The Business Times, 8 February 1995

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  • 13 1 SINGAPORE Business Times Wli KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Wednesday February 8 1995 85'
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  • 2 am LATEST
    • 60 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks were slightly lower yesterday as investors took profits from the recent rally. The Dow index was ofT 4.38 points to 3,933.35 at 1 pm EST. In the broader market, advances led declines by a narrow margin on moderate trading of more
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    • 37 1 Bloomberg Business News EL SEGUNDO, California Mattel Inc, the nation's biggest toy company, said yesterday its fourth-quarter profit from operations rose 44 per cent thanks to strong sales spurred by acquisitions. Bloomberg Business News
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  • 164 1 Stock Market indite i Tuesday Change STII 2,118.80 -6.09 KLSEComp 975.58 +3.62 Nikkei 18,500.55 -166.68 Hang Seng 8,004.01 +106.21 SET Index 1,329.25 -1.17 Jakarta Comp 457.33 +4.19 CLSA China B 806.42 +1.11 Aust All Ord 1,845.8 -17.1 FTSEI00 3,072.7 +10.7 Taesday Preriow 1pm EST close Dow Jones 3,933.35
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  • 680 1  -  By Genevieve Cua Lilian Ang SINGAPORE Beverage group Yeo Hiap Seng has undergone yet another major management revamp. Hewlett Packard managing director Alex Chan has been named managing director and chief executive officer designate barely four months after Chng Hee Kok
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  • 409 1  -  By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE The four owners of nine District 10 properties have joined forces to sell them and could reap easily the best profit so far in such a deal. The sale involves two freehold sites in Farrer Road,
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  • 488 1  -  Four more senior staff resign By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE There will be no "Hongkong invasion" at Jones Lang Wootton, Singapore's largest property consultants. JLW is in fact looking to appoint stafT from within the local office to replace the directors who have quit the
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  • 553 1  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA INDOCIiMENT Tunggal Prakasa. Indonesia's largest cement manufacturer and a unit of the powerful Salim Group, will soon start a fresh round of asset shuffling. This will feature the sale of its flour-milling operations to its
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  • 281 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Profit-taking put the brakes on the eight-day rise in the Singapore blue-chip index yesterday. But brokers, encouraged by the robust trading volumes, said the underlying market mood remained firm. While the Straits Times Industrials Index
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 379 2  -  By Shahiron Sahari SINGAPOREANS arc spending more on sports, according to figures provided by the Singapore Sports Council. A closer look suggests, however, that we could be turning into a nation of spectators rather than participants. The figures could also suggest that more people
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    • 92 2 SINGAPORE Cablevision (SCV) has awarded contracts totalling $8 million for the laying of co-axial cables in Tampines, the first housing estate to be wired up for cable television. In a statement yesterday, the company said the contracts are for the construction of cables that will
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    • 303 2  -  By Lilian Ang RENTS of private residential properties continued to ease in the third quarter of last year, dropping 2.6 per cent from second-quarter levels. The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) said yesterday that in total, private housing rents eased by
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    • 372 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming MANUFACTURERS see a rosy picture for business in the first six months of 1995. says the Economic Development Board. Its latest survey of business expectations in the manufacturing sector shows the optimists outnumber the pessimists by 19
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    • 275 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan MOST members of the commerce and services sector will enjoy good business in the first six months of this year, judging by the results of a recent Department of Statistics survey of the sector. Companies polled under the survey said business
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    • 91 2 A FILTRATION system that can save the National Kidney Foundation $250,000 a year is one of 253 projects on display at an exhibition at the Singapore Polytechnic. The five students who invented the system are shown here with their device (left), which is hooked
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    • 387 2  -  By Claire Leow SIEMENS Components Pte Ltd plans to pump US$2OO million (***** million) into its plant over the next five years to meet rising chip demand, said managing director Hartmut Lueck yesterday. The fresh capital commitment follows a historic achievement by
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    • 104 2 SINGAPORE has been picked as the regional centrc for American Express (Amex) Travel Management Services' (TMS) rapidly expanding business in the Asia-Pacific. The regional office will act as the focus for the services' operations in Singapore. Malaysia. Indonesia, Japan. Hongkong. Australia. Taiwan. South
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    • 276 2 KUREHA Chemicals plans to build a $43.8 million plastic additives plant which will almost double the company's current capacity here. The new plant, scheduled to come onstream in July 1997, will produce 13,000 tonnes of additives annually. Additives are used to strengthen and
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    • 359 2 NTUC Income will mark its 25th anniversary this year by giving an additional bonus of $70 million to 300,000 life policyholders. The bonus will be paid over and above the normal annual bonus added to their policies. It will be given to
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 358 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's inflation figure for January was more than double the previous month's, prompting President Suharto yesterday to order a study into the causes of the sharp rise. Indonesia's consumer price index rose 1.16 per cent, up from
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    • 398 3 JAKARTA Indonesia plans to simultaneously abolish nontariff protection and cut tariff rates on more than 1,000 agricultural products within eight years, the Jakarta Post reported yesterday. Minister for Agriculture Sjarifudin Baharsjah told a hearing with Commission IV of the
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    • 47 3 Reuter HANOI Two female construction workers taking a break yesterday amid concrete foundation for a new building in Hanoi. Women from the countryside usually flock to Vietnam's big cities in search of odd jobs when rice fields do not need tending. Reuter
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    • 199 3 The Straits Times BANGKOK A new foreign minister was picked last night to replace Thaksin Shinawatra, who will quit on Saturday after just 100 days in office due to possible conflict of interest between politics and his telecommunications business. Krasae Chanawong, 60, the
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    • 101 3 Reuter MANILA Singapore and Malaysian companies are expressing strong interest in investing in an industrial area near the booming central Philippine city of Cebu. Philippine businessman Emilio Osmena yesterday said: "We are negotiating with some Singaporean principals to becomc strategic partners." Mr Osmena
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    • 81 3 AFP JAKARTA State-owned Nusantara Aircraft Industry (IPTN) plans to offer up to 20 per cent of its shares to foreign aircraft companies after 2000. IPTN president Bacharudin Jusuf Habibie yesterday said: "We are planning to go international in the 2000s, but what we mean
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    • 73 3 AP JAKARTA About 22 Japanese companies are interested in buying gas that will be produced in the giant Natuna field. Faisal Abdaoe, president-director of the state-owned oil corporation Pertamina, yesterday said as part of the marketing strategy, Japan was being given the top priority. Pertamina
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    • 51 3 SINGAPORE Thailand plans to propose an Asean common market during the Asean Summit to be held in Bangkok in December. The initiative was mooted at a round-table meeting of senior Thai officials at a seminar in Bangkok on Monday, according to the Television Corporation of
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    • 193 3 AP MANILA A Malaysian firm is negotiating with the Philippine Department of Transportation about co-launching a communications satellite. Government officials yesterday said the tentative plan was for Binariang Sdn Bhd, the company behind the Malaysian East Asia Satellite I project, and Manila
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    • 207 3 DBS BANK. SINGAPORE'S LARGEST BANK. OPENS A BRANCH IN LABUAN TODAY. DBS Bank is now present in Labuan, Malaysia's international offshore financial centre, which complements the onshore financial system in Kuala Lumpur. We offer an extensive network of services to meet the banking and financial needs of our clients. II
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  • CHINA/ HONGKONG/ TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
      • 87 4 AFP BEIJING Thai authorities have several times invited Chinese President Jiang Zemin to Thailand, but a date has not yet been set for the trip, the Chinese foreign ministry said yesterday. The Thai press said on Sunday that Mr Jiang, who is also
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      • 104 4 Reuter HONGKONG Hongkong's grade A office supply will surge by 38.5 million sq ft, a 65.7 per cent increase in gross floor area, from 1995 to 1998, according to projections by property consultants Richard Ellis. The firm said the current total stock of prime
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      • 69 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party newspaper reported yesterday that officials had held recent high-level discussions on how best to combat a possible attack from China. The Central Daily News quoted an unnamed general as saying Taiwan's navy and air force were replacing their weapons,
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      • 68 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party has agreed that one of its investment arms. Central Investment Holding Co, can invest US$2O million (Ss29 million) in two foreign mutual funds, the party's Business Management Committee said yesterday. Central Investment was allowed to invest US$lO million
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      • 74 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING The growth rate of fixed asset investment slowed sharply in China last year to 34.2 per cent from 57.8 per cent in 1993, the official State Statistics Bureau reported yesterday. Total investment in plant and machinery reached 1.135 trillion yuan (S$
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      • 87 4 AP HONGKONG Experts from China and Taiwan will meet this month to discuss earthquakes following an improvement in relations between the two former enemies, a China-funded newspaper said yesterday. Wen Wei Po, a Hongkong daily, said the experts were scheduled to meet last year, but the
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    • 472 4 Reuter BEIJING The head of China's most powerful think tank said state ownership was the basis of socialism and ruled out following ex-communist countries into privatisation. Yuan Mu, director of the State Council (cabinet) Research Office, presented an emotional defence of
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    • 263 4 AFP BEIJING China's communist party mouthpiece yesterday called for urgent efforts to develop a workable national social security system, saying failure to do so would hinder economic development and risk instability. By regulating relations between different interest groups, such a system can "ease and
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    • 337 4 Reuter BEIJING United States Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary and a large delegation is due in China later this month, hoping to sign deals worth up to US$B billion (5511.7 billion), despite a trade war between the two countries potentially three weeks away.
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    • 46 4 AFP SHANGHAI A newly completed department store, built to look like a giant clock, attracting the attention of passers-by on Shanghai's main Hua-Hai street over the weekend. Shanghai, one of China's industrial powerhouses, has seen a surge in construction in recent years. AFP
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    • 393 4  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE Asia may face greater uncertainty after the death of Chinese leader Deng Xiao-ping, but not necessarily greater instability, says American investment house Merrill Lynch. "Given China's more open and less distorted economy, post-Deng China should
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    • 338 4 Reuter HONGKONG A Chinesecontrolled newspaper in Hongkong yesterday blamed a USmade satellite for the failure of a Chinese Long March 2E rocket last month. "After detailed investigations and analysis by experts and scholars, the cause for the faijure is finally clear.
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 455 6 Reuter COLOMBO Sri Lanka's 1995 budget, projected at 167 billion rupees (555.2 billion), is aimed at boosting economic growth, wooing foreign investment and protecting the poor, official sources said yesterday. The budget projection compares with an estimated 192 billion rupees
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    • 293 6 Reuter TOKYO A senior European Union official yesterday warned that Europe might shift its business focus from Japan to other booming Asian economies as the trade balance with Japan remained badly skewed. Europe had a strong interest in
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    • 301 6 AFP SYDNEY Australia yesterday announced a conference in June to discuss a plan backed by South Africa's Deputy President FW de Klerk for an Indian Ocean trade and security bloc to include Malaysia. Singapore. India and Indonesia. Mr De
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 104 6 Reuter WAITANGI The New Zealand government is to review its national day celebrations after a disastrous commemoration on Monday was cut short by Maori protesters. The Maori protesters, angered by a government proposal to settle land claims, had hoisted a red. white and black
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      • 78 6 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL South Korea's Trade Minister Park Jai Yoon will face tougher trade pressure from Washington when he visits the US next week, in the wake of the trade frictions between the US and China, the Chosun II bo reported. The national
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      • 83 6 AFP SEOUL A military general-turned-politician was yesterday named to head South Korea's ruling Democratic Liberal Party (DLP). Lee Choon Goo. 60. was named DLP executive chairman at a national convention, which was aimed at breathing new life into the ruling coalition before crucial
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      • 65 6 AFP TOKYO Japan's Lower House budget committee yesterday passed a supplementary budget for the current fiscal year ending March. The bill revises downward the initial budget by 673.5 billion yen (559.4 billion) to 72.408 billion yen. It was expected to be passed by the Lower
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    • 572 6 Debate over whether govt should encourage more births to boost economy Reuter TOKYO Japan, worried about its growing number of old people and dwindling birth rate, is locked in a quiet but serious debate on whether it should encourage couples to have more babies
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    • 362 6 AFP CANBERRA As the US rages over allegedly unfair Chinese trade practices, Australia announced yesterday a new appeal to Washington to moderate farm subsidies which are devastating Australian farmers. Primary Industries Minister Bob Collins said he is to go
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    • Article, Illustration
      37 6 Reuter TOKYO Police trying to keep well-wishers of Princess Diana back during her visit to a senior citizen's centre here yesterday. Ihe princess is on a four-day visit to Japan, which started on Monday. Reuter
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    • 306 6 AFP TOKYO Japanese Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura yesterday urged the government to discuss and settle sources of financing for the rehabilitation of areas devastated by last month's earthquake in Kobe. "There is no need to delay the debate. We should discuss
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  • THE WORLD
    • 523 7 Bloomberg Business News EVERETT, Washington The Federal Reserve may be ready to leave interest rates stable after a year in which it pushed up rates seven times. "We may be at the cusp of what we're trying to accomplish,"
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    • 49 7 lIUTVI vv AFP CAPE CANAVERAL The LS space shuttle Discover)' approaching the Russian space station Mir on Monday. It hovered some 400 feet in front of Mir at the start of a rendezvous that will set the stage for a historic link-up in June. AFP
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    • 516 7 The Washington Post WASHINGTON US President Bill Clinton has settled on Michael CP Cams, a retired Air Force general, to head the Central Intelligence Agency, administration officials said yesterday. An official familiar with the lengthy search for a replacement for R
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    • 444 7 AFP BONN Relations with Russia will dominate talks in Washington tomorrow between President Bill Clinton and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl whom the United States has chosen to be its privileged partner in Europe, government sources in Bonn said. "Bill" and "Helmut"
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    • 473 8 Reuter GENEVA Senior trade envoys yesterday said they would launch a fresh push this week to reach accord in the increasingly confused contest for leadership of the new World Trade Organisation (WTO). According to the envoys, the bid would be
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    • 249 8 Bloomberg Business News BRUSSELS The European Commission begins a debate on the European Union's ailing audiovisual industry today, amid deep divisions over whether to strengthen restrictions against United States movies, and how much aid to give film makers. It will be the first
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 81 8 Reuter NEW YORK The US Justice Department has requested records from Reuters Holdings pic's Instinet off-exchange trading system as part of its investigation of Nasdaq's trading practices, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. It is not an implication that Instinet, a system that is used
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      • 51 8 Bloomberg Business News NUREMBERG, Germany The number of unemployed in western Germany fell 3,000 to 2,530,000 in January from December, the labour office said. The decrease, which is adjusted for seasonal factors, was smaller than expected. Analysts had forecast a decline of 4,000. Bloomberg Business
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      • 70 8 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said Britain would not participate in a single European currency in 19% or 1997 even if other member states of the European Union go ahead. He said EU nations would not, by the time
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      • 58 8 AFP MUSCAT Israel and Oman are to press ahead with talks to build up ties, says Omani Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Yussef bin Alawi Abdallah. He said his meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on Saturday in Jordan was part
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    • 260 8 AP WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton's embattled secretary of commerce says intense Republican criticism has distorted his financial practices. "My business dealings have been made to sound sinister, and there's nothing sinister about it," Ron Brown said. He responded for the first time
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    • 328 8 Reuter WASHINGTON The Re-publican-led US House of Representatives on Monday voted to give President Bill Clinton line-item power which will allow him to kill specific spending items without vetoing an entire bill. Republican leaders timed the vote to be an 84th birthday present
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    • 378 8 Reuter TABA, Egypt Palestinians, seeking greater access to world markets, were to push for a preferential trade pact with Washington at a meeting yesterday of trade ministers from the United States, Israel and her Arab peace partners. "Palestinian products have not been admitted
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    • 495 8 The Clinton budget Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Clinton administration proposed raising US$4.B billion during the next five years by expanding the Federal Communications Commission's authority to auction new slices of the spectrum or charging a fee for the spectrum companies now use
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    • 237 8 Reuter WASHINGTON A new public opinion poll released on Monday has confirmed a recent upward trend in President Bill Clinton's popularity. The Gallup poll conducted for CNN cable television and the daily ('.9.-1 Today found 49 per cent of respondents approved of the way Mr
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  • SPORTS
    • 564 9 AFP HONGKONG China has launched a national professional basketball league which aims, in the words of one promoter, to one day see "the Beijing Ducks take on the Chicago Bulls". The first games of the new men's league, dominated
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    • 512 9 NYT NEW YORK In 1961, when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took the court as a freshman at Power Memorial High School in Manhattan, everyone knew he would be special. He was. He became the best high school player of his day, the best college player of his
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    • 550 9 AP PERTH Craig McDermott finished with six wickets as Australia completed a conclusive 329-run victory over England yesterday in the fifth and finai Ashes cricket Test at the WACA Ground. Despite some brief resistance from seventh-wicket pair Mark Ramprakash (42) and Steve Rhodes, Australia was
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    • Article, Illustration
      51 9 Reuter SAN DIEGO, California A crewman aboard the Rioja de Espana crawling out on a line to reach the spinnaker spar on the first downwind leg in their America's Cup challenger race against France 3 on Monday. France 3 defeated Rioja de Espana by 22 seconds.
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    • 535 9 Reuter MUNICH Adidas, the German sportswear manufacturer restructured by French investor Robert Louis-Dreyfus, predicted on Monday a 12-fold increase in 1994 profits and said it was considering a public stock offering. Preliminary results showed 1994 pre-tax income of 150 million marks (SSI43 million),
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    • SIDELINES
      • 103 9 AP PORTLAND, Oregon Houston Rocket's basketball player Vernon Maxwell charged into the stands and punched a fan during a game against the Portland Trail Blazers, according to the fan, his brother and other witnesses. Maxwell, teammate Robert Horry and assistant coach Larry Smith were thrown out
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      • 125 9 Reuter MARANELLO, Italy Alpine skiing superstar Alberto Tomba (right) touching the new 412 T2 Ferrari for good luck, encouraged by Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo on Tomba helped launch the new Ferrari which the famous Italian team hope will adopt his winning ways
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      • 105 9 AFP LONDON Lotus, declared dead and buried last month, staged a stunning Formula One comeback here on Monday by merging with rival Grand Prix team Pacific. The new team will be called Pacific Team Lotus. Lotus managing director David Hunt said: "This is a major strategic
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      • 68 9 AFP PARIS French coach Pierre Berbizier here on Monday scoffed at "new-look" England and their World Cup chances in the wake of his side's Five Nations defeat at Twickenham. Berbizier, while praising Jack Rowell's "fine team" following their 31-10 win on Saturday, argued: "The English
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    • SCORE CARD
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        18 9 NEW YORK NBA Monday: New Jersey 101 Detroit 97; Philadelphia 92 Atlanta 107; Portland 120 Houston 82.
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        59 9 CHRISTCHLRCH, New Zealand The first test of the three-match series between West Indies and New Zealand ended in a draw on Tuesday. Scores; New Zealand 341 for eight declared (Adam Parore 100 not out. Stephen Fleming 56) and 61 for two. West Indies 312 (Winston Benjamin 85, Shivnarine Chandcrpaul
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      • Article, Illustration
        119 9 PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida US PGA lour money leaders (US unless noted): I Peter Jacobscn U*****,961 2 Phil Mickclson 250.523 3 Vijay Singh (Fiji) 236.961 4 John Morse 233.550 5 David Duval 210.013 6 Steve Elkington (Aust) 208,910 7 Bruce Lictzkc 161,733 8 Tom Lehman 153,850 9 Ben Crenshaw
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      • Article, Illustration
        274 9 DUBAI US$l.O4 million ATP tournament Ist rd Monday: Henrik Holm (Swc) b Alex Corretja (Spn x 8) 4-6 6-2 7-5; Hicham Arazi (Mor) b Karel Novacek (Cze) 7-6 (7/4) 6-7 (1/7) 6-2. MARSEILLE A I P U*****,250 tournament Ist rd Monday: Michael Stadling (Swe) b Fabrice Santoro (Fra x
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      • Article, Illustration
        116 9 SAN DIEGO America's Cup 2nd rd trials Monday I-ouis Vuitton Cup Challenger Elimination Series: Team New Zealand (Peter Blake) b Tag Heuer Challenge (Chris Dickson) by 54 scconds; Prance 3 (Marc Pajot) b Rioja dc Espana (Pedro Campos) by 22 sec; One Australia (John Bertrand) b Sydney 95 (Syd
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    • 863 9  -  Coif No detail too small, no situation too trifling for workaholic Tim Finchem. Larry Dorman reports Larry Dorman NYT PEBBLE BEACH, California The commissioner of the PGA Tour was striding through the organisation's offices in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, recently, checking
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 802 11  -  Andrew Gray attends the director's public interview where he outlines his philosophy of film-making Andrew Gray Reuter LIKE his controversial film Pulp Fiction, American director Quentin Tarantino is loud, full of energy, difficult to ignore and extremely popular. Even microphone problems could not stop
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    • 265 11 CHATTERBOX AP Reuter AP FAWN HALL, best known as Col Oliver North's documentshredding secretary, said she became addicted to crack cocaine after leaving Washington and was hospitalised for an overdose. "I hated myself so much because I couldn't even kill myself. I wanted
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 484 11 WEATHER Singapore: Windy, with passing showers over a few areas in the afternoon Temperature (24-31*). AsU-PadAc Mi/lo* Com) Europe Mi/Lo* Cond Bueros Aires 29 18 Cloudy Auckland 32/19 Cloudy Amsterdam 06 06 Sno»ers Chicago 01 -8 Showers Bangkok 23/16 Cloudy Alhcrs 05, 4 Shcmers Honolulu 27 18 Su»y Bctjirg 01/10
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    • 711 11 TV RADIO Hamadryas: The Baboon of SauThe Phantom of the Opera, 10pm, ch m W t Lon V I who been the ft M Opera ft for At Mary ''^M*^' most romantic eape. Erik ab- MdL ui J to realisation 4 jj of Gaston Leroux's nfa, I n Great I'SPHfc
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  • 500 12 EDITORIAL SYNERGY, global reach, economics of scale. Management consultants were never tired of using these catchwords during the heady 1980s to describe the benefits of corporate mergers and takeovers. That was a volatile era for multinational corporations when big was beautiful, greed was good and billion-dollar
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS BAY
    • 205 12 SINGAPOREANS who are financially more conservative might have wondered what took the government so long to move to cool the increasingly evident taste for debt among the younger generation a taste encouraged by lenders eager to expand market share and by the lowest interest rates seen
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    • 134 12 HONGKONG'S police and legal establishment rarely come in for much praise. The most remarked-upon aspect of police work in recent months has been the Aberdeen shoot-out, while the Legal Department's innovative approach to the administration of justice conjures images of trains transporting gravy rather than those of
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    • 177 12 Don't meddle in others 9 affairs LESS THAN a year ago, the United States backed down from withdrawing China's most-favoured-nation (MFN) trading status after President Bill Clinton was berated by Beijing's leaders at the Seattle Apec summit. Caught between its patronising inclination to proselytise and its hang-ups about consorting with
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    • 125 12 THE NEW GUIDELINES on loans released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore are both appropriate and timely. Finance companies have for some years been encouraging the taking of loans so much so that even undergraduates are borrowing money for holidays and the purchase of luxury
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    • 155 12 THE MOVE by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to tighten loan procedures may cause some uneasiness. It may be seen as squeezing the middle-income group and preventing them from attaining some luxuries in life, like a car. It may also be seen as a pro-rich
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  • 1308 12  -  Anthony Rowley says Sumitomo's radical move to write off bad debts and declare losses this fiscal year provides a glimmer of hope for the future of banking in Japan Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo Correspondent ALL OF a sudden, it seemed that
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  • REGIONAL ANALYSIS
    • 1326 13  -  Special to BT Spotlight on INDONESIA in BTs country-by-country assessment of regional economies ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 95 HARTOJO WIGNJOWIJOTO HARTOJO WIGNJOWIJOTO The writer is a Harvard-trained economist and president director of PT Asian Pacific Economic Consultancy Indonesia (PT Aspecindo Kreasi), based in Jakarta
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    • 1077 13  -  WILLIAM CHIA WILLIAM CHIA The writer is a BT correspondent INDONESIA'S capital markets could stage a strong turnaround this year despite a lacklustre showing in the last quarter of 1994. The Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) has performed poorly in the last few months,
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    • 328 13 ff you are worried about your hair you doubtless study every tiny area of your scalp that seems to show through more than it should. You cant be sure, there j y may not be any problem but then again, it could be J I the onset of baldness. I
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  • SINAGAPORE Business Times
    • 556 14 The Clinton Budget Reuter Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON President Eiill Clinton has presented a 1551.61 trillion (552.3 trillion) 996 budget designed to woo vital middle-class votes by promising new tax breaks and Spending cuts and challenged Republicans to match
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    • 417 14 LA Times WASHINGTON Alarmed >y a small but growing exodus >f super-rich Americans, the Tlinton administration has >roposed eliminating a loop»olc that allows wealthy individuals to avoid millions ind sometimes billions of Jollars in taxes by renouncing their US citizenship. Administration officials
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    • 374 14 AP WASHINGTON Productivity in the American workplace rose 2.2 per cent last year, the fifth straight annual advance, as output shot up to a 10-year high. At the same time, an inflation measure posted the smallest annual increase in 30 years. The Labour
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    • 898 14  -  The Bottom Line MOHAN KUPPUSAMY MOHAN KUPPUSAMY The writer is a BT Journalist IT IS just as well that the United States and the Western powers decided to back away from forcing a decision on the voting procedure to
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    • 348 14 Reuter AP Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Time Warner Inc yesterday said it agreed to buy cable systems operator Cablevision Industries for stock and assumed debt totalling about USS2.6 billion (Ss3.B billion), in a major expansion of its cable television operations. Time
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    • 328 14 NYT Reuter CHICAGO The Quaker Oats Co agreed on Monday to sell the remaining part of its once-large pet food business to the H J Heinz Co for USS72S million (SS 1.058 billion) in cash, meaning
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 435 15  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR HONG Leong Industries Bhd (HLIB) is taking a final step to make Malaysian Pacific Industries Bhd (MPI) a subsidiary' company by offering to buy all MPI shares it does not own at M 54.60 (552.73)
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    • 192 15 SINGAPORE Mainboardlisted HTP Holdings has appointed Ng Kiat Chong as its director and chief executive officer. Mr Ng, who was the Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Law, assumed his appointment with effect from last Saturday. Before his move to the
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    • 275 15  -  From Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR VEHICLE distributor Gadek (M) Bhd which is in the process of expanding into the finance, property and construction areas yesterday confirmed it has made a buyout bid for Pernas Precision Engineering Construction Sdn Bhd (Perspec).
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    • 751 15  -  ptlpiOCK SIEW By Ho Kay Tat KUALA LUMPUR Is it the end of the road for the Lau brothers at KFC Holdings (M) Bhd? It does appear that after months of posturing, Kevin Lau Eng Guang and company
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    • 364 15  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Malaysian timber company North Borneo Timber's proposed purchase of two Sabah timber concessions may still go ahead in an amended form despite reports that the Economic Planning Unit had given the thumbs down to the deal. According
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    • 97 15 SINGAPORE Kay Hian James Capel Holdings has appointed Philip J S Gray, a Briton residing in Hongkong, its new non-executive chairman. Mr Gray, who is also executive chairman of Hongkongbased securities house James Capel Asia Ltd. replaced Kevin Anthony Westley on Sunday. Mr Westley resigned on
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      • Article, Illustration
        105 15  -  By Paul Leo PEGI Malaysia has risen 44 cents to $1.25 since Jan 24 but is losing steam. Daily Relative Strength Index and stochastics near 100 indicate a highly overbought condition. But the weekly Moving Average Convergence-Diver-gence Indicator is about to signal a buy. The five-day moving average
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        46 15 Mixed Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment Brokers polled: Alliance, Baring, Daiwa, Fraser, GK Goh, Kay Hian. Morgan Grenfell. OngCo, Nomura, Phillip. Smith New Court, W! Carr and SG Warburg.
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 60 16 SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom has received approval from the Cambodia Development Council to form a wholly-owned subsidiary in the country, named Sing Tel (Cambodia). The subsidiary, which holds a 10-vear paging licence, will operate a nationwide paging service in Cambodia. Sing Tel has a registered
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        • 78 16 SINGAPORE Grand Complex Properties, Hotel Royal's New Zealand subsidiary, has completed its purchase of The Grand Complex and another three adjoining retail and commercial properties in the country's capital of Wellington for NZ$49 million (Ss4s million). Hotel Royal said yesterday that the purchase
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        • 65 16 SINGAPORE The UIC group has injected US$3 million (554.38 million) into Chinese firm Yan Yuan International Hotel (YYI), thereby increasing its equity in the latter from 25 per cent to 36 per cent. The new funds will help YYI, which owns the
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        • 51 16 SINGAPORE United Overseas Land's executive director and group general manager Gwee Lian Kheng has been appointed president and chief executive officer of the group, with effect from Jan 1. UOL said yesterday the deputy general manager. Wey Kim Long, had assumed the post of general
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        • 70 16 SINGAPORE Three wholly-owned subsidiaries of LC Development Hillgate Investment, Cesfield Holdings, and Torex have raised their issued share capital to $1 million. The subsidiaries had entered into agreements to buy properties at Holland Road, Jalan Loyang Besar and Draycott Drive recently and
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        • 54 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Yeo Hiap Seng (Malaysia) Bhd yesterday announced that Borhan bin Kuntom has been appointed chairman of the company, replacing outgoing chairman, Alan Yeo, who has retired from his positions with all the company's subsidiaries and associated companies. Mr Borhan is a
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      • 573 16 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manager* prices Feb 7 US Gr F und 098 101" Singapore Unit Trust UOB Asset Mgt Ltd The Commerce 1.61 1.70 Unifund 1.35 1.41 The Sav ings Fund 1.51 1.60 1 1 nibomJ 1.02 1.045 S'pore Prog Fund 0.57 0.61 United Cir Fund' 1.58 1.65 S'pore Sec
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      • 262 16 Payment Kx Books Fay (*S>) date close date Asia Pacific F 20N Fch 6 Feb 10 Feb 22 Avimo 20 F I2.5TE Mar I Mar 7 Apr 15 Bcrjaya Group I 6 Mar 7 Mar 21 Apr 21 Bcrjaya Ind 1 3.5 Mar 7 Mar 21 Apr 19
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      • 398 16  -  From Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA moved closer to becoming a full-range vehicle producer yesterday. The latest project: a home-made motorcycle. This project will be undertaken by Diversified Resources Bhd (DRB), which yesterday signed a preliminary agreement with two Japanese giants Kawasaki Heavy
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      • 395 16 NST KUALA LUMPUR Telekom Malaysia Bhd will be the service provider in Malaysia for the satellite based global cellular telephone network, known as Iridium, which will be operational by the end of the century. It is expected to sign an agreement tomorrow with two
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      • 271 16 KUALA LUMPUR Pembinaan Limbongan Setia Bhd's (PLS) shares available to the public were subscribed 70.54 times when a total of 81.969 applications were received for 156.59 million shares. Malaysian Issuing House Sdn Bhd's general manager Fauziah Ibrahim said yesterday. The company
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      • 143 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR TH Lay Industries (\1) Bhd's whollyowned subsidiary. Probadi Sdn Bhd, is to acquire a 49 per cent stake in a production-sharing contract (PSC) to conduct onshore operations to exploit the oil reserves in Central Sumatra. Indonesia. 11l Ijoy
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      • 485 16 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The average earnings growth of listed companies in Malaysia will likely dip below 20 per cent this year as higher interest rates trim profits, analysts said yesterday. The expected moderation also reflects higher base levels,
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      • 446 16  -  From Al Labita in MANILA HONGKONG tycoon Li Kashing has dropped his plan to join a consortium that will put up the Philippines" second biggest international container terminal. Neither Mr Li's name nor his investment firm Hutchison Whampoa appeared in the
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      • 196 16 Cable Wireless tipped to get stake in Indon satellite operator AFP JAKARTA The British firm Cable and Wireless appears to be the favourite to get 25 per eent of PT Satelindo. the Indonesian communications satellite operator. A source close to the negotiations yesterday said Cable and Wireless made the best
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      • 502 16 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Advance Agro shares are likely to debut today on the Stock Exchange of Thailand at a slight premium to their initial sale price of 59 baht (553.44) because of the current shortage of paper,
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      • 544 17 Reuter SYDNEY Analysts at several US-based investment firms yesterday said News Corp Ltd's second-quarter and halfyear earnings were largely unimpressive, falling in line with or below their expectations. "While the reported number of 39 cents per ADR was better than expected, after
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      • 137 17 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Kidder, Peabody Co and Prudential Securities (Japan) Ltd officially exited the Tokyo Stock Exchange and halted all securities transactions yesterday, said TSE president Mitsuhide Yamaguchi. Prudential's membership will be transferred to UKbased Smith New Court Securities (Japan) Ltd for
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      • 413 17 Bloomberg Business News Reuter SYDNEY New Zealandbased Brierley Investments Ltd has accumulated a 5.3 per cent stake in Australian food group Goodman Fielder Ltd. Last week, Brierley said it had acquired 4.89 per cent of Goodman for about A 566.5 million (5572.6
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      • 238 17 Reuter BOMBAY Profits of nearly 50 Indian companies which have issued shares abroad are seen rising sharply mainly because funds raised helped them retire expensive debt and slash interest costs, brokers say. "Many of these GDR companies have huge treasury incomes, otherwise
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      • 478 17 NYT WASHINGTON Testifying behind closed doors before federal investigators in late January, Rupert Murdoch bluntly conceded that his Australiabased News Corp controlled all the equity of the American television stations that were the basis for the Fox television network. But he insisted
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 58 17 Reuter HONGKONG Guoco Group LtcTs chairman Quek Leng Chan yesterday told the stock exchange that through Guoling Overseas Ltd he had increased his interest in Guoco by seven million shares, or 1.64 per cent of the issued share capital. He held 26.70 per
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        • 92 17 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British Sky Broadcasting Group pic (BSkvß). which sold 20 per cent of its shares in London and New York last December, yesterday said first-half pre-tax profit rose 46 per cent after advertising sales climbed 12 per cent and subscriber
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        • 76 17 Bloomberg Business News LONDON News International pic, a UK global media company, yesterday said pre-tax profit rose more than four-fold to £561.9 million (551.28 million) in 1994, from £126.7 million a year earlier. The increase included a one-time gain of £403.4 million for the
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        • 53 17 Bloomberg Business News STUTTGART. Germany Allianz Lebensversicherungs AG. the life insuranee unit of Allianz AG Holding, vesterdav said 1994 premium income rose 9.4 per cent to 10.9 billion Deutschemarks (SS 10.41 billion), from 10 billion marks in 1993. Allianz is Europe's largest insurance company.
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        • 86 17 AFP TOKYO Japan's Kirin Beverage Corp said yesterday it had set up a US$7.5 million (SS 10.95 million) joint venture with the Chinese partner that has been making its soft drinks under licence in Wushi for the past 10 years. The subsidiary of Kirin Brewery
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        • 55 17 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO Bank America Corp on Monday said its board of directors has increased the quarterly dividend on its common stock to US$O.46 per share from the US$O.4O per share paid in December last year. The dividend is payable on March 14 to shareholders of
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      • 307 17 Reuter BOMBAY A moderate hike in low-cost cigarette sales is likely to see India's tobacco and hotels giant, ITC Ltd, posting a 23 per cent rise in its 1994/95 net profit but it would fall short of most foreign invesexpectations. ITC is 33-per
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      • 426 18 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO Intel Corp, 10 days away from unveiling its next-generation P6 chip, has been quick to put into practice the lessons learned from the uproar over a bug in its Pentium chip. In planning the P6's debut,
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      • 276 18 Power Computing to start shipping Macintosh clones in March Reuter INDIAN WELLS, California A few large computer makers will likely announce this year they will make "clones" of Apple Computer Inc's Macintosh computer. Stephen Kahng, president and chief executive of Power Computing Corp, which
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      • 208 18 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Glaxo pic yesterday said first-half pre-tax profit rose 10 per cent to £1.097 billion (552.5 billion), as rising sales of newer products outpaced declining sales of older products. The company also posted its final offer document
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      • 36 18 Reuter PARIS French car manufacturer Renault will present this new concept-car Laguna Evado at the coming Genoa fair from March 7-19. The Evado is a six-passenger break, with a large-opening roof top. Reuter
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      • 454 18 Bloomberg Business News CINCINNATI Procter Gamble Co yesterday increased to US$l95 million (SS2B4 million) its claim for losses suffered on derivatives the company bought from Bankers Trust New York Corp. The consumer products company first sued Bankers Trust in October, seeking
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      • 278 18 Bloomberg Business News BATTLE CREEK, Michigan Kellogg Co said it will cut between 300 and 350 jobs by the end of the year, or about 2 per cent of its workforce, as the company streamlines its break-fast-cereal production. The nation's No 1 cereal
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 433 19 Bloomberg Business News Reuter HONGKONG The Hongkong Monetary Authority plans to reduce banks' costs and risks in the market for financial derivatives by effectively reducing the amount of capital they use to back such contracts. The HKMA, which acts as the
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      • 228 19 Reuter MANILA The Philippines plans to expand its capital markets by issuing longer-termed government securities, but local money market dealers say it must be prepared to pay a price for doing so. They say the government must be ready to offer its proposed
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      • 255 19 SINGAPORE US broker Lehman Brothers Inc is expanding in Singapore fast with plans that will increase its staff count by more than half. The company said yesterday it wanted to form a regional foreign exchange centre and an investment
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      • 358 19 Reuter PARIS The Halifax Building Society took another step towards its goal of becoming one of Britain's top financial institutions on Monday by taking control of the UK mortgage arm of France's Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP). Under the
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      • 211 19 SINGAPORE US investment bank Morgan Stanley has set up a new business here foreign exchange sales. The bank yesterday said it had appointed Philip Whang and Mark McDivitt to start up the new business. Mr Whang and Mr McDivitt were transferred
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      • 137 19 Reuter BOMBAY Several foreign banks have raised lending rates in India amid increased competition for funds. Standard Chartered Bank. Deutsche Bank and Credit Lyonnais Bank on Monday hiked their lending rates by one percentage point for prime customers to 14.5, 15 and 15
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      • 440 19  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE The Monetary Authority of Singapore's strict guidelines on car loans have minimal impact on monthly repayments of loans. Its only impact is on the initial outlay of capital to buy the new car. Take for example a new
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 72 19 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Bank loans extended by Japan's 11 major "city hanks" as at the end of January were down 1.5 per cent on the year to 218.87 trillion yen (553.22 trillion). The Federation of Bankers Associations yesterday said deposits at the 11
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        • 75 19 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Lehman Brothers' head of equity research, Fred Fracnkel. has resigned. A spokesman for the firm yesterday said Mr Fraenkel's departure came a month after Lehman reported that earnings for the first 11 months of 1994 totalled US$ll3 million (SSI6S million),
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        • 70 19 Reuter TORONTO The Royal Bank of Canada yesterday lowered its mortgage rates as the result of easing interest rates and a stronger Canadian dollar. The drop is the first among Canada's six major banks and follows a string of increases over the past six
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        • 77 19 Bloomberg Business News MELBOURNE Australia New Zealand Bank expects increases in earnings this year, mainly on a pick-up in business lending. Chief executive Don Mercer yesterday said: "After a solid advance in 1994. ANZ is positioned for continued improvement in profits and an increase in
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        • 97 19 Bloomberg Business News ZURICH Winterthur Insurance will pay 303 million Swiss francs (***** million) for three insurance businesses of Swiss Reinsurance, about 50 million francs less than was originally agreed. Winterthur said last September it would buy Schweiz Seguros, Barcelona; Schweiz Italia. Milan; and
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        • 71 19 Reuter NAIROBI Standard Chartered Bank Kenya Ltd yesterday said it planned to sell 16 of its 42 branches as part of a restructuring programme. The bank said it was reducing its branches as the second phase of changes meant to make its business viable.
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      • 381 19  -  From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG THE HSBC group has changed the name of its Asian investment banking arm Wardley Holdings Ltd to HSBC Investment Bank Asia Holdings Ltd as part of a move to create a more unified identity. The HSBC initials
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      • 483 20 Piatt's Oilgram HOUSTON Asia's rapidly increasing oil consumption will require tremendous growth in infrastructure that could result in spending of as much as US$l4O billion (SS2O4 billion) for refining capacity alone by 2010, says a study by Arthur Andersen and
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      • 338 20 Reuter GUATEMALA CITY Central American coffee producing nations, with the exception of Guatemala, have agreed to adopt an immediate minimum export registration price of US$l.7O per pound fob, Guatemala's coffee ambassador Rene Montes said. He said Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua had
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      • 397 20 AFP MANILA President Fidel Ramos yesterday ordered experts to check the authenticity of a two-tonne haul of alleged platinum seized north of Manila and rumoured to be part of Japanese World War II General Tomoyuki Yamashita's fabled treasure. "The president
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      • 345 20 AFP BEIJING China is to set up nearly 400 more specialised grain commodity centres in a move "crucial" to achieving the country's target of boosting output to 500 million tonnes by 2000, a report said yesterday. Some 378 grain-growing
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      • 494 20 Reuter HONGKONG While current Sino-US tensions are not expected to affect the bulk of China's food commodity imports, traders and diplomats are wondering if Beijing will refuse to buy cheap US wheat to salve wounded pride. The United States Department of Agriculture is
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      • 364 20 Reuter JAKARTA Prolonged drought has cut Indonesia's 1994 unhusked rice output to the lowest level in 22 years, forcing the government to import and recall rice lent to several countries. Food Minister Ibrahim Hasan told a parliamentary
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      • 330 20 Bloombfg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Lower-than-ex-pected demand and steadily rising supplies means oil prices arc not likely to rise this year and may even fall. The price of North Sea Brent Blend, the international benchmark, has see-sawed within a dollar on either side of
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      • 207 20 Reuter LONDON The dollar was barely changed in early Europe with traders becoming increasingly frustrated with the US unit's inability to extend recent gains. Dealers said profit-taking on long-mark positions and the general buoyancy of the yen on the crosses combined to make the dollar's visit above
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      • 93 20 AFP NEW YORK The dollar rose against most major currencies except the yen in early trading yesterday in a quiet market ahead of a threemonthly Treasury auction later in the day. At 1450 GMT. the dollar was trading at 1.5330 marks, up from 1.5314 at Monday's close, and
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        1613 20 /rade-wetfkletJ index lakululfd a*uin\l S'piwr'* lap 14 trading partneri Bait- year 198* USS/SS forward rates Noon /Feb 7 a Bid Offer 1-month ***** 1 4605 2-month ***** 1.4575 3-month 1 4540 1.4555 6-month ***** 1 4483 Swro" OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9am on Fife 7
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1373 21 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollars and Euroyen futures ended little changed. Dealers said Eurodollars were trapped in narrow range trade ahead of three-year Treasury note auction last night and more economic data later in the week. A trader said: "The market is going to look
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      • 689 21 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber TOKYO: Rubber futures closed weaker with large losses in distant months on expectations of sufficient supply availability by the summer, traders said. Prices ranged from 0.6 to 4.3 yen per kg lower, with benchmark Julv closing down 4.1 at 177.7. Nearby months
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        • 69 21 SINGAPORE The start of Indonesia's coffee harvest will be late by 1-1.5 months this year because of flowering delays, traders said. The slowdown in the flowering process key to the development of coffee beans is due to the effects of a prolonged drought last year. So
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        • 112 21 CANBERRA The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics yesterday estimated Australian 1995-96 (July-June) raw sugar production at 4.91 million tonnes, down from five million tonnes in 1994-95. The government's commodity forecaster said the area under cane is expected to expand by 3 per
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        • 65 21 LONDON The Association of Coffee Producing Countries has postponed a meeting of a technical group until Mar 13. ACPC secretary-general Roberio Oliveira Silva confirmed on Monday. The meeting had originally been set for Feb 27. Silva said the talks have been put back at the request
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        • 71 21 BRUSSELS The Dutch industrial workers union Industriebond has threatened a wave of strikes in the metals industry starting on Monday to put pressure on employers in talks on pay and conditions. There had already been work stoppages in two engineering companies on Monday. The 290,000
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    • 1426 21 Rubber Feb i Singapore Commodity Exchange Physical Prices (futures closing as at 5.30pm) luym 5«tim As at 12 noon (S cents/kg) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Pi— Vfl limr 7T— RSS 2 Mar 95 269.00 270.00N Month High Low (Sncs) lntc£! KSS 3 Mar 95 268 00 269.00N
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1042 22 -17.1 A WEAK resources sector and lulls in three major blue chip companies dragged shares to a Sharply lower close yesterday. "The weakness in the resources sector is holding our market back." said a dealer. "Our three major stocks are all down by fairly major amounts. If you took
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      • 103 22 -8.77 Shares fluctuated in a narrow band before ending a shade lower on anxiety ahead of state polls this week, brokers said. The BSE 30-share Index opened weak and see-sawed before closing 8.77 points down at 3,581.47. The 100-share National Index shed 5.70 to 1,730.62. Brokers said foreign and
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      • 315 22 -12.66 Shares fell, halting a three-day rally, as sentiment soured on a declining dollar, a marred holiday and a drop in share prices in Australia. Dealers said a rare outburst of racial tension on Monday helped damp enthusiasm. National Day ceremonies were cancelled for the first time since
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      • 442 22 -2.75 Share prices made a turnaround to negative territory after a short rise as profit taking eroded early gains. The Composite Price Index eased 2.75 points to 942.52, with a modest volume of 23.5 million shares valued at 504 billion won. Rises edged out falls by 363 to 358
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      • 621 22 +114.54 Stocks continued their upward trend amid improved market sentiment, propped up by good performances of banking and insurance shares and textiles. The 423-issue Weighted Price Index gained 114.54 points to settle at 6.531.82. Turnover swelled to 1.46 billion shares worth NT559.6 billion. The market opened high and steadily
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      • 583 22 +24.86 Stocks rose for the third day in a row due to the strong performance of other markets. The PSE Composite Index gained 24.86 points to close at Turnover was 3.87 billion shares valued at 1.62 billion pesos. The market opened strong but weakened before closing. Philippine Long Distance
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      • 159 22 +67 Italian stocks were given a late lift by the insurance sector after a day of dull trade. Insurers were boosted by news that the government had extended the suspension of withholding tax on private pension funds. Brokers said there may also have been some sector switching out of
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      • 294 22 -96.2 South African shares continued their losses across the board as bearish sentiment set in. said dealers. Local institutions had been the big sellers as they moved to reduce equity exposure in what had been a very nervous market. The Overall Index closed down 119.3 points to 5.213.4. the
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      • 228 22 -12.32 Stocks fell in subdued early trading with dealers expecting a sluggish session. The TSE-300 Composite Index fell 12.32 points to 4.107.46 on volume of 7.90 million shares valued at CS86.5 million. Declines ambled past advances 187 to 138, with 210 issues holding steady. "It's pretty quiet. Some players
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      • 281 22 +0.71 Dutch shares closed with small gains on the back of a firmer dollar, a higher London market and initial attempts by Wall Street to stage a fresh rally. Dealers said sentiment was positive, but big investors remained cautiously on the sidelines awaiting the emergence of a clear bull
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      • 116 22 French shares closed slightly lower on profit-taking after a good run from the start of the week on the growing conviction US interest rates lave peaked. The CAC-40 Index finished down 1.67 points at 1.870.44. Of the CAC-40 •shocks, 20 closed higher and 'SfO lower. Volume was «t.2l billion
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      • 752 22 -5.38 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rose 9.09 points on Monday, was down 5.38 to 3,932.34 at I lam EST. The key barometer was ahead 1.34 points shortly after the market opened. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index was off 0.25 to 261.50. while Standard Poor's
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      • 171 22 +6.55 German shares ended higher as Wall Street trades Cautiously higher in early activity. The market was caught u\ range between 2.080 and awaiting new orders to push index to key resistance level at 2,100. Dealers said some shift of funds out of commodities into bonds and equities Opuld
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      • 115 22 •0.27pc Swedish shares broke the morning's positive trend and closed lower. The OMX Index fell 0.27 per cent at 1.183.88 in moderate turnover of 2.4 billion crowns. "The bourse feels strong. We have a couple of good reports coming up. The problem is that we have little liquidity on
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      • 161 22 -6.70 Belgian stocks closed lower, dragged down by shipping firm Compagnie Maritime Beige (CMB). The Bel-20 Index closed down 6.70 points at *358.71. More than 3.6 points of the fall was accounted for bv CMB. CMB shares closed down 5.6 per cent at 2,380 francs after the company said
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      • 255 22 7.7 Swiss shares closed slightly higher after a day dominated by investors swapping cyclical stocks for banks and insurers. Dealers said Wall Street reaction last night to the US Treasury auction would determine today's market. The broad SPI Index closed up 2.41 points to 1,713.47. The blue-chip SMI Index
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      • 725 22 10.7 SHARES closed firmer in a broad move, helped by a more bullish UK inflation cmtlook. but news of an Office of Fair Trading probe into brewers' wholesale beer prices and a soft Dow hplped take the edge ofT the earlier blue chip rise. The FTSE-100 Index closed 10.7
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      3079 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks rose for a fourth successive day yesterday, led by conglomerates and real estate companies, amid optimism that interest rates won't rise much further and as corporate earnings growth remains respectable. The Hang Seng Index gained 106.21 points to close at 8,004.01. The All Ordinaries
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      595 23 CLSA H SHARES yesterday chalked up a 2 per cent gain on modest turnover of HK$B7 million. Chengdu Cable recovered from Monday's 3.4 per cent loss to close up 4.8 per cent on active trading. Maanshan Steel also edged up 2.1 per cent on turnover of HKS29 million. Only
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      2561 23 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks yesterday declined to their lowest point in a week as a rally in reconstruction shares, which had gained more than 10 per cent since last month's devastating Kobe earthquake, petered out. "The Kansai-area reconstruction story is discounted by the market," said an analyst. "Investors
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      1668 23 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks closed easier after a roller-coaster day with both profit-takers and bargain-hunters out in force, brokers said. The SET Index closed down 1.17 points at 1,329.25 on heavy 10.S billion baht turnover. Falls led rises 202 to 116. "Investors just took profits in leading sectors after strong
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      1177 23 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed mixed in heavy trading after profit-taking by local players in the second session. "Investors took profit on selective stocks such as Dharmala Intiland and Duta Anggada. The possibility of profit-taking in the second session had been factored in," one dealer said. He said foreign
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    • 2540 24 Gr Gr 1994.9* Last Vol Day last Q«Kr 13» IN« VM Net M (ap High L<m Company Salt COOO) ll«h Buyer Seller C'w P/t Soil MALAYSIAN STOCKS 398 73 m .MSB 50c 256 unch IS 262 256 256 261 30 -2 9 0 3 26 3 206 775
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      • 6785 24 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks rose a sixth day yesterday on optimism that global interest rates are nearing their peak after the latest increase in official US rates. "In the last month or so we've been looking only at external factors
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    • 288 27  -  From Al Labita in MANILA MANILA South Korea's Hanjin Engineering is set to start expanding Batangas port into an alternative international port of entry, the Philippines Ports Authority (PPA) said on Monday. PPA spokesman Ed Cordova said the expansion followed the relocation
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    • 267 27 Bernama LABUAN Pakistan's Ministry of Water and Power has awarded a US$2OO million (SS29O million) contract to Sabah Shipyard Sdn Bhd (Saship) for the construction and commissioning of a barge-mounted 288-megawatt power plant. Saship executive director Jimmy Chok said in a
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    • 223 27 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK The Caribbean sector of the tanker market showed some activity in both the clean and dirty trades, brokers said on Monday. In the clean trades, trading was continuing under the counter with cargos not publicly quoted and details of concluded business
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    • 145 27 Knight-Ridder PANAMA CITY Three people died and 26 others were injured on Monday in an explosion at an inspection dock on the Panama Canal, which occurred when authorities used blow torches to open a steamroller suspected of containing drugs. Officials said two of the
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    • 1046 27 Page Col ABC Containerize 16 1 Able Shpg 7 4/5 Accord Group 8 1-3 •Ahlcrs Line 12 I Ahrcnkiel Liner 4 1/2 ANL 3 4/5 Antaco Mgmt 17 3 APL 18 1/2 Appenship 4 4/5 Arabian Express 15 4 ASCL 5 5 Astro
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    • 298 27  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Amfels. the wholly-owned US subsidiary of listed rigbuilder Far East Levingston Shipbuilding (Fels), delivered the second of two new workover barges to Denmark's AP Moller Group last month. A workover barge, which usually costs USS2O million (SS29 million)
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    • 251 27 Knight-Ridder NAIROBI East African Conference Lines is lifting its vessel delay surcharge at the Kenyan port of Mombasa with immediate effect. In a notice to shippers last Friday, EACL said the decision had been taken because of improved performance at the port during January. The
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    • 2200 28 PANAMAX rates in the east look set to climb in a dull start to the week on the freight market, brokers said. Although the Baltic Freight Index shows a drop in the freight rate for the two Panamax rates in the Pacific, brokers here noted a shortage of
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    • 765 29  -  Jutta Iten reports on the difficulties the Japanese shipping industry is facing Jutta Iten International Transport Journal Although economic recovery is making good progress in the United States, Europe and most parts of Asia, Japan is still fighting against recession. There are some scant signs
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    • 11793 36 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the worid. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Pcnang after
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      • 756 39 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure iurong Port 8atam Speed4 *****" P01A 0702 2330 08 02 0100 Manama A62 17 alongside 0802 0500 Batam Speed4 ****** P01A 0802 2030 0802 2230 A# Gidiig 02 2 95 17 alongside 08 02 0600
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      • 622 46 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Clinton administration has proposed collapsing 30 federal grant programmes into a US$lO billion (5514.5 billion) flexible fund that US states can tap for a range of transportation projects, from mass transit and rail to highways and airports.
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      • 171 46 Reuter LONDON The UK Secretary of State for Transport Brian Mawhinney on Monday said it was difficult to see how a proposal to build a new airport on a greenfield site in southern England could be reconciled with planning guidelines. Asked about the
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      • 431 46 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The pilots and machinists unions proposed a package of wage cuts and contract give-backs to USAir that aims to help America's sixth-largest carrier beat back a swarm of low-fare challengers in its eastern stronghold. The third major union
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      • 252 46 AP CAIRO A highway that critics said would endanger the three Giza Pyramids will be moved away from the ancient monuments, Egypt's culture minister was quoted as saying on Monday. Farouk Hosni told the stateowned daily Al-Akhbar that the half-built highway, which
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      • 257 46 Reuter WASHINGTON US Transportation Secretary Federico Pena has laid out an ambitious reform plan to turn the department's air traffic control system into a user-financed independent federal corporation bv 1997. It is similar to his reforms two years ago. but the
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      • 261 46 Reuter MEXICO CITY Mexico's biggest truck maker Grupo Dina said on Monday that it will halt production for 60 working days from yesterday in the latest and one of the more dramatic signs of economic slowdown caused by the country's financial crisis. The
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        • 88 46 Reuter SHANGHAI Shanghai plans China's first "shipping exchange" to trade cargoes on domestic and overseas routes, the Business Sews daily reported yesterday. Jointly run by the Ministry of Communications and Shanghai's municipal government, the exchange will also trade ship leases, the paper said. It gave no
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        • 96 46 Reuter TAIPEI A United Airlines passenger plane left Taiwan after a bomb scare forced it to land at Taipei's international airport for three hours, police said yesterday. "The plane asked to land at the Chiang Kai-shek airport early this morning on its way to
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        • 95 46 Bloomberg Business News AMSTELVEEN, The Netherlands KLM Royal Dutch Airlines NV on Monday said its overall load factor rose to 71.5 per cent last month from 68.4 per cent in January 1994. The Dutch carrier's total traffic was 12 per cent higher in January,
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        • 96 46 Knight-Ridder LONDON The 6,488 dwt refrigerated vessel Platina Reefer and the 26,107 dwt bulk carrier/container vessel Blue Sky allegedly collided in the English Channel on Saturday, according to Lloyd's Intelligence. All damage to the Blue Sky was said to be above the waterline and
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        • 63 46 KnightRidder LONDON The 28,892 dwt container vessel Chesapeake Bay, which grounded at Marsaxlokk Bay, Malta, on Feb I, was refloated, at 1830, on Feb 4. The Hongkong-flagged vessel, which has 780 20-foot and 581 40-foot containers onboard, is currently about eight km off Marsaxlokk Bay. It
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        • 66 46 Knight-Ridder LONDON The 24,260 dwt roll-on, roll-ofT vessel Saint Roch was refloated at high tide at Lagos on Sunday with the assistance of two tugs, according to Lloyd's Intelligence. The vessel was in the process of sailing on Sunday when it went aground off Bull
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    • 919 35 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore 0106. CR NO **********0E fi VESSEL VOY SIN CMS JIB HOO JEO AOJ ADE PZU MSW ASA 2.' KOTA WUAYA WJASIS 10/2 14/2 20/2 22/2 24/2 26/2 2/3 7/3 10/3 KOTA BcRLIAN BRL27P 17/2 21/2 20/2 2/3 4/3
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    • 184 39 AC SINO EXPRESS SHIPPING (PTE) LTD. MM I 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. 1 7 TEL: *****90 (4 LINES) FAX: *****98 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKG/SHAI SPORE HKG SHAI VESSEL VOY ETA I ETD ETA I ETD ETA I ETD LATMOS 921/922 25/2 26/2
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    • 562 41 WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTMG BMMBUK SOC CARGOCS TO FROM OSAKA. YOKOHAMA NAGOYA. MO*. TOKYO*. MANIA*. DAVAO* Penanj* P KHanj Singapore E'Msia* KARABIVERETT V2IE 24/25 Feb ttMALEVERETT V2SE 14/15 Mar 'A VESSEL 22/23 Mar ACCEPTKC BKAKBUK FCI/ SOC CARGOtS TO/FROM CMTTAGONG. CALCUTTA MO MONGIA*. Singapore P. Kelang*
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    • 633 42 FIXED k WEEKLY SAILINGS Tel: 261-3595 Fax =S^B^^g^gSHßF? MELBOURNE u) GP SHIPPING PTE LTD Call: Kenny/Mas/Peter STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD MOTS ro*. ZIM CONTAINER SERVICE GOLD STAR LINE LTD SETH SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (8 LINES) FAX: *****70 <co wo. mn>*oow-» N.AMERICA/CARIBBEAN SERVICES JfigßSwi una Iww I soi
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    • 1622 44 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. 19 KIPPtI ROAD »02 01 JIT POH BOtIDING SINGAPOWt 0208 TEL 235 9966 F«» 221 4923~ ALSO OFFERING SERVICE TO/FROM *PRC *CIS 'VIETNAM *EAST RUSSIA 'CARIBBEAN 'LATIN AMERICA 'EAST MEDITERRANEAN CALL 225-1-225 FOR BOOKING OR ENQUIRY TO WORTH AMERICA A CANADA WEEKLY CONTAINERIZED SERVICE iKßti/wtug |kh|
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