The Business Times, 2 April 1998

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    12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MTTA(P) 110/12/97 85C SINGAPORE Internet http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes THURSDAY, APRIL 2,1998
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Asian stocks seen drifting after Q1 rally
    856 1  -  The worst did not happen, but a lot can still go wrong W Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Asian equity markets are not nearing the light at the end of the tunnel. Notwithstanding their remarkable strength in the first three months of the year,
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    Hopes fade for effective new IMF-Jakarta deal
    726 1  -  Rnpiah falls below 9,000; stock market closes 3J2% lower From, S N Vasuki in Jakarta INDONESIAN financial markets retreated yesterday on diminishing expectations of an effective deal between Jakarta and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF's deputy managing director, Stanley Fischer, arrives
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    Lock icon Jakarta won't create new currency pegged to US$
    125 1 Bloomberg {JAKARTA] Indonesia won't create a new currency and peg it to the US dollar as suggested by Johns Hopkins academic Steve Hanke, Bank Indonesia governor Sjahril Sabirin was quoted by Bisnis Indonesia as saying. The only option open to Indonesia is
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    Waterbank dangles rental guarantee for its condos
    415 1  -  Prices for King Albert Park units also down 20-25% By, Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Waterbank Properties is offering a twoyear rental guarantee for its freehold King Albert Park condominium in Bukit Timah possibly a first for a local development. The rental guarantee comes as
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    Lock icon The good apprentice
    65 1 [SEOUL] Suh Sang-rok, the former vice-chairman of the collapsed Korean steel conglomerate Sammi group, believes in thing his best whether in the boardroom or the dining room. One of the many South Korean executives who have fallen on hard times, Mr Suh, aged 62, says he considers
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    Thailand gets serious about privatisation
    623 1  -  Most board members at state electricity firm lose jobs From Bruce Cheesman in Bangkok IN a clear sign of Thailand's commitment to speeding up privatisation of state companies, the majority of the board of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) have been given their
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      121 1 msnxE The Singapore economy remained competitive last year, and continued to generate "adequate returns" fbr companies brae, says a study by the Department of Statistics, •I• > V .:A 1} Newly-listed Dragonland Ltd yesterday reported after-tax interim loss of (Lam, just months after its debut on the stock market, VgH
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      10 1 Liang Court holds on to Sarkies Rd project, Pg 4
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Economy still churning out adequate returns for firms: DOS
      434 2  -  Profit share of GDP relatively stable last year despite regional turmoil By Audrey Tan THE Singapore economy remained competitive last year, and continued to generate "adequate returns" for companies here, says a study by the Department of Statistics. The study shows
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      Lock icon DFS downsizes, retrenches to beat retail slump
      565 2  -  By] Frances Lui DUTY Free Shoppers (DFS) has scaled down its Singapore operations, including laying off about 70 people, in a bid to survive the retail slump which has crushed the high-end luxury goods market here. Saw Phaik Hwa, regional president of DFS,
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      Asem's success poses unexpected dilemma for Asean
      495 2  -  ASBM 11 SUMMIT Bigger summit making EU less keen on Asean dialogue By Yang Razali Kassim THERE are disturbing signs that Europe is downplaying its traditional annual dialogue with Asean now that a broader framework of ties has been achieved with the larger
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      14 people to get awards for their productivity ideas
      425 2  -  By < Carol Eng "LITTLE drops make an ocean," says Peter Lim, one of this year's 14 winners of the National Productivity Award in the individual category. The 47-year-old superintendent's suggestions hardly more than a dozen on productivity improvement have resulted
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      No layoffs at S'pore factory: Adaptec
      178 2 US-BASED Adaptec Incorporated, which is cutting its workforce, said yesterday there will be no layoffs at its Singapore factory. Responding to BT's queries, KY Lim, vice-presi-dent for Adaptec Manufacturing Singapore, said: "At this time, Adaptec Manufacturing Singapore is not affected (by the layoffs)." Adaptec's
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      Lock icon Pawn-shop loans up slightly
      313 2  -  EYE OX THE ECONOMY Finance By] Frances Lui BUSINESS was virtually flat for the pawn shop Industry last year, with total loans handled growing barely one per cent to 52.15 billion. The moneylenders gave out loans of $1.13 billion last year, 3.3 per cent higher than
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      We'll up COEs only if car usage falls 10-20%: Mah
      471 2  -  Traffic volume on ECP down 17% on first day of EBP By i Christopher Tan EXTRA COEs will be released only if the electronic road pricing scheme manages to take 10-20 per cent of vehicles off the road. Communications Minister
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      Electricity demand firm despite regional crisis: PUB
      398 2  -  By] Ronnie Lim ELECTRICITY demand here has not fallen drastically since the regional crisis, the Public Utilities Board's chief executive Ong Ho Sim said yesterday when he announced the launch of the mechanism for a free market for electricity here. "Demand has dipped
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        June launch for M1's CDMA network
        62 2 MOBILEONE (Ml) will launch its 177 million Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) network in June and expects to invest another |66 million by the end of the year to expand the network's capacity. Chief executive officer Neil Montefiore said Ml expects to sign on
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        S'pore,Russia renew 1998 MOU
        44 2 A 1998 Singapore-Russia agreement that has benefited over 100 Singapore companiee exporting to Rusaia was renewed yesterday. Hie Memorandum of Understanding will give easy passags to Russia for products tested for saftty by the Singapore Productivity and Standards Board (PSB)..
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        Lower levy for skilled foreign workers
        47 2 THE cut in the skilled foreign worxer levy irom szuu to $100 per month, announced last November, took effect from yesterday. The reduction, which comes under the skilled levy scheme, will be extended to all other sectors, including manufacturing and aervicee.
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      72 3 i Tomorrow another great investment in Singapore will be made. No matter what practical advancements we make, they are of little use without skilled, capable people. That's why, from tomorrow we'll be training a local and regional group to be the telecommunications leaders of Asia at our Asia Pacific Training
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Liang Court not selling Sarkies Rd project
      483 4  -  The Balmoral area, with 500 units coming up and 700 already launched, has seen poor take-up rates By. Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] Liang Court Holdings has decided to hold its 32unit Sarkies Road project as an investment property rather than sell it, given
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      Property values lose 8% in Q1
      459 4  -  But consultants say slide for rest of year will be more controlled By Diana Oon [SINGAPORE] Property values fell by an estimated 8 per cent in the first three months of this year, but a more controlled slide is expected for the rest of
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      Ardmore Park different proposition: JLW
      520 4  -  urrrims to the editor Christopher M.G. Brown Chairman Jones Lang Wootton I WRITE in connection with your article of March 30 concerning Ardmore Park and the response from David Lawrence of Marco Polo Developments. As the lead agents on Ardmore Park and as major players
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      The editor replies
      86 4 We'd like to point out that property market participants have never respected the distinction in economics between a marginal price and an average price. They almost always take the last transacted price as the benchmark or going price until the next transacted price comes along. We've had
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      Agreeing to disagree over analysis
      339 4  -  D J Lawrence Managing Director Marco Polo Developments I THINK we have, in good humour, "agreed to disagree" over your method of statistical analysis whereby, by your own admission, you take a sample of 50 units (I am sure coincidentally these are about the 50
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      House Hunt
      975 4 Property transactions for ctstricts 09 and 10 (sectors 22 to 23 and 24 to 27) lodged between Jan 12 and Mar28,1996 mOJKTNMC/ PflOP CONTRACT TENURE BULT-W ffKE PSF STREET NAME TYPE DATE LAND AREA* (SOFT) (STOOO) (St) District 09 Aspen Ht Apt 26-12-1997 999 1324 1200 906 Aspen
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      198 4 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE I CENTRAL I LOCATION Built-in 360,000 sq ft •Land area 230,0005q ft •Tenure Balance 33 years No ground rent payable 3 mins walk to MRT Within established housing estate Main road frontage Suitable for light/high-tech industries Sale lease back or vacant possession For more details, please
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      9 4 tßu&iness/ Seroice&J^HKlucts^ HBVM The Straits Times Classified Classifications 201-266
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Sedition: DAP MP gets 18 months
      513 5 KUALA LUMPUR Lim Guan Eng loses first round appeal; court sets aside fine but imposes jail term Reuters A MALAYSIAN court yesterday sentenced an opposition leader to 18 months in jail in a sedition case that has attracted international attention. Judge Gopal Sri Ram
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      Lock icon Poor turnout at Vietnam's oil and gas expo
      333 5 HANOI Only 25 exhibitors in show versos 100 four years ago AFP VIETNAM'S Oil and Gas Expo opened yesterday to a near empty exhibition hall in a sobering reflection on what was once one of Vietnam's most promising industries. "There are no
      AFP  -  333 words
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      Lock icon Police stop rival demos outside Ranariddh's hotel
      183 5 PHNOM PENH AFP CAMBODIAN police yesterday broke up two demonstrations that threatened violence between supporters and opponents of deposed co-pre-mier Prince Norodom Ranariddh. Twice tension mounted outside the Phnom Penh hotel where the prince has been staying since his return on Monday. Armed
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      Lock icon Malaysia firm on deporting illegal immigrants
      271 5 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA yesterday stood firm insisting all illegal immigrants will be deported, including those from the troubled Indonesian province of Aceh who claim their lives may be in danger if they return home. Abdul Rahim Noor, in-spector-general of police, said all foreigners
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      133 5 "r-* Lefs talk. Surviving today's global marketplace means having a truly global communications network. And there are a lot of people out there offering it to you. Or, rather, there are a lot of people claiming to offer it to you. What they might provide is a single contact, but
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  • MARKETS IN TURMOIL
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      World Bank holds meeting on social impact of Indon crisis
      348 6  -  From Leon Hadar in Washington THE World Bank was due to have hosted a coordination meeting on Indonesia yesterday to discuss the major social impact of the current economic difficulties in the country, and to exchange views on possible responses,
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      Lock icon Series of crashes marks first day of Japan's Big Bang
      657 6  -  Leading finance firm declares bankruptcy while Nikkei, yen take another dive From. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo NOT with a bang, but rather a series of crashes was how Japanese markets entered their first official day of the nation's Big Bang
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      New Thai bankruptcy law out soon
      284 6  -  Act provides for rehabilitation, quick processing of cases By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Thailand's new Bankruptcy Act, eagerly awaited by creditors, is expected to come into effect any day now, said a Thai legal adviser. "It could be today or tomorrow. When I checked
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      Outcome of M'sian merger plans uncertain: analysts
      518 6  -  Haggling overvalue, exposures may delay plans, say From] Ruth Wong m Kuala Lumpur ALTHOUGH the consolidation of Malaysia's crowded finance sector has taken a big step forward, analysts say some problems lie ahead. "We are not advising our clients to get warm and
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      Jetro identifies four causes of the Asian currency crisis
      477 6  -  Over-inflated wages, over-rigid US$ link among reasons cited From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo A potentially controversial report which challenges orthodox views on the causes of the Asian currency crisis has "been drawn up by the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro), for
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      Lock icon Thai Exim Bank signs US$1b private loan
      266 6 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] The Export-Im-port Bank of Thailand yesterday signed a US$l billion (511.6 billion) five-year loan that is co-financed and guaranteed by the Asian Development Bank. This is the largest private credit since Thailand devalued its currency on July 2. The loan is
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Great wall of investment
      708 8  -  CHINA WATCH MXTCs are weighing In with billion -dollar prqfects In China By Lu Ning JUST as the Asian financial crisis is expected to bite into foreign capital flows into China, there has been a string of high-profile investments by some of the most powerful multinational
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      Lock icon US largely satisfied with how China rules HK
      326 8 WASHINGTON Reuters THE United States is largely satisfied with how China has acted towards Hongkong in the first nine months that the former British colony has been under Beijing's control, US officials said on Tuesday. Although there are some cases concerning the
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      US hypermart group may ditch NT$10b investment
      462 8  -  PriceCostco, like Bayer, being blocked by local officials From Laurence Eyton in Taipei THE US-based PriceCostco hypermart group is considering suspending a NT$lO billion (***** million) investment plan in Taiwan now that a local political squabble has delayed the building of its second
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      Lock icon HK holding first post-handover polls
      222 8 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG officials were putting the final touches yesterday to preparations for the start of the territory's first poet-colonial elections. Constitutional Affairs Secretary Michael Suen toured the central counting station, where a 1,400-strong team will compile the results of today's poll. In the first
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon BOJ retains top echelon, dispelling talk of reshuffle
      374 9 TOKYO Resignations of governor, deputy over bribery scandal appear good enough Bloomberg THE Bank of Japan left its upper management intact for the new financial year, signalling its position that the resignations of the governor and his deputy last month were enough
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      Lock icon Japan business confidence seen at lowest since Sept '94
      375 9 TOKYO Quarterly tankan survey is to be released today AFP JAPAN'S key tankan survey of business confidence is likely to be the worst for nearly four years, analysts said yesterday, on the eve of its release and as the economy slipped
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      Lock icon Aussie govt gets second poll trigger in Senate vote
      314 9 CANBERRA Senate mom mean Howard can dissolve both houses any time Reuters AUSTRALIA'S parliament yesterday handed the conservative government another trigger for an early election expected later this year. The upper house Senate rejected for a second time a government bill
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      Lock icon Kim to unveil steps to boost economy after Asem
      268 9 SEOUL Reuters SOUTH Korean President Kim Dae Jung planned to announce "dramatic measures" to boost the ailing economy after he returns from the Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem) in London, Seoul media said yesterday. "Unemployment and an economic slump are the biggest issues
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      Lock icon Kings of the walk – one last time
      68 9 Kings of the walk one last time [NAGASAKI] King penguins walk past visitors at an aquarium in Nagasaki, south-western Japan. The penguins made their farewell parade on Tuesday, theaaquarius last operating day. The aquarium is being forced to shut down after 39 years because of a shortage of funds. The
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      Lock icon Intel considering A$6b plant in Australia: report
      213 9 USYDNEY AFP GIANT US computer chip maker Intel Corp is reportedly considering investing up to As 6 billion (556.4 billion) in Australia in a massive manufacturing facility. The Australian Financial Review said the state of Victoria was on Intel's short list for a
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      Lock icon Indian businesses hail govt's price cuts
      237 9 BOMBAY AFP AN INDIAN industry and trade association yesterday welcomed New Delhi's decision to cut petroleum product prices as part of measures to reduce price controls. Industrialist Ram Gandhi, president of the Indian Merchants Chamber, said: "We welcome the move. It should have come
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  • THE WORLD
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      Fed leaves rates intact as analysts debate its next move
      676 10  -  Question facing Fed, economists is how severe the Asian crisis impact will be From, Andrew Marks in New York THE Federal Reserve's poli-cy-making committee on interest rates faced with a strong economy, slowing inflation, and continued uncertainty of the impact
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      Lock icon US output new orders expand in March as prices stay tame
      435 10 WASHINGTON NAPM index climbs to 54$ leading indicators up by more than expected Bloomberg A CLOSELY watched gauge of US manufacturing advanced in March, reflecting strength in both production and new orders while prices were tame. The National Association
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      Lock icon US govt needs US$5b to defuse Year 2000 bomb
      490 10 WASHINGTON Study says efforts to correct bug will slow productivity, growth Bloomberg US taxpayers will pay more than US$4.7 billion (517.6 billion) as the federal government tries to correct the Year 2000 computer bug, said Franklin Raines, director of the White
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      Lock icon Controversial dome
      68 10 [LONDON] A general view of Britain's controversial Millennium Dome at Greenwich, in south-east London, as work began on Tuesday to suspend the 100,000sq m Teflon-coated canopy from twelve 100m-high steel masts. The dome, which willform the centrepiece of Britain's celebration of the millennium, remains steeped in political controversy
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      Lock icon UK exporters continue to press for rate cut
      312 10 LONDON AFP BRITISH exporters and manufacturers continued yesterday to pressure the Bank of England for a cut in Interest rates that they say have pushed sterling to cripplingly high levels. Confederation of British Industry director-general Adair Turner told a CBI meeting late
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      Lock icon Russia's political limbo could slow reforms, says IMF
      310 10 MOSCOW Reuters THE International Monetary Fund is concerned Russia may lose time reforming the economy as a result of political uncertainty following the government's dismissal, the IMF's Moscow representative said yesterday. But Martin Gilman said in an interview that Russia could find
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      Lock icon Lebanon pullback: security cabinet okays plan
      318 10 JERUSALEM AFP ISRAEL'S "security cabinet" approved yesterday a 20-year-old UN resolution calling on the Jewish state to withdraw its troops from Lebanon. The inner cabinet gave unanimous approval to a proposal by Defence Minister Yitzhak Mordechai to implement UN Resolution 425 on condition that
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Yangon can't afford to close doors to trade
      718 12  -  THE BOTTOMLXMB OPINION By Ronnie Lim The writer is BT's trade and industry editor IN sharp contrast to Yangon's ever-resplen-dent Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Myanmar seems to be losing its glitter, as foreign investors shy away. The country is dancing to a different
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      125 12 4 I can't imagine anyone spurning me, can you? But if they did, I'd cut more than theirtieinhalf.' -j«m Coffin. assertive British author and actress. This is just a spat, a quarrel between doctor and patient And we have a very unpleasant doctor here.' Sarwoao KmHimaatnuutya former
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      Malaysia's illegal immigrants
      614 12 EDITORIAL Malaysia's decision to deport all illegal immigrants would have been difficult to implement even in the best of circumstances. Given the way the situation has worsened over the years, the exercise is likely to be protracted and perhaps, in the end, impossible. Indeed, Malaysia's illegal immigrant
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      Lock icon It's Asia's turn to woo Europe in Asem n
      825 12  -  Both benefit more from closer ties than by turning away from each other By Yang Razali Kassim The writer, BT's regional analysis editor, is in London to cover the Asia-Europe Meeting WHEN the first Asia-Europe summit was held two years ago
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      815 12 OommittM most avoid haste THAILAND'S National Forestry Policy Committee is to consider a proposal from Agriculture Minister Pongpol Adireksarn to scrap three Cabinet resolutions adopted by the Chavalit Yongchaiyudh administration last April. Of particular interest is the April 22 resolution reached at Wang Nam Khiew district
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Time to elevate status of bikers
      1272 14  -  Rev up and be counted, says Christopher tak, as he takes a look at some of the newest machines set to come in over the next few months CHRISTOPHER TAN HOW that it has been officially decided that motorcycles occupy half the space of
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    • BUMPER to BUMPER
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        New financing package for Rover 600
        154 14 INTRA-MOTORS has introduced a finance package for its Rover 600 that "waives" Instalment payments for the first year—hot on the heels of a "zero-interest" package Performance Motors Just started for the BMW 3161 (incidentally, the remaining 300-plus units have been sold). The deal offers
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        Borneo Motors gives out free CashCards
        51 14 TOYOTA agent Borneo Motors gave out some 1,200 Cash Cards yesterday, the first day of Electronic Road Pricing on the East Coast Parkway. The company had actually set aside 2,000 pieces of the card, each with a stored value of $7, to be given
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        BMW earnings surge 52%
        78 14  -  by Christopher Tan BMW AG last year chalked up revenue of over 60 billion marks (S$S2.4 billion), up 15 per cent Net earnings catapulted by 52 per cent to more than 1.2 billion marks. This was despite continuing losses in subsidiary Rover Group, and heftier labour
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      Brokers riled by SES' Internet share trading plan
      732 15  -  IT professionals more receptive, and plans likely to win strong govt backing By' Ven Sreenivasan, Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE! Stockbrokers are up in arms over a reported plan by the Stock Exchange of Singapore to introduce Internet share trading. "SES is trying
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      ABR places out 4.3m shares with Kay Hian, Kim Eng
      155 15 [SINGAPORE] Broking firms Kay Hian Pte Ltd and Kim Eng Securities will subscribe or procure subscriptions on a bought deal basis for respectively 2.3 million and two million new shares of five cents each in food and entertainment group ABR.
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      HK's local investors turn out to be bourse's main players
      725 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Quak Hiang Whai THE Hongkong bourse is widely seen as Asia's most liquid market. It is also the market with the shortest memory, with huge foreign funds supposedly coming and going and dictating the mood and market
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      Dragonland posts $2.3m after-tax interim loss
      442 15  -  It's still sticking by its $&37m earnings forecast for full year Teh Hooi Ling NEWLY-LISTED Dragonland Ltd has announced interim losses just over a month after its debut on the stock market. But the developer, which specialises in township developments in China, is sticking
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      Rafiq quits as director; Scotts gloomy on forecast
      307 15  -  By, Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Former Scotts Holdings chief Rafiq Jumabhoy has resigned as a director of the company. In a separate announcement, the company explained why it no longer expects to meet its original forecast of improved results for the current year.
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      NOL shares sink 8% on news of huge losses
      225 15  -  By i Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The shares of Neptune Orient Lines lost over 8 per cent of their value yesterday, after Tuesday's disclosure of the massive cost of restructuring the company following its takeover of APL Ltd, a US logistics and
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        Ting casting for funds after Ekran rights flop
        422 16  -  He may rework earlier plan to inject Assets into Ekran for RM9OOm: sources From. Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur SARAWAK tycoon Ting Pek Khiing is looking for fresh ideas to raise capital to finance a poorly received rights issue even as his
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        Lock icon Nissan suffers 50.5b yen book loss
        224 16 AFP [TOKYO] Nissan Motor Co Ltd said yesterday it had suffered book losses of 50.5 billion yen (Ss6l2 million) on its securities holdings at the March ending of the latest financial year. "The company incurred most of the appraisal losses on bank and other
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        IPC shares lose 8% to 17 cts after poor profit report
        414 16  -  By- Annette Pau (SINGAPORE) IPC Corps shares yesterday closed 8 per cent down, or 1.5 cents at 17 cents, after hitting as low as 15.5 cents during the day. The mainboard-listed stock was the third most actively traded counter
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        Lock icon Innovest's pre-tax operating profit down 48%
        122 16 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Innovest Bhd recorded a lower group pretax operating profit of 49.4 million Malaysian ringgit (5521.9 million) for the year ended Dec 31, down 48 per cent from the RM94.4 million achieved in 1996. Announcing its unaudited results yesterday, it said group
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        Electrical cabling maker Tai Sin gets listing nod
        300 16  -  Sesdaq-boandfirm has 10% of domestic ■arhrt hmd By] David Boey [SINGAPORE] Tai Sin Electric Cables Manufacturer will plug into the Stock Exchange of Singapore's second board within the next few weeks and will leverage on the "survival rate" of companies in its
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        Retail investors get 63% of Li Xin's public tranche
        255 16 [SINGAPORE] Investors who successfully applied for up to 49,000 shares in plastics injection moulder Li Xin Industries' initial public offer will together receive the lion's share, or 63.2 per cent, of its public tranche. Applications for 1,000 to 49,000 shares have
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        M'sian SC gets more powers to act against insider trading
        642 16  -  Disgruntled investors can also obtain damages from offenders By\ Meera Tharmaratnam in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA has given significant new powers to its regulators to act against a broader base of people involved in insider trading cases. Amendments to Malaysia's securities
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          Hospital Pantai ups Asiamatrix stake
          60 16 [SINGAPORE] Malaysian-listed Hospital Pantai has upped its stake in Sesdaq-listed Asiamatrix from 20.34 per cent to 20.44 per cent. Asiamatrix said yesterday Hospital Pantai had through Pantai Healthcare (Cayman) bought another 30,000 shares at nearly $2.50 per share. Hospital Pantai has been accumulating the shares
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          Hong Leong Asia wins HDB contract
          80 16 [SINGAPORE] Hong Leong Asia Ltd has won an HDB contract to supply pre-fabricated building components to three residential areas. The contracts are worth a total of $16.9 million. Hong Leong will supply 42,0005q mof wall facade elements, 224,000 sq m of floor panels and
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          Tampines Mall gets a new feel
          103 16 [SINGAPORE] Tampines Mall has officially opened Garden Walk at its Basement One. The four-month renovation project was undertaken to introduce the Garden theme to the Midi and the result is an improved atmosphere, allowing shoppers to browse in a more relaxed setting. Enhanced features
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          One-for-five bonus issue by Want Wast
          64 16 [SINGAPORE] Rice-cracker maker Want Want Holdings has proposed a bonus issue of one new share for every five shares hekL The bonus shares will increase the company's issued capital by 96.11 million shares or U5519.62 million (5531.7 million). The bonus shares will not be
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          Lock icon MPH to enter educational books
          50 16 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Singapore's Jack Chia-MPH Ltd intends to expand its publishing capabilities to educational books. It said subsidiary MPH Education (S) Pte Ltd will publish these books following the decision by Singapore's Ministry of Education to open the school textbook market to commercial publishers. Reuters
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          NatSteel unit to buy Hungary property
          67 16 [SINGAPORE] Nat Steel Electronics sakl wholly-owned Nat Steel Electronics Hungary Manufacturing, incorporated in Hungary, is buying a property comprising land and buildings with an area of about 66,000 sq min the country. The price 0f440 million Hungarian forints (inclusive of VAT) —about 553.4 million—will
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          Appointments & resignations
          79 16 Appointments resignations [SINGAPORE] Keppel Land has appointed Khor Poh Hwa director. Mr Khor, 48, who has been appointed CEO-designate to spearhead the corporatisation of the commercial functions of the Public Works Department (PWD), is currently director, specialist services division of PWD and chief information officer. Ho Wah Genting International said
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        Lock icon Cosco Int'l unit wins HK$818m building deal
        151 16 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] Cosco International Holdings Ltd said its wholly-owned Shun Shing Construction and Engineering Co Ltd has been awarded an HK$BlB million (*****.6 million) construction contract by the Hongkong Housing Authority. It said in a statement yesterday that Shun Shing will undertake the
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        Lock icon Coke chief says Asian slump won't deter investments
        345 17 US giant upbeat, about China reforms opening upmarket opportunities Reuters [TAIPEI] US beverage giant Coca-Cola Co's chairman Doug Ivester said yesterday that Asia's financial turmoil would not deter its investment plans for the region, and that China's economic reforms could open market
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        Lock icon Mitsubishi's Aussie unit returns to the black
        208 17 AFX-Asia [ADELAIDE] Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd said it posted a 1997 net profit of Aslo6 million (Ssll3 million) after a loss of As6o million a year earlier. Managing director Mike Quinn said the 1997 results reflected an improved sales performance in both the
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        Lock icon Kia talking to Scania, Bectel to sell Asia Motors: report
        339 17 Group signs 3-year export deal with Iran state firm AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's ailing Kia Group is negotiating with Scania AB of Sweden and Bectel of the US to spin off its truck and commercial vehicle arm, Asia Motors Co,
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        Lock icon IBM, Sun plan new operating system
        270 17 Reuters [NEW YORK] International Business Machines Corp and Sun Microsystems Ine were to announce later yesterday that they will jointly develop a computer operating system based on Sun's Java programming environment. Executives for Sun and IBM expected to roll out the system in mid-1998.
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        Lock icon Netscape releases browser codes as Net war hots up
        193 17 Reuters [MOUNTAIN VIEW, California] Netscape Communications on Tuesday released the programming codes of its Navigator and Communicator browsers on the Internet to try to stop its market share slide to Microsoft. It was the first time a major software company has
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        Lock icon Brooke's Q4 loss widens as sales fall
        156 17 Bloomberg [MIAMI] Brooke Group Ltd said its fourth-quarter loss widened, as its Liggett cigarette unit continued to lose sales. Brooke Group, which makes Chesterfield and Lark brands, said its loss widened to U5526.6 million (Ss43 million), or US$l.47 a diluted share, from US$2O.3
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        Lock icon Coca-Cola Amatol's Q1 sales firm
        355 17 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd, the largest Coke bottling company outside the US, said sales in the first quarter in the Philippines increased by a third while Indonesian sales held steady. "Early indications for Co-ca-Cola Amatil's 1998 performance are good and you will be encouraged
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        Lock icon Syntroleum to go public with SLH merger
        312 17 Bloomberg [TULSA, Oklahoma] Closelyheld Syntroleum Corp will merge with its largest shareholder, SLH Corp, to become a public company, giving it US$5O million (5580.7 million) to invest in plants using its much touted, yet unproven technology for turning natural gas into diesel fuel
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        Lock icon Daiichi to fold up, ending restructure efforts
        263 17 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japanese real estate loan and sales company Daiichi Corp will liquidate, ending its efforts to restructure under mounting bad debts, managing director Tsuneo Matsuda said. The company said it will meet the press at 3.30 pm Japan time yesterday at the
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        Lock icon Bangkok Bank puts Union Asia up for sale
        389 18 Bank also rethinking pledge to take np unsubscribed shares in finance unit's Dec rights issne Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Bangkok Bank, Thailand's largest bank, is selling yet another subsidiary Union Asia Finance. Union Asia and the bank are "negotiating with some potential partners", Union
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        Lock icon Bankers Trust cuts loan syndications
        298 18 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Bankers Trust is cutting back its Asian loan syndication business to devote more resources to other services, such as mergers and acquisitions, a bank spokeswoman said. Michael Tse, a Hongkongbased managing director and head of loan syndication in Asia, left the firm amid
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        Simex trading volume up 24% in Q1
        183 18 [SINGAPORE] Total trading volume on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) rose 24 per cent during the first quarter of this year. Simex also reported strong first-quarter turnover growth for individual products during the quarter. Trading volume for all products from January to
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        Lock icon An agenda of their own
        53 18 [BRUSSELS] Irish farmers demonstrating outside the building where European Union agriculture ministers met in Brussels on Tuesday. The farmers were protesting against the reforms to EU agriculture polity, called Agenda 2000, which callsfor cuts in cereal, beef and dairy intervention prices of up to 30
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        Lock icon New junk bond issues worth US$4b expected in US
        394 18 Still strong demand for high-yield investments Reuters [NEW YORK] The US junk bond market is expecting about 20 new issues totalling more than US$4 billion (556.5 billion) to price this week as the appetite for high-yield investments remains strong, sources said.
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        Axa Life and OUB Manulife cut bonus rates for policies
        295 18 [SINGAPORE] OUB Manulife and Axa Life Insurance will cut bonus rates for their life insurance policies this year. Plans for their imminent cuts revealed to BT yesterday come in the wake of a warning on Tuesday by the Life Insurance
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        Lock icon Euroyen and JGBs higher
        190 18 SXHELReport Reuters [SINGAPORE] Siraex Euroyen and Japanese government bond (JGB) futures were lifted yesterday by more signs of weakness in the Japanese economy. Daiichi Corp, a Japanese non-bank lending institution, said yesterday it was preparing for dissolution under guided special liquidation procedures. Dealers said comments by
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        Futures still hit by earnings concerns
        163 18  -  l&Cl TAIWAN FUTURES Cecilia Loh Cecilia Loh, service dealer, Refco Singapore Pte Ltd. [SINGAPORE] The Simex MSCI Taiwan stock Index futures contract tumbled 2.10 points amid concern that first-quarter earnings of technology and computer companies may not live up to expectations. The cash index
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        Lock icon Oil market steady as Opec pact sinks in
        288 18 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil markets were steady yesterday as traders took another look at an Opec deal to cut production after disbelievers triggered two days of harsh price falls. Traders marked values more than a dollar lower on Monday and Tuesday,
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        274 18 Reuters THE dollar set two-and-a-half month highs against the yen, seven-month highs against the mark and near-eight-month highs against the Swiss franc yesterday, and its prospects look bright, analysts said. The dollar dropped from overnight highs of 133.85 yen after verbal intervention from Ministry of Finance official Eisuke
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      1581 19 Reuters, AFP Qnua -am STOCKS ended weaker yesterday, erasing gains earned on the previous day as a result of what appeared to be government help and reflecting the weakness of the Japanese economy, brokers said. The Nikkei Average fell 1.73 per cent or 285.51 points to 16,241.66 on the
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      1499 20 Bloomberg P Hang Seng -187.21 STOCKS fell, driving the benchmark index to its lowest in two weeks, led by HSBC Holdings pic and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd as borrowing costs rose. The benchmark threemonth interbank borrowing rate rose 30 basis points to 6.817 per cent, its highest in two weeks,
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      557 20 Reuters Source: Credit Lyonnsis Sec Asia CI Stenbcn Blatox -OH CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed lower yesterday due to disappointment over B share corporate profits, analysts said. Even the relatively solid profits of Shanghai market leader Zhejiang Southeast Power failed to overcome the general disappointment with earnings for
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      340 20 AFP nwphte -*m THE Taiwan stock market slipped 0.5 per cent as investors lost confidence amid thin turnover, dealers said. "Investors stepped aside as they had lost confidence due to lower turnover this week," said Clement Lou of Taiwan International Securities Corp. The Weighted Price Index dropped 49.66 points
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      629 20 AFP Qfi— -17.47 INDONESIAN stocks fell sharply yesterday on the first day of a troubled new financial year, with heavy profittaking and apprehension over negotiations with the IMF contributing to the falls. "People are still waiting for results (from the International Monetary Fund)," a dealer at a local brokerage
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      797 20 AFP P SET Met -154 THAI share prices slumped 0.5 per cent yesterday in slow trade as investors continued to digest new banking regulations and poor economic performance figures announced by the central bank. Analysts also blamed the drop in Thai share prices on similar declines in regional markets
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      273 20 AFP QlbmU -2L06 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 1.3 per cent lower yesterday due to profit-taking, pushed by a weaker peso and the approach of the Easter holidays. The Composite Index shed 29.05 points to close at 2,209.37 points. Turnover fell to 630 million shares worth 1.17 billion pesos. —AFP
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      404 20 AFP DOnpoßtiMß -1182 SHARE prices slid 2.7 per cent in light trade on the Korea Stock Exchange yesterday amid a lack of follow-through buying with customer deposits sharply diminishing, dealers said. "There were no negative leads to affect the market but subsiding buying demand unnerved investors about holding stocks,"
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      577 20 AFP flAlloriii>rie» +8.7 AUSTRALIAN share prices rose 0.3 per cent yesterday in mixed trade stunted by continued disinterest from offshore investors. The All Ordinaries Index rose 8.7 points to 2,752.9. The All Industrials Index climbed 17.1 points to 4,719.1, while the All Resources Index edged up 1.6 points to
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      241 20 AFP □Wellington +44.45 NEW ZEALAND'S share market rose 1.9 per cent yesterday largely on the rise of Telecom Corp, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Index was up 44.45 points to 2,332.72 on turnover of NZ$B4.3 million. Telecom expanded 25 cents to NZ$B.B7, having glimpsed NZ$B.95 mid-ses-sion.—AFP »i n* V- rtm
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        Lock icon Wembley failure drives market down
        375 21 AFP jyj Composite Index -19.47 MALAYSIA'S key stock index ended 2.7 per cent lower yesterday on fears of more corporate failures after the receivership of construction firm Wembley Industries Bhd, dealers said. Renewed concerns over banks' eroding profits due to higher provisions and a stricter
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        Tat Lee Bank wrt: risky but...
        174 22  -  WARRANT WATCH -By] R Sivanithy A BANK'S warrants are hardly what one would call a risky proposition, but it'd be apt to say that of Tat Lee Bank's 1998 instrument. It only has about five months left before expiry. The warrant is otherwise an
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      669 24  -  BTOGKMABKHT COMMENTARY Not helping is the poor crop of corporate earnings; STH and KLCI straggle to cling on to key levels By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] The Straits Times Industrials Index clung grimly onto the 1,600 mark whUe the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's Composite
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      HOT STOCK
      64 24  -  ■by J Shiv Taneja WING TAJ Holdings closed 14 cents lower yesterday at $1.44 on a volume of 6.38 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 6.85 million units. The daily RSI and stochastics are heavily oversold, but the outlook continues to be negative for the
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        Myanmar Sling
        54 24 MIX Singapore with Myanmar and guess what brew you end up with? Spotted in a hotel shop in upmarket Sedona Hotel in Yangon, was what at first looked like a bottle of Singapore Sling mixer. On closer inspection, it read "Myanmar Sling", reflecting perhaps Singapore investors' number two
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        Giving ERP a bad name
        192 24 TEETHING problems are expected, but this is ridiculous. A motorist called up on the first day of electronic road-pricing yesterday to say that he had encountered a technical fault When he went to a major in-vehicle unit installer at Bukit Batok, he was told by
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        Thai creditors,don't rejoice yet
        131 24 ONE old timer in corporate recovery had this word of caution for creditors who may be pinning too much hope of some salvation for their bad loans on the new Thai Bankruptcy Act which will be coming into effect any day now. The amendment has been
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        The race to be a rat
        72 24 JERRY Gregoire, chief information officer of Dell Computer Corporation, made too much of winning the rat race with the latest cure-all IT solution*. Mr Gregoire should know, since Dell is a major US computer maker that sells US$5 million (SsB million) a day of
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        Far-out forecasts
        161 24 THERE'S a zany-looking investment magazine called Taipan which comes out of Baltimore, Maryland, whose USP seems to be fer-out forecasts that "unmask the nonsense that passes for conventional wisdom". Here are some of its recent predictions: ♦By the year2ooo, Japan will return to economic powerhouse status, but the
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      493 24 /the companies ACT CHAPTER s<r SECTION 290(2Xb) NOTICK OF RESOLUTION KM DOW INVESTMENT PTI LTD (M MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraonfcnary General Meeting of KMor Investment Pte Ltd held at 8 Battery Road. *32-00. Singapore *****9. on the 24th day of March 1998. the toftowmg special resolutions were duty
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      656 24 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP. 981 AND IN THE MATTER OF RAPHAEL INTERNATIONAL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS'VOLUNTARY WINDING UP) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section .108 of the Companies Act C*> 50 that the Final Meeting of (he Members of the
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      302 25 Bridge News, Ratter THERE was thin trading again for Panamaxes and while rates were holding in the Far East, sources said due to the lack of activity levels could ease. After a slow start Biffex found renewed buying interest with the May contract pushing up 15 points to
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      526 25  -  Worst case scenario is -5% growth for this year, says shipping consultant By Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The Port of Singapore could see container throughput drop by as much as 5 p&- cent this year due to the region's economic crisis, according to
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      Boost for Fincantieri as gains dip
      143 25 [SINGAPORE] Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri's naval shipbuilding division has won a US$l.3B billion (552.2 billion) order from the Italian Navy to build two U-212 A class submarines. Jointly developed by the German Submarine Consortium and Fincantieri, the submarines will be built at Muggiano in Genoa
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      694 25  -  SHIPSHAPE By Felix Chan TO Sultan Bin Sulayem, competition and cooperation are two sides of the same coin. The 43-year-old chairman of the Dubai Ports Authority (DPA) believes that the evolving nature of the port industry today, coupled with the "commonality of
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      290 25  -  By] Felix Chan (SINGAPORE) The exhibition space at PSA Corp's World Trade Centre has been reduced by almost a third following the demolition of two halls to make way for the construction of the North-east MRT line. The demolition of WTC Halls 1 and
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      252 25 [HONGKONG] Hongkong's newly appointed director of marine Tsui Shung-yiu, has warned that ships not complying with ISM (International Ship Management) requirements would be detained if they entered Hongkong waters after July 1. Signalling a hard-line approach to non-ISM compliant %essels visiting the port, the
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      257 25 [SINGAPORE] The government of Panama h#s gone very quickly from little regulation of labour relations on board Panamanian registered vessels to a new law making obligatory for owners and operators to comply with Panamanian Maritime Labour Law. This comes with the enactment in
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        123 25 Reuters [TOKYO] Mitsui Engineering Shipbuilding Co Ltd said yesterday it may reduce its employees by tboutsoo toft total of 4,000 by the year to March 1001. It said It also planned to cut loans by 60 billion yen (***** million) to 210 billion
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        39 25 AFX-Asia [TAIPEI] Evergreen Marine Corp (Taiwan) Ltd said*' has decided to run a South America east coast-J4arsl». America route from May. The move to aimed it mimffwf increasing demands for this route, a company said.-AFX-AsUx
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        77 25 [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Yang Ming Marine Transport Dorp has entered into a container slot swap deal with Chfea's China Ocean Shipping Co for trana-PaciflesWpptaf routes. The deal allows Ming to carry between the US Pacific coast and Taiwan Coaco can carry Yang Ming cargoes on trans-Padflc routes,
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      981 26 LLOTD'SLIST LLP Group, publisher of the historic Lloyd's List, expects a market valuation of £125 million Bloomberg LLP Group, which is hoping to offer shares on the London Stock Exchange this month, is best known for publishing the venerable Lloyd's List. For more than two-and-a-half
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        1627 39 1CCCIYII— or EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booklnt/Batanct litis Ship Voy Wo Etb/Btr Nrtod Prow To Prow Aci uir 0021 01/2351 U OVHM 8VMM OVHM OI/IMO OVHM OVHOO a OVWOO *****51 52 0100 M 0VT7M 02/0451 32/8*0 02/0700 02/1151 02/v»00 4 02/1200 02/1*51 02/1700 wwiT mii ovum
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        205 39 Apr 0 Hong Kong: Ching Ming Festival. Apr 7 Brunei: Hari Raya Haji. Malaysia: Hari Raya Ha)i. Apr 3 Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Mexico: Maundy Thursday. Apr 10 Australia: Good Friday. Canada: Good Friday. Denmark: Good Friday. Finland: Good Friday. Germany: Good Friday. Hong Kong: Good Friday. Indonesia: Good
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        861 39 THIS report com piled by Cockett Marin* Oil Ltd, show* price range* In US dollars instead of single price* for mor» comprehensive <tescrlption at the market Price* ahown an baaed on avarag* ilied •t*m Market movement! an Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index chance and the
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        355 39 Cartoa WO Mm 993.3 2.0 ft A 0.31 41 0.09 MarM Dwwtty Motor RmWm Atk AJnMw iKiiil NoMom£25 12 2 10 0 %HM 300 AM 905.9 OJ 14.4 0.0« 30 0.02 torn 300 MM 992J 0.9 19.9 0.13 M 0.04- »M» m mm* Bo Mom 035
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        398 40  -  S'pore national carrier flying to New Jersey airport 3 times a week By Marcus Hand (SINGAPORE] Newark International Airport in New Jersey is now connected direct to South-east Asia for the first time with the arrival of an inaugural Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight there
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        235 40  -  By\ Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Flag carrier Singapore Airlines roped in several awards in two surveys held earlier this month. SIA clinched the Best Globed Air Cargo Carrier and Best Asian Air Cargo Carrier in the Asian Freight Industry Awards (AFIA) organised by Cargo
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        180 40 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways will side-step legal challenges to its new cut-price airline by announcing that it will fly to destinations not served by other no-frill carriers, the Financial Times newspaper said yesterday. The paper reported that BA would announce this week
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        112 40 AFP [WASHINGTON] A German military transport was flying at the wrong altitude when it collided with a US Air Force C-141 off Africa last year, killing all 33 people aboard both planes, a US probe found. The six-month air force investigation
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        300 40 AFP, Reuters [MOSCOW] Russia has summoned the Canadian ambassador to Moscow to protest against the detention of an Aeroflot airliner at Montreal airport over a legal dispute between the state airline and a former Canadian partner.. Acting on a court order after
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        420 40 Bloomberg [SEATTLE! FDX Corp said it may reach a compromise with federal aviation regulators on their proposal to more than halve the amount of freight some Boeing Co 727 cargo planes are allowed to carry. The Federal Aviation Administration plans to
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        62 40 (SYDNEY] A one-fifth scale replica of a KLM Boeing 747-400 aircraft makes its way on a barge under the Sydney Harbour Bridge yesterday to mark April Fool's Day. The 15.2 metre-long plywood plane is the largest model ever made ofa Boeing 747 and was commissioned by KLM
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        487 40 Bloomberg (CHICAGO) Delta Air Lines Inc probably will seek an alliance with United Airlines that will let the airlines sell seats on each other's US flights as they attempt to counter a major rival partnership, a report by United pilots
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      1779 29 DIRECT SAILING 1M TO IMAIMIIAI XINGANG J I SINGAPORE'S GENERALAGENTS: 6 SHENTON WAY TEL 226 1900 FAX: *****08 OUTWARD (B/l) 4205M2 iOHOM OffKE: COSTAR SNIPPING PTE LTD #17-mnshog smis/MGS 4205*41/43 INWARD DEPT (0/0) *****15 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD CR NO: H*****0000M TOWER TWO (OHtQf) (ONYtNTIONAI *****50/55 T/SNPMT DIPT *****25
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      359 30 NANTAI LINE FUU.Y CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO I MAURITIUS SOUTH AFRICA I VBSH 1 VOT I SW I PUi I DW I CFT I »/Wl KAjmiwua vOTis 07/w 20/ m ?</w mm yews v o2*s 14/04 n/H wh x/os 03/tt GOIPBIMU6OII im ty* 30/H OS/OS mmptwas wis 30/04 u/os \m mm
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      1291 31 HYUNDAI I MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. IVRSfI VOT ISM I SOU UH BTM ANT NAM BRV FB. fVKSa VOT I SOU I IB! ETM I AMT I HAM I ERV I I SM I API AUMNMNf 301W 07/04 20/04 25/04 22/04 23/04 ACAPUCO 3011 01/03 14/03 11/03 12/03 02/04 MAAS
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