The Business Times, 27 October 1995

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  • 12 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA Friday October 27 1995 85<t MITA(P) 194/12/94
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  • 72 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue-chip stocks fell yesterday for a second day in a row amid mounting worries over problems on consumer loans. At 2 p m EDT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 42.64 points at 4,711.04 after losing nearly 30 points on Wednesday. In
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  • 150 1 Thursday Chaage STII 2,100.47 -4.11 KLSEComp 966.68 +10.81 Nikkei 17,726.68 -244.13 Hang Seng 9,774.48 -66.58 SETIndex 1,270.14 -4.38 Jakarta Comp 497.15 -0.03 Manila Comp 2,542.27 -1.78 Taipei WPI 4,990.57 -5.22 SeoulComp 1,001.15 +3.27 Bombay BSE30 ...3,406.43 -79.77 CLSA China B 807.77 -1.76 Aust AllOrd 2,086.4 -4.4 FTSE100 3,519.6 -18.2 AMnSiffprtattr
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  • 342 1  -  $5.4 m found stashed in Asian dollar account of S'pore bank By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE The Commercial Affairs Department and US and Canadian law enforcement agencies have busted an international moneylaundering racket and recovered $5.4 million stashed in a Singapore bank by drug runners. Sources said yesterday
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  • 750 1  -  By Jennifer Lien SINGAPORE It was a revelation Aztech Systems could do without it woke up yesterday to find that one of its biggest customers, Reveal Computer, had been bought over by arch rival Creative Technology. That surprise acquisition of the American firm
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  • 212 1  -  By Diana Oon SINGAPORE In ruling in Aztech Systems' favour in its dispute with Creative Technology on Tuesday, Judicial Commissioner Lim Tiong Qwee broke some new ground in intellectual property law, said Aztech's lawyer Ng Soon Kai of Ng Chong Hue. Under Section 35
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  • 366 1  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA INDONESIA'S mammoth global offering of its national telephone company is attracting a lot of static, and analysts say unless that is addressed, Jakarta's already listless capital market would remain so. The main bugbear of the much-awaited listing of
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  • 591 1  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR BANK Negara has asked commercial banks and finance companies not to raise their base lending rates (BLRs) by more than 20 basis points when a new formula to calculate the BLR takes effect
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  • 257 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Malaysian stocks yesterday rallied on the eve of the government's budget announcement, as investors continued to respond to a growing belief that whatever bad news the budget may contain has already been factored into current prices. The Kuala
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 308 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming AS American multinationals move up the earnings curve in Singapore, they are ploughing back a bigger portion of their income in investments here. In the past two years, they re-invested US$4 in every US$5 or 80 per cent of their investment income
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    • 550 2  -  Comdex/Asia Keporuny David Mok SINGAPORE'S information technology industry is set to sell a record $6.5 billion of computers and services to endusers this year, says a government survey released yesterday. This represents more than 30 per cent growth over last
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    • 275 2 INFORMATION technology will continue to play a key role in the development of Singapore's economy, Acting Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday at a computer convention here. BG Lee said that IT would help Singapore build new capabilities in its
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    • 631 2  -  Kenneth James calls for data on the relationship between productivity and IT expenditure Kenneth James The numbers are impressive indeed $5 billion in hardware, software and services sold to end users in 1994; 35 per cent more sales over
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    • 549 2  -  Expansion through franchising kicks off with view to big push in region Jenny Lam WHEN Warner Brothers Studio Store opens at Suntec City tomorrow, it will score a double first it will be Warner's first store in Asia and its first operating under
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    • 233 4  -  Wan May THE Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir) is opening a new centre to improve automation techniques for factories. The new complex, to be called the System and Process Automation Centre (SPAC), will receive a grant of $26
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    • 230 4  -  Kevin Sullivan INTERNATIONAL chemicals giant DuPont has joined forces with Singapore Technologies Aerospace and the National University of Singapore to develop a new type of all-purpose aircraft repair material. Thermoplastic composites are expected to emerge as the leading repair substance for a new
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    • 337 4  -  Br Christopher Tan A PROPOSED joint venture to build and market robotic carpark systems in Singapore and the region has a strange bedfellow Medical Supply A Services (MSS). MSS, which owns Singapore's Thomson Medical Centre and the Hallam Medical Centre in the
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    • 403 4 The Straits Times THE government yesterday proposed to amend the Women's Charter to extend protection against domestic violence to family members other than spouses and children, as well as broaden the definition of family violence. Announcing this at a press conference held
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    • 271 4  -  Diana Oon ITALIAN multinational Olivetti is offering its 22,000 sq metre plant in the Ayer Rajah Industrial Estate for sale by tender. Its two double-storey buildings at No 8 and 12 Ayer Rajah Crescent are expected to fetch
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • NOTE BOOK
      • 69 6 Reuter HANOI Vietnam's year-on-year inflation rate reached 15.6 per cent in October, up 0.1 per cent on the previous month, according to figures released yesterday by the government statistics office. The relatively low overall monthly rise was marred by sharp price increases recorded in southern
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      • 89 6 Knight-Ridder BANGKOK The Thai business community has predicted an average salary increase of 10.5 to 12 per cent in 1996 in high growth sectors such as finance, communications, petrochemicals and electronics. The Nation newspaper reported yesterday. The projected figures were discussed at a seminar
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      • 56 6 Reuter BANGKOK Opium warlord Khun Sa has reached a tentative ceasefire agreement with Myanmar government forces, a Thai army officer and a guerilla official said yesterday. The loose agreement, reached earlier this month, might avert a long-expec-ted Myanmar army offensive against the notorious Shan guerilla
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      • 82 6 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia will host an international congress on the soil requirements of tropical forests from Oct 29 to Npv 3, the Antara news agency said yesterday. The congress, which will attract 250 experts from around the world, will look at soil requirements, including nutrients,
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      • 68 6 Reuter HANOI A Vietnamese biology teacher dissecting a frog as her students watch at an open-air class in Hanoi yesterday. Vietnam has a literacy rate of 88 per cent, among the highest in the world, with more than 90 per cent of the male and more than
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    • 441 6 Bloomberg Business News HANOI Foreign investors in Vietnam face new regulatory hurdles which threaten to bring leasing and development of real estate in the communist country to a standstill. All office and residential leases to foreigners will expire on March 31,
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    • 352 6 AFP MANILA Echo Bay Mines Ltd of the United States and TVI Pacific Inc of Canada yesterday acquired the right to develop a gold and copper project in the southern Philippines for USS97 million (SS 136.77 million). The agreement requires
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    • 327 6 Reuter BANGKOK Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it had approved a scheme to create a mutual fund designed to increase foreign investment in Thai stocks. The Thai Trust Fund will facilitate foreign investment through a mutual fund managed by a
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    • 158 6 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesian army chief of staff, General Raden Hartono, has called for more professionalism in mili-tary-run businesses to help improve soldiers' welfare, the Jakarta Post newspaper reported yesterday. Gen Hartono made the remarks on Wednesday while inaugurating Jakarta's Artha Graha
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    • 503 6 Reuter BANGKOK Thailand's robust economy showed clear signs of a sustained slowdown for the second consecutive month in September as its tight monetary policy began to take effect. Bank of Thailand economist Niya Pibulratanakit said yesterday that Thai industrial
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    • 297 6 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's central bank governor, Sudradjad Djiwandono, said yesterday po&sible economic overheating posed a threat to the country's price and balance of payments stability. "A rapid growth in demand which is not balanced by sufficient growth on the supply side could
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    • 172 6 AFP MANILA The Philippines will lose 37.8 billion pesos (Ss2 billion) in revenue over the next five years if Congress passes planned tariff reform bills. The Finance Department said yesterday, however, higher import volumes arising from the lower rates could eventually offset the
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 483 7  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG THE Provisional Airport Authority (PAA) has come under fire from the airport project's watchdog for failing to disclose the price at which it leased 3.3 ha of airport land to Cathay Pacific, the territory's flag carrier
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    • 264 7 Reuter BEIJING A top Chinese banker said yesterday Hongkong would play an irreplaceable role as an international financial centre for China after 1997 and told its government to curb rents and stop talented people leaving. "As China's financial market
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    • 344 7  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG DEVELOPERS and banks have been predicting an imminent recovery in the Hongkong property market but developments in the last two days appeared to indicate otherwise. Price cutting, second mortgage loans and interest rate discounts continued to
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    • 337 7 Reuter BEIJING China envisages spending at least 200 billion yuan (5533.82 billion) annually through the year 2000 to build housing for poor farmers but financing will be a problem because the government is strapped for cash, officials said. An
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    • CHINA WATCH
      • 95 7 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Investment in China's real estate in the first half of the year was 26.2 per cent more than for the same period a year ago, but the growth rate fell 17.7 percentage points, the official Real Estate Development News reported. Meng
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      • 75 7 Reuter BEIJING China's State Development Bank has taken on its biggest loan, worth US$2.3 billion (553.2 billion), to finance a Franco-British nuclear power station at Ling'ao in Guangdong province, the China News Service said. The export credit loan from 14 French and seven
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      • 62 7 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Taiwan's central bank kept interest rates unchanged yesterday, defying analysts' predictions it would cut amid signs of slower economic growth. Central bank governor Sheu Yuan-dong said interest rates are currently at an "appropriate" level. The bank's rediscount rate, the lowest used for
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      • 86 7 AFP BEIJING Chinese companies' inability to check the credit ratings of overseas firms has left them short of US$9 billion (S$ 12.7 billion) in overdue payments from foreign clients since 1991, a report said yesterday. The US-based financial data service Dun and Bradstreet said
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      • 51 7 AFP BEIJING The International Financc Corp (IFC) yesterday announced investments in three new China projects totalling more than US$ 158 million, (*****.3 million) including a polyester plant in Jiangsu. IFC will sign agreements today on a US$65 million automotive joint venture in Nanjing.
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  • ASIA
    • 420 8 FT TOKYO Japan's most prestigious trading houses were among 37 companies on Wednesday fined 169.S million yen (552.3 million) for forming illicit cartels to carve up contracts funded by the government's foreign aid programme. The fine, levied by Japan's Fair
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    • 174 8 Reuter TOKYO Pessimism among corporations about the future course of Japan's economy is subsiding, Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Yasuo Matsushita told a news conference. Mr Matsushita said there seemed to be strong demand for funds in the short-term money market, but the BOJ had
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    • 409 8 Reuter SEOUL South Korean prosecutors have uncovered a further 26.8 billion won (5J49.5 million) in slush money they say is linked to former president Roh Tae Woo, state radio reported yesterday. This follows revelations by Mr Roh's former chief bodyguard
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    • 303 8 AFP TOKYO Michel Camdessus, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said in an interview published yesterday that a rise in rates imposed on Japanese banks in international markets, dubbed the "Japan premium", was "becoming excessive". The pressure was due to market
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    • 175 8 AFP NEW DELHI India reacted angrily yesterday to a key US congressional panel decision to ease military and economic sanctions on Pakistan and said it would beef up its own defence spending. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukheijee dubbed the move
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    • 75 8 AFP NEW DELHI India is planning to allow foreign companies, including multinationals, to enter the protected small-scale se c to by reducing the obligation to export, the Business standard reported yesterday. The industry ministry has proposed the reduction in export obligations of the small-scale
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    • 65 8 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON New Zealand's merchandise trade deficit in September widened to NZ5252.8 million (*****.1 million), the government said. Economists had expected a deficit of between NZ$lOO million and NZ$l7O million. The deficit in the latest month compares with a revised deficit of NZ$l5.3
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    • 72 8 UPI NEW DELHI High-level trade talks between India and Japan that began yesterday here are expected to focus on ways to bolster trade between the two nations. India is expected to urge Japan to import more of its agricultural products in accordance with a new
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    • 99 8 AFP TOKYO Aum Supreme Truth guru Shoko Asahara's decision to sack his attorney has delayed his trial on murder charges by a matter of weeks, leaving lawyers and the Japanese public incensed at what they consider a legalistic ploy. Asahara sacked his lawyer Shoji Yokoyama, 67,
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 694 11  -  Kevin Morrison reports on an opera inspired by the building of the Sydney Opera House Kevin Morrison Reuter THE Sydney Opera House has staged many of the world's famous operas but now the famous shell-shaped structure jutting into the harbour is the subject of
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    • 553 11  -  f so^c Kevin Sullivan endures Sellavision and AM Singapore Kevin Sullivan SURELY one of the great mysteries of our age right up there with the popularity of the Bee Gees and Hillary Clinton's new hairdo is what would make anyone get out of bed at five o'clock
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    • 250 11 CHAIIUCMM Reuter Reuter AFP SINGER CliffT Richard, Britain's Peter Pan of pop music who has had chart-topping hits since the *****, was knighted in London on Wednesday by Queen Elizabeth for his charity work. The unmarried 55-year-old, one of whose biggest hits was Bachelor
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 877 11 Tree Hand*, Bpm, Premiere 12 jm^ Helen Shaver an American ||jj| writer in London, whose son rW' dies. Her mother (Lauren Ba- call) kidnaps an abused child v v f to replace him. This sets off a 9*^l of trouble mailers and the child's parents. Peter Firth, Paul McGann and
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
    • 348 12  -  A proper watchdog would help China's growing advertising industry. Chan Siew Ling reports Chan Siew Ling SINGAPORE'S watchdog for the advertising industry was recently invited to offer its expertise to form a similar advertising regulatory body in Shanghai. Bernard Chan, president of the
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    • 846 12  -  David Barboza reports on an unusual trend which includes a prison jumping on the marketing bandwagon David Barboza NYT A MUG shot is not typically part of a model's portfolio, but a campaign for rugged button-down jeans suggests that when it comes to marketing,
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    • COPY LINES
      • 75 12 SINGAPORE The Union Bank of Switzerland (ÜBS) has stepped up its global ambitions with a worldwide advertising blitz. But not for ÜBS the well-trodden path of flashy graphics and gimmicks. Instead, viewers see England's best known thespians Sir John Gielgud, Ben Kingsley and Alan Bates
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      • 69 12 SINGAPORE Swiss watchmaker Omega has signed on supermodels Cindy Crawford (above) and EUe Macpherson to play up the age-old brand's "emotional attraction to new young consumers. The "Outstanding Personalities campaign also features other successful sports and music professionals but, without a doubt, attention will gravitate towards Cindy
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      • 77 12 SINGAPORE Singapore's ad community gets to play cowboys and injuns at this year's get-together, Adball '95, which takes on a raucous Country Western theme. Local songstress Ning Baizura and an American Country Western (what else?) band will entertain at the Nov 22 event at the
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    • 1013 13  -  Industry experts tell Chan Sicw Ling why the power of packaging is grossly underestimated Chan Siew Ling IN the average marketer's day, very little time is actively devoted to evaluating packaging options and designs, which directly projects the desired brand image. But given
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  • 527 15 SHowS THE novelty of the Singapore report into the collapse of Barings pic is not, as the London Financial Times said last week, an attack on Peter Norris, the former head of Baring Investment Bank. The novelty is its refusal to accept the naive view that Nick Leeson,
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  • 382 15 TWO points were prominent among the reservations put forth in public discussion when Nominated MP Walter Woon brought a private member's Bill a year-and-a-half ago to empower indigent parents to sue their children for maintenance. One was a question of ethics: whether legal sanction might not
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  • 125 15 IT SEEMs quite possible that Japan's financial authorities will lose international credibility as a result of their handling of Daiwa Bank's loss of more than 1 billion due to illicit trades at its New York branch. The greatest problem is that the inspection division and the
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  • 114 15 MALAYSIA has many reasons for refusing to celebrate the United Nations' anniversary. This is because, at 50, the UN should have been more mature. Old and wise would have been acceptable. The country's stand should not be misunderstood. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad may be the biggest
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  • 114 15 AS THE price of property soars with rising demand, many Singaporeans feel that they cannot hold on to their dream of owning landed property. But the NTUC Housing Co-operative, with a proposed $60 million working capital, seems determined to meet the challenge. The housing cooperative idea is
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  • 177 15 FIFTEEN years ago there were 300,000 child workers in Thailand. Now the figure has increased by 15 times and stands at 4.5 million. Can this be possible when the Asean region is touting itself as the engine of growth for the world economy? We are talking about growth
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  • 159 15 PRESIDENT Bill Clinton was beaming with satisfaction after the US-Russia summit while Boris Yeltsin put on a show by ridiculing the press. It is an apt reflection of the present ties between the two. As for the Sino-US summit, which was not expected to produce a
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  • 915 15 Insider trading is easy enough to do, but hard to prove Bloomberg Business News FEW investors in London were surprised when a United Kingdom beer distributor and leisure company said it was in takeover talks with pub group Greenalls pic earlier
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  • 493 16 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The US government's deficit fell to a three-year low of US$l64 billion (***** billion) in the fiscal year ended Sep 30, President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday. Separately, Mr Clinton repeated a vow to veto a Republican
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  • 321 16 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The number of US workers applying for state unemployment benefits showed no change last week, while the moving average rose to the highest level in more than a month, Labour Department figures showed yesterday. New claims were unchanged at a
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  • 37 16 AFP PARIS French produce farmers gathering around a six-metre high fruit and vegetable pyramid in front of the Louvre on Wednesday. They were protesting against slumping economic standards affecting their trade. AFP
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  • 284 16 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Factory orders for big-ticket goods unexpectedly increased in September, a sign the US economy may be growing at a faster pace. Aircraft orders led the advance. Orders rose 3 per cent last month following a revised 5.1 per cent gain
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  • 226 16 Reuter LONDON Most Europeans are worried about unemployment, disapprove of the growing influence of US culture but are in favour of the European Union, according to a survey published on Wednesday. The International Research Associates poll published in The European newspaper found that Europeans are
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  • 264 16 AFP, Reuter, Bloomberg Business News MOSCOW A top aide said yesterday that President Boris Yeltsin's condition did "not give cause for great optimism" on his ability to return to work in the next few days, some hours after he was rushed to a Moscow hospital with
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  • 191 16  -  ■r Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE The Batamindo Industrial Park has bagged the ISO 9002 award, the first industrial park in the Asia-Pacific to be certified for its service quality. The award is seen to give the park's developer, Batamindo Investment Corporation (BIC), an edge in
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  • 348 16 AFP LONDON The former wife of one of the world's wealthiest men, who got a £9 million (Ss2o million) divorce settlement, says she can't make ends meet and has won the right to seek more. England's High Court Family Division a year ago
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  • 875 16  -  The Bottom Line VIKRAM KHANNA VIKRAM KHANNA The writer is BT's regional economics editor WHETHER it's making payments for moccasins or machinery, theatre tickets or insurance services, this time next year, you may find yourself doing it via a personal computer. Having
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    • 76 16 For a colourful lifestyle, call Fashion Beauty 1900-912-0006, at 30 cents a minute. V 1 JL Anfiteatro Watch in 18 ft /jflßj. gold with saddle leather ctrmp. I Automatic movement, warn $si- j s(anr. Swiss made. t f .j Bangkok J Singapore Juiuirtat Grand Hvatt Era* an Hilton International Shanvi-ba
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    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        49 17 Firm 'Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Alliance, Barings, Credit Lyonnais Securities, Daiwa. Fraser, G K Goh, Kay Hian, Morgan Grenfell, Ong Co, Nomura, Phillip, Smith New Court and WI Can.
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        101 17  - By Paul Leo NORTH Borneo Timbers' 36-cent rise to $4.20 on a strong volume 0f671,000 shares compared to a 10-day average of 163,000 units is an indication that the stock has turned bullish. Monthly RSI is oversold while the weekly directional indicator MACD is about to signal a buy. However,
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    • 238 17 SINGAPORE Marinebased Sembawang Corporation's share price yesterday sank 30 cents to $6.95 on news that its shipyard arm was taking a customer to court for terminating its biggest ever conversion job, worth $200 million. As a result, SembCorp emerged as yesterday's
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    • 501 17  -  Diana Oon SINGAPORE Kian Ho Bearings yesterday launched an initial public offering (IPO) of 30 million new and IS million vendor shares at SO cents each. The price translates into a forecast price-earnings ratio of 11.6 times, based on
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    • 438 17  -  Time for market to recognise this, says exchange chairman By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Sesdaq, the second board of the Stock Exchange of Singapore, should not be confined to just small and young companies but should instead be viewed as an avenue for
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    • 721 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Anthony Rowley TOKYO The Japanese corporate reporting season is currently underway for the six months to Sep 30. So far, the results for the financial half-year have been a mixed bag but it is not so much fiscal 199S figures
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    • 400 17  -  By David Mok SINGAPORE Metal stamper Amtek Engineering plans to build a factory in China, increase output in Malaysia and buy-out another local metal stamper. The company's executive chairman, Lee Ah Bee, says the China factory, in Suzhou, could be
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    • COMPANIES
      • 383 18  -  Malaysian-based group confident it can gain control Fran Surinder Singh in SYDNEY MALAYSIAN-BASED Winwood Forest Industries Pty Ltd, which launched a hostile Asl6 million (5517.1 million) takeover bid for Sydney-based company Hudson Timber and Hardware Ltd at ASO.BO a share,
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      • 86 18 Reuter CILACAP, Indonesia Flames blazing from seven storage tanks which caught fire in the Cilacap refinery owned by state-ran Pertamina oil company. A fuel tank was hit by lightning on Tuesday afternoon, causing a fire that spread to six other tanks including kerosene
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      • 337 18  -  By David Mok SINGAPORE Prominent businessman Brian Chang, founder of KLSE-listed marine engineering firm Promet Berhad, has set up a new company to design computer software for theme parks and golf clubs. The company, named Theme Parks Systems, has already secured
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      • 260 18 SINGAPORE Semiconductor services company Sunright yesterday reported a near-dou-bling of full-year net profit, fuelled by strong growth in the semiconductor and electronics industries. For the financial year to July 31, Sunright made a net profit of $6.6 million or 91 per cent
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 76 18 SINGAPORE Informatics, whose shares start trading on the mainboard of the SES today, has set up another eight new IT training centres in India. With the latest additions, Informatics now has 93 centres in 16 countries. The new centres arc in the cities of
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        • 41 18 SINGAPORE Superbowl Holdings has increased its investment in its wholly-owned subsidiary, Super Funworld Pte Ltd, from $2 to $100,000 by subscribing for an additional 99,998 ordinary shares of $1 each at par for cash on Wednesday.
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        • 77 18 Reuter MANILA Singapore's DBS Bank is set to establish a branch office in Manila, documents from the Manila Securities and Exchange Commission showed. In a filing with the SEC, DBS said the branch's business would include banking and development financing, mortgage financing, lease and hire
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        • 66 18 AFP KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday identified 14 more firms for paperless trading under the computerised Central Depository System (CDS), officials said. Eighty-three main board and 157 second board counters have now been prescribed under the CDS system, which the KLSE
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        • 104 18 Reuter MANILA Cellular phone operator Pilipino Telephone Corp (Piltel), a unit of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co, plans to spend 13 billion to 15 billion pesos (SsBl4 million) in the next three years on expansion, officials said. Piltel president Ramon Cojuangco told reporters after the
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      • 189 18 SINGAPORE Construction group Low Keng Huat (Singapore) suffered a net loss of $235,000 at half-time, it announced yesterday a result likely to make broking analysts revise their full-year forecasts. Listed LKH had achieved an after-tax profit of $754,000 for
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      • 57 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd put off yesterday's planned announcement of the territory's first interactive television company, saying too many details remained unsettled. "Some of the details still need to be agreed with our strategic partners," said Anna Ngai, manager of public
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      • 73 19 Bloomberg Business News IRVINE, California Western Digital Corp said its fiscal first-quarter earnings fell 78 per cent from year-earlier levels on increased pricing pressure in the disk-drive industry. The maker of Hi«k drives for personal computers posted earnings for the period ended Sep 30 of
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      • 79 19 Bloomberg Business News PARIS Shares in L'Oreal fell more than 4.5 per cent after the world's largest cosmetics company reported first-half profit at the bottom end of expectations. L'Oreal said its pre-tax profit before items rose 5.5 per cent in the first half to
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      • 51 19 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Television broadcaster Seven Network Ltd said it will buy a one-third stake in an Australian pay TV news service being developed by financier Kerry Packer and Britain's BSkyß pic. The news channel will provide local news to both local pay TV
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      • 358 19  -  Fna Florence Chong in SYDNEY THE Australian and New Zealand stock exchanges announced the creation of a Trans-Tasman Index for the top 100 companies of the two markets yesterday. The move is the first step towards the formation of a common Australasian exchange,
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      • 265 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China Travel International Investment Hongkong Ltd, a Chinese-con-trolled travel and investment company, will buy a theme park from its parent for about a third less than originally agreed, the company said in a statement.
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      • 76 19 Reuter BEIJING Workers putting the finishing touches on a new Coca-Coin billboard in Beijing yesterday. Once completed, the billboard will be the US soft-drink maker's largest advertisement in China. The company plans to invest a total of more than US$5OO million in China and recently opened a
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      • 393 19 Reuter AUCKLAND Australasian brewer Lion Nathan yesterday reported an annual profit at the top end of analysts' forecasts, and said efficiency gains and development of its Chinese interests would boost growth further. Lion reported a net taxpaid profit, excluding abnormal,
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      • 258 19  -  Fiw Al Labita in MANILA SAN Miguel Corp (SMC) yesterday reported a 13 per cent jump in profit to 3.69 billion pesos (Ss2os million) in tbe first three quarters, but analysts said it was below expectations. "It's disappointing," anar lyst Karla Sison
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      • 617 21 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's top electronics makers reported higher profits yesterday as the world's seemingly insatiable appetite for semiconductors, personal computers and mobile phones boosted sales through the first half of the fiscal year. "Luckily for electronics makers, world chip demand
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      • 399 21 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT Deutsche Bank AG, Europe's biggest bank, yesterday said net profit in the first nine months of 1995 rose 16.4 per cent to 1.349 billion deutschemarks (551.369 billion). The bank said the increase was even more pronounced
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      • 260 21 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT Commerzbank AG said operating profit in the first nine months rose 114 per cent to 1.221 billion deutschemarks (551.24 billion) from 570 million marks last year. The bank said it expects "satisfactory" results for the full year,
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      • 495 21 Bloomberg Business News EINDHOVEN, Netherlands Philips Electronics NV's third-quarter net profit rose a less-than-expected 18.S per cent as growth was held back by falling earnings at its consumer electronics division and a strong guilder. Europe's largest electronics maker said it earned a
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      • 342 21 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Two of Japan's biggest heavy machinery manufacturers yesterday forecast near record profits for the year, although one said earnings fell in the first half. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, the largest of Japan's major machinery manufacturers, reported a 26.2 per cent gain
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 479 22  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG ASIA'S bond market will grow rapidly, with its total value expected to more than double to US$l trillion (S$ 1.4 trillion) by the end of the decade, said a report released yesterday by HSBC Markets. Much of
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      • 270 22 Reuter »SINGAPORE Keen demand by European processors f is boosting cocoa butter in Ma- laysia with forward price ratios for 1996 reaching their highest levels in 18 months. But traders said the high values had not helped profits at some Malaysian cocoa bean grinders.
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      • 152 22 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON An independent report on the derivative operations of Bankers Trust New York Corp will be delayed for up to six months, reflecting the wide-ranging scope of the inquiry. Bankers Trust, in order to settle fraud charges the Securities and
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      • 407 22 Analysts call it a bold statement to reassure investors and customers Bloomberg Business News ARMONK, New York International Business Machines Corp made a statement on Wednesday that few technology companies are willing to make. The world's largest computer maker sold a total of US$75O
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      • 277 22 AFP LONDON The world wheat harvest will be smaller than expected in the 1995-96 season to June and world stocks will fall even more than forecast, the International Grain Council warned yesterday. The world harvest was likely to total no
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      • 294 22 Reuter LONDON The dollar continued to range trade ahead of fresh news on the US budget with attention still centred on the robust mark, dealers said. Mark/yen forged ahead to 72.84/87 from Wednesday's 72.62/64 and the German currency was also starting to put pressure on the peseta, moving to
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1278 23 Reuter SINGAPORE Simcx Euroyen and Eurodollar futures ended firmer, boosted by confidence that Japanese and US interest rates were unlikely to be raised before year-end. Euroyen futures gained steadily for the tint time this week, pushed up by short-covering activity and the Bank of Japan's
        Reuter  -  1,278 words
      • 661 23 GsM TOKYO: Gold futures rose to finish at the upper end of the day's range, reflecting the yen's weakness against the dollar. Prices ranged from 13 to 18 yen per gram higher, with benchmark August up 15 at 1,235. Spot October expired at noon,
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      • 90 23 NEW DELHI India, which has become a surplus wheat producer in the past couple of yean, will focus on producing quality wheat for exports, Food Minister Ajit Singh said yesterday. Production of superior quality wheat is necessary as the country is trying to
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      • 107 23 TAIPEI Indonesia has sent a freighter to Taiwan to pick up the 50,000 tonnes of rice it has bought from Taiwan to ease its rice shortage, it was disclosed yesterday. The Cambodian-registered Un Bong arrived in the Taichung Harbour on Sunday. Loading begins tomorrow, said the
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      • 94 23 NEW DELHI The Indian government haa*tlowcd the export of 200,000 bales of cotton in tfce 1995-96 (Sep-Aug) season, the Press Trust of Intfia news agency said yesterday. It quoted Maharashta's Chief Minister Manohar Joshi as sayinc the fedttal government had okayed the export of
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      • 40 23 LONDON Metals demand is likely to show further growth in 1996, albeit slowing somewhat, in line with continued expansion in the world economy, London Metal Exchange broken Brandeis say hi their Base Metals Outlook 1996.
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    • 1319 23 StCOMFrtarw WlOHkMk (Sccnta/kt) CVote Voluaw Open Month High Low Sot (to—m) latent Nov 95 2IS.00 211.00 ***** 275 "623 Dec 95 214 50 21T3 Jan 96 212.25 212.25 ***** 100 1000 Feb* 212.25 212.25 212 00 100 1000 Mar 9* 212J3 212-25 212.00 123 «73 Apr/Jua 96 212.50
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1009 24 -4.4 SHARES eased yesterday, weighed down by weaker futures but balanced to some extent later by what dealers saw as bond market resilience to higher-than-expected incomes and inflation data. A broker said the impact of new data showing average earnings climbing at an annualised 5.3 per cent could have
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      • 567 24 -1.78 Share prices closed lower amid poor third-quarter corporate profit forecasts and continuing inflation fears. "The index broke the critical support level of 2,545 yesterday and is still pointing downwards," a dealer said. The PSE Composite Index lost 1.78 points to 2,542.27. Turnover was 4.08 billion shares worth 991
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      • 445 24 -5.22 Share prices ended lower amid a lack of institutional buyers. "There were no fundamental changes on the horizon as the summit meeting between the presidents of the US and China had yielded nothing out of the ordinary for Taiwan," said a dealer. The 321-issue Weighted Price Index edged
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      • 312 24 -7.58 Share prices ended slightly lower after another day of consolidation, Lion Nathan being the only leading stock to gain. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended 7.59 points down at 2,187.24 on turnover worth NZ$44 million. The long-running Air New Zealand-Ansett issue reared its head again but with still
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      • 446 24 +3.27 Stocks rose as individual investors began to move to the equity market from bonds and other fixed-income instruments amid falling interest rates. "After staying on the sidelines for a long time, individual investors are gradually returning to the stock market, long after institutional investors did," said a dealer.
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      • 48 24 -78.77 Share prices finished sharply down but off their lows in volatile trading undermined by the weak rupee, brokers said. "Everyone's a seller," said a broker. "Nobody's buying." The 30-stock BSE Index closed down 79.77 points to 3,406.43. The 100-share National Index was down 32.47 to 1,553.52.
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 732 24 Pitta—<■ Fmwb SmtUm Cart BM Offcr MnCvDnM 3**400 *****0 Mim JeneyGihl AIM1 0.1992 Mtm Max income *0.9200 *09)00 L'SS Caah incomc Plu» Fund 10.0)00 10.5900 rs S Reaervc Fund ****** *5*000 irsajas o Far East Fund *2.7*50 *2.9730 Man Portfolio .2.12*0 2.2990 UK Growth Fund *5.7)00 **.1100 MIM Br Am
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      • 618 24 -1&2 SHARE prices closed lower after a cautious session, with the market failing to take much relief from a firmer gilts market. The FT-SE 100 Index closed down 18.2 points at 3,519.6. Volume was 523.7 million shares. Dealers said although early weakness on Wall Street did not help shares,
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      • 114 24 -11.99 Shares partly recovered from a sharp fall of over one per cent. The market took fright on rumours of the death of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Reports said Mr Yeltsin had gone into hospital with heart problems following to his trip to France and the United States. The
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      • 232 24 •SJB4 Dutch stocks plummeted, led lower by Philips after it released disappointing third-quarter earnings, The EOE Index fell 6.84 points to 448.39. Among the 25 index stocks, 16 fell, seven rose and two closed unchanged. About 35.1 million shares changed hands. That volume was largely because of the 22.6
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      • 164 24 4-10.9 Share prices closed higher as a stronger dollar offset concerns for Russian President Boris Yeltsin after he was admitted to hospital with a heart problem. The DAX Index closed at 2,142.74 up 10.9 points. "The market went up and down with the rumours about Yeltsin, but since those
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      • 159 24 +0.62 Stocks were mixed as gains by mining and chemical companies were matched by falls in cyclical issues. The Bel2o Index of leading stocks closed up iust 0.02 points to 1,423.74. "It's only interest rate sensitive stocks that are being traded now and I don't see much change for
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      • 190 24 4-175 Shares firmed to the day's highs on hopes that Lamberto Dini will avoid or even win a no-confidence vote after he said he would step down at the end of the year when the 1996 budget has been approved. Shares, domestic bonds and the lira all firmed in
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      • 250 24 4-1.1 Share prices closed slightly higher in thin trading on declining domestic government bond yields and as the dollar's steady tone staved off negative sentiment created by European bourse declines, dealers said. The SMI Index was up 1.1 points at 3,080 and the broader SPI Index was down 0.44
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      • 325 24 -64.9 South African shares ended lower on as the market corrected lower after strong futures driven buying earlier in the week faded. Dealers said industrials had drifted "slowly but surely" easier in intra-day trade after a weaker close on Wall Street and a softer London opening. "But really what
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      • 596 24 -11.57 Stock prices edged lower in active trading early yesterday as the market continued to search for direction amid a lot of crosscurrents. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which retreated 29.98 points on Wednesday, was down 11.57 to 4,742.11 at 11am EDT. The New York Stock Exchange Composite
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      • 138 24 -16.18 Swedish stocks fell as players lowered their profit expectations for the coming slew of corporate results, brokers said. Lower bond yields and a weaker crown, which was seen threatening the export industry, did not help the market. Trade was dominated by foreign investors, brokers said. The OMX Index
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      2066 25 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks fell, following US Mocks lower. The Hang Sent Index fell 66.58 points at 9,774.48. The AO Ordinaries Index, which reflects the broader market, lost 33.11 points to 4,687.03. Trading was worth HK52.64 billion "Everything is down," said a trader. The only positive thing is
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      507 25 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index lost 5.35 points at 948.31 on turnover of HKS4.SB million. The best performers were Yizheng, up 3.4 per cent and Dongfang Electric, which pained 1.1 per cent. Tsmgtao Brewery lost 7.1 per cent and Guangzhou shipyard fell 3.1 per cent. The Shanghai
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      2072 25 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks fell to a onemonth low, led by banking shares, amid concern that the lenders will continue to be battoed by bad loans, hidden losses and the additional cost they must pay to raise money abroad. "What you're seeing is continuing concern about the rise
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      1220 25 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks regained some lost ground just before the close on buying of finance issues but still closed slightly lower. The SET Index ended 4.38 points down at 1,270.14 on turnover of 6.3 billion baht. Falls led risers 184 to 99, while 117 counters were unchanged. "Some investors
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      1009 25 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices finished the day lower, with Tainbang Timan seen making a rebound and actively traded Japfa rising modestly despite profittaking, brokers said. The Composite Index fell 0.03 point to 497.15. "Tambang Timah made a rebound following its encouraging performance on the London stock exchange," a broker
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 5500 26 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks surged to their highest levels in more than two weeks, led by North Borneo Timbers and other commodity-related stocks, on hopes for a pro-business budget for 1996. Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim is scheduled to unveil the new
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      • 7300 27 199* Lax Vel Day _u«qyw W, D* YM Nm Cj *2 High Lot 9m Coafany Sale W- CMO) High Law ifl« SeBer O* r,t w lis lir Vis?®* so* us ii-":' 6 iS "a#** Jw* «o 474 207 m t 1002 Anted 332 unch 421 JJ4 330 332 334 20.0
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      • 1792 28  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE A followthrough of buying interest in Malaysian stocks yesterday was the main feature of a session in which the Straits Times Industrials Index came within a hair's breadth of losing its grip on the 2,100 mark. Sources
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    • 534 29 Renter THE Freight market buckled again with a 2 per cent plunge on Wednesday mainly on tumbling grain fixtures from USGulf ports, shipbrokers said. Rates have hit their lowest since September 1994 and analysts say they have yet to bottom out. "In the short-term the downtrend is holding
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    • 64 29 Reuter BANGKOK Major Thai shipping firm Precious Shipping pic said it will issue fiveyear debentures worth 2.5 billion baht (SSI4O million) on Nov 9 to raise venture capital and to finance fleet expansion. The coupon rate of the issue, which received a 'BBB' rating from Thai Ratings and
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    • 41 29 AFN BANGKOK Unithai Line Pic said it has taken delivery of a 22,328 deadweight tonne ship, bringing the company's conventional shipping fleet to 19 vessels. The new ship, Pattaya Navee is to see service in the charter market. AFN
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    • 249 29 Reuter LONDON The world's biggest ship insurers have ordered higher premiums for 1996, saying the level of claims was rising in tandem with the growth in world trade. The Protection and Indemnity Club (PAI), which insures about one quarter of the world's ocean-going fleet,
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    • 317 29 SES '000 Oct 26 S$ Vol CWT Distribution 1.54 unch 13 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.18 -0.01 146 Cosco Investment 1.88 +0.02 18 Far East Levingston 6.30 +0.30 147 Freight Links Express ....0.705 +0.015 630 OB Holdings Ltd 0.945 unch 30 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.92 unch 119 Hitachi
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    • 331 29  -  Rahita Elias SINGAPORE German terminal operator Hamburger Hafenund Lagerhaus-AG (HHLA) has launched a satel-lite-controlled container handling system which it says is the first such one in the world. The automatic system locates the straddle carriers used in handling and transporting containers and is
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    • 75 29 AFP HAMBURG A photographer pointing his camera at the new APL Tkmilmmd container ship dnringitochristening at the Kiel Wharf Howahhswerhe-Deutsche WerfutG (HDW) on Tuesday. The 276-m long boat, one of the largest container ships in the world, is equipped with a 64,000 horse power diesel enrine. The
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    • 192 29 SINGAPORE Singapore Polytechnic will soon become a one-stop centre for teaching and holding exams on the latest in high-tech maritime communications. It will hold all Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) examinations on behalf of the Telecommunications Authority of Singapore (TAS) from
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    • 41 29 SINGAPORE International container lines using Calcutta port have decided to increase terminal handling charges (THC) by nearly 50 per cent. The move follows a 46 per cent increase in the general levy imposed by Calcutta Dock Labour Board.
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    • 659 29  -  rn»oiio«iHt This is a weekly column that highlights important shipping court cases By Selva Kumar SHIP classification societies will never be held legally liable for negligent surveys even if they admit their carelessness. This is because it would be "unfair, unjust and
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    • 379 29 Bernama PET AUNG JAYA Port Klang Distribution Park (PKDP) will invest about MS2SO million (about Ssl4o million) to set up another logistics area next to West Port, which is one of the three shipping terminals in Port Klang. Chief executive Amran
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    • 221 29 Reuter ATHENS Greece again put Elefsis Shipyard on the auction block in the first stage of an international tender to sell the embattled shipbuilding, repair and conversion yard's assets as a package. "Investments Bank SA, as special liquidator, invites interested parties to submit nonbinding
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    • 211 29 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Port of Hamburg handled 900,000 tonnes of cargo to and from Malaysia (on direct routes and via Singapore) last year. Of the amount, 598,000 tonnes were on the direct trade from Malaysian and Brunei ports, it said in a statement. General
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    • 1152 30  -  Sky Bridge uses services of group members for impressive growth, reports Chris Gillis Chris Gillis American Shipper 1 w OREAN Airlines, I a subsidiary of the Hanjin Group, reports I« sharp growth in its Sky Bridge service for air- ocean routing of cargo
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    • 10204 38 This guideS thclSng destinations from Singapore. The fitst date indicates the ETA at Singapore.folbwed by the ETA at the destination. The page number refers to the location of the schedule advertisement k aw TO ETA M—l VMN( »W« 1 El iSr.il-> A Aarhua StflO
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      • 411 48  -  By. Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Australian Qantas Airways Ltd, three months after its successful privatisation, is now aggressively expanding its operations in Asia. Starting on Sunday, Qantas is increasing its weekly flights between Jakarta and Australia from five to 10. By December, flights between
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      • 442 48 AFP CHIBA, Japan Sleek futuristic super-cars have been pushed aside by more realistic models at this year's Tokyo Motor Show, as car makers battle to boost sales in the face of growing competition and a sagging market. "Displaying concepts alone now appears to
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      • 168 48 Reuter ZURICH —.Deutsche Lufthansa still expects the European Commission to make a decision before the year-end on its planned alliance with Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), Lufthansa chairman Juergen Weber said. "We know Brussels is working very hard on it and we expect
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      • 182 48 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON Australian transport group TNT Ltd yesterday said it has yet to reach agreement with Air New Zealand Ltd on the sale of TNT's 50 per cent stake in airline Ansett Australia. News Corp owns the other half
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      • 165 48 AFP JAKARTA President Suharto's youngest son, Hutomo Mandala Putera, will cooperate with Italy's Lamborghini and Korea's Kia Motor Corporation, to produce Indonesian cars, reports here said. "The production will start with sedans. We will also produce commercial vehicles which will be put on
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      • 198 48 UPI WASHINGTON Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud A 1 Faisal said on Wednesday he expects "good news" this week on the finalising of a US$6 billion (SSB.S billion) aircraft purchase with Boeing Co and McDonnell Douglas Corp. Second Deputy Prime Minster Prince
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      • 83 48 SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines will begin twice-weekly flights to Macau every Tuesday and Friday from Dec 1. The new A3lO service will provide a travel option for visitors to Hongkong who may wish to stopover in Macau. Passengers currently travelling to Hongkong have a choice of four
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      • 71 48 Reuter SYDNEY Qantas Airways Ltd has entered into a joint arrangement with Federal Express Corp to operate two weekly US-Australian flights as part of a plan to phase out Qantas' current Boeing 747-2008 combi aircraft. Under the arrangement, due to begin tomorrow, Qantas will lease
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      • 75 48 AFP HONGKONG Hongkong-based Cathay Pacific Airways announced yesterday it would increase the number of its flights to Auckland and Johannesbury starting next week. The airline said it would launch a fourth weekly flight between Hongkong and Auckland and a third weekly flight to Johannesburg. "The increase
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      • 73 48 Bernama-Xinhua SHANGHAI The Germany-based Mercedes-benz company has recently sold SO,OOO units of its cars in China. Kariheinz Michel, President of Mercedes-benz China, said here yesterday that about 40,000 were sedan and the rest commercial vehicles. He said the company was "confident of a steady increase
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      • 61 48 AFP HONGKONG Italy's lacobucci SpA said on Wednesday it was joining two units of Hongkong's Swire Group in opening a factory in China to manufacture aircraft catering equipment. In a statement, it said the HKSBO million (5514.6 million) joint venture with Hongkong Aircraft Engineering and
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      • 68 48 Corrections clarifications A REUTER report carried on this page yesterday, headlined "KLM may lose passengers over smoking ban", said a smoking ban by KLM would apply to all European and trans-Atlantic flights as well as those to Australia and Singapore. KLM has clarified that the Australian flights, three per week,
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