The Business Times, 26 October 1991

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  • NEWS & MARKETS
    • 43 1 THE New York stock market headed lower yesterday morning. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, down more than 60 points over the week's first four sessions, dropped 6.7 points to 3.009.62 at 1430 GMT in the first hour of trading.
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    • 31 1 SHARE PRICES were lower at midday yesterday on the London Stock Exchange. At 1115 GMT, the FTSE 100-share index was down 3.4 points, or 0.13 per cent at 2,524.9.
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    • 60 1 TOKYO The Japanese government reacted strongly yesterday to a US move to revive the Super 301 trade clause, which allows unilateral action against countries with trade surpluses with America. A subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US Congress unanimously
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    • 49 1 MANILA A super typhoon swirled towards the Philippines yesterday, prompting the authorities to alert the northern region, including areas devastated by Mount Pinatubo. The Manila Weather Bureau located the typhoon, named Ruth, yesterday afternoon in the Pacific Ocean. It had winds gusting up to 285kmph.
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    • 29 1 THE National Productivity Board is launching an ambitious programme to enlarge the pool of trainers to help Singapore workers become the world's best Page 2
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    • 30 1 ASIA DAIRIES expects to double the output of its Pandan Loop plant after a consolidation exercise, expected to be completed by the middle of next year Page 3
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 693.36 -6.60 Kuala Lumpur ...530.44 -3.10 Tokyo 24.906.43 -42.83 Hongkong 3,971.90 -17.44 Sydney 1,641.6 -3.5 Thursday Change New York 3,016.32 -24.60 London 2,528.3 -32.8
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    • 23 1 Exchange rates USS SS 1.6935 100 Yen SS 1.2888 MS SS 0.6160 Money market rates Overnight 3 5/8 unch 3-month 4 unch
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    • 37 1 London Gold AM fix USS362.00 USS2.20 Rubber S'pore Nov 141.00*/kg -0.75 M'sia Nov 227.00»/kg -0.50 KL Tin Turnover 80 tonnes +40 Spot MS 14.81/kg -0.09 Crude palm oil Turnover. 424 lots -556 Dec MS845 /tonne -2
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  • 402 1  -  Proceeds of float to be used for regional expansion By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE Biscuit baron Rajan Pillai plans to set up a new holding company which will seek listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore within 18 months. Shares in the proposed
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  • 307 1 AFP JAKARTA Vietnam wants to sign the Association of South-east Asian Nations' Bali cooperation treaty and already has the backing of three of the group's six members, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Vu Khoan. The Treaty of Amity and Cooperation
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  • 164 1 SINGAPORE The Straits Times Industrials Index yesterday fell 10.95 points as a 24.6-point fall on Wall Street on Thursday night prompted a wave of profit-taking on the local bourse. The STII closed at 1,408.45, but it was still up 30.47 points
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  • 363 1 SINGAPORE The Indonesian government has not imposed a moratorium on new public offerings and at least three more companies arc planning to seek listings on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) by the end of the year, according to Dr Marzuki Usman, chairman
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  • 425 1  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE The Kuwaiti government has bought a 4.9 per cent stake in PT Bakrie Brothers, its first known investment in a listed Indonesian company. An interesting feature of the transaction is the high price paid by the Kuwaitis US$6.B6
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  • 90 1 WRESTLING with the bulls and bears in the various stock markets can be quite a hassle. So we asked stock analysts to give you a hand by revealing their shopping and reject lists. Find out what they have to say on the Asean markets,
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 58 2 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong will deliver the keynote address at a seminar tomorrow on the "role of community leaders in the next lap". The half-dav seminar, organised by the Marine Parade community club as part of its lOth anniversary celebrations, will
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      • 69 2 SINGAPORE will host two regional exhibitions next week, WoodmacAsia '91 and Machine Asia '91, both of which are organised by Singapore Exhibition Services. A two-day conference on worldwide concern over the depletion ol tropical rainforests and the need to use timber resources more efficiently will be
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      • 44 2 1 HE GROUNDS of the Istana will be open to the public on Nov 5 for Deepavali. In the afternoon, the Republic of Singapore Navy, Boon Keng Primary School, Bendemeer Primary School and Police bands will perform in the grounds.
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      • 76 2 CHENG SAN GRC will launch its own Clean and Green campaign on Nov 3 to coincide with national Clean and Green Week to be launched on the same day. The launch, which will be attended by the GRC's four Members of Parliament Lee Yock Suan,
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    • 159 2 TWO database systems now run separately by the Trade Development Board and its subsidiary Singapore Network Services will be linked to become one system next month. A TDB spokeswoman said the TDB-GlobaLink service, launched last year, and the SNS on-line information services would be
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    • 542 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming THE National Productivity Board is kicking otT an ambitious programme to enlarge the pool of trainers to help Singapore workers become the world's best. Based on recommendations of an advisory' panel of trainers headed by IBM Singapore managing director
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    • 168 2 THE PUB will cut its electricity tariffs for the threemonth period beginning Nov 1. Thanks to lower fuel-oil prices, there will be a 5 per cent cut in the average unit rate for domestic and non-do-mestic users. The lower prices will apply to the
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    • 459 2  -  Strong tourism recovery reflected By Anna Teo MONTHLY visitor arrivals broke the half-million mark for the first time this year in August, the fourth consecutive month that the industry recorded growth. Reflecting a strengthening recovery of the tourism industry, the August figures also reveal
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  • SHIPS IN PORT
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    • 1051 2 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookint/Baiance Rstts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACX Puby 27A 27/2300 3 26/0700 26/1159 26/1400 4 26/1200 26/1459 26/1700 AVa 114S 26/2300 1 25/1500 25/1659 25/1900 2 25/1700 26/0659 26/0900 Ai Watba 62 28/1700 3 26/0700
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • 477 3  -  Production will be centralised at Pandan Loop plant after consolidation move By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Asia Dairies, the company formed from the F&N Dairies and Cold Storage Dairies merger, expects to double the output of its Pandan lx>op plant after a consolidation exercise which will
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    • 345 3 Bernama PETALING JAYA Petaling Garden Bhd plans to gear the Lanjut Golf Resort in Kuala Rompin, Pahang, into an international resort since acquiring the biggest stake in the holding company, Lanjut Golf Resort Sdn Bhd. Petaling Garden has increased its equity stake to 44
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    • 203 3 SINGAPORE Duta Consolidated Bhd, which is undergoing a restructuring programme, has announced the appointment of a new director and the intention of its holding company to purchase 72 acres of land in Malacca for developing a mediumand low-cost housing scheme. The
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    • 260 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Perwaja Steel Sdn Bhd, the biggest producer of steel billets in Malaysia, will set up a rolling mill and downstream activities in Gurun, Kedah. The project, on a 275 hectare site, will involve an initial investment of about Ms7oo
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    • 241 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Tajo Bricks Bhd, a Johor-bascd high technology brick manufacturing concern, will start building a clay roofing tile plant early next year, said chairman and managing director Leong Siew Choong. Commercial production at the Vts2s million plant, to
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    • 419 3  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE Fletcher Challenge Ltd (FCL) of New Zealand, through its methanol subsidiary Fletcher Challenge Methanol, has set up a storage facility for its methanol in Singapore to service customers in Asean. FCL's chief executive officer Hugh Fletcher
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    • 299 3  -  From Rahita Elias in OAKLAND NEPTUNE Orient Line's US arm, in line with the national carrier's expansion of its services in the country, is to set up its 20th office in Kansas City, Missouri. Mr TD Foo, NOL's regional representative
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 61 3 KUAL-A LUMPUR Sri Hartamas said its proposed capital restructuring schcme comprising a capital reduction, debt equity conversion and rights issue was not approved. The capital issues committee, in a letter dated Oct 21, informed Sri Hartamas that its appeal to the Minister of Finance
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      • 62 3 KUALA LUMPUR The Capital Issues Committee had approved the proposed acquisition of 49,765,144 ordinary shares of $1.00 each representing 33.18 per cent of Berjaya Singer Bhd by Berjaya Leisure Bhd from Berjaya Industrial Bhd. However, the CIC had reduced the consideration for the proposed acquisition
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      • 103 3 KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya Group Bhd said the Capital Issues Committee had approved its proposed rights issue of M 589,685,823 nominal amount 10 per cent irredeemable convertible unsecured loan stocks on the basis of one for four. It added that the CIC had also approved its proposed
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      • 50 3 KUALA LUMPUR Mycom Bhd announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary. Lotteries Corporation (Sabah) Sdn Bhd, had formed a wholly-owned subsidiary in the British Virgin Islands known as LC (BVI) Ltd. This subsidiary is intended as an investment and trading company and has a paid-up capital of US$2.
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      • 34 3 SINGAPORE Singapore Automotive Engineering Ltd has informed the stock exchange that as of Oct 24, foreign shareholding in SAE was 17.80 per cent of the company's issued ordinary share capital.
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      • 31 3 SINGAPORE Singapore Reinsurance Corporation Ltd has informed the stock exchange that Professor Tan Teck Mcng had been appointed as a director of the company, effective Oct 16.
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      • 25 3 SINGAPORE United International Securities Ltd said that its unaudited consolidated net tangible assets backing per share at Sep 30 was $1.29.
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      • 36 3 SINGAPORE Mr Goh Kec Song, a director of Metalock (Singapore) Ltd has informed the SES that he recently purchased 10,000 shares in Metalock at $2.20 apiece. The shares were purchased by BACS Ltd.
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 106 4 MANILA Philippine Airlines (PAL), set to be privatised this year, has made a first-halt' profit of 390 million pesos (Ss23 million), after posting a record loss in its previous tiseal year. PAL vice-president Enrique Santos said yesterday that the airline was "recovering", following its
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      • 51 4 ARMONK. New York International Business Machines Corp said it filed suit against Comdisco Inc, charging it with producing counterfeit memory cards tor IBM 3090 mainframes, and leasing them to unsuspecting customers. An IBM spokesman said the company filed the suit in a US district court in
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      • 100 4 MELBOURNE Amcor Ltd shares jumped 20 Australian cents to A 56.60 (SS8.80) after the company reported, on Thursday, a 20 per cent increase in its net profit for the financial vear ended June. 1991. (Yesterday, the shares lost 4 cents to A 56.56.) The paper and
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      • 42 4 HONGKONG Electronics manufacturer Philips Electronics South-east Asia Holdings, a unit ot Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands, said it will open a HKS2SO million (5554.5 million) lighting factory joint venture in China's Nanjing city on Monday.
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      • 64 4 PERTH Australian car engine designer Orbital Engine Corp said it has applied to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Chairman and chief executive officer Ralph Sarich said Orbital plans to raise about US$B7 million (S$ 147 million) from the issue of 27.2
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    • 275 4 BANGKOK Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand's marketing arm CP Consumer Products Co has plans to become the country's leading distributor by 1994, the Bangkok Post reported recently. As part of its expansion strategy, the company plans to introduce more than 20 seasoning powders and sauces
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    • 445 4  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG THE South China Morning Post. Hongkong's most profitable newspaper, is negotiating to acquire one of the territory's oldest Chinese language dailies, the Wah Kin Yat Po. Mr C S Shum, the managing director of Wah Kiu, told
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    • 334 4 NYT DALLAS Citing sharply higher profits in global refining that overcame sluggish domestic demand for its products, the Exxon Corp reported on Thursday a 3.7 per cent gain in its third-quarter profits. Net income rose to US$l.l2 billion (SSI.9 billion), or 88 US cents
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    • 307 4 Nippon Steel, Hitachi may lose the profits game Asahi News TOKYO Nintendo Co, the Japanese video game maker, is expected to post higher profits in fiscal 1991 than such industrial giants as Nippon Steel Corp and Hitachi Ltd, officials of the companies said Oct 23.
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    • 338 4  -  By Said Abdullah SINGAPORE Vietnam wants to fully tap its seafood industry, the country's fourth-largest foreign currency earner and Seasimpex, the country's state-owned company, is taking the lead. Seasimpex which is part of the Seaprodex Group, is currently revamping its production facilities
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    • 238 4 Reuter SYDNEY Renison Goldfields Consolidated Ltd said it expects 1991/92 profit to improve on that for 1990/91. "In this early stage of the year, profits before tax are in line with those of last year and it is expected that the year end result will be
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    • 479 4 Reuter FRANKFURT German electronics group AEG AG took a first step in a longawaited restructuring, aimed at paring off all but its core businesses, with a deal to sell its AEG Kabel AG unit to Alcatel Cable of France. AEG agreed
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 313 5  -  Move represents a major policy reversal of govt By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE India is willing to open part of its totally protected insurance sector to foreign companies for the first time in more than 40 years, says the Indian Minister of State for
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    • 513 5 Reuter NEW YORK American Express Co said a US$BB million (Ssl49 million) loss at its key Travel Related Services (TRS) unit after a big charge contributed to its weaker overall third-quarter net of five cents per share. American Express earned 74 cents a
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    • 197 5 Reuter NEW YORK Salomon s profits earned from its admittedly improper bidding in last May's two-year note auction were surprisingly low, market sources said. Salomon said earlier it derived total profits in the range of US$3.3 million (555.59 million) to US$4.6 million from improper bids
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    • 438 5 DBS weekly currency review USD/DMK: No Breakout Yet The US dollar bounced off the support of 1.6830 marks on Monday to trade to a high of 1.7120 on Wednesday before easing to a low of 1.6940 on Thursday. The US dollar remained in range
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    • 495 5 Reuter ZURICH Banks in most Efta countries are ready for the huge 19-nation European Economic Area (EEA) market that opens next year and will face few teething problems in adapting to European Community banking regulations. Banking officials from the seven-nation European
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    • 297 5 Reuter LONDON Mitsui Taiyo Kobe Bank Ltd has disposed its 4.53 per cent shareholding in Hambros, but the UK merchant bank's deputy chairman Chips Keswick said the disposal did not weaken the bank's defences against unwelcome predators. "It is quite the opposite,"
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 105 5 WASHINGTON In a reprieve for financially struggling banks, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp's board decided against a Jan 1 increase in the premium that banks pay for deposit insurance. Bankers had warned a raise would force them to cut back lending to meet higher
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      • 83 5 MILAN The Italian bourse regulatory authority Consob said it had suspended stockbroker Claudio Capelli with immediate effect. In a statement, Consob said the broker, a member of the stockbrokers' association executive committee, was being suspended for "grave irregularities". In recent days, the Milan bourse has been
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      • 91 5 TOKYO The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications are set to revamp the govern-ment-run postal savings system to bring it in line with private sector banking reforms, officials said on Wednesday. Postal savings accounts have come under fire for draining massive
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      • 101 5 BOSTON Bank of Boston Corp Chairman Ira Stepanian said the bank was able to return to profitability in the thioJ quarter because it was able to grow revenues from its diversified businesses while keeping a lid on credit costs and operating expenses. "We are especially
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      • 72 5 LOS ANGELES California regulators on Thursday selected an industry-backed bailout of Executive Life Insurance Co as the best solution to the insurer s failure, but said the plan would have to be clarified before it could win their final approval. John Garamendi. California's insurance commissioner. said
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    • 323 5 The BCCI collapse Reuter NEW YORK New York state criminal proceedings against BCCI were delayed again on Thursday as courtappointed liquidators negotiated with state prosecutors to avoid a US$4O billion (5567.8 billion) fine against the scandal-ridden bank. The arraignment of the Luxembourg-based Bank of Credit
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    • 617 5 MARKET TALK Reuter LONDON A law suit filed against Lloyd's of London in New York this week could unleash a tide of foreign litigation that the world's largest insurance market may be powerless to resist, lawyers and insurance sources say. Sixty-four loss-making US names (Lloyd's
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  • THE REGION
    • NOTE BOOK
      • 62 6 SHAH ALAM Malaysia will consider an offer by South Korea to sell military weapons costing about USS2(X) million (about ***** million), Defence Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Ra/ak said yesterday. He said the offer would be discussed further with South Korean Deputy
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      • 75 6 DESARU The Malaysian government plans to open an office on Batam Island to register Indonesians wanting to work in Malaysia. Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba said the government wanted to legalise foreign workers in the country to monitor their movements and ensure that they
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      • 81 6 KUALA LUMPUR South-east Asia's climate is warming due to excessive logging of its vast tropical rainforests and rapid industrialisation, according to environmental experts. They have called for joint action by Asean to tackle the problem. "Asean should address the issue of warming in the region."
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      • 113 6 SYDNEY The eastern states of mainland Australia New South Wales. Victoria and Queensland go onto daylight saving time tomorrow and will be 11 hours ahead of. Greenwich Mean Time instead of 10 hours until March L. South Australia goes one hour forward, to GMT plus 10V:
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      • 55 6 DARWIN A magistrate ordered the confiscation of five fishing boats here yesterday after their Indonesian skippers admitted charges of illegal fishing. The five, from Sulawesi, were placed on good behaviour bonds of AS2OO (about SS27O) for fishing illegally in the Australian fishing zone and using a
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      • 98 6 SUVA Fiji's Indian-led sugar growers' unions decided yesterday to go ahead with a national harvesting protest next month in defiance of a government warning. Sugar unions' leader Mahendra Chaudhry said the farmers were being pushed to the "brink of poverty" because of discrimination by the
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    • 226 6 JAKARTA Indonesia is studying the possibility of asking China for technical assistance in small-scale coalfired power plants, says a report in the Jakarta Post. quoting the Minister of Mines and Energy. Mr Ginandjar Kartasasmita. Speaking to reporters after meeting with President Suharto here
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    • 541 6  -  From Maggie Ford in JAKARTA MORE THAN 30 foreign contractors have responded to Indonesia's decision last year to allow private sector participation in the construction of new power plants, badly needed to underpin the country's industrialisation drive. During the next 15 years, Jakarta
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    • 320 6 BANGKOK Thirty Thai government and state enterprise projects are seeking to borrow US$2.l billion (553.57 billion) from abroad next year, according to a report in the Bangkok Post this week. The projects have already obtained in-principle approval from the External Debt Management Committee. Although
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    • 325 6 Reuter WELLINGTON The Australian and New Zealand governments are aiming to announce an agreement on the reduction of tax barriers by July next year. New Zealand Finance Minister Ruth Richardson said. Ms Richardson told an investments conference yesterday that reform
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    • 228 6 AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand is to sell the trees in 36 state-owned forests, but not the land they grow on, State-Owned Enterprises Minister Maurice McTigue said yesterday. Speaking at a a press conference. he said state-owned New Zealand Timberlands was for sale and
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    • 584 6 Reuter WASHINGTON THE US decision to seek normal relations with Vietnam raises alluring possibilities of eventual expanded commerce in oil. machinery and other valuables with the nation of 67 million people, analysts say. Secretary of State James Baker announced on Wednesday
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  • THE WORLD
    • 419 7 Reuter WOLFSBURG, Germany Former Bundesbank president Karl Otto Poehl said the world economy was faced not with a shortage of capital, as many US reports have said, but a lack of investment opportunities. Banks and investors were extremely reluctant to put funds into Eastern
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    • 304 7 Reuter LONDON British businesses are becoming more confident economic recovery is imminent, but the economy is still wrestling with recession, the British Chambers of Commerce says in its third-quarter survey. Business confidence was much stronger in the third quarter and the
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    • 285 7 Area envisaged to be another Rotterdam or HK UPI UNITED NATIONS China, Mongolia and the two Koreas have agreed to jointly develop the Tumen River Delta, which would bring economic investments equal to those in Hongkong and Rotterdam in the next two
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    • 328 7 Reuter WASHINGTON The falloff of long-lasting durable goods in September, for the second straight month, supported other recent reports that showed widespread economic weakness in the US. But economists pointed out that the fall was propelled by big downward swings in a
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    • 33 7 ATHENS Masked students hurling rocks at policemen during riots in central Athens on Thursday. The students had been demanding greater funding for schools and the abolition of mid-term examinations.
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    • 469 7 FT GENEVA Trade officials are "relatively optimistic but by no means euphoric" about the prospect of completing the Uruguay Round Of World Trade talks in the next four months. The political breakthroughs could take place in November, which Arthur Dunkel, director general of the
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    • 500 7 The European common market Reuter PARIS The conditions are falling neatly in place for what may be a golden age of growth in Europe, but that is for the future. Right now, ministers are no longer hiding growing concern that their economies remain
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    • 357 7 Reuter LONDON A 19-nation European free-trade zone could boost business for Japanese manufacturers in Europe but is unlikely to spur them to more direct investment in non-EC countries, according to London-based Japanese economists. The 12-member European Community and the seven European Free
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 69 7 BONN Germany has criticised a US proposal for Soviet debt deferral and says it is potentially counter-productive to keep drawing attention to Moscow's liquidity problems. "I don't think such talk in public is very helpful," said Horst Koehler, state secretary in the
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      • 61 7 TAIPEI Indirect trade between Taiwan and China in the first eight months of 1991 inched up 41.06 per cent over the previous year to hit US$3.5l billion (about 555.9 billion), the Board of Foreign Trade (BOFT) said yesterday. The BO FT added that the booming two-way
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      • 93 7 MEXICO CITY Talks on a North American Free Trade Agreement are just entering the negotiating stage, where the interests of the three participating nations have to be accommodated, chief Mexican negotiator Herminio Blanco said. "I won't say the negotiations will be easy," he told reporters before
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      • 59 7 PARIS French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas said yesterday that agreement had been reached with Iran in a long-running financial dispute and that an accord would be initialed later in the day. "The negotiators have finished their work. We are going through the final details of the
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      • 62 7 TOKYO South Africa is seeking to establish full diplomatic ties with Japan now that most economic sanctions have been lifted, Consul-General AW Kuhn said yesterday. "We are now looking for a total normalisation of relations in .the political-diplomatic field," Mr Kuhn said. "I hope it
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      • 83 7 TAIPEI Taiwan will use its huge foreign currency reserves to finance major industrial projects in a bid to spur investment on the island, central bank governor Samuel Shieh was quoted as saying. Mr Shieh told a Cabinet meeting on Thursday that state-owned and private enterprises would
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    • 334 7 Reuter LONDON China warned the US that failure to renew Most Favoured Nation trade status would seriously damage Sino-US ties. Vice-Premier Zou Jiahua, heading the highest-level Chinese delegation to visit Britain in five years, said China did not wish
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4150 8  -  By Chew Eng Han THE Straits Times Industrials Index fell 10.95 points yesterday as Wall Street's poor performance prompted a wave of profit-taking in Singapore. The index closed at 1,408.45, but it still managed to chalk up a gain of 30.47 points for the
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      67 8  -  -By Chew Eng Han Comment THE long major decline starting from 2Q 1990 may have ended. The resistance line drawn across the various peaks was broken this week when the share shot above $1.00. This level will now serve as strong support. Look for a possible target of
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 4406 11 Bernama THE SHARP RISES over the last three sessions led investors to go for profits, resulting in share priees easing to a lower close yesterday. The KLSE all-share Emas Index at the elose dropped 0.88 of a point to 135.70 while
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND
    • 2354 12 Reuter SHARE PRICES moved in a narrow range yesterday with most investors still sidelined. The SET Index ended 1.49 points higher at 624.04 on a turnover of 1.30 billion baht. "The market is likely to be inactive next week," said a broker at Union
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  • JAKARTA STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 1070 12 Reuter JAKARTA SHARE prices slid a little further but trading was very quiet in the half-day market yesterday. The index ended 0.91 points down at 229.60 with turnover a light 1.66 million shares. Among the most active shares, real estate firm Pakuwon and Inco
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2635 13 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS wound down a sluggish session to close barely changed yesterday. Brokers said the market lacked direction ahead of the weekend, but arbitrage buying and revived hopes of an interest rate cut helped cushion declines. Consumer price data were in line
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2642 13 UPI Reuter PROFIT-TAKING by overseas investors dampened share prices on the Hongkong Stock Exchange yesterday but a late rebound cut the losses. The leading Hang Seng Index dipped 17.44 points to close at 3971.90. The market lost 32 points on Thursday and finished the
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Dow's fall sparks selling on Aussie market
      • 951 14 THE Australian share market yesterday closed lower as investor sentiment soured due to Wall Street's overnight fall. But many brokers expect the local market to rise again next week, citing a likely cut in interest rates early next month after third quarter inflation data is released on Oct 30.
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      • 342 14 NEW ZEALAND shares yesterday shook off Wall Street's 24.6-point fall to end higher on low turnover. The NZSE--40 Capital Index was up 8.97 points at 1,511.86 after being fairly flat in morning trade. Turnover was worth NZ$l7 million. Murray Doyle of Doyle Paterson Brown said the market tone
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      • 582 14 SHARE PRICES yesterday finished marginally higher as investors marked time in the absence of incentives to enter the market, while hoping a bullish trend will emerge by the end of next week to perk up trading, brokers said. The Manila Stock Exchange Composite Index barely inched up by 0.04
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      • 748 14 SHARE PRICES yesterday dropped in relatively active trading on the Korean bourse. The exchange, which slid 3.07 points to 711.29 on Thursday, lost another 3.22 points to close at 708.07. Declines led advances 441 to 239 among the 809 issues traded. Volume shrank to 21,380,000 units for a turnover
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      • 77 14 THE MARKET was closed yesterday due to a major power failure that shut down commuter trains for more than 90 minutes. City officials said that brokers, like most commuters, were unable to get to work after the power failure closed the suburban electric rail system. On Thursday, the Bombay
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      • 802 14 Close Previous Oct 25 AUSTRALIA All Ordinaries Index 1.641.6 1.645.1 -3.5 All Industrials Index 2,543.4 2.550.3 -6.9 All Resources Index 952 959 -7 Turnover (million) 186.68 147.46 39.22 NEW ZEALAND NZSE-40 Capital 1.511.86 1.502.89 8 97 Turnover (million) 17 22.6 -5.6 MANILA Composite Index 1,008.17 1.008.13 -f-0.04 Turnover (million) 1.010
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Dow falls 24 points in active trading
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        1308 15 STOCK PRICES fell in active trading on Thursday, with analysts citing concern about corporate profits and the Commerce Department's report of a larger-than-expected decline in September orders for durable goods. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 24.60 points, to 3,016.32. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange
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      • 389 15 GERMAN shares reversed shaky gains made at the start of Thursday's session and ended around 0.6 per cent lower, breaking a three-day run of rising prices. Dealers were unable to pinpoint any reasons for the drop. They said buy orders had dried up at the higher levels although foreign
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        690 15 POOR overseas markets and political uncertainties depressed the London stock market at opening yesterday, although technical trading was cushioning the fall. The blue-chip Financial Times Stock Exchange 100-Share Index, which fell 32.8 points Thursday, was down 1.9 points to 2,526.4 by mid-morning yesterday. The narrower Financial Times 30 Index
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      • 419 15 DUTCH shares closed lower on Thursday as a wave of profit-taking among blue chips gathered momentum through the day, dragging the rest of the market down with it. Amsterdam was already firmly in negative territory by midday, but fell further as US stocks opened lower on a bigger than
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      • 305 15 THE PARIS Bourse managed to post a tiny gain on Thursday, the first day of the new trading month, as investors remained worried by mediocre French economic prospects and poor US economic figures released during the day. The CAC-40 stock price index opened the session with a rise of
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      • 443 15 THE STOCK market closed very steady on Thursday as support for quality shares and positive sentiment continued to buoy share prices, dealers said. But they described trading as generally modest in the absence of fresh stimulus. Gold shares eased in line with world bullion prices as they slipped back
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      • 309 15 TORONTO stocks tumbled across the board following weak US economic figures. but the market fared well compared to the losses in New York and London, dealers said. The bond market rose moderately on the US economic data, but stocks failed to follow suit. The TSE-300 Composite Index officially closed
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      • 436 15 (XI 24 Clow Pitvirth NEW YORK Dow Jones 3.016 32 3.040 92 -24 6 S&P 500 385.07 187 94 -2.87 Turnover (million) 179 187.5 -8 5 LONDON Financial Times 3<) 1.936.6 1.966.1 -29 5 FTSF. KM) 2.528 3 2.561 I -32.8 Turnover (million) 595 5 406 5 +189 FRANKFURT DAX
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1201 16 THE US DOLLAR was slightly easier against the mark in quiet late Asian trade on light selling by European traders but it remained steady against the yen. "They (European traders) were trying to bash it down but it didn't work,"
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    • 404 16 Cross rates oc24 US$ S$ MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.6960 2.7515 1.7090 131.15 0.5877 1.4940 ***** 1.8002 SS 0.5896 1.6223 1.0077 77.3290 0 3465 0 8809 0.7530 1.0614 MS 0 3634 0.6200 0.6211 47 6649 0.2136 0.5430 0.4642 0.6543 Dm 0.5851 0.9924 1.6100 76
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    • 539 16 Source National Westminster Bank j Interbank rates S$ Bid Offer Overnight 3 5/8 3 3/4 1-month 3 7/8 4 2-month 3 15/16 4 1/16 3-month 4 4 1/8 Overnight mode; 3-3/4 LSS Bid Offer 7 days 5 5/16 5 7/16 1 month 5 1/4 5 3/8 2 months
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    • 298 16 Reuter NEW YORK David Morrison, chief international economist of Goldman, Sachs and Co. predicted the dollar will remain stable during the next three months and then rise sharply next year against the mark and other European currencies. At a Goldman, Sachs investment
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    • 392 16 Reuter AUCKLAND The writing is not yet on the wall for the New Zealand dollar after it tumbled one US cent in the past day. but analysts are divided on its future direction. The usually range-bound kiwi surprised many players on Wednesday as heavy
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    • 1186 16 SIMEX EURODOLLAR Open High Low Sett Est Vol Op/lnt Vol Dec 91 94 53 94 54 94.51 94 51 5000 ***** 3877 94.54 Mar 92 94.61 94.62 94.59 94 60 7000 ***** 5013 Jun 92 94.38 94.39 94 36 94.37 1500 6145 2081 Sep 92 94 04 94
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 282 17 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The International Natural Rubber Organisation (Inro) said it has rejected requests by some sellers to delay shipments of rubber it bought recently by one month due to supply problems. "There have been a few requests for delayed shipments but all
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    • 147 17 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A decision by the world's leading tin producers to cut back exports by 9.1 per cent is unlikely to bolster prices immediately because of the large stock overhang, tin traders said. They said that the decision by the seven producers to
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    • 314 17 Reuter LONDON Kuwait has charted a recovery timetable for its oil industry that will restore it to the front rank of petroleum exporting and refining countries, Kuwaiti oil industry sources said on Thursday. The plans are being presented to bankers who are
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    • 822 17 REPORTS THE tin price on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market extended Thursday's loss to close at 14.81 sen per kg yesterday, down by nine sen on higher offerings. Dealers said miners started selling as they expected market to go down further.
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  • 1426 17 Rubber octzs M$ (l» In tatet) S cents/kg K Noon Close Int I RSS Prompt 140.75/141 75N 140.00/141.OON N Int 1 RSS Nov 91 141.75/142.75 141 00/ 142.00 Int I RSS Dec 140.50/141.00 139.75/140.25 > Ini 2 RSS OP 136.75/138.75N 136.25/I38.25N Int i RSS OP 134.75/135.75N 134.25/135.25N Int 4
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    • 622 17 BUSINESS TIMES TELEPHONE: 730-5771/5772/5773 FAX: 734-4982 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP SO AND IN THE MATTER OF LTT MANAGEMENT SERVICES PTE. LTD. (In Members Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of LTTMANAGEMENT SERVICES PTE LTD duly convened and held at
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  • 354 18  -  From Sangeeta Mulchand in MANILA SINGAPOREAN investment in the Philippines in the three months to August has exceeded that in the first five months of this year. From January to May this year, new investment hit 26.01 million pesos, a 108 per cent
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  • 311 18 CEBU has adopted a programme under which local businessmen act as mentors to new foreign investors in the province. Cebu, located 500 km south of Manila, is the second busiest province after Metro Manila. And mayor Tommy Osmena said: "We know what it's like
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  • 262 18 AFP BANGKOK Thai Airways International (THAI) and Cambodian Airlines have agreed to exchange daily flights, ending more than 20 years of service suspension between the two Indochinese countries. A THAI spokesman said the airline, which suspended its flights to Pochentong Airport in Phnom
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  • 189 18 AFP WELLINGTON Air New Zealand is likely to have its landing rights into Bangkok suspended next week because of a row between the Thai and New Zealand civil aviation authorities. It appears to be a tit-for-tat scrap after Wellington declined to give Thai Airways
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  • 44 18 LONDON A Greenpeace activist carrying mock nuclear bombs past Big Ben during a protest at the Houses of Parliament on Thursday. About 300 activists carried 50 replica bombs to demand the withdrawal of all British nuclear weapons from Germany.
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  • 361 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Foreign investment in Malaysia amounted to M 512.8 billion (about 557.9 billion) or 56.2 per cent of the total approved capital investment in the first nine months of this year. Minister of International Trade and Industry Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said.
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  • 343 18 Reuter KIEV, Soviet Union The Ukrainian parliament changed its mind yesterday and backed its government's plans for economic reform, including mass privatisation, after securing independence from Moscow. One day after rejecting detailed government plans for a separate Ukrainian currency, central bank and
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  • 269 18 AP DAMASCUS Israel said Friday it may pull out of next week's Middle East peace conference if a Palestinian delegate who openly sides with the PLO participates. An aide to the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Yossi Ahimeir, said that if Saeb
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  • Executive Lifestyle
    • Article, Illustration
      1436 19  -  Kenichi Ohmae, the outspoken apostle of a world without borders, speaks to Kenneth James about the experiences that have shaped his beliefs, and explains why he thinks his controversial proposals for Singapore make sense Kenneth James EVEN THE WAY he introduces himself a casual "Ken Ohmae" suggests more
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    • STRAWS IN THE WIND
      • 59 19 SOME shopping centres brag about new facilities, pretty facades and numerous retail shops when they are asked to list the factors that lure the shoppers in. But at least one shopping complex has something even more exciting: it claims to be the first complex to install automatic sensor
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      • 145 19 THEY BAN food and drinks inside MRT trains. They should ban handphones too. Or, more importantly, showoflfs with handphones. Such as the one in a train carriage at Bedok station who kept calling someone to tell him where he was. "Koh, I am now in Bedok, ah
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      • 43 19 A GYNAECOLOGIST was throwing a party recently, when he suddenly disappeared halfway through the gaiety. When someone asked if he'd gone out to buy more drinks, one wag replied: "He went for a delivery all right but at Mount Alvemia."
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    • OPINIONS
      • 95 20  -  Harrison Carradice Shaftesbury Dorset England I WAS interested to read the article by Tye Kim Khiat "To Each His Own" (BT, Oct 19-20). As an Englishman on my first visit to the Far East I too was shocked to hear the views on "human rights"
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      • 202 20  -  D W Distant Singapore 0922 WHEN pedestrians lost their crossings between Lucky Plaza/Wisma Atria and C K Tang's/MRT Orchard Station and were forced underground, the PWD's explanation was that the traffic flow would improve along Orchard Road. Today it is worse than ever. The CTE tunnel
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      • 140 20  -  D W Distant Singapore 0922 I BELIEVE your readers will be interested to know what has hecome of some of the more colourful share counters of past years. I'd like to share what I found as I went through the fine print of a recent
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      • 1217 20  -  In Australia, nobody takes life for granted any more in this once Lucky Country, while the majority of Singaporeans take a job and the good life for granted. Tye Kim Khiat draws some lessons from this study in contrasts Tye Kim Khiat The writer is a
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      • Article, Illustration
        1284 20  -  In 1983, 3.6 million ha of East Kalimantan forest were lost. Now. there are new fires. If we refuse to learn from the past, we must expect to pay a price, says Nirmal Ghosh Nirmal Ghosh The writer is a BT journalist THE forest fires in Kalimantan and
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    • SPORTS
      • 542 21 AP SOTOGRANDE, Spain He was wheezing and he was coughing, but Seve Ballesteros wanted to get a little more off his chest. So before he started the first round of the Volvo Masters golf tournament on Thursday, he lashed out at American rival Paul Azinger,
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      • 824 21  -  Helen Wright on the importance of mental preparation Helen Wright Helen Wright is a lecturer with the College of Physical Education and an avid squash player and marathon runner PERHAPS more than many other athletes, marathoners know how major a role the mind plays in the successful completion
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      • 294 21 AP LOS ANGELES It's been a good year for Lee Trevino on the Senior Tour. It eould have been great except for those last-round blues. It started at the Senior Classic last year at Rancho Park. "I've been getting out of the box this
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      • 242 21 AP WOKING, England Brazilian Ayrton Senna apologised on Thursday for a verbal attack on former International Motor Sports Federation president Jean-Marie Balestre after the driver had clinched the world Formula One drivers' title last week. After his second place finish on Sunday in Japan had
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      • 239 21 AFP READING Joe Johnson, the former world snooker champion who suffered a heart attack last June, showed he is back to his best here on Thursday by reaching the quarter-finals of the Rothman's Grand Prix. He caused something of an upset by
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      • SIDE LINES
        • 72 21 MUNICH Bayern Munich, once Europe's mightiest club, have welcomed back Franz Beckenbauer in a bid to pull than out of the doldrums. Beckenbauer. who led Bayern to three successive European Cup victories as a player in the *****, has been taken on in an
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        • 101 21 COLORADO SPRINGS Leroy Burrell will cut his distance by 90 per cent to help test a new timing device. Burrell. having run the world's second-fastest 100 metres, will be joined by some other top sprinters, including Mark Witherspoon, Floyd Hurd and Mike Marsh, in
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        • 89 21 STOCKHOLM The world's top players Stefan Edbcrg and Boris Becker took another step down the road to a showdown in the final of the US$l million (SS 1.7 million) Stockholm Open tomorrow when they scored straight-set victories to reach the last eight. But former world
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        • 89 21 AUTOPOLIS, Japan Jaguar, with the world sportscar constructors' title already won. go for a double in Japan tomorrow. Only Peugeot, led by reigning champion Mauro Baldi of Italy and Frenchman Phillipe Alliot. can deny them the drivers' championship. Italian Jaguar driver Teo Fabi leads the
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        • 69 21 TORONTO Third seed Chris Dittmar successfully defended his title at the Canadian Open squash championships on Thursday when fourth-seeded fellow Australian Rodney Martin was forced to retire during the fourth game. Dittmar had the match well in hand leading 2-1 in games and holding a commanding 12-3
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        • 48 21 NEW YORK Heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield will fight Italian Francesco Daniani next month. Holyfield will defend his crown in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, against the former European heavyweight champion on Nov 23, said Main Events chief Dan Duva. who promotes Holyfield's fights.
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      • 244 21 Reuter RENO, Nevada Former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman will fight ex-professional football player Jimmy Ellis in a scheduled 10-round bout in Reno, Nevada on Dec 7, promoters announced on Thursday. The fight, which was originally to have been held in the Bahamas,
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    • EPICURE
      • 613 22  -  Quek Swee Peng samples exquisite Italian food at a restaurant where even the pasta flour comes from motherland Quek Swee Peng THE CHEF. The pasta master. The painter. Chef Gabriel Fratini claims to be all. The paintings lining the walls of DOMVS, the Italian restaurant at Sheraton
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    • LIFESTYLE
      • 820 23  -  Sam Twining may not have heard of teh tarek but he sure knows a lot about what goes into a good brew. Sylvia Wong meets the man behind the tea-bag Sylvia Wong IF SAM TWINING had a different name, he would probably be in the
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      • 828 23  -  Everybody knows steak usually goes with red wine and fish with white. But no one ever said anything about hairy crabs. Worry not, N K Yong has the answer N K Yong ABOUT two years ago, 1 mentioned in this column that one of the finest Chinese
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      • 347 23  -  BRIDGE By Sybil Holloway Although many part scores were declared by Ns at all four tables after East had opened the bidding on Board 42 of the finals of the NEC Bermuda Bowl and Venice Cup Championships, the USA II ladies team gained five imps
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    • PURSUITS 1
      • 912 24  -  Claire Leow finds out about the time the Blue Danube was red Claire Leow MUSIC BOX could well have been titled Pandora's Box but director Costa-Gavras is more subtle. The movie, about a man being tried for war crimes and defended by his
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      • 621 24  -  CD REVIEW By Ringo Liew INA TURNER: Simply The Best A greatest hits collection culled from Tina Turner's solo career, t)S»CD is a rewind of one of the most anflzing comeback stories in pop music history. Making the transition from R&B headliner to has-been lounge act and
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      • 770 24  -  Susan Tsang thinks reading the book might be faster Susan Tsang rhe Russia House seems to have everything going for it an impressive cast, a screenplay by Tom Stoppard (Brazil!), based on a book by John le Carre, and even permission to shoot on location in Russia itself.
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      • 928 25  -  The traditional art of marquetry has been given a new lease of life in the hands of Yann Hervis. Susan Tsang speaks him Susan Tsang Marquetry is an art that has been with us for a long time, since as early as 8 BC, in
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      • 649 25  -  President Mugabe presented the Commonwealth leaders who were in Harare recently with book on his country's elephants. Nirmal Ghosh takes a closer look at the publication Nirmal Ghosh WHEN he was little, fourth generation Zimbabwean Alan Elliott probably didn't know that he would grow up to be a
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      • 620 25  -  Genevieve Cua meets a Filipino furniture designer who turns out art you can sit and sleep on Genevieve Cua YOU either like rattan or you don't. Some who curse the cheap stuff for catching on their clothes are hard to convince that not all rattan chairs are created
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    • PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
      • DON'T QUTE ME!
        • 122 26  -  Compiled by Lee Han Shih REPRODUCED above are the front and back views of the name card of MiniStor, the American company which is scooting around for investors to finance its plan to make the new super-small 1.8-inch disk drive in Singapore. The front has
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        • 194 26 L IFE has taken a full circle in Japan's hotel industry. When the country was opened in the 19th century, hoteliers who wanted to offer an entirely different kind of service to the traditional Japanese inn flocked to learn about the Western way of hospitality.
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        • 30 26 SEEN on the name card of a Fuji banker ("Call Fuji, it's the best"), the title of "Head of Future Desk". Wonder heads the current desk?
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      • 507 26  -  Warrants have been performing very well lately, thus prompting Amy Balan to pose a pertinent question... Amy Balan THE best five performing funds last month were Japanese warrants, according to the latest Hongkong Unit Trust Association survey. This was because of the
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      • 580 26  -  Property stocks promise to hog the limelight again. Najeeb Jar horn takes a technical snapshot of this sector and the overall stockmarket while Magdalene Ng zooms in for a closer look at a much-neglected counter. Parkway Holdings CHART Najeeb Jarhom Magdalene Ng The writer
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      • 719 26 STOCK PARKWAY HOLDINGS shares look like a good buy even if the counter has been rather anaemic these past few years. Local broker Lum Chang recommends a buy on the property stock for its strong asset backing and improving earnings base. In a recent newsletter, Lum Chang
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      • 182 26  -  Property is turning hot again. Chew Eng Han takes a closer look and finds... Chew Eng Han DBS Land: A solid base has developed at the $2 level. Wave structure of the upmove since early October looks technically impulsive (ie, strong), which means this could be a
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      • 156 26 City Development: The technical picture looks less promising here. The upmove since August appears to be a correction, rather than a reversal, to the downtrend from March to August. Resistance at $3.90 is strong and unlikely to be broken. Suggest liquidating from $3.75 upwards. Malayan Credit: The
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      • 894 27  -  Buying a car does not make for a wise investment, says Arthur Lee. Here, he gives a breakdown of the costs incurred in owning one Arthur Lee Despite the rising cost of car ownership, Singaporeans appear to be a resilient lot, willing to fork out more then
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      • 974 27  -  Have you passed up numerous chances to make a quick killing on the stock market simply because you weren't sure about where to start? Kooi Cho Teng shows you the ropes ON _YOUR Kooi Cho Teng I: T'S not easy to make money
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      • 607 27  -  Equities are what you should be buying, if the latest survey of securities houses is to be believed, writes Magdalene Ng Magdalene Ng GLOBAL equity markets are set to run next year. According to financial journal International Financing Review, equities are expected to outperform bonds in 1992,
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    • JOBS
      • 1152 28  -  Chuang Peck Ming meets a management consultant who has methodically carved out a niche for himself Chuang Peck Ming LEE Siong Kec speaks very slowly, his sentences clear, his words precise. The tone is; one of tolerance and patience. 31 is business card reads "(Qanaging
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      • 357 28 Goh Boon Huat has been appointed Asian regional director of Tech Pacific. He will be responsible for the group's operations in Singapore, Malaysia, Hongkong and Taiwan. Prior to joining Tech Pacific, Mr Goh was the chief financial officer at Caltex, Malaysia. He has more than 10 years' experience
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      • 811 28  -  Anna Teo looks at perks in the latest Hay executive compensation survey Anna Teo Perhaps it's because cars are one of the few remaining tax shelters. COEs and high maintenance costs notwithstanding, more companies are giving away a set of wheels as an executive perk.
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    • 1149 29 City Flight ETA Flight ETD I torn PfcaH GA890 0050 AMIMa QF81 1820 SQ227 2200 QF82 2200 lUm RJ183 0030 AflHtertUm SQ19 0755 KL838 2240 KL837 1255 SQ38 2330 GA890 2350 Aaddaad NZ21 1820 NZ22 1930 SQ338 2030 lakraia GF148 1000 ftaJUupM GA525 910 1755 2
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    • THE TRAVEL PAGE
      • 827 29  -  LETTER FROM MINORCA By Roy Hodson ANYONE aspiring to find a new contribution to the lexicon of great maritime achievements should stop reading this article at once. A circumnavigation of Minorca frankly must be described as no big deal. The distance is under 100 sea
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      • 152 29 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.3265 1.3379 Canadian dollar 1.4872 1.5142 NZ dollar 0.9340 0.9670 Sterling pound 2.8905 2.9152 US dollar 1.6910 1.6950 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 14.00 14.21
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      • 56 29 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Oct 23-29 International Lcvallois- Equip 1 Hotel **********0 Nov 3 Modern Living Fair, Italy Promo*.one Exhibition for Perret, Prance Blenheim Exposition Mostre Hotels. Restaur- Oct 29-31 MacWorld Expo Hongkong World Expo ********** ants. Cafes Sl Asia '91
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    • TIME OFF
      • 124 30 An Evening with the SSO Conductor: Ikuma Dan. Flautist: Michiko Akao. Soprano: Katsura Nakazawa. Programme includes works by Mendelssohn with The Hebrides Overture, Op 26 '*Fingal's Cave"; Gounod with Faust: Ballet Music; and Ikuma Dan's Symphony No 6 "Hiroshima." Venue: Victoria C oncert Hall. Today. 8.15pm. An Evening of
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        279 30  -  Compiled by Yasotha M A Brush with Tao: Wildlife Paintings by Waina Cheng-Ward Visual arts exhibition by Waina Cheng-Ward. Born in Lanchow, China, Waina Cheng-Ward went to England to study graphic design and then spent four years studying wildlife paintings with the renowned wildlife artist Dr Eric Ennion, who
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      534 30 Atame! If you missed it. Pedro Aldomovar's movie about a lunatic who kidnaps a porno star. Savoy 11; 1.30; 4; 7; 9 15. Hamlet. Well, Mel Gibson couldn't play Romeo so he might as well be a Shakespearean lethal weapon. He doesn't do too badly, either. Glenn Close plays
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    • 230 22 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN WHERE TO WINE, DINE I PRINCESS Igv 0- €^<SEB«AIEB •••now on Fridays and Saturdays From now on, our Chinese Porridge Buffet will be served only on Fridays and Saturdays from 10.30pm to 3.30 am but at the same
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