The Business Times, 18 March 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MrTA(P) 023/12/96 85* S INGAPORE Internet http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes TUESDAY, MARCH 18,1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    SM to seek deletion of offending words on Johor
    223 1 Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday issued the following signed statement on the row over his remarks on crime in Johor. "MALAYSIAN government leaders have expressed their wish that statements in my affidavit which have caused offence to the Malaysian people
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    KLSE chief: Clob's fate can be 'ascertained' by KL
    367 1  -  He says certain policy derisions can be made if there is really a will to do so From, Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur ALTHOUGH Clob International, Singapore's over-the-count-er market, is still surviving, its fate can be "ascertained" if there is "really
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    Lock icon New Karimun complex set to win more projects
    534 1  -  In the offing are an afl terminal by Japan group and a shipyard by a Korean party By\ Conrad Raj THE Karimun Marine Industrial Complex, officially opened yesterday by Indonesia's President Suharto and Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, looks set to
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    BT gets more surfer-friendly
    315 1 Internet edition gfren fresh look and a new Stock Talk feature THE Internet version of The Business Times today gets a bolder and brighter look. And at the Asia One Business Centre, managed by BT, a new feature Stock Talk has been added to the popular
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      117 1 mnnnß Ki iW w Share prices on the I/wHon StOCk Rwihangft v tumbled yesterday, following Prime Minister John Major's announcement that the British general election F 1 mm/to, pg 17. IPC iriMnhaMenvouldbe wondering whether a rights issue is en the cards. %tPg i& Good scape tot share price Increases given
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      26 1 KRtaim® Owing to mechanical problem* with oar preiiei, the printing of yesterday's BT had to be delayed. We apologise to readers who reoeived their paper late.
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      7 1 Lfttwt itelMMßt more positive: Anwar, Pg 6
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon More blame industry downturn, business failure for axing staff
      474 2  -  CPF records show retrenched workers take about L 6 months to land new jobs By< Audrey Tan INDUSTRY downturn and business failure were cited more frequently as reasons for retrenchments last year, according to a study by the Ministry of Labour.
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      Glaxo starts making HIV treatment drugs
      505 2  -  TUs will help «fiset patent expiry for its bestseller Zut&c By\ Ronnie Lim PHARMACEUTICALS giant Glaxo Wellcome has started making the active ingredients for Epivir cm* 3TC which can be used for both hepatitis B and HTV treatment at its $750 million manufacturing complex
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      GK Goh not buyer of Bt Timah bungalow
      152 2 OWOUUM A OltftflOWttOM IN OUR report yesterday, "GK Goh chief said to be buyer of $13m Bt Timah bungalow", we said that Goh Geok Khim, chairman of listed stockbroking firm G K Goh Holdings, is believed to be the buyer of a
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      Illegal workers: contractor fined
      185 2 A PRINCIPAL contractor at a Housing and Development Board project has been fined for allowing 33 illegal workers to enter and remain at its Choa Chu Kang construction alia The Ministry of Labour said yesterday that it had proceeded with 11 charges against Chuang Uming Pte
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      Progress payments up 23%
      319 2  -  E7E OK THE ECONOMY Construction By Diana Oon IT WAS a busy year for the construction sector last year, with a total of $14.9 billion paid out in certified progress payments. This was 23 per cent above the 1995 total. December saw a 12 per cent
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      170 2 Airport arrival and departure transfers Welcome drink Upgrade to a Deluxe Room Welcome fruit basket Complimentary daily international buffet breakfast 20% discount at all F&B outlets and lauhdry dry-cleaning services Souvenir gift 10% Government Tax and 5% Service Charge. 10% Commission to bonafUU agents (Published rate for Deluxe Room is
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      119 2 India is rising as one of the leading emereine markets. Companies with global business plans view India as one of the most attractive countries tor setting up a business presence. During the last the Indian authorities have taken significant steps to accelerate the reform process in Older to attract r^
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      271 3 Centennial T O W I II 1 Bold, Distinctive and Inspiring is how some would the spectacular works of Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, ~BJ JJ Attention to detail ensures a quality finish unique in describe the art of Roy Lichtenstein. Yet these are attributes James Rosenquist Dale Chihuly specially commissioned
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Playing the waiting game with sellers
      713 4  -  TBH PROPERTY OOiXMH A lesson home buyers have learnt well is they can benefit by biding their time In a downtrend By_ Lee Han Shih WHEN an economy contracts for two consecutive quarters, it is said to be in recession. Apply that yardstick to
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      Half of 30 freehold Changi Hts units sold
      308 5 Newly launched terrace houses sold for $L9m-$2.4m [SINGAPORE] Developer Ban Hin Leong's launch of Changi Heights over the weekend again shows the edge that freehold landed projects have over leasehold ones. Fifteen of the 30 terrace units launched on Sunday in Phase
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      Schroders to put US$350m in Asia-Pac property market
      488 5  -  Newly set up fund looking for high returns in excess of 30% annual internal rate of return By< Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] London-based financial institution Schroders pic plans to invest some US$35O million (Ssso2 million) in the region's property markets. Schroders is now
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      Former US Embassy building up for sale
      153 5 THE buUding that used to house the American embassy is now on sale, with property consultants Jones Lang Wootton as the marketing agent. Details of the proposed sale will be released once talks between JLW, the US State Department's Foreign BuUdings Office (FBO)
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      GIC invests US$50m in infrastructure fund
      363 6  -  Fond expects to commit USs4oom within the next two years on 20-30 projects By Shiv Taneja THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) has committed an investment of US$5O mUlion (Ss72 million) in the Asian Infrastructure Development Co (Aidec). Aidec, based in the Cayman
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      Lock icon UK holds increasing allure for Asian investors, says official
      256 6  -  By Louis Beckerling ASIAN investors are finding their way in growing numbers to the United Kingdom, says Andrew Fraser, chief executive officer of the Department of Trade Industry's Invest in Britain Bureau. Mr Fraser told The Business Times yesterday that a
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      S'pore still the most stable: Economist
      414 6  -  By Chuang Peck Ming THE political situation in some Asian countries has grown shaky but Singapore remains one of the most stable hubs for foreign investments in the region, according to the latest political risk ratings by the Economist Intelligence Unit. "If possible, Singapore
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      Lock icon Latest statement from SM Lee more positive: Anwar
      221 6 Bernama MALAYSIAN Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim last night described Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's decision to delete all offending words on Johor from an affidavit as "more positive". "This statement is certainly more positive than his earlier statement," he said
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      Lock icon Hardly anything of value found in Tang's safe deposit boxes
      296 6 The Straits Times EMPTY jewellery boxes, some cotton wool, two five-cent coins and worthless mementoes of the late Chinese leader chairman Mao Zedong. The court-appointed receiver found these in the two safe deposit boxes belonging to Tang Liang Hong and
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      634 6 W VaLl J Iff wjsfl I iilflliiljl Review This year was a successful year for the COL Hotels International Group in paving the way for our vision to become a leading world-class hotel corporation. The Group's profit after taxation attributable to shareholders for the year ended 31 December 1996 was
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Govt goes to rescue of Thai textiles with 2b baht package
      475 7  -  BANGKOK Manufacturers to get poft loans as part of 25b baht bid o jo make industries more competitive By Alan Boyd THAI authorities began implementing the second rescue ftind for the beleaguered textiles trade in 20 years yesterpart of
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      Lock icon Nod for nine to widen financial services
      135 7 BANGKOK AFX-Asia THAILAND'S Economic Screening Committee has approved a finance ministry proposal to issue licences to nine companies allowing them to offer comprehensive financial services, Finance Minister Amnuay Viravan said. He said the nine companies, which offer only deposit services at present, will
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      Lock icon Ranariddh rejects threat to halt polls
      213 7 it PHNOM PENH Reuter CAMBODIAN co-Premier Prince Norodom Ranariddh yesterday countered threats by his political rival to halt flections if the king abdicates, ,7 saying only parliament could < postpone polls under the constitution. "No one has the right to decide about having or
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      Lock icon Move to save Thai turtles
      100 7 [BANGKOK] A Thai fisherwoman carrying a dead sea turtle on Saturday after it was caught in a fishing net. The US imposed a ban on imports of wild marine shrimp from Thailand in May 1996, in an effort to put pressure on the country to
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      Lock icon Vietnam, China argue over gas zone
      275 7 U HANOI Reuter VIETNAM and China both laid claim yesterday to a potentially gas-rich area off the central coast of Vietnam where a Chinese exploration ship began drilling operations earlier this month. "The Chinese are now drilling in our block," said a senior official
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      S Korean firm signs deal to build new Laos airport
      311 7  -  SINGAPORE PropcttocostUSQb; •artier KOU with Indian firm has lapsed, says official By\ Harish Mehta A SOUTH Korean construction firm has signed an agreement with the Laotian government to build a new international airport in Vientiane at a cost of about
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        Lock icon KL airport project delayed
        66 9 Bernama CSEPANG] The KL International Airport project here has hit a snag with three packages behind schedule, Works Minister S Samy Vellu said yesterday. The delayed packages were the main terminal complex, cargo complex fnd satellite building, he said. A report would be submitted to Deputy
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        Lock icon Cambodian treasures coming hack
        78 9 Reuter [PHNOM PENH} Cambodian co-Premier Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Martin Lerner from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York examining two Angkorian busts dating back to the 10th and llth centuries after the museum handed them over to the Cambodian government here yesterday. Cambodia is
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        Lock icon Philippines gets 124.3b yen Japanese aid
        69 9 AFP {TOKYO] Japan will extend an official loan of up to 124.28 billion yen (S$L44 billion) to the Philippines for various Infrastructure projects, the foreign ministry said yesterday. Japan's Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda and Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon signed the accord, it said.
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        Lock icon Vietnam to open tourism offices abroad
        55 9 AFP [HANOI] Vietnam plans to open its first overseas tourism offices to booat sagging growth in the market, a senior official at Vietnam's National Administration of Tourism said yesterday. The agency plans to open representative offices in Singapore, Japan and France to promote tourism
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        Lock icon Quake rocks Jakarta
        49 9 Reuter (JAKARTA) An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter jcale rocked Jakarta yesterday afternoon, sending people scurrying out of high-rise buildings. Officials at the meteorological department said the earthquake was tantred below the sea-bed in the Indian Ocean, some 300 'km aouth-west of Jakarta. —Reuter r
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      Lock icon Dr M launches township for electrical appliances
      505 9 KUANTAN USsl.6b MEC City is part of multi-pronged effort to gp global with M'sia-made goods Reuter PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday launched a US$l.6 billion (552.2 billion) industrial township built to make electrical appliances, part of a multi-pronged effort to go global with
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      Lock icon Malaysia's consumer price index up 3.1% in Feb
      287 9 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S consumer prices rose 3.1 per cent year-on-year in February and were up 0.6 per cent from the previous month, the statistics department said yesterday. This brought the year-on-year rise in the consumer price index (CPI), the country's barometer
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      Lock icon KL unlikely to free telecoms market before 1999
      447 9 KUALA LUMPUR Super Corridor to be charged flat rate for telecoms services, says minister Bloomberg, Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR) Malaysia is "not likely" to introduce full competition in its telecommunications market earlier than expected, said a government minister. "For practical reasons, it's not
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      396 8 iMhn > I. r Wtt&'t. A visiONREALRED. A premium opportunity is now within your grasp. Suntec City, Singapore s largest integrated discerning decision maker, a chance to invest in prime office space and to enjoy a premier business commercial development, is now complete. A year after the sell-out launch of
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      HK sets up panel to boost competitiveness in services
      397 10  -  HONGKONG Services Promotion Strategy Group, to be lunched next month, %Jll see to needs of business community By\ Loh Hui Yin committee headed by Hongkong Financial Secretary Donald Ts&ng will study ways to enJ "shre the colony's all-impor-tattt services sector stay
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      Democrats focus on housing shortage at Tung meeting
      333 10  -  HONGKONG By Loh Hui Yin THE shortage of housing for low and middle income groups topped the agenda of livelihood issues raised by a group of Democratic Party legislators yesterday when they met Hongkong's Chief Executivedesignate Tung Chee-hwa. It was the second
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      Lock icon Shanghai govt flagship set for SEA expansion
      524 10  -  SINGAPORE Shanghai Industrial Investment to use S'pore as base for regional operations By Lu Ning THE Hongkong-based flagship conglomerate of the Shanghai municipal government is revving up for a major expansion into South-east Asia, said a senior company official in Singapore. The conglomerate,
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      Lock icon Xinhua to retain role but won't meddle in HK affairs
      203 10 HONGKONG AFP CHINA'S de facto government representative Xinhua news agency will retain its role in Hongkong after the July handover but win not interfere with the incoming leadership. Xinhua deputy director Zhang Junsheng told a press reception on Sunday: "Xinhua
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      194 10 ROBINSON POINT IT'S THE SMARTER BUSINESS ADDRESS. Robinson Point presents discerning businesses a rare privilege to be at one k of Singapore's smarter business addresses. A This modern landmark features all the qualities every astute businessman desires: Jjjjj-';IB" SMART BUSINESS LOCATION Centrally located within the busy commercial hub Shenton Way,
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      294 10 LEARN CHINESE WHEN YOU LEARN CHINESE... You an banting the language that is fast growing in dominance as a major global language in the political, economic and Wl.social spheres. You gain from the extra confidence and insight when conducting discussions and negotiations with your Chinese customers, comprehensive package is tailored
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  • ASIA
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        Lock icon Aussie firms more upbeat now
        73 11 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Australian companies are more optimistic about the outlook for the economy and company profits now than they were three months ago, according to a national survey. The Australian Institute of Company Directors 15th quarterly survey of2,ooocompanies found that 67 per cent of directors
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        Lock icon FCC decision upsets Japan
        77 11 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan won't negotiate a phone accord with the US unless the Federal Communications Commission grants applications fin- telecommunications licences to KDD and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. Japan is "deeply concerned" about the FCC decision last week to stall the two comapnies' applications, an
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        Lock icon Japan output up 5.6% in Jan
        70 11 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's industrial output in January rosea revised 5.6 per cent from the previous month, compared with a preliminary estimate of a 5.3 per cent rise, the International Trade and Industry Ministry said yesterday. Producer shipments rose a revised 6.4 per cent month-on-month.
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      Lock icon Japan's Feb trade surplus up for first time in 2 yrs
      350 11 mTOKYO Shift triggered by weaker yen may lead to trade friction Reuter JAPAN'S trade surplus rose 4ast month for the first time in two years, as the weaker yen triggered a shift in the trade balance that economists said
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      Lock icon Ex-presidential aides implicated in scandal
      299 11 TBBBUIBOIBUL AFP [SEOUL] Former top presiden- tial advisers helped the Hanbo Group obtain billions in improper loans, a court here was told yesterday as President Kim Young Sam's son said he was prepared to face punish- ment if he was found to be implicated. The
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      Lock icon Indian ex-minister to be charged over scandal
      125 11 NEW DELHI AFP INDIA'S federal investigating agency will soon prosecute a former minister whose diaries revealed US$B.5 million (5511.9 million) in undeclared wealth, officials said yesterday. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said that "in the very near ftiture" it will press formal
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      Lock icon PNG PM sacks military chief who told him to quit
      545 11 U AUCKLAND General rebels mr premier's decision to nse mercenaries in Bougainville conflict AFP PAPUA New Guinea Prime Minister Julius Chan yesterday sacked the country's military chief, Brig-General Jerry Singirok, after he demanded the premier, his deputy and the defence
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      Lock icon N Korean defector to leave China this week, says radio
      177 11 SEOUL Reuter NORTH Korea's top is still sheltering in SoutfcAorea's mission in cause China and South KMfea have yet to iron out minosdetails for his departure, state radio reported yesterday. Korea Broadcasting System, quoting an unnamed senior government said in
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      191 11 Do You Know Which Button To Push In Kuala Lumpur? m PASSAGES E ver stayed in a hotel and been renovated Pan Pacific Kuala Lumpur, relaxing in our resort u»<N««» n .> un u«N..< K >mani frustrated by the time it takes to in Pangkor, doing business in Johor Bahru
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  • THE WORLD
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      FTSE plunges 46 pts on lews of May 1 election
      458 12  -  LONDON D>& expected but market net vwus became of long wWtiw campaign By Louis Beckerling SHAHE prices tumbled on the Lonftrn stock exchange after Brit4qh Prime Minister John Mate* called for a general elecMay 1. The Financial Times Stock Exchange
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      Lock icon Bonn pledges to cut public deficit
      303 12 BRUSSELS AFP GERMANY yesterday promised to cut its public deficit this year to the single-curren-cy qualifying limit despite high unemployment but admitted that it would miss the debt target, pleading the special costs of unification. Against a background of rumours strongly denied by EU
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      Lock icon Clinton faces adjustments after knee injury
      169 12 WASHINGTON Reuter US President Bill Clinton's knee-wrenching stumble at the Florida home of golf pro Greg Norman is having a farranging impact. Mr Clintpn asked VicePresident A 1 Gore to fill in for him yesterday at traditional St Patrick's Day events, including a ceremonial
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      Lock icon China listed 30 US lawmakers for lobby efforts: Newsweek
      267 12 WASHINGTON AFP US INTELLIGENCE officials discovered a list of 30 US lawmakers drawn up by Beijing, hoping to get special attention by. among other things, funnelling cash to their campaigns, Newsweek reported. The magazine said in its edition on sale yesterday
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      Lock icon Russia slowly coming out of recession: World Bank
      416 12 MOSCOW But major reforms still required to ensure recovery Reuter Bloomberg RUSSIA is slowly emerging from deep recession and can now look forward to economic growth, but significant reforms are still needed before recovery can be assured, the World Bank said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Yeltsin picks a young liberal as deputy PM
      162 12 MOSCOW Reuter RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin yesterday offered a top cabinet job to an influential and liberal regional leader, Boris Nemtsov, sending another signal of his commitment to boosting Russia's stalled economic reforms. Mr Yeltsin offered Mr Nemtsov, the 37-year-old dynamic governor
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon US court lets Florida sue tobacco firms
        73 12 Reuter [WASHINGTON] The US Supreme Court yesterday rejected a constitutional challenge to a I®4 Florida law that allows the state to me tobacco companies fbr the cost of smoklng-related illnesses. The high court refected an appeal by Associated Industries of Florida Inc. one
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        Lock icon Minting euro coins to cost Europe 2b Ecus
        61 12 Reuter [BRUSSELS] Minting the eight euro coins (hie to national coinage after MOfi will coet the European Union's 15 member states the equivalent of two billion Ecus (Ss&2B billion), the director of Belgium's mint said yesterday. "B*t an approximation. The final cost
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        Lock icon Few clues to bombing of Paris mosque
        76 12 Reuter [PARIS] A crude bomb exploded at a Paria moeque run by a liberal Muslim cleric yesterday, slightly injuring the caretaker and leaving police puxzUng whether to suspect French racists or Islamic extremists. No one claimed responsibility for the blast, which blew in
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        Lock icon Turkey on road to EU memberships Ciller
        118 12 AFP [ANKARA] Turkish Foreign Minister Tansu Ciller yesterday said Turkey was on the path towards ftill membership in the European Union after the EU foreign ministers had emphasised Ankara's European role. 'Turkey has for the first time entered the road towards ftill membership
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        Lock icon WTO seeks regional pacts on competition
        71 12 Reuter [NEW DELHI] A senior Workl Trade Organisation (WTO) official said yesterday that trading nations mint strive for bilateral and regional cooperation on competition policy until a multilateral agreement was reached. "As we proceed towards the goal (multilateral cooperatkmX much can be achieved by
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      335 12 Have you ever wondered why there is such a high turnover in your Accounts Department? Make a qualified person do drudgery. Make him do duplication all day long. Make him camp in at month I ends. Nights out at year end. Also expect him to perform miracles. And what do
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Talking down Dow is right thing to do
      800 13  -  THH BOTTOM LOT OPINION By i Lee Boon Keng The writer is a lecturer at the Nanyang Business School, NTU IN RECENT weeks, Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, has been asked to keep his comments about the stock
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      131 13 'If the government prevails in this case, it will destroy the Internet as we know it' Jerry Bcnui director of Centre for Democracy and Technology, at a hearing on a challenge to a new US law making U a crime to distribute indecent sexual material over the
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      S Africa gets ready for business
      679 13 EDITORIAL THERE were quite a few deals done by South African President Nelson Mandela's business entourage during their four-nation investment drive to South-east Asia That's the encouraging news. The not-so-encouraging news is that trade between Southeast Asia and Africa remains at an incipient stage
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      Lock icon Howard's weakening will to reform economy
      1057 13  -  Some say Australian PM panders to the masses at expense of economic chan# By] Peter Lynch The writer is a Sydney-based journalist who contributes to BT AFTER just one year in office, has Australian Prime Minister John Howard gone soft on economic reform? It
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      823 13 OS fcar akm (Mm MM* AS FOR China's entering the World Trade Organisation, that will be tricky because it will come down to a judgment by the United States about whether we think China is prepared to live up to international trade norms. Optimists believe China's
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Entrepreneur first, producer second
      893 14  -  That is the approach taken by Singapore-based Chinarunn Pictures and it's paying off, as oobdhib kerk discovers CORINNE KERK ITs not easy to spot the little office in which Chinarunn Pictures occupies in a quiet part of Chinatown's Club Street. Upon entering, the nature of the
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      Lock icon Portuguese fine art comes of age
      738 14 ART Private collectors are paying record prices for native art Reuter [LISBON] Portugal's art market is going from strength to strength with private collectors seeking a good investment bidding against dealers for the best quality paintings and antiques that come up for sale. Last
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      387 14 FILM AFP [NEW YORK] Miramax Pictures' worldwide search for art films with box-office potential earned the studio 20 Oscar nominations this year, in a race dominated by so-called "independent" studios. The company created in 1982 by Harvey and Bob Weinstein has an ace up its
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon CDL Hotels posts 40% hike in profit
      451 17  -  Exceptional gain of HKsls3mfrom snbsidiary divestment From* Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong CDL Hotels International Ltd, the hotel arm of the Hong Leong Group, yesterday reported a 40 per cent jump in net profit to HKS615.7 million (SI114 million) for the year ended
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      Cathay Pacific well on course, but what's on the horizon?
      696 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Quak Hiang Whai ON A flight to New York recently, the finance director of the Swire Group, Simon Heale, was asked by reporters what are the three most pressing concerns of the group's Cathay Pacific airline in
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      IPC pins high hopes on telecoms business
      628 17  -  Group sees 60% of 1997 profits coming from this segment Reports by Teh Hooi Ling in Hanover IPC Corporation looks set to transform itself from a purely computer-focused company to one with a significant telecommunications segment. It will this year see 60 per
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      Hagenuk plans listing within 12 months
      467 17 GERMANY'S Hagenuk Telecom GmbH, in which IPC Corp has a 37.5 per cent stake, plans to list in the US or on one of the European bourses within the next 12 months to fund its expansion plans. IPC group chairman and chief executive officer
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        Lock icon STAe back in the black with $27m earnings
        350 18  -  Oommerdal bmiiioss op 24% while military aacMradoM«kf2% Clarissa Tan tXIA nflHoß teat ynr, an impressive turnaround from a large $48.3 million loss the before. m Turnover for the year endJki Dec 31 rose 9 per cent to million, boosted by a 24
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        STE&E group earnings surge 445%
        185 18 [SINGAPORE] Singapore reported a 415 per cent jump in group net profits to $7.3 million for calendar year 1996. Turnover increased 19.5 per cent to $152.1 million for the year. Earnings per share was higher at 12.1 cents in 1996, up from 8.4 cents in
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        Eng Kong IPO subscribed 153 times
        243 18  -  Byt Clarissa Tan [SINGAPORE] IPO fever continues to burn, with Eng Kong Holdings' offering closing yesterday subscribed a scorching 153 times —the second highest subscription rate so far this year. The container services company Issued 15 million new offer shares at 56 cents per
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        Gul Tech sees 36% premium on trading debut
        304 18  -  By, Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Gul Technologies shares hit a high of 90 cents on its debut yesterday before closing above analysts' expectations at 79 cents for a 36 per cent premium over the offer price. Punters who sold Gul Tech shares in
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        Sime S'pore sells stake in Axa Sime for $57m
        175 18 [SINGAPORE] Sime Singapore Ltd has parted company with French insurer Axa, selling its half of their general and health insurance business to the latter for $57 million. The ma inboard-listed company said yesterday that it sold its 25.8 million shares in
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        Second Chance posts $1.7m half-year profit
        157 18 [SINGAPORE] Clothing and Jewellery retailer Second Chance Enterprises, which was listed on Sesdaq in January, yesterday reported net profits of $1.7 million for the six months to Dec 81,1996. Turnover for the group was $18.5 million. Six-month comparative figures were not given. The group
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        Lock icon Excel to raise more than $20m from today's IPO
        522 18  -  Shares to be priced at SMO cents; foods for regional expansion By< Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Machine tools maker Excel Machine Tools is likely to raise 122 million to $90 million through its initial public offering of 40 to SO million shares
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          Apollo Enterprises profit down 19%
          63 18 [SINGAPORE] Hotel end property group Apollo Enterprises has reported a 19.4 per cent fell in nst profit to $4.23 million an a 3.9 per cent dip In turnover to $68.9 million. Earnings per share were 2.7 cent* beeed on existing Issued share capital and 2.6
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          Lock icon Landmarks confirms talks on S'pore
          79 18 Eddie Toh [KUALA LUMPUR] Landmarks Bhd has confirmed it is holding talks with Malaysia's Economic Planning Unit to acquire the Malaysian High Commissioner's disused residence at Qaltop Road in Singapore. report which aim mid tha Malayan guwonymmtTiitght give half the freehold land 0f150,000 sq ft
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          Ho Kah Leong joins Kok Brothers board
          25 18 (SINGAPORE) Former MP Ho KahL#ongha«Joto«d Kbt> Brothers as a director, the construction, propsrty and leisure group said yesterday.
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          SmbCorp,MBT may bid for licence
          58 18 Sembawang Corporation wd StojW^ two companies said they^adfSr^^s^Swllam and were evaluating the terms and conditions as weQ as the overall feasibility of bidding for the licence, "like wnsortium is also in discussion with potential foreign telephone companies who may be Invited to join the consortium
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          Tuan Sing unit to issue $78m
          56 18 [SINGAPORE] Tuan Sing Holdings' wholly-owned subsidiary Golden Cape Inveetments yesterday sintered Into subscription agreements with Schrodsr International Merchant Bankers for ths issue ofsBB million secured floating rate notee due aooo and HO million tn principal amount of guaranteed floating rate notee due 3000. Tuan
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          Ow Chin Hook quits Pan-United Corp
          18 18 [SINGAPORE] Ow Chin Hoek has resignedfli chairman and director of Pan-United Corporation.
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        33 20 [VANCOUVER] Pavel Bure (left), who playsfor the Vancouver Canuck team, giving Hollywood actor Will Smith anautographed hockey stick at the official opening of the Planet Hollywood restaurant here on Sunday. REUTER
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        Lock icon HK Land seen as bright spark for Jar dine this year
        493 20 Company poised for better days after sale of Trafalgar House Reuter [HONGKONG] Hongkong Land Holdings is likely to be one of the few relatively bright spots on the Jardine group's 1996 profit horizon, analysts said. While other companies in
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        Lock icon Net income of Jardine's Manila unit drops 70%
        176 20 Bloomberg [MANILA] Jardine Davies Inc's net income fell 70 per cent in 1996 under the costs of closing and restructuring its consumer unit and transport services group. Jardine Davies, a unit of Hongkong's Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd, said net income dropped 70
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        Lock icon Swire shares still weak after results
        144 20 [HONGKONG] Shares of conglomerate Swire Pacific Ltd continued to fall yesterday after the group posted disappointing 1996 earnings on Friday, analysts said. Despite a positive tone in the overall market, the stock was down 75 Hongkong cents to HK560.75 after touching a low of
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        Lock icon EON expected to post profit of M$387m-$436m
        423 20 Parts, services arm may spring pleasant snrprisesanatysts AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Edaran Otomobil Nasional Bhd (EON) is expected to report shortly a 1996 net profit before extraordinaries of Ms3B7-436.6 million (*****-253 million), up from M 5333.152 million in 1995, analysts said. EPS will likely
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        Lock icon Two Indonesian retailers may merge
        101 20 Bloomberg [JAKARTA) PT Matahari Putra Prima, Indonesia's largest re-1 tailer, may merge with the Lippo group's PT Multipolar Corp! following Multipolar's purchase of a controlling stake in Mata-| hari, the Bisnis Indonesia newspaper said. Merging the two operations, rather than letting them run as separate
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        Lock icon Shell to consult pressure groups in some projects
        431 21 Company departs from practice in seeking advice of liftman rights, environmental groups FT [LONDON] In a radical departure from past practice, Royal Dtttch/Shell is to invite environmental and human rights groups to take part in some of its more sensitive projects in
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        Lock icon Japan's 2nd largest cellular operator considers tie-up
        410 21 AFP [TOKYO! DDI Corp said yesterday its Cellular Telephone Co group, Japan's second-larg-est mobile phone operator, is considering a possible tie-up with fifth-ranked Nippon Idou Tsushin Corp (IDO). y An official of DDI, a long-distance phone operator affiliated with Kyocera Corp, however, refused
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          Lock icon Barito Pacific unit borrows US$991m
          79 21 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PTTaanjungenim Lestari Pulp and Paper, a subsidiary of publicly traded PT Barito Pacific Timber, has borrowed US$99l million (Ssl.4 billion) from a flfhawkt tn help flrtanro a pulp mill, Hut .Tnkrtrfn Post said. The loans carry interest of &5-9 per cent and mature
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          Lock icon Cable & Wireless shares rise on report
          84 21 Cable Wireless shares rise on report Reuter [LONDON] Shares in Cable Wireless pic rose as the brood market dropped yesterday after a weekend report said Deutsche Telekom AG was negotiating to buy a stake in the British communications firm. At 0896GMT, CAW shares were up lOp to 516 p. Deutsche
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          Lock icon Ford closes 2 US plants for 1 week
          100 21 AFP [PARIS] Ford Motor Co is to suspend production for a week k»at two of its factories in the United States, blaming tfie weakness of the yen, the European edition of the Watt "Street Journal reported yesterday. Ford said that dealers i<fcad
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        Lock icon Protest after Renault closes factory
        46 21 [BRUSSELS] French Communist Party leader, Robert Hue (centre), taking part in demonstrations on Sunday in Brussels. Tens of thousands ofdemonstrators were callingfor EUaction to defend jobs amid widespread anger at French carmaker Renault's decision to close a factory in Belgium. REUTER
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        Lock icon Japan firms put 2 chip plants on hold
        209 21 AFP [TOKYO! Japan's Toshiba Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are to delay the planned start-up of new domestic microchip plants, the two companies' officials said yesterday. A Toshiba official said the nation's second biggest electric machinery maker had decided to delay the start
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        Lock icon The year of the raging Taiwan bull
        416 21 Surge fuels fear that the stock market may be overheating and govt may step in FT [LONDON] Chinese tradition holds that this is the year of the bull, and Taiwan's stock market seems to have taken that very much to heart. Share prices
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        Lock icon Try the Nike index on for size when buying emerging markets
        264 21 Reuter [LONDON] Investors seeking a sure bet in the uncertain world of emerging market investment should use their feet and follow the Nike Indicator. Emerging markets house Robert Fleming's global emerging markets research team said in a report released
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        Lock icon S Korean firms in for harder times after 60% earnings fall
        431 21 Bloomberg [SEOUL] South Korean com- panies, reeling from the biggest slump in corporate earnings since 1960, will earn even less this year due to a slowing.'' economy and the won's do* cline against the dollar. X Net profit at
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        Thai stocks tipped to give best returns in medium term
        509 22  -  But Indosnez WI Gut strategist says he's cautious on the financial sector By\ Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] Indosuez WI Carr Securities is overweight in Thai stocks for the first time in three years despite the recent woes of the country's finance
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        Asian bonds better bet if Wall St falls
        344 22 [SINGAPORE] Don't expect Asian equities to benefit significantly from a serious correction in US equities the biggest beneficiary will be the Asian bond market, David Scott, regional strategist with lndosuez WI Carr Securities, said yesterday. "I have to say that Wall Street
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        Lock icon Exotic debt markets surge on speculation
        362 22 Risk-takers betting on defaulted loans for higher yields NYT [LONDON] A surge in speculative demand for defaulted North Korean and Cuban loans has boosted the price of .'ggotic' debt by almost 50 per cent since the start of the year, according to bond traders
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        Lock icon New M'sian find may boost rubber exports
        178 22 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia has found a new material to shorten the process of making tyres that will create more demand for its natural rubber, the national Bernama news agency reported. The new technology, using a material called carbon master batches, will help
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        Lock icon Euroyen unmoved by JGB gains
        209 22 mm rail Report Reuter [SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures were stuck in tight, familiar ranges yesterday as Japanese government bond (JGB) futures continued to chart new highs. Dealers said trade in the JGBs was largely technically driven due to a lack of fresh fundamental factors ahead
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        Cash market propels futures index higher
        190 22  -  MSCX TAIWAN FUTURES By Perry Gilbert vice-president, Refco Singapore PteLtd (SINGAPORE] The Simex MSCI Taiwan index futures were propeUed higher yesterday as the underlying MSCI index moved sharply higher. The Taiwan cash market is now 21.5 per cent higher for the year after yesterday's
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        Lock icon Yamani sees prolonged weak oil price
        239 22 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [DOHA] Former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani yesterday warned of persistent weak oil prices up to the end of the decade because of higher crude flows from both Opec and non-Opec producers. "Looking beyond 1997 towards the turn of
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        280 22 Reuter, AFP THE US dollar stabilised against European currencies and was up a tad against the yen. Analysts said the market was waiting for US and German statistics to be released this week before deciding which way to jump in connection with the main currencies. Ahead of figures
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      1483 23 Reuter Q Nikkei 22S ♦UMI STOCKS ended higher yesterday after clawing back late in the session to recoup early morning gains. Brokers said market direction was vague and the rises were brought on by bar-gain-hunting and buy-backs of shares which had been sold off lately. The Nikkei 225 closed
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      1487 24 AFX-Asia HgangSeng ****** SHARE prices closed higher with the rebound centred on property stocks, after last week's sharp losses gains on Wall Street on Friday, dealers said. The 33-stock Hang Seng Index closed up 102.00 points at *****8.53, Off a high of 12,870.33 aag a low of 12,759.35. Turnofar
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      617 24 Reuter FlShanhenß Index 4M SHENZHEN'S A and B share indices closed higher in active trade yesterday with investors focusing on issues expected to report solid 1996 results. Concerns over a possible crackdown on speculation by authorities in Beijing also eased. The B Index gained 4.91 points to 169.99 on
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      370 24 AFP HWPMi +136J1 SHARE prices rose 1.6 per cent to a new seven-year high yesterday as investors increased shareholdings. "Investors remained bullish about the market's prospects, shrugging off the central bank's efforts to absorb capital from the banking system," said a trader. The TSE Weighted Price Index jumped 135.11
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      Lock icon WELLINGTON
      248 24 Reuter PWdMngtwi *na3 SHARES closed firmer yesterday, buoyed by a rebound in Telecom. The NZSE-40 Capital Index gained 12.23 points to close at 2,238.84, with Telecom up 14 cents to NZ56.43. —rn us mm AN2 Banking 890 0.25 ***** Advantages Htdgs U2 0.02 ***** Air New Zealand (A) 2.72
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      817 24 AFP □set Mm -7J> SHARE prices fell in thin trade yesterday as banks and finance stocks were sold amid concern over liquidity in the financial sector and US interest rates. Analysts said investors were concerned about bad debt problems in the financial sector and their impact on earnings this
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      398 24 AFP yiOnnpoßtaliig *17.07 SHARE prices soared 2.7 per cent yesterday on expectations that the government would come up with economyboosting measures this week. The Composite Index closed 17.07 points higher at 658.90. Turnover was 28.4 million shares worth 448.9 billion won. Risers beat falls 702 to 132 with 81
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      588 24 AFP INVESTORS got the jitters yesterday about troubles in Papua New Guinea and this trimmed the market's rise. Brokers noted that a "whole swag" of companies had closed lower alter Papua New Guinea's defence force commander demanded the sacking of the government The All Ordinaries Index closed 4.2 points
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      708 24 AFP POmmtohte 410 SHARE prices closed higher yesterday on a rebound in selected stocks despite thin trade that was affected by an earthquake felt in Jakarta. "It began as a very quiet day and ended up even quieter, although a few trades continued to go through after the earthquake,"
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      313 24 AFP P Manila -2J3 STOCKS closed lower yesterday as Investors took profit ahead of Holy Week holidays. An analyst said investors were taking profits ahead of the Holy Week holiday from March 24. "The market usually falls during the Holy Week break," he said. The Composite Index fell 2.93
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        Lock icon Second board bucks trend to end higher
        289 25 AFX-Asia CI Composite Index 4144 SHARE prices closed lower on profit-taking yesterday as investors eased their positions on the main board while others were sidelined ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting in the next week. Dealers said there was a general lack of
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        HPL warrants holding up well
        216 26  -  WARRANT WATCH By' Ven Sreenivasan AS WE have often said in this column, warrants can be the worst hit counters when the market turns soft. This was precisely what happened yesterday when a slew of warrants headed the top percentage losers list in a lacklustre
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        66 28  -  ifi Shiv Taneja FACB BHD, which closed five cents lower yesterday at 79.5 cents on a volume of 3.4 million shares, was unable to build support at or above the 60cent mark. It will fall further in the days ahead, going by the daily and weekly RSI charts
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        190 28 W Tech 20c 15.656,000 *MMHMgs50c 6.356,000 *M8FLandBM 4,855,000 MKGrp 3,694.000 Wt 3,431,000 4JK850C 3.431.000 *MrisHyd50c 3,398,000 HoppolCorp 3.381,000 NoMProp 3,146,000 M Lond US$0.K) 3,032,000 feppoi Corp 32,545.474 ftTForeign 18.049.902 *>• Foreign 15.010,627 dry 0« 50c 14.416,478 UK Foreign 13,001.365 tarrock 20c 12,624,315 QUI Foreign 9,515,600 OCIC Foreign 8,494.653 SPH Foreign
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        Dow's recovery fails to sway Singapore market
        596 28  -  STOCK MARKET COMMHMTAKT Better-than-expected corporate earnings also ignored; some brokers reckon lethargy could be dne to fears of possible KL action over OTC trading By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Local stocks slipped in lacklustre trading yesterday despite better-than-expected corporate results and Friday's recovery on
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          Citibank back in the fray
          104 28 HAVING sat out the local market for the past two years. Citibank, which is a major player in the international mutual fand industry, is finally getting back into the local unit trust market It plans to announce the launch of its Citi Japan Fund today.
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          Capel and Montagu to be history
          203 28 WE KNEW this was going to happen when colourless commercial bankers invaded the investment banking and securities business. First, they got rid of the name, Wardley, and called it something bland like HSBC Investment Bank. Now we read in the Financial Times that two
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          The bottom line
          95 28 ABOUT 900 taxis are now cruising around town with a rather ey&catching advertisement promoting Epson printers. The punchline, "Epson Stylus Colour Your Bottom Line In Print", may sound disarmingly innocent, but take a look at the image which runs with it It shows a soft-focus view of
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          The older,the more desirable
          94 28 WARREN BUFFETT, the US investor known as the Sage of Omaha, Is still cracking jokes. He notes in his annual letter to shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway the advanced years of some of Berkshire's business managers. Mr AlUeltschi, the head of newly-acquired Flight Safety, is 79.
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      324 29 Bridge News, Reuter BROKERS reported quieter conditions in the fWlght market with early capers and panamaxes in the Atlantic not enjoying the stronger demand apparent for April. Meanwhile east of Suez there was a high volume of chartering enquiry for these vessels for both March and April. As
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      278 29 ,scs too mn st *i OKI Distribution 1-30 -0.02 M eHup L03 unch 42 tawtiwant —1.45 *0.03 2 flraWttUnks 0.80 unch 82 GflnoMnqs 0.915 -0.005 a Ml Sun Hup 103 -0.01 81 MMcNZmot 0.80 unch 35 MCHaMbiqt UK 5.60 SlMnpf 1.06 -0.01 10 SMpyard 6.45 *0.05 7 Corp
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      Indian port plans US$1.4b expansion over 25 years
      439 29  -  Projects will be developed through private investment in phases From Vivek Raguvanshi in New Delhi MORMUGAO port in the Indian state of Goa has drawn up a massive 25-year expansion plan that will cost US$1.43 billion (S$2 billion). The projects which have
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      Castrol S'pore seeks to expand marine business
      274 29  -  It is eyeing Vietnam •ltd markets By] Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Castrol Singapore is looking at the Vietnam and Bangladesh markets for further growth In its marine business. Castrol originally moved into Vietnam in the early 80s and in a joint venture with locally
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      Lock icon Taiwan team visits Okinawa with aim to turn it into next HK
      288 29 DPA [TAIPEI] A Kuomintang party delegation is visiting Okinawa this week to discuss investment aimed among other things at turning Okinawa into a free port and the island of Ishigaki into a transhipment point to replace Hongkong. Taiwan's
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      Lock icon Taiwan, China to use intermediary for HK shipping talks
      195 29 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan and China will have to use an intermediary to discuss shipping links through Hongkong after the July 1 handover because Beijing still refuses direct talks, a senior Taiwanese official said yesterday. The Hongkong Shipowners Association will negotiate for
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      Lock icon Thai oil firm to go into bunker business
      239 29 Reuter [BANGKOK] Thailand's private oil trading firm. International Oil Tanking Pte Ltd (IOT) plans to enter the bunker Kiel business there after it opens a product storage terminal early next month. A company source said: "We are going to start bunker trading
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      Lock icon DSR Senator to decide on conference group soon
      248 29 Journal of Commerce [LONDON] DSR Senator Lines, the German carrier now controlled by Hanjin Shipping Co of South Korea, will decide soon whether to remain a member of the conference that covers the Europe/Asia trades. The alternative is for Hanjin to join
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      Lock icon Shipowners switching registers of old vessels to avoid cosily surveys: DNV
      177 29 Reuter [OSLO] Many shipowners are transferring old vessels to less rigorous registers in order to avoid costly upgrading work, says classification society Det Norske Veritas (DNV). The Oslo-based society said recently it had deleted 233 ships from its register
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      Lock icon Search for cause still fruitless
      1152 30  -  BZPLOSIOM OF TWA FLIGHTBOO: INQUIRY PLODS ON After 8 months, the investigation has turned into a scientific exploration of all conceivable theories, such as the plane being destroyed by debris from space, and explosives experts say the blast probably destroyed conclusive evidence By. MATTHEW PURDY
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      267 30 PACE Eastmal' 5 ACL n "Sinn ti AMI 3 ECl 6 AMc 12 EES 6 Accord 12 Ethiopian 6 Ahrenkid 4 Eurolwns 6 AppmsMp 5 Emgrwfi 6 Astro 3 7 Austral 11 Fl-Bright 11 Avant 6 foonq Sun 12 ISA 7 FrtWortd 7
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      15785 36 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT CTA CTA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone CTA ETA Advertiser Vnm Voyage Telephone SM Oe*T« Name Nan* Numftir Number W OwTi M— Heme Number Number aHMHMMHHMaHMHHHMMBMMMMaHBHHHMMMHMHHMBBHMI MHMHHMMMHHHMMMMMMaMMMMMMMHMMHnMMHMMMMMR a To BRISBANE (BNE) 2058 Queensland, Australia Tb ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 n/gj 0*/04 Austral capc arnhem v«s/n *5-*****22 Ivory
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        CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
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        GLOBAL HOLIDAY
        235 43 Mar 20 Japan: Vernal Equinox Day. Mar 27 Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Philippines: Maundy Thursday. Mar 28 Australia: Good Friday. Canada: Good Friday. Denmark: Good Friday. Hong Kong: Good Friday. Indonesia: Good Friday. Netherlands: Good Friday. New Zealand: Good Friday. Norway: Good Friday. Philippines Good Friday. Singapore: Good Friday.
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        790 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        455 43 Caitai to Ounity Wtf HiHw Art Umt+m iifciit H/M tma Wwi %*n %n/u ww mm* ISO/C«mc UMits S#oc 991 LO 15.0 0.10 SO* o!»* S»t 635 991 U> M.O 0.15 >0* tJT Northern Eire* M0 Ave 900 9 02 n.9 0.04 21 0.01 no Mm 990.5
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        Lock icon India will need 250 new airliners worth US$16b
        320 44 Baring forecast for India accounts for lion's share projected far S-W Asia region ianext 20 years Business Line [BOMBAY] Commercial airplane major, Boeing, has forecast an addition of 250 new jet aircraft worth US$l6 billion (5522.9 billion) by airlines in India over
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        Delta Air Cargo drops fuel surcharge for int'l shipments
        195 44 [ATLANTA] Delta Air Cargo, the cargo unit of Delta Air Lines, has announced the immediate discontinuation of its ftiel surcharge for international cargo shipments to and from the US, Europe and Asia. On Nov 15, 1996, Delta Air Cargo imposed a
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        Lock icon US govt allows car makers to make less powerful airbags
        304 44 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Responding to reports that air bags had killed car occupants, most of them children, in 62 crashes during the last decade, the US federal government has told car manufacturers that they would now be permitted to make bags
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        Lock icon Garuda's busiest season
        57 44 [JAKARTA] A worker preparing food for passengers of Garuda airlines, Indonesia's national carrier, yesterday. Airline officials said some3l,ooomeals are prepared each day at this time of year, which is the busiest season because of the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation,
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        Lock icon Two US carriers eyeing stake in Argentine airline
        276 44 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Continental Airlines Inc and AMR Corp's American Airlines are both in talks to acquire a stake in Argentine national airline Aerolineas Argentinas SA, Argentine officials said. The US carriers have been in negotiations with Spanish airline Iberia, the airline's
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        Lock icon Toyota considers building car plant in France
        327 44 Bid to increase European sales by 50 per cent by 2000 FT [LONDON] Toyota, Japan's largest car manufacturer, is considering plans to build a US$l.6 billion (552.3 billion) car plant in Lens, northern France, in a bid to increase European sales by 50
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        Lock icon Taiwan and Czech firms team up to make small aircraft
        297 44 Aerospace Industrial Dev Corp and Aero Vodochody to take equal stakes In mature AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corp (AIDC) and Czech airplane maker Aero Vodochody are to form a US$6O million (5585.8 million) joint venture to produce small
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        Lock icon FAA weighs more safely restrictions for cargo
        162 44 Reuter [MIAMI] The US Federal Aviation Administration is considering more safety restrictions for cargo shipments. FAA's Acting Administrator said last week that the administration are looking at both hazardous materials shipments and general cargo. "We want to make sure nothing dangerous is on
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          Lock icon Railway to link Kuantan and Kerteh
          74 44 Bernama [KUANTAN] The government will set up a railway line specially to link Kuantan and Kerteh, Trengganu, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. The railway WBB for the transport of raw materials needed by the industries as well as passengers. Petronas and RTM Bhd
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          Lock icon Cathay increases Bali-HK flights
          73 44 AFP [JAKARTA] Cathay Pacific will add another flight to its current four flights a week linking Denpasar cm the Indonesian resort island of Bali to Hongkong, a report said over the weekend. The new additional flight, to start on March 30, will leave Denpasar on Tuesday
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          Lock icon Nigeria's domestic air fares double
          47 44 AFP [LAGOS] Domestic air fares in Nigeria has doubted, aviation sources said here, after talks between government officials and airline companies. The airlines last month asked for a 200 per cent rise in tare, but that was refected by the government. —AFP
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          Lock icon Individuals buy 80% of autos in China
          88 44 AFP [SHANGHAI] Individual purchases accounted for more than 80 per cent of vehicles sold in China last year. The Business News daily late last week quoted Zhang Xiaoyu, the director of the Ministry of Machinery's automotive department, as saying individuals bought some 11
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          Lock icon Continental,Virgin sign draft deal
          94 44 AFP [NEW YORK] Continental Airlines of the US and Britain's Virgin Atlantic Airways said late last week they had tentatively agreed on a codeshare arrangement on their Newark/New York-London routes and eight other routes between Britain and the US. The accord would replace Virgin's alliance with
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      324 29 India will need 250 new airliners worth USsl6b Boeing forecast of demand in next 20 years. BaokPmge People Sea-Land has appointed DmM Apptoon Sr* managing director of its operations in the HiM|f Former Soviet Union (FSU), United Kingdom 5-SSHS® and Ireland. ■r- wl Bobby Murphy is named director of s
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