08 6 months BY*****T 24.11.88 4.14 4.09 4.12 4.12 1 yeor BY*****S 20.07.89 4.52 4.47 4.47 4.46 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's
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    • 161 4 Gold futures on Aug 11, 100 troy ouncts USS par troy ou nca Opon M* Low MM 439 80 430.30 427.90 429.30 4-aiO S*p 430.90 Oct 433 40 434.80 431.50 ***** 0.20 DK 439 40 440-50 437.40 439.20 0.20 F«b 445.50 448.00 444.20 445.20 0.20 Apr 451.10
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    • 485 4 SEPTEMBER Eurodollar futures on the Simex opened at 91.27 yesterday, unchanged from Chicago's close as a half-point increase in US prime rate was within market expectation and had little impact on the market. Trading was quiet and confined to a narrow range of 91.25 to 91.28 in the September
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    • 186 4 Indicate# the average of the prime lending rates of 12 major banks In S'pore Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Aug 12 us$ DM SWfC 7 days 3/a 1/4 IO i/4 i/a 5 1/16 4 15/16 3 3 4 5/16 3/16 1 mft> a 1/16 3/16 0 7/a
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    • 1446 4 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Friday, Aug 1 2, 1988 DEUTSCHE MARK (SIMEX) H8«t« Sad S8 can* Law SaM High •*9 mm* Low OoR SO BA 53 35A 31 S3 95 95 95 6SA 64 54 478 SO 122A IIS 55 33 23 33 196A 193 56 3S4A 279 57 sa
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    • 243 4 Reuter CURRENCY FUTURES on the IMM ended sharply higher on Thursday, with most contracts settling just below the day's best levels. Values traded on the plus side all day. extending the early advance and posting fresh highs throughout the afternoon. Traders said there were no discernable new developments to
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 163 5 CONTINUED DEMAND pushed the Kuala Lumpur tin price another three cents higher yesterday to close at M 519.27 a kg. Sterling's continued strength against the ringgit left the local market on par with the European spot tin price. This prompted sustained buying from Europe and locally, and fresh
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    • 100 5 CRUDE ended easier in lacklustre trading yesterday but most product markets experienced gains. Players were, however, nervous of the sudden rise as most market were still bearish. Closing prices for crude (FOB origin) US$/barr»l Chang* Topis (Sep) 14.90 0.05 Minos (Aug) 14.15 -0.15 Dubai (Sep) 13.30 0.08
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    • 411 5 MALAYSIAN CRUDE PALM OIL FUTURES closed off the dey's highs yesterday on profit-taking and renewed selling as operators liquidated their positions ahead of a long weekend. Prices had firmed early in anticipation of a surge in Chicago soy complex futures following the bullish USDA soybean crop report on
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    • 169 5 Chinese Produce Exctisnge Sellers' noon dosing prices on Aug 12 (S$/100 kg) Coconut oil Bu* FOB 126.00 OW drum FOB 140.00 New drum FOB 136.00 Copra Mixed (loose) 72 sellers Pepper Muntok white FOB NLW 792.50 Sarawak white FOB foq NLW 777.50 Sarawak spedol block FOB NLW 445.00
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    • 291 5 London Commodity Exchange Buyer/Seller closing prices on Aug 11 (£/tonne unless specified). Previous closing prices in parenthesis. Coffee Basil in-store London, sellers option OF London Sep 980/983 (1012/1013 High/Low 1021/985 Nov 995/997 (1021/1023) High/Low 1032/992 Soles (3973) Cocoa Sep 903/904 (951/952) High/Low 945/903 Oec 885/887 (928/929) High/Low 924/881
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    • 291 5 RAS prices In S cents/kg, FOB In balM NOON CLOSE Buyers S*ll*rs Bo yon Seders lot 1 RSS Prompt 259.50 260.50N 259.00 260.00N bit 1 RSS S*p 88 259.50 260.SON 259.00 260.00N bit 1 RSS Oct 262.00 263.00N 261.50 262.50N lot 2 RSS OP 256.50 258.50N 256.00
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    • 226 5 SINGAPORE Prices closed slightly higher yesterday with September RSS One buyer quoted at 259.00 cents a kg. up 1.50 cents from Thursday's close. After a slightly higher opening in line with a firmer Tokyo market, prices fluctuated within narrow ranges due to lack of fresh factors in thin morning
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    • 73 5 (tunn/kg) SEPTEMBER 1988 OCTOBER 1988 (currant month) (forward month) RAS NOON NOONtvyn tvyun Stlltn SS8 30 225.50 227.50N 232.50 227.50N SSR SO 225.50 227.SON 335.50 227.50N MRELB 1«y*r» lwy«fi lilm SMR cv 430JO 432.50N 433.50 4 34.SON SMR I 430.50 432.SON 433.50 434.50N SMR 3 301.00 303.00N
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    • 353 5 HONGKONG: The metal closed slightly lower yesterday in quiet trading on light selling by local and overseas investors. Bullion opened higher, but sellers soon emerged to push prices lower, although there was no news to move the market. It ended at U*****.50/90 an ounce against an initial U*****.40/90
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  • 530 6 BT on Saturday LIKE EVERYTHING else, peace has a price. Like everything else again, that price is bound to be higher on the black market than elsewhere, except that, in a sweet reversal of fortunes, it is the seller and not the buyer who
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  • 849 6  -  By JAN JAN M ROSEN NYT TOO OFTEN in America, the signs of success the lovely home, the prestige car are actually signs of debt. While the debtor ought to control the debt, all too often its the other way about, leading to secret
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  • 163 6  -  letters to the Editor SMALL INVESTOR Deer Sir Re: Release Of Corporate Results The release of corporate results does affect the share price of the respective companies on the very same day they are released. However, the small investor is at a disadvantage as he gets
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  • 755 6  -  By CAROL J WILLIAMS AP ON A HOT. sunny day at spm, about 40 foreign tourists clustered around the locked doors of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlour to await the end of the Soviet staff's two-hour lunch break. At 5:10 the glass doors parted
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  • 376 6  -  CHIA KEE KOON Public Relatione Officer Budget Division Ministry Of Finence Doer Sir Under the headline "Govt acts to convert documents to PCs" the Business Times reported on July 22, 1986. that the Singapore Government had commissioned a UK systems house to convert its
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  • 372 6  -  JEREMY C G RAMSEY Managing Director Rolex Singapore Pte Ltd Dear Sir I refer to the article in Business Times on Aug 1, 1988, headed Performance by 1987 Rolex Winners' compiled by Shaun Koh. The tone of the article is extremely unfair and looks as if
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    • 44 6 BT welcomes letters from readers. Your letters must include your signature, full name, address and home and office telephone numbers, if any. You may add a pseudonym if you wish. Address your letters to: The Editor Business Times 390 Kim Seng Road Singapore 0923
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 713 6 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 9 Left it in the poem I composed a rude word (8) 10 Mess the cockney made of the tree (3) 11 Understand and get the measure of the sailor (6) 12 Back in form, perhaps, make a mistake (4,2) 13 Keep it. it will do another
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    • 39 6 Cm You GeX this T wPeD £>V F|V c o' clock*? Ls* eft I'LL TRY UJHO TM£ U)HPO" TH£ P HOU3 TH£. o 8lGH! Ravings OF A CH ILD f~,n J vJ Oi 1 < EVENING STANOAAO CO LTD.. IH2—IMI
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  • Executive Lifestyle
    • 211 7 ON NATIONAL DAY EVE, which coincidentally was auspicious Monday, 8.8.88, the government released figures for Singapore's economic growth 11.1 per cent for the first half of the year. While the high growth has drawn considerable attention, another figure raised eyebrows for a different reason. Growth for
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    • 1972 7  -  A broadening, affluent middle-class, impatient to get ahead, are being guided by marketers on how to give the right signals befitting their position in life. MONICA GWEE explores the markers of three "brands" of people and the lifestyle signals
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    • 951 7  -  {Wow"- With WALTON MORAIS MALAYSIA NO. 1 (History Miracle). The graffiti, scrawled in chalk on the blackboard by a departing student, told its own story. Pour years after I had left Raffles Hall, my old university hostel at Bukit Timah, the sentiment behind that simple
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 85 7 eauec2) <y Since 1775 1/ X X Breguet: Precision mastery since 1775 Abraham Louis Breguet (1747 1823) was one of the most phenomenal watchmakers history has ever known. His genius was an overriding influence not only on watch-making techniques but also on the beauty of the finished object. Shown here:
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  • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment & Pursuits
    • 608 8  -  WATCHES By SANGEETA MULCHAND ONE WATCH is all you need to tell the time. But for Arthur and Vivian Gan of Good Old Days. close to five hundred timepieces are more like what they need to tell of the times. The brother-sister team are
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 248 8 csa/l(mlms Where to eat, drink Barens^N .TOPinifnfTMft A iMßfly Eailng Affair Give yourself and your family a treat this Sunday and indulge in sheer eating pleasure. Our Baron s Sunday Buffet is a potpourri of impeccable local and western cuisines. For the young ones, we have specially set aside a
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    • 194 8 Ernest Greg is y n The JADE LOUNGE is the perfect spot to relax in, after a hard day at work. Ernest and Greg provide a hot new entertainment style. With a rich repertoire of ballads, old favourites and impersonations. Ernest is a soloist and plays the guitar while Greg
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    • 237 8 THE MOST WONDROUS BUFFET LUNCH IN TOWN Enjoy a gourmet buffet luncheon at an ungourmet price l For starters take your p«ck of our cold dishes prawns on ice fresh oysters smoked salmon, melon and dried ham, vegetable ternne mined seafood salad cooked assorted vegetables and homemade dressings Select your
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    • 233 8 i iuiii 1111 a I a 5 ■Bl •'.'->< m^4 i a® Bring the family for a fabulous meal of fresh seafood and Chinese dishes from our a la carte menu. At a generous 25% off the bill. fit But only on Sundays between 11.30 am and 2.30pm. And for
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    • 161 8 Vk, The Matterhorn beckons! Savour the works of Swiss masters at the Belvedere. In our month-long fair stretching from August 1 -31. With Jellied trout, Rindsroellschen, Fresh oysters, Sauerkraut swiss style, Fondue neuchateloise, Nut croissants, authentic Swiss rolls and lots more! Come enjoy over 60 traditional favourites at just S3l
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  • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment, the Arts & Pursuits
    • 822 9  - Barolo the king of Italian wines WINE By N K YONG YOU DO not see many bottles of 1947 Barolo around, and it would be an even rarer occasion to be invited to drink one. We had gone to Alba, the centre of the Barolo wine producing region of Piedmonte,
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    • 896 9  -  HEALTH By RICHARD SEAH HEALTH CONSCIOUSNESS for many Singaporeans stop* just there at the level of consciousness. A recent survey by the Ministry of Health found that most Singaporeans more or less know what is good or bad for their health.
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    • SHORT TAKES
      • 76 9 DUTCH prostitutes have launched a campaign against tourists who photograph them as they sit in streetlevel windows in Amsterdam's red-light district to attract customers. They ssy picture-taking invades their privacy and drives away their clients. The prostitute's union, Red Thread, said it was distributing "No cameras"
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      • 194 9 THERE'S an alternative for those in Bridgeport. Connecticut in the US who don't like this year's Democratic or Republican presidential candidates: Pogo. Pogo Possum, the cartoon creation of the late Walt Kelly, named Mamselle Hepzibah, the skunk with the French accent, to stand as his woman running
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      • 108 9 BRITISH SOLDIERS, who for years have marched on bully beef and beans, are to be issued with new rstions such as chicken snd pasta The British defence ministry announced the new rations would provide for a better diet and more calories. The new rations, in sealed
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      • 126 9 TALK about striking it rich. A tourist digging in Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, US, unearthed a 3.76 carat canary yellow diamond. The gem-quality oval stone was found by Patricia Albin of Minnsota and is "very valuable" said Park Ranger Marcel Hanzlik
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      • 139 9 A VISITING JUDGE in Houston trying to restore order to his courtroom by slamming a gavel on the bench, got an unexpected reaction. The gavel, belonging to county court-at-law judge Alfred Leal, was glass, and filled with 12-year-old Bourbon. The blow broke off the bottom of
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 304 9 and entertain <6 4 f 4 r x. Sunday Brunch: A great family outing Ifs a wonderful way to combine a late breakfast with an earty lunch on a lazy Sunday. Sausages, bacon, eggs any way you want them oysters, smoked salmon, tasty entrees, roast... right through to pastries, puddings,
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    • 196 9 ONE GOOD REASON TO LUNCH AT THE PALM GRILL IS OUR APPETISER BUFFET ANOTHER IS THE CHOICE Of-" MAIN COURSES For between $26+ and $40 I OU can se ecl f rom our appetiser LjInILL buffet including seafood, smoked salmon and oysters. Choose from many lavish main courses. And finish
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 1614 10 Garbo, Linda Blair and mega stars A high-powered cast, including Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remicfc and Michael Sarrazin make tonight's movie offering Never Give An Inch about the tragedy that befalls a modern-day logger family when they refuse to participate in a local strike action against the big lumber
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    • 1020 10 '/>! M l SATURDAY Obbc 88.9 mHz In VHF Band II 6AM World News 6.09 The World Today. 6.25 Presenstation Programme 6.30 Financial News 6.40 Reflections. 6.46 Sports Roundup. 7.00 World News. 7.06 Commentary. 7.15 From the Weeklies. 7.30 Multitrack 3. 8.00 World News. 6.00 News about Britain. 6.15 Radio
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  • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment & the Arts
    • 527 11  -  NIGHT SPOTS By SANGEETA MULCHAND COMPETITION makes people come up with the strangest ideas. But a lady having her head chopped off? Or a man laying eggs? Granted that the newer and trendier discos of Orchard Road are posing a serious threat
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    • 832 11  -  x Roger Loh IT MAY BE my own peculiar misguided distrust, but there are no genuine tough-guy rebels. If James Dean was alive today, he'd probably be working on the Disney lot. Look at Marlon Brando. Superman's father indeed! Even
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    • 541 11  -  CINEMA By PAUL KHOO ALFRED HITCHCOCK movies engage us because they play upon our everyday fears. In a world where mundane happenings take a sinister turn, the Hitchcock hero is an everyman solid, unexciting, perhaps even a slow member of the middle class whose predicament the audience
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    • 730 11  -  by Roger Loh NOT MANY PEOPLE go to the movies these days to watch a good performance. Not that it makes any difference judging by the current spate of pre-destined box-office hits irrespective of acting quality. Sylvester Stallone can't act, and Paul Hogan's not very
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    • 734 11  -  Compiled by i Sakina Dhilawala CINEMA: Rambo HI starring Sylvester Stallone. Showing at Cathay: 11; 1.30; 4; 6.30; 9.15, Golden Sultan: 1.30; 4; 6.30; 9. Bedok: 1.30; 4; 7.30; 9.30, Broadway: 1.30; 3.30; 7; 9. Majestic: 1; 3.30; 7; 9.30, Odeon-Katong: 3.30; 7; 9, Regal: 1.30; 3.30; 7; 9.15,
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    • 539 11  -  TRAVEL By LISA LEE "I THINK this is a mistake," concluded one of our travel-worn companions soberly. And from the looks of the mud-coated floor of the bathrooms. the crowds of people swarming the tiny canteen and the numerous plebeians bathing themselves in the
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  • Executive Lifestyle: Sports
    • 416 12  -  CRICKET By CHARLES SAVAGE SINGAPORE WILL have to restrict Johor to 150 if it is to stand more than half a chance of beating the visitors in the J&B Rear Cricket Carnival semi-final today at Balestier Road. The youthful team from across the causeway has
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    • 487 12  -  By TONY DANKER THE KNOCKERS have been at it for as long as I can remember, insisting that cricket is dying in Malaysia. That rigor mortis is imminent. Somehow they have all been proved wrong. For the truth of the matter is that,
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    • 332 12 TENNIS AP AUSTRALIAN Mark Woodforde won 12 straight games on Thursday to defeat 15th-seeded Peter Lundgren of Sweden in the third round of the US$Bl5,OOO Player's International. Woodforde, who upset second seed Stefan Edberg of Sweden on Wednesday, advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-0 victory
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    • 640 12  -  B "dge P* Mike Thumba MANY CONTRACTS have come to grief due to the opening lead. On the other hand, if the defending opening leader takes some time to ponder over the bidding and then makes a calculated opening lead, he is almost
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    • 694 12 GOLF AP 808 GILDER took the first-round lead in the Professional Golfers' Association Championship, and then criticised the calibre of the players in the competition. "How to be tactful?" Gilder said on Thursday when asked about the
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    • 399 12 BOXING AP TYRONE DOWNES has always bean a fighter. When you grow up the eldest of 20 brothers and sisters in a poor suburb of St Joseph, Barbados. life is destined to be a struggls. Downes, 30, gets the biggest opportunity of
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    • 332 12 AFP WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT boxing champion Mike Tyson looks set to make his comeback in October against Frank Bruno of Britain, but doubts still linger. Tyson's manager Bill Cayton and Jarvis Astaire, deputy chairman of the Wembley Stadium Company, have said Tyson will
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    • 574 12  -  Oh TMCK With Jerome Fandor THE INCLUSION of a Class 3 race on Sunday means that Impeccable will get the chance to race at the current Selangor meeting after his failure in the Stamford Arms Handicap in Selangor in
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  • Executive Lifestyle: Personal Investment
    • 630 13  -  ECONOMIC TRENDS Keeping tratk... By KEVIN GWEE BABY BOOMERS in America, those now in the 24- to 44-year-old age group and who account for onethird the population, are a powerful demographic force. Over the next five years, how they spend or save
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    • 709 13  -  STOCKS mm By LONG SHIH ROME THE AVERAGE INVESTOR probably doesn't realise it, but the four packaging company stocks listed on the local exchange have among the highest return-on-equity ratings. These range from 6.6 per cent for Metal Containers Ltd to as high
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    • 863 13  -  INTEREST RATES By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI EVERYWHERE from Tokyo to Singapore and the United States, analysts are saying that rising interest rates generally spell bad news for stock markets. Which is why stock prices in those centres and other world markets fell sharply on Wednesday after the Federal
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    • 224 13 v> tt y «i RC IT IS the nature of market corrections to strike when least expected. In last week's column, I acknowledged I had been too early in calling for a correction, stating that it appeared to have been delayed.
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    • 512 13 BT welcomes Investment ideas and viewpoints from brokers, bankers and other readers. Addrees all correspondence to: The Editor, Personal Investment, Business Times, 390 Kim Seng Road, S'pore 0923. NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Tan Tai Seng of Apt Blk 202, Bedok North Street 1, #07-505 Singapore (1646), has
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    • 491 13 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Cheung Sen Yong of No 26, Swiss Club Road Singapore (1128), has applied for a Retail Beer Shop licence in respect of premises at Mys Deli-93 Food Entertainment Pte. Ltd at Stall No. 8, No. 68 Boat Quay Singapore (0104), and that this
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 76 14 Company RIGHTS ISSUE C K Tang On«-for-two $2.25 per shore Each rights comes with two detochoble TSfc. The exercise price for the TSb. expiring on May 31. 1990. is $2 25 Ex-dot*: Aug 3 Books dose: Aug 16 Company OTHERS Hotel Prop Non- renounceoble offer by S1M81 of
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    • 245 14 Company RIGHTS ISSUE A M 0 B One-for-four <Q SO50 per shore C 1 Holdings 27 million loan stocks in the ratio of $3 loon stock for every five ordinary shores held Dvta Cons One-for-one $1.10 per share F N Two-for-five $3.00 per shore F A C B
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    • 143 14 CK TANG Limited: 28th AGM at 310 320 Orchard Road, Singapore 0923, today, Aug 13, at 11am. KILLINGHALL (MALAYSIA) Berhad: 10th AGM at N0.49 Jalan Hang Lekiu, Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, Aug 17, at 2.30pm. The UNITED MALACCA RUBBER ESTATES, Berhad: 74th AGM at No BH, Jalan Laksamana
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    • 296 14 Managers' prices for Aug 13 and 15 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 104 III The Savings Fund 092 098 S'pore Prog Fund 043 047 S pore Sec Fund 068 0 73* S'pore Invest Fund on 077 S'pore Equ<<y Fund 051 055 Asia Unit Trust Mo* Invest Fund 1
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    • 724 14  -  by Long Shih Rome SHARE PRICES closed marginally lower yesterday due to lack of follow-through support and prof-it-taking. Trading was moderate. A firm opening in the Tokyo market and an overnight reversal of Wall Street's downtrend spurred bargain-hunting for blue chips and
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  • 5328 14 1968 High Low Tel Cod* Company Leal Sale orGr*a Dlv Dlv C'vr Gr'a rid Net P/E Vol (000) Day High Low Laet G Buyer hKrte Seller SECTION ONE MDUSTRIAL ft COMMERCIAL 141 85 218 167 121 460 178 350 129 167 177 297 59% 350 555 565
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 450 15  -  By LISA LEE HONGKONG'S China Entertainment and Land Investment Co last night announced a HK$45O million bid for its affiliate Paul Y Construction, thus ending speculation that local contractor Lum Chang Holdings might buy into the Hongkong construction firm. China Entertainment, controlled by the
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    • 594 15  -  Shareholders must have local address to qualify for rights issue By AMY BALAN FRASER NEAVE has amended its Articles of Association requiring overseas shareholders, including Malaysians, to have a Singapore registered address before they are entitled to its proposed $150 million rights issue. A special
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    • 472 15  -  By KEVIN GWEE THE SEMBAWANG GROUP has made further inroads into the Chinese market with the setting up of a consortium with two stateowned enterprises to bid for projects in the oil and gas industry. Sembawang is represented in the new venture by its subsidiary,
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    • 301 15 PARKWAY HOLDINGS Ltd has declared that its Hongkong subsidiary holds less than one per cent of the paid-up capital of William Hunt Holdings, the company which bought Khoo Teck Puat's Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation. The listed Singapore property group, in
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    • 638 15 ?F=TKVJS fit 53 I 7 &of/i/na/u of &h//jt(a// f jMa/ap&ia )&e>tAad (Incorporated in Malaysia) ANNOUNCEMENT The directors are pleased to announce: 1. Audited results for the year ended 30th June, 1988 change Company Group Company Group Company Group Msooo MSOOO MSOOO Msooo or TURNOVER 360,933 706,546 628,476 628,716 -42.6 12.4
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 753 16 Attitudes are hard to change, say experts Reuter FOREIGN PRESSURE and a spate of domestic stock scandals are spurring Japanese authorities and financial industries to adopt reforms modelled on US anti-insider trading rules. But financial experts said the reforms are unlikely either
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  • 180 16 Reuter BRIERLEY INVESTMENTS Ltd (BIL) and its Australian unit Industrial Equity Ltd (lEL) have decided to reconsider a merger of the two companies. BIL, which owns 51 per cent of lEL, said in Wellington yesterday a further announcement would be made as soon as a mutually
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  • 180 16 Reuter THE BOEING Co is holding unofficial talks with Japanese aircraft makers Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd on developing a long-range version of the B-767 airliner, according to a Mitsubishi spokesman. Boeing, which declined to comment,
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  • 3834 16 AN ENCOURAGING start turned sour and share prices closed lower for the third consecutive day on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday. Trading was slow and turnover fell below 30 million units. It initially appeared that the two-day weak spell would end when share prices
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  • 1434 16 Hongkong HONGKONG STOCKS closed steady yesterday on light bargain-hunting by overseas fund managers with trading overshadowed by rumours of an imminent increase in local interest rates, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index finished 5.65 points higher at 2,600 93 and the broader based Hong Kong Index was
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  • 137 16 AUG 12 •Ul ***** -200 crwi Sugar Daetim irxJ ***** ***** ♦200 1200 Kangwon Ind Kia Motor Koton Ind ***** ***** ***** 500 -100 -1000 Daewoo Corp Daewoo Heavy ***** ***** 500 100 Korea Long Term Lucky LM ***** ***** ♦200 unch i Daiahin Securities Dong Ah Phar *****
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  • 134 16 AFP GRAND METROPOLITAN, a British diversified group, has announced that its subsidiary International Distillers and Vintners (IDV) has signed an agreement with the Canadian beverage group Seagram for joint distribution of their products in Asia. Seagram is to market and sell its own
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  • 515 16 Reuter TOKYO SHARE prices closed slightly higher yesterday, but failed to hold on to morning peaks, as investors took a wait-and-see attitude ahead of the weekend and the Tuesday release of US June trade figures, brokers said. "People are waiting to see if the dollar steadies or not. The
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  • 465 16 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN share market closed higher yesterday for the first time in two days, but profit-taking ahead of the weekend and nervousness about Wall Street s performance last night dragged prices from their highs. Brokers said the market moved up on an early surge of buying, which was
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  • 239 16 AUG 12 All Sincere Indus NT t 6 50 96 50 0.15 2 5 Kolin Kuochan Dev Lee Chang Yuen 60 50 59 00 1.5 1 137 50 4 Chang Hwa Bank 884 00 47 30 25 1.3 Nan Ya Plas 103 50 3 Chia Hsin Cement Chin Hsin
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 1036 17 New York Reuter WALL STREET blue chip stocks on Thursday reversed five straight days of losses to close higher despite news that US banks raised the prime rate. Brokers said the market's belief that most of the bad news on interest rates was over led
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    • 1067 17 London Reuter LONDON EQUITY prices opened firmer yesterday in quiet business after Wall Street closed with a small gain on Thursday following a 230-point recovery in Tokyo. Dealers said the market took encouragement from Wall Street's steadier tone after a week of falls there and they saw
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    • 125 17 HONGKONG All Industrials Hongkong Index Fridoy 1.716 75 Friday 2 599 9 Thursday 2.589 0 Thursday 1.***** Week ogo 2.620 1 Week ogo >.767 39 NEW YORK Hang Seng Index Friday 2.***** Thursdoy 2.595 2B Week ago 2.67 II7 Dow Jones Thursdoy 2.039 30 Wednesday 2.034 14 Week
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    • 1159 17 Amsterdam AIM 11 PL* ABN 44 50 -1 7 Aegon SO 30 -1 9 Ahold 64 20 -1 2 130 80 -42 Alrenta 155 40 AMEV 51 40 -1 9 Amro Bank 78 80 -02 Am Stad 123 00 -2 B«rkel 12 70 BOLS 129 00 -2 5 Borsumii 102
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    • 65 17 Reuter BUILDING MATERIAL retailers Wickes Pic is making a 351p per share recommended offer for timber products group Hunter Pic. Wickes said it had already received irrevocable undertakings from major shareholder Hillsdown Holdings Pic and certain other shareholders to accept the offer, in respect of
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    • 392 17 Reuter BRITISH FOOD GROUP Ranks Hovis McDougall PLC. fighting a bid from Goodman Fielder Wattie Ltd. has forecast a 34 per cent rise in its pre-tax profit to not less than £156 million in the year to Sep 30. It made the forecast
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    • 128 17 AFP BRITISH PETROLEUM Co. Britain's biggest oil company, has announced a 24 per cent rise in net profit in the second quarter of the year, at £323 million. The result, computed on a re-placement-cost basis, matched financial analysts' expectations. On a historic-cost basis, including gains
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    • 249 17 Reuter SIX SECURITIES traders in the US have pleaded not guilty to Federal racketeering charges, as defence lawyers alleged the case was brought "to coerce" testimony from their clients against principals at Orexel Burnham Lambert Inc and Goldman Sachs and Co. The six
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    • 190 17 Reuter MERGER ACTIVITY in the UK will probably be sustained over the next three years by companies positioning themselves ahead of the single European market planned for 1992, the Bank of England has said. International acquisitions, both inward and outward, will become an increasingly important
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    • 360 17 FT ROYAL INSURANCE and Groupe Victoire. the British and French insurers, have broken off long-running merger talks which would have created a part-Euro-pean insurance group ranking close in size to West Germany's Allianz and Italy's Generali. Victoire maintained a chilly refusal to
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    • 631 17 Reuter THE ATHENS stock exchange. formerly one of Europe's sleepiest. is suddenly waking up. A radical reform package just passed by parliament aims to open up the tiny market with a Greekstyle shake-up echoing London's Big Bang of 1986 The plans, which include
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    • 87 17 Reuter FINANCIAL services company Kleinwort Benson Group Pic has revealed that insurance group American International Group Inc (AIG) had raised its holding in Kleinwort Benson to 6.06 per cent from 5.31 per cent. AIG disclosed its 5.31 per cent stake in Kleinwort Benson Lonsdale Pic
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    • 159 17 CORRIGENDUM Re: Tyrol Industrial (S) Pte Ltd members' voluntary winding up published in the Business Times on 12th August 1988. The name of the liquidator should read Mr Koh Swee Tian and not as Mr Koh See Tian. The error is regretted. NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Chan
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    • 265 17 ill m IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 FANCYFURN DESIGN PTE LTD (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an extraordinary general meeting of the company held at 156 Cecil Street #07-02 Far Eastern Bank Building. Singapore 0106 on 10th August 1988 the following Special Resolutions were duly passed:- 1.
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    323 18 BUSINESS TIMES will, from next Monday (August 15), expand and improve its coverage of the financial markets and provide readers with more in-depth, analytical reports on the major issues of the day. The regular size of the paper will be enlarged by two pages to 20 pages, giving
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  • 347 18  -  By BOEY KIT YIN A MESSAGE was passed to senior management at Seagate Technology in Singapore on Thursday evening the company is still sound and will survive its current difficulties. This followed a US announcement last Friday that about 100 of its 2,200
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  • 81 18 AP HONGKONG'S total merchandise trade in June amounted to HK583.671 billion (U5510.72 billion), up 33 per cent from the same month last year, the Census and Statistics Department said. Domestic exports totalled HK518.126 billion (U552.32 bil- lion), up 11 per cent from a year
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  • 511 18  -  Move seen as trying to attract more end-users By SOH TIANG KENG Financial Correspondent THE MONETARY Authority of Singapore has upgraded three registered dealers in the government securities market Banque Indosuez, Citibank and Credit Suisse First Boston to primary dealers. As primary dealers, the
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  • 382 18 Bernama THE MALAYSIAN government will not withhold development for Johor Baru even if the Barisan Nasional loses in the Aug 25 by-election polling for the seat, Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba said yesterday. He said the government would not pledge
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  • 167 18 AFP THE SOVIET UNION probably has thousands of clandestine millionaires besides hundreds of regular millionaires, a Soviet research economist told a Soviet daily yesterday. T Koriagin, head of department at an economics institute under the state planning agency Gosplan, told the daily
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  • 500 18 LAWYER FRANCIS SEOW has been served a summons to answer tax evasion charges next Tuesday, a move he described as a bid to stifle dissent. Seow. 59. released about a month ago after 72 days' detention under the Internal Security Act, issued
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  • 175 18 AP AN AMERICAN EXPERT said prosperity in Hongkong, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore is due in part to a policy of low income taxes. "Confucius may have had little to say about tax policy... but his descendants have been the world's foremost practitioners of supply-side economics
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  • 68 18 AFP A LEADING Chinese businessman in Hongkong has accused some mainland officials working in Hongkong of malpractice and corruption and urged Beijing to do something about it, press reports said yesterday. Wang Guangying, dubbed by the Hongkong press as the "Red Capitalist," told the China
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  • 302 18 SINGAPORE AIRLINES plans to get insurance cover for its directors' and officers' potential liabilities, according to SlA's director of corporate affairs. Such protection is necessary, Mr Mathew Samuel says, because of greater consumer awareness and "litigation fever", and because 25 per cent of SIA
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  • 100 18 Reuter COM EX GOLD futures rose on mixed buying yesterday in response to the inflationary implications of the US Deparment of Agriculture (USDA) national crop report on Thursday and the 0.5 per cent rise in the Producer Price Index. October rose US$4.OO to U*****.50 after trading
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  • LATE FILE
    • 55 18 AFP CHINA plans to increase trade with Iran and Iraq after a ceasefire in the Gulf comes into effect on Aug 20. The Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations told China Daily. "China is adopting positive attitudes for a bigger role in the world trade
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    • 53 18 Reuter SOUTH Korea yesterday agreed to march with North Korean athletes at the Olympic opening ceremony if Pyongyang reverses its decision to boycott the games. The International Olympic Committee had proposed on Thursday that delegations from the two Koreas march side by side in a
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    • 48 18 Reuter FORMER Sri Lankan Finance Minister Ronnie de Mel yesterday said he would work towards forming a new government. "Only a new government can solve the problems in the south (Marxist rebel activity) and in the north and east (Tamil separatist campaign)." Reuter
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    • 51 18 AP The SAARC Council of Ministers yesterday accepted an offer from Pakistan to host the fourth SAARC summit in Islamabad this December, foreign ministers of member countries announced in Kathmandu. Nepalese Foreign Minister Shailendra Kumar said the date will be set after consultations with member states.
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    • 55 18 AP ABOUT 2,000 Filippino students and some Roman Catholic nuns marched to Clark Air Base yesterday for an all-night rally demanding closure of US military facilities in the country. About 120 riot police guarded the main gate as the protesters chanted slogans against the
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