The Business Times, 24 February 1996

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/95 85< SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes WEEKEND EDITION, FEBRUARY 24-25,1996
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Super-luxury car sales surge 38 per cent
    557 1  -  1,832 sold last year at prices ranging from $300,000 to $ljgm tuffh By< Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Fast cars are moving really fast Singaporeans snapped up 1,832 su-per-luxury cars last year, 504 units or 38 per cent more than the 1,328 they bought the
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    US economy hits its slowest growth since '91 recession
    363 1 [WASHINGTON] The US economy grew at a slower-than-ex-pected pace in the fourth quarter and put in its weakest annual performance since the 1991 recession, government figures showed yesterday. Inflation, meantime, remained subdued. The gross domestic product, the total output of goods
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    Govt announces salary revisions for ministers, civil servants
    418 1  -  By\ Chuang Peck Ming (SINGAPORE! The government yesterday announced salary revisions for ministers and senior public officers in line with its annual formula to bring their pay closer to top private sector salaries. The monthly salary of the benchmark Staff Grade I
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    Bosses unperturbed by Admin Service drive
    453 1  -  Move to recruit mid-career staff unlikely to cause wage spiral, they say Byi Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Employers and headhunters do not appear to be overly concerned by the government's move to recruit, for the first time, mid-career staff* from the private sector into
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • Article
      Housing price seen rising 5-10%
      376 2  -  (fort mora likely to prevent market from moving beyond this range, say analysts By Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Government moves are likely to prevent the overall residential property market as well as individual categories from moving beyond a 5-10 per cent range in 1996, markets watchers
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      Fashion Cafe may open outlet in Lane Crawford
      442 2  -  Theme restaurant in final stages of talks with stere By« Jenny Lam FASHION CAFE, started by supermodels like Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell, is in the final stages of talks to open its first outlet here within Lane Crawford's premises, said the
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      Bankrupt jailed for 37 overseas visits without clearance
      276 2  -  By' Ven Sreenivasan UNDISCHARGED bankrupt Andrew Chua Buan Lee, who was involved in a betting controversy last year, has been sentenced to six weeks' jail by the High Court for travelling overseas without the permission of the Official Assignee or the court.
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      Economic Survey out on Monday
      133 2 THE 1996 Economic Survey of Singapore will be released at 8 am on Monday, the Ministry of Trade Industry (MTI) said yesterday. The report of economic performance during 1995 includes details cm sectoral performance, sources of growth, inflation, employment and productivity. In his New Year
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    • Article
      S Korean and French presidents to visit S'pore
      498 2  -  Both VIPs will focus on tapping into region's bona By Walton Morals TAPPING into the region's economic boom will be the focus of two visiting foreign leaders who will arrive here next week in a hectic round of diplomatic activity for the
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      Inflation at 0.9% in January
      136 2 THE year-long slide in the monthly inflation rate seems to have been stemmed last month. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.9 per cent in January, the Department of Statistics said yesterday. Except for a dip in February 1996, inflation had been falling—from a high
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        Aussie polls from S'pore
        82 2 AUSTRALIANS who will not be tn Australia on polling day M <M«»I tp .-y be held on March 8, from Singapore in two way®, eays the 'f k mail n ■■■iiimwiii Tlx i> mi init n> [■inMin voting, which altars them to cast tbeir votes in
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        board appointments
        79 2 MEMBEBftoftbe Board of Commlssionsrs of Currency the next three years have been appointed by tfeePMilßtlfte four appointed are Lee Seng Wee, liHihpn Mil iitiliif oisniHiro nfflrrr nfmrnnnn Hilmm DwfrhW nmnms slWiii Wes Cho Yaw. chairman and chief executive officer of United Overseas Bank Group; Manfred Olio Berth, gsnsral
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        Corrections and clarifications
        52 2 ■< «'l Iff 001 om t ywlwrtsy headlined "Sale of new private per cent last year", we said *Kat of the for completion tn 1997, i 0,7» units liens ifclelk SMttO ■iwl nwhsirii boon »nlil Thn lss> fljiii n should have been MB units. We are sorry
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      Outbound travel business to cross $1b mark: Natas
      475 2  -  Inbound fignre forecast to grow 0% annialty till 2000 By. Agnes Wee SINGAPORE'S outbound travel sector chalked up an estimated business of about $980 million last year and this figure is expected to grow by another 15 per cent this year to
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      Developers told about release
      370 2  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Choy Chan Pong Director. Land Administration Division Urban Redevelopment Authority I refer to The Business Times' report dated Feb 21 headlined, "Redas preparing statement on URA release of take-up figures". i The report said that developers were unhappy with the URA over
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      59 2 INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY CANADIAN RESORT LAND suitable for VACATION RESORT INVESTMENT In the Laurentian Region. Freehold Land. 35 subdMded lots for sale. Minimum size 30,000 sq. ft. each selling for only Singapore $10,000. Plan No: 7318. For (Mailed information write to: Mapto Realty, Crawford P. O. Box 571, Singapore *****3. Pagan
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • FOCUS: PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
    • BULL'S EYE
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        Lock icon BT Sentiment Index
        577 3 Those polled for their views on the Singapore stock market's outlook the week ahead are: Baring, Daiwa Securities, Deutsche Morgan Grenfeli, GK Goh, Merrill Lynch, Nomura, Phillip, S G Warburg and WI Carr. Bqi (Xpal Uatriac Recent data show that the Australian housing market, while no longer
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        In My Opinion
        561 3  -  Ng Chong Thye STtST" OLD rallied US$3O I t (Ss42) in just a short \A span of time from the beginning of this year at US$3BB to US$4lB per troy oz on Feb 2. This represents a healthy 7.75 per cent jump. Since then, gold has taken
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      Lock icon Program with full visual control
      794 3  -  MetaStock for Windows is an object-oriented system for the keen chartist By] Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] METASTOCK for Windows (MSW) is well worth the wait. It took developer Equis about two years after rival Win-dow-based systems were available here before MSW was finally launched. And the
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      Lock icon Indon textile stocks plunge amid rally
      546 3  -  Loss of competitive edge, smaller profit marking fffmgfr By\ S N Vasuki [SINGAPORE] TEXTILE stocks, once high-fli-ers on the Jakarta bourse, have tumbled recently as companies' margins are squeezed and their export competitiveness is eroded. Indonesia's textile sector has long been viewed as the
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      Large-cap stocks offer long-term refuge
      455 3  -  BTEOMTHBKBOION: PHILIPPINES By( Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Philippine stocks look all set to breach the all important 3,000-point barrier on the benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange composite index by the end of the month as foreign funds once more find their way to Asia. "The market is
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  • REGION
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      Lock icon Court wants report on bribery charges against Rao
      295 4 NEW DELHI AFP AN Indian court yesterday ordered federal detectives to report on charges that Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao had accepted bribes from the chief suspect in the country's worst corruption scandal. The Delhi High Court ordered the Central Bureau
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      Lock icon Taiwan troops on alert although China yet to start military drills
      226 4 UTAIPEI 1 AFP TAIWAN said yesterday its troops would remain on full alert although China had yet to begin military manoeuvres near the island, seen by Taipei as intimidation ahead of democratic presidential elections. "The defence ministry will continue
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      Lock icon Making peace with Beijing is Taipei's main mission: Teng-hui
      430 4 TAIPEI Taiwan's president does not role ont unprecedented summit with Chinese leaders Reuter, AFP TAIWAN's President Lee Teng-hui said yesterday that making peace with rival China was the most important mission of his government and added that a summit with Beijing's
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      Lock icon Transport plan aims to ease bottlenecks
      411 4 BEIJING Seven highways, three waterways in the pipeline AFP, Bloomberg Business News CHINA is to push ahead in the coming five years with ambitious plans to upgrade transport links to ease bottlenecks that have created serious obstacles to nationwide development, a report said yesterday.
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      Lock icon CIA director warns of accidental hostility
      130 4 WASHINGTON AFX-Asia THE possibility of an accidental outbreak of hostility between China and Taiwan due to miscalculation in the Taiwan Strait during China's upcoming military exercises is "great," CIA director John Deutch said yesterday. "A miscalculation or an accident unintended could lead to some
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      Lock icon Report: Beijing shortlists five to run HK
      104 4 HONGKONG Reuter BEIJING has shortlisted five candidates to run Hongkong after the British colony's mid--1997 return to China, and they include the current civil service chief, a leading Hongkong newspaper said yesterday. A China-controlled selection committee would formally name the chief executive but
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon China upbeat about 1000 inflation
        63 4 AFP [BEIJING] China yesterday issued an upbeat forecast of the 1996 inflationary trend, predicting a ftgthnr Basing of price rises to 6.8 per cent year-ono*ar In the first quarter. A State Planning Commission survey said the three-month target would put the objective of bringing annual
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        Lock icon Guanghon plans major expansion
        39 4 Reuter [BEIJING] Giumgzhou has unveiled a plan to quadruple the city's area to 216 sq km flrom 54 sq km and embark on eight major transportation, residential and waterworks projects within the next five years.—Asuttr
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        Lock icon Indon ministers to meet businessman
        63 4 Reuter [JAKARTA] Indonesia's Manpower Minister Abdul Lattaf said yesterday he would meet businessmen next month to diacuaa ways to reduce levies that are partly blamed for the country's hitfj-oost economy. "There will be a meeting with the chamber on March 4 attended by aeveral ministers
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        Lock icon Japan prepares for Tokyo quaks
        51 4 AFP [TOKYO! Japan introduced a new crisis management manual yesterday to prepare tor the possibility of a massive earthquake hitting the capital Tokyo, government officiate said* The manual was endorsed by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and other ministers during an informal cabinet meeting, the officials
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        Lock icon revvals big banks'problem loans
        60 4 Reuter [TOKYO} Jean's 21 biggest banks had seven trillion yen (S|Bag billion) of problem loans to non-bank financial institutiow other than firms at the end of Septamber, a Ministry of Finance (MOF) official said yesterday Last November, MOF said the 21 banks had 13*86 trillion yen
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      Court dashes Murdoch's plans for TV empire
      317 4  -  mSYDNEY Rating says dubs' contracts with rival Rugby League binding By] Peter Lynch MEDIA baron Rupert Murdoch's plans to use rugby to build up his worldwide cable and satellite TV empire were dealt a severe blow yesterday. A landmark decision in what has
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      Lock icon People Power Part II
      51 4 [MANILA] Confetti raining down on marchers as they shout slogans protesting against oil price increases during a march here yesterday. The march coincided with an official four-day commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the ousting of the late president Ferdinand Marcos in a 1986 "People Power"revolt.
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      Vietnam needs to restructure debt
      297 4  -  SINGAPORE World Bank warn* that its huge debt may impede growth By\ Harish Mehta VIETNAM should try to reach agreement with the Paris and London Clubs to restructure its US$6.7 billion (559.5 billion) commercial debt soon, a World Bank official said recently in Hanoi. This
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    AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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  • REGION/WORLD
    • WORLD Watch
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        24 5 Reuter §1 countrjae with the biggset ambitions fcr the luropean Union—Prance and Germany—are to the moetEU trade barriers, European jgfM Germany a>r
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      Lock icon Clinton urges Congress to get back to the budget
      419 5 WASHINGTON RepaMicaiis debating whether to make nhwncb»th> prlwitj tm Mmmlij LATWP US PRESIDENT Clinton exhorted Congress on Thursday to return to the work of balancing the federal budget and enacting other reforms. At the same time, Congressional Republican leaders, held intensive
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      Clinton re-appoints Greenspan as Fed chief
      399 5  -  WASHINGTON Ha also nominates economists Alice Rivlin and Laurence Meyer to fill two Fed beard vacancies By\ Leon Hadar IN A move that was applauded by Wall Street and Congress, US President Bill Clinton announced on Thursday that he was nominating Federal Reserve Board
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      Lock icon Plan to allow utility firms to invest in Asia
      154 5 TOKYO Reuter THE Ministry of International Trade and -Industry is planning to allow Japanese utility companies to invest in developing Asian countries, a ministry official said yesterday. The government has, until now, encouraged power and gas companies to concentrate on the
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      Lock icon Frozen stiff
      40 5 [LONDON] The statues in London's Trafalgar Square taking on a cold coat of kx on Thursday as fresh snowfalls descended on the capital overnight Like the restof Europe, Britain has been in the grip cf below-freezing temperatures. AFP
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      Lock icon Kantor wants WTO to fight business bribes
      250 5 WASHINGTON Reuter US TRADE Representative Mickey Kantor has asked the World Trade Organisation to help fight the continuing problems of bribery and corruption in global business dealings, his office said on Thursday. He said in a letter to WTO director-general Renato Ruggiero in
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      Lock icon Yeltsin's inflation target of 25% hard to meet: analysts
      498 5 MOSCOW Reuter RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin laid out a tough economic programme for 1996 yesterday, but analysts said he would struggle to meet inflation targets while fulfilling pledges to protect the weak. Mr Yeltsin, buoyed by Thursday's agreement with the International
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      Lock icon US jobless claims rise for second consecutive week
      317 5 WASHINGTON InwUrt view news assign the Federal Beeerve may still lewer interest rates Bloomberg Business News THE US economy showed new signs of stress on Thursday as the government reported that claims for unemployment insurance rose for the second consecutive week. First-time
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      Lock icon Defection hits Major ahead of key vote
      435 5 LONDON Reuter PRIME Minister John Major faced a crisis yesterday after a third member of parliament defected from his ruling Conservative Party, cutting his parliamentary majority to just two ahead of a key vote on government probity. Peter Thurnham, in parliament for 13
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      NatSteel invests in Bangkok synthetic rubber tyre plant
      435 6  -  Firmia which Nat Steel anit has 2SJ% stake teaming np with major Japanese players Rqportsbj Loh Hui Yin in Bangkok MAINBOARD-listed Nat Steel is going from steel to wheels by investing in a synthetic rubber plant in Thailand which will make tyres.
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      Small cog now on way to becoming big wheel
      229 6 NATSTEEL Chemical's involvement in overseas projects such as the synthetic rubber plant in Thailand will help make it a significant industry player in the region. And at home, a malnboard listing is on the cards for the Nat Steel group subsidiary,
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      Tuan Sing buying fewer floors of office space in John Hancock Tower
      226 6 [SINGAPORE] Listed Tuan Sing Holdings is proceeding with its purchase of office space in John Hancock Tower along Raffles Quay but is buying fewer floors. In a statement yesterday, Tuan Sing said it has been informed by the
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      Lock icon KLSE-listed firms register better interim results
      494 6 lit the last six ninths, three out of four firms reported hither earnings MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] Listed companies registered better interim results generally in the last six months with three out of four companies reporting higher earnings. The overall growth in pretax profit for
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      A tale of two tycoons: Kuok, Khoo look set to expand media group
      465 6  -  BOOK LOCK SOW By Lee Han Shih AHKSI.IS billion (***** million) takeover in Hongkong could pave the way for two Malaysian tycoons Robert Kuok and Khoo Kay Peng—to expand their huge media group into China and other
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      CDL stops using Millenium until suit heard
      348 6  -  By Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] CDL Hotels International Ltd, the Hong-kong-listed subsidiary of Singapore property giant City Developments, yesterday gave an undertaking to the High Court not to use the "Millennium" brand for its Singapore hotels pending the trial in May of a suit
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      Lock icon EU likely to approve Belgacom deal
      150 6 Reuter [BRUSSELS] The European Commission is not expected to have problems with the acquisition of a 49.9 per cent stake in Belgian telecom firm Belgacom by Ameritech International, Tele Danmark and Singapore Telecom, a European Union source said yesterday. The deal would likely be
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      Lock icon More interest in Maybank, Genting shares
      622 6 Counters attracting more investors after introduction of small lot trading NST [KUALA LUMPUR] The introduction of reduced lot trading for Malayan Banking Bhd and Genting Bhd last month is receiving the kind of response that the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange has been hoping for
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    • COMPAMIES
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        Lock icon Magic Kingdom goes into cyberspace
        286 7 Disney Online UmehetSySOO-p*# Web lite Reuter [LOS ANGELES) Disney Online, the online services unit of Walt Disney Co, made its first major step on Thursday to take its Magical Kingdom onto the Work! Wide Web with the launch of a 2£oo-page site called Disney.com. The
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        Lock icon Netscape finds another security flaw in its Internet software
        271 7 Bloomberg Business News [MOUNTAIN VIEW, California] Netscape Communications Corp said another security flaw was found in its Internet software, the fourth time defects have been found in the company's commercial products. The latest defect is linked to Sun Microsystems Inc's Java
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        Lock icon PepsiCo chief resigns, successor named
        139 7 Bloomberg Business News [PURCHASE, New York] PepsiCo Inc said on Thursday that chairman and chief executive Wayne Calloway will resign and turn over the reins to Roger Enrico, the company's No 2 executive. Mr Calloway, who has been at the helm of the soft-drink, restaurant
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        Keppel's China Canton Fund raises more than US$50m
        253 7  -  GROWTH nv FOND MANAGEMENT It has identified some China manufacturing projects bat has yet to decide en them By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The Keppel group-led China Canton Fund has raised over US$5O million (5170.S million) and is currently evaluating several projects in
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        Abtrust moves into bigger premises
        255 7  -  Firm is eeesideriiig lunching uit trusts in Singapore By Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] Abtrust Fund Managers (Singapore) Ltd has increased the size of its office space threefold by moving into 4,500 sq ft of new premises at Circular Road, a senior manager of the firm said
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        Lock icon Eng Wah focuses on the big picture
        266 7  -  By Arthur Lee [SINGAPORE] A 25-year-old landmark in Toa Payoh, a cinema run by mainboard-listed Eng Wah Organisation, is shutting its doors for the last time this Thursday to make way for a four-storey cineplex, retail centre and food court. Hie move is
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        Lock icon Microsoft political talk show on the Internet
        168 7 Reuter [NEW YORK] Microsoft Corp beamed a political talk show on the Internet on Wednesday night aimed at the under-30 crowd, seeking to demonstrate its prowess despite the medium's technical limitations. The broadcast was staged at New York City's @Cafe and hosted by
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        Lock icon Emerging markets have shaken off 'Tequila effect': economist
        250 7 Reuter [NEW YORK] The emerging markets should perform well in 1996, having recovered from last year' 8 economic weakness set off by Mexican uncertainty, said Shafiq Islam, chief emerging markets strategist at Credit Suisse. He expects the Asian emerging markets to cool
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        Lock icon Price of memory chips seen falling further
        355 7 Bloomberg Business News [TOKYO] The price of memory» chips for computers will continue to fall this year, cutting into chip makers' profits, an executive of NBC Corp said. Cecil Conkle, NEC's senior mi-fcetlm mfl tt g l>r for mwn» ry products in the
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        Lock icon March peak for foreign buying of Tokyo stocks
        149 7 Reuter [TOKYO] Net buying of Japanese equities by foreign investors tends to be greatest in the month of March, according to a study by one of Japan's "Big Four" brokerages of the five years through 1996. During the period, March averaged the
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        Lock icon UBS profit up 4% to 1.68b Swiss francs
        317 7 Results are below market expectations of 5-10% prefit rise Bloomberg Business News [ZURICH] Union Bank of Switzerland's 1996 net profit rose a lower than-expected 4 per cent as earnings from trading operations rose less than predicted. ÜBS said 1995 net profit rose
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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        MAS joined BOJ in buying US$ against yen: report
        430 8  -  Ttkyo talk stems from buying by Singapore banks, says analyst By] Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] In its first such action since the US dollar-yen intervention agreement was unveiled this week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is said to have joined the
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        Lock icon Investment bank DLJ to double its acquisition fund to US$6b
        254 8 Firm will MM on its commitment t# merchant banking Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette Inc (DLJ), Wall Street's newest publicly-held firm, plans to double to US$6 billion (Ss&s billion) this year the money it wields to acquire
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        Lock icon CBOT plans larger minimum price moves ingrains
        306 8 Bloomberg Business News [CHICAGO] Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) chairman Patrick Arbor plans, in the coming months, to propose expanding the minimum price move in the grain and soybean markets. Corn, wheat and soybean futures prices at the CBOT move in US 0.25-cent
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        Lock icon Greenback to be supported in the short-term
        461 8 USI/DM: The greenback continued to plunge on Monday following the previous Friday's descent during New York hours to touch a low of 1.4420 against the German mark. It then consolidated between 1.4434 and 1.4606 for the next three days. It traded around the
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        Lock icon US insurance deals attracting smart money
        266 8 Renter (NEW YORK] The US insurance industry has fast become the place for so-called smart money. Interest in insurance deals is coming from a growing number of specialised investment groups as well as big-name buyout funds and corporate buyers. Everyone from general buyout Arms
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        Bank moves training centre to Manila
        328 8 But Citibank will maintain m. training presence in S'pore [SINGAPORE] US banking giant Citibank said yesterday it is moving its Singapore-based regional training centre to Manila, though it will continue to maintain a training presence in the Republic. Stuart Jones, Citibank's regional training director
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        Lock icon CURRENCY REPORT
        168 8 AFP Reuter THE dollar added half a pfennig as German money supply figures rekindled expectations of a Bundesbank credit-easing near term. German M 3 in January grew at an annualised 8.4 per cent, roughly in line with expectations but well below talk this week that growth will soar
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        Lock icon Oil prices give up some gains on profit-taking
        327 8 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON] World crude oil prices drifted lower yesterday as market players struggled to defend gains of about US$l.OO a barrel made over the week. Brent crude futures for April delivery were 10 cents lower at US$lB.lB a barrel in
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        183 8 The figures are based on mid prices of currencies quoted by OCBC Rupiah quote is bv Bloomberg For Rupiah Yen and Won. the figures are In 100 units of the foraß currency Indicated. Among the four currencies themselves, the exchange rate should read as it is. WATm Feb 23 i
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
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        COMMODITY Reports
        498 9 [SINGAPORE] Rubber futures closed higher across the board in foirly active trade in line with higher Japanese prices, brokers said yesterday. They said prices in Tokyo and Kobe were generally higher on expectations that deliveries at the spot enquiry would be small and on some short-covering by private
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        216 9 Reuter [SINGAPORE] Slmex Euro yen futures came under renewed attack in afternoon trade yesterday as lingering worries about a Japanese interest rate hike received a fresh boost from comments by a Liberal Democratic Party official. After tracking positive territory all day on short-cover-ing activity, Euroyen was sold off
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          India rice re-routed to west Africa
          85 9 [SINGAPORE] Several cargoes of Indian rice that were due in Indonesia in Oct-Dec last year have been re-routed to west African states, according to Asian industry sources. Re-routing of the cargoes was tied to Indonesia's announcement in late 1996 that it would not extend
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          South Korea buys cotton
          130 9 [CHICAGO] South Korea overnight bought several thousand boles of San Joaquin Valley cotton for Apr-Jun shipment, but mostly business remained quiet, exporters sakL One trader said Japan had shown some interest recently aMr a drop in basis levels, but traders salt it appeared no business had
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          Beef sales limited
          138 9 [WELLINGTON] Prices for domestic US beef dropped during the week and sales of US imported beef were limited, the New Zealand Meat Producers Board said. "Prices for domestic beef dropped another four US cents (about 5.6 S'pore cents) a pound this week in response to increased supplies.
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          Japan kerosene stocks down 23%
          65 9 [TOKYO] Japanese primary stocks of kerosene at the end of January fell 23.3 per cent from a year earlier to 2.647 million kilolitres, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry reported yesterday. Brisk kerosene sales due to cold weather accelerated the stocks draw-down Petrol stocks
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        343 9 Reuter C WASHINGTON] Chinese grain import demand through the* next 10 years and beyond wifi be steady, but will not thriateh world markets, said a Chfcieee flWrkl at tiMi Agriciiltore Department's Annual Agricultural Forum. Painting a more optimistic pieture of China's production capacity than
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      REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      4031 10 Ditty* -MM SHARE prices closed lower yesterday, pressured in late trading by weak futures, for the seventh straight decline. The Nikkei 225 Average closed 40.56 points lower at 20,300.38. The Topix Index closed down 4.28 at 1,568.18 with the Nikkei 300 Index felling 0.96 to 292.99. Volume
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      1031 10 HlwlM *3 SHARES ended marginally higher after treading water in a narrow range throughout the day, despite further advances on Wall Street Caution about increasing volatility in US markets coupled with domestic political worries left investors happy to sit on their hands ahead of the weekend. The
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      2404 11 AFX-Asia :flEugS«g ♦SLie jSHARE prices closed higher on active futures trading and bar-'gain-hunting, dealers said. The Hang Seng Index closed «up 51.96 points at 11,390.41. Turntw, Over was HK54.95 billion. A dealer said futures traders .'-bought into major blue chips "tfuring the afternoon, pushing -the index up. "Hongkong Telecom,
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      1349 11 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter PSETMg -MJ» STOCKS fell for the fourth day yesterday on concerns that numerous bond sales will draw money away from shares, analysts said. Bangkok Bank, Thai Farmers Bank, Phatra Thanakit, United Communication and General Finance Securities each announced bond sales yesterday. "There are a lot
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        HOT STOCK
        66 14  -  By Paul Leo OJY THE daily chart DBS Ar# appear**) beam Pitting the right tkwkkrqfaknti \indfn lion with the neckline at $1190. A break btkmiht Mkline will see at bast a drop ofslM to mmwiftSfc weekly and monthly RSIs near or in overbought nrai and the daily MACD
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        Surprise cheese for market at end of first Rat week
        846 14  -  STOCK MARKET OOMMBMTiBT Bloe-chip rise reflected in the broader market which, including Cloh, recorded a healthy 275-66 advance-decline score By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Late support for local blue chips and Malaysian second-lin-ers yesterday enabled the market to end the week
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          Dow's syndrome
          192 14 STOCKHROK3NG firms in Singapore and the region are beginning to get worried about the remarkable rally on the New York Stock Exchange this week. Conventional wisdom had it that this would be a sedate year for American stocks because the Dow touched record levels in IMS. Analysts beUeved
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          Talking yen
          109 14 -rj-r 1} •> MALAYSIAN Prime MlnktarMihithir Japan for three days from tomorrow. A foreign ministry spokesman in Tokyo said yesterday that the Malaysian prime minister will attend a disbar party to be hosted by Prime Ministsr Ryutaro Hashimoto on Monday, wfflvtaft Japanese itfrtech companies and hold talks wtth
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          A new range for gold
          87 14 SPOT gold prices was quoting at U*****.75-US|39eJK an ounce yeslerday and a bullion analyst feels tint prices wffl wnrin static <tewplte »h*» unwise tn 'r currency markets. "We an seeing gold continuing to trade to the U*****-UBtNt level," he said. "Moreover, It has a good
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          41 14 ONE reader called u* yesterday to eonfcla that we keep mtt»«palttng the napacf investor ciBiuraouuri warrettBtiflRttnk a oar stortee /lt should be WamoBaftKt, not Buffet," het*M.fttiitowelj has been nlbbiinc away at the T. *V you* t t
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    Don't crowd the Asia-Europe summit
    1101 15  -  GROWING ASIA-EUROPE TZZB Franoois Oodement cautions against expanding the Asem membership Franoois Godement Dr Francois Godement is a Senior Research Associate with the French Institute of International Relations, Paris. ANY summit meeting of heads of government is likely to generate some momentum for co-opera-tion, but
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    Meeting as equals
    891 15  -  It will be a historic occasion when the Asian heads of §9 w uiueot meet their European ceonterparts in By Lee Poh Ping Dr Lee Poh Ping is Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya. ONE says the obvious when one predicts the
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    819 15  -  What is the styrificance of the recent EU-Vietnam agreement? By Michael Hindley Michael Hind ley, MEP, is Senior Vice-President of the European Parliament's Trade Committee and author of the Parliament's report on the EU- Vietnam agreement. THE European Parliament (EP) recently approved the European
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    When the state co-opts Muslim intellectuals
    933 16  -  INDONESIA'S POLITIOAL BCOMOHT Maimah s Taiib analyses the breakthrough for relations between the state and Islam in Indonesia Naimah S Talib Dr Naimah S Talib is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. THE recent congress of the Association of Muslim Intellectuals
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    Inflation is a real worry for Indonesia
    1057 16  -  A farther expansion of government eFpenditnre would result in an overheated economy By\ Didik J Rachbini Dr Didik J Rachbini is Director, Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (INDEF), Jakarta. IN a speech to Parliament in January, President Suharto highlighted the unprecedented
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      365 16 While the world is acknowledging East Asia's rapid I \w 11|| economic growth, most of the Asian nations are mm I facing a new challenge: managing migration. There Wk Jl B are about three million foreign workers in the seven m\M lIM JwT -IT I f V labour importing countries,
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      103 16 I President I Chirac I to give lISEAS address 5 ftA N conjunction with his state visit to Singapore H Tat the end of this month. French President H Jacques Chirac will deliver a policy address organised by the Institute of Southeast Asian H Studies. The topic of his address
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    1164 17  -  An enormous amount of hidden savings in Vietnam have yet to be tapped and harnessed. Mtok Freeman examines the issue Nick Freeman Dr Nick Freeman is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. DESPITE Vietnam's status as one of the
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    1234 17  -  Steady governance ha* been tte key to an improvement in PMip;iiieecooomicfortimes By* Joaquin L Gonzales III Dr Joaquin L Gonzalez 111 is with the Department of Political Science, National v University of Singapore. ESPITE the usual natural calamities and rice crisis which helped trigger double-digit inflation, the
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    Poverty, vote-buying and Thai democracy
    971 17  -  The poor are not to Uame for vote-buying and other flaws of democracy in lliailand, but are instead the victims By James S Ockey Dr James S Ockey is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. IT has often been argued that
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    1246 18  -  THE TAIWAN ISSUE Jaushieh Joseph Wn examines the issues surrounding, and consequences likely to flow from, Taiwan's forthcoming presidential election Jaushieh Joseph Wu Dr Jaushieh Joseph Wuisan Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taipei TAIWAN'S first popular presidential election will
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    China sends messages amidst US disarray
    978 18  -  We are witnessing an old-fashioned confrontation in power politics By Richard Halloran Richard Halloran,formerly with The NmlN York Times as a foreign correspondent Asia and military correspondent in Washington, writes about Asian security from Honolulu. S POR President Clinton, the swelling conflict with China
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      Cashing in on quality education
      1370 19  -  Private education in Malaysia is big business, and companies are quick to see the potential in it ouuubub reports SHJHNA GURBAKHASH The writer is a Kuala Lumpur-based freelance journalist who contributed this article to Executive Lifestyle. IN THE fast growing economies of Asia, the most
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        120 19 ONE CAR company ran an advertisement just before Chinese New Year saying all its offices and workshops would be closed during the festive holidays, but "in the UNLIKELY event" that car owners would require assistance, to call its 24-hour hotline. It must be wishing it
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        79 19 IS EDUCATION really the key to a lucrative career? After reading the recent newspaper report about the coffeeshop owner who sold his premises for a record )8 million, one aspiring investor isn't so sure. She remarked: "When I was young I told my mother I wanted to
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        41 19 SOMETIMES you just have to watch your terminology when you're in mixed company. One frustrated architect raised a few eyebrows when she yelled at a contractor over the phone: "You have to ERECT before I can see it!!"
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        Evolutionary man
        866 20  -  Claiborne, Guess Classics, Country Road some of the latest menswear lines to appear in Singapore are spinoffs from what started as women's fashion, oobimiib kbrk finds out what's behind this trend CORINNE KERK Perhaps it's the determination to prove that male shoppers in Singapore are alive and kicking.
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        980 21  -  These fiery sparklers can be super buys, both for enjoyment and investment cum smw um provides pointers for a good deal CHAN SIEW LING LIZ Taylor flaunted it. Sharon Stone fought over it. Napoleon wore it cm his sword as a talisman until he lost it and the
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        383 21 CUlt Many people confuse cut with the shape of a diamond. Most diamonds are cut with a full 58 facets, and a good cut, or make, has more sparkle. The shape of the diamond, however, is largely a matter of personal preference and does
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        Diamond prices are forever — or are they?
        721 21 Diamond prices are forever or are they? IT HAS become a truism that diamond prices never fall, a claim that has been cultivated over the years by De Beers' annual US$lB5million (***** million) marketing campaign. The South African-based De Beers, after all, controls 80 per cent of the world's uncut
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        Crime and punishment
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        567 23  -  TELEVISION Carry On QEII chronicled one of the worst public-relations catastrophes ever inflicted npon itself by a non-dysfunctional commercial enterprise By\ Kevin Sullivan THE TRAVAILS of passengers and crew aboard the QEII on its ill-fated trans-Atlan-tic voyage of December 1994 have entered the realms of mythology. "When
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        711 24  -  The Greenhouse at the Ritz-Carlton may be a hotel cOffeeshop, but the presentation and quality of its food is definitely a notch higher, am bb checks out some winners in its comprehensive menu JAIME EE HERE'S a tip for you if you want to know where two people
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        652 24  -  RESTAURANTS One-and-a-half Indian restaurants opened in the city in the past two months and another is dne soon By\ Harish Mehta THOUGH 102.5 may sound like some postwar acid-rock radio station blasting the good people of Hanoi with its "Goooood Morning, Vietnam" breakfast-over-bombs show,
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      CINEMA
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        1159 26  -  Be ostentatious castles of the Loire Valley continue to fascinate all and sundry even in these egalitarian pones. And visiting them by bicycle only serves to emphasise their grandeur, writes MARK GRAHAM IDEALLY, visitors should ipproach at a gallop, the ihunderous hooves of a team
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        The boat to Mandalay
        535 26  -  TRAVEL BRIEFS Take a journey down Myanmar'gAyeyarwady Kiver and visit the fabled cityofßagan By) Eileen Chan A RIVER cruise with a difference, that's what the "Road to Mandalay" seeks to provide. Starting in February this year, this deluxe cruiser on the Ayeyarwady River in Myanmar opens
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