The Business Times, 18 March 1996

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/95 Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes SINGAPORE MONDAY, MARCH 18,1996 85c
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    61 1 STOCK MAUET INDICES Week Change sni 2J«7.S1 .71.2 KLSECOMP 1.119.89 +26.33 NIKKEI 20.190.85 +22.22 HANG SENG 10,557.58 -637.36 SET INDEX 1,267.06 -54.81 JAKARTA COMP 576.79 -12.32 MANILA COMP 2,821.75 -126.43 TAIPEI WP1 4,936.31 +58.93 SEOUL COMP 856.48 +3.65 BOMBAY BSE30 .3,343.27 -56.79 CLSA CHINA B 733 93 -7.11
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    FINANCE
    72 1 EXCHANGE RATES us$ s* US$ 1.408 I 1.526 2.149 DM 0.677 0.957 _0J47...„ IMi 3W 0 554 HKI— 1.129 0.182 BAST k_ 0.040 -.0.066 RITIAH 0.043 0.060 PBIME BATES SINGAPORE* 6 44 KUALA LUMPUR. 8.15 JAKARTA _18.e0 BANGKOK 1175 MANILA 14.50 HONGKONG .8.75 TAIPEI 8.00 SYDNEY 10.75 TOKYO 2.80
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    Lock icon Valuations of HDB flats up 8% quarterly
    580 1  -  Measures to curb tinder-declaration lead to valuations moving closer to transacted prices By. Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Valuations of Housing Board resale flats have risen by an average 8 per cent every quarter since the middle of last year, figures from the HDB and
    Source: HDB,URA  -  580 words
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    DBS Land posts 6.6% profit growth
    557 1  -  Group net earnings of $158.4 m almost 20% below analysts' forecast of $19&2 m By Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] DBS Land is the second property company to announce net profit growth of less than 10 per cent in the current reporting season, after First Capital
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    Lock icon S'pore an expensive place to buy news magazines
    450 1  -  By. Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] A regional media hub Singapore may aspire to be but the Republic is one of the most expensive places in Asia to buy international news magazines. A comparison of newsstand prices shows that in some instances, readers
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    Apec divided over way to manage US$-yen stability
    379 1  -  By. Anthony Rowley in Kyoto A SCHISM emerged within Apec yesterday over how to manage what one senior Japanese financial official described as "the world's most important exchange rate relationship" that between the dollar and the yen. At a meeting in Kyoto
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      125 1 DCSTOE r ij SUwig DT6W Traditional Indon herbal tonic and cosmetics firm Mustika Ratu expands abroad. Pf 18 Historic views Three shophouse conservation projects coming up in Chinatown will offer more choices for travellers seeking hotels in historical districts. Pf 2 Branching out Listed electronics group Thakral plans to diversify
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      23 1 4 j Hyundai Electronics, build i r"\ /he chips that can monitor \Yt and control traffic flow. Above. below and on the ground.
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      25 1 Camdessus wants of overheating, Pg 6 US, Japan to keep close coordination in money markets, Pg 21 amatol finds bank risk weightings biased, Pg 21
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Local execs rank govt as top supporter of business
      330 2  -  But execs aronnd the world tip the US govt as the best, according to early findings of global survey By. Paul Leo SINGAPORE business leaders have ranked their government tops in terms of support for economic competitiveness while their international counterparts
      Source: The World Year Book 1996; BCRUZ  -  330 words
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      Habitat store to close at end of month
      216 2  -  By] Diana Oon BRITISH furniture chain Habitat is closing its Singapore operations at the end of this month. Habitat, known for its upmarket furniture and household goods will not be renewing its franchise agreement with local holder Kim Hin Joo Pte Ltd
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      More Singaporeans heading for exotic spots
      268 2  -  By. Ang Wan May THE number of Singaporeans looking for exotic playgrounds is growing at a phenomenal pace. Singaporean arrivals to South Africa has almost doubled in a year while the number heading for Egypt looks set to triple this year. Another hotspot is
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      AsiaOne provides business reports on Mexico
      241 2  -  By Kenneth James EVERYTHING you need to know about doing business in Mexico more than 1,000 screen'pages of reports, views and interviews now comes free in an exclusive new service from the Business Centre, the business-focused section of the Asia One Web site on
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      Lock icon Retained imports up 27.6%
      270 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Trade Byi Genevieve Cua RETAINED imports continued its upward climb with a 27.6 per cent year-on-year growth in January, the most robust rise over a one-year period. Leading the rise was machinery and transport equipment which surged 38.1 per cent, its strongest
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      Lock icon Chinatown to get 3 new boutique hotels
      371 2  -  Hotels in historical districts selling nostalgia are fast catching on By] Diana Oon THREE shophouse conservation projects coming up in Chinatown will offer more choices for travellers seeking hotels set in historical districts. The biggest of the new developments, a 50-room hotel being
      ARTHUR LEE; JEN CHUA  -  371 words
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      Lock icon Stamford Press leaves its imprint on the market
      512 3  -  COMPANY VISIT Stamford Press A company that was debt-ridden in 1984 turns aronnd with a shift in focus By. Ang Wan May STAMFORD Press, set up with the intention of supplying textbooks to the 2,000-odd students at Stamford College in Victoria Street,
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      Beer consumption here reaches limit
      222 3  -  By Toh Han Shih THE Tigers and the Anchors may be flowing in abundance from local breweries but Singaporeans have reached their limit on beer consumption, said a senior brewery official recently. The Republic has the highest per capita beer consumption in Asia at 30
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      SCCCI to host regionalisation conference
      116 3 THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry is to hold an international conference on investment strategies for regionalisation next month. The April 15-16 conference, organised in conjunction with the chamber's 90th anniversary, wUI be its first high-level conference conducted entirely in Mandarin. The chamber's
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      44 2 Redefining style, reinstating elegance. a. testoni f BOLOGNA ITALIA ji ingenuity shaped by tradition At A. Tbtoni Boitiqi es #01-15/16 Hilton Horn Showing GalleiyTel: 734 4855 *OMO Mandarin Horn Shopping AxcadeTel: 734 1538 j f'" *01*11 Raffles Hotel Shopping Arcade Tel: 334 0103 »v
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      192 2 HI The 2nd International Exhibition HpSgH on Brewing, Beverage Equipment and Technology In Asia Held In conjunction 1 with the 24th 108 Convention BREW.DRINK TECH ASIA '96 will provide an platform to assess the technological developments in brewing and beverage technology and its applications. Visitors will gain invaluable insight into
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      527 3 Making debt registration p,easc ft" in the reply coupon and fax to PI \f EZa 11 Cleo Goh at (65) 291 3101. m A T JCf I would like to attend the Tallyman seminar on: I O I WM W Thursday 28 March 1996. Lafite Room (Level 3), Le Meridien
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Mekong project key topic of Banharn talks in Beijing
      350 4  -  BANGKOK Thai PM also to explore ways to step up trade during visit this month By Loh Hui Yin DEVELOPMENT of the Mekong sub-region will be a key topic of discussion during Prime Minister Banharn Sil-pa-archa's meeting with Chinese leaders in
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      Lock icon Dr M: My visit doesn't endorse or condemn Howard's victory
      264 4 KUALA LUMPUR Reuter, Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad downplayed suggestions that his visit to Australia this month was an endorsement of the country's new Prime Minister John Howard, The Star newspaper reported yesterday. "I am not endorsing him or
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      Lock icon CPI up 3.4% in Feb over previous year
      103 4 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S inflation rate, as measured by the consumer price index, rose 3.4 per cent year-on-year in February, the same rate as in January, Bank Negara said on Saturday. The rise was attributed to price increases for food, medical care,
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      Lock icon A quiet time
      37 4 [SAN PABLO, Philippines] Filipinos visiting the grave of Filipino maid Flor Contemplacion in her hometown here, south of Manila, yesterday to commemorate the first anniversary of her hanging in Singapore for double murder. REUTER
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      Lock icon Underwater World to open tomorrow
      123 4 ■LANGKAWI Bernama UNDERWATER World Langkawi, to be officially opened by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad tomorrow, will be another crowd puller on this duty-free island resort. Located on a 2.5 ha site, about 20km from Kuah town, it is an ambitious tourism-re- lated development project undertaken
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      Lock icon Vietnam gives mining rights to foreigners
      266 4 HANOI New mining law will become effective from September AFP VIETNAM'S National Assembly has passed a landmark mining law that enshrines the rights of foreign and domestic companies to explore, mine and process the country's vast potential mineral resources, a report said on Saturday.
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        Lock icon Khmer Rouge mines said to kill 50 troops
        77 4 AFP (ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand] Cambodian government troops lost more than SO troops and three tanks in heavy fighting over the weekend, mainly to mines laid by retreating Khmer Rouge rebels, Thai border police said yesterday. The latest round of fighting began on Saturday
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        Lock icon Viet anti-vice drive to slow down
        81 4 Reuter [HANOI] Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh has hinted at an easing of a campaign which in February saw police in cities tear down, cover up or destroy signs with western brand names. In an interview with the Thanh Nien newspaper published on
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        Lock icon Manila to carry out military exercises
        78 4 AFP [MANILA] The Philippines yesterday announced a series of military exercises with the US from April to August but denied the exercises were called in response to tensions in the Taiwan Strait. "We must disabuse our people from all speculations that these exercises with
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        Lock icon Mobil, Korean group in Viet venture
        85 4 AFP (SEOUL] Mobil Corp of the US on Friday joined a South Korean consortium in a US$75 million (Sslos million) project to develop a Vietnamese offshore gas field, industry sources said. Mobil and the consortium, led by the state-run Korea Petroleum Development Corp, signed
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      Lock icon Licence granted for US$23.4m Aussie joint venture hospital
      213 4 HANOI It is targeted mainly at the over 4,000 foreigners in Hanoi AFP HANOI will soon be set to provide international standard healthcare with the approval of a U5523.4 million (5532.8 million) jointsventure hospital licence to Australian and local partners, it was
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      174 4 Next to the Shangri-La. Only 5 minutes from Orchard Road. Easy access to major expressways. Near shopping centres, supermarkets, restaurants and embassies. Luxurious 1,2 or 3 bedroom suites. IDD phone-fax and televisions in all suites. Personalized maids, laundry and secretarial services. Landscaped pool, tennis, gymnasium, sauna, steambath, putting green and
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      324 4 Til GOMfM SECRETARIES CONVjENTIQN THE BOARDROOM EXPECTATIONS AND CHALLENGES Thursday, 4 April 1996 Pinetree Town Country Club The traditional role, responsibilities and liabilities of Company Venue The Balmoral Hall Secretaries have now seen a major change due to the fast pace in Pinetree Town Country Club business development, practices and
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      172 4 I A n noun Ling "Business Ili Proposition"from the I five-star SUm City Hotel. I 7b ii special offer includes I Oe/iae Koom. breakfast, all I /axw and service charges p/i<s /ofc mon- Or. for an additional A A USS 40.00, i/VtW upgrade to y CiUSIVE our luxurious tuv-room 5
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China issues warning on WTO entry
      123 5 BEIJING Reuter CHINA this week returns to the negotiating table for entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO), warning member nations not to raise impossible conditions for its membership. "China won't sacrifice its own economic development for its WTO membership," the China Daily Business
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      Lock icon Inflation target may be met
      90 5 BEIJING Reuter INFLATION in China should fall to 10 per cent in 1996, in line with targets, if the government acts further to control fixed-asset investment. Chinese economist Dai Yuanchen said although China's policies, to stabilise prices had caused difficulties for some enter prises, resulting
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      Lock icon Beijing trade official reassures businessmen
      377 5 CHINA-TAIWAN TENSIONS Exercises targeted at those trying to create two Chinas' Reuter, AFP [BEIJING] China is keeping political clashes with Taiwan separate from economic exchanges and would not let its military intimidation harm investment from Taiwan business, a senior trade official said. "No matter what
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      Lock icon Probe on use of Sino funds to derail markets
      213 5 m TAIPEI Reuter TAIWAN'S Investigation Bureau said on Saturday it was investigating whether Beijingrelated funds were being used to destabilise Taiwan's financial markets during the current tensions. But it added that so far there was no evidence of any such activity.
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      Lock icon China warns US, Taiwan craft not to enter war games zone
      227 5 HONGKONG AFP, Reuter CHINA'S top military brass has warned that if US or Taiwanese aircraft and ships enter the zone where China is to hold war games this week they will not leave again, Hongkong press reports said yester-
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      Lock icon 20,000 call for peace, hit out against Teng-hui
      231 5 TAIPEI AFP AT LEAST 20,000 people demonstrated here yesterday, calling for peace between Taiwan and China but also protesting against President Lee Tenghui, accusing him of provoking Beijing with his taunts. The demonstrators, of all ages, took to the streets, many of
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      113 5 Tensions having minimal impact on S$ Pgl9 4A. Willi Not just down under, but all over. Qantas' services to Australia and New Zealand are unmatched. But we can take you and Bangkok, with flights to Jakarta five times and Kuala Lumpur three times weekly. a a lot further than that.
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  • ASIA
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      IMF's Camdessus warns of overheating Apec economies
      359 6  -  KYOTO Apec ministers urged to tighten monetary policies and achieve more realistic exchange rates By, Anthony Rowley THE head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday warned Apec (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) finance ministers that a number of economies within the 18-member bloc were
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      Lock icon They mean business
      76 6 [DHAKA] Police putting up barbed wire barricades to stop thousands of Dhaka traders and entrepreneurs from trying to march to the presidential palace on Saturday. The businessmen V alleged that President Abdur Rahman Biswas had failed to resolve Bangladesh's long-running T political crisis. The protesters threatened further
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      Lock icon Firms home in on rural markets
      325 6 NEW DELHI Demand for consumer goods growing at 30% a year AFP ENCOURAGED by rising demand for consumer goods, Indian and multinational firms are turning their attention to the world's largest untapped market the hundreds of millions of rural Indians. "Rural markets are large
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      Lock icon S'pore, M'sian firms sign deals worth 17b rupees
      144 6 NEW DELHI Bernama ENTREPRENEURS from Malaysia and Singapore have chosen the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu for big projects costing 17 billion rupees (***** million), according to a newspaper report. The projects range from the setting up of a shopping mall
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      Lock icon Court summons ex-chief minister in bribery case
      206 6 NEW DELHI Reuter THE former chief minister of Delhi state, Madan Lai Khurana, has been ordered to appear in court on March 20 to face trial for allegedly receiving money in an unfolding bribery scandal, the Press Trust of India said. The summons
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      1087 6 DBS LAND DBS LAND LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) The Board of Directors of DBS Land Ltd wishes to announce that the audited results of the DBS Land 4) BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER Group for the year ended 31 December 1995 are as follows:Company Croup 1)
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      236 7 1 > uJmsSm fli" "I WS J II I• -I II JU bp I —lh y y v 7~y Haft? |HH|n| 'J Bgqßp' < ,7 ibbl f Better design, BETTER LOCATION, BETTER ACT NOW. Alexandra Technopark is due to open in "September 1996. It is J destined to be Singapore's
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Powell says final 'no' to vice-presidency ticket
      519 8 White House WASHINGTON Gulf War hero irritated by persistent talk that he will be Dole's running mate Reuter, AFP GULF WAR hero Colin Powell has issued a final "no" to Republican offers of the vicepresidency of the United States. In an interview with
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      Lock icon Banker gets 3 life terms for graft
      229 8 ATHENS AFP A GREEK banker convicted of embezzling more than US$2 million (Ss2.B million) has been sentenced to three life terms, the stiffest sentence handed down yet in Greece for such a crime. A judicial source said on Saturday that Dimitris Vranikas, 45,
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      Lock icon Open house for secret files
      58 8 [BERLIN] A visitor taking a look at several thousands offiles of the former East German secret police, known as the "Stasi", in Berlin on Saturday. In the first open house since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the public is granted access to the once
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      Lock icon Faith in politicians at low point: poll
      225 8 BONN Reuter GERMANS have less faith than at any time since unification that their politicians can tackle the problem of mounting joblessness. An opinion poll published on Friday showed that 36 per cent of Germans believed neither Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrats (CDU)
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      Lock icon US to act on Iran's nuke programme
      195 8 U CAIRO AFP THE United States is preparing to take "serious steps" against Iran to prevent it developing nuclear weapons, a US disarmament chief, Thomas Graham, told the Arabic daily Al-Hayat yesterday. "We don't want to find that the next bomb placed in
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        Lock icon Soros to help Russian universities
        70 8 AFP [MOSCOW] Billionaire financier George Soros is giving US$lOO million (Ssl4o million) to help Russian universities link-up to the Internet His foundation said during the weekend that the Hungarian-born American had signed an agreement with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. Around 30 regional universities outside
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        Lock icon Bosnia needs US$16b urgently
        78 8 Reuter [SARAJEVO] Bosnia urgently needs US$l6 billion (5522.4 billion) to fund its post-war reconstruction, Prime Minister Hasan Muratovic told potential donors here during the weekend. Of that amount, US$5.l billion was needed just for the most critical infrastructure, health care and education projects identified by World
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        Lock icon Israel reopens Gaza crossing point
        89 8 AFP [JERUSALEM] Israel took another step to ease the painful closure of the territories yesterday, reopening a freight crossing point into the Gaza Strip but keeping up a ban on movement of goods and most people out of the Palestinian areas. Officials said some 600
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      1449 8 BERGER Berger International Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) The Directors are pleased to announce the unaudited results of the Company and of the Group for the year ended 31 December 1995:The Group The Company 31/12/85 31/12/94 31/12/95 31/12/84 ssooo ssooo (1) TURNOVER (a) Turnover 109,905 56,656 94.0 (b)
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  • BUSINESS IT
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        Lock icon CompuServe's on-line service
        85 9 Bloomberg [OHIO] H&R Block Inc's CompuServe Inc unveiled its new on-line service, called WOW! from CompuServe, that's designed to appeal to novice computer and Internet users. The service, to be available by month's end, sells for a flat monthly fee of $17.95 for unlimited hours and Internet
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        Lock icon Gates targets corporate networks
        85 9 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCOJ Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said his company's "biggest opportunity" for the next few years will be selling software that helps employees of big companies share information through computer networks. By making it easier for companies to set up these internal networks, or
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        Lock icon Apple releases new MessagePad
        62 9 Reuter [CALIFORNIA] Apple Computer Inc last week debuted its Apple Message Pad 130 hand-held computer at CeBIT, the computer trade show in Hanover, Germany. The Message Pad 130 is the first in the Message Pad family to offer user controllable back lighting and a durable, non-glare
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        Lock icon Microsoft sees $7 m China sales
        98 9 Reuter [BEIJING] Microsoft Corp expects revenues from sales in China to reach at least US$5 million (Ss7 million) this year, Charles Stevens, vice-president of Microsoft Far East Region said. Speaking at the launch of its Windows 95 Chinese version in Beijing, Mr Stevens said
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        Lock icon NEC to launch parallel computer
        99 9 Reuter [TOKYOJ NEC Corp and affiliate NEC-Toshiba Information Systems Inc said on Thursday they would launch a low-cost, large parallel mainframe computer, the PX79QO, in December. The new model, based on CMOS technology, is designed with one chip which has all the high-level functions of
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        Lock icon Philippine Long Distance fights Internet
        79 9 Bloomberg (MANILA] Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co is using a time-tested strategy to combat the Internet's threat to its profits: If you can't beat them, buy them. PLDT vice-president Cesar Reyes said negotiations to purchase 51 per cent of Infocom Technologies Inc, the country's largest
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      Asia ready for the electronic purse
      587 9  -  Multi-application smart cards are set to make a big impact, industry players say By' Yeo Ai Hoon [SINGAPORE] "The electronic purse is the new mode of payment," says Marc Lassus, chairman and founder of Gemplus Card International. "The changing face of retail is led
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      No price war despite cuts by US giants
      552 9  -  Smaller players on local scene shonld do well in niche markets By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Recent price cuts by US majors such as Compaq, IBM and Digital do not signal trouble in the PC industry, nor are they likely to lead to
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      Intel, Cisco form alliance on VLAN technology
      457 9  -  By' Yeo Ai Hoon [SINGAPORE] Intel and Cisco Systems recently signed a memorandum of understanding to negotiate a licensing agreement to implement VLAN (virtual local area networks) communication between Intel adapters and Cisco System switched internetworks. According to the agreement, Intel will incorporate
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      Hanoi set to be a technology tiger
      491 10  -  The PC market in Vietnam almost doubled last year and may soar again this year By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] The personal computer market in Vietnam almost doubled last year and is expected to increase by 60 per cent next year, market research
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      Lock icon Chinese state firm plans to launch online service
      390 10 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] State-con-trolied China Venturetech Investment Corp plans to launch an Internet business, trying to cash in on the growth of the computer network in China. Venturetech's service, China Online, wiU compete with China Net, controlled by China's Ministry of Posts and
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    • IT TAKES
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        CSA is first local RS/6000 distributor
        52 10  -  Compiled by Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] IBM Singapore has appointed local firm CSA as its value-added distributor of RS/0000 products. RS/6000 products run ADC, IBM's version of Unix, and range from PowerPC-based workstations to parallel computing systems. CSA is a subsidiary of publicly listed >k,jf
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        PictureTel to open 3 Asian offices
        52 10 [SINGAPORE] PictureTel Corp, the worldwide leader in video-conferencing, has announced plans to open new offices in three Asian countries, including Singapore. The other two will be in China and South Korea. The move is part of "aggressive plans to target the Asia-Pacific video-conferencing market",
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        New multimedia products from Aztech
        66 10 [SINGAPORE] Multimedia major Aztech Systems has announced a raft of new products. Among these are the Audio Telecphony 3000, a3D enhanced six-function combo J card that includes fax, auto answering machine, fall duplex speaker phones, modem, and 16-bit audio with enhanced 3D sound. Other products
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        ACS launches products at Cebit
        54 10 [SINGAPORE] ACS Computer is launching several new products at the giant Cebit '96 show currently running in Hanover, Germany. These include a video CD player that handles both PAL and NTSC formats, and a low-cost colour digital camera that captures images up to 640x480 resolution
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        Systems workflow workshop
        48 10 [SINGAPORE] AIC conferences is organising a seminar on Workflow and Image Processing Systems from March 25 to 27. The seminar includes two workshops, one on planning workflow systems and the other on upgrading and implementing them. For registration, call 322 2700 or fax 226 3264.
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        Internet training sessions
        56 10 [SINGAPORE] Internet training specialist Cyberville Technologies is holding a series of seminars beginning March 21. These include an introductory seminar on the Internet, another on Internet for businesses and an intensive one-day course on skills and tools for authoring and administering Web pages. For details, call 285
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      Lock icon Easing congestion on the Info Superhighway
      559 11 US foundation in bid to find innovative ways to move data from computer to computer AP THE National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington is looking for a few good solutions to congestion on the Internet and will invite university scientists who use the network
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      Tackling the year-2000 digital crisis
      554 11  -  By Seah Chin Siong The writer is a manager with Andersen Consulting. He has experience in implementing leading edge technology solutions in the government sector. WITH the millennium less than five years away, awareness is growing of a massive problem involving computer systems and the
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      IBM S'pore launches feature-packed home PC
      396 12  -  Included are exclusive features such as Rapid Resume and Wake Up On Ring By. Jennifer Lien IBM Singapore last week unveiled its Aptiva multimedia PC line a featurepacked product targeted squarely at the home PC market. The Aptiva, available in 75-Mhz, 100-Mhz and 133-Mhz
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      Local software help for ISO-9OOO quest
      293 12 Gintic'B version cuts down time and effort needed to develop quality system [SINGAPORE] Gintic Institute of Manufacturing Technology has released new versions, including one in Chinese, of software that sharply reduces the time and effort needed to develop an ISO 9000-quality system. Quality System
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      Lock icon Apple's new low-cost computer raises eyebrows
      621 12 Does it combine the best of the computer and t«y worlds or is it just a compromise? NYT [TOKYO] It seems a potent combination: Apple Computer Inc and Bandai Co Ltd developing a simplified home computer to combine the American company's innovative Macintosh technology
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Sad but true story of Tintin's creator
      1287 13  -  A new biography of Herge paints the curious story of a genius who remained a shadowy figure, says katherxmekmorr KATHERINE KNORR IHT WHEN the Belgian cartoonist whose pen name was Herge died in 1983, newspapers said that Tintin was dead. Tintin is of
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      Lock icon Brazil's great Italian legacy is dying out
      555 14 WINES Cheap imports, high production costs and falling world demand take their toll Reuter [CAXIAS DO SUL, Brazil] Southern Brazil is celebrating its Italian heritage this month with street fairs and parades. But the greatest legacy of these early Italian settlers, the Brazilian
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      Lock icon Life goes on despite bombings
      593 16 TRAVEL So far, only a few tour groups have cancelled planned visits to the UK NYT [LONDON] Britons are exhibiting their renowned stiff upper lips in response to the Irish Republican Army's renewed bomb attacks here, determinedly carrying on with their daily routines in the
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      Aristocratic variations
      343 16  -  CONCERT REVIEW Cellist Alexander Radm distinguished himself last Friday By] Benjamin Loh [SINGAPORE] After the previous week's disappointing performance, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra redeemed itself with a more encouraging concert last Friday night. This was in no small measure due to Russian cellist Alexander Rudin's rapturous account of
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Thakral seeks to make computers at its plant in Shanghai
      484 17  -  It also wants to set up a factory to make telephone sets By Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Listed electronics group Thakral Corporation plans to diversify into computer and telephone equipment manufacturing. Thakral's manager in charge of China, Chan Lung Yuen,
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      STIC fails to win $500m Mandalay airport deal
      369 17  -  From Loh Hui Yin in Bwujkok SINGAPORE Technologies Industrial Corp (STIC) has failed to secure a $500 million job to design and build the new Mandalay international airport there, edged out by a Thai construction company which offered better financing terms. But
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      Bakun dam is not Ting's familiar pan of noodles
      566 17  -  MARDTMATTBRB He wont have full powers to do as he sees fit By Ho Kay Tat BKRAN Bhd's executive chairman Ting Pek Khiing was tucking in his plate of char kway teow at a Hari Raya open house when he was
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        Lock icon Analysts await Renong group's results today
        539 18 Renong's forecast of 90% pre-tax increase well above analysts' expectations Bloomberg Business News [KUALA LUMPUR] Renong Bhd, the core of one of Malaysia's largest corporate groups, has set an ambitious target for its earnings this year and analysts and investors will find out today
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        Lock icon Indon herbal firm strengthens sales
        189 18 Reuter [JAKARTA) Founded by a housewife as a home industry 20 years ago, Indonesia's traditional herbal tonics and cosmetics firm Mustika Ratu has become a household name and expanded both locally and abroad. "It was a humble beginning but she made it," Djoko Ramiadji, president
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        Lock icon 45b peso project to reclaim Manila Bay
        142 18 AFP {MANILA] Guoco Land Inc of the Philippines has teamed up with a consortium led by Bangkok-based Ital-Thai Development Corp for a 45 billion peso (552.4 billion) project to reclaim 750 hectares from Manila Bay, documents obtained yesterday showed. Reclamation is expected to
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        Interport's ouster of 3 directors riles Mulpha unit
        341 18  -  From. Al Labita in Manila A LISTED unit of Malaysia's Mulpha International Bhd has protested against the ouster of its three directors from the board of a property firm. In a petition submitted on Friday to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
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        Lock icon L&M Bhd sees 15-20% growth in turnover
        227 18 NST [KUALA LUMPUR] L&M Corporation (M) Bhd, which is expected to be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange second board in May, predicts growth of between 15 and 20 per cent in turnover this year. The group recorded a turnover of MJI6O
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        Lock icon Tongkah's pre-tax soars
        176 18 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Tongkah Holdings Bhd has registered a massive jump of 567.03 per cent in group pre-tax profit for the halfyear ended Dec 31,1995 to MJ21.46 million (Ssl2 million) against M 53.21 million chalked up in the previous corresponding period. However, the company reported a smaller
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
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        Lock icon Coles Myer CEO must show results by mid '97
        382 19 Chairman wants to see improvement in troubled retailer's performance Reuter, Bloomberg Business News [SYDNEY] Coles Myer Ltd chairman Nobby Clark says chief executive Peter Bartels has to improve the performance of the troubled retailer if his employment is to be continued
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        Time for Cathay admirers to come down to earth
        690 19  -  HAXO SENG DfSIOBT Results may be impressive but the problems haven't vanished By Quak Hiang Whai WITH so much expectations ahead of the release of its corporate results, shareholders of Cathay Pacific must have heaved a sigh of relief when the
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        Lock icon Acer unit cuts earnings forecast
        75 19 Bloomberg Business News [TAIPEI] Acer Peripherals Inc, a 44 per cent-owned affiliate of computer maker Acer Inc, has lowered its forecast of 1996 net earnings per share by 18 per cent in connection with a planned stock offering. Earnings per share this year are predicted
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        Lock icon PLDT needs US$3.4b over next six years
        199 19 AFP [MANILA] The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT) says it will need external funding amounting to US$3.4 bUlion (554.7 billion) over the next six years. This amount will be used to fund an "aggressive expansion programme", the company said in its annual
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        Lock icon Saudi giant posts record profit
        234 19 Reuter [MANAMA, Bahrain] Saudi Arabia's industrial giant Saudi Basic Industries Corp (Sabic) said it posted a record 6.28 billion riyal (552.35 billion) net profit last year, up from 4.2 billion riyal in 1994. Sabic, which accounts for 5 per cent of total world output of
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        Lock icon Time Warner chief broke word on TBS: US West
        461 20 Levin had promised to seek US Vest's approval before taking over Tnrner Broadcasting Bloomberg Business News [WILMINGTON, Delaware] Time Warner Inc chairman Gerald Levin went ahead with plans to purchase Turner Broadcasting System Inc even though he told US West's leaders
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        Lock icon AT&T may go for fewer job cuts
        373 20 NYT {WASHINGTON] Not even three months after it stunned Main Street and delighted Wall Street by estimating that it would cut 40,000 jobs over two to three years, AT&T Corp is now predicting fewer reductions. AT&T has made no official statement about the
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        Lock icon Pentagon's 7-year funding plan for C-17s fits snag
        368 20 McDonnell Douglas says it will save USslb, but the plan treads on Senate toes Bloomberg Business News [ST LOUIS] A plan by the Pentagon to lock in seven years' worth of funding for McDonnell Douglas Corp's C-17 military transport planes and insulate
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          Lock icon Oki Electric to design phones in S'pore
          127 20 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd plans to set up a subsidiary in Singapore to develop and design mobile telephones in a cost-cutting effort, the Yomiuri Shimbun said on Saturday. The company, which has been developing and manufacturing all its portable
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          Lock icon Atari Corp posts US$27.7m 4Q loss
          88 20 Reuter [SUNNYVALE, California] Atari Corp on Friday reported a substantial loss for the last three months of 1995, reflecting a steep inventory write-down and poor sales of its Jaguar entertainment system. The computer entertainment company said it lost U5527.7 million (5538.8 million) or 43
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          Lock icon Everlight profit up 18% in Jan-Feb
          73 20 Bloomberg Business News [TAIPEI] Pre-tax profit at Everlight Chemical Industrial Corp rose 15 per cent in the first two months 0f1996 from a year earlier, the company said. Profit climbed to NT522.3 million (5f1.14 million) from NT$l9.4 million a year earlier. It said sales
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          Lock icon Samsung to sell cameras in Japan
          80 20 AFP [TOKYO] South Korea's Samsung group will add cameras to electronics products in its exports to Japan in mid-1996 to boost its corporate image among Japanese consumers, economic daily Nihon Keizai said yesterday. Samsung Aerospace Industries Co will develop four types of compact cameras
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        Lock icon Saks seeks listing, plans 29 new stores in three years
        423 20 Most of the store openings will be in its Off sth division which offers big discounts Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] Investcorp SA's Saks Holdings Inc, which has revealed its intention to go public, said it plans to open 29
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        Lock icon British Telecom, Berlusconi may set up Italian telecoms venture
        383 20 FT [LONDON] British Telecommunications is in advanced negotiations with Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian politician and media magnate, about forming a joint venture in Italian telecommunications. As part of the deal under discussion, British Telecom would also acquire a small stake of
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        Lock icon US, Japan to keep close coordination in money markets
        468 21 Japan feels an obligation to solve bad debt problem as soon as possible Bloomberg Business News [KYOTO] Japan's Finance Minister Wataru Kubo and US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin agreed to maintain close coordination in currency markets with other Group of Seven
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        Lock icon HK official finds bank risk weightings biased
        163 21 Bloomberg Business News [KYOTO] Capital adequacy guidelines discriminate against so-called emerging markets, said Hongkong's Secretary of the Treasury K C Kwong. The Bank for International Settlements recommends that banking institutions maintain an 8 per cent minimum capital adequacy standard, as calculated by their
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        Lock icon Taiwan tensions having minimal impact on S$
        543 21 Evidence of funds flowing in bnt it's not a delngp: analysts Bloomberg Business News [SINGAPORE] Money flowing into Singapore seeking a safe haven from tensions in the Taiwan Straits has had only a minimal impact on the country's currency and interest rates, investors
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          Morgan Grenfell's Asia-Pac fores head
          63 21 [SINGAPORE] Deutsche Morgan Grenfell ha* appointed TherapongMonthienvichienchai its regional head of foreign exchange for the Asia-Pacific, the bank said on Thursday. He was previously the treasurer at Deutsche Bank in Bangkok. He will be responsible for the group's foreign exchange activities in the region. Deutsche
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          Lock icon ANZ opens second Vietnam branch
          53 21 Reuter [SYDNEY] The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ) said yesterday it had opened a branch in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday and planned to open its first branch in the Philippines tomorrow. The Ho Chi Minh City branch is its
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          Lock icon Pakistan Allied Bank pre-tax profit up
          43 21 Reuter [KARACHI] Allied Bank of Pakistan Ltd said yesterday its pre-tax profit had soared 53.62 per cent in 1996. The bank declared a pre-tax profit 0f530 million rupees (5521.4 million) up from 345 million rupees in 1904.—Reuter
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          Lock icon S Korea eyes US$200m Yankee bonds
          48 21 Reuter [SEOUL] South Korea's state-run Korea Electric Power Corp (Kepco) plans to issue US$2OO million (SS29O million) in Yankee bonds with a 100-year maturity, Yonhap news agency said yesterday. Kepco would work out details of the plan after gaming finance ministry approval.—Reuter
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          Lock icon Ace to buy Tempest Re for US$600m
          73 21 Bloomberg Business News [HAMILTON, Bermuda] Ace Ltd agreed to buy Tempest Reinsurance Co of Bermuda for about US$6OO million (SsB4o million) in stock in an effort to tap the growing industry of insuring inmrwr» r«»a«trr>pfy> clatma The agreement calls for Ace to issue
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        Lock icon Info system to be set up to avoid another Barings
        247 21 AFP [LONDON] Regulators from 14 derivatives markets around the world have decided to set up an information sharing system to avoid another fiasco like Barings, the British bank that collapsed last year, the Securities and Investment Board (SIB) announced in
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        Lock icon Uneventful week for US$
        588 22  -  SIWBT Weekly Roundup Interest rates still dominate forex rates; with BOJ on hold, focus is on the Bnha and the Fed By Callum Henderson, [SINGAPORE] A relatively quiet week for the doUar, following the fireworks of March 8. Treasuries managed to stabilise, leading to a similar
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        Lock icon Coffee market in for trouble if Colombian rains persist
        869 22 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Amid dire predictions that the coffee market is on the verge of boiling over, some experts continue to talk of a "delicate phase", but the downpour of torrential rains on Colombian coffee plantations has transformed the London
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      753 23 Re Lative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory it ranges between zero and 100. In practice, however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: *****0/[(up average/down
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        Lock icon More data and more confusion on Wall Street
        775 24 NEW YORK If nervous money could talk, it might say that the safest place is bine-chip firms, says an expert Reuter STOCKS were taken on a nasty roller-coaster ride last week and for many investors, the market's turbulence was a wake up
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        Lock icon Taiwan tension, rate worries drag prices down 5.9%
        175 24 HONGKONG AFP SHARE prices plunged 5.9 per cent ring the week following weaker US markets, and amid worries over rising tensions between Taiwan and China, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Hongkong's key Hang Seng Index shed 660.21 points from a week
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        ASIAN MARKETS Roundup
        880 24 □gyfaqr -318 AUSTRALIAN stocks ended the week 1.4 per cent weaker after failing to recover from a huge selloff on Monday, when a plunge on Wall Street sent shockwaves around bourses worldwide. The Australian Stock Exchange's barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, closed at 2,234.8, down 32.8 points
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        Lock icon Shares muddle through jusen mess
        453 24 TOKYO Prices set to climb if budget bill gets passage AFP JAPANESE share prices clawed their way back to 20,000 points after a week of uncertainty about the parliamentary budget debate, which has stalled over a scheme to liquidate failed jusen housing loan firms. The
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        Lock icon Footsie agonises as it follows the Dow
        298 24 LONDON AFP AFTER the torment of the previous Friday, the London market agonised last week over the comings and goings on Wall Street and was unable to escape its lead for one moment. The FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares was firmly entrenched
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        WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        1801 24 Q Para jjgt FRENCH stocks failed to recover from an early drop last week as hopes that the economy is poised to recover were overshadowed by activity in the US financial markets. On Friday, the CAC Index fell 12.29 points, or 0.63 per cent, to 1,950.12, as
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        Lock icon Sharp rebound after a volatile week
        7401 25 KUALA LUMPUR Reports AFP, Bernama PI Composite hdei +3.79 MALAYSIAN share prices ended the week 0.3 per cent higher after a volatile period dogged by regional concerns over Wall Street's volatility and Sino-Taiwan tensions. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-share weighted Composite Index ended
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        San Teh: for the longer haul
        3788 26  -  WARRANT WATCH By. R Sivanithy THE warrants of rubber keypad maker San Teh were among the top percentage gainers last Friday, and they could be tempting to momentum traders who bank on jumping on board a moving ship and hopefully bailing out with a
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        1063 28  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Volatility in local market exacerbated by quick entry and exit of hedge funds, and a crop of poor results By R Sivanithy MOST people don't like volatility. In financial economics, heightened volatility means increased risk, which in turn means an
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      406 29  -  Currency surcharge to Korea, Singapore and Taiwan remains unchanged By] Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Shipping lines sailing between Asia and the US will lower the currency surcharge for Japan-bound shipments but raise the fuel surcharges for all routes from April 1. In a
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      205 29 Bloomberg Business News [TAIPEI] A new round of military exercises in the northern Taiwan Strait announced by China on Friday shouldn't disrupt air and sea transport in the region. Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration said in a statement the test area didn't cut across any
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      710 29  -  UMER SCENE By. David Hughes THERE have been a few moments of excitement in the liner sector over the past fortnight. Lloyd's List told us Sea-Land, or rather its parent company CSX, was going to sell the entire Sea-Land fleet
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      173 29 Reuter [SYDNEY] Australia's newlyelected conservative government is confident it can achieve labour market reform in the nation's unionised waterfront and shipping industries, transport minister John Sharp said yesterday. "We are confident we can achieve waterfront reform, firstly by reforming the industrial relations system and
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      299 29 AFP [SINGAPORE] Singapore's sales of bunker oil could decline in 1996 for the first time in more than a decade as competition from rival ports in Asia and the Middle East hots up, a report said here at the weekend. Bunker
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      143 29 MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] The first of Westport's two container terminals is starting operations. A 242-LO A (length overall) container vessel, Nprasia Kiel of the Europe-based Norasia Lines, was scheduled to make the first call towards the end of last week. Westport executive vice- chairman G
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      991 30  -  SEARS ISLAND PROJECT: CHOKED OFF BY REGULATIONS US state's dream of a deepwater container port on the north Atlantic coast became a nightmare as environmental demands pushed costs ever higher, finally scuppering the project By. Joel Glass Lloyd's List After investing US$2O million (Ss2B million)
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        386 48 Deal on 20 planes to be built in Shanghai to be finalised this week NYT [BEIJING] McDonnell Douglas Corp is confident China will formally agree to buy 40 jetliners worth US$l billion (551.41 billion) it ordered two years ago and purchase even more
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        269 48 Speed wings plans to exnand Asian operations this year Bloomberg Business News [LONDON] British Airways pic said its wholly owned transport consultancy services company is considering the possibility of setting up a unit in India to serve the Asian region. It said
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        136 48 AFP [KARACHI] The government said it expects to complete a US$59O million (*****.9 million) light-rail mass transit project in Pakistan's commercial capital, Karachi, by the year 2000. The foundation-stone of the 14km light-rail system was laid by Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Saturday,
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        189 48 Reuter [TOKYOJ United Airlines said on Friday it plans to start a transpacific all-cargo service from Sep 1. It said it believes the plan will not adversely affect ongoing Japan-US air cargo talks. United's vice-president in charge of international affairs, Cyril Murphy, told reporters in
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        232 48 AFP [HANOI] Fiat SpA is the latest foreign car maker to enter the fledgling Vietnamese passenger car market with the launch of its Tempra model, an executive from its local assembly plant said on Saturday. Naoki Tatabe, general director of the joint-venture Mekong Corporation
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        69 48 [WASHINGTON] Amtrak's new high speed train, the American Flyer, unveiled last Friday, is shown here in a computer-generated picture. Canadian firm Bombardier, together with the French firm GEC-Alsthom NV, won the US$754 million (SSI. 1 billion) contract to build the train, which will run at speeds
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        356 48 among interested buyers Dutch govt Reuter [AMSTERDAM] The Dutch government said on Saturday that South Korea's Samsung Aerospace was among a number of companies interested in buying parts of Fokker after the Dutch plane maker declared bankruptcy on Friday. "Samsung has signalled
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          76 48 AFP [JAKARTA] PT Bouraq Airlines plans to buy 62 N-2SO turboprop passenger airplanes, produced by the state-owned Nusantara aircraft industry (IPTN), press M reports said yesterday. The Antara news agency quoted Bouraq president Danny Sumendap as saying that his airline had signed a memorandum of
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          77 48 Reuter [LONDON] Anglo-French Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel has placed an order for three club car wagons worth 90 million French francs (SsB.4 million). The wagons, for carrying heavy goods vehicles, have been ordered from Italy's Costamasnaga, Eurotunnel said in a statement This order, combined with
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          62 48 [SOFIA] Japan will help Bulgaria work out a general plan for the development of its railway system until the year 2020, a railway official has said. "Bulgarian and JAICA (Japan's International Cooperation Agency) experts will work together on the railway's general plan, which will be
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        141 48 Bloomberg Business News [JAKARTA] Garuda Indonesia has concluded operating lease agreements to acquire six Airbus Industrie A 330-300 jets and plans to lease three more, the aircraft maker said yesterday. Garuda, Indonesia's national airline, will use the planes for regional flights and to service international
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      2678 42 AS AGENTS: "K" UNI (IWQAPOM) PTC LTD (CT WO: 124.H73—HCST HEC MO: KO-W1739H) K-WW- TEL *****77 TELEX KAWAKIRS23I6S FAX *****1G/7/&9 I W T MALAYSIA: K" UNI MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD I TEL5A*****00PK*****75PEN*****20J*****101 PGU2SIB62SC NDONESJA: P.T. SARANA LAUT 1111 USA, TEL JKT *****06 export it aMinri rinnr tmnrai wiit import m
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      855 43 IMPORT FCL/LCL CONSOLIDATION 4 fp Milan g .^^Jiuku ITALY/SINGAPORE V V Marshalling Forwadlng Services (MFS) V vla Genoa and Milan FIRST FORWARDER IN Oilt Stiff At YOUf SOTVIC*: NICHOLAS/BALHA/MARIA *****2 BY LRQA DID 277-1077/7t/fj| AND LOOCSTICS JWtVICP W I I SUPER EXPRESS SERVICE TO SEA lAL SHIPPING AGENCY (S) PTE
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      566 43 Ai P>l 3HInPi P I Nil— i miii THRIgS WEEKLY DIRECT TO HO <?HI MINH CITY mm n n cm mm cm mmt mm cm mm cm vssa wr m m TnRT" hqk vtssa vor rsmk nra mssosmubmsm m os/m» (m/mi m/m <nb rim mason KasuiiiM as u/m |m/m <m~
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      571 44 SAMUDERA INDONESIA (S) PTE LTD "y 15 McCALLUM STREET #03-01/02 NATWEST CENTRE S'PORE 0106 TEL: *****81-3 FAX: *****36 (3 HUNTING LINES) TLX: R*****0 BOOKINGS CALL DIRECT LINE: *****41/*****43 JESSICA/CELIA jnZSEBBHESB 7 slgs/week 3 SLGS/WEEK IVTinn voy ]~Sn [jak ivroffw ivoy sin isuw PANCARAN SINAfI 996 TTpT 20/03 (WED) DRAGON SUMATRA
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      482 44 TO E. CANADA US ATLANTIC US GULF 4*raNa voy spore pxelang* Halifax nyork norpolk norleans savannah tampco Houston HOCOH CAIRN 0134 23/24 MAR 17 MAR 07 MAY 10 MAY 13 MAY 30 MAY 16 MAY M MAY 27 MAY HOCQHDUKE 0834 21/22 APR I 14APR 27MAY 30MAY 31 MAY 09JUN
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      250 44 PHI LI-on If NT V** LINfS m LTD ®TEL: *****00 (16 UNES) FAX: *****76/*****38 CR 0008:10M7MOOOOM |sYw!E7MELJ(MiNrBnis^ I AUCKLAND, WELLINGTON, LYTTLETON, tSMAR I I NAPER, CMRBTCHURCM, NEW PLYMOUTH I LONDON, FELIXSTOWE, LE HAVRE, ISkUI^I ROTTERDAM, HAMBURQ, ANTWERP AND ALL S&ANDDESTMATIONBWITHM EUROPE It MAR I KOBE, TOKYO, OSAKA 17 MAR I
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      589 45 Singapore Soviet Shipping Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO: **********0N BOMBAY/COCHIN I vessel voy sin bom coc OmENT STRIDE 001 20/03 28/03 i MEKHANK KURAKO MKION 27/03 04/04 TRADE FAST TFSIB6 28/03 06/04 < XCMJR INA 004 30/03 07/04 j REGULAR ILYICHEVSK SERVICE MSSEL VOY IS'POREI &.YCHEVSK EVER GATHER 0096-oeew 20/03
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      423 45 PHH3 SIN FAR EAST 26/03 KEELUNG/KAOHSIUNG 24/03 BANGKOK 24/03 MANILA/CEBU 24/03 JAKARTA/BELAWAN/SURABAYA 24/03 PORT KELANG/PENANG/E. MALAYSIA 24/03 BUSAN 24/03 TOKYO/YOKO/KOBE/NGO/OSA 24/03 HONG KONG m china 24/03 GUANGZHOU/HUANGPU/SHENZHEN FUZHOU/XIAMEN/SHANTOU/SHEKOU DALIAN/SHANGHAI/XINGANG TIANJIN/QINGOAO/HAIKOU also accepting LCL cargo m EUROPE/UK 24/03 LDN/FLX/LVP/SOU 25/03 RDM/HAM/ANT/LEH/GOA/OSL/GOT/BCN also accepting cargo to Austria/ Hungary/Romania/Poland/Bulgaria/Czech. SIM USA/CANADA 25/03 LOS
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      617 45 I STAR SHIPPING AGENCIES (S) PTE LTD Aommmt ZIM CONTAINER SERVKI GOLD STAR UNI LTD SETN SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6666 (S UNES) FAX: *****70 fofc *****12 (MARKETING) (CR MO. **********0-Q N. AMEftICA/CARMEAN SEUVKE ]g£gmfim wsa IWW m Immow lim m MY KK m mlinn—ii m h/os limmkas 17/ m m/m
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      1150 45 >MNiMNam«scsr y (CINOi **********0*) <Xs NEFTUNEI** 18. (03) *****23 yy OOOKMOS HOIUM 10l US. CANADA. UK/EUaon AUSIRAUA. 'Mx 'T*s>' -'A K.L (**********. »> a m PAKISTAN, HONGKONG. tA/WAN IAMN ST V I PIUIonQ- (03) 360M87. S3B IVVw i-aoo-37t7aoo(ioi> wmi •Wj km) 22*23*6, IfIWUIBt nL 1-000-*****00 (10U-nM) MM— J OoW (071
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      134 45 ft 4 TOKYO SHMM KAIUN CO FTB LTD IHnl 10 ANSON ROAD #23-15 llUll MTERNATIONAL PLAZA STORE 0207 TEL: *****28 (6 UNEB) FAX: *****06 A *****10 Crtfc **********0E SERVICE TO: FAR EAST/CHINA/EUROPE 24/03/96) TOKYO, YOKOHAMA, KOBE NAOOYA 24/03/06) OSAKA,USA 24/03/96) HONQKONQ AND ALL CHMA PORTS 22/03/96) HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM SOUTHAMPTON ALL
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      789 46 I SINO EXPRSSS SHIPPING (PTI) LTD. MM I 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE SINGAPORE 0104. 1 TEL: *****90 (4 LINES) FAX: *****08 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) SIN/HKG/SHAI S'PORE HKQ 3HAI VESSEL VOY ETA ETP ETA ETP ETA ETP CHANQVINQ 9605/9606 08/03 09/03 12Q2 M 19/03 2QAQ
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      559 46 \mjkM MN CONTAINER LINES, INC I Agents: MAC-NELS SPORE: *****22 (24 LINES) kuchmq: (o») <***** I~ I\ J cm NOi IMOC7MOOM S»U: (064) *****6 MAMLA (632)*****31 V W PENANG: (04) *****6 BANGKOK: (662) *****67 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 P. KELANG: (03) *****77 JKT (21)*****07 MOW: (61)*****3 BANDUNG (22) *****96 Lowest RATES
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      205 46 ATTRACTIVE FCL/LCL RATES TO: Indian Sub-Continent Ports MADRAS/BOMBAY/ CALCUTTA I COLOMBO CHITTAGONG NHAVA SHEVA WENDER CONTAINER LINES ENQUIRIES BOOKINGS PLS CALL TEL: 224 6744 I I Jw Astro Shipping Pto Ltd WEEKLY CONSOLIDATION SERVICE 20/03,27/03 1 I TEL 220-6045 (12 LINES) FAX: 325-4080 j O.K. LINE I FULL CONTAINER SERVICE
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      244 48 1) M.V. "ORIENT KING" VOY. 4 ARRD BTH MARCH 19* 2) M.V. -SINAR SUKIM" VOY. 1 ARRD 12TH MARCH 19% Consignees of all damaged cargoes ex the captioned vessels are hereby notified that a general survey will be held on the 19th March 199* 0900-1200 hoars at PTS and PT2
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