The Business Times, 5 June 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/12/96 85e SINGAPORE Internet- http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes THURSDAY, JUNE 5,1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon Sing Tao in alleged fraud against advertisers
    624 1  -  Meanwhile, shares suspended; renewed speculation that Sally Aw will sell stake From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong IN A RARE case of its kind, six persons were arrested yesterday for allegedly inflating the circulation of The Hong Kong Standard newspaper and its Sunday
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    No sliding scale for HDB resale levy: Hng Kiang
    525 1  -  Minister leaves open question of whether honsing policies will be changed farther By. Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] National Development Minister Lim Hng Kiang yesterday rejected calls to impose the increased HDB resale levy on a sliding scale, and left open the question
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    Apple to shut circuit board plant in S'pore
    424 1  -  250 jobs aaed; new jUtnatiH falfilwumt centre to be set np By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Apple Computer will shut down its printed circuit board (PCB) plant in Ang Mo Kio and lay off 250 employees before August to tighten its Singapore operations
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      100 1 B mFW BBsSi Akmd Mitttr Ins flUMtri CAM International Holdings h*« aarkoH its chief financial officer Ng Chee Tkxig and appointed 8m um environment qiftilaftw AKrruMi in a board revamp, P|U Tnmnw TV ,1„ 1 n M sHpuwße mzne Miniscn Kyutaro Hashimoto is out Nomura Securities, "%n The rescue of
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      More rigorous speech-waking
      835 2  -  PABUAKEMTAKT DEBATE HDB policy, KL-S'pore spat, JBTs proposal among topics By Ven Sreenivasan THE third day of debate on the President's address saw no let-up in speech-making, with MPs delving into an even wider array of topics. The session began with keen expectation with National Development Minister
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      SingTel Paging extends Indon service
      136 2 SINGTEL Paging extends the reach of its paging service to six areas in Indonesia from today. These are Bali, Bandung, Jakarta, Medan, Semarang and Surabaya. Subscribers will be able to receive both numeric and message paging calls from Singapore while in these areas. Previously, the
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      Lock icon Job ad volume up 37% in May
      304 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Jobs By] Lee Kee Yeng THE volume of recruitment advertisements in the local newspapers grew a record 37 per cent in May, with all S6Ctors recording positive growth. The May growth more than doubles the 15 per cent recovery
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      Asia-Pac's key challenge: fostering stability
      353 2 Region needs peaceful environment to develop folly: Dr Tan THE key challenge for AsiaPacific countries as they develop economically and political relationships evolve and stabilise is to manage this in a way that will foster a stable and peaceful environment, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
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      Consumers upbeat about economy
      283 3  -  19% of working adults optimistic about economy in near futures poly poll By' Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] More than twothirds of Singapore consumers are optimistic about the economy in the near future, a new consumer confidence index reveals. The index found that 68.6 per cent of
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      US building materials firm opens office here
      288 3  -  By Elleen Khor BUILDING materials and high-performance composite company Owens Corning, which yesterday opened its Asean regional office in Singapore, aims to double its AsiaPacific sales this year and increase it 10-fold by the year 2001. Last year, the US company, which is
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      Lock icon De Bono: firms' winning edge hinges on creativity
      394 3 Top-down societies in Asia have advantage in motivating people The Straits Times CREATIVITY will determine the winning edge for companies as the world moves from the information age to the ideas age. And creative people can be found even in societies that
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      SingNet offers Net users interactive services
      173 3 SINGNET has added an interactive element, called Commerce Asia Interactive, as an extension to its Commerce Asia Web hosting service, the company said yesterday. For a fee, companies can, via Commerce Asia Interactive, offer value-added information to Internet users. Available from today, it offers
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Lock icon Pan Malayan buys Devonshire site
      419 4  -  Company's second purchase in two months comes at a time when fewer private redevelopment sites have been changing hands By Diana Oon (SINGAPORE] LISTED property company Pan Malayan Holdings has bought a 13,800 sq ft redevelopment site in Devonshire Road for $31 million the company's
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      House Hunt
      1195 4 Property transactions far districts 09 and 10 (sectors 22 to 23 and 24 to 27) lodged between Apr 21, and May 17,1997. PROJECTNAME/ PROP CONTRACT TENURE PRO PSf STREET KMC TYPE DATE LAND AREA' (SOFT) (SHOO) <SS District 09 f Aspen Ht Apt 21/03/97 999 1044 1270 1216
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      TDB office to boost S'pore-Manila business ties
      373 5  -  MANILA Opening of office comes during buoyant Philippine investment climate, growing bilateral trade: TDB By* Al Labita SINGAPORE-Philippines business ties are expected to shift into high gear with today'sopening of the Singapore Trade Development Board (TDB) office in Manila, the board said. The
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      Lock icon Govt bodies, firms will have to buy Timor cars: paper
      332 5 JAKARTA Suppit leeied a> that car project can be finished as smd as ptfwiMfr "WMfaM* AFP GOVERNMENT institutions and state-owned companies wiD be obliged to buy Timor cars to support the slow sales of Indonesia's national car maker PT Timor
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      Lock icon Low turnout at historic Indon re-vote
      238 5 SAMPANG, Indonesia Reuter INDONESIA held an unprecedented re-vote on Madura island yesterday but staunch Muslims who had alleged fraud in last week's general elections appeared to have mainly stayed away from the polls. The re-vote was being held in Sampang district on the island
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      Lock icon Japan embassy gets second bomb threat in 8 days
      275 5 JAKARTA Reuter INDONESIAN police searched the Japanese embassy in Jakarta yesterday after the second telephoned bomb threat to the mission in eight days, but they said no explosives were found. "We found no bomb in the compound. Things are clear there,"
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      Lock icon Ramos nod for new airport
      99 7 MANILA AFP PHILIPPINE President Fidel Ramos has approved the building of an international airport in the former US military base of Clark north of here next year, five years ahead of the original schedule, a senior official said yesterday. "We are activating it much ahead
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      Lock icon Rubber fund used up, not missing, says KL minister
      433 7 KUALA LUMPUR No maljmctice; it was amifliiterpretatiQo, s&ysKengYaik Reuter MALAYSIA'S top commodities official said yesterday that .a fund set up by the country for replanting rubber was used up and not misappropriated as alleged. Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik denied
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      Lock icon Philippine V-P quits anti-crime panel m race to be president
      381 7 MANILA Popular politician, once film hero, seen as tough man to beat Reuter PHILIPPINE vice-president and one-time film action hero Joseph Estrada on Tuesday drew the battle lines for next year's presidential election, which will pit him against his boss's
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      Lock icon Inflation growth slows in May
      67 7 JAKARTA Reuter INDONESIA'S inflation slowed in May while the trade surplus fell significantly in March. Inflation rose 0.19 per cent month-on-month in May, compared with April's rise of 0.56 per cent. Year-on-year inflation in May was 5.08 per cent, against 4.95 per cent in April.
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      Lock icon Thai govt to track critical press reports
      150 7 BANGKOK AFP THE Thai government said yesterday it would set up a new panel to monitor the press following a spate of disparaging newspaper reports in which ministers were likened to animals. After discussions in cabinet last week, Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh called
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      Lock icon Ratings downgrade for Thai banks, finance firms
      355 7 BANGKOK Omntry'sMily credit-rating agency to lower grades on rising loan defaults Bloomberg, AFP THAI Rating and Information Services (Tris), the country's only credit-rating agency, said it will downgrade the ratings of all banks and finance companies because of their rising loan defaults. The
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      Lock icon Thailand to ask banks to join mortgage scheme
      308 7 ■BANGKOK AFP THAILAND plans to invite commercial banks to join a low-interest mortgage scheme aimed at reviving the property sector after a state fund has been drained by huge public demand. Government Housing Bank (GHB) officials said the 17.5 billion baht (*****
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      Lock icon Against Asean saying yes to Myanmar
      57 7 [MANILA] Members of Free Burma Coalition holding a portrait offormer Nobel peace prize winn&andpro<lemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi huddling outside the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila yesterday. The group is protesting the recent decision of foreign officials to accept Myanmar into the
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      Lock icon M'sian exports still seen growing
      299 7 kual'AiJmpur Bloomberg MALAYSIA has weathered the slowdown in South-east Asia's exports better than some of its neighbours and the April trade numbers will likely show its exports still growing, economists said. A rise in exports would mean Malaysia's exports have risen for three months running;
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  • FOCUS
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      Who will control Finance One?
      1407 6  -  The rescue of Thai takeover king Pin Chakkaphak's debt-ridden flagship is risky business both for the central bank and whoever fills the kingpin's shoes By. Harish Mehta The writer is BT's Bangkok correspondent [BANGKOK] THE man known as the takeover king of Bangkok, Pin Chakkaphak,
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      HK anti-graft agency may cover private sector offences abroad
      378 8  -  HONGKONG Chief acknowledges rising concerns over spillover of corruption from the mainland By] Loh Hui Yin HONGKONG's anti-corrup-tion agency may cast its net wider to cover offences committed by its businessmen outside the territory, said its chief, Lily Yam Kwan Puiying.
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      Cathay's A330s to resume service today
      221 8  -  HONGKONG By] Loh Hui Yin ALL 15 Airbus A 330-300 belonging to Cathay Pacific and sister airline Dragonair should be back in service by the end of this week, three weeks after they were grounded by engine trouble. The first flights of the A
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      Lock icon Taiwan eases curbs on some China investments
      331 8 TAIPEI But property and power plant projects are now on 'ban list' Reuter, AFP TAIWAN said yesterday it would allow local Arms to engage in a wider range of investments in arch-rival China, but slapped an outright ban on real estate and large
      Reuter,; AFP  -  331 words
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      Housing a solution to the stock frenzy
      701 8  -  ODKifDW HevMng property market may be best way to keep China's growth, bourses healthy By Lu Ning CHINA'S central bank governor Dai Xianglong this week gave a renewed warning against stockmarket speculation following a recent package of tough talk, punishment and new curbs
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      Lock icon Helms to block China's MFN extension
      289 8 WASHINGTON Reuter AFP SENATE Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms and three other senators on Tuesday introduced a resolution to block the extension of Most Favoured Nation trade status for China. President Bill Clinton has requested extension of MFN trade status for China and
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      206 8 THESE DAYS SINGAPORE AND THE U.S. SHARE EASY, CONVENIENT CONNECTIONS. NAMELY, OUR DAILY FLIGHTS FROM SINGAPORE TO MINNEAPOLIS/ST.J)XUL AND DETROIT. 7b D Am New York ijV.' Philadelphia "••jK?.".*"." Detroit Paul' Wasi>,n lon Tokyo Singapore Trade with the States is booming. And if you're in the business of making connections throughout
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Racketeer payoffs: Japan widens probe to cover 3 more brokerages
      349 9 TOKYO Report says panel investigating Daiwa, Nikko and Yamaichi after raids on Nomura AFP. Bloomberg {TOKYO] Japanese authorities have extended investigations into a racketeer payoff scandal surrounding Nomura Securities Co Ltd to include three other major brokerage houses, a report
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      Lock icon Prosecutors set to indict President Kim's son today
      224 9 SEOUL AFP PROSECUTORS are set to indict a son of President Kim Young Sam, ending a chapter of a high-profile corruption scandal that has rocked South Korea for months, news repots said yesterday. Kim Hyun Chul, 38, will be indicted a process
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      Lock icon Korean giants must reveal finances
      251 9 SEOUL Govt plans to give investors clearer view off chaebol books Bloomberg THE South Korean government plans to require conglomerates, or chaebol, to publish combined financial statements in a bid to give bankers and investors a clearer view of their finances. South Korean companies' current
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      Lock icon Pakistani banks ordered to recover bad loans
      159 9 KARACHI AFP PRIME Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered Pakistani banks and financial institutions to recover 130 billion rupees (554.6 billion) in bad loans, Finance Minister Sartaj Aziz said. Defaulters include industrialists, landlords and politicians. sources said. Mr Aziz said the prime minister had
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      Lock icon 1,500 Aborigine victims sue govt
      146 9 SYDNEY AFP MORE than 1,500 Aborigine victims of Australia's "stolen generations" policy are suing the government over their forced separation from their parents, legal sources said yesterday. Many more cases are expected and lawyers are inviting Aborigines who wish to claim compensation to contact them
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      Lock icon Cashing in on his looks
      65 9 [SYDNEY] A cut-out ofAustralian former Wimbledon tennis champion Pat Cash attracting admiring looks from pedestrians as it stands outside the new Planet Ark store in Sydney yesterday. Opened in time for World Environment Day, the store, part-owned by Cash, is a one-stop health and hardware
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Waigel survives motion seeking his ouster in house
      531 10 BONN His bid to force the Baba to revalue assets to help qualify for EMU comes under fire Reuter, Bloomberg CHANCELLOR Helmut Kohl's majority in parliament beat back an opposition motion yesterday to sack Finance Minister Theo Waigel over his bid to
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      Lock icon Communists to have place in Jospin cabinet
      331 10 PARIS Anti-Maastricht Citizens, Greens also tipped to join govt Reuter NEW French Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin met President Jacques Chirac yesterday to offer a broad-left cabinet list including two Communist ministers, as Mr Chirac's defeated Gaullist party wallowed in recrimination. Mr Jospin
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      Lock icon Britain unveils plan to create jobs in EU
      209 10 LONDON AFP BRITISH Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown yesterday unveiled an action plan to create jobs throughout the European Union (EU), which has more than 18 million unemployed. The announcement came a few hours ahead of a meeting between British Prime
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      Lock icon US factory orders up higher than expected
      211 10 WASHINGTON Bloomberg ORDERS placed with US factories jumped more than expected in April, a sign the manufacturing economy is still in high gear after a strong start to the year. The 1.2 per cent rise in April factory orders to a seasonally adjusted
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      Lock icon US plan to protect banks from state insurance laws
      407 10 WASHINGTON Bloomberg THE Clinton administration has proposed providing US banks with new protection from "discriminatory" state insurance laws as part of a broader plan to revamp the nation's banking laws. The measure, hailed by bankers and denounced by insurance agents, complicates
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      Lock icon Digital copying technologies strike fear in Hollywood
      492 10 ATLANTA, Georgia Film studios wary about supporting digital video discs AFP HOLLYWOOD is feeling threatened by new computer digital technology that could make it possible for consumers to make and pass on highquality copies of films or music. "The entertainment industry is worried,
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Blair will push free market in Europe
      817 11  -  THE BOTTOMLDfE OPINION By Michael Hindley The writer is a Member of the European Parliament FROM the early *****, the European Union's Social Chapter took on a rosier glow than it deserved among the British Left It is worth recalling briefly how this
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      108 11 'I'm not the secretary of morality, but the military has very high standards.' -wniiuiOate t/S Defence Secretary who was defending the military's strict rules on personal morality. 'It might matter more if she was known as Snow White and her name was dragged through the mud than
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      Rethink 'dual containment'in Gulf
      597 11 EDITORIAL THE landslide election of moderate cleric Mohammad Khatami as President of Iran seems to have come as a surprise to Washington. The Clinton administration is committed to its so-called "dual containment" strategy in the Persian Gulf, aimed at the isolation of Iran and Iraq. It
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      Lock icon Hashimoto out to wreak vengeance on Nomura
      1131 11  -  Japan's PM set to make financial sector pay over illegal dealings with sokaiya By. Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent A REMARKABLE drama is unfolding at several levels on the Japanese financial scene. There is the officially scripted drama of "Big
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      735 11 WHAT reputation is US President Bill Clinton trying to protect? A new poll in USA Today shows that even though 72 per cent of Americans believe that something happened between Mr Clinton and Paula Jones, 57 per cent still approve of the president's job performance. They
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Less jittery but still charged
      797 12  -  Byrne's fifth album Feelings is a tour de force lot the once-shy and detached pop star, says guy garcia GUY GARCIA NYT DAVID Byrne, protean pop star and multimedia artist, is staring at drawings of naked little girls floating across Civil War battlefields, and the
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    • CHATTER Box
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        Lock icon Famous autographs for sale
        130 12 AFP [LONDON! Forty.—wan hntik* containing styma J of the rich and femoue, collected over 64 years by an < obBBiaive autograph hunter, are to be eold at auction tn < London. Lionel Wolfe, killed in January agsd 80 when he 1 was struck by a car
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        Lock icon Ray Finnes on Mum's book
        93 12 NYT [NEW YORK] Ralph Fiennes says he has no desire to be an author bat wants people to know about the books hit mother wrote. The actor was among ago speakers atthe 10-day Hay-on-Wye Festival of Literature, which ended W] over the weekend FleiBno talked
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        Lock icon Norman won't play Woods
        103 12 Reuter [SYDNEY] World No 1 golfer Greg Norman said yesterday A he turned down a lucrative oflfer to feceTlgNr Woods tot head-to-hetd challenge tor television. Norman said he dedined because the timing of the event was not suitable. He said the offer was made to him
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      Lock icon Nicolas Cage turns hero to make a difference
      782 14 PERSONALITY After playing oddballs and weirdos, he wants tft Wring hfyoimi to the big screen Reuter [LOS ANGELES] Oscar-win-ner Nicolas Cage is a man on a mission. After years of playing oddballs, weirdos and just plain freaks, he wants to bring heroism
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      Lock icon Rafter creams Blanco to blast into semi-finals
      470 14 FRENCH OPEN He now faees Spain's Brngnera,the only surviving seed in the men's singles AFP [PARIS] Australia's Patrick Rafter reached his first-ever Grand Slam tournament semifinal at the French Open here yesterday when he defeated Spain's Galo Blanco 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) 6-3 on
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      Lock icon Bogdanovich broke again after US$4.2m verdict
      568 14 PERSONALITY Director files for second bankruptcy after property lawsuit, failed films LAT [LOS ANGELES] Director Peter Bogdanovich is broke again. He filed for bankruptcy last week less than 24 hours after a Los Angeles Superior Court jury socked him with a US$4.2 million (Ss6
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Temasek to pay $135m for stake in Shangri-La Asia
      424 15  -  5% holding sold by Kook group, including 3&5 m shares held by Shangri-La Hotel By I Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The Singapore government is investing about $135 million to buy a 5 per cent stake in tycoon Robert Kuok's Hongkong-based hotel chain,
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      Lock icon Amcol duo put their bets on two horses: defence lawyer
      522 15 THE PETER TAT TRIAL He says thqy asked Tay to find 3rd party far Mauritius deal The Straits Times [SINGAPORE] Amcol executive directors Ng Chee Kheong and Lloyd Lochra had asked businessman Peter Tay to find an investor for a
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      DBS Land down 5% on share placement
      173 15  -  By] Diana Oon [SINGAPORE] The price of DBS Land shares fell 24 cents, or about 5 per cent, to close at $4.76 yesterday, following the placement of 91.9 million new shares announced by the company on Tuesday. The volume of 4.5 million shares
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      SML may be drawn into row of HK shipping family
      737 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Lee Han Shih WHAT is a nice company like Sembawang Maritime Ltd (SML) doing in the cast of Hongkong's most sensational corporate soap opera? To be fair, it's certainly not SML's intention to get involved in the
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      CAM sacks chief financial officer
      277 15  -  Former minister Ahmad Mattar roped in in board revamp By, Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] CAM Interna tional Holdings has fired its chief financial officer Ng Chee Tiong and roped in former environment minister Ahmad Mattar in a board revamp following allegations of fraud committed against the
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      UIC's West Mall 75% let ahead of opening
      230 15 (SINGAPORE! United Industrial Corp (UIC) and Singapore Land's new suburban shopping complex. West Mall, is already 75 per cent leased ahead of its opening towards the middle of next year. Tenants who have signed up for the mall fronting the Bukit Batok
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        Telekom in deal to run Thai mobile phone network
        327 16  -  Malaysian operator edges out Swiss Telekom to be Samart Corp partner From Meera Tharmaratnam in Kuala Lumpur TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd has struck a deal with Thai-based Samart Corp pic that will 566 it jointly operating Thailand's fourth mobile phone network. In
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        Wah Shing ups stake in HK retail chain
        208 16 [SINGAPORE] Toy maker Wah Shing International has raised its stake in Hongkong retail chain Pricerite Group to 21.36 per cent. The move makes Pricerite an associate company of Wah Shing. The stake was raised through the purchase of 8.61 million Pricerite shares
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        Lock icon Shaping the 'Mekong'
        54 16 Ayi e tn a mes e worker building a "Mekong "four-wheel drive jeep at Cuu Long Auto Plant in Ho Chi Minh City The Mekong 4x4is a joint venture with Japanese and Korean carmakers. The plant, which employs 300 workers, also makes Fiat's Tempra models for the
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        Lock icon AMMB's profit up 60.1% to M$1.018b
        276 16 Jump in assets, fee-based and brokerage activities AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Arab Malaysian Merchant Bank (AMMB) Holdings Bhd said yesterday pre-tax profit surged 60.1 per cent year-on-year to Msl.olB billion (*****.12 million) for the year to March. Group turnover rose 56 per cent to M
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        Lock icon Tenaga gets nod to hive off two units in restructure
        206 16 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian utility Tenaga Nasional Bhd has received government approval to set up two whollyowned units under a new group structure to take shape on Sep 1. Malaysian Business Times yesterday quoted Tenaga executive chairman Ahmad Tajud din
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        Lock icon Southern Bank positive on current prospects
        350 16 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Southern Bank Bhd would continue to focus on productivity gains, development of new products and operating efficiency amidst an increasingly competitive operating environment, said its chairman Osman S Cassim. In the company's 1996 annual report, Mr Osman said current year prospects
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        Lock icon Indonesia's Bank Danamon Q1 profit falls
        338 16 Rapid expansion eroding earnings growth: analysts Bloomberg [JAKARTA! Shares of PT Bank Danamon, one of Indonesia's largest banks, fell 3 per cent after the bank said firstquarter profit declined as rising costs were offset by lending growth that topped SO per cent. Bank Danamon's
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        Lock icon MRCB in joint venture for Putrajaya township
        192 16 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd (MRCB) said it formed a joint venture with Putrajaya Holdings to develop a 135-hectare residential and commercial township within Malaysia's new administrative capital, the Putrajaya Federal Administrative Centre. Putrajaya Holdings will pay MRCB M 521.5 million
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          China Sq site for GE Life, Straits Trading
          77 16 [SINGAPORE] The Urban Redevelopment Authority has awarded the final white site in the China Square development to the OCBC group's Straits Trading Company and Great Eastern Life. This means OCBCs subsidiaries will be developing two of China Square's seven plots. Straits Trading
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          Hai Sun Hup acquires holding company
          37 16 [SINGAPORE] Shipping and hotel group Hai Sun Hup has acquired British Virgin Islands-incorporated WoDaston Investments. The holding company has an suthorissd share capital of £30,000 (5570,140) and paid-up capital of SI.
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          HPL files application to wind up 2 units
          38 16 {SINGAPORE] Ong Bang Seng's Hotel PraperttssLMKHH) has filed an application with the Federal Court of Australia to wind up two subsidiaries ofhome entertainment retail chata BrashsPty Ltd—Brash (NSW) and Bixulo.
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          CM Telecom unit raises paid-up capital
          25 16 [HONGKONG] Hongkong-baaed CM Telecom subsidiary China Motion United Telecom has ralssd Us paid-up capital from HK$1,000(S$186) to HKI0&8 million.
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        Lock icon Citic eyes Shanghai infrastructure projects
        488 17 Company keen on power plants following purchase of stake in China Light Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Citic Pacific Ltd is looking for opportunities to build more infrastructure in Shanghai, particularly power plants, an executive said. The Hongkong-listed arm of China's largest investment company is "very interested" in
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        Lock icon A key partnership
        60 17 [ISLAMABAD] Ishaq Dar (left), Pakistan's Commerce Minister, hands over the keys ofa Pakistani-manufactured Toyota GL 1300 cc car to Klwatani (right), representative Of Toyota Tsusho Corporation at a ceremony here yesterday. Indus Motor Company Limited, a Pakistani joint venture with Toyota Tsusho Corporation to manufacture Toyota cars,
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        Lock icon Sun Fook Kong's shares soar after takeover bid
        208 17 AFP [HONG KONG] Shares of Hongkong's property firm Sun Fook Kong Holdings Ltd more than doubled yesterday as they resumed trading following a takeover bid by China Travel International Investment Hongkong Ltd. The stock rose HK$2.O3 to HK53.95 on a total of
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          Lock icon Wat-Mart to pay US$1.2b for Mexico firm
          75 17 Bloomberg [BENTONVILLE, Arkansas) Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Tuesday it will buy a controlling stake in Cifra SA, Mexico's largest retailer, for US$l.2 billion (511.7 billion) in cash, its biggest step yet to expand into faster-growing international markets. The firms operate 152 discount
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          Lock icon Enron, Enel in US$2.9b venture
          84 17 Bloomberg [ROME] Enron Corp and Enel SpA, Italy's state electricity utility, said on Tuesday they will form a 5 trillion lire (USI&9 billion or 514.2 billion) power-generating venture to take advantage of opportunities in Europe's electricity market. As part of the preliminary agreement, Enel will
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          Lock icon Hilton may cut US$10.5b offer for ITT
          88 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Hilton Hotels Corp said on Tuesday it may cut its US$lO.5 billion (Ssls billion) offer to buy ITT Corp if ITT sells some of its luxury Sheraton hotels. ITT Corp may sell as many as tour of its luxury hotels,
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          Lock icon Philips may sell part of stake in Grundig
          75 17 Bloomberg [EINDHOVEN, Netherlands] Philips Electronics NV said on Tuesday it plans to remain a minority stakeholder in money-losing German electronics maker Grundig AG, though it might sell part of its 31.6 per cent stake to a new partner. The Dutch company is
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        Lock icon Wharf cashes in on protest anniversary
        97 17 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Wharf Cable is capitalising on the Hongkong people's preoccupation with democracy. In only 12 days, the company grossed HK$5OO,OOO (5592,450) on its pay-per-view channel for a documentary about China's brutal suppression of Tiananmen Square student protests. Some 10,000 subscribers paid HKSSO to
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        Lock icon Coca-Cola Amatil finalises deal with San Miguel
        553 17 Philippine bottler gets one more board seat in Aussie firm Reuter [SYDNEY] Australian-based •soft drink bottler Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) announced yesterday it had settled the final details of its share swap deal with San Miguel Corp of the Philippines to create the world's
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        Lock icon Fears of lower tech stock earnings spook Wall Street
        526 18 Nasdaq slips 20 to 1,385, after Intel, Seagate, Cabletron warn of poor results Reuter, Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Technology stocks slipped on Tuesday after several companies warned of lower-than-expected earnings, spooking Wall Street into a retreat from the sector. "I think it
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        Lock icon Intel, IBM, Microsoft spend more on shares than R&D
        330 18 All three companies generating more cash than they need Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Three leading technology companies Intel Corp, Microsoft Corp, and International Business Machines Corp are spending more on their own stock than research and development. The companies, all of which operate
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        Lock icon Coke out to oust Cadbury Schweppes from McDonald's
        138 18 FT [LONDON] Atlanta-based Co-ca-Cola, the world's biggest soft drinks company, is trying to push Cadbury Schweppes, the UK group, out of thousands of McDonald's fast-food ouUets in the US, it emerged on Tuesday. Coca-Cola confirmed it had offered McDonald's franchisees one-time gifts
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        Lock icon 50% of Intel output to be Pentium II
        350 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Intel Corp said its new Pentium II chips will represent about 50 per cent of its microprocessor production by the middle of next year, in what will be its fastest-ever transition to a new generation of chips. Intel also
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        Lock icon Thailand may revoke two groups' banking licences
        388 19 Ministry not happy with Mah Boonkrong and Italian-Thai for holding back on business development Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Groups led by Italian-Thai Development pic and Mah Boonkrong Property Development pic may have their banking licences revoked for holding back business development, said Thai Finance Minister
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        Lock icon Warrants to kick off Taiwan's push into derivatives market
        380 19 Bourse set to enter US$22 trillion market next month Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Taiwan is poised to enter the US$2.2 trillion (553.15 trillion) derivatives market with warrants that will hold out the promise of big profits for investors and for the securities firms
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        Lock icon Japan insurers losing to rivals on pensions
        221 19 FT [TOKYO] Japan's biggest life assurance companies manage fewer corporate pension fund assets than they did a year ago, according to data compiled by the Trust Companies Association of Japan. The decline, the first in 30 years, reflects increasing competition. The sector, dominated
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        Lock icon Siam Commercial delays bond issue: dealers
        396 19 USsloom bond said to be postponed due to volatile market Bridge News [HONGKONG] Siam Commercial Bank is said to have postponed an expected US$lOO million (Ssl43 million) to US$2OO million 10-year subordinated Yankee bond issue due to volatile market conditions, according to bond dealers.
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        Lock icon Metrobank denies San Carlos Milling in debt trouble
        319 19 Bloomberg [MANILA] Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co, the Philippines' largest bank, said there's no basis for speculation that San Carlos Milling Corp is having difficulty in making debt payments. Metrobank said it has a term loan of 600 million pesos (5532.6 million)
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        Shares of value harder to find: fund manager
        392 20  -  Asian stocks losing out as European firms begin to think in terms of shareholder values By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Global equities are getting expensive and it is becoming harder to find stocks of value to invest in, according to a fund
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        Lock icon Battle's on for US customers: banker
        460 20 Nationsßank's top exec points to a rapid consolidation in US banking in future Bridge News [INTERLAKEN, Switzerland] The US banking industry will consolidate "very rapidly" over the next 3 to 5 years, leading to a "shootout" among the top banks for control over the
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        Lock icon Japan bank's yuan business building up, says report
        306 20 Bloomberg, AFP [BEIJING] The Industrial Bank of Japan in Shanghai has received at least 20 applications for loans in Chinese yuan since it began doing business in the local currency about 10 weeks ago, Xinhua News Agency reported. The bank, one of
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        Lock icon Oil firms hoard petrol ahead of UK budget
        205 20 Reuter [LONDON] Oil companies are hoarding petrol to avoid a feared increase in excise duty in Britain's new Labour government's first budget which has been set for July 2, dealers said on Tuesday. They may save some US$65 (Ss93) for every tonne
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        Lock icon Euroyen edges up in listless trade
        205 20 SOSEXReport Reuter (SINGAPORE] Simex Euroyen futures inched up yesterday but dealers said activity was dull and volumes low amid a dearth of new leads. "The Bank of Japan bought 100 billion yen (Ssl.2 billion) worth of bonds in the morning. But there's not been
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        Slow day for futures and cash markets
        178 20  -  MSCI TAIWAN FIITORBS By Perry Gilbert Bert, vice-president, Refco Singapore Pte Ltd [SINGAPORE] The Simex MSCI Taiwan Index futures market and the Taiwan cash market moved in a slow tempo throughout yesterday's trade. Traders who previously hedged their convertible bond trades with the
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        Lock icon Oil prices weaker after bearish US data
        264 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [LONDON] World oil markets were slightly weaker yesterday on bearish data from the US and the prospect of a speedy renewal of Iraq's "oil-for-food" deal. Brent Blend crude was down 14 cents a barrel at U5518.76 at 1354 GMT here
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        Lock icon CURRENCY REPORT
        268 20 Renter lilllM CONCERNS over the strength of the future European single currency continued to drive investors away from the mark, in particular towards the dollar and sterling. By 1225 GMT, the dollar had risen to 1.7324 marks from 1.7276 on Tuesday. It rose to 116.28 yen from Tuesday's
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      1603 21 AFX-Asia H Nikkei 225 SHARE prices closed slightly higher yesterday, led by active buying of high-tech and blue-chip stocks, but a late wave of profit-taking erased much of the earlier gains, brokers said. The 225-share Nikkei Average finished up 48.40 points at 20,611.56 after moving between a low of
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      Lock icon HONGKONG
      1475 22 AFX-Asia W Hang Seng +7L41 SHARE prices yesterday closed off their highs on uncertainty over the immediate outlook for properties, as well as profit-taking in Hongkong Telecom. Dealers said that trade was volatile, spurred by the continuing high levels of liquidity. The Hang Seng Index closed up 71.41 points
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      Lock icon CHINA
      594 22 Reuter nShenzhen Blades -&53 THE Shenzhen B share market closed lower yesterday as foreign investors sold on expectations that Beijing would announce new measures to crack down on speculation. The B Share Index fell 0.53 point to 158.81 on turnover of HK574.7 million. The A share Index rose 4.27
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      361 22 AFP QWPMg +27J3 SHARE prices finished higher yesterday as investors pursued electrical and paper issues in cautious trade ahead of the release of corporate financial reports. "Investors cautiously increased their holdings on lowcost paper shares while waiting for release of May financial reports by listed firms," said a trader.
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      253 22 Reuter PJwdKnflbm +7JQ SHARE prices closed higher yesterday on good volume boosted by strong interest in debutante Restaurant Brands. The NZSE 40-share Capital Index closed 7.60 higher at 2,357.03.—Reuter j»« m *b rmm AN2 Banking MS -0.05 ***** Atfvantagti Mtdgs 1.30 unci) 9740 Air l—w 2««l«o< (A) 2.93 -0.01
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      809 22 AFP n SET Mat jjg STOCKS closed lower yesterday after a ratings agency said it would downgrade 14 Thai banks and finance firms. Analysts said the index was dampened by late selling pressure on the news of the Thailand Ratings and Information Services downgrades, to be announced tomorrow. The
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      391 22 AFP -&M SHARE prices closed 0.4 per cent lower yesterday on a broad-based correction after seven days of consecutive index gains, dealers said. "It's a relief to see the market taking a rest," a dealer said. The Composite Index closed down 2.81 points at 763.25. Turnover was a record
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      566 22 Bloomberg HAaOrttoriM *U STOCKS closed higher yesterday. Coca-Cola Amatil rose after completing an agreement with San Miguel of the Philippines to create the largest Coke bottler outside the US and Australia New Zealand Banking Group fell as it shed its dividend. The All Ordinaries Index rose 2J3 points to
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      750 22 AFP nCompogtehfag -4AS SHARE prices closed lower yesterday as investors locked away profit across the board, dealers said. "The broad market was very weak today. But there is nothing to worry about as long as it's just a pure profit-taking exercise," a broker said. The JSE Composite Index closed
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      313 22 AFP □Manila -M 7 SHARE prices closed marginally lower yesterday as investors locked away profit in the absence of news to perk up the bourse, brokers said. "The market is just continuing its correction," said an analyst. The PSE Composite Index slipped 6.67 points, or 0.2 per cent, to
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        Lock icon Shares end lower on trade deficit talk
        538 23 AFX-Asia -7i)5 SHARE prices closed lower across the board yesterday on continued speculation of a trade deficit of Msl.l billion (***** million) to Msl.s billion for April, which put blue chips under pressure, dealers said. The KLSE Composite Index closed down 7.55 points
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        Ample time to see decent returns from Hal Sun Hup 2002 warrants
        180 24  -  WARRAMT WATCH By] R Sivanithy NEW warrants that have good gearing, a reasonable premium and fit the BlackScholes pricing model's criteria for fair valuation are hard to come by. However, today's feature is one such creature the warrant
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        211 26 Stncto Www Benefon HKIOc 6,496,000 HK Land USIOc 6,462.000 HewToyo 25c 6,081,000 0IS Land 4,524,000 *Westmont Land 3,*****0 Hai SonHup W02 3,656,000 SingTel 15c 3,479,000 MiUanlOc 2.689,000 Tye Soon 10c 2.529,000 KaWwMHIOt 2.527,000 ttocto DCS Land 21,730,780 SIA Foreign 20,767,155 City Dev 50c 18,587,743 HK Land USIOc 17,217,560 U08 Foreign
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        Finn showing by US bonds fails to bolster market
        634 26  -  STOCK MAUBT oommn Benchmark STI Index loses grip on 2,050 mark but brokers maintain stand that downside at current levels is limited By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] For the second consecutive session, a firm showing by US bonds failed to spill over
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        HOT STOCK
        50 26  -  bf Shiv Taneja SIA FOREIGN, which closed 30 cents higmr yesterday at $12.80 on a volume of 1.63 mUmn shares, will trade sideways in the days ahmL If the counter is able to break past the $IxBo mark in the next few sessions, the upside looks good. byShhrTaaqJa
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          Areuse by any other name
          93 26 MOST analysts tend to exclude Sing Tel when computing the average PE for the Singapore market, but ÜBS Global Research in a recent report has decided to legitimise this industry practice in its "DBS 49 Index" (as opposed to the better known DBS SO Index).
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          Midnight party
          177 26 IF ANYONE knows who China is sending to represent the mainland at the Hongkong handover on June 30, please call the Hongkong government. Apparently Hongkong officials are trying to shed some light on who to expect as the Chinese counterpart to Prince Charles as official dignitary at the
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          Desperately seeking a story
          216 26 FORGET Susan. In Hongkong, the biggest Media-Pack ever assembled outside of a war zone is Desperately Seeking a Story. Any story. And so at the last land auction held under British rule, journalists outnumbered bidders around five-to-one. Mind you, developers and their princelings were also filled
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          The right staff
          85 26 CHAIRMAN of China Overaeat Shun J Jie-wen was among thooevhoactuaBydtf I get around to bidding j auction and secured the Stanley site aas 1 rnnlt PTHimni nnsasieeiiaiinii wflhififl Paliburg Group which won the contest fer the billion (SflXXIbillion) site in M southern Hongkong. Arriving tbr the putUil
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          Getting the Thai-ming right
          94 26 YESTERDAY, we reported that tend managers Templeton and Cnm Bordv Capital had backed a recovery fcy the Tlmft stock market and for some afeite hive been putting their money where their meuths were, accumulating Thai etocks. History had better be the Judge ofthisboU move, I but
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      1584 18 BUSINESS Notices I 1 M HWA HONG CORPORATION LIMITED (INCORPORATED IN THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Forty-Fourth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Function Room, Ground Level, Trade Mart Singapore, 60 Martin Road, Singapore *****5
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      861 18 To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF MERZ SERVICES SINGAPORE PTE LTD (In Member Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308(1) of the Companies Act, Cap 50, that a Final General Meeting of the
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      230 19 the how do we make every customer feel like our only customer? 99 solution As your business grows, don't you find access. And a prenaudy expermve it's difficult to give the same level customer service department now service Jo each and every customer? costs much less to run. One transport
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      158 20 Turning your Accountant into Superman!? We must be kidding. Consider this weigh a man down with a ton of bricks around his neck and ask him to do a backflip. Naturally, he will not manage it. Now ask your Accountant to produce timely reports when all you have j given
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      29 24 1 For real-time stock information, Scall 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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      519 26 BUSINESS Notices SEKSUN PRECISION ENGINEERING LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Sixteenth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 513 Yishun Industrial Park A, Singapore *****6 on Friday, 20 June 1997 at 10.00 UTi. for
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      254 26 M THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 80 AMD M THE MATTER OF WILL ENGINEERMG PRIVATE LIMITED At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Member* of WILL ENGINEERING PRIVATE LIMITED duly convened and held at 901 OleeMer Rd *02-03 Singapore *****4, on the 2nd day June 1997, the following
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      517 26 To advertise call toll-free 1800-*****83 1 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, AND IN THE MATTES OF U.C. INTERNATIONAL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (la Mcaktr i Vilaalnj ll|rilillin) NOTICE OP RESOLUTIONS (Pmhhl to Sccttoa 29«2Xt)| At an fcxtraordinary General Meeting of ike Coaapaay held m talk am May 30. 1997.
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      279 27 Bridge News, Radar there was a steady flow of tptivity for Panamaxes, although foil details were hot always available and rales continued to be seen booked at weak levels. Rates for Capeeizes in the Pacific market were said to be drifting downwards but new concluded business was seen
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      494 27  -  Copenhagen-based snipping ooay launching drive to recrmt more members in Asia By' Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] International shipping association Baltic and International Maritime Council (Bimco) has launched a membership drive in Asia with the opening of its regional representative office in
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      Lock icon Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement cutting rates
      271 27 AhhMoUSsbffiig, currency moves not price war cited Journal of Commerce [NEW YORK] Shippers who are enjoying bargains offered by some trans-Atlantic shipping lines are now seeing a so-called technical erosion in rates charged by the trade's rate-setting conference. This means it should cost less to
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      HK board signs deal to study river trade
      161 27 [SINGAPORE] Hongkong's Port Development Board (PDB) signed a U552.32 million (553.32 million) contract on Monday with Survey Research Hongkong Ltd for the carrying out of a study on river trade cargo handling in 1997. The aim of the study is to compile
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      Lock icon Bigger Hainan port
      37 27 Reuter [BEIJING] The state-run China International Capital Corp Ltd agreed to invest 330 million yuan (5156.7 million) in port expansion on the southern island province of Hainan, the Economic Information Daily said on Tuesday.
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      Prospects for product carriers bright
      526 27  -  MHWBUILPS By David Hughes IT HAS been a fairly quiet time on the new building scene though the contracts list shows the popularity of products carriers right now. A London shipbroker specialising in the tanker markets told Shipping Times that he was not really concerned
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      136 27 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan is planning to lift a ban on foreign shipping companies establishing subsidiaries here, transportation and communicatfcms officials said on Tuesday. The liberalisation, expected to become effective from July, was in line with the government's efforts to build the country
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      Lock icon MarAd delays CP Ships' bid for Lykes
      219 27 Llyod's List [LONDON] The US$3O million (Ss43 million) takeover of the shipping line Lykes Bros Steamship by Canadian Pacific Ships has been delayed by the US Maritime Administration. MarAd has asked the Flori-da-based container shipping group, which is under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection,
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      HK, Taiwan agree on flags
      115 27 [HONGKONG] The thorny issue of what flags Hongkong and.* Taiwan-registered ships should fly when in each other's ports has been resolved. A delegation led by Hong Kong Shipowners Association chairman George Chao reached an agreement recently with a Taiwan delegation led by Chang Liang-jen, deputy
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      Med conference to raise rates
      324 27  -  By Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The Mediterranean Far East Conference (Medfec) has announced rate increases on both east and westbound trades between the Mediterranean and the Far East Conference members have agreed to rate increases of US$l5O (*****.5) per TEU (20-ft equivalent units) and US$3OO per
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      828 28  -  TO ASUUQVB ZWDTOTB7: ONE YEAR AFTER VALUJET CRASH ValuJet tries to get its low-fare, no-frills service back on track by targeting smaller cities but with little success By\ Steve Matthews Bloomberg m Atlanta A YEAR ago, a burning ValuJet plane plunged into the Florida Everglades, killing
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        GLOBAL HOLIDAY
        165 41 Denmark Constitutional Day. Jmm7 Malaysia Birthday of SPB Yang Di-Pertuan Agong. Australia: Queen's Birthday. Hong Kong: Tuen Ng Festival. Taiwan: Dragon Boat Festival. 9mm 12 Philippines: Independence Day. JmM Hong Kong H.M.The Queen's Birthday. Ana SI Sweden: Midsummer Day. Ml Canada Canada Day. Jbl4 United States: Independence Day.
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        706 41 IW3 ngovt compiled by Cockett Marine OU Ltd. (bows price ranges In US doUan Inetaad at alnqte prtcea fcr a aeon rrmprs henelve deecnptkm of tht market Prion shown art baaed on average- i-ii •IXBO turn Mimv nonMnii are inamt ad. The Cockett Banker Price Index
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        VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
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        378 42 About 5,000 VIP guests will be going through airport to attend Jane 30 ceremony AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong's Kai Tak airport, to be demolished next year, is receiving a HK$9 million (551.66 million) facelift to deal with the thousands of VIPs
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        Lock icon China-made 100-seat jets to be in production by 2003
        183 42 Joint venture to preface 106 and 125 seat airliners Bernama-Xinhua [BEIJING] China will manufacture 100-seat aircraft by year 2003, the Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) has announced yesterday. A joint venture set up by the A VIC, the Science and Technology
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        Lock icon US GAO seen posing hurdle to BA, American alliance
        407 42 Airlines may be asked te give op seme landing rights NYT [WASHINGTON] The US General Accounting Office was expected to testify yesterday that it believes American Airlines and British Airways must give up a number of their valuable landing rights at
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        Lock icon BA chief meets EU commissioner
        161 42 Bloomberg [LONDON] British Airways chief executive Bob Ayling met Karel Van Miert, the European Union's competition commissioner, to discuss his concerns about the airline's planned alliance with American Airlines. The meeting was a chance for BA to address Mr Van Miert's objections to the reve-nue-sharing
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        76 42 [BANGKOK] Construction workers labouring on the long-delayed elevated road and rail project of Hongkong's Hopewell Holdings on Tuesday. The US$3.2 billion (SH6 billion), 60 kilometre project, which is set to link Bangkok international airport with the sites of events for the 1996 Asian Games, has been plagued by
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        Lock icon New Delhi defends air traffic control system
        385 42 AFP [NEW DELHI] India on Tuesday defended its air traffic control system, blaming sellers of aviation hardware for unfairly using the November mid-air collision that killed 349 to scare the public into thinking the system was at fault. India's defence came one day
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        145 42 AFP [BEIJING] A new airport in the south-eastern city of Fuzhou has passed initial inspection and is scheduled to open on June 23, the official China Daify reported on Tuesday. Changle International Airport, constructed at a cost of nearly US$3BO million (*****
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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        Lock icon Moody's cuts JAL rating on profit fears
        251 42 AFP [TOKYO] Moody's Investors Service Inc said yesterday it had cut the senior long-term debt rating of Japan Airlines Co Ltd (JAL) from "A 2" to "A3" on concerns about future profitability. The New York-based credit rating agency said the move was based
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      15 27 Vahget wings still dipped Carrier has had little success trying to get back on track.
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      47 27 KaiTak airport to got HEs9m facelift About 5,000 VIP guests will ber flying in to HK for handover ceremony. We can ship your cargo CrPRIBRI in the world. TKat'c ff»; a. -1 FAMOUS FREIGHT FORWARDING (S) PTE LTD Tel: 224 1833 (30 line») Fox: (65) 224 5755
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      537 33 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES JlpSt 80 ROBINSON ROAD, #22-02 SINGAPORE *****8 HOT UNE: *****33 (30 LINES) 4 SAILINGS A WEEK TO r-r S BANGKOK AND REGULAR SAILINGS TO '^CSabang 1 Y I /f FOR BOOKING At *****33 CONTACT AMY o P. KLANG PH: 0203/*****33 (20 LINES) PENANG PH: 0204/*****7 (10 LINES)
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      28 35 To retrieve more schedules, just follow these simple steps... 740-6000^^^^^^^ P the port Step Step key in the four number Mdigit code tor calls within Singapore UftftGd SfflteS
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