The Business Times, 6 August 1996

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 04(V12/95 Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztiroes SINGAPORE TUESDAY; AUGUST 6,1996 13
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    Guangdong allows foreign firms 100% domestic sales
    541 1  -  Newgnidelines expected to spark rash of foreign direct investments into province By\ Lu Ning [SINGAPORE] In a move that could result in a rush of foreign direct investments, China's Guangdong province has allowed foreign-funded enterprises (FFE) to sell up to 100 per cent
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    KL trade surplus shores sentiment
    242 1  -  May's Ms23&2m surplus sends market op by almost 1% From', Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur A POSITIVE trade balance for May which few had expected, and Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed's stance against higher interest rates, boosted sentiment on the Malaysian bourse yesterday. The market, which
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    Tenaga shares hit on fears it may lose monopoly
    443 1  -  Price also dampened concerns e?er law softs arising from Saturday's blackout By 1 Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Malaysian national utility giant Tenaga Na sional Bhd fell almost 5 per cent on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday on concerns that it could
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    Lock icon Doling out US$548b tax cut goodies in six years
    489 1 Reuter [WASHINGTON] Republican presidential challenger Bob Dole yesterday proposed a US$54B billion (***** billion) six-year tax cut plan aimed at spurring growth and reviving his flagging campaign. The long-awaited economic programme calls for a 15 per cent across-the-board cut in income
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      42 1 Mahathir roles out rate hike,Pg7 Basks, property lead prices higher, Pg 28 Reports on Pg 17 OTTOUM BAIMNQt NIT dm) OaOWTH iMfc $42 +m «L 45 +27 Mi v 20 -9 r i mt Anwar to disclose financial losses suffered, Pg 7
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      91 1 With a PC Card fax/modem, full internet capabilities, three batteries with up to 10 hours of operating life, dual 16-bit stereo speakers and the ability to transform itself from a S-pound portable to a powerful multimedia desktop, the new Compaq Armada virtually eliminates the need to have an office. Visit
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      S'pore Power launches energy saving plant
      284 2  -  By' Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Power launched the first of its two en-ergy-saving combined power cycle plants at its Senoko Power Station yesterday. SP president and chief executive officer Boey TakHap, who officiated at a ceremony to mark the compiatie* of Ilia first combined cycle
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      POSBank net surplus falls 36% on low interbank rates
      366 2  -  MMiariM' nrphu* fTMf expect* lMttebetragh By I Siow Li Sen DUB MAINLY to low interbank interest rates, the POSBank group saw Its net surplus for 1986 tell a sharp 36.4 per cent to $11&2 million from $182.7 million the year before.
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      PWD to build storm water pond under Kranji flyover
      223 2 A CONCRETE pond to collect thunderstorm water will be built under the flyover at the Seletar Expressway-Bukit Timah Expressway interchange at Kranii in an innovative effort to raise the supply of water In the Republic. The project, which costs $45.5 million,
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      Telecom Equipment's $550 handphone
      263 2  -  By I Genevieve Cua TELECOM Equipment, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecom, has launched its cheapest handphone in an aggressive bid to capture even more of the mass and leisure-oriented market. The phone, Nokia Liberty, is priced at $550, and comes with a special six-month package comprising
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      Lock icon Embassy sees 9% S'pore growth
      313 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Outlook By Anna Teo THE economy should grow close to 9 per cent in real terms this year, says the US Embassy In its latest Singapore economic trends report released yesterday. The embassy's forecast, likely to have been prepared some weeks
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      18 non-gazetted hotels on the way
      396 2  -  Industry to have 33,066 rooms by end 1996 By< Agnes Wee BY THE end of this year, 773 new rooms in 18 new non-ga-zetted hotels be added to the room stock in this category to 3,397. These are mostly smaller properties with limited facilities
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      Jubilee theatre set to open as a four-storey cineplex
      152 2  -  Ptioto and texOej Arthur Lee THE Jubilee theatre at Ang Mo Kio town centre will reopen its doors this Thursday as a modern four storey cineplex, nearly two years after it was torn down for redevelopment. Owned by malnboard-listed Eng Wah,
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      Edmund Tie & Co, DTZ Leung to merge
      278 2 Edmund Tie Co, DTZ Leung to merge PROPERTY consultants Edmund Tie Co (ETC) and DTZ Leung have announced a merger of the two companies to form one of the largest consultancies in the region. The merger, which formalises the ties between two former Jones Lang Wootton directors, Edmund Tie of
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      106 2 cQQv ove ERVICE DIJAPARTMENTS SERVICED APARTMENTS THAT SPELL PARADISE Located at 32 Orange Grove Road, near Shangri-La Hotel and Orchard Road to 3 bedroom apartments available wr i* f SS* 2H* H Fully furnished with split unit air-conditioning, fully-equipped f kitchen, washing machine/dryer, jMfcSISL.. »p- Housekeeping, linen services, K H
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      476 3 A History of Performance. 1914: The Kew Observatory certifies 1979: Dr. Sylvia Earle, Rolex as the first wristwatch in history diving to a depth of 1,250 to outperform the pocketwatch. feet in the JIM diving suit, i aa times her descent on her li/20! The world s first truly Rolex
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Fighting over a point of interest
      712 4  -  THBPmOFHKTT COLUMM Why Union Charm has to pay more than tt expected to develop the first phase of Kowloon Station By Lee Han Shih IT WAS a project where the borrowers and the lenders fought over every decimal point of the loan, and nobody
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      Lock icon Foreigners buying up S Africa's Cape and lifestyle
      476 4 Reuter [CAPE TOWN] Foreigners are buying up Cape Town property and leading estate agents in South Africa see no early tod to the boom. Britons and Germans head the list, but many Malaysian, Chinese, Arab and African buyers are coming into the
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      More than 30 show interest in Chan Brothers Aussie homes
      384 4  -  Asfom Brisbane project wfll comprise 297 bungalows and 80 townbooiei Bya Agnes Wee [SINGAPORE] Leisure group Chan Brothers has softlaunched the first phase of its maiden Australian residential project here. The phase comprises 46 bungalows, 10 of which the company
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      All set for new lease of life
      694 6  -  Plaza Singapura will be given a facelift so it can compete with newer shopping centres Ry Catherine Ong [SINGAPOREI SOME 100 tenants will have moved out of Plaza Singapura by May 1997 to make way for a $85 million facelift of the shopping
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      284 6 Upper Bukit Timah Area Residential Development Site For Sale Location 138 Hillview Avenue Legal Description MKIO Lot 759 Land Area 6,705.9 sq m (Approx. 72,182 sq ft) Tenure 999 years Plot Ratio 1.92 Development Potential Potential for 100 apts of approx. 1,200 sq ft each Tender Closing Date Friday, 23
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      209 6 mijrg FREEHOLD RESIDENTIAL SITE AT DUNMAN ROAD, KATONG MOUNTSATTiN Land Area: 36,731 sq ft Close to good schools Plot Ratio: 2.8 Freehold Easy access to ECP, PIE, Height-up to 20 storeys Nicofl Highway and MKT For further details and Investment report, please contact Investment Sales Division.*Karamjit Singh *****29 Ng Seng
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Mahathir rules out rate hike
      440 7 KUALA LUMPUR He prefers raising import duty to cut current account deficit instead off stming growtn AFP PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday ruled out raising interest rates to stifle Malaysia's robust growth but indicated a possible increase in import duty to improve the trade balance.
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      Lock icon Recent Indon riots not seen as prelude to turmoil
      344 7 JAKARTA Political risks but economic life will not be much disturbed: JP Morgan report Reuter INDONESIA'S recent riots were a clear reminder of the political risks facing the country but its economic life would not be much disturbed, investment bank J
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      Lock icon Shares up in anticipation of support fund
      255 7 BANGKOK AFP Reuter THAI share prices rose 3 per cent yesterday in anticipation of intervention through a new-ly-established 21 billion baht (Ssl.2 billion) support fund, dealers said. "The support fund is supposed to come into the market by tomorrow (Tuesday) at the latest,
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        Lock icon A telecom network for six nations
        67 7 Reuter [fHNOM PENH] The six nations of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) plan to set up a network of direct telecommunications links. The decision omo in early July ata meeting in Phnom Penh of the GMS countries— Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and south-west
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        Lock icon thais issues revised economic forecasts
        68 7 AFP [BANGKOK] A Thai government economic committM yesterday issued economic forecasts for 1996 based on revisions announced recently by various government agencies. The current account deficit was expected to rsach 7 J to 8.0 per cent of groee domeetic product (GDP), while GDP growth wae
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        Lock icon Jakarta to grant tax holidays selectively
        62 7 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] Tax holidays to be granted under a forthcoming government regulation would be applied selectively and would be denied if new investments threaten successful existing industries, Director-General of Metals, Machinery and Chemicals Effendi Sudarsono said. Not every project within a single industry would
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        Lock icon Malaysian to speak at Beijing forum
        66 7 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is to outline his views on the' 'Asian century'' at a business forum which is scheduled to be held in Beijing on Aug 26, organisers said yesterday. According to the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute, "The
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      Lock icon Megawati will heed 2nd summons
      231 7 JAKARTA Reuter THE ousted leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI), Megawati Sukarnoputri, will appear before police investigating recent riots once an amended summons is issued, one of her lawyers said yesterday. "Police will soon issue a second summons after they correct the previous one.
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      Lock icon German firm says mass transit project bidding not fair
      265 7 ■BANGKOK Bloomberg Business News A GROUP led by Germany's Philipp Holzmann AG said the Thai government did not play fair in the bidding process for a proposed mass transit project in Bangkok. "We are asking and appealing for the government to
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      Lock icon Anwar to disclose extent of financial losses suffered
      457 7 ECONOMIC COST OF POWER OUTAGE Df MALAYSIA Losses to private, public sectors estimated at several hundred million ringit Bernama Reuter AFP AFXAsia [KUALA LUMPUR] Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is expected to reveal tomorrow the financial losses, estimated at several hundred million
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      Lock icon Inflation rate hits 11-month low of 8.9%
      199 7 MANILA Reuter Bloomberg Business News THE Philippines' year-on-year inflation rate fell to 8.9 per cent in July, the slowest rise in consumer prices in 11 months. The National Statistics Office yesterday said smaller rates of increase in prices of rice, corn and other
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      349 7 t or more than a centuEjMnd a half, Patek Philippe has been known as the finest watch in the world. The reason is very simple. It is made differently. It is made using skills and techniques that others have lost or forgotten. It is made with attention to detail very
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  • CHINA-HONKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China Telecom to top AT&T in mobile phone operation
      343 8 BEIJING WitktambKriben m, it is aspects! ts kMNNMrld'l largest by next year FT CHINA'S state telecommunications monopoly is poised to become the world's largest mobile phone operator within a year, overtaking AT&T of the US, according to the official China Dally
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      Lock icon A nuclear warning for Taiwan?
      115 8 NEW YORK AFP BEIJING'S top arms negotiator sakl In an interview published on Sunday that China's commitment to a "no-first-use" of nuclear weapons against any state does not extend to Taiwan. "As far as Taiwan is concerned, it is a province of China, not a
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      Lock icon HK economy grows by 3% in Q1, its slowest in 6 years
      308 8 HONGKONG Stewiagffmrtk cwnes unid 7.4% stamp in exports Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG'S economy, hurt by a slump in exports, grew at its slowest pace in six years in the first quarter this year. After a year of slumping
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      Lock icon Growth rate seen above inflation for first time in 1990s
      312 8 BEIJING Ortwtkkufidlw from 142% in 12 to 18% ia first half "N Reuter AFP CHINA'S economic growth rate In 1966 is expected to be higher than Inflation for the flirt time since the start of the 1980s, the China Securities
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      Lock icon China orders Internet users to comply with rules
      120 8 MSHANGHAI Bloomberg Business News CHINA, moving to enforce restrictions on international computer networks, yesterday tokl Internet users to comply with regulations that ban activities "harmftil to the security of the nation". The Shanghai Poet and Telecommunications Administration Bureau, which oversees Internet access,
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        Lock icon HK for illegal
        50 8 AFP [HONGKONG) Organised aims syndicates «ra using Hongkong's airport as a transit csntre fisr smut immigrants from China to Canada, the United Mates* end other destinations, it was reported yeetarday. trafficking has prompted Canadian hmnlgfaf ton authorities to add Hongkong to their list of ths 10 the&SftC^^
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        Lock icon Activists ask for r of papers
        72 8 Reuter [HONGKONG] Pro-democracy activiata, lad by Hongkong lagialator Cheng Kar Poo (right), preparing to aaud a petition yesterday fbr the return of their travel parmita at Xinhua mw agency, the d»Jbcto Chineae embaaay hare. Their travel paraltawaraoonflacated whan they flew to BaUtailMl month in
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        Lock icon Marketing traditional medicine
        53 8 Bernama-Xinhua [BEIJING] China will aoon launch the "Hongyang Project", a programme to accakratetha entry of traditional Chinaaemadiciiia into the world market, the China Daify reported yeaterday. Hib State Sciance and Technology Conuniaaion and the State Administration of Traditional Chinaaa Medicine are cumotiy tatting out the —rtrti lin
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      223 9 Sfc&\ o A X K j BP- I The outstanding achievements of successful Singapore are now embodied in an impressive new tower in Raffles Place. Republic Plaza II takes its name and inspiration from Singapore because, like the city, every aspect of it was conceived with excellence in mind. Excellence
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Robust growth seen next year
      410 10 CANBERRA iBVMtBMnt surge, taring nptvrii and «p*nHing Uptwer growth Reuter Bloomberg Business News THE Australian economy will ei\ k>y robust growth in 1997 on the back of a global upturn, domestic resources boom, housing turnaround and the impact of strong government spending cuts, Access Economics
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      Lock icon Applications to invest in NZ up 23%
      242 10 WELLINGTON AFP NEW Zealand's Overseas Investment Commission approved 444 applications by foreign investors last year, an increase of 82 approvals, or 23 per cent, from 1994, the commission said yesterday. However, the value of the deals approved in 1995 dropped to NZ$4.9 billion
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      Lock icon Prosecutors demand death for Chun and life sentence for Roh
      331 10 SEOUL AFP PROSECUTORS yesterday demanded death for former South Korean dictator Chun Doo Hwan and life imprisonment for his successor Roh Tae Woo for their roles in a military mutiny and a notorious massacre. But the undaunted Chun said he
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      Lock icon Nuclear energy policy to stay despite vote defeat
      215 10 ■TOKYO Reuter A RESOUNDING defeat in a public vote on a nuclear power plant over the weekend will not alter Japan's heavy reliance on atomic power for electricity, politicians and industry officials said yesterday. "In the absence of substitutes. we must consider
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    • ASIANotes
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        Lock icon New Zealand First has 21% support
        76 10 Bloomberg Business News [WELLINGTON] Support for the antl-immigration, anti-foreign investment New Zealand First Party rose one percenter? point while the ruling National Party's declined by the same amount, the latest opinion poll by television station TV3 shows. New Zealand First's support rose to 21
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        Lock icon Aussie trade team for Taiwan
        76 10 Reuter [CANBERRA] Australian Primary Industries Minister John Anderson yesterday said he would heed an unofficial delegation afbuainsas leaders to Taiwan next month. The two-way trade and inveetment forum in Taipei and Kaohaiung from Sep 4 to 6 will be the first Australia-Taiwan forum, Mr Anderson
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        Lock icon India's 3-month textile exports up 14%
        64 10 AFP [NEW DKLHI] India's teftile exports grew 14.4 per cent yesr-on-year in the three months to June, spurred by burgeoning sake to the US, the Apparel Export Promotion Council said yesterday. Overseas sales of garments grew to USfl.ooB billion (811.42 billion) in the period
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        Lock icon Tigers, troops in fierce battles
        51 10 AFP [COLOMBO] Ferocious battles raged in northern Sri Lanka yesterday as Tamil Tiger rebels resisted a major government advance towards their political headquarters and both sides said more than 800 were killed. Air force aircraft pounded suspected guerilla positions in Kilinochchl, the defence ministry said.
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Leading indicators in US hit record high in June
      431 11 WASHINGTON Index's sth straight advance led by rising raw materials prices and slewer deliveries NYT THE index of leading economic indicators designed to predict US economic activity over the next half year advanced to the highest level on record in June.
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      Lock icon Orange County bankruptcy: criminal trial to start
      334 11 SAN FRANCISCO Reuter THE first criminal trial arising from the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history was set to begin yesterday, 20 months after Orange County, California, filed for protection from creditors. Former county budget director Ronald Rubino, 44, was indicted by a
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      Bullion dealers upbeat about gold's prospects
      232 11  -  LONDON By] Neil Behrmann SWISS, London and US bullion dealers are "mildly bullish" about gold's prospects in the coming months, following an unexpected rally late yesterday. In London, spot gold closed at U*****.30, up US$2.3O from Friday's close. Dealers said the price touched the
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      Lock icon Less work, same pay may be good for productivity
      428 12 PARIS This may provide a way out of Europe's sticky problem of high labour costs IHT ACROSS Western Europe, several companies are paradoxically finding that they can increase productivity by cutting the hours their employees work each week while maintaining their
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      Lock icon Europe losing family link in SMEs, say report
      308 12 LONDON 70% of family-owned firms won't be passed on te next generation Reuter LESS than a third of familyowned small and mediumsized businesses in Europe will be passed on to the next generation, according to a report published by British venture capital
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      Lock icon Law to punish firms linked to Libya, Iran
      244 12 WASHINGTON Reuter Bloomberg Business News US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton yesterday signed into law a bill to punish foreign companies that invest in oil and gas projects in Iran or Libya. The law, which sparked protests from European countries, was designed to discourage
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      Lock icon Making calls at Scotland Yard's expense
      161 12 LONDON Reuter COMPUTER hackers broke into a security system at Scotland Yard, London's metropolitan police headquarters, to make international calls at police expense, police said on Sunday. A police spokesman would not confirm a report in 77* Times newspaper that the calls totalled £1
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      575 12 FT] Keppel Bank 1 wuA of Singapore Limited I (Inoocpormfd in ttw Rapubic of Singapore) The Board of Directors of Keppel Bank of Singapore Limited is pleased to announce the following:- The Group The Bank 1996 1995 1996 1995 $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 I Interest Income 223,644 208,895 163,967 188,155
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      398 12 H n I £S I I Straits Steamship Land Limited l (Incorporated in the RopuMc of Singapore) H I Ha yrnr tnifid TIT h— lilt I, n The Directors advise the following unaudited results of the Company and 1.0 the Group for the half-year ended 30 June 1996: H -m
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      US 'do-gooders' give business a hard time
      755 13  -  OPINION THH BOTTOM LDVB By Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent WASHINGTON'S trade cry-babies have an annoying habit of condemning foreign governments for using political power to deny US products and investments access to their markets. They accuse Tokyo of erecting
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      120 13 'We might see a return to vegetables and water, u people decide that everything, in one way or another, is going through the same system, their confidence in the whole meat industry is undermined/ Charles Mills an analyst, on the fortunes of the European meat Industry in
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      Coming of the yen bloc?
      664 13 EDITORIAL IT is an anomaly that while Japan has come to occupy the commanding heights of the regional economy in terms of trade and investment the yen has remained a minor player on the Asian stage. But until recently Japan has been happy to accept
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      Spy games in Paris
      1033 13  -  French officials and analysts accuse US intelligence agencies of a conspiracy against French firms By\ Salil Sarkar The writer is a Paris-based journalist who contributes to BT UNTIL just a few months ago, the boss of France's leading engineering group Schneider didn't dare set foot outside
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      Figuring out Malaysia's consumption credit
      247 13  -  MAIUOZ R Khaw Kuala Lumpur Malaysia I refer to your Hock Lock Slew column (BT, July 12). The column quoted figures compiled by HG Asia that consumption loans accounted for 40.4 per cent of total credit outstanding in the Malaysian banking system for April 1996,
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      469 13 Bnoucfc of the Southern Bms AUSTRALIA for too long has hidden in its antipodean isolation, fearing the proximity of Asia... Just as Australians were learning to walk tall, they are being led back into the sands of their little known and ill-understood centre, a region of
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  • OLYMPICS 1996
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      Lock icon Sydney Olympicssmaller is better
      785 14  -  The aim is a more manageable Games, reports ramdthartbt RANDY HARVEY LAT AS Atlanta organising committee officials returned home from the 1992 Summer Olympics, they felt a sense of foreboding, fearing that they would not be able to duplicate Barcelona's success. It was doubtful that organisers
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      Enjoyable but it's no pushover
      1843 16  -  mcxLADS ddrdi finds the Penang Golf Resort's West Course pleasantly challfinging NICKLAUS D'CRUZ The writer is editor of The Asian Oolfßeview This review and further information about golfing tn Asia are available on the Internet at the BT-Asian Oof Review site (http://www.aslal.com. sg/bizcentre/goV) AS YOU
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      Lock icon Keppel Bank's interim earnings up 22.3% to $42m
      380 17  -  oomunnmn S?£X2L Ntuil)<i mat fc» Bhflwui M Paul Leo [SINGAPORE] Keppel Bank yesterday potted a 22.3 per pent riee In group net earnings lo |41 million tor the half-year to June 30, buoyed by strong Ipwth in interset income end We end
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      Property gains lift SSL income 27%
      267 17  -  UhiMiintie m Ang WNOAPOM] Straits Steamfhip Lend (SSL) yesterday announced a ST per cent riee in earnings to 945J9 million |hr the half-year ended June SO thanks mainly to contributions from its residential property projects. The results were broedly within market expectations. According to
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      Fels interim net profit slips 9%
      275 17  -  By Rahita Elias (SINGAPORE] Listed rigbuildar Par last Lsvingston fhipbuilding (Psls) turned In 8 disappointing sat of halftime flguree, with net profit felling 8 per cent to $90.2 mil- The results were below the Expectations of analysts polled fry Tht Estimatt Directory, who had
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      Thai stocks are cheap, but you need to be brave
      665 17  -  lIOCK LOCK SIEW Vikram Khanna I Pthsre's one Asian market that is going to leave a lot of economic analysts red-feoed, it is Thailand. In its Asian Economic Outlook released at the end of March, for instance, Jardine Flaming Securities
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      Crosby Group seeks new partners to inject capital
      393 17  -  AWmmi Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE Crosby Group, plagued by several resignations of its senior executives in the last two weeks, is looking for new strategic partners for a capital injection which could expand its share capital by four times to
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      MCL seeks nod for sale of Scotts 28 unit to director
      185 17 [SINGAPORE] Malayan Credit Ltd (MCL) is holding an extraordinary general meeting to get approval for the sale of a Scotts 28 unit to director Christopher Lim Tien Lock at a 5 per cent discount. During the marketing of Scotts
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        Lock icon Switchgear maker SMB United gets listing nod
        329 18  -  Company plans to make mainboard initial public offering in next month or so By Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Homegrown switchgear manufacturer SMB United Ltd has received in-principle approval for a mainboard listing on the local stock exchange. It will make an initial public offering
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        Smart goes for UIC-SingLand mall
        301 18 Deal will give Smart 15,000 sq ft space in Bnkit Batok project [SINGAPORE] Alprop Pte Ltd, a United Industrial Corporation (UIC) and Singapore Land tafc teamed up ySKajBiS market (S) DiDf!itter%W an anchor tenant of Alprop's West Mall. Under an agreement signed yesterday, Smart will
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        Lock icon Nam Fatt to buy stake in cement firm
        142 18 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Nam Fatt Corporation Bhd is to acquire a 10 per cent stake in the enlarged issued and paid up capital of Straits Cement Sdn Bhd in a move to ensure steady supply of cement for its local and overseas
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        Lock icon Southern Bank pre-tax profit up 41%, plans bonus issue
        260 18 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Southern Bank Bhd group pre-tax profit for the half year ended June 30, 19%, rose 41 per cent to M 582,787 million (Ss47 million) from M 558.531 million in the previous corresponding period. Turnover for the group rose
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        Lock icon UEM-Mara to build toll expressway in the Philippines
        177 18 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] A toll operation agreement, under which United Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd subsidiary UEMMara Philippines Holding Corporation would design and build a 25.5-km expressway in the Philippines, has received presidential approval. The agreement was signed between UEM-Mara, the Philippines' Toll Regulatory
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        Lock icon Group led by Sino Land wins rail job
        104 18 Reuter [HONGKONG] A consortium including Singapore property tycoon Ng Teng Fong's Sino Land has won the tender for the Tai Kok Tsui station second package development. Hongkong's Mass Transit Railway Corp said it awarded the contract to the consortium comprising Sino Land,
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        Lock icon Brierley sale will tidy Asian holding: analysts
        350 18 Reuter [AUCKLAND] The decision by Brierley Investments Ltd's Asian shareholders to sell their 20 per cent stake in the firm would help tidy the complex ownership structure of the holding company Delham Investments, analysts said yesterday. Delham may also become the listed vehicle
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        Lock icon Tata, SIA venture may get approval in 2 months
        106 18 AFX-Asia (BOMBAY] The Joint venture between Tata group and Singapore Airlines Ltd is expected to receive government approval in two months, soon after the new civil aviation policy is formulated and cleared by the cabinet, The Economic Times reported yesterday. The
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          SPP in Indon joint venture
          70 18 [SINGAPORE] An SPP Ltd unit has agreed to form s joint venture to capture a slice of the growing specialist geo technical instrumentation business in Indonesia. PT BorPil ing Lestar i will take a 51 per cent stake in the joint venture PT Anekamega Instru
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          Conditional nod for M'sian Feedmills
          75 18 [SINGAPORE] Suspended Malaysian Feedmilia said the Stock Exchange of Singapore has given it in-principie approval to resume trading if it cancomplete a restructuring Involving the takeover of its debts by Bklara Holdings Sdn Bhd and a capital restructuring Bfdara is a Arm led by Malaysian
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          Wing Tai raises stake in HK firm
          69 18 [SINGAPORE) Wing Tai Holdings Ltd has raised its stake Hongkong aeeociateUSl Holdings Ltd Its subsidiary. Wing Tai Garment Manufactory (Singapore) Pte Ltd. bought9oo,oooUSl s hares for HK12.2 m ill ion (*****,000). This repreeents o. 28 per cent of USTs share capital. Wing Tai
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          OUB opens Admiralty MRT branch
          39 18 [SINGAPORE] Overseas Union Bank will open its 87th branch in Singapore tomorrow. The Admiralty branch, located in an MRT station, will offer a fUII range of banking and financial services. It will have 12staff.
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          Lock icon S Korea's ailing Kun Young gets reprieve
          88 19 Reuter [SEOUL] South Korea's Kun Young Construction Corp barely avoided bankruptcy yesterday, Its main creditor said, after the latter pledged emergency funds to keep the home builder alive until it is taken over by another firm. Seoul Bank had Mid that it would
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          Lock icon Aussie gaming firm Crown's profit up 77%
          79 19 Bloomberg Business News [MELBOURNE] Australian casino operator Crown Ltd said tts net profit for the year ended June 90 roee 77 per cent as the take from international high-rolling gamblers climbed to nearly one-third of Crown's gaming business. Net profit, after a one-time
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          Lock icon Manhattan Card's interim profit up 17%
          58 19 Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] Manhattan Card Co Ltd, a Hongkong credit card company controlled by Chase Manhattan Corp, said net profit rose 17 per cent in the first six months of the year. Profit after taxee and payments to minority interests rose to HK121&5
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          Lock icon Nomura's HK debt unit may face exodus
          48 19 Reuter [HONGKONG] Several members of Nomura International (HK) Ltd's debt capital markets trading group sre expected to resign shortly, sources said. The six-member team that is tipped to leave includes high-level managers in the debt markets group. NOmura declined to comment—Reuter
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          Lock icon Europe Online declared bankrupt
          64 19 Reuter [BRUSSELS] Luxembourg Internet service provider Europe Online was declared bankrupt by a Luxembourg court on Friday altar the company told the court it was insolvent, the Luxembourg Court of Commerce said. The troubled online company had been under court protection from creditors while it continued
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        Lock icon Swire Pacific likely to post dull first-half results
        287 19 Reuter [HONGKONG] British-con-trolled conglomerate Swire Pacific Ltd is expected to announce dull 1996 interim results on Thursday, as its property development business marks a pause after a banner 1996 year. Analysts said yesterday that profit forecasts before exceptional in the six months
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        Lock icon Eu Yan Sang's interim profit jumps 175% to HK$6.4m
        125 19 Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] Eu Yan Sang (Hongkong) Ltd, which makes Chinese medicines, said yesterday that first-half net profit rose 175 per cent thanks to cost-cutting measures and promotional campaigns that lifted market share. Profit after taxes and payments to minority
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        HSBC Hldgs unveils 32% surge in interim profit
        574 19  -  Results well above analysts' projections; strong growth in global business From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong BOOSTED by all-round strong growth from its global business, HSBC Holdings yesterday more than lived up to the high market expectations when it unveiled a 32
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        Lock icon Kerry Properties fails to excite in first-day trading
        306 19 Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] Kerry Properties Ltd rose 0.3 per cent in its first trading day yesterday, less than the rise in the benchmark index in property stocks. Kerry, the flagship of Malaysian businessman Robert Kuok and one of the 20 biggest
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        Lock icon Pearson first-half pre-tax gain fell 40% in line with forecasts
        286 20 Bloomberg Business News Reuter [LONDON] Pearson pic said first-half pre-tax profit fell 40 per cent as its Californiabased computer games software unit lost money and it had no income from the British Sky Broadcasting Group pic stake it sold last
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        Lock icon Higher fares send BA pre-tax profit up 11% in 1st qtr
        282 20 Rise in airfares compensated for slower growth in passenger volume Bloomberg Business News [LONDON] British Airways pic said first-quarter pre-tax profit rose 11.1 per cent as fares rose amid a worldwide resurgence in air travel. The UK's dominant airline
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        Lock icon Apple CEO faces toughest test yet
        443 20 He needs to excite the throngs of loyal customers analysts Reuter [CUPERTINO, California! Apple Computer chief executive Gilbert Amelio faces the biggest test yet this week in his bid to restore the glory of the company that popularised the personal computer impressing loyal Apple
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        Lock icon Rank plans disposals to raise £300m as part of restructuring
        255 20 FT [LONDON] Rank Organisation, the diversified UK leisure group, has drawn up plans for a disposal programme to raise up to £900 million (***** million) as part of a restructuring by chief executive Andrew Teare. Mr Teare will unveU details
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      • SMALLChange
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          Simex simulated trading game to kick off
          116 21 [SINGAPORE] The Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Slmex) win hold its second simulated ffcturee trading game over two-and-a-halfweeksfrom Augl6-Sep4. Played under real-time trading conditions, the game has attracted a total 0f687 teams, comprising 323 in the open category and364ln the student category. Each team,
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          Lock icon Major Gorman bank's profit up 22%
          76 21 Bloomberg Business News [MUNICH] BayerischeHypotheken und Wechselßank AG said its first-half operating profit roee 22.2 per cent, below analysts'expectations, as trading income declined and risk provisions roee. Operating profit, which Is before taxes and after risk provisions snd own-account trading, rose to 686 million
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          Lock icon Bankers Trust a depository bank
          55 21 Reuter [LONDON] Bankers Trust Company says it has been appointed depoeitory bank for the sponsored global depoeitory receipt programme of Commercial International Bank (Egypt) SAE, which cloeed last Thursday. The cAnring, led by ING Barings, is the first GDR for an Egyptian entity and is
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        Lock icon China-listed fund wins suit to recover 17m yuan
        181 21 AFP [SHANGHAI] A Shanghailisted investment fund has successfully sued a trust company and a real estate developer to recover 17 million yuan (552.9 million) worth of investment, a newspaper reported yesterday. The suit brought by Shenyang Fumin Fund against Dalian Dongxin Real
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        Lock icon UBS posts 33% rise in first-half earnings
        369 21 ttirin^fasarisl markets, profits contribute to good growth Bloomberg Business News [ZURICH] Union Bank of Switzerland said its first-half net profit rose 33 per cent as rising financial markets and profits tied to soaring securities trading volume more than offset higher provisions against credit
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        Lock icon Citra Marga to tap overseas funds
        179 21 Reuter [JAKARTA] Indonesia's tollroad operator and builder PT Citra Marga Nusaphala Persa da said yesterday it expected to secure most of the funding for a 1.1 trillion rupiah (***** million) toll road project from overseas sources. "We are now working on the types of
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        Huazhong taps Asian $ market for US$40m
        281 21  - Huazhong taps Asian market for US$40m Shandong firm nring money to help expansion By\ Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] A group of Sin-gapore-based banks have lent US$4O million ($56.5 million) to Shandong Huazhong Paper Company (Huazhong), which was tapping the offshore market for the first time. The banks are OCBC Bank,
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        Lock icon Post-Sumitomo trade review: UK seeks help
        95 22 Reuter (LONDON] Britain's leading financial regulator, the Securities and Investments Board, has enlisted the help of consultancy firm National Economic Research Associates (Nera) to help with its post-Sumitomo metals trading review, according to a report in the Financial Times. The report said the SIB
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        Lock icon Kleinwort faces revolt from troubled fund
        269 22 Kepit may reject its manager's proposal for restructuring and opt for other ideas FT [LONDON] Independent directors of Kepit, the £500 million (Sll.l billion) privatisation investment trust in the midst of a takeover battle, are mounting a revolt against Kleinwort Benson Investment Management, its
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        Lock icon First global cocoa tree survey seen as key to assessing supply
        377 22 Cocoa orflmisation aims to cot supply by 375,000 tonnes Reuter (LONDON] The International Cocoa Organisation (Icco) is spearheading the first international cocoa tree survey, designed to assess the capacity of major planters so that potential future output can be
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        Lock icon Euro$ lower on profit-taking
        235 22 rn—n« Report Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Eurodollar futures gave way to some profit-taking as last Friday's rally on US Treasury markets failed to gather fresh momentum. Dealers said the outlook for the US interest rate futures remained bullish after last week's economic data indicating slower manufacturing and
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        Lock icon CURRENCY REPORT
        174 22 Reuter AFP THE dollar fell as traders awaited a string of US figures which were due to be published later in the week. Dealers expected the data to show that inflation in the United States was under control. At 1419 GMT, the dollar was trading at 1.4743 marks
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        Lock icon Oil prices rally on US-Iran tensions
        310 22 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON] World oil prices rallied yesterday amid mounting tensions between the United States and Iran. September North Sea Brent Blend crude traded as high as U5519.95 a barrel yesterday, up 41 cents from Friday's close. Since Thursday, oil prices have gained
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      1494 23 AFX-Asia Biwa +jbm STOCKS closed higher yesterday but well clear of their intra-day highs, on revived buying by local investors as selling by foreign investors slowed. The 225-share Nikkei Average closed 137.06 points higher at 21,077.47, off the high of 21,188.10. The Topix Index rose 3.91 to 1,601.88 and
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      Lock icon HONGKONG
      1418 24 Reuter U HangSeng +108.46 STOCKS ended substantially higher yesterday despite active profit-taking which pared an early morning bounce inspired by US jobs data soothing fears of a near-term interest rate rise. "The gains were a followthrough from good overseas news," said a trader. "It had Uttle to do with
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      582 24 Reuter P Shanghai B Shire late -HI. 06 SHANGHAI'S B shares closed up on buying of Pudong shares, after the city announced a new policy allowing people from outside the city to buy homes in Pudong and obtain a residence permit. The index added 0.05 point to 50.53 on
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      357 24 AFP □wFMg -aa SHARE prices finished lower amid light trading as investors sold heavyweight issues. "Investors reduced shareholdings of heavyweight issues and turned to electricals and second-liners," said a trader. The Weighted Price Index fell 23.21 points to 6,083.66. Turnover was 999 million shares worth NT532.13 billion. Rising stocks
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      674 24 AFP njOwißOßtehig *LB7 STOCKS closed slightly higher after late profit-taking stripped earlier gains made on Wall Street's strength. "The index has returned to pre-riot level. It came off earlier highs because investors took profit," said a dealer. The Composite Index added 1.87 points at 562.83. TurnOver was 104.6 million
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      746 24 AFP QSETlafai +32A THE SET Index rose 3 per cent, or 32.61 points, to 1,137.44 yesterday in anticipation of intervention through a newlyestablished 21 billion baht (551.17 billion) support fUnd. Turnover was 82.2 million shares worth 5.4 billion baht. Risers beat falls 349 to 54, with 53 counters unchanged.
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      297 24 AFP Qimii -lm SHARE prices closed lower as low inflation figures failed to inspire the bourse. The announcement yesterday that annual inflation fell to 8.9 per cent in July from 9.8 per cent in June was "already discounted," said an analyst. The PSE Composite Index fell 1.24 points to
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      368 24 AFP QOcnpoote Index ♦022 Share prices closed marginally higher in skittish trading amid a lack of positive news. The Composite Price Index edged up 0.22 point to 824.30. Trading was 19.2 million shares worth 401.6 billion won. Risers beat falls 469 to 336 with 140 unchanged. Petrochemical stocks rallied
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      596 24 AFP FlAllOrteariai ♦gj THE positive influences of Wall Street and the lingering impact of last week's interest rate cut boosted shares. The All Ordinaries Index rose 25.1 points to 2,233.7. Turnover was 252.2 million shares worth A 5594.9 million, with rising issues outnumbering those falling two to one. Among
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      Lock icon WELLINGTON
      261 24 Reuter QWeUingtoo -LB4 SHARES were mixed, as Fletcher Challenge rose, while fellow forester Carter Holt Harvey fell. The NZSE Top 40share Index fell 1.84 points to 2,177.47. Volume was NZ$42.B million. Reuter «gi 1 v- mm AN2*ank*4 7.25 0.05 ***** AOvantagat HMqs 1.90 undi MOO AlrMmrZMtwM(A) UO 007 *****7
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        Lock icon Stocks up on trade surplus news
        6901 25 Bloomberg Business News ****** STOCKS rose to their highest level in more than two weeks after the country posted an unexpected trade surplus in May. The surplus of M 5238.2 million (ssl3s million) compares with analysts' forecast for a trade deficit in May of
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        Kemayan wrts: short term play
        3594 26  -  WARRANT WATCH By Paul Leo ABOUT two weeks ago, this column suggested using volatility as a way of analysing and trading options. Just to recap, the strategy is to buy when volatility is low (the view being that it will pick up soon) and sell
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        Bank and property stocks fan fourth rise in a row
        784 28  -  maiiuiir OMMMTW Analysts still pessimistic a.bont bank*' full-year results; meanwhile, ITsian shares get a boost from unexpected trade surplus By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Share price* closed firmer for the fourth consecutive day, with selective buying of banks, property counters and
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          A potential best-seller
          111 28 AFP nsws service reports that the Hongkong government hit pot Into the children's storybook business. Ths Committso on ths Promotion of Civic Education (CPCX) has published a book on ths Basic Law, ths territory's post-1987 constitution, to help sducats children on ths Importance of ths now charter
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          Who's doing the
          64 28 B VBRYBODY knows that Straits Stsamship Land and DBS Land are joint developers of the Pebble Bay condominium, but until yesterday nobody knew which of the two did most ofths work soiling ths condominiums thsrs. In Its lntsrim statemsnt, ML said "we slso sold tt psr cent
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          Who forget the Big Red S
          100 28 ONE KL broking house saw the lighter sids ofthlngs when Peninsular Malaysia was hit by a 16-hour powar blackout last Saturday. "DW aomabody launch an Appraclata Day or Appraciata Tanaga sasisssßsaar report yaatarday.MaybaTanafa should try and broadan its aarningi bass by going downstrata Into
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          Shew Brothers newer die
          91 28 SINGAPOREANS may lack torn* of tha witreprenaurial varva of Hongtompra, but th«y do not *aam to lack an opportunistic •traak. On haarlnf racantly that Harold Shaw, amambsroftfaafemousfemlly that bulh tufortuna In dMiAOvlabuatnaittn H°n«kon« and tha region, wu paying a cool 114 million tor an S.T4O H
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      295 29 Knight-Ridder Reuter TRADING on the freight market ended last week as started, with few reports of concluded business to etnerge and rates remaining weak in most doctors of the market tyrokers said. Biffex endured another gUiet day, Clarkson Wolff said in its daily Biffex fcarket report A lack
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      439 29  -  Situated 20km from Klong Toey port, the terminal will be fully computerised From, Alan Boyd in Bangkok THAILAND'S first purposebuilt private container terminal will open in the next quarter on the Chao Phrya river south of Bangkok, with an eventual capacity of 150,000 TEUs
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      265 29 Mare box ships calling at Laem nil a hang [BANGKOK] Thailand's total international container throughput rose 9.4 per cent to 2.15 million TEUs (20-ft equivalent units) last year, while conventional cargo grew 9.03 per cent to exceed 11.796 million tonnes. According to the 1995-96 report
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      191 29 [BOMBAY] The Great Eastern Shipping Company has decided to put in cold storage the proposal to set up a joint venture ship repair facility in Singapore. Officials said there have been several problems and the company was forced to defer investment
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      114 29 [SINGAPORE] Shipbuilder Kvaerner Fjellstrand has received a new order for two 40metre Flying Cat high speed aluminium passenger catamaran ferries. The sale, concluded recently with Philippine shipping company Negros Navigation, represents the fifth and sixth vessels of this category sold to the Philippine market
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        78 29 [HONGKONG] China Ocean Shipping Co (Coeco) and Japan's K Line are in slot exchange talks that could see Coeco and Taiwan-based Yangming, K Line's consortium partner, carrying each other's boxes on the Europe-Far East trade. A senior K Line source said talks were
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        73 29 AFP [GOTHENBURG, Sweden] A cruise ship sailing from Copenhagen to Kiel in north Germany with 935 people on board ran aground late on Sunday between Denmark and Sweden but nobody was hurt, coast guards said. Early yesterday morning the 600 passengers and 836 crew members were
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        Video of 1960 shipwreck shown
        96 29 [LONDON] Representatives of the families of crew members of the UK-flagged carrier Derbyshire, which sank in the Pacific with all hands in 1960, have been shown video footage of the wreck, shot recently as pert of an official probe jointly funded by the UK and
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      207 29 [LONDON] The London P&I (protection and indemnity) Club has highlighted a recent Irish court case to remind shipowners of the need to guard against liability claims arising from routine maintenance operations. In the latest issue of its Stop Loss Bulletin, the club says the
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      974 30  -  XMTBBBKODAXJSM: OUTSIDER'S VIEW OF EUROPEAN MARKET 4lthough freight moves within Europe or between ports and inland points cover less than 480 km, the threshold below \fhich intermodalis'ii cannot compete against other modes, Europe still has much room for improvement says OOCL Philip Damas American Shipper
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        192 44 Reuter [DUBAI] Boeing Commercial Airplane Group and the Dubai Department of Civil Aviation said yesterday Boeing plans to open a regional spare parts distribution centre at the new Dubai Airport Free Zone in the United Arab Emirates. The centre, which is expected to
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        218 44 Inquiry ordered into protection for industry after 2000 Reuter [CANBERRA] A major Australian car industry group yesterday welcomed the government's decision to hold an inquiry into car industry protection after 2000. A clear statement of future policy was vital to setting investment priorities in
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        141 44 NYT [BONN] The European Commission has no right to intervene in the decision by the Saxony government to grant Volkswagen, the car manufacturers, 241 million Deutschemarks (*****.4 million) of subsidies that Brussels had blocked last month, according to Kurt Biedenkopf, premier of the
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        189 44 AFP [BEIJING] China's Silk Road rail cargo link to central Asia and Europe is finally in operation, with the first commercial transhipment now trundling its way to Uzbekistan, rail officials said yesterday. Seventy-five containers of US aid for Uzbekistan left the port
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        386 44 But British carrier will not divest stake or ask directors to resign from USAir NYT [LONDON] The US courts are to be asked to sever the three-year-old link between USAir, the American carrier, and British Airways. The move comes as part
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        240 44 AFP [TOKYOI A survey ordered by Transport Minister Yoshiyuki Kamei has found seven of the 51 foreign airlines flying to Japan do not have Japanesespeaking flight attendants, a ministry official said recently. The official said four of the seven airlines had neither
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        165 44 Reuter [ROME] Aeroporti di Roma will be fully privatised by the end of 1996 with an initial flotation planned for early next year, a senior official at Italian state holding IRI was quoted on Sunday as saying. IRI has a controlling stake in the
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          97 44 Bloomberg Business News [JAKARTA] Indonesia's Bakrie Group has started a car company that it expects will be granted tax and tariff breaks under a government "national car" programme, the Bisnis Indonesia newspaper reported yesterday. The iv* company, PT Bakrie Motor, has hired PSA Puegeot
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          86 44 Reuter (LONDON] Virgin Atlantic, the airline group owned by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, is near to a £30 a million (Ss66 million) deal which could give it control of BWIA International, said a report in The Times The report said the deal with BWIA,
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          75 44 Reuter [BEIJING] China has set target annual production capacity of 10 million motorcycles by 2000, up four ™nn/m from current levels, the People's Daily Overseas Edition said yesterday. It said China forecast actual production of" nine million motorcycles by 2000 with an output value
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          103 44 Reuter [NEW YORK] British Airways settled a defamation lawscrit late last week with a New York woman wtyoaued the company for accusing her of abandoning a newborn baby at London's Heathrow Airport in February, both sides in the case said. The woman's lawyer said airline employees
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        168 44 Reuter [QUETTA, Pakistan] Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's cabinet approved proposals on Sunday to attract foreign airlines to use Pakistan more frequently as a destination or transit point, a government statement said. It said the cabinet, at a meeting in Quetta, capital of the south-western
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      277 29 USAir goesto court to end Hnk withßA But British carrier will not divest stake. Back Page ♦jS Viet exhibition returns The Maritime Vietnam 97 exhibition, which returns the third run from April 16-18 next year in Ho Chi Minh city, is now 1; > °Pen for registration by companies V
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      434 35 I (fit FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE *****8 HOT UNE: *****33 (30 LINES) Weekly Sailing To SCANDINAVIA L/ i SHHWjflpßf 11 J For bookings enquiries please contact *****33 FAMOUS MOLLY P. KLANG PH: 0203/*****02 (10 LINES) PENANG PH: 0204/*****7 (10 LINES) J. BAHRU PH: 0207-*****22 I EX
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      154 40 tHM LINER SHIPPING PTE LTD B*\:l 10 ANSON ROAD. #17-01 WgJMR INTERNATIONAL PLAZA. SINGAPORE 0307 V TEL: 12J61AJ(20 UNES) TELEX: RS 2J232 LSSHIP ROC: ***** CTASIN DUBAI 12/06 r—H 21/08 19/06 28/08 26/08 04/09 mO middle east ports WML DAM MAM. KUWAIT. lABUIN. DOIA. DTAM, MAUAI. AM NAM. MIMA QAIOOS,
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      607 41 T AD SINO IXPRISS IHIMING (PTI) LTD. MM I 11 COLLYER QUAY fO6-01 THE ARCADE BINQAPOME *****7. A m m TEL: *****90 (4 LINES) FAX: *****96 TLX: R*****1 SINOEX HWOTMMS fHWMI (COMTAIMI SliVtCl) Also occapling container cargo to: \jJSSSB/VOY EM SIN ETAHKG ETA SHA W/THKG: Chiwon, JMYU 9609/9610 09/08 14/08
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      664 41 SMMS A|—l»: MAC-*U| fPOItf: *****22 (24 LMRt) kuchno:(ok)«44m :4 t-lvv I wmonamniw mamul footman xxxttsssv, %x%ss,*zr m) saggar 20TH ANNIVERSARY OFFER:- (LOWEST-LOWEST RATES) j CEBU "PACIFIC EXPRESS" V 21N 9-8 i SHANGHAI "GOODWELL" V NOl7 9-8 HOHQ KONQ "ELBE" V. 4296 8-8 CALL: PHYLISS/ YEO/ MALA/ XIUHUA I f, V
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      287 41 tan WENDER CONTAINER LINES J -r 1 ATTRACTIVE FCI7LCL RATES TO: 4 J Indian Sub-Continent Ports: MADRAS/BOMBAY/ CALCUTTA/COLOMBO/ CHTTTAGONG/ \< j NHAVASHEVA/ PORT KELANG PENANG MADRAS WW.SHPG FWDG (P) LTD J TEL:9I-44-*****50 FAX 91^******00 BOMBAY WWAGENQES PVT LTD TEL:9I-22-*****32 FAX 91-22-*****31 J PKLANG SUASA MASYHUR SDN BHD TEL:**********9 FAX:O2-03-*****84 PENANG
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      232 42 SHIPPINGTIMES BUSINESSCENTRE ADVERTISING THAT D EL IVERS YOUR BUSINESS FACTS THROUGH THE FAX JUST CALL 740-6000 Your worries are over when it comes to: •Engine Overhaul Precision Machining s ©od* In-situ Repair Specialised welding Hard Chroming Thermal Spray Coating We are a precision engineering company and cater for Marine, Construction,
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      49 43 Regular LCL/LCL k CONSOL SERVICE i Special low Rates HONGKONG .JAmNPOWS •CHINA -USA JAKARTA (INUANO POINTS) SURABAYA EUROPE BUSAN (BASEPOKTS) hiui ♦•Imtandpoina MANIA < %Ml y-- > -V" iV* >■ -U r Tfa GUNK EXPRESS PTIIID US327MI facSSXTtll LINK LCL CONSOLIDATION SERVICE YANGON Accepting Door Dofcvory/ Profoct HomKng/ LQ from
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      169 43 USA Singapore to all USA destinations via Los Angeles We accept both FCL LCL, vessel departs every Monday. For general enquiries, please call 542 766%. For booking, please call fcnny Tlan at 548 9584 or Stella Can at 548 9585. f S.Y. SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD Irarojmjj SINGAPORE I ImßHk
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