The Business Times, 10 August 1995

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  • 11 1 Business Times WE KHOWfigA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Thursday August 10 1995 m?
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 71 1 Reuter NEW YORK Stocks were mixed yesterday as the blue chips ignored a surge in technology shares sparked by the initial public offering of Netscape Communications. At 2 pm EDT, the Dow Jones index was off 5.99 points at 4,687.33. In the broader market at 1
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  • 166 1 Sttffc market isdiCM Wednesday Change STII closed KLSE Comp closed Nikkei 16,789.33 -49.64 Hang Seng 9,296.70 -7.12 SET Index 1,333.76 +1.96 Jakarta Comp closed Manila Comp 2,868.82 -22.04 Taipei WP1 4,729.37 -187.72 Seoul Comp 924.41 +22.54 Bombay BSE30 ..3,429.56 +37.95 CLSA China B 862.66 -3.95 Aust AU Old
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  • 650 1  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO AFTER a long period of retrenchment, Japanese banks are returning to the arena of international lending in an effort to offset the impact of falling loan demand in Japan. Their Asian lending activity in Hongkong and Singapore
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  • 329 1  -  By David Mok SINGAPORE Aztech Systems' new factory in Batam, which is understood to have cost in excess of US$3O million (5541.7 million), will open soon. Company president Michael Mun told Business Times: "All the machinery and equipment have already been installed,
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  • 448 1 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Justice Department has said it will not complete its long-running anti-trust investigation of Microsoft Corp's Windows 95 operating system in time to act before the program's scheduled Aug 24 debut. The surprise announcement removes immediate concerns that
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  • 606 1  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Listed Indonesian companies tracked by The Estimate Directory are expected to achieve an impressive 40.5 per cent increase in earnings this year. This forecast is higher than the more than 30 per cent earnings growth that research houses like
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    • 230 1 Bottom Line: Pg 16 US' short-sighted approach to diplomacy Law: Pg is More power to shareholders Hock Lock Siew: Pg 6 Jr Cam Mechatronic's latest gamble jfo v i ew from abroad, Pg 2 'A country where the 'Singapore shows the 'If I have to set up a 7 never
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    • 3298 2 TO MARK Singapore's 30th National Day, BT decided to reach out via the Internet to Singaporeans abroad and any others overseas familiar with Singapore. In an AsiaOne/BT Online National Day Special, we asked our online readers to send us their thoughts about Singapore as it
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 459 3 Lopez cannot be forced out of her post immediately, says Ramos Reuter MANILA Beleaguered Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chief Rosario Lopez yesterday won a reprieve from demands that she quit when President Fidel Ramos said she could not be forced out immediately. Ms
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    • 297 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian cement makers, faced with a shortage in supply, have declared a first batch of imports from China unsuitable for high-rise buildings. David Tan, chairman of the country's Concrete and Cement Manufacturers' Association, said preliminary tests show that the cement
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    • 327 3 AFP BANGKOK Thai industry wants to employ foreigners as low-wage labourers due to a shortage of unskilled Thai workers, but the move has been criticised as an attempt to undercut the labour market. The Board of Trade and the Federation of Thai
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    • 163 3 Bloomberg Business News MANILA Philippine President Fidel Ramos rejected calls by Mitsubishi Corp of Japan and others to halt the rebidding of an estimated USSI.S billion (552.08 billion) power facility. The National Power Corp threw out the original auction in June
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 468 4 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI China's economy continued on its path towards a "soft landing" oflower growth and inflation, recording slower industrial output and price increases in July. The State Statistics Bureau said yesterday that China's incremental industrial output the most widely watched measure of
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    • 266 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's stock market plunged to a 20-month low as reports of Chinese military exercises and the suicide of a finance bills company manager yesterday added pessimism to a bourse already hit by a pair of financial scandals. Share prices plummeted
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    • 293 4 UPI Chinese banks will reach 3,000 billion yuan (SSSO2 billion) by the end of the year and provide a sustainable source of capital for the country's economic growth, an official newspaper said yesterday. Private savings exceeded 2,500 billion yuan by the end
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    • 182 4 Reuter SHANGHAI China s top securities regulator praised the Shenzhen Stock Exchange during a recent visit, newspapers said yesterday, giving another boost to a market that once seemed destined to slide into obscurity. During his Aug 3-8 visit, Zhou Daojiong, the chairman of the
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    • 54 4 AFP HONGKONG Mainland Chinese workers moving large stones at the Kowloon Walled City Park project on Monday. The park is being built on the site of the infamous 15-storey Kowloon Walled City which was demolished last year, evicting 40,000 people. The ghetto housed fugitives, prostitutes, drug
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    • 156 4 AFP HONGKONG The gap between the rich and the poor is growing in Hongkong, tarnishing its image as an affluent society, a survey published yesterday showed. The survey, commissioned by charity group Oxfam Hongkong, showed the gulf between rich and poor in Hongkong was far
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  • ASIA
    • 300 5 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australian Treasurer Ralph Willis said the nation is set to achieve its longest period of unbroken economic growth and he cannot guarantee that interest rates will stay low. "We have shown our determination to keep rates as
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    • 185 5 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL South Korea was likely to spend USS2 billion (552.7 billion) this year buying companies and building plants in the United States until the government changed the rules. Worried that companies are borrowing too much from foreign lenders, South
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    • Article, Illustration
      51 5 Reuter HANOI A Vietnamese labourer cutting steel bolts in a poorly equipped metalwork shop here yesterday. Vietnam, with more than 37 million in its labour force, has a high unemployment rate of 6 per cent in urban areas and 30-35 per cent in rural areas, government statistics show.
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    • 317 5 Foreign investment slows, confidence in stock market eroded AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka's economy has become a victim of renewed bombing attacks that have claimed the lives of 26 people in two days and shattered foreign and local investor confidence, analysts and brokers said yesterday.
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    • 226 5 UPI SYDNEY Australia's Education Minister said yesterday efforts by the country's universities to recruit more overseas students and offer courses offshore may be a boon to export earnings. Minister of Education Simon Crean said Australian schools ranging from secondary institutions to universities
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 94 5 AFP TOKYO Bank of Japan governor Yasuo Matsushita said the central bank would continue to cooperate with other Group of Seven (G-7) industrial economies towards strengthening the dollar. Mr Matsushita told a news conference that last week's announcement on boosting offshore investment was
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      • 123 5 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO The Bank of Japan and other regulators are hurrying to put the finishing touches on the bail-out of Tokyo's largest thrift institution, Bank of Japan governor Yasuo Matsushita said. On Aug 1, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government froze lending and
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      • 74 5 Reuter CANBERRA Australian Deputy Prime Minister Kim Beazley said yesterday the general election would be held next year. "It will be in the first half of next year," he told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio. Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating can hold an election at
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      • 104 5 Reuter SYDNEY Australia launched yesterday a national inquiry into "The Stolen Generation" the tens of thousands of Aborigines forcibly separated from their families under government policy until the mid-*****. Aborigines have called the forced separation policy genocide because it aimed to assimilate Aborigines into Australia's then
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      • 99 5 AP SEOUL South Korea's car exports shot up by 112.5 per cent to 90,367 cars in July compared to a year ago, the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association said yesterday. The boom benefited from South Korea's attempts to win new markets and increased price competitiveness
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 445 6  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Provisions Suppliers Corp said yesterday it planned to focus its expansion efforts on Malaysia rather than China. Executive chairman Tan Ling San said PSC would concentrate on real estate development, leisure and manufacturing sectors
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    • 795 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By David Mok SINGAPORE Some would say that in one fell swoop, component manufacturer Cam Mechatronic turned itself into Singapore's first listed gaming operator. As one analyst put it, the company appeared to have gone "lock,
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    • 355 6  -  Airline contradicts itself over foreign exchange losses From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK IN an apparent effort to control damage on its already dented image. Thai Airways yesterday said the revenue it received from its Japanese operations would offset any losses
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    • 237 6 SINGAPORE Indonesian pulp giant Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd (AP Resources) has posted sharply higher second quarter group net earnings. The company, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, said yesterday that earnings jumped more than 15 times to
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    • COMPANIES
      • 428 7  -  From Quik Hiang Whai in HONGKONG CATHAY Pacific surprised even the most optimistic of analysts yesterday when it reported an impressive 22.4 per cent jump in interim group net earnings to HKS9B3 million (*****.6 million). ,And the company expects to do even
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      • 393 7  -  From Alan Boyd in BANGKOK SIAM CEMENT Co has embarked on a 20 billion baht (SS 1.1 billion) steel industry expansion plan to make it an integrated supplier within five years. Wirash Krittaphol, managing director of the group's steel holding company, said
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      • 307 7  -  From Al Labita ti MANILA THE Phffipoine peso's rise against the* uS dollar* has hif the Philippine Long Distance Telephone's interim earnings. The company's earnings rose just 3.1 per cent to 2.53 billion pesos (SS 141 million) in the first half of
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      • 186 7 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Net profit fell 22.4 per cent at gambling tycoon Stanley Ho's Shun Tak Holdings Ltd to HKS2SB.6 million (5J46.72 million) in the first half of the year, as sluggish sales and rising fuel prices cut margins. Earning? pCT share
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      • 284 7  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON FIRST-half earnings at Standard Chartered Bank pic were boosted by expanding Asian credit card business and higher mortgage lending in Hongkong, Singapore and Malaysia. Pre-tax profit for the six months ended June 30 surged 35 per cent
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      • 187 7 HONGKONG Edgar Cheng, the chairman of the Stock Exchange of Hongkong, has voiced his public support for Paul Chow, the exchange's chief executive officer, after the public airing of a dispute between two of the regulator's top executives, Eastern Express said yesterday.
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      • 149 7 Bloomberg Business News MANILA Ayala Land Inc, the Philippines' largest realestate developer, yesterday said net income surged 45 per cent in the first half as its projects enjoyed brisk sales in a two-year-old property boom. Ayala Land's net profit rose to 1.67
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      • 77 7 Reuter LONDON British Petroleum Co pic reported a 55 per cent surge in second-quarter earnings on Tuesday and surprised markets with a sharp rise in dividend, but warned that oil refining margins look likely to remain weak. Second-quarter net income before exceptional items rose
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      • 69 7 AFP SHANGHAI Beijing Tour Bus Co Ltd, a listed coach manufacturer, has sold 25 per cent of its shares to Japan's Isuzu Motors Ltd and trading house C Itoh and Co Ltd. News reports said yesterday that the company signed an agreement on
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      • 76 7 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Shares of construction and property company Hopewell Holdings Ltd fell as much as 12.7 per cent in under two days, tumbling 5.1 per cent yesterday morning on news that Peregrine Brokerage Ltd had downgraded the company's expected earnings by 19 per cent
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      • 63 7 Reuter BANGKOK Thai cable television operator International Broadcasting Corp pic yesterday said its new partners will help strengthen existing business and aid future expansion. "We will closely cooperate to strengthen IBCs existing and future business as well as each partner's business in the future," said
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 493 8 Reuter HONGKONG The territory's banking sector is headed for a dip in earnings and the Hongkong dollar is becoming increasingly vulnerable to ex-change-rate speculation, Moody's Investors Service said yesterday. "The cycle of Hongkong's banking has obviously peaked and has started its journey down,"
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      • 282 8 Reuter SHANGHAI China will bar exchanges and credit centres from trading securities repurchase paper without central government approval, according to new rules published in official newspapers. Financial organisations are forbidden to take part in unauthorised repurchase trading, according to the new rules jointly
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      • 281 8  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG HONGKONG has, for the first time, disclosed the size of its Exchange Fund on an interim basis as part of an effort towards greater openness and transparency of its affairs. Financial Secretary Hamish
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      • 318 8 Reuter ABU DHABI An Iranian oil industry source said yesterday that about 100 European and Asian firms have shown interest in 10 oil development projects in Iran despite a US economic embargo. "There have been 100 applicants and we are satisfied and expect the number
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      • 212 8 Reuter LONDON The dollar was easier as dealers waited to see whether the Bundesbank will match market expectations by lowering the repo rate. For a week now, the market has been expecting the German central bank to steer the repo rate lower for the first time in nine weeks.
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      • 96 8 AFP NEW YORK The dollar held steady against major currencies early yesterday in slack trading which did not respond to the Bundesbank's lowering of the repo rate by 0.05 of a point to 4.45 per cent. At 1400 GMT, the greenback was trading at 1.4075 German marks from
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      • Article, Illustration
        1274 8 Irak-weighted index mkidaled again\t S'pore's top 14 trading partners Ba* )nr /<M.< US$/S$ forward rates Noon Aug 8 s$ BM Offcr 1-month I 3959 1 )974 2-nwMh 1.3935 ***** J-month ***** 1 )923 6-month 1X37 I M57 Saunr OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9aa m Aaf
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1211 9 Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen and Eurodollar futures ended barely changed in light trade. Euroyen activity was muted with Tokyo drifting in the summer holiday season and Singapore's forex market closed for a public holiday. March Euroyen closed at 99.23 against a previous settlement
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      • 318 9 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber TOKYO Rubber futures closed firmer on short-covering triggered by the yen's weaker tendency against the dollar. Prices ranged from 0.8 to 2.5 yen per kg higher. Benchmark January finished 2.3 yen up at 118.3. Sentiment was firm with short-covering in nearby
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      • 101 9 BANGKOK Thailand's Padaeng Industry has completed a plant that will process zinc sulfide ore into zinc calcine, which then can be refined into high-grade zinc metal, said the firm. The plant, south-east of Bangkok's Rayong province, has a production capacity of 138,000 tonnes per year
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      • 70 9 SYDNEY Sugar harvesting in Australia's Queensland state has been disrupted by unseasonal rains, which have caused 18 of Queensland's 25 sugar mills to be closed since Monday. May to November is Queensland's dry season and the general falls of 50-100 mm, which fell over much
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      • 52 9 WASHINGTON A USDA world coffee production estimate typically released in June has been "indefinitely delayed", said Edmond Missiaen, specialty crops analyst with USDA's World Agricultural Outlook Board. The Tropical Products: World Markets and Trade report generally includes production estimates for Brazil and Colombia, major
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      • India's sugar imports
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      • 85 9 LONDON Coffee exports to all destinations by exporting members of the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) during June totalled 5.6 million bags, down 591,000 bags from exports totalling 6.2 million in June 1994, according to preliminary ICO estimates. June 1995 exports were up from May exports
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      • 91 9 TOKYO Japan's Sumitomo Metal Mining has taken another step towards mine supply autonomy with the purchase of the remaining shares of Stone Boy, a lead, zinc and gold mining project in Alaska. Sumitomo purchased the 43 per cent stake it did not already own from
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      • 81 9 MOSCOW The board of directors of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium has announced that USbased Willbros and Italy's Saipem are the winners of an international tender for the first stage of the Caspian pipeline project announced early this year, Interfax News Agency reported. Head of the
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    • 640 9 Crude OH Products Aug 8 Crmfo (fob Mifta) USS/barrel 5.20pm close Change Brent blend (Sep) 16.13/16.20 -o.ovo.os WTI (Sep) 17.61/17.65 -0.16/0.16 Dubai fateh (Sep) 15.45/is.55 +0.10/0.10 Tapis blend (Sep) 17.50/17.60 -o.io/o.io MinaS (Aug) I6.SVI6.6S +0.20/0.20 Pfdnct (fob S'por*) USS/tonne S.20pm close Change Naptha (cif Japan) per MT 164.75/166.00
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1095 10 +3.4 WITH investors pausing in pursuit of resource shares, stocks closed slightly higher yesterday. "It looks like the resources are having a mild pause at the moment. They've had a good strong run so that's not surprising." said a dealer, adding that the market was drifting, awaiting an overseas
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      • 443 10 +22.54 Stocks rose 2.5 per cent with investors taking their cue from the softness of the bond market. The Composite Index rose 22.54 points to 924.41. Turnover was 30 million shares valued at 502 billion won, with rises beating falls by 732 to 113 and 88 remaining unchanged. The
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      • 595 10 •22.04 Share prices fell by 0.8 per cent as blue chips took a beating after the release of disappointing first half figures. The PSE Composite Index fell 22.04 points to 2,868.82. Turnover was to 2.86 billjon shares valued at 2.24 billion pesos. Despite the downturn, the market still reihained
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      • 504 10 -187.72 Share prices finished 3.8 per cent lower on battered confidence amid a series of unfavourable factors. "Market sentiment was dampened by reports that China was planning a large-scale military landing drill and the suicide of an International Bills Finance Corp manager," said an analyst. The 321-issue Weighted Price
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      • 349 10 -5.68 Shares lost their early gains to end lower after the steam went out of the country's two biggest stocks, Telecom and Carter Holt Harvey. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended 5.68 points down at 2,142.32 after earlier touching 2,159.21. Turnover was NZ$45 million. Most company results issued yesterday
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      • 66 10 +37.95 Shares finished stronger at the start of a new account in Agroup stocks, brokers said. The BSE 30-share Index rose 37.95 points to end at 3,429.56. The 100-share National Index rose 4.63 to 1,576.43. Brokers said foreign funds were active in shares of consumer electronics firms Philips and
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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      • 664 10 -0.5 UK STOCKS closed mixed for a second day this week as a surge in banks helped counter tumbling paper and packaging stocks. Shares in Rexam slumped as the packaging company warned of a slowdown in sales, heightening concern that profits in some industries will be squeezed as the
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      • 135 10 •10.92 French shares finished with losses in thin volume, as the market followed other European bourse downwards. Concerns over appetite in the US Treasury auction and lack of enthusiasm for the Buba's five-basis-point cut in its repo rate yesterday weighed on bond markets, traders said. The CAC-40 Index closed
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      • 136 10 •29 Italian shares closed lower in listless. The Mibtel Index closed 29 points lower at 10,439. Traders estimated volume at 402 billion lire. Olivetti gained against the market trend in what traders said was a technical rebound. "There is no fundamental explanation for the rebound in Olivetti but after
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      • 202 10 +1.05 Dutch shares continued to trade mixed with the index ending slightly firmer in quiet trade. Dealers said the German repo rate cut failed to inspire much activity, but market undertone remained firm with all eyes on Buba meeting today. The AEX Index gained 1.05 points to 460.71. Amsterdam
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      • 134 10 -14.31 Swedish stocks lost ground with little domestic news to mark its course, tracking most overseas share markets lower, but dropped more sharply after falling below a psychological barrier. "There were no external factors fuelling the downturn. When we dropped below 1,330, we received a clear sell signal but
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      • 183 10 •14.61 German stocks closed lower, reflecting growing pessimism that the Bundesbank will not cut interest rates further when its policy-mak-ing council meets today. "A few days ago there was optimism pushing the bourse up, now it's balancing out," said a trader. The DAX Index slid 14.61 points to 2,222.28.
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      • 206 10 -4.80 Belgian stocks Tell to a six- day low, amid uncertainty i about whether the Bundesbank will lower its key interest rate today. Investors were divided about the chances of a cut in the discount rate. Speculation the rate will be lowered mounted after the Belgian and German central
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      • 238 10 +6.10 Stocks moved up early, buoyed by surging high-tech stocks, with investors also eyeing the latest rate move by the Bank of Canada. The TSE 300 Composite Index rose 6.10 points to 4,627.80 on volume of 11.35 million shares valued at Csl3B million. Advancing issues outpaced declines 178 to
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      • 748 10 •12.68 Stock prices turned narrowly mixed in fairly active trading early yesterday as the market tried to brush off bonds early weakness ahead of the second leg of treasurys record quarterly refunding. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which ended unchanged on Tuesday, was down 12.68 points to 4,680.64
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      • 253 10 -16.10 Swiss stocks fell for a fifth day as investors sold Roche Holding and Brown Boveri Corp and bank shares amid concern about earnings. The SMI Index of 21 leading stocks fell 16.10 points at 2,781.30, its lowest level in eight weeks. The broader SPI Index fell 9.51 to
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      2616 11 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks were mixed as Shun Tak and HK Aircraft Engineering tumbled amid concern profit growth will slow this year and next. Hopewell lost as much as 5.2 per cent before rebounding. Hopewell fell 13 per cent in two days as investors fretted over some analysts'
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      617 11 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index lost 9.26 points at 1,140.30 on turnover of HKS9.3 million. The biggest losers were Kunming, down 4.9 per cent, Yizheng, which dropped 4 per cent and Luoyang, down 3.8 per cent. In Shanghai, the B Index fell 0.6 per cent against the
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      2506 11 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO'— Stocks were mixed as shipping shares rose on expectations the dollar's gains will boost their earnings, while domestic institutions bid down shares in technology stocks. The Nikkei Average fell 49.64 points to 16,789.33, after rising as high as 16,931.4. The Nikkei 300 Index rose 0.29
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      1538 11 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks drifted in the red in slow trade through most of the day as investors remained bearish on a combination of negative factors, but finished just higher with a late rebound. The SET Index clawed its way back from an intra-day low of 9.49 points down to
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 840 13  -  Shahiron Sahari meets a pair of globetrotting Greeks who visited Singapore on their motorbike Shahiron Sahari BY THE TIME you read this, a pair of Greeks should be just two days away from triumphantly entering Sydney to finish their "round half-the-world" journey on a
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    • 293 13 CHATTERBOX Reuter AP AP NYT BRITAIN'S Prince Philip made a remark which seemed to suggest the people of a Scottish town were drunkards, newspapers said yesterday. "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the (driving) test?"
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    • 364 13 Reuter "MY NAME is Nguyen Minh Phuong, I am 23, I am Miss Vietnam 1992, I very like being model, but 1 want to be a businesswoman." Marxist ideals just aren't cutting the ice the way they used to in Hanoi. At a series
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    • 1170 13 TV RADIO 1 Putting Art In Its Place, 10pm, Ch 12 Great Britain transforming disused railway lines into bicycle and walking ~,t paths. Art pieces that relate to 4 the scenery and history deco- ~*"^jj^m> r rate these paths, and have be- 3 I S Problem Child, 8.30pm, Ch 5
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  • 808 14 US tyre firm is all set to roll after reaching agreement on trademark with a Chinese firm THE importance of early trademark registration in China is well illustrated by the experience of American company Goodyear Tire Rubber. Its Eagle label, an internationally
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  • 548 14 NOW that initial public offers (IPOs) are beginning to excite investors again with the latest issues like freight forwarder Freight Links' IPO achieving a record 90 times subscription, it is timely to review the subject of IPO pricing. This is because the overwhelming demand for IPO shares
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  • 353 14 AFTER FLEXIBLE wages, it is flexible benefits. The scheme seems so imaginative that one wonders why more companies have not followed IBM which introduced it in Singapore in May 1993. Among the handful to do so are the West in Stamford and Plaza hotel group, Western
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  • 186 14 AT 30, a person can be considered to be mature. But for a nation, it is argued 30 years is too short a time to build a sense of nationhood. Whether such an argument applies to Singapore is debatable. Many a national leader has tried to point
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  • 167 14 PARLIAMENT HAS passed a Bill to set up the new Land Transport Authority (LTA). From the explantions given by the Transport Minister on the LTA Bill, we can understand its significance. The views of back- benchers also reflect the high hopes they have of this Bill. If
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  • 142 14 THE ANNUAL round of Asean foreign ministers' meetings has become such a complex event that it is sometimes difficult to sort out the important bits from the details. In some respects this year's meetings appeared bland, but on a handful of important issues, Asean has taken significant steps
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  • 113 14 THE RECENT shooting deaths of three part-time female workers at a supermarket in Hachioji, Tokyo, has further pressed home the danger of guns. Strict gun control is a major factor contributing to the safe society we are proud of. But this control has deteriorated. Japan's recent tilt towards
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  • 119 14 TWENTY YEARS after the fall of Saigon and one month after President Bill Ginton established diplomatic relations with Hanoi, Secretary of State Warren Christopher's visit to Vietnam last weekend was an important step in the painful process of reconciliation. Mr Christopher's visit set just the
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    • 948 15  -  Even non-executive directors can be taken to court under a recent judgement, as Selva Kumar discovers Selva Kumar The writer is a Sydney-based freelance writer CORPORATE heavyweights in Australia are alarmed by impending changes to the law that could soon wipe out a
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  • 470 16 AFP AP BOMBAY The Hindu nationalist government of India's Maharashtra state hinted yesterday that it was willing to renegotiate with Enron Corp of the United States on its cancelled US$2.B billion (553.92 billion) power project. "If Enron sends us a letter
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  • 365 16 Cut in key discount rate expected to follow UPI Bloomberg Business News BONN The Bundesbank kicked off a fresh round of cuts in German interest rates yesterday by letting money-market rates fall for the first time in lour months, a move which many analysts believe
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  • 384 16 AP Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON US economic growth is getting ofT to a slow start in the second half of 1995, restrained by sluggishness in the car industry, the Federal Reserve said yesterday. The economy is expanding moderately in some parts
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  • 776 16  -  The Bottom Line ANTHONY ROWLEY ANTHONY ROWLEY The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent THE Monroe Doctrine under which America in effect assumed foreign policy-making rights on behalf of Latin America has been described by one political historian as "a unilateral declaration of what America
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  • 167 16 Reuter Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK MCI Communications Corp and News Corp Ltd yesterday announced a joint venture to provide online services, the first major link-up since MCI announced plans earlier this year to invest US$2 billion (Ss2.B billion) in the media and
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  • 240 16 Business Day BANGKOK A high-pow-ered panel has been named to advise the Banharn government on the economy as well as to bolster the government's image. Finance Minister Surakiart Sathirathai announced yesterday that former Deputy Agriculture Minister Kosit Panpiemrat has been appointed as chairman
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  • WORLD IN A BOX
    • 64 16 Bloomberg Business News BOSTON Walt Disney Co, fresh on the heels of its planned acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC Inc, is considering Boston's waterfront for a new entertainment complex. The Boston Globe yesterday quoted Stephen Tocco, executive director of the Massachusetts Port Authority, as saying Disney officials
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    • 51 16 Reuter PARIS Russia could have an economic boom next year, experts at the OECD, the Western governments' think-tank, believe. But in a major report to be published next month they will tell Moscow politicians that only tight financial discipline and more free-market reforms can make it happen.
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    • 58 16 Reuter TOKYO Japan spent 1.85 trillion yen (SS2B billion) to dispose of garbage in the fiscal year which ended in March 1993. Kyodo news service yesterday quoted the Ministry of Health and Welfare as saying that 14,800 yen per person was spent on disposing of gart>age, up
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    • 72 16 Reuter NEW YORK United States House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich's wife says she would prevent him running for president and undermine any bid, according to a magazine article published on Tuesday. "I don't want him to be president, and I don't think he should
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    • 89 16 Reuter ABU DHABI About 100 European and Asian firms have shown interest in 10 oil development projects in Iran, which is trying to work around a US economic embargo. An Iranian oil source yesterday said: "There have been 100 applicants and we are satisfied and
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    • 49 16 Reuter WASHINGTON The White House yesterday says there has been an increase in the theft of US trade secrets, including some by friendly countries. The conclusions were in US President Bill Clinton's first Annual Report to Congress on Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage. Reuter
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    • 108 16 Reuter PARIS About 250 relieved workers at a French slaughterhouse ended a strike yesterday after a partial victory over their boss's decree that Jhey had to go to the toilet at fixed times or lose pay. Staff in the "pee break" dispute at the plant in Quimperle
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    • 540 17 Knight-Ridder Reuter DRY bulk markets remained quiet with few new enquiries, although shipbrokers noted interest in short-period timecharters and activity from Japanese traders. The short-period interest could signal a rise in rates on Atlantic and Pacific routes, they said. "There still seems to be quite an abundance of
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    • 344 17 SINGAPORE Precious Shipping pic said it has invested 487 million baht (5527.4 million) for the purchase of two ships which will have a combined capacity of 47,235 deadweight tonnes (dwt). The two vessels will expand the Bangkok-based shipowner's
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    • 304 17 Reuter SYDNEY Australia's maritime industry is continuing to fall short of international standards despite recent improvements in profitability and the quality of the fleet, Transport Minister Laurie Brereton said. The Australian Shipowners Association (ASA) 1995 report said total labour costs declined by
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    • 319 17 SES WO Aug 8 S$ Vol CWT Distribution 1.66 +0.01 16 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.22 -0.01 87 Cosco Investment 1.97 -0.04 83 Cosco Investment A 1.74 Far East Levingston 6.10 -0.10 291 GB Holdings Ltd 0.82 +0.01 13 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.905 -0.01 517 Hitachi Zosen 0.99
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    • 349 17  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Feeder line Nortrans Shipping Pool Pte Ltd is introducing a new roll on/roll off (ro/ro) multi-pur-pose liner service between Singapore and Thailand from today. The service will be the first regular combined ro/ro conventional line between Singapore and Thailand. Ports
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    • 231 17 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Stock Exchange of Hongkong has censured Frank Chao, an adviser to China and a director of Wah Kwong Shipping Group, for taking unauthorised loans from the shipping company. The public slap on the wrist is the latest move
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    • 54 17 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd said it had won a US$45 million (SS62.S million) order from Malaysian International Shipping Corp Bhd (MISC) to build a 105,400 deadweight tonne crude tanker. Hyundai, a unit of the Hyundai Group, will deliver the tanker by mid-1997,
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    • 449 17 Lloyd's List LONDON CMB Transport (CMBT) and Contship Containeriine are to combine their joint liner services from Europe to the Middle East and India/Pakistan into one operation to ward off competition from conference outsiders. The decision is the logical outcome to four
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    • 241 17 SINGAPORE American President Lines (APL) announced recently that it had gone online with the launching of its "home page" on the Internet's Worldwide Web. "The Internet may eventually provide a low-cost alternative to some of the sophisticated electronic data interchange technologies in use in freight transportation
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    • 56 17 Reuter ISTANBUL Commuters packed aboard a privately-run lory sailing through Istanbul s Bosporous as the state-ran ferries remain empty on quayside due to a one-day labour action on Tuesday. Thousands of public workers stopped work to protest against what they see as an insufficient pay
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    • 164 17 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Sydney-based transport group TNT Ltd yesterday said it formed a joint venture with Thailand's Loxley' Public Co to provide transport logistical services. The new company, TNT Logistics (Thailand) Ltd, will be owned 51 per cent by Loxley and
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    • 1057 18  -  Air charter brokers provide a niche service by arranging emergency or oversize shipments. But it is a very competitive business and the costs are high, says Chris Gillis Chris Gillis American Shipper Ii T IS expensive, so you better know what you are
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      • 381 30 Reuter Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has saved- more than Msl billion (***** million) by tendering projects for its mega-air-port, a senior minister said. Works Minister Samy Vellu said based on the tenders awarded since late 1994, estimated costs for the first phase
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      • 76 30 BREMEN, Germany Korean car maker Kia Motors now produces its four-wheel-drive Spoilage model in Germany for the Taiwan market. The tie-up with German company Karmann in Osnabruck has resulted in the creation of 1,000 extra jobs. Representatives of Kia, Karmann, Nosac and
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      • 281 30 NYT NEW YORK The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday responded to widespread criticism of how it handles counterfeit and unapproved parts on aircraft, announcing that it had established a task force to study all its policies and procedures
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      • 241 30 Reuter WASHINGTON The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered tighter security at US airports, citing the increased possibility of anti-US extremist attacks in coming months, the Washington Post reported yesterday. It quoted US aviation sources saying an FAA
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      • 214 30 Knight-Ridder LONDON Commuters should brace themselves for twice weekly strikes on the London Underground or Tube as train drivers vote pn whether or not to pursue industrial action, the Evening Standard said on Monday. The paper said leaders of tKe two train drivers' unions Aslef
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      • 310 30 Bloomberg Business News ROME Italian national airline Alitalia SpA said on Tuesday it sold its 56.2 per cent stake in Rome's airport for 415.7 billion lire (*****.8 million), the first step towards Europe's fifth largest airport selling shares
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      • 343 30 AFP ANGELES, Philippines An international airport at the former US Clark Air Base will be ready to receive flights by October, but will need improvements worth 350 million pesos (5519.1 million) to be fully operational, an official said on Tuesday. Romeo David,
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      • 93 30 AFP MANILA The management of Manila airport yesterday rejected findings by the US Federal Aviation Administration that aviation security measures in the Philippines were inadequate. The Manila airport "is more secure than other airports. They can inspect it anytime and we will show them," airport
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      • 96 30 Reuter HONGKONG Cathay Pacific Airways said it has begun a trial cost-cutting scheme under which some of its Thai flight attendants will be based in Thailand rather than Hong Kong. Spokesman Kwan Chuk-fai said: "Some cabin crew members are now based in their home country on
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      • 98 30 Reuter PARIS Air France is considering dropping flights to Australia and New Caledonia for commercial reasons, but nothing has been decided yet, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The airline's review has been under way for several months and pre-dates the tensions between France and
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      • 71 30 Reuter BEIJING The all-female bevy of powder-blue clad flight attendants who serve in China's planes will have new colleagues men, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. Shanghai-based East China Airlines has selected its first tight stewards from more than 1,000 college students who replied
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      • 379 30 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Mazda Motor Corp will slash car production next month and tell 5,500 employees to stay home for as many as five days because of poor sales in Japan. Mazda's production will fall by 13,000 vehicles, or 18 per
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