The Business Times, 10 May 1995

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  • 10 1 BUSINESS TIMES WIIpKOW ASIA > MITA(P) 194/12/94 Wednesday May 10 1995
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 69 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks eased back on profittaking yesterday, after a plunge in long-term interest rates to the lowest in a year lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average through the 4,400-point level. At 1 pm EDT, the index was off 5.19 points at 4,378.68. In
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    • 35 1 UPI JOHANNESBURG Gunmen opened fire on early morning commuters in South Africa's volatile Kwazulu/ Natal province yesterday, killing at least 10 people, police said. UPI
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  • 169 1 Stock market indices Tuesday Change STII 2,091.90 +16.02 KLSEComp 951.36 -6.46 Nikkei 16,958.22 -145.47 HangSeng 8,574.08 +85.72 SET Index 1,320.58 +32.57 Jakarta Comp 434.29 +5.76 Manila Comp 2,597.08 +76.42 Taipei WP1 5,775.15 +100.62 Seoul Comp 903.01 -7.38 Bombay BSE30 ..3,203.74 +6.00 CLSA China B 738.23 -2.04 Aust All
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  • 676 1  -  By Alvin Tay Schutz Lee SINGAPORE While investors all over the world cooled towards the China market last year, Singapore companies bucked the trend by committing a record US$3.7B billion (555.25 billion) worth of investments in China. This brings the cumulative
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  • 264 1 SINGAPORE Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong will leave tomorrow for an 11-day working visit to China his third trip there as Prime Minister. In Beijing, he will meet Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng. National People's Congress chairman Qiao Shi and Vice-Premier Zhu Rongji.
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  • 466 1  -  From Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR THE newly-formed Malaysian cabinet yesterday dealt a heavy blow to power company Tenaga Nasional Bhd by reversing an earlier decision to approve an increase in its tariff rate. A report by Bemama yesterday afternoon quoted the new
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  • 230 1 Bloomberg AFP Reuter WASHINGTON Unemployment rates rose in nine of the nation's 11 largest states in April for the first time in more than two years in another indication that the US economy is slowing down. The jobless rate declined in Michigan and
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  • 577 1  -  From Al Labita in MANILA THE Philippine stock market yesterday rose by a hefty *76.42 points to 2,597.08 in reaction to Monday's national elections which showed a clear endorsement of President Fidel Ramos' economic programme. The vote, which was widely
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  • 218 1 SINGAPORE Regional stocks yesterday gained from a steady inflow of foreign funds, with the best gains posted in the Philippines on strong indications that President Fidel Ramos has won strong endorsement in Monday's national elections. The Philippine Composite Index surged 76.42 or 3 per cent
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    • 276 1 4 X IS 7 > ja < '7. *3? LU > S -;V .ifi ,;7- J|J-| u i-» co CONTENTS News Companies S'pore News 2 S pore-M sia —13,14 Regional News 3,4 Financial 15.16 World News 5 Features Markets Reg Analysis 7 Clob/M.SE. SES 20-22 Editorial 6 Regional 18 Sports
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    • 8 1 Regional Analysis: Pg 7 World class Indian MNCs
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    • 26 1 IL Hock Lock Siew: Pg 13 Tenaga in a bind mmrm pgio&n J Who's investing what and where Plus update on the Suzhou and Wuzi projects
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • Eye on the Economy
      • 323 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan THE construction scctor is cxpcctcd to remain active this year on the back of strong demand from the public scctor. But private scctor residential development is cxpcctcd to be quieter than in the past two or three years. The Construction Industry Development
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    • 399 2 SINGAPORE Singapore visitors to New Zealand are among the biggest spenders and stay longer in the country. Many also make repeat visits. Major travel agents Chan Brothers, Ken Air and Dynasty Travel said Singaporeans spent an average of 13 days in the
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    • 366 2  -  By Agnes Wee THE duty-free business in the Asia-Pacific region stands to gain from a burgeoning middle class that could swell to more than 700 million people by 2010, the Speaker of Parliament, Tan Soo Khoon, said yesterday. This huge
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    • 429 2  -  By Jenny Lam OFFICE rentals at the better buildings in Orchard Road have gone up this year and are likely to rise again due to the limited supply, said property consultants. DTZ Debenham International managing director Amos Koh, one of
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    • 431 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan US ELEVATOR giant Otis announced yesterday it had clinched a USS29 million (5540.3 million) contract to supply 336 elevators to the Housing and Development Board. The company's president for Asia-Pacific operations, Vern Stait, said Otis beat European, Japanese and
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    • 312 2  -  By Claire Leow DISK drive maker Seagate Technology yesterda/laid the foundation stone for a SS2OO million plant in Ang Mo Kio which will be ready in July 1996. The one million sq ft plant will increase disk drive output
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 114 2 SINGAPORE Telecom's president and chief executive officer BG Lee Hsien Yang and Haw Par Brothers International president and chief executive officer Hong Hai will represent Singapore at this year's Apec Pacific Business Forum. A statement from the Ministry of Trade and Industry said
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      • 62 2 THE Marketing Institute of Singapore has launched an award for outstanding organisations with proven achievements in the marketing field. The Singapore Marketing Award 1995, sponsored by Digital Equipment Singapore, has two categories: one for small and medium-sized enterprises and the other, an open category, for local
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      • 87 2 SINGAPORE Residents of MacPherson have voted resoundingly for the upgrading programme in their precinct. Final polling results revealed that 93 per cent or 1.084 flat owners voted for the standard upgrading package, and all 10 apartment blocks voted for a space-adding kitchcn-and-toilet extension. Upgrading work is
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    • 263 2 MARINA Centre Holdings, the owner of Marina Square, is spending $16.6 million to construct a four-storey building next to the shopping eentre. When completed, the 86,000 sq ft building will become part of Marina Square's entertainment zone. It will also increase
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    • 243 2 HO KOK CHEONG, the People's Park Complex developer who was jailed recently for breaching the terms of his bankruptcy by leaving Singapore without permission, has been fined $20,000 for the same offence. The fine was imposed after the Official Assignee lodged an appeal
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 17 2 OMEGA The sign of cxccllcnce PLAY SMART Be part of the good life. Lifestyle. Everyday. Business Times
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    • 108 2 PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA U.S. $500,000,000 Floating Rate Notes Due 1999 In accordance with the terms and conditions of the Notes, the interest rate for the period 9th May, 1995 to 9th August. 1995 has been fixed at 6.375 per annum. The interest payable on 9th August. 1995 will be
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  • THE REGION
    • 447 3 AFP Reuter CANBERRA The Australian government startled financial markets yesterday by announcing it would surge out of the red in its 1995-96 budget with a massive programme of asset sales and net spending cuts. Treasurer Ralph Willis told parliament he would boost
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    • 218 3 Reuter UPI BEIJING China has abandoned a third attempt to nationalise its übiquitous rural supply and marketing cooperatives, deciding instead to streamline the socialist institutions on free-market lines, newspapers said yesterday. A national-level general organisation to oversee and standardise the work of
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    • 364 3 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian parliament is to consider a bill to reduce the number of seats reserved for the military (Abri), a newspaper report said yesterday. Abri had already announced that it was prepared to see its representation in the parliament
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    • 137 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Suharto yesterday approved an appeal filed by Information Minister Harmoko against a ruling opening the way to a banned magazine to resume publication. "The president approves of the steps taken by the information ministry," he said after meeting Mr Suhano
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    • ASIAN NOTES
      • 106 3 Bernama BANGKOK By the end of this year, there will be an estimated 200,000 Thais working overseas with remittance of over 34 billion baht (SSI.9 billion), said a report released by Krung Thai Bank's Business Research Department yesterday. The number of labourers going
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      • 65 3 AFP HONGKONG China is planning to revive its State Pricing Bureau as part of measures to stem soaring inflation, a report said yesterday. Vice-Premier Zhu Rongji was quoted by the Hongkong branch of the China News Serv ice as saying that Premier Li Peng
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      • 53 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia plans new rules for the domestic pulp and paper industry to help consumers such as educational book suppliers. Industry Minister Tungky Ariwibowo said yesterday. Mr Ariwibowo told reporters the government was discussing the plan, ordered by President Suharto, with pulp and
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      • 60 3 AFP SEOUL US ambassador-at-large Robert Gallucci huddled with his South Korean counterparts here yesterday in a series of meetings to hammer out a joint strategy on how to save the stalled North Korean nuclear deal. Mr Gallucci, Washington's chief negotiator with the communist North, met
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    • 224 3 AFP HONGKONG The Hongkong government yesterday endorsed a controversial bill to provide mandatory old-age pensions for the lower-paid, defying a call from China that it be consulted on the plan. The governor's advisory body, the Executive Council, submitted the draft to the
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  • REGION/WORLD
    • 438 4 Reuter AP TOKYO Japan's stubborn trade surplus rose to a fresh record of just over US$l45 billion (*****.55 billion) in the last business year, inflated by the effect of the strong yen on the value of Tokyo's exports. But Japan's giant current
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    • 365 4 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The UK government yesterday proposed to sell more than half its nuclear power plants next year in a public offering that could raise more than £3 billion (SS6.B billion). Under the plan announced by Michael Heseltine,
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    • 341 4 UPI Reuter MOSCOW Russian and foreign leaders paid their respects yesterday to thousands of World War II veterans from the former Soviet Union who marched proudly across Red Square 50 years after their original Victory Day parade. Russian President Boris Yeltsin waved from atop the red
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    • 230 4 Reuter NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao said yesterday that general eleetions would be held by April next year, two months before they are due. Mr Rao told the Press Trust of India there was no threat to his four-year-old government
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    • 348 4 Reuter AFP NEW DELHI Irate Indian lawmakers called for a broadcast ban on Rupert Murdoch's Star TV yesterday as the furore mounted over a disparaging reference to Mahatma Gandhi on a television talk show. The upper house of parliament
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 96 4 Reuter PHNOM PENH Cambodia's National Bank has withdrawn the licence of a local bank and ordered it closed in connection with liquidity problems sparked by trading in currency futures. National Bank vice-governor Tiulong Saumura yesterday said the licence was withdrawn from the Credit Bank
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      • 79 4 Reuter BRUSSELS Hundreds of European trade union leaders met here yesterday to thrash out a pan-European strategy to create jobs and promote high labour standards. The four-day European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) congress, which organisers call Europe's biggest union gathering since World War 11, is expected to
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      • 103 4 Reuter BANGKOK A court yesterday rejected an appeal against last year's acquittal of well-known stock investor Song Wacharasriroj and his partners in Thailand's most famous case of alleged share manipulation. Song and 11 of his associates were acquitted last June of charges of conspiring to mislead
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      • 83 4 Reuter MOSCOW Chinese President Jiang Zemin yesterday said his country was keen to maintain friendly links with Russia but ruled out the revival of a close alliance between the two huge neighbours. "Our countries have already established good neighbourly relations of friendship and
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  • THE WORLD
    • 422 5 NYT WASHINGTON Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin has strongly objected to plans by the chairman of the House Banking Committee to give broad regulatory powers to the Federal Reserve in a bill allowing securities companies to merge with banks. The committee,
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    • 397 5 Reuter LOS ANGELES The new US ban on trade with Iran leaves room for some mingling of both country's oil operations because it is not as tough as it might have been, according to
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    • 348 5 Reuter PARIS French financial markets yesterday cheered conservative Jacques Chirac's victory in the presidential elections with big gains on the first trading day after a long weekend. But after initial price leaps, investors went back to the sidelines awaiting the nomination of a new prime
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    • 218 5 FT LONDON The dispute surrounding the payment of European Union aid to privatised UK companies deepened on Monday with the disclosure that at least £58 million (SSI29 million) has been given to them since privatisation. The latest figures, provided by the Department of
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    • 320 5 Los Angeles Times Reuter WASHINGTON Over the last six months, Iran has escalated its campaign to sabotage the Middle East peace process by training Palestinian suicide bombers who have been increasingly successful in killing Israeli troops, senior US officials say. The two
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    • 203 5 NYT WASHINGTON The Senate Budget Committee took the first tentative step on Monday in the long march towards enacting the first Republican comprehensive budget in history, with one senator after another staking out a political position for the days of
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 95 5 AFP WASHINGTON An advisory' panel has recommended closing Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House for added security, as experts fear a truck bomb could harm its residents. The Washington Post said yesterday. The committee concluded its work before the April 19 truck bomb that
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      • 72 5 AFP WASHINGTON Unable to find a quick fix to a nagging housing problem for its troops and their families, the Pentagon for the first time has turned to the private sector. The Defence Department on Monday presented Congress with a bill that would allow it
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      • 66 5 Reuter LONDON The Bank of England yesterday said it is working with the UK Central Statistical Office to include derivatives in the UK's national accounts and balance of payments. A paper released in advance of the Bank of England's Quarterly Bulletin said the growing
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      • 104 5 Bloomberg Business News MEXICO CITY Mexico's unemployment rate reached 10.4 per cent in 1994, almost triple the government's estimate, according to a report from Coparmex, a national association of business executives. The National Statistics Institute (Inegi) said 3.7 per cent of Mexico's economically-active population didn't
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      • 85 5 AFP WASHINGTON US Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole on Monday said he and other leading members of Congress would introduce legislation yesterday mandating the transfer of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Senator Dole's proposal, revealed in news reports
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      • 105 5 Reuter BUENOS AIRES Argentine President Carlos Menem predicted he would win a first round victory with up to 48 per cent of the vote in elections on Sunday. But he refused to engage in a direct TV debate with his rivals. In a late
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  • 1041 6  -  The ADB has trouble mobilising capital, reports Anthony Rowley Anthony Rowley The writer, BT's Tqkyo Correspondent, filed this report from Auckland THE Asian Development Bank is in danger of becoming increasingly marginalised as a provider of funds for physical and social infrastructure in the
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  • 560 6 EDITORIAL THE expectations were never high, but it's disheartening all the same that the 20month long negotiations between Japan and the United States over trade in autos and auto parts collapsed in a heap last week. You could say these were the mother of
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 215 6 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong has said that housing is to be one of his top two priorities this year. He was talking about the long queue for HDB flats. But private housing is also likely to clamour for his attention. Those anxious to see any
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    • 138 6 CONTINUITY and strength are the reasons why Malaysian Premier Mahathir Mohammad is retaining almost all his cabinet ministers. Four deputies were promoted while three ministers were demoted to state level. One significant move is the creation of the Ministiy of Entrepreneurial Development. Entreprcneurship is a theme which has
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    • 142 6 ALTHOUGH the Socialists have started to wane, its presidential candidate Lionel Jospin had a close fight with Jacques Chirac during the elections. From the poll result 52 per cent against 47 per cent, it can be said that Chirac did not get the full support of
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    • 232 6 FUNDING has always been one of the central issues at the annual meeting of the Manila-based Asian Development Bank. The same problem loomed again with increasing urgency at its 28th annual conference in Auckland last week. But this discussion of the issue does not in
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    • 197 6 IT IS GRANTED that for Malaysia the consumption of alcohol has never been prevalent enough to cause the repercussions felt in less abstemious countries. Nevertheless, the danger posed by drunk drivers is there, no matter how small their actual numbers may be. Under modern traffic and
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    • 153 6 THE Lam brothers of Win Win International holdings have successfully managed to tarnish the image of corporate Hongkong. Win Win International listed on the stock exchange in early 1994 with two of the three Lam brothers failing to disclose criminal records, one for receiving stolen goods
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • Regional Analysis
    • 1229 7  -  Special to BT Creating world class Indian MNCs ANAND G MAHINDRA ANAND G MAHINDRA The writer is deputy managing director of Mahindra A Mahindra Ltd, one of India's largest automobile manufacturers A PREGNANT air pervades the world of Indian business today. Despite
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    • 788 7  -  A ASIAN fcH VIEW By Tang Razali Kassim IF GEOGRAPHY were left to diplomats, Asia might one day be a very different creature. At a meeting in Singapore last week between the Association of South-east Asian Nations and the European Union, geography came under close
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    • 24 7 PORT SHOTS A IEiTT* The ,atest in sea V\ H air anc ,and \v p Shipping Times u U Monday to Friday Business Times
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    • 392 7 THE TEMPERATURE IS RISING IN SYDNEY REAL ESTATE SYDNEY CBD well located central city office tower currently 70% leased and j||| 38? fal improving. A good buy below A 52,500 per square metre. jj|| 9| Af h CITY LOCATION new 10 year lease to the Australian Government. Modern office tower
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 504 9  -  Christopher Toh was there to witness the crowd's adulation Christopher Toh UNLIKE Whitney Houston, when singer Jon Bon Jovi gays "It's gonna j>et hot tonight", he doesn't turn the airconditioning off. Initially, though, things got ofT to an uncertain start at the Indoor Stadium,
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • 604 10  -  Nearly 5,000 Singapore projects in China have been approved by the C hinese government since 1979. In this two-page special report, we look at some ot Singapore's major investments in China. Plus an update on the two key projects the Singapore-Suzhou Industrial Township
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  • 481 10 SINGAPORE The corporate grapevine had it that the day Singapore chose Suzhou. Jiangsu province, over cities in Shandong province to build a Jurong-style industrial estate, it was a sad day for Shandong's government. After all, the race to showcase a Singapore industrial park
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  • 665 10  -  Tenants' gross output value expected to outpace Batam Park in five years By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE The road to the Wuxi-Singapore Industrial Park, a joint Singapore-Chi-nese project, is choked with dust just one of many signs of the frenetic activity outside and inside
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  • Singapore investments in China Singapore investments in China
    • 528 10 1. Guthrie C I S has signed a MOU for the Beijing Railway project, a USSIOOm underground shopping and entertainment centre at the Chinese capital's new central train station. The project which will have a cincplcx. bowling alley and over 100 shops will be jointly undertaken by Guthrie. Lee
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    • 456 10 1. Oilfield equipment supplier Kim Seng Holdings. construction and engineering company Betae Holdings, food chain Yunnan Group of Restaurants, and investment firm Lian Fong Investment have set up Luf Holdings to develop an industrial park for Singapore companies in Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province. The projected three-billion
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    • 179 10 1. Straits Steamship (.and is developing a 500-ha plot of land at Yangzonghai. Kunming into an integrated holiday resort complex. When completed, the entire complex will comprise two 18-hole golf courses, hotels, holiday chalets, bungalows, villas, and a cultural village. It will be ready in 1996. 2. Keppel Corp
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    • 104 10 1. Asia Pacific Breweries has formed a jv to build a brewery in Hainan. The brewery is the group's first greenfield project in China. Its partner is Hainan Brewery Co. APB holds a 80% stake and Hainan Brewery 20%. The first phase, expected to cost USS67.Sm. will produce 650.000
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    • Article, Illustration
      406 10 1. A WORKING group comprising five local companies with secretariat support from the Trade Development Board has been formed to take part in developing logistical projects in port transportation between Singapore and China's central Henan province. The group, called Singapore Working Group (SWG), will provide logistical services by handling
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    • 57 10 I. Liang Court Holdings has picked the rapidly developing hub city of Wuhan to invest in an entertainment and retail theme park called the Wuhan Minzhong Leyuan. It will embark on this USs3om project through its 70% owned subsidiary, Liang Court Investments. The complex is famous as a seedbed
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    • 275 11 1. Inno-Pacific Holdings is setting up the first Shakey's Pizza restaurant in China. It will initially set up a pizza shop in Tianjin through a jv company, Shakey's Tianjin. Inno-Pac also has a 30% stake in Tianjin Fuyuan Food Industries an integrated poultry project. Its stake will soon be
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    • 253 11 1. WBL Corporation signed in Oct 94 two MOUs as well as a contract with several Chinese firms for projects worth Ss9sm, including a 400 m yuan shopping and office complex and factories producing medical and computer equipment. WBL plans to build a 48,000 sq m International City, about
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    • 683 11 1. Amcol Holdings has struck a conditional agreement to lead a consortium of companies to build, operate and transfer the new Guangdong section of China's National Highway 107 at a cost of 3b renminbi. National Highway 107 is a major arterial road linking the capital of Beijing in the
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    • 125 11 I. Chin.-Sing.pore International is setting up aUSS2Om canned food factory and developing a USss3.Bm commercial-cum-retail office block m Ningbo. Its other jv 1;! include a new town, an industrial estate, residential property and a central business district. The shareholders of OS International are Wing Tai, Straits Steamship Land and
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    • 595 11 1. Straits Steamship Land, Sea View Hotel and Sing Holdings are jointly developing a USSIOOm 30-storey commercial office building in Huangpu District. 2. Wuthelam has a 60% stake in Nippon Paint China Co which was established in Dec 92. It has factories in Shanghai, Huizhou, Guang/hou. Suzhou, Jiangsu. Songching.
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    • 378 11 1. Singapore is involved in the largest industrial park project in Fuqing. Fujian. Indonesian tycoon Liem Sioe Liang, whose hometown was in Fuqing. has been given the go-ahead to develop a 50 sq km industrial park called Yuan Hong through his company, Hagemeyer Pacific Fujian. Mr Liem has assigned
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    • 518 11 Suzhou 1. Singapore-Suzbou Township: Proposed 70 sq km modern township comprising industrial, commercial and residential developments. The project is a 35-65 jv between the Suzhou municipal government and the Singapore Suzhou Township Development Pte Ltd. a Keppel-led consortium of 19 Singapore companies and Samsung of South Korea. The whole
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    • 463 11  -  Compiled by Alvin Tay Schutz Lee 1. Bersatu International Ltd. a Hongkong company owned by Singapore and Thai parties, is developing the 106.7-ha Longkou Fenglong Industrial Park. It is designed by one of Singapore's largest architect firms. RSP Architects Planners and Engineers. Albert Hong is MD for RSP and
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  • SPORTS
    • 767 12 America's Cup AP Reuter SAN DIEGO The weather doesn't matter. Trailing at the start means little. New Zealand ean handle it all because its America's Cup boat is remarkably fast. And the men of Black Magic I are hurrying to claim
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    • 595 12 AFP WELLINGTON Somewhere in New Zealand there may be somebody ignorant of the America's Cup yacht racing but they would be strikingly impervious to a nation with little else on its mind. Team New Zealand's boat Black Magic is now 2-0
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    • 582 12  -  European Cup-Winners Cup Final By Chris Matyszczyk LONDON If you asked your average Spanish footballer what he feared most, he would fix you with his steady bullfighter's glare, tighten his brow, ignore the fact that he has always been his mother's
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    • 394 12 Reuter LONDON Outspoken England forward leader Brian Moore has called for the resignation of the entire English Rugby Football Union (RFU) hierarchy after it first sacked, then reinstated, captain Will Carling in the space of 70 hours. Carling was
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        144 12 PALM BEACH GARDENS, Honda Ryder Cup team standings US (lop 10 get automatic berths in 12-man team): I Davis Love 630 pts 2 Corey Pavin 624.167 3 Peter Jacobsen 590 4 Lorcn Roberts 586.500 5 Ben Crenshaw 558.286 6 Phil Mickelson 549.864 7 Tom Lehman 502.500 8 Kenny Perry
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        22 12 NEW YORK NBA playoff Monday Western Conference semifinals: San Antonio 97 LA Lakers 90 (OT) (San Antonio leads best-of-seven series 2-0).
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        70 12 Hamburg ussi.7 million ATP tournament Ist rd Monday (seeds only): David Prinosil (Gcr) b 16-Bcrnd Karbachcr (Gcr) 6-3 2-6 6-4; 10-Richard Krajicek (Ned) b Markus Zocckc (Gcr) 4-6 6-4 6-3. PINEHURST, North Carolina U*****,250 US Clay Court Championships Ist rd Monday: 2-Thom-as Enqvist (Swe) b Lionel Roux (Fra) 6-4
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    • SIDELINES
      • 77 12 Reuter SAN ANTONIO, Texas Defensive ace Dennis Rodman made up for team-mate David Robinson's miserable shooting with a season-high 22 points on Monday to help the San Antonio Spurs to a 97-90 overtime win over the Los Angeles Lakers. The Spurs held the Lakers
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        49 12 Reuter PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh Pirate Nelson Liriano colliding with Chicago Cub shortstop Shawon Dunston as Dunston completes the second half of a double play during seventh inning action of their game in Pittsburgh on Sunday. Dunston was shaken up, but he did walk off the field. Reuter
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      • 103 12 AFP LONDON Defeated West Indies captain Richie Richardson warned here on Monday: "We are not afraid of England." Richardson, who became the first West Indies captain to lose a Test series for 15 years earlier this month when they went down 2-1 at home,
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      • 57 12 AP MIESVILLE, Minnesota Daring to be different. Bruce Brage is opening a new golf course on his Dakota County family farm here that will feature llama caddies. Brage, 37, figures using Hamas to carry golf bags is just different enough to convince some golfers to
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      • 83 12 AFP ATLANTA, Georgia Stephen Keppler proved he has what it takes to play on the PGA Tour. Now the Englishman is content to stay home and be a family man. Keppler, who works as a club professional at nearby Summit Chase Country Club, was
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      • 91 12 AFP LONDON South African Peter Francisco was banned from snooker for five years on Monday by the sport's governing body. But solicitors acting for the 33-year-old insisted the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) inquiry had exonerated the player in regard to any match-rigging
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    • 572 12 Golf NYT NEW YORK Now that the weather is becoming a bit more golf-friendly, it's time to get out on the links so we can get our minds ofT the O J Simpson trial, the moral collapse of the nation, terrorism and runamok crab grass.
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 469 13  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Daiwa Singapore will list its closed-end investment fund, The Malaysia Equity Fund (MEF), on the local bourse before the end of the month. The fund, which invests in the stocks of companies operating in Malaysia, will be
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    • 177 13 SINGAPORE Pengkalen Holdings, which is making a conditional cash offer for Sunshine Allied Investments, plans to hold a comprehensive review to help determine the areas that the latter should concentrate on to achieve profit growth. In its takeover document released yesterday, Pengkalen which
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    • 326 13  -  Group's technical division chasing a number of major jobs By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Intraco has tendered for a number of major infrastructure projects, the outcome of which will be known this year, said chairman P Y Hwang in the group's 1994 annual report.
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    • 284 13 SINGAPORE The share price of Creative Technology, which fell $3.60 on Monday, regained a little ground to close at $10.40 yesterday, while the shares of rival Aztech Systems rose again in heavy trading. Analysts said yesterday they expected the reprieve for Creative,
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    • 823 13  -  HOCK LOCK SI^W By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE Shares in Tenaga Nasional Bhd fell sharply yesterday on news that the Malaysian cabinet had rescinded its approval for a hike in electricity tariffs. Tenaga shares, which had been trading at
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    • 403 13  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE United Engineers could reap more income from its residential-cum-ofilce project UE Square than it expected earlier, thanks to a revised guideline by the Urban Redevelopment Authority for calculating gross floor area. The guideline means
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    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        49 13 Firm Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Alliance, Barings. Credit Lyonnais Securities. Daiwa. Eraser. GK Goh, Kay Hian. Morgan Grenfell, Ong Co. Nomura. Phillip, Smith New Court, WI Can and SG Warburg
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        92 13  -  By Paul Leo IDRIS Hydraulic at yesterday's close of $1.81 is a buy. Relative Strength Indices and stochastics are below 25, indicating an oversold situation. Buying interest has remained steady. Yesterday's volume of 2.35 million shares is slightly below the 10-day average of 2.58 million units. Support is
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    • COMPANIES
      • 369 14  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK THAILAND'S two largest department store chains, Robinson and Central, are to merge, creating a powerful alliance to tackle growing competition in the retail industry. The merger, sealed in a memorandum of understanding yesterday, will result in
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      • 407 14 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Securities Commission yesterday said it will liberalise rules to enhance capital market growth and conduct further studies on derivatives trading as part of a seven-point strategy for this year. In its annual report for 1994, the commission
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      • 162 14 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Stock Exchange of Hongkong said it has contacted the police after two executives of Win Win International Holdings Ltd resigned following the disclosure of criminal records. The exchange, which will hold disciplinary hearings concerning the executives tomorrow,
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      • 98 14 SINGAPORE HBM Print announced yesterday that it will sell ofT its 50.5 per cent stake in Indian joint venture Scantrans India Private Ltd because of "technical problems and differences with the joint venture partners". HBM Print has signed a memorandum of understanding
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      • 96 14 SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom has appointed four new directors to its board while three directors have resigned. The four new directors are BG Lee Hsien Yang, also Singapore Telecom's president and chief executive officer, Liew Heng San, deputy secretary of the Ministry of Communications; Quek Tong Boon, director
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      • 47 14 SINGAPORE Heshe has appointed Gary Chia Shi Wen as general manager of Lea Fashion in Singapore and Malaysia. Mr Chia will also have responsibilities for PT Heshe Export's sales operations. Mr Chia is the brother of Chia Shi Teck, Heshc's executive director and substantial shareholder.
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      • 61 14 IN YESTERDAY'S report 'Singapore Telecom raises stake in Yorkshire Cable to s(Wb\ we incorrectly reported the stake of Ever Talent Investment Co in Beijing Asia Pacific First Star Communications Technology as one per cent instead of 18 per cent The one per cent stake is held by
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      • 94 14 AP NEW YORK Sony Corp will begin selling oval-shaped satellite dishes next month, adding more fuel to a business that got a rocket-speed start last year and eventually could challenge cable as the way Americans watch TV. The world's best-known maker
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      • 51 14 Reuter HANOI Hongkong Land and Vietnamese officials shovelling cement during a topping-out ceremony of the Central Building here yesterday. The Central Building, a joint-venture project between Hongkong Land and Vietnam's Kinh Do Co, is a US$lO million office block due to open in October next year.
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      • 460 14 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Amid sluggish earnings estimates and while sitting on a pile of cash, real estate developer HKR International Ltd has proposed a bonus payable in warrants and bonds worth a combined HKS2.4 billion (***** million). Last year, HKR sold half its
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      • 331 14 Reuter HONGKONG HSBC Holdings pic will be the first Hongkong-listed stock on which options will trade, the Stock Exchange of Hongkong said. The other four stocks on the exchange's list of the first group to have options are Citic Pacific Ltd, Cheung Kong
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      • 296 14  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Fast-expand-ing Sembawang Maritime Ltd (SML) plans to buy more offshore supply vessels to keep up with growing demand. In its 1994 annual report released on Monday, chairman Er Kwong Wah said that wholly owned subsidiary Semco last year ventured
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      • 2395 14 MMpn'priMtt) May 10 Mcndafci Gr F und 091 101A f. j, u| USGrFuud 1.01 1.05 s m 170 UOB Asset Mgt Ltd The Savings Fund 1.43 1.53 Unifund 1.35 1.41 S-pore Prog Fund 058 0.62 Unifaond f 103 1055 S*pore Sec Fuad 0 95 101 U luted Gr Fund 1.59
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      • 282 14  -  By Quak Hung Whai SINGAPORE The Morgan Stanley Group has issued 95 million covered warrants on Citic Pacific shares an issue which will raise HK352 million (559.3 million) for the US investment house. Morgan Stanley said its wholly owned subsidiary Morgan Stanley (Jersey)
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    • FINANCE
      • 265 15 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Goldman Sachs Group LP's fiscal firstquarter pre-tax profit fell 47 per cent as earnings from trading bonds and currencies evaporated amid rising interest rates. Profits at the biggest US investment banking partnership fell to US$l6O million
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      • 278 15 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Goldman, Sachs Co is betting that it can profit by more accurately valuing some long-term derivatives than the banks with which it did a US$l billion (551.39 billion) interest-rate swap last week, traders said. Goldman's 10-year trade was
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      • 121 15 Reuter BANGKOK Thailand's Council of Economic Ministers has approved a Finance Ministry proposal to allow local finance companies to trade in foreign currencies. "The change will encourage more competition because only commercial banks can trade in foreign exchange," the Finance Ministry said
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 487 16 Ernst Young attacks UK audit self-regulation FT LONDON Ernst Young, the big accountancy firm, is launching an unprecedented attack on Britain's system of self-regulation for the auditing profession. The firm will also call for an independent regulator which could evolve into a UK version of the US Securities and Exchange
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      • 223 16 AFP BEIJING The number of credit cards in China more than doubled last year to 8.4 million, and the country intends to boast some 300 million users of plastic by the turn of the century, a report said yesterday. Last year's figure represents a
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      • 256 16 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR World tin prices can recover if major producers and suppliers such as the US Defence Logistics Agency act together to curb oversupply, says the Malaysian Chamber of Mines. Prices could rise if demand from the West continued to improve
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      • 130 16 SINGAPORE Deutsche Bank will open a full-fledged branch in Guangzhou today, its first operating unit in China. Deutsche, which got the green light late last year from the Chinese authorities to upgrade its representative office into a branch, is the first German
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      • 110 16 AFP HONGKONG China's leading insurance company has launched a marriage insurance policy to encourage newly-weds to stay together. The Hongkong branch of the China News Service yesterday said a unit of the People's Insurance Co in the city of Harbin was offering
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      • 143 16 Reuter SINGAPORE Vietnam could become a producer of zinc if exploration by two foreign miners proves successful and modern mining legislation is in place, a mining executive told an industry conference on Monday. Rupert Crowe, managing director of Australia's Leader Resources, told a lead
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      • 237 16  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Sum Cheong Corporation has secured two mining contracts one in Myanmar and another in Indonesia. The foundation works and turnkey contractor's whollyowned subsidiary, Sum Cheong Resources (SCR), signed a joint venture agreement with No 2 Mining Enterprise, a state-owned enterprise
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      • 332 16 Bloomberg Business News SAN FRANCISCO Charles Schwab Corp will offer financial services over the Internet within the next few months, chairman Charles Schwab said. The Internet, originally set up as a US Defence Department research network, is a global computer network
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        1444 16 I rude netfhled index tak-ukued axain\t Spirex lap 14 trading pannerx Bane year IWtf USS/SS forward rates Noon /May 9 s$ Bid (Hfcr 1 month I M58 I 187? 2 month 1)80) 1)820 V month 1 3752 1 )767 6-month 1.3625 1)645 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at
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      • 239 16 ENERGY REPORT Reuter LONDON World oil markets remained steady yesterday at prices not far below twoyear highs recorded briefly last week. North Sea Brent blend crude, the reference for most world oil trade, was down seven cents at U5518.93 a barrel after reaching
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      • 282 16 Reuter AFP LONDON The dollar began the day slightly higher against the mark and yen in quiet early European trade with markets awaiting possible US sanctions against Japan and US inflation data later this week. At 0850 GMT, the dollar was trading at 1.3730/40 marks from 1.3641/46 in
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1347 17 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures closed mixed with minor buying while Eurodollar futures were barely changed, dealers said. "Today's strong Japanese government bond market in Tokyo helped some buying in Euroyen futures," said a trader. The lead December Euroyen ended at 98.47, after
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      • 682 17 COMMODITY REPORTS Gold HONGKONG: Gold closed firmer on short-covering yesterday but trade was thin. Gold closed at U*****.50/ U*****.00 an ounce, up slightly from New York's U*****.20/70 close and the local opening of U*****.90/389.40. Local gold fell HKS9 to close at HK53.584 a tael. Tokyo:
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 83 17 KUALA LUMPUR Global tin stocks have dropped to near normal levels. Association of Tin Producing Countries executive secretary Jumrus Atikul said yesterday. "Stocks are approaching our objective of 20.000 tonnes." he said. Stocks exclude those held by the US Defence Logistics Agency. The ATPC,
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        • 74 17 SINGAPORE India will show a 3.2 per cent rise in domestic zinc consumption this year to 194,000 tonnes from 188,000 tonnes a year earlier, an official of metals group Hindustan Zinc Ltd said yesterday. Economic reforms that were helping boost India's need for zinc would also
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        • 57 17 TOKYO China imported 150,000 tonnes of sugar in February, bringing Jan-Feb imports to 200.000 tonnes, up 2,900 per cent from Jan-Feb 1994. according to China's official external trade statistics. China exported 30.620 tonnes of sugar in February, bringing Jan-Feb sugar exports to 37,375 tonnes, down
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        • 89 17 LONG BEACH. California Only the current prospect of declining production can put a damper on the gourmet coffee boom. That was the only worry the executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association seemed to entertain as he surveyed the 650 exhibits at the Long Beach Convention Centre
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    • 1439 17 SICOM Futures Rubber (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest I I 254.00 I 1225 Jul 246.00 2425 Aug 243.50 2025 Sep 241.00 1650 Oct/Dec 234.50 5250 Jan Mar 96 234.50 2850 Apr/Jun 235.50 1080 RSS
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1011 18 +11.2 STOCKS brushed off pre-bud-gct anxiety and soared to an eight-month closing high yesterday, under the influence of rising bank stocks and a strong rally on Wall Street. The All Ordinaries Index rose 11.2 points to 2,077.5 its highest close since Sep 7 when it finished at 2,104.4. The
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      • 646 18 +76.42 Share prices soared 3 per cent as the market celebrated a projected big win by President Fidel Ramos' senate candidates in the Philippine elections. The PSE Index jumped 76.42 points to 2,597.08. Turnover was 1.7 billion shares valued at 848.5 million pesos. "It's mainly follow-through buying from last
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      • 574 18 +100.62 Stocks remained bullish in active trading amid improved market sentiment, propelled by good performances by electrical and construction shares. The 321-issue Weighted Price Index picked up 100.62 points to finish at 5,775.15. Turnover was 1.09 billion shares worth NT544.82 billion. Rises overwhelmed falls 315 to 38, with 56
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      • 443 18 -7.38 Share prices continued to slide as index-linked blue chips rode downstream en masse. The Composite Price Index recorded a 7.38-point fall to settle at 903.01. Trading was thin with 21.15 million shares worth 364.6 billion won changing hands. Falls beat rises 534 to 201, with 129 other counters
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      • 360 18 -4.71 Shares were mixed with harbour manager Ports of Auckland soaring after the latest America's Cup victory. Air New Zea- land shares declined after it poured cold water on an imminent deal to buy Ansett Australia Holdings. Newspaper publisher Wilson Horton gained on expectations that Irish entrepreneur Tony
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      • 123 18 +6.0 Shares ended a touch higher as 30 active index shares went online yesterday. Brokers said volumes were moderate and prices moved in a narrow band as market players got adjusted to trading blue chips on the computerised BSE Online Trading (Bolt) System. Trading was held between 11:15 and
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 934 18 Britannia Funds Sterling Cash Bid Offer Mim Cap Depwrt J* MOO M .6500 Mim Jer*> Oik 0 1893 0.1992 Mim Mai Incomc ****** >***** CSS Cash Income Ptin Fund 10 I MM 10 7200 PS J Kneoe Fund 5.4V*) 5 4600 Sterliag Mat) Euro Performance ..0.4592 0 49*8 Far East
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      • 643 18 +9.5 BLUE chips ended higher, boosted by a steady start on Wall Street after having churned within a narrow band for much of the session in thin trading as many investors await further clues on monetary policy. The FTSE-100 index closed up 9.5 to 3261.2. Volume was less than
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      • 147 18 +61.26 French shares surged 3.18 per cent, tracking bonds higher, as signs from the US led investors to hope that interest rates will fall. "Most of the fun was in the financial sectors today. Volume really started to kick in once the US opened up." said a trader. "Profit
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      • 173 18 11.07 German stocks followed bonds higher as a steadier US dollar eased concerns of eroded exporter earnings. "People are beginning to buy back into market." said one trader. "The results from Hochtief today show that German companies are on the right road." Construction company Hochtief, which is 56 per
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      • 143 18 +5.02 Belgian stocks closed higher, buoyed by gains in bonds and US shares. Stocks sensitive to interest rate changes, such as utility Tractabel SA, led the rise. The Bel-20 Index closed up 5.02 points at 1,446.03. The yield on the 10-year Belgian government benchmark bond was last at 7.67
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      • 247 18 -5.75 Stocks turned weaker at midday as battered gold shares offset the benefits of a buoyant bond market. The TSE-300 Composite Index fell 5.75 points to 4,289.46 on volume of 39.4 million shares valued at C 5680.00 million. Declining stocks pummelled advances 325 to 280. with 330 issues unchanged.
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      • 822 18 10.38 Stock prices remained moderately higher in active trading early yesterday as profit taking kept a lid on the markets advance despite a powerful bond rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which rebounded 40.47 points to a new record-high 4,383.87 on Monday, was ahead 10.38 to 4,394.24 at
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      • 125 18 +99 Italian shares were shaken out of its early torpor by strong rally in domestic bond market which pulled the whole bourse higher by the close. The Mibtel index closed 99 points higher to 10.367. Volumes slip to 547.1 billion lire from 586.2 billion on Monday. Dealers report domestics
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      • 96 18 +0.40pc Falling bond yields gave the Stockholm bourse some encouragement yesterday, sending the OMX Index up 0.40 per cent to 1,220.17. Turnover was moderate at 2.488 billion crowns. "Europe is a bit stronger and bond yields are falling. But there is still some insecurity about last weeks' sharp rise,"
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      • 276 18 -3.2 Swiss Indexes closed lower as pharmaceutical company Roche Holding and food producer Nestle, the most heavily weighted stocks, fell on earnings concerns. The SMI Index of 23 stocks lost 3.2 points to 2,655.6 after closing on Monday at a 1995 high. Eight shares fell, three were unchanged and
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      • 467 18 -12.3 South African shares finished a slow day mostly lower as buying interest dried up despite the Dow's run to another record high. Dealers said increased concern about an imminent Bank rate hike and a weaker gold price had combined to depress sentiment and threatened to extend a correction
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      2930 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks rallied for a second day as investors interpreted rising US bond prices as a sign that interest rates here will stay steady or even drop. The Hang Seng Index rose 85.72 points at 8.574.08. "It's a continuing play on US interest rates having peaked,"
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      624 19 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index gained 23.91 points to 1,105.05 on turnover of HK5112.6 million. Tsingtao was the only loser, drifting down 3.8 per cent after rebounding nearly 20 per cent from its all time low at HK52.65 in May. In Shanghai, the B Index was up
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      2469 19 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks fell for the first time in four sessions, led by consumer electronics and car makers, amid concerns that trade sanctions against Japan will put a damper on both the dollar and corporate earnings. A breakdown in US-Japan car trade talks has kept the dollar
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      1865 19 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks rallied at the close on late buying of property issues in addition to finance and banking counters bought in the early afternoon. An influx of buying orders, as trading resumed in the afternoon after a computer trading system failure halted most of the morning session, pushed
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      1176 19 Reuter JAKARTA Shares closed higher in active trading as blue-chip buying and market talk of deregulation led local players to snap up shares almost across the board, brokers said. Talk of a possible deregulation package yesterday boosted market sentiment. But a Finance Ministry official said there was no plan
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    • 2506 20 Gf Gr 1949 Last Vol Day l*u Quote Di» Dt» VM Net M < ap High Low Company Salt (WO) High Low Bayer Seller S Or S P/K Smil MALAYSIAN STOCKS 478 1% m MSB 50c 288 -2 589 300 287 288 289 3.0 -2.9 0.3 29.5 127
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 6789 20 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks fell after the federal cabinet rescinded an earlier decision to allow power company Tenaga Nasional to raise its rates. Tenaga, the second-biggest stock on the market in terms of capitalisation, fell M 51.15 to
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 9213 21 WUM BOARD «.r «.r M Wt |W l-avt Vat Da) l-asl (>* Di« On VM Net Cap Am High La. («>aipaa> Sale (DOOI High Lin Ba>« Seller C»r PIf- Smil Price INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 48' 382 ml Vma 50c 390 cd +8 297 398 384 386 390 22.5 2.9 8
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      • 1936 22  -  By R Sivanithv SINGAPORE An inflow of foreign funds yesterday enabled the Straits Times Industrials Index to come within striking distance of its 2,100 resistance level. Brokers attributed the inflow to the improving global interest rate scenario and a growing belief that
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 481 23 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Lumut Naval Dockyard will undergo a MS 150 million (5584.6 million) expansion and refurbishment over the next five years once it is privatised, its designated new operator Naval Dockyard Sdn Bhd said. Penang Shipbuilding and Construction Sdn Bhd (PSC) executive
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    • 375 23 Lloyd's List LONDON Andrew Weir Shipping (AWS) is launching a direct container service to India with 1,400-TEU (20-ft equivalent unit) vessels. The company, which claims to have the UK's largest private shipping fleet, says the move reflects the increasing importance
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    • 121 23 UPI CAIRO All ships and other vessels that use the Suez Canal and pay its transit tolls will be exempt from fees levied by harbour authorities at Port Said, at the northern mouth of the international waterway, the transportation ministry said. The
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    • 37 23 Reuter HAIFA, Israel Greenpeace protesters trying to prevent the toxic waste ship An be I from dumping its hazardous cargo into the Mediterranean off Haifa Bay. Two protesters were arrested by Israeli police. Reuter
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    • 341 23 Knight-Ridder TAIPEI Taiwanese officials yesterday said they do not need Chinas approval to start operations at the island's new offshore shipping centre, which allows direct shipping links with China. "Taiwan doesn't need to discuss its plans for an offshore shipping centre
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    • 173 23 MBT PORT KLANG Able Shipping. a specialised roll-on, roll-off (ro-ro) operator, has made Port Klang its transhipment centre for vehicles from Japan for distribution in South-east Asia. Executive director Adrian D'Silva said Able Shipping recently began transhipment of cars from Japan to
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    • 363 23 Reuter ATHENS Shipowners, maligned for sending decrepit vessels to sea, blame structural damage, weather and poor maintenance for accidents and not the fleet's age. Careless handling of ships in ports helps to weaken ships, they say. "Age should not be a factor
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    • 734 24 Trading on the freight market was severely hindered by Monday's holiday in Europe, brokers said. "The market is absolutely dead, and there's been no reports of any fixtures since the market closed last Friday," one broker said. He said the feeling is that there has been no real
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    • 518 24 COURSES Title: Sea Transport Course (SDF 70%) Duration: May 17 Aug 23 Organiser: Singapore Freight Forwarders Association Tel: For further details contact SFFA Secretariat at 253-7550 or fax: 253-2303. Title: International Freight Forwarding I (SDF 70%) Duration: May 25 Aug 3 Organiser Singapore Freight Forwarders Association Tel: For
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    • 862 25 Shipyards around the world are enjoying a mini boom of the kind not seen since the '70s, but it could mean a delayed hangover after next New Year's Day for some builders Fairplay THE number of vessels on order at shipyards around the
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    • 12632 32 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Penang after
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      • 351 35 Vessel Voy No B«rth Amval Dtparturt V*wd Voy Wo Berth Vrivtl D«pjrture Juroflg Port Hong Soon 9525/ P02 1006/1600 10 06/2300 Alana Jaya A73 J1 10.05/0515 Johan 108A95 P01 10 05/1500 1105/0600 (Vnmachal Pradesh 65H J6 1005/1500 Mmairtan 1 AH/95 P03 1005/0900 1005/2000 Badt Long 6 1/95
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      • 1229 35 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booking/Balance Rstts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From AC Me a» 12/1900 4 10/1200 10/1459 10/1700 Aft Victory 0061A 11/0200 1A 09/1500 09/1659 09/1900 IB 09/1500 09/1659 09/1900 2A
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      • 261 42  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Eighty per cent of exhibition space at Asian Aerospace '96 has been booked. The show, scheduled for February 1996, will have more than 20,000 sq m of indoor exhibition space and more than 100 hospitality chalets, says organiser
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      • 391 42 AFP SEATTLE The Boeing Company is talking to its best customers about a super long-range version of its new Boeing 777 that would put Hongkong in range of New York, according to Cathay Pacific Airways managing director Rod Eddington. Mr Eddington, speaking alongside
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      • 207 42 AFP HONGKONG A South Asian man who swapped boarding pass with an American so he could illegally get to the US was detained in a rare incident at Shanghai airport, a report said yesterday. The would-be immigrant and the American were
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      • 348 42 AFP TOKYO Japan's Nissan Motor Co Ltd announced yesterday plans to set up a 3.4 billion yen (U5556.7 million) car assembly venture in Indonesia with local group Salim and Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp. The new company, based in western Java, will
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      • 161 42 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Asia-Pacific's jet airliner fleet will more than double in size over the next 20 years, with the airlines in the region outpacing those of North America in terms of available aircraft seat capacity, says Airbus Industrie's latest market forecast
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      • 202 42 SINGAPORE April was a good month for US carrier United Airlines. It enjoyed year-on-year growth of 6.4 per cent in passenger traffic to 8.8 billion scheduled revenue passenger miles (RPMs). It also chalked up a 4 per cent increase in available seat miles (ASMs) to
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      • 239 42 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Sales of imported vehicles in Japan increased 10.1 per cent to 26,708 units in April, the Japan Automobile Importers Association said. That's the 18th consecutive month sales have risen. Vehicle imports from Germany led
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        • 108 42 Reuter WASHINGTON The federal government has announced the recall of 37,599 Secureßide infant car seats manufactured by Gerry Baby Products of Denver. Co. The National Highway I ransportation Safety Administration said Model 626 infant child safety seats produced between August 15, 1994, and March
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        • 80 42 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI China First Automobile Corp has merged seven factories to become the country's biggest manufacturer of compact cars, the Shanghai Securities News reports. The company, located in north-east China, now has the capacity to produce 150,000 compact cars each year, and considers
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        • 92 42 Pratt Whitney to build Taiwan centre AP TAIPEI Pratt Whitney, the US aircraft engine manufacturer, will set up its Asian regional maintenance centre in Taiwan, the government said on Monday. The company will set up a USSSI7 million joint venture with China Airlines. Taiwan's national carrier, and an engineering company
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        • 95 42 Reuter DUBAI The United Arab Emirates state of Shaijah is setting up a 1.5 million square metre free-trade zone at its international airport and plans to double its size as business increases, newspapers reported yesterday. They published details of a decree issued on Monday
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      • 234 42 AFP WELLINGTON Air New Zealand confirmed to the New Zealand Stock Exchange yesterday that it has held talks with Australia's News Corp Ltd and TNT Ltd about acquiring their portions of Ansett Australia Holdings Limited. "Such discussions have not reached a point where
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    • 404 28 SEAWARD SHIPPING AND I TBADIN6 CO (S) PTE LTD ETA ETA ETA SPORE PORT KELANG PENANG BLUE JADE 196 17/5 Loafing tor Male IRUVM HUOHU 22/5 Loading tor Japanese Ports PIONEER SUPREME 2V5 Loading tor Male UMMEEOM 2tV5 Loading tor Male PROGRESS LIBERTY 30/5 Loading tor Bangkok PIONEER ELEGANT 28/5
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    • 468 34 UTEL *****33 (12 UNES) FAX: *****15/*****03 TELEX: R» *****11 M T <3 Un—> CR NOi **********0E ACCEPTING FCL AND CONVENTIONAL Vmil Vay ETA lM*|hr Atotwy Wore OM>7 *^5:2^ Andkwt 40WB 2CKJ7 FULLY CONTAINEIUSiP REGULAR UWER SERVICE ACCEPTING BOTH FCL/LCL ALSO ISOfiOC M *T Ifi P.LsH JHi CTOWN PAW SHrtt— SHStIS
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