The Business Times, 15 June 1995

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  • 12 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Thursday June 15 1995 85*
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  • 100 1 Reuter NEW YORK US stocks edged higher yesterday after two days of strong gains as nervousness ahead of tomorrow's "triple witching" options expiration kept investors on the sidelines. The Dow Jones Industrial average was up 2.07 points at 4,481.74 just after Ipm
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  • 164 1 Hwfc uriut indices Wednesday Ckuge STII 2,138.23 unch KLSEComp.. 1,049.97 +10.98 Nikkei 14,660.49 60.81 Hang Seng 9,364.77 +261.60 SET Index 1,387.88 +15.88 Jakarta Comp 489.32 +1.84 Manila Comp 2,810.66 +1.39 Taipei WPI 5,413.74 -99.96 Seoul Comp 886.56 -0.76 Bombay BSE30 ..3,337.53 +26.52 CLSA China B 791.08 +0.95 Aust All Ord
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  • 555 1  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Chinese trading giant Sinochem is planning to make Singapore the regional headquarters for its Asian businesses outside China and will list the entity on the Singapore stock exchange later this year. Sinochem, the short name for
    Source: Sirochem Anual Report 1994  -  555 words
  • 349 1  -  From Anthony Rowtey in TOKYO TOKYO stock prices rallied slightly yesterday after five days of heavy falls when Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama promised radical measures to deal with Japan's economic problems, and after hopes rose of a possible breakthrough in the US
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  • 145 1 SINGAPORE Renewed hopes of a US interest rate cot and a stabilising Japanese stock market lined spirits on regional stock markets yesterday, with the Hongkong, Malaysian and Thai markets enjoying the best gains. But Singapore stocks were largely ignored. After adding 12 points in early trade,
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  • 497 1 LAT NEW YORK In one of the most dramatic breakups in American corporate history, ITT Corp announced on Tuesday that it plans to split itself into three companies and dismantle what has long been one of America's most familiar conglomerates.
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  • 253 1  -  By Michelle Low SINGAPORE Bids for a large plot of land at the top of Pasir Panjang Hill have fallen short of the reserve price, in another sign that developers have tightened their purse strings. The seller Le Hill Development
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  • 461 1  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR A DIALOGUE between Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim with over 200 local and foreign bankers, stockbrokers and fund managers next week may point the way to measures Malaysia may adopt to further liberalise its
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    • 8 1 Law: Pg 8 Indonesia reviews its legal system
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    • 15 1 Hock Lock Siew: pg is [fj What's up at Jurong Cen^tt?" Market reports, Pg 22-26
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    • 11 1 The outlook for Singapore's manufacturing sector Pgl3 Reinventing ITT, Pg 18
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 290 2  -  By Paul Leo CiKOw 1H in M 2, the chiet measure of money supply, held steady in April. Figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore show M 2 grew 15.1 per cent year-on-year to $95.75 billion at end-April, compared to 15 per cent at end-March.
        Source: MAS  -  290 words
    • 509 2  -  Efforts include offering free memberships and loosening trading rules By Siow Li Sen THE Singapore Commodity Exchange Ltd (Sicom) launched coffee futures trading in March amid much fanfare and promises. Less than three months later, it is trying to breathe life into
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    • 357 2  -  By Claire Leow A BUILDING constructed in Jurong to house small and medium-sized German companies with an eye on business in Asia is fully booked. German Centre for Industry and Trade managing director Joachim H Ihrcke said yesterday that the 28,000 square foot
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    • 134 2 ROSENBLUTH International, the American firm that has taken over Singapore's Harpur Travel Management, will adopt its travel management concept here. Travel management companies unlike agencies make travel arrangements for corporate clients, work with them to develop travel policies, help negotiate the best rates,
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    • 161 2 NINE of the 10 restored Kampong Glam conservation shophouses in an Urban Redevelopment Authority tender that closed on May 3 were offered to the highest bidders. The URA said yesterday one parcel 38 Arab Street was not awarded because the highest bid was too
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    • 85 2 THE US sports network ESPN has obtained government approval to set up an Asian operational base here, broadcasting three channels of programmes. ESPN is the ninth foreign satellite broadcaster to set up operations here and use uplink facilities being provided by the Singapore Broadcasting Authority. SBA
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    • 83 2 Corrections clarifications IN our report "Myanmar takes to diplomacy" yesterday, we wrongly described Goh Kim Leong as executive chairman of Singapore Mass Rapid Transit. Mr Goh is in fact chairman of the SMRT executive committee. And in our Eye on the Economy column yesterday, we said that total loans and
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    • 199 2 THE east Malaysian state of Sarawak has invited investors in Singapore to help develop its tourism facilities. Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud said yesterday that Singapore investors were welcome to submit proposals on facilities such as hotels and shopping centres. He was speaking
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    • 401 2 HOYA Corporation of Japan has invested US$3O million (SS42 million) in a Tuas factory to make key disk drive components, the company announced from Tokyo yesterday. Its subsidiary, Hoya Lens (S) Pte Ltd, is building an automated factory which starts
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    • 298 2 The Biscuit King case Reuter BOMBAY Indian authorities have begun proceedings on Singapore's request to extradite expatriate Indian tycoon Rajan Pillai, his lawyer said yesterday. A Singapore district court in April found Pillai, the-47-year-old "Biscuit King", guilty on 23 counts of criminal
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 579 3  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON IN A MOVE that could lead within a month or so to the normalisation of the relationship between Washington and Hanoi, US Secretary of State Warren Christopher has recommended to President Clinton that the two countries establish
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    • 226 3  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA INDONESIA has officially declared that its external debt has breached US$lOO billion (Ssl39 billion), but President Suharto assured that the country was fully capable of meeting its obligations. Speaking to senior government officials, Mr Suharto said the
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    • 168 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Compensations totalling M 5695 million (*****.8 million) will be paid to owners of the land that is to be acquired to develop Putrajaya, the proposed federal administrative centre in Prang Besar, parliament was told yesterday. Deputy Minister in
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    • 336 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The idea of a landbridge to link Penang with Songkhla is attractive as it can ease traffic congestion in the Straits of Malacca, the director-general of the Thai department of economic affaire, Kobsak Chutikul, said. He said the idea to
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    • 377 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Employees' Provident Fund views foreign investments as a means to hedge the risk of investing solely in Malaysia and will soon come up with guidelines for its overseas ventures, said EPF investment and economic research director Roslan A Ghaffar.
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    • 99 3 Reuter JAKARTA Treating Aids and HIV in Indonesia will cost the government US$2 billion (552.78 billion) by 1999 and hurt tourism if they are allowed to spread, Antara news agency said. Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, has said up to 2.5 million people could be
      Reuter  -  99 words
    • 108 3 AP MANILA The Philippine government plans a massive shake-up in the national police after allegations of corruption, incompetence and summary executions, Interior Secretary Rafael Alunan said yesterday. He said only the national police commander, Recaredo Sarmiento, was assured of keeping his job. The revamp follows
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    • 103 3 AFP MANILA The Philippines and Pakistan have agreed to work out extradition and mutual legal assistance treaties in a bid to form a "united front" against international terrorism, Interior Secretary Rafael Alunan, who visited Islamabad earlier this year, said yesterday. The two agreements would be a
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    • 62 3 AFP JAKARTA Villagers from central Java met members of the Indonesian Democracy Party at parliament yesterday and then staged a peaceful demonstration in an attempt to stop the construction of a nuclear power station near their homes. About 35 village from Balong and Ujung Watu
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG /TAIWAN
    • 374 4  -  By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE American utility giant Southern Electric International is investing in power ventures in Indonesia and China, and bidding for privatisation contracts in South Korea and Taiwan. "Privatisation is a big theme in Asia and this has created
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    • 113 4 Knight-Ridder BEIJING China's State Council has issued a circular tightly restricting the construction of new luxury real estate projects, the official Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. According to the circular, high-class villas and holiday villages, certain categories of apartment and office buildings, as well as
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    • 87 4 AFP BEIJING Official misappropriation of state funds earmarked for grain purchases remains a "serious problem" undermining efforts to control inflation, Vice-Premier Zhu Rongji was quoted yesterday as saying. He ordered officials in the central Henan province not to divert such funds for other uses nor to
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    • 94 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui yesterday once again sought to placate China by saying that his US trip was never meant to create two Chinas or one China, one Taiwan. "I only hope that through my visit the world can better understand
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    • 322 4 AFP BEIJING Chinese inflation continued to slow year-on-year in May, with the retail price index (RPI) rising 17.6 per cent compared with 12 months previously, a report said yesterday. But it warned of a resurge of upward pressure in many regions. The
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    • 54 4 Reuter BEIJING Visitors to Beijing's Forbidden City donning special one-use-only rubber soled shoes in the court> ard of the Gate of Supreme Harmony of China s Palace Museum yesterday. Millions of pairs of feet are wearing down the ancient floors and marble steps in the 589-year-old palace of
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    • 402 4 Reuter BEIJING China's exports are likely to drop sharply in the second half of 1995 as government measures to curb growth take effect, economists said yesterday. Customs figures show China's exports in the first five months of
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  • ASIA
    • 370 5 Pakistan Budget Reuter ISLAMABAD Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's government unveiled a budget yesterday that failed to meet reform targets originally agreed with the International Monetary Fund. "Given our objective economic situation, we can today chart a less drastic course of reform," Minister of
      Reuter  -  370 words
    • 315 5 AFP, Reuter SYDNEY Prime Minister Paul Keating announced yesterday that Australia is freezing defence cooperation with France to protest against the French government's decision to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific. New Zealand also accused France of "Napoleonic arrogance" yesterday in
      AFP,; Reuter  -  315 words
    • ASIA NOTES
      • 86 5 AP WASHINGTON The United States-North Korean nuclear agreement will keep the North's "dangerous nuclear facilities frozen" and confirm a key South Korean role in converting its arch-rival's nuclear programme to peaceful uses, US President Bill Ginton said on Tuesday. But he cautioned that lasting prosperity
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      • 85 5 Bernama MELBOURNE Improved profitability in the Australian property sector is renewing investor interest among South-east Asians, especially for hotel properties. Asian groups, including Malaysians, have bought many hotels in Australia at bargain basement prices over the past two years. They were reported to be delighted
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      • 84 5 AFP MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistani Kashmir More than 200 shops and houses were damaged here in a powerful explosion on Monday which left 1,000 people homeless, the state's senior minister Mohammed Yusuf said on Tuesday. At least 13 people were injured when the Challa Bandi locality on
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    • 370 5 Reuter, AFP TOKYO Japan's Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said yesterday that the nation needs radical economic measures to spur its flagging economy. But private economists saw Mr Murayama's remarks as merely cosmetic, saying it was a step to position himself
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    • 222 5 Reuter PARIS France and India have agreed to strengthen political cooperation and step up trade between their two countries, which has fallen sharply during the *****. French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette said on Tuesday that he and Indian Prime Minister P
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    • 98 6 1995 marks a significant milestone for Swiss Bank Corporation as we celebrate 25 years of successful financial partnership in Singapore. As we enter the next lap, we strive to maintain leadership in today's international markets and shape tomorrow's financial industry* To respond quickly and confidently to the fast changing financial
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 918 7 International Forum of the Indian Ocean Rim FT IN A world of proliferating regional economic groupings, could an Indian Ocean forum be the next to join the list? The answer, if three days of semi-official talks in Perth this week are any guide,
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
    • IN TAKES
      • 71 8 AP BEIJING There may be yet another thin area in the ozone layer protecting the earth from harmful radiation, in the remote Tibet-Qinghai plateau, Chinese scientists say. Chinese meteorologists have discovered an area in the atmosphere above Tibet that experiences a significant thinning in the
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      • 87 8 UPI WASHINGTON Researchers have been able to restore spatial memory in brain-damaged rats. The feat was achieved by delivering a single molecule to the brain's learning centre and points to a way some day to improve memory in Alzheimer s patients. The experiment centred around
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      • 82 8 Reuter WASHINGTON A major fertiliser and explosives company said on Tuesday that tests show no known additive can make ammonium nitrate, a common fertiliser, safe from being made into a bomb such as the one in Oklahoma City. Tests were conducted last week by an
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      • 108 8 NYT WASHINGTON One of the world's rarest birds at last has a chance to help propagate its species now that scientists have confirmed that it is a male. With no external clues for guidance, scientists turned to DNA analysis of the bird's discarded
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    • 552 8  -  Text-to-speech technologies have evolved so much that they now offer a wnole range of useful applications, reports Seamus Fhan Seamus Phan The writer is a partner in a training and technology consulting firm THE computer's ability to convert the written word into speech has improved
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    • 585 8 Reuter GENES extracted from a dinosaur egg fossil in China closely match those found in dinosaur bones dug up in the United States, bolstering a theory among experts that they have isolated pre-historic DNA. Scientists said on Tuesday that the finding
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  • LAW
    • 887 8  -  Indonesia is reviewing its archaic legal system as part of its drive to woo foreign investors, writes Maggie Ford Maggie Ford IMAGINE trying to run a court system in a country where the legal code was drawn up 150 years ago and where most of the
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    • 191 8 AT THE BAR THE WOES of gynaecologist S S Ratnam, who was once featured in a quasi-documentary film called Shocking Asia, have not ended. The Attorney-General's chambers has decided to appeal against his recent sentence for drunken driving. Obviously, the prosecution finds the $2,500
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    • 329 8  -  By Conrad Raj TO KEEP the legal community and others abreast of the developments in the courts, the Supreme Court has produced its first annual report on the judiciary. According to Chief Justice Yong Pung How, this is the first attempt by the two
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  • SPORTS
    • 116 9 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has directed all football players and officials to declare their assets, in a radical move to monitor corruption in soccer. A bribery-watch committee, comprising former players, would also be set up to tail those suspected of being on the take,
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    • 133 9 AFP BUDAPEST Juan-Antonio Samaranch on Tuesday took another step down the road to ensuring he stays as International Olympic Committee president into the next century. The executive board recommended a rule change which could keep all lOC members in a job for life. And
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    • 124 9 AFP LQNDON Linford Christie was urged on Tuesday to reconsider his decision to quit athletics at the end of the season, after he flamed the press for his decision not to defend the Olympic 100 m title in Atlanta next year. Christie claimed in an
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    • 125 9 Reuter NEW YORK Plans for former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson's Harlem homecoming is likely to be scaled back after strong criticism by community activists opposed to celebrating the return of a convicted rapist. Tyson, released from prison last March after serving three years for raping
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    • 95 9 AFP SUVA Anger at France's decision to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific spilled into the sporting arena yesterday as Fiji threatened to boycott the South Pacific Games in French Polynesia. Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said his country had always objected to any
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    • 678 9 Golf US Open Players who lost Open titles by narrow margins in past years are set to give it their best shot AFP SOUTHAMPTON, New York Ghosts of past heartbreaks haunt the 95th US Open. Legends here say the harsh wind often blowing across Shinnecock
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    • 348 9 AP SOUTHAMPTON, New York Tiger Woods, the 19-year-old US Amateur champion who will be playing in his first US Open this week, issued a statement on Tuesday regarding his ethnic origin. "The various media have portrayed me as an AfricanAmerican,
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    • 578 9 Rugby World Cup AFP JOHANNESBURG The path to hell is paved with good intentions and a growing conviction here is that world rugby's top officials, keen to expand the game, are beating down the road at a cheerful gallop. The World
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    • 262 9 Kiwis aim to avenge 1993 defeat by England AFP PRETORIA, South Africa World Cup favourites New Zealand will look back in anger before looking forward to Sunday's semi-final clash with England in Cape Town. Captain Sean Fitzpatrick said here on Tuesday that
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    • 676 9 A player and a businessman with a difference NBA Finals Reuter HOUSTON Hakeem "the Dream" Olajuwon, who is being called the world's best basketball player as his Houston Rockets stand on the brink of a second straight NBA championship, is also a businessman with a difference. Olajuwon actively seeks business
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    • Article, Illustration
      42 9 BELLINZONA, Switzerland Tow of Switzerland first stage (7.1lun individual circuit) Taeaday; 1 Ale* Zulle (Swi) 8 min 13.63 sec 2 Tony Rominger (Swi) 0.78 seconds behind 3 Pascal Richard (Swi) 7.79 4 Lance Armstrong (US) 11.31 5 Zenon Yaskula (Pol) 15.08.
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      25 9 EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey NHL Stanley Cap pkyoff Eastern Conference Finals Tuesday: New Jersey 4 Philadelphia 2 (New Jersey wins best-of-seven series 4-2).
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      37 9 STOCKHOLM Women's World Cap quarter-finals Tneaday: US 4 Japan 0; Norway 3 Denmark 1; China 1 Sweden 1 (China won 4-3 on penalty kicks); Germany 3 England 0. Today's semi-finals: US v Norway; China v Germany.
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    • Article, Illustration
      330 9 ROSMALEN, Netherlands U*****,000 Continental Grasscourt tournament Ist id Tuesday (selected): Anders Jarryd (Swe) b Hen-drik-Jan Davids (Neth) 7-6 (9-7) 6-2; Henri Leconte (Fra) b Jan Kroslak (Slov) 6-3 7-6 (7-5); 5-Brett Steven (NZ) b Karsten Braasch (Ger) 7-6 (7-2) 6-4; Andrei Olhovskiy (Rus) b Patrick Baur (Ger) 6-2 6-4;
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 796 11  -  Gilles Castonguay recounts Colombia's biggest scandal involving Calis Intercontinental Hotel which is believed to be the meeting point for druglords and politicians Gilles Castonguay Reuter IN ONE OF its promotional flyers, the Intercontinental Hotel in the centre of Cali, Colombia, promises a luxury weekend for two as
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    • CHATTER BOX
      • 509 11 AP AP AP AP HENRY KISSINGER won't have to bend when he's knighted by Queen Elizabeth II next week. And don't call him "sir". The queen will make Dr Kissinger an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George,
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1123 11 Great Crimes end Trials, 9pm, Gary Hfc Gilmore also a murderer jBBL who insisted on being execut- vj^ ed. He got no one knew why he wanted to so badly. This documentary Curly Sue, 8.30pm, Cti John Hughes the James the ultra-cute san They schmooze way attorney Summer Rental. 9pm.
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  • 520 12 BRITAIN'S King George IV regent during his father's madness was not a model monarch. He drank heavily, mistreated his wife and behaved on public occasions with wild impropriety. An incorrigible braggart, he persuaded himself he had played a gallant role at the Battle of Waterloo an
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  • 449 12 DETAILS that have emerged about the background to a possible land-link between Penang and Songkhla hint at a clash of commercial interests. That can make it tempting, from the point of view of Singapore as an assumed loser in such a development, to ask if
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  • 114 12 NOT ONLY has Japan refused a formal apology to Asian countries it invaded in World War 11, it has even tried to play down its aggression. Such a stand makes Asia more suspicious about its neighbour and does not < serve to soothe the wounds of
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  • 152 12 PRIMARY ONE registration always causes anxiety among parents. Some relief is at hand following the Ministry of Education's decision to cap priority registration under Phase 2B for parents who have links with the school to 50 per cent. Some popular schools will also increase intake by having additional
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  • 111 12 WITHOUT overlooking the lives of Asians lost during World War II and without disregarding history, we think forcing Japan to apologise is not the most important thing to do at this time. The global realities that exist at present should open the eyes of Japanese, and
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  • 166 12 THE GOVERNMENT is developing an unhappy record for putting forward plans as absolutely necessary, only to reveal when pressure is applied that alternatives exist, after all. When the government was considering, earlier this year, ways of increasing capacity at the over-stretched Kai Tak Airport, the
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  • 107 12 MYANMAR's powerful intelligence chief Khin Nyunt recently told Philip Shenon of The New York Times that Aung San Suu Kyi will not be freed until "there is the guarantee of peace and tranquility in our country a time Khin Nyunt suggested was still far in the future.
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  • 887 12 National monetary autonomy is no myth. The question is whether there is more to gain from intra-European exchange-rate rigidity FT HOW MUCH autonomy do monetary policies have today in Europe? With capital moving freely between interdependent economies, an autonomous monetary policy is no longer a credible
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 2119 13  -  Growth in Singapore's manufacturing sector has soared in the past two years, reports Chuang Peck Ming Chuang Peck Ming The writer is a BT correspondent. The articles on this page first appeared in the June issue of Singapore Business AS IF to
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    • 535 13 APPLE Computer will still be making computers in Singapore five or even 10 years from now, says Peter Tan, its managing director here. But the pioneer of the personal computer will not be making every component on its own, he says. Those that require repetitive
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    • 699 13 A YOUNG, long-haired American in blue jeans steps into the room after the chairman called for a sample of the latest product his company has developed. "That's my director of advanced automation," says Raymond Chew, the chairman, who is dressed in a smart blue suit.
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  • 583 14 The goal is to cut spending by US$ 1.1 trillion over 10 years Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON After months of watching Republicans in Congress set the budget agenda, President Bill Clinton unveiled a new spending plan to balance the federal budget in 10 years
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  • 377 14 AP PARIS France yesterday stood firm by its decision to resume nuclear testing despite a hail of criticism from foreign governments and international environmental groups. Foreign Minister Herve de Charette said while France understood the concerns, it would not hand control over its
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  • 247 14 Reuter WASHINGTON Inventories held by businesses grew for the 13th month in a row in April as unsold goods kept piling up at the manufacturing, wholesale and retail levels, the Commerce Department said here yesterday. Total business sales fell for a second
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  • 215 14 Reuter LONDON Financier George Soros gave up his top spot as the highest earner on Wall Street last year for the first time in four years, said Financial World magazine in its annual survey of the top 100 earners on Wall Street. "George
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  • 401 14 AP MOSCOW Scores of heavi-ly-armed gunmen believed to be Chechen rebels attacked a southern city yesterday and seized up to 300 hostages after gun battles with security forces that left at least 15 dead. The gunmen, who demanded a halt to Russian
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  • 81 14 Reuter WASHINGTON Under present food policies, the gap between rich and poor countries will deepen well into the next century. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) yesterday said wealthy countries and rapidly growing developing countries, mainly in Asia, will enjoy low food prices and food
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  • 62 14 AFP LONDON The number of people unemployed in Britain fell for the 21st successive month in May, dipping by 10,000 from the figure in April to 2.318 million. The Department of Employment yesterday said the small decline left the percentage rate at 8.3, unchanged from the
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  • 112 14 Reuter LONDON Margaret Thatcher's husband Denis, whose love of golf was as legendary as ms role as gentlemanly escort to the former prime minister, has hung up his clubs because of arthritis, his office said yesterday. "I haven't played for several months. It's arthritis old
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  • 67 14 Reuter MAGDEBURG, Germany Bundesbank chief economist Ottmar Issing said the all clear could not yet be sounded on inflation worries in Germany. "This is not the time to say good-bye to inflation dangers," he told Reuters Financial Television yesterday. But he added inflation did not
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  • 69 14 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Singapore Government yesterday said it had cut its stake to 3.94 per cent in Structural Dynamics Research, a specialised software maker. A group of Singapore government entities said they had sold 325,400 common shares at prices ranging from U5512.25 to
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  • 78 14 Reuter NEW YORK The US dollar will not likely climb back above 90 or 100 yen before year-end. Robert Alan Feldman, managing director and chief economist at Salomon Brothers Asia Ltd, yesterday said: "That would take us into what I call the land of fairy tales." He
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  • 55 14 AFP TEHERAN The US will fail in efforts to convince its allies to isolate Iran at a summit of the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialised nations this week. Parliament deputy speaker Hassan Ruhani yesterday rejected as "lies" US accusations that the Islamic republic sought to obtain nuclear
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  • 960 14  -  The Bottom Line VIKRAM KHANNA VIKRAM KHANNA The writer is BT's regional economics editor WHEN the leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) gather in Halifax for their annual summit today, one of their top priorities, reportedly, is to press for a new "emergency financing
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  • 230 14 Reuter TOKYO Japan and the United States, in an effort to keep their bitter car trade row from marring the Group of Seven nations' summit, yesterday agreed to hold fresh talks on the dispute next week. There was no guarantee, however, that the
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        52 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, Barings. Credit Lyonnais Securities. Daiwa. Fraser. G K Goh. Kay Hian. Morgan Grenfell, Ong Co, Nomura. Phillip, Smith Sen' Court, WI Carr and S
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        101 15  -  -By Paul Leo. START accumulating Avimo shares between $1.10 and yesterday's close of 51.17. The stock is poised for a bull run as indicated by the sudden surge in interest and other technical factors showing that the price is in oversold territory. Yesterday's volume was 2.74 million units
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    • 618 15  -  By Joyce QueK SINGAPORE The Salim group, Indonesia's biggest cement producer, has been picking up Jurong Cement Ltd shares in a hurry. Through subsidiary KMP Feedmills Pte Ltd, Salim had swiftly raised its stake in JCL from one per cent in
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    • 722 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Abdul Hadhi SINGAPORE The price of Jurong Cement has been creeping up in recent weeks after hovering around $4.20 for almost three months. It even moved beyond $4.50 before settling back at around $4.40 currently. That could be because Indonesia's
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    • 396 15 SINGAPORE Pacific Century Regional Developments Ltd has a two-pronged strategy to grow development projects in China and India, and insurance business in Hongkong and China. Chairman Richard Li says in the company's latest annual report that Pacific Century would soon seal a string of
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    • 257 15 SINGAPORE The QAF group yesterday reported flat results for the year to March 31. Net earnings were just 4 per cent higher at $14.6 million, on an 8 per cent rise in sales to $326.4 million. Group pre-tax profit was 12 per cent higher
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    • 214 15  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Plastic injection moulding maker Fu Yu Manufacturing Ltd made a credible debut on the main board of the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday, trading to a premium of nearly 20 per cent over its issue price.
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    • 313 15 SINGAPORE Contract manufacturer Tri-M Technologies remained in the red in the second half of the year ended March 31. The firm had dropped a bombshell in December when it announced an interim net loss of $9.5 million and a
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    • 176 15 SINGAPORE Hong Fok Corp yesterday defended the sale of its Henderson Industrial Park factory units for $70 million, saying the figure was reached by its marketing agent Chesterton International. Property watchers on Tuesday said the price was well below market value. Hong
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    • COMPANIES
      • 79 16 SINGAPORE Hongkong-based Singamas Container Holdings, which has a secondary listing here, adjourned its annual general meeting yesterday because proxy forms and annual reports were not received in time by Singapore shareholders. The meeting will reconvene on July 5. Shareholders who turned up yesterday consented to the
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      • 35 16 SINGAPORE Guoco Investment Pte Ltd has converted 10 million First Capital Corporation warrants into shares at $1.52 per warrant and sold 8.3 million FCC warrants for $2.54 per warrant on June 5.
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      • 34 16 SINGAPORE The Imperial Hotel in Singapore, owned by Hind Hotels International, has been revalued at $211 million, up 16.6 per cent from 1993, according to its 1994 annual report.
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      • 54 16 SINGAPORE First Capital Corporation has formed a new 90 per cent subsidiary, First Changi Development Pte Ltd, for property investment and development purposes. The new company has an authorised capital of $50 million and paid-up capital of $1,000. Teamfine Enterprises Ltd holds the remaining 10 per
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      • 73 16 IN our report last Saturday, headlined "Jurong Cement earnings drop 28.6%", we incorrectly stated that the group had to make a $2.49 million tax provision to offset under-provision in previous years. The group has clarified that the under-provision for deferred tax amounting to $2.07 million was partly
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      • 478 16 nilll nil I' I tTT Jun 15 Sh Greater China Fd 1.00 I00@ Mendaki Gr Fund 1.02 l.05g Sappin IWt Trwt US Gr Fund 1.03 J-07** The Commerce I 58 l.67xd imb Mat IM The Savings Fund 1.54 1.63 mamm I* S"porc Prof Fund 0.62 0.66 46 1.53 S*pore Sec
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      • 556 16  -  It claims government agency changed bidding rules in favour of MPC group From Al Labita in MANILA AYALA Land Inc yesterday sued a government agency and a group led by Metro Pacific Corp for alleged breach of rules in the bidding for Fort Bonifacio,
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      • 286 16 Reuter ISLAMABAD Pakistan has issued a Letter of Support to Hongkong-based tycoon Gordon Wu for a project to build an US$B billion (SSII billion) coal-fired power plant in the southern province of Sindh. Water and Power Secretary Salman Farooqui said yesterday that the letter had
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      • 92 16 Bloomberg Business News JAKARTA PT Plaza Indonesia Realty is attempting to buy the Japanese embassy in Jakarta's central business district, the Jakarta Post said. Plaza Indonesia will also acquire the fcrmer Soviet embassy from its parent, the Bimantara Group. The Japanese
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      • 221 16 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Petronas Gas Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysian national oil company Petronas, will offer 450 million shares at M 55.30 each to the public. Of the 450 million shares offered, 135 million would be reserved for bumiputra institutions and another 300
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      • 325 16 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Punters have been driving up the share price of Malaysian vehi-cle-parts firm Repco Holdings Bhd and then dumping the stock in a classic case of speculative play, investment analysts said yesterday. They said shares of the trading company, which aims to enter
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      • 96 16 Reuter MANILA The state-owned National Power Corp (NPC) will be ready to present a detailed privatisation plan to its major creditors for approval in October. Its president, Guido Delgado, yesterday said he had met representatives of the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank
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      • 355 16 Reuter BANGKOK The sudden death of the chairman and founder of debt-ridden Thai canned-seafood company Unicord is expected to further upset the company, analysts said yesterday. Damri Kornanthakian, a 43-year-old businessman who engineered Thailand's largest foreign acquisition when Unicord bought US-based Bumble Bee Seafood
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      • 463 17 Reuter TAIPEI When Taiwan stock analysts look at the Tokyo market's malaise, many see an inflated image of their own problems. And it spooks them. The scenario is all too familiar. Falling or sluggish realestate prices are hitting construction Arms that are then
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      • 337 17 Reuter SHANGHAI Chinese authorities have challenged the legality of a proposed rights issue by a Shanghai-listed A share company in a controversy highlighting the accounting confusion among former state firms. Nantong Machine Tools Co Ltd earlier this month announced a three-for-10 rights issue for
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      • 229 17 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's central bank governor told journalists that the bank is reconsidering when to open the local stock market to foreign individual investors and added that limits would need to be imposed on the amount they invest. Sheu Yuan-dong, returning from a
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      • 160 17 Cable Wireless bid linked to HK Telecom Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Any bidder for the UK telephone company Cable Wireless pic may be required by Hongkong law to make a general offer for all outstanding shares in Hongkong Telecommunications, according a newspaper here. The Hongkong Economic Journal, citing a report
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      • 89 17 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY General Motors Acceptance Corp, Australia, said it is bidding to acquire 74.9 per cent of Holden National Leasing Ltd (HNL), the General Motors group's Australian vehicle leasing arm. It will offer to buy the shares at A 55.75 each in
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      • 86 17 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Minolta Co said the strength of the yen and the costs of keeping unsold products in storage caused its worldwide operations to post losses in the fiscal year ended on March 31. The 53 companies in its group posted a combined current,
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      • 61 17 Knight-Ridder NEW YORK The National Association of Securities Dealers is going high-tech to overhaul its system through which investors and others can track the disciplinary histories of brokers by the end of 1996, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The redesign is meant to
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      • 80 17 Knight-Ridder SYDNEY Australia's Goldfields Ltd yesterday said it has extended its cash and scrip takeover offer of Pancontinenta! Mining Ltd to July 4, 1995, according to a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange. Goldfields said the extension of the bid, which was due to expire yesterday,
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      • 67 17 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY The prospectus for the initial public offering of shares in Qantas Airways Ltd is likely to contain a forecast profit of A 5235 million (*****.3 million) for the year beginning July I, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Investment banks managing the
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      • 261 17 Reuter SHANGHAI Shanghai Light Industry Machinery Co Ltd yesterday cancelled a plan to convert part of its state shares to A shares for domestic investors only hours after announcing the plan. The Shanghai Securities News yesterday quoted the company as saying
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      • 669 18 The ITT break-up NYT NEW YORK It was one of the great conglomerates, built by Harold S Geneen, a master at the games of acquiring and divesting, and perhaps the best manager ever at understanding how sometimes foolish accounting rules could be used
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      • 199 18 AFP TOKYO Japan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has ruled that Shiseido Co Ltd, the nation's largest cosmetics producer, violated the anti-monopoly law by controlling retail prices, a newspaper said yesterday. According to the FTC investigation, Shiseido allegedly restricted the shipment of products to discounters
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 278 19 Reuter SHANGHAI The People's Bank of China said an annual investigation of 2,510 financial institutions in Shanghai revealed that last year most operated according to the rules but 67 had behaved improperly, the Shanghai Securities News reported yesterday. The investigation
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      • 146 19 Reuter BANGKOK Thai Ratings and Information Services (Tris), Thailand's only ratings agency which is embroiled in a legal wrangle over an accusation it unfairly favoured a company, says its rating methodology and procedures are neutral and reliable. "Tris reaffirms that its rating process is
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      • 166 19 AFP SEOUL South Korea's Tongyang Group will take over the management of the deficit-rid-den Seoul branch of the US credit card firm, American Express. "In a bid to strengthen the group's financial businesses, Tongyang has decided to buy into Amex's Seoul
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      • 127 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China International Trust and Investment Corp, the nation's flagship investment company, is setting up a US$lOO million (Ssl4o million) commercial paper programme. The financing is the first of its kind for a Chinese stateowned company, said Citic deputy general
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      • 339 19  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Ronnie Neo, the Singapore and Brunei zone chairman of the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) for insurance highfliers, will be the first Singaporean to speak at the association's annual conference, in Toronto later this month. The round table is an
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      • 503 20 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI In a sign that the yen's rise is posing problems for Chinese borrowers, the government of Fujian province has stepped in to help a major state investment company repay its yen-denomi-nated debt. Fujian Investment
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      • 329 20 Reuter LONDON Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which on Tuesday launched the biggest global bond the market has seen from a US agency, said the deal's success showed widespread investor acceptance of the TVA name. The US electric utility set a
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      • 471 20 Reuter TOKYO Japanese oil companies are boosting their refining capacities despite weak retail petrol prices in a bid to secure market share before deregulation of oil product imports next year, industry analysts say. "Refiners want to have as much of the market
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      • 451 20 Reuter SINGAPORE Robust oil demand in Asia over the next 10 years will lead to greater reliance on Middle East crude, putting the region in a more precarious situation than the United States or Europe, an energy analyst said. Kang Wu,
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      • 252 20 Reuter NEW YORK The possibility of a sovereign loan default in Mexico is growing less likely with the government in a good position to pay its short-term debt obligations over the next few months, Salomon Brothers said. "We believe that the risk of a
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      • 389 20 Reuter ZURICH The growth in global non-life insurance business is slowing, especially in larger markets, but life insurance continues to grow apace and now accounts for more than 55 per cent of business, reinsurer Swiss Re said. In 1994,
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      • 272 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuter LONDON Oil prices eased as the threat of further strikes by Brazil's oil workers faded and as the supply of North Sea oil looked likely to be heavy next month. World benchmark North Sea Brent crude for July delivery
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        1386 20 Trade-weighted index calculated against S'pure's lop 14 trading partners Base >*or /#B5 US$/S$ forward rates Noon /Jun 14 s$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.3878 1.3893 2-monih 1.3828 1.3843 3-month 1.3777 1.3792 6-month 1.3640 1 3660 Source OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9am on Jan 14 Singapore dollars
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      • 164 20 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar fell after the German Bundesbank decided against reducing German interest rates at its biweekly meeting on monetary policy. Lower interest rates often hurt a currency by making bank deposits denominated in it less attractive. Some market participants said they had expected the
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      • 92 20 AFP NEW YORK The dollar weakened against other major currencies here early yesterday on a calm market after the Bundesbank said it would not change key interest rates. At about 1410 GMT, the dollar was quoted as trading at 1.4005 marks, down from 1.4098 late Tuesday, and at
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1334 21 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollars ended steady while Euroyen futures were easier at the close. Dealers said market sentiment for Eurodollars was mixed after sharp gains overnight in Chicago. The market rallied sharply overnight on easing expectations after US May retail sales growth was
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      • 660 21 COMMODITY REPORTS Gold HONGKONG: Gold closed at the day's high yesterday on late buying interest from overseas after a day of thin and narrow trading Gold ended at U*****.70/ U*****.20 an ounce, up from New York's U*****.00/50 close and the local opening of U*****.40/90.
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 106 21 TOKYO A growing stockpile of copper cathode in Singapore is forcing down copper premiums around the Asia region, trading sources said yesterday. Stocks of copper in London Metal Exchange warehouses in Singapore have ballooned to current levels of around 65,800 tonnes, from less than 1,100 tonnes
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        • 53 21 HONGKONG One Hongkong mill on Tuesday purchased 13,000 bales of US Memphis-Orleans-Texas cotton, traders said. The purchase included 10,000 bales of cotton for December shipment, with the price fixed at 83.50 US cents (SS 1.16) per pound C&F. Another 3,000 bales were at 82.90 cents
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        • 73 21 NEW DELHI The Indian government has decided to import the 400,000 tonnes of white sugar originally booked in January, a government spokesman said yesterday. All of the sugar consignment will reach India by August. The decision ends speculation over whether India would proceed with
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        • 83 21 ABU DHABI The Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction (Adgas) has signed an agreement with the Spanish company Enagas for the supply of 285,000 tonnes of liquefied natural gas, the WAM Emirates news agency reported yesterday. Under the agreement signed last month, Adgas will send the LNG
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    • 1362 21 SICOM Futures Rubter (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest I I 214.50 1050 Aug 209.00 208.00 210.00 2100 3800 Sen 207.50 2350 Oct/Dec 201.50 6075 Jan/Mar 96 201.00 Apr/Jun 96 202.00 1530 RSS 3 Contract
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1037 22 -12.4 SHARES ignored a rally on Wall Street to close lower yesterday in a trading lull ahead of the end of the June year. "It was actually a good lead from overseas... but nothing is happening before the end of the financial year," said a broker. The All Ordinaries
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      • 621 22 +1.39 Share prices rose marginally on an upturn in the New York market. The PSE Composite Index rose 1.39 points to 2,810.66. Turnover was 2.16 billion shares valued at 3.87 billion pesos. Analysts said that while the market remained strong, it also suffered from a liquidity crunch caused by
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      • 522 22 -99.96 Share prices closed 1.8 per cent lower for a third losing session, with textiles hit hardest with a 4.6 per cent slide. "Sell-offs by institutional investors accelerated the downswing," said a trader. The 321-issue Weighted Price Index slipped 99.96 points to 5,413.74. Turnover was 848 million shares worth
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      • 430 22 -0.76 Stock prices fell back marginally to close 0.08 per cent lower on prevailing market lethargy. The Composite Price Index moved sideways during the session and settled at 886.56 points, down 0.76. Trading volume slightly rose to 19.23 million shares valued at 335.4 billion won. Falls edged out risers
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      • 314 22 -1.82 Shares were slightly weaker at the close, reversing some modest gains made in early trade. Brokers said business was largely flat with few features. The NZSE4O Capitaj Index closed down 1.82 points at 2084.21. L 1 "It was a reasonably subdued day," said a trader. 'We're in
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      • 162 22 +26.52 Shares on the Bombay Stock Exchange finished higher but off the day s highs at the beginning of a fresh account in A group stocks. Dealers said volumes were moderate except in select stocks like Tata Iron Steel Co (Tisco), which erased most of Tuesday's gains as speculators
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 788 22 Britannia Funds Sterling C«sh Bid Offer Mim Cap Depout *****0 M 6500 Mim Jersey cST. AIMJ 0.1992 Mini Mm Income *0.9200 *0.9500 USSCash Income Plus Fund 10 4400 11 0000 PS Reserve Fund 5.5000 5 5100 Sterling Equity Euro Performance 0.4592 0 49M Far East Fund *2 7650 *2.9730 Man
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      • 647 22 -8.2 UK STOCKS closed down following government bonds lower, after comments by Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer dampened speculation interest rates will fall in Europe soon. "Anything that we can use to extrapolate that German rates may not fall in the near future will hurt UK stocks," said a trader.
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      • 130 22 -29.14 French shares finished sharply lower after the Bundesbank left its interest rates, unchanged, putting pressure on the dollar and raising concerns about the impact of a strong franc on French exports. The bourse was also weighed down by an early fall on Wall Street. The CAC-40 Index closed
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      • 199 22 -3.17 German stocks closed little changed, paring earlier gains after Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer said he saw no signs of an economic slowdown and no need for a rate cut. The DAX Index of 30 leading stocks closed the day at 2,124.85 points, down 3.17. Gains in retail and
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      • 219 22 -3.07 Belgian shares closed slightly weaker in moderate trade on simmering worries about the development of interest rates and the dollar and on shaky bonds. The Bel-20 Index lost 3.07 points at 1,411.53 with 1.8 billion francs worth of shares traded. Dealers said they were convinced that the Bel-20
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      • 134 22 -14.55 Swedish stocks declined as a pay rise for Swedish retail workers kindled inflation concerns and the government unexpectedly scaled back a six-year bond issue, suggesting weak demand. The OMX Index declined 14.55 points to 1,243.58, led by L M Ericsson, Astra and Volvo. Decliners in the OMX outnumbered
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      • 152 22 -8 Italian shares ended flat after a session heavily influenced by technical factors and the close of both the June account and the June futures contract. After the recent weakness, brokers said that there were signs the market could at least hold at current levels with some stocks such
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      • 268 22 -1.26 Dutch stocks closed lower as hopes of a cut in German interest rates faded and the dollar's decline against the guilder renewed worries over earnings. Led lower by falls in Royal Dutch Petroleum and ABN Amro, the EOE Index fell 1.26 points to 430.57. The index traded as
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      • 282 22 -2.8 Swiss shares ended little changed in quiet trading. Dealers said a lack of fol-low-through buying and some profit taking push prices downwards after the market had opened firmer on stronger bond futures and a firmer dollar. A further negative factor was a slip in bond futures after the
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      • 361 22 +6.7 South African shares posted late gains to end mildly better as the gold price made ground in New York and amid early US demand for local stocks, dealers said. But they si id sentiment remained nervjus and volumes low amid uncertain local prospects and mixed world markets. Foreign
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      • 668 22 -12.80 Stock prices edged lower in active trading yesterday as bonds retreat after Tuesday's powerful rally put some pressure on the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which climbed 38.05 points on Tuesday, was down 12.80 to 4,471.71 at 11am EDT. The NYSE Composite Index was off 0.68
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      2508 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks rose for the first time in seven days as reports of slower US inflation fuelled optimism that interest rates would fall. Shares in banks and property companies, whose earnings would benefit the most from easier credit, led the rally. "We think there is a
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      487 23 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index lost 1.02 points at 1,161.01 on turnover of HK522.5 million. Yizheng was the best performer, gaining 1.8 per cent. Shanghai Petrochemical, on the other hand, was down 1.9 per cent as investors switched to Jilin Chemical, which rose 1.3 per cent. The
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      2500 23 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Driven by car shares, stocks rose for the first time in five sessions after the government announced it would resume car trade negotiations with the US. International Trade and Industry Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said Japan and the US will start discussing the issue again next
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      1415 23 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks rallied in late trading as investors snapped up what they considered bargain-priced finance issues. The SET Index closed up 15.88 points at 1,387.88. A total of 109.9 million shares worth eight billion baht changed hands. Gainers led losers by 232 to 96. Finance issues led the
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      1123 23 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices inched up slightly at the close in dull trading, brokers said. The Composite Index ended 1.84 points higher at 489.32. Turnover was thin and foreigners were sidelined due to lack of fresh leads. "No fresh orders were seen in the market. The main focus was
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    • 2063 24 1W5 I— Vol 0*J L-« Q"°* Dh MCt Mich Loo Cmw Sale d*) Hl«h Low Srfcr CNi P t MALAYSIAN STOCKS ift 478 1% hi AtSB 50c 398 +14 240 398 386 3% 398 3.0 -2.9 0.2 127 77.5 m AMDB 50c 94.5 +1.5 46 94.5 93 94.5
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5824 24 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks yesterday rose for the first time in four days on optimism that US interest rates will fall further this year, spurring foreign investors into Asian stocks. The Dow Jones rose to 4,484.51 on Tuesday, within a
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
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      • 1832 26  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE A massive overnight rally in US bonds underpinned by benign inflation data managed to lift spirits in the local stock market yesterday, but investors in Singapore counters were unable to shake off worries arising from a volatile US market,
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    • 318 26 UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) LOST CERTIFICATES Nodes s hereby given that the following certificates have been reported lost. CfMHele Woe Wo. of sharea In the name ol *****33-4 1 x 3.093 Chew Ah Kok Ah Peng *****02-8 1 x 146 Ho Poh Keng *****13-8
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  • Shipping Times
    • 515 27 Knight-Ridder, Reuter FREIGHT rates were either just about holding steady or significantly weaker in most areas of the freight market, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to < 1,987 from 1,991 on June 12. < PANAMAXES: Voyage rates on the US
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    • 451 27 Journal of Commerce SEATTLE A trans-Pacific carrier group's decision to increase sharply its currency and fuel adjustment surcharges from July 1 was met with a combination of resignation and testiness by shippers already facing jumps in general commodity rate by the carriers.
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    • 316 27 SES 500 Jun 14 S$ Vol CWT Distribution 1.58 +0.01 4 CWT Distribution A 1.51 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.15 unch 109 Cosco Investment 1.70 +0.02 15 Cosco Investment A 1.66 +0.01 18 Far East Levingston 6.60 +0.25 118 GB Holdings 0.795 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.82 unch 188
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    • 320 27  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) began operating its latest vessel, the Neptune Sardonyx, when it set off from the Port of Osaka on Tuesday on its maiden voyage. "The addition of this newbuilding is part of NOL's policy to
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    • 47 27 Reuter BANGKOK A ferry pier (above) on Bangkok's Chao Phraya River collapsed during the morning rush hour yesterday. At least 17 people, mostly school children and office workers, were confirmed dead and many more were said to be missing. Reuter
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    • 135 27 Knight-Ridder LONDON The Japanese shipping company 'K' Line has re-instated calls at Kobe on its trans-Pacific services and some China-Japan services. 'K' Line ships have been calling at Osaka Nanko since an earthquake hit the Kobe region in January. On the weekly Pacific South-west
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    • 151 27 SINGAPORE The Chartered Institute of Transport (CIT) Singapore will hold a seminar on information technology in logistics on June 29 and 30. Entitled "Information Technology in Logistics Seminar '95", it will be held at the Information Technology Institute which is a co-organiser of
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    • 435 27 Lloyd's List KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's merchant shipping fleet is set to increase by more than one million tonnes deadweight by 1997, partly due to government investment initiatives. Figures released recently by the Malaysian government show the country's economy is
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    • 192 27 BANGKOK Neptune Orient Lines' long-time country manager for Thailand, T G Tan, has died of a heart attack. Mr Tan, 53, had been stationed here 12 years about three years after NOL set up its joint ventures with the Bara, Windsor group. He
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    • 372 27 Reuter WASHINGTON A World Bank arm that encourages private investment said on Tuesday it would help finance a landmark US$lO million (S$ 13.9 million) deep-water port near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's first private-sector port project. The International Finance Corporation,
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    • 108 27 Reuter SEOUL South Korean shipyards won orders totalling 2.26 million gross tons comprising 68 ships in the first five months of 1995, up from 1.56 million GT for 54 ships a year earlier, the Korea Shipbuilders' Association said. An association official said all
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    • 409 27 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Four more ships, three of which have been detained, have been spotted desludging in Malaysian waters on Saturday by the Maritime Enforcement Coordination Centre (MECC), Science, Technology and Environment Minister Law Hieng Ding said on Tuesday. Still on the loose
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    • 877 28 Many shippers, especially the small ones, avoid the hassle of shopping around for insurance and are taking the easy way out in protecting their cargo American Shipper A GROWING number of freight forwarders seeking to position themselves as full-ser-vice logistics consultants are getting into the
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    • 319 28 Pv •ANL 3 Able 7 Accord 10 •Ahlers 6 •Ahrenkiel 4 •Appenship 4 Astro 10 Austral II Avant 6 BSA II Batamindo 7 •CCNI 4 •CM A II •COSCO 7 •CSAV 3 Centenary 7 Central Ex 11 Chahaya 4 •Cho Yang S Contipac
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    • 11343 34 This guide lists the sailing destinations from Singapore. The first date indicates the ETA at Singapore followed by the ETA at the destination. The page number refers to the location of the schedule advertisement. ETA ETA UM VMM* »W I ETA UN oasra 2V06 A 26/06 Adelaide
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 578 39 «mai Voy No Berth Arrival Departure luroflji Port Argironssos 1 J16/17 alongside 15.06/2359 Bna tndak Bl/95/02 12 alongside 1506/1500 Caftex Excellence 125 112 alongside 1506/1100 Cormorant Arrow 079 115/16 atongside 15^ 06/0 ®52 Dm Guna 06/02/95 121 alongside 15.06/2300 htprff 2 J4 alongside 15.06/0600 Komdo 06/06/95 112
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      • 1577 39 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookhf/Balance RjIH Ship Voy Wo Etb/Btr Period From To From 3 AQ Daisv 0666 16/2359 1A 14/1500 14/1659 14/1900 ACX oasy uw>o M/1M0 M/ljM mm 3 15/0700 15/1159 15/1400 4 15/1200 15/1459 15/1700 Acx lade 2428 16/1100 1A 14/1500
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      • 1030 39 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 419 40  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Boeing Co announced yesterday the launching of what will be the world's longest passenger craft after securing 31 orders worth US$3.l billion (554.3 billion) from four Asian airlines. The 8777-300 X, a "stretched" version of its newest twin-engine
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      • 362 40  -  Multimodal China Reports by Rahita Elias in BEUING DHL's joint venture DHLSinotrans will set up 26 more offices in China to meet booming demand there. The 50-50 joint venture plans a network of 36 offices by the year 2000, its managing
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      • 68 40 AFP I F BOURGET, France Visitors to the Paris Air Show on Tuesday looking*** full scale model of the M4OO skycar, built by the US firm International. The prototype, not yet for sale, is supposed to be able to take off and land vertically
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      • 132 40 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan Aerospace Corp (TAC) and the Aero Industrial Development Centre (AIDC) have reached agreement with the US-based Sikorsky Aircraft to make 2,600 helicopters in the next 20 years, officials said. Four other companies, including one from China, may also
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      • 210 40 Reuter BUCHAREST The chief investigator into the crash of a Romanian Airbus in March which killed 60 people said he did not blame the pilot. "I cannot accept pilot error," Sorin Stoicescu told Reuters on Monday. "There are clear arguments and evidence
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      • 246 40 BEIJING Several foreign airlines are keen to invest in China's aviation infrastructure, said the vice-minister of the country's Civil Aviation Administration, Li Zhao. Speaking yesterday at Multimodal China, Mr Li said more funds domestic and foreign were needed to develop the
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      • 138 40 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY The Australian government has backed away from its threatened ban on Cathay Pacific Airways' services to Australia, The Australian Financial Review reported. Department of Transport lawyers said in court here that Cathay's operating permit could be renewed beyond its present June
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      • 86 40 Reuter MACAU Portuguese-administered Macau, whose new international airport is set to open later this year, is finding talks on air services rights with the United States hard going, a senior official said. "As always with the US, these negotiations are very difficult," Jose
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      • 88 40 AFP TOKYO A wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's largest nationwide supermarket chain operator Daiei Inc will construct what it claims is the world's first magnetic levitation railway line, a spokesman said yesterday. The subsidiary, Dream Kaihatsu, will invest about 30 billion yen (***** million) to
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      • 65 40 AP MOBILE, Alabama An Indonesian airplane manufacturer is to open a US$lOO million (SSI39 million) factory in Mobile for assembling the N-250, a turboprop passenger plane. Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara selected the Brookley Industrial Complex for its new North American facility, which is
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      • 142 40 Reuter LONG BEACH McDonnell Douglas Corp said it signed a preliminary agreement to deliver 20 MD-90 jetliners to two carriers in China, China Eastern Airlines and China Northern Airlines. The agreement is expected to take the form of firm orders by
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      • 1469 40 AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS DEPARTURES c* nm m._*m MbMmH GA985 1106 Gf 147 1850 GF146 1145 SQ441 1506 GA883 1520 G4C75 1636 t QF81 1930 Qf82 2055 S0228 2066 AMMhi SQ25 0650 KLB38 2300 KL837 1450 SQ26 2355 GA975 1535 Mmm SO347 0655 |>WMmi SQ286 2040 SQ288 2045 Gf 148 0910 S«4
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    • 1172 28 MMMfli AM&RICAM I OTHER DESTINATIONS 1 I NORTH AMERICA I .«H 1 CAUf TCryI 1 WXMOUT MAI |171 l tt?l A 7 A 7 AT I U U U 17J I CAfOMMKMMVMM *1J 8.1 Al vuvmmm* TiT aai uit it it it it it it u wuuc lai|pj| at lat
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    • 969 29 TTTv FOON6 SUN SHIPPING (PTE) LTD WHOLESALE CENTRE, BLOCK 1, *03-10 SINGAPORE 0511 aOOKMOfeMQUHtMS COt NO: **********0W TEL: *****55 (12 LINES) FAX: *****16/*****25 TLX; R*****0/***** FSSHIP VESSEL VOY ETA ETD DESTINATION SUN RAY IMS m 21* PLAJU/PALEMBANG GULF SULTAN 17/1 19/6 PONTIANAK/SINTETE GULF KHALID 11/96 22* 24/1 BENGKULU/PAOANG GULF SULTAN
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    • 1055 31 IWWK STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD bmmg 10 Hm Chiang Road *11-01 Kappal Towers Siagapora 0200 Tal: *****00 Fax: *****17 NEW guinea pacific line KtaAAiiaam"fll'fil I nr7il (A service op china navigation CO) CARGO out SAILS CJNM6AN-32 WUSHMn.Uk 16-17JM 18 Jm I«Jwi pcllo. tWWTIU— WIPP—M—WBBTOWBWIAI— STRAITS HOPE WBMCMMn.Ut.KX 17S19JM 28 Jwi
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    • 2352 33 WEEKLY SAMJM TO SOUTH AFMCA* EAST COAST SOUTH AMERICA /vSeri 'oTutoo'iHis ore irn fs«»•'/•/11 rt** umLw in M WW" Optriti&i c—ui»»r tttirii CO STAR SHIPPING PTE LTD O« «*w7* cmw«M« mSWSTWV 7 clL"titt2ma r"imm ».Ht.ntn WW,' 1 4 7 'SSmiZm yen Ht: ecsu jomohi Ofrtct ftritwti ~M fST HO: iIMMMf
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    • 540 37 iuuvo) luuiimuj ITMIIV »w w BSA|I MYANMA nB, FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) W Loading lor Yangon (Rangoon) s>or« p«6 re* MAWLAMYING VMW SID PAGAN V22OW SLD MYOMAYWA VIS6W 20/06 MALAYSIA AfiENTS: 60USTEA0 SHIPPIMfi AGENCIES sssssss tit s&ss* taflA NIGERIAN NATIONAL SHIPPING LINE SPORE FOR TBN 30/06 LAGOS/PT HAR
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