The Business Times, 15 July 1991

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  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 16/12/90 Monday, July 15, 1991 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 53 1 JOHANNESBURG South Africa's return from the economic wilderness took another leap forward yesterday when a top-level delegation from the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) arrived here. Speaking to journalists at Jan Smuts airport here, CCI president Vladislav Malkevitch described the delegation's 10day
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    • 59 1 NEW DELHI A policy shift by a hardline Indian opposition party has opened the way for the government to make the first defence expenditure cuts for more than four decades. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said it was no longer opposed
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    • 24 1 MORE JAPANESE home appliance manufacturers in Malaysia are exporting their finished products to Japan, and doing so in increasing volumes Page 8
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    • 33 1 AN APPARENT DELAY in the progress of a substantial assistance package from Japan has raised concern within the Thai Ministry of Finance, The Bangkok Post has reported Page 9
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    • 39 1 THE DECLINE of the Soviet economy has reached critical proportions and immediate and radical action is needed to halt the slide, according to a study by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Page 10
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    • 30 1 AMERICAN Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady believes the American economy will expand during the second half of the year at a rate above 2 per cent Page 11
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    • 23 1 FACING its first birthday as a corporatised management consultancy tomorrow, MSD Consultants finds itself firm on track Page 12
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    • 22 1 THE WINNERS of this year's UOB Painting of the Year competition speak about themselves and their art. Page 15
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    • 28 1 NEPTUNE Orient Lines' cruise arm, J&N Cruise, is planning to acquire a third and larger vessel in about two years. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 31 1 THE URBAN Redevelopment Authority has given planning approval for two large residential projects which will be developed by Lum Chang Holdings and First Capital Corporation groups. Page 3
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    • 36 1 THAILAND'S Shinawatra Computer and Communications Group is reorganising its top management for the second time this year in order to emphasise the influence of customer demand and market environment on company policy Page 4
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    • 40 1 TIME WARNER Inc, seeking to satisfy US regulators and quell a shareholder rebellion, is now reportedly planning to raise U552.75 billion (554.92 billion) by selling new shares at a fixed price of US$BO a share Page 5
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    • 36 1 TWO of the strongest US banks J P Morgan and Co and Wachovia Corp reported solid second-quarter results, reflecting their avoidance of risky lending that has hurt many competitors Page 7
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    • 34 1 SMALLER banks and financial institutions will find it increasingly difficult to operate in the UK market since the Bank of Credit and Commerce International's collapse, say analysts said Page 7
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    • Article, Illustration
      27 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 705.50 -l.ll Kuala Lumpur ....598.60 -5.16 Tokyo 23.137.78 +199.86 Hongkong 3,915.17 +23.05 Sydney 1,531.9 -2.2 New York 2,980.77 +21.02 London 2,497.4 -13.1
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    • 23 1 Exchange rates USS ss 1.7635 100 Yen SS 1.2705 MS SS 0.6321 Money market rates Overnight 1 -3 5/8 3-month 5-7/8 unch
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    • 31 1 Rubber S'pore Aug 144.00'/kg unch M'sia Aug 229.50*/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 36 tonnes +8 Spot MS 15.39/kg -0.01 Crude palm oil Turnover 1,422 lots +432 July MS801 /tonne -4
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  • 543 1  -  STIC tie-up wins SlOOm deal for revolutionary product By Kenneth James, Michelle Low A LOCAL joint venture has entered into a $100 million sales agreement with a major American dealers' network to manufacture and supply 200,000 units of a combined home security and
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  • 424 1 Group with clove monopoly links to inject USsloom into company AFP r JAKARTA A large business group linked to Indonesia's clove trading monopoly is planning to inject more than US$lOO million (SSI76 million) into an ailing major clove-flavoured cigarette producer. The Humpuss group planned
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  • 386 1 AFP BANGKOK Thailand wants to see a bigger Japanese profile on the world stage. Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun has said. Unlike others in Asia who are concerned about Japan's economic expansion, Thailand "will still encourage Japan to take a more
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  • 368 1  -  By Elaine Koh THE BUYING SPREE in the residential market that began in April is tapering off, with property agents reporting a fall-off in sales over the past month. Pent-up demand during the Gulf crisis has been quickly absorbed by the numerous projects that
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  • 161 1 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's foreign exchange reserves dropped to U5572.15 billion (Ssl27 billion) at the end of last month but remain the highest of any country in the world. Central bank officials yesterday attributed the drop to the depreciation of the mark and the yen. Taiwan's
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  • 38 1 SINGAPORE'S dependence on the US as a market for its domestic exports has eased markedly over the past few years. In Analysis on Page 13, Schutz Lee looks at the reasons behind the statistics.
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 141 2 THE government has decided to go ahead with an Open University and the Education Ministry is considering two options, said Dr Tony Tan, Minister of Education, on Saturday. The first option is to have an entirely separate govern-ment-run institution with conveniently located study centres. This
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      • 118 2 THE government has agreed to two proposals in an action plan aimed at helping Indian students achieve parity with the national average at all major examinations by the year 2010, said Law and Home Affairs Minister Professor S Jayakumar on Saturday. Working Indians will be allowed
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      • 43 2 DEPUTY Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry BG (Res) Lee Hsien Loong and Mrs Lee are visiting Brunei at the invitation of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah to attend the 45th birthday celebrations of the Sultan of Brunei today.
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      • 89 2 THE Senior Minister of State for Education, Dr Tay Eng Soon, will open a seminar for junior college students entitled "Eye on the World: The Writer's Impulse" tomorrow. The seminar is part of the Creative Arts Programme organised by the Gifted Education Unit (GEU) of the
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      • 117 2 THE most effective way to control the spread of Aids is through prevention, said Health Minister Yeo Cheow Tong yesterday at a public forum on "STD and Aids in the *****". The minister said that the cornerstone of preventive measures is education and there is a
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    • 452 2  -  New bargaining point in exchange with landlord Pidemco By Joseph Rajendran TENANTS at Funan Centre, who have been trying to sort out several concerns with the managers of the centre, Pidemco Land Pte Ltd, have a new bargaining point the attractively-priced Riverwalk Galleria a
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    • 216 2 RIVERWALK Galleria, with an estimated 11,685 sq m (120,000 sq ft) of shopping space spread over five levels, has stood virtually empty by the Singapore River for some three years now. Hotelier Ong Beng Seng's Avant group paid $55 million for the complex in 1988
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    • 302 2 THE Minister for National Development has appointed a three-member committee to preside at a hearing into objections over three areas marked for conservation by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). The three members, named in last Friday's Government Gazette, are Robert Powell, Lau Woh
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    • 219 2 National Management Game MOST finished with modest profits. But those who lost went deep into the red. The second and third trading periods in round one of this year's National Management Game saw a big spread in the bottomline of contestants. During the second trading
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 317 3  -  URA also approves First Capital's Tampines project By Colin Tan THE Urban Redevelopment Authority has given planning approval for two large residential projects which will be developed by Lum Chang Holdings and First Capital Corporation groups. Lum Chang Holdings, through wholly-owned Lum
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    • 151 3 LKN DEVELOPMENT, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lim Kah Ngam Ltd, expects to complete the construction of its office-cum-residential project at Sims Avenue East by September. Mr Kay Keng Chuan, managing director of LKN Development, told BT that construction work on the
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    • 807 3  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN From Vijaya Bharati WHAT'S up at Setron? The stock has been heavily traded and, until recently, made impressive price gains all while a well-publicised boardroom fight was raging. The problem is that it seems no one,
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    • 268 3  -  By Carolyn Lim SINGAPORE Electronics and Engineering (SEEL) will be launching its share offer today at an offer price of more than $1 a share, one of the highest offer prices so far this year. This compares with the two
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    • 242 3  -  By Diana Oon EDARAN OTOMOBIL Nasional (EON), Malaysia's national car distributor, said on Friday it has entered into preliminary discussions with an unnamed party which may lead to its acquiring a substantial stake in Singa-pore-listed Cycle and Carriage Ltd (CCL), This confirms market
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    • 256 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR With its fully-integrated poultry project expanded to China, KFC Holdings (Malaysia) expects earnings from its poultry sector to grow faster than that of its retail business. Poultry earnings are expected to rise to about 30 per cent of group
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 104 3 KUALA LUMPUR Lien Hoe Corporation has received approval from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) for its proposed special issue to approved bumiputra investors and its Employees Share Option Scheme. Miti, however, imposed the condition that shares allocated to bumiputras should
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      • 30 3 BONVESTS HOLDINGS Limited has informed the SES that Mr Micky Kon Hong Shin has resigned as executive director of the company with effect from July 10.
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      • 34 3 SINGAPORE REINSURANCE Corporation Limited has informed the SES that Mr Alan Street has resigned as a director and member of the audit committee of the company with effect from July 4.
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      • 55 3 SSANGYONG CEMENT (Singapore) Ltd has informed the SES that it has received notice from Afro-Asia Shipping Co Pte Ltd, who is a substantial shareholder, that it has raised its holding in the company to 23.03 per cent of the issued capital from 22.86 per cent through
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      • 71 3 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Mosaics' shareholders have been advised to vote in favour of its proposed acquisition of three plots of land by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Syarikat Fajar Enterprise. One of the lots, located at Jalan Ampang in Kuala Lumpur, will be used to build the parent
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    • 340 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Sarawak Oil Palms (SOP), which is to be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange soon, is negotiating for another 4,000 ha of land to expand its palm oil plantation, its chairman Datuk Mohd Amin Satem said last Friday.
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 105 4 MANILA Philippine food and beverage conglomerate San Miguel Corp said holders of American Depository Receipts (ADR) for its B' shares may start trading the receipts at the US over-the-counter market tomorrow. The receipts, valued at about US$22 (Ss39) each and representing 10 San
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      • 74 4 HONGKONG Kumagai Gumi (HK) Ltd said on Friday that it made a net profit of HK$6l million (S$ 14 million) in the six months ended March 31, up 31 per cent on the same period last year. In a statement, the company rated its half-year
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      • 81 4 TAIPEI Japan's Fanuc Ltd, one of the world's leading makers of machine tool controllers, has said it would invest two billion yen (Ss2s million) to set up a plant in Taiwan. An Economics Ministry official said the plant would be completed within a
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      • 70 4 WELLINGTON The New Zealand Stock Exchange will open at 1 am on either Wednesday or Thursday to coincide with the listing of Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd shares on the New York Stock Exchange. A listing date has not been set by the
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      • 114 4 MANILA Honda Motor Co Ltd of Japan has entered the Philippine car market with its popular Civic model, aiming for a sales target of 12,000 units annually by 1995, a company statement said here on Friday. Honda Cars Philippines Inc, a US$33 million (SssB million)
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    • 668 4  -  Manila group plans to pick franchisee in Singapore From Al Labita IN MANILA WHEN US giant McDonald's stormed Manila's million dollar fast-food industry in 1981, hardly a Filipino firm could match its awesome marketing firepower. Rivals in the "hamburger war", local and
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    • 484 4 AS IT seeks to continue its aggressive expansion, Thailand's Shinawatra Computer and Communications Group is reorganising its top management for the second time this year in order to emphasise the influence of customer demand and market environment on company policy, while at the
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    • 627 4 Agencies TOKYO Trading house Mitsubishi Corp is hoping to cash in on Japan's videogame mania to lure people into the precious metals market. Some 16 million households with Nintendo Co's Famicom video game machines can trade gold, silver and platinum from
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    • 375 4 HONGKONG-LISTED International Tak Cheung Holdings (ITC) is in the process of negotiating a joint venture involving the establishment of a concrete products factory in Bangkok, the South China Morning Post reported over the weekend. Managing director Charles Chan Kwok Keung said the
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    • 291 4 Reuter TOKYO Oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd and trading firm Marubeni Corp expect to sign a joint-venture agreement by October to produce liquid coal fuel in China starting in 1995, company spokesmen said. The two firms, in partnership with
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 427 6 New plan to appease shareholders and regulators NYT NEW YORK Time Warner Inc, seeking to satisfy regulators and quell a shareholder rebellion, now plans to raise U552.75 billion (554.92 billion) by selling new shares at a fixed price of US$BO a share,
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    • 344 6 Reuter LONDON In the midst of the deepest economic downturn for 10 years, Britain's privatised electricity companies had a profits bonanza, sparking complaints they were sold too cheaply and are charging too much. Profits from the 12 regional electricity companies beat forecasts made
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    • 359 6 Reuter LONDON Critical talks to restructure the £1.4 billion (554.2 billion) debts of the beleaguered leisure firm Brent Walker Group pic are close to completion. "It has been a long, complex and difficult exercise, but...we are optimistic the restructuring will be completed satisfactorily,"
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    • 251 6 Reuter MUNICH Computer maker Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG (SNI) said incoming orders worldwide in the first nine months of the current 1990/1991 fiscal year were at 8.97 billion marks (558.61 billion). "Incoming orders are significantly above last year," a company spokesman said.
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    • 291 6 Reuter CHICAGO Sears, Roebuck and Co achieved 1990 second-quarter per-share earnings of US$O.69 (551.23), but analysts said it will be a stretch for the company to surpass that number when it reports results later this month. Mr Walter Loeb of Loeb Associates said
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    • 336 6 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO Chevron Corp expects asset sales this year to total more than a US$5OO million, chairman Kenneth Derr said. "It certainly will be over US$5OO million this year," he said. The company has been selling non-strategic assets under a previously announced
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 71 6 SAN FRANCISCO Seagate Technology is laying off 1,200 of its 41,000 employees because of an increasingly competitive market, a company spokeswoman said. The layoff is combined with other cost-cutting efforts by the disc-drive manufacturer and is concentrated in non-manufacturing work force in Europe
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      • 61 6 LONDON Robert Maxwell Estates Ltd (RME) Ltd is seeking a £90 million (SS27O million), three-year secured term loan facility, arranged jointly by Barclays Syndications and Lloyds Bank Capital Markets Group. RME is a special purpose company, wholly owned by Robert Maxwell Group pic, with assets
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      • 71 6 COLOGNE, Germany Kioeckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG said it may not meet its goal of raising 1991 group sales by 5 per cent, from 4.06 billion marks (553.89 billion) in 1990. In a statement prepared for the annual meeting, KHD said group sales were off 2 per
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      • 60 6 PARIS French hypermarket group Rallye SA said its controlling shareholder, the Cam family, agreed to sell 50 per cent of Coficam, Rallye's holding company which the family wholly owns, to a group of investors. The accord will allow Rallye to increase its shareholders' funds by
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      • 42 6 PARIS Alcatel NV said it signed an agreement on Friday with Rockwell International Corp of the US to buy Rockwell's Network Transmission Systems Division for US$625 million (Ssl.l billion) in cash, plus the assumption of unspecified liabilities.
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    • 612 6 Analysts welcome group's move away from cyclical businesses Reuter BONN Last month's takeover of Continental Can Europe Inc (CCE) crowned VIAG AG's recent aggressive acquisition policy and will considerably boost the group's earnings prospects, analysts said. "The takeover of Continental has given
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 345 7 AP NEW YORK Two of the United States' strongest banks J P Morgan and Co and Wachovia Corp reported solid second quarter results, reflecting their avoidance of risky lending that has hurt many competitors. The banks are at the head of the
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    • 143 7 NYT NEW YORK In a move that will significantly bolster its balance sheet, Citicorp has announced the sale of more than half the stock in Ambac Inc, a municipal bond insurance subsidiary. The price of US$2O (5535.20) a share set by underwriters led by
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    • 599 7 The BCCI crisis Reuter LONDON Smaller banks and financial institutions will find it increasingly difficult to operate in the UK market since the Bank of Credit and Commerce International's (BCCI) collapse, analysts said. BCCI branches were shut down around the world
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    • 317 7 Big Four broking firms covered 229 clients 9 losses Reuter TOKYO Japan's top four brokerages involved in a securities market scandal improperly covered investment losses incurred by 229 favoured clients totalling about 125 billion yen (SS 1.55 billion), Japanese press reports said on Saturday. The Big Four were Nomura Securities
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 93 7 PARIS French stock market regulator, the Conseil des Bourses de Valeurs (CBV), has asked a special committee to draw up proposals for an active market for block trading of shares in Paris. The committee, to be chaired by Francois Bacot of broker Bacot-Allain, must
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      • 96 7 WASHINGTON The Resolution Trust Corp approved the sale of the bankrupt Commerce Federal Savings Association of San Antonio, Texas, to Bank of America Texas NA, Houston, subsidiary of Bank America Corp. The failed thrift had deposits of U*****.1 million, assets of $573.6 million and liabilities
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      • 93 7 NEW YORK New Jersey governor Jim Florio said the state was closely monitoring developments at the troubled Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co, a private insurer dogged by press reports that it is threatened with a takeover by the state. In a statement, Florio said insurance department
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    • 224 7 AFP HONGKONG The Bank of East Asia announced here the setting up of a securities venture with Japan's Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB) and former staff of Manufacturers Hanover Asia. The new Oakreed Financial Services plans to focus on issuing and trading
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  • THE REGION 1
    • NOTE BOOK
      • 105 8 BANGKOK An anti-graft committee set up by the Thai military junta has charged a former minister in the government of prime minister Chatichai Choonhavan with corruption. Radio Thailand reported on Saturday that Suchon Champoonuj, a former deputy finance minister, was charged after a four-month
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      • 77 8 BANGKOK Thailand is to resume sales of rice to Iraq following authorisation from the United Nations Security Council. Radio Thailand yesterday quoted Thai Commerce Minister Amaret Sila-on as saying that a private Thai trader would deliver 45,000 tonnes of rice to Iraq between July 20
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      • 58 8 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will consult the African National Congress and nations surrounding South Africa before lifting its economic, travel and sports sanctions. Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad said on Saturday. He was commenting on the United States lifting its economic sanctions against South Africa
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      • 65 8 BANGKOK About 3,000 foreign tourists visited Laos during the first half of 1991, the Laotian news agency KPL said in a dispatch monitored here on Saturday. Most came from 11 Western and four Asian countries and visited the former royal capital Luang Prabang and current capital
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      • 77 8 MANILA A religious group close to the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos announced on Saturday that it would join a series of protests beginning this week against President Corazon Aquino's economic policies. The protest is scheduled to begin on Thursday with strikes in the capital to be
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      • 46 8 BANGKOK The Foreign Ministry will propose that Thailand give about US$2OO,OOO in medical supplies, tents and clothing to China for victims of the worst flooding there this century. The recommendation would be submitted to Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun for approval this week.
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    • 759 8 Govt directive aimed at reducing Japan's trade surplus with the world Bernama KUALA LUMPUR More Japanese home appliance manufacturers in Malaysia are exporting their finished products to Japan, and doing so in increasing volumes. Japanese officials here said on Saturday that the companies, including
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    • 232 8 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan has threatened to ban legal recruitment of Filipinos working in Taiwan and stop all aid for the Philippines if the government there breaks a fishing agreement it signed with Taipei, officials here said on Saturday. "We will not rule out the
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    • 602 8  -  From Salil Tripathi in JOHOR BARU Half a dozen speakers emit pop music loudly. Kids gawk at window displays and close-cropped teenyboppers stalk the atrium lobby. Silent escalators take shoppers to different levels. A skateboard wizard passes by undecided shoppers telling them to try out the
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    • 444 9 BANGKOK An apparent delay in the progress of a substantial assistance package from Japan has raised concern within the Thai Ministry of Finance, The Bangkok Post has reported. The reported delay in the new yen loan and assorted Japanese aid
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    • 308 9 SINGAPORE With Indonesia firmly committed to an export-oriented economic regime, greater external dependence, particularly on the US, is likely to create more challenges to the future, according to the Hongkongbased Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC). In the latest issue of its
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    • 164 9 AFP BANGKOK Japan's mafia has begun operating in Thailand, where gangs are extorting money from Japanese firms and running prostitution and drug rackets, a senior Thai police official said on Saturday. Major General Charuek Mekwichai, the deputy commissioner of the Bangkok police, told reporters
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    • 614 9 AP WASHINGTON Current levels of US aid to the Philippines do not appear to be threatened, despite talk of shutting down volcano-dam-aged Clark Air Base and cutting back operations at Subic <■ Bay naval base. No decision has been made on
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 79 10 TOKYO The Soviet Union has asked for assistance from Japan and other industrialised nations to put its disused oil wells back into operation. The Nihon Keizai newspaper said last Saturday that Moscow planned to use foreign equipment and expertise this year and next
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      • 56 10 TAIPEI Taiwan has asked Australia for talks next month aimed at curbing its beef exports to the island this year after sales last year exceeded an agreed quota, the island's Council of Agriculture said last Saturday. Taiwan last year imported 38,028 tonnes of beef, of
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      • 68 10 ALASKA The clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill is over. The last crews were demobilised last Saturday, bringing to an end a massive effort to scrub away the bulk of the worst spill in the US. The effort took three summers to complete and cost US$2.5
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      • 105 10 DAMASCUS Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng ended a four-day visit to Syria yesterday and left for Kuwait amid local press expectations that his trip will have positive results on efforts to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. A joint communique issued focused largely on the 43-year-old conflict,
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      • 90 10 NEW YORK Democrats hold just a narrow edge over Republicans in party allegiance in the US. According to a poll by The New York Times and CBS News published yesterday, 34 per cent of the 14,695 persons interviewed identify themselves as Democrats while 31 per cent
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      • 87 10 DUBLIN Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey's ruling Fianna Fail party yesterday hit a new nine-year low in a newspaper opinion poll. Its support plunged to 43 per cent in the Irish Independent poll in the wake of a disappointing performance in recent local elections. Unemployment
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    • 339 10 Reuter KUWAIT In spite of the chastening experience of the seven-month Iraqi occupation and the Gulf war, Kuwait is as conspicuous in its consumerism as ever. The fleets of Mercedes and gleaming Cadillacs are out in force again on the streets. Marble-decked shopping
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    • 351 10 Radical reforms are needed, says report Reuter LONDON The decline of the Soviet economy has reached critical proportions and immediate and radical action is needed to halt the slide, according to a study by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development released
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    • 230 10 Reuter BELGRADE Yugoslavs are besieging shops and stocking up with food out of fear of civil war. "We are faced with a psychologically generated demand," Deputy Trade Minister Borivoj Zivanovic told the Belgrade newspaper Vecernje Novosti last Saturday. Other Yugoslav media
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    • 367 10 Reuter LONDON Eighty per cent of the Soviet Union's small and medium-sized businesses will be privatised within two years and the rouble made fully convertible, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's special envoy said in an interview published yesterday. An economic reform plan that
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    • 250 10 Reuter HAMBURG The German federal deficit is likely to soar to 136.8 billion marks (*****.5 billion) next year far above Bonn's official prediction of 49.4 billion marks, says the news magazine Der Spiegel Made available ahead of today's publication, a magazine
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    • 217 10 AP WASHINGTON Soviet and American negotiators wrangled late into the night last Saturday over a treaty to reduce long-range nuclear missiles, achieving some success in an intensive drive towards a final agreement. Winding up nine hours of talks that lasted into the
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    • 649 10 Reuter YAHIKO, Japan Farmers in Niigata, Japan's "Rice Bowl", have begun to doubt the government's will to resist a US rice invasion, now that Tokyo politicians are hinting that the age-old import ban may have to go. As Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu
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    • 240 10 AFP DUBAI The local authorities have launched a drive that they hope will make their Gulf city among the cleanest and healthiest places in the world. The drive involves fines against environment offenders. strict anti-pollution measures and a large-scale sweep to wipe
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    • 276 11 Reuter WASHINGTON US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady believes the American economy will expand during the second half of the year at a rate above 2 per cent. In an interview with Cable News Network's Evans and Novak television show last Saturday,
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    • 231 11 AP WASHINGTON The US tobacco industry's arch-critic in Congress is taking on a prominent snuff manufacturer and opening new overseas fronts in his war against smoking. Congressman Chester Atkins wants the government to require that US cigarette brands worldwide carry health warnings on the packs
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    • 204 11 AFP BAGHDAD United Nations experts charged with pulling Iraq's nuclear fangs expected a new list of Iraqi facilities and equipment yesterday, in time to be examined by the Security Council today. Dimitri Perrichos, head of a mission of 37 experts from the International
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    • 665 11 NYT WASHINGTON This time last year, the US federal budget was front-page news. President George Bush and Congress were deadlocked in negotiations that had been going on for months. When Richard Darman, Mr Bush's Budget Director, submitted his annual midyear fiscal review,
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    • 58 10 With effect from Bth July 1991 CATHAY SECURITIES PTE LTD Member of The Stock Exchange of Singapore Ltd is known as RHB-CATHAY SECURITIES PTE LTD Member of The Stock Exchange of Singapore Ltd An Associated Company of RHB Group, Malaysia Address 101 Cecil Street #10-10/12 Tong Eng Building Singapore 0106
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 1334 12  -  MSD Consultants celebrates its first birthday as a corporatised management consultancy tomorrow. Anna Teo looks at its achievements during the past year and talks to its president about its future plans Anna Teo IT HAS CUT COSTS, clinched overseas jobs and carved a wider
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    • 299 12 PRIVATISATION aims to clean out state inefficiency and throw up a leaner, more competitive, enterprise. The process is, however, often fraught with obstacles and viewed with hostility. In an article on privatisation in its inaugural quarterly newsletter The Management Observer, MSD Consultants discusses some
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    • 817 13  - South Korea from basket case to industrial giant The bureaucrats in Seoul have a big say in shaping the economy. Sylvia Nasar explores why this has not stunted the country's growth, contrary to popular belief Sylvia Nasar NYT TODAY'S formula for economic success stresses free trade, unfettered markets and minimal
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    • 1098 13  -  Despite the US recession and local exporters' diversification, the US is likely to remain Singapore's largest export market. Schutz Lee reports Schutz Lee AS MORE and more made-in-Singapore goods make their way to the European Community, North and South-east Asia, the
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    • 843 13 NYT AS SOVIET and Western leaders prepare for this week's summit conference, it increasingly appears that they may need to deal quickly with Soviet Union's huge debt and shortage of hard currency. Soviet officials recently estimated their current foreign debt at US$7O billion
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      • 85 14 WASHINGTON Ivan Lendl has withdrawn from the Washington Tennis Classic, just four days after he accepted a wild card entry as the top seed. Lendl, ranked third in the world, underwent minor surgery last week for a recurrent infection of his right hand and
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      • 80 14 BASTAD, Sweden Alberto Mancini of Argentina rallied after losing the first eight games to beat Alexander Volkov of the Soviet Union 0-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday and advance to the final of the Swedish Open. Mancini, seeded eighth in the U*****,000 tournament, was to play No
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      • 76 14 FORT WORTH, Texas Former US Women's Open champion Pat Bradley put herself in position to win another Open on Saturday, shooting a 1-over-par 72 to share the third-round lead with Joan Pitcock. But Bradley will not only have to overcome Pitcock, a little-known non-winner who turned
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      • 83 14 SUTTON, Massachusetts lan Baker-Finch of Australia overcame a bleary start to shoot a five-under-par 66 on Saturday for a share of the lead in the US$l million New England Classic men's golf tournament. Baker-Finch and Gene Sauers, who also shot 66, were tied at 13-under-par 200 for
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    • 494 14 Tour de France AP ALENCON, France Greg LeMond of the United States took the overall lead for the third time in the Tour de France by finishing second in Saturday's eighth stage, an individual time trial. LeMond was eight seconds behind stage winner Miguel Indurain
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    • 496 14 AP SILVERSTONE, England Nigel Mansell has put himself in excellent shape to win a second straight Formula One race, grabbing pole position for yesterday's British Grand Prix. Mansell, who won the French Grand Prix last weekend, had a fastest lap of 1 minute,
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    • 280 14 Reuter NEWPORT, Rhode Island Ilie Nastase, who mixed showmanship with shot-mak-ing brilliance, crowned his controversial career on Saturday by leading a trio into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. "I've been on the bad side of tennis, so it's nice to go
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  • THE ARTS 1
    • 869 15  -  Susan Tsang speaks to the winners of this year's UOB art competition Susan Tsang AS ONE of the bigger local art competitions, United Overseas Bank's annual quest for the Painting of the Year has often provided a launching pad for young, unknown artists. Last
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    • 278 15 THIS year's winner of the Abstract Category, who also ended up $6,000 richer, is the same as last year's, and once again, Ben Cruz has used aerosols car lacquer aerosols, to be precise. The difference this year is that Ben, 37, entered the competition
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    • 664 17  -  P Y Van enjoys some fine singing at the finals of the Second Choral Competition P Y Van 1T WAS a keenly fought contest, but the choir from Fairfield Methodist Secondary School out-sang seven other school choirs at last Wednesday's Second Choral Competition finals to
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 5184 18  -  By Diana Oon NEWS FROM overseas markets is expected to continue to affect the performance of the local bourse this week. Last week, jitters over major stockbroking scandals in Japan and the BBMB Securities scandal in Malaysia pushed the market to a weaker
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  • 3221 19 Main Board SIA Foreign 1900 50 2.7% FELS 50* 685 50 7.9% OUE 665 +35 +5.6% Jurong Ship 50* 880 30 3.5% Keppel Corpn 755 +15 +2.0% Weames 422 +12 +2.9% Transmarco 242 +11 SIA 200 1340 +10 0.8% DBS Foreign 1280 +10 +0.8% DBS
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 802 20 FT NEW YORK EVERY BODY continues in a straight line unless acted upon by an exterior force, runs the physics axiom. The problem with Wall Street at the moment is that exterior impetus is sadly lacking. The last five trading sessions have seen
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    • 504 20 AFP fe^oKYdi^ SHARE PRICES on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week defied the Big Four stock scandal, posting a sizeable gain with the Nikkei Stock Average recovering to the 23,000-yen level. The key market barometer closed out the week at 23,137.78 yen
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    • 898 20  -  LONDON By Ray Heath "GOODBYE, Karl Otto Pohl, and thank you" was the London stock market's farewell message to the outgoing president of the Bundesbank last week. Thursday's meeting of Germany's central bank, the last over which Mr Pohl was to preside before handing
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    • 830 20 HONGKONG THE Hongkong stock market is poised to go higher in the coming weeks after last week's expected healthy consolidation. The impressive average daily turnover of HK$2 billion (***** million) and the 62-point premium on the July Hang Seng Index futures indicated strong buying
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    • 692 20 AFP AUSTRALIAN stock prices eased last week as the market waited for evidence of an economic recovery, brokers said on Friday. The market indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, slipped 4.2 points to 1,531.9. The All Industrials Index lost 7.9 points to 2,347.2 and the All Resources shed
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    • 100 20 u 11 cou,d a controversial deal between two stock market stars, a thought-provoking report by university researchers on lhc ,alest trans Euro P can m erger. FOCUS zooms in on the news and issues of the day and looks at them in more depth and breadth. yj/ FOCUS is the
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 4387 21 MBT BUYING SUPPORT on the Kuala Lumpur stock market was clearly lacking last week due in part to the adverse influence of the jittery Tokyo market. The Tokyo bourse showed signs of intense anxiety from last Monday, ahead of anticipated announcements: by the finance
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    • 450 21 A SINGAPORE BUSINESS LUNCHEON TALK EMPOWERED WORKTEAMS The Management Tool of the '90s Date 22 July, 1991 Time 12 noon 3 p.m. Venue Crystal Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Hotel Fee $55 Closing Date 12 July 1991 Self-directed workteams are the buzzword in RICHARDS WELLINS today's volatile business environment. In his speech
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Wall Street ends erratic session higher
      • 360 22 July 12 Close Previous NEW YORK Dow Jones 2.980.77 2.959.75 +21.02 NYSE Financial 151.28 149.93 +1.35 S&P 500 380.25 376.97 3.28 Turnover (million) 174.8 157.9 +16.9 LONDON Financial Times 30 1.925.7 1,928.4 -2.7 FTSE 100 2,497.4 2.510.5 -13.1 Turnover (million) 443.1 536.6 -93.5 AMSTERDAM CBS Tendency Index 93.5 93.6 -0.1
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        1417 22 NEW YORK stocks gave Wall Street investors and traders a case of the hee-bie-jeebies on Friday, before ending with a strong gain. Keeping up its erratic pace of the last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average bounced around for most of the session before ending at 2,980.77, up
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        684 22 LONDON shares ended lower last Friday, as the market turned cautious ahead of the Group of Seven economic summit this week. Institutional investors were reluctant to take on new positions ahead of the start of the G-7 summit, dealers said. The summit has created an "air of caution" although
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      • 273 22 DUTCH shares ended slightly lower in quiet trade on Friday, depressed by the dollar's fall on central bank selling which caused investors to sell those blue chips most dependent on dollar earnings, dealers said. The CBS General Tendency Index closed down 0.1 point at 93.5 after an earlier high
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      • 146 22 ITALIAN shares reversed early technical gains and closed broadly lower on Friday, following a weak performance in some industrial and insurance stocks. Brokers said towards the end of the session Fiat and some other leading shares staged a limited recovery in unofficial kerb dealings and returned to their official
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      • 122 22 STOCKHOLM shares on Friday closed broadly down from Thursday's yearhigh levels, mainly as a result of profit- taking after the past few days' gains. The Bourse General Index lost 0.44 per cent to 1,133.69 in low turnover of 219 million crowns. Blue chips shed 0.46 per cent on average.
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      • 222 22 MANY French shares closed higher on Friday but the CAC-40 blue chips index lost modest midsession gains to finish virtually unchanged after a steep drop in Elf Aquitaine. Oil firm Elf fell 13.10 francs to 341.10, on the day's secondheaviest turnover of nearly 150 million francs, after a British
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      • 241 22 SWISS shares closed higher in mostly quiet trading on Friday. Dealers said industrial shares were supported by the dollar which is seen rising despite Friday's interventions by various central banks. Banks were helped by Thursday's Bundesbank decision to leave its key rates unchanged. The all-share SPI Index rose 8.7
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      • 220 22 THE Frankfurt bourse was slightly firmer at the finish of a thin Friday session that saw investors turn their attention to specialist stocks including meat processor Moksel and sports goods maker Puma. Blue chips posted modest gains, led by chemicals and banks. The 30-share DAX Index rose 6.91 points,
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      • 395 22 IN JOHANNESBURG, the stock market continued to back-track sharply on Friday from Wednesday's record highs as recent euphoria over the lifting of trade restrictions against South Africa subsided. Brokers generally agreed that gains have been grossly overdone in a thin market, and noted repeated warnings by analysts recently that
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      • 260 22 TORONTO stocks on Friday rallied in late trade in moderate volume. A 0.2 per cent drop in US retail sales for June and a 0.3 per cent fall in producer prices indicated the US economy is still in the doldrums, leaving room for further drops in interest rates, traders
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 466 23 NEW YORK Reuter SEVERAL rounds of surprise central bank dollar selling trounced the US dollar in New York on Friday, causing a whopping 2.5 per cent one-day decline against the mark. It was "diabolical," said Albert Soria, foreign exchange manager at Kan-sallis-Osake-Pankki
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    • 672 23 ASIAN CURRENCIES AFP THE US DOLLAR closed mixed last week against Asia-Pacific currencies as major central banks intervened late in the week to cap the greenback's surge. The Indonesian rupiah, the New Zealand dollar, the Philippine peso, the South Korean won, the Taiwan dollar and
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    • 398 23 Cross rates My n USS SS* MS* Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.7620 2.7920 1.7895 136.40 0.6064 1.5480 1.2953 1.7762 SS* 0 5675 1.5846 1 0426 0.7877 0.3540 0.9035 0.7399 1.0117 MS* 0.3582 63.11 0.6580 0.4971 0.2234 0.5702 0.4670 0.6384 Dm 0.5588 0.9592 1.5199 76.22 0.3389
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    • 520 23 Interbank rates s$ Bid Offer Overnight 1 1 1/2 1-month 5 3/4 5 7/8 2-month 5 13/16 5 15/16 3-month 5 7/8 6 Overnight mode: 5 1 tIS$ High Low 7 days 6 5 15/16 1 month 6 6 2 months 6 1/16 6 3 months 6 1/8
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    • 494 23 Reuter LONDON Britain could see 10 per cent base rates by the end of 1991 provided sterling's position in the European exchange rate mechanism (ERM) is not upset by a dramatic fall in support for the ruling Conservatives, analysts said.
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    • 428 23 Reuter NEW YORK A US market for trading the South African rand could re-emerge quickly with the lifting of sanctions, bank traders said, although some warned the controversy over South Africa has not ended. If corporate customers have a need
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    • 456 23 GOLD FINANCIAL FUTURES REPORT TECHNICAL considerations dominated last week's trade in spot gold ahead of an eventful week starting today which includes a world economic summit, G-7 talks, US Fed chairman Alan Greenspan's Humphrey Hawkins testimony, the announcement of a possibly record size
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    • 298 23 jjjjj MLli DEUTSCHEMAKK Open High Low Sett Vol Op/Int Sep 91 0.5491 0.5492 0 5414 0 5422 34,677 69.907 Dec 91 0.5427 0.5435 0.5380 0.5384 EUWOPOU-AK Open High Low Sett Vol Op/Int Sep~9l 9161 9165 9158 9164 62.903 788.362 Dec 91 93.01 93.06 92.98 93 05 JAPANESE YEW
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 404 24 Reuter PASIR GUDANG Malaysia, the world's fourth largest tin producer, is facing a serious shortage of tinplate as a result of the expanding local tin-canning industry, canning industry officials said. The rising demand has put a strain on the country's sole tinplate maker and
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    • 325 24 Reuter WASHINGTON A team of US government geologists predicted that the world no longer has any major untapped oil fields and that as a result Middle East producers will become more powerful than ever. Writing in Science magazine, they said that exhaustive
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    • 908 24 REPORTS AFP THE FEAR of a US air strike on Iraqi nuclear installations sent Brent North Sea crude prices well above the US$l9 (Ss32) a barrel mark and provided the highlight of the past week on commodity markets. Production problems in
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 570 25  -  POSTCARD FROM LONDON By Giles Elgood PAUL CHAN serves up Blue Suede Shoes with the sweet and sour pork when he entertains customers at his Elvis Presley Chinese restaurant. Chan, 42, is the owner and star attraction at the Gracclands Palace, a south London
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    • 152 25 As at 3pm on July 12: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.343 1.36S Canadian dollar 1.S20 1.550 NZ dollar 0.980 1.010 Sterling pound 2.820 2.850 US dollar 1.760 1.770 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling
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  • 484 26 Group of Seven Economic Summit Reuter LONDON Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will almost certainly knock in vain on the door of the rich nations' club if what he wants is big money now. Officials preparing for a summit of the Group
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  • 217 26 AFP MELBOURNE Trade differences between the US and Australia may not be resolved before US President George Bush visits Australia in November, Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke said yesterday. He said that Washington was ready to change its protective trade
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  • 224 26 AP SEOUL South Korea is considering buying one million to two million tonnes of Australian liquefied natural gas a year beginning in the mid-1990s to meet domestic needs, government officials said yesterday. Officials at the Ministry of Energy and Resources said their minister, Jin
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  • 212 26 Reuter TOKYO North Korea yesterday denounced proposals by South Korean President Roh Tae-woo for closer ties between North and South as intended for division, not reunification". Last Friday, Mr Roh suggested that the two Koreas end decades of hostility with a non-aggression
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  • 195 26 AFP BEIJING The death toll from China's worst flooding in decades climbed past 1,300 yesterday and seemed likely to surge as relentless storms battered the Yangtze River valley, complicating relief efforts. Officials forecast heavy rains in the provinces on the upper and middle
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  • 477 26  -  By Shoeb Kagda FIVE MONTHS after the end of the Gulf War, exports to Kuwait and other Middle East countries are still moving slowly despite claims that the region is back on its feet. Bankers and exporters are particularly wary of Kuwait
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  • 142 26 AP TOKYO Dozens of Japanese rightists marked Bastille Day yesterday by beheading an effigy of French Premier Edith Cresson, an outspoken critic of Tokyo's trade policies. The rightists dragged the headless effigy through the streets in an hour-long march to the French embassy, where they
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  • 408 26 Reuter WASHINGTON US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will give Congress good news tomorrow when he presents the central bank's semi-annual outlook on the US economy. He will tell lawmakers that if they want to make a fairly safe bet, they
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  • 220 26 UPI PARIS French President Francois Mitterrand said yesterday that a new military intervention against Iraq would be justified if it were launched to prevent Baghdad from obtaining nuclear arms or to prevent the persecution of minorities. Speaking a few hours before he was scheduled
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  • 302 26 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan is to get tough with investment applications from Japan which generate trade surplus in favour of this island's former colonial master, the official Central News Agency (CNA) reported yesterday. Vice-Economics Minister Chiang Pin-kung was quoted by the agency as
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    • 500 27  -  By Rahita Elias NEPTUNE Orient Lines' (NOL) cruise arm J&N Cruise is planning to acquire a third and larger vessel in about two years. Mr Tokuhisa Asayama, J&N Cruise's president and chief executive officer, told BT that the vessel, able to
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    • 358 27 NEW YORK While Delta Air Lines now seems poised to end up with the most valuable chunks of Pan American World Airways, other potential buyers could butt in with higher bids for bits and pieces of the ailing carrier. Likely contenders
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    • 1191 27 Page Col ABC Containerline 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Aeropak Express 9 5 AFS 15 2 Ahrenkiel Liner 16 4 Allied-Link 16 4/5 Anglo Orient 16 1/2 ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3 A.P.C. Lines 13 5 A cWarehousing 15 4 Asian Break-Bulk 16 3 ASXCLShpg
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    • 244 27 KUALA LUMPUR The second international airport for Klang valley and the second seaport for Johor may still be built under the Sixth Malaysia Plan period, although the budget for them has not been allocated under the plan. Transport Minister Datuk
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    • 208 27 UPI CAIRO The Suez Canal authority is considering a slate of tough new regulations that would fine ships US$l million (551.76 million) for polluting the canal and increase insurance requirements for vessels carrying dangerous materials, its chairman said. Authority chairman Mohammed Ezzat Adel,
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    • 213 27 Reuter LONDON US President George Bush has urged Japan to buy more US cars and car parts, Japanese officials said. Mr Bush made the request during a breakfast meeting on Friday with Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu at the president's retreat in
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    • NEWS SUMMARY
      • 45 27 WITH the anticipated demise of Pan American World Airways, New Yorkers are witnessing the undoing of not just an important employer, but one whose triumphs and tribulations had in many ways become a part of their lives P*g* 2
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      • 29 27 CLUB MED, the world's premier operator of vacation villages, on Friday launched a new project to attract business, especially from Japanese tourists Back Page
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      • 36 27 ONE of Hitler's most powerful warships, sunk during the German invasion of Norway in World War Two 50 years ago, is posing a new threat from its watery grave Back Page
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      • 36 27 SALES in the United States of tiny, much-maligned Yugo cars suffered more from the recession and the Gulf War than the civil unrest splitting Yugoslavia, the cars' importer says Back Page
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      • 36 27 MAJOR automobile insurers have been disregarding a six-year-old law requiring them to grant discounts for air bags, automatic seat belts and antitheft devices, state officials charged on Friday. Back Page
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 80 28 LONDON Ship losses rose 69 per cent to 1.12 million gross tonnes in 1990 from the previous year, Lloyd's Register annual casualty return said. The sharp increase was mostly due to missing or sunk ore/bulk or ore/bulk/oil carriers. But the losses were less than
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      • 71 28 LONDON STOLT Tankers and Terminal (Holdings) saw total net income drop 16 per cent US$39.l million in the six months ended May 31. However, net income from operations grew 44 per cent to US$3B million. The figure includes non-recurring gains of US$2O.2 million from the
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      • 81 28 BRUSSELS Striking seamen crippled ferry traffic between Belgium's Ostend port and Dover in Britain on Friday, Belgian transport officials said. A spokesman for Belgium's state ferry line, Regie de Transport Maritime, said the one day stoppage followed similar strikes last month by Belgian workers fighting planned
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      • 60 28 LONDON The general rate for member lines covering trade between Europe and the Caribbean/Central America will be increased by US$5 per freight ton with effect from Oct 1, the Association of West India Trans-Atlantic Steam Ship Lines (Witass) said. The general rate was last increased,
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      • 88 28 AMSTERDAM Talks between management and unions aimed at ending selective strike action by general cargo workers in Rotterdam resumed on Friday, a spokeswoman for the port employers organisation said. But separate talks with lash workers, who secure and unfasten cargoes, broke down on Thursday with no agreement.
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      • 107 28 BUENOS AIRES Two cargo vessels collided and blocked the main approach channel to Buenos Aires port on Friday, said a Coast Guard spokesman. Three seamen were seriously hurt in the collision between the Greek registered Fraterniti L, bound for the grain port of Rosario in
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      • 88 28 LISBON Portugal will sign an agreement with Ford Europe, a Ford Motor Co unit, and Volkswagen AG today for the building of a passenger van factory near the port of Setubal, the Ministry of Commerce and Tourism said. The US$l.5 billion factory, which is due
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    • 1062 28  -  Despite its anticipated demise and the hardship this would bring to thousands of its staff, many employees still feel that Pan Am is special. Sarah Bartlett reports Sarah Bartlett NYT WITH the anticipated j demise of Pan American World Airways, New Yorkers are witnessing the undoing
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    • 868 28 THIS twice weekly report, com- piled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars j instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index
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    • 12403 36 This is a list of ships loading Arfci at Singapore for ports around Noll the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the 4. ship, the shipping line in- An* volved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure j u i y from the Port
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      • 586 43 VwmI ioilk Berth MM Departs VwmI Hoy Wo Berth km* Departue Marina Terminal 1 Sembawang Terminal Brastagi 12/91 M02 14 07/2300 Ce))e STA-10 S02 alongs.de 1507/0530 C Express 088/91 M03 alongside 14.07/1630 Pan Sunny V092 S03 atongsnle 15 07/0600 Ow Daya 11/91 M03 14.07/2000 Trans Auto 30
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      • 890 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Batance RsKs Sip Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACX Rose 168 16/1100 1 14/1500 14/1659 14/1900 2 14/1700 15/0659 15/0900 3 15/0700 15/1159 15/1400 4 15/1200 15/1459 15/1700 AIIum) 909 16/1600 1 14/1500 14/1659 14/1900 3 15/0700
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    • 413 44 Cruise ship being built to attract Japanese business AP LE HAVRE, France Club Med, the world's premier operator of vacation villages, on Friday launched literally a new project to attract business, especially from Japanese tourists. The French tour operator set afloat the hull of the
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    • 395 44 AP DETRIOT US sales of tiny, much-maligned Yugo cars suffered more from the recession and the Gulf War than the civil unrest splitting Yugoslavia, the cars' importer says. Before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, military households were big Yugo buyers, as were
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    • 369 44 Reuter OSLO One of Hitler's most powerful warships, sunk during the German invasion of Norway in World War Two 50 years ago, is posing a new, silent threat from its watery grave. More and more oil is bubbling up from the bottom of
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    • 129 44 Reuter PANAMA CITY The narrowest stretch of the Panama Canal will be widened to increase shipping capacity under a US$2OO million (***** million) project approved last Thursday by canal officials. The Panama Canal Commission said a section known as the Gaillard Cut would be widened
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    • 404 44 NYT ALBANY, New York Major automobile insurers have been disregarding a six-year-old law requiring them to grant discounts for air bags, automatic seat belts and anti-theft devices, state officials charged on Friday. New York motorists could be owed as much as US$3O
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    • 1452 35 pacific international lines (pte> ltd SggggM Hi PIL Buikttnq, 140 Cecil Street #0300, Singapore 0106. JAKARTA I BANGKOK "1 111 VESSEL VOY SIN JKT SIN IJ7J I EDEN 281 11/7 18/7 23/7 VESSEL VOY SIN M(K SIN I lOUATM Hll «,L ,1,7 KOTA PANJANO 81*1 17/7 IS/7 S4/7 I Liilnl
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    • 708 38 I TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND I [w[ |7^ [55 |i^~7*dT [wi |p CHALK HI ORB 274 22/7 »77 «7i i/i~ 11/» MARINA I 275 12/» 18/8 22/1 27/» Jl/« J* ulen hum rt*~ 23/ a liTi 575 .5! MIUB. 277 (/I 14/9 20/» 2J/» 2»/» JO/S 1/18 TO USA/CANADA m H.
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    • 737 39 I KEELUNG/KAOHSUNG 11.7.91 HONG KONG 12.7.91 BUSAN 14.7.91 BANGKOK 13.7.91 EUROPE 14.7.91 TOKYO/KOBE/YQKOHAMA 14.7.91 USA 15.7.91 AUCKLAND 21.7.91 FREMANTLE 16.7.91 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 15.7.91 V- FOR BOOKING PLEASE CALL AT OUR HOTLINE i 538-0155 (8 LINEB) FAX: *****92 PLEASE CONTACT CAME TAN, KATHLYN TAV, SOPHIA »AV OH KAgEHjjM I •t I I
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