The Business Times, 26 November 1997

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  • 13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023^12/96 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26,1997
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  • 871 1  -  Anwar revokes waiver of mandatory offer to Renong's minority shareholders By Meera Tharmaratnam and R Sivanithy in Singapore CONSTRUCTION giant United Engineers (Malaysia) may have to fork out another 1.7 billion Malaysian ringgit (***** million) to mop up additional shares of its parent,
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  • 374 1  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur LOY Hean Heong, chief executive and major shareholder of Malaysia's largest finance company MBf Finance, died yesterday evening after a long battle with colon cancer. "Yes, he passed away," a spokesman told Reuters. She declined to disclose
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  • 395 1  -  Private sector likely to intensify lobbying efforts for a bail-out From S N Vasuki in Jakarta JAKARTA stocks fell 3.5 per cent yesterday as a senior central bank official clarified that Singapore's US$5 billion (SsB billion) standby facility cannot be utilised
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  • 240 1 (SINGAPORE] Finance Minister Richard Hu yesterday reiterated that Singapore's US$5 billion (SsB billion) loan facility to Indonesia is a second line of defence supplementary to the International Monetary Fund programme, and said he does not think the Indonesian government can call on this
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  • 421 1  -  From Yang Razali Kassim m Vancouver AS Pacific Rim leaders stepped up their drive to tackle Asia's financial crisis, Singapore has proposed a prompt global response that will also involve Europe. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong proposed this during breakfast talks between
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  • 181 1 {SINGAPORE] Tokyo stocks, Bpared the immediate backlash from Monday's collapse of Yamaichi Securities because of a market holiday, plunged 5 per cent in a massive selklown yesterday which sent regional markets reeling. Korean stocks were driven down for the third straight day on concerns
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  • 65 1 Reuters [NEW YORK] Wall Street stocks drifted lower in midday trading yesterday after an opening surge as inveetors ttt relief that the overnight sell-off in Japan was lees than feared. By 13 noon EST, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 9.94 points at
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 429 2  -  Plan fa* 'plurilateral' pact to promote Creator openness in industry By< Catherine Ong SINGAPORE and New Zealand have started exploring a novel proposal for a liberal air services agreement that involves more than two countries. The idea of a "plurilateral" air services
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    • 330 2  -  Basic infrastrnctori investments always necessary: minister By i Christopher Tan THE government is sticking to its rail expansion programme despite the current regional turmoil, says Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan. Mr Mah, who officiated at the ground-breaking ceremony of the MRT North-Bast
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    • 198 2 SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew leaves today for a twoweek working trip to Vietnam and China. In Vietnam, his first stop, Mr Lee will review the progress of the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park in Ho Chi MinhCity. Then he will fly north to Hanoi to
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    • 139 2  -  By\ Soh Tiang Keng NTUC Income has launched a worldwide medical insurance scheme to provide medical cover for Singaporeans working abroad and expatriates working here. This round-the-clock plan covers hospital care, organ transplants, emergency medical evacuation and repatriation, travel cost to and from place of
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    • 353 2  -  ETE OH THE ECONOMY Costs By Audrey Tan AN INCREASE in labour productivity helped push business costs down in the third quarter, leading the manufacturing sector's Unit Business Cost (ÜBC) index to fall for the first time since Ql 1996. Latest figures from
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    • 195 2 The Straits Times THERE is no need to refer the matter of whether parliament and the president needed to approve Singapore's US$5 billion loan (SsB billion) offer to Indonesia to a constitutional court, Attorney-General Chan Sek Keong has confirmed. He noted
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    • 162 2 PIDEMCO Land has bought a commercial site in London for £13 million (Ss3s million) from UK insurer Norwich Union Investment Management Pidemco will redevelop the existing eight-storey building in Finsbury Square into a nine-storey office tower. UK developer StanHope will assist in the
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    • 318 2  -  By. Annette Pau US-BASED Adaptec Inc will invest $25 million in a new manufacturing facility in Chai Chee that will boost production by 25-30 per cent when it is completed in 1999, company officials said yesterday. They were speaking to reporters at a groundbreaking
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    • NEWS Roundup
      • 53 2 IN December, civil servants will receive their usual year i*1 pajmanli efcaa month pafrpensionable annual allowance and lvt months annual variable component Thia brings the year's AVC to a total of two months aa monfh has already been paM In July. There wifi be
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      • 23 2 StoVEMA'aambaaaelir Vladimir Gasparic and the tiHgto Consmisatoner of Malaysia, Salim bin Hashim, presented their credentials to PisaMaiit Ong Teng Cheong yesterday.
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      • 23 2 iwra a m mmm m a a in» American HoDtssy wui D6 cjomq ionjofTuw icr Thanksgiving Day.
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      • 47 2 ——-jr- THE Aijfr—wofriy* Af+pctetinn V»ftfa»fci TnaparHnn fVmtrw fai Inrrsiting its inspection fcos from next Wefoeeday, in line with Singapore's other vehicle inspection centres. Fees fbr motorcydat will rtae to IIS. Peat Ibr cars, light goods vehicles and taxis will rise to ISO.
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  • MARKETS IN TURMOIL
    • 272 4 Bloomberg [VANCOUVER] Japan is in no danger of requiring a bail-out from the International Monetary Fund, like those requested by Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea in recent months, Deputy US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said. While Japan must reform
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    • 662 4  -  Growing pressure on govt to use public funds to shore up finance sector Reports by Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TOKYO stock prices crashed by a dramatic 5 per cent yesterday and the yen fell to a five-year low against the US dollar in the
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    • 461 4 But their 24% share exceeded by combined exposure erf European banks BIS report Reuters [ZURICH] Japan's beleaguered banks had the greatest exposure by a single country to South Korea at the end of 1996, according to figures from the Bank
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    • 294 4 Bat investment trust will continue white other units moll over their options THE fall-out from Monday's announcement of Yamaichi Securities' failure on the company itself was becoming very apparent by yesterday. Yamaichi Investment Trust Management said that cancellations of its money management
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    • 636 6  -  USs2ob may not be enongh to solve cnrrent crisis, says BOK governor By* Jennifer Veale and Louis Beckerling in Seoul SOUTH Korea suggested yesterday it would ask for as much as US$5O billion (SsBo billion) from the International Monetary Fund
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    • 397 6 KFB and Seoulbank likely targets for MIA: Morgan Stanley AFP [SEOUL) The central Bank of Korea (BOK) yesterday warned that some of South Korea's top five commercial banks were in danger of collapsing or becoming prime targets for restructuring. "The danger of insolvencies at
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    • 513 6 Execs worry IMF will make tough demands for bail-out Bloomberg (SEOUL] South Korea's biggest companies, the sprawling conglomerates known as chaebol, said they will scale back plans to expand as the country prepares to trade away years of economic growth for a
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    • 259 6 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's Finance Minister yesterday tried to stem a mini-run on banks here as stock prices tumbled and interest rates soared in panic over retrenchment measures tied to an IMF rescue package. "Please keep dealing with banks. Depositors
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    • 668 8 A difficult to convert currency helps cushion it from speculative attacks LAT-WP (BEIJING] As Asia's oncebooming economies continue to stagger and slide, one big question remains to be answered: Will China be next? At first glance, economists see that China's swelling economy has
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    • 346 8  -  Some may send teams over to learn from us, say officials By Bruce Cheesman in Taipei TAIWAN claims it has received top marks from senior South-east Asian government officials for its damage control during the currency and stock market meltdown. Several Asean leaders
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    • 115 8 Bernama [SEREMBAN] Malaysia's t)eputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said last night that financial institutions in the country remain sound although the currency and stock markets have come under attack by foreign speculators. Mr Anwar, who is also finance minister, said there was no reason for
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    • 218 9 Bernama [MANILA] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the Philippine central bank to stop intervention on the spot foreign exchange market for lack of proof that the local currency is in fact undervalued. "There is no strong evidence that the peso
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    • 335 9 Market forces more influenced by negative sentiment than fundamentals, lie says Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Economic adviser to the Malaysian government, Daim Zainuddin, said yesterday that the ringgit at its current level vis-a-vis the world's major currencies is grossly undervalued and definitely not at an ideal
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    • 723 9 Currency-led export wave will add volume to calls in US for protectionist moves IHT [SINGAPORE] East Asia's plunging currencies and shrinking economic growth prospects will result in a new wave of exports to the US, increasing political pressures for protectionist
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    • 253 9 Millions of construction jobs threatened by crisis AFP [JAKARTA] The economic crisis sparked by the July fall of the rupiah has forced up to 800 developers into bankruptcy and threatened the jobs of millions of construction workers, a report said yesterday. "The total
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  • APEC SUMMIT
    • 893 7  -  ATM SUMMIT Apec most come op with a solution to the financial crisis Reports from Yang Razali Kassim PACIFIC Rim leaders, put on the defensive by an unprecedented regional financial crisis, will take a bold stance today to lilt the gloom that
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    • 460 7 He expects package to remit in tnrnaroand in six months THAI Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, back in office just days before the A pec summit, will undertake a five-pronged shake-up of the economy under the strict supervision of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He
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    • 1120 7  -  Extracts of Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad's speech at the Apec CEO summit in Vancouver: Mahathir Mohamad's "AFTER socialism and nationalism fell into disrepute, the pendulum has been swinging further and further in the direction of privatisation and market forces. The pendulum is in
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    • 9 7 Bangkok oats W growth target to 0.6%, Pg 11
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    • 338 9 GIRARD-P E R R E G A U X Pushing the Limits of Time The quest for the ultimate timepiece has seen the limits of horology constantly being pushed by watchmakers keen to make their mark on the march, of time. And Girard-Perregaux has been at the forefront of this
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  • FOCUS: MONEY MATTERS
    • 1186 10  -  Businesses had better plan ahead as bail-outs mop up global pool of funds By Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] THE events of the last one and a half weeks portend an unpleasant new phase In global financial markets. Those who need the money may find it
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    • 533 10  -  Tell 9 ißwm SAP studies show 1.21% of AAA obligers defaulted compared with CCCs 43.7% By i Cecile Saavedra [SINGAPORE] The use of credit ratings is a relatively k new phenomenon in Asia as the fixed income market has significantly lagged equities in growth and development.
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    • 368 10 AXALTBB THE International Monetary Fund's huge US$200 billion (S$318.5 billion) tri membmhip quotas, at lint Hush, provides a huge pool of resources to act as international community's lender of last retort. Certainly, tor the troubled sovereign nation, the fact that toads can be obtained o» better terms
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    • 329 10  -  Compiled by Larry Wee ANZ Investment Bank (ANZ), Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (DMG). Independent Economic Analysis (IDEA), and MMS International Today: Third-quarter GDP growth widely expected at 3.5 per cent (compared to Q2's 3.8 per cent) while the price deflator is expected to be unchanged at 1.4 per
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 491 11  -  BANGKOK Govt says baht trading curbs will be lifted soon By Harish Mehta THAILAND'S new government has lowered its economic growth target for this year to 0.6 per cent ahead of receiving a second tranche of rescue fUnds from the International Monetary Fund
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    • 318 11 KUALA LUMPUR He has done great job in raising confidence level, says US envoy Bernama MALAYSIAN Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday spoke to multinational companies based in Malaysia, including American firms, and helped to boost their confidence in the economy in
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    • 250 11 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama FOREIGN Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday it is important for Malaysia and Singapore to be cautious and sensitive towards each other although the two countries have a long-standing relationship. "What is important is that we must be cautious. We
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    • 126 11 JAKARTA AFP STATE-OWNED Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) has uncovered an attempted fraud involving US$lO7 million (Ssl7l million) worth of false promissory notes, a report said here yesterday. "The attempt to falsify promissory notes was discovered by BNI about three weeks ago and now
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 514 12  -  TAIPEI Developers see big profits from dozens of new mails springing op over next 5 years By] Bruce Cheesman DOZENS of new department stores and shopping malls springing up in Taiwan over the next five years make Taipei a
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    • 145 12 BEIJING AFP CHINA has issued new ownership rules to end confusion in its urban housing market and replace temporary measures introduced in 1987, the China Daily reported yesterday. "To defend the interests of real estate owners and handle the mounting number of real estate
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    • 273 12 WASHINGTON AFP A US senator who recently returned from China said on Monday the controversial Three Gorges Dam will "contribute greatly to the quality of life" for Chinese and should have US support. Senator Frank Murkowski said it was "unfortunate"
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    • 286 12 SHANGHAI Capitol, Core Pacific to have rep offices inPndong Mew Area AFP THE People's Bank of China (PBOC) has given the green light for the first two Taiwan securities firms to open representative offices in China, news reports said yesterday. The China
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  • ASIA
    • 467 13 TOKYO Bank's downgrade a day alter Yamaiehi's collapse set to raise ■lore alarm Bloomberg STANDARD Poor's (S&P) cut Yasuda Trust Banking Co's long-term debt to junk status, saying it's concerned about the weak financial position of the bank, one of Japan's 20 largest.
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    • 271 13 PTOKYO Bloomberg JAPAN'S diffusion index for September showed weak sales, high inventories and slower production continued to hurt the economy, though the worst declines are over, government figures show. The leading diffusion index ,of indicators for September was 60, up from 25 in August,
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    • 138 13 SEOUL AFP SOUTH Korean prosecutors yesterday busted a ring of swindlers who cheated banks and businesses out of a record 375.2 billion won (*****.8 million), officials said. The alleged ring leader, Byun In Ho, 40, and eight accomplices swindled eight banks, netting 236.7 billion won, by
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    • 259 13 SYDNEY tUce row MP claims |o have received piany death threats Reuters t\ A bizarre move, Australian ce row politician Pauline Eanson has videotaped her st political will and testaent in case she is assassinated. The video shows Ms }ianson, a former fish and
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    • 353 13 TOKYO Former president, two others said they paid racketeer 368 m yen AFP THE former president of Japan's largest brokerage Nomura Securities Co Ltd, Hideo Sakamaki, and two other former executives pleaded guilty yesterday to making illegal payoffs to a corporate racketeer, or sokaiya.
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  • THE WORLD
    • 422 14 WASHINGTON Downward premue on import prins ft check on inflation: US economic adviser Bloomberg THE mounting economic crisis spreading across Asia will likely "check the momentum" of the US economy, slowing annual growth by as much as 0.75 per cent, US Council
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    • 320 14  -  NEW DELHI From Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi POLITICAL uncertainty in India showed no sign of ebbing last night alter the opposition Congress Party appeared undecided on whether to bring down the 18-month-old United Front coalition government. After adopting a hawkish stand
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    • 268 14 BOMBAY Currency's fell \ink*A to political turmoil, dealers say AFP THE Indian rupee continued its downward spiral against the US dollar yesterday but the country's bourses rebounded on hopes of a solution to India's political crisis, dealers said. The currency fell
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    • 176 14 VANCOUVER Bloomberg CHINA made an "important new offer" to speed its entry into the World Trade Organisation, said Dan TaruUo, top international economics adviser to US President Bill Clinton. Deputy Chinese Trade Minister and chief WTO negotiator Long Yongtu called
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 773 15  -  imp BOTTOMLDVB OPINION By Louis Beckerling The writer is a BT senior correspondent THE Korean Asset Management Corporation (KAMC) yesterday began buying bad loans off the books of Korean banks in an effort to keep the country's financial system afloat The bail-out is
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    • 128 15 'Whoever leads Apple has to be an industry leader and a technology leader. If s not the easiest job to filL' Lawrence Ellison chairman and chief executive of Oracle Corp when asked ifApple Computer Inc has a favourite candidate to be its next chief executive, although it
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    • 601 15 EDITORIAL IT is a great pity that just as President Bill Clinton is hying to reassert the role of the United States as the world's only remaining military superpower and its most dynamic economy, he is facing resistance over his foreign policy authority from the US
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    • 1061 15  -  All those countries expecting help from the IMF should also expect to submit to its conditions By] Paul Samnelson The writer isan economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This commentary first appeared in Los Angeles Times TODAY the world has arrived at an interconnected economy.
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    • 813 15 IT took a speech from United States President Bill Clinton to remind the world of one vital, but strangely neglected factor in the excess of debate over the Asian economic crisis. On his way to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-op-eration summit in Vancouver, Mr Clinton drew
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 255 16 HEALTH Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it had approved Meridia, a long-awaited new diet drug. The drug works on the brain to suppress appetite, according to the manufacturer, Knoll Pharmaceutical, a New Jersey-based unit of German company
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    • 918 16  -  A new Imax film chronicles the tragedy and majesty on the world's highest peak Everest sue plemdto reports SUE PLEMING Reuters WHEN disaster struck on Mount Everest last year, awardwinning US filmmaker David Breashears, a veteran mountaineer, put aside his Imax ■camera and used his expedition's scarce
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    • 852 18  -  SingTel's electronic commerce service Stems benefits both big and small firms, toh ham shih reports TOH HAN SHIH SINGAPORE Telecom's electronic commerce service Stems Interchange enables big firms like Singapore Airlines (SLA) and email local firms like Chew Wah to do commerce over the Internet,
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    • 504 18  -  By' Toh Han Shih {SINGAPORE! Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are proving to be a new cost-effective way for firms to have their private networks over the Internet. Most firms now lease dedicated lines from telecommunication companies (telcos) for their private networks. But according to
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      • 98 18 Here's a new Website for hungry stomachs. Singapore Feasting, at http://wwwJaesting.COTi; is the latest Website en thejocal food scene. You can browse through a list of restaurants and cafes, or look up your favourite pub in Singapore. Current food promotions are also featured and visitors to
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      • 89 18 Most businessmen would love to know how many Net users log on at any given time. Fbr some time, there was no slngfe authority monitoring Net traffic. But now there ia, or thafs what It seems. According to Nua Ltd, an Irish
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      • 104 18 A report from tba US Travel Industry Association aays that Americans are Increasingly turning to the Internet for their travel needs, instead of going through traditional travel agents. The report says that 14 million Americans will make use of the Internet togtfber Mfinttkmaad ->* plan for that
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      • 69 18 A Detaquest survey shows that Microeoft's Internet Explorer isgraduanycatchingupwith Netscape Navigator in the browser markat Currently, Mfcreaoft's market share standsatSM per cent against Netscape's 67.6 per cent. In Q4ISM* Microeoft's market share was just 20 per cent, againat Netscape's 73 per cent The report, which
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      • 79 18  -  OoapMUr Francis Ang Apple Computer has decided to emulate Dell Computer. It has opened a virtual store to peddle bufld-toorder systems. It is reportedly a bit hit Launched on Nov 10, The Apple Store poated«aH#of US$500,000 on Day One, chalktat up almoat IB per cent of
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    • 610 19  -  Percentage of regional loans is very small against its total loans portfolio, says bank By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank, which has been the most active among the six Singapore banks in loan syndication deals to Indonesia and South Korea, is comfortable
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    • 133 19 [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank yesterday announced the launch of an online investment service aimed at high net worth customers to better help them manage their investments, both locaUy and in the region. Called DBS Investor Online, the service provides mar-ket-related information for better investment decision making.
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    • 228 19 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Shares of Singapore real estate developers fell on concern that poor sales in recent months would hurt full-year earnings. The worry was renewed by a 40 per cent drop in first-half profit at Marco Polo Developments Ltd, announced on Monday. "Marco Polo's results weren't
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    • 812 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Lu Ning ONE-DAY plunge of 10 per cent in the stock market would shock Hongkong investors. But to the Chinese investor used to the antics of China's domestic investor-only Ashare markets, volatility of that magnitude is nothing special. Until
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    • 315 19  -  By Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] The justformed Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS), a body of the fund management industry here, is off to a quick start with plans for an investment seminar in February, its first chairman Elizabeth Sam said. Mrs Sam, also
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    • 365 19 Observers say CAM's inability to produce audited accounts could be major cause [SINGAPORE] Uraco's $48 million rescue of troubled CAM International is off. The precision engineering company and contract manufacturer yesterday said they had mutually agreed to end the deal because of
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
      • 381 20  -  Tat Lee nominee among those who quit but S'porebankto retain stake in KSIT From, Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE 14-member board of directors of a troubled Thai finance company including a nominee from Singapore's Tat Lee Bank resigned en masse yesterday
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      • 130 20 [SINGAPORE! THE Europa Group has announced the appointment of a new board of directors after its takeover of ice cream parlour operator ABR Holdings. Ang Yee Limhas taken over the helm as chairman, effective last Saturday The other three executive directors are Ricky Goh Hoon
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      • 353 20  -  By Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Diversified publisher Jack Chia-MPH yesterday announced a 22 per cent rise in group net earnings to $10.38 million at half-time. Reporting results for the six months ended Sept 30. JC-MPH said the jump in net earnings was achieved on
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      • 496 20  -  Framl S N Vasuki in Jakarta BANK Negara Indonesia (BNI), Indonesia's largest state-owned bank, yesterday reported a 19.9 per cent jump in net earnings for the nine months ended Sept 30. BNl's results were eagerly awaited by the market because it
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      • 201 20 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Shipping group Halim Mazmin has proposed to buy into Online Distribution Services, a private warehouse and transport company, in a move to quickly expand its logistics business. In a circular, Halim Mazmin told shareholders that it is buying 10.2 million
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      • 324 20 Indon banks have to gear up for tough competition, he says Reuters [JAKARTA] The head of Indonesia's Danamon Group yesterday described the link up between PT Bank Danamon and the Salim Group conglomerate as a strategic move to prepare for tough competition
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      • 154 20 [SINGAPORE] Fuji Offset Plates Manufacturing and its partners have entered into a sales and purchase agreement to dispose off their entire shareholdings in SDF-Scan Dairy Food Sdn Bhd (SDF-Scan) to Kerry Group BV of Holland. Fuji Offset said the jointventure partners'
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    • REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 512 23 Merger in October win create Japan's fourth-largest flews mmpany Bloomberg [TOKYO] KDD Co, Japan's largest international telecommunications firm, and Teleway Corp, controlled by Toyota Motors, plan to merge next Oct 1, a move which analysts describe as necessary to remain competitive in
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      • 589 23 Some turbulence but no cnuth landing expected Reuters [NEW YORK] Profits of USbased multinational companies will probably hit some turbulence next year partly due to overseas economic woes. But so far nobody is forecasting a crash landing. Jason Schrotberger, auto
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      • 326 23 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO) Computer chip giant Intel Corp announced a major reorganisation on Monday that included the creation of four new business groups, saying it needs to address the rapid segmentation of the PC industry. "The personal computer industry is large and growing rapidly.
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      • 143 23 Bloomberg [ROUND ROCK, Texas] Dell Computer Corp said fiscal third-quarter earnings surged 66 per cent, exceeding estimates, though economic turmoil held back sales growth in Japan and Asian countries. The direct seller of PCs reported net income of US$24B million (***** million), or
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 351 24  -  The Scottish fond manager will be the first pound sterling listing in Singapore By\ Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE] A secondary listing of Scottish fUnd manager Aberdeen pic on the Stock Exchange of Singapore will raise the firm's profile and build a base for the
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      • 204 24 Bloomberg [PITTSBURGH] Mellon Bank Corp agreed to buy United Bankshares Inc, a closely held bank in the Miami area, for an undisclosed amount in stock and cash. Pittsburgh-based Mellon, the 23rd-largest US bank, will gain US$B3O million (Ssl.3 billion) in assets and 11 branches
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      • 422 24 Such investments are seen to outperform stocks and bonds Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Institutional investors increased their investments in leveraged buyout funds and other private investments by 57 per cent in the last two years, a trend that's expected to continue, a
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      • 420 24 Reuters [WELLINGTON] Goldman Sachs partner Steven Shafran said yesterday that the US investment bank rued the day it invested in the New Zealand's Skellerup Group, now called Maine Investments. Capital Partners 11, a US$l.5 billion (552.4 billion) leveraged buyout fund
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      • 235 24 SSMEXReport Reuters [SINGAPORE] A liquidity squeeze in Japanese money markets yesterday hit Simex Euroyen contracts for nearby months, flattening the yield curve. Dealers said the squeeze, caused by the selling of yen for dollars in the wake of the failure of Yamaichi Securities and anticipation of
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      • 151 24  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURBS By Perry Gilbert vice-president, Refco Singapore Pte Ltd [SINGAPORE] The Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures contract closed marginally lower yesterday. The sharp decline in the Nikkei did not have a knock-on effect on Taiwan equities, with the Weighted Price Index closing up
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      • 215 24 ENERGY REPORT Reuters (LONDON] World oil prices eased slightly yesterday on signs of disagreement emerging among oil ministers from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) gathering in Jakarta for a meeting today. Prospects for an Opec scrap grew when Saudi Arabia
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      • 264 24 Bloomberg AFP London THE dollar was little changed against the yen in Europe amid concern Japanese institutions would sell their US assets and convert them to yen to help rescue the nation's struggling banks. The dollar rose as high as 128.05 yen, matching its highest since Aug 12,
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    • 2058 25 t»a h*» 31 Group 479 *8 Port* 273 6 AOPoy Notional 932 -21 AMod DwMcq S37 3 Amoc 12a 1 Asdo Group 160.400 2.400 BAT Ind j 532.400 1.600 BCPIc 269.400 -3 BICC 149.400 2.400 BOC Group 937 -2 BftPotroloum *94.400 -10.600 rr* 209 s Bonk o#
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    • 1582 25 Reuters □Nikie.226 -86M6 STOCKS plunged yesterday, the day alter the demise of Yamaichi Securities Co, Japan's big-gest-ever business failure. The yen briefly fell as far as 128.07 to the dollar, while the key Nikkei 225 average was down more than 900 points at one point The Nikkei eventually closed
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      1569 26 Reuters -260.80 STOCKS tumbled to a sharply lower close yesterday after a slide in Tokyo share prices spurred a drop in markets around the region. The Hang Seng closed on a loss of 260.80 points, or 2.46 per cent, at 10,325.56. Turnover was the lowest since April 7 at
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      569 26 Reuters n Shenzhen Binder -3.06 CHINA'S hard currency B shares plunged to new 1997 closing lows again yesterday as more foreign investors headed for the exits, brokers said. Sentiment was battered by a host of negative factors, including Asia's market crisis, the collapse of Japan's Yamaichi Securities and fresh
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    • 338 26 AFP QIPMa *3.72 TAIWANESE stocks finished barely higher yesterday in slow trading as most shares held ground despite lingering concerns over the failure of Japanese securities firm Yamaichi. "The market was still watching further developments and the effect of the Yamaichi case," said Miao Tai-sheng of Capital Securi- ties
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    • 252 26 AFP |3 Wellington -4L41 STOCKS fell 1.8 per cent yesterday to its lowest level in a month. The NZSE-40 Index fell 41.41 points to 2,282.82 on turnover of NZ592.9 million. New Zealand was halfway into its trading day when the Tokyo market opened, fuelling selling here. —AFP »■>» «n
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      793 26 AFP P SET latex -15J THAI share prices plunged 3.8 per cent yesterday to a new eight-year low because of worries about the troubled Thai finance sector and the regional economic turmoil, analysts said. Sentiment was undermined by the weakness of regional markets following the collapse of Japanese giant
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    • 396 26 Reuters POmpogtelalßi -ILO6 THE gloom in Seoul's stock and bond markets deepened yesterday with investors fearing the impact of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) bailout package on the economy, traders said. The Composite Index ended down 2.45 per cent, or 11.05 points, at 439.59, the lowest level since July
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    • 585 26 AFP QAD Ordinaries -27.7 SHARES slumped 1.1 per cent yesterday amid fears of a major collapse on Asian markets following the failure of Yamaichi Securities, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index, fell 27.7 points to 2,454.4. Turnover totalled 397.85 million shares worth almost A 51.25 billion. Reynolds and Co's
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      646 26 AFP Q Composite Index -14^3 SHARES fell 3.5 per cent yesterday, giving up most of the previous day's gains amid concerns over the fallout from the financial market turmoil in Japan and South Korea. Dealers said government support to shore up the market was unlikely and could be counterproductive
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    • 278 26 AFP CI Manila -36.62 SHARE prices fell 2 per cent yesterday on fears of poor corporate performance and a further depreciation of the local currency amid lingering concerns over the collapse of Japanese brokerage Yamaichi Securities Co Ltd. The Composite Index fell 36.62 points to close at 1,796.35. Volume
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 7430 27 (■■pHBMi ht v| $s j|fc- ■>£ rii,#- L M+ U» CIW>M| hn -000 MH> in P/l t~* 22 "2 li"" 1 2*3 -19 14 250 240 115 98 5 JJJ jgjg *45 -10 M 150 MS 4.3 213.8 *0' 22 A*a*ara*8MH 2lf -W 70 310 2*0 8.4 115.6 115 ?!S
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      • 468 27 Reuters AFP QOompoatebdn -21 MALAYSIAN share prices ended down sharply yesterday in line with other regional markets, but off the day's lows on a mild technical rebound in the afternoon, brokers and analysts said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended 5.08 per
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    • WARRANTS & OPTIONS
      • 3712 28 BOMBS. LOANS ft WARRANTS in >**7 Last Val Day Last Om>i A<t% Law Stna Company Sala *ar- I'OOOI Htfh Law Bwyar SaHar Prtca 68 18 m 3000 m A MOB cS.5%*****6 18c i 0.5 73 18 18 18 21 81 IS 3160 A Acar ******1USS 19 -15 34 19.5 19
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      • 167 28  -  WARRANT WATCH -ffyl R Sivanithy VENTURE Manufacturing has been relatively resilient in recent months, most probably because of expectations of superior future earnings. A review of its warrants is therefore in order. Venture's warrant is very deep-in-the-money its exercise price is $1.19 compared to
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    • 2229 28 MALAYSIAN STOCKS Or Or 1997 Last Vat Day Last Quota Okr Mr VM Nat MCap Ugh L— Stna Company Sala rOOO) High Law Buyar 8a8ar CT P/t 8« <78 783 m $5000 AISB 50« 87 cd 3 159 92 86 67 87.5 5.0 13 L3 315 89-2 137
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 1459 29 TUMOVIR 000) VALUC ('000) mil tm TtMi wm cm Tnw irxhutn* 64,942 47,100 11M42 K8.0M MOW 121,097 rkviKt 8,763 29,993 34,79* 9i247 22.4)4 77,444 HoUtt 2.104 492 3,000 t#7 J7* iff* EST 2 iS8 ?3S tSI t£ MMn* M8 Mf Ml 901 •LW 3,697 I2JN 19,993 '.499 3.421 MM Totol
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      • 4967 29 Or Or m Wt 1997 Lost V«i Day LMt Ouoto Mv OW YM Net Cap A** Mm Lw tt»a Ci—any u* rood Lp» »>y*r Ww H Cw P/t »J Prttp INDUSTRIALS 157 40 1020 ACC Dynamlcs60c 42 unch 100 45 40 40 42 34.4 43 5146 ASENTStO200 US-
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      • 1104 29 Or Or H It 1**7 La*t Val Bay Last Owtt Mv OK VM Mat Cap Avf HH» u» MM* fi«>m «aH COOOt H» Ua 8a1r It Of Wl Prtta 184 74 a 2000 AMMtpk M* -1 S00 ISO MO Ml M« U iO 0.1 212 9 MJ US Ml
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      • 201 30 Wtcto Votamo SinqTH ISc 19,363.000 met Capital 18,366,000 IKCorpnSc 10,755,000 *Mmong BM 50c 10,642.000 Hefcapacfflc Mi 10,122.000 •tenovestBM 8,774,000 •fronwt 4,522,000 •tenong WtOO 4,158,000 DBS LM4 3,829.000 *Sime Oarty 50c 3,785,000 UpdB SingTel 15c 58,496.070 SIA Foreign 24,238,504 OCSC Foreign 17,447,092 OB Foreign 15,628,028 ■Renong BM 50c 12,670,850 •Ml Capital
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      • 667 30  -  STOCK MARKET COMMEXTARY Adding to pressure for the Singapore market is the plunge in Malaysia caused by a further loss of investor confidence By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Tokyo's 5.1 per cent plunge yesterday combined with a further loss of conhdence in the
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        73 30  -  -by Shiv Taneja UIC closed unchanged yesterday at 70 cents on a volume of 1.52 million shares, compared with its 10day traded average of 932,500 shares. The stock is just (tff its tuxHind-a hatf year tow. and the mediumterm outlook is good Dally and weekly RSI and stochastics
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
        • 117 30 THE regional financial crisis has led not only to the devaluation of currencies but also to some restaurant bill* it teems. One restaurant. The Moomba in Boat Quay, sent a tongue-in-cheek circular to its regulars saying that it is feeling neglected by customers who are busy tackling
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        • 133 30 PSYCHOLOGISTS have a way of explaining just about everything, including why thousands ofHongkongers stormed Saint Honore cakeshops on Monday to turn in their gift coupons for cakes in a bizarre mil on the shops. According to the South China Morning Post, the strange behaviour is part of "defence
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        • 112 30 TALK about faux pas. On Monday while reporters and photographers were waiting for the chief executives of Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa to address them on their plans for their strategic alliance, they were entertained to some music But guess what tune they played? When somebody realised they were
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        • 160 30 NG Teng Fong, trendsetting property tycoon that he is, is the first mafor developer to adopt the SPQR method in Hongkong. SPQR—known hi the time of Julius Caesar as senate and people of Rohm now stands for small profits, Quick return. Mr Ng*s Sino group is
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        • 107 30 HOW times have changed. A report from Taiwan in mkl-October said a number of Taiwanese bigsbots —all big buyers of foreign bonds and other instruments— chartered a plane to Aseen in search of higher returns. Until the current regional crisis hit, these debts were, as a rute, issued
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    • 776 30 .BUSINESS Notices IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAPS* AND IN THE MATTER OP PANPAC XIN HUA PLAZA (S) PTE LTD (In Mesa hers' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OP SPECIAL RESOLUTION (Pursuant to Section 290(2Kb) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held at !6 Fan Yoong Road. Singapore
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    • 351 30 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 80 AND IN THE MATTER OF SUMIDA ELECTRIC (8) PTE LTD (IN LIQUIDATION) FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 308 of tho Companies Act. Chapter 50, that the final meeting of the member* of the abovenamed company win be
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 300 31 Bridge News Reuters FEW reports of concluded business emerged. Rates for handy-sized tonnage from the US Gulf are firming for prompt positions due to a lack of tonnage, brokers said. Fixtures TANKEBIk There was little excitement to surface the tanker market but there was a steady flow of
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    • 452 31  -  Shipowners concerned over Indon island's lack of transparency of rules for such activities By: Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Indonesian authorities are stepping up efforts to promote Karimun Island as a bone-fide area for ship-to-ship (STS) operations. PT Pelindo, the port authority of Indonesia, and the Indonesian
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    • 118 31 [SINGAPORE] First Lady Mrs Ong Teng Cheongyesterday named and launched the Sun Vista, thefirst Singapore owned luxury cruiser. Bought and refurbished at a cost of $120 million, the 700-foot vessel hopes to tap on the expected 30per cent growth in the cruise market for the
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    • 310 31 Country re-elected as member of IMO's board of directors Reuters [PANAMA CITY] Panama said on Monday it would back tougher rules being drawn up by the UN International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to improve safety and anti-pollu-tion standards. Panama, with the world's largest
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    • 356 31 Bernama [PORT KLANG] A salvage company will be hired soon to refloat the cargo ship An Tai, which sank in the North Port, here, on Sunday night, to restore operations at the Wharf 14, Transport Minister Ling Llong Sik said
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    • 226 31 Reuters [ROME] A merchant ship with 34 Italian crew aboard split into two in the Atlantic Ocean near the Portuguese Azores islands during a violent storm early yesterday, Italian port officials said. Rome port officials who picked up the ship's distress signal
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    • 197 31 Reuters [COLOMBO] A Sri Lankan trade union said yesterday its members will go on strike from next a month in protest against a deal to partly privatise Colombo port. The Ceylon Mercantile Union (CMU) said in a statement that its members will picket
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    • 95 31 [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation is providing a free shuttle service for visitors to the World Trade Centre this weekend from its PSA Building at Alexandra Road. PSA Corp said that the service was introduced in view of large crowds expected for exhibitions at the WTC,
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    • 844 31  -  STRAIT TALK By\ Seafarer IT WAS GOOD to see a conference really get to the heart of a con troversial shipping issue. The organisers of last week's World Tanker Outlook Boom or Bust? conference, held in London, scored a bull's
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      • 341 48 Deal with rival US pl&nem&ker may upset British firm's Airbus partners Bloomberg [LONDON! British Aerospace, one of four partners in planemaker Airbus Industrie, said it will supply wing parts for rival Boeing's 737 jetliner in an agreement that an analyst said could
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      • 179 48 AFXAsia [TAIPEI] Evergreen Group is to establish an aircraft maintenance joint venture here with US, European and Asian aviation firms, company officials said. EVA Airways Corp, an affiliate of the Evergreen Group which operates the world's largest shipping fleet, will hold a majority
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        46 48 fTURIN] An international jury has voted Italian Fiat Auto 'sAlfa 156 Car of the Year 1996. A Jury of 56 specialised journalists from 21 European countries gave the sporty saloon the prize ahead of the Volkswagen Golf and the Audi A 6. REUTERS
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      • 497 48 Reuters October was another gloomy month for Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd's passenger revenues, the airline's in-house newsletter says, warning staff they will not share in profits unless revenues improve and costs drop. "Japan continues to be our
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      • 124 48 AFP [ISLAMABAD] A South Kore-an-built 333-kilometre long motorway, described by the government as one of Pakistan's biggest development projects, wasopened yesterday. Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was to open the highway built by Daewoo Corp at a cost of around US$l billion (551.59 billion). The Lahore-Islamabad
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      • 116 48 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] An engineer inspecting construction work on the roof of the main terminal building at Hongkong's new airport at Chek Lap Kok. The airport will open on time in April despite reports the opening would be delayed for two months to wait for
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      • 164 48 AFP [BEIJING] China Northern Airlines will ply five new air routes connecting north-east-ern China to Japan and South Korea, the official Xinhua news agency said. China's Civil Aviation Administration has approved the new routes which will link the north-eastern Chinese cities of Shenyang,
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      • 305 48  -  Competition issues may arise from bilateral agreement By\ Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines' alliance with Lufthansa flew into some turbulence yesterday when German competition authorities said Lufthansa had not formally registered its strategic tie-up with the cartel office. A spokesman for the
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      • 215 48 AFP [BEIJING] The European aircraft consortium, Aero International (Regional), plans to transfer production of its ATR 72 regional transport plane to China, the English-language China Daily newspaper reported yesterday. "The study will be finished by the end of this year," said
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