The Business Times, 29 January 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/12/96 Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29,1997 85c
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    63 1 *****0 (+0.95) n-SRI 10ML22 (-7.98) n BTOOHP mm 228M1 (-€.23) PjBTMGA mm 1082JB (-3.02) U MARKET MOOD: STOCK MA1KET DCDICES Tuesday Change KI-SFCOMP 1J%N 10.46 NIKKH 17,796-67—+***** HANOSKNG lS.40U9_+t08.39 SCTINDBX .***** +121 JAKARTA COUP 681.97 +4.99 MANILA COUP —M41.99 +18.89 TAIPK1WPI 7,***** 10.75 SHOULOOHP ***** -1.85 CUSA CHINA
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    FINANCE
    73 1 EXCHANGE BATES uss s$ USS 1.410 S 1.615 1278 DM 0.604 0.862 TEN 190 0.891 1.171 MS 0.401 0566 HKS 0.1» 0.182 BAHT 0.039 0.066 RUPIAH 100 0.042 0.06# PUME BATES SINGAPORE* .144 KUALA LUMPUR 9.26 JAKARTA ...18.0® BANGKOK 1125 MANILA 13.50 HONGKONG .8.50 TAIPEI -9JS SYDNEY 6.00 TOKYO
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    Citic buys 20% of HK power utility for HK$16.2b
    614 1  -  Surprise stake in China Light sparks talk of more deals by mainland firms From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong CITIC Pacific will pay a massive HK516.25 billion (552.95 billion) for a 20 per cent stake in China Light and Power (CLP)
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    Credit Lyonnais close to sale of unit
    409 1  -  Nicholas-Appleg&te of US awaiting clearance: sources By\ Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] Asian fund manager Credit Lyonnais International Asset Management (Cliam), which is owned by cash-strapped French bank Credit Lyonnais SA Group, is close to being sold to US fund management firm NicholasApplegate Capital Management,
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    LTA measures may include more COEs
    307 1  -  By, Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] The Land Transport Authority will most likely recommend the release of more Certificates of Entitlement as a sweetener in its package of measures to curb growing congestion on expressways, an LTA spokesman told BT yesterday. He said that more cars
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    Lock icon Clob stocks hit new highs
    443 1  -  By Ven Sreenivasan (SINGAPORE] Malaysian stocks traded over-the-counter on Singapore's Clob International were yesterday chased to new highs on a wave of speculative buying. The counters hogged the top 15 spots on the actives list and accounted for 44 of the 50 most heavily traded
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    Lock icon Dow up 100 at 1pm EST
    65 1 Reuter Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK) The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 100 points just after lpm EST yesterday as stocks tracked the jump in bonds on news that a key gauge of wage cost inflation posted a modest increase in the
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      138 1 nranpg Having ha ji making mflhons Takeover artist Oei Hong Leong is turning to match-making and backdoor listings, Pg6 lIBfIfUDI B1 paw rtitj far grSU 7k, thispg. Nothing is more muring to Hongkong than when the two sides speak the same language in the marketplace. Oak atacha hit aaw lnghm,
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      75 1 -,~r- CHRIS U)H 1 J higfi-nse rises [SINGAPORE] HDB's first 30-storey apartment blocks in Bishan Street 24 viewed from the children's playground Full report, Pg 2 1 bkßQd|Brfl!^H ot B 2 </) 3 x I 150 YEARS OF HISTORY AND ROMANCE Ca/iier boutique/ Singapore Millenia Walk, #01-22/23, 9 Raffles Boulevard.
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Retailers, developers join STPB plan to improve Chinatown
      455 2  -  Consultant to draw, up plan to enhance area's tourist theme and infrastructure By, Ang Wan May CHINATOWN shopowners, developers and the government are working together to enhance the area's tourist theme and infrastructure. A theme plan for Singapore's second most popular tourist
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      HDB to move away from typical flat types: Hng Kiang
      316 2  -  By. Abdul Hadhi THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) will be moving away from stereotyped four or five-room flats, National Development Minister Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday. The move away from standardised flats wUI give Singaporeans a wider choice, with
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      China may grant import tax waiver to Wuxi-S'pore park
      432 2  -  Investments with hi-tech content can apply to Bering lleports from Teh Hooi Ling in Osaka NEW foreign investments in the Wuxi-Singapore Industrial Park (WSIP) can now get a waiver from the tax imposed by the Chinese government effective from April 1,
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      Matsushita's 2nd plant to open in 2nd half
      360 2 MATSUSHITA Electric Industrial Co Ltd, one of the world's largest consumer goods manufacturers, wUI start producing refrigerator compressors in the Wuxi-Singapore Industrial Park (WSIP) in the second half of this year. This is Matsushita's second project in the WSIP. The first was
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      PowerSenoko to go into utility services
      366 2 It'll also look at other uses for facility in Pasir Paqjang SINGAPORE Power's newlynamed PowerSenoko subsidiary plans to diversify beyond power generation into utility services such as providing steam and demineralised water to industrial users. Disclosing this yesterday, PowerSenoko chairman Peter Seah said the
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      Lock icon Productivity rebound not seen
      334 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Outlook By Anna Teo PROSPECTS for a rebound in Singapore's productivity growth which dropped to a low of minus 2.8 per cent in the third quarter of 1996 are modest, according to forecasts collected by Londonbased Consensus Economics Inc. "This reflects the
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      Lock icon Growth in visitor arrivals slows for fifth year to 2.2%
      515 2  -  Negative growth in number of Japanese, Taiwanese tourists By. Ang Wan May GROWTH in visitor arrivals continued to slacken for the fifth year running to 2.2 per cent as the number of Japanese and Taiwanese arrivals dropped. Some 7.29 million
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      Lock icon IRAS seizes Tang's tax documents
      316 2 The Straits Times THE Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore yesterday seized tax documents from the home and office of defeated Workers' Party candidate Tang Liang Hong for investigation. A statement issued by the government tax department said tax officers had observed that large boxes of
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        Changes in Temasek board of directors
        51 2 NEWLY-APPOINTED Senior Minister of State for Education Peter Chen has stepped down from the board of Temasek Holdings from Jan 25. Temasek has appointed two new board directors Roh Boon Hwee, Wuthelam Holdings' executive chairman, and Kua Hong Pak, Times president and chief executive
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        MPs In NTUC leave to assume govt posts
        94 2 NTUC secretary-general Lim Boon Heng yesterday responded to media queries about the designations of Members of Parliament working in the NTUC. Mr Lim said Othman Haron Eusofe and Koo Tsai Kee had taken leave from the NTUC to take up their posts
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        Corrections and clarifications
        41 2 IN A report yesterday, we erred in saying that NTUC Income's total premium income last year was $2.9 billion. This figure refers to Income's total assets. Its premium income was $744 million. We are sorry for the error.
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      208 3 f>c )?3feE 4*r*r**yk 7 i-;-qTj>^M|p^ Palmer and Nicklaus. A legendary pairing. For more than three decades Arnold Looking back on all our years of Palmer and Jack Nicklaus have been competition, says Nicklaus, I see it has joined in one of the most intriguing worked exactly the way it should.
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  • FOCUS: PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT
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      Lock icon Old highs need new caution
      710 4  -  technical viewpoint KL Second Board's major indicators do not favour a strong advance from current levels Naresh Verma The writer is a manager of technical analysis advisory (South-east Asia) at Dow Jones Telerate. The opinions in this column are personal and do not represent the
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      DBSS' Picks
      316 4 Recommended portfolio weights for BT-SRI Stocks S CONTRIBUTION PRICE AS DBSS MtCOMM STOCK TO SRI AT JAN 27 RECOMMENDS DBSS WTS Acer 0.42% US$1.71 Buy 0.70% Cartboa 3.44% S$10.60 Accumulate 3.65% nUpilfnfl 0.52% US$3.72 0.63% OydiACarr J.83% S$15.80 Accumulate 4.07% DBS Bank (F) 5.44% SS19.00 DBSS'parent 5.44% Mrrhnn
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      Lock icon Blinkered investors embrace US index funds
      805 4 The certainty of index fond matching market average is taken to mean it's risk-free NYT [NEW YORK] Time was when most American investors chose their own stocks, one at a time. More recently they asked mutual fund managers to do the picking for them.
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      ACU DEPOSIT RATES (Offered by various banks (as at Jan 23. 1997)
      654 4 Bank of China m$ 25.000 249.999 6.2500 6.1300 4.1300 A$ 250.000 500.000 6.3700 6 2500 6.2500 10.000 49,999 ***** 5.1250 5.1250 D. ht 50,000 i Above 5.3750 5.2500 5.2500 500,000 2.499.999 8.1800 8.1900 8.1300 Ornk 2 5 Ml'
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      173 4 SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS MANAGEMENT 101 Level 5, Pico Creative Centre, 20 Kallang Ave, Singapore *****1. Tel: *****27 Fax: *****12 E-mail: simmsg@singnet.com.sg SIMM Home Page: http://www.simm.com.sg Awarded sjj |j CURHN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY by mw PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA > CURTIN BUSINESS SCHOOL (CBS) CBS is part of Curtin University, the
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      28 4 For real-time stock information, call Quickstock on 1900-913-0003 at 30 cents a minute. Stock numbers are available in the stock pages of The Business Times and Lianhe Zaobao.
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Manila waterworks contracts delayed amid criticism
      396 5 MANILA Row over difference in water rates by two winning groups AFP PHILIPPINE authorities yesterday delayed approval for the multi-billion-dollar Manila waterworks contracts amid fierce criticism of the awards. The two 25-year contracts, splitting the Manila water services into two, were awarded to two
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      Lock icon US$21b Java-Sumatra bridge proposal rejected
      164 5 UJAKARTA AFP INDONESIA'S government has rejected as unfeasible a plan by President Suharto's grandson Ari Sigit to build a bridge between Java and Sumatra that could cost US$2l.2 billion (Ss3o billion), a report said yesterday. "The project is only feasible when we have completed our
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      Lock icon KL's rag and bone trade
      68 5 [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian students gazing at some dinosaurs' skeleton at an exhibition of prehistoric animal relics at a shopping mall in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur yesterday. With the mushrooming of malls in Malaysia, the competition to attract customers is bringing out the creativity in
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      Lock icon PepsiCo ends all business ties in Myanmar
      277 5 NEW YORK It stops selling its concentrate to Myanmese franchise Bloomberg Business News PEPSICO Inc said it has stopped selling its concentrate to a bottling franchise in Myanmar, ending all business relations with the country. Shareholder groups and activists have been urging PepsiCo
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      Lock icon Thai minister quits airport project board
      227 5 BANGKOK Mm by deputy PM follows govt's plan to shelve project Bloomberg Business News A SAGA of troubles surrounding plans for Bangkok's second international airport took a fresh turn yesterday as a deputy premier announced his resignation as vice-chair-man of the project's board. Deputy
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      Lock icon Vietnam shuts out 1 foreign beers
      246 5 HANOI Reuter VIETNAM said yesterday it has temporarily closed the door on foreign beer producers in a bid to protect local manufacturers in an overcrowded market. "The idea of the govern ment is temporarily to stop calling for investment in this field," said Vu
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      95 5 The BMW 728 i. With luxury and power in equal measure, in December of 1 99&Ca l P ®s^™®"®? it was selected as the official car of the World Trade Motors to test drive the car that reflects Organisation Ministerial Conference held in Singapore influence over mere affluence. i* u«,
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  • FOCUS
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      Lock icon Having fun making millions
      2557 6  -  Takeover expert Oei Hong Leong turns to match-making and backdoor listings for his acquisitions in China By] La Ning [SINGAPORE] WAS down. My girl- friend dumped me H because I was the son of a capitalist," H Oei Hong Leong la- mented to a group of
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      81 6 Bangkok London Singapore Taipei The Best Of Thai Cuisine Sa Now At Raffles City, Level 3 alj| For quick business lunches or a dining experience to JLio remember. See you at Patara, now at the heart of the city. Westin Stamford (Level 3, above Kopitiam). For reservations please call 339
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      172 6 FACT Realtime Accounting Software I now on Windows 95 I Just launched. FACT Reports now generate all reports from FACT in true Windows 95 environment. I Presentation quality printouts on laser printer. Naturally, all the reports are real-time, updated with all the I transactions entered up to that point in
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG TAIWAN
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      Lock icon HK banks told to tighten top-end property lending
      526 7  -  HONGKONG Monetary authority wants lower lending ceiling for more expensive properties By( Quak Hiang Whai HONGKONG continued its concerted efforts to attack speculators in the top end of the property market as the Hongkong Monetary Authority (HKMA) yesterday told financial institutions to
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      Lock icon Bankruptcies among Chinese firms up 160%
      418 7 BEIJING Number of insolvent firms last year exceeds total of past seven years Reuter THE number of bankruptcies in China surged by more than 160 per cent in 1996 to exceed the total of the previous seven years. And the number could soar further
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      Lock icon Taipei to open up telecoms sector by '99
      178 7 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN aims to complete basic telecommunications deregulation two years ahead of the original schedule, the China Times reported yesterday. The daily said the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) would open up the telecommunications sector by the end of 1999.
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      Lock icon Raising the Lunar New Year lantern
      54 7 [BEIJING] Part of a giant lantern, which frames a portrait of the late Chairman Mao Zedong, being hoisted by Chinese workers on Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Monday. The lantern is part ofcelebrations for the traditional Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb
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      Lock icon Formosa group denies it is building Fujian power plant
      205 7 TAIPEI Reuter TAIWAN giant Formosa Group yesterday denied local media reports it had begun building a US$3 billion (554.2 billion) thermal power plant in China's coastal Fujian province. "Formosa has no knowledge of the power plant construction and will take no
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Japan senator in fraud scandal faces arrest
      245 10 TOKYO AFP POLICE yesterday asked a court to issue an arrest warrant for a Japanese opposition senator implicated in a fraud scandal, Japan Broadcasting Corp and Jiji Press reported. Five people were arrested on Monday on fraud charges linked to a mutual aid
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      Lock icon Hashimoto plans to abolish securities transaction tax
      262 10 UTOKYO He hopes to do so by 2001 as part of financial reforms AFP JAPAN'S Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said yesterday he planned to abolish the securities transaction tax by 2001 as part of reforms of the financial system, known as the "Tokyo
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      Japanese minister denies talk of more taxpayer-financed bailouts
      478 10  -  TOKYO His statement follows recent conflicting remarks on the issue by politicians By. Anthony Rowley JAPANESE Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka yesterday took the unusual step of publicly denying reports that the government is considering using more taxpayers' money to prevent further bank
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      Lock icon S Korea to double funds injection
      431 10 SEOUL Bloomberg Business News AFP SOUTH Korea's central bank, aiming to limit the fallout from the country's biggest bankruptcy in more than a decade, said it will inject an additional 3 trillion won (554.92 billion) into the commercial banking system. About one-third of the
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      Lock icon Investors await pro-business govt after Pakistan polls
      363 10 KARACHI Investments at near standstill for past few months: official Reuter THE advent of a pro-business government after Pakistan's election on Monday could prompt renewed direct foreign investment in the nation's battered economy, analysts say. "If the elections bring a pro-business government which
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka dissolves local councils
      228 10 COLOMBO Move well ahead of March polls is aimed at opposition party AFP THE Sri Lankan government yesterday dissolved local government councils, which are mostly opposition controlled, ahead of crucial elections in March, officials said. The 238 local councils, including 11 municipal councils, could have
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      185 10 THE GRAND PLAZA HOTEL ADDS CHARM TO COLEMAN STREET "From Only Ss24o+++ Including Complimentary Breakfast, There's Nothing Quite Like The Grand Plaza Hotel This Chinese New Year." 1 In the heart of Singapore's Civic and Cultural District, the new 338-room 4 j mim Grand Plaza Hotel takes pride of place
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      127 10 TO ADVERTISE CALL TOLL-FREE 1800-741 1883 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that. I AWASTHI BHUPENDRA NATH. of 205 JALAN EUNOS #09-04 EUNOS MANSION, SINGAPORE *****5. have applied for a PUBLIC HOUSE FIRST CLASS in respect of M/s OMAR SHARIFF INDIAN SPECIALITY RESTAURANT located at 805 BUKIT TIMAH ROAD #01-02 SIXTH
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  • THE WORLD
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      S'pore offers new IMF emergency fund $666 m
      400 11  -  HONGKONG 25 countries taking partinUSs4Bb facility to tackle global financial crises Byy Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE will provide a credit line of 340 million Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), or about ***** million, to a US$4B billion (5567.2 billion) International Monetary Fund facility
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      Lock icon US budget deficit forecast cut by a third
      248 11 WASHINGTON Reuter THE US Congressional Budget Office on Monday lowered by one-third its forecast for the budget deficit but warned that red ink will run near US$2OO billion (Ss2Bo billion) by 2002 if the White House and Congress take no action. The
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      Lock icon Kidding around
      55 11 [SCHWYZ, Switzerland) Two young lambs peeking out curiously from the backpacks of two shepherds taking part in a parade of mountain herdsmen and their families in the town of Schwyz in central Switzerland, on Sunday. The annual parade is part of a farmers 'festival demonstrating all the aspects
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      Lock icon US consumer confidence up in Jan to seven-year high
      336 11 NEW YORK Bloomberg Business News THE holiday mood carried through to the first month of 1997 as Americans grew ever more confident about the health of the US economy, a new report shows. The Conference Board's index of consumer confidence soared
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      Lock icon US groups plan list of corporate subsidy cuts
      441 11 WASHINGTON Coalition proposes to reduce such spending by USs2b a year Bloomberg Business News A COALITION of public interest groups, led by US House Budget chairman John Kasich of Ohio, plan to target for elimination US$2 billion (552.82 billion) a year in
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Better many jobs than fine ones for a few
      798 12  -  THB BOTTOM LXMB OPINION By Paul Samuelson The writer is an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This commentary first appeared in Los Angeles Times A WISE MAN has said: If you would know your own country, you must know
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      118 12 There is a possibility. If you said: 'Did you make love to the woman,' the answer is yes. 'Are you the father?' No.' -WCo+j denying claims by a 22-year-old woman. Autumn Jackson, that he was her father after a tabloid reported that Jackson was the entertainer's illegitimate
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      Open skies begin at home
      625 12 EDITORIAL THE true test of the open skies agreement that has been finalised between Singapore and the United States will lie in the gain to the ordinary passenger. Hie ultimate beneficiaiy must be the public, as well as the entire travel industry with its impact
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      Lock icon Native title discord
      1272 12  -  Australia's people disagree over who has right to do what with the land By] Peter Lynch The writer is a Sydney-based journalist who contributes to BT BRANDED racist for failing to halt a wave of anti-Asian sentiment last year, Australian Prime Minister John Howard is squaring up
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      745 12 ■ante alb wttk Yettria BORIS Yeltsin is a very sick man. He managed to reappear briefly in the Kremlin after his heart operation last year, but within weeks he was laid low by pneumonia. He has not been seen in public, even on television, since Jan
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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      549 13 Where to wine, dine and entertain RftSDftDfiW I 9TH JANUARY !®TH FEBRUARY 1997 KINTAMANI A* HKDOWtSIAW Kf.STAUHANT■■■■■hi' I ..I, APOLLO HOT€L SMGAPone At Sundown, amidst the splendor of Kintamani, break your fast with succulent datds from the Middle East Quench your thirst with a wide choice of cold Bandung, syrup
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      132 13 The Diar^^istaurant At The Neptune j on shenton Way j Dian Xin/Lunch l(/gi ygi j 11.30am-2.3opm\^^ "aJ* 8 \|gp/n«ptuM 1 7TH FLOOR. OVERSEAS UNION HOUSE. COtITER QUAY. £oOx 6am to lam daily .unch :11.30am io 2pm I Dinner 6.30pm to 10pm Buffet Lunch High Tea Mon lo Fri Sal, Sun
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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      760 13 TV&RADIO 3.45 That's My Boy. 12.00 MN TV Innovations. ilTf iff t 4JB Liberty Street. 2.00 AM Close. L3O PM TV Innovations. 4.35 Hogan Heroes. 2.30 The Winners. 5.00 Sell-A-Vision (r). TTI WT, £2 Channel 8 12.00 NN News. fH I'm TVhlril 12.15 PMRampaiKenyalang. TfWI 4.00 TV Innovations. e.OO AM
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      283 13 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 Commander has silent journey to 5 Shrub one prunes at first in _^HL— 9 I am ready you sound unrehearsed (9) 10 Grabs top honours in setback iT 11 One may have been disarmed 12 Initially thin excuse for betray13 Seeing red. wildly moved (9) L|^ 16
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Grieving with dignity
      1171 14  -  Bill Cosby's interview after his son's death reveals his determination to get on with life, says lawbie mxffxjn LAWRIE MIFFLIN NYT IN A two-and-a-half hour interview with Dan Rather, his first since the killing of his son, Ennis, Bill Cosby spoke of his family's anguish and said
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      Lock icon Paris gets in touch with the times
      775 14 FASHION For the first time in years, menswear are not only creative bat also relevant NYT [PARIS] The best news for Paris women's fashion happened not at couture, where it was supposed to, but during the fall menswear collections, which ended on Sunday
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      Lock icon Celebrating the genius of Schubert
      507 14 PROFILE Vienna gears up for year-long party to mark composer's bicentenary Reuter (VIENNA) "My brightest hopes have come to nothing, love and friendship have nothing to offer," a desperate Franz Schubert wrote to a friend in 1824 as he battled with the debilitating effects of
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      Lock icon Jade may soar above fair value
      439 15  -  Stunning subscription rate of 189 times could trigger frenzied punting at stock's debut: analysts By> Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] The stags are expected to be out in full force when Jade Technologies begins trading today, but analysts are divided as to the issue's likely first-day
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      SSL gets Citibank as anchor tenant
      323 15  -  Bank to lease ap to a third of China Square Tower E By- Michelle Low [SINGAPORE] Straits Steamship Land (SSL) has signed on Citibank NA as its first anchor ippnnt in China Square Tower E. .Under the agreement, Cititaik will take up to a
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      Businessman buys 8.97% stake in Heshe
      193 15  -  By Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Local businessoqaa Soh Kim Yong has infirmed the Stock Exchange of Singapore that he has acquired a substantial 8.97 per cent stake in Heshe Holdings. He bought the stake at 40 Cents per share from Ong Company, which had earlier
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      Good word on Steamers may set parent Keppel thinking
      750 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Lee Han Shih GIVEN the Keppel group's position in the market, analysts are normally not in the habit of disagreeing with it. But many analysts may have inadvertently done just that. Recently some broking houses rushed out buy
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      Rafiq buys Scotts shares from family holding firm
      581 15  -  Scotts Investments will get $llm and option to bny shares back at the same price By < Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE) In a surprise development. Rafiq Jumabhoy is providing the family trust with some $11 million in badly needed funds in exchange for
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        Lock icon Tenaga share price tumbles
        248 16  -  Value falls as much as 7% after govt move to end its power distribution monopoly From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur SHARES of national utilities giant Tenaga Nasional Bhd tumbled yesterday following a government move to end its power distribution monopoly. Tenaga shares fell by as
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        GIC, Ipoh Ltd to buy A$125m Sydney property
        388 16  -  Tie-up confirms recent media speculation From Russell Baker in Sydney THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) has teamed up with Austra-lian-listed Ipoh Limited to acquire a Sydney commercial property for Asl2s million (*****.3 million). Ipoh said yesterday that the property, 175
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        Lock icon Toyota to launch its Asian car, Soluna, on Friday
        392 16  -  From Christopher Tan in Bangkok THE second made-for-Asia car, the Toyota Soluna, will be launched this Friday here about nine months after Honda Motor's debut of the City. Starting at 327,000 baht (S$17,800), it is 32,000 baht cheaper than the lowestpriced
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        Lock icon Indian minister vows to stop SIA-Tata deal
        364 16 AFP Reuter [NEW DELHI] India's civil aviation minister has pledged to shoot down Singapore Airlines' attempts to get a foothold in India's domestic airline industry. C M Ibrahim, speaking after the government's new rules on foreign investment were announced on Friday, was quoted
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        Lock icon Lane Crawford Int'l seen to post loss
        313 16 Reuter [HONGKONG] Wheelock and Co Ltd said yesterday it expected its retail unit Lane Crawford International Ltd to post a loss in the year to March 31, 1997, but looked forward to better days in the following year. "We still expect a loss
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        M'sia to ease freeze on stockbroking licences
        416 16  -  Existing brokerages will face more competition: analysts From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA will issue more stockbroking licences, Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced yesterday in a further sign of an easing of the freeze on the industry. Analysts said the move is
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        UOB-Perwira venture set for launch in 3 months
        131 16 [KUALA LUMPUR] The new stockbroking firm owned by Singapore's UOB Securities and Malaysia's Perwira Affin is expected to take off in three months' time, sources said. The UOB-Perwira partnership is believed to be eyeing rich individuals in Malaysia and in the region.
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        Indon listed banks prime targets for foreign banks
        424 16  -  Weak capital base, tougher rules make them attractive From S N Vasuki in Jakarta INDONESIAN listed banks, short of capital and facing tougher central bank regulations, are attractive targets for foreign banks seeking a foothold in the country, analysts said. They see
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        Sing Tel Mobile cuts Classic Plan subscription
        173 16 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecom Mobile yesterday said it will reduce the monthly subscription of its Classic Plan for GSM subscribers from today. Monthly rates will go down from $45 to $40, and subscribers will get 70 minutes of free local airtime each month. Sing
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      • COMPANY Briefs
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          Lock icon New chief for Jardine unit
          140 16 Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] Jardine International Motor Holdings has appointed a new chairman and a new chief executive officer. Simon Keswick, a member of the family that founded Jardine's, will step down as chairman of Jardine Motors while remaining a director, the company said. He
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          Bbm director for FCC property units
          49 16 [SINGAPORE] First Capital Corporation has made Albert Au Wan Ho an executive director of its property subsidiaries. He will be responsible for property investment, development and management activities. In his last job, Mr Au was general manager for Xinshu Industrial Development (Suzhou) Company.
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          Guthrie raises subsidary's capital
          67 16 [SINGAPORE] Guthrie GTS' subsidiary Guthrie Properties Investments (S) Pte Ltd (GPI) has bought another 5.4 million shares in Guthrie Cathay Pte Ltd (G Cathay). G Cathay is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GPI, which now owns 6 million shares in G Cathay. Guthrie GTS Itself has bought
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          Lock icon Indon firm in US$210m Myanmar venture
          85 16 Bloomberg Business News [JAKARTA] PT Semen Clblnong and the Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings will invest USS2IO million (***** million) to build a cement plant in Myanmar, the Indonesian state news agency Antara said. Cibinong will own 70 per cent of the venture, which
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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        Simex outshines CME on Taiwan index volume
        391 18  -  But Taipei ban hampers Simex contract from taking off in big way By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The Singapore International Monetary Exchange is ahead of rival Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in the trading of their Taiwan stock index futures in terms of volume
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        Lock icon Axe to fall on 3,300 jobs as Amex tightens its belt further
        576 18 Bulk of cuts brought by fierce competition to be outside the US NYT [NEW YORK] Continuing to tighten its belt in the face of brutal competition in the cred-it-card industry, American Express Co said on Monday that it
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        Lock icon Merrill Lynch posts record earnings
        260 18 FT [LONDON] Merrill Lynch, the last of the big Wall Street firms to report its earnings, on Monday brought a triumphant season for brokerages and investment banks to a fitting close, reporting record earnings for 1996 and beating analysts' estimates for the last quarter. Merrill's
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        Lock icon Mobil, Arco post higher Q4 profits on price hikes
        462 18 Higher oil, gas prices offset lower refining earnings Bloomberg Business News MOBIL Corp and Atlantic Richfield Co (Arco) became the latest large oil companies to report higher fourth-quar-ter earnings because of increases in oil and natural gas prices. Mobil, the second
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        Lock icon Maybank in US$38m loan deal
        217 18 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Malayan Banking Bhd and its subsidiary, Aseambankers Malaysia Bhd said on Monday they have signed a US$3B million (5553.2 million) syndicated term-loan agreement with a joint company which is expanding Phnom Penh's airport. In a statement. Aseambankers said the agreement was signed
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        Lock icon Hongkong signs repo pact with S Korea
        245 18 AFP [HONGKONG] The central banks of Hongkong and South Korea on Monday signed a liquidity agreement aimed at strengthening the stability of their currencies at times of market stress. The repurchase agreement, signed by the Hongkong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Bank of
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        Lock icon China's reforms helping cotton mills
        273 18 Reuter (HONGKONG) China's cotton industry reforms are giving domestic mills more muscle to pick and choose their purchases, but persistently high stocks mean suppliers now have to compete for customers, traders said yesterday. Traders here noted that prior to the reforms, in the last quarter
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        Lock icon Crude oil 'fingerprints' can lead to pollution crackdown
        278 18 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON] The "fingerprints" identifying each of the world's crude oils could pinpoint the source of deliberate and accidental spills and help track down polluters, Britain's Institute of Offshore Engineering said yesterday. The European Crude Oil Identification System (EuroCrude), already
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        1385 18 nrrERBAMg CROSS RATES Aj C$ tafc ECU Pfr f MB Mh fc»*afc YtoWw IB$Mih PWo S$ tawd Str UTS 0»t E—1 W$ Austral* 1039 6.171 0.659 4312 1279 5.966 27.736 ***** 0.931 6.639 1.928 1119 ***** 2 0367 1590 3.530 LW9 ***** I9.992 0479 0.773 Canada 0.963 6.190 0.634 4.151
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        169 18 Reuter AFP lionriftn THE dollar gained ground, thanks to a rising US bond market in the wake of announcement of data on US wage costs for the last quarter last year. US wage costs rose by 0.8 per cent in the fourth quarter last year from the third,
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1836 19 SICOM rDTURES RUBBER (Mures dosing *s«t 5 JOpnO RSS1 CO#TRACT(S cwrts/kQ) Ctest Votame <*» Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest r*h 07 166.50 BOO lAac 97 >68.50 50 2100 Apr 97 170.00 169.00 ***** 50 "00 Zi 97 171.00 170.00 171.25 50 1250 Jun 97 172.00 171.00 172.25
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      1634 19 Reuter H Nikkei 225 *4«LW STOCKS bounced back yesterday and closed higher for the first time in four days. The recent falls sparked bargain-hunting in global blue-chip issues which started to become more attractive, brokers said. The 225-share Nikkei Average finished up 461.67 points, or 2.7 per cent, at
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2150 19 LONDON Mistrials J—21 A8 Ports 294.400 3.400 Abbey National 743.400 -9.600 Allied Oomecg 415 -3 Amec 98 2.600 Asda Group 123.400 3.200 BATInd 495 *11 BICC 287.400 -6 BOC Croup 928.400 1.400 BR Petroleum 728.400 8.400 BTR 261 unch Bank o* Scotland 329 7 Barclays 1152.400 7.400
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      759 20 AFP IHI Composite Index +4JW SHARE prices closed 0.7 per cent higher yesterday, on gains in second-line stocks on local speculative trade coupled with foreign fund inflows. "It is still a pretty strong market. We saw some buy programs coming in today and we are still seeing some rotating
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      Lock icon HONGKONG
      1655 20 AFX-Asia Q Hang Sag +***** SHARE prices closed higher yesterday with trade dominated by futures-re la ted activity ahead of the expiry of the January contract, dealers said. The Hang Seng Index closed up 108.39 points at 13,403.29. Turnover was HKSB.63 billion. The January futures contract, which expires tomorrow,
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      Lock icon CHINA
      725 20 Reuter CI Shenzhen B Index -OJO SHENZHEN'S A and B share indices closed slightly lower yesterday, but traders expected bullish sentiment to lift prices later this week. The B Index shaved off 0.10 point to 153.17 on turnover of HK5152.41 million. The A Index lost 0.67 point to 370.14
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      Lock icon TAIPEI
      406 20 AFP QWP Index -IMS SHARE prices finished 0.2 per cent lower yesterday as investors retreated to the sidelines amid uncertainties over the market's near-term outlook. "Most investors refrained from buying or selling largely amid divergent views of the market's outlook in the short term." said a dealer. The TSE
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      Lock icon BANGKOK
      850 20 AFP H SET Index *121 SHARE prices rose just 0.3 per cent yesterday as investors considered there was little scope for profit ahead of key economic data due later this week, brokers said. An analyst said that the SET Index was unable to make any progress in the face
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      Lock icon MANILA
      319 20 AFP Q Manila +18iJ9 SHARE prices rose 0.6 per cent on Tuesday as investors sought blue-chip stocks. "The trend is still up. What the market is doing is shifting from the speculatives to blue chips," said a trader. The PSE Composite Index rose 18.89 points to close at 3,341.99.
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      Lock icon SEOUL
      394 20 AFP CI Composite Index -LBS SHARE prices closed lower yesterday amid growing concerns over the ailing Hanbo Group, dealers said. "With the Hanbo scandal casting a shadow over the market, any gain would be a surprise," said a dealer. The Composite Index slid 1.85 points to 662.85. Turnover was
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      614 20 AFP n All Ordinaries -1&8 SHARES fell yesterday as a weaker futures market combined with the negative influence of a fall on Wall Street depressed the bourse. The All Ordinaries Index fell 18.8 points to close at 2,404.2. Turnover was 355.8 million shares valued at AJ743.1 million. Market leader
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      Lock icon WELLINGTON
      266 20 Bloomberg Business News n Wellington -14.78 SHARES declined yesterday after rising bond yields tarnished the appeal of yields available from equities. The NZSE Top 40-share Index fell 14.78 points to 2,378.47. Jmll US *I• (000) AN2 Banking 6 90 0.18 9350 Advantages Miaqi 1.35 unch 4000 Air New Zealand
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        Lock icon Shares end lower on profit-taking
        513 21 AFX Asia CI Composite Index -10.46 SHARE prices closed lower yesterday, with pressure on blue chips from local and foreign funds seeking to take profit ahead of the upcoming holiday season. Dealers said retail investors were also seen pulling back from second-liners and second board
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        8287 21 en— HHHM SIMM KLSC Composite 1228.69 *****5 tt.46 HST Industrial 6316.28 6303.70 «j|36 MST FImki *****.70 *****53 -4*« NST Properties 3143 99 3077.58 NSTMMnq 3103.96 31H51 "735 T*MMtX®8i —n MMn Board Volume* 268.551 205.697 ♦M.BM Main Board Val (MS) 1.454,729 1,148.380 »306J49 Consumer Prod 28,854 21.955 Industrials Prod 22.649 16,695
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        Laggard Renong warrant holds promise of handsome rewards
        197 22  -  WARRANT WATCH -fty Ven Sreenivasan MOST market watchers would have noticed how Clob-traded warrants have gone ballistic in recent days. While many of these instruments are looking rather toppish after rising for almost three weeks now, there are nevertheless some instruments that
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        3861 22 BONOS, LOANS ft WARRANTS m 1996/1997 Last Vol Da* Last OuoU Htqh Low St no Cameany Sal* ♦Of- COOO) High Law Buyar Sallaf Prka 57 47 m ~3000 m AMDBcS.5%*****6 55 '3.5 274 57 51.5 53 56 51.5 39 3160 -Acar W*****1 US$ 48 unch 33 48 47 5 48
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2444 22 MALAYSIAN STOCKS Or Of 1*96/1997 Last Vol Day Lot Ouota Wv Ohr YM Nat M Cap High Law Stno Company SaH C000> High Law Buyar Sa«ar H Cvr P/t >mll ~~62S 360 4td *42 219 434 3« 426 434 10 4.9 01 90.4 445.2 119 84 mi 5001
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        1651 23 TURNOVER COOO) VALUE WOO) M«tn CI* Ttl Ct T < 1 Induitri* 47,309 76.759 124,0*8 H0.626 U*913 Fln»nc* 7.287 39.173 46,440 66,433 44,964 "1.397 Mot»IS 1,678 3.207 4,885 4,707 5.9W 10.698 Prop«rtlM 5,033 60,549 65,582 30.594 7 *1°* PU»*«.on 5.307 5.307 '3.259 ***** Mimfwj 3.133 3.133 a Jr72 BIW 4,389
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        MAIN BOARD
        4404 23 Transaction Date: Jan 28 o, Of M Wt W9tt/1997 COOO) Mlah°"* Low Mm °s2if c"r W fit We* High Low StNo CwnfMiy 8* C000> M>» U» INDUSTRIALS 5146 ASENTS10 200 US- n I I 90.0 1000 900 1275 ASF USS0.***** US900 c 0N 75 ,.o 10.6 284.7 214
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        HOT STOCK
        64 24  -  by Shiv Taneja MBf HOLDINGS closed one cent higher at 78.5 cents on a volume of 20.7 million shares traded yesterday. Its closing price was just off its high for last year, and all indications point for investors to take profit. Daily and weekly RSI and stochastics are
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        219 24 Stocks Volume *MBf Hldqs 50c 20,726,000 •Mulpha Intl 50 12,916,000 •Berjaya Ind 11,496,000 •Sri Hartamas 11,300,000 *Antah H Wt99 10,855,000 •Insas Bhd 10,027,000 •Promet 9,626,000 •FACB 50c 8,648,000 •AMDS 50c 7,859,000 •Amsteel Wt 7,834,000 Stacks •Mulpha Intl 50 19,205,164 •Berjaya Ind 18,680,900 Reppel Corpn 17,831.352 $ity Dev 50c 16,734,980 •MBf
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        Dow's retreat keeps institutions on sidelines
        696 24  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Focus foll« on Clob-traded Malaysian counters in the face of Dow's four consecutive Ms and fears of data showing high US employment cost Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Activity on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday centred largely on Clob-traded Malaysian counters, while
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
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          Bonus blues
          86 24 IT'S THAT time of the year for gripes over bonuses. A broker said he is always reminded of this story when the bonus blues hit town. Years ago, US investment bank Salomon Brothers gathered all the partners and told them to state, on a piece of paper, the
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          New and improved
          102 24 FOR THOSE of you not watching the Philippines closely, here's something to think about. Fiscal health and the improved complexion of its public debt has led rating agency Moody's to consider a review of the country's current Ba2 long-term sovereign debt rating. According to the Nomura Emerging
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          Going places
          70 24 TAXIS are becoming veritable financial supermarkets. You've heard of credit card flyers in cabs; well, now it is unit trust product information. This latest "marketing innovation" comes from Abtrust Fund Managers Singapore which is distributing product leaflets of its Abtrust Singapore Growth Fund in Comfort cabs. So the
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          Charie's Angals
          98 24 IF SOME TIME next month you are accosted by a horde of Japanese women flailing lingerie in your face, it's an invasion but not the kind you think. Japanese lingerie firm Charle is sending 7,500 Japanese female direct sellers to Singapore on holiday. The women will swamp the
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          Joining hands
          90 24 WE HEAR that a bunch of independent public relations companies feel that their collective whole will get them a lot further than the sum of their individual parts, and have recently launched GFC/Net the Global Financial Communications Network. GFC/Net links independent public relations companies in 10 of the
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          The price of change
          104 24 HAS changing coins for customers become such a pain for banks that they have to levy significant service charges? At a bank in Raffles Place, for every $100 worth of coins you change, it charges $1. One of our Journalists was told by a taxi driver—he
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      502 24 BUSINESS Notices STANFORD TYRES CORPORATION LIMITED I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ISSUE OF 18,000,000 WARRANTS ('WARRANTS") TO SLBSCRIBE FOR 18 000,000 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF Sso 25 EACH ("NEW SHARES') IN THE CAPITAL OF STAMFORD TYRES CORPORATION LIMITED (THE 'COMPANY') TO BE OFFERED TO MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY
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      Lock icon DAILY FREIGHT
      308 25 Bridge News Reuter A RUMOUR circulated earlier of a sharply lower rate on the key US Gulf-Japan grain run, brokers said. But this has yet to be confirmed and essentially few reports of business fixed emerged. Biffex started the week in typically Monday style, Clarkson Wolff said in
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      MARITIME STOCKS
      297 25 SCS '000 4mt» ttl CWT Distribution U2 0.03 21 ChuanHgp 0.94 0.015 184 Cpsco tnvostmont 1.53 -0.01 20 FELS 7.1 0.15 2 FrpiqM link! 0.76 0.O15 517 GB Holdings 0.92 0.005 24 HKS<<lHup 1.02 0.01 296 Hitachi Zoaon 0.8 -O.OOS 69 IMC Holdings 5.6 Jay* Holdings 1.05 0.02
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      Sea-Land sets up logistics subsidiary in China
      283 25  -  Unit will provide folly integrated logistics management services to its multinational customers By' Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] Transport giant Sea-Land Service has set up a third-party logistics subsidiary in China to support the operations of its pool of multinational customers in the republic.
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      Lock icon New terminal will double Bombay port's capacity
      196 25 Bernama-Uni [BOMBAY] Bombay's Jawaharlal Nehru port will double its annual capacity for handling containers to over one million 20-ft equivalent units (TEUs) with a new terminal to be built by a consortium led by P&O Australia. Other members of the consortium are Konsortium
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      Lock icon Vosper in race for UAE, M'sian deals: report
      118 25 Reuter [LONDON] Vosper Thorneycroft pic is close to winning a £700 million (Ssl.6 billion) order from the United Arab Emirates and is in the running for a 27-ship deal with Malaysia that could be worth £2 billion, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.
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      Lock icon Taiwan firm plans major grains terminal
      180 25 Bridge News [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Far Eastern Silo and Shipping Corp, one of the nation's leading grains transport and storage firms, is planning a large-scale grains terminal near the central Taiwan city of Taichung, the company said yesterday. While FESSC officials were unavailable to provide
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      Intertanko justifies its existence
      577 25  -  STRAIT TALE By! Seafarer THERE is no doubt that independent tanker owner's group Intertanko runs a slick operation. Its January batch of circulars have just landed on Seafarer's desk. These latest missives are particularly eye-catching with a new highly professional looking design; a reminder of the
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      297 25 Import cargo of minerals and fuels were lower last year Reuter [BRUSSELS] Total traffic volume at the Belgian seaport of Antwerp, one of Europe's biggest, slipped by 1.4 per cent to 106.53 million tonnes last year, mainly due to lower import cargo of minerals and
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      279 25 Senate leader insists unilateral US changes be included Journal of Commerce [WASHINGTON] A key US law maker has hardened his opposition to the global agreement to end shipbuilding subsidies in a twist that is likely to doom the troubled pact once and
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        86 25 [YANGON] The Yangon port authority has imported two 35-tonne gantry cranes from Japan in an effort to upgrade the port's container handling capacity, according to a Xinhua news report. Yangon port, Myanmar's main gateway to the world, handles all of its imports and over 90
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        101 25 Bridge News [KUALA LUMPUR] Cargo operations at the Malaysian Prai Bulk Cargo Terminal will improve by mid-year upon completion of an MslB million (5110.2 million) second access bridge and a Ms 44 million third berth for dangerous cargo, The Sun newspaper reported yeetarday. Transport Minister
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        79 25 Oana-Kyodo [TOKYO] Japan yesterday rejected a report by Itar-Tass, a Russian news agency, that the Russian government has concluded that the tanker Nakhodka broke in two in the Sea of Japan on Jan 2 after colliding with an object. Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiroku Kajiyama
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        726 41 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma line OU Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        164 42 AFP [DUBAI] US companies Boeing and IBM are among more than 200 foreign firms which have asked to set up business in a free-trade zone opening later this year at Dubai international airport, officials said on Monday. The US aircraft manufacturer and computer
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        389 42 Trent 772 will power carrier's new fleet of 16 Airbus planes costing USs2b AFP [DUBAI] Emirates airlines said on Monday it has ordered 37 Rolls-Royce engines from Britain valued at US$5OO million (Ss7oo million) to power its new fleet of 16 Airbus jets.
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        195 42 FT [LONDON] Rolls-Royce could face compensation demands from airlines after admitting that it will have to modify engines that have suffered turbine blade failures, causing some in-flight engine shutdowns. The UK engineering group said the problems had occurred in a version of its
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        123 42 AFP [TOKYO) Japan and South Korea resumed aviation talks here yesterday following two rounds of talks last year, a Japanese transport ministry official said. The three-day working level talks were expected to focus on transport capacity between the two countries, such as the number
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          108 42 AFP [JERUSALEM] An Israeli cargo plane which crashed into an Amsterdam housing block in 1992, killing about 70 people, was carrying missiles and uranium, the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported yesterday. The newspaper said the Boeing 747-200 cargo aircraft belonging to the state
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        226 42 They expect to earn USsl.2b worth of business through deal AFP [SYDNEY] A seven-airline alliance formed as official carrier for the 2000 Olympics expect to reap more than US$l.2 billion (Ssl.7 billion) worth of business through the deal, officials said yesterday. The alliance, headed by
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        194 42 AFP [MANILA] The Philippines has asked a foreign consortium to conduct a study into the construction of a US$7.7 billion (Sslo.B billion) high-speed railway in the southern island of Mindanao, an official said yesterday. The foreign investors signed an agreement on the
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