The Business Times, 25 September 1995

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  • 12 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Monday September 25 1995 85*
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  • 70 1 Bloomberg Business News MCLEAN, Virginia Orders for industrial tools in-the United States fell 13.2 per cent in August from the month before, the US Association of Manufacturing Technology said yesterday. Domestic customers pared their orders by 14.9 per cent in August, while demand from
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  • 143 1 Frttay Week ctw*e STII 2,108.39 -31.28 KLSE Comp 1,017.25 +23.72 Nikkei 17,713.93 -1,044.62 HangScag 9.541.17 -255.53 SET Index 1,307.99 -29.63 Jakarta Comp 492.81 -2.51 CLSA China B 851.36 -18.81 AuatAIOrd 2,139.4 -26.3 FTSE 100 3,514.8 -49.8 Dow Jones 4,764.15 -33.42 •SSSti fi&ttaU Singapore* 6.44 Kuala Lumpur 7.95 Jakarta 18.00 Bangkok
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  • 209 1 SINGAPORE Trading on the Singapore stock exchange will be mixed with an upward bias this week. Interest will be centred on selected second liners while Malaysian over-the-counter shares will continue to gain acceptance. Affecting sentiment will be takeover rumours (both old and
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  • 411 1  -  By Yang Razali Kassim in BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN BRUNEI has formed a holding company to promote foreign investment and to help local businessmen take on big projects in its small but oilrich economy. The company, Semaun Holdings, is headed by Minister for
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  • 720 1  -  Fran Neil Behrmann in LONDON ASIA has become fashionable with American and European investors again. Reports from brokers and fund managers indicate that flows have risen markedly in the past few months and unless there is a sharp decline on Wall Street
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  • 427 1 Reuter, AFP KUALA LUMPUR The government has played down market rumours that it approved a rate increase for national power giant Tenaga Nasional, but analysts are still hopeful that a tariff hike would soon be announced. Talk of an
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  • 487 1 AFP, Reuter JAKARTA President Suharto, in a rare statement about his relationship with Indonesia's wealthiest tycoon Liem Sioe Liong, denied that he was colluding with the businessman in cement and flour companies, press reports said here yesterday. "The building of those two businesses
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  • 281 1 AFP HANOI A top Vietnamese official yesterday denied reports that Vietnam is freezing approval for foreign investment in hotels and property, but admitted that Hanoi is looking for better terms for such projects. Nguyen Mai, deputy chairman of the State Committee for Cooperation and
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    • 12 1 Management: pg 13 Women and national power Full report on Pg 27
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    • 21 1 Market Matters: Pg 17 Tough questions for Dr M UN's 50th anniversary: Achievements limited but world body remains relevant, Pg 7
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 292 2  -  By Abdul Hadhi CONSUMER PRICES rose at a slower year-on-year rate of 1.4 per cent in August, according to figures released yesterday by the Department of Statistics. This rate of inflation is the lowest recorded in more than a year. The food price index, the
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    • 580 2  -  Families with monthly gross income of $8,000 to $10,000 better placed to buy, says NUS paper By Tan Su Yen EXECUTIVE condominiums may prove to be more popular with HDB upgraders and middle income families than first-time homeowners, says a paper by
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    • 477 2  -  By Claire Leow HEWLETT-Paclcard Singapore's peripherals division expects revenue to hit nearly US$2 billion in the next financial year ending October 1996. But this forecast does not include other hardcopy products that the company has started to make or are planning to
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    • 449 2  -  By Siow Li Sen THE three independent storage tank operators in Singapore are swimming in the money, now that the Asia-Pa-ciflc market for oil has been flooded by non-traditional exporters. And the supply from the US, Europe and Middle East is
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 432 3  -  Experience and training programmes of Singapore's EDB and Malaysia's Miti being tapped By Yang Razali Kassim in BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN BRUNEI is taking a leaf from the development books of Singapore and Malaysia in its efforts to diversify its economy which is now dependent on
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    • 160 3 Bernama BAKUN, Sarawak The Sarawak state government is expected to pay compensation to 9,428 residents affected by the Bakun hydro electric dam project by early next year. Sarawak Minister of Finance and Public Utilities George Chan Hong Nam said yesterday the state government
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    • 123 3 Reuter MANILA The Philippines has eased rules to let universal banks increase their equity investments in other commercial banks to up to 49 per cent from 30 per cent. This follows the Central Bank's decision to induce weaker banks to take in stronger banks as
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    • 200 3 AFP PHNOM PENH Cambodia's First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh said yesterday that there were no concrete plans to set up a second national airline in Cambodia. His remarks came a day after Business Times reported that he had asked Singapore Technologies
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    • 229 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The project developer for Malaysia's Petronas Twin Towers, expected to be the world's tallest building when completed next year, has denied speculation that the towers are tilting. In an interview with the Sunday Star newspaper, Abdul Rahim Nairn, managing director of the
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    • 361 4 AFP JgpfANOI After suffering jgltars of shortages and rising 3Kyices, Vietnam is likely to see jPa glut in steel soon with the &*ojpening of four plants this 3^ year, a report said yesterday. Output of steel products, bars and wire for construction,
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    • 385 4 Reuter PHNOM PENH Controversial Cambodian tycoon Teng Boonma is sinking hundreds of millions of dollars into construction projects and says he may build a much-needed freeway between the capital and its international airport. "The royal government has authorised me to make studies
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    • 94 4 Reuter MANILA The Philippines' foreign debt rose to US$4O.6 billion (SssB billion) as of end-June, jumping by US$l.6 billion from the end-March level of US$39 billion, the Central Bank said. Bank governor Gabriel Singson told reporters the increase was caused by a US$ 1 billion
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    • Article, Illustration
      62 4 AFP HANOI Vietnamese women working on Saturday at OrionHanel plant which specialises in manufacturing television tubes The plant is a joint venture with South Korean company Daewoo and was inaugurated last month. It is capable of producing one million colour and 600,000 black and white tubes per year.
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    • 78 4 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is awaiting the Philippine government's response to its plan to ban Filipino maids under the age of 35 from working here. Deputy Home Affairs Minister Megat Junid Megat Ayub said, "We have submitted the guidelines to the Philippine
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    • 42 4 AFP PHNOM PENH Cambodia yesterday celebrated the second anniversary of the adoption of its constitution and the re-corona-tion of King Norodom Sihanouk who signed the document just hours after its approval by the parliament in 1993. AFP
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    • 266 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Local investors are invited to participate in the construction of houses, shopping complexes and a marina in northern Sumatra, Perlis Mentri Besar Shahidan Kasim said yesterday. Mr Shahidan told reporters here that the Indonesian authorities had invited local investors to embark
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    • 144 4 Reuter MANILA A new Philippine public telecommunications law will reduce from years to days the waiting time for approval of lines, officials said. When all systems are in place, applicants will get approval in 10 working days instead of waiting
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    • 275 4 Reuter TACLOBAN, Philippines Philippine President Fidel Ramos said a multi-billion peso levy collected from coconut farmers in previous years would be used to support the industry, following a recent Supreme Court decision. Mr Ramos told a news conference yesterday he
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 510 6 South China Morning Post HONGKONG New home loan approvals in August dropped below the already sluggish July level, underlining the continuing downturn in the property market. The gross value of residential mortgage loans in Hongkong made by the 33
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    • 307 6 Aim is to make sector largest source of hard currency AFP BEIJING China is to further open its machinery industry to foreign capital from next year to make this sector its greatest source of hard currency, the China Daily reported yesterday. The
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    • 297 6 Reuter BEIJING China railed anew at local officials yesterday on the eve of a key Communist Party meeting, accusing them of jeopardising a 15 per cent inflation target for 1995 by boosting prices without permission. 'This practice increases difficulties in inter-related sectors
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    • 357 6 Patten's abode proposal draws flak from all quarters AFP, Reuter LONDON British Home Michael Howard said {IgMMflpday there was "no quesof Britain granting resipermits to more than jj sthree million of Hongkong's t'fpndents, as proposed by the jgjjPlgppy's governor Chris Patten. On Saturday, Mr Patten
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    • 53 6 AFP PARIS Children playing as prisoners on Satwday with a 12-metre tall King Kong at the city of sciences in the La Villette park in Paris. The King is part of the 10th anniversary celebration for the cinema installed at the Geode, part of the La
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    • 219 6 Reuter TAIPEI Three state-run banks have agreed to offer Taiwan's Chung-Li Farmers' Credit Union NT$4 billion (Ss2oB million) in loans after last week's run on deposits in which customers withdrew at least NTSI.6 billion, state radio said yesterday. The Cooperative Bank of Taiwan,
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    • 425 6 Taiwan to mark national day with military exercise AFP, Reuter TAIPEI Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui has invited Chinese leaders to visit Taiwan to allow them to debunk claims made against him in a series of vitriolic attacks by China, a leading newspaper reported
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    • 190 6 AFP BEIJING Just months after suffering some of the worst flooding this oentury, areas of southern China are mobilising forces to fight a drought that is threatening crops, livestock and drinking water supplies. A 10-day heat-wave has scorched the provinces of Hunan, Hubei,
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    • 68 6 Reuter BEIJING Beijing yesterday condemned what it called Washington's covert connivance with China's enemies, branding US President Bill Clinton's recent meeting with Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama a "grave act of deliberate interference*'. The official Xinhua news agency, in a signed commentary published in its Xinhua
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    • 65 6 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan has taken delivery of two more US-made E-2T eariy-warning aircraft which will take part in a scheduled military exercise for Taiwan's Oct 10 National Day, a local acwipapti reported yesterday. The government bought four E-2Ts from US defence contractor Grumman vahied at
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    • 76 6 AFP HONGKONG For Hongkong's rich and famous, an army of private security guards and sophisticated burglar alarms are the response to a growing crime rate, which police say is «p—by illegal Chinese immigrants drawn by the territory's legendary wealth. Police have assigned hundreds of
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    • 79 6 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's unemployment rate was 2.09 per cent in August, up from 1.95 per cent in July and 1.99 per cent in August 1994, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and $>**«*«« said. The number of unemployed in August rose by 14,000 to
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    • 64 6 AFP BEIJING A yourffe girl is surrounded by adults as they browse through selections presented at the outdoor Third Beijing Book Festival on Sep 24. Bookworms from provinces all over rhi«« travel to Beijing and brave the crowds to see the over 8,000 of books published by more
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    • 70 6 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan pro-independence leader Peng Min-ming is almost certain to represent the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taiwan's first direct presidential elections in March, officials said yesterday. As party members and supporters cast the last of 49 ballots to choose a candidate
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  • FOCUS
    • 1215 7  -  UN's 50th anniversary By Kevin Sullivan SINGAPORE When Foreign Minister S Jayakumar addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Oct 3, he will be speaking at a venue much diminished in stature since the days when the UN was perceived as a guarantor
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  • ASIA
    • 413 8 Reuter ISLAMABAD The Pakistani government announced a new mineral policy over the weekend, giving a package of tax and other concessions to attract foreign investment to explore minerals ranging from coal to gold. "Our basic objective is to attract major foreign investment in
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    • 228 8 Reuter CANBERRA An Australian government report on a planned ban on the export of non-ferrous metal waste to non-OECD countries has warned it could be harmful to the economies of affected countries. The report by the Bureau of Industry Economics said
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    • 392 8 Reuter SYDNEY The bitter contest for the broadcasting rights to Australian sport has created a different kind of sports fan the stock market analyst. In brokerages, where the sports pages of daily newspapers once ranked with comic strips as a source of
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    • 243 8 AFP DHAKA Foreign creditors who have promised a US$729 million (551.04 billion) loan to Bangladesh's power sector have asked Dhaka to hike consumer rates, but an official said the rise would have to wait until after the next general election. "Yes, the
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    • 337 8 Chief minister sets terms for re-opening talks on USs2.Bb power project Reuter BOMBAY The western state of Maharashtra, which scrapped India's largest foreign investment project, is ready to reconsider the US$2.B billion (553.9 billion) deal with the US Enron Corp, the state's chief minister
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    • 102 8 AFP SEOUL South Korean women are far from their goal of equality, despite their country's successful rush to modernisation, according to a United Nations-based report released here at the weekend. The UN Development Programme (UNDP) report revealed through its "gender-related development index" that South
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    • 127 8 AFP TOKYO Typhoon Ryan was downgraded to a tropical depression yesterday after cutting across western Japan overnight, leaving at least one person dead and five others injured. However, Ryan still packed winds of up to 90 kilometres per hour at its centre and
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    • 125 8 UPI NEW DELHI A United Nations Development Programme report warned India that it could become the next Aids capital of Asia unless it took effective steps to prevent the spread of the disease, the Press Trust of India reported yesterday. India at present has two million
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    • 71 8 AFP NEW DELHI India yesterday warned that a move by the American Senate to allow a restricted supply of military hardware to Pakistan could trigger a deadly arms race in South Asia. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee described the US Senate's decision as "unfortunate" and
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    • 65 8 AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.3 shook the New Zealand capital of Wellington shortly after noon yesterday. The tremor was centred in Cook Strait, 35 kilometres west of Wellington, Geological and Nuclear Sciences Institute seismologist Terry Webb said. The tremor lasted
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    • 100 8 Reuter KANDY, Sri Lanka Thousands of Buddhist monks opposing the Sri Lankan government's peace package to end a 12-year separatist war staged a protest march yesterday urging President Chandrika Kumaratunga not to divide the islandnation into ethnic regions. Venerable Assaji, one of the monks taking
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    • 380 8 Reuter BEIJING North Korea, one of the world's most isolated countries, is disappointed with the amount of foreign investments attracted to its ambitious free-trade zone bordering China and Russia, a senior official said. "We need US$3 billion (554.3 billion)," Kim Jong U,
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  • Business IT
    • 858 9  -  But its rivals insist they are not losing market share in local PC software, reports David Mok David Mok ther behind with less than 6 per cent share, down from 7.7 per cent. In the market for suites, which combine a number of applications in an integrated
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    • 528 9  -  Local florist Joaquim also goes on-line with credit card payment via Internet, JLee Wai Leong learns Lee Wai Leong Giordano polo shins can now be bought off the Internet in Singapore and at cheaper prices than from the Giordano outlets here. If Giordano's high-tech
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    • 512 10  -  The subscription numbers to its new on-line service in S'pore surprise even Microsoft, reports Davia Mok David Mok Despite the high charges here for subscribing to Microsoft Corp's new Network online service, over 200 people here have already signed up for the service, say company
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    • 182 10 SUNSERVICE, a division of US-based workstation vendor Snn Microsystems, has set np an Asia Escalation Centre (AEC) in Singapore to beef ap its service capabilities in tbe region. Located at tbe Gateway, the AEC will provide backline technical support to the
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 79 10 SINGAPORE Aztcch Systems has introduced a new,3-D, 16-bit Wave Table sound card the Sound Galaxy Waveßidcr PRO 32-3 D which the company claims wraps listeners with 3-dimensional sound and can provide exact reproductions of 128 musical instruments. The top-of-the-line product has a suggested retail price
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      • 82 10 SINGAPORE Lotus Development said that it has begun shipping SmartSuitc 4.0 for Windows 3.1, which includes the new version of its AmiPro word processor, now called Word Pro. The product carries an estimated retail price of $539 for the normal version, and $359 for upgrade versions.
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      • 63 10 SINGAPORE BMC Software, a specialist in applications management software, last month opened its Asian headquarters here, its first office in Asia. The office will function as a marketing and sales support centre, and will be responsible for business development and training of business partners.
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      • 60 10 SINGAPORE SEC-Multimedia, a division of local firm Systems Education Centre, has signed an agreement with the fejgcst television station in Germany for the distribution of its titles there. SECs agreement with SATI is for 30,000 lutits of three SEC titles, including Willy Wabbit A His Magical
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      • 32 10  -  Compiled by David Mok SINGAPORE American software utility maker Sydjjjntec Corp has joined the piracy watchdog the Business SorUarcAlliance. Current BSA members include Microsoft, NovettTuotus Development and Sybase.
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    • It's happenin'
      • 40 10 SINGAPORE The Information Communication Institute of Singapore and the University of Essex will hold its annual symposium on "Software technology for information infrastructure" on Sep 26-28 at the Pan Pacific. For details please call Jennifer at 460-0542.
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      • 40 10 SINGAPORE The Singapore Polytechnic and the Japan-Sin-gapore Institute of Software Technology will hold conference on "Information superhighway issues, impact and applications" on Oct 5-6 at the Pan Pacific Hotel. For details, please call Grace/Carolyn at 227-8110.
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      • 50 10  -  Compiled by David Mok SINGAPORE The "First ATM Asia-Pacific conference will be held on Oct 16-17 at the Hyatt Regency hotel. Topics to be discussed include ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) applications in the Asia-Pacific, LAN emulation and network management. For details, please call Sharon at 338-2321.
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    • 629 11  -  Is the Internet secure? Lin Hsin Hsin says it is not, and explains why Lin Hsin Hsin The writer is an information technologist with a software company. She is the author of Love (2) Ist Byte. PASSWORDS and hackers go together, like twins born
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    • 591 11 AP A SERIOUS security flaw discovered in Netscape, the most popular software used for computer transactions over the Internet's World Wide Web, threatens to cast a chill over the emerging market for electronic commerce. The flaw, which could enable a knowledgeable criminal to
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    • 783 11  -  Robert Fu shows why Fortune 1000 companies, including some Hollywood giants, are using computers to model their business Robert Fu The writer is managing director of CSA Research, the proprietor of the Sitverrun software used by many Fortune 1000 companies for enterprise modelling. IN
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    • 217 11 Reuter US CONSUMER demand for multimedia entertainment does not justify the vast investments cable TV and phone companies are making in their race to build multimedia networks, according to a study that warns companies are at risk of losing money on the projects.
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    • 512 12  -  By Claire Leow Hewlett--PACKARD Co has unveiled two high-perfor-mance colour printers for the office, the DeskJet 1600 C and the 1600 CM, that are not as expensive as laser printers but meet a need for colour printing at an affordable price. There are, after all, no
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    • 416 12  -  By Lee Wai Leong INTEL'S next generation P6 chip, which has been officially named the Pentium Pro, is slated to be introduced in the fourth quarter of this year. But PC lovers who think the P6 will be the panacea for
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    • 661 12  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (USA), a Brooklyn-based consulting firm. He contributed this commentary to BusinesslT. WHEN Microsoft announced a revamping of Windows, the software people were the first to recognise the opportunity. Equipped with Windows 95,
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 1166 13  -  Laura Liswood is director of an organisation which wants to help put a woman in the White House. Kevin Sullivan reports on this and other aspects of her work Kevin Sullivan US LAWYER Laura Liswood is director of an organisa t i on Women's
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  • THE ARTS
    • 592 15 A list of younger tenors who are already sounding better than Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras Economist LAST YEAR'S remake of the bestselling "Three Tenors" CD showed operatic heroes Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras in less than stellar form. Tenors start to worry
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    • 574 15  -  Susan Tsang views an exhibition covering 14 centuries of Hindu and Buddhist art Susan Tsang CAMBODIAN Karma, an exhibition now on at Notices the Gallery, presents not just Khmer works of art, but pieces from surrounding countries as well. A slow trawl through the gallery
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  • 397 16 FT LONDON A row has erupted in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over an independent report, commissioned by the body, which strongly criticises the use of an-ti-dumping policies to limit imports. The US and the European Union, the
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  • 389 16  -  From Florence Cbong in SYDNEY AUSTRALIAN exporters of foods and services believe it a critical that the Australian government pursue market access in other Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) (brum economies. They believe Apec is an important vehicle to encourage
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  • 53 16 AFP ZURICH Protesters throwing stones daring clashes between left and right wing extremists at an anti-Eoropeaa rally here on Saturday. The rally was against possible Swiss entry into the European Union, one of the hottest topics in the ca—algn leading ap to legislative elections here
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  • 197 16 AP WASHINGTON The World Bank says it has had a good year, but lending is down by US$5OO million (SS7IS million) in Africa and it fears a drop in American contributions will leave its most critical lending fund short. The bank's
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  • 94 16 AP CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy Wealthy nations share responsibility for Africa's suffering because of policies that favour arms sales over humanitarian aid, Pope John Paul II said yesterday. "The eyes of the African children are watching you," said the pontiff, who returned last week from a three-nation
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  • 96 16 AFP WASHINGTON A super secret agency that manages US spy satellites has managed to build up a billion dollars in unspent funds without informing its supervisors at the CIA and the Pentagon, the Washington Post reported yesterday. Prompted by complaints by the US Congress, CIA director
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  • 94 16 Reuter ISLAMABAD Pakistan yesterday urged South Asian nations to work together to protect cotton and textile industries it said were threatened by the new world trade order. "We will have to take coordinated measures in the region to ensure that this (cotton and textile) industry,
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  • 105 16 AP TOULON, France A teenager bludgeoned three family members to death, then opened fire in a southern French village yesterday, killing nine other people before turning the gun on himself, police sources said. The killings began in the village of Sollies-Pont, about 10 km north of
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  • 104 16 AP VIENNA Austria's eight million population does not run short of reading material with 18 daily and 35 weekly newspapers, but it pays a price. This expansive newspaper industry has been propped up for the past 20 years by an annual government subsidy now totalling 300
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  • 384 16 UPI, Reuter TABA, Egypt Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres reached a historic agreement for the expansion of Palestinian autonomy in the occupied West Bank yesterday after emerging from nine days of gruelling peace talks. The Oslo
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  • 192 16 Reuter WOLFSBURG, Germany German carmaker Volkswagen AG said yesterday it plans to begin manufacturing some of its own parts, a move that could generate 200 million marks (SS2OI million) in turnover and secure 2,000 jobs. A company spokesman said the proposal endorsed by both
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    • 504 17  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Motor and consumer goods distributor Inchcape Bhd yesterday announced a slight drop in interim profits and warned of troubled times ahead. For the six months ended June 30, turnover rose 7 per cent to $657.8 million
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    • 413 17  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE The Hong Leong group is looking for a new manager to run its Heritage hotel in Manila, having sacked its previous manager, "Hongkong-based Byron International Hotels. >*- Parent Grand Plaza Hotel Corp, in which the Hong Leong Group has
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    • 255 17 SINGAPORE Singatronics Ltd has agreed to sell an 18 per cent stake in subsidiary Singatronics (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (SMSB) to a Malaysian bumiputra investor for M$ 17.01 million (559.7 million). The electronics-based company, which owns 90 per cent of SMSB, said
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    • 711 17  -  11 MARKET m MATTERS By Ho Kay Tat INTERNATIONAL fund managers and stock brokers will get a chance to air their grouses about the state of Malaysia's stock market and economy tomorrow. And no less a person than Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad will be on
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    • COMPANIES
      • 508 18  -  Firm to be renamed Sarawak Enterprise to reflect new status after reverse takeover By William Chia SINGAPORE Dunlop Estates is set to become the corporate flagship of the Sarawak state government now that Malaysia's Securities Commission has approved its reverse takeover of state-owned
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      • 163 18 NST KUALA LUMPUR Kemayan Corporation Bhd is embarking on the development of commercial properties in Johor, with the first phase esti-. mated to have a gross development value of MsBoo million (*****.5 million). It said subsidiary Kemayan Land Sdn Bhd has signed a profit-sharing agreement
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      • 136 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Securities Commission (SQ has approved Malaysia Mining Corporation Bhd's (MMC) plan to acquire 4.341 million Kramat Tin Dredging Bhd shares of Msl each at Ms 42 from PT Artika Optima Inti (AOI) of Indonesia, part of the Djajanti
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      • 68 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Idris Hydraulic (Malaysia) Bhd posted a group pre-tax consolidated operating profit of M$ 17.916 million (SS 10.22 million) for the six months ended June 30, 1995, up 4 per cent from M$ 17.221 million previously. Releasing*its unaudited results, the company said group
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      • 85 18 Bernama JOHOR BARU Lembaga Urusan dan Tabung Haji (Tabung Haji) has proposed to list one of its eight subsidiaries on the main board of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE), its directorgeneral, Abdul Latif Mohd Hassan said. Tabung Haji would likely be listing its
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      • 57 18 NST KUALA UMTM —KL Raping Bhd (KLK) has acquired the oalm aqpfty «f \mm mmjmmm and assets from Glenealy Plantattam Mkri total of MS 12.37 million (557.06 Hi aapM Gunong Pertanian Sdn Bhd and Sy Klto Tiaftog PlMtotm Sdn Bhd were acquired through KLICI
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      • 304 18 Reuter HONGKONG China's state-owned China National Aviation Corp (CNAC) has agreed to double the price offered for a 10 per cent stake in Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd (Dragonair) to HKS7OO million (S$ 129.6 million), the South China Morning Post newspaper reported.
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      • 306 18 Bloomberg Business News MELBOURNE Broken Hill Proprietary Co (BHP), Australia's largest publicly traded company, is willing to sell assets from its petroleum division, the company's chief executive John Prescott said. Asked in an interview on Nine Network's Business Sunday programme whether he had any
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      • 532 18 MARKET innm Consumer-oriented stocks doing well Reuter SHANGHAI First, the Shanghai stock market lost its chief executive to a trading scandal. Then a much-heralded announcement of new incentive policies for Pudong, the Shanghai development zone that hosts the market's biggest blue chips and
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      • 224 18 NST KUALA LUMPUR Public Packages Holdings Bhd is considering making an appeal to the Securities Commission (SC) for main board transfer following the rejection of its earlier request. Public Packages had, in June this year, applied to transfer from the
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      • 339 19 FT LONDON AT&T, the largest US telecommunications company, is to launch a nationwide telephone service in Britain in competition with British Telecommunications (BT) as part of a broader assault on the European Union's telecoms markets. A service for business customers is expected
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      • 62 19 Reuter HONGKONG The Hongkong Stock Exchange has set strike prices for options on Cheung Kong Holdings Ltd stock. There will be no September strike price because the end of the month is so close, the exchange said. The October strike price will be HK538.40
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      • 99 19 Bloomberg Business News PITTSBURGH HJ Heinz Co said it formed a joint venture to produce frozen french fries in South Africa, the food company's first business in a nation with 42 million potential customers. The Pittsburgh-based maker of ketchup and 4,000 products ranging from
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      • 57 19 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Analysts predict Forte pic, the London-based international hotel and roadside services company, will report a 31 per cent gain in first-half pre-tax profit because of the upswing in the UK hotel market. Forte will release its results for the six
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      • 124 19 FT MILAN Snia BPD, the Italian chemicals and biomedical group controlled by Fiat, more than doubled pre-tax profit in the first half of 1995 to 59 billion lire (Sss3 million) from 26.8 billion lire in the same period last year. The results should
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      • 332 19 TBS-Time Warner merger FT LOS ANGELES A legal bid to block the merger of Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System, which will create the world's biggest entertainment and media group, emerged yesterday as the two companies were about to unveil their US$7.5 billion (5510.5
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      • 245 19 Bloomberg Business News NEW YpRK Walt Disney Co said it will finance the entire US$lO billion (5514.3 billion) it needs to complete its acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC Inc with commercial paper. Disney's chief financial officer, Stephen Bollenbach, resolved a major question hanging over the bond
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      • 151 19 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Guinness pic is expected to post a 6 per cent increase in first-half pre-tax profit, as growth from its brewery outshines a lacklustre performance at its United Distillers spirits unit. Pre-tax profit at the Lon-don-based company, which makes Guinness
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      • 247 19 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Rockefeller Centre Properties Inc said last week its board decided a recapitalisation bid by Goldman, Sachs Co wasn't as good as a competing plan from an investor group led by Chicago financier Sam Zell. Goldman has offered
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 468 20 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK National Westminster Bank pic is asking for US$4 billion (555.6 billion) in cash for National Westminster Bancorp, its US retail bank, and is not willing to break up the company to facilitate a sale, a person
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      • 502 20 Bloomberg Business News LONDON North Korea, the world's most hardline Communist state, has become a target of fund managers hunting for bargains in obscure corners of the debt market. Sovereign debt from countries such as Russia and Ecuador, once the terrain
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      • 83 20 AFP BEIJING Traders at the Beijing Commodity Exchange (BCE) taking orders for contracts. China's futures market is still in the experimental stage, impeded by a lack of a legal framework and an inadequate risk management system. After closing more than 40 futures exchanges last year and ordering
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      • 49 20 AFP PARIS Oil producers inside and outside the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and consumers should agree on concrete measures for cooperation when 32 ministers meet for three days in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, starting today, the organisation said on Friday. AFP
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      • 73 20 Reuter MEXICO CITY Grupo Industrial Alfa SA said it planned an issue on international markets of US$ 130 million (SSIB6 million) in five-year bonds convertible into shares. The issue, to be carried out 70 per cent in the US and 30 per cent in Europe,
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      • 52 20 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's Ometraco Corp said it has acquired general insurance company PT Asuransi Atraco for four billion, rupiah (552.5 million). The deal is part of an acquisition in which* Ometraco will inject 600 million rupiah into the insurance compa-. Ny, the company said in a
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      • 379 20 Bloomberg Business News SINGAPORE Increased ethylene production capacity in Asia, coinciding with the start-up of petrochemical plants in the Middle East, may tighten feedstock supplies, industry sources said on Friday. "In order to sustain the petrochemical industry, a substantial market, capital resources
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      • 211 20 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK American International Group Inc said it is restructuring its domestic general brokerage business to streamline the way it deals with corporate customers. New York-based AIG said it will create two entities, a global risk unit to line up insurance packages
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      • 265 20 AFP MANAMA The managing director of Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries company is visiting Bahrain to sign a contract to build the Gulf country's first urea plant, the official Gulf news agency said on Saturday. Toshiaki Ito met Bahrain's emir Sheikh Isa ibn Salman
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      • 438 20 Initial merger proposal made last month considered 'inadequate' Reuter NEW YORK The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) has told New York's Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange (CSCE) it is prepared to improve on its initial merger offer made last month, Nymex chairman, Daniel Rappaport
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 567 21  -  SIHEX WEEKLY WOUNDUP By Yumiko Iijima, MMS International SINGAPORE The dollar plunged more than seven yen, and eight pfennigs against the mark, from the week's highs. Dollar sales last week were viewed as a corrective move from the recent sharp gains, which were sustained by repeated
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      • 622 21 commootty WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON The grains market in Chicago the largest in the world is on a rollercoaster ride after two disastrous world harvests in a row, which are sending world stocks down to dangerously low levels. The arrival of
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    • 1328 21 SKOM Futures (htw» dMh| m at SJtpa) RSS 1 CmM (S cents/kg) One Volume Open Month High Low Sen (tonnes) Interest Oct 95 206.00 200 50 ***** 575 525~ Nov 201.00 197.30 198 00 550 197) Dec 201.00 197.00 198.00 1)0 1)7) Jan/Mar 96 201.00 19) 00 I9).»
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    • 4264 22 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Ear* EPS Dale TV LY TY LY Cam—my aaa (Sa) (cti) (eti) Acma Sep II I 8.202 5.716 20.8 35.J Alcorn* Sep 14 I 14.510 9.373 11.4 7.4 Amcot Sep 21 I 16.844 20.217 5.75 6.93 Apollo Sep 4 I 1.793 2.595 1.2
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    • 749 22 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 588 23 Reuter Ntw York STOCKS could be in for an-, other rough ride this week, vulnerable to disappointment over corporate profits and a possible lack of action on interest rates by the Federal Reserve. "September is not a good month for the market, and worries
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      • 256 23 AFP, Reuter Hongkong STOCKS slid 2.6 per cent in Hongkong last week on sustained profit-taking and confusion among investors over US interest rate trends, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index went into the weekend at 9,541.87 points, down 255.53 points from a week
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 101 23 Australian weekly share prices closed 1.2 per cent lower on Friday following disappointing profit results and a muted reaction to Japan's economic stimulus package, brokers said. The Australian Stock Exchange's barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, fell 26.3 points during the week to 2,139.4. Over the week, the All Industrials
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        • 103 23 Philippine share prices fell by about 1.2 per cent last week amid a prolonged downturn, brought on by fears of an impending oil price hike and lack of good news. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index ended the week 32.14 points lower to close at 2,725.29 points. Average daily
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        • 92 23 The Stock Exchange of Thailand finished the week down 29.63 points, or 2.2 per cent, in a gloomy week of trading marked by flooding across the country and the absence of foreign investors. The Stock Exchange of Thailand closed on Friday at 1,307.99 points for a week in which
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        • 70 23 The stock exchange closed the week lower after five days marked by a lack of investor incentive, with most foreign investors sidelined and waiting for fresh leads. The Composite Index finished 0.5 per cent lower to 492.8 at Friday's close compared to the previous week's 495.3. Average daily transaction
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        • 75 23 South Korean stock prices fell 0.6 per cent on Saturday as correctional selling pressure dominated the market for the second day. The Composite Price Index was down 4.24 points on a week ago. "Downward corrections continued today, with shares of almost all descriptions going down," said Han Kyu Ho
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        • 89 23 Taiwan share prices posted a 0.3 per cent drop last week as dealers consolidated holdings amid cautious moves by investors, brokers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index edged down 15.5 points to settle at 4,980.03 points on Thursday, which followed a 186.98-point drop the preceding week. Taiwan's
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        • 79 23 A religious frenzy over rumours that idols of a Hindu god were "drinking" milk and New Delhi's plans to set up share depositories pushed up share prices in the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) during the week. The 30-snare BSE Sensitivity Index upped 72.74 points from the previous week's close
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      • 402 23 AFP Tokyo JAPANESE share prices plunged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange during the week on general disappointment with the announcement of a US$l4O billion (5520.02 billion) government economic stimulus package. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues in the first section
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      • 413 23 AFP London SHARES on the London stock exchange were hit last week by turmoil on the foreign exchange market and by figures showing a slowdown in the demand for British exports. After an abortive rally midweek, the FTSE-100 Index of leading shares
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 787 23 -3.25 Stocks ended slightly lower on Friday after climbing back from a deep sell-off fuelled by renewed weakness in the dollar and a jump in bond interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down 3.25 points at 4,764.15, snapping back from an early loss of nearly 40
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      • 308 23 ■19.37 Shares ended with heavier losses than Wall Street as tarnished gold shares weighed on the Canadian market. The TSE 300 Composite Index fell 19.37 points to 4,522.84 in turnover of 67.1 million shares valued at C 5802.6 million. Declining stocks defeated advances 430 to 307, with 331 issues
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      • 2158 23 LONDON Sep 22 Peace Industrials A. A. Corp Adr 55 6/1 AB Port* 309 unch Abbey National 521 -I Allied Lycm 516 -J Araec J9 Ai»rl 3)4 4/1 -2 4/1 Aida Group 101 tit -3 BAT Ind 519 -5 4/1 BKX 312 4 BOC Group 114 -II BR Petroleufli 415
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    • 2357 24 c* Latt Val Week Last Qaotr Dt» Db VN IW MC# La~ Sta# Ciiiii ij Sate CMf) H%k Low Buyrr W Or P/E Ml MALAYSIAN STOCKS 396 -4 444 404 316 396 400 3.0 -2 02 406 1 -9' i2Z .V. S AMMJOc 95.5 »d +3 766 96
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      • 6680 24 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian shares surged 2.4 per cent last week, mainly on Tenaga Nasional Bhd's strong showing, buoyed by talk that the national power firm had finally won government approval to raise tariffs. "Speculation was rife that Tenaga has finally obtained the go-ahead
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 8910 25 Ct Cr M Wt '945 Last Val Waafc LniQMe U> Dh VH NM Can Avg HiBk Lm SiM CMW Sri* (IN) High I* B-ytr Sdkr O M Ml Prte. moustoal and commercial 210 l» 125* Am 50c US 190 wi +4 6653 191 1*5 190 191 |2.9 314.5 520 3*2
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      • 1901 26  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Second liners will continue to take centre stage this week but will face some challenge for the spotlight from Malaysian over-the-counter shares. Interest in second liners will be selective and based on takeover rumours, both old and new, as
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  • Shipping Times
    • 504 27 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE week has seen interesting and representative of sales in most sectors, illustrating the firmness of the market, especially for handymax/panamax bulkers. The sale of the handymax bulker Kelvin Endeavour (42,000/87) at a reported US$l9 million to Empros Lines in Greece looks to
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    • 399 27  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Sembawang Maritime Limited (SML) signed an order recently for another tugboat barely a week after it took delivery of two newbuildings. The more than $5 million newbuilding contract was awarded to the Hiroshinabased Matsuura Teko
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    • 176 27 SINGAPORE Port of Singapore Authority subsidiary MAP Services Pte Ltd (MAPS) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesian firm PT Sulwood Utama Corporation for an inland container depot venture in the south Sulawesi city of Ujung Pandang. MAPS chairman Goon Kok Loon
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    • 207 27 Reuter LONDON Britain has vowed to act alone if its international partners failed to agree on tougher safety standards for ferries. Transport Secretary George Young said he wanted a meeting in November of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to agree on the compulsory
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    • 40 27 Reuter DUBAI The fourteen members of the Europe Middle East Rate Agreement (Emera) yesterday said the currency adjustment factor (CAF) on freight between Europe and the Gulf will be dropped to 7 per cent on Oct 1. Reuter
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    • 56 27 Reuter TOKYO Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd said it has become the first Japanese oil company to charter and operate a doublehulled very large crude carrier (VLCQ on a long-term basis. The new Panamanianflagged tanker, 258,096 dead-weight-tonne Super Zearth, was delivered last Friday at lshika-wajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co Ltd's
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    • 326 27 scs 000 Sep 22 S$ Vol CWT Distribution 1.50 unch 81 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.28 +0.02 386 Coaco Investment 2.11 -0.01 59 Far East Levingston 6.25 -0.20 285 Freight Links Express 0.76 -0.015 203 GB Holdings Ltd 1.09 -0.02 426 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.935 +0.005 264 Hitachi
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    • 866 27  -  dockyard A fortnightly review of the shiprepoir scene By David Hughes SINGAPORE ship repair yards do not need telling that safety must have top priority. Apart from the yards* own desire to avoid accidents, official action following a number of serious incidents
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    • 1113 28  -  The Far Eastern Freight Conference's NT 90 tariff could be the best leverage that Europe-Asia shippers have for keeping rates shipper-friendly, as Elizabeth Canna reports Elizabeth Canna American Shipper Shippers using the services of members of the Eastbound Management Agreement (EMA) have this pesky
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      • 563 46  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Hongkong's new airport will quickly reach saturation point soon after its projected opening in April 1998, the air transport community has been warned. "Our own forecasts indicate that after the airport opening we will very quickly
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      • 297 46  -  From Florence Chong In SYDNEY AIR New Zealand is to introduce a new service connecting Sydney and Bangkok in November. The decision was to capitalise on the demand for seats to Australia from Europe and south-east «Asia in her peak tourist season. Garry Court,
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      • 241 46 Reuter FRANKFURT German national airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG plans to spend 1.7 billion Deutschemarks (S$ 1.71 billion) on new aircraft over the next two years in a bid to keep up with the expansion in air travel. Lufthansa said recently it was
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      • 84 46 AP LONDON Nearly a third of the cars in Britain are leadspewing clunkers, and oil giant Shell hopes to cash in on drivers' environmental concerns by selling what it calls the nation's first low-lead fuel. Shell said recently it has invested about £300
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      • 202 46 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Cathay Pacific has launched a twiceweekly freighter service from Hongkong to Toronto, providing a new link between Asia and the north-eastern market of North America. Declaring that Malaysian exporters and air freight forwarders would benefit from the new service, a Cathay
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      • 89 46 Reuter WASHINGTON Aviation talks between the US and Britain are due to take place on Oct 16 in Washington, US Transportation Secretary Federico Pena said in a recent statement. Back in June the two countries announced a "mini" aviation agreement that allowed some
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      • 56 46 AFP ZELL AM SEE, Austria The driver of this 1966 Mexican-built Volkswagen Beetle enjoying the weather as Volkswagen enthusiasts gather in Zell am See to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Beetle. The gathering takes place at the Austrian tourist attraction Grossglockner alpine passage that also celebrates
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      • 104 46 AFP YANGON My an mar's Air Mandalay has launched a new route to northern Thailand to tap new tourism markets ahead of "Visit Myanmar Year" which begins in October 1996, airline sources here said over the weekend. Air Mandalay, a joint-ven-ture domestic air carrier, opened
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      • 96 46 Reuter LONDON A bogus air traffic controller is sending false messages to planes that could put them on a collision course, pilots said. "He is risking the lives of thousands, not only on aircraft taking off and landing but the lives of people on the
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