The Business Times, 3 August 1994

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    11 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P)010/IJbl Wednesday August 3 1994 75"
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow up 3.23 points
      49 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue chips eked out small gains yesterday. In the broad market, advancing issues led declines 11-8 on NYSE volume of more than 179 million shares at Ipm EDT. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 3.23 points at 3,801.40 at 2pm EDT.
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      Lock icon Help in sight for US shipbuilders
      39 1 Reuter WASHINGTON The White House stepped up assistance to the ailing shipbuilding industry as President Bill Ginton yesterday announced approval of multi-million-dollar loan guarantees to help shipbuilders build or modernise commercial vessels. Reuter
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    160 1 Stock market indices Tmdiy Change STII 2,263.30 +19.41 KLSEComp 1,075.19 +18.85 Nikkei 20,660.13 388.78 Hang Seng 9,695.03 +11.35 SET Index 1,399.72 -2.26 Jakarta Comp 459.24 +6.52 CLSA China B ....1,055.75 +7.67 Aust All Ord 2,086.9 +4.8 FTSE 100 3,157.5 60.1 Tuesday Previous 2p« close Dow Jones 3,801.40 3,798.17
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    More than 120 China firms have presence in Singapore
    547 1  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE More than 120 companies from China now have a presence in Singapore through subsidiaries, representative offices and joint ventures, compared to only five a decade ago, according to the Chinese embassy here. At a recent reception to
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    Cambodia forms development ministry to act as one-stop shop for investors
    362 1  -  From Harish Mehta in PHNOM PENH A NEW super-ministry called the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), offering single-window approvals for investors, says it is out to create a Cambodia Inc and has more than 50 investment proposals
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    Creative, Aztech, IPC in consortium to develop digital media technologies
    307 1  -  By David Mok SINGAPORE Creative Technology, Aztech Systems and IPC Corporation are among nine companies and research institutions which have formed a consortium to develop and commercialise new technologies in digital media. The Singapore Digital Media Consortium (SDMC), as the
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    Koh Bros opens its 1st S'pore budget hotel
    278 1 SINGAPORE Construction company Koh Brothers yesterday opened its first local budget hotel and second in the region. The opening of the $14 million three-star Changi Hotel, along Changi Road, follows that of the 47-room Asian Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City in
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    Lock icon Stocks in S'pore, KL and HK extend gains, Tokyo rebounds
    504 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Share prices in Singapore, Malaysia and Hongkong extended their gains yesterday, while Japanese stocks recovered as the US dollar rebounded against the yen. In Singapore, the Straits Times Industrials Index added another 19.41 points to
    Source: Bloomberg  -  504 words
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    Lock icon US$ staying above 100-yen level
    193 1 Reuter NEW YORK The dollar was off against the mark yesterday but firmer against the yen staying above the 100yen level amid expectations that the US will not use the dollar to achieve its trade objectives. Dealers said there was a growing perception that the
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      23 1 Regional Analysis: Pg is ARF bark and bite Surin Pitsuwan, Thailand's Deputy Foreign Minister, on the Asean Regional Forum Regional Analysis, Pg 15
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      15 1 Hock lu)ck Siew: r* 19 /iCSr i ifey R[ C Plugging into China's pomwjsectoq A
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      17 1 lEMPORARY»P[RM)UI[NI Pjgggß Full reports, Pgs 26-30 Japan to keep trying to resolve US trade dispute, Pg 18
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon CPF default rate falls
        327 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan AFTER tightening for two consecutive quarters, business liquidity seems to be easing, going by the Central Provident Fund Board's default rates for the second quarter. Figures from the board show that 1.35 per cent of the 95,831 CPF-registercd bosses were late settling their
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      Case seeks to stop practice of sending unsolicited credit cards
      188 2 THE Consumers' Association of Singapore, Case, is dismayed to learn that the practice of sending unsolicited credit cards has come to Singapore, and it is of the view that this practice should be prohibited. In a strongly worded statement yesterday.
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      Union chief urges NWC to set guidelines for demerit schemes
      295 2  -  Calls for direction on whether system should be punitive or developmental By Soh Tiang Keng A TRADE union leader, Tay Chin Peng, yesterday urged the National Wages Council to set guidelines on demerit schemes for underperformers. Mr Tay, president of
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      Tanglin to have more big bungalows, second to Bt Timah
      637 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi TANGLIN is poised to become the second biggest "good class bungalow" area in Singapore, after Bukit Timah. A day after releasing its Development Guide Plan (DGP) for the Tanglin area, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) disclosed yesterday
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      Jayakumar: how UN can maintain central role in peacekeeping
      378 2 A FIRM commitment by big and middle developed powers, a discreet preventive diplomacy and a new base of countries willing and ready to assist the United Nations in peacekeeping can help check the growing internal conflicts and rising humanitarian disasters, says
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      Telecom to cut IDD rates to 9 destinations
      351 2  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Telecom is cutting international direct dialling rates to nine destinations by up to 37.5 per cent from next month, thanks to the rising Singapore dollar. The nine are Australia, Batam, Canada. China. India. Thailand, South Korea, the UK,
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Vietnam offers good prospects for Asean firms: DBS Bank
      343 3  -  By Vikram Khanna VIETNAM'S booming economy offers varied and lucrative business opportunities for companies from Asean, says DBS Bank in a recent report. The July issue of Asean Briefing, produced by the bank's research department, notes that the Vietnamese economy is
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      Anand urges Chuan govt to be more open to views of Thai newspapers
      257 3  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK FORMER Thai prime minister Anand Panyarachun has told the Chuan administration to be broad-minded and accept newspaper opinions which are different from the government. Mr Anand, who was Prime Minister Chuan
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      Lock icon Wife, son of key witness in Saudi gem case found killed
      312 3 Reuter BANGKOK The wife and son of the key state witness in an unsolved case in which jewellery was stolen from a Saudi palace and wound up in Thailand have been found murdered on a remote highway, police said
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      Lock icon Do Muoi urges Hanoi to speed up modernisation
      318 3 AFP, Reuter HANOI Vietnamese Communist party secretary-general Do Muoi has called for the country's modernisation and industrialisation to be speeded up. the official media said yesterday. He made the call at the seventh plenum of the party's central committee held in Hanoi
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      Viet business chamber opens office in Melbourne
      172 3  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY THE Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) opened an office in Melbourne yesterday its first overseas foray. The office, located at the premises of the Metal Trades Industry Association (MTIA) building, aims to help Australian companies wishing
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        Lock icon M'sian firm, govt face M$45m suit
        88 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Canadian firm is suing a Malaysian sports company for MS4S million (SS26 million), alleging that the Malaysian firm reneged on lucrative marketing rights agreements tor the 1998 Commonwealth Games which Kuala Lumpur is to host. Bernama news agency said on
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        Lock icon Close encounter with pit vipers
        55 3 AFP PLNANG Three-year-old Eric Bebe of Canada touching a green pit yiper at a temple here on Sunday. Dozens of snakes can be seen slithering about the temple but locals say the reptiles have not bitten anyone as they are intoxicated bv the heavy incense
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        Lock icon Study into Philippine gas pipeline
        71 3 AFP MANILA Japanese experts are to conduct a study into the cost ol building a 500-kilometre gas pipeline from south-west Palawan province to Luzon island, Energy Secretary Delfin Lazaro said yesterday. He said the study will enable Manila to prepare to build the undersea pipeline
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        Lock icon Hilton to manage Viet hotel
        76 3 AFP HO CHI MINH CITY Hilton International has signed a preliminary agreement to manage its first hotel in Vietnam which is planned as part of a USs2l6-million (***** million) development here, it was announced >esterday. Hilton has signed with Swiss firm Noga Hotels International SA.
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        Lock icon Fighting money laundering in Asia
        77 3 Reuter SYDNEY The Asian headquarters for an international organisation set up by the Group of Seven industrialised nations to combat money laundering will be in Australia, the country's leading crime-fighter said yesterday. The Asian secretariat for the Financial Action Task Force will help emerging Asian
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      245 3 NEW CENTER NOW OPEN IN KLANG If you are worried about your hair you doubtless study every tiny area of your scalp that seems to show through more than it should You cant be sure, there j may not be any problem-but then again, it could be >1 the onset
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon Three Fujian financial firms closed
        73 4 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Officials in China's southern Fujian province have shut down three companies that engaged in the illegal futures trading of foreign currency, the Beijing-backed Wen Wei Po newspaper said here yesterday. China's State Council in June banned the trading of currency futures in a
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        Lock icon You call that music?
        33 4 AFP BEIJING A Chinese girl covering her ears during a rock concert here on Monday, while her older companion seemed to view the proceedings on stage with disbelief. AFP
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        Lock icon Taiwan plans information highway
        62 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan is planning to build a high-performance, national information infrastructure (Nil) through a joint effort between the government and the private sector, officials said here yesterday. An advisory committee grouping 23 heavyweights from local computer, telecommunications and electrical firms was established on Monday, marking
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        Lock icon Aug 23 start for S Korea-China ferry
        66 4 AFP SEOUL A car ferry service between South Korea's port city of Pusan and the Chinese city of Yantai in Shangdong province will open on Aug 23, the Korea Maritime and Port Administration said yesterday. The two countries agreed at a maritime consultation
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        Lock icon Taiwan may open up unlisted firms
        79 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan is considering allowing foreign institutions to invest in unlisted companies as part of the liberalisation of its financial markets, the United Daily News said yesterday. Foreign institutions should be allowed to invest in firms capitalised at more than NTS2OO million (Ssl
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        Lock icon Shenzhen securities regulator arrested
        49 4 Reuter HONGKONG China has arrested a former securities regulator, a newspaper here said yesterday. Xu Jingan, former director of Shenzhen's Commission for Restructuring the Economy, was alleged to have received bribes while he was responsible for approving stock listings, Tin Tin Daily News said. Reuter
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      Lock icon Chinese labour disputes jump 66pc in first quarter
      292 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's labour departments and arbitration committees arc being swamped by a sharp increase in workers' disputes, with the number of cases jumping by two-thirds in the first quarter of 1994, compared to a year ago, the official China
      Bloomberg Business News  -  292 words
    • Article
      IFC investing up to US$20m in Chinese venture capital fund
      322 4  -  From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, has decided to invest up to US$2O million (SS3O million) in an offshore venture capital fund that will invest in unlisted companies in China.
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      Lock icon Brokers confident rally on China bourses will resume despite profit-taking
      376 4 Reuter SHANGHAI Profit-taking yesterday took some of the shine ofT a speetaeular rebound on China's A share markets for domestic investors, but brokers said confidence was still strong and the rally would resume. Shanghai's A index dived 3.19 per cent
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      HK Telecom to offer voice and data services to MNCs
      377 4  -  By Lim Soon Neo HONGKONG Hongkong Telecom is investing an initial HKSIO million (SSI.9 million) to enable it to offer WorldSource voice and data services to the colony's multinational corporations by the first quarter of next year. Peter Howell-Davics, deputy
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      Lock icon China police arrest 4 people as pager war erupts
      192 4 AFP BFIJING Chinese poliee have detained four people after an eleetronic pager service was disrupted with crank messages, signalling a war between rivals in the cut-throat personal communications sector. The China Daily yesterday said that from July 3. clients of the
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Pakistan to float 1pc of shares of telephone company
      411 5  -  By Farhan Bokhari in ISLAMABAD PAKISTANIS will get the first taste of privatisation of the country's exclusive telephone company, the PTC (Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation) on Aug 15, when the government offers just one per cent of its shares to the public.
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      Lock icon Proposal to reform Japanese rice farming, distribution
      266 5 Reuter TOKYO An advisory council to the government yesterday proposed sweeping reforms of Japan's rice farming and distribution, calling for the introduction of market mechanisms and deregulation to meet increasing overseas competition. The report by the Agriculture Policy Council said Japan should create
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      Lock icon Trial of Indian movie idol reflects changing social values
      275 5 Reuter BOMBAY In a shabby Bombay courtroom, a real-life drama is being played out with a movie idol who has come to represent on screen India's changing social values. Even the policewomen guarding the makeshift court inside the Arthur Road Jail
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon S Korea major China business partner
        80 5 Reuter BEIJING South Korea has raced ahead of its rival in the north to become a major business partner of China, diminishing Pyongyang's diplomatic and political leverage as a result, diplomats said yesterday. Chinese figures show trade with South Korea in the first half
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        Lock icon S Koreans own up to hidden assets
        83 5 AFP SEOUL South Koreans have owned up to some US$4.2 billion (556.3 billion) in hidden assets since President Kim Young Sam launched his "real-name" clean-up of the country's financial system last year, tax officials said yesterday. The National Tax Administration (NTA) said that
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        Lock icon N Korea eyes package deal in US talks
        115 5 Knight-Ridder TOKYO North Korea will continue to demand a package deal during talks on Friday with the US as the solution to a rift over its nuclear programme, the Korean Central News Agency said yesterday in a report monitored here. "If the
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        Lock icon Murayama image wins approval: survey
        79 5 AFP TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's image has helped his one-month-old Cabinet to reverse its unpopularity, a newspaper survey showed yesterday. The Mainichi Shimbun said an approval rate of the Murayama Cabinet as of last Sunday stood at 40 per cent against a disapproval
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        Lock icon Japanese ministers' assets revealed
        70 5 Knight-Ridder TOKYO The assets owned by Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama and his 20 Cabinet ministers average one billion yen (S$ 15 million), according to the ministers' asset reports revealed yesterday, Kyodo news wire reported. The figures, calculated by Kyodo based on the reports, include assets owned
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      Lock icon Japan's VCR imports jumped 183pc in June
      235 5 AFP TOKYO Japan's imports of video cassette recorders (VCRs) soared 183 per cent to 130,279 units in June, an industry group said yesterday. The Electronic Industries Association of Japan said the latest rise, which followed a surge of 155 per cent in May
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  • THE WORLD
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      Cabinet leak splits Britain's ruling Tories
      333 7  -  Revelation of Portillo rebuke to Heseltine causes furore From Neville Stack in LONDON A PROFOUND ideological split in Britain's ruling Conservative Party is revealed in the fall-out from a letter of rebuke from one Cabinet minister to another, which was leaked to a daily
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      Lock icon Russia's gross domestic product down 17pc in 1st half
      292 7 Reuter MOSCOW Russia's gross domestic product fell 17 per cent in the first half this year against first half 1993. Interfax news agency yesterday said overall. GDP in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was 20 per cent lower than in
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      Lock icon 1pc rise in W German industrial output signals strong GDP growth
      378 7 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News BONN West German industrial output rose one per eent in June from the month before and economists said this showed the whole country was in a good position to achieve strong growth in the second
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      Lock icon Boutros-Ghali calls attention to UN's financial hardships
      270 7 AFP NEW YORK United Nations secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali has convened the Security Council to review the financial hardships that have forced the organisation to cut back its peacekeeping operations around the world. Diplomats yesterday said Monday's meeting at the UN chiefs offices focused
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Sexy returns
        131 7 Reuter LONDON Sex business entrepreneur Paul Raymond has topped a magazine survey as the richest person in Britain where it says the rich are getting richer and paying less tax. Business Age magazine, in today's edition, says Mr Raymond is worth £1.65 billion (Ss3.B billion). His empire includes
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        Lock icon On a wing and a dare
        60 7 AFP PRINCE ALBERT, South Africa An excited tourist getting set to ride an ostrich on Monday at a show farm near Outshoorn in the Karoo, a semi-desert area ideal for ostrich farming. Deregulation of the industry is set to boost the farming of these
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        Lock icon Code of conduct for trade deals
        71 7 AP BRUSSELS European Union governments are drafting a "code of conduct" for trade negotiating in hopes of ending an internal dispute and moving on to ratify a global trade deal. Officials yesterday said the code should define which EU agencies take the lead in
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        Lock icon UAE levies 4pc import tariff
        80 7 Reuter ABU DHABI The United Arab Emirates, trying to harmonise rules within the seven-member federation in preparation of a possible Gulf Arab common market, on Monday began levying a 4 per cent tariff on most imports, customs officials said. "The good thing is that this
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      Lock icon US increases share of arms sales to Third World
      382 8 NYT WASHINGTON The United States increased its leading share of arms sales to the Third World last year, but overall sales to those countries continued a decline that started at the end of the Cold War, the Congressional Research Service reported
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      Lock icon Head of troubled MMM fund to meet officials
      443 8 Move to sort out legal tangles surrounding scheme's collapse Reuter MOSCOW Russian officials have asked the head of the troubled MMM investment fund to a meeting today in a bid to sort out the legal tangles surrounding the firm's spectacular collapse. Itar-Tass
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      Lock icon US Congress closer to ratifying Gatt but still divided over key issues
      263 8 Reuter WASHINGTON The US Congress is getting closer to ratifying the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) but key issues remain unresolved with no certainty of passage before summer's end, trade analysts said on Monday. Funding of
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      Lock icon Employers step up use of technology to spy on their workers: ILO
      337 8 AP WASHINGTON Employers in industrialised countries are increasingly using computers, cameras and listening devices to snoop on employees and monitor their performance in the workplace, says the International Labor Organisation. An ILO report on Monday said that the
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      499 8 0 FAR EAST LEVIINGSTON SHIPBUILDING ITD PELS (incofporated in the Republic of Singapore) 1. Unaudited results for ths six months sndod 30 Juno 1994 The Directors of Far East Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd advise the following unaudited results of the Company and the Group for the six months ended 30 June
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      390 8 I Straits Steamship Land Limited I H (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore) H I 1. Unaudited results for tha half>yaar sndad 30 Juna 1994 I The Directors advise the following unaudited results of the Group and the H Company for the six months ended 30 June 1994: H COMPANY
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon US favourite to win World Basketball Championships
      509 9 AFP TORONTO Dream Team II has inflicted a harsh reality on the other 15 teams arriving here for the World Basketball Championships they are all playing for second place. The 12 National Basketball Association stars representing the US are likely to repeat the
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      Lock icon Germans dominate vaulting events at equestrian games
      181 9 AP THE HAGUE, Netherlands The German dominance of vaulting events continued on Monday at the World Equestrian Games when that nation collected a gold, two silver and two bronze medals. In the team vaulting event, where three gymnasts perform their moves while balancing
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      Lock icon Player's 2,000th game
      66 9 AFP MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken raising his batting helmet to acknowledge a standing ovation from the crowd as he stepped up to the plate to bat in the first inning of Baltimore's Monday game against the Minnesota wins here. The game marked Ripken's 2,000
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      Lock icon Next stadium for World Cup?
      60 9 Reuter PARIS A scale model of one of the two architectural projects shortlisted last week as the new sports stadium in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis for the next World Cup in 1998. The final choice will be made next month. The architects for
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      Lock icon Can't sleep? Then watch baseball
      621 9  -  By Howard Kleinberg NYT MIAMI When major league baseball goes on strike, millions of Americans will be searching for new ways to induce sleep. Sometimes I make it into the sixth inning, but not often. Baseball has become the Sominex of American sports. I didn't
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    • SPORT SHORTS
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        Lock icon SEOUL
        127 9 AP SLOUL South Korea is planning to send a 724-member delegation to the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima. Japan, the local Olympic committee said yesterday. South Korea will compete in all but two of the 34 games to be held from Oct 1-16, committee officials said. South Korea is
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        Lock icon Baseball
        130 9 AP BRANDON, Manitoba South Korea rallied to defeat the United States 11-10 in the gold medal game of the World Youth Championship. In Sunday's game, the South Koreans scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning, then held the US in check in the ninth for the
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        Lock icon Cricket
        199 9 AFP Reuter COLOMBO Sri Lankan skipper Arjuna Kanatunga says his side is waiting to pile on the pressure for Pakistan when the two teams launch the psychologically important one-day series here today. "They arc the world champions. They are the ones under pressure. We have nothing to lose. We
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        Lock icon Cycling
        155 9 AFP MINNEAPOLIS American Tour de France triple winner Greg LeMond is on the verge of quitting the sport following fears he could still be suffering from the legacy of a hunting accident seven years ago. LeMond. who failed to finish this year's race and is currently undergoing medical tests
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      Lock icon High cost of golf sustains apartheid on the greens
      446 9 Al» JOHANNESBURG Signs at the Huddle Park public golf course tell players where to park, pay, tee off and eat. An electric billboard tells how to avoid being robbed. "Don't Leave Your Wallet in Your Bag," says the flashing message, near
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      574 9 ®The International Congress and Exhibition on Quality Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore 24 26 August 1994 Singapore Quality Institute (SQI) In a changing and competitive world, quality I has hccomc an essential ingrodicntof business DISTINGUISHED SPEAKKKg 77 1 strategies lor inteniational4rade. It is the key 1 1 Supported by element
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Cage escapes his brooding past
      959 13  -  In his successful sunshine trilogy films, Nicolas Cage sounds a positive note, writes Ellen Pall Ellen Pall IHT IT WAS while watching an old interview with a deeply drugged Jim Morrison on television several years ago that a light bulb went on over Nicolas Cage's
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      339 13 CHATTERBOX AP AP UPI IN'A MATCH made in tabloid heaven, the king of pop and the daughter of the king of rock confirmed they were secretly married 11 weeks ago. Michael Jackson, 35, and Lisa Marie Presley, 26, announced their union in a statement issued on Monday
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      Lock icon Old rockers keep rolling with raunchy start to tour
      402 13  -  Grandad Jagger uses a Tele Prompter, but the Rolling Stones still know how to party, writes Peter Ramjug Peter Ramjug Reuter THE middle-aged members of the Rolling Stones proved time was on their side on Monday, swaggering and rocking with a
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      101 13 JUST It's Ladies Nite at At the same time, tap to The Lounge every the beat of our new Filipino Wednesday! With band, the Humming Birds, house brand drinks And watch a fashion show going down easy at $6+++ (9.30pm 10.00pm). Ladies each from 7.30pm to 12.45 am Nite at
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      1347 13 TV RADIO The X-Files, 9.30pm, SBC 5 In this lust episode, para normal KBI agents Fox Mulder igr*.and Dana Seully go into the wild in search of couple of loggers who have disappeared «iS^ap Rk mysteriously. /flg|M Gremlins of the Night Forest, i'SF ifflMßfiLiii 9.30pm, SBC 12 Found in Africa
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  • REGIONAL ANALYSIS
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      Region's economic boom gets a security cover
      588 14  -  Special to BT ABDUL RAZAK BAGINDA ABDUL RAZAK BAGINDA The writer is the executive director of the Malaysian Strategic Research Centre based in Kuala Lumpur THE first meeting of the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) has come at a time when Asean countries as
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      Forum will make or break the Pacific Century
      873 14  -  Special to BT After the Asean Regional Forum BILVEER SINGH BILVEER SINGH Dr Bilveer Singh is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science. National University of Singapore THE NEED to address new uncertainties following the end of the Cold War
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      Will the ARF bite as much as it will bark?
      1305 15  -  After the Asean Regional Forum YANG RAZALI KASSIM YANG RAZALI KASSIM ihe writer, Hi's Regional Analysis editor, covered the Bangkok talks WINS lON Churchill. Britain's wartime leader, once said to "jaw-jaw" is better than to "war-war". Some half a century
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      When Asean becomes a player on the world stage
      2086 15  -  1 FACE TO FACE One of the actors behind the recent Asean Regional Forum is Thai Deputy Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan. BTs Regional Analysis editor Yang Razali Kassim met him in Bangkok last week for his views on the Asean talks.
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      96 14 Mk a/mh <s»tart I I Lg |far ftflft 4500 real life collisions actual jrn g\f\ r adS w tudy What actua# y ha PP ens further protection should the car roll over. For more informttlon on the tab 0000?' Very rea 001 USt n s rnulate<:, seditions The large, superbly-fitted
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    Hands across the Jordan
    503 16 EDITORIAL JORDAN'S King Hussein and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin executed a deft minuet outside the White House last week, singing paeons to peace, signing protocols of non-belligerence and crowning their efforts with the post-Cold War variant of the old Socialist Bloc bear hug the Historic
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      Charge small investors less
      208 16 AUTHORISED trading centres (ATCs), which allow investors who do not have a stockbroker or do not want to use one to buy and sell shares, got off the ground last Friday. It is unfair, though, that these walk-in customers have to pay one per cent commission,
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      Build on the campaign
      209 16 WHILE some quarters of the Malay community did not feel the warmth of the just ended Malay Language Month, many saw a good attempt at attracting more Malays to join the activities at the grassroot level. The pantun session at the Tampines Community Club was a
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      Less rigidity for schools
      179 16 THE GOVERNMENT'S move for schools to go independent or autonomous can better meet the needs of education. It would then appear that there is no need for the Ministry of Education to be so rigid about the form of independence and autonomy. So long as other
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      Bosnia: the truth of failure
      159 16 IN BOSNIA, international peace mediation, peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance are merely strategic pawns factored into each side's campaign of the war. Both try to manipulate and manoeuvre these external elements to their best advantage the Serbs start by playing along, then play hard to get
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      The message of the bombs
      115 16 THE THREE recent bomb attacks targeting Jews in Buenos Aires and London show that anti-Israeli guerillas have partially shifted their battlefield from the Middle East to Western countries. By escalating their terrorist activities, the attackers who are yet to be identified have clearly shown the
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      Racial oversensitivities
      173 16 HONGKONG PEOPLE could rarely be accused of paying undue attention to racial sensitivities. How welcome, then, that a member of the Central and Western District Board expressed concerns that Thai and Filipino maids might not get along if asked to share the abandoned Chung Sing Benevolent Society School
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    Lock icon Looking beyond the Bretton Woods mentality
    835 16  -  Interview with the chairman of the Bank of Tokyo Bank of Tokyo chairman Toyoo Gyoten tells Kenji Takeuchi in an interview that close economic policy coordination will be more effective in stabilising exchange rates than creating a new system. Mr Gyoten is a former
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      257 16 Ml. I/tit. POWER PLAY Booming economies and a shortage of electricity in Asia spell a bonanza of contracts for the private sector. But who will be the winners ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Bottom-fishing for Malaysian stocks Singapore's trusty brands in the 90s Gordon Wu's Asian gamble US banks want in
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  • ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon GE reaches out for a big bite of Asian power
      2043 17  -  Asian INFRASTRUCTURE An occasional series As Asian countries pour billions into new power generation facilities, the region has become a battleground for the big boys in the electricity business. S N Vasuki finds out more about the fray from US
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      No French crusade but EDF wants in on the action, too
      1532 17 JEAN-Michel Fauve believes that the global electricity business will be carved up by six or seven major players by the turn of the century. He reasons that if a handful of companies like Shell, Exxon and Mobil can effortlessly
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    Lock icon Apec advisers agree on blueprint for regional free trade by 2020
    446 18 Reuter CANBERRA Key advisers to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum have agreed on a blueprint for free trade within the Asia-Pa-cific region by the year 2020. Official sources yesterday said Apcc's Eminent Persons Group (EPG), made up
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    Lock icon US new home sales hit two-year low
    183 18 AFP WASHINGTON Sales of new homes in the United States plummeted 14.1 per cent in June to their lowest level in two years, the Commerce Department said yesterday. The decline was registered after sales had risen a revised 2.2 per cent in May.
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    402 18 AFP, Reuter TOKYO Japan will continue efforts to resolve differences with the United States in bilateral trade talks despite Washington's move to threaten Tokyo with sanctions. Finance Minister Masayoshi Takcmura yesterday said that he "regrets" Washington's move on Sunday towards
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    Lock icon Japan's trade surplus will fall by US$40b: economist
    358 18 Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON Japans current account surplus should begin to dccline in the coming months and could drop by about US$4O billion (Ss6o billion) over the next two years. Economist Fred Bcrgsten yesterday said a decline in Japan's current account surplus, measured in
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    Trans-Atlantic investment flows in everyone's interest
    594 18  -  The Bottom Line REGINALD DALE REGINALD DALE The writer is a columnist with the International Herald Tribune, where this commentary first appeared THE advent of the global economy is having a perverse side-effect: while companies are increasingly operating worldwide, governments are becoming more nationalistic.
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    Lock icon Berlusconi's group crops up in US probe into MGM/UA deal: report
    433 18 Reuter MILAN A US Securities Exchange Commission investigation into the 1990 acquisition of MGM/UA Communications Co has questioned the role played by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest group in the deal. The Wall Street Journal yesterday quoted Carlo
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    Lock icon Kenwood to shift bulk of transceiver production to S'pore
    143 18 AFP TOKYO Japanese audio equipment manufacturer Kenwood Corp plans to shift most of its production of transceivers from Japan to a whollyowned subsidiary in Singapore, a spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman said TrioKenwood Singapore Pte Ltd. established in 1979, will start
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      352 18 +|+"*.~)?)&"")}%!*[,(}/*&$<?<): Recipient of the Meritorious Award for Distinguished Service, Swiciy Date: 22-23 August 1994 Venue: The Pan Pacific Hotel 9.00 am 5.00pm COMPETITOR INTELLIGENCE A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH? Time and again, we have witnessed big and established companies registering huge losses, some even going under. One of the
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      33 18 TECHNOLOGY Tomorrow in Business Times Singapore Kuala Lumpur NGEE ANN OOEON TOWERS MENARA MIC CITY (Opp Raff tot tJ (Opp Shangri-La Hotel) (Orchard Road) Hotel) QUALITY INSTANT OFFICES Tel 65-*****43 Fax 65-*****76 MRCINTH
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      SSL interim earnings jump 43.7pc to $19.9m
      344 19  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Straits Steamship Land yesterday announced much-improved interim results and said profit in the second half would be better. For the six months to June 30, the listed property arm of the Keppel group registered a 43.7 per cent
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      Far East Levingston earnings jump 22pc to $17.7m in 1st half
      285 19  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Listed rigbuilder Far East Levingston Shipbuilding has released a creditable set of half-time results. For the six months to June 30, 1994, group net earnings jumped 22 per cent to $17.7 million, while earnings per
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      Steamers Maritime joins Guangdong port operating venture
      226 19 SINGAPORE Steamers Maritime has formed a joint venture with a Chinese company to operate a port in Guangdong. Steamers will take an equal share in the project, Foshan Sinotrans International Transportation Co, with Foshan Foreign Trade Transportation Corp. The two companies, which signed
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      Transmarco selling deluxe holdings for US$20m
      318 19  -  By A J Leow SINGAPORE Metro Holdings subsidiary Transmarco is selling its entire stake in three associate companies for a total of US$2O million (Ss3o million) to the Vendome group of Switzerland. Listed Transmarco, which is 50.3 per cent-owned by Metro, has agreed to
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      Investors can plug into China power sector through Shandong Huaneng's ADR issue
      674 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE Shandong Huaneng Power Development Co Ltd, the first China power generation company to seek a listing on the New York Stock Exchange, will price its American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) later
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      Lock icon MUI trades assets with its MUMB unit in M$674m revamp
      253 19 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malayan United Industries (MUI) Bhd is to redefine the group's diversified business stable under a M 5674.77 million (*****.6 million) reconstruction scheme. MUI is to sell its property companies to a 74.8 per centowned subsidiary. Malayan United
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      Bangkok bank issues loan notes in S'pore, Asia, Europe
      98 19 SINGAPORE The Bangkok Bank of Commerce has raised US$l7O million (*****.7 million) from the capital markets of Singapore, Asia and Europe through an issue of floating rate notes. The deal for the five-year notes, involving 22 international financial institutions, was signed
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        MARKET MOOD
        43 19 Firm Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Chernight events may alter sentiment Brokers polled: Alliance. Baring. I)aina. Fraser. Morgan GrenJell, Somura. Phillip. Smith iVfu Court. I'at Lee. W! Can and SG Warburg.
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        HOT STOCK
        121 19  -  -By Quak Hiang Whai United Industrial Corporation closed four cents lower at $1.33. The stock should continue to consolidate or drift from here before it could trade to test resistance at $1.38. There are no encouraging buying signals in the short-term charts except its strong volumes. But the
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
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          SES approves Jaya's issues
          69 20 SINGAPORE Java Holdings announced yesterday that the Stock Exchange of Singapore had approved its proposed bonus issue of up to 20.91 million new shares and a renounceable rights issue of up to 31.36 million shares. Also approved was its proposed issue of up to $31.36 million
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          Pacific Best's share capital up
          43 20 SINGAPORE Pacific Can Investment Holdings has increased the issued share capital of Pacific Best from $2 to $4.06 million. Pacific Best is a 70-per cent subsidiary of Pacific Can Manufacturing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pacific Can Investment Holdings.
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          Gen Securities seeks suspension
          25 20 SINGAPORE General Securities Investments has asked the stock exchange to suspend its shares today pending the announcement of its interim results.
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          Lock icon Tenaga in talks with Celcom still
          121 20 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Tenaga Nasional Bhd yesterday denied a report in the New Straits Times that it had decided to take a 40 per cent stake in its joint venture with Celcom (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd. The company told the Kuala Lumpur Stock
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          Lock icon Lityan profits up 59pc
          83 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Lityan Holdings Bhd yesterday reported a group pre-tax profit of M 57.32 million (554.2 million) for the half year ended June 30. 1994, an increase of 59.3 per cent from M 54.59 million registered previously. It said group turnover increased by 7.8 per
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          Lock icon Idris-Aokam press conference today
          56 20 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Idris Hydraulic (Malaysia) Bhd and Aokam Perdana Bhd have scheduled a joint press conference for today amid indications that Idris will buy a stake in Aokam's plywood-making subsidiary. Idris managing director Ishak Ismail said last week his company would buy 30 per cent
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        Oil refiner's strong debut enlivens dull Thai market
        389 20  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK OIL refiner Bangchak Petroleum staged an impressive stock market debut yesterday, with its share price soaring to 57 baht in early trading, from the initial public offer price of 31 baht. A bout of profit-taking, however,
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        M'sian firm to invest new funds in S'pore unit
        295 20 SINGAPORE Malaysianlisted computer firm MCSB Systems, which is in the process of raising MSSS million (SS32 million) through an issue of rights shares and bonds, plans to inject most of the new funds into its Singapore investment subsidiary. MCSB managing director
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        Top 5,000 Philippine firms' sales hit 1.34 trillion pesos
        416 20  -  From Al Labita in MANILA THE Philippines' top 5.000 corporations raked in 1.34 trillion pesos (SS67 billion) in sales last year, up 9.2 per cent from the previous year. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said yesterday that manufacturing firms accounted
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        UIS' interim earnings jump three-fold after accounting change
        293 20 SINGAPORE United International Securities, the closed-end investment company of United Overseas Bank, lifted net earnings more than three-fold in the six months to June 30 compared with the corresponding period last year. Profit jumped to 58.4 million from $2.52 million in first-half
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        Lock icon KLSE plans to reduce size of blue chip lots
        250 20 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian stock officials yesterday said prime shares on the local bourse had become costly and were considering reducing by between 50 and 70 per cent the size of each share lot to make them more affordable. The Kuala
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        K Emas says office in Solomons not told of any suspension
        425 20  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR KUMPULAN Emas Bhd said yesterday it was in the dark over the suspension of its logging licence by the government of Solomon Islands. "We have checked with our Solomon Islands office and
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        Lock icon D&C Bank's pre-tax profit soars 77pc
        230 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Development Commercial Bank Bhd's group pre-tax profit jumped 76.9 per cent to MS 169.9 million (5598.5 million) for the six months ended June 30. 1994. from M 596.1 million in the previous sixmonth period. Announcing its unaudited results yesterday, D&C Bank
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        Lock icon Pacific Bank's interim pre-tax surges 41pc to M$19m
        137 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Pacific Bank Bhd has reported a 41.6 per cent jump in group pre-tax profit to MS 19.629 million (SSI 1.4 million) for the half year ended June 30. 1994, from MS 13.867 million in the previous corresponding half year.
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        UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
        555 20 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Managers' pric«s (S) Aug 3 Mcndaki Gr Fund 1.18 l.2l(« T US Gr Fund 099 103" Singapore Unit Trust rhc C ommeivc 1.65 1.74 UwiO InVcSI Vflgl Lid The Savings Fund 1.57 1.66 Unifund 1.49 1.55 S'pore Prog Fund 0.70 0.74 Unibond 1.035 1.060 S'pore See Fund
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          Lock icon Taiwan to raise margin loan ceiling
          96 22 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan will raise the margin loan ceiling for brokerages to 250 per cent of their net asset value from 150 per cent, the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday. "Many brokerages have complained they did not have enough margin loans for investors.
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          Lock icon GEC in 11.6b yuan China power project
          109 22 AFP BEIJING Britain's General Electric Corp (GEC) is to participate in the 11.6 billion yuan (552.02 billion) second phase of a thermal power project in eastern China, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. The second phase of the planned three mil-lion-kilowatt plant in Zhejiang
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          Lock icon Daewoo in China paper plant tie-up
          99 22 AFP SEOUL South Korea's Daewoo Corp has tied up with Mudanjiang Paper Mill of China to establish a joint venture for papers production in China, a company spokesman said yesterday. A signing ceremony was recently held in the Chinese city of Harbin between Yoo
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          Lock icon Cathay Life's interim pre-tax up 93pc
          90 22 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's insurance giant Cathay Life Insurance Co Ltd yesterday reported an interim pre-tax profit of NT57.24 billion (Ss4lo million) for the first half of this year, a 93 per cent surge from a year earlier. Cathay, a listed firm with assets of
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          Lock icon Japan to allow firms to buy back shares
          128 22 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japan's Cabinet yesterday approved a government ordinance to implement a revised commercial code and company law on Oct I, allowing companies to acquire their own shares on certain conditions, according to Kyodo news wire. It allows companies to acquire their
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        Lock icon BP chalks up strong rise in second quarter earnings
        151 22 Reuter LONDON Oil giant British Petroleum yesterday reported a strong rise in second quarter earnings, boosted by higher oil prices, cost-cutting and low exposure to Far East refining. Despite a squeeze in refining margins, gains from rising oil prices and improvements
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        Lock icon Macy pares loss despite sales turning sluggish
        164 22 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK R H Macy Co. said its loss narrowed in the five weeks ended July 2, although sales were sluggish, falling 2.1 per cent from a year ago. The New York retailer, which agreed on July 14 to merge
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        Lock icon Brierley picking up Goodman shares for possible takeover play
        326 22 Reuter WELLINGTON New Zea-land-based Brierley Investments has been buying up shares in Australian food group Goodman Fielder to position itself for a takeover play. The Australian Financial Review yesterday reported that BIL had yet to reach the 5 per cent disclosure
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        Lock icon Pearson seeks £150m stake in Hongkong's TVB
        264 22 FT LONDON Pearson, the media and entertainment group, is negotiating a stake in Hongkong's Television Broadcasts (TVB), Asia's premiere television company. If the talks are successful. Pearson will pay about £150 million (***** million) for a 9.9 per cent stake in TVB a
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        Lock icon Split allows Alcan Australia to focus on home operations
        421 22 Reuter SYDNEY Alcan Australia, fresh from cutting 58-year-old ties with its Canadian parent Alcan Aluminium, plans to focus on core domestic operations with an eye on Asia. Chief executive lan Edwards. who only two years ago was based in Toronto to
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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        Lock icon Templeton creating Viet country fund
        296 23 NYSE-listed USs6om fund eyes stakes in Asian firms Bloomberg Business News HANOI Global portfolio manager Templeton Investment Management (Hongkong) Ltd is creating a US$6O million to USSIOO million (SSISI million) country fund to buy passive equity stakes in Asian companies investing in Vietnam. The fund,
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        JP Morgan setting up US$25m India fund
        247 23  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE JP Morgan Securities Asia is setting up a USS2S million (5537.7 million) India fund the US investment bank's second in India this year. The First India Strategic Trust as the fund will be called will be finalised later this
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        Lock icon Higher NatWest interim profit fails to impress analysts
        302 23 Reuter LONDON National Westminster Bank pic yesterday announced higher half-year pretax profits and a hefty 14 per cent dividend increase, but analysts expressed concern over tougher trading conditions and a squeeze on margins. Profits rose to £767 million (551.78 billion) from £570
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        Lock icon Swire unit arranges HK$2.6b bank loan via HSBC
        208 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Swire Finance Ltd, a subsidiary of the Hongkong real estate and aviation conglomerate Swire Pacific Ltd, is borrowing HKS2.6 billion (SSSO7 million) through a syndicate of banks led by Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. In a written statement,
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      • SMALL CHANGE
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          Lock icon Krung Thai raises deposit rates
          89 23 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Krung Thai Bank pic yesterday raised its rate on most deposit accounts by 0.25 to 0.5 of a percentage point. Three-month fixed accounts now pay 9.25 per cent, up from the previous 8.75 per cent. One-year fixed accounts pay 8.75 per
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          Lock icon Bank Dagang's US$165m FRN offer
          86 23 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Indonesia's Bank Dagang Negara yesterday launched a US$l65 million (***** million) offering of seven-year floating-rate notes with an interest rate of 120 basis points over six-month Libor. The FRNs will have a fixed price re-offer of 99.362, and a put option after five
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          Lock icon D&C Bank cuts rate to 6.65pc
          51 23 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Development and Commercial Bank Bhd yesterday lowered its base lending rate to 6.65 per cent from 6.90 per cent. The bank said the rates are lowered to better reflect the overall cost of funds on the market. Bloomberg Business
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          Lock icon News Corp unit to sell debentures
          78 23 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY News Corp Ltd has announced that its subsidiary. News America Holdings Inc, will sell As27l million (SS3OI million) of senior debentures due August 2034, with an interest rate of 8.45 per cent. The securities are underwritten by Goldman Sachs Co.
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          76 23 AFP MANILA Two foreign banks Sumitomo Bank of Japan and Republic National Bank of New York plan to open representative offices in the Philippines. Republic National said the bank had remitted US$3O,OOO (5545,300) through a local bank and authorised a Philippine law firm to be
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        563 24 Growth likely to slow to less than half the pace of the past decade: analyst Bloomberg Business News NLW YORK The expansion of the American mutual fund industry will slow to less than half the pace it set in the past decade. At
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        Oil prices fall amid signs of end to Nigerian crisis
        180 24 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Optimism that Nigerian opposition leader Chief Moshood Abiola will soon be released from jail, ending an oil workers' strike, sent oil prices tumbling yesterday. Tension mounted as ma-chete-armed gangs roamed the streets of Lagos smashing cars,
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        388 24 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Merrill Lynch Co plans to change the pricing structure for selected mutual funds by offering new categories of shares to investors. Each of the Merrill Lynch mutual funds will offer four types of shares,
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        71 24 AFP HAVANA Cuba's chief export is sugar. Its cane fields are still tended to manually by volunteer workers because there is a lack of machinery. But where does it find enough volunteers like the ones above working on a field near here? The government has a clever scheme:
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        193 24 AFP, Reuter BANGKOK The demand for Thai petroleum increased 9.1 per cent in the first six months of 1994, to 712,750 barrels a day, a Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT) official said yesterday. Gasoline accounted for the largest percentage increase, a rise of
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        289 24 Reuter HANOI Vietnam anticipates demand for oil products outstripping supply by the time its first US$l.2 billion (SSI.B billion) refinery is onstream in 1999 and is taking bids for its second refinery. Officials yesterday said that US companies, free to
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        185 24 Reuter COLOMBO Rising demand from domestic industries and a world rubber shortage could help revive the Sri Lankan industry, industry officials said on Monday. "There's a great shortage in this country. Manufacturers are buying rubber whatever the price," said a spokesman for the
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        227 24 Reuter BRISBANE China has not bought as much sugar on the world market as forecast earlier this year when analysts were bullish about its import potential. Lan Ballantyne. general manager of sugar cane farmers group, Canegrowers. yesterday said China only imported about 170,000 tonnes
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        100 24 THE Singapore dollar yesterday closed almost unchanged in a quiet trading day. Rumours of early elections ignited the firming of the Malaysian ringgit. It broke the 2.59 level and could test the 2.585 support soon. The Thai baht eased slightly in moderate trade, mov ing
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        187 24 Reuter LONDON The dollar was ending a reasonably quiet day in Europe with modest gains against both the mark and yen. hav ing again broken above the 100 level against the Japanese currency. Dealers said the dollar flourished against the yen after it broke through resistance at 99.70. an
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        85 24 AFP NEW YORK The dollar gained ground against other major currencies yesterday amid active trading triggered by heavy purchases of marks and yen at the opening of the money market. The dollar was trading at 1.5810 marks from 1.5787 on Monday and at 100.38 yen against 99.42. The
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        1300 25 StMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simcx Euroyen and the Japanese government bonds (JGB) closed a day of moderate trading lower while Eurodollars finished slightly firmer as dollar/yen concern continued to plague the money markets. Commenting on Euroyen futures. a Japanese dealer said: 'Until the
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        KL tin rebounds on foreign demand
        654 25 COMMODITY REPORTS KL Tin TIN rebounded yesterday to close five sen higher at M$ 13.31 a kg on some fresh demand from Japan. Europe and Malaysia. traders said. "The market is steadier on some consumer buying." a trader said. "Yesterday's fall was too sharp
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          Pakistan passes on palm oil offers
          59 25 KUALA LUMPUR I he Ghcc Corp of Pakistan yesterday passed on offers for Malaysian RBD palm oil. traders said. Marpro Oils and Grains made the lowest offer at U*****.88 (*****.73) per tonne, C&F. for shipment in late August. The corporation will seek offers today
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          Trade at LCE up 13pc in July
          80 25 LONDON Volumes at the London Commodity Exchange rose 13.1 per cent in July compared with the same month last year. Volume for the year through July showed a 33 per cent increase on the same period in 1992-93 with a total of 4.07
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          India to export 500,000 cotton bales
          95 25 NEW DELHI India will export at least 500.000 cotton bales (170 kg a bale) in the 1994-95 (SepAug) cotton season and additional exports a possibility after domestic output and demand are assessed. the government said yesterday. G Venkatswamy, the Textile Minister, told Parliament that
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          Japanese oil refinery restarts on time
          89 25 TOKYO Japan's Cosmo Oil Co's Sakaide refinery restarted on Monday as scheduled after its regular maintenance shutdown, despite severe water shortages in the area, a company spokesman confirmed yesterday. But the refinery will have to consider cutting operating rates in September if drv conditions
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1462 25 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (future* closing a« at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S ccnts/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Sep 94 I I 183.50 3000 Oct 167.00 163.00 171.00 150 4525 Nov 167.00 163.00 165.25 150 4475 Dec 167.00 163.00 164.25 150 4875 Jan/Mar
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        Australia
        1003 26 4.8 INVESTORS locked in recent profits by selling stocks yesterday. curbing an early rally on the local bourse, brokers said. The key All Ordinaries Index closed at 2.086.9 points, up just 4.8. The All Industrials Index rose 10.9 to 3.057.0 while the All Resources Index fell 0.1 to 1,358.4.
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        Manila
        630 26 •16.81 Share prices declined yesterday as investors cashed in on a strong 2.85 per cent surge on Monday, stock brokers said. The PSE Composite Index shed 16.81 points to close at 2.866.30. Volume was 911.69 million shares, valued at 1.59 billion pesos. An analyst attributed the decline to a
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        Taipei
        614 26 40.54 The Taiwan bourse yesterday continued to hit a new high in four years, with electrical shares posting the largest gain. The 376-issue Weighted Price Index put on another 40.54 points to settle at 6.879.56. the highest level since June 1990. Turnover totalled 2.56 billion shares valued at NTS
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        Seoul
        474 26 -5.41 Share prices tumbled yesterday following a one-day correctional comeback on Monday, with turnover hitting a record low for the year, dealers said. The Composite Price Index shed 5.14 points to settle at 927.55 during a jittery session. Turnover was a year's low of 16 million shares, with investors
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        New Zealand
        282 26 +41.10 The NZSE-40 Capital Index, closed 41.4 points. 2 per cent higher, at 2.074.69. Volume was a heavy NZ$73.B million. Gainers outnumbered losing stocks 72 to 19. Leading stocks were stronger across the board with very strong gains in the two largest capitalisation stocks. Telecom and Carter Holt
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        Bombay
        79 26 +33.84 Share prices retreated from the day's highs but still closed above the previous day's level on sustained speculative buying. The BSE 30-share Index fluctuated sharply towards end of the session before closing at a provisional 4.310.32, up 33.84 points from the previous close. The 100-share National Index closed
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        689 26 Britannia Funds Sterling »sh Bid (MT«r Man jp [X-poMi M MOO ><<<«> Nlim Jerses Ciik UII1I 0 l**»2 Mim Mat Imikik tiMIUO *045U) I S$ C ash Inctmr Plus F unJ •>)«««) *10 11 (HI PS Revise Fund J 2*«l < «m Nlrrling F.quil) tun) IVrforiruiKC 0.4SV2 0 49.1* Far
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        691 26 +60.1 STOCKS soared to their biggest one-day gain of the year amid reports of higher corporate profits and speculation that interest rates will not rise soon. The FT-SE 100 Index of rose 60.1 points to 3,157.5, its biggest gain of the year and its highest level since April 15.
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        146 26 +47.65 French stocks posted their second biggest surge this year, leaping to a threemonth high as investors embraced the view that economic strength has been cemented on both sides of the Atlantic. "There's an optimistic feeling around, and it's getting stronger," said a trader. "France is becoming a favourite
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        Frankfurt
        165 26 +7.24 German stocks rose in postbourse trading, extending earlier gains as buoyant earnings forecasts for the chemical industry pulled the market higher. The DAX Index rose 7.24 points to 2,186.39. As on most other European markets, chemicals shares took the lead for most of the day after several research
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        Brussels
        174 26 16.92 Belgian stocks rose to their highest level for nine weeks after gains in the US made European equities seem relatively cheap. The market was also boosted by a drop in bond yields, which reduced the cost of borrowing money for companies. The Bcl-20 Index rose 16.92 points to
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        Milan
        152 26 144 Italian stocks climbed for a third consecutive day as most European stock markets had their best day of the year on reports of higher corporate profits in recovering economies. "The other markets are up. and that's pulling the index higher," said a trader. Reports that European companies are
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        Amsterdam
        281 26 +7.09 Dutch stocks rose to their highest since April 18 as optimism over second-quarter earnings and a firm dollar pulled foreign investors back into the market. The EOE Index closed 7.09 points higher at 419.23. The rally was spearheaded by ABN Amro Bank and food and consumer goods producer
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        Stockholm
        105 26 +20.00 Sweden's benchmark index rose for a third day amid investors' expectations of strong earnings results and strength in other European stock exchanges. The OMX Index rose 20 points to close at 1166.45. Telecommunications company L M Ericsson was the biggest gainer, rising nine kronor to 435. Ericsson on
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        Zurich
        312 26 +50.20 Swiss stocks advanced 1.9 per cent, their third gain in a row, and the fourth largest advance this year, as rate fears evaporated in favour of good corporate earnings prospects. The SMI Index closed up 50.2 at 2.629.7, its largest one-day gain since July 14. Chemical and drug
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        Johannesburg
        284 26 +35 Gold shares lost almost all the day's good gains after a dive in gold price near the close while industrials pared gains to a lesser extent. The Overall Index ended 32 points up at 5.684, the Industrial Index was 35 up at 6,437 and the Gold Index only
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        Toronto
        285 26 1.52 stocks remained firm in sluggish midday trading with gains in most sectors restrained by sharp losses in gold and precious metals. "It's sort of a neutral market today with golds down." one trader said. The TSE 300 Composite Index rose 1.52 points to 4180.49 on volume of 24.88
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        New York
        681 26 +4.53 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which jumped 33.67 points on Monday, was ahead 4.53 points to 3.802.70 at Nam EDT. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index was ahead 0.48 to 254.53, while Standard Poors 500-stock Index was up 0.52 to 461.53. Advances pounded declines 1,170-603 among
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      3097 27 Reuter HONGKONG Shares closed higher after a day of see-saw trading within a tight range. The Hang Seng Index ended 11.35 points, or 0.12 per cent, up at 9,695.03. Turnover was HKSS.6O billion. "On the whole, things are pretty upbeat. What's very interesting is the increase in the trading
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      552 27 CLSA SHARE investors took profits yesterday with the Shanghai and Shenzhen A indices down 3.2 per cent and 1.5 per cent respectively on heavy turnover. Turnover in Shanghai was halved to US$5.3 million but the index edged up 8.65 to 820.32 points. Erfangji topped the actives, rising 8.9 per
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      2568 27 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended sharply higher on dealers' short-cover-ing and small-lot buying by financial institutions amid a lack of serious sellers, brokers said. Sentiment was underpinned by an overnight drop in the yen and higher US share prices, but turnover remained light overall. "Investors felt a bit relieved as
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      1820 27 Reuter BANGKOK Thai stocks closed slightly lower after a see-saw day. Brokers said that the market was adjusting its support level before breaching the 1,400 psychological resistance. The SET Index closed 2.26 points lower at 1.399.72. Turnover was a high 11.21 billion baht. Falls led rises 200 to 105.
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      1161 27 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed higher in moderate trade on improving foreign sentiment and local punting, which brokers said could indicate this week's rally would be sustainable. "This rally should be sustainable because local punters and foreign institutions seem to be making a concerted effort to buy back into
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2524 28 MOST ACTIVE volume Promcl 12.015.000 Mulpha Intl 50c 6.691.000 Idrn Hy«J 50c 6.5)9.000 ASH 50c 5.672.000 Tan hong 50c 5.560.000 MBf Capital 4.955.000 InnoNcsl BhJ 4.474.000 Kabcr Group 4 294 000 lnsa<. BM ).27).000 Kcnong Bhd 50c ).22 7.000 MukjhPurpoK 2.728.000 Asia l*ac Ld 2.492 000 AMDB 50c
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        Lock icon Stocks at 5-month high on foreign interest
        6169 28 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks rose to a five-month high as solid earnings reports and favourable economic conditions continued to attract foreign investors. "You see a lot of funds moving from Japan to this side of the world," said an analyst. "Funds
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        8053 29 MAIN BOARD Transaction date: Aug 2 Gr U M »l |W4 lust Vol Oa> IjhiQhM Di» Dn \M Nrt Cap Ai| High I o» Cornell) Sale 000) High low Bu>er Sell« Or P/F. 5mil Price INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1440 *35 I ,V.nu 960 uiKh 32 970 960 960 965 175
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        Lock icon Sentiment buoyant as volume surpasses 200m mark
        1874 30  -  By Quak Hiang VVhai SINGAPORE Trading volumes shot past the psychological 200-million mark yesterday with the blue chip index adding another 19 points to close at a six-week high. The rise in the local market was also broad-based with strong gains posted by
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      554 19 NEWS VALUE //oh today 's news might affect your stocks Creative, Aztech, IPC in consortium to develop digital media technologies (pg I) Any impact on the companies concerned will be long-term. Telecom to cut IDO rates to 9 destinations (pg 2) Marginal impact on users, but an interesting example of
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      S'pore a top port due to heavy investment, training: minister
      402 31  -  By William Chik SINGAPORE Heavy investment in infrastructure, technology and manpower training had made the Port of Singapore one of the busiest and most efficient in the world, a government minister said yesterday. The Minister of State for Trade Industry
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      Lock icon High yen will hit Japanese firms
      303 31 Reuter TOKYO Profits at major Japanese shipping and shipbuilding companies will fall sharply if the exchange rate averages 100 yen (S$ 1.52) to the dollar in the year to March 31, 1995, while the airline industry will face a moderate drop in profits, the
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      Lock icon Hanjin to build 5,000 TEU ships
      85 31 AFP SEOUL South Korea's Hanjin Transportation Co has placed an order with its subsidiary here to build two of the world's largest container ships. The US$l6O-million (***** million) order for the two 5,000 20-foot-equivalent-unit (TEU) vessels was given to Hanjin Heavy Industries on a
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      1101 31 Page Col ABC Containerize 16 4 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 ANL 3 1/2 Antaco Mgmt 17 4/5 APL 5 3-5 Appenship 8 4/5 Arabian Express 15 5 ASCL 5 5 Assist Marine 6 1 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait
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      Lock icon Intercargo calls for criteria before singling out ships
      293 31 KnightRidder LONDON The "targeting" of individual shipowners, operators and managers because of deficiencies in their ships is a "very blunt instrument and likely to be counter productive unless regarded as an action of last resort". This was the response of the International
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      Lock icon High fuel prices put dampener on improved oil freight rates
      439 31 Reuter LONDON Ship-owners have seen rates for transporting crude oil rise sharply since the first half of the year, but increased fuel prices mean it is too early to be toasting a market turnaround, analysts said on Monday. "It's too
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      Lock icon Secondhand handy, Panamax carriers draw strong demand
      537 31 Knight-Ridder LONDON Activity on the secondhand ship market remains dominated by the sale of handysized and Panamax bulk carriers, with the market remaining "surprisingly" strong, UK shipbrokers EA Gibson says in its latest market report. Major interest for the handysizes from India, South
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      797 32 Left in ruins after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Kuwait's three ports have staged a remarkable recovery and are now ready for traffic growth Lloyd's List Magazine Focus KUWAITs recovery from the devastation of Iraq's invasion is neatly mirrored in its ports, now heading for tonnage levels
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      12214 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 Pcnang after
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        621 48 Instl Voy No Bwtti Arrival Departure Vessel Voy Wo Berth Arrival Departure^ Jorong Port Batam Speed4 A7294* P01A 0208 1900 02 08 2000 Batam Murra 08 01 94 112 alongside 0308/2300 Batam Speed4 A/394* P01A 0308/1200 0308 1300 Caltei Eicefcnce 112 alongside 0308/0300 Batam Speed4 ****** P01A
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1738 48 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO DECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Aa $«an 129A 03/1500 28 01/1700 02/0669 02 0900 3 02/0)00 02/1159 02/1400 4 02/1200 02/1459 02/1/00 tQHto Ntto 1Q94W 04/2300
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        Daily Freights
        713 48 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1.443 on Monday from 1,440 on July 29. Rates for Panamax tonnage in the Atlantic remained firm and steadier in the east, but trading slowed slightly with brokers taking stock following last week's flurry of activity,
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        Myanmar Airways to lease second plane from MAS
        393 50  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Myanmar Airways International plans to lease another plane from Malaysia Airlines (MAS) to cater for its fast-expanding network and replace the Boeing 757 it has leased from Royal Brunei Airways. The plan was disclosed at the signing ceremony
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        41 50 Reuter BEIJING A Chinese welder puts finishing touches to a canopy for a Beijing car repair business on Monday. With the advent of more vehicles on the city's roads, repairers of foreign and Chinese-made vehicles are in demand. Reuter >
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        TNT Express airline given full freedom rights on Singapore-Jakarta service
        279 50  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE An airline used by TNT Express Worldwide for its Asian air express operations has been granted full-freedom rights to fly cargo direct to Jakarta from Singapore. From Aug 15, Manilabased Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines (PEAC)
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        242 50 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Thai Airways International pic will pay US$9B million (SSI4B million) in cash to purchase an Airbus 330-300 airplane, saving US$B million in annual interest costs, the company said on Monday in a report to the Stock Exchange of
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        447 50 Reuter PARIS An interim official report by the French authorities into the crash of an Airbus A 330 test jet which killed seven people appeared to point to human error as the cause of the fatal accident. The twin-engined passenger plane
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