The Business Times, 15 April 1994

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  • 13 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Friday April 15 1994 75 c
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 57 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks rose at mid-session yesterday, buoyed by gains in oil shares. At 2pm EDT, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 3.56 points at 3,665.03. But in the broader market, declining issues led advances 5-4 on New York Stock Exchange volume
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    • 63 1 Reuter TURIN, Italy Tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, expected to be Italy's next prime minister, has been summoned to testify in a corruption case involving one of his companies. Judicial sources last night said magistrates wanted to question the businessman-turned politician next week about allegations
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  • 152 1 mdnt IMHms Thursday Change STII 2,237.37 +5.71 KLSEComp 1,021.30 -8.15 Nikkei 19,987.20 -73.21 HantSeos 9,600.63 -153.13 SET Index closed Jakarta Comp 467.38 +4.77 CLSA China B 995.91 +22.75 AustAllOrd 2,095.0 -19.7 FTSE 100 3,131.7 -14.1 Tharsday Picrim 2pm dose Dow Jones 3,665.03 3,661.47 Average 0! prime or •qaivatofit lending rite
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  • 501 1  -  By A J Leow, Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE Local hotels have been experiencing exceptionally high occupancy rates this year, and industry sources say the situation looks like continuing for some time. The past week saw most hotels fully booked, with some of
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  • 268 1 SINGAPORE Several leading hotels will be raising their room rates by up to 15 per cent before the second half of the year. Hyatt Regency's director of sales, Brandon Chan, said the hotel would raise most of its published rates by $10
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  • 405 1  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Singapore has offered to host in 1996 the first ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a body which will be formed next year to replace the 47-year-old world trade watchdog, the General Agreement on Tariffs and
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  • 359 1  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON A LARGE delegation of Chinese trade officials is starting a two-week visit to the United States in the hope of improving trade and diplomatic relations between the two countries. The trip comes as pressure from
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  • 347 1 Reuter LONDON Dealers said waves of US dollar-buying against yen by the Bundesbank yesterday on behalf of the Bank of Japan raised speculation that the Group of Seven are gearing up for a combined assault to push the yen
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  • 307 1 SINGAPORE The regional bourses ended mixed on low to moderate volume yesterday. In Singapore, the Straits Times Industrials Index managed to rise 5.71 points to 2,237.37 on selected blue chip buying. Turnover was a low 96.1 million units valued at 5326.12 million less than half the
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  • 208 1 Bush urged to raise issue while in Singapore Reuter WASHINGTON President Clinton said yesterday it would be a mistake for Singapore to cane an American youth, adding he would be grateful if former president George Bush raised the issue while there. "If he (Mr Bush)
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 303 2  -  By Corinne Kerk AFTER the traditionally high-spending month of December, dining and wining tapered off in January. Figures from the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board show that January food and beverage cess collection was $5.3 million, down from $6.1 million in December. The January cess collection
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    • 390 2  -  By Soh Tiang Keng INSURANCE co-op NTUC Income will launch a medical plan on May 1 as an alternative to Medishield Plus, which the Central Provident Fund will offer from July 1. Income's general manager. Tan Kin Lian, said yesterday that lncomeshield
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    • 348 2 THE property at the centre of a failed reverse takeover attempt for listed Causeway Investments a four-storey factory in Moonstone Lane ofT Serangoon Road has been sold for $16.8 million. According to sources, the freehold property with a site area of 30,077 sq ft and
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    • 316 2 SINGAPORE Network Services has formed a US$l.5 million (552.3 million) joint venture firm in Mauritius to operate an electronic data interchange (EDI) network there. The venture is called Mauritius Network Services. SNS will hold a 40 per cent stake while Maurinet Investment will hold
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    • 360 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi TANG Wcc Cheng, who has relinquished eontrol of the landmark Dynasty Hotel to his two younger brothers, may be looking to acquire hotels overseas* Sources said Mr Tang is expected to pursue his "personal interests" after the hotel formally
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    • 337 2 WAREHOUSING and transport group YCH is considering raising prices to partly ofTset the higher rent it has to pay to operate out of the $400 million Keppel Distripark. YCH senior manager of operations Terence Tan said yesterday in response to a
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    • 420 2 WITH a sophisticated infrastructure that is constantly being upgraded to keep its competitive edge, Singapore will continue to be an attractive base for procuring quality components and materials. DBS Bank, in its latest research report Singapore Briefing, said international procurement offices
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 412 3 Reuter, AFP NEW YORK Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said his government has made great strides in improving workers' rights and is hopeful the United States will continue to extend its trade benefits. However, echoing a growing theme among developing nations,
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    • 322 3 AP, AFP PHNOM PENH Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad arrived yesterday for a two-day official visit to Cambodia, leading a 126-member delegation with a heavy representation of businessmen. The visit is to strengthen relations and explore means of economic cooperation, Cambodian Minister of
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    • 63 3 AFP TOKYO Asia is expected to overtake Europe this year to become the second-biggest regional borrower front Japanese banks after North America, a Japanese newspaper predicted yesterday. The Nikkei said the expected development reflected strong demand from governments and companies in Asia seeking
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    • 97 3 Reuter BOMBAY Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, wooing India's vast population of Harijans or untouchables, appealed to his people yesterday to end centuries of caste discrimination across the country. "Only when caste discrimination stops and political parties stop getting mileage out of these
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    • 136 3 Reuter SEOUL Foreign investment in South Korea totalled U*****.2 million (Ss4o9 million) in the first quarter of this year, down 22.4 per cent from U*****.46 million a year earlier, the finance ministry said. But a ministry spokesman said the number of investment projects had
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    • 329 3 AFP MANILA A Japanese and six LIS Arms have expressed interest in bidding for the construction of a 40-megawatt geothermal power plant at Mount Apo in the southern Philippines, a subsidiary of stateowned Philippine National Oil Co (PNOC) said yesterday.
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    • 261 3 AFP MANILA A private business organisation, backed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), yesterday launched a project to modernise the Philippine capital market by introducing wide-ranging changes. The Capital Market Development Project (CMDP) is being implemented by the Financial Executives Institute
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    • 358 3 AFP PHNOM PENH Cambodia's finance, mines and industry ministers are among the busiest men in Phnom Penh these days, with double-booked appointment calendars and investors waiting in the hallways well after business hours to see them. If anyone thinks that the lifting of the US
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    • 272 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian authorities looked to Singapore for help yesterday, after a consignment of gold bars destined for a commercial bank in Kuala Lumpur was stolen on a flight from Singapore. The 25 missing ingots, weighing a kg each, were worth a total
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    • 233 3 AFP HANOI Vietnam must give legal protection to software companies before it will see any major growth in its domestic information industry, an IBM executive said yesterday. Plans to develop the dataentry and software-writing industries labour intensive sectors that have been slowly
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 494 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's booming economy slowed in the first quarter of this year and is heading for a soft landing, the official China Daily reported. Officials from the State Information Centre, the government's leading forecasting unit, told the
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    • 391 4  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE The State Development Bank (SDB), the first of three "policy lending" banks to emerge from China's bold financial system reform in the last three months, began operations on Wednesday. Already, it plans to raise 65 billion yuan (SS
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    • 284 4 Reuter BEIJING China, facing Taiwan's vow to stop sending tourists to the mainland following the mysterious deaths of 24 visitors from Taiwan, has warned Taipei against actions that would damage expanding ties. China's Association for Relations a(goss the Taiwan Straits, in a
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    • 38 4 AFP NEW DELHI Tibetan women shout anti-Chinese slogans at a demonstration here the alleged forced sterilisation and abortion programmes launched by Chinese authorities in Tibet. Nearly 500 women took part in the protest. AFP
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    • 255 4 Reuter BEIJING China is ready for dialogue on human rights with foreign countries but will not countenance discussion of "criminals" regarded as dissidents in the West, Foreign Ministry spokesman Shen Guofang said yesterday. "We are willing to discuss human rights." Mr Shen told a
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    • 186 4 Reuter TAIPEI A Taiwanese navy officer has been charged with leaking military secrets and a local arms dealer has been detained in a scandal over the island's purchases of weapons from abroad, officials said. Military prosecutors indicted commander Liao Chih-wei, a staff officer to
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    • CHINA WATCH
      • 58 4 Reuter SEOUL China, which fought alongside communist North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War, had appointed military attaches to South Korea, a Seoul Defence Ministry spokesman said yesterday. The move would help promote military cooperation between Seoul and Beijing and contribute to easing tension on
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      • 55 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's army will purchase 200 improved-version US Patriot missiles for deployment in northern Taiwan against possible enemy missile or air strikes. L'nited Dailv News reported. The army would pay NTS 10 billion (SSSB9 million) for the defence system, said the paper,
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      • 50 4 AFP BEIJING Chinese armed customs officers would in future be authorised to open fire on suspect smugglers at sea who try to resist inspections or arrest. China Daily reported. The move is aimed at cracking down on an alarming increase in seaborne smuggling. AFP
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      • 93 4 AFP BEIJING Beijing police were cracking down on the capital's currency black market following the murder of a money changer, arresting several traders in recent days, one dealer said. "We can't change money, we're too frightened," said the stallholder in the Ritan clothing market,
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      • 91 4 Xinhua BEIJING President Jiang Zemin had a 20-minute meeting with Lord Young, chairman of Cable and Wireless and president of Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd, here yesterday. Lord Young, who arrived at noon, is scheduled to sign a contract launching the Sino-British Sub-Marine System Company Ltd with
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    • 408 4  -  From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG SINGAPOREAN Low Chang Hian, the former Ka Wah Bank director jailed in July 1991, for 5 1/2 years for conspiracy and theft, will turn prosecution witness in the current trial of former IHD Holdings chairman Ch'ng
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    • 643 4 SING INVESTMENTS FINANCE LIMITED /2Al\ (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) y 96 Robinson Road, SIF Building, Singapore 0106. The Directors of Sing Investments Finance Limited are pleased to make the following announcement (I) AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1993 TfrConraV The Group 1993 1992 1993 1992
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 392 5 Reuter TOKYO Japan has issued a report denying US allegations that Tokyo's markets from computers to cars are closed and that past trade pacts are unproductive, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday. The move was made public just as Foreign Minister
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      41 5 Reuter SAMCHOK, South Korea A group of scuba divers staging a demonstration in the sea off Samchok yesterday as part of a protest against the government's move to construct a nuclear power plant in this port city. Reuter
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    • 304 5 Reuter SYDNEY Australian business confidence reached a fiveyear high in the current quarter with sales expectations rising to levels last seen in early 1989. The quarterly Dun and Bradstreet business survey, released yesterday, showed its index for net sales rising eight points or
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    • 288 5 Reuter, AFP TOKYO The future of Japan's ruling coalition and the fate of the next prime minister hung in the balance yesterday after rival groups exchanged bitter threats but stopped short of a break-up. The political paralysis in the world's
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    • 295 5 Reuter NEW DELHI A conference of Asian and Pacific nations has ended with a call to combat trade protectionism. "The nine-day meeting of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Escap) was one on the question of extraneous
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    • 246 5 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON Westpac Bank yesterday said its New Zealand consumer confidence index in March rose to its highest level since the survey was begun. The Westpac McDermott Miller Index survey began in June 1988. The index rose to 127.9 points
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 1037 6  -  Hongkona's property market Reports by Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG BACK in 1991, Miss Rodessa Lee. a professional in her late twenties, bought a 438 sq ft flat in Aberdeen on Hongkong island for HKSO.B million (550.16 million). Today, to upgrade to a 600 sq-fl
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    • 282 6 HONGKONG Singapore is benefiting from rising office and housing prices in Hongkong, with some companies in the colony shifting part of their operations down to the Lion City to save costs. Caterpillar Far East is moving its regional headquarters to Singapore by autumn and
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 108 8 Reuter NEW YORK The International Finance Corp is likely to securitise some loans to stretch its loan capacity in emerging markets, an IFC official said on Wednesday. The IFC is the private sector finance arm of the World Bank. This year it will invest more
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      • 64 8 Reuter PARIS The United Nations culture agency has launched an appeal to rebuild Sarajevo's historic National and University Library, gutted by shelling in August 1992. Federico Mayor, director-general of the UN Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation, said that France had become the first country to
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      • 82 8 AFP MOSCOW Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev again suggested convening a "conference" to ease tension over the North Korean nuclear crisis as he entered talks yesterday with his South Korean counterpart, Han Sung Joo. The South Korean foreign minister did not immediately react, mentioning only what
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      • 69 8 AFP HONGKONG The head of the World Health Organisation's Aids programme said yesterday he doubted there would ever be a cure for Aids, adding that the disease would continue to threaten the world's population for at least the next 30 to 50 years. "We
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    • 178 8 Reuter LONDON British Prime Minister John Major and Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd blocked last-minute efforts to pull out of a controversial Malaysian dam project, a parliamentary committee was told. Britain is providing £234 million (SSS3B million) in subsidised loans for
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    • 329 8 IHT MARRAKESH The United States and the European Union reached a ground-breaking agreement on Wednesday that is likely to open up competition for more than US$lOO billion (Ssl6o billion) in annual public procurement contracts on both sides of the Atlantic. Leon Brittan,
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    • 362 8 Marrakesh trade summit Reuter MARRAKESH Japanese Foreign Minister Tsutomo Hata, tipped to become the next prime minister, yesterday said he would not make any new proposals to break a logjam in US-Japan trade talks during meetings this week. But Mr Hata,
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    • 375 8 Reuter MARRAKESH China has brought its bid for Gatt membership to the Marrakesh trade summit, arguing it should be admitted in time for the birth of a new World Trade Organisation (WTO) early next year. But although it won apparent support from
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    • 205 8 Reuter LONDON Britain's global trade deficit contracted to a lower-than-forecast £916 million (SS2.I billion) in January as exports to the European Community and the world as a whole rose sharply, while imports fell slightly, economists said. But given the fact that the data
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    • 384 9 Reuter WASHINGTON The top executives of the biggest US tobacco companies were due to testify yesterday before a Congressional panel led by one of the industry's toughest critics on Capitol Hill. Chairmen, presidents, and chief executive officers representing the
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    • 306 9 Reuter LONDON Britain broke with tradition on Wednesday by publishing details of secret monthly meetings Of its top economic policy officials to set interest rates. Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke, the finance minister, said that from now on he would release after
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    • 449 9 IHT BRUSSELS Seeking to end one of Europe's longest disputes over workplace rules, the European Commission on Wednesday proposed legislation dealing with worker consultation which contained new exemptions for British companies. However, the legislation was rejected by British employers as intrusive.
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    • 393 9 Reuter TUNIS Algeria's central bank governor said on Wednesday the country's creditors knew low crude oil prices lefi it no choice but to seek a rescheduling of its medium and long-term foreign debt. "Algeria's partners know that for years Algeria
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    • 64 9 Reuter BELGRADE. Outraged Belgrade citizens, including this little girl, carried on Wednesday placards and banners bearing the swastika and the US dollar sign in front of the UN peacekeeping forces headquarters in this Yugoslav city. They were protesting against Nato's air strikes early this
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    • 263 9 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Wayne Angell. chief economist at Bear, Stearns Co, said on Wednesday some Federal Reserve banks had asked the Fed's board of governors to consider raising the US discount rate at their regular meeting next Monday. This
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    • 524 9 IHT FRANKFURT Juergen Schneider, the German real estate mogul who has disappeared and left the country's biggest private property empire in disarray, had a problem letting go. In his 10-year rise to prominence. Mr Schneider only once sold a building that
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  • SPORTS
    • 498 12 Golf AP HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina The PGA Tour's newest team event has left players split along international lines. The President's Cup. a Ryder Cup-style match debuting in September, will pit a US team against a worldwide group of players not
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    • 413 12 AP LONDON The opening day scores were 111-0, 66-0 and 700. Attendance: about 200. Short on suspense. Short on fans. A long way to go for women's rugby. The second women's rugby union World Championship is underway in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Netherlands pulled out
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    • 403 12 AFP ORLANDO, Florida Gen Lisa Fritz kept quite a secret from the other players trying out for a new all-women's professional baseball team. She was a he. Fritz, one of the final players cut from the club roster, was actually a man who has
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    • 536 12 Reuter BRIDGETOWN, Barbados Mike Atherton proved yet again that character is the crucial ingredient in sporting success by leading England to an improbable and important victory on Wednesday. Before 6,000 delirious English fans, Atherton guided England to a 208-run win over unofficial world champions West Indies
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      70 12 Reuter NEW YORK Major League Wednesday American: Detroit 6 Baltimore 3: Seattle 6 Minnesota 9; Chicago 5 NY O. Kansas 2 Boston I: Texas 4 Milwaukee 3: California S Cleveland 6: Oakland 8 Toronto 7(12). National: Florida 2 Houston 4; Montreal 3 Cincinnati 2; Pittsburgh 3 San Diego 2:
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      37 12 Reuter NEW YORK NBA WednesdayAtlanta 110 Cleveland 95; Boston 109 Detroit 96; Miami 90 Chicago 96; Philadelphia 87 Indiana IIS; Milwaukee 105 New Jersey 107; San Antonio 78 Denver 83; Phoenix 117 LA Lakers 88. Reuter
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      125 12 AFP WASHINGTON Fprmcr heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe. trying to stay prepared for a chance to regain his crown, has scheduled three bouts with young challengers starling in June. Bowe. 34-1 with 29 knockouts, lost his title to Evander Holyfield last November in Las Vegas. Holyfield defends his crown against
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      178 12 Reuter SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates India gave debutants United Arab Emirates a lesson in the finer points of professional cricket on their way to a 71-run victory in the opening match of the Australasia Cup limited overs tournament on Wednesday. The writing was on the wall for the UAE
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      34 12 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Wednesday: Detroit 9 Montreal O, Ottawa 0 Boston Tampa Bay ONY Islanders 2; LA 6 Calsary 4; San Jose 2 Edmonton 2 (OT); Anaheim I Vancouver 2. Reuter
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      141 12 AP NEW YORK US television executives think Rupert Murdoch's Fox Network will be a major factor when bidding for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Australia, takes place in two years. "Rupert Murdoch is Australian and he has a big appetite for these Games,*' Barry Frank of Trans Work) International.
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      226 12 Reuter JOHANNESBURG African National Congress sports spokesman Steve Tshwete on Wednesday urged all nations taking part in the rugby union World Cup next year to stick by South Africa as the venue. Speaking at a gathering of inter- national rugby' officials in Johannesburg, Tshwetc recalled his days in the
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      105 12 AP BEUING China announced the formation on Wednesday of a professional soccer league that it hopes will boost the country's international competitiveness in its favourite sport. The China National Football League includes 12 teams and will open its seven-month season on Sunday with six matches. Organisers said each team
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      200 12 AP Reuter HONGKONG Hoagkoag Opea yesterday Fir* nmmt Michael Chang (US) b David Wheaton (US) 6-3 6-3; Ivan Lendl (US) b Albert Chang (Can) 6-3 6-4; Chuck Adams (US) b Sandon Stolle (Aust) 6-3 6-4; Joern Renzenbrink (Ger) b Stephane Simian (Fra) 6-3 6-2. Sec- and fanad: Patrick Rafter
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      176 12 UP! SAVANNAH, Georgia A 15-year-old schoolgirl has entered one of the last bastions of male-domi-nated sport by gaining selection in the US junior men's weightlifting squad. Cassie Clark has muscled her way into becoming the first female to be placed on the mens US Junior weightlifting squad by the
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 180 12 BUSINESS TIMES TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-800-741-1883 FAX:74I-I2l>B All of these securities having been sold, this announcement appears as a matter of record only and does not constitute an invitation or offer to acquire, purchase or subscribe for securities. New Issue April 1994 The Korea Development Bank (a statutory juridical entity
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
    • 681 13 Watchmaker hopes to overhaul its image by injecting humour into its ads NYT SEIKO Time and its new agency are using a rooster to sound a wake-up call, literally and figuratively, in the often somnolent, sometimes narcoleptic realm of watch advertising.
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    • 527 13  -  Agency has postponed its flotation plan announced four years ago until its worldwide billings reach US$3OO million. Corinne Kerk reports. Corinne Kerk FOUR years after announcing its plans to go public. Batey Ads has been somewhat silent on
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    • 266 13  -  By Joycelyn Shu THE Singapore office of international advertising agency DMB&B Tokyu won a hefty 556.5 million worth of accounts in the first three monthv of this year, bringing current billings to about S2O million. Managing director Christopher Ang said: "It's the first
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    • 325 13 NYT LISTEN carefully to that sound wafting through the San Francisco office of Hal Riney Partners. Is it employees singing. "Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to work we go?" OK, so maybe the hallways aren't alive with the sound of music. But certainly the arrival
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    • COPY LINES
      • 63 13 NYT NEW YORK Ogilvy Mather Worldwide has formed a division to service new and future multinational clients. The Global Media Group, headed by senior vice-president Wilma Epstein. 47. will operate out of Ogilvy's New York office, with a staff of 20. It will work with other
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      • 72 13 SINGAPORE Luxury bag and luggage maker Louis Vuitton launches its new international print media campaign in Asia this month. The campaign Vuitton's first new one in 12 years aims to reflect the evolution of the brand. Vuitton bags and luggage will be juxtaposed with antique
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      • 91 13 Bernama TOKYO Nintendo will produce a new range of computer game machines in an Asian country for sale in Japan and the United States about the third quarter of this year. The move away from producing in Japan is aimed at cutting costs and coping
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      • 42 13 UPI LONDON British advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi has won a major contract from US pharmaceuticals maker WarnerLambert. The contract, clinched by Saatchi's American associate, Spjelvogel Bates, is rumoured to be worth US$7O million (S$ 109 million). UPI
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 156 13 £the pinnacle QUALIFICATION IN MARKETING" (aovnsmr or bull The specialist course for executives in marketing management by The University of Hull in association with the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. EIGHTH INTAKE IN SINGAPORE Only programme endorsed by CIM UK Established Internationally as a part-time distance learning programme of two
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    • 159 13 Be Your Own Developer In Australia! Ever since Australian properties have become popular. Singaporeans have been buying either a house-and-land package or a condominium. There has been no other alternative until now. Ever land (Australia) Pty. Lid. is proud to present a new method of investing in Australia. The redevelopment
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    • 98 13 A.s many of life's achievers are aware, it's lonely at tlie top. Which is why at the ANA Hotel, we are just as used to providing a friendly ear for our guests as any of other services. So in addit ion to a location in the heart of Singapore's embassy
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 1045 14 Nothing Beats A Bud. WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN Bwoor _55_ ITlachine A good reason to visit Mischief the fun pub: From spm to Bpm daily, beer and house pouring dnnks are at only $3 50++ each Mischief is open from 11 am to lam daily \JL (till 2am
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 632 15  -  Beijing's Hard Rock Cafe opens its doors today. Jeffrey Parker notes that it will play down rock's bad reputation Jeffrey Parkei Reuter GAZE upwards inside China's first Hard Rock Cafe and glimpse the divine pantheon of rock 'n' roll a domed mural depicting the Beatles, Elvis,
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    • 651 15 CHATTERBOX Reuter AP AP UPI UPI AP UPI SIR John Gielgud, one of the century's greatest actors, politely refused a gala night to mark his 90th birthday yesterday, opting instead to play the lead in a star-studded radio production of Shakespeare's King Lear. The theatrical
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    • 229 15 UPI THE British government has proposed new measures to ensure that theatre and concert-goers know how much extra they are paying when they buy from commercial brokers. The new Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) rules would force those reselling tickets to tell customers
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 61 15 Local High Tea a twist to an aristocratic tradition. A hearty spread of local favourites like, mee siam, soon kueh, chui kueh, nonya kueh kuehs, putu mayam, soya beancurd and more. Saturday and Sunday only 3.00pm to 6.00pm Price: 5515.00 adult) SSB.oo+++ child below 12 years (330** 24 Mount Elizabeth.
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1228 15 TV RADIO. Red ScorpiM, 11pm, SBC 5 J African leader fails. He gets g^"a hit-list, runs into the desert. 8 gets stung by a scorpion, and conies kinder. helps the Commies. Dolph Lundgren more presence than W j\£ Running Against Time, Wj^ Bpm, SBC 5 ;,^r"V A physicist a time
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  • 538 16 AMONG the lasting memories of the Wall Street crash of 1987 is the toll it inflicted on the broking industry itself. Well-heeled dealers, salesmen and analysts were unceremoniously thrown out onto the streets by international brokerages hit by severe losses. Whole teams were fired, and hotshot
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 239 16 IF THE DIVERSION of foreign investment from South-east Asia to China and India, as indicated in a report by Merrill Lynch, the American securities firm, presents the Asean countries with a challenge, it also shows the way to what might be a new phase in the
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    • 133 16 THE LATEST ACTION by Nato against Serb guerillas is well-justified. Russian opposition is a distraction to a peaceful settlement in Bosnia, simply because the Serbs are Russia's allies, going back to the days of the Soviet Union. The attack is in accordance with the UN resolution calling
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    • 189 16 BOTH THE GOVERNMENT and the people in Taiwan are furious over the Qiandao Lake incident and have taken various extreme measures to deal with it. While this is comprehensible, it may not necessarily be the right thing to do. In particular, the tendency to
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    • 119 16 THE Law Reform Commission's call for heavy sanctions against unscrupulous property companies signals a new determination to crack down on rogue developers. It is also part of a gathering consumerist revolution against business malpractice on a much wider scale. Consumerism was not born with the property
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    • 152 16 THE FINAL ACT of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations is now ready for signing after the Trade Negotiation Committee in Geneva settled the dispute between the developing and the industrialised countries over the US proposed clause to link trade and international labour standards. Such a
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    • 174 16 IF YOUR television set suddenly emits smoke and sparks, causing a fire, common sense dictates that its manufacturer should compensate the owner for the damage and loss, provided the set was being used for its intended purpose and was operated correctly. Consumer life is based on
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  • 989 16  -  Donald W Nauss finds US manufacturers enjoying a revival by reconfiguring plants, adopting lean production techniques and going heavy on automation Donald W Nauss Los Angeles Times THE factory floor in Fraser, Michigan, is clean and surprisingly quiet. Only a handful of men tinker with
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 136 16 Totally ceramics: the new Rado 'Sintra'. Simply captivating! The new Rado "Sintra" with its avant-garde design, lustrously brilliant platinum-like look and the uncompromising use of an exceptional material: scratchproof, enduringly beautiful high-tech ceramics. But it's when you put this watch on that you really get to know it: cool, smooth
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 86 16 /if ÜBS Pi ConPl£Te U)G SPoIT Of OUR /CHD YOU TMsTe. PART A I M«LL»dG *RDv*D IN "W£ SPvID IT TWCJ THC PCC.OUMTS.. y yseTreg X v^~ ,fk .c~i §sy&£, DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU GENTLEMEN, PONT M/$- 1 M~£*/750/*V?, UHrTEtWER UNDERSTANDMZ. I'M WNP&P,I HAhFHB!FUGSHUT All FOR. GETTING TV &THENVESTI6A- OOUN THE
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1844 17  -  This week, the US House of Representatives Banking Committee has been holding hearings on hedge funds, which have been blamed for many of the recent traumatic events in global financial markets. While Saul Hansell examines the growth of the powerful entities and explains
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    • 1280 17 Bloomberg Business News GEORGE Soros, manager of the Quantum Group of Funds, said in Washington on Wednesday that the way institutional investors behave and the explosive growth of derivative instruments can present dangers to investors. Mr Soros, whose personal interest in
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    • 580 17 NYT HEDGE FUND: A flexible investment fund for rich people and institutions. The minimum investment is typically US$l million (SSI.6 million) and the manager usually receives 20 per cent of the profits. Hedge funds can use virtually any investment technique including short selling borrowing shares
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 312 17 UP AT *»C^ Now you can enjoy the tenderest of beef without worrying •bout Its cholesterol level, because at Jack's we serve only healthy and lean beef. For this month, there's a selection of 6 main courses, all prepared with ingredients that's high in nutritional value. So moo your way
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  • 652 18  -  BiptrH by Walton Morais in STUTTGART PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong yesterday told German businessmen that while Singapore is embarking on a regionalisation drive, it remains interested in foreign investment to spur domestic growth. He said German companies should first consider
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  • 238 18 SINGAPORE and Germany on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to boost cooperation in scientific research and technological development. The agreement, signed by Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Labour Goh Chee Wee and German Research and Technology minister Paul Kruger, seeks
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  • 415 18 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong on Wednesday marketed Singapore as a business architect now expanding its expertise in helping businesses maximise returns from projects in such emerging markets as China, India, Vietnam, Myanmar and the Asean countries. Speaking to German industrialists at a
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  • 395 18  -  Reports by < Chuang Peck Ming in Wellington EAST ASIA will increasingly become New Zealand's most important market, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew told business leaders and parliamentarians yesterday. New Zealand, he said, had a comparative advantage in
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  • 271 18 IT WOULD make sense for the Australia-New Zealand common market to team up with the Asean Free Trade Area, but access to the north American market must come first. Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday. Replying to a query after
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  • 213 18 WHETHER Singapore canes American Michael Fay or not is an issue of criminology and not of human rights, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew says. Singapore has received the United States' appeal for presidential clemency for Fay and the government will
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  • 731 18  -  The Bottom Line REGINALD DALE REGINALD DALE The writer is a columnist with the International Herald Tribune, where this commentary first appeared Economists do not agree on much. But here's a simple proposition to which you would think they could all subscribe: In the
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  • 236 18 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia detained 80 more Filipinos yesterday as angry women in Manila denounced Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad over Kuala Lumpur's recent arrest of Filipino maids and musicians. In the latest crackdown against foreigners entering the country illegally in search of jobs, 80 Filipinos
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  • 122 18 Bloomberg Business News Amsterdam ABN Amro Bank NV said it was fined US$22l million (***** million) yesterday in a US court case brought against it by Kilbarr Corp, formerly named Remington Rand Corp. The trial is related to bank- ruptcies of a number of US
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  • 407 18 Reuter FRANKFURT The German Bundesbank surprised world financial markets by reducing both its official interest rates yesterday in a move which triggered off similar cuts across Europe. Markets had been expecting only a cut in the Bundesbank's Lombard interest rate as a symbolic gesture indicating
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 391 19  -  Partner thought to be company controlled by Suharto's son By Joyce QueK SINGAPORE Hotel Properties Ltd (HPL), the listed flagship of entrepreneur Ong Beng Seng, announced yesterday that it is spreading its wings in Indonesia by taking a major stake in
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    • 224 19  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE OCBC Bank has incorporated its Malaysian operations into a wholly owned subsidiary called OCBC Bank (Malaysia), making it the first of three Singapore banking groups with Malaysian operations to do so. Under Malaysia's Banking and Financial Institutions Act of October
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    • 339 19  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE engineering and construction company United Engineers Ltd (UEL) has entered into a joint venture with Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) to develop a high technology warehouse complex at Pandan Crescent. In a statement yesterday, UEL said it would invest through
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    • 774 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Asia Pacific Breweries is often held up as a model of regional isat ion today. But four years ago when it first unveiled an ambitious plan to invest $1 billion in breweries all over Asia,
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    • 302 19  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines has taken a 40 per cent stake in a joint venture to provide ground-handling services at China's busiest airport, Beijing. The venture Beijing Aviation Ground Services or BAGS is between SIA unit Singapore Airport Terminal Services
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    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        40 19 Mixed 'Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Alliance. Barings. Daiwa, Fraser, Kay Hian, Ongco. Phillip. Tat Lee. Wl Can ana SG Warburg.
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        157 19  -  Br Paul Leo Parkway Holdings has been ranging between $2.80 and 53.26 since Feb 22. At yesterday's close of $2.96, the technicals are indicating that the share will break above $3.26 soon and rally towards $4.00. Daily Moving Average Conver-gence-Divergence Indicator has been signalling a buy since early
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    • COMPANIES
      • 568 21  -  M'sian property group sets new targets after splitting businesses among family members From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN property group Paramount Corporation Bhd wants to put the squabbles within the Teo family behind it and expand on its own steam, chief
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      • 198 21 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Renong Group yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Haryana state government for the construction of an expressway in the state estimated to cost USSKH) million (about SSI6O million). Haryana Chief Minister Chaudri Bhajan Lai said the
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      • 191 21 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The recovery of a major debt led Setron (Malaysia) Bhd to slash its group pre-tax losses to M 5647,000 (*****,000) for the year ended Dec 31, 1993, from a loss of M 53.68 million a year before. Group
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      • 285 21 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Securities Commission has rejected the proposed flotation of Multi-Purpose Capital Holdings Bhd (M Capital) on grounds that it has not fully complied with the chain-listing requirements. M Capital is the holding company for all the financial services businesses
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      • 284 21 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Hicom Bhd, a government-backed conglomerate, has emerged as the single largest shareholder in the planned second national airline, with an 85 per cent interest. The remaining IS per cent equity participation in Air Asia Sdn Bhd is held by Mofaz
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      • 271 22  -  By Ven Sreenivasan FACED with sluggish business prospects in Singapore, main board-listed Keppel Integrated Engineering is stepping up its regionalisation efforts. "The local construction and marine-related industries are not expected to show much improvement in the new year," says KIE chairman Loh
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      • 177 22 AFP JAKARTA A leading private pipes and steel firm, PT Bakrie Brothers, and its subsidiaries yesterday announced a five-fold increase in consolidated net profit to 26.38 billion rupiah (5519.2 million) last year from 4.09 billion rupiah. PT Bakrie Brothers said in its financial
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 114 22 SINGAPORE Wearne Brothers yesterday said its computer arm, Weames Technology, has acquired 1.62 million ordinary shares in Wearnes Peripherals for U5525,000 (5539,000). Wearnes Peripherals was formerly known as Microscience International Singapore. The shares represent 25 per cent of Weames Peripherals and it now becomes
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        • 87 22 SINGAPORE San Teh, together with the Hongkong Daito Trading Co and Kishimoto Sanyo, will set up a joint venture firm called Daito Polymer HK. Hongkong Daito will hold a 57 per cent stake, San Teh will hold 33 per cent while Kishimoto will hold
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        • 44 22 SINGAPORE Seapower Asia Investments said yesterday its subsidiary. Top Glory Insurance Co, had been appointed the exclusive agent by The Ming An Insurance Co. The Ming An Insurance is believed to be a leading general insurance company in Hongkong.
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        • 23 22 SINGAPORE Pacific Can Investments Holdings has announced that former chief operating officer Kevin Yap is no longer with the company.
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        • 59 22 SINGAPORE First Capital Corp has set up two firms, First Kew Development Pte Ltd and First Tanglin Land Pte Ltd. Both companies have a paid-up capital of $2 each and will be involved in property development. First Capital also said Abdul Hamid Ghani Jinnah had
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        • 40 22 SINGAPORE Sime Singapore has appointed Syed Tamim Ansari Syed Mohamed as director of two of its subsidiaries Sime Rengo Packaging Singapore and Rising Paper Products Pte Ltd. Mr Syed Tamim. 46, replaces Mohamed bin Yaacob.
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      • 225 22 SINGAPORE Berger International. which has just recently launched its initial public offering, has secured two new projects worth more than $500,000 in Singapore. The first involves the supply of heavy protective coatings to the new Safti Military Institute now under construction at Jurong.
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      • 199 22 AFP MANILA A plan by SM Prime Holdings Inc, the holding firm of ethnic Chinese shopping mall magnate Henry Sy, to go public has been derailed by a dispute with one of his business partners, the state corporate watchdog said. The Securities
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      • 251 22 Reuter MELBOURNE Sir Ron Brierley's move onto Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd's (Adsteam) share register is aimed at extracting hidden worth, brokers said. "Ron Brierley has been a good fossicker (digger) for quirky value in the market," an analyst said of the news that Brierley's
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      • 482 22 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ■win' prtCM Apr IS US Cr Fund 104 I0«— Singapara Unit Trwt U* tamt llgt UJ i 71 i an Unihtad I.4J 1.49 TK- S6 im!i I nibond 1025 105 0 7i Q75 toiled Gr Fund! 164 1.71 S'pore L04 V* U~d A« Fund 17. IJI? S
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      • 248 22 Bernama HANOI The first Malaysian hotel project in northern Vietnam, which was visited by Culture, Arts and Tourism Minister Sabbaruddin Chik yesterday, is expected to be completed in 19%. The lake-side MSI 10.7 million (Ss64 million) hotel and hotel-apartment
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      • 1734 22 Payawat Ex Books Pay date daw date ABK Hldgs 5* F 9 Jun 29 Jul S Jul IS Aema F 10 Jun 14 Jun 20 Jul 5 Amtck Eng 20* I 6TE Apr IS Apr 21 Apr 29 Berjaya Group I 6 Mar 11 Mar 28 Apr 18
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      • 286 23 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News LONDON Britain's biggest hotels group Forte pic, announcing a rise in full year pretax profits before exceptional items, says its outlook is its most optimistic for a few years. The current trading year began well, with sales and
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      • 331 23 Reuter BOMBAY Petrochemicals and textiles giant Reliance Industries Ltd will post an estimated 55 per cent rise in net profit for 1993/94 (April/March). Analysts yesterday said Reliance, aided by a buoyant synthetic fibres market and changed depreciation accounting rules, would for
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      • 753 23 P&G, Gibson Greetings and others incur massive losses with interest-rate swaps Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK You may be getting more than you bargained for these days when you buy stock in almost any major US company. If you buy shares in Procter
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      • 373 23 NYT NEW YORK Though its own investigation into accounting irregularities is still incomplete, Woolworth Corp will restate its quarterly results for last year, but its auditors are otherwise standing by the annual figures reported for 1992 and 1993. Woolworth said
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      • 199 23 Bloomberg Business News PARIS Three of Euro Disney's creditor banks are still unhappy with the restructuring agreement reached last month between a steering committee of creditor banks. Euro Disney and the parent Walt Disney Co, a French banker involved with the negotiations said.
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      • 271 23 AP SEATTLE US computer software maker Microsoft Corp is seeking US$22 million (SS34 million) in a trademark infringement case in China. A company lawyer said on Wednesday that the case stemmed from raids in which police seized tens of thousands of fake holograms
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      • 116 23 Bloomberg Business News ZURICH Asea Brown Boveri. the Swiss-Swedish heavyengineering company, said orders in the first quarter of this year rose 8 per cent to USSB.2 billion (5512.8 billion), from U557.55 billion in the same period last year. ABB said its orders for
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 82 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Kowloon Motor Bus, one of Hongkong's largest bus companies with services in Kowloon and in New Territories. said its net profit rose 6.4 per cent in the fiscal year ended Dec 31 1993. In a statement to the stock exchange,
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        • 94 23 Bloomberg Business News ERLANGEN. Germany Siemens AG said its energy subsidiary, KWU, won an order worth almost one billion Deutschemarks (SS92I million) to equip a power plant in the Taiwanese city of Tainan. The contract includes the supply of IS gas and steam turbines,
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        • 69 23 Reuter ATLANTA Wal-Mart Stores Inc, America's laigest retailer, said on Wednesday it plans to file a US$l.75 billion (552.74 billion) shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission to cover debt financing needs. Paul Carter, Wal-Mart's chief financial officer, said that proceeds from the debt
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        • 65 23 AFP LONDON The British cement and construction materials company. Blue Circle, yesterday announced a 76 per cent jump in 1993 pre-tax profits to 165.6 million (SS3B4 million) from £93.8 million the previous year. Sales rose 22 per cent to £1.679 billion from £1.370 billion in
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      • 328 23 NYT NEW YORK H J Heinz Co is expected to acquire Borden Inc's food-service unit in the next few weeks. Industry analysts on Wednesday said the sale of the unit, which had US$27O million (***** million) in revenue last year, would be the first
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 694 24 NYT CHICAGO It is showdown time at Globex, the world's first international, round-the-clock electronic market place for futures and options traders. The partnership agreement under which Reuters pic, the British news and market information company, has developed the computer-based network for the
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      • 748 24 Raw imports for refining increased to meet Indian, Middle East demand Knight-Ridder SINGAPORE China is increasing tolling to meet demand from India and the Middle East, but its window of opportunity for sugar sales to India may be narrow, traders say. The Chinese have bought
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      • 317 24 Reuter LONDON Precious metals markets have been worrying about South Africa's elections for so long that when they are finally held this month the impact on prices is likely to be muted unless violence escalates to catastrophic levels, industry analysts said.
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      • 164 24 SINGAPORE PT Bank Dagang Nasional Indonesia (BDNI), one of Indonesia's top five private national banks, is to raise US$33 million (SSSI million) through an issue of floating rate certificates of deposit (FRCD). The arranger is Singaporebased Schroder International Merchant Bank Ltd.
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      • 103 24 Reuter SUVA, Fiji Fiji and Malaysia have begun negotiations aimed at renewing a contract under which Malaysia buys more than a quarter of Fiji's annual sugar crop. Fiji Sugar Marketing Co said Fiji was happy with the quantity sold to Malaysia but
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      • 177 24 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar dropped against the deutschemark yesterday as traders sold after a cut by Germany in key interest rates. The dollar climbed as high as 1.7160 marks immediately after the Bundesbank announced the rate cuts, but many people used the rise as a chance to
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      • 165 24 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Oil futures prices rose in London and New York following a reduction in the number of UK North Sea Brent crude cargoes to be loaded next month, brokers said. Prices also surged, before retreating, on initial erroneous
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      • 90 24 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was slightly higher against the Japanese yen and German marie yesterday after the German Bundesbank cut two key rates. At about 9:30 am (1330 GMT), the dollar traded at 1.71 IS marks, up from 1.7080 marks late on Thursday, and at 104.10 yen
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1327 25 Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollar and Euroyen futures close mixed in moderate trade yesterday. Sentiment for Eurodollar was mixed as inflation fears took a back seat yesterday, dealers said. Flat US retail sales and consumer price data released on Wednesday showed that inflation was not accelerating,
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      • 606 25 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin TIN closed three sen up at MS 14.48 a kg yesterday, mainly aided by initial small offers despite news of a SlO-tonne rise in the London Metal Exchange (LME) stocks, traders said. "The market should come down because of a
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 121 25 NEW DELHI India's state-run State Trading Corp will be importing some 58,000 tonnes of edible oil. most probably palm olein, to combat a rise in local vegetable oil prices, a trade official said yesterday. The industry expects the government to allow more oil to be
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        • 124 25 TOKYO Japanese output of zinc galvanised steel was a preliminary 938,400 tonnes in March, down S.I per cent from a year earlier, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation said yesterday. The March figure is up 12.4 per cent from a revised February production total of
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        • 68 25 TOKYO China exported 6 tonnes of unwrought copper and its alloys in January, down 98.1 per cent from January 1993, according to China's official external trade statistics. China exported 2,373 tonnes of copper products in January, up 165.6 per cent from a year before. Exports of
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        • 57 25 LONDON A loan for US$l.6 billion (SS2.S billion) to refurbish the Russian gas pipeline system was signed in London on Wednesday, the Financial Times reported yesterday. The deal, signed by 47 western banks, will allow the Russian state gas company Gazprom to boost gas exports
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      • 1187 26 -19.7 The Australian share market yesterday surrendered Wednesday's gains, dragged lower by falls on Wall Street and weaker futures. "People are concerned about the short-term direction of the (US) market with the Dow Jones a bit vulnerable." said one broker. Brokers said investors were wary and adopting a wait-and-see
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      • 549 26 +63.79 Share prices rose by around 2.4 per cent on the strength of blue chips and selected second-liners, analysts said. The composite index at the Philippine Stock Exchange has climbed 63.79 points to close at 2,759.50. It gained 124.90 points, or 4.7 per cent, in the past two days.
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      • 563 26 +8.85 The stock index ended higher in sluggish trade with financials up but industrials down on light profit-taking, brokers said. The weighted index wavered narrowly during the whole session to end up 8.85 points at 5.461.99. Turnover fell to this month's lowest level at NT532.66 billion from Wednesday's NTS3B.I
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      • 448 26 1.19 Stocks closed slightly higher in a day of another rumour-laden trading, with heavyweights Posco and Kepco widely fluctuat- ing. brokers said. The composite stock index added 1.19 points higher at 883.52. off the dav's high of 891.90. "Rumours that the government would initially relax an eight percent limit
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      • 301 26 -21.94 The New Zealand share market failed to break free from its recent pattern of Dow-watching to end the day weaker. The NZSE-40 capital index closed 21.94 points lower at 2,123.55. Falls outnumbered rises by 57 to 23. All the leaders fell, although none markedly weakened from their
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      • 715 26 Britannia Funds Mrrliag C »h Bid Offer M.m < jp Deposit II MU) In «iS«) MimJeno(.ik 0 1*4) 0 1442 Mini Ma» Income •0>» <iu *l 0100 I si Cash Income Plus Fund I04'00 PSS Revoe Fund 5 2500 5 2*00 Euro Perlormanc* 04W OW# Far Em Fund *2 ?A5«
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      • 644 26 -14.1 Share prices ended a nervous session down but on a brighter note yesterday, helped by a steadier gilt market and a recovery in the Dow after an early 20 point loss. Interest rate sentiment was helped by a 25 basis point cut in the Bundesbank's key interest rates,
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      • 163 26 -13.31 French stocks fell as investors speculated the weak franc would prevent the Bank of France from reducing interest rates rapidly. French stocks rallied briefly on a quarter-point cut in the German Bundesbank's discount and Lombard rates. Adding to market volatility was an unconfirmed report by British Broadcasting Corp
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      • 121 26 -1.91 pc Swedish shares ended around 2 per cent lower after a volatile afternoon after the market failed to be impressed by European rate cuts. Minutes after the German rate cut. indices pared their losses only to fall back again. Prices then edged higher and by the close were
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      • 201 26 -10.48 German stocks were largely unimpressed by the Bundesbank's rate cuts yesterday afternoon. In computerised Ibis trading after the floor session, stocks gained briefly after the news of a quarterpoint cut in both the discount and Lombard rates, but retreated to their earlier levels shortly afterward. The DAX index
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      • 129 26 -5.31 Germany's Lombard and discount rate cuts failed to stop Belgian shares from closing 0.36 per cent lower as dealers were gloomy about the short-term prospects for the market. The Bel-20 index ended 5.31 points down at 1,483.56 with about 1.8 billion francs worth of Belgian shares traded. Brussels
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      • 136 26 +196 Italian shares closed higher as individual investors resumed buying on expectations a right- wing government will take office next week, traders said. The market's blue-chip Mibtel Index rose 1.6 per cent, or 196 points, to 12,608. On Wednesday it fell 2.9 per cent, breaking five straight days of
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      • 213 26 -0.39 One more session to go, through today's options expiry, and Dutch shares will be ready to make further progress after rising 6 per cent in just over a week, dealers said. The AEX eagerly grabbed back most of session losses by the end. to close just 0.39 weaker
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      • 223 26 -17.35 Swiss shares closed lower, ignoring the Swiss National Bank's discount rate cut of 1/2 a point to 3.50 per cent. Dealers said the SNB wanted money-market rates lower. They said shares were likely to rise today once the market had evaluated the new interest-rate situation. The broad SPI
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      • 273 26 -45 South African shares failed to maintain a steady afternoon trend by the close as bullion dipped and political fears depressed prices. The overall index ended 68 points off at 4,955, industrial index 45 points down at 5,706 and gold index down 30 points to 1,956. Johannesburg Vpr 14
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      • 298 26 +10.99 Toronto stocks were broadly mixed with a firm bias in listless midday action yesterday as several sectors rebounded, but gains were muted by forestry losses. The products group fell 76.43, or 1.72 per cent, to 4,361.91 as several stocks were bashed ahead of a British Columbia forest strategy
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      • 741 26 +5.35 Blue-chip stocks gained at midscssion yesterday, buoyed by gains in oil shares following the shooting of US helicopters in north Iraq. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 5.35 points at 3.666.82 at I pm EDT. But in the broader market, declining issues led advances 5-4 on
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      2666 27 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Renewed concerns that the US Federal Reserve may push up interest rates again to head off inflation knocked down stock prices yesterday. Ratesensitive property and bank shares were hardest hit. Investors concerned about the interest rate outlook lowered offers to sell Hongkong shares to lock
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      499 27 THE Shanghai B market yesterday broke its downward trend since the end of last month. The CLSA B index increase of 25.78 points to 712.28 was led by overseas brokers, with locals following suit. Turnover increased to U556.37 million, with buying across the board. Hero, Chlor Alkali, and Dazhong
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      2486 27 Bloomberg Business New TOKYO Stocks were mixed yesterday as investors awaited news about who will be Japan's next prime minister and signs that Japan's economy will rebound in coming months, traders said. Investors and traders are less concerned with the political tussle itself than the effect it could have
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      1128 27 Bloomberg Business News JAKARTA Indonesian share prices rose as investors turned their attention from US interest rates to the promise of strong corporate results and low inflation at home, traders said. "Investors are feeling more confident now since inflation in Indonesia is lower and companies are expected to post
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      • 5541 28 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's benchmark stock index fell 0.79 per cent as concerns about Wall Street's overnight fall rattled investors already bruised by this year's drop in Malaysian share prices, analysts said. Falling US share prices have strained nerves, particularly since
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      • 1854 30  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE The local bourse was mixed but the benchmark Straits Times Industrials Index managed to end higher on selected demand for blue chips by institutional investors. The ST 11 ranged between a narrow 9.56-point band to end the day
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    • 530 31  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE New vessel orders totalled 22.7 million gross tons in 1993, the second highest figure in 10 years. Classification society Lloyd's Register says in its recently released 1993 annual report that the level of orders was unusually high given
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    • 261 31 SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom is launching a mobile satellite communications service, called lnmarsat-M, for maritime and landmobile customers. All transmissions through Telecom's service will be relayed through the satellite earth station at Sentosa. Inmarsat-M supports telephone and facsimile transmissions through the Inmarsat satellite over the
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    • 195 31 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Operators of ships engaged in a host of activities in Malaysian teiritorial waters will have to notify the director of marine under proposed amendments to the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952 tabled in Parliament. The Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Bill was submitted
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    • 237 31 SINGAPORE Steamers Maritime has bought a containership through its wholly owned subsidiary Straits Container Line. The purchase is the first in what is described as a "major new initiative" to invest in container feeder ships for the charter market. Steamers, a listed member of the Keppel
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    • 528 31 AP NEW YORK The Queen Elizabeth 2, the only luxury liner making regular transatlantic crossings, survives the aviation age on some travellers' nostalgia for the days of steamer trunks, and others' fear of flying. The luxury liner pulled into New York harbour on its
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    • 13024 40 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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    • 697 47 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1.253 on Wednesday from 1.246 on April 12. Kates look to be firming for smaller capesize vessels trading in the Atlantic with an increase in coal cargoes from the US and South American grain boosting activity,
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    • 1088 48  -  Commuters are willing to pay more to take a ferry to Manhattan than to use other modes of public transport, reports Thomas Lueck Thomas Lueck AP AFTER seven years of gradual expansion, ferry service in the New York region is about to brafich out in
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      • 551 50 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The best way to get the long-delayed overhaul of the US air traffic control system back on track is to nail down the programme's requirements, the chairman of Loral Corp told Congress on Wednesday. Government regulators have
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      • 244 50 Reuter OTTAWA The Canadian government brought in legislation on Wednesday to cancel a controversial agreement that would have leased two terminals at Canada's largest airport. The Liberal government said the new law would cancel the deal to lease terminals one and two at
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      • 439 50 AP MOSCOW Russia's minister of transport acknowledged on Wednesday that air safety has become "very weak" since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and pledged tough new controls to improve the situation. Transport Minister Vitaly Yerimov said that in the wake
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      • 302 50 Reuter NEW YORK Gerald Greenwald. the proposed leader of UAL Corp following its employee buyout, said he may reopen discusssion with the company's flight attendants as early as next week in an effort to get them to join in the plan. "I belive
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      • 86 50 Reuter TOKYO Honda's new delivery van equipped with crawler trends Acty Crawler cruises pnst Tokyo's Zojoji temple on Wednesday. It is the world's first commercial vehicle with rubber treads in place of rear wheels. This 660 cc four-wheel drive innovation, developed for rough terrain such as
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      • 74 50 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Defence manufacturers from Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Macedonia, New Zealand and Thailand will make their debut at Defence Services Asia '94 (DSA '94) at the Putra World Trade Centre here starting on Tuesday. The organisers Malaysian International AfTairs Forum and
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      • 86 50 Reuter HONGKONG Shipping company Orient Overseas (International) Ltd denied in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange a press report that it is planning to issue a convertible bond, and said it did not know why its share price had risen exceptionally. "The
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      • 81 50 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia has ordered six of Boeing Co's new twin-engine 777 aircraft for its national airline Garuda in a deal worth between US$ll6 million (SslB2 million) and US$l4O million per unit, Antara news agency said. It quoted Director General of Air Transportation Zainudin Zikado
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      • 98 50 Reuter SYDNEY Ron Brierley's Guinness Peat Group pic said it has acquired 5.26 per cent of debt-laden investment group The Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd. The holding totalled 21.16 million shares, GPG said in a substantial-shareholder's notice to the Australian Stock Exchange. The notice threshold
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      • 97 50 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Defence Agency is likely to decide soon to buy Sikorsky Aircraft's UH-60J helicopter for its Ground Self-De-fence Force, industry sources said. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd makes the UH-60J under licence. Sikorsky is a United Technologies Corp unit. The Nikkei economic daily
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      • 220 50 SINGAPORE A MalaysiaSingapore committee on the environment yesterday launched an education campaign on vehicle-emission control. The committee kicked off the campaign with a twopronged approach aimed at motorcyclists, fleet owners and drivers of diesel vehicles. Co-chairmen Tan Guong Ching, of Singapore's Environment
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    • 670 43 (fc FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 17/4 ROTTERDAM 17/4 MRHUS/COPENHAGEN 17/4 HAMBURG/BREMEN 17/4 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 19/4 FEUXSTOWE/UK 17/4 BARCaONA/SPAIN 18/4 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 18/4 GENOA/ITALY 1874 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 18/4 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 17/4 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 16/4 NEW YORK/EC 1774 FREMANTIE/ADELAIDE 16/4 VANCOUVER 20/4
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    • 1530 44 4 HKG/TWN/BKK GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SMLM6S/WEEK PEN PK SIN J 17/4 18/4 19/4 Honf Konj Genoa/Barcelona 22/4 23/4 24/4 > 19/4 20/4 21/4 Hont Konf Ldn/Fh/Rdm/Ant/Lh*/Ham 23/4 24/4 25/4 •c 20/4 22/4 23/4 Honf Kong GTwri/CTiaftn/STwlm/Oilo 17/4 18/4 19/4 J 17/4 18/4 19/4 Ketluni 25/4 19/4 Kaotliiunt JPN/KOREA/MANILA
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    • 639 45 W2VEVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTMG BKAKBUU SOC CAHGOCS 10/FIOM KOK. YOKOHAMA. NAGOYA, MOI. TOKYO*. IMMLA*. DAVAO*. Penanj* P. Kelant Sinfapore E'Msia* KAMALEVERETT V2OE 28/29 Apr 30/01 May SHAPIAEVERETT V2OE 02/03 May 04/05 May KARABCVERETT VI7E 25/26 May 27/2S May ACCEPTMG BKAKBU.K FCI. SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CMTTAQONG. CALCUTTA
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