The Business Times, 17 February 1994

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    12 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(F) 010/12/93 Thursday February 17 1994 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • Article
      Lock icon Dow Jones up 3.6 points
      33 1 Reuter NEW YORK Wall Street stocks yesterday remained in positive territory at midday. At Ipm EST, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 3.6 points at 3,931.87. Rcutcr
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      Lock icon US engages Saudis in telecom deal
      58 1 Reuter WASHINGTON US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown last night said the United States was pressing Saudi Arabia to purchase telecommunications equipment from American Telephone and Telegraph Co in what he said could be a US$4 billion (556.3 billion) deal. Talks arc underway on Saudi
      Reuter  -  58 words
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    161 1 Stock market indices Wednesday Change STII 2.341.38 +11.85 KLSEComp 1.081.13 -6.08 Nikkei 19.052.11 +77.51 Hang Seng 10.634.14 -378.19 SET Index 1.429.11 +15.14 Jakarta Comp 574.8 -7.9 CLSA China B ....1.214.28 +6.35 Aust All Ord 2.249.0 +15 FTSE 100 3.417.7 +24.5 Wednesday Previous I pm close Dow Jones 3,931.87
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    Kantor sets in motion trade sanction proceedings
    542 1  -  US fires first shot in trade dispute with Japan From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON AN ANGRY US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor yesterday accused Japan of violating a 1989 trade agreement and launched a set of trade sanction proceedings over a dispute with Tokyo
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    Tokyo vows to fight any US action before Gatt
    542 1  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO JAPAN yesterday rejected US claims that it had violated a market-access accord on cellular telephones and vowed to take the matter before the global trade forum, Gatt. if the US starts retaliatory action. The Japanese government's
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    Lock icon Shares rise in Tokyo and S'pore but slide in HK, KL
    241 1 Tenaga and Telekom SINGAPORE Regional bourses closed mixed yesterday, with the Japanese and Singapore markets gaining ground and the Hongkong and Malaysian markets declining. The Japanese stock market rebounded after two days of losses on hopes that the yen
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    Lock icon China's Jan imports up 42pc
    103 1 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's trade deficit reachcd US$9OO million <Ssl.4 billion) last month due lately to a 42.3 per cent jump in imports, the official China News Scrvicc reported. Electronic goods and raw materials contributed most to the rise in imports over the previous
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    Lock icon COE prices are down for all car categories
    320 1  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Premiums for March's Certificates of Entitlement have fallen across the board. Car dealers and distributors attributed the drop to poor demand. A distributor said: "Orders are not coming in and demand has been terrible. As more COEs are
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    Total takings of Inland Revenue Authority rise 15pc to $10.3b
    392 1  -  By Anna Teo SINGAPORE Despite lower growth in income tax revenue last year, total takings of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) amounted to 510.3 billion about Si.3 billion or 15 per cent more than in 1992. The increase
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    Lock icon M$ hits 3-year low on Bank Negara move
    189 1 Bloomberg Business News Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The ringgit yesterday fell to its lowest level against the US dollar in nearly three years after Bank Negara raised costs for banks that accept foreign funds. The move, announced after trading hours on Tuesday, took
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      31 1 Hock Lock Siew: pb is Is copyright suit the least of Azlech's woe& Editorial, Pg 12 US may have more to lose if it applies Super 301 to Japan, Pg 6
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Air cargo growth soars 21pc
        251 2  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE'S air cargo industry ended 1993 on a high note, chalking up 21 per cent year-on-year growth in December. Changi Airport handled 80,000 tonnes of air freight during the month. The December increase was far above the average monthly growth rate of
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      Non-oil domestic exports inch up on higher base
      454 2  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE'S non-oil domestic exports, expressed in real prices, grew by a mere 4 per cent in December, because they came up against the high base of the previous December. December's showing for non-oil domestic exports was thus sharply down
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      S'pore risk rating gets fillip from US recovery
      333 2  -  By Anna Teo SINGAPORE'S risk rating has improved despite a slight rise in domestic economic risks. Political and Economic Risk Consultancy says in its latest analysis. The Republic's lower overall risk rating is due largely to better external economic conditions, reflecting its
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      Survey by Case on GST pricing
      118 2 THE Consumers Association of Singapore is conducting a survey of supermarkets and wet markets to monitor the prices of a range of items before and after the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax on April I. Case hopes the survey will help consumers
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      S'pore papers urged to give Asian view of Asia
      283 2 LOCAL newspapers should strive to give an Asian view of Asia and rely less on Western sources, a top newspaper executive said yesterday. The editor-in-chief of Singapore Press Holdings' English/Malay newspapers division. Cheong Yip Seng, said at the group's annual awards
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      BT journalist wins Headline of the Year
      296 2 "KEEPING it between the Thais" yesterday won journalist Paul Ong of Business Times the Headline of the Year at the 1993 Straits Times Group Annual Awards. The headline that appeared in last March 30's Business Times was apt for a cheeky story of
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article
      Lock icon M'sia's M$2b gas-fuel conversion plant fully operational in March
      314 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR The world's first commercial plant to convert natural gas into transport fuel will be fully operational next month in Sarawak. officials of Dutch oil giant Shell, which is leading the joint venture, said yesterday. The MS2 billion (551.14
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      Lock icon Quake in Sumatra kills 131, leaves 1,000 injured
      256 3 Reuter JAKARTA A powerful earthquake measuring at least 6.5 on the Richter scale killed at least 131 people and injured nearly 1.000 in a mountainous area of Sumatra yesterday, a regional official said. Nearly 24 hours after the quake struck, details from
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      Lock icon Smoke on the water, but no fire in the sky
      73 3 Reuter CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines Smoke rising from the boiling water in this aerial view of Mount Pinatubo crater in Zambales, north of Manila, yesterday. A total of 161 high frequency quakes rocked the volcano on Tuesday, along with four
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      Lock icon Manila unloads 50pc holding in power retailer Meralco
      301 3 AFP MANILA The Philippines yesterday sold half its holdings in top power retailer Manila Electric Co (Meralco) to a state-run pension fund for U*****.71 million (*****.58 million) and vowed further divestment from the corporate sector to cut its budget deficit. Under the
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon India, Pakistan to meet for peace talks
        62 3 Reuter NEW DELHI India and Pakistan. locked in a furious slanging match over Kashmir amid worries over their growing nuclear prowess, will send representatives to China next week for rare peace talks, diplomats said yesterday. They said the talks billed as unofficial "for
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        Lock icon Vietnamese sculptor returns
        67 3 AFP HANOI Vietnamese sculptor Diem Phung Thi speaking at a press conference on Tuesday to announce the opening of a "Diem Phung Thi exhibition house" next week in the city of Hue, Vietnam's former imperial capital and her birthplace. Ms Thi, who has lived in France for
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        Lock icon Japan's industrial output revised down
        78 3 AFP TOKYO Japan's industrial output in December shrank 1.9 per cent from November and was also down 4.4 per cent from a year earlier, the international trade and industry ministry said in a revised report yesterday. The report marked a downward revision from preliminary figures
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        Lock icon Indian Cabinet reshuffle soon: reports
        62 3 AFP NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao is planning to induct new faces and drop a few ministers in a long-awaited Cabinet reshuffle, two newspapers reported yesterday. The Cabinet changes are expected before parliament begins its annual budget session on Feb 21,
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        Lock icon Bonn seeks Asean support for UN seat
        66 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Germany is seeking the support of Asean for its bid for a non-permanent seat in the UN security council. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ursula Sailer-Albring said yesterday. Germany was confident of securing Malaysia's endorsement for the UN seat, said
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        Lock icon Benazir outlines Pakistan power plan
        54 3 AFP ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto projected on Tuesday a 700 billion rupee (Ss37 billion) investment in power generation over the coming years to meet Pakistan's shortfall of 2,000 MW of electricity. The public sector would invest 300 billion rupees, she said in a televised
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      Lock icon Vietnam agrees on talks with Cambodia over border row
      260 3 AFP PHNOM PENH Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Manh Cam has agreed in principle to discuss the controversial issue of border demarcation between Vietnam and Cambodia, Foreign Minister Prince Norodom Sirivudh said yesterday. "We agreed with each other about the mechanism, the
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      Indonesian govt to improve tax collection system
      282 3 JAKARTA The government will amend tax regulations to improve the fairness of the country's tax collcction system, the Jakarta Post reported yesterday. Director-Gcneral of Tax Fuad Bawazicr said the draft of the tax amendment will be submitted to the House of Representatives (DPR)
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      Lock icon Time for Sabah to mend ties with Mahathir, says Jeffrey Kitingan
      432 3 AFP KENINGAU, Malaysia As strained ties between Sabah and Kuala Lumpur take another battering ahead of the polls at the end of this week, an aspiring legislator just out from jail pledged yesterday to repair his state's relations with
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      Lock icon Jakarta to investigate state-run bank Bapindo
      300 3 Reuter AFP JAKARTA Indonesia said yesterday it would investigate a state-run bank. PT Bank Pembangunan Indonesia (Bapindo). following allegations of a US$43O million (***** million) credit scandal. A senior bank official has also been detained for questioning. "The attorney-general has received an agrceipent from
      Reuter; AFP  -  300 words
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Finance minister to head tax dept
        60 4 Reuter BEIJING China's finance minister will head the national tax department while its former chief, Jin Xin, will be demoted to the position of deputy head. The Xinhua news agency said yesterday that Liu Zhongli would concurrently become director of the State General Administration
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        Lock icon Shandong's labour laws
        55 4 AFP BEIJING Shandong has become the first Chinese province to issue its own regulations governing employment conditions for workers in foreign-funded enterprises. The China Daily said yesterday the move by the eastern province followed a series of highly-publicised cases involving foreign-funded firms exploiting Chinese workers and ignoring
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        Lock icon Bright dog
        49 4 AFP TAIPEI A man making some last-minute adjustments to his dog-shaped lantern for an upcoming lantern show at the Kuan Tu Temple here yesterday. About 300 lanterns will be displayed during the month-long exhibition starting tomorrow to mark the Lantern Festival, which falls on Feb 24. AFP
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        Lock icon HK to issue new phone licences
        63 4 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong would introduce two new mobile phone licences operating on a higher frequency by the end of this year under a plan being considered by the government. Growth in the territory's mobile telecommunications industry has been so strong that current cellular operators
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        Lock icon Progress in processing
        80 4 AFP BEIJING China's trade in processing imported raw materials for export soared 13.4 per cent to US$BO.6 billion (S$ 129 billion) last year, accounting for more than 40 per cent of total foreign trade, the China Daily said yesterday. The trade has boomed in China's eastern coastal
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        Lock icon Tarnished track record
        67 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's highest-level government watchdog group censured the cabinet and the Taipei city government on Tuesday for failing to supervise the scandal-plagued rapid transit system. The transportation committee of the Control Yuan, the government's watchdog group, also resolved in a meeting to censure the Department of
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        Lock icon HK's re-exports up 19pc
        48 4 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong's re-exports jumped 19.1 percent to HK$B23 billion (Ssl69 billion) in 1993 over the previous year. Census and Statistics department figures showed. China, Hongkong's largest re-export market, accounted for HK$727 billion, or 88 per cent of total re-exports in value terms. Reuter
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        Lock icon Economic 'peace corps'
        66 4 AP TAIPEI Taiwan yesterday announced the formation of an "economic corps" modelled on the US Peace Corps to share its business know-how with developing countries. It said Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines would be the first beneficiaries. The corps's basic structure has been decided and details will
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      Lock icon Li Peng to propose more high-speed growth measures for economy
      390 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Chinese Premier Li Peng says the government plans to prescribe more fast growth for the economy in its annual report to Parliament next month, state television reported yesterday. It said that in presenting an outline of
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    • Article
      S'pore venture's Wuxi park signs first tenant
      359 4  -  Investment by Japanese components maker Murata will be significant: STIC consortium By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE A joint-ven-ture industrial park being developed by a Singapore consortium in Wuxi, China, signed up its first tenant yesterday components maker Murata Mfg Co of Japan. Murata's investment
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      Lock icon The birdman of Beijing
      126 4 AFP BEIJING Zhang Jinghua, 64, smiling at his tiny companion that brought him a little red flag during an afternoon. training session yesterday. Mr Zhang keeps more than 2,000 birds at his two-room apartment. When the sun is out and the air is warm which is
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      Lock icon Currency, inflation fears fuel Chinese spending spree
      369 4 Reuter BEIJING Consumers continued their spending spree in January, partly because they feared their money would lose its value with official forecasts that inflation will not fall this year. The Market newspaper said retail sales across China last month were 119.22 billion yuan
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      Lock icon Tokyo trade surplus soars but economists see downtrend soon
      448 4 Reuter TOKYO Japan yesterday reported yet another surge in its bitterly contentious trade surplus, but economists said tbe trend would soon be reversed. Tokyo's customs-cleared trade surplus with the world ballooned to USS6.II billion (SS9.B billion) in January, up from U555.22
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      Lock icon India's tyre industry pins hope on overseas demand
      444 4 Reuter NEW DELHI India's tyre industry, fighting a slowgrowth domestic market, says it hopes to boost exports by more than 21 per cent in the current financial year, mostly to the United States and Gulf markets. "The industry should export tyres worth
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      Lock icon Economic stimulus plans pulling Japan out of recession: Fujii
      246 4 AFP, Reuter TOKYO A series of economic stimulus measures are lifting the Japanese economy out of recession. Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii said in a policy speech yesterday. "The economy still remains in a severe situation," he told the House of Representatives
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      Lock icon Foreign investors welcome Seoul's move to increase sale of equities abroad
      314 4 AFP SEOUL Foreign investors yesterday welcomed South Korea's decision to allow its local firms to sell more issues abroad this year, but called for a wholesale removal of restrictions on them. Officials said the Ministry of Finance (MOF) would
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      9 4 Analysis: A small country grows big potatoes, Pg 13
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Britain receives double blows as inflation and unemployment rise
      444 6 Reuter LONDON The British government received bad economic news on two fronts yesterday with inflation rising above two per cent for the first time in a year and unemployment growing after months in decline. The job figures cast doubt on the
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      Lock icon West German economy still in recession, says Bundesbank
      365 6 Reuter FRANKFURT The Bundesbank said yesterday that the west German recession was not yet over despite the fact that prospects for many firms had now improved. In its February report, the Bundesbank said the decline in gross domestic product (GDP) in the
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      Lock icon EU fines 16 steel firms US$116m for running cartel
      362 6 Bloomberg Business News Reuter BRUSSELS The European Commission yesterday said it had lined 16 European steel eompanies about 104 million European Currency Units (USSI 16.6 million) lor running a cartel in the steel beam sector. The eompanies. which include British Steel
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      Lock icon Thumbs up for Cesar's terrific exhibit
      41 6 AFP PARIS "The Thumb", by French sculptor Cesar, is lifted from its place of temporary exhibition in front of the Grand Palais for removal to its definitive Fixture at La Defense, outside the city AFP
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    • Article
      Lock icon Saudis to buy US$6b worth of US commercial planes
      256 6 Reuter WASHINGTON In a victory for the US aircraft industryover European rivals. President Bill Clinton yesterday said Saudi Arabia had agreed to buv USS6 billion (559.48 billion) worth of commercial aircraft from Boeing Co and McDonnell Douglas Corp. Mr Clinton, seizing
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    • Article
      Lock icon Yeltsin's health once again conies under scrutiny
      424 6 FT MOSCOW Russian President Boris Yeltsin's health and ability to govern has again emerged as a serious issue in Moscow. He has postponed making a "state of the union" address due on Friday because of what officials on Tuesday described as a continuing
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    • Article
      US may have more to lose if it applies Super 301 to Japan
      415 6  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON PRESIDENT Bill Clinton is expected to issue in the coming days an executive order reinstating the Super 301 trade law. The legislation, which expired three years ago. permits the president to impose
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      Lock icon France expects asset sales to rake in 55b francs
      213 6 Bloomberg Business News PARIS French Economy Minister Edmond Alphandery hinted yesterday at an acceleration in his government's asset sale programme, saying they would bring "at least" the 55 billion French francs (5514.8 billion) planned in the budget. In an interview with
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Argentine's oil link with Chile
        70 6 Bloomberg Business News BUENOS AIRES An oil pipeline linking southern Argentine oilfields with Chile s Pacific coast was inaugurated on Tuesday by Argentine President Carlos Menem and his Chilean counterpart Patricio Aylwin. the Ambito Financiero financial daily reported. The 424-km pipeline has a capacity to
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        Lock icon Art imitates life
        54 6 Reuter MADRID Spanish artist Javier de Villota arranges a fake corpse, part of a sculpture he has designed in the centre of Madrid. The life-like sculpture represents the massacre caused by the bombing of Sarajevo's maricet last week and is Javier's protest at the grim situation in
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        Lock icon Milken invests in interactive TV software
        100 6 Reuter LOS ANGELES Former junk bond dealer Michael Milken said he is investing "hundreds of millions of dollars" of his own money in software designed for the emerging interactive television market. Mr Milken, who was released from jail last year after his 1990 conviction
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      • Article
        Lock icon Card is just the ticket
        104 6 UPI LONDON London Transport Minister Steven Norris has launched an 18-month trial of an electronic ticketing system on the city's buses. More than 200 buses in Harrow, north-west London, have been fitted with a "smartcard" reader that validates bus tickets. Government officials said the trial
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        Lock icon Europe space effort gets the nod
        55 6 Reuter PARIS Europe's long-delayed efforts to have its own manned space programmes have received a definitive go-ahead, the governing council of the 13-nation European Space Agency said yesterday. The Paris-based agency said representatives of member states have approved a USS227 million (SS3SB million) Manned
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon German figure skating pair fall out of contention
      68 7 XVII Winter Olympic Games AFP, Reuter IIAMAR, Norway German figure skater Mandy Woetzel (left) falling on the ice during the free pairs competition in the llamar Amphitheatre on Tuesday. Her partner, Hugo Steuer, almost tripped over her before regaining his balance and
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      Russian professional pair recapture Olympic glory
      513 7 LILLE HAMMER Sergei Grinkox and his wife Ekaterina Gordeeva became the first skaters to return from the professional ice shows to reclaim their Olympic title on an eventful day at the Winter Games here on Tuesday. Reigning Olympic champions Natalya Mishkutcnok and Artur Dmitriev
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      Lock icon Sport is not above the law
      790 7  -  Who passes judgment on an athlete? Ira Berkow discusses this issue Ira Berkow NYT LILLEHAMMER. Norway As Tonya Harding prepares to arrive in this favoured land of frozen fjords, reindeer salami, and people bundled and masked like burglars against the cold, there will be
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      Lock icon Navratilova's farewell hiccup
      676 7 NYT CHICAGO Upon losing her last-ever singles match here at the Virginia Slims of Chicago, where her role as marquee idol lasted close to two decades and yielded an unprecedented 12 titles, a tearful Martina Navratilova felt like she'd just emerged from a funeral: her own. Navratilova
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      Lock icon Ballesteros returns to Tour next week
      390 7 Golf AP MADRID. Spain Seve Ballesteros. coming oft' the worst season of his career, will return to tournament golf with a stronger frame of mind and with a stronger back, his brother said on Tuesday. "He's just returned from two months in Arizona where
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    • Article
      Lock icon Daly to compete in Honda Classic
      222 7 Reuter PONTE VEDRA BEACH. Florida John Daly will return to the US PGA Tour after a four-month absence to compete in next month's Honda Classic. Daly, the long hitter who shocked the golf world by winning the 1991 PGA Championship at Crooked Stick as
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        Lock icon Basketball
        209 7 AP Renter SOUTH MIAMI. Honda Leroy "Spike" Gibson, who toured the world with the Harlem Globetrotters and then became the first black elected to public office in South Miami, has died of cancer. He was 57. The 1.96 m Gibson was born in Tallahassee and attended Florida A-and-M on
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        Lock icon Cricket
        126 7 Reuter BR lIX. MOWN West Indies and England both suffered injury problems on Tuesday on the eve of their opening one-day internation- al. West Indies all-rounder Carl Hooper was ruled out of the first two one-day matches plus the opening test which starts on Saturday because of a hack
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        Lock icon Golf
        165 7 AFP Reuter MKI 80l km; World No I Greg Norman yesterday took a swipe at the Australian Masters tournament on the eve of his bid for a seventh title. "I think this tournament has lost some of its lustre. It's as simple as that." said Norman, a six-time winner
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        Lock icon Rugby
        60 7 AFP CARDIFF Wales skipper leuan Evans still hopes to play against France in the Five Nations championship at the weekend. The Llanelli wing will undergo a fitness test when the Welsh squad assembled in Cardiff yesterday. Evans hurt his shoulder in the victory over Ireland two weeks ago. But
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        Lock icon Soccer
        86 7 AFP Bl ENOS AIRES Diego Maradona has set his sights on becoming a race car driver. Hav ing turned his back on his latest club. Newell's Old Boys, the scandal haunted soccer international told TV on Monday of his plans to take part in an Argentinian form of stock
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        Lock icon Tennis
        297 7 AFP AFP AFP NEW YORK Jakarta will host the \TP World Doubles Championship for the next two years the first time since 1970 that an official year-ending men's tennis event will be contested in Asia. The IJSSI.3 million (SS2.I million) event, which is open to the top eight teams
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Inexplicably inept
      673 9  -  Many people at the INXS concert last Tuesday just can't seem to stay on their feet. Shahiron Sahari wonders why the performers were so Shahiron Sahari Maybe we should all have had a few before we came. Michael Hutchence, front man of Australian rock group INXS, seemed restless
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    • CHATTER BOX
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        Lock icon Personal apology from Bolton
        721 9 UPI AP Reuter UPI Reuter AP MICHAEL BOLTON's recent concert at Rosemont Horizon in Chicago was a bit of a fiasco, starting two hours late and being cut short before the encore. But grumbling ticket buyers who wrote to or called Columbia Records are getting a
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      1333 9 TV RADIO Deceived, 8.30pm, SBC Goldie stars thril- as a hap- i, pily married art expert who ,i Ji discovers that her dead husthe person he preto be. The only is, or John Dancing. Bpm, SBC »V This programme looks the tore open of dance fj|Bßor and catapulted dance as
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
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      Local foods are going light
      573 10  -  S'poreans can binge on their favourites if a Sisir project takes off. reports Ven Sreenivasan Ven Sreenivasan FOODS with reduced fat. sugar and calorie content were once associated with medical conditions such as diabetes and obesity. And most of these foods were often relegated to
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      Longer shelf life for fresh coconut milk
      251 10 A WEEK is a long time for coconut milk to stay fresh, even under refrigeration. But a breakthrough has been made by the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research's Food Technology Centre (FTC) to prolong the freshness of coconut milk. It has
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        Lock icon Promise of vaccine against malaria
        123 10 Reuter WASHINGTON Scientists have reported significant promise in the century-long struggle for a vaccine against malaria, the tropical disease which affects 500 million people worldwide each year. Scientists working fon a special tropical disease programme jointly sponsored by the UN Development Programme, the World Bank
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        Lock icon Antibody spray to help fight pneumonia
        112 10 Reuter WASHINGTON In a development that could have far reaching effects in fighting viral infections, researchers said they have successfully used human antibody fragments in mice to fight a common pneumonia virus. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
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        Lock icon Soybean plant as cheap feed for cows
        135 10 Reuter WASHINGTON Soybean plants that grow six to seven feet tall, double the height of varieties grown for grain, could become a popular feed for dairy cows, according to a US Department of Agriculture scientist. "Corn is the No 1 silage, but soybeans
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      Copyright case: Import of successful appeal
      1706 11  -  Ramesh Divyanathan assesses the implications of CXs recent decision in allowing the prosecution's appeal against acquittal of duo under the Copyright Act Ramesh Divyanathan CHIEF Justice Yong Pung How's decision last year on parallel imports arose from an appeal by the public prosecutor (for
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      High time to nurture our own silks
      315 11 AT THE-®^ WHILE the remaining right of appeal to the British Privy Council will be abolished soon, Singapore has not totally cut its umbilical cord with the London legal scene. Queen's Counsel are still an integral part of the legal system here, although
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      Need to raise HK lawyers' standards
      244 11  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE is not the only place that has seen the need to cap its pool of lawyers and raise their standards. Some people in Hongkong feel the same way about the profession there. The Hongkong Bar Association recently announced plans to
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      178 11 B j Drop anchor and enjoy the full < attention of the entire shipping industry. fV Shipping Times will publish a special feature in conjunction with SINGAPORT 94 International Maritime Exhibition and Conference, Asia's premier biennial maritime event, to be held in Singapore K? from March 22 to 25,1994. ONCE
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    Clinton's folly
    529 12 EDITORIAL THE Clinton administration's response to the eollapse of the weekend trade talks between the United States and Japan is disturbing news. Threatening trade sanctions against Japan for a transgression of dubious validity namely, failing to ensure that a US company. Motorola, won a certain quantitative share of
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      Business as usual in China
      190 12 WHAT DOES the future hold for post-Deng China? Western intellectual circles proclaim that there will be political dissension and insecurity. The more venturesome scenarios make dark mention of chaos as a weakening centre tries to hold on to fractious provinces. leading eventually to the country's
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    • Article
      Air strikes only a first step
      164 12 EVEN IF Nato carries out its threat of punitive air strikes against the Serbs around Sarajevo, the question will be: what is the next action? While the tough approach by Nato is appreciated by many, it is still short of a comprehensive solution to
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      Don't be a bully
      144 12 THE BREAKDOWN of talks between Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa and US President Bill Clinton may have caused the Nikkei Index to plunge but Mr Hosokawa is, nonetheless, regarded as a national hero because he said "no" to the US. US insistence on setting numerical targets
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      Holiday diplomacy
      205 12 TAIWANESE PRESIDENT Lee Teng-hui's South-east Asian tour is a new twist to the age-old politician's habit of making official visits as an excuse for a holiday. Since the beginning of the year. Mr Lee and his prime minister. Lien Chan, have been taking holidays as an excuse to
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      Control prices through supply
      174 12 THE Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs can check price levels wherever they are transacted from producer to wholesaler to retail. It reported on Saturday that prices for chicken had jumped 20 to 30 per cent in a matter of days. Such outrageous price rigging,
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      An international duty
      142 12 AMERICAN FRUSTRATION with Japanese trade protectionism is understandable. Years of negotiations, confrontation and mutual irritation have done little to reduce Japan's plethora of trade barriers. Nor have they dented the huge trade surplus Japan enjoys with the United States, at least partly as a result of those
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    Hungry for some 'India action'
    1267 12  -  Shiv Taneja examines the growing respectability of Indian equity Shiv Taneja THERE IS enough anecdotal evidence to show that India's integration into the world economy is well underway. The government's efforts at liberalising the economy and opening up the financial sector to the international marketplace
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  • ANALYSIS
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      A small country grows big potatoes
      1346 13  -  To accelerate its economic growth, China has turned to Singapore to tap its proven expertise in setting up industrial parks and in urban development. Yong Pow Ang discusses what both countries stand to gain and provides details of the massive projects in the works
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      The Singaporean soft spot for Jiangsu and Fujian
      620 13 SINGAPORE investors favour Jiangsu and Fujian provinces when developing industrial parks in China because of their economic potential. Jiangsu, one of the fastest and richest provinces in China, chalked up an economic growth of 27 per cent in 1992. Strategically located at
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    Lock icon US housing starts plunge 17pc, affected by storms, LA quake
    478 14 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter AP WASHINGTON Construction starts on new homes and apartments plunged at the sharpest rate in three years during January, the Commerce department said yesterday, as winter storms and the Los Angeles earthquake slashed building activity. The
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    Lock icon IAEA says nuclear inspection pact with North Korea only a first step
    451 14 AFP SEOUL The International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) yesterday said an inspections pact with North Korea was only a first step to checking nuclear plants and the agency would not abandon efforts to visit two suspect atomic sites.
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    Lock icon Beijing backs down after attack on new capital gains tax
    369 14 Eastern Express HONGKONG Fierce opposition in regions of China has forced Beijing to back down on a controversial new land tax. the first time it has bent to local demands since a new national tax system was introduced earlier this
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    Lock icon Taiwanese investors get preferential treatment in Beijing
    247 14 AP BEIJING Beijing is to give priority to Taiwan over other foreign investors in the capital city in all sectors including banking and finance, the official China Daily said yesterday. "Taiwanese investment will be the first consideration of the city's economic policy, the
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    Lock icon Brittan indicates wish to succeed Delors as EU's commission head
    366 14 AP PARIS Leon Brittan. Trade Commissioner of the European Union, yesterday entered the jockeying to succeed Jacques Delors as boss of the EU's executive commission. Though discretion pulled him up short of declaring his candidacy. Mr Brittan told the French
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    Bridging the supply and demand gap in infrastructure
    857 14  -  The Bottom Line ANTHONY ROWLEY ANTHONY ROWLEY The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent IT ISN'T by coincidence, bad planning or rivalry even that the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank are devoting lengthy reports this year to the question of physical
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    Lock icon China lifts ban on Washington apples in bid to reduce friction
    350 14 UPI BEIJING China has lifted a ban on apple imports from Washington state in an attempt to ward off growing friction over lack of US market access to China. Chinese and US officials said yesterday. Chinese quarantine service officials
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Shares of Rothmans units soar on special dividend pay-outs
      497 15  -  By Ven Sreenivasan THE SHARES of Rothmans of Pall Mall (Malaysia) Bhd and Rothmans Industries of Singapore surged yesterday on news that they will be paying special dividends to their shareholders. Rothmans Industries opened at 58.90 on the Singapore exchange and
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      Datapulse sets strike price provisionally at $1
      391 15  -  By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Datapulse Technology, the first Sesdaq listing to offer its shares for tender, has set the strike price for the tender portion of its shares at $1. The provisionally-set strike price represents a 54 per cent premium over the minimum
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      Lock icon Broking firm OSK Hldgs' pre-tax profit rockets by 506pc
      236 15 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Stockbroking firm OSK Holdings Bhd reported a 506 per cent jump in group operating pretax profit to MS 148.19 million (5584.4 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1993 from M 524.44 million in the corresponding period last
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      Is copyright suit the least of Aztech's problems?
      780 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Bernard Chew SINGAPORE The pending copyright action against Sesdaq hopeful Aztech Systems is widely seen as the single biggest risk factor facing investors eyeing shares in the world number three sound card maker's initial public offer. But does
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      India offers licence for paging services to Telekom Malaysia
      517 15 KUALA LUMPUR Telekom Malaysia has scored another success in its quest to strengthen its foothold in the international market, with an ofTer from the Indian Telecommunications Department to operate paging services in several major cities in India. Malaysian Business Times said
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        MARKET MOOD
        41 15 Steady Market \lood indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-ftpm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Alliance. Daiwa. Fraser. Kay Hian. Ongco Phillip. Smith \ew Court. Tat Lee and H I Can.
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        HOT STOCK
        149 15  -  By Paul Leo IGB Corp edged up to Si.sB yesterday, one cent above its resistance at SI. 57, signalling the start of a medium-term bull run. A trade above Si.7l will confirm the bullish view and the stock is likely within a few months to test its recent
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          OYL, Hong Leong in retail venture
          66 16 KUALA LUMPUR OYL Industries Bhd has entered into a joint venture with Hong Leong Industries Bhd to set up a company known as LeGuo Home Centre (M) Sdn Bhd to operate a chain of retail outlets for electrical products, furniture and other home products.
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          NatSteel unit sells stake
          60 16 SINGAPORE Eastern Industries, a fully owned subsidiary of Nat Steel Ltd, has sold off its 55 per cent interest in Eastern Erico Industries (amounting to 55,000 paid-up shares of $1 each) to Erico International Corp, a US company. Nat Steel said last night that Eastern Erico
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          Econ Piling lands first Lankan deal
          58 16 SINGAPORE Econ International announced last night that its fully owned subsidiary, Econ Piling, had secured its first piling contract in Sri Lanka. The 552.43 million contract was awarded by Ceylinco-Seylan Developments to Econ-Walker Joint Venture, a 50:50 joint venture between Econ Piling and Walker
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          PacCan unit buys M'sian builder
          79 16 SINGAPORE CKM Building Technology, a subsidiary of PacCan Construction, which is fully owned by Pacific Can Investments Holdings, has acquired the whole of the Ms 2 paid-up capital in Growth Plus Sdn Shd, a Malaysian company. This firm will change its name to CKM Building
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          HTP appoints new directors
          36 16 SINGAPORE HTP Holdings announced last night the appointment of Teo Chiang Long and Martin Yuen Ching Wei as directors of the company. Both have also been appointed members of the audit committee.
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          Lock icon Thai plastics giant posts lower profit
          89 16 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK TPI Polene Co, one of Thailand's largest producers of plastics and cement, posted a net profit for the quarter ended Dec 31 of 287 million baht (SslB million), down 34 per cent from the same period in 1993. The company's
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          Lock icon Tanayong enjoys profit rise
          90 16 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Thai property developer Tanayong Co said its net profit for the quarter ended Dec 31 was 128.2 million baht or 0.42 baht/share, an increase of 7.1 per cent from the same period the previous year. For the nine months ended Dec 31,
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          Corrections & clarifications
          94 16 Corrections clarifications We reported yesterday that Rothmans Industries Ltd had announced that its interim dividend will be paid on March 15 to shareholders on the company's register of members. It was also reported that those named as depositors in the register of the Central Depository Pte Ltd would be paid
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        Thailand's President Park Group plans listing next year
        180 16 BANGKOK The President Park Group plans to submit its listing proposal to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) next year after having drawn a strong buyer response from its development of the massive housing project along Pattanakarn Road. The Bangkok Post on Tuesday
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        Lock icon Kemayan Oil Palm plans to diversify into other sectors
        408 16 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Kemayan Oil Palm (KOP), doing well with five activities within the group, expects to diversify into other sectors including timber-related and financial services sectors through progressive development. KOP is presently involved in plantation, property development, property investment, development/construction-re-lated
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        Lock icon Kemayan Oil Palm sees '95 profit at M$30m
        439 16 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Kemayan Oil Palm (KOP) has forecast a group profit before tax but after minority interests of M 530.14 million (5517.2 million) for the year ending May 31, 1995 against a projected loss of M 5757,000 for 1994. The group
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        Lock icon Telekom staff appeal to Dr M over shares issue
        399 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Some 28,000 Telekom Malaysia employees will sign a memorandum of appeal to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad expressing the disappointment of non-executive staff with management. They claim management has denied them their rights as workers. The decision was
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        Manila SEC to penalise firms for not sharing surplus profits
        502 16  -  From AL Labita in MANILA MANILA'S securities officials have adopted new policies to protect minority stockholders in listed firms and promote issuance of warrants. Under a recently issued memorandum, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would now impose penalties on
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        Lock icon Singer to begin production in Vietnam
        180 16 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Singer Co will begin making sewing machines and assembling products such as television sets and appliances in Vietnam through a joint venture in Ho Chi Minh City. Singer said yesterday it would establish a retail distribution network in Vietnam,
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        Lock icon Land & General posts 49pc higher pre-tax of M$151m
        158 16 Land General posts 49pc higher pre-tax of M$151m Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Land General Berhad has registered a 49 per cent increase in pre-tax profit to MS 151.26 million (SSB6 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1993, from MS 101.25 million in 1992. This represented the sixth consecutive year in
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        Competition from China hits profit of three CP units
        451 16  -  From Alan Boyd in BANGKOK CHAROEN Pokphand, Thailand's largest agri-business group, has blamed increased competition from China for a drop in profit at three of its four listed subsidiaries in 1993. CP Northeastern Co, Bangkok Agro-Industry Products and Bangkok Produce Merchandising
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          Lock icon Formosa Plastics profit falls 7pc
          73 18 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Corp said pre-tax net income dropped 7 per cent from the previous month to NTS33O million (5519.5 million) in January. Sales fell 3.9 per cent from the previous month to NT52.47 billion in January, the company said in a statement.
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          Lock icon Apple gets into the picture
          57 18 Reuter TOKYO Apple Computer executive vice-president lan Diery showing how to look through the viewfinder of new digital camera Quick Take 100, launched in Tokyo yesterday for sales worldwide at US$749 (551,109). The camera captures images in two sizes and delivers digital colour images into
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          Lock icon Hongkew posts HK$33m profit
          65 18 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong's investment company Hongkew International Holdings said its net profit for the six months ended Dec 31, 1993 was HK532.77 million (556.5 million). In a statement, the company said earnings per share was 28 HK cents, while the fully diluted earnings per
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          Lock icon Foreign buying of Taiwan stocks soars
          85 18 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Foreign financial institutions bought a net NTS 1.17 billion (5570.6 million) of Taiwan stocks on Tuesday, the Commercial Times reported, citing the Taiwan Stock Exchange data. For the first 15 days of February, foreign institutions' net purchases were NTS 2.6
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        Lock icon Mobil returns to India in tie-up with state-run firm
        176 18 AFP NEW DELHI US oil giant Mobil Petroleum Co Inc and state-run Indian Oil Corp announced the formation of a joint venture yesterday, resurrecting a partnership that broke up 20 years ago. The creation of Indo Mobil Pvt Ltd marks the
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        Lock icon British chemical firms rush to grab China business
        467 18 Reuter LONDON British chemical and petrochemical companies say the race is on to gain a toehold in China, a chemicals market that may overtake even the United States in size by the end of the century. "It's a huge rush," says Martin
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        Lock icon China struggles to clean up securities trading, fight fraud
        589 18 AFP BEIJING As China struggles to establish a unified framework to regulate securities trading, blatant fraud and insider dealing on the country's fledgling stock markets are going largely unpunished. Supervisory bodies exist, including the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) set up
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        Lock icon HK's Jusco Stores takes slow and steady approach to expansion
        545 18 Reuter HONGKONG While the whole world rushes to corner the China market, Tatsuichi Yamaguchi is not in a hurry. "We've had offers from people saying how about putting a store in this region in this development," says the head of
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        Lock icon British Rail's frozen assets'
        48 18 Reuter LONDON She'll be waiting by the railroad, all the livelong day. And she's not alone in her predicament. Heavy snow forced British Rail to abandon its branch line service on Tuesday to keep its main routes open. Thousands of commuters were affected. Reuter
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        Lock icon Taiwan's Acer set for 35-40 pc growth in revenue this year
        246 18 Reuter NEW YORK Acer America Corp is expecting continued strong revenue growth in the range of 35-40 per cent for 1994 as the personal computer industry continues its boom, its president Ronald Chwang says. Mr Chwang told Reuter the
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        Lock icon Canon's earnings halved, hit by strong yen
        180 18 AFP TOKYO Japanese camera and office equipment maker Canon Corp said yesterday its pre-tax earnings plunged 51.5 per cent to 37.4 billion yen (***** million) in the year to December, blaming the stronger yen. The company said sales declined 2.5 per cent to
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        Lock icon Sanyo not ready for robust growth yet: analysts
        327 18 Reuter TOKYO Sanyo Electric Co is on the road to recovery because of business restructuring it began in 1993. but robust growth may be some distance away, analysts say. The consumer electronics maker expects its operating loss to shrink six billion yen
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        Lock icon Who is really the winner and who the loser?
        702 17 Viacom's winning bid for Paramount Communications Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Wall Street was debating on Tuesday whether Viacom really is the "winner" of the bidding war for Paramount Communications. Viacom, for sure, outlasted rival bidder QVC Network and for US$lO
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        Lock icon Viacom creating a media powerhouse
        346 17 Reuter PHILADELPHIA Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, flush with his victory in the five-month takeover battle for Paramount Communications, said he was on the verge of creating a media "super powerhouse." "We really think we're on the verge of building a super powerhouse in the media
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        Lock icon The 5-month battle...
        699 17 Bloomberg Business News Sep 12, 1993 Viacom agrees to acquire Paramount Communications in a cash-and-stock-swap for US$B.2 billion (S$ 13.03 billion), or U5569.14 for each Paramount share. Sep 13 Speculation swirls that a rival bidder will emerge for Paramount, including Bertelsmann AG, Capital Cities/ABC. Turner Broadcasting System
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        Lock icon Ringgit trading dries up after Bank Negara squeeze
        619 19 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The latest move by Bank Negara to make offshore players pay dearly for holding onto their ringgit has slowed down trading in the Malaysian currency, dealers said yesterday. Ringgit liquidity has been choked off* they added, and wary interbank
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        Lock icon Japanese insurers not selling US bonds yet
        370 19 Reuter TOKYO Japanese major insurers say they have no plans now to liquidate massive US bond portfolios despite the recent nosedive of the dollar against the yen. But they said yesterday that they had to step up forward dollar sales to hedge against
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        Chase appoints first S'porean country manager
        248 19  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE After 30 years in Singapore, Americanowned Chase Manhattan Bank has announced the appointment of its first Singaporean country manager. Gabriel Teo, 42, took over yesterday from Michael Barrett, who will return to the US with Chase in March. Mr Teo
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          Lock icon China investment fund in the red
          85 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Lloyd George-Standard Chartered China Fund Ltd said yesterday its net loss was HK5307,03! (5563.000) for the six months ended Dec 31, 1993. The company, which invests in China and Hongkong securities markets, reported a net loss of HKSI.O4 million for
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          Lock icon Chinese savings up despite spending
          80 19 Reuter BEIJING Bank deposits across China grew 3.7 billion yuan (SS67O million) to 1.48 trillion yuan in January over December despite New Year shopping sprees, the official China Daily reported yesterday. January retail spending rose 22 per cent from January 1993 to 119.2 billion yuan
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          Lock icon Deutsche to return bad loans to Banesto
          85 19 Reuter MADRID Deutsche Bank on Tuesday said it expected to return 20 billion pesetas (***** million) in "non-performing" or bad loans to the Banesto bank group by March as part of its purchase agreement for Banco de Madrid. A Deutsche Bank AG official
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          Lock icon HK bank allowed to open Taipei office
          72 19 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI The Ministry of Finance has approved an application by the Commercial Bank of Hongkong to open a representative office in Taipei, the ministry said yesterday. The bank would be the third from Hongkong to open in Taiwan, along with
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        Lock icon US banking regulators lift order on Citicorp
        155 19 NYT NEW YORK Citicorp, the largest US banking company, said on Tuesday that federal regulators had released it from the strict supervision under which it had operated for two years. In February 1992, after mounting losses from bad real estate loans and other
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        Lock icon Steel back in demand after three-year decline: OECD
        459 20 Reuter PARIS World demand for steel is expected to rise this year after falling for three consecutive years, the OECD said in a report released on Tuesday just as European steel industry leaders headed for Brussels to discuss output cuts. The Organisation
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        Lock icon Dalian refinery to start operating in mid-1995
        274 20 Reuter SINGAPORE China's first refinery with foreign equity will start operating in mid--1995, although much of the hardware will be installed by the end of this year, a source at one of the companies involved in the project said. "The commissioning of the
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        159 20 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Kobe Steel Ltd, Japan's fifth largest steel maker, will join Texas Instruments of Dallas in a venture to market clad metals in Japan. Clad metals are composite materials formed by bonding together two different metals to produce a
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        234 20 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY North Broken Hill Peko Ltd and Japan's Sumitomo group of companies will increase production from the new Northparkes gold-cop-per mine by more than 40 per cent. Northparkes, about 280 km north-west of Sydney, is 80 per cent-owned by North Broken
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        250 20 Bloomberg Business News MELBOURNE Three Australian oil companies yesterday said they had struck oil in an exploration well in the Timor Sea of Indonesia. The Elang-1 well is located in a zone of cooperation between the Indonesian island of Timor and the
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        278 20 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Money management firm Finasa Thai plans to create a US$5O million (SS79 million) fund to invest in Vietnam within the next couple of months, said the Eugene Davis, a managing director at the company. Mr Davis said the country's
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        314 20 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON Trust Bank, New Zealand's fifth-larg-est bank, yesterday said it will sell 20 per cent of the bank in a public share sale. A prospectus detailing the sale will be issued early next month, the bank said.
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        229 20 Bloomberg Business News BASEL Swiss Bank Corp. one of three major Swiss universal banks, yesterday said its 1993 net profit rose 36 per cent to 1.365 billion Swiss francs (551.488 billion). The result was above analysts' forecasts, and caused the SBC
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        184 20 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg LONDON Crude oil futures rose on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday, while refined products were mixed after the American Petroleum Institute's weekly report. Traders had widely anticipated rcduccd crude and heating oil stockpiles in the US after the extreme
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        147 20 THE USS opened higher across the board yesterday, having made gains in European and North American markets. The USS/SS opened at 1.5900-20. having touched a high of 1.6000 overnight. A large commercial buying order was responsible for the initial spurt and the move triggered stop
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        175 20 Reuter LONDON The dollar drifted sideways during a quiet European morning session with the market happy to sit back and take a breather after the excitement in dollar/yen over the past couple of days. "After such a wild time it's not surprising to see people take it easy... but
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        84 20 AFP NEW YORK The dollar edged lower yesterday against the other major currencies except the yen in quiet trading in New York. Gold slipped 50 cents from Tuesday's closing price to U*****.30 an ounce. At 9:35 am (1435 GMT), the dollar was trading at 103.90 yen, up slightly
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        1675 20 Trade-weighted index calculated against S pore's top 14 trading partners Base year 198* US$/S$ forward rates Noon Feb 16 ss Bid Offer 1-month 1 5898 I.$91J 2-month 1.5895 1.5910 3-month 1.5893 1 5908 6-month 1 5888 1.5908 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES to at 10m m Fafc IS: Singapore
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        1360 21 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures closed lower on the yen's retraeement against the dollar in Asia yesterday. Dealers said there was little activity in the morning hut trade picked up later in the afternoon as speculators came in. A dealer with a US commission
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        KL tin closes at 10-month high
        702 21 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin MALAYSIAN tin closed at a new 10-month high of MS 14.76 a kg after a weaker ringgit against the US dollar attracted foreign and local demand, traders said. The metal rose 40 sen from Tuesday. "Apart from currency factors. prices moved
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          87 21 TOKYO Japanese output of zinc galvanised steel fell to a preliminary 845.700 tonnes in January. down 16.5 per cent from a year earlier, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation said yesterday. The total is up 0.4 per cent from the revised December production total of
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          Nickel premiums expected to fall
          100 21 TOKYO Premiums paid on shipments of nickel are expected to decline sharply with the lifting of an 11-year-old US ban on imports of the metal from the former Soviet Union, industry sources here say. The US Treasury Department said on Tuesday it had lifted the
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          Japan's copper imports down
          85 21 TOKYO Japan's customs-cleared imports of copper and its alloys fell 3.9 per cent to a total of 29.951 tonnes in January, according to a preliminary report released yesterday by the Ministry of Finance. The value of the copper imports fell 19.4 per cent from a year
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        COMMODITY PRICES
        1577 21 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchango (future* dosing at at 1»") RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Mar 94 137.75 137.50 137.50 300 i~500 Apr 142.00 139 00 139.25 1,850 5,150 May 141.50 140 75 141.25 1,050 6,025 Jun 143.25 141.75 142.25
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        Australia
        1252 22 15 Stronger overseas bourses helped lift the Australian stock market to a higher close yesterday, reversing the falls of the previous two days, brokers said. The All Ordinaries closed up 15 points at 2,249.0 off a 2,253.1 high. One analyst said investors are awaiting the outcome of the US-Japan
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        Bombay
        71 22 -92.71 Share prices edged down in low volume kerb deals as market players wanted to reduce their carry forward positions ahead of today's end of account in specified shares, brokers said. During the official trading session, prices fell sharply as there were virtually no buyers while local financial institutions
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        Manila
        572 22 +o.7pc Philippine share prices rose for a second straight day on buying in blue-chip issues and selected second liners as well as good showings in the mining and oil counters, analysts said. The composite price indices in the country's rival bourses climbed 0.70 per cent, with the Manila Stock
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        Taipei
        524 22 -122.38 Taiwan stocks reversed early gains to end 2 per cent lower on a late wave of selling focused on the financial sector. The index opened 100 points up, but soon came off and closed 122.38 points down at 5,862.63. Turnover was a moderate NT558.31 billion against Tuesday's NT550.53
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        Seoul
        429 22 18.62 Healthy interest in blue chip manufacturings and improved investor sentiment in reaction to North Korea's decision to accept international inspection of its nuclear sites pushed stocks sharply higher, brokers said. The composite stock index closed 18.62 points, or 2.06 per cent, higher on 920.43. Brokers said blue chips
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        New Zealand
        297 22 -8 The New Zealand share market drifted to a weaker close as a consolidation phase was prolonged by uncertainty in overseas financial markets. The New Zealand Stock Exchange Top 40 index closed eight points lower at 2,311.92 in volume worth a modest NZ$5O million. Brokers reported that foreign
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        London
        777 22 +24.5 The FTSE 100 closed well up on the day amid renewed hopes of another 0.25 point interest rate cut after a plethora of data showed economic recovery faltering. A strong performance by Wall Street also helped UK shares. The index closed up 24.5 points at 3,417.7, and some
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        Amsterdam
        249 22 +1.71 Dutch shares closed slightly higher buoyed by advances in equities in the US and UK. Financial stocks led the pack on the perception that they had lagged the market and on hopes for a German rate cut today. The AEX index finished up 1.71 at 429.90 points. Bank
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        Zurich
        270 22 +22.57 Swiss shares ended firmer in what dealers described as a technical reaction to recent strong losses. The market was also supported by the release of Swiss Bank Corporation's 1993 profit figures, which were slightly above analysts' expectations and which triggered buying in shares in other major Swiss banks.
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        Paris
        117 22 +6.35 French shares finished firmer, after spending much of the day below Tuesday's close. Traders said much of the business was futures driven with the cash market still looking for fresh momentum. The CAC-40 index closed up 6.35 points, or 0.28 per cent, at 2,264.32. Volume was around 4.5
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        Stockholm
        128 22 1.78pc Swedish shares ended sharply higher for the second day in row despite a shaky debt market. Interest was focused on index-heavy shares, particularly Ericsson after its Wall Street climb. Dealers were surprised by the market's continued strength. The OMX-index ended up a sharp 1.78 per cent at 1,192.85
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        Frankfurt
        194 22 +0.99pc German share prices shrugged off weak bund futures prices and closed the bourse session higher, supported by low-level foreignled buying of blue chips and speculation the Bundesbank could cut rates today, dealers said. The DAX index ended at 2,136.61, up 0.99 per cent or 20.99 points on the
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        Brussels
        153 22 -0.49 Belgian shares ended mixed after an erratic session during which bouts of basket activity sent the Bel-20 stock index zig-zagging in a 10-point range. The Bel-20 finished 0.49 points or 0.03 per cent lower at 1,522.68, with volume boosted to 2.14 billion francs worth of shares by the
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        Milan
        132 22 10 Shares ended overall flat after a see-saw session where a late pick-up in investor demand compensated for earlier profit-taking, traders said. Fiat recovered from earlier falls to end up 1.19 per cent as investor interest returned, with Montedison also spurred. The Mibtel index ended up 10 points at
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        Johannesburg
        272 22 1 South African shares posted gains as the recovery from recent lows continued, but dealers said investors remained wary about political developments. The gold index added 37 points to 1,874 and the industrial index was a point better at 5,590. The overall index made 40 points to 4,782. F<fc
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        Toronto
        295 22 10.85 Toronto stocks edged higher in nervous early trading yesterday hampered by a sluggish Canadian dollar and uncertainty over the Feb 22 federal budget. Gains in financial services, mining and consumer products were restrained by losses in transportation and energy stocks. The TSE 300 Composite Index was up 10.85
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        541 22 Vienna Ft* 16 A*i +/T AUA 2120 55 Bank Atrana (PI J9* 5 (amuniia 1055 -9 FhaghaJien 57J 8 Lnvina 1215 12 Lryfcam 422 2 Slryrr-O P 216 I Sirahaj I9W 15 Vcmrtrr M2 unch WKimtnn 4110 40 Source: Bank Austria Aktiengesellchaft Nasdaq Krh 15 L'SS AAitpti < oor» Brrwing
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        New York
        737 22 +6.47 The Dow Jones industrial average was ahead 6.47 points to 3,934.74 at 11 am EST yesterday. The key barometer was up more than 20 points earlier. The New York Stock Exchange composite index was ahead 0.67 to 263.03, while the S&P 500 index was up 1.34 to
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      3208 23 Reuter HONGKONG Shares finished with sharp losses after being hit by a late wave of overseas selling amidst a lack of buying interest, brokers said. The blue chip Hang Seng Index tumbled 378.19 points, or 3.43 per cent, to close at 10.634.14 despite an initial 107point jump to a
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      CHINA
      486 23 THE CLSA Shanghai B Index took a breather to edge up 8.52 points to 904.36 in thin volume. Underperformers Lian Hua. Refrigerator and Tyre Rubber rebounded some 5 per cent yesterday. Erfangji and Dazhong also rose another 5-6 per cent. However, Dajiang was among the few losers dipping 8.2
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      2520 23 Reuter TOKYO The Nikkei recovered slightly but lack of fresh news on the Japan-US trade row sidelined investors, leaving the Nikkei hovering around 19.100. The Nikkei is seen hovering around these levels until fresh developments emerge in the trade issue, brokers said. "Tokyo shares depend on what happens to
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      1806 23 Reuter BANGKOK Thai stocks closed up IS. 14 points at 1.429.11 on renewed shortterm optimism and signs the index will again today, brokers said. "The SET index and its volume show promising signs for a continued surge tomorrow." said Thanade Kantigaroon. an analyst from Ekachart Finance and Securities. "Besides,
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      1152 23 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closcd lower in slow trading yesterday. brokers said. The composite index ended at 574.8. a loss of 7.9 points. Bank International Indonesia fell 17.4 per cent to 7,025 rupiah on thin volume. A cross deal of 23.5 million shares of Gajah Tunggal or 11.9 per
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2738 24 MOST ACTIVE volu»m AMDB 50c 22.968 000 Promcl 6.592.000 Kamunting 50c 6.404.000 Asa Pac Ld 5.765.000 Fiber Group 4.129.000 General Corp 4.255.000 IGB Cofpn TSR 3.808.000 Idm Hvd 50c 3.740.000 Kcnong Bhd 50c 3.676.000 Ind Oxyjcn W|95 3.291.000 Mcnanc Corp 3.239.000 Sn Hartamas 3.164.000 Mulpha Inil 50c 2.735.000
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        5750 24 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share prices here moved sideways and closed mixed yesterday. Prices were at their highs in the afternoon, but late profit-taking erased earlier gains. The Emas Index of all main board shares ended 0.77 of a point easier at 321.43, while
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        7017 25 MWHBOAW) Transaction date: Feb 1< Cr Cr 1993/94 Last Vol Day Last Qaott Di> Di» YM Net M Cap High Low Coapaay Salt COM) High Loo Baytr Seller CVr X P E tail INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1440 260 I Acma 1130 unch 174 1160 1120 1120 1130 12.5 2.1 I.I
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        Lock icon Gains in US, recovery in Tokyo lift local sentiment
        1886 26  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Sentiment on the local bourse was lifted yesterday by overnight gains in the US and the recovery of Japanese stocks. The Straits Times Industrials Index rose 11.85 points to close at 2,341.38, while the broader-based BT Composite
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      380 15 NEWS VALUE Hon today 's news might affect your stoiks US-Japan trade tensions worsen (Pg I) Tokyo stocks had a slight reprieve yesterday. Investors waiting on sidelines for fresh developments and watching yen-USS rate. S'pore market up, KL, Hongkong down (Pg l) s pore market expected to take cue from
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      Sembawang Maritime buys stake in ferry business
      262 27  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Sembawang Maritime has moved into the regional ferry business. It signed a sales and purchase agreement yesterday under which it will buy 70 per cent of Singapore-based Kalpin's ferry business for $12.6 million cash. The deal is expected to
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      310 27 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The KJang Port Authority (KPA) bas been asked to cooperate with the Ministry of Trade and Industry in working out activities in the North Port and South Port which have been declared Free Commercial gones (FCZ), Transport Minister
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      152 27 Knight-Ridder SAN FRANCISCO Financial services giant TransamericaCorp on Monday said it has reached a definitive agreement to buy Tiphook pic's container assets for US$l.l billion (SSI.7 billion). The companies first announced the agreement on Nov 19. Transamerica said it expects to close
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      852 27 Page Col ABC Containerize 12 5 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 •APL 5 3-5 Appenship 8 4/5 *#ANL 3 1/2 •ASCL 5 5 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 •Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 •Bank Line, The 9 5 Barbican Line 4
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      446 27  -  US line opens office in Ho Chi Minh City By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE American President Lines (APL) and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) have agreed to extend an existing space charter agreement until the year 2005. Hongkong-based OOCL said in a statement yesterday the
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      221 27 Knight-Ridder SYDNEY A national strike by Australian wharf workers worsened yesterday with claims by the Maritime Union of Australia that employers are working to inflame the dispute. Employees of the company Australian Stevedores in 13 ports went on strike late on Tuesday, joining workers
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      Lock icon Seoul to open up shipping routes next year
      193 27 AFP SEOUL The government will for the first time allow foreign shipping companies to compete with South Korean lines on routes between South Korea, China and Russia starting next year, the Maritime and Port Administration said here on Tuesday. The use of
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        482 28 Voir No Berth Arrival Dgrtn V»$«) Voy No Berth Armal Departwt Jurong Port cnengtu 2S P02 1702/0700 1802/2300 Aui.a Seraya AS/07/94 J6 atongwte 17 02/1700 Crown Reefer 1/94 P06 1702/2000 20 02/0600 fctam indan N100 J7/8 alongside 1702/2300 Eastern Q 05E/94 P096 16.02/1900 17.02/1900 Pew. Fortuna 04/94
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1062 28 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCt CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Racord Booking/Balance Rsits tap Voy No Etb/Btr Pariod From To From icx Daisy 049A 19/0700 3 17/0700 17/1159 17/1400 4 17/1700 17/1459 17/1700 to Jadt 1768 18/1100 2 16/1700 17/0659 17/0900 4
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      9316 36 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. LEGEM) PN: ship calls at Pcnang after
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      SHIPPING AGENTS
      3089 41 A«c Agenaes Pte Ltd (SyMarine Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Groap: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SVAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Bmlmm Corvoratioa Philinoiae Calsource Shpg A Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahreakiei Liacr Service: Kim ShpgA Trdg(S). AXw Sea-Air Servicr. Frau Shpg Pte Ud (S). AIM C Toepfcr Line:
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      COURIER SERVICES
      275 41 Abacus Courier* Tel: 545-8011. Ft*: 545-1898. Air Express Trod Td: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144. Airborae Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fax: 542-3716. *****80. Akiwift Worldwide Coarier Td: 278-0188. Fax: 273-8283. AJS Supplies Td: 748-6322 (2 Unes), 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. City-Liak lateraatioaal Td: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450. Clatter Liak Sopites k Sen
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      AIR FORWARDERS
      1472 41 Ahax Exams Freight Td: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Acdaic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Acthair Siagagora Tei: 542-7822: Fax: *****20. Aeroiink Fr*i®ht Intcrnibcoti Td: 545-803TF«x: *****05. Tet" 342-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Noro Expraas Td: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Expraas lataraatioaal Td: 542-7666. Fax: *****74. *****50. Air Market Expreaa
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      PORT CONDITIONS
      2337 42 ALBANIA Dunes: Three vessels in port discharging bagged flour, 1 vessel awaiting berth to load chrome ore. ARGENTINA Diamante: No vessels berthed, no vessels in roads, max draft 18 ft 8 ins. San Lorenzo: Two vessels loading soyapellets, 1 vessel in roads to load soyapellets, 20 vessels due
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      1149 33 A I MULTILINE SHIPPING PTE LTD mm (a member of SINSOV Group) CR NO: **********0 C ENQUIRIES: *****33 BOOKINGS: *****64, *****51, *****31. *****13 BALTIC: INWARD *****97 OUTWARD *****10 T/S *****10 ifrv ,4k BLASCO: INWARD *****65 OUTWARD *****28 T/S *****46 FESCO: BOOKINGS *****06 DOC *****07 MARINE INSURANCE: *****87 INVENTORY: *****59 AGENTS:
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      835 34 ©APPENSHIP /Q\ HAMBURG WW CONVENTIONAL A INDEPENDENT LINER SERVICE V-X EUROPE TO SOUTH EAST ASIA AND FAR EAST VESSELS LOADING PORTS DISCHARGE/LOAOAG FOR UNISON ANTWERP 5.2.94 11.3 94 INZHENER PARKHONYUK TARRAGONA 74 94 HONESTY HAMBURG 22 2 94 29 3 94 HARMEN OLDENOORFF HAMBURG 16.2.94 25.3.94 KOALA CONTAINER LINE I^l
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      982 35 I f PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD 1 j SSSSSSIS 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. I CR NO **********0E I > VESSEL VOY SIN CMB JIB JED AOJ AOE HOO PZU ASA t KOTA WUAYA WJAO37 17/2 22/2 2/3 4/3 6/S 3/3 7/3 11/3 > KOTA BERK
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      198 38 SHINYEI SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD U||f} 10 ANSON ROAD #15-01/02 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA SINGAPORE 0207 CR NO: 1M*****000N HOT LINE: *****38 (8 LINES) EUROPE ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG FELIXSTOWE 20/2/94 LEHAVRE/ANTWERP MEDITERRANEAN Barcelona, Marseille, genoa 24/2/94 USA LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK 20/2/94 'ALL IPI DESTINATIONS. f NATIONAL EXPRESS 1" FORWARDERS (S) PTE LTD
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      639 39 (fc FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 21/2 ROTTERDAM 21/2 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 24/2 HAMBURG/BREMEN 21/2 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 22/2 FEIIXSTOWE/UK 21/2 BARCELONA/SPAIN 21/2 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 21/2 GENOA/ITALY 21/2 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 21/2 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 20/2 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 18/2 NEW YORK/EC 18/2 FREMANTLE/AOELAIDE 18/2 VANCOUVER 18/2
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      682 39 Guaranteed Sailings to: BANGKOK LAEM CHABANG JAKARTA PORT KELANG: •HO CHI MINH MANILA CEBU •SURABAYA PENANG HONGKONG We also serve other ports: USA, EUROPE, CHINA AND ALL DESTINATIONS\ pi PONGNAMA LINE Kissa ~sk ms an n m mc SARONC tuoa ¥4031 Xl/I 29/2 21/2 22/2 4/1 t/3 Hongkong aan nn
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      1711 40 ■LAJIMN CONTAINER LINES, INC 12IV/VVI Agents; MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) (PANAMA) Wv/ Jem Hot **********0 c SIBU (064) *****9 KUCHING (062) *****3 PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK (662) *****57 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANG: (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 HKG/TWN/BKK I GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN
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      192 40 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND TRADING CO (S) PTE LTD (i* ii» lu STOK mi KtIMK PtNAAG HUI l«* 24/2 20/2 loiifcng toi MU* RUVM HUOHU 28 2 Drvhjipng and loading to* Bombai ooirwi 22 2 U 2 loading for Mdfcr no*!* surttit 2/2 loading lot Mate UMMIOH 13 Loadmc lor Malf
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      1079 40 THONG SOON UNES PTE LTD 1 I /\V\ 78 SHENTON WAY #10 01. SINGAPORE 0207 I I W\ J TEL: 227-5088 FAX: 227-6011 I j TLX: RS ***** CARRER, RS ***** iENHOL CABLE: TOSOCO I SINGAPORE TO SARAWAK VESSEL ~W SPORE IDEST VESSEL VOT SPORE DEsT EQUATOR JADE 103/4E 19
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      288 44 I J. VIGOUR PACIFIC LINES I I M'" "M _—MIUCTi OCyi¥R#E VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE MANILA VIGOUR SINGAPORE 9408N 18/02/94 26/02/94 VIGOUR SINGAPORE 9408 AN 21/02/94 26/02/94 LOAMNG EVERY VIGOUR PACfIC 9409N 25/02/94 05/03/94 D Y Y vigour P.chc CONTAIHgRteBVttE VESSEL VOYAGE SINGAPORE I PORT KLANG PENANG SINGAPORE 50(101 1 9403N
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      305 44 G8 AMY I ON HOLIDAYS WHEN YOU SHIP WITH US Jvjt BHEAKBULK «t CONSOLIDATION SERVICES PTE LTD ()ll LJOckXm/ W b HOUSE 37 lH»lin lUII Singapore 0208 Tel: 225 8332 fax 224 3343 TITIMAS SHIPPING U TRADING SDN. BHD. TITIMAtp KELANG (03)*****55 (H/Lil») Fax: 03-*****63 Tt»: MA 3—ls TIIIT* VESSELS
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