The Business Times, 12 November 1991

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  • 16 1 Business Times HE BUSINESS PAPER FOR S-E ASIA MCI (P) 16/12/90 Tuesday, November 12, 1991 15*
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  • NEWS
    • 60 1 TAIPEI The Asian Development Bank will issue between US$25O million (*****.5 million) and US$3OO million of bonds in Taiwan, Hongkong and Singapore this month, its first issue in Asia outside Japan, ADB officials said yesterday. The bonds will be launched
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    • 89 1 THE HAGUE The European Community and seven northern European countries are to meet here next week for talks on details of their agreement to set up the world's largest free trade zone, it was announced here yesterday. The EC and the European
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    • 37 1 MALAYSIA'S decision not to send its foreign and trade ministers to the third annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting is a deliberate snub of the US, a key player in Apec, say diplomats Page 2
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    • 34 1 NEWLY-SET-UP Tech Semiconductor Singapore Pte Ltd will be manufacturing 16 M-bit dynamic random access memory chips (drams) instead of the 4 M-bit chips that it had announced in April. Page 3
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    • 31 1 NG TENG FONG's Far East Organisation will build a 280unit condominium in a predominantly HDB estate, at the junction of Ganges Avenue and Indus Road Page 4
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    • 20 1 INDONESIA, in the run-up to the 1992 election, has made price stability its top priority Page 9
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    • 35 1 THE Paul Simon that performed on Sunday night was not the Simon of the flowerpower decade. It was the new age Simon who blasted the Indoor Stadium with Africancharged music Page 19
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    • 35 1 AIR TRAVEL growth over the next 15 years will remain robust in spite of an expected slowdown next year, says aircraft maker Boeing's chairman and chief executive officer. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS
    • 29 1 WALL STREET opened lower yesterday, with the Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials falling to 2.69 points to 3,042.93 in the first five minutes of trading.
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    • 32 1 LONDON share prices were higher at midday yesterday on improved investor sentiment. At about 1215 GMT, the FTSE 100-Share Index was up 10.3 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 2,569.3.
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    • 36 1 THE largest office letting in Singapore since 1986 has been leased to Sony International (S) Pte Ltd, which will occupy 131,000 sqft of office space in the 27-storey Keppel Towers P««e 5
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    • 24 1 SUN HUNG KAI Co Ltd's bullion and futures department in Singapore will cease activities by the end of the year PageS
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    • 33 1 GP BATTERIES International, which has unveiled a healthy set of interim results, plans to raise US$ 11.25 million (5518.9 million) to fund its expansion in Singapore and China PageS
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    • 32 1 CREDIT CARD companies in Malaysia have been urged to use stringent yardsticks to fix credit limits and to be more selective in their choice of cardholders Page 8
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Monday Change BT-MGA 731.12 +7.11 Kuala Lumpur 554.57 +18.38 Tokyo 24,232.99 -253.50 Hongkong 4,230.91 -5.73 Sydney 1,693.1 -3.2 Friday Change New York 3,045.62 -8.49 London 2,559 +21
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    • 24 1 E»dmn rates USS. SS 1.6820 100 Yen SS 1.2924 MS SS 0.6126 Money market rates Overnight 3 1/4 -3/8 3-month 3 9/16% -1/8
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    • 36 1 London Gold AM fix US$354.90 -USS0.40 Rubber S'pore Dec 136.50*/kg -0.25 M'sia Dec 224.50Vkg unch KL Tta Turnover 64 tonnes +19 Spot M$14.82/kg -1 Crude Mbn oil Turnover 1,813 lots +831 Jan MS884 /tonne 3
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  • 541 1  -  Continual breach of tender conditions, says SDC By Sangeeta Mukhand SINGAPORE Sentosa Development Corporation has repossessed two land parcels awarded to Khamis Holdings last year because of the company's "continual breach of SDC's tender conditions". SDC said it has also forfeited a total
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  • 484 1  -  Christiania Bank said to have offered out-of-court settlement By Dawn Tan SINGAPORE In a surprise twist to the Khamis affair, Christiania Bank is believed to have offered a $32 million out-of-court settlement to the Moroccan businessman. Sources said the Norwegian Bank met Mr Khamis and
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  • 249 1 MALAYSIAN stocks returned to the limelight yesterday as the market shrugged off its disappointment over the recently unveiled Malaysian Budget. After a quiet performance last week, the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index surged 1838 points yesterday to close at 554.57. The Singapore market
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  • 229 1 Bernama LANGKAWI Malaysia is promoting Langkawi for selected aerospace industry and business, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. He said ample land had been acquired next to the Langkawi Internationa! Airport for the purpose. "For this purpose we intend
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  • 441 1  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE The Japanese shipbuilder IHI is believed to be selling two-thirds of its 30 per cent stake in Jurong Shipyard Ltd (JSL) for $188.8 million a move that would leave the Sembawang group the biggest single shareholder
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  • 194 1 Reuter LONDON British trade and industry ministry officials were planning to interview media tycoon Robert Maxwell before his sudden death last week about share dealings connected with an insider trading investigation involving the French bank Societe Generale, Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
    • 548 2  - KL ministers 9 no-show causes a stir Run-up to the Apec conference From Catherine Ong in SEOUL MALAYSIA'S decision not to send its foreign and trade ministers to the third annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) meeting has caused a stir among the 400 delegates here for the event. While
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    • 296 2 AP SEOUL US Trade Representative Carla Hills said she hoped the IS nations attending economic talks this week here would focus on resolving issues in world talks on free trade. She said on Sunday that Pacific Rim nations owing their wealth and
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    • 461 2 Reuter TOKYO Secretary of State James Baker yesterday encouraged Japan to broaden its global role beyond "cheque book diplomacy" to assume greater responsibility for improving human rights and halting the spread of nuclear weapons. He also said it was time that
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    • 474 3  -  S'pore company to produce more powerful chips than planned By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE In a major shift, newly set-up Tech Semiconductor Singapore Pte Ltd, in which the Economic Development Board has a stake, has decided to go for more powerful semiconductors than it had originally
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    • 396 3  -  ByC Claire Leow Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Two US disk drive makers, which have announced plans to set up plants in Singapore, are competing closely to start manufacturing by January 1992. MiniStor Peripherals and Integral Peripherals hope to get
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    • 251 3  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE MiniStor Peripherals Corporation has started to discuss pioneer status for its disk drive manufacturing business with the Economic Development Board (EDB). President and chief operating officer Alex Malaccorto confirmed this with BT when he was in town recently
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 321 4  -  Far East Organisation to build 280 units at Ganges Avenue site By Sylvia Wong PROPERTY TYCOON Ng Teng Fong's Far East Organisation is embarking on yet another residential project, this time a 280-unit condominium project at the Ganges Avenue site it won in an HDB
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    • 327 4  -  By Sangeeta Mulchand SCOTTS-WEITNAUER has clinched the deal to operate three perfume, liquor and tobacco duty-free shops at the Singapore Cruise Centre in a five-way tussle which also involved industry heavyweight Sade-DFS. The company put in the highest bid a minimum guaranteed rent of $110,000
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    • 309 4 SINGAPORE AIRLINES is timing the launch of a new service to the Spanish capital of Madrid in April next year to coincide with the Barcelona Olympics. An SIA spokesman said yesterday that the maiden flight would also precede several other major festivals,
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 79 4 SINGAPORE will mark the 50th anniversary of its fall to the Japanese during World War II with 70 days of activities and exhibitions. The events begin on Dec 8 the day the first Japanese bombs fell on the island in 1941 and
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      • 93 4 THE Asia-Pacific region is one of the world's largest markets and the fastest-growing, at a rate of US$3 billion (Sss billion) a week, said Labour Minister Lee Yock Suan. Addressing the opening of the 1991 Business Week Symposium of Asian Chief Executives last night, he said the region's
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      • 51 4 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board is backing a new seven-day package selling Singapore as "Your Tropical Getaway". It consists of a four-day stay to highlight the best of the city-state, followed by three days at either Beaufort Sentosa on Sentosa Island or Tioman Island Resort,
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      • 58 4 IN BTs Nov 9 report, "HK. tycoons buy spc of Amcol through Suntec", we misspelt Mr Cheng Yu Tung's name in the report proper as well as mistakenly identified him as Mr Chng in the caption to the photo. Also, the Windor Industrial company mentioned was actually
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • 318 5  -  131,000 sq ft is biggest office letting since 1986 By Salil Tripathi SINGAPORE Sony International (S) Pte Ltd has leased 131,000 sq ft of office space in the 27-storey Keppel Towers, the largest office letting in Singapore since 1986. The agreement was concluded
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    • 127 5 SINGAPORE First Capital Corporation Ltd's subsidiary, Tanamera Development Pte Ltd, has garnered shareholder approval to award Guobena-Siah Brothers the contract to build a 288-unit condominium estate on Tanah Merah Kechil Road. Approval was also given for any member of the FCC group to
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    • 484 5  -  Firm's interim earnings up 22pc; dividend of 6.8 cents declared By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE GP Batteries International plans to raise U5511.25 million (5518.92 million) through a private placement of shares to fund its expansion in Singapore and China. The group also unveiled a healthy
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    • 570 5 MARKET TALK Reuter HONGKONG The stock market's phenomenal bull run should continue through the end of this year, analysts in the colony said yesterday. "Good news abounds, and there's no bad news," said Simon Chin, vice-presi-dent at Citicorp Investment Management. "It's hard
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    • 289 5  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Fraser and Neave's dairy-manufacturing arm, Asia Dairies, has signed an agreement with Japan's leading dairy producer, Snow Brand Milk Products Co Ltd, to make ice-cream for the Japanese market. Under the agreement, Asia Dairies will make about 1.7 million
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    • 303 5  -  By Skoeb Kagda SINGAPORE Hongkongbased financial services firm Sun Hung Kai Co Ltd is scaling down its bullion and futures operations in Singapore because it is no longer competitive in these fields. "We are suspending our bullion and futures activities for
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 126 5 KUALA LUMPUR A group led by Jutamex Sdn Bhd has offered to acquire the 175,323,802 shares, or 48.89 per cent, of Beijaya Group Bhd that the group does not already own for M 51.38 a share in cash. In a statement on behalf
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      • 70 5 KUALA LUMPUR Siah Brothers Corporation Bhd aims to bid for more public sector projects in future, group managing director Sia Kwee Mow said yesterday at the listing of the company's shares on the main board. The stock opened at M 53.20 for a 90 sen
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      • 80 5 SINGAPORE Loh Yoke Chan has been identified as the seller who, together with Chng Heng Tiu, sold 10 million Amcol shares to Suntec Investment on Nov 7. An announcement by Suntec said Mr Loh sold 2.2 million Amcol shares at Si.9l each for a total
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      • 54 5 SINGAPORE Jack Chia's HTP Holdings Ltd has set up a new wholly-owned subsidiary called Residential Lending Ltd in New Zealand to provide residential mortgages. The directors of the new company are Simon A Rowell, T A F Soutar, B J Roberts, L du Plessis
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      • 57 5 SINGAPORE Parkway Holdings Ltd yesterday said the interest rate for its US$5O million floating rate notes due 1996 with warrants has been fixed at S.7S per cent per annum for the period Nov 8, 1991, to Feb 10, 1992. The proceeds of the notes are
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      • 32 5 SINGAPORE Singapore Electronic Engineering Ltd has formed an audit committee with Wong Nang Jang as the chairman. The other members are Tien Sing Cheong and Toh Kim Huat.
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    • 391 6 HONGKONG Hopewell Holdings has signed a contract to build a US$B5O million (S$ 1.44 billion) power plant in the Philippines, the Sunday Morning Post reported. The company plans to use HKSI.S6 billion (Ss33B million) out of a massive rights issue to help fund construction
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    • 340 6 BANGKOK Siam Cement Co is planning to move its roof tile factory from Bangkok to Vietnam, The Nation reported over the weekend. The 300 million baht (SS 19.7 million) plan demonstrates the global aspirations of Siam Cement, Thailand's largest industrial conglomerate. Shifting its small roof
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    • 622 7 Asahi News TOKYO Intel Corp is once again bracing itself for a stiff challenge from Japan involving a technology it now leads the market in. In the past decade, the major US chip maker withdrew from production of some of its key innovations, such
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    • 294 7 Reuter MELBOURNE Mayne Nickless Ltd said a new company has been formed to control Optus Communications Ltd, a bidder for Australia's second telecommunications licence. Mayne Nickless said it would own 49 per cent of the new company, Optus Pty Ltd, which will
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 118 7 TOKYO Minolta Camera Co Ltd has lowered its parent current profit forecast for the year ending March 31, 1992, to zero from a May forecast of 5 billion yen (Ss64 million). It posted parent current profit of 4.86 billion yen in 1990/91. Minolta
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      • 157 7 SYDNEY Building products group Boral Ltd said net profit for the first four months of 1991/92, ending June 30, is likely to be about 25 per cent below that of the same period last year. "The rate of decline in our trading appears to be
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      • 93 7 TOKYO Casio Computer Co Ltd has left its forecast of parent company profit and sales in the year to March 31, 1992, unchanged from a May forecast, a Casio spokesman said. In May, it had forecast current profit of 21 billion yen, up from 17.39 billion
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      • 128 7 LONDON Lord Arnold Weinstock, managing director of General Electric Co, on Sunday ruled out a takeover bid for the troubled British Aerospace (BAe) group. Lord Weinstock told British Broadcasting Corp's Money Programme he wanted to develop joint ventures with BAe but added "we do not
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    • 166 7 Reuter AUCKLAND Lion Nathan Ltd has won approval from shareholders of Australian Consolidated Investments Ltd to exercise the put and call option aspect of its planned takeover of ACIL. Lion corporate treasurer Malcolm Don confirmed yesterday that a resolution put to ACIL shareholders in
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    • 277 7 AFP PERTH Australian inventor Ralph Sarich and-his family have boosted their wealth by about As9o million (SSIIB million) in the past month on the back of a surge in Orbital Engine Corporation shares. Shares in the corporation, in which the Sarich family has
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    • 1154 6 GP BATTERIES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT OF UNAUDITED INTERIM RESULTS AND DIVIDEND AND PLACEMENT OF NEW SHARES FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 1991 The Board of Directors of GP Batteries International Limited is pleased to announce the unaudited interim results of the Group
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 136 8 SYDNEY The Commonwealth Bank of Australia said the year to June 1992 will be a difficult one but it expects an improvement on its 1990/91 net operating profit. "While there are some indications that the economy is beginning to recover, there is no question that
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      • 69 8 SYDNEY National Australia Bank Ltd said it will reduce its benchmark lending reference (prime) rate to 12.25 per cent from 13.25 per cent effective yesterday. Managing director Don Argus said the cut reflects the current and expected reduction in the bank's cost of
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      • 61 8 DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania's central bank has invited foreign banks to establish themselves here by 1993 as part of sweeping changes in the country's economy, local newspapers reported on Sunday. The papers quoted Bank of Tanzania governor Gilman Rutihinda as saying private banks with a minimum
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      • 90 8 ABU DHABI Iran will continue selling government institutions to the public to revive its war-torn economy but banks will not be privatised, a senior Iranian banking official said in remarks received here on Saturday. "Liberalisation has not reached the final stage," said Valeyallah Safe, chairman
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    • 185 8 AFP HONGKONG Depositors of the local subsidiary of the disgraced Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) yesterday submitted a compromise proposal to the potential buyer of the bank. The representatives of the depositors gave the Hongkong Chinese Bank, part of the
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    • 462 8 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Credit card companies should be more responsible in selecting their cardholders and use stringent yardsticks to fix credit limits, Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Loke Yuen Yow said yesterday. According to him, the credit card companies had been purely guided
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    • 436 8  -  Asian Corporate Finance conference By Magdalene Ng SINGAPORE The greenback will weaken in the next six months but should turn before mid-1992, and rally during the rest of that year, Avinash Persaud, currency economist at ÜBS Phillips Drew, forecast yesterday. Mr Persaud told
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    • 478 8 Reuter NAGOYA After several blockbuster years of foreign exchange trading, most Asian currency centres are facing tougher times in 1991, said delegates at the 13th AsiaPacific Forex Assembly last week. "Compared to the boom years from around the mid1980s, this year has been
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  • THE REGION
    • 495 9 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia, burdened with a ballooning eurrent aeeount deficit and a drought that has hit crops, has made holding down prices its main priority in the run-up to an election year. Diplomats said the June 9. 1992, election was a major
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    • 230 9 UPI JAKARTA About 85 per cent of Indonesia's coffee exporters face bankruptcy, hit by a combination of problems headed by a deep drop in world prices and fierce competition among themselves, officials said last week. "The coffee prices on the international market have reached the
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 104 9 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has shelved its plan to deport illegal foreign workers because the plantation and construction sectors would suffer big losses. Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghafar Baba said. He said on Sunday that the Dec 31 deadline for more than 100,000 illegal
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      • 80 9 KUALA LUMPUR The royalty on oil received by Trengganu is insufficient for the state's development, Mentri Besar Tan Sri Haji Wan Mokhtar Ahmad told the Umno general assembly on Sunday. Winding up the debate on behalf of Umno state liaison chiefs, he said that without the
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      • 80 9 MANILA An International Monetary- Fund (IMF) technical team began a review yesterday of the Philippines* economic performance to determine whether fresh credits could be released. Central Bank (CB) spokesmen said. CB governor Jose Cuisia has said that a favourable review would entitle Manila to US$4OO million
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      • 81 9 BANGKOK Thailand's soaring energy needs will lead to a huge jump in the country's coal imports in the next two decades, said a study by the East-West Centre in Honolulu. The report said the percentage of coal usage in total energy needs will increase from
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      • 73 9 MANILA The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced yesterday it had approved a US$4OO,OOO technical assistance grant to Papua New Guinea (PNG) to finance a review of the government's industrial assistance policy. The funds will go towards a review of the structures of "effective assistance to the
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    • 341 9 Reuter CANBERRA Prime Minister Boh Hawke will not be offering a "quick fix" for the Australian economy when he makes his economic statement on Thursday and the measures he announces will not pressure the Budget, government sources said yesterday. Mr
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  • 395 11 Reuter NEW DELHI Since India I began in July to dismantle I the "licence Raj" that has I long bedevilled business, its i entrepreneurs have proposed I over one trillion rupees < (5567.2 billion) of new in- I vestment, says Junior Indus- I
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  • 320 11 Move to seek consensus on constitutional reforms Reuter PARIS French President Francois Mitterrand, whose 10-year grip on his country's politics recently seemed to be slipping, has played a constitutional trump card. In a bold bid to recapture the political initiative and split the right-wing opposition, the Socialist
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  • 393 11 Reuter MEXICO CITY The government slowed the devaluation of the peso, raised Mexico's minimum wage by 12 per cent and announced stiff energy price increases last Sunday as it extended a controversial wage and price control programme into a fifth year. The measures
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  • WORLD WATCH
    • 81 11 UNITED NATIONS About a dozen Latin American states have urged Cuba not to press for a vote on a resolution condemning the US economic blockade and to settle instead for a public debate when the issue comes before the General Assembly tomorrow. In several meetings
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    • 83 11 LONDON Preliminary estimates suggest Britain's stock of net external assets has risen since the end of 1990, the Bank of England said in an article released ahead of its Quarterly Bulletin, due out on Thursday. The bank estimates net external assets climbed to
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    • 85 11 LIMA The Shining Path plans to incite popular insurrection in Peru's cities as part of its ongoing guerilla war on the country's elected government, a spokesman for the Maoist group told the newspaper Expreso in an article published yesterday. Guerilla warfare "is the only
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    • 85 11 TEHERAN Qatari Crown Prince Hamad ibn Khalifa al-Thani's visit to Iran was marked by the signing of five cooperation accords between the two countries, including an agreement to provide Qatar with drinking water, Teheran Radio reported. Iran and Qatar also signed accords to bolster
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    • 62 11 BUENOS AIRES Argentina plans to hand over the management of most state-owned companies to private sector operators before the end of 1992. Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo yesterday told a leading local newspaper, Clarin, that the government will hold tenders to offer 30 per cent stakes in
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  • 454 12 EDITORIAL EUROPE has grown accustomed to living under threat. From the partition of Prussia and the expansionist Napoleonic era to the brutality of Hitlerian rule and the two world wars, European countries have never been free from threats from one another. Then came the Soviet
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 243 12 LAST WEEK, the perennial issue of school loyalties was raised by Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew at a school fund-raising dinner. It is worth reiterating the need for permanent bonds between schools and their students and other well-wishers. First, a school's supporters can be tapped for donations towards
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    • 90 12 IT IS 50 years since the Japanese attack and occupation on Singapore. The Ministry of Information and the Arts will organise activities to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Japanese occupation in Singapore. There is so much that can be learnt from history, particularly from the Japanese occupation
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    • 131 12 THE Chinese community, the largest in Singapore, has never complained about free tertiary education for Malay students or subsidies granted to them through the Malay community organisations. The rise in fees of tertiary education must have affected students from poor Chinese families and families of other
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 169 12 THE GOVERNMENT has introduced staggered measures to reduce the permissible amount of lead content in petrol. Meanwhile, some 50 tonnes of lead from the estimated 48 million vehicles in Malaysia is still being released into the atmosphere a year. This means more effective and urgent measures to
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    • 177 12 DATUK Seri Dr Mahathir's emphasis that as Muslims, the Malays need to strike a balance between worldly interests and spiritual requirements as enjoined by Islam is especially pertinent in view of efforts by some disruptive elements to tarnish the Vision 2020 goal. In this respect, they
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    • 127 12 THE RULING Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has presided over Japan's ascent from wartime destruction and defeat to the country's present peacefulness and prosperity. So long as the party's brand of money-politics continues to pay dividends, in national and personal terms, it will presumably continue to find favour
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  • 946 12  -  Philip Shenon finds tension mounting in Cambodia amid reports of stockpiling of arms and massing of troops by the Khmer Rouge Philip Shenon NYT THE Khmer Rouge, the communist guerrilla group that once brutally ruled Cambodia and has now joined the new
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 990 13  -  Congress is in a quandary this week with regard to urgent US banking legislation. David E Rosenbaum reports David E Rosenbaum NYT IN I HE FACE OF increasingly partisan wrangling on the verge of an election year, the US Congress will
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    • 1299 13  -  Claire Leow meets a dynamic duo determined to make waves in the computer industry and have a whale of a time in the bargain Claire Leow TWO MEN who once worked for disk-drive manufacturer Maxtor come together again and begin thinking about a new
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    • 742 13  -  The Gulf War hardly dented Saudi Arabia's restrictive social climate, reports Youssef M Ibrahim Youssef M Ibrahim NYT IT WAS just a little item that appeared recently on the front page of The Saudi Gazette, proclaiming that from now on, flight attendants on the national
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
    • 558 14 Experts have decided not to test Aids vaccines on animals first, as has been the routine NYT DI SCO U RAGED by their inability to stem the spread of Aids, world health officials are bypassing the usual animal trials and plan to begin testing in Brazil,
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    • 502 14 European team produces large burst of energy in experiment NYT AFTER nearly a halfcentury of effort and many billions of dollars, scientists for the first time have produced a significant amount of power from controlled nuclear fusion. The achievement is a major step
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 46 14 US-BASED E-Machines Inc has announced a 16-inch colour display, which is compatible with Apple's new products. Called the Color Page El 6, it will work with Apple's Quadra 700 and 900 computer. It will be marketed here by Tricom Pacific Pte Ltd.
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      • 66 14 HEWLETT-PACKARD Singapore (Sales) has established its Professional Services Organisation (PSO) as part of a move to support its open systems strategy. PSO provides consulting, education and project management services. An open systems strategy enables computer systems from different manufacturers to be integrated. With the formation
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      • 61 14 US-BASED AST Research has launched its World ExeCare Programme, which will provide a speedy service to users of its notebook computers. Under this worldwide service warranty programme, users are guaranteed of getting their machines serviced within eight working hours of the receipt of the faulty
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      • 56 14 LOCAL personal computer manufacturer PET Computers Service (S) Pte Ltd has set up a new company to better serve its clients. Called Sherry Computer Technology (S) Pte Ltd, it will sell, market and distribute its own brand of Sherry PCs. The
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  • SPORTS
    • 578 15 AP STOCKHOLM Ivan Lendl is not too fond of playing tennis indoors these days. At least not on fast surfaces. "It's just one swing," says Lendl, owner of the secondbest won-lost record (82-16) indoors since 1987. "You hope it goes in. "That's
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    • 339 15 AFP LONDON Jahangir Khan, British Open champion a record 10 times, is keeping secret whether or not he will help his country's bid to regain the world squash title till very last moment. The legendary Pakistani returned to his London flat on Sunday still making no
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    • 243 15 Reuter OAKLAND, California Martina Navratilova equalled Chris Evert's all-time professional record of 157 career titles by defeating Monica Seles of Yugoslavia 6-3 3-6 6-3 to win the U*****,000 (*****,000) Virginia Slims of California tennis tournament on Sunday. Navratilova, who could break Evert's record
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  • SIDE LINES
    • 132 15 INGLEWOOD, California Before Game 2 of the postMagic Johnson era, the Los Angeles Lakers and their Forum fans paid homage on Sunday night to their former team-mate, forced to retire because he is HIV-positive. Although Johnson was not there for the Lakers' first home
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    • 107 15 MEXICO CITY Jay Haas rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt on the third extra hole on Sunday to beat Ed Fiori in a playoff and win the Mexican Open. Haas shot a final-round 69 and Fiori had a 6-under-par 66 over the 7,135-yard Chapultepec Golf Club
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    • 67 15 MILAN Pirelli SpA is withdrawing from the production of tyres for Formula One racing cars as part of a reduction of costs linked to sporting activities. The company said the move represented a concentration of available resources on its core businesses. "Pirelli's decision has been
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    • 132 15 MILAN For tennis purists, the Milan Shootout is a silly degeneration of the sport. But for the 10,000 fans who crowded the Assago Forum on Sunday it was an unique opportunity to see eight of world's best players in a single night. For Sergi Bruguera, who defeated local
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    • 102 15 NASHVILLE, Tennessee Fourth-seeded Sabine Appelmans of Belgium won her second consecutive tennis tournament with an easy 6-2 6-4 victory over American Katrina Adams in the Virginia Slims of Nashville on Sunday. Appelmans, who is 13-1 in matches in the last three weeks, won the Arizona Tennis
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 745 19  -  Jaime Ee is transported by the man who is still... Jaime Ee IT'S hard not to get emotional over Paul Simon. You get people telling you how he inspired newspaper boys and budding poetry teachers to fulfill their career aspirations— who knows, maybe somewhere along the
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    • 94 19 far* s P' JUST BEFORE TAKE-OFF f OUR CREW i f DECKED THE CABIN utr4r''- with floral displays. WffiljfJMtl AS ALWAYS. SCARCELY ANYONE appreciated the l.mWi 4 'Lv i* n^act 'j ust did. Not that the flowers weren't absolutely splendid. (The\-were.) And certainly not that those present didn't .> know
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4121 20  -  By Schutz Lee "THE BEAR is dead!" a broker proclaimed yesterday as the stock market surged ahead, swept higher by the momentum it gained last week. The benchmark Straits Times Industrial Index, which had gained 58 points in four trading days last week, put on
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      60 20  -  Chew Eng Han Comment SIME DARBY looks good in the medium term. 5-week moving average already turned up, and crossing above the 13-week. Immediate resistance is at $235, which needs to be broken for confirmation of a further bull-run. Possible upside targets are $2i5 and $2.80. Uptrend line
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 4557 23 Bernama SHARE PRICES finished higher across the board on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday on indexlinked buying and renewed interest on both mediumand higher-priced stocks. Dealers said investors also focused their interest on lower liners, especially those in finance and
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    • 830 23 W THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN, LIMITED Head Office s Address: 3-3, Marunouchi 1-Chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100, Japan. BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 1991 NON-CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET NON-CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME (in millions of yen) (in millions of yen) March 31,1M1 March 31.1990 Fiscal 1090 Fiscal 1989 Assets
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 261 24 ."taapaay Date Year Group Net Net earnings Gross to profit/loss (L) per share drndeod ('000) (coats) Chuan Hup Nov 6 Jun 91 $8.905($8,064) 58(52) 2!£(2IE) Hume M Nov 4 Jun 91 M$36.922($33.846) 1/ 2(15 8) 10(10 7) H Leong Ind Nov 4 )un 91 M$54.020($35.427) 38(25 2) 15(15)
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    • 547 24 Company Rights Issue Aw Pk Laid One tor two per share Onefofone $100 per shae Bajaya Graq> Rtfits issue of S89m nominal amount 101 Irredeemable Convertible Unsecured Loan Stocks (ICULS) on the basis of one for four Bo*® 1 Issue of S90 978m nominal amount of 35% Redeemable
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    • 278 24 Company Date Year Group pre-tax Net earnings Cress aan to profit/loss (L) per share dividend C000) (cents) SPH Nov 8 Aug 91 $219.124($194.085) 63 2(54 3) 25(30) Palmco Hldgs Nov 6 Jun 91 M$9,293($825) —(0 5) Kemayan Oct 29 May 91 M$28($l,505) -(0.7) 1 5(1.5) AISB Oct 28
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    • 565 24 Company Date Half-year Group pre-tax Interim aim to profit/loss (L) dividend (000) Chem Ind Nov 4 Sep 91 $5,143(54.460) Rothmans M Nov 4 Sep 91 M$170,425 ($136,734) 50(35) General Corp Oct 31 Jul 91 M$7,781(55.134) Jacks Int Oct 31 Jul 91 $1.4981 ($326) Johan HkJgs Oct 31 Jul
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    • 238 24 Nov 9 Far East Leviniston SNpbukfini has won a contract to install a sea plough system on a cable laying ship that it built at its yard recently Nov 8 Suntec Investment has taken a 5.05% stake in Amcol Holdings for $19.1 m. Two members of the Sembawang
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    • 432 24 Relative Strength Index: This index indicates overbought or oversold conditions as when a stock moves too much and too fast in either direction. Generally, an RSI above 80 indicates an overbought condition, while levels below 20 indicates an oversold market. The RSI is used
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND
    • 2409 25 Reuter SHARE prices ended mixed yesterday with bank groups losing most as investors took profit from last week's price rises, brokers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand index ended 2.71 points higher at 688.74 on turnover of 4.04 billion baht. The index
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  • JAKARTA STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 1085 25 Reuter STOCKS closed mixed in active foreign buying yesterday, brokers said. Turnover rose to 4.84 million shares from Friday's 2.19 million but the index fell 2.07 points to 223.25. Cigarette shares were well traded, with Sampoerna dominating the market on turnover of 707,000 shares.
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    • 469 26 Some computer companies claim to sell you the solutions you need, even from other vendors. first proprietary operating system in the world open systems unfortunately with their own And that's not to say you would not to go open, giving you openness with the definition of open. consider Digital s
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2634 27 Reuter TOKYO stocks ended sharply down yesterday on the lowest estimated volume this year. Early futures-linked selling hit prices and they never recovered, brokers said. Deprived of buying incentives, investors stayed sidelined ahead of a possible discount rate cut later this week, they added.
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    • 2571 27 Reuter STOCKS ended modestly weaker yesterday after profittaking eroded early robust buying and a 30-point jump in the blue-chip Hang Seng index, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index slid 5.73 points to end at 4,230.91, well below an intraday high of 4,265.43 reached shortly after the
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Investors focus on Aussie bank stocks
      • 810 28 RENEWED rumours of a banking merger stole the limelight in trading on the Australian sharemarket, which closed slightly lower yesterday. Brokers said business was lacklustre with the leading index trading over a tight four-point range bereft of news on the economic front. But they said rumours the National Australia
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      • 362 28 NEW ZEALAND shares ended slightly lower yesterday after a fickle day's trade dominated by private client business on low turnover. The NZSE-40 capital index was down 5.81 points at 1,547.57 after being as high as 1,554.41 and as low as 1,542.20. Turnover was worth a paltry NZ$l3.4 million.
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      • 433 28 INDICES TURNOVER ClOSC Previous Nov 11 AUSTRALIA All Ordinaries Index 1.693.1 1,696.3 -3.2 All Industrials Index 2.650.0 2,648.3 *1.7 All Resources Index 963.5 969.9 -6.4 Turnover (million) 124.3 149.7 -25.4 NEW ZEALAND NZSE-40 Capital 1,547.57 1,553.38 •5.81 Turnover (million) 13.4 MANILA Composite Index 1,119.64 1.080.86 +-38.78 Turnover (million) 260.4 236.2
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      • 585 28 PHILIPPINE blue chips advanced sharply yesterday on optimism about a fourth quarter market run-up despite the devastating storm that hit part of the country last week. Traders also set aside political worries and focused on the expected rise in company revenues as Christmas approaches. The Manila Stock Exchange composite
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      • 560 28 TAIWAN stocks ended slightly lower in moderate trade after short-term profit- taking after the index slipped over 4,500 points pulled prices off early highs. The Weighted Index finished 3.45 points lower at 4,491.68 on turnover of NT523.6 billion compared to Saturday's halfclay $18.81 billion. The financial sector rose 1.2
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      • 772 28 SEOUL stocks fell below the 680 level in lethargic trading with selling pressure mostly on financial and big manufacturing shares, brokers said. "Ahead of the market opening, investors have recently paid attention to is-,, sues with low price-earnings ratios, which reflect profitability," Daewoo Se- curities broker Huh Eui-do said.
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1105 29 REPORTS ASIA Tokyo: The US dollar was slightly weaker against the yen and the mark in late Asian trade. But trading activity was slim as a partial holiday in New York for Veteran's Day sapped momentum from the market, dealers
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    • 461 29 Reuter PARIS When it comes to making a sales pitch, the French Treasury can mix it with the best of them. "Buy our bonds. And buy them big", was the clear message it gave to 300 or so foreign investors it wined,
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    • 304 29 Reuter CHICAGO The managed futures industry, hoping to attract some of the big money handled by institutional investors, is caught in a quandary. No one knows quite how to measure performance. Stock traders have the S&P 500, but futures traders lack a standard yardstick by
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    • 1119 29 SIMEX EUMOOUM Open High Low Sett Est Vol Op/lnt Vol Dec 91 94.88 94.91 94.88 94.90 2300 ***** 4293 Mar 92 95.00 95.03 95.00 95.02 4400 ***** ***** Jun 92 94.79 94.81 94.79 94.80 1214 7965 4413 Sep 92 94.48 94.51 94.48 94.50 650 3608 3369 Dec 92
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    • 398 29 Cross rates Nov 11 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.6830 2.7450 1.6490 130.30 0.5675 1.4560 1.2731 1.7873 SS 0.5942 1.6310 0.9798 77.4213 0.3372 0.8651 0.7564 1.0620 MS 0.3643 0.6100 0.6007 47.4681 0.2068 0.5304 0.4638 0.6511 Dm 0.6064 1.0206 1.6646 79.02 0.3442 0.8830 0.7720
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    • 526 29 Interbank rates SS Bid Offer Overnight 3 1/4 3 3/8 1-month 3 7/16 3 9/16 2-month 3 1/2 3 5/8 3-month 3 9/16 3 11/16 Overnight mode: 3-9/16 t'S$ Bid Offer 7 days 4 7/8 5 1 month 4 7/8 5 2 months 5 1/8 5 1/4 3
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 395 30 Reuter SINGAPORE China's rapid expansion of its oil refineries affords spare capacity for third-party processing but cannot totally meet oil product needs, industry sources said. Singapore-based oil traders are discussing with state oil firm Sinochem spot processing deals for next year in coastal refineries
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    • 308 30 Reuter POTTERS BAR, England Strong demand in China and the Far East will help to raise world fishmeal prices in 1992, said Stuart Barlow, di-rector-general of the International Association of Fish Meal Manufacturers (lAFFM). Higher prices for competing vegetable proteins and lower fishmeal
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    • 832 30 REPORTS THE PRICE of tin on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market lost one sen to close at MS 14.82 from last Friday's close on lack of buying support and slight selling pressure. At the opening level of M$ 14.83, bids totalled 54
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    • 610 31  -  LETTER FROM COLORADO By Arnold Wilson THE American habit of trying to "do" Europe in a week produces equally superficial results when applied in reverse. When I tried to cram the Rockies into one trip, I allocated a cursory 24 hours to an obscure Colorado ski
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  • 420 32 He may lose '92 elections otherwise, says Republican strategist AP WASHINGTON US President George Bush will lose the 1992 election unless he focuses on the economy, a Republican strategist and former White House political director said on Sunday. Also on Sunday, a member of
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  • 417 32 AP PHNOM PENH After a 16-year absence, the US restored its diplomatic presence in Cambodia yesterday to help the war-shocked country make the transition to democratic elections. Charles Twining, an Indochina expert, arrived to set up a new United States diplomatic mission. "This is a
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  • 198 32 Reuter DUBAI Most Arab states will attend the multilateral stage of Middle East peace negotiations with Israel that is widely expected to be boycotted by Syria, Gulf diplomats said on Sunday. "They are going with Syria or without her," one diplomat
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  • 289 32 Reuter TOKYO Japan's slowing economic growth probably forced the country's trade surplus to more than double last month, a news agency poll of major financial institutions in Tokyo shows. On average, economists estimated the customscleared trade surplus for October totalled
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  • 388 32 Reuter COLOMBO Sri Lankan officials will give high priority to defence in the 1992 Budget to be presented in Parliament this week, but only grudgingly, official sources said yesterday. "We would have hoped for a cut in defence spending because it is
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  • 765 32  -  The Bottom Line S N VASUKI S N VASUKI The writer is a BT journalist RECORD bankruptcies, sluggish investment, falling corporate profits and a cloudy economic outlook. Problems faced by the United States? Yes, but Japan as well. In what has become
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  • 230 32 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Germany will not neglect efforts to step up trade and investment with South-east Asian countries, including Malaysia, despite significant political and economic changes in Europe, a German trade minister said here yesterday. Dr August R Lang, the Bavarian
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    • 403 33  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Air travel growth over the next 15 years will remain robust despite an expected slowdown next year, said aircraft manufacturer Boeing's chairman and chief executive officer Frank Shrontz. Mr Shrontz, who was in Singapore last week, told BT
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    • 323 33  -  New firm can provide general agency services By Selva Kumar SINGAPORE Jardine Shipping Services (JSS) representative in Indonesia. PT Mitranava. has formed a joint venture company to provide general shipping agency services at Indonesian ports. The new company, PT Rajamitra Indolines, is a
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    • 275 33 Reuter PORT STANLEY, Falkland Islands A giant iceberg adrift in the South Atlantic with thousands of penguins has begun to break up in warm waters and will pose a hazard to shipping, meteorologists said on Sunday. The immense iceberg, cods-named A 24,
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      • 64 34 DUBAI The Dubai airline Emirates has ordered two new Airbus A3lO-300 passenger jets, company president Sheikh Ahmad ibn Said al-Maktoum said on Sunday. With the new orders, Emirates will boost its fleet to 13 planes, including six manufactured by the Airbus consortium. The airline was established
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      • 65 34 SINGAPORE The Port of Singapore Authority has reminded ship masters to disclose any unusual characteristics, defects or problems that could affect the safe manoeuvrering of their vessels in the harbour. Such disclosure should be made via the vessel's checklist for piloted movements, which
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      • 64 34 LONDON British Aerospace has secured type certification approval for its BAe 1000 corporate jet from the US Federal Aviation Administration. The approval follows that given by the British Civil Aviation Administration some 10 days earlier. The BAe 1000 is designed for non-stop trans-Atlantic flights
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      • 97 34 DHAKA The Bangladesh navy has seized four Indian trawlers and 48 crew members for illegally fishing in the Bay of Bengal, naval sources said on Monday. They said the trawlers had been held in raids over the weekend on fishing vessels trespassing in Bangladesh's territorial water.
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      • 69 34 BUJUMBURA Burundi has lifted its ban on South Afri-can-registered aircraft, but retains its trade sanctions against South Africa, it was announced here on Sunday. Officials said Foreign Minister Cyprien Mbonimpa had signed an order lifting the ban on aircraft registered in or carrying the national colours
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      • 97 34 HARTLEPOOL, England British coastguards banned shipping for 1.6 km around a sunken Swedish bulk carrier in the North Sea on Sunday after a series of huge explosions ripped the vessel apart. The 5,000-tonne SK Link had lain at anchor off the northeast coast of England
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    • 1138 34  -  Shippers have raised such a storm over a new breed of container surcharges that the Federal Maritime Commission has launched a formal inquiry, reports Elizabeth Canna Elizabeth Canna American Shipper Following a rash of shipper complaints, the Federal Maritime Commission has launched an informal investigation into a
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    • 700 34 A number of freight transactions in the Atlantic on Friday were done at lower rates but Pacific rates nudged higher on increased Japanese demand, brokers said. Trade volumes were acceptable and the overall tone steady, they added. The grain market was underpinned by Soviet enquiry while the capesize
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    • 9398 42 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for a maximum
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    • 3291 47 C ontainerline NV: Belsin Shpg Agencies Pie Ltd (SVMarine Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SyAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). Albatros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ltd (S).
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    • 254 47 Abacaa Coariers Td: 545-8011. Fax: *****98. Air Express Travel Td: 533-5771. Fax: *****44. Airborne Freight Corporation Td: 542-8844. Fax: *****16, *****80. A 1 mm/ Aire win n onowmc viw Td: 278-0188. Fax: *****83. AJSSappliii Td: 748-6322 (2 lines), 747-7421. Fax: *****75. City-Link IntenwdoMl Td: 344-3377. Fax: *****50. Claater
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    • 1527 47 Abex Express Freight Td: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Acdvair Singapore Td: 542-7821 Fax: *****20. Aeroliak Freight International Td: 545-803TFax: *****05. Td:'"s42-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Td: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express lateraatioaal Td: 542-7666. Fax: *****74, *****50. Air Market Express Td:
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    • 3004 48 ARGENTINA Labour working normally this week. Buenos Aires: No congestion; general cargo berths occupied most of the time but no waiting. Pilots are now permitting vessels to sail with drafts of approximate 30ft provided there is a good tide. San Lorenzo: Five vessels in port of which 2
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    • 553 48 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Flight Type ETA T From Op Flight Type ETD T To TODAY TODAY NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 I NRT SIA SQ802 B747F 0230 2 SYD/AKL KAL KE697 B747F 0150 I SEL NCA KZ204 B747F 0335 1 BKK/NRT JAL JL6I7 B747F 0345 I TYO KAL
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    • 1492 48 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES VESSELS ON OFFER Bulk Carriers Captain Diamantis: 68,847 dwt and built Mar 1971 Mitsui, on offer in excess of U5514,000,000 en-bloc with sistership Angelic Grace Can try singly. Both on time-charter till Jan/Feb 1992. Moshill: 66.043 dwt and built Oct 1991 Daewoo and Vlosdale 66,043 dwt
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    • 596 48 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES rnmmmmmmmm .WIHMM ua» CRUISE SHIPS Arr Dcp Name of Vessel ETA Ports of Calb Port Agent NOV 13 13 13 13 IS IS IS IS Ocean Pearl 0900 Orient Sun 1000 Cora Princess 1000 Royal Viking Sky 0800 1800 1800 1800 2359 Sin-Asean PortsHong Kong-Sin Sin-Jakarta-Sin Sin-Jakarta-Sin
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      • 646 49 Veud Voy No Berth Arrival Departure tonal Voy No Berth Armi Departire Marina Terminal 1 Ady 3 91 S03 *****300 1211/1200 Batam Baru B105 M04 alor*s*Je 11 11/2300 Indi Express 534? S03 12 11/2230 14 11/1200 Batam Ma,u *****1 M04 alongside 12.11 0500 Batam Sayang *****1 M04
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      • 119 49 Pcnang Port On the way: Apanchanit, Oxalis 1, Menghapal. Fu Jiang, Huang Jt Shan, Seng Hing, Pacific Samudera, Kyoei Maru 1. Due on Nov 11: Korean Topaz, Kim Soon Li, Penteleymon Lepeshmskiy, NCC Tihamah, Uni Moral. Due on Nov 12: Botany Trinity. Hitching Port Arrive on Nov
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      • 867 49 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance 1Mb Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACX Jade 58A 13/1500 2 11/1700 12/0659 12/0900 4 12/1200 12/1459 12/1700 Atti Glory ***** 13/1500 1 11/1500 11/1659 11/1900 2 11/1700 12/0659 12/0900 4 12/1200 12/1459 12/1700 Anson
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    • 407 50 Reuter MIRAGOANE, Haiti Even the second-hand shoes shipped into this provincial port from Miami aboard small, ageing freighters have become a luxury no one can afford as an international embargo continues to tighten its grip on Haiti. "I'm ruined," said
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    • 359 50 UPI MIAMI A boatload of 175 Haitians has been picked up, bringing the total of boat people seeking asylum in the United States but floating in limbo in the Atlantic Ocean to 444, the Coast Guard said last Sunday. The 40-foot sailing vessel
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    • 287 50 AFP CARTAGENA, Colombia About 100 Indians demonstrated here against the arrival on Sunday of a replica of Christopher Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria. It was the first rally against the Japanese-regis-tered ship, which left Barcelona in July and docked in the Dominican Republic last
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    • 257 50 Reuter HONGKONG First Pacific Co Ltd has entered into agreements to increase its shareholding in mobile phone company Pacific Link from 50 per cent to 60 per cent, thereby acquiring control of the company. Under the agreements, Vodaphone Group pic will subscribe
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