The Business Times, 26 August 1994

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  • 14 1 SINGAPORE BusinessTimes WE KNOW ASIA M ITA(P) 010/12/93 Friday August 26 1994 75 4
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 66 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks drifted slightly lower yesterday as the market paused to catch its breath after two straight sessions of gains. At lpm EDT, in the broader market, advancing issues led declines 10-9 on active volume of more than 174 million shares on the
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    • 35 1 AP WASHINGTON A federal judge yesterday cleared the way for AT&T Corp, the largest US long distance telephone company, to acquire McCaw Cellular Communications, the leading US cellular telephone company. AP
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  • 163 1 Stock market indices Thursday Change ST11 2,287.21 +8.39 KLSEComp 1,136.14 -5.43 Nikkei 20,443.29 -68.31 Hang Seng 9,336.11 +97.42 SET Index 1,444.72 -29.86 Jakarta Comp 502.96 +4.42 CLSA China B 1,134.83 +4.99 Aust All Ord 2,077.8 +16.7 FTSE 100 3,234.2 +29.0 Thursday Previous 2pm close Dow Jones 3,841.55 3,846.73
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  • 632 1  -  By. Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE Local multimedia firms face a crunch, with a slowdown in orders from Europe and the United States and fierce price-cutting by rivals in Japan. In the fast-growing CDROM drive market a segment that holds the greatest promise
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  • 411 1  -  Group to develop its plantation land in Johor and KL By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE The familyowned Hong Bee Group has set up a subsidiary in Malaysia to turn plantation land which it owns in Johor Baru and Kuala Lumpur into townships. Hong Bee Land
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  • 303 1 SINGAPORE The Singapore dollar breached its psychological resistance at 551.50 against the US dollar yesterday but failed to end above it. Dealers reported that strong demand for the local dollar from foreign investment houses and Hongkong players pushed it to an all-time high of
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  • 268 1 SINGAPORE Regional stocks yesterday closed mixed, a disappointing performance considering the firm overnight performance by US equities. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrials Average shot up 70 points or almost 2 per cent on news that demand for consumer durables in July was down 4.2 per cent
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  • 454 1  -  Another round of rate hike looks possible By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE DBS Bank will today raise its prime lending rate by a bigger-than-expec-ted half a point to 5.75 per cent, a move likely to spark off another round of rate increases
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  • 291 1 SINGAPORE Finance Minister Richard Hu sees little danger of a runaway bull run in the stock market or a bubble economy developing in Singapore. "The price earnings ratio of our stock market currently is still in the low 20s, unlike
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 373 2  -  By Genevieve Cua ANOTHER fall in the export price of mineral fuel was the main cause of a 5.2 per cent dip in the export price index in the second quarter of this year. Export prices of mineral fuel and oil products were 19 per
        Source: Dept of Statistics  -  373 words
    • 296 2 THE Housing and Development Board is selling 14 more land parcels one for commercial use and the rest for housing. The 0.98-ha commercial site, next to Bukit Batok MRT station and bus interchange, is for retail, office and entertainment use. Property
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    • 371 2  -  Glut looms with addition of 500,000 sq metres in shopping space Reports by Corinne Kerk CHALLENGES in the tough retailing industry and how retailers can face up to them have been the focus of a twoday Singapore Retail Industry Conference which started yesterday. Teh
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    • 382 2 RETAILERS are taking the difficult trading conditions in their stride. Isetan, for instance, has embarked on a $2 million renovation plan on its store in Wisma Atria shopping centre. Scheduled to begin on Oct 11, the renovations are expected to help increase the store's
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    • 499 2 Yesterday in Parliament AN EXCEPTION has been made to the Elected President's power to check spending of reserves when it comes to defence and security. This is contained in the Constitution (Amendment No 2) Bill 1994 passed yesterday by more than two-thirds of Parliament.
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    • 405 2 THE proposed Bankruptcy Bill contains a more liberal regime that is sympathetic to those who go bankrupt through misfortune rather than malpractice, said Law Minister S Jayakumar yesterday. In presenting the Bill for its second reading in Parliament, Prof Jayakumar
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    • 294 2 PARLIAMENT yesterday ap9rovedL4k£iU which would allow parallel imports of all copyrighted products into Singapore. The Copyright (Amendment) Bill 1994 allows importers to distribute legitimately reproduced products here regardless of who owns the local or overseas copyright. The Parliamentary Secretary for
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    • 305 2 THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has announced a development plan covering 22 ha of land in Geylang East. Drawn up with the assistance of the Real Estate Development Association of Singapore (Redas), the plan envisages commercial investment estimated at between $2.5 billion
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    • PARLIAMENTBRIEFS
      • 75 2 FINANCE MINISTER Richard Hu assured Parliament the practice of issuing pre-approved charge and credit cards has been stopped. Replying to a question from MP for Tampines GRC Chng Hee Kok. he said that the Monetary Authority of Singapore had sent out a circular to all card
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      • 56 2 PARLIAMENT passed the Income Tax Amendment Bill 1994 after its second reading yesterday. The Bill gives legislative effect to income tax changes announced in the 1994 Budget Statement and other changes not announced in the statement. The Bill also fine-tunes the incentive schemes for Pioneer Companies. Singapore
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      • 43 2 FINANCE MINISTER Richard Hu said that it would not be meaningful to rank the performances of The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Singapore Technologies Holdings as each of them performed a different function.
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      • 86 2 MINISTER for Communications Mah Bow Tan said his ministry saw no grounds to provide bus operators with incentives to provide shuttle bus services for private estates. Mr Mah also said that the Registry of Vehicles would not issue taxi licences to individuals as experience had
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      • 32 2 "THE MINISTRY Of Communications is reviewing the Weekend Car Scheme in ofder to plug the loopholes tjfeoding to disprep§openates huge savings accruing to buyers of large cars.
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    • 180 2 PARLIAMENT has extended for another five years the law that gives police power to detain known criminals without trial. Asking Parliament to renew the law, tabled under the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) (Amendment) Bill, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said it
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    • 226 2 DISCUSSION is needed on where to draw the line on advertising that could promote harmful values, the Ministry of Information and the Arts says. In a statement yesterday, the ministry supported comments by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who said in his National Day
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 376 3  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE A revamp of the board of Philippine Airlines has resulted in FilipinoChinese magnate Lucio Tan gaining control of the Philippine flag carrier. Two of Mr Tan's nominees were named directors, while one of his associates, Mariano Tan
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    • 226 3 Bernama LANGKAWI, Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday said some regional powers were offering money to persuade developing countries in the South Seas and other regions to stop the logging operations of Malaysian and other Asean companies. "We do no know what to call such
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    • 387 3  -  rrom Loh Hui Yin in YANGON SINGAPORE, a small nation with no domineering policy towards neighbouring countries, would be a good economic partner for Myanmar, said Ko Ko Gyi, president of the Myanmar Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday. "We should aspire
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    • 353 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has proposed that a separate mechanism be established to address the problem of including the Asean members' agricultural and forestry products into the Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (Cept) scheme. Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik
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    • NOTEBOOK
      • 102 3 Bloomberg Business News HANOI Vietnam's Ministry of Light Industry said it had drafted a plan to increase output of consumer goods in the next 10 years, Vietnam News reported yesterday. The plan calls for a US$lO billion (Ssls billion) investment, which would come from
        Bloomberg Business News  -  102 words
      • 70 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Mustapha Kamal Hussein (left), a member of Malaysia's banned islamic Sufi sect, A 1 Arqam, reading a statement to reporters on Wednesday as his companions held newspapers. The headlines quoted Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad as saying earlier this week that A 1
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      • 85 3 AFP JAKARTA An Islamic insurance policy, providing interest free premiums, went on sale yesterday in Indonesia, an official said yesterday. PT Syarikat Takaful Indonesia (STI), a holding company for two subsidiaries selling life and general insurance, was officially launched later yesterday by Finance Minister Mar'ie
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      • 75 3 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has approved more foreign investment in the first seven months of this year than in all of last year. The top five investing countries are Taiwan, Japan, Hongkong, Singapore and the US, International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz said yesterday.
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      • 66 3 AFP BANGKOK In its latest bid to solve Bangkok's worsening traffic problem, the Thai government has accepted a proposal to limit the number of cars in the capital's centre. Possibilities include banning cars from the zone during peak hours, charging tolls or requiring
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINAWATCH
      • 114 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING One of China's two stock markets, the Shenzhen securities exchange, has cut its fee for transactions of B shares by a quarter to boost the B share market, the otYicial China Securities newspaper reported yesterday. The paper said the lower
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      • 97 4 AFP HONGKONG A Japanese investment firm is expected to take a major stake in a planned six billion yuan (551.04 billion) railway project linking Guangzhou and Zhuhai, the Hen Wei Po daily reported yesterday. Final stage of negotiations with the unidentified Japanese company
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      • 65 4 AP BEIJING China's National Statistics Enforcement Office reported yesterday that it has uncovered about 60,000 instances of false statistical reports since it began cracking down on the problem in June. False reports of industrial output, particularly by local and rural enterprises, were the most widespread
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      • 108 4 BEIJING With 100,000 Beijing residents on the waiting list for a telephone, the Chinese capital has unveiled an ambitious plan to provide one telephone for every two people by 2000, China Daily said yesterday. Beijing's 11 million residents have the highest ratio of any
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      • 67 4 AFP AFP TAIPEI Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui yesterday criticised A US decision to impose trade sanctions against Taipei, saying that the move seriously distorted Taiwan's image and undermined its conservation efforts. The president's remarks come after the United States on Aug 19 banned certain Taiwanese
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    • 246 4 Reuter WASHINGTON Despite a distinct warming in US-Chi-nese economic ties. United States Commerce Secretary Ron Brown has warned China that it should not expect a speedy end to five years of US sanctions. Mr Brown starts an eightday trade
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    • 333 4 AFP Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Hongkong government has decided against any further measures to stem the overheated property market, prices having moderated considerably since May. Tony Eason, secretary for planning, environment and lands, yesterday said the government's measures introduced
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    • 422 4 Reuter HONGKONG Thoughtless and unnecessary steel purchasing by China has knocked the wind out of the domestic market, leading to enormous stockpiles, rock-bottom prices and no recovery in sight. Industry sources yesterday said the buying binge dragged down the world market over
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    • 211 4 AFP BEIJING A large state-run textile firm in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, employing nearly 4.000 workers, has been declared bankrupt, with debts of ISB million yuan (5527.6 million), China Daily said yesterday. In one of the largest
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    • 235 4 Reuter TAIPEI The Taiwan High Court on Wednesday sentenced an arms dealer to 10 months in prison, the first businessman to be jailed in a scandal over sales of military secrets. Chu Peng-li was convicted of leaking military secrets after illegally obtaining classified documents
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    • 465 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong's pre-eminence in Asia's rapidly growing broadcasting industry is under increasing threat from Singapore. Secretary for Recreation and Culture James So, speaking in Vancouver on Wednesday, said: "As things stand at present, it may seem more attractive
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 299 6 But its finance ministry warns of risks involved NYT TOKYO Japan's Health and Welfare Ministry is planning to allow investment consultancy firms to manage Japanese public pension funds beginning in fiscal 1995, ministry officials said on Wednesday. The ministry's proposal, which would include
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    • ASIANOTES
      • 93 6 AP WENATCHEE, Washington Japanese plant and fruit inspectors arrived on Wednesday to work out final inspection arrangements before Washington apples are exported to Japan. Japanese officials agreed earlier this month to allow the importation of some Washington apples despite opposition by Japanese apple
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      • 66 6 Reuter TOKYO Japan will host the annual ministerial meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Osaka next year, a Foreign Ministry official said. "We will host the seventh Apec conference in Osaka city around November next year," he said. An Osaka government official said an
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      • 82 6 AFP NEW DELHI Gunmen yesterday shot dead a senior Hindu politician outside his home in Bombay, the Press Trust of India reported. Ramdas Nayak, president of the city chapter of the Hindu-revivalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, or Indian People's Party), was shot in the
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    • 135 6 AFP ISLAMABAD Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharifs claim that his country had a nuclear bomb was aimed at preventing an attack by India on Kashmir and heading off any compromises on the nuclear issue by the government of Benazir Bhutto, press reports said yesterday.
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    • 297 6 Reuter NEW DELHI India is giving up its state monopoly on broadcasting, allowing private stations to operate and to use satellites to broadcast inside the country. The Economic Times yesterday said the monopoly of state-run Doordarshan television was effectively breached by Hongkong-based satellite
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    • 66 6 Reuter SYDNEY Site worker Luke Sullivan watching as the sun set over the construction of the new Glebe Island Bridge yesterday. The bridge will link the city centre with Sydney's western suburbs and improve traffic flow to the Sjdney 2000 Olympic site. The Asl7o million
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    • 178 6 Reuter COLOMBO Sri Lanka's new People's Alliance government is cutting bread and fuel prices to fulfil an election promise, Finance Ministry officials said yesterday. The government has also started a clean-up of the Treasury, which was plundered under
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    • 193 6 AFP BOMBAY India's chief stock markets regulator has said the government will introduce paperless trading as part of modernisation plans for the country's bourses. "We will soon be moving into paperless trading," Suresh Nadkarni. chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India
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  • THE WORLD
    • 462 7 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Wednesday projected higher economic growth and lower deficits this year and next than it anticipated earlier this year. In its budget and economic update, the CBO said: "A recent surge in
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    • 358 7 Reuter HOUSTON The increasing use of sophisticated computer systems with limited human decisions for consumer loan applications are hurting minorities whom the systems seek to help, a top government official said. "We're going to realise too late that statistically based procedures
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    • 90 7 Reuter WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton on Wednesday urged an end to the Arab economic boycott of Israel, saying it now harms Palestinians as well as Israelis. "The boycott must be ended," Mr Clinton said by satellite hookup to a Chicago convention of the Jewish
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    • 82 7 Reuter LIMA International Monetary Fund managing director Michel Camdessus was expected to meet President Alberto Fujimori yesterday, an official said. A source at PromPem, the state's foreign investment promotion agency, said: "It is likely that President Fujimori tomorrow will invite Camdessus to inaugurate a
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    • 110 7 Reuter BONN Finance Minister Theo Waigel said Germany's 1994 government deficit could be lower than previously forecast because of higher-than-expected economic growth. "It could be that by the end of this year, we see a deficit a few billion marks lower than expected, so
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    • 115 7 Bloomberg Business News BONN Industrial production in eastern Germany rose 5.3 per cent in June from May and was up 15 per cent from a year ago, the economics ministry said. Manufacturing output in the five eastern states jumped 6.7 per cent in the month,
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    • 90 7 Bloomberg Business News AMSTERDAM Consumer spending in the Netherlands rose 2.2 per cent in the first half of 1994, compared with a year earlier, the Central Bureau of Statistics said. It said that's the biggest increase since the second half of 1992. The latest consumer spending
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    • 291 7 FT BRUSSELS Pharmaceuticals, telecoms, computer and office equipment, and plastics processing -are among the six leading growth sectors in European industry, according to a study published yesterday by the European Commission. The 1,400-page report says a surge in demand for
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    • 524 8  -  From Neville Stack in LONDON NOVELIST Jeffrey Archer, one of Britain's richest men and former Conservative Party deputy chairman, has broken his silence over allegations of insider dealing in shares of a company in which his wife is a director
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    • 389 8 Reuter LONDON Britain's major banks will in the near future bear a closer resemblance to their traditional image of institutions steeped in conservative business practices, analysts said. "At the moment the banks are looking for lower risk activities," said banking
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    • 311 8 Reuter BANGKOK The United States government is ready to use its money and influence to help American businesses win contracts they might otherwise lose in unequal or unfair bidding conditions, a US official said yesterday. Trade and Development Agency
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    • 34 8 Reuter BONN German Finance Minster I heo Waigel conducting a brass band of the Aachen customs during the annual summer party in the garden of the finance ministry on Wednesday. Reuter
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    • 501 8 Bloomberg Business News STUTTGART. Germany The Bundesbank won't permit Germany's upcoming parliamentary elections to influence interest-rate policy, said Guntram Palm, a member of the bank's central decision-making council. In an interview with Bloomberg Business News, he also warned that continued money
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    • 168 8 Reuter BONN German Finance Minister Theo Waigel said yesterday nuclear smuggling belonged on the agenda at the next Group of Seven (G-7) industrialised countries summit, regardless of the origin of the contraband. The problem will be discussed at three separate meetings of European Union ministers
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  • SPORTS
    • 620 9 AFP VICTORIA Kieren Perkins set the Commonwealth swimming pool alight on Wednesday but everywhere else the Games were engulfed in flames of controversy. As Perkins was shattering his own 1,500 metres freestyle world record, African boxing officials lashed out at alleged
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    • SIDELINES
      • 127 9 AP SEOUL South Korea's government yesterday threw its full weight behind Seoul's bid to host the World Cup soccer games in 2002. Currently, a private organisation is spearheading the fierce campaign against Japan to become the first Asian nation to host the
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      • 125 9 AFP PARIS "The future belongs to sport and Olympism," the president of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, said here on Wednesday. Mr Samaranch, arriving for next week's centenary lOC congress, added: "All the statesmen I've met are unanimous in saying that the Olympic Games
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      • 134 9 AP PITTSBURGH Mario Lemieux is expected to make official in a few days what the Pittsburgh Penguins have known for weeks: he's not going to play ice hockey this season. While Lemieux isn't ready to announce his retirement he will take a fully paid,
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      • 98 9 AFP WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania Ronald Baptiste's two-run home run gave Saudi Arabia a 3-2 victory over Taiwan here on Wednesday and a place in the semi-finals of the Little League World Series youth baseball tournament. Taiwan had reached the final in 17 of 18 prior appearances here
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      • 80 9 Reuter JOHANNESBURG Transvaal coach Kitch Christie was named on Wednesday as coach of South Africa's national rugby union team, replacing lan Mcintosh who was sacked following an unsuccessful recent tour to New Zealand. The executive committee of the South African Rugby Football Union announced
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    • 528 9 AFP VICTORIA Kieren Perkins capped a stunning return to form by smashing his own 1,500 metres freestyle world record to claim his fourth Commonwealth Games gold medal here on Wednesday. The 21-year-old Australian clocked 14:41.66 to add the 1,500 m gold to
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    • 510 9 Golf AP AKRON, Ohio Former president George Bush is mighty picky when it comes to his golf gear. Bush, who played the North Course at Firestone Country Club on Wednesday before being named the PGA's "1994 Ambassador of Golf',
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    • SCORECARD
      • 292 9 VICTORIA, British Colombia Selected results Wednesday: Athletics finals Men's 5,000 m: I Robert Denmark (Eng) 13:23.00 2 Philemon Hanncck (Zim) 13:23.20 3 John Nuttall (Eng) 13:23.54. Decathlon, Final Standings (10 events): 1 Michacl Smith (Can) 8,326 pts 2 Peter Winter (Aust) 8,074 3 Simon Shirley (Eng) 7,980. Women's
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      • Article, Illustration
        90 9 SCHKNECIADY, New York OTB International Open 2nd rd Wednesday Men: Jan Apell (Swc) b 2-Carlos Costa (Spn) 6-1 6-4; Joem Rcnzcnbrink (Ger) b 5-Javicr Sanchez (Spn) 7-5 7-6 (7-5): Jacco Eltingh (Neth) b 7-An-drei Chesnokov (Rus) 6-3 6-7 (3-7) 6-1: Marc Goellner (Ger) b Alex Antonitsch (Aus) 7-6 (7-4)
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    • 274 9 AFP VICTORIA Both Commonwealth singles titles took a rapid step in the direction of Malaysia on Wednesday when the two top seeds won their opening matches in less than 15 minutes. Rashid Sidek. the men's holder from Malaysia, came through 15-1, 15-1
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 494 11  -  Indian story of caste brutality shocks film festival, reports Gareth Jones Gareth Jones Reuter INDIAN film director Shekhar Kapur did not mince words on Tuesday when he introduced his controversial film about the brutal exploitation of women and the power of caste in his
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    • 66 11 Reuter BRUSSELS A Picasso painting valued at US$l3 million (Ssl.9 million), which was stolen from a museum in Stockholm in Sweden last November, was found in Brussels on Tuesday, police said. The painting The Woman With Black Eyes was taken from the museum in Sweden along
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    • 354 11 CHATTERBOX AP AP UPI UPI UPI A CHILEAN promotions company is suing pop star Michael Jackson for US$5 million (557.6 million) for cancelling two concerts last year. The lawsuit was filed recently in Los Angeles, said Ernesto Claveria, president of Prodin Productions. Attorney Alfredo
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    • 139 11 Reuter FRENCH people rank German supermodel Claudia SchifTer and US actor Paul Newman as the world's sexiest woman and man. according to a poll published on Wednesday. The poll, in the weekly magazine Paris Match, said SchifTer edged out American supermodel Cindy Crawford
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    • 488 11 Napoleonic Society debate was Bonaparte murdered? Reuter A FORELOCK snipped by a maid from Napoleon Bonaparte's head hours after his death is at the centre of a debate over whether the former French conqueror was murdered, and if so, by whom. A few hairs from the locket, to go on
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    • 1294 11 TV RADIO HWVTrVTTTTmH flf "J Little Nikita, Bpm, SBCS River Phoenix is a normal TV teenager who is traumatised 1 ly when FBI man Sidney Poitier I B starts checking up on his par- 1 At, ents (Richard Jenkins and Car- ||w| Bi pj| oline Kava). It turns out that
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
    • 989 12  -  Burson-Marsteller's new chairman talks to Juliette Walker about getting the company back on the growth track Juliette Walker JAMES LINDHEIM has a lot on his mind. As the new chairman of Burson-Marsteller, he heads the world's largest public relations firm with 1,700 employees (340
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    • 566 12 Reuter THE BATTLE for market share at Britain's petrol stations is hotting up and the front-line weapon that retailers are turning to is fast food. Major oil companies and independent retailers have tuned in to a change in the eating habits of
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    • 599 13  -  The Aussie fashion house braves retail gloom, reports Tan Su Yen Tan Su Yen Australian fashion retailer. Country Road opens its first Singapore store in Ngee Ann City today, describing the store as "a little bit of Australia in Singapore". Country Road's Orchard Road
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    • 311 13  -  By Corinne Kerk j ÜBLIC relations firm Macro Communication A has changed its name to Mileage Communications and bought its own building. Macro was set up here in J 1992 as a joint venture ber tween Sydney-based Macro Communication Group and lo- cal businessman
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    • COPY LINES
      • 73 13 SINGAPORE Volvo recently announced that it is sponsoring the Volvo Tour of China and the Volvo China Open golf tournaments, in collaboration with Richtone Worldwide Ltd and Sports Corporation. The sponsorship is for five years, from 1995 to 1999. The Volvo Tour of China will consist
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      • 52 13 SINGAPORE The Ritz, London, has appointed Janet Hoolohan as director of sales and marketing. Miss Hoolohan moves from The Venice Simplon-Orient Express in London, where she was director of sales and marketing for UK and Europe. The Ritz, London is operated by the Mandarin Oriental
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      • 102 13 NEW YORK The Digital Equipment Corp said on Wednesday that it had selected three agencies to handle its advertising and marketing communications accounts with annual worldwide spending estimated at US$9O million (*****.9 million). DDB Needham Worldwide in New York was named as the worldwide lead
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      • 108 13 NEW YORK Sun Microsystems Inc said on Tuesday that it had placed in review its systems and software accounts, with combined billings estimated at US$2l million (5531.7 million) to $23 million, after parting ways with Anderson Lembke in San Francisco. Colleen M Choy. a spokeswoman for
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    • 224 12 SufienSwl HOLDINGS LIMITED Superßowl Holdings Limited (Incorporated in tH« RopuMc of Singoporw on 3 Moy 1994) Invitation in respect of 50,000,000 Shares of $0.15 each comprising 42,000,000 New Shares and 8,000,000 Vendor Shares as foikms:(I) 35,000,000 Shares at a fixed price of $0.86 for each Share; and (ii) 15,000,000 Shares
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    • 211 13 OH OJISirE CREATED I) BY ThJE LE6SI&ARY MO6£JL. J/J he legendary Kublai Khan was not only famous for being the great congueror of a large empire in Chinese history. He was also renowned for creating the art of mongolian 3-^ barbecue, which became the special \L~JI hallmark of mongolian cuisine.
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    • 1033 13 #|4P Goodman Fielder Asia Holdings Limited (Incorporated in Singapore) The Directors of Goodman Fielder Asia Holdings Ltd (GFA) announce a Group turnover of $166.8 million and profit before tax of $10.0 million. Direct comparison with the previous year however is not meaningful as the 1994 figures do not have retail
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  • 544 14 EDITORIAL THE simplistic view that most people take (and who can blame them) is: high taxes are bad; low taxes are good. This is currently happening in Britain, where taxes and their consequences are being hyped up to the despair of those who believe that
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 259 14 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS produce winners. But they also produce losers, at least in the short term. In his National Day Rally speech, PM Goh Chok Tong spoke of Asia experiencing the biggest industrial revolution in human history. The transformation would take three to four decades and it could
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    • 148 14 WHEN PM Goh Chok Tong talked about the need for Singaporeans to uphold their traditional moral and family values, he was reiterating an important point about the secret of our economic success. Many may not realise the importance and correlation between those values and our economic
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    • 130 14 AFTER HANDLING Haiti's "boat people", the US is now faced with Cuba's rafters. The US has some 50,000 Haitian economic refugees in Guantanamo Bay. With the pouring in of Cuban refugees, it could mean another catastrophe once Guantanamo is full. The US should start
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    • 175 14 THE OLD LADY located on a prime piece of land in New York, better known as the United Nations, needs revitalising; it has lost its zest for action and prefers to sit back and contemplate. This august body established after World War II appears to be
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    • 196 14 EDUCATION, that great leveller of mankind, is hardly possible without the ability, not merely to read, but to read well. In its broader sense, education is a lifelong process and reading should ideally be a lifelong habit. But the ideal rarely exists in life and so
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    • 187 14 WHAT GOES UP must come down, even if it takes time. Yesterday's unsuccessful land auction showed that not even Hongkong's prices can defy gravity forever. Neither the HKS9SO million or HK53,500 per square foot paid by CITIC Pacific for a site in Tai Po nor the government's
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  • 1159 14  -  Tokyo is concerned about how rising foreign direct investment will affect Japanese manufacturing industries and labour. Anthony Rowley reports Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo Correspondent JAPAN'S Labour Ministry announced this week that it intends conducting an inquiry into the "hollowing out" of
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1249 15  -  Sri Lanka 'the Pearl of the Orient' entered a new phase last week. While Yogi Aggarwal discusses the tremendous nation-building tasks the plucky new prime minister faces, John F Burns focuses on what she plans to do about the pressing issue of Tamil separatism
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    • 1110 15 NYT AFTER 11 years of war with the Tamil Tiger guerillas that have blighted this onceidyllic nation with assassinations, dead-of-the-night "disappearances" and mass graves, Sri Lanka has begun to hope that the worst of its nightmare may be over. Many in the
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  • 410 16 Reuter TOKYO Japanese officials are increasingly pessimistic about the chances of an early trade accord with the United States, which is threatening sanctions if there is no agreement by Sep 30. "1 am not optimistic, not at all," a top policy-maker at
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  • 371 16 Bernama MBT BEIJING Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim arrived in Beijing yesterday for a six-day official visit aimed at expanding burgeoning business ties. He was accompanied by a 147-member business delegation including top business leaders representing industries ranging from
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  • 61 16 AFP NEW DELHI A stray cow being struck by a Maruti car on Wednesday in the Indian capital. The bovine population in New Delhi moves about at leisure, often aggravating commuters. The capital is short of cattle enclosures and during the monsoon season, owners
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  • 222 16 Reuter JAKARTA Seven Indonesian environmental groups yesterday launched unprecedented court action against President Suharto for allegedly diverting funds for rain-forest preservation to a state-owned aircraft maker. "Diversion of the funds is a violation of the principles of good governance. It is a
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  • 382 16  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE The dispute between the developer and Singapore buyers of a residential development in Suzhou has turned ugly, with the developer threatening to forfeit the buyers' downpayments. resell their units and take legal action against them if necessary. The developer
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  • 310 16 AP HANOI Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama yesterday pledged support for Vietnam's economic reforms as he became the first Japanese leader to visit the country since the Vietnam War. "Vietnam has intelligent and hard-working people, as well as abundant resources. Its economy is
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  • 171 16 MBT LANGKAWI, Malaysia The dircctor-gcneral of Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation (DCA). Zaludin Sulong. has been transferred to the Public Service Department, less than two weeks after fire damaged radar equipment at Subang Airport. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday said the Cabinet's decision to transfer
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  • 1007 16  - Hope yet for the comeback kid if he stays centred The Bottom Line LEON HADAR LEON HADAR The writer is BT's Washington correspondent WASHINGTONIANS' favourite pastime these days is picking on President Bill Clinton. The pundits in this city have all but given up on Mr Clinton, describing him as
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        43 17 Mixed Market Motxl' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Barings. Fraser. OK Goh. Morgan Grenfell. Nomura. Phillip. Smith New Court. Il l C 'arr and SO Warburg.
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        151 17  -  By Paul Leo Aztech System has fallen 33 cents or 18.2 per cent to $1.48 from its all-time high of $1.81 reached on Aug 2. Selling pressure remains strong yesterday's volume of 2.45 million units was more than twice the 10-day average of 1.19 million shares. But short
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    • 507 17  -  By A J Leow SINGAPORE Superßowl Holdings hopes to raise net proceeds of at least $34.36 million from its initial public offer of 50 million shares, which will be listed on the main board. Of these, 35 million shares are going at a
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    • 371 17  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE A sharp drop in investment income has pulled Singapore Bus Service's group interim net earnings down by 4 per cent, despite a rise in turnover of almost 6 per cent to $245 million. For the six months to June
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    • 339 17  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE Insurance Corporation of Singapore (ICS) has put up a robust mid-term performance with a 91 per cent leap in group net profits to $6.35 million for the six months ended June 1994. This earnings growth
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    • 113 17 SINGAPORE The managing director and chief executive of the Insurance Corporation of Singapore, Lock Sai Hung, has given notice to resign from his job to pursue his personal interests. Announcing this last night, ICS said Mr Lock will continue
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    • 773 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE By November or even before then, Sembawang Corporation would finally have a listed vehicle for its construction arm. What next? Would the merger of Sembawang Construction (Semcon) and the lacklustre Resources Development Corporation (RDC)
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    • 494 17  -  By Alvin Tay SINGAPORE The United Overseas Bank (UOB) will absorb Lee Wah Bank in Singapore in the next few years, and may do likewise for Chung Khiaw Bank. Both are wholly-owned subsidiaries of UOB. A UOB spokeswoman told BT yesterday
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANYBRIEFS
        • 26 18 SINGAPORE Singapore Reinsurance Corp last night requested that its shares be suspended pending the release of its halfyearly results today.
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        • 72 18 SINGAPORE Jaya Holdings said yesterday it has delivered the fifth vessel built at its Tuas Crescent yard. Jaya delivered the tugboat to its 49 per cent-owned Malaysian associate, Javaria Holdings, which expects to earn gross income of some M 56.5 million (SS3.B million) for chartering the
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        • 40 18 SINGAPORE Hiap Moh Corp Ltd announced yesterday that its arm, Hiap Moh Paper (Xiamen), has paid U*****,849 (about 551.26 million) to buy a 2,892 sq m property at Yin Feng Industrial Building in Xiamen.
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        • 81 18 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Golden Plus Holdings Bhd will build a "mini-township" in Shanghai, consisting of 10,000 units of con-dominium-style housing, the company told the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday. It said the project was a joint venture with China's Everbright Computer Development Co
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        • 89 18 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's largest clove cigarette maker, PT Gudang Garam, yesterday said interim net profit rose 23.84 per cent from a year earlier to 111.2 billion rupiah (5576.6 million) in the six months to June. In its consolidated financial statement published in newspapers here,
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        • 86 18 Land Houses' interim profit up 7.9pc Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Thai home builder Land Houses pic yesterday said its net profit rose 7.9 per cent in the quarter ended June 30 to 491.1 million baht (5519.6 million). On a per-share basis, earnings were 3.23 baht, compared with 3.04 baht a
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        • 118 18 AFP MANILA The top official of Petron Corp said yesterday the Philippines' number one oil refiner is open to issuing more shares in the wake of a public uproar over the oversubscription of the stock. Petron's initial public offering of 600 million shares
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        • 93 18 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Krung Thai Bank pic posted a 46.1 per cent rise in net profit for the six months ended June 30 on strong loan growth and the recovery of written-off loans. The country's third largest commercial bank had a net
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      • 218 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR MBf Capital Bhd's group pre-tax profit jumped 17 per cent to MS 106 million (5561.5 million) for the six months ended June 30, 1994, from M 590.39 million in the same period the year before. Group turnover also increased 17 per
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      • 247 18 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Hong Leong Co (Malaysia), through a series of corporate moves, will acquire a controlling stake in Paper Industries Corp of the Philippines. This will be achieved through Hong Leong Industries Bhd (HLI) and the Guoco Group Ltd, a
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      • 523 18  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR THE new chairman of Malaysia Airlines, Tajudin Ramli, has made it clear he ranked profit higher than any false sense of social responsibility the national carrier is supposed to shoulder. Giving a broad hint that a
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      • 131 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Yeo Hiap Seng (M) Bhd's group pre-tax profit fell 10.5 per cent in the first six months ended June 30 to M 59.53 million (555.6 million), compared with M$ 10.65 million earlier. Announcing its unaudited results, YHS said its
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      • 303 18  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Rigbuitder Far East Levingston Shipbuilding (Fels) will form a 50-50 engineering joint venture with Norwegian offshore contractor Smedvig. A Fels spokesman told Business limes yesterday the new company, based in Stavanger, Norway, would be formed in a couple
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      • 393 18 SINGAPORE Food manufacturer Goodman Fielder Asia (GFA) yesterday reported a flat set of full-year results and apologised to shareholders for not putting its large cash hoard to good use. For 1993, GFA had earnings of just under $6
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      • 224 18 SINGAPORE A pact signed yesterday is expected to pave the way for Singapore to become a world centre of excellence in data visualisation. The memorandum of understanding was signed by Silicon Graphics Pte Ltd and the National Supercomputing Research Centre (NSRC). All
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      • 199 18 SINGAPORE Diversified Australian manufacturer Pacific Dunlop has formed a As3o million (5533.3 million) Indonesian joint venture to produce cables. The joint-venture company, Olex Indonesia, will be 60 per cent owned by Pacific Dunlop and 40 per cent by an Indonesian consortium with
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      • 265 18 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian heavy industry conglomerate Hicom Holdings' plans to launch its regional airline, AirAsia, by the end of the year have been stalled as it has not secured its routes from the government yet. "We have suggested certain regional routes to
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      • 486 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Managers' prtcM Aug 26 Mendaki Gr Fund 1.19 1.22ft Cinssfww* llntf Tnxt US Gr Fund 100 04 unci I nisi ihab x y«* i+*i The Commerce 166 1.76 UflW HtVeSl PWgl LU1 The Savings Fund 1.5® 1.67 Unifund 1.54 1.60 S pore Prog Fund 0.71 0.75 Umbond
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      • 513 20  -  From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG PROPERTY developer Cheung Kong (Holdings) yesterday reported an unaudited interim net profit of HK54.47 billion (SSB76 million) down 1.35 per cent. Analysts had forecast a drop of 20 per cent to about HKS3.6 billion. For the
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      • 360 20 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Rupert Murdoch's News Corp yesterday reported record profit for an Australian listed company, as gains in global film and television revenue offset the negative effects of a newspaper price war in Britain. Net profit for the year ended June rose
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      • 232 20 AP TOKYO Toyota Motor Corp, Japan's largest vehiclemaker, yesterday reported a 29 per cent year-on-year drop in consolidated net profit for fiscal 1994, its fourth straight year of declines. Consolidated, or group, net profit for the year was 125.81 billion yen (551.89 billion), compared with
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      • 133 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho has resigned his directorship in three Hongkong companies he controls. He quit the boards of Grande Holdings Ltd, Lafe International Holdings and Capetronic International Holdings on Tuesday. The latter two companies are subsidiaries
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      • COMPANYBRIEFS
        • 85 20 HK Shanghai Hotels' profit up 23.6pc AFP HONGKONG The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd, the operator of the Peninsula Hotel, yesterday said interim profit attributable to shareholders rose 23.6 per cent to HKS22O million (5542.7 million) for the six months to June from a year earlier. During the period, the
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        • 100 20 Reuter BOMBAY The Tatas, India's largest business house, won shareholders' approval on Wednesday to raise its holding in Associated Cement Companies (ACQ, the country's largest cement maker, to 15 per cent from the current 11.6 per cent. ACC chairman Nani Palkhivala moved the
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        • 59 20 Bloomberg Business News LEVERKUSEN, Germany German chemical giant Bayer AG said its pre-tax profit in the second quarter rose 29.7 per cent to 999 million dcutschcmarks (***** million) from 770 million marks in the ycar-ago period. In the first half, pre-tax profit rose 24.4 per
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        • 78 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Chinese chemical company Yizheng Chemicals, the fifth-largest polyester producer in the world, said net profit rose 270 per cent to 460.58 million yuan (5580.14 million) in the six months ended June 30 from 121.9 million yuan a year ago. The company
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        • 62 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China-owned printing press manufacturer Beiren Printing Machinery Holdings Ltd said its net profit rose 33.1 per cent to 55.5 million yuan (559.6 million) in the six months ended June 30. In a statement to the Hongkong stock exchange, Beiren said its
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        • 58 20 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Taiwan's Microelectronics Technology Inc posted a 19.5 per cent rise in pre-tax profit to NTS 159 million (Ss9 million) for the first six months of 1994, the Financial Times said. Revenues rose 23.5 per cent from last year to NTS 1.19 billion
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    • CORPORATE FOCUS
      • 1510 21  - Samsudin Abu Hassan the man with the Midas touch Interview with a deal-maker extraordinaire By Agnes Chen SINGAPORE When a fund manager heard I was interviewing Samsudin Abu Hassan, he implored half in jest: "Ask him which share is going to double." Still, it is no small testimony to the
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      • 207 21 LANDMARKS BHD expects a rate of return of 18-25 per cent from its Perlis power plant project, said executive chairman Samsudin Abu Hassan in an interview with BT last week. The Malaysian government announced last month that a licence to build a
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 368 22 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK The country manager in Thailand for Bank of America NA yesterday said his bank was not trying to sell the licence of a subsidiary to ABN Amro Bank NV, contrary to comments by a central banker
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      • 329 22  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Credit card holders have chalked up more debts, despite having to pay punitive interest rates of up to 24 per cent a year. Sources said that the year-on-year growth of the rollover balance the unpaid amount c
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        42 22 AFP VICTORIA, Canada Demonstrators staging a mock funeral here on Wednesday to protest against the logging of ancient forests (forests containing old and often endangered trees). I he demonstration, held outside Parliament Building, was attended by more than 200 people. AFP
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      • 549 22 Reuter LONDON Gold's long-term prospects are still bright, according to chart analysts, but bulls may have to wait at least a year before they see prices really take ofT. "There is every reason to believe that based on gold's
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      • 219 22 Reuter TAIPEI The president of Taiwan's biggest bank has warned that he will strictly monitor loans to companies investing in China without registering with Taiwan's government. Bank of Taiwan president Y D Sheu yesterday estimated Taiwan investment in China at more than
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      • 490 22 AFP BOMBAY The rupee held its ground against the dollar in the foreign exchange market on Wednesday, the first day of transactions since the full float of the currency on current account four days ago. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
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      • 203 22 Reuter LONDON The dollar was firm in light trading in late Europe but remained unable to break above key resistance levels against the mark and yen. The dollar's advances yesterday reflected the early tone of US bond and equity markets as other fresh factors were in short supply. But
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      • 193 22 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Crude oil futures fell, undermined by heavy selling of US gasoline. At spm London time, Brent crude in London was 17 cents lower at US$l6.lB a barrel, while the comparable contract in New York had lost 19
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        1549 22 I rade-*et*hteU injex < ah ulaini against Spare's Utp 14 trading partners Base year 19# < US$/S$ forward rates Noon Aug 23 s$ Bid Offer 1-month ***** I 5002 2-month 1 4983 1.4997 J-monlh 1 4978 ***** 6-month 1.4952 1.4970 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9am on
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      • 96 22 AFP NEW YORK The dollar gained on some major foreign currencies and lost ground to others in light trading The dollar posted a slight loss against the mark due to rumours that a large purchase of marks was expected when Chicago markets opened, according to a trader. Around
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1308 23 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures and Eurodollars ended unchanged after trading in a narrow range. Dealers said the undertone of the Euroyen market was bearish and market participants were looking to sell on rallies. "Euroyen saw good selling by US funds in the December
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      • 682 23 COMMODITY REPORTS KL Tin TIN rose nine sen to close at MS 13.20 a kg amid a rising London market. Dealers said the market is strengthening after tin prices rose US$4O a tonne overnight in London. But all buyers were local as European
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 66 23 LONDON The International Wheat Council yesterday forecast world 1994-95 (July-Jun) coarse grain production at 848 million tonnes, up from the IWC's previous forecast of 845 million and up from 789 million in 1993-94. The IWC pegged world 1994-95 coarse grain consumption at 840 million
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        • 103 23 HONGKONG China stopped soybean exports from Aug 1 in a bid to meet domestic demand, sources said. An official at the state-run grain import and export company confirmed the export ban, but could not provide details. A Beijing-based trader said China had stopped issuing new soybean
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        • 47 23 LONDON UK trade house C Czarnikow Sugar Ltd yesterday estimated 1994-95 world sugar production at 114.25 million tonnes raw value. It also revised its 1993-94 estimate down 630,000 tonnes raw value from the last estimate in May, to 109.5 million tonnes.
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        • 100 23 LONDON Brazil's 1995-96 coffee crop is forecast to total 18 million bags, representing a loss of 8.5 million bags after frosts in June and July, according to German statistician F O Licht. Launching its review of the current coffee situation. Licht said the
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    • 1421 23 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Cwrtract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) interest Sep 94 I 204. SO 500 950 Oct 197.00 188.00 194.25 2700 4300 Nov 183.50 180.00 182.25 450 5000 Dec 175.50 172.00 178.75 750 4650
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1025 24 16.7 SHARES closed firmer yesterday following a rally on Wall Street, although gains were trimmed by late profit-taking. The key All Ordinaries Index finished 16.7 points stronger at 2,077.8. The All Industrials Index climbed 10.7 to 3,006.9, while the All Resources surged 22.3 to 1.383.1. Turnover was 182.0 million
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      • 641 24 +2.95 Stocks rose yesterday, boosted by the 70-point rise in the Dow Jones, but profit-taking just before closing moderated the rally. The Composite Index climbed 2.95 points to close at 3,127.06. Turnover was 4.32 billion shares valued at 1.79 billion pesos. One analyst said: "The market was strong at
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      • 610 24 -4.13 Stocks ended lower yesterday in light trading amid cautious sentiment, with paper and construction shares hit hardest. The 376-issue Weighted Price Index declined 4.13 points to settle at 6,858.01. Turnover was 1.71 million shares valued at NT590.17 billion. The market jumped to the day's high of 6,945 points
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      • 283 24 16.28 Shares rose to a two-month high, after a strong rally in New York and London. "There were some pretty strong offshore markets and we haven't shared in that to the same extent," said a broker. Phone company Telecom led the market higher after its American depositary receipts
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      • 439 24 1.77 Share prices ended slightly higher yesterday, with bargain hunters and profit takers taking turns through an erratic trading day, dealers said. The Composite Price Index crept up 1.77 points to settle at 945.41, with turnover at 26 million shares worth 560 billion won. Falls edged out rises 397
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      • 149 24 -14.20 Stocks closed slightly lower in a session dulled by the end of account and also by mild fears over the assassination of a Hindu local party chief in Bombay. The BSE 30-share Index closed at 4,414.85, down 14.20 points. The 100-share National Index closed 7.67 lower at 2,095.15.
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      • 740 24 Britannia Funds Merlin* Cash Bid (Mrr Mim Cap Depuut 38 6400 3* 6500 Mim Jenev (.01 OI8<)3 0I<W2 Mim Man Income O.'MOO 0>»500 I Si Cash Income Plus I und 5300 ******0 PS$ Re*ne Fund 5 3000 5 3100 Sterling I-quits Euro Performance 045V2 OtHM Far EM Fund *2 7650
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      • 712 24 +29.0 STOCKS rose for the third day, boosted by Wednesday's surge in US stocks, which had reacted to a stronger dollar and signs of moderating growth in the US economy. The FT-SE 100 Index rose 29 points to 3,234.2. its highest since 3,255.7 on March 17. Gainers outnumbered decliners
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      • 145 24 +20.23 French shares ended the first day of the September account with strong gains but were off the session's highs as bond futures reduced their gains. Dealers said the market lacked conviction, with players remaining uncertain about the direction of interest rates in Europe. Wall Street failed to give
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      • 167 24 +20.50 German stocks rose, tracking surging US stocks and rising bond futures. The DAX Index rose 20.50 points to 2,153.48, extending gains into a third day in the wake of Wednesday's US stock rally and positive corporate earnings. "Clearly, Wall Street was a boost, but we also had some
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      • 133 24 +3.29 Belgian stocks rose for a third day after a leap in US stocks on Wednesday made European shares seem relatively cheap. The Bel-20 Index rose 3.29 points to 1,460.22, its highest since Aug 17. Companies with US activities, or which sell goods in dollars, were the biggest gainers.
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      • 164 24 -48 Shares drifted to close lower in thin volumes with only Olivetti showing any signs of life. The computer maker was hit by Wednesday's announcement that US computer firm Digital had sold its stake. Although both companies said the move would not hit their commercial and technological agreements, traders
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      • 252 24 +3.69 Dutch shares ended firmer, but well below the day's peak, as an active morning's trade dissipated in later profit-taking and some disappointment that Wall Street failed to build on Wednesday's sharp rally. But the momentum of stronger than expected firsthalf results from key blue chip companies and the
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      • 139 24 +2.97 Swedish shares climbed for a second day, led by pharmaceuticals company Astra and investment company Investor. The OMX Index closed 2.97 points higher at 1,115.77. Traders said strong earnings growth from Swedish companies and interest in blue chip shares helped drive the index up. Astra's A shares gained
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      • 303 24 10.0 Swiss shares rose, boosted by a stronger dollar and a better outlook for the earnings of industrial companies. Wall Street's spurt on Wednesday also helped the market early in the session. The SMI Index of 23 leading stocks gained 10.0 points to 2,551.1, with 14 stocks advancing, five
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      • 335 24 12 Shares finished off highs yesterday as profits were taken late in the afternoon after active two-way trade. Dealers said the market, buoyed by a stronger Wall Street and better gold price, was likely to make further gains today in a follow through of support from outstanding orders. They
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      • 245 24 -1.50 Stocks edged down marginally as players pulled profit from the recent solid rally in equities and bonds. "The market's been pretty hot in the past few days," said one trader. "So 1 wouldn't be surprised if there was a bit of profit-tak-ing or a small correction." The TSE-300
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      • 707 24 +3.56 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which soared 70.90 points on Wednesday, was ahead 3.56 to 3,850.29 at 11am EDT. It was down 7.45 shortly after the market opened. The NYSE Composite Index was ahead 0.25 to 258.86. while Standard Poors 500-stock index was up 0.45 to 469.48.
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      2899 25 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks rose as investors bet that Cheung Kong would post better-than-expected firsthalf net profits after the market closed. The Hang Seng Index rose 97.42 points to 9,336.11. The All Ordinaries Index rose 38.66 to 4,711.21. Turnover was HK53.17 billion. Cheung Kong closed up 80 cents
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      477 25 CLSA THE Shanghai B market edged up /.02 points to 859.43 on turnover of USS6.O million. Material Trading rose 3.7 per cent after good results were announced on Wednesday. Phoenix remained stable after the company announced its interim results. The Shenzhen B market edged down 2.75 points to 1,162.76
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      2518 25 Reuter TOKYO Stocks ended slightly weaker, with sentiment dampened on continuing profit-taking by domestic institutions. Overall trade was quiet as attention was drawn to Japan Telecom and Japan Tobacco (JT) ahead of the announcements of auction results of their shares. M According to our calculations, about one trillion yen
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      1828 25 Reuter BANGKOK Panic selling in the finance sector, led by Finance One, sent the index down sharply yesterday. The SET Index closed down 29.86 points at 1,444.72. Turnover was a heavy 22.57 billion baht. "The finance sector led by Finance One stock was heavily sold throughout the day and
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      1143 25 Reuter JAKARTA Stocks closed higher in active trading with investor sentiment bullish over a range of issues as the index broke through the 500-point mark. "It was excellent trading today with the second session very active on good volumes. Locals were punting heavily on their favourite stocks like Gadjah
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      • 5067 26 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks fell for a third day as hopes faded that the prime minister will call an early election. Some investors believe an early poll would spark a rally by prompting political parties to turn to the market
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      • 6520 27 MAIN BOARD Transaction date: Aug 25 Cr G» M Wt Vl Day LaM Qaote D». Dt. YM Nrt Cap A«t High Low CMfU) Sri* >/- (t*) Hit* Low Wmytt Seller C*»f P/E INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL .440 US •I.Aom 1000 >15 66 1020 9.5 W0 1000 175 J J II 6W3
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      • 1840 28  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE A massive 70-point overnight rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average led to a rally in local stocks yesterday, but late weakness in rumour-driven Malaysian stocks dragged prices off their highs for the day. The Straits Times
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    • 289 29 Reuter DUBAI Thirteen shipping lines are to raise their container rates to Gulf Arab and Iranian ports from the Far East excluding Japan from Oct 1, a statement from the lines said. "The lines have now decided... to implement
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      55 29 AFP LIVERPOOL, England Experts examine the toxic scrap metal cargo of the Hornbelt coaster at Alexandra tkHjkonVN ednesday. Environmental group Greenpeace said British scrap metal company Sheppard's has signed a contract to import 100,000 tonnes of PCB contaminated metals which Germany has been trying to get nd of
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    • 175 29 Bernama-Xin-hua BEIJING China's shipbuilding capacity and output will reach four million deadweight tonnes and 2.5 million dwt, respectively, by the end of this century. According to Wang Rongsheng, general manager of the Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, design and management will be modernised during this
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    • 252 29 AP WASHINGTON More than 20 years after maritime countries signed a treaty to prevent pollution from ships, the US Navy is still looking for ways to stop trashing the seas, a new study shows. The interim study from
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    • 248 29 SINGAPORE Jurong-based Neptune Heat Exchangers, which celebrates its second anniversary today, announced yesterday that it had produced 200 marine-engine air coolers worth about $3.5 million. The company, set up in 1992 as a three-way venture between a British firm and two NOL group, members,
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    • 433 29 Reuter HAMBURG The port of Hamburg may reach a record turnover of 70 million tonnes in 1994 after 65.9 million in 1993, Hamburg Port and Warehouse Corp marketing director Hans Ludwig Beth told a news conference this week. Hamburg is Europe's biggest port
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    • 502 29 Former executives admit Valdez spill did not hit oil company s income Reuter ANCHORAGE, Alaska Lawyers for Alaskans suing Exxon on Wednesday entered videotaped testimony from former company officials supporting claims that the nation's worst oil spill had no adverse effect on the
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    • 646 30 In five years Finland's Kvaerner Masa-Yard was transformed from a sunken shipyard to a leading builder of cruise liners and icebreakers Business Week WHEN Martin Saarikangas looks out at the bustling grounds of Kvaerner Masa-Yard Inc, a shipbuilder in Finland's Baltic sea coast city of Turku, he takes
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    • 17585 38 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. LEGENO PN: ship calls at Penang after
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      • 675 46 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure lurong Port Agel 07/94 P04 2608 0800 27 08/0600 Batam Bahagia 08/04 94 J1 alongside 2608 0500 Balti Venus 1 P06 25 08/1900 2608/2300 Batam Murm 08/06 94 J2 alongside 2608, 2315 Batam Speed A0694"
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      • 1010 46 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Deceiving of export fcl containers and lcl cargo 1 Record Booking/Balance Rstts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Ltfy Q53A 28/2359 4 26/1200 26/1459 26/1700 Acx Lotus 055B 26/2000 1A 25/1500 25/1659 25/1900 IB 25/1500 25/1659 25/1900 2A
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      • 762 46 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1,494 on Wednesday from 1.503 on Aug 23. Activity increased on the major US Gulf to Japan grain route with three reports of concluded business emerging, brokers said. Louis Dreyfus is said to have covered a
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      • 363 48 Reuter DETROIT Ford Motor Co. eager to expand in Asia, on Wednesday said it and Mazda Motor Corp will study the feasibility of jointly building pickup trucks in Thailand. The two car makers, which have several other joint manufacturing projects, will
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      • 491 48 AFP MANILA Philippine Airlines (PAL) has suffered a 451.4 million peso (5525.3 million) net loss in its 1993 fiscal year which ended in March. This was a dramatic reversal from the 1.02 billion peso net income posted by the national flag-carrier
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      • 182 48 SINGAPORE Silkair will conduct a punctuality campaign for passengers from Sep 1 to Oct 31 to help prevent flight delays during renovation work at Changi Airport. Check-in counters will close 35 minutes before scheduled departure time, while boarding gates will close 10 minutes
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      • 62 48 AFP HONGKONG The HK$7.2-billion (SSI.4 billion) Tsing Ma Bridge under construction links Hongkong's new airport on an outer island, Lantau, to the territory's main island and Kowloon peninsula. The airport is to be finished by mid-1997. Two 206-metre high towers each containing 28,500 cubic metres
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      • 202 48 SINGAPORE A joint search and rescue exercise has been held by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and the National Search and Rescue Agency of Indonesia. Sarex Indopura XII/ 94, held on Wednesday, is the 12th such exercise conducted by the two countries. It tested
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        • 77 48 Bloomberg Business News AMSTERDAM KLM Royal Dutch Airlines NV is almost doubling its weekly number of flights between Amsterdam and Japan, to nine from five, Hel Financieek Dagblad reported yesterday. The Dutch carrier now flies five times a week to Tokyo and will
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        • 98 48 AFP TOKYO Japan's Matsuo Bridge Co plans to set up a joint venture in October to build and operate a toll road in the city of Huzhou in Zhejiang province, a company official said. The venture, capitalised at 2.4 billion yen (SS36 million), will
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        • 80 48 AFP TOKYO The Transport Ministry on Wednesday approved an application to charge 2,400 yen (SS36) a tonne for landing of international flights at Kansai airport in western Japan, officials said. A Boeing 747-400 jet will be required to pay 948,000 yen for landing at the
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        • 85 48 Bloomberg Business News HANOVER. Germany Volkswagen AG said it has signed a contract worth about 50 million marks (5548.7 million) a year to supply motors to Mercedes-Benz AG for its new Viano model. VW will deliver 6-cylinder motors and automatic transmissions based on
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      • 333 48 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The US State Department suspended the export privileges of Lockheed Corp's aeronautical systems subsidiary, citing previous charges of illegal payments to a member of the Egyptian parliament. The agency plans to deny future export licence applications filed by Lockheed Aeronautical Systems
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      • 235 48 Reuter FRANKFURT Deutsche Lufthansa AG cargo chief Wilhelm Althen has told staff the airline's cargo arm aims to make an annual profit of 100 million marks (5597.5 million) once it is restructured into a separate company at the start of 1995. Lufthansa
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    • 1652 42 IfMhBMN CONTAINER LINES, INC I Frv/VV-lAgenU; MAC-NELB SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) o\/ VJc/nitetmrmcti BIBU (084) *****9 KUCHINQ (082) *****3 PCNANQt (04) *****8 BANGKOK (882) *****67 MANILA (632) *****61 P.KELANOJ (03) *****77 JAKARTA: (21) *****07 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 ASIA HKG/TWN/BKKI GENOA/EUROPE PEN PKL SIN 5 SAILINGS/WEEK PEN PK SIN 24/8 25/8
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    • 670 43 WSV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" TfXA JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTING BREAKBU.K SOC CARGOES 10 FROM HO6E. YOKOHAMA. NAGOYA, HOI. TOKYO*. MANIA' DAY AO* Penanj* P. Kelanj Saijapore E'Msia* KAMAIEVERETT V22E 05/06 Sept IVYEVERETT VIOE 19/20 Sept 21/22 Sept SHAPLAEWERETT V 22€ 29/30 Sept 01/02 Oct ACCEPTING BREAKBU.K/FCI/SOC CARGOES TO/fROM CHITTAGONG, CALCUTTA
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    • 1450 45 IsEAMA^RGENTINMJN^^^n CONTAINERISED "HUB" SERVICE I I DIRECT TO ARGENTINA/BRAZIL URUGUAY V I VISSIL VOY SiN P. ARENAS USHUAiA BUI M VIOfO SNT S4N ALEXANOER SCHULTE 003E 02/09 07/10 09/10 14/10 IS/10 18/10 i 13/11 CANOPUS 003E 04/10 08/11 10/11 15/11 16/11 19/11 21/11 FRANCISCA SCHULTE 005E 24/10 28/11 30/11 05/12
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    • 409 46 79 ANSON ROAD, #21-01, SINGAPORE 0207 TELE: *****92 FAX: *****57 CR **********0N STRAITS SHUTTLE SERVICE SINGAPORE/PORT KLANG/SINGAPORE SINGAPORE/PENANG/SINGAPORE VESSEL VOY SK PKL VESSEL VOY S* PEN MCC CONVEYOR 9437 24/8/94 (WED) 26/8/94 (FWI) MCC CONVEYOR 9437 24/8/94 (WED) 26/1/94 (FRI) VIGOUR SINGAPORE *****N 26/8/94 (FRI) 28/8/94 (SUN) XOURIAYA *****N 26/8/94
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