The Business Times, 7 February 1995

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    12 1 BUSINESS TIMES WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Tuesday February 7 1995 85*
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow up 3 points
      69 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks edged higher yesterday in what some analysts called an impressive follow-through to Friday's explosive rally. The Dow Jones index was up 3.03 points to 3,931.67 at Ipm EST, adding to its surge of nearly 58 points before the weekend. Advancing issues
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      Lock icon Soft landing for economy
      37 1 Reuter WASHINGTON White House economic adviser Laura Tyson yesterday said the administration budget forecast that the economy would achieve a soft landing, moving from a very strong level to a sustainable pace. Reuter
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  • Article
    Feb 13 date set for US-China talks, HK stocks soar
    209 1  -  From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG NEWS reports suggesting that the US and China were on the brink of resuming talks to avert a trade war, and expectations that US interest rates have peaked sent Hongkong stocks soaring yesterday. The
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  • Article
    MARKET SUMMARY
    165 1 Stock market indices Monday Change STII 2,124.89 +14.65 KLSE Comp 971.96 44.70 Nikkei 18.667.23 +128.26 Hang Seng 7.897.80 +418.88 SET Index 1.330.42 +52.35 Jakarta Comp 453.14 +7.76 CLSA China B 805.31 -6.09 Aust All Otd 1.862.9 +15.2 FTSE 100 3.062.0 +2.3 Moaday Previoas I pm EST close Dow
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    Lock icon Foreign funds are back with a bang
    356 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Foreign institutional funds returned to regional markets with a vengeance yesterday, providing hefty gains ranging from under one per cent here to almost 5 per cent in Malaysia. The funds, largely responsible for the sharp declines seen in regional
    Source: Bridge Info  -  356 words
  • Article
    MAS announces waivers to curbs on personal and car loans
    564 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE The Monetary Authority of Singapore has announced waivers to its latest guidelines to check the sharp increases in unsecured personal loans and car loans over the past year. In response to feedback from financial institutions
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  • Article
    Finance and car stocks slide but banks shake off scare
    381 1 SINGAPORE Bank stocks held their own yesterday in the face of measures imposed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to curb unsecured lending. But the shares of car distributors and finance companies did not fare so well. After first dropping
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  • Article
    Two more key staff leave Jones Lang Wootton
    377 1  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Two more key figures yesterday quit Singapore's biggest property consultant firm Jones Lang Wootton (S), just two weeks after the surprise resignation of its long-time head Edmund Tic. The resignation of executive directors Yam Kah Heng and
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  • Article, Illustration
    Royal Brothers spices up $85m bond issue with an innovative deal
    440 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE The Royal Brothers group is tapping the capital markets with a difference. It is raising $85 million from what is believed to be the first bond issue in Singapore that is linked to a
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      16 1 Property: Pg 10 UK retail scene's humming Kenichi Ohmae to run for Tokyo governorship, Pg 16
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      42 1 Hock Lock Siew: Pg 17 fcj RECEIV |9J 7 FEB 1 Big boys get an edge in F^banking^ MORE REPORTS, Pg t Speculators of club memberships will face squeeze Car loan agents change lending terms Weekend windfall for car distributors, finance firms
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Diners get back some appetite
        295 2  -  By Corinne Kerk EATING OUT was more popular in November last year, after a fall in October. In volume terms, the Catering Trade Index for that month shows business activity edged up 0.2 per cent year on year after a 2.4 per cent fall in
        Source: Dept of Statistics  -  295 words
    • Article
      PUB names BG Boey as chief executive
      162 2 THE Public Utilities Board (PUB) yesterday announced that Brigadier-General (NS) Boey Tak Hap has taken over from Lee Yong Siang as the board's chief executive. Mr Lee, who had been PUB's chief executive since December 1979, retired on Sunday. Brig-Gen Boey assumed his
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    • Article
      Machine tool maker buys Hungarian firm for US$3m
      266 2 LEADING local machine tool manufacturer Excel Machine Tools Pte Ltd yesterday signed a deal in Budapest to buy Hungary's largest machine tools company, Csepel F&K Szerszamgepgyatto RT. for US$3 million (554.38 million). The signing was witnessed by the Hungarian Minister of Trade
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      Lock icon SGS-Thomson earmarks $45m for chip research
      416 2  -  By Claire Leow SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics Asia-Pacific will pump $45 million into semiconductor research in Singapore over the next five years, said president and chief executive officer Pasquale Pistorio yesterday. The French-Italian semiconductor company will design digital signal processors and refine manufacturing techniques; integrate silicon
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      Developers' body elects MP Heng Chiang Meng as new president
      374 2 THE trade body of developers in Singapore has for the first time elected a Member of Parliament to represent their interests for the next two years. The Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore (Redas) yesterday said Heng Chiang Meng was
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    • Article
      New rules will weed out speculators of club memberships
      477 2  -  MAS credit curbs By Shahiron Sahari THE Monetary Authority of Singapore's strict new rules on unsecured personal loans will lead to greater stability in golf and country club membership prices. While the majority of golf dealers, club managers and banks interviewed
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      Car loan agents change lending terms
      233 2  -  By Michelle Low CAR LOAN agents contacted by BT yesterday said they had changed their loan terms according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore's new ruling, which came into effect yesterday. The new terms are 70 per cent of the car value, including COE,
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    • Article
      Car distributors, finance firms enjoy windfall
      491 2  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan CAR distributors and finance companies seem to have enjoyed a windfall over the weekend as some car buyers brought forward their decision to own a car in the face of new curbs on car loans, which took effect yesterday. Few people
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    • Article
      Loan quantum tougher but 7-year period longer than elsewhere in Asia
      400 2 SINGAPORE'S maximum car loan quantum is now more stringent than those prevailing in several countries in the Asian region. But the loan maturity is still much longer here. Local financial institutions are now limited to extending loans of up
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon More Asian nations could face US sanctions over copyright
      454 3  -  By Yang Razali Kassim SINGAPORE The current trade row between the United States and China over intellectual property rights (IPR) could spread to other parts of Asia. If the US pursues consistently its policy of trade reprisals for IPR violations, several
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    • Article
      Indonesia finally opts for US$1.5b subway mass-transit system
      307 3  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA THE Indonesian government has finally opted for a multi-billion-dollar subway network over a light rail system to ease Jakarta's traffic woes after years of haggling. Transport Minister Harianto Dhanutirto told a parliamentary committee that construction work on
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      Lock icon S'pore, HK the only true emerging markets on success index
      387 3  -  Byi Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Singapore and Hongkong are the only emerging economies that have achieved true "emerging" status, according to a restructuring success index which Lon-don-based Independent Strategy has devised in the aftermath of the Mexican crisis. Singapore is
      Source: Independent Strategy  -  387 words
    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon Johor floods worsen
        99 3 Bernama Bloomberg Business News JOHOR BARU Continuous rain over the past three days has worsened the flood situation in Johor and more people have been evacuated from their homes. A spokesman of the Johor Flood Operations Room yesterday said about 1,246 people from five districts in Johor
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        Lock icon Bank of Thailand may raise rate
        62 3 Knight-Ridder BANGKOK The Bank of Thailand may hike the rate at which it lends to local commercial banks from the current 9.5 per cent. The Thailand Times newspaper yesterday quoted bank governor Vijit Supinit as saying the hike in the so-called "bank rate" would
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        Lock icon Cambodia as observer in Asean?
        82 3 AFP CANBERRA Cambodia expects to be granted observer status in the Association of South-east Asian Nations this year as a precursor to full membership, Cambodian Finance Minister Keat Chhon said yesterday. The six-member Asean insists on accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation before
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        Lock icon Kepco wins Manila power contract
        57 3 AFP MANILA Korean Electric Power Co (Kepco), the national power company of South Korea, has won a contract to rehabilitate and operate a 650-megawatt power plant in the Philippines. The state-owned National Power Corp (NPC) awarded the reha-bilitate-operate-maintain (ROM) contract to Kepco after it submitted
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      Lock icon Phuket land scam threatens to rock government
      179 3 AP PHUKET, Thailand The government of Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai is being rocked by trouble on this tropical resort isle, where a dozen wealthy families have ended up with land meant for impoverished farmers. Mr Chuan's Democrat Party sponsored the nationwide programme under
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China-listed firms shrug off US sanctions threat
      520 4 The Sino-US trade war Reuter SHANGHAI Most listed enterprises in China are shrugging off the threat of massive US trade sanctions on a wide range of goods, as increasing diversification and strong domestic sales could temper any loss in American business. Careful to
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      Lock icon Taiwan admits more Chinese semi-finished products
      349 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan will open its market to more imports of semi-finished products from China to minimise the impact of a trade war between Beijing and Washington, economic officials said yesterday. Taipei's plan to further liberalise imports would help about 20.000 Taiwanese investors in
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      Lock icon Japan sitting on the sidelines
      228 4 Reuter TOKYO For once. Japan is sitting on the sidelines as an Asian trade war looms with the United States. Japanese officials yesterday said they hoped for a speedy settlement to Washington's dispute with Beijing over copyright protection, partly to avoid a nasty row ahead
      Reuter  -  228 words
    • Article
      Beijing could be 6th largest trading nation by 2000, say experts
      412 4  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE China will rank sixth or seventh among trading nations by the year 2000, accounting for 3.3 per cent of world trade, a group of Chinese trade experts says. This is based on forecast growth of
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Lock icon China PC sales likely to grow 40%
        93 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's computer market will expand 40 per cent this year, matching a growth rate it has maintained since 1990, the official Economic Daily said. The paper said total sales in tbe industry last year reached 40 billion yuan (556.9
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        Lock icon China's GDP to grow 9%: report
        114 4 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG China's gross domestic product growth will be 9 per cent in 1995 as the government gains control of investment growth and credit expansion. Salomon Brothers Hongkong Ltd chief regional economist Andrew Freris said in a report released yesterday. Inflation in urban areas
        Knight-Ridder  -  114 words
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        Lock icon Private Taiwan body to sign air pact
        112 4 AFP TAIPEI The Taiwanese government agreed yesterday to let an unofficial body represent the island in an aviation agreement with Hongkong, which is worried about China's objections to official relations with Taipei. Tsai Ching-ven, director of the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), told reporters
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        Lock icon Beijing to improve asset appraisals
        107 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Chinese government plans to improve its asset appraisal system this year, the official China Daily said. China s state-owned companies need to carefully evaluate their assets when they becomc more market-oriented companies, according to Chen Si, an official at China's
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  • REST OF ASIA
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      Lock icon Indian central bank warns states of mounting debts
      419 6 Reuter AFP BOMBAY India's central bank indirectly stepped into the country's election campaign yesterday, warning that states risk being swamped by debt if they go on spending more than they earn. With political parties vying to outgun each other with populist promises
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      Lock icon Maori protests mar Kiwi national celebrations
      287 6 Reuter WAITANGI. New Zealand The New Zealand Hag was trampled and a Maori warrior spat at the feet of royal and government representatives yesterday in a sour eommemoration of the 1840 treaty which established British sovereignty. Scuffles with police broke out after a formal
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      Lock icon Japan wants Apec to simplify cross-border trade among members
      248 6 Reuter TOKYO Japan will propose that simplified handling of cross-border trade among Apec members be a priority for debate when it hosts the group's summit in November. An official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) yesterday said Tokyo
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon India seeks Japanese transport aid
        80 6 AP NEW DELHI India is seeking Japanese assistance to fund a USSI billion (551.45 billion) mass transit system to ease New Delhi's increasing traffic congestion by introducing underground and surface railroad and dedicated busways. A delegation from the Japanese Organisation for Economic Cooperation was scheduled
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        Lock icon New Zealand jolted by earthquake
        82 6 Reuter WELLINGTON A large earthquake shook the central part of New Zealand's North Island yesterday, but there was only very minor damage, police and seismologists said. The tremor was centred off New Zealand's east coast and was felt in Auckland in the north and Christchurch
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        Lock icon Lankan imports from India up
        55 6 AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka's imports from India jumped to US$4O4 million (SSSBB million) last year from US$343 million in 1993, while exports recorded only a marginal increase, provisional figures showed. The trade gap widened despite a 5 per cent increase of exports to India to
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        Lock icon Aussie employment uptrend slows
        101 6 AFP SYDNEY Australian employment continued to rise in January but at a slower pace than 1994, according to the ANZ Bank job advertisement survey released yesterday. In trend terms, the series rose by 0.5 per cent in the month, after rising 0.9 per cent in December.
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon No secret deals on aid package, says Mexico
      527 7 President denies political conditions attached to emergency economic plan Reuter MEXICO CITY Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo said on Sunday there are no secret political or economic conditions attached to the multibillion dollar international aid package to end Mexico's financial crisis. "I want
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    • Article
      Lock icon Mexico bailout backers hope for US$3b from Japan
      239 7 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO International financial authorities hope the Bank of Japan will extend about US$3 billion (554.3 billion) to the bailout plan for Mexico through the International Bank for Settlement, up from an initial US$l billion, the Sihon Keizai newspaper yesterday
      Bloomberg Business News  -  239 words
    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Israel to allow access to US power firms
        99 7 AFP JERUSALEM US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and Israeli Energy Minister Goncn Segev reached a cooperation agreement yesterday allowing American power companies to enter the Israeli market, officials said. Under the deal, American companies would be able to take a share of
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      • Article
        Lock icon Russia to consider private pension law
        74 7 FT LONDON Russia's parliament is set to consider the country's first private pensions system in new legislation expected to be introduced within a fortnight. The measure, awaiting its first reading in the Duma, the Lower House of the Russian parliament, will provide the first
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        Lock icon UK economy at top performance: study
        92 7 Reuter LONDON The UK economy is enjoying its best performance in three decades but the challenge this year is for the authorities to ensure sustained growth without re-igniting inflation, a London Business School survey said. It noted that growth in 1994 was now estimated
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        Lock icon Tories may sack a quarter of staff
        105 7 Reuter LONDON Britain's ruling Conservative party is considering sacking up to a quarter of its staff to avert a financial crisis threatening its chances of winning the next general election, the Independent newspaper said yesterday. Torn by deep internal rifts over European policy
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    • Article
      Lock icon IMF will not grant Russia US$6.4b loan
      228 7 AFP MOSCOW The International Monetary Fund will not grant Russia a loan of USS6.4 billion (559.3 billion). However. Finance Minister Vladimir Panskov yesterday stressed that he remained committed to a tough line on the budget and the deficit. The USS6.4 billion expected in
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    • Article
      Lock icon Russian shares give Western investors the shivers
      355 7 Reuter MOSCOW Dark clouds are gathering over the smart new offices of Western investors by the Kremlin's golden domes amid fears of a clampdown on capital flows and reports of share-tampering by company managers hostile to foreigners. Western bankers and fund managers yesterday
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    • Article
      Lock icon Abuse of dumping rules will backfire
      369 7 Reuter BRUSSELS Abuse of antidumping measures in world trade could be "enormously damaging" and would hit hardest those misusing them. World Trade Organisation chief Peter Sutherland said yesterday. "The abuse of the development of anti-dumping rules could be an enormously damaging development in terms
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      Lock icon Brown, US business chiefs due in UAE to seek deals
      447 7 Reuter ABU DHABI US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, whose triumphant tour of India locked up big contracts for US firms, arrives with a trade mission in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday Mr Brown, touring the Middle East with a
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    • Article
      Lock icon Paris has hard time upping EU aid for Africa
      168 7 Reuter PARIS Franco faccs an uphill struggle persuading its major partners. Germany and Britain, to increase a European Union Development Fund (EDF) for 70 African, Caribbean and Pacific (AC'P) countries. diplomats and analysts say. EU foreign ministers were to debate the
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    • Article
      Lock icon History suggests Fed may fail in navigating soft landing
      616 8 Reuter WASHINGTON Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues arc betting that by doubling interest rates the past year they can slow the economy to a more sustainable pace without toppling it into recession. There's just one hitch. While many
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      Lock icon Republicans open to capital gains swap
      429 8 Reuter WASHINGTON Top congressional Republicans said they would consider backing a minimum wage increase if President Bill Clinton agreed to back a cut in the capital gains tax. Senate Majority leader Bob Dole said he had a lot of doubts about Mr Clinton's proposed
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      Lock icon Smuggling has never been easier
      52 8 Reuter AGUAS VERDES, Peru Kcuadorean and Peruvian (left) vendors trafficking illegal products on Sunday across the Internacional canal, the border between the two countries. The bridge has been closed for security reasons but one vendor died by mine explosion as he attempted to cross the
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      Lock icon Canada's tough budget will hit almost all spending programmes
      232 8 Reuter TORONTO Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin plans to deliver a tough new budget that will hit virtually every spending programme, completely overhauling the way the federal government operates. "Everything is on the table absolutely everything," Mr Martin said in an
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      Lock icon European integration: many countries waiting for Major to go
      225 8 AP BRUSSELS Britain's allies in Europe are losing faith in John Major and are waiting for a new UK government to agree on the next phase of European integration, say diplomats in Brussels. The consensus is that divisions within the ruling
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
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      Lock icon HK property slump hits govt home ownership scheme
      417 10 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG'S property slump has hampered sales in the government's programme to encourage home ownership among low-income families. The English-language South China Morning Post yesterday said almost one-quarter of the 8.168 flats that went on sale in November under the Home Ownership
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    • Article
      Lock icon Malaysian firm to build US$100m resort in Vietnam
      182 10 Reuter GOHHOCH. a Malaysian company, plans to build a US$lOO million (SSI46 million) resort complex near Halong Bay, a popular tourist draw in northern Vietnam, according to the official 1 Vietnam News Agency (VNA). 1 Gohhoch and a state-owned local partner, the
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      Lock icon Pay a fortune and live in a slum — in Bombay
      402 10 Pay a fortune and live in a slum in Bombay Los Angeles Times Bombay yuppie r n Ramachandran, 30. recently bought his first apartment in the only neighbourhood he could afford the city's largest slum. "I never thought I'd be living here." said Mr Ramachandran, director of a television news
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      Lock icon UK retail property bucks downtrend
      908 10 Analysts say investors may get their fingers burnt FT THERE is an old fund management saying that there is nothing more dangerous than a consensus. On this view, the enthusiasm of UK and overseas investors for retail property is likely to end in disappointment. While
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Another lost golfer returns to glory at Pebble Beach
      823 11 Golf NYT PEBBLE BEACH. California Here at the place where careers are revived, where the cold, misty air and rocky cliffs work as some sort of mystical elixir, another lost golfer returned to the Garden on Sunday. Peter Jacobsen. 40. who
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      Lock icon No horsing around
      51 11 Reuter ST MORITZ, Switzerland A skier holding on tightly to the reins of his horse during a race on the frozen lake of Si Moritz on Sunday. The combined sports of skiing and horse racing called skijoering are a popular winter event in the Swis? mountain resort.
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    • SCORE CARD
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        Basketball
        31 11 NEW YORK NBA Sunday: Phoenix 100 Houston 124: Orlando 103 NY 100 (OT): Miami 109 Seattle 136: Charlotte 111 Washington 105; Boston 115 Minnesota 82; Golden State 93 Chicago 97.
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        Golf
        287 11 PEBBLE BEACH, California LSSI.4 million PGA Pebble Beach Pro-Am final round Sunday (LS unless noted): 271 Peter Jacobsen 67-73-66-65 273 David Duval 72-67-67-67 275 Kenny Perry 68-68-67-72. Davis Love 65-71-71-68 277 Payne Stewart 71-67-69-70 278 Jack Nicklaus 71-70-67-70. Guy Boros 69-66-71-72, Brad Faxon 70-64-72-72 279 Nick Faldo (Eng) 66-72-69-72.
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        Ice hockey
        29 11 NEW YORK NHL Sunday: Quebec 3 Hartford I: Vancouver 4 Chicago 9; Buffalo 2 Tampa Bay 1; New Jersey 3 Pittsburgh 3 (C)T); LA 2 Anaheim 3.
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        454 11 LONDON Davis Cup world group Ist rd Sunday In Naples: Italy b Czech Republic 4-1 (Italian names first: Andrea Gaudenzi lost to Daniel Vacek 6-7 (5-7) 4-6 6-1 6-7 (4-7); Renzo Furlan b Slava Dosedel 4-6 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 6-4; Stefano Pescosolido/Cristian Brandi b Martin Damm/Cyril Suk 6-2 1-6
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        95 11 SAN DIKGO America's Cup trials 2nd rd Sunda> Challenger series: Tag Hcucr Challenge (Chris Dickson) h Rioja de Espana (Pedro Campos) by 15 mins 4 sec: Nippon (Makota Namba) b One Australia (John Bertrand) (did not finish). Standings: I Team New Zealand 12 pts 2 equal One Australia. Tag
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      Lock icon Packer foils Murdoch's rugby super league plans
      425 11 Reuter SYDNEY Australia's richest man. Kerry Packer, has defeated fellow media tycoon Rupert Murdoch in a heavyweight fight for control of Australia's professional rugby league competition. Murdoch's News Corp had proposed setting up an Australasian "Super league", boasting 12 elite clubs, in 1996
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      Lock icon KL may exile 22 soccer players for match-fixing
      485 11 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia may send 22 soccer players into internal exile for allegedly taking bribes to fix matches in the country's fledgling professional league. Bernama news agency said yesterday. Home Minister Junid Megat Ayob told reporters in the northern state of
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        63 11 Reuter DAYTONA BEACH. Florida Race driver and movie actor Paul Newman smiling as he entered the victory lane with teammate Michael Brockman. (left), and other members of his racing team after they won their class in the Rolex 24 Hour road race at the Daytona International
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        Lock icon KL plans to clean up horse-racing
        65 11 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police battling against widespread match-fixing in soccer now plan a clampdown against illegal bookmaking and manipulation of horse-racing results, reports said yesterday. Malaysian racing has been rife with reports of horse-doping, assaults and murder attempts on jockeys for many years.
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        Lock icon Australia declares with a 452 lead
        101 11 AFP PERTH Australia declared on 345 for eight, a lead of 452 over England, on the fourth day of the fifth and final Ashes Test here yesterday. Australia went off when Chris Lewis caught Shane Wame at second slip off Devon Malcom for six.
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        56 11 AFP MADEIRA ISLAND Santiago Luna's 10-year wait for a European tour victory finally ended on Sunday when he won the Madeira Island Open by four strokes here on Sunday. The 32-year-old. who had led from the first round, closed with a 70 to finish on
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        Lock icon Orlando overpowers New York
        60 11 AFP ORLANDO. Florida Shaquille O'Neal overpowered Patrick Ewing here on Sunday, scoring 41 points and pulling down 15 rebounds to spark Orlando past New York 103-100 in over-time. Orlando (36-10) snapped a two-game losing skid and won their sixth over-time game in seven tries, inflicting only
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      Lock icon Last-gasp Bjoerkman saves Sweden
      444 11 Davis Cup AFP PARIS Last-minute substitute Jonas Bjoerkman kept his cool to save Davis Cup holders Sweden from a humiliating first-round defeat against Denmark here on Sunday. Bjoerkman, called into the match after Magnus Larrson caught a stomach bug. found himself two sets to one down
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      779 13  -  Alan Riding looks at the problems facing Pierre Rosenberg Alan Riding NYT Having spent 32 years at the Louvre, Pierre Rosenberg was so widely identified with the museum that his appointment as the director last October went almost unnoticed in Paris. But for Rosenberg. 58.
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        279 13 Reuter Reuter Reuter BRITISFI Prime Minister John Major was once the "toyboy" lover of a divorcee 13 years his senior, Britain's racy tabloid newspapers declared yesterday. The tale of 20-year-old Major's alleged early affair with an attractive brunette credited with launching his political
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    Clinton's Mexican rescue
    521 14 EDITORIAL FACING major opposition from lawmakers, US President Bill Clinton has shelved his plan to seek Congressional approval of US$4O billion (5558.4 billion) in loan guarantees to stabilise the Mexican peso. Bypassing Congress. Mr Clinton is extending to Mexico US$2O billion in short-term loans and loan guarantees.
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      Vietnam's long road home
      182 14 IT HAS BEEN slow and laborious, but the roadblocks arc gradually being cleared for the normalisation of ties between Vietnam and the United States. Low-key though it had been, the opening of liaison offices in Hanoi and Washington last week was a milestone event for the
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      Keep on training
      165 14 SINGAPORE'S unskilled workers must have felt the jitters when about 7,000 of their counterparts were retrenched last year. However, thanks to the tight labour market conditions, about 4,600 were absorbed before the year ended. The lesson is grim indeed unskilled or semi-skilled workers will find it an
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      Work to avoid a trade war
      126 14 THERE IS NO DOUBT that piracy of intellectual property rights is rampant in China and the Clinton administration has every reason to press for action from the Chinese government. But the US tendency to resort to the threat of trade sanctions is not something
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      Not tough enough on Yangon
      197 14 THE VISIT to Myanmar, for private trade purposes, by former prime minister Bob Hawke has naturally aroused concern. The Foreign Minister, Senator Gareth Evans, has criticised Mr Hawke's failure to use the opportunity to press Myanmar's military rulers to free Aung San Suu Kyi from
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      Don't talk about tax hikes yet
      152 14 REBUILDING the infrastructure damaged by the Great Hanshin Earthquake is going to cost up to 10 trillion yen (S$ 145 billion), according to some reports. The government should not spare any effort to scrape together the needed money so that the victims of the
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    982 14  - The space in between that's what counts What does it take for the Western model of political democracy and economic liberalism to work? Lan Davidson discusses what a US political analyst says Ian Davidson FT After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, American
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      228 14 A growing triangle? The Riau islands-Batam,Bintan andKarimun-tookoffwith l J great fanfare five years ago ■■MM-*' along with the Growth Triangle. **3^, What s the picture now. «££#<*. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Interest rate hikes: What stocks will hurt? £2 I How investors buy stocks, property House Hunt: Your pulse on
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      1593 15  -  The United States announced trade sanctions against China last Saturday ostensibly for Beijing's supposed failure to protect intellectual property rights. Leon Hadar, however, finds deeper causes for the action, which signals dangerous times in Sino-American relations Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington Correspondent HISTORIANS
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      1323 15  -  Peter Lynch reports on the As2.sb Qantas float that isn't taking off and the bitter fight being waged over the lucrative 'Kangaroo' route Peter Lynch The writer is a Sydney-based journalist who contributes to H I AUSTRALIA's Qantas airline chiefs were back in the transit lounge last
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    Lock icon More rate rises built into US budget assumptions
    546 16 Bloomberg Business News Reuter WASHINGTON The Clinton administration appears resigned to additional interestrate increases by the Federal Reserve this year, based on the economic assumptions included in its fiscal 1996 budget released yesterday. The US$l.6l trillion (552.35 trillion) budget estimates that the
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    Lock icon Trade talks: Kantor says China's rapid response a step in right direction
    408 16 Reute AFP Bloomberg WASHINGTON The United States and China will resume talks on their copyright dispute in Beijing on Feb 13, US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor said yesterday. "Today we received a letter from Madame Wu Yi, the
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    Lock icon London sets price for sale of £4b stake in power companies
    396 16 Reuter LONDON Britain yesterday set the price for the first instalment of one of the largest international public offers this year, a £4 billion (559.2 billion) sale of its stake in the country's two biggest power generators. After a
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    Lock icon EU to negotiate compensation deal with trading partners
    235 16 Reuter BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers yesterday told the European Commission to begin a six-month mission to negotiate the cost to trading partners of bringing Austria, Sweden and Finland into the bloc. The United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Indonesia, New Zealand,
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    Lock icon US housing completions down 1.6% in December
    272 16 Bloomberg ness News WASHINGTON The number of new homes completed in December declined from a month earlier, though 1994 construction activity was the strongest in six years. Housing completions, which lag starts of new construction by six months, fell 1.6 per cent in
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    61 16 AFP SYDNEY The latest issue of the magazine Woman's Day features an exclusive interview with former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke. In the article, he announced his wedding to his biographer, Blanche d'Alpuget. Also revealed are intimate details of their secret affair that brought an
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    US-China trade spat a risky form of shadowboxing
    796 16  -  The Bottom Line VIKRAM KHANNA VIKRAM KHANNA The writer is BT's regional economics editors THE 418-point jump in Hongkong's Hang Seng index yesterday seems to suggest that not even the number one hub of US-China trade is seriously concerned that the trade
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    318 16 Reuter AFP MANILA The Philippines shows early signs of being on track for its 1995 economic targets, with inflation dropping to its lowest in seven years, but analysts yesterday said the government should watch out for bumps along the way. Annual
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    149 16 AP TOKYO Author and business consultant Kcnichi Ohmae will run for governor of Tokyo next year, campaign organisers said yesterday. Mr Ohmae rose to fame in Japan and abroad as an early proponent of the view that in the 1980s, the world's economies
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    382 16 Reuter LONDON Speculators across the globe baled out of commodities yesterday and prices on everything from copper to cocoa crumbled. Traders were not yet ready to call an end to the inflationary "bull run" in these raw material markets that had
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      HOT STOCK
      135 17  -  -By Paul Leo CYCLE and Carriage fell 50 cents or 4.8 per cent to $9.90 yesterday. Yesterday's volume of 4.18 million units was more than five times the previous day's 780.000 shares and the 10-day average of 809.000 units. The stock is ready for a medium-term rally. Weekly
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      MARKET MOOD
      48 17 Firm 'Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment Brokers polled: Alliance. Banna. Dam a. Fraser. UK Goh. Kay Hian. Morgan (Jrenfell. OngCo. Nomura. Phillip. Smith Xeu Court. H'/ Carr and SG M arburg
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      Aztech second half earnings up on previous year, says chief
      356 17  -  By David Mok SINGAPORE The president of loeal multimedia firm Aztech Systems, Michael Mun. said yesterday that the company's sales more than doubled last year. He said that net profits did not similarly double, but second half earnings had increased
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      L&M to help develop industrial park in India
      204 17 SINGAPORE The listed L&M group has clinched a contract to help India's Shriram Industrial Enterprises group develop a major industrial park in Rajpura, Punjab. L&M Group Investments group managing director and chief executive officer Liew Mun Leong said yesterday that the contract
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      SSL buys freehold land in MacPherson area for $53m
      285 17  -  By Lilian Ang SINGAPORE Straits Steamship Land (SSL) has acquired a freehold industrial site in the MacPherson area for $53.1 million. The purchase, which works out to about $872 per sq ft, will help vary SSL's property portfolio, currently dominated by
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      DBS Land short-sellers caught short as SES buys in
      260 17 SINGAPORE Punters who short-sold DBS Land's B warrants eight days ago were bought in yesterday by the Stock Exchange of Singapore and face a total estimated loss of about $500,000. A total of 5.1 million warrants were bought in at between
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      Bigger looks to be better in the Malaysian banking industry
      880 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By William Chia SINGAPORE The Malaysian banking sector outperformed the overall market substantially last year due to interest rate falls which resulted in wider spreads. This resulted in strong earnings for banks. But the bottoming of interest
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      F&N profit will be boosted by property sales in near-term
      360 17  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Beverage group Fraser Neave's growth in the near-term will be spurred by its property assets. as a decision in 1984 to develop a new core property business begins to bear fruit, said group chairman Michael Fam
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        Lock icon Land & General expects profit to remain on uptrend
        373 18 Land General expects profit to remain on uptrend MBT KUALA LUMPUR Land General Bhd (L&C.) has estimated a pre-tax profit of MS 199.49 million for the year ended Dee 31, 1994. and this is expeeted to grow to M 5231.73 million in the following vear ending Dee 31, 1995. The
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          Lock icon Bonifacio group: deposit will be on time
          101 18 Reuter MANILA Metro Pacific Corp (MPC) said the consortium that won Manila's coveted Fort Bonifacio project would deliver its downpayment on schedule. "We will deliver the 19.5 billion peso (551.14 billion) payment as agreed upon on Feb 13," MPC chairman Ricardo Pascua said
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          Lock icon First Pacific buys 60% of Indon firm
          102 18 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG First Pacific Co, a Hongkong conglomerate controlled by Indonesian interests, will buy a 60 per cent stake in one of Indonesia's oldest drug companies, almost doubling turnover at its own pharmaceuticals subsidiary. Its PT Darya-Varia Laboratoria subsidiary, or DVL,
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          Lock icon Pernas firm completes loan facility
          77 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Pernas OUE Sdn Bhd, a 70 per cent subsidiary of Perbadanan Nasional Bhd (Pernas). had on Jan 23 completed a US$ll3 million (S$ 165 million) five-year Transferable Loan Facility arranged by Schroders Malaysia (L) Bhd. Schroders Malaysia has also arranged for Pernas
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          Lock icon Manila bank offers rights issue
          97 18 Reuter MANILA Philippine Commercial and International Bank (PCI) is to offer a one-for-four stock rights issue at 160 pesos a share, the company said. PCI told the Philippine Stock Exchange its board agreed to the rights offer at a meeting on Jan 27. PCI shares
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        Corrections and clarifications
        92 18 IN BT's Feb 2 report headlined "Heshe sees rich pickings in Indonesia and China", we said Heshe expected a joint venture with PT Great River Industries of Indonesia to contribute $2 million a year to its bottom line. Heshe has clarified that under the proposed deal which
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        226 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Bhd is expected to maintain its market share of total print advertising expenditure in 1995 despite stiff competition. Chairman General (Ret) Mohd Gha/ali Che Mat said in the company's 1994 annual report that
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        Lock icon MBf unit to revamp
        174 18 Reuter SUVA Carpenters MBf, based here and a wholly owned subsidiary of Malaysia's MBf Holdings Bhd, has announced a major corporate reorganisation as part of its drive to develop business in the AsiaPacific region. Group president David Orren said two new international operating divisions had been
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        Causeway shareholders told to go for Phoenix sale, buy-back deal
        259 18 SINGAPORE Causeway Investment Ltd shareholders have been advised to vote in favour of a proposal to sell a subsidiary. Phoenix Book Binding, with a buy-back option. Causeway, in a circular to shareholders yesterday, said its independent directors had recommended shareholders
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        Lock icon Lim Kim Hai unveils expansion plan
        313 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Lim Kim Hai Holdings (M) Bhd has embarked on an expansion programme as an initial strategy prior to its promotion to the main board of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Group managing director Ngow Wing How yesterday said: "We are investing
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        569 18 Managers' pric«« Feb 7 US Gr Fund 0 98 101— Singapore Unit Trust UOB Asset Mgt Ltd The Commerce 1.61 I.X) (Jnifund 1.35 1.41 Hie Saving* Fund 151 160 Unibond 1.02 1 045 S pore Prog Fund 0.57 0.61 United Gr Fund' 1.58 1.65 S'porc Sec Fund 0 94 I
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        Credit Lyonnais launches CPF-approved unit trust
        367 18  -  Real value in local market after correction, says chief By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Credit Lyonnais International Asset Management Singapore (CLIAM) launched its first CPF-ap-proved unit trust yesterday. The Credit Lyonnais Fortune Fund is open to both Basic and Enhanced Investment Scheme account holders. CLIAM
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        Lock icon Berjaya Industrial buying stake in smart card maker
        341 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya Industrial Bhd (Blndustrial) has entered into an agreement to acquire a total of 10.71 million shares of MSI each in Arjunan Citra Sdn Bhd (ACSB) for M 521.42 million (5512.25 million) cash. Blndustrial said yesterday the acquisition of
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        Lock icon HK shoemaker may shift to Indonesia if sanctions kick in
        416 19 The Sino-US trade dispute Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG KTP Holdings Ltd, one of the world's largest producers of athletic footwear, will shift production to its Indonesian plant, and may add another factory entirely in the event of US trade sanctions.
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        Lock icon Shell Electric's business may take a dent
        320 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Home appliance manufacturer Shell Electric Manufacturing Co would be among those affected if the US imposes trade sanctions on China but the damage to its business will be modest. The Hongkong company produces telephone answering machines and lamps for
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        Lock icon News Corp's 2nd-qtr earnings likely to be hit by NFL costs
        588 19 Reuter SYDNEY American football will inflict some pain on Rupert Murdoch's media group News Corp Ltd's second quarter earnings, due today, as Mr Murdoch begins to pay the price to broadcast US football games, analysts said. Estimates for News
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        Lock icon Major shoemaker unfazed by possible trade curbs
        196 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG One of the world's largest makers of athletic shoes, Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings, says possible US trade sanetions against China are so narrowly defined that they would not affect production in a major way. The Taiwan-controlled company makes 29
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        314 19 Reuter ULAN BATOR Mongolia will start secondary trading of its stocks in May, allowing foreigners to buy shares in its companies for the first time. The Stock Market Board is working on the final regulations and aims to start secondary trading
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        Lock icon Microsoft engulfed again in controversy over market role
        452 19 FT NEW YORK Microsoft is again the centre of controversy over its dominant role in the world market for personal computer software and its ambitions to become a leading provider of "information highway" software and services. Last week. United States Justice Department
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        Lock icon World recovery helps lift BA pre-tax profit 57% to £102m
        379 19 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Airways pic said pre-tax profit rose 57 per cent in the third quarter, as the recovery in world economies encouraged more people to fly. The UK airline said profit before tax rose to £102 million
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        Lock icon TI-Acer planning US$1b DRAM plant
        208 19 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Texas In-struments-Acer Inc plans to invest some US$l billion (551.46 billion) in building a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip plant based on eight-inch wafers in early 1996. a company executive said. "Prospects for the market are expected to be extremely good
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          Lock icon HK watchdog suspends dealer
          93 19 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has suspended a trader with a local securities firm for 6 months for a banned procedure known as rat trading, the securities watchdog said in a statement yesterday. It said Mo Kwong Wai, a dealer's representative with Great
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          Lock icon Income of BAT's Brazilian unit halved
          95 19 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The Brazilian subsidiary of BAT Industries pic yesterday said 1994 consolidated net income was more than halved because of depressed sales of cigarettes and increased competition in a difficult Brazilian economy. Souza Cruz, which is 75 per cent owned by
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          Lock icon Wellcome up on report of white knight
          88 19 Reuter LONDON Shares in Wellcome pic gained after the Sunday limes said Pfizer Inc from the US might launch a counter-bid, acting as a white knight to thwart plans by Glaxo pic to acquire Wellcome, analysts said yesterday. By 0858 GMT, Wellcome was
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          Lock icon Intel changes design of chip
          78 19 Reuter NEW YORK Intel Corp is changing the design of the chip that succeeds its flagship Pentium chip, but the move will make the chip more like its rivals, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. Citing a company document and the Electronic Buyers' Sens newsletter,
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          Lock icon Samsung expects profit to rise six-fold
          97 19 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co expects to report a net profit of roughly 940 billion won (SS 1.73 billion) in the year to Dec 31, 1994. a rise of more than 500 per cent on the year, sources close to the company
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        Lock icon Aussie bank buys Michigan National Corp for US$1.5b
        456 20 Reuter MELBOURNE National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB) yesterday made its biggest acquisition in five years and a bold expansion in the US banking market with a US$l.55 billion (552.26 billion) acquisition of Michigan National Corp. NAB, Australia's biggest bank and most profitable
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        Lock icon German banks launch media blitz to soften image
        421 20 Reuter FRANKFURT Germany's private banks are fair, helpful and not as powerful as everybody thinks, according to a media campaign launched by them in recent weeks. The Federal Association of German Banks has spent 10 million marks (559.58 million) on a series
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        Lock icon Report forecasts bright outlook for lead and zinc markets
        389 20 AFP SYDNEY Demand from Asian economies will underpin a bright outlook for lead and zinc markets following a "horrendous slump" in 1993, said an Australian forecaster's report released yesterday. The Australian Mineral Economics (AME) report said of the two metals, both
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        Lock icon RTZ may buy Brazilian tin mining giant
        132 20 KnightRidder SYDNEY RTZ Corp pic of the UK is said to be conducting a review that could lead to it purchasing Brazilian tin mining giant Paranapanema SA. Neither RTZ in London, nor its 49 per cent-owned subsidiary CRA Ltd of Australia, would confirm
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          UOB moves to encourage big savers
          114 20 SINGAPORE The United Overseas Bank has adjusted the interest rates it pays on "premium" savings accounts, in what appears to be a move to discourage small savers. The changes afTect Uniplus savings accounts and i-Accounts with immediate effect, the bank said yesterday. Savers with
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          Lock icon Goldman Sachs director quits
          84 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Que Yau Neo, an executive director and head of the debt capital markets unit in Goldman Sachs' Hongkong office, has resigned, a company spokesman confirmed. He had been with Goldman for about seven years. Mr Neo's departure is the latest in a
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          Lock icon National Mutual defends sale
          64 20 AFP MELBOURNE Australia's second largest life insurer. National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, on Sunday defended its sale to French giant AXA SA. National Mutual announced last week it had agreed to end its mutual status and list on the Australian Stock Exchange, giving a 51
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        French firm Axa ties up Wing On purchase
        237 20 SINGAPORE French insurance firm Axa said last night it had completed the acquisition of Wing On Life Assurance for US$llO million (SSI6I million) Axa said the acquisition had been given the green light from the Insurance Authority of Hongkong, the Monetary Authority
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        Sicom delays launch of coffee futures for brokers to complete preparations
        305 20  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Coffee futures trading in Singapore, which was tentatively scheduled for sometime next week, will be delayed because many brokers here are not ready for it. A Singapore Commodity Exchange (Sicom) official confirmed the delay yesterday
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        Lock icon Opec January production 24.84m bpd
        325 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuter NICOSIA Combined crude oil production by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) members fell in January by 150.000 barrels per day to 24.84 million, still above the group's ceiling, the Middle East Economic Survey (Mees) reported yesterday. Opec's self-imposed output ceiling
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        172 20 Reuter LONDON The dollar was comfortably perched above support at 1.5250 marks at the European midsession with little on the horizon seen capable of blowing the US currency too far in either direction. It has been underpinned by Friday's weak US employment report and subsequent rally in
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        99 20 -AFP NEW YORK The dollar was mixed in opening trading yesterday, gaining ground against the mark but falling back against the yen following the release of President Bill Clinton's 19% budget plan. In morning trading, the dollar was down to 1.5324 marks from Friday's closing of 1.5268 but
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        Lock icon Eurodollars ease on profit-taking
        1409 21 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollars were lower and Euroyen futures mixed at the close. Dealers said Eurodollars ended lower on profit-tak-ing after a strong rally on Friday. They said Japanese funds were seen selling earlier in the day but US and European funds continued to
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        Palm oil rises as floods hit supply
        687 21 COMMODITY REPORTS Palm Oil CRUDE palm oil futures closed higher yesterday due to the floods in Johor which affected supplies. Dealers said the floods affected the transportation of the oil palm fruits to the mills. The continuous rain has also resulted in a
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          China's planted areas below safety level
          48 21 HONGKONG China's total planted area for grain fell to 109.4 million hectares in 1994. below the country's safety level of 110.1 million hectares, the Chinese-language Financial News reported yesterday. In 1993, total planted area was around the safety level, the report said.
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          Thai coffee output set to surge
          46 21 SINGAPORE Thailand's 1994-95 coffee output will reach nearly 75.000 tonnes due to favourable weather conditions in 1994. according the Thai Coffee Exporters Association. On an average. Thailand a fairly small size producer grows 60.000-70.000 tonnes of predominantly robusta coffee annually.
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          India set to produce more sugar
          67 21 NEW DELHI India's Food Ministry has revised upward white sugar production forecast to 12.312.4 million tonnes in the 1994-95 (Oct-Sep) season, from an earlier estimate of 11.8 million and last season's output of 9.8 million, the Business Standard newspaper said yesterday. The revision came
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          Brazil not attending coffee talks
          51 21 LONDON Brazil will not be attending a meeting of coffee producing countries in Guatemala City scheduled for yesterday. Rubens Barbosa. Brazilian ambassador to the UK confirmed. "Brazil never asked to go. and there was never anv need for a refusal for them to attend." Barbosa
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          S Korea pays more for China zinc
          66 21 SEOUL China's zinc exports to South Korea in January averaged U551,159 (S$ 1.692) a tonne. CIF, up 4.1 per cent from the previous month and up 11.7 per cent year-on-year. said a South Korean trading group. The Association of Foreign Trading Agents of
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1422 21 Rubber Feb 6 Singapore Commodity Exchange Physical Prices (futures closing as at 5.30pm) lupm lalim As at 12 noon (S cents/kg) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Clow Volume I 267.00 268 OON Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest **SS 3 Mar 95 -66.00 00N RSS 4 Mar 95
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        Australia
        1079 22 15.2 STOCKS closed firmer yesterday on the back of a strong rise on Wall Street, strength in the Hongkong market and higher futures, but tempered by weaker commodity prices, brokers said. The key All Ordinaries Index ended 15.2 points higher at 1.862.9. The All Industrials ended 29.8 higher at
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        Manila
        617 22 +48.61 Stocks continued to rise, surging by 1.93 per cent yesterday, bolstered by the stability of the Dow Jones, analysts said here. The PSE Composite Index gained 48.61 points to close at 2,559.6. Turnover was 4.12 billion shares valued at 1.42 billion pesos. A dealer said the stabilisation of
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        Taipei
        613 22 +88.90 Stocks jumped across the board in modest trading, the market having digested the unfavourable factor of a US-China trade war, dealers said. The 421-issue Weighted Price Index advanced 88.90 points to settle at 6,417.28. Turnover was 927 million shares worth NT537.29 billion. Rises overwhelmed falls 232 to 82,
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        Seoul
        496 22 -6.61 Stocks fell on concerns over possible negative influence from escalating US-Sino trade dispute on local businesses. The Composite Price Index ended 6.61 points lower to settle at 945.27. with a modest trading volume of 29.7 million shares valued at 593 billion won. Rises beat falls 422 to 351.
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        Bombay
        114 22 Sustained selling pressure by foreign mutual funds pulled down share prices with the 30share BSE Index losing 48.91 points to 3,589.22. The broader 100-share National Index slipped 22.62 to 1,736.11. The sell-off in selected blue chip shares continued right from the start by foreign funds, especially in market heavyweight
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        174 22 New Zealand Feb 3 N L Vol ANZ Bankinj J.JO unch 5429 Advaatafti Hldfi 1.57 unch 1500 Air New Zetland <A> 3.54 007 ***** Air New Zealand (B) 4.(0 0 10 *****0 Baycorp 0.89 -002 6758 Bnerley Inv 1.16 unch *****22 COL Investments 0.21 unch ***** Carter Holt 3.42 0.03
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        London
        653 22 +2.3 sHARES closed mixed in thin turnover with the market nervous about a slightly easier Wall Street. Earlier, London failed to show any significant reaction to the Dow's 58-point rise on Friday, dealers said. "It still seems that the bears have the upper hand at the moment. There's some
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        Paris
        170 22 +29.68 French shares closed sharply higher as confidence came back in the market after players felt convinced the Federal Reserve would not raise its rates again after last week's hikes. Large gains posted during the day, partly in reaction to Friday's Wall Street rally, were only slightly sliced by
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        Frankfurt
        214 22 +7.14 German stocks were mixed in after-hours trading, paring earlier gains, amid concern that Wall Street could lose ground. "People are waiting to see how the US will do so we're down a little bit," said a trader. "But there's been very little deviance from the stock prices we
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        Brussels
        181 22 1.78 Belgian stocks and bonds rose amid speculation the Federal Reserve is through raising interest rates for some time. The Bel-20 Index staged a fourth advance in a row, gaining 1.78 points to 1,365.41. Banks and insurers led the gainers, buoyed by rising bond prices. "There's a sense of
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        Milan
        144 22 unch Italian shares ended flat after an up and down session largely driven by technical factors, traders said. "It was unchanged in the end, there was no impulse for direction and hopes of a strong move by Wall Street were dashed," said a trader. Attention was focused on technical
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        Amsterdam
        278 22 +0.88 Dutch shares closed well below their highs on the day, drifting on low volume after a firm start as investors doubted Wall Street's huge 58 point gain on Friday could be sustained. "It's been a very disappointing day," said one dealer. "Germany and London have not been running
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        Stockholm
        110 22 +0.87pc Swedish shares rose on a broad base in response to Wall Street's 1.5 per cent jump on Friday and falling bond yields in Sweden and abroad. The OMX Index rose 0.87 per cent to 1,186 in turnover of 880 million crowns. "The trend for US bond yields has
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        Zurich
        250 22 +31.8 Swiss shares rose on the back of the firm dollar to close more than one percent higher in fairly active trade. Wall Street's muted opening dampened sentiment in late trading and prices edged slightly back. Today's market will be determined by Wall Street close, dealers said. The broad
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        Johannesburg
        295 22 +23.9 South African shares closed mixed in quiet trade. Gains were primarily in response to firmer industrial counters on Wall Street, said a dealer, with golds accelerating earlier losses on the back of an indifferent bullion price. The Overall Index ended 3.3 points down at 5,336.8. the Industrial Index
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        Toronto
        237 22 Stocks were Hat in quiet early trading as market playere took a breather after Friday's strong rally. The TSE-300 Composite Index cased 1.80 points to 4,103.30 on volume of 11.95 million shares valued at CsllB million. Advancing issues moved ahead of declines. 144 to 130, with 176 stocks unchanged.
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        New York
        744 22 -1.01 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which soared 57.87 points on Friday, was ofT 1.01 to 3,927.63 at 1 lam EST. The key barometer was down 6.73 shortly after the market opened. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index was ahead 0.25 to 260.69. while Standard Poor's 500-stock
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      Lock icon HONGKONG
      3031 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks posted their biggest gains in more than eight months, as optimism over corporate earnings offset concern over a possible Sino-US trade war. Shares rose 5.9 per cent to their highest level in a month, amid confidence that earnings will grow by more than 10
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      593 23 CLSA H SHARES yesterday surged 5.1 per cent in tandem with the Hang Seng Index's 5.6 per cent rise. Total turnover rose to HKSBB million. Haixing Shipping took the lead with an 8.7 per cent surge, followed by Maanshan Steel (7.5 per cent) and Shg Petrochem (6 per cent),
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      2601 23 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks rose on hopes that builders such as PentaOcean Construction would benefit from Kobe's devastation last month by an earthquake and that a higher dollar was good news for Toshiba Corp and other major exporters. The Nikkei Average climbed 128.26 to 18,667.23. The broader Topix
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      Lock icon BANGKOK
      1812 23 Reuter BANGKOK Foreign and local institutional buying, spurred by a gain in New York on Friday, pushed stocks 4.1 per cent higher in heavy trade, brokers said. The SET Index closed up 52.35 points at 1,330.42 on 14.4 billion baht turnover. "Institutional investors heavily bought blue chips, especially in
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      1185 23 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices, boosted by foreign players moving back into the market, closed higher despite profit-taking pressure by mainly local investors in active trading, dealers said. "Foreign buyers, entering the market near the close, helped sustain the price hike, particularly in shares with sound economic fundamentals." brokers said.
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2510 24 Gf Cr l«94/«5 La.il Vol Day l«i l>tr Di> 1M« \ld Net M( ip High Isn (Dm pan* Sale (1)00) High low Bu»er Win Or S P It >mil MALAYSIAN STOCKS 398 7.1 m AISB 50c 256 8 30 256 73 251 25* JO -2.9 01 26 J
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        Lock icon Shares rise 4.8% as profit news buries rate fears
        6891 24 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks rose 4.8 per cent on news of strong corporate earnings growth and expectations that Malaysian companies can make it through a period of rising interest rates. The Malaysian Investors' Association said last week the country's
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        Lock icon Market discounts credit curbs, joins region's surge
        1975 26  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The local stock market yesterday took the latest rounds of bad news confidently in its stride, responding instead to the improving interest rate scenario emerging from the US and a strong showing throughout regional equity markets. In relatively heavy
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      Long Beach beats LA to become top US container port
      397 27  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE The Californian port of Long Beach last year usurped Los Angeles' position as the United States' top container port. In a statement released in Singapore last week. Long Beach port said 1994 was the first time
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      Container lines expect 13% growth for S'pore in 1995
      260 27 SINGAPORE In midSeptember 1994, the Port of Singapore Authority sent out survey forms to more than 100 of its major customers. It requested them to give indicative forecasts of their container volumes to be handled at Singapore for 1995. Their feedback
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      Lock icon P&O in takeover talks with Costain
      135 27 Reuter LONDON Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co, the shipping and property group, has emerged as frontrunner to take over Costain Group pic following detailed negotiations with them, London's Sunday Times newspaper said. Neither company was available for comment. The newspaper said in an
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      618 27 Page Col Able Shpg 7 4/5 Accord Group 8 1-3 ACL 9 1/2 •Ahlers Lines 12 1 Ahrenkiel Liner 4 1/2 •Appenship 4 4/5 •ANL 3 4/5 •ASCL 5 5 Astro Shpg 8 4 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 •Bank Line, The 9 5
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      Lock icon Most Dutch rivers to reopen to barges
      386 27 Reuter AMSTERDAM Receding floodwaters mean most of the main Dutch rivers and canals would open to shipping yesterday (from 2:00 pm, 1300 GMT), a Dutch water official said on Sunday. Swollen rivers forced the Netherlands to evacuate over 250,000 people from "floods of
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      Lock icon Kobe port restores some ship berths
      366 27 NYT KOBE Only two weeks after the Great Hanshin Earthquake left only seven berths usable at the ravaged Port of Kobe, workers have 69 out of 239 berths functional, allowing cargo and passenger liners to call again. But it will require six months or
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      1583 28 THE freight market ended the week with slightly easier conditions on the Atlantic for early capers and panamaxes despite rumours of a higher US Gulf/Japan rate. The Baltic Freight Index registered its 12th consecutive fall with a loss of two points to 1.959 on Friday. If the latest
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      TRANSPORT DIARY
      395 28 COURSES Title: International Freight Forwarding I (SDF 70%) Duration: Feb 9 Apr 20 Organiser: Singapore Freight Forwarders Association I el: For further details contact SFFA Secretariat at 253-7550 or fax: 253-2303. Title: Container Management (SDF 70%) Duration: Feb 15 Mar 2 Organiser Singapore National Shipping Association let For
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      Lock icon Shipping scores low marks in finance
      1384 29 Seatrade Review THE finance industry marks shipping's card annually at the Lloyd's Shipping Economist's ship finance conference and the scores are usually low. Not that the ship financiers of various stripes are not in love with their jobs. It is just that they are
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      12110 36 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls
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      Right time for Jakarta mass transit system
      984 39 Transportation experts say the time for the Jakarta municipal administration to develop a mass rapid transit system is now. before its construction becomes much more costly, the Jakarta Post reported last month. Falatehan M Siregar, a transportation and urban planning graduate of the
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      SHIPPING AGENTS
      3269 40 A I\BC Containerline NV: Behin Shpg Agencies Pie Ltd (SyManne Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Acc«e Croup: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SVAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahreakiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg(S). Albatros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ud (S).
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      COURIER SERVICES
      277 40 Abacus Couriers Td: 545-8011. Fax: 545-1898. Air Express Travel Tel: 533-5771. Fax: 535-6144. Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844. Fax: 542-3716, *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188. Fax: 273-8283. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: 742-8975. City-link International Tel: 344-3377. Fax: 345-6450. Cluster Link Supplies Services Tel:
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      AIR FORWARDERS
      1517 40 Abex Lxpms Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84 Actinic Forwarder Td: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Acthwir Singapore Tel: 542-7822. Fax: *****20. Aeroiink Freight International Tel: 545-8033. Fax: *****05 Aerospeed Tel: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454. Fax: *****06. Air Express International Tel: 542-7666. Fax: *****74, *****50. Air
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      PORT CONDITIONS
      2648 41 ARGENTINA Diamante, Santa Fe: No vessels berthed, no vessels in roads, no vessels due. San Lorenzo: Six vessels berthed of which 4 loading soya bean meal pellets, I wheat, 1 soya oil, 7 vessels in roads, 14 vessels due at 9 terminals during the coming week. Rosario: One
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      CRUISE & FERRY SCHEDULES
      1243 41 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Dep Name of Vessel ETA KID Ports of Calls Fort Agent t elephone No FEBRUARY 07 07 Nautican Cruise to Nowhere Lines Int'l Holdings 276-7175 07 07 Columbus Caravelle Kukup Harpers Shipping 221-1388 07 07 Renaissance I Cruise to Nowhere Renaissance Cruises 222-3388 07
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      SHIP SALES
      791 41 FEW high capital units have been reported sold this week in the main stream market even though there is still a high level of enquiry but there has been further activity in the container sector with a couple of interesting sales. One exception to the above is the
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        718 42 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jurong Port Arena Indah 001 TO1A 010? 09JO 0802 2300 Akadan Spirit STA 01 115/16 alongside 0702 1200 Aso 01AU TO/ 0/02 0700 0902 0600 Batam Bahagia 02,01 95 19 alongsde 0/02/2300 Baltimar Nep 28A
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1622 42 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookini/BalaiKe Rslts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Aa S*» 1%A 08/1000 IB 06,1500 06/1659 06 1900 3 07/0700 07/1159 07 1400 4 07/1200 07/1459 07/1/00 MuBHum 5521 07/2300
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        755 42 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
        555 42 Feb 2 Density Niter Residue Ash Afcmram Sedment Density Water Residue Ash Akmriun Sedrnat m 'MM M 'M Exxon Exxwt KG.'M*3 V/V "MM 'MM PPM method KG, M*3 V/V M M MM PPM method Eastern USA 180 Ave 986 0.3 12 9 0 08 12 0#
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        Lock icon Ansett Australia set to expand network to S'pore and M'sia
        346 44 AFP SYDNEY Ansett Australia is close to finalising a series of agreements to operate as a shuttle carrier to Sydney for other airlines stopping in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, airline officials said yesterday. Australia's newest international carrier has been involved
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        Lock icon Air Macao to sue paper over corruption report
        174 44 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG A budding joint venture airline, Air Macao, will sue Hongkong's Eastern Express newspaper over a report that the Macao government is investigating it on allegations of corruption, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported yesterday. Deputy high commissioner against
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        Lock icon Beijing urged to rethink new route for Europe-bound planes
        205 44 AFP HONGKONG China is being urged by international airlines flying to Europe from Hongkong to change its new routing system, which has increased flying times and costs, a newspaper reported. The new routing system introduced by Chinese authorities to deal with
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        77 44 AFP i-YurNU*Ai>«j citizens 01 ryong>ang getting oil a subway train at the Kaeson station under the Arch of Triumph in central Pyongyang last week. The wall painting on the right depicts a historical scene of the people welcoming former North Korean president Kim II Sung. Pyongyang's subway
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        432 44 Reuter LONDON The British government is making every effort to keep its eontroversial railway privatisation on track although some industry experts predict disaster. The government is making progress in the sale, despite taunts by the opposition Labour Party that it is
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        129 44 AFP BANGKOK The Thai government has prescribed new ambulance stations throughout the capital to beat the notoriously thick traffic and save accident victims, a daily reported on Sunday. The Public Health Ministry will put 10 ambulances in place this year and train some
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          119 44 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Five crew members died and nine were missing when a Panamanian freighter sank on Sunday in the East China Sea, Japan's coast guard said yesterday. Ten crew members of the Sun River So 2 were rescued by a Japanese Self-Defence Forces
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          105 44 AFP TAIPEI Four second-hand US minesweepers bought by the Taiwan navy were due to arrive at the southern port of Kaohsiung on Sunday, local press reported. The four Aggressive-class minesweepers the Implicit. Conquest. Gallant and Pledge have been renovated before delivery, the China Times Express
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          74 44 AFP HONGKONG China's growing aviation sector needs are attracting more foreign investors, airlines and aircraft manufacturers. the Hongkong branch of China News Service said in a report yesterday. An increased number of passengers and more demand for cargo space both of which have average annual growth
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          72 44 Bernama LANGKAWI Lada Langkawi (Holding) Sdn Bhd is operating a passenger ferry service between Langkawi and Kantang in Thailand. Its chief executive, Adenan Abdul Rahman, said that Lada Langkawi, the subsidiary of the Langkawi Development Authority (Lada), launched the serv ice to encourage more tourists to visit
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        264 44 AFP TOKYO Sales of imported motor vehicles in Japan surged 62.5 per cent from a year earlier to 19,753 units in January, marking 15 months of uninterrupted gains, the Japan Automobile Importers Association said yesterday. Association officials attributed the
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        333 44 Bernama PETALING JAYA The new air cargo handling system carried out by Malaysia Airlines (MAS) since Jan 15 has managed to ease mounting congestion at its cargo complex in Subang. near here. Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik said on Sunday. Under the new
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      511 32 :AI. JOINT VENTURE v!V SAMUDERA INDONESIA SIR RICKMERS win SINGAPORE CHINA GREEN ERA VOY 3NB 12 JAN QINGDAO DASA SEPULUH VOY 3NB OS FEB XINGANG SHANGHAI INDUCEMENT CALL P.KELANG INDUCEMENT CALL HK. PGUOANG. BELANAN. TG MAN XIAMEN. ZHANGJIGANG tel UTAMA HARTA WEEKLY FULL CONTAINERSHIP FEEDER Vessel name voy sin p.
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      1885 33 W VARNA (BULGARIA) COMSTANTZA (ROMANIA) VIA UMASSOL 3 SAILING PER MONTH 6—ral AffMrtc T1 <G»nor»l): 22*1900 Booting: Aftocr D*wt: rnCTJff CMIPPIiIfi PTr I Tl» f 2»1IM ConfeW: 4MM4I/M4 Caritiw Svc B/l: 4MM«2 Opormttom Cw«*Mr 4705/15 inlrrl/tb rlt IfO rates: 2MM COSHir cumwmUtmat. 4M5<St M; *****03 M c 117*7****** M Fan:
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      498 43 I HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MABINE CO. ITD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE BKG: *****61 *PNA P*l PGD VESSELS VOY SN RTM ANT LEH HAM BREJ PEL "OS/02 10/02 U/oT" SEA PROGRESS 315W ***** ***** 05/03 04/03 05/03 05/03 07/03 15/02 17/02 IS/02 H. CHALLENGER 314W 20/02 10/03 12/03 11/03 12/03 12/03 14/03
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      357 43 STRAITS/ JAPAN/ STRAITS SERVICE MULTI-PURPOSE RORO CARRfR SPECIALIZE IN HEAVY LIFT CARGO UPTO 120 TONS RAMP CAPACITY UPTO 50 TONS vf SSI. VOT S* P* LOAOitG FOR cosmic CHALLENGER 37 SID SID «*IAI 7/2 SONBA, 31 5/2 SANTEN 1/2. JAKARTA 10/2 ORANGE MOON 60 U/2 BANGKOK 14/2 KU2MA GMDASH 1*
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