The Business Times, 5 August 1996

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 04^12/95 Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes SINGAPORE MONDAY, AUGUST 5,1996 "53
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Business sentiment takes sharp downturn
    562 1  -  Small, local firms particularly pessimistic about prospects in 2nd half By, Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Business sentiment weakened sharply in the second quarter, with small, local companies particularly pessimistic about prospects in the second half of the year. While more companies chalked up higher than lower
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    Lock icon IVTsia may surprise with M$ 240m trade surplus
    298 1  -  From, Ruth Wong <n Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA, due to release its May trade figure this week, is likely to surprise the market with a surplus of some Ms24o million (***** million), sources said. The Kuala Lumpur stock market has been abuzz with
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    Property movers and shakers are a-moving
    351 1  -  Changes likely as top men switch jobs and settle inte new roles By, Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] A high powered game of musical chairs looks set to stir things in the property industry. Prominent names such as Malayan Credit's Ang Ah Lay, DBS Land's Wong
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    Lock icon Outage angers Mahathir; Tenaga may lose monopoly
    373 1 Bernama Reuter [ALOR STAR, Kedah] Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has expressed regret over Saturday's peninsula-wide massive power failure, saying lessons should have been learnt from the 1968 blackout. "I am sad that it has happened again when we should have learnt from our
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Large, foreign firms still outdoing small local ones
      539 2  -  IT/CBKO BUSOIBSS AUTITITI SURVBT TWsrfurvWttarii ak>,yr«flt, mw tftajMnvpbiftt Reportsbf* Anna Teo LARGE, foreign companies continued to outdo mmii, local firms, according to the latest business activity survey by The Business Times and the National University of Singapore's Centre for Business Research ft
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      Poorer sales reason for lower profits
      296 2 POORER sale*—due primarily to weaker demand and keener competition has become a more dominant reason for dips in profits over the past three quarters. In the latest BT-CBRD business activity survey, poorer sales was the most cited reason for lower profits in the sscond
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      Lock icon May another slow building month
      264 2  -  BYE ON TBS ECONOMY Construction By\ Michelle Low PRELIMINARY numbers from the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) suggest that May was another slow month for the construction sector. The value-of construction contracts awarded in that month was $1.06 billion, 24 per cent less than the
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      EXECUTIVE MOVES
      283 2 Omriamm Cheek has been appointed assistant business manager at Abtrust Funds Managers (Singapore) Ltd. Ms Cheok will assist one of the directors in business development and product development, Including the structuring and marketing of new fluids. Ms Cheok was formerly a business development executive with HSBC Trustee (Singapore)
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      S'pore office space is 7th most expensive
      436 3  -  T«UI occupation CMtarMete US$9lO pem a year in Jane, from US$B75 in Jan By] Diana Oon SINGAPORE is now the world's seventh most expensive city for office space, according to a survey by property consultants Richard Ellis. Total occupation costs covering office rental,
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      Value of homes jumped $60b in 10 yrs: BG Lee
      269 3 OVER the last 10 years, the value of Singaporeans' homes went by over $60 billion about half the country's annual gross domestic product said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last night. The $60 billion figure was arrived at based
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      DBS Land denies it is raising rentals by 30-40%
      373 3 Average hike At Plaza Singapore only &03% for first half DBS Land has reftited allegations by tenants of Plaza Singapura that it is raising rentals by 30-40 per cent ahead of an $85 million facelift of the shopping centre next May.
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      All set to revive the battered baht
      520 4  -  LBTTBftFROM BAMGKOI Mew moves outlined last week seen boosting financial markets By Loh Hui Yin THAILAND'S financial markets should be less skittish this week after a flurry of moves by the authorities and the stockbroking community to calm them. Stockbrokers last Friday pledged
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      Anand slams 'shameless' politicians
      313 4  -  BANGKOK Problem nifty become disastrous for Thailand, says ex-premier By] Loh hui Yin FORMER prime minister Anand Panyarachun has lashed out at the "shamelessness" of Thailand's political leaders which, left unchecked, could bring disaster to Thai society. "When leaders are shameleas, they can do anything, whether
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      Lock icon Megawati won't attend police summons
      182 4 JAKARTA Reuter OUSTED Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) leader Megawati Sukarnoputri wUI not attend a police summons as part of a probe into recent riots and wUI send her lawyers to represent her, an aide said yesterday. Ms Megawati received a summons on Friday asking her
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      Lock icon Steer clear of graft: Mahathir
      271 4 ALOR STAR Menace could destroy Umno, govt and coixntry, he warns Bernama PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday issued a firm reminder to Umno members at aU levels to steer clear of corruption, saying the menace could destroy the party if left unchecked. "We definitely do
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      Lock icon Ceiling on foreign firms' borrowings to be removed
      169 4 MANILA Bernama THE Philippine Central Bank announced over the weekend that it has decided to remove the ceiling set on domestic borrowings of foreign firms as of January 1997 to attract more foreign Investments. Central Bank governor Gabriel Singson told reporters here
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Typhoon Herb seen boosting growth
      331 5 TAIPBI Reuter AS TAIWAN raised losses from Typhoon Herb, economists ysstmdaj saw the positive skit, saying the storm might boost economic growth through reconstruction end 1 ■'■Tiiiiri Bat tlwy said worries ouuui iniamn misni cuuupoH the stock market and said shares could fall before Morgan
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      Lock icon Lee Teng-hui meets Lee Teng-huis
      43 5 (TAIPEI] Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui (right) greeting visitors who have the same name as Mm during a meeting in the presidential palace here yesterday. Thirteen "Lee Teng-hui" met the president as part of the palace open house. REUTER
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      Lock icon Oil workers to be moved to other jobs
      124 5 M BEIJING AFP MORE than half of China's 1.5 million onshore oil workers will be transferred to other sectors by 2000 as part of tough reforms to boost profits, the China Business Weekly said yesterday. Like most of China's state sector, the
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      Lock icon China slams Taiwan's ban on direct trade
      229 5 BEIJING AFP TAIWAN'S decades-old ban on direct shipping, trade and postal services with China is stunting the billion-dollar trade between the two political foes, the China Business Weekly said yesterday. "The influence of such bans has become increasingly palpable as Taiwan business people
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      Lock icon China to set up special team to fight counterfeiting of yuan
      197 5 BEIJING AFP AN "ALARMING" rise in counterfeiting may threaten China's currency and slow economic growth, the country's central bank warned yesterday as it announced the formation of a special team to fight the problem. Police last year confiscated nearly
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Seoul offers to ease financial market in bid to join OECD
      278 6 LONDON Proposals moot some requirements bat might not be enough FT SOUTH Korea on Friday offered to liberalise its tightlyregulated financial market in a bid to join the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development this year. The concessions include
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      Lock icon Fight against debt-dodging phoenix companies
      226 6 SYDNEY AFP AUSTRALIA's corporate watchdog announced yesterday a new campaign against "phoenix" companies which it says are costing the national economy up to Asl.3 billion (551.42 billion) a year. The Australian Securities Commission (ASC) defines "phoenix" companies as those which intentionally walk out on their
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      Lock icon Govt rocked by wiretapping charges
      150 6 a NEW DELHI AFP THE fragile coalition government of H D Deve Gowda was rocked yesterday by allegations that the personal telephones of senior Congress (I) leaders were being tapped by federal detectives. The Asian Age newspaper claimed to have obtained a document showing the
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        Lock icon Tough penalties for ex-presidents?
        40 6 Reuter [SEOUL] South Korean prosecutor* would seek tough penaltiee for two former preeidents charged with eedttkm, treason and bribery, proeecutoreeaidyeeterday. The court trying Chun DooHwan and RohTae Woo hMasksdths prosecutor# to preeent their denand today .—Rmttr
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        Lock icon Banana drama
        41 6 AFP [SYDNEY] The phenomenally successful children's television characters, Bananas in ittvms,psr4braing at a rally in Sydney to save the Australian Broadcasting Corporation yesterday. Thoussnds turnsdnp to prats* against thrsetsnsd cuts to thsbudgst by ths Australian federal coalition govenuMnt —AFP
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        Lock icon UK group buys Aussie power stations
        51 6 Bloomberg Business News IMKLBOURNIJ A group of investors tod by National Power pic ofßritain bought the Hasehroodpowerstatkm from Australian Victoria state government for A*L36 billion (Smbilliou). The 80-yeer<>ldHaielwood plant is a 1.600 MW brown coal power statkm. It teeoMwithan Adjacent coal mine. Bloomberg Business
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        Lock icon World Bank may scrap PNG loan
        61 6 AFP [SYDNEY] Ibe World Bank has threatened to cancel a U***** million (***** million) rescue package for Papua New Guinea because it has breached bank-impoeed conditions officials said yesterday. The bank's director for East Asia and the Pacific, Marianne Haug. made the threat last
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Goldman, Sachs expects Fed to hold rates steady
      353 8 NEW YORK FbakMlfirMMta better tkaa 50% ckaiNifUkiat eeaingFOMCmeet Reuter GOLDMAN, Sachs and Co Inc now expects the Federal Reserve to leave short-term US interest rates unchanged at the Fed's next policy meeting on Aug 20, said William Dudley, director of US economic
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      Lock icon US spies broke into EU computer network: report
      147 8 LONDON Ptlitfeal, Oftiwnif secrets allegedly used hf US iaOatt talks AFP US SECRET service agents broke into the computer systems of the European Parliament and the European Commission in a campaign to steal political and economic secrets, The Sunday Times newspaper said.
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      Lock icon Clinton announces anti-sweat shop campaign
      308 8 WASHINGTON AFP PRESIDENT Bill Clinton, joined by executives from some of the best known names In the US clothing industry, has announced an anti-sweat shop effort led by unions and the industry itself. The latest spate of US interest in sweat shop employees appears to
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      Lock icon Stop anti-Iran campaign, Teheran warns US
      181 8 TEHERAN AFP IRAN warned yesterday against a mounting US campaign against the Islamic republic and called for immediate UN action to stop the "dangerous" move. Foreign Minister All Akbar Velayati sent a letter to UN Secretary General Boutroe Boutroe-Ghali accusing Washington of "looking for
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  • FOCUS
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      Multimedia majors size up project
      1378 9  -  Early response to the Multimedia Super Corridor, launched last week, has been overwhelmingly favourable, but will the companies sign on the dotted line? By] Kenneth james The wriHr is BTs Technology mdum Editor [SINGAPORE] AIMI Aizal Nasharuddin gestures proudly at the elaborate clay mockup of
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Costs, MSC tipped it for Microsoft
      584 10  -  Bnt regional HQ in Malaysia won't indito coro software development, the new chief says From Kenneth James WHEN Microsoft Corp decided it needed a South-east Asian headquarters, only Singapore and Malaysia were really in the running. Eventually, lower costs and the attractions of the
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      Compaq sets server market target
      446 10  -  KirbtdunMbb that of its nearest competitor by the year 2000 the aim By. Annette Pan [SINGAPORE] America's top US computer firm Compaq is gunning for a bigger bite of the server market. The company has set a clear target to command a market share double
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    • IT WORLD
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        Lock icon Silicon Graphics president quits
        93 10 Financial Times [SAN FRANCISCO] Ths prssidsot and chief opsrathg omcar of Silicon Graphice, the US computer worlsstetlo#' manulhrtursr, ia leaving after 10 years with thocomeeny. Mr Tom Jermotuk said he waa leaving Silicon Orapfcica because it had grown too largo and he preAsrsd the challenge of
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        Lock icon AT & t, Microsoft form alliance
        104 10 AT t, Microsoft form alliance The New York Times (NBW YORK] ATAT and Microsoft said last walk tie* had fbrrosd sn slliancs tn which sach would distribute tlm other's online software. ATJkT Worldnet, whteh ja n Internetscceos to sn estimated aOQ/tt) customers, wflhoia Amsrica Online, Caaspuoero and Microsoft's own Microsoft
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        Lock icon Toshiba plans a first in DVDs
        97 10 Reuter [TOKYO] Toshiba Corp plana to launch the world's frst player for digital video discs (DVDs) in October, the Asian Wall Street Journal reported from New York last we*. Ths paper said ths plan would likely bs aawMi not month. It also said the
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        55 10 Bloomberg Business News [LONDON] Philips Electronics N.V. sad Sony Cerp said they win begin licaneiaganew type ofsooMtimjiuNv;-:' that hold* 10 times ths tnfcrmatioa ofetandMd il*5ESl < rliati tin in tn saaj mmm I tibt <nrj in —"Tl"'' lii| dwiBF|i jjjaiift i memory storags devices like ths DVD
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      Diamond aims for the Asian pedestal
      444 11  -  IttjfMlistobetqi graphics vendor in regtaby nextye&r By' Toh han Shih [SINGAPORE] US company Diamond Multimedia aims to be die top graphics vendor in Asia-Pacific by next year. Bryan Low, Diamond's new Asia-Pacific director of its regional headquarters set up in Singapore in June, said:
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    • IT TAKES
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        SSA appoints director of technology
        56 11  -  Compiled by Goh Ken-Yi [SINGAPORE] System Software Associate® (SSA), a leading provider of business enterprise information systems to the Industrial sector, has appointed Dr Tan It Bang as director for technology for its Asia-Pacific operations. His will be responsible for the company's technology development, direction,
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        TI announces new chipset
        66 11 [SINGAPORE} Texas Instruments Incorporated (TO has announced a new chipeet for optimum connection between Ethernet or Token Ring local area networks (LANs) to agynchrpnous transfer mode (ATM) networks. Dubbed HyperSAß+, the chipeet incorporates a high-performance segmentation and reassembly (SAR) with a traffic-management scheduler. It is priced
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        Autodesk Asia's new marketing chief
        56 11 [SINGAPORE] Autodesk Asia has appointed Lee Hock Soon director of marketing. He will have overall responsibility for deviling and implementing marketing strategy in the Asean region and reinforcing Autodesk's position as a dominant supplier of design solutions across all industry sectors as well as the
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        Patrol gets another client
        58 11 [SINGAPORE] To reduce system downtime and support ooits, the Philippines' government-owned Social Security tystvm (SSS) has chosen BMC Software's Patrol to manage its Oracle databases. Patrol was selected for its ability to automats and centralise the control of all critical elements la the central monitoring ofSSS's
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      US software firm Autodesk on the hunt for international partners
      455 11  -  Sought: Smaller but world players which are'hungry' By Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] The new AsiaPacific vice-president of USbased software firm Autodesk, Tom Norring, is looking for Singapore partners who have the potential to be world players. The strategy is part
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      Asia South region reports revenue growth of 70% for Sun
      444 11 [SINGAPORE] The booming Asia South region consisting of India and Asean posted the highest revenue growth for giant Internet commerce group Sun Microsystems for its financial year ending June 30, a Sun official said last week. Sun's Asia South revenue
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      New multimedia technology offered to students at low price
      521 12  -  Singapore Ims a good local IT environment to bunch this product' By\ Nicholas Fang [SINGAPORE] School children in Singapore will soon enjoy the latest multimedia technology from the US at a fraction of the institutional price. Local information technology development firm
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      Breakdown? Here's technology that can restore systems in a jiffy
      337 12 [SINGAPORE] A new technology to fully recover computer systems of large organisations after a breakdown is being marketed in Singapore by EMC, a US data storage company. This technology, called Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), has been used in the
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      Venture to develop innovations for land transport uses
      262 12  -  By I Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] CEI Technologies (CET) and the Information Technology Institute (TTI) have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop innovations for land transport applications. The research and development effort will cost up to $2 million and run over 18
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      Ink-jet printer with remote wonders
      155 12 [SINGAPORE] An ink-jet printer capable of being operated aoi programmed remotely from anywhere in the world is being mafketed by Willett, a UK supplier of industrial labelling and b*r code printing products. The Willett 460 si Small Character Continuous Ink Jet Prints has a modem
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  • OLYMPICS 1996
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      Lock icon Goodbye sport, hello sportainment
      763 14  -  The Games, as a positive moral force, are already over, forever, says bobhrt imrn ROBERT LIPSYTE NYT THE time has come to call it by its rightftil name: The Olympicspsdes. The Games area five-ring circus, somewhere between the World Cup and the Ice Follies. And out
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      Lock icon Payne shrugs off the pains of Atlanta Olympic Games
      388 14  -  By\ Richard Sandamir NYT [ATLANTA] Day 16 of tjfc Summer Olympics. One dij left. Billy Payne, dressed inj sky blue jacket, red tie al|c confident smile, was ask# about his health. "Going strong," he told i group of reporters on Sat#
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      Lock icon Black South African wins marathon gold
      236 16 AFP [ATLANTA] Joslah Thugwane became the first black South African to collect an Olympic gold medal here yesterday, winning the closest marathon in Olympic history. World champion Martin Fix lost a classic game of cat and mouse to the 25-year-old South African who won
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      Lock icon Canada beats US to take relay crown
      774 16 VenusteNiytagibt wins Burundi's first track and field Olympic grid in tto 6,000 m AFP [ATLANTA] Canada robbed the United States of the men's 4xloo m relay crown with a remarkable run as the Americans seemed to have been distracted by the controversy surrounding
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      962 16 V M 1 I HAI SUN HUP GROUP LTD I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) I NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING I NOTICE 18 HEREBY GMVEN that the Eighteenth Annual General Meeting of the Company wM be held atlhe East Indta Room, Raffles Hotel, 1 Beach Road, Singapore *****3
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      801 17 pmaitvwtfcii tm titwi In am NtfkilMw tanta»t»s3l«Jm (SINGAPORE] Boosted by ftrnaf Mirth In non-Interest Bank reported a ■M part** rise In group net froflt to 8816J million fbr the fralf-year coded June 80. 1 Bat DBS deputy preeklent tod chisf operating officer
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      378 17  -  ItMwhMMntku 50% ((fitful feu Mtwarksurktt By' Toh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Networking and communications system integrator Datacraft Asia expects its business in China to grow by more than 35 per cent a year over the next two years. This is Cuter than the
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      167 17 [SINGAPORE] There's still hope yet for some Singapore stocks despite the widespread gloom in the local market. In a recent report, American investment bank Salomon Brothers (SB) recommended a "buy" on both DBS and Overseas Union Bank (OUB), plus a "hold" on United Overseas
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        319 18 Firm's capacity to provide voluminous content is limited, says Telekom CEO Bemama (KUALA LUMPUR] Telekom Malaysia Bhd, which was appointed as the sole provider of telecommunications infrastructure for Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), welcomed the entrance of providers of multimedia content into the MSC. Chief
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        92 18 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malayan United Industries Bhd has completed its unconditional mandatory takeover offer for the remaining 175,000 shares in Pengkalen Holdings Bhd, at a transacted price of M 56.40 per share. In an announcement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange on Friday, MUI
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        199 18 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Yaohan (M) Sdn Bhd is upgrading its supermarket, food court, household and electrical department at its flagship store on the lower ground floor, the Mall, at a cost of several million ringgit. Managing director T Anzai said during the weekend
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        249 18 Launch date will be announced in October Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia will launch an over-the-count-er (OTC) stock market by January 1998, the Bernama news agency said on Saturday, quoting an official of the Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC). Anuar Mohd Nor,
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        130 18 Bloomberg Business News I JAKARTA! PT Citra Marga Nusaphala Persada's net profit rose 55 per cent in the six months ended June 30 as toll rates roee and the company repaid debt. Net profit roee to 66.32 billion ruplah (Ss4o million) from 42.64 billion
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        431 18 Subsidiary to market defence vehicles in lTsia and region NST [KUALA LUMPUR] The DRBHicom group will set up a subsidiary, DRB-Defence Technologies Sdn Bhd, as part of its comprehensive plan to further diversify into the manufacturing of military vehicles. The new subsidiary, now in
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        HK group gets OK for skyscraper
        354 19 But building experts say 86-storey tower will block Victoria Peak skyline (HONGKONG! A Sun Hung Kai Properties-led consortium and Mass Transit Railway Corp (MTRC) have secured initial approval to build a skyscraper on top of the airport railway's Central station, the South China Morning
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          67 19 Bloomberg Business News [TAIPKI] Foreign stock Investors moved a not U8H06 million (SI231 million) out of Taiwan last month, a 14-month high, the Economic DoityNtws said yesterday, Citing the island's central bank. Foreign stock inveetors brought US$494 million into Taiwan last month, the highest
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          87 19 Bloomberg Business News (OAK BROOK, Illinois] McDonald's Corp agreed to boy 184 Roy Rogers restaurants in the Washington, DC, and Baltimore areas from Imaeco Ltd ibr US$74 million (SUM million) last Friday. The world's largest ftst-fbod chain plans to convert some of the
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          83 19 Bloomberg Business News [LONDON] Pearson pte is expected to report that first-half pre-tax profit fell between 33 per cent and 49 per cent today as a result of one-time charges mainly freak losses at its Mindscape software unit and a lack
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          65 19 Reuter [ZURICH] Switzerland launched ftill electronic trading of •hamlMt Friday ina move aimed at maintaining th# country's position as a key financial centre. After trading got underway, member banks said they were happy with ths Swiss Electronic Bourse systsm, which mei goo whet were
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        125 19 Reuter [BEIJING] US computer giant International Business Machines Corp plans to invest US$2 billion (Ss2.B billion) in China between this year and the year 2000, the China Daily Business Weekly yesterday quoted IBM China chairman Henry Chow as saying. The investment would
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        312 19 Much reduced political concern reflected in prices Reuter [WELLINGTON] New Zealand's share market, out of step with global markets for more than two years, has strolled ahead in the past month and analysts say it may stride further while other markets pause
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        345 20 Appeals cevrt rating makes it harder to ne ever repetitive stress injuries Bloomberg Business News (NEW YORK] Lawsuits against Apple Computer Inc, International Business Machines Corp and other computer makers over Injuries allegedly caused by keyboard use were thrown out by a New York
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        336 20 FT [LONDON] Sony and Philips have broken ranks with the rest of the consumer electronics Industry by announcing plans to start licensing patents for the new generation of digital video disc systems. The announcement last Friday infuriated rival manufacturers, which have spent
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        110 20 Bloomberg Business News [ATLANTA] Coca-Cola Co has signed a long-term sponsorship agreement with the International Olympic Committee to keep it involved with the Olympics through the year 2006. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but they will include cash payments and in-kind
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        346 20 Smm firms might kmiMtlw earlier guidelines Bloomberg Business News [WASHINGTON] The Securities and Exchange Commission is putting an end to the use of an accounting method that's become popular among companies seeking to keep earnings up after they pay more than book value for
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        422 21 London will get unfair advantage if its banks win equal access to Target FT [LONDON] London would gain an unfair advantage over Frankfort and Paris if Britishbased banks won equal access to the Euro payments system after the United Kingdom had
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        Thai lignite producer raises US$ 15m loan
        113 21 (SINGAPORE] Lanna Lignite Public Co Ltd, one of Thailand's largest private lignite producers, has raised a US$l5 million (Ss2l million) loan through a transferable revolving credit facility. The loan will be signed with a consortium of eight banks in Singapore today. It is
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        290 21  -  Buk has plus te rasrgaaise activities in Septra ud HE From] Neil Behrmann in London CITIBANK will close its foreign exchange market-making operations in Frankfurt next month. The move is part of a plan to cut back on forex activities in continental Europe in
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        334 21 Reuter [LONDON] World oil markets were set for a strong rally as concern grew about the possibility of military action against Iran after the US said it was a prime suspect in a bomb attack against a US military base in Saudi Arabia, analysts
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        China firm raises US$ 40m in Singapore
        118 21 [SINGAPORE] Shandong Huazhong Paper Co Ltd (SHP) has raised US$4O million (5556.7 million) through a syndicated term loan facility in the Singapore market. The company is expected to use its first major fund raiser to help finance the expansion of its manufacturing capacity
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        579 22  -  MWKi Weeklyßoundup Bote seen tapping the money market to obtain mark reserves to swaps Callum Henderson MMS International [SINGAPORE] Following the recent inaction by the Bundesbank and the subsequent rebound in the mark, massive profits were taken and booked in the safe haven currencies (such
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        867 22 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Uncertainty over US interest rates lent the precious metals a fresh glow last week, when platinum received an extra fillip from strike action at South African mines. Investors turned to gold rather than unstable bond, currency and
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      752 23 Relathrs Strnfth Tm 4irrr 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: *****Q/[(up average/down
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        863 24 NEW YORK A fortnight ago it was tnwihling, Now it is racing skyward*. St, what has caused the change in meed? FT WHAT do you call it when share prices tumble? Back in October 1987, it was known as a "crash". It certainly felt like
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        383 24 LONDON AFP THE stock exchange ended a three-week run of losses last week, thanks mainly to an easing of fears of increased interest rates in the United States, dealers said. The FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares closed the week at
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        288 24 TOKYO Thintradiigas investors wait for itimnltting Iflldl AFP JAPANESE share prices fell during the week with the Nikkei Stock Average slipping below the 21,000 point level on fti-tures-led arbitrage selling in the absence of buying incentives, brokers said. "Market sentiment was worse than
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        857 24 +CJ AUSTRALIAN share prices surged 3.1 per cent over the week after a surprise cut in the official interest rate on Wednesday gave the market some much-needed direction. The Australian Stock Exchange's barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, ended the week at up 65.6 points on the previous
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        1441 24 Qpu* FRENCH stocky are expected to be mixed in the days ahead as investors, confident that inflation isn't accelerating in the world's largest economy, refocus on domestic concerns, including record-high unemployment. On Friday, the benchmark CAC 40 Index rose 13.51 points, or 0.67 per cent, to 2,023.41,
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        208 24 HONGKONG AFP Bloomberg Business Nem SHARE prices rose 2.4 per cent over the week to Friday as fears of short-term US interest rate hikes dissipated, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Hongkong's key Hang Seng Index rose 256.40 points during the week to close
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        6550 25 Bloomberg Business News nOwptrtihig ♦1101 MALAYSIAN stocks are expected to be little changed this week amid concern about an expected widening in the country's trade deficit. "It's going to trade sideways," said Tan Yan Heong, senior investment analyst at Kuala Lumpur Mutual Fund.
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        3588 26  -  WARRANT WATCH ~By\ R Sivanithy THE latest warrant to list here is that issued by liquid crystal maker Vikay Industrial, which made its debut on Sesdaq last week. The underlying stock, like Sesdaq in general, has been bashed recently to new lows which normally would make
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        894 28  -  wtm^Mwrni Extanal preasu-M km MMi, with W«H Stmt tauHag hack iatt the ilwli, fcrt Wi—tili bar* raaaia th« ium By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] This time last week, the local stock market teced a decidedly uncertain future the Straits Times
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