The Business Times, 11 November 1993

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  • 14 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA (P) 552/12/92 Thursday November 11 1993 75 C
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  • 2 am LATEST
    • 67 1 Reuter NEW YORK Wall Street stocks rose yesterday amid relief at the lack of any surprises in the Consumer Price Index report for October. The Dow Jones was up 15.37 points to 3,655.44 at Ipm EST. In the broad market, advancing issues led
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    • 52 1 Reuter NEW YORK Paramount Communications Inc yesterday said it signed an agreement to buy Macmillan Publishing Co for U*****.8 million (*****.9 million). Paramount said that to speed up the sale, Macmillan will enter into a pre-pack-aged reorganisation plan, which should be completed in about 90
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    • 59 1 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Commission yesterday resolved a long-running struggle over the share out of foreign policy power in the face of a threat to resign from EC External Political Relations Commissioner Hans van den Broek because of disagreements over control of more than
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  • 115 1 Stock narfcct indices Wednesday (hang* ST!I 2,***** +27.71 KLSE Composite 950 89 +13.23 Nikkei 18.121.71 -4 Hang Seng 9,325.44 +236.97 SET Index 1.347.62 +32.29 Jakarta Composite ...510.23 +2.17 CLSA China B 1.130.22 4 9 87 Aust All Ord 2,042 9 -7.9 FrSE 100 3,098.5 2.5 Wednesday Proioin Ipm
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  • 490 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Regional stocks yesterday regained some of the ground lost in the past week. But most observers expect trading to continue at a cautious pace as investors await developments in the Japanese and US markets. Much of
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  • 188 1 UPI, Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The North American Free Trade Agreement passed its first test on Tuesday in the House of Representatives, where it was approved 25-12 by the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Chairman Dan Rostenkowski praised his committee's swift approval of
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  • 271 1 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Shanghai wants a foreign company to operate part of its telecommunications network, potentially cracking the world's largest government telecommunications monopoly. Shanghai officials plan to set up a "pilot project" to take over operation of part of Shanghai's
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  • 390 1  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Apfin Investments Pte Ltd, an investment arm of the Singapore government, has taken a 5 per cent stake in Sistcm Transit Aliran Ringan Sdn Bhd (Star), the franchise holder for phase one of Kuala Lumpur's
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  • 359 1  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE Singapore will make its first foray into satellite broadcasting on Jan I, 1994, when transmission of locally produced news, current affairs and variety programmes will start via Indonesia's Palapa B2P satellite. Information and Arts Minister George Yco said
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    • 197 1 (■HvwBEiEEEBIBX&BfIBZBBEff'! The OSA trial Page 2 Government economist denies confirming flash estimate A government economist, Kelvin Quck. yesterday denied defence lawyers' suggestions that he had confirmed for Crosby Securities economist Raymond Foo that 4.6 per cent was the government's flash estimate for second-quarter 1992 GDP growth. Mr Quck said he
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    • 34 1 Law: Pa 29 Minority holders gain lethal weapon Photo by Yow Yun Woh It's thumbs up for the Singapore government's first attempt at an auction system for land sales. Full report on Page 2.
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    • 20 1 Hock Lock Siew: r* n foi Indon finance houses worff&vnolfwr look kV Poll names Gore winner of debate. Page 7
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    • 185 1 )riw Bottom Line: Back Pg j&jlemagogue in Yeltsin? i«3 u w t r K B JBm| MORE PARLIAMENT REPORTS, Page 2 Opt-in scheme to stay for future privatisations New body to regulate broadcasting Why analysts slip up on 2nd-quarter projections for economy, Pg 31 |WPij RljU? BRUNO MAGLI A rg
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  • YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT
    • 462 2 FIVE BILLS were passed yesterday: THE Immigration (Amendment) Bill gives the government new powers to deal with illegal immigrants and their employers. The Bill puts the onus of checking the validity of the foreign workers' papers squarely on those who employ or house them, and removes the difficulties
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    • 507 2 THE GOVERNMENT will continue to use the opt-in scheme for future privatisation exercises. Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan said yesterday. Replying to Cheng San GRC member Heng Chiang Meng who asked if future flotations of statutory boards will use the opt-out schcme
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    • 217 2  -  Reports by Anna Teo,Schutz Lee DEMAND for foreign workers has been strong this year, says Labour Minister Lee Boon Yang. Replying yesterday to Nominated MP Robert Chua, who had asked about foreign worker employment trends, Dr Lee said there had been a slight pick-up in
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    • 297 2 A NEW regulatory authority. Singapore Broadcasting Authority. will be set up when the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation is corporatised into separate television and radio companies in a few years' time. Among other things. SBA will determine the amount of public service broadcasts (PSBs)
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    • 235 2 CLASS A patients in government and restructured hospitals provide a check on the quality of the doctors and overall service. Trade Industry Minister S Dhanabalan said. Kicking ofT the debate on the White Paper on Affordable Health Care yesterday, Mr Dhanabalan. who chaired the
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 169 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling ELECTRICITY sales to the manufacturing industry surged in August compared to a year ago. Latest figures from the Public Utilities Board show that manufacturing sector consumed 668.8 million kilowatt hours (kwh) during that month, an increase of 14 per cent
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    • 195 2 LEADING process controls and systems manufacturer Fisher-Rosemount yesterday held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Si 7 million facility. The 100,000 sq ft facility is an expansion of its current 60,000 sq ft building in Pandan Crescent. Fisher-Rosemount is the result of a merger
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    • 345 2  -  By Sylvia Wong THE government's first attempt at an auction system for land sales was impressive yesterday as competitive bidding for four parcels of conservation shophouses netted $8.51 million for the state kitty. More than 700 people packed the Dynasty Hotel ballroom to
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    • 188 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi A HOTEL built on the site of the infamous former Hotel New World is scheduled to open in January. A spokesman for Chng Holdings, the hotel's owner, told BT recently that final touches were being put to the interior of the
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    • 433 2  -  The OSA trial Reports by Ramesh Divyanathan A GOVERNMENT economist yesterday denied defence lawyers' suggestions that he had confirmed for Crosby Securities economist Raymond Foo that 4.6 per cent was the government's flash estimate for second-quarter 1992 GDP growth. Kelvin Quek, a senior assistant
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    • 131 2 Oh trial: Five men who face 11 charges of breaching the Official Secrets Act by communicating and/or receiving the government's 4.6 percent flash estimate of second-quarter 1992 economic growth before it was officially released. The flash estimate was referred to in a BT report on June 29, 1992.
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    • 247 2 DEFENCE lawyer Michacl Khoo urged the court yesterday to send a secret memo for scientific tests to determine if an alteration had been made by the author. Mr Khoo suggested that the question of who had made the alteration the cancelling of
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  • THE REGION
    • 401 3  -  From Alan Boyd in BANGKOK TWO major glass producers have petitioned the Thai government to institute price fixing against foreign imports, following massive dumping by Indonesian producers. Thai Asahi and Siam Guardian both claimed in official complaints yesterday that the
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    • 363 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is on the verge of a consumer boom and those in the distribution sector, especially bumiputra entrepreneurs, have been advised to be ready for it. Economic adviser to the government Daim Zainuddin said yesterday the purchasing power
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 87 3 Reuter TAIPEI The Taiwan government has moved to make the island's flourishing but illicit cable television industry legal and break the ruling Nationalist Party's domination of the electronic media. The Government Information Office on Tuesday announced rules governing the creation of cable television stations
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      • 71 3 AFP TOKYO Ichiro Ozawa, co-leader of Shinseito (Renewal Party), one of Japan's seven ruling parties, may be summoned to Parliament to testify over a widening bribery scandal. News reports yesterday said the possibility grew following calls by ruling and opposition party lawmakers for Mr
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      • 112 3 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Chinese officials have UK press reports that Beijing planned to slap economic sanctions on UK firms if the Hongkong government were to go ahead with political reforms. The UK newspaper Observer Weekly Sunday had reported that China had drawn up a
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    • 216 3 AFP HANOI Vietnamese Communist Party chief Do Muoi yesterday called for widespread worker ownership of stock in their companies as a means to wipe out pervasive corruption and increase productivity. "We must apply the lesson of agriculture to industry," he said, referring
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    • 280 3  -  From Maggie Ford in JAKARTA AUTHORITIES in Java are bending to continued pressure from students and Muslims to ban the national lottery, which has been declared forbidden to Muslims by the Indonesian Ulemas Council, the senior religious body. Yesterday, hundreds of students gathered
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    • 233 3 Reuter HANOI Two Chinese companies have opened offices in Hanoi, adding commercial muscle to a relationship dominated by border trade and a shared communist ideology but also a history of conflict. Liaoning International Trade Corp, which deals in machinery, chemicals and construction materials,
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    • 247 3 AFP, Reuter JAKARTA Unemployment in Indonesia will increase in the coming years despite the government's pledge to expand economic growth. "The number of people entering the labour market will continue increasing at a faster rate than the opening of new employment opportunities," State
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    • 488 4  -  PM Goh's visit to S Korea Reports from Chuang Peck Ming in Seoul SINGAPORE and South Korea yesterday signed an accord to pool their resources and expertise to help Third World countries in their economic development. The signing of the memorandum of understanding to
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    • 496 4 SEOUL Efforts to get South Korean and Singaporean businesses to team up in thirdcountry projects should be given a permanent footing in a joint business council, if they are to bear fruit, said Kwek Leng Joo, president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of
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    • 418 4 Reuter BEIJING Speaking close to an important Communist party meeting, a senior Chinese official said major tax. finance and investment reforms will be launched next January and GNP growth will drop to 9-10 per cent in 1994. Yuan Mu, director of
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    • 216 4 AFP BEIJING China is drawing up a new programme aimed at wiping out poverty within seven years, after acknowledging that most funds dispersed in the past were squandered. A draft of the programme calls for seeking new sources of funding, including
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    • 183 4 NYT, Reuter, AFP BEIJING Signalling what would be a major policy shift on human rights, China has said it would give "positive consideration" to allowing the Red Cross to visit political prisoners. Foreign Minister Qian Qichcn, speaking on Tuesday to US journalists in advance
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    • 335 6 Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON Japan on Tuesday urged the US to scrap "Buy American" laws, saying such measures discriminate against foreign firms seeking US government contracts, the Kyodo news agency reported. Japanese trade negotiators raised the issue of foreign access to US government purchases as
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    • 221 6 Reutcr CANBERRA Australian investment is shifting to Asia as businesses discard a long tradition of putting their money into Europe and the United States, according to a study. Although Australia's exports have been slanted to Asia for years, more
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    • 281 6 Reuter WELLINGTON Conservative policies and monetarist Finance Minister Ruth Richardson are likely to be the first victims of Saturday's general election which left New Zealand with a hung parliament. Prime Minister Jim Bolger acknowledged yesterday that plans to deregulate the shipping
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    • 317 6 Knight-Ridder CANBERRA Australia's economic recovery is unlikely to pick up pace until next calendar year with possible "very weak" growth in the September quarter, according to Access Economics. "There arc growing signs that 1994 will see faster output growth
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  • THE WORLD
    • 461 7 Reuter BRUSSELS Alexandre Lamfalussy, chosen to guide the EC on the next leg of its journey to a single currency, said yesterday the bloc was unlikely to meet its 1997 target date but some countries could strike private deals. "That
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    • 289 7 AFP, Reuter WASHINGTON President Clinton has assured Defence Secretary Les Aspin of his support and neither Mr Aspin nor any other top Pentagon officials plan to resign, the Defence Department said on Tuesday. Pentagon spokesman Kathleen deLaski challenged published reports that Mr Ginton was unhappy
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    • 436 7 Reuter, AP WASHINGTON Both sides claimed victory, but a poll found that more viewers said Vice-President Al Gore was the winner in Tuesday's televised debate with Ross Perot over the North American Free Trade Agreement. An ABC television poll of 500
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    • 218 7 Reuter WASHINGTON A panel of Wall Street analysts predicted that a handful of companies will dominate the fast-con verging media industry 10 years from now. Smith Barney Shearson's John Reidy expects the list to include a combined Bell Atlantic Corp and Tele-Communica-tions, Time Warner
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    • 480 9  -  Fran John Helmer in MOSCOW WITH the release of candidate lists for seats in the Dec 12 parliamentary elections, Russia's new political parties have begun to take shape. The parties will run for 22S seats on a proportional representation system, with a minimum
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    • 278 9 Reuter QUEENSTOWN, Maryland The worldwide boom in converting state-run enterprises to private businesses is only halfway through with up to US$4OO billion (***** billion) more privatisations likely this decade. "By the year 2000, another US$3OO billion to US$4OO billion are expected, with France alone
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    • 250 9 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve Board is split with the Clinton administration over the issue of getting tough with foreign banks from countries that are inhospitable to American banks. Fed governor John LaWare told a House banking committee panel yesterday
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 515 11  -  By Joyce Quek SINGAPORE Boustead pic (Bplc), the London-listed subsidiary of Jack Chia-MPH, has agreed to sell its 65.4 per cent stake of 21.6 million shares in locally-listed Bousteadco Singapore (Bousteadco) to its parent for £12.8 million (5530.2 million). This works
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    • 538 11  -  By Agnes Chen SINGAPORE A booming mutual fund market in the United States and a shift in investment thinking in Japan could see more money flooding into Asian equities markets once the recent sharp correction blows over. This time round, the
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    • 530 11  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE At least two foreign financial institutions have revised upwards their earnings estimates for Singapore property companies. The moves represent higher-than-expected prices of recent residential property projects and an expected recovery in office rents. The Union Bank of Switzerland says the
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    • 693 11  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By William Chia SINGAPORE Investors who have been wary of the Indonesian banking sector are understandably even less enthusiastic about the prospects of the country's finance companies. The finance companies sector has suffered from the perception that most of the players
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    • 371 11  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Publiclylisted Nat Steel Ltd of Singapore and state-owned Thai Nguyen Integrated Steel Co (Tisco) are to start up a rolling mill in Vietnam by the end of next year. The plant, to be operated by a joint-venture
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    • Article, Illustration
      309 11 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's Index stocks Nov 10 Last Shw ImItx Slock sale Chfc factor amm (S) Avimo 1.760 1.24 CAC 7 950 0.150 5.59 7.92 CWT 2.650 0.010 1.86 0.53 Cerebos 6 800 4.78 FAN 15 500 0.600 10.89 31.66 GcnMac 1.030 -0.030 0.72 -1.58 Haw
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    • COMPANIES
      • 346 12 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Politically well-connected Diversified Resources Bhd (DRB) is riding high as it bags its latest deal to run a booming public transport service in and outside Malaysia's federal capital city, analysts say. "It is an upcoming stock and you
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      • 299 12 Bloomberg Business News AUCKLAND New Zealand paper and forest products concern Carter Holt Harvey Ltd said net profit in the first half ended Sep 30 rose 47 per cent from a year earlier to NZ5165.3 million (SSI4I million). Per
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 71 12 Reuter SINGAPORE Liang Court Holdings Ltd said it signed an in-principle agreement to take up an 80 per cent stake in Burton Engineering which recently announced it will develop a US$45 million (Ss72 million) hotel-cum-commercial project in Hanoi. Liang Court said it agreed
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        • 65 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Ipoh-based clay manufacturer Associated Kaolin Industries Bhd (AKI) is teaming up with Sandakan Turf Club (STC) to operate sweepstakes and lotto in Sabah. The two parties have signed a memorandum of understanding to set up the joint venture to undertake the
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        • 50 12 SINGAPORE Orchard Parade Holdings announced yesterday that it has successfully tendered for five parcels of land for residential development at Kew Drive, totalling about 10,800 sq m. Its bid of $24.46 million for the 99-year leasehold land was made through wholly-owned subsidiary Goldvine Pte Ltd.
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        • 110 12 SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines has clarified an article which appeared in yesterday's Business Times. The report SIA to buy 40pc stake in new Cambodian airline said that SIA would invest about US$lO million to help start the carrier Royal Air Cambodge (RAC). SIA yesterday said that although its
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      • 419 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Siagapara IMt Trad The Com merer I.M 1.64 The Savings Fund 1.46 1.53 S pore Prog Fund 0.6) 0.68 Spore See Fund 0 97 1.02 Spore Invc-a Fund 1.12 I.IS S pore Equity Fund 0.76 0.80 Asia Uait Trest Mai Invest Fund 2.11 2.22 Mai Prog Fund
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      • 428 13 Reuter SYDNEY News Corp Ltd said better performances by its film division and by associated companies were behind its 27 per cent rise in first-quarter net profit. The international media group reported a net profit of A 5246.0 million
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      • 423 13 Reuter HONGKONG Conglomerate Wharf Holdings is on a collision course with Hongkong Telecom in the colony's new cable television market, with little chance of the rivals forging a US-style mega-merger, analysts say. With both losing domestic monopolies in their respective fields
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      • 138 13 Reuter BANGKOK Ch Karnchang Co Ltd said it will lead talks by Thai investors to acquire Kumagai Gumi's 65 per cent stake in a dispute-plagued company franchised to build and operate Bangkok's second expressway. A Ch Karnchang official said her company had been
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      • 263 13 Reuter SHANGHAI Shenzhen Vanke, a cash-rich southern Chinese property developer, has taken a 5 per cent stake in a Shanghai-listed company in what is China's second stock market raid. An exchange spokesman confirmed that Vanke had acquired the 5 per cent stake in
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      • 220 13 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG A plan to merge Evergo International Holdings and its subsidiary Chinese Estates Holdings, two Hongkong real estate companies controlled by businessman Joseph Lau, got overwhelming support from their minority shareholders at meetings yesterday. Two earlier attempts by Evergo to
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 67 13 Reuter HONGKONG China's Shanghai Phoenix Bicycle is seeking the listing of 100 million *B' shares on the Shanghai Securities Exchange to raise 352 million yuan. The offer price of the foreigners-only stocks is set at 3.52 yuan a share, representing a price-earnings ratio of 7.18
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        • 66 13 AFP PARIS The Euro Disney amusement park reported a net annual consolidated loss of 5.34 billion French francs (551.44 billipn) yesterday, and trading in shares in the company was suspended on the stock exchange here. A year ago the company had reported a loss of
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        • 76 13 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong Land Co Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hongkong Land Holdings, is selling HKSSOO million (SSIO3 million) in eight-year bonds, said Karl Hurst, director of Jardine Fleming Co Ltd. The bonds are priced at HKSIOO with a 7.625 per cent quarterly
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        • 60 13 Reuter MANILA Metro Drug Distribution Inc, a subsidiary of Hongkong's First Pacific, has been incorporated in the Philippines with authorised capital stock of 500 million pesos (Ss2B million). The company will distribute drugs, personal care products, food and general merchandise of Metro Drug
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        • 70 13 Bloomberg Business News WICHITA, Kansas Pizza Hut Inc, the world's largest pizza chain, said it will gobble up the 173-store chain of D'Angelo Sandwich Shops spanning six New England states for an undisclosed amount. Pizza Hut. a unit of Pepsico Inc. will keep
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      • 140 12 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed Tonhow Industries yesterday announced that it plans to sell its present manufacturing facility in Eunos and relocate to a new plant in Senoko. The decision follows a review of current business operations by company directors, which showed that there is potential for growth
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 253 14  -  From Al Labita in MANILA JG Summit Holdings, the diversified flagship of FilipinoChinese tycoon John Gokongwei, plans a US$3OO million (*****.5 million) 10-year convertible bond issue. The float the biggest by a Philippine company this year will be underwritten by American merchant bank
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      • 488 14 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's finance ministry will allow financial institutions except banks to tap the stock market for funds in the first quarter of next year, a practice banned since May 1990 when the bear run began to bite. A ministry
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      • 262 14 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan will allow 74 credit cooperatives here to transform into commercial banks, marking a step towards greater financial liberalisation. Finance Ministry officials said yesterday. The Legislative Yuan (or parliament) on Tuesday finished the third reading of the Credit Cooperative Associaton
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      • 206 14 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia, a major natural rubber producer, has spelt out new conditions to bolster languishing prices of the commodity which it said buyers should adopt for a peaceful pact with producers. Malaysia wanted the intervention level of the International Natural Rubber
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      • Article, Illustration
        1505 14 Trade-»mthied index ivkvkued against Spore lop 14 iraJing panners Base year I9Bf US$/S$ forward rates Noon Nov 10 ss Btf Offirf 1-month ***** 1 5900 2-month 1.5877 1.5892 Vmonth 1.5871 1.5886 6-month 1.5856 1.5876 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES At at ltan on Nav 19: Singapore dollars to oae
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      • 118 14 THE USS/majors market did basically range trading yesterday except for the sterling where good buying in sterling for Deutschemark pushed the sterling rate up almost one cent before profit-taking ensued. Good selling interest of US$ from an offshore concern pushed the US$/S$ to its low
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      • 199 14 UPI LONDON The dollar traded in a narrow range against the German mark yesterday despite the release of worse-than-expec-ted key October US consumer price index data. The rise in inflation lent some support to the currency, as did the late afternoon news that Iraqi and Kuwaiti troops had exchanged
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      • 86 14 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was mixed in early trading here yesterday moving up against the German mark and down against the yen. At 9:45 am, the dollar was at 1.6945 German marks compared to 1.6925 marks at Tuesday's close and at 107.22 yen (108.05 yen.) Earlier in
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      • 211 14 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Lower inventories in the US halted a further price slide yesterday, brokers said. Traders who manage large pension and investment funds weren't yet willing to buy back contracts sold previously at higher levels, because they anticipate even
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1310 15 SJMEX REPORT Reuters SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar interest rate futures finished steady but in lacklustre trade yesterday. Traders were awaiting more data on inflation and the sale oj 10-year Treasury notes last night in the US. Prices were mostly rangebound with the outlook on near-term
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      • 602 15 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin TIN closed unchanged at MS 12.01 per kg after both buyers and sellers decided to close deals at the opening level yesterday. traders said. Lack of fundamental influence had restricted players from taking up positions, they said, adding that a fall
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 94 15 LONDON The Lead-Zinc-Cadmium Group of Eurometaux. the Brussels-based representative of the European non-ferrous metals industry, will meet Dec 10 to discuss progress on a European zinc production shutdown plan, a Eurometaux official said yesterday. The group last met on Nov 2. when it issued a
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        • 92 15 BANGKOK About 34 per cent of Thailand's 1993-94 (Oct-Sep) long-term contract raw export sugar has been sold so far at an average price of 11.52 US cents per pound, a government official said yesterday. The price is based on the level of New York No
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        • 141 15 BANGKOK The Thai government has set 490 baht per tonne as the preliminary price Thai sugar mills must pay sugar cane growers for their cane during the 1993-94 (Nov-Oct) season, an official said yesterday. The cane must have a commercial cane sugar content of
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        • 44 15 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's corn imports in the Jan-July period were 1,204,788 tonnes, compared with 982.837 tonnes a year earlier, according to the Statistics Department. Imports in July were 168.911 tonnes, compared with 138,979 in June and 134.214 in July 1992.
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    • 1643 15 wupocr Nov 10 ■AS Ci—»<ty Exdungi (futart* desleg at at lpa) ESS 1 C—tract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Dec 93 OOO OOO 130 25 0 Io25 Jan 94 132.00 132.00 131.50 625 4.075 Feb 0.00 0.00 132.50 0 5.025 Mar 0.00
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1272 18 -7.9 SHARES continued to drift lower yesterday as the market waited for cues to direction from overseas. The All Ordinaries index hit a low of 2.034.6 before closing 7.9 points down at 2.042.9 its seventh consecutive fall. Dealers believe an absence of overseas investors has left the market without
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      • 597 18 +27.8 Share prices closed up, recovering from a four-dav correction due to Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co's slight rise in New York, but brokers said the market would still continue to consolidate. Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co rose 25 US cents to USSSB overnight on Wall Street. The Manila
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      • 582 18 +18.97 Stocks finished higher across the board on a technical rebound after five straight days of falls but brokers said it was not clear that the market's slow downward consolidation had ended. The index spent most of the session moderately higher and ended 18.97 points up at 4.191.41. Turnover
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      • 443 18 -2.31 Stocks closed lower after a day of volatile movement as buying interest in financial counters. active in early trading, rapidly waned, brokers said. A finance ministry plan to allow some financial companies to raise capital in the stock market sparked a buying binge on financial counters, but the
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      • 279 18 -76.83 Shares plunged 3.7 per cent amid signs that some local institutions are reducing their exposure to the local market in the aftermath of an inconclusive national election, said Kevyn Rendell a broker with CS First Boston. Short-term bonds yields rose sharply yesterday in line with the dive
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      • 52 18 +25.63 Speculative buying pushed stock prices to close higher but slightly below the day's highs after they retreated on profit-taking, brokers said. The Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share index closed 25.63 points higher at a provisional 2,784.07. The 100-share national index closed at a provisional 1.338.40. up 11.81 from the
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      • 680 18 +2.5 THE FTSE 100 index shed an almost 19-point early afternoon gain to close just a couple of points firmer, with the market nervously eyeing the US share and debt market and contemplating the upcoming UK budget. The FrSE 100 closed 2.5 points firmer at 3.098.5. At 4:30 pm
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      • 143 18 -25.56 French shares ended lower after a turbulent session, dominated by Euro Disney woes, which saw prices tumble 1.21 percent in volume of some four billion francs. The CAC-40 index ended down 25.56. or 1.21 per cent, at 2.087.33. The approach of the Armistice Dav holiday today prompted a
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      • 141 18 -1.29 pc Shares ended the day sharply lower on a weaker crow n, higher debt market yields and disappointment over the low US CPI figure. Dealers said there were too few genuine investors in the market and the decline in the OMX-index was mainly due to arbitrage-re-Lated trade among
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      • 232 18 1.01 German stocks closed little changed as the decline in bond prices caused depression. traders said. The DAX index of 30 leading German stocks closed up 1.01 points at 2023.84. In post-bourse activity on the screen-traded IBIS system, the unofficial DAX indicator rose by almost four points to reach
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      • 86 18 -3.31 Dutch stocks closed lower as investors decided to sell shares, amid concern over today's third-quarter results for Royal Dutch, traders said. The EOE index of 24 leading Dutch stocks ended 3.31 points lower at 377.99. Decliners outnumbered advancers by 19 to four, while one stock closed unchanged. Volume
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      • 263 18 +6.37 Shares in engineering group Sulzer recovered from earlier lows to close at 770. still five francs below its previous close. Sulzer said yesterday it expected steady profits in 1993 but new orders would fall by 5 to 6 per cent. Bearers shares in temporary employment group Adia fell
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      • 246 18 -7 The financial rand continued to spoil South African equities in morning trade as its recent volatile performance impacted on volumes and its latest rally pressured rand prices of shares. Dealers said 1 stocks were finding some support at their lows, with gold shares holding up relatively well to
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      • 1148 18 Britannia Funds Siffhn* Cash BM Offer Mim Cap Oenowt <***** It *500 Mim Jcr*v Gilt OIDD 0 l<W2 Mim Ma* Income ****** *10*00 LS$ Cash Incomc Plu* Fund 10 )700 11 I MO PS Re*r\e Fund 5 2IOO 5 2100 Sterling Mail) Euro Performance 0 45*12 0 4< 1* Far
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      • 301 18 -5.87 Stocks fell in early trading yesterday as weakness among precious metal and transportation issues overcame gains in real estate, dealers said. The TSE 300 composite weakened 5.87 points to 4,245.52 on volume of 11.42 million shares valued at C 553.28 million. Advancing issues outpaced declines 158 to 132,
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      • 813 18 +5.59 The Dow Jones industrial average, was ahead 5.59 points to 3.645.66 at 1 lam EST yesterday. The New York Stock Exchange composite index was ahead 0.22 to 255.19, while Standard Poor's 500-stock index was up 0.59 to 460.92. Advances edged declines 822-776 among the 2.343 issues crossing
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      3020 19 Reuter HONGKONG Share prices closed sharply higher yesterday with the main index surging 2.61 per cent on a late round of overseas demand aimed at blue chips, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index climbed 236.97 points to 9.325.44. Turnover reached HKSS.B billion, more than double the level at middav.
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      439 19 BOTH the Shanghai and Shenzhen B markets were marginally better in moderate turnover yesterday. The CLSA Shanghai and Shenzhen B Indices were up 0.93 and 0.83 per cent respectively. Jinjiang Tower and Erfangji were particularly active. China Textile and First Pencil also saw their prices rise 3-4 per cent.
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      2460 19 Reuter lOKYO Stocks ended just a tad weaker after a roller oaster day, with the 225-share Nikkei average managing to fnish above psychological support at 18,000. It had slipped bilow the key level in both sessons. Remarks by Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii were behind the afternoon fall. Fujii said
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      1804 19 Reuter BANGKOK Finance and securities shares continued to surge while buying poured into the property sector in late trade, driving the index still higher yesterday, brokers said. The index closed at the day's high, soaring 32.29 points, or 2.45 per cent, to 1.347.62 on turnover of 14.83 billion baht.
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      1106 19 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed higher in moderate late trading yesterday, with interest high on Astra International and bank shares, brokers said. The composite index ended at 510.23. a gain of 2.17 points. k Astra International foreign rose 4(K) rupiah to 20.000 in active trade. Brokers said this level
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    • 2555 20 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTTVE vdunw Sd Properties 20.659.000 Lien Hoe TSR97 14.040.000 Lien Hoe 12,516.000 MBI Hides 50c t.248.000 Asia Pac Ld 50c 5.503.000 Promel 4.911.000 Idns Hyd 50c 4.840.000 Faber Croup 4.722.000 FACB 50c 4.500.000 Uniphoenix TSR 4,434.000 Amal Sled 50c 4.027.000 Uniphoenix
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5693 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share prices closed higher on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange on steady buying and speculative support yesterday. The all-share Emas gained 4.47 points to 282.24 while the Composite Index was 13.23 points up at 950.89. The Industrial Index firmed 23.15
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 7789 21  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE After a jittery finish last week and an equally shaky start this week, share prices on both sides of the Causeway rebounded yesterday on the back of bargain hunting. From the start of trading, the Straits Times Industrials
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      • Article, Illustration
        71 21  -  rr'u r, Teh Hooi Ling JOHAN HOLDINGS has fallen below its upward trendline formed since August. But a daily RSI of 25 indicates an oversold situation. A minor rally should bring the price back to $1.25 before a correction to $1.00 sets in, as the weekly and monthly
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 848 23  -  Michael Kaufman tries to unravel the mystery surrounding Dylan Thomas' death 40 years ago Michael Kaufman NYT ON THE 40th anniversary of Dylan Thomas' death, a retired Welsh clergyman, who had married Miss Piggy and Kermit the frog in one of the Muppet movies, and a waiter
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    • 311 23 GENUINE TASTE OF ITALY. Come and dine at Pasta Fresca. Let our wide range of authentic Italian pasta, pizzas, ice-cream, cappuccino and of course don't miss our most-talked about dessert, Tiramisu. PASTA FRESCA DA SALVATORE PTE LTD BLK 833 *01-03 ROYALVILLE BUKTT TIMAH ROAD SINGAPORE 1027 TEL 468 ***** 0073
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    • 122 23 CAPERS funday. Bring your family to Capers for brunch this Sunday and feast on sumptuous Asian and Continental buffet favourites as well as a special children's menu. The kids will even have a play area all to themselves. Only $32 per adult and $16 for kids up to 14 years
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 1213 23 r_ TV RADIO Eve of Destruction, V; 10.45pm. SBC 5 is MHHHr secret weapon robots with who .J9 one gets shot on a test run and f i goes into battlefield mode, reliving her neurotic inventor's emotions and revenge. The Prize, Bpm, SBC 12 Although the industrial coun- i.. sf--'
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  • SPORTS
    • 600 24 Golf Reuter ORLANDO, Florida The World Cup of Golf begins here today with Fred Couples and Davis Love of the US defending their title against a strong field of two-man teams from 31 other nations. Both Americans are playing well as they
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    • 203 24 ZHONG SHAN, Guangdong The three-man team from Taegu Golf Club clinched the 1993 Johnnie Walker International Club Championship team honours Tor South Korea over the par-72, 5,459 m championship course at Chung Shan Hot Spring Golf Club here on Sunday. With the Double Peoria
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    • 54 24 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO Saa Francisco Giants' outfielder Barry Bonds was named the National League's Most Valuable Player on Tuesday the third time that the award has been bestowed on him. Bonds is seen here hitting his second homer of a game against the New York Mets
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    • 569 25 DALLAS It's Pete Rozelle's dream "On any given Sunday On any given Sunday or Monday night in NFL 1993, any team but Dallas can lose; any team can win but Cincinnati. Is parity with us? Or is it parody when Richie Petitbon, whose Redskins
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        52 25 Reuter NEW YORK NBA Tuesday: NY 95 Philadelphia 86; Washington 118 Detroit 112; Cleveland 113 Charlotte 108; Orlando 104 Indiana 98; New Jersey 86 Dallas 80; San Antonio 110 Minnesota 95; Seattle 118 Denver 86; Phoenix 114 LA Clippers 99; Houston 102 Golden State 93; Portland 109 LA Lakers
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        152 25 AP AP LAS VEGAS A man who flew a para-glider into the ring during the heavyweight title fight between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe could face a year in jail under charges being contemplated by prosecutors. James Miller, 30, was charged after the fight with dangerous flying, which carries
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        71 25 Reuter TOKYO Prize money on Japan's lucrative professional circuit will fall next year for the first time in 18 years due to the recession, a Japan Professional Golf Association (JPGA) official said yesterday. The official said the number of JPGA-sanctioned tournaments, including regular and senior events, would total 89,
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        41 25 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Tuesday: Winnipeg 5 NY Islanders 2; Washington 2 Quebec 1; Edmonton 4 Detroit 2; nttsburgh 3 St Louis 3 (OT); Calgary 3 LA 2; Anaheim 4 Dallas 2; Toronto 2 San Jose 2 (OT). Reuter
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        110 25 Reuter ATLANTA «*i- The International Olympic Committee expressed some misgivings about plans for the 1996 Summer Games on Tuesday, saying local organisers have no government safety net to protect them if private fund-raising efforts fall behind. Richard Pound, chairman of the lOC Coordinating Commission, said Atlanta appeared to be
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        100 25 Reuter JOHANNESBURG South Africa will bid to host the 2006 World Cup finals following hints from Fifa that the African continent could stage the tournament early next century. "There is no doubt that we will make a bid." Solomon Morewa. secretary-general of the South African Football Association, said on
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        173 25 Reuter Reuter AFP ANTWERP, Belgium US$l.l million EC championship Ist rd Tuesday: Pete Sampras (US) b David Wheaton (US) 6-3 6-2; Chuck Adams (US) b David Witt (US) 6-2 6-2; Richard Matuszewski (US) b Hendrik Dreekmann (Ger) 6-4 7-5; Magnus Gustafsson (Swe) b Mark Woodforde (Aust) 6*3 6*l; Boris
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        82 25 AP AFP SYDNEY China and Australia will play each other for a place in next year's world championships in Greece after scoring easy wins in a five-nation qualifying tournament here yesterday. China thrashed Taiwan 15-4 15-7 15-4 while Australia quashed Iran's hopes of joining Japan as the second country
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    • 118 24 M THAT OFFER:- I pantries return on I International I Radisson Plaza under the same roof J'l j jlllll Til 3j[l 9 j |(|J k'J v/|l|aill 9 Secretarial and business support I BHH H itw wao H H I I 3 H I Ky Ifl RADIANT VISIONS SDN BHD bJBb,
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    • 489 24 BUSINESS TIMES TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1 >00-741-11 FAX:7*I-129> NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN dm, I. Sim Liang Chew of Blk 636. Yuhun St 61. #10-98. Singapore 2776. have applied for a Pubbc House, lit Clan Licence in respect of premises at M/S EMERY EATING HOUSE PTE LTD at 136, Sims Avenue,
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    • 749 25 B U SINESS TIMES TOLL-FREE TEL No 1-800-741-1883 FAX 741-1296 M HPE'-x NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I, Lee Yiu Mo of 8, Faber Drive, Singapore 0512, have applied for a Beer House, 2nd Class licence in respect of premises at M/S SUN LOK NOODLE HOUSE PTE LTD at 2,
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    • 739 25 BUSINESS TIMES TOLL-FREE TEL. No I-6QO-741-1683 FAX 741-1298 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that. I Nancy Soh Lim Lee Gek of Blk lOC #25-10, Braddell View, Singapore 2057, have applied for a Second Class, Beer House Licence in respect of premises at M/s Delifrance Singapore Pte Ltd at 30 Raffles
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
    • 380 26 New test cuts time by 14 hours compared to standard test UPI UNIVERSITY of Florida researchers announced Monday they have invented a simple blood test that they say could help physicians diagnose heart attacks earlier than ever before. The test takes only one
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    • 405 26 AP Doctors in the us have created the first holograms of the living human heart, eye-popping three-dimension pictures that seem to leap off a viewing screen. The technique uses ultrasound scans to produce the illusion of looking inside the heart. Though
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    • 358 26 AP Discovery of a key role played by a gene in Alzheimer's disease may lead quickly to a diagnostic test and possible eventual development of drugs to prevent the memory-destroying disorder, scientists in Washington said Sunday. New studies presented at a symposium sponsored
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    • 312 28  -  Claire Leow introduces the environmentally friendly pencil Claire Leow THE humble pencil the thing we chew on when deep in thought has still not been made obsolete, despite the proliferation of computers, electronic diaries and now, digital gadgets that recognise handwriting. But the pencil has
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    • 410 28 Reuter ROBOTS may soon be able to see with their own "eyes", at least as well as bees do, and move around without the need for large, costly computers. Australian scientists said yesterday they had developed a microchip called a retina chip which
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    • IN TAKES
      • 93 28 ROME The era of push-button prayers has arrived for Catholics with electronic wizardry. Punch in a prayer on a gadget like a handheld video game, it goes "beepbeep". That's how the rosary can be said in future, instead of counting off recited prayers in centuries-old
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      • 47 28 Reuter ADELAIDE Associate professor Kamran Eshraghian of Australia's University of Adelaide with the "retina microchip" that allows machines to see. It mimicks the vision system of insects and will for the first time allow robots to move around quickly without bumping into objects. Reuter
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    • 453 28 UPI TWO GROUPS of researchers have uncovered the possible root cause of the most severe type of diabetes the disease that afflicts one in 500 Americans. The mouse tests at Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles, (Ucla), may lead to therapies
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    • 525 28 BUSINESS TIMES TOLL-FREE TEL No 1-600-741-1883 PAX:74I-I2— NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that. I, TONG BAN SANG of Apt Blk 138, Lor 1, Toa Payoh, #06-887, Singapore 1231 have applied for a 2nd Class Beer House Licence in respect of premises at M/sSHI DE FA SEA FOOD RESTAURANT at No.
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    • 310 28 H£L HOTEL PROPERTIES LIMITED I (InoorponM in tv Aspublc of SnQipow) I ANNOUNCEMENT I RENOUNCEABLE RIGHTS ISSUE ("RIGHTS ISSUE") OF $154,908,500 I NOMINAL AMOUNT OF 35 PER CENT. UNSECURED LOAN STOCK DUE 1988 ("LOAN STOCK") AT MR WITH 88J88.437 DETACHABLE WARRANTS DUE 1888 ("WARRANTS") TO SUBSCRIBE FOR NEW ORDINARY SHARES
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  • THE LAW PAGE
    • 1090 29  -  Walter Woon explains the risks for company boards inherent in the statutory derivative action Walter Woon The writer is an associate professor and vice-dean of law at the National University of Singapore EARLIER this year I wrote about the impending passage of section 2i6A of
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    • 258 29 BUSINESS TIMES TOLL-FREE TEL, No. 1-000-741-1883 FAX 741-1298 IN T>« MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. SO AMD IM THE MATTER OF CANDOR (S.EA.) PTE LTD (In Munbtfi* Voluntary I hpdrtatlon) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308(1) of the Companies Act. Chapter SO. that a Final General Meeting
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    • 72 29 W3SMSSSM Re: Liquor Licence Notice in the Business Times on sth November, 1993 Low Ah Buay The licence applied for should read as Beer House 2nd Class Licence and not as published. Dated 11-11-93 Classified's the place to locate a new owner for your trusty wheels. Drive home the message
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    • 429 29 One of The UK's Leading Hotel Agents will be visiting Singapore between 4th December and 9th December 1993 Chairman, David Rugg Deputy Chairman, Kevin Eakin London Hotels Director, Gerard Nolan will be available for confidential discussions about investment in the UK Hotel Market To arrange an appointment please contact Fiona
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  • 469 30 ifttfTOMAL ASIDE from Botswana, it is difficult to find a true bright spot in sub-Saharan Africa. Those which were among the brightest in the 1970s Kenya for one have dimmed. Falling commodity prices, ballooning budgetary and trade imbalances, sheer economic mismanagement, inefficiency and corruption,
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 269 30 THE UNITED STATES needs to make a thorough review of its policy on the use of nuclear weapons. This would begin soon, a Defence Department official announced last week. Hopefully, it will take a critical look at some of the basic principles that have shaped the
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    • 222 30 SEVERAL MALAY organisations are increasing their efforts to help needy Malay families, especially those whose children are school dropouts. These efforts are in line with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's call for more assistance to be given to these largely single-par-ent families. However, as mentioned by the
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    • 186 30 AS IN RESTRICTING the number of lawyers, the measure to limit the supply of doctors is a controversial one. To those who intend to study medicine over- seas and their parents, the reduction of the number of approved universities from 176 to 28 means it would now be
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    • 123 30 THE HIJACKING OF a domestic mainland flight to Taiwan has added new urgency to the need for a repatriation pact on hijackers. Friday's hijacking was the fifth this year, highlighting the security problem of China's airports. Despite an urgent call yesterday by Chinese Vice-Premier Zou Jiahua to improve
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    • 190 30 AS THE MINISTER of Foreign Affairs Ali Alatas remarked, the ceasefire agreement, which was signed here over the weekend at the end of two weeks of negotiations between representatives of the government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), is an important
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  • 918 30  -  Fumio Ikeuchi looks at the difficulty Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa faces in passing political reform legislation Fumio Ikeuchi Asahi Shimbun SINCE his first press conference in August after becoming prime minister, Morihiro Hosokawa has repeatedly said he would assume responsibility if his government failed to
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    • 775 30 MITSUI TRUST vYy THE MITSUI TRUST BANKING CQ, LTD Non-Consolidated Balance Sheets Statements of Income (As of March 31, 1993 and 1992) (Years ended March 31, 1993 and 1992) BANKING ACCOUNT Yen in millions 19*3 1992 Yen in millions ■ma i 000 Income 1 Interest Income: Aaesta Interest on loons
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    • 1568 31  -  No one expects economic forecasters to be 100 per cent accurate all the time. Still, why were economists and analysts in Singapore they are now looking at 9-10 per cent growth for the July-September quarter way off the mark with their second-quarter projections? Anna Teo reports Anna
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  • 636 32  -  By Yang Razali Kassim SINGAPORE The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum is forming a special committee to advance freer trade and increased investment in the Apec region. To be officially declared by Apec ministers ahead of their leaders' informal summit
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  • 460 32 AFP, Reuter, Bloomberg Business News LONDON Britain yesterday urged China to intensify negotiations on Hongkong, warning that time was running out while Hongkong Governor Chris Patten hinted that Britain might go ahead with plans to allow the colony's citizens to elect the majority
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  • 148 32 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Economics Ministry, in an apparent reversal of recently announced policy towards China, yesterday said it had no plans to ease its restrictions on Taiwanese investment there. Vice-Economics Minister Yang Shih Chien said the ministry did not intend to
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  • 307 32 Reuter WASHINGTON US consumer prices moved ahead modestly in October, the Labour Department said yesterday, a$ the more robust economy had little adverse impact on inflation. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4 per ccnt last month after being unchanged in September, as
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  • 353 32 AP BRUSSELS The European Community yesterday said the recession gripping its economy appeared to have bottomed out. but it predicted that unemployment would continue to rise to record levels. New forecasts showed the economies of the 12 EC nations growing
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  • 791 32  -  The Bottom Line MICHAEL HINDLEY MICHAEL HINDLEY The writer, a Briton, is a member of the European Parliament MY grandparents' generation used the expression "to owe more money than Russia" as a figure of speech to designate absolute financial disaster. The expression came
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  • Shipping Times
    • 446 33  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Norwegian liquid products carrier Jo Tankers has shifted its Asian office from Japan to Singapore to grab a bigger share of the growing chemical market in South-east Asia and the emerging economies of Vietnam and
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    • 554 33 American Shipper WASHINGTON A coalition of nine conference and four independent transpacific carriers has trimmed its aggregate available eastbound capacity for the three months to end Nov 30, and plans to cut available space even further tor the following three months. But
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    • 179 33 SINGAPORE Aluminium Craft (88), a subsidiary of listed Singmarine Industries Limited, has delivered two ferries to a local operator. Singmarine said yesterday that client Penguin Boat Services had named the new mono-hull ferries Penguin Empress and Penguin Empress. The vessels, costing a total
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    • 853 33 Page Col ABC Containcrlinc 12 I Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrcnkiel Liner 4 1/2 •APL 5 3-5 Appcnship 18 1/2 Alpha Feeders 18 1/2 •ANL 3 1/2 •ASCL 5 5 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 Bank Line. The 9
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    • 202 33 Knight-Ridder HAMBURG This year's turnover at Hamburg's sea port is expected to fall about 2 per cent below last year's 65 million tonnes, the port said on Tuesday. During the first nine months, the port's turnover totalled 47.836 million tonnes, down 2.2 per cent from
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    • 309 33 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Fadara Yacht Sdn Bhd. a luxury yacht builder in Port Klang. clinched five foreign orders worth MSB million (SSS million) recently. The orders will keep the boatyard busy until the middle of 1994. general manager Wong Sow Fee says.
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    • 280 33 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Nippon Yuscn Kaisha. Japan's top shipping firm, is cutting its group-wide capital spending to trim borrowing and shore up sagging profits, Nikkei English Nens said yesterday, citing unnamed company officials. The move comes as total interest-bearing debt held by the company
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 620 34 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure iurong Port Anangel Qory 236 115/16 alongside 11.11/1500 Bae Fu No 101 ill alongside 11.11/2300 Bat am Baftagia 11/02/93 12 alongside 1111/2300 Belisfta 3338 100, 93 19 alongside 1111/0100 Dm Gura 11/01/93 )3 alongside 1111/2315 Gold Horizon 11W J8/9 alongside 11.11/0600
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      • 1550 34 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rstts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Ac. Jade 1MB 12/1100 1 10/1500 10/1659 10/1900 3 11/0700 11/1159 11/1400 4 11/1200 11/1459 11/1700 Ac. Rose 0468 12/2000 1
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    • 11601 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. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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    • 3328 47 A XXBC Containerline NV: Bclsin Shpg Agencies Pte Ltd (SVManne Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SVAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Xhrenkjel Liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). Albatros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ltd
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    • 1470 47 Abe* Express Freight Tel: 542-7171 Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Td: 542-7821 Fax: *****20. Verolink Freight International Td 545-8033. Fax: *****05. Aerospeed Td: 542-5911 Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454. Fax: *****06 Air Express International Td: 542-7666 Fax: *****74. *****50. Air
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    • 2511 48 ALBANIA Duress: Vessels in port discharging: 1 general cargo, 4 bagged flour, 2 bulk wheat, 1 bagged rice, 1 vessel loading copper, vessels awaiting berth: 1 tubes/flour, 1 bagged cement, 1 chrome ore, 1 bulk wheat. ANGOLA Luanda: City and port operating normally, no congestion, berths available. The
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    • 553 48 ARRIVALS Op Flight Type ETA T From TODAY KAL KE697 B747F 0150 I SEL SIA SQ827 B747F 1730 2 CPH/DXB CLX CV794 B747F 1845 1 LUX/DXB NCA KZ203 B747F 1930 I NRT KAL KE685 A30F 2345 I SEL/MNL TOMORROW JAL JL6I5 B747F 0240 1 TYO NWA NW901
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    • 727 48 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES AFP WITH market sentiment continuing to show signs of caution it is not surprising that the level of interesting sales reportable this week is on the low side. Whilst the most substantial sale to come to our attention concerns a passenger-ferry the Pride of Bilbao sold
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    • 562 48 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Dtp Nunc of Vessel ETA ETD Ports of Calls Port Agent Telephone No NOVEMBER II II Song of Flower 0700 1800 Malacca-Sin-HK Kawasaki Line (S) 221-8977 11 12 Ocean Peart 1430 1600 Port Kiang-Sin- Inchcape Shpg 222-4411 Semarang 12 12 Renaissance I 1000 1900
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    • 1600 49 THE BALTIC Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1,322 on Tuesday from 1,318 on Nov 8. The short-term outlook looks gloomy on the freight market with most participants disappointed at the lack of activity, brokers said. This is the time of year when the
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    • 894 49 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 1260 50  -  Bruce Vail looks at the expansion plans of the New York-based ship chartering company Bruce Vail American Shipper Executives of New York-based OMI Corp are looking for good quality, second-hand ships to add to their diviersified fleet of tankers and dry bulk vessels. The
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    • AIR AND LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 462 52  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Kah Motor Sdn Bhd, which distributes Honda cars in Singapore, has sold 1,000 fifth-generation Accords worth about $140 million even before the new model has been launched. And by the end of next year, the
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      • 502 52 Reuter CANBERRA Australia's domestic airlines arc booming despite the patchy recovery of the economy and are counting on current record passenger numbers to carry them through to their strongest Christmas season ever. "It really has gone berserk," Jim Thorn, editor of the industry
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      • 303 52 Reuter STOCKHOLM The four European airlines in the Alcazar merger project may compromise on a more flexible approach to chosing a US partner to break deadlock in the talks, a Swedish newspaper quoted Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) as saying on Tuesday. "One variant
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      • 1400 52 City Fl» ETA FlfcM ETC torn MaM GA985 1420 Adelaide QF81 1930 QF82 2050 SQ228 2035 SQ25 0635 Amsterdam GA975 1140 KL838 2320 KL837 1540 SQ323 1815 SQ26 2359 Auckland NZ21 1710 BA11 1455 SQ288 2030 SQ286 2035 SQ288 2045 B Seri Begawan BI421 1105 SQ182
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      • 369 52 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT German state-owned carrier Deutsche Lufthansa AG said on Tuesday it will raise business class fares by between 2 per cent and 10 per cent from early next year. Business class passengers flying to destinations within Europe will pay
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      • 210 52 SINGAPORE Local firm SATS Security Services is organising a second regional forum on aviation security issues. The three-day event, to be held here from May 10-12. 1994 will focus on the human factor in aviation security, including human resource development,
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      • LOG BOOK
        • 68 52 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Airways pic is urging aircraft manufacturers. including Boeing Co of the United States and Europe's Airbus Industrie, to build a new 600-seater aircraft for use at the turn of the century, the Financial Times reported. BA's director of engineering. Alistair Cumming.
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        • 55 52 Reuter picture VANCOUVER. British Columbia Nyac, a sea otter which survived the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, cradles her pup born early on Tuesday at the Vancouver Aquarium. Nyac was not expected to live after ingesting oil but was nursed back to health
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        • 57 52 Knight-Ridder NEW DELHI State-run Air India planned to buy five more aircraft over the next three years, a company official said yesterday. The carrier, which is on an expansion binge, has tentatively cleared a proposal to buy two Boeing 747-400 and three
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        • 51 52 Reuter NEW DELHI Israel's El Al airline would start flying to India for the first time next month, Israeli embassy officials said. They said El Al would start a weekly service from Tel Aviv to Bombay and on to Bangkok on Dec 10.
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        • 68 52 Reuter WASHINGTON McDonnell Douglas Corp was prepared to run its commercial aircraft unit at a very low rate of production through to 1998 to offset an expected weakness in orders. Aviation Week and Space Technology said yesterday. Douglas Aircraft Co can profitably manufacture as few
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