The Business Times, 20 October 1992

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  • 16 1 Business Times THE BUSINESS PAPER FOR S-E ASIA MITA (P) 35/12/91 Tuesday, October 20, 1992 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 51 1 LUXEMBOURG EC finance ministers yesterday called for a probe into the currency turmoil that has shaken the Community since September. Finance Commissioner Henning Christophersen said the study was to be done by the presidents of EC central banks and the Community's monetary
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    • 58 1 WASHINGTON About 3,000 Iraqi soldiers and civilians who took refuge in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War will be allowed to resettle in the US, the Washington Post reported yesterday. Nearly 1,000 Iraqis arrived in the US in September, and 2,000
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    • 31 1 THE Singapore government's Cost Review Committee will approach its task with an open mind. It won't take issues for granted, says chairman Lim Boon Heng Page 2
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    • 33 1 THREE SITES two of which are close to the proposed second link to Malaysia will kick off the Singapore government's first sale of large parcels of industrial land Page 3
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    • 35 1 ASEAN senior officials yesterday postponed the 2nd Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) council meeting set for tomorrow to next month, raising fears of a possible delay in Afta's implementation Page 9
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    • 29 1 TAIWANESE investment in mainland China is expected to total US$2.6 billion this year as larger companies follow the trail blazed by small businessmen Page 10
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    • 32 1 THE emergence of powerful economies in the Asia-Pacific region offers the chance of a breakthrough for humanity similar to the Industrial Revolution, says media tycoon Rupert Murdoch Page 11
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    • 27 1 TASTE technology officers at the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research's Food Technology Centre tackle all questions on food with relish Page 16
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    • 30 1 DISPUTES arising from the bunker trade can now be more easily resolved with the appointment of 28 arbitrators under the new Singapore Bunkering Procedures. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKET SUMMARY
    • 43 1 WALL STREET stock prices rose in early trading yesterday as the market marked the fifth anniversary of the crash of 1987. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials gained 19.72 to 3,194.13 at 1430 GMT in the first hour of trading.
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    • 23 1 LONDON share prices were lower at midday yesterday. At 1210 GMT, the FTSE 100Share Index was down 17.0 points at 2,546.9.
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    • 27 1 MALAYSIAN building specialist YTL Corp plans to move into the booming utilities and infrastructure sector. It also plans to build a cement plant Pfcge 4
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    • 35 1 KEPPEL CORP chairman Sim Kee Boon yesterday afternoon underwent an abdominal operation, his second in nearly two years. His condition after the surgery was satisfactory, said the Singapore General Hospital Page 4
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    • 27 1 INDONESIAN food producer P T Aneka Bina Cipta Central Food is planning to seek a listing on the Jakarta Stock Exchange Page 5
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    • 25 1 FOREIGN BANKS are expecting better loan prospects in Malaysia following the country's plans to press ahead with development and expansion projects Page 7
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Monday Change BT-MGA 634.42 -3.32 Kuala Lumpur ....612.33 +4.28 Tokyo 16,903.81, -466.00 Hongkong 6,089.91 +104.58 Sydney 1,417.6 2.2 Friday Change New York 3,174.41 -0.27 London 2,563.9 +17.3
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    • 24 1 Exchange rates USS SS 1.6065 100 Yen SS 1.3388 MS SS 0.6408 Money market rates Overnight 1 1/2 unch 3-month 1 9/16% +3/16
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    • 37 1 London Gold AM fix US$342.25 US$0.50 Rubber S'pore Nov 144.00Vkg +0.75 M'sia Nov 223.50*/kg unch KL Tin T urnover 3 8tonnes +13 Spot M$14.59/kg -0.10 Crudo palm oil Turnover 221 lots +53 Nov M$873 /tonne -1
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  • 631 1  -  SES keen to keep December target but ground rules yet to be released By Amy Balan SINGAPORE With about two months to go before the take-off of options trading, players are still unsure whether the new instrument will be launched as planned.
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  • 419 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Furniture and electronics supermarket Courts Singapore Ltd, which will be listed on the main board, is offering 25 million 20-cent shares at 68 cents apiece to the public today. Half the shares being offered are new
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  • 373 1  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Inno-Pacif-ic Holdings has sold the Shakey's pizza operations in Singapore to food distributor Provisions Suppliers Corp, the first stage in its divestment of the loss-making pizza chain worldwide. Shakey's Singapore Pte Ltd, which manages six pizza outlets here, was
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  • 350 1  -  By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE Granite quarry operators on Indonesia's Karimun Island are bracing themselves for hard times, as a granite glut threatens to wipe out profit margins. Their chief worry is that the planned closure of Singapore quarries may be delayed, and
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  • 459 1  -  14th Chinese Party Congress From Catherine Ong in BEIJING IN a skilfully-executed move, China's patriarch Deng Xiaoping made a surprise public appearance yesterday to back the country's new team of younger and pro-reform leaders. The 88-year-old preeminent leader congratulated and exhorted
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
    • 656 2  -  Vehicle Certificates of Entitlement Half will be spread evenly over first four months Reports by Dexter Lee SINGAPORE The government will release 16,468 more Certificates of Entitlement (COEs), and not just 10,000 as promised earlier, over 12 months starting
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    • 269 2 SINGAPORE Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices are unlikely to fall sharply, despite the extra 16,468 certificates to be put out by the government over the 12 months from December. Car distributors said yesterday that while the extra COEs were
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    • 446 2 SINGAPORE The average cost of a Certificate of Entitlement in the November tender shot up to 18,842, as car buyers gave up waiting for extra COEs promised by the government. The figure was up $3,913 from $14,929 in the October tender, according
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    • 290 2 SINGAPORE The Government's Cost Review Committee would approach its task with an open mind, its chairman Lim Boon Heng said yesterday. Mr Lim, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry, said that whatever might have been said about business
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    • 154 2 SINGAPORE The Public Utilities Board said yesterday it would raise electricity tariffs by an average of 3 per cent for the three months starting Nov 1. The move, prompted by rising fuel oil prices, means the average household will have to fork out
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    • 66 2 IN Saturday's Personal Finance and Investment Page article "Aussie, Kiwi dollars poised for a comeback", it was erroneously stated that the New Zealand dollar had fallen to its recent low of 54.45 Singapore cents. It should have been 85.45 cents. The daily price chart thus indicates a
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    • 452 2  -  The granite glut By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE The worsening glut of granite has prompted two quarry operators, both of which are partly owned by Singapore companies, to push back their plans to begin mining in Indonesia's Karimun island. Tony Ng, managing
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    • 373 3  -  By Colin Tan SINGAPORE Three sites, two of them close to the proposed second link to Malaysia at the end of Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim, will kick off the government's first sale of large parcels of industrial land. Details of
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    • 310 3  -  From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR IN a bid to defuse growing controversy over the award of a Ms 2 billion (551.28 billion) digital telephone contract, Malaysia's Finance Ministry has decided to give three foreign-led telecommunications groups more time to comply with
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    • 337 3 SINGAPORE The Franchise Development Centre (FDC), which yesterday saw the launch of its first project a confectionery franchise is planning similar arrangements for other trades in the retail sector. Lim Boon Heng, the Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry, said the FDC had
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    • 208 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government yesterday introduced a Bill to form a new securities commission to regulate the securities and futures industry. A new nine-member Commission, to be appointed by the finance minister, will be empowered to regulate the issue
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    • 331 3 Reuter LONDON The British government, seeking to quell a revolt within the ruling Conservative Party, yesterday announced it would procecd with the closure of only 10 loss-making coal mines instead of 31 pits as it had planned. Trade and Industry Secretary
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 67 4 SINGAPORE A delegation from the Stock Exchange of Singapore began a visit to China yesterday for talks with officials on how to further develop China's two unruly share markets. The SES said that the experts, including officials from 11 of its member firms,
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      • 90 4 SINGAPORE Inno-Pacific Holdings said it acquired a piece of land in Bangkok in 1988 as it had plans to develop a shopping and residential complex there with a commercial unit for a Shakey's outlet. In response to queries from the Stock Exchange of Singapore, Innopac said
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      • 83 4 SINGAPORE Amcol Holdings Ltd yesterday said it bought over 2 million 10-cent Electro Magnetics Ltd shares, together with one million EML warrants for $400,719. EML is the revamped company that took over the business of video cassette maker Electro Magnetic (S) Ltd, which was
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      • 31 4 SINGAPORE Lim Kah Tee, a substantial shareholder of Metalock (Singapore) Ltd, has raised her stake by 18,000 Shares to 1.268 million shares, from 1.25 million shares.
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    • 666 4  -  From William Chia in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN building specialist YTL Corp intends to use its muscle in the construction field to break into the booming utilities and infrastructure sector. The diversified construction giant, which is also a major producer of readymixed
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    • 239 4 SINGAPORE Keppel Corp chairman Sim Kee Boon yesterday afternoon underwent an abdominal operation, his second in nearly two years. He was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital on Sunday for the abdominal operation following a routine annual medical examination, said a brief Keppel statement issued yesterday.
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    • 189 4 SINGAPORE YTL Corporation Bhd is teaming up with listed UK utilities company National Power pic to build and operate private power stations in Malaysia. In an announcement yesterday, YTL said it has accepted a counter-proposal from the Malaysian government to build-own-operate
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    • 612 4  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN By William Chia SINGAPORE Causeway Investment Ltd's dismal interim results are a grim reminder to shareholders that a major overhaul is necessary before the industrial gas and welding equipment supplier can stage a convincing recovery. Causeway,
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    • 170 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Lion Land Bhd will soon manufacture personal computers and peripherals for export, managing director Lee Chee Kuon said yesterday. He said the company would invest an initial Ms6o million (5538.4 million) to mannfacture computer monitors, keyboards, casings, switching power
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    • 598 4  -  Letter to the Editor Inno-Pacific Holdings Ltd Lionel Tseng General Manager (Corporate Affairs) THE Hock Lock Siew column (BT, Oct 17) made several unfounded and negative assertions regarding our company, which regrettably were inaccurate and misleading. It is important that the record be set
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    • 301 5  -  PT ABC raises US$ 17m loan in S'pore By Kooi Cho Teng SINGAPORE Indonesian food producer PT Aneka Bina Cipta Central Food (PT ABC) plans to seek a listing on the Jakarta Stock Exchange. Managing director Kogan Mandala Chu, in town yesterday
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    • 357 5 Reuter SEOUL With a little Japanese help, top South Korean electronics firms are hoping to deprive compatriot Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of its comfortable monopoly over the country's growing laser disc player market. Analysts say the reluctance of
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    • 246 5 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd, emerging as a key promoter for China's rapidly developing telephone system, has signed a deal expanding its "one-stop shopping" concept to booming Guangdong province. The agreement, reached with the State Telecommunications Bureau of Guangdong, enables foreign firms to
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    • 343 5 Reuter, AFP SYDNEY Biscuit maker Arnotts Ltd has said the AsB.Bo-a-share takeover bid by major shareholder Campbell Soup Co is too low. "It does not reflect the substantial premiums paid in recent years for food companies by major international groups, nor does it reflect
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 59 5 TOKYO Japan's largest steelmaker, Nippon Steel Coip, will cut its senior directors' salaries by an average of 10 per cent from October because of slumping profits, a company spokesman said yesterday. Other top steelmakers have already announced similar moves, which will remain in
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      • 88 5 MANILA The Philippine government plans to privatise the state-owned oil refiner and retailer Petron, the country's largest corporation, by mid-1993, Finance Secretary Ramon del Rosario said yesterday. Petron is one of three oil refiners and retailers in the Philippines, competing with Caltex and Shell
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      • 79 5 HONGKONG Hutchison Telecommunications' British operations suffered a loss of £10.8 million (Ss2B million) in the year ended Dec 31, 1991, the South China Morning Post has reported. The loss was revealed in a statutory disclosure for British companies which the Post said it obtained from Companies
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      • 61 5 SEOUL Dozens of makers of disposable wooden chopsticks have gone bankrupt because of a campaign to cut garbage to protect the environment, industry officials said yesterday. About 150 wooden chopstick companies, mostly small firms, had gone bankrupt this year as restaunpts switched to steel chopsticks, said
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    • 349 5 AFP SYDNEY China will operate two kinds of stock market after it recovers sovereignty over Hongkong in 1997, the visiting deputy chairman of the Shenzhen stock exchange said yesterday. "Hongkong is Hongkong," said Wang Jian, who is attending an Asia-Pacific business and investment
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    • 506 6 Companies that depend on European sales are reporting smaller profits NYT NEW YORK As European currencies churned and heads of state squabbled a few weeks ago, the United States calmly stood back, an ocean away from the turmoil. For America's largest
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    • 333 6 40-80pc of firms on verge of going bust: study IHT LONDON Some 40 to 80 per cent of the companies that make up the economies of Eastern Europe are on the verge of bankruptcy, according to a report released yesterday by a London-based institute.
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    • 400 6 Reuter KUWAIT Trading on Kuwait's stock exchange is expected to build up in coming months as confidence returns to an economy pounded by Iraq's invasion two years ago, the exchange's directorgeneral said last Sunday. "You can expect about a 20 per cent
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 68 6 PARIS French business tycoon Bernard Tapie has challenged Britain's Pentland Group pic to disclose publicly why it allied off the planned purchase of Adidas AG or face legal action. Mr Tapie, whose Bernard Tapie Finance holding indirectly owns the German sportswear firm, told
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      • 72 6 LONDON Sweden's Ikea, the cut-price furniture retailer, is expected to announce a bid for the Habitat store chain from Storehouse pic for about £55 million (S$ 148.5 million), newspapers said on Sunday. Storehouse, which also owns Mothercare and BhS, was not available for comment.
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      • 76 6 JOHANNESBURG Embattled major gold producer Rand Mines posted its second consecutive quarterly loss on Sunday, but restructuring and a government bailout should help the group recover. Rand Mines' four mines recorded an after-tax loss of 6.5 million rand (553.6 million) for the quarter ended
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      • 79 6 ISTANBUL Singer Co NV, the leading US manufacturer and marketer of sewing machines, is the front runner for the majority stake in Polly Peck International's Turkish electronics and durables making company Vestel, say industry sources. Administrator Coopers Lybrand is expected to sell the 51 per
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      • 65 6 BONN Thyssen Stahl AG, the steel unit of German steel and engineering firm Thyssen AG, has said weak orders will force it to sharply reduce production in the fourth quarter of this year. It said yesterday that reduced production would take place by shutting
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      • 63 6 LONDON Mirror Group Newspapers pic (MGN) said in a statement yesterday that it had reached agreement which could result in it disposing of part of its interest in Donohue Inc, a quoted Canadian forest products group. MGN currently has a 49 per cent shareholding
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 499 7 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Foreign banks are gearing up to arrange syndicated loans to Malaysia as it presses ahead with development and expansion projects, bankers said yesterday. An order from Malaysia Airlines System (MAS) for more than 50 aircraft and plans by state
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    • 590 7  -  THE S^^^NOL By Quak Hiang Whai The Sang Kancil weekly column tracks the profit/loss of a US$5O,OOO live account set up by futures house Refco. Relying on both technicals and fundamentals, the account will trade in currency, interest rate, commodity and stock index futures. SANG
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    • 229 7 SINGAPORE American banking major Chase Manhattan Corporation has reported a 62 per cent surge in the third quarter operating income of its Asia-Pacific operations. The bank's Singaporebased vice-president and country manager, Michael Barrett, said in a statement that the growth was impressive
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 67 7 LONDON The UK government is likely to recommend that the Bank of England become more aggressive and adversarial in its supervision of banks, the Financial Times newspaper said. The Financial Times said the recommendation is likely to come after Lord Justice Bingham's report on the
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      • 84 7 FRENCH Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy's project to raise up to 50 billion francs (S$ 16.1 billion) in fresh capital for French companies by instigating a stock market savings plan has got off to a weak start, victim of a bearish mood on the bourse
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      • 65 7 SYDNEY Bank of Tokyo Ltd chairman Toyoo Gyohten said he expects non-performing loans of Japanese banks to have doubled in the six months to Sep 30 from the six months to March 31. He said that in the March half year, Japanese banks reported
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      • 64 7 BOSTON Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady on Sunday said he will "strongly recommend" that President George Bush sign a housing bill containing some regulatory relief for banks. The bill would provide regulatory relaxation to make it easier for banks to extend credit to victims
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  • THE REGION
    • 383 9  -  From Al Labita in MANILA ASEAN senior officials yesterday postponed to next month the 2nd Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) council meeting set for tomorrow, raising fears of a possible delay in Afta's implementation. Philippine Trade and Industry Secretary Rizalino Navarro said the
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    • 516 9 Fresh incentives in pipeline after recent finds Reuter MANILA The Philippines, buoyed by recent oil discoveries, plans fresh incentives for oil companies to boost its chances in the global chase for oil exploration money. "We already have the best fiscal regime in South-east
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 52 9 MANILA A US$67 million (SS 107.6 million) submarine fibre optic link between Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines was inaugurated here yesterday, bringing an Asean cable network system closer to reality. The link will be a part of the US$32O million Asean optical fibre submarine
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      • 60 9 MANILA Philippine President Fidel Ramos yesterday dismissed reports that the armed forces and police went on alert over the weekend because of a coup scare. He said troop movements which apparently triggered coup rumours were part of preparations for a forthcoming annual military exercise with the
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      • 63 9 CANBERRA A fourth successive quarterly fall in the number of personal bankruptcies suggests that Australia is recovering from recession, Justice Minister Michael Tate said yesterday. In a statement, he reported that there were 3,770 people declared bankruptcy in the third quarter of the year. This was
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      • 63 9 JAKARTA Indonesia increased slightly the selling price of its crude oil for October delivery in anticipation of winter demands in the northern hemisphere, Mines and Energy Minister Ginanjar Kartasasmita said yesterday. He said that the price of Minas, Indonesia's benchmark crude, had been fixed at U5519.73
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      • 65 9 TOKYO East Asia needs a powerful voice to counteract protectionist trade blocs being formed by North America and Europe, visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. "The fact is, whether we form the EAEC (East Asian Economic Caucus) or not, Europe and America have opted
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    • 386 9 AFP HANOI Nearly a year after signing the Cambodian peace accords, Hanoi is watching with unease as antiVietnamese sentiment gains ground amid lingering instability in the country it occupied for a decade. The presence of 22,000 soldiers of the UN Transitional Authority on
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    • 302 9 Reuter HANOI Vietnam has repeated its claim to the Spratlys following Taiwan's assertion that it has the right to patrol around one of the disputed islands, an official newspaper said yesterday. "A spokesman for the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry reaffirmed Vietnam's sovereignty over
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 97 11 COPENHAGEN A slim majority of Danes would support European union in a new referendum if Denmark were given a special status, according to an opinion poll published last Saturday. The poll, published in the conservative JyllandsPosten daily, showed that 55 per cent would vote "yes"
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      • 65 11 ATLANTA, Georgia American students increased their use of cigarettes and drugs in the 1991-92 school year, the first increase in four years, according to a survey due yesterday. The annual survey by Parents Resource Institute for Drug Education questioned 212,802 junior high and high school
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      • 72 11 AMMAN Israel's Arab neighbours agreed on Sunday to attend the next round of Middle East talks in Washington this ■week as Syria reassured the Palestinians it would avoid striking a separate peace deal with Israel. In a statement ending a two-day meeting, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan
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      • 50 11 TOKYO Right-wing activists preparing their loudspeakerequipped campaign vans here for a demonstration. The Tokyo city assembly recently passed an ordinance curbing the pubiic use of loudspeakers, to ensure that there would be no unseemly send-ofT of Emperor Akihito when he leaves on his controversial visit to China.
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      • 83 11 NEW DELHI A bid to shame lovers out of New Delhi's public parks has triggered protests that the police are behaving like prudes and are out of step with the modern age. City police officers adamant on pursuing operation "Gean-The-Parks" are finding themselves up against women
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      • 46 11 SARAJEVO The last remaining mass-production bakery in Sarejevo was wrecked by Serb artillery fire on Sunday. Its deputy director said because the gunfire had smashed its flour mill, reserves of flour and dough would "run out in the next 24 hours".
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    • 454 11 AFP SYDNEY The emeigence of powerful economies in the Asia-Pacific region offers the chance of a breakthrough for humanity similar to the Industrial Revolution, according to media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. The "breakthrough", he told a conference here yesterday, was the chance to extend
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    • 229 11 AFP WASHINGTON Much of the developing world is making progress in birth control and family planning, but some developed nations are moving to limit reproductive choice. According to a study done by America's Population Crisis Committee, 57 of 95 developing countries made a significant improvement
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    • 286 11 AP BEIJING Taiwanese investment in mainland China is expected to total US$2.6 billion (about 554.2 billion) this year as larger companies follow the trail blazed by small businessmen. According to Sunday's edition of the China Daily, which quoted Lin Kun of the Trade Ministry's
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    • 186 11 Reuter BOMBAY India must virtually double electricity production over the next IS years or risk undermining its new economic and industrial policies, says a government minister. "The situation is quite bad," said Kalpanath Rai, the Minister of State for Power, at an
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    • 287 11 Reuter MEXICO CITY As a Democratic victory for the White House grows more likely, some Mexicans are worried that this could result in US pressure for political reforms. With the latest polls showing Bill Clinton could win by a landslide on Nov 3, some say
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  • 500 12 EDITORIAL AFTER THE smiles, the handshakes and the vows of unwavering loyalty to communism at the just-concluded 14th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the country's newly-anointed leaders now have the unenviable task of getting down to the nuts and bolts of converting their country's
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 282 12 PARTAKING of the arts is an intensely personal choice, having to do with taste, one's outlook on life and the cost relative to other pleasures and needs. As a vehicle for intrinsic enrichment, the arts by and large have not been customised for mass consumerism. Not
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    • 100 12 WITH or without Khmer Rouge, the process towards a free Cambodian election sometime in the middle of next year is now underway. The UN Security Council has fully endorsed an historical document to pave the way for this crucial event. All along, the Khmer Rouge has
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    • 125 12 THE majority of those who are below 16 are still schooling. Their thinking and emotions cannot be said to be mature yet. They are curious and easily influenced. It is for their own good and the good of society as a whole that they are not
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 164 12 WHEN China completes the 14th Party Congress, ifs leadership will have undergone its most massive overhaul in years, with promotions for younger lender and policies to push the economy further cbwn the road to growth. Yet the cornerstone of China's policy towards Hongkong appears to be almost
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    • 204 12 KELANG Container Terminal (KCT), one of the Malaysian government's first major privatisation efforts, is a success story, not only in terms of benefits to its owners but also to the country and the Malaysian public. Since its privatisation in March 1986, it has not only become the
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    • 137 12 THE gas leak at the Wembley Activated Clay Sdn Bhd factory in Parit Buntar, which forced hundreds of workers at a neighbouring garments factory to seek medical treatment at the district hospital, raises troubling questions about the imbalance between economic growth and improving occupational safety
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  • 1015 12  -  Neville Stack warns that last week's massive pit closures in Britain may cost the government dearly Neville Stack The writer is a UK-based journalist who contributed this comment to BT FROM the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Britain's coal miners have always played a leading if sometimes obstreperous
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1160 13  -  With the close of the 14th Communist Party Congress, Nicholas Kristof examines how close China has advanced towards capitalism Nicholas Kristof TO LISTEN to some Chinese, one of the best-kept secrets in the world is this: Here in the land of Mao, where red banners with propaganda
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    • 844 13  -  Catherine Ong reports from Beijing on the new line-up of the Chinese Communist Party's Standing Committee and Politburo Catherine Ong WHEN the provincial bosses of the so-called "three dongs" were wheeled out to meet the press during the 14th Communist Party congress last week, there was
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    • 592 14 M Nothing Beats ABud. B W"NO OF iL 1 J^mii^i^miS^L^ I |lTtft. A "Heavenly" Feast Scrumptious Sichuan cuisine. Rich piping hot steamboat. Delicate Yangzhou Dianxian. Mon Sat 11.30 am to 2.30pm Sun 10.30 am to 2.30pm Kings Havelock Road. Singapore 0316. Tel: 733 0011 A *f MK« Of CIX MOT
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    • 236 14 WHERE TO WINE, DINE The World On A Platter. (1 31 October 1992) And at your fingertips, during our International Buffet it the Cafe Plaza. Fast on the world's best cuisines French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese and Indian, just to mention a few. j And all at down to earth prices.
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    • 292 14 WE'VE JUST BRED A NEW WINNER at The Stables The Businessmen's Derby Lunch A delectable choice of appetisers and soup. followed closely by your pick from five delightful main dishes md a selection of desserts. Finish mi ■>» ri tm ii. with coffee or tea. Only $28.00+ UISEg/mr 555 Orchard
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    • 690 14 TELEVISION AND RADIO Frirrlif for*** ***** 4JO SSHVXr BUStNESS fvao A 1 lglll i«IC 725 Z iszSET" by S'E£ZZ m "JFZL+ W t oo The Rich Tradition The Slo- of Coffin, Arizona. (Cartoon). rS? H^^HT vaks Czechoslovakia. Things are fine an un- 6.00 Rtftoml Newt (M). Business Report HMUI2AUfi3Hi g.30
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 1001 15  -  The times they are a-changin', but Bob Dylan still pulled in the crowds at Friday's tribute to the singer in New York. Jon Pareles reviews Bobfest Jon Pareles NYT IT LOOKED like a benefit concert, kin to Live Aid or Farm Aid. For nearly four
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    • 450 15 ARNOLD Schwarzenegger has refused to forgive a U5522,000 (5535,200) debt from the widow of a man hired to install cinema equipment at the star's home. Schwarzenegger won a judgment against Janice Nfckereon for work her husband left undone after he died of a
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    • 40 15 PARIS A woman admiring a pant bronze cat on Saiay. The statue is one of 32 figwes displayed along the Champs Elysees by South American sculptor Fernando Botero. The exhibition will ran until January next year.
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    • 841 15  -  j Producing the singer's much-publicised book has spurred a small U£ publisher to think big, much to the envy of rivals, reports Eben Shapiro Eben Shapiro NYT COFFEE tables may never be the same. Madonna's spicy USSSO (S$80) opus, Sex, complete with a compact disc,
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY 1
    • 742 16  -  Helen Chang smacks her lips at Sisir's Food Technology Centre Helen Chang How GOOD does a Singa-pore-made chicken patty taste? Is that curry too hot for children? Does chocolate lose its flavour after it's been heated in the sun? These are questions
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    • 396 16  -  Tim Race visits a hospital where doctors walk around with computers in their lab coat pockets Tim Race NYT Stethoscope. Penlight. Palmtop computer. Thus armed, Dr Scott M Fishman is ready for his rounds at Greenwich Hospital. Dispensing with clipboards and many of the traditional
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 72 16 Check your cholesterol level yourself at home SINGAPORE Inchcape Parrish, part of the Inchcape group, is marketing a self-test kit on cholesterol for the health-conscious generation. Launched over the weekend at the opening of NTUC Pharmacy in Gementi, the AccuMeter was introduced in the US last year. It was developed
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      • 88 16 SINGAPORE MiniStor, formed two years ago to make miniature 1.8-inch disk drives here, has made more changes at the top management level. John Flavio comes on board as its chief financial officer and David Bultman as vice-president of engineering. Mr Flavio has management experience from a
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      • 82 16 SINGAPORE Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) of California this month promoted John Staedke to president and chief executive officer. He joined HDS a year ago as its executive vice-president of marketing. Mr Staedke spent 14 years at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), most recently as director of
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    • 553 17  -  Informatics is at a crossroads. Joseph Rajendran finds out what shape the exhibition may take from next year Joseph Rajendran INFORMATICS, the Republic's leading computer trade show for the past few years, ended at the weekend with a question mark over
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    • 354 17 AP THE US Department of Energy and three electronics companies have announced a US$25 million (Ss4o million) research pact aimed at making computer chips 10 times faster and with 1,000 times more memory than those currently available. The four-year
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    • 554 17 AP AMERICA must embrace the new knowledge revolution or be relegated to the economic dustbin, futurist Alvin Toffler warned Silicon Valley business and community leaders in Santa Clara, California, last week. Politicians and economists should look at Silicon Valley, considered the cradle
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    • 181 16 Tj~ I As you can see we have been taking our Hlnwoauctng Italian lessons very seriously Under the Louis' guiding hand of Master Chef Salvatore Carecci we have been acquainting ourselves with Qistorantc. some true Italian masterpieces such as The best I reason Vlwr anoffw wnpenp "wswrpece »w foeey t
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  • SPORTS
    • SIDE LINES
      • 103 18 READING, England England's Jimmy White brushed aside Welsh veteran Gifif Wilson 5-2 here on Sunday to reach the last 16 of the snooker Grand Prix tournament. White, who was accompanied by his 12-year-old daughter Lauren, needed only 88 minutes to
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      • 93 18 TILBURG, Netherlands British No. 6 seed Nigel Short was knocked out of the Interpolis chess tournament on Sunday. His conqueror, Ilia Smirin of Israel, won the second match of the fourth round. Short had needed tiebreak matches in his two previous rounds to get past
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      • 43 18 FILDERSTADT, Germany Martina Navratilova celebrated her 36th birthday in style on Sunday by beating Argentina's Gabriela Sabatini 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 to win the women's U*****,000 (*****,000) tournament here. It was the top seed's sixth title in nine appearances here.
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      • 66 18 TRENTON, New Jersey Heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield turned 30 yesterday and dropped hints on what gift he's got his eye on a nice Ferrari. "I thought about getting a Ferrari, but I thought about it and I decided I won't. I'll just let somebody else
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      • 63 18 MAGNY COURS, France Mauro Baldo and Philippe Alliot won the final sport scar race of the season here on Sunday as Peugeot, who dominated the season, pulled off a double. The Italian-French duo completed the 118-lap course in two hours, 44 minutes and 19.617
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    • 281 18 AFP LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida John Huston, three shots adrift with six holes to play, came up with a 10-under-par 62 on Sunday to win the Disney Golf Classic, with a 26-under total of 262. The total was the best four-day aggregate on
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    • 370 18 Winning team beats Scotland after defeating US AFP ST ANDREWS, Scotland England beat Scotland for the fifth time in succession to lift the Alfred Dunhill Cup for the second time on Sunday. A 2-0 in the final worth £100,000 (*****,000) a man
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    • 646 18 BELGRADE After their monumental struggle in the previous game, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky shadowboxed to an early draw last Sunday in Game 22 of their exhibition chess match here. The score remains: Fischer 8, Spassky 4. If Fischer should win
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    • 426 18 URA SALE OF SITES FOR IHBAN A|l| REDEVELOPMENT INDUSTRIAL TOWARDS A TROPICAL CITY OF EXCELLENCE DEVELOPMENT j Future Second Link X To West Malaysia m X/ j J V* KAKI CHANGI Bl X BUKIT# AIRPORT tuaslXx /X XX X X JURONG n I A INDUSTRIE —'I VV I y \X
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 3964 19  -  By Lilian Ang MEMORIES of October 1987's Black Monday crash failed to dampen spirits yesterday, although Singapore blue chips encountered some light selling by foreign investors. One broker said the market performed well considering that it was the anniversary of the global
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      73 19  -  -By Quak Hiang Whai GOLDEN PLUS surged 12 cents yesterday, breaking past resistance at $1.30. The stock could bead for $1.50 or even $1.60. But its sharp climb in recent days also sent all shortterm indicators well into the highly overbought region. Daily RSI and stochastics are near
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    • 1009 21 BUSINESS TIMES Toil-free Tel No; 737-0043 Fax No; 734 3898 M THE MATTER OF THE COMPAMES ACT, CAR. 90 AND M THE MATTER OF COOPER FLOW CONTROL (3MQAPORE) PTE LTD QN MTMRFRS-VOLUNTARY UOUDATION) FMAL MEETMQ NOTICE is hereby given. in pursuance of Section 308 ol Company Act. Cap 50. thai
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 209 22 <**■»■■> Date Ymr Grw* N«t Net Mrategt Cms mm te pr«IK/lMS (L) pm star* jKMni ('HO) (cwrts) Sime Derby Oct 13 )un 92 M1335,500(M1310,300) 22 6(199) 36u(31) Smw Spore Oct 13 Jun 92 142.327(133,426) 4.7(4.6) 14(14) PQ Oct 12 Jun 92 19,024 ($3,245) 6.1(2.3) 7(—) Khong Guan Oct
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    • 233 22 Ciw)-y Date Year Snap pra-tu Nat Crau aaa to praM/lass (L) pw tkin AMarf ('NO) (caats) RMCA Re Oct 16 Jun 92 »2,267l($56.216l) Tongtuh Oct 12 Jun 92 M$4,811L(M$2.551L) tonal Steel Sep 30 Jun 92 M$134,025(M$143,495) 16.4(13) 12(10) Antah Sep 30 Jun 92 M$25,132(M$37,468) 6.4(11.9) 6Tt(6) Bedford Sep
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    • 234 22 €>■»—y Date Haif-yaar Croup pre-tax Marfan aaa to pratt/lass (L) dhridand COM) Uraptone Tel Oct 15 Jul 92 Cheung Ka* Oct 13 Jun 92 HW2.896d(HK$2.296d) 40(34) Innovest Oct 13 Jun 92 «14,475L(I»102) Causeway In* Oct 13 Jun 92 $602(S784> Dairy Farm Oct 12 Jun 92 US$82.8r(US$78.6r) 29.6(27) George
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    • 222 22 Oct 16 Samta Investment Pte Ltd, a substantial shareholder of Apolo Eatoprins Ltd, bought 213,000 Apollo shares for $362,100 on Oct 14, raising its stake to 14.2 million shares or 20.77 per cent from 13.9 million shares or 20.45 per cent. Oct 15 Textile and garment maker Heshe
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    • 916 22 Canal Ex Mi Date TiWhr Trial tor HWl fete dm payable tea y—r last y—r MOB 50c 3.51(b) Sep 10 Sep 24 Oct 23 3.5% 3 5* Mhrd 50c 1% Nov 2 Nov 16 Dec 7 2% 0MT $10 100% Nov 12 Nov 24 Nov 26 140 9%
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    • 385 22 Company IttiMf Udn Hep* One-tor-so MSI SO per share b-date V< 27 Books-dose: Sep 10 Acceptance Payment Oct 22 IMS 0ne4or-one MS5 00 per share Ei-date Sep 7 Books dose Sep 21 Acceptance 4 Payment Woo 2 OC8C One-tor-five S3 00 per local share Onetorhw g S4 19
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    • 271 22 Conversion Special Trdg Scripieas CoorcrsioB deadline Period Trading Company starts (IDP) (ST) starts Alex Hldgs Sep 28 Oct 22 Oct 12 Oct 22 Oct 23 Bomrsts Nov 9 Dec 3 Nov 23 Dec 3 Dec 4 Cereboa Oct 16 Nov 12 Nov 2 Nov 12 Nov 13 Chemical
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    • 306 22 la local am la S$ la US$ dy yr 4y yr dy yr Oct 16 ladex dhge chge ehge cfcy cfcjt Work) 373.9 -0-2 -8.4 -0.7 -9.5 -0.6 -8.6 pEAFE 439.4 -0.3 -115 -1.0 -13.1 -0.9 -12.2 Europe 394.4 0.5 -4.1 -1.4 -8.5 -1.4 -7.6
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  • 593 22 Relative Strength Index: This indicator measures the rate at which prices move up or down, and theoretically ranges between zero and 100. In practice, it normally fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 5466 23 Bernama SHARE PRICES ended steadier in active trading yesterday with investors' sentiment buoyed by anticipation of continuing strong fundamentals of the Malaysian economy. The KLSE Composite Index rose to an intra-day high of 613.03, one of the highest for some time now, before ending the
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  • CHINA STOCK EXCHANGES
    • 415 24 CLSA THE SEEMINGLY satisfactory outcome of the 14th communist party congress, which includes the officially endorsed goal of pursuing a "socialist market economy", faifrt to boost market sentiments in China yesterday. 'Investors are waiting for more tangible factors, such as the actual
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  • JAKARTA STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 954 24 JAKARTA SHARES, which have risen eight consecutive days, finished firmer yesterday and some brokers said foreign interest is picking up. The Jakarta Composite Index put on 0.40 point at 306.72. "People are chasing good stocks. Foreign buying was strong," one foreign house broker
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND
    • 2118 24 Reuter INVESTORS bought small, little-known stocks in a dull Bangkok market yesterday which saw most sidelined by lack of major players and fresh factors, brokers said. *ft!e SET Index dropped 3.24 points to close at 868.34 on slight turnover of
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2598 25 Reuter STOCKS fell sharply and the Nikkei slumped 466 points or 2.68 per cent to 16,903.81, ending below 17,000 for the first time since Aug 26. With investors sidelined by the lack incentives, smalllot selling and programs tied to weak futures drove stocks lower, brokers
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2496 25 Reuter SHARE PRICES yesterday shot up in late trading on a wave of overseas buying which brokers attributed to renewed confidence in the long-term economic prospects for China and Hongkong. The Hang Seng Index ended up 104.58 points at 6,089.91. The broader-based •All Ordinaries Index
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  • AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2033 26 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN share market closed just off its opening level yesterday, after dipping briefly below a key support level before noon. "We saw a rally halfway through the day, which we really needed... some people were starting to get nervous,"
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Seoul stocks soar as political climate improves
      • 821 26 SEOUL STOCKS ended sharply higher yesterday on across-the-board buying sparked by anticipation the recent political instability had peaked, brokers said. The Composite Stock Index climbed 13.25 points to 539.70. "As jitters about political uncertain- ty faded after Saturday's news that Park Tae Joon will not join a new political
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      • 496 26 STOCKS reversed early gains to finish slightly lower yesterday as many investors stayed sidelined, waiting for fresh news to stimulate the market, brokers said. The Weighted Index, which opened more than 20 points up, ended at 3,734.51, 14.81 points lower. Turnover was NTS 13.71 billion. Brokers said sentiment was
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      • 555 26 THE MANILA Composite Index fell 13.50 points yesterday to close at 1,357.61. Brokers attributed the loss to long power outages throughout the capital, which eroded investor sentiment. The Philippines suffers from chronic power shortages and analysts say the current spate of blackouts is a grim sign for the coming
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      • 302 26 ON THE EVE of the anniversary of the 1987 share market crash, the New Zealand share market closed at a 13-month low. The NZSE-40 Capital Index fell as low as 1,357.71 before recovering to a 1,365.36 finish, down 8.59 points. It was last so low on Sep 24,
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      • 73 26 STOCK PRICES recorded modes! gains yesterday thanks to revival of sup port from financial institutions. The National Index rose by 12.85 points to 1,362.28 but Delhi closed 1.11 lower at 696.58. Brokers said Delhi opened weak and fell to 682 before spurting suddenly towards the close. In Bombay, where
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      • 51 26 INDICES TURNOVER CIhc Oct 19 Piirt— +A NEW ZEALAND NZSE-40 Capital 1,365.36 1,373.95 -8.59 MANILA Composite Index Turnover (mil peaos) 1,357.61 100 1,371.11 116 -13.50 -16 TAIPEI Weighted Price Index Turnover (NTS billion) 3,734.51 13.71 3,749.32 18.8 -14.81 -5.09 SEOUL Composite Stock Index Turnover (billion won) 539.70. unav 526.45 unav
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1219 27 REPORTS STERLING continued to fall in early trading in Europe yesterday under the effect of the one-point cut in British interest rates and a political crisis caused by the closure of more than half of Britain's coal pits. But sterling
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    • 381 27 IHT PARIS A high level of new-issue activity is expected to be sustained in the deutschemark sector of the international capital market this week, with Britain widely rumoured to be planning to float five billion marks (555.4 billion) worth of bonds. Britain needs
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    • 1500 27 SIMEX EUtOOOLLAI Open High Low Sett Est Vol Act/Vol Op/Int Dec 92 96.62 96.63 96.55 96.56 6500 8973 ***** Mar 93 96.58 96.59 96.50 96.51 8300 9918 ***** Jun 93 96.21 96.21 96.11 96.12 4500 4331 ***** Sep 93 95.74 95.74 95.66 95.67 2000 1752 4039 Dec 93
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    • 421 27 iCross rates Oct 19 US$ SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZ$ USS 1.6060 2.5040 1.4820 119.90 0.6116 1.3190 1.3908 1.8484 SS 0.6227 1.5592 0.9228 74.6575 0.3808 0.8213 0.8660 1.1510 MS 0.3994 0.64 0.5919 47.8834 0.2443 0.5268 0.5554 0.7382 Dm 0.6748 1.0837 1.6896 80.90 0.4127 0.8900 0.9385
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    • 537 27 Interbank rates SS Bid Offer Overnight I 1/2 1 5/8 1-month 11/2 1 5/8 2-month 1 1/2 I 5/8 '3-month 19/16 111/16 Overnight mode: 1-1/2 US$ Bid Offer 7 days 3 1/4 3 3/8 1 month 3 1/4 3 3/8 2 months 3 1/4 3 3/8 3 months
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 369 28 AP MANAMA, Bahrain Saudi Arabia, already the world's largest oil exporter, is set to tap what promises to be a major new oil field in a region bordering the United Arab Emirates, oil executives and a Gulf newspaper said last Saturday.
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    • 270 28 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian cocoa producers have protested against plans by processors to import cocoa beans to supplement this year's small crop. "We don't see any motive for importing cocoa. It threatens the regional economy," said Ronaldo Monteiro, president of the
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    • 755 28 REPORTS THE TIN PRICE on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market yesterday weakened to a five-and-a-half-month low. It ended at M$ 14.59 per kg, down 10 sen from last Friday's close, on lack of interest and continued higher offerings. Dealers said the London Metal
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  • 1484 28 Rubber MS CiwiJIty Mgp (trtrw dmktg at at IpaQ KSS 1 C—tract (S cents/kg) Oose Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Nov 92 144.50 144.00 144.00 400 900 Dec 142.75 142.75 143.00 50 3,150 Jan 93 142.75 142.50 142.75 800 4,250 Feb 142.25 141.75 142.25 400 4,750
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 656 29  -  LETTER FROM GHATIBHANGA By Anis Ahmed SHAHER Banu spends her days searching for pearls, sifting through the piles of oyster shells her family collects from the sea. Banu's family, and hundreds of others on the island of Ghatibhanga, 30 km from the Cox's Bazar resort town,
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    • 151 29 As at 10am yesterday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.1499 1.1660 Canadian dollar 1.2770 1.3028 NZ dollar 0.8392 0.8770 Sterling pound 2.6113 2.6480 US dollar 1.6020 1.6100 Local dollars to 100 Hits of foreign current-} Austrian schilling 13.32
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    • 67 29 Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Nov 11-22 Geneva Fair Geneva Societe 002/*****83 Nov 24-29 International Birmingham The Building 44-71/*****73 40th Ideal Home Sexploitation Building and Trade Exhibition Exhibition du Salon des Construction Arts Menagers Exhibition Nov 14-23 India New Delhi. Trade Fair
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    • 163 29 Singapore Outlook: Showers over several areas in the morning. Report Maximum temperature 29.9 Assoc humidity 74% Minimum temperature 24.4 Assoc humidity 92% Hours of sunshine 5.35 Rainfall in mm nil Rainfall this month 131.5 Rainy days this month 10 World report Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cood. Auckland 17/07 Clear Bangkok 29/22 Cloudy
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  • 461 30  -  Investors should also try to step up commitments in the region From Florence Chong in SYDNEY A SINGAPOREAN merchant banker yesterday told Australians that they have to regain the respect of Asia, if Australia is to be part of Asia.
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  • 179 30 AFP TAIPEI Citing difficulty in predicting policies in China, Taiwan has given up the proposed formation of the "Great China Economic Community", the influential United Daily News quoted Cheng Ming-chang of the Cabinet-level Mainland Affairs Council as saying at a weekend seminar. The government
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  • 497 30  -  From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG ON THE EVE of Hongkong Governor Chris Patten's first official visit to China, seen as a "tough" trip for him, the Hongkong stock market continued to surge ahead, ending 104.58 points higher at
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  • 908 30  -  The Bottom Line SN VASUKI SN VASUKI The writer is a BT correspondent PHILIPPINE Finance Secretary Ramon del Rosario wistfully recalls that when he was based in Bangkok during the late sixties, his country was looked upon as a "model" for development by other Asean
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  • 327 30  -  From Harish Mehta in HANOI SINGAPORE Foreign Minister Wong Kan Seng and his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Manh Cam, yesterday held wide-ranging talks on expanding bilateral links and touched upon subjects such as Singapore's Indochina Assistance Fund and Vietnam's role in Asean. Mr Wong is
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    • 418 31  -  Shipowners, managers and academics among the 28 selected By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Disputes arising from the bunker trade can now be more easily resolved with the appointment of 28 arbitrators under the new Singapore Bunkering Procedures (SBP). The arbitrators form a pool from which
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    • 135 31 UPI BONN The justice authorities said last Sunday they were investigating claims that German firms were servicing ships from Serbia and Montenegro in violation of a United Nations embargo. Ard-German television claimed in its monitor programme that German firms had serviced about 40 ships
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    • 313 31  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Local carrier Pacific International Lines (PIL) has purchased reefer equipment worth U*****,000 (SSL 14 million) from Sea Cold Technologies in Singapore. Anthony Chan, PlL's deputy general manager of logistics, told BT the purchase was part of PlL's long-term
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    • 280 31 AFP ABU DHABI The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Arab League called on Sunday for a peaceful solution to the UAE's dispute with Iran over three islands along the world's main oil shipping lanes, the WAM news agency said.
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    • 478 31 AFP ABU DHABI A major government-owned Gulf shipping firm said on Sunday it would launch a new cargo service to South Africa in a further sign of growing links between Johannesburg and the oil-rich region. United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), the biggest
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      • 105 32 JAKARTA The national flag carrier Garuda is to increase its daily flights to western Europe, a source of more than 35 per cent of the tourists who visit Indonesia, a press report said here yesterday. With stopovers in Bangkok, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, the
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      • 83 32 KUALA LUMPUR Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik said last Sunday Malaysia was willing to buy radar equipment immediately from anyone to help restore normal flight operations at the fire-damaged Kuala Lumpur International Airport.. Mr Ling told reporters the government was prepared to make the
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      • 70 32 NEW DELHI Thousands of passengers were reported stranded across India last Sunday as flights of Indian Airlines, the country's main domestic carrier, remained disrupted because of a pilots' go-slow strike. An airline spokesman said the state-owned carrier had to cancel several flights last Sunday, including one
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      • 52 32 NEW' YORK The passenger ship Queen Elizabeth 2 arrived in the fog and haze in New York last Friday after making a five-Ay transatlantic crossing form Southampton, England. The arrival was the first in the US following repairs from damage sustained off Martha's Vineyard on
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      • 77 32 ISLAMABAD Pakistan has begun shipment of 25,000 tonnes of oil donated by Saudi Arabia to war-ravaged Afghanistan, the official APP news agency said on Sunday. Afghanistan is preparing for the long winter after much of Kabul and its infrastructure were destroyed by bloody fighting between
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    • 1293 32  -  Six months after American Airlines chairman Robert Crandall instituted a four-tier fare structure, the US airline industry continues to lose money. Edwin McDowell examines the reasons Edwin McDowell NYT AFTER vigorously defending the simplified fare structure he announced in April, Robert Crandall, the chairman of American
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    • 10032 40 This is a list of ships leading 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. LEGENO PN: ship calls at Penang after
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    • 1478 45 Abex Express Freight Td: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Td: 542-7812: Fax: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Td: 545-8033. Fax: *****05. tTSSV Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Td: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express International Tel: 542-7666. Fax: *****74. *****50. Air Market Express
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    • 3557 46 ALBANIA Dunes: Six vessels in port. ARGENTINA Labour woriung normally. Bmwm Aim: Bathing situation normal, with no delay expected. Saa Lomzs Port fully occupied with 6 vessels operating, 4 waiting in roods; not more than 2 days berthing delay expected. Roaarioe Five vessels in port of which 1
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    • 553 46 arrivals departures Op Flight Type ETA T From Op Flight Type ETD T To TODAY today NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 1 NRT SIA SQ802 B747F 0230 2 SYD/AKL KAL KE697 B747F 0150 1 SEL NCA KZ204 B747F 0335 1 BKK/NRT JAL JL617 B747F 0345 1 TYO KAL
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    • 223 46 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Pep Name of \tmt\ ETA ETD Pott» of Calls Port Agt Telephone No OCTOBER 21 21 Fantasy World 1000 1900 Sin-Jakarta Lauw Sons 227-8284 25 23 Fantasy World 1000 2000 Sin-P Klang Lauw Sons 227-8284 26 27 Andaman Princess 1300 1800 Sin-Phuket Lines Infl
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      • 1496 47 HilAU'fl I'lliil 22 9* Way Ha 1 9# Way No nfcMe Arm 9285 00.00.92 0000 Japan Sen WF246 COO(EST) 19.1092 1500 Seatat 244ft 18.10.92 0735 B Raya 433 COO(EST) 19.10.92 2230 Tamtam Mi 934A 18.10.92 0910 B Scrota 893 COO(EST) 19.10.92 1500 Penang Br 27S 18.10.92 0920 Tanah
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    • 723 48 THE! DRY cargo freight market im Friday saw rates edged higher with sentiment still supported by expectations that the Russians will be looking for vessels to ship US grain in the near future. Key grain routes in the Baltic Freight Index (BFI) were all marked slightly higher, contributing
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    • 796 48 Oct 21 (1215-1430 hrs): Luncheon talk on Implementation of GMDSS organised by Singapore National Shipping Association at WTC Gub. For further details, please contact SNSA at tel: 278-3464 or fax: 274-5079. Oct 23: Revision to the Uniform Customs Practice for Documentary Credits: ICC No 400. Talk organised by
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    • 385 50 AFP KABUL A blue and white Boeing 727-200 jet arrived at Kabul airport last Sunday morning, the first of three such new jets purchased for the national carrier, Ariana Afghan Airlines. The Boeing was bought from Air France for US$2.2 million (553.5 million)
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    • 372 50 Production halted to correct engine problem Reuter DETROIT Two days after launching its vaunted Lincoln Mark VIII luxury coupe, Ford Motor Co halted production last week to fix a defective part that could have caused the new all-aluminum engine to fail, the company said
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    • 411 50 Captain faces Soviet charges of violating international maritime law AP MOSCOW A Greenpeace ship seized by the Russian Coast Guard after it entered Russia's territorial waters in the Arctic was towed to a military port near Murmansk on Sunday, the environmental group said. The Solo
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    • 189 50 AFP JAKARTA A CN-235 aircraft of the domestic Merpati Nusantara Airlines, with 31 people on board, is still missing 18 hours after failing to land in Bandung, West Java. The Indonesian-assembled plane was on a commercial flight last Sunday from Semarang in central Java
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    • 586 50 Reuter SEATTLE Aircraft manufacturers Boeing Co said on Sunday it plans to begin testing an improved type of engine pin the part that investigators are focusing on for clues into what caused two Boeing 747 cargo jets to crash. Dutch investigators said
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    • 471 50 Reuter KHARG ISLAND, Iran Iran, which drove out foreign oil companies after its 1979 Islamic revolution, is welcoming some back to help reconstruct and develop its offshore oil and gas fields. Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) chief Mustafa Khoie said that
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