The Business Times, 14 October 1989

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 45/12/88 Weekend Edition, October 14-15 1989 75 CENTS
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  • 537 1  -  COMPANY KEEPING IN CLOSE TOUCH WITH EDB By GENEVIEVE CUA US-BASED chemicals giant Du Pont is planning a massive manufacturing investment of about US$2 billion in the Asia Pacific, a move calculated to more than double its, presence in the region. It
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  • 488 1  -  By JOHN TAN DEVELOPERS were up in arms yesterday over a set of measures designed to further regulate the building and selling of residential properties. They were particularly unhappy about the rule which extends the punishment meted out to a law-breaking company to
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  • 530 1 Reuter THE US ECONOMY will continue to grow through 1991 if the Federal Reserve, America's central bank, gradually eases its grip on credit and lets interest rates decline, a group of the nation's top business leaders said yesterday. The Business Council,
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  • 168 1 Reuter US PRICES at the wholesale level rose 0.9 per cent in September, boosted by a resurgence in prices of petrol and cars, the Labour Department said. The sizeable rise indicated a return of inflationary pressures to the US economy after
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  • 118 1 Reuter THE US DOLLAR Jumped about a pfennig and prices of US Treasury bonds fell around half a point following last night's news that producer prices roee 0.9 per cent in September while retail sales advanced 0.5 per cent. The dollar was indicated as high
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  • 57 1 AP WALL STREET stocks were mixed yesterday as the market absorbed the news of a jump in the US producer price index. Losers outnumbered gainers by about 11 to 7 in trading of all New York Stock Exchange-listed issues, with 351 up, 556 down and 536 unchanged. But
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  • 44 1 AP LONDON shares retreated from early morning gains and were little changed at noon yesterday, after the government reported that inflation in September was higher than expected. At 1106 GMT. the FTSE 100share index was unchanged from Thursday's closing level of 2237.8. AP
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  • 241 1 STOCK MARKETS in Tokyo and Sydney rose yesterday while those in Singapore and Hongkong fell. Share prices on the Tokyo market rebounded on bargain hunting and talk that the US may be easing its credit policy. The key Nikkei index gained 320.97 points
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  • 153 1 Slock Indie— FrWoy ST Index M27.88(-3.97) BT Composite Index 1,279.671-4.41 NST Industrial Index 2,634,42<+ 18.72) HK Hang Seng Index 27*230 (-11.15) Tokyo Nfckel Average 35,116.02 320.97) oyonmy AJi-vjraioort+s 1742.3 (+11.7) Thuodoy New York (Dow Jones) 2759A4(-13J2 London (FT 30 Index) 2<U) US$. 143.85yen 1.9055DM S$ 1.9690 It
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 460 2  -  .RECLAMATION WORK TO BE COMPLETED AROUND 1995 By LEE HAN SHIH Property Correspondent RECLAMATION WORK is expected to start in a lew years' time to 1 merge Sentosa with its smaller sister island at its eastern end, Buran Darat. The project will
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    • 423 2 SINGAPORE will be host to two monarchs, a dozen presidents and 15 prime ministers stopping over on their way to, or back from, the October 18-24 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malaysia. A deputy prime minister and two cabinet ministers
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    • 213 2 SINGAPORE TELECOM yesterday signed a Construction and Maintenance agreement to invest US$4.7 million in the first optical fibre cable linking North America and Asia directly. When in operation in late 1992, the system will allow for faster and more
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    • 190 2 FROM NOV 1, all lessees and tenants of Housing Development Board flats who pay their mortgage instalments late will face a penalty. This is an extension of the new penalty fee system which was introduced in July for late payment
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    • 216 2 A PAPERLESS cargo shipment system that will mean total annual savings of $5 million for port users will get underway in December. Thia system is part of Portnet. the electronic data interchange system that the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) expects to be mostly in place
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    • 73 2 THE National Computer Board has awarded 10 undergraduate scholarships for computer studies at some of the top US universities reputed for their programmes in computer science and computer engineering. The scholarships, aimed at encouraging bright Singaporeans to pursue careers in information technology, were first launched in 1982
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    • 151 2 THE Western Australian state government will be sponsoring its largest trade and consumer exhibition ever to be held in Southeast Asia in Singapore next week. The theme is "Australia Comes To Singapore" and the exhibition will be held at Raffles City from Oct 18 to
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    • 431 2  -  By JOCELYN TOH THE NEXT big push of West German electronics giant, Siemens AG, into this region will be in the field of highly specialised data and information processing. Its move into this line is also its first outside Europe. The stepping
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    • 198 2 THE FIRST Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPOA) land exercise ever to be conducted in Singapore will take place next week, from Oct 16 to 28. This land exercise, codenamed "Lion Spirit", will involve some 200 personnel from the five FPOA countries of
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    • 82 2 FIVE Singapore Members of Parliament yesterday left for a nine-day visit to the Soviet Union (USSR). The visit is at the invitation of the President of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR It will be the first visit to the USSR by a delegation of
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    • 321 2 THE CIVIL AVIATION Authority of Singapore (CAAS) plans to build a new Civil Aviation Training Centre in Changi to replace the one in Seletar. Th new centre will give Singapore a larger and more advanced facility to develop further its position as
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 198 2 I Global temperatures and weather forecast City Max/ Note OUTLOOK: Showcri mi. a tmr araaa In tha ,n mnmlii n nin^|. Report for 24 hours prior Ab#rdt<n 11/06 Brnzy 7.30pm on Oct 13 at Amsterdam 16/10 Shower, *>• olrport, 24/14 Sunny 323 Auckland 19/12 Windy fHJmk3lfy Iqngkok 32/25 Shown m
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 368 3 Reuter SIX SOUTH KOREAN students armed with home-made bombs invaded the American Ambassador's residence in Seoul yesterday to protest at US pressures on South Korea to open its beef and agricultural markets. Police said the youths, members of a so-called "Anti-Ameri-can Crusade", scaled
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    • 149 3 AP SOUTH KOREA s National Assembly adopted a resolution yesterday urging the government to work out a considerate and gradual timetable in opening South Korean markets. In a rare compromise, the governing Democratic Justice Party and three other opposition parties joined forces
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    • 323 3 AFP THE European Commission proposed msssures on Thursdsy aimed at spurring exports by Poland and Hungary to the European Community (EC), as part of the West's effort to help reforms in the Eastern Bloc. Under the proposals, Poland and Hungary will
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    • 234 3 AFP BRITISH Foreign Secretary John Major said in Blackpool on Thursday that the UK was now a driving force behind efforts to unify the European Community (EC) market by the end of 1992, calling the project "our show". "We are now setting the European agenda
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    • 320 3 AP THE European Community and the United States reached tentative agreement on a new accord, increasing slightly the European share of the American steel market, the trading bloc announced on Thursday. The European Commission, the Community's executive body, said the European share
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    • 199 3 NYT NIPPON STEEL Corp will delay by at leaat six months the scheduled shutdown of two blast furnaces because of a stronger-than-expected domestic steel demand forecast for the coming 12 months. The action follows similar moves by two other Japanese steel
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    • 543 3 AP US TRADE Representative Carle Hills yesterday celled on Japan to scrap discriminatory, anticompetitive trade practices and said Tokyo must work with Washington to overcome Americans' sense of frustration with Japan. "Anti-competitive prectices, whether officiel or privete, run counter to the world
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    • 203 3 NYT CONSTRUCTION Minister Shozo Harada, in response to US Trade Representative Carla Hills' call to open up Japan's construction market, said on Thursday American contractors are not trying hard enough to win Japanese contracts. Mrs Hills submitted to Mr Harada a list of five
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    • 360 3 AP THE United States' five-year rejection of Unesco because of claims that it was anti-Western, among other things, has hurt US industry and science, a blueribbon panel said on Thursday. An international panel of experts led by former Republican Senator Robert T Stafford concluded
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    • 143 3 AP THE US foreign trade deficit'in electronics increased 5.4 per cent to US$3.9 billion in the first six months this year. The American Electronics Association said on Wednesday that US electronics exports in the first half of 1969 rose to US$29;9 billion from the U5527.9
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    • 162 3 AP A HIGH-RANKING East German official says his orthodox Communist government will discuss the possibility of making reforms with certain social groups after opposition protests and a mass exodus of workers. But Kurt Hager, the Communist Party's ideology chief and an
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    • 603 4 CHINA'S Premier Li Peng warned his countrymen yesterday they faced years of hardship to stabilise the chaotic economy and overcome foreign sanctions. Economists said this could involve a drop in living standards already low compared with many of China's neighbours and
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    • 394 4 Reuter A ROW between Beijing and Hongkong over a dissident swimmer and illegal Chinese immigrants is worsening despite behind-the-scenes diplomatic moves by London and the British colony, diplomats said yesterday. Jimmy McGregor, a Hongkong legislator, accused China of bullying Hongkong by refusing
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    • 228 4 AFP BRITAIN'S decision to vacate its naval base on the fringe of this colony's central business hub has further strained its relations with China, Chinese sources in Hongkong said yesterday. Beijing has not officially endorsed the plan, announced by Chief Secretary
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    • 430 4 AFP THE South Australian government has initiated its first trade contacts with Taiwan to establish a toehold in a market the rest of Australia has largely ignored, state officials in Adelaide said yesterday. Ormsby Cooper, state director for investment attraction and trade, said
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    • 149 4 AFP INDIA expressed a keen desire to forge greater economic cooperation with Australia during talks with visiting Australian trade and technology minister, Indian officials said. The Australian minister for industry, technology and commerce, Senator John Button, held separate meetings in New Delhi on
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    • 495 4 AFP CHINA and India expressed confidence on Thursday that their relations had improved, despite a nagging border dispute, and called for measures to boost ties, officials said in New Delhi. The sentiments were expressed at a meeting between visiting Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Xueqian
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    • 68 4 AFP AUSTRALIA'S search for economic opportunities in Vietnam is to receive a further boost with the opening of a trade office in Ho Chi Minh City before the end of the year. The Australian Trade Commission said the office, expected to open
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 424 5  -  By DEXTER LEE PUBLICLY-LISTED Inno-Pacific Holdings Ltd is raising $60 million from the local capital market through a multi-currency note issuance facility (NIF). Executive chairman Herman R Hochstadt said at the signing ceremony yesterday that the new NIF, which replaces a $30 million NIF issue
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    • 214 5 NYT CHEMICAL BANKING Corp and Bank of New York Co announced large third-quarter losses on Thursday as they greatly increased the reserves set aside to cover possible losses on loans to Third World countries and to domestic businesses. Chemical, whose financial condition
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    • 328 5 Bernama THE 24 Malaysian banks which are now linked to the worldwide electronic system operated by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (Swift) will have to switch to Swift II when the new system is introduced in Malaysia
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    • 418 5 MOVE ANGERS THOUSANDS OF DEPOSITORS Reuter THE SECOND LARGEST unlicensed bank in Taiwan has suspended all interest payments, angering thousands of people who had invested their life savings. Small groups of stunned investors wandered through deserted corridors in the headquarters of the US$2
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    • 389 5 Reuter TAIWAN'S fledgling bond market remains moribund because of a severe supply shortage despite the island s dreams of becoming a fully fledged regional financial centre to rival Tokyo. Hongkong and Singapore. Investors are meanwhile pumping money into stocks, with the result of a
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 195 5 CBOT SOYBEANS ended lightly mixed on Thursday after pre-report position squaring erased early gains. Prices closed up 1/4 cent to off 2-1/2 cents, with spot November the only gainer at U555.52-1/2 a bushel. In thin trade ahead of the USDA crop report, prices ended a second consecutive session on
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    • 200 5 CBOT soft red winter wheat futures ended firmer after a day of position squaring ahead of USDA's crop report. After Wednesday's late round of commercial selling, the market came back and traders said support from corn futures was a helpful influence. Prices rose 2-1/2 cents to 1-3/4 cent per
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    • 290 5 SINGAPORE: The rubber market closed steady yesterday, with November 1 RSS buyer quoted at 164.00 cents a kg, unchanged from Thursday's close. Dealers said there was some pre-weekend covering interest in the afternoon. Trading was thin. On the TSR-20 Award market, prices closed little changed on light interest after
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    • 368 5 R AS prices In S c*nts/kg, FOB in bat** NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers bit 1 RSS Prompt 162.00 163.00N 162.50 163.50N Inf 1 RSS Nov 163.50 164.00 164.00 164.50 bit 1 RSS Dec 166.50 167.00 167.00 167.50 Int 2 RSS OP 161.50 163.50N 162.00 164.00N
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    • 127 5 THE Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) prlca extended Wadnaaday'a fall, andlng two aan down at MS2I.M a kg, daalara said. The mart at waa doaad on Thuraday for a local hoi Ida y Tha small tall reflected a lack of dear la ad from tha London Metal Exchange
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    • 135 5 Telerate OFFERS for CSTIBO cargoes were indicated higher as a result of the hype in crude prices overnight. Support was also derived from a firm HSFO futures market that was trading between 59b mt and $96 50 mt. A few traders were uncertain if this could
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    • 356 5 Reuter nOfKll\vNu* Gold closed little changed in quiet and sluggish trade as investors preferred the sidelines ahead of the release of US September producer price data at 1230 GMT. dealers said. They noted some early light buying from Japanese traders. Bullion ended at U*****.95/363.45 against an initial U*****.10/60
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    • 196 5 Chinese Produce Exchange Sailers' noon closing prices on October 13 (S$/100 kg) Coconut oil Bulk FOB 92.00 Old drum FOB 106.00 New drum FOB 102.00 Copra Mixed (loose) 52.00 sellers Pepper Muntok white FOB NLW 490.00 Sarawak white FOB faq NLW 480.00 Sarawak spedal black FOB NLW 377.50
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    • 203 5 London Commodity Exchange Buyer/Seller closing prices on Oct 1 2 (£/tonne unless specified). Previous closing prices in parenthesis. Coffee Basis in-rtore London, sellers option CIF London Nov 735/739 (695/696) High/Low 739/700 Jon 696/697 (680/682) High/Low 700/682 Soles (4670) Cocoa Dec 742/744 (746/748) High/Low 746/736 Mor 718/719 (725/726) High/Low
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    • 542 5 MALAYSIAN CRUDE PALM OIL FUTURES eased yesterday to finish slightly lower on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange on some profit-taking, dealers SBid The weak sentiment was contributed by the bearish report of the US Department of Agriculture released on Thursday which forecast a small jump in the 1969
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    • 383 6 EFFORTS TO CURTAIL ILLEGAL KERB TRADING Reuter CHICAGO futures exchanges have moved closer to introducing short settlement sessions that would allow members time to exit their open positions after the closing bell without violating rules, officials said By giving traders an extra moment
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    • 230 6 Reuter THE FACT that UK Chancellor Nigel Lawson did not announce initiatives to tackle sterling weakness in a speech to the Conservative Party conference on Thursday afternoon suggests the pound will soon retest 2.95 marks, dealers said. "Mr Lawson more or less confirmed the
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    • 1223 6 SINGAPORE: The US dollar closed lower yesterday against most currencies on selling interest out of Europe, after fluctuating narrowly for most of the day, dealers said. It fell to a late quote of 143.65/75 yen from New York's 144.15/20 close and to 1.8995/9005 marks against 1.9080/85 marks. Dealers
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    • 169 6 Gold futures on October 12, 1989 100 troy ounces; USS per troy ounce Opon Law +1Oct 363 00 343.SO 363 00 363.40 *1.40 No, 365.40 +1.20 Omc 367 50 367.90 366.30 367.40 +1.30 Fob 91 371.90 371.90 370.70 371.40 +1.30 Apr 375.20 376.00 375.00 375JO +1.30 Jun
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    • 288 6 ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed slightly lower yesterday compared with Thursday's level, after a day of quiet trade. "Rates are unlikely to move widely if the US September retail sales data and producer price index is in line with market expectations." said a Canadian bank dealer here.
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    • 572 6 Reuter EURODOLLAR futures closed mixed yesterday after short-covering and weekend book-squaring in active trading, dealers said. "Most operators adjusted their positions ahead of today s 1230 GMT release of September US retail sales and producer prices for clues to the state of the US economy,'" a trader said. "A
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    • 59 6 THE overnight rate on the Singapore money market was 5/16 higher at 5-3/4 per cent yesterday. Term rates were 1/16 higher at 5-3/8. S$ Interbank rates at the dose yesterday: ormt mo Om>ntgM S 3/4 S S/« iHMk 3 3/8 5 1/4 3-mrtli S 1/1 S 1/4 3
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    • 1195 6 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Friday October 13, 1989 DEUTSCHE MARK (SIM EX) Dm M cam D*c M put* M* LW M Mffc Low Ml 32 53 54 JAPANESE YEN (SIMEX) Dm M cam DtcHpuk M*» Low SMI Lo» Ml 71 72 73 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS IMM Thursday, October 12, 1989
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    • 297 6 IMM CURRENCIES closed mostly higher as profit-tak-ing capped the dollar s advance. Trading was sluggish ahead of yesterday s US producer price report. "There's a strong underlying demand for the dollar but interest-rate differentials are now narrowing," one analyst said. He cited a recent softening in the Fed funds
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    • 160 6 IrKJICITM inf Iftftyt Of n»« prirnv ienoir>g rVTwt Of 12 major banks In S'por* Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on Oct 13 US$ DM SWFC Y«n 7 6ayt 13/1*—11/1* IS IS 7 J/4 7 if 4 1/4-tl/l I m* ill/16 —»/!6 IS 3/1* l/l* 7 IS/1*—13/1* *'/<-*'/• 3
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    • 100 6 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity MO OFFER HIGH LOW 3 months BQ*****N 11.01.90 4.23 4.16 4.25 4.20 6 months BS*****V 18.01.90 4.23 4.18 4.25 4.25 1 year BY*****F 24.05.90 4.33 4.28 4.33 4.32 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's dosing
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  • COMPANIES & STOCK MARKETS
    • 585 7  -  By MAGDALENE NG THE HONGKONG hotels arm of City Developments Ltd will have assets worth a total of. $1.06 billion, of which $406.8 million are located in Singapore. Investors and analysts alike were mostly excited by the restructuring exercise
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    • 290 7 Company RIGHTS ISSUE Ay«r Hitam Tin One-for-three M}130 per share. Ex date: Oct 12 Books dose: Oct 26 Acceptance Payment: NYA Causeway Inv Renounceable rights issue of $7 25m nominal amount of 6% unsecured notes with TS8s to subscribe for new Cousewy shares. Shareholders will be allotted $1
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    • 301 7 Company RIGHTS ISSUE Ambassador Two-for-one $1.10 per shore. C I Holdings Issue of 27mloon stocks in the ratio of $3 loon stock for every five ordinary shares held F A C B One-for-one MjO 60 per share Faber Merlin One-for-one MJ025 per share. followed by a share swap
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    • 285 7 MBT AMALGAMATED Properties Industries Bhd's accounts have been qualified by its auditors which said the continuation of the group and company as going concerns depends on their obtaining additional financing and attaining profitable operations. APl's auditors Hanafian Raslan Mohamad, in the company's
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    • 988 7 Current Ex Books Date Total tor Total lor payment data doee payable the year la* year A I S ft 12%lbl Doc 27 ion II Jon 23 12% 10% Amal Steel 8%TE(II Nov 30 Dec M Jon 22 8%TE 8%TE Asiatic Dev 25%U1 Oct 5 Oct 19 Nov
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    • 663 7  -  By KEVIN GWEE CHUAN HUP HOLDINGS Ltd (CHH) is to further dilute its interest from 60 to 50 per cent in PCI (1989) Re Ltd. but not the amount of its investment. In a statement issued through merchant bankers Morgan
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    • 495 7 MBT FABER MERLIN Malaysia's proposed sale of the Kuala Lumpur Merlin to Ampang Hotel Sdn Bhd. is to face another test in court. Ampang Hotel is a subsidiary of Ampang Investments whose shareholders are Cycle Carriage Ltd and Hotel Properties which own 40
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    • 454 7 AS MALAYSIA'S sole designated'' operator of offshore helicopter services for the petroleum industry, Malaysian Helicopter Services (MHS) is looking forward to a promising future. This is because of increasing offshore exploration and development works in the oil and gas industry, which means
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    • SES
      • 1132 8  -  -by ABDUL HADHI LATE PROFIT-TAKING on the Singapore stock market wiped out early gains yesterday. At the end of trading, the Straits Times Industrials Index declined 3.97 points to 1,427.88 after reaching a poet-Crash high of 1,433.18 in the morning.
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      • 318 8 MonogerV pricM for Oct 14 16 Singapore Unit Trust Tlw Comma, c» I 25 I 32 Th* Savings Fund 107 1.13 S'por* frofl fund 047* 0.51* S'pof# S«c Fund 0.78 0.83 S'por* Invest Fund 083 0 87 S'pors Equity Fund 059 0 A3 Asia Unit Trust Mol Invest
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      • 56 8 INDUSTRIAL ft COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED: EGM at the boardroom of United Overseas Bank Limited, 30th Storey. UOB Building. 1 Bonham Street. Rattles Place. Singapore 0104, on Oct 16. Monday, at 12 noon. GULA PERAK BERHAD: AGM at Malacca Room. Lower Lobby. Shangri-La Hotel. Jalan Sultan Ismail. ***** Kuala
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    • 6657 8 Gr's Gr's 1989 Tel Last Vol Day Last Quota Dfv Oiv Y'ld Nat M Cap High Low Coda Company Sala or- (*000) High Low Buyar Sallar C'vr P/E Smll OCT 13 SESDAQ 275 120 t 4000 Amtek Eng 20* 273 2 95 273 271 273 274 12
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    • KLSE
      • 3625 9 KUALA LUMPUR share prices closed higher in moderate trading yesterday on strong buying support. Interest was again confined to lower and medi-um-priced stocks, with some posting double-digit gains. The market opened higher and prices remained firm on buying interest. Brokers said the market extended Wednesday's
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    • REGIONAL MARKETS
      • 349 10 Reuter THREE BUSINESSMEN preparing to acquire Sydney-based Industrial Equity Ltd for Asl.9 billion have lost one of their major financial backers and have a fellow entrepreneur hot on their heels. But their company. Corama Pty Ltd, is still confident it will come up with the
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      • 160 10 Reuter THE PHILIPPINE Telegraph and Telephone Corp, one of the country's two main telecommunications companies, is going public, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said. Chairwoman Rosario Lopez said in an interview yesterday that the SEC planned to approve within days a
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      • 76 10 Reuter THREE MAJOR Japanese smelters are likely to join the copper smelting project in Texas planned by Mitsubishi Metal Corp. A Mitsubishi Metal spokesman said yesterday: "So far we have a positive response from Nippon Mining Co Ltd, Dowa Mining Co Ltd and Furukawa Co Ltd."
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      • 129 10 Reuter SHARE PRICES closed stronger in busy trade yesterday, reflecting overall bullish sentiment which has pervaded the market in weeks. "There is nothing that can change the bull market at the moment," said Harry Liu, executive vice-president of Dao Heng Securities. He said commercial issues
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      • 562 10 Tokyo Reuter AFTERNOON TALK that the US may be easing credit policy gave an extra kick to a technical bounce, pushing share prices broadly higher in light trade yesterday. Bargain-hunters stepped in after Thursday's beating, helping the index climb back above the key 35,000 mark. The 225-share
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      • 264 10 Reuter THAI stocks moved higher across the board yesterday. led by construction shares, brokers said. The SET Index gained 5.43 points to close at 705.60 in very active trade. Advances led declines 68 to 37. Most active were Padaeng Industry, Siam Cement and Thai-German Ceramics. "The market
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      • 74 10 Reuter SHARE prices ended lower yesterday on all-round selling triggered by newspaper reports of fresh evidence of pay-offs in a US$l.3-billion arms deal involving Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's government. brokers said. "The market is worried about Gandhi's prospects in general elections." a broker said Polls must be
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      • 1276 10 Hongkong PRICES on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange closed generally lower In light trading yesterday. Interest in the market was generally low ahead of the weekend and after the Governor's state-of-the-territory speech. Most investors were sidelined since a market consolidation was widely expected and
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      • Article, Illustration
        497 10 Sydney Reuter AUSTRALIA'S share market yesterday shook off its bearish mood of the past three days to close higher, boosted by a weaker local dollar and a strong performance by the London market. The All Ordinaries index closed 11.7 points higher at 1,742.3. Dealers said much of yesterday's
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      • 408 10 Reuter THE Taiwan stock index fell yesterday to a slightly lower close after a day of nervous trading that sent the index on wide swings, dealers said. The weighted index dropped 21.33 points, or 0.2 per cent, to end at 10.272.33 compared with Thursday's 10.293.66 finish and
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      • 84 10 Reuter NEW ZEALAND shares ended firmer yesterday on local buying interest after a series of falls throughout the week. The Barclays Index finished at 2,249.90, up 11.97. Turnover was moderate. with attention focused on Brierley Investments, up four cents to NZ52.23, Carter Holt Harvey four to
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      • 88 10 Reuter THE Jakarta share price index continued to slip yesterday, easing 5.22 points to 461.92 from Wednesday in slow trading, brokers said. Thursday was a market holiday. Volume was a small 130,130 shares compared with Wednesday's 171,245 and brokers said investors were sidelined awaiting new
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    • WORLD MARKETS
      • 903 11 New York Reuter WALL STREET stocks ended lower tor the third session in a row on Thursday, weighed by profit-taking, uncertainty about interest rates and revived worries about the future of takeover financing. News on Wednesday that Ramada inc had pulled a junk bond offering
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      • 865 11 London Reuter SHARES started easier in listless trade following a weaker close on Wall Street and with market attention focusing on yesterday's UK and US inflation figures. "It's trendless and friendless at the moment. The market doesn't even have the energy to think up
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      • 1532 11 BRUSSELS: Belgian stocks slipped further in moderate early trade yesterday as doubts prompted by high interest rates and the strength of the dollar resurfaced and profits made at the beginning of the week were taken. Shares in all sectors opened generally easier. MILAN: Italian shares started weaker
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      • 540 11 DEAL TO BUY MGM/UA COMMUNICATIONS NVT NATIONAL BROADCASTING Co of the US has expressed an interest in becoming an equity investor in an Australian entertainment concern's proposed buyout of MGM/UA Communications Co. The US$l.5 billion deal between Qintex Australia Ltd and MGM/UA fell
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      • 267 11 Reuter NORTHWEST AIRLINES said on Thursday that it placed orders and options with Boeing Co for 90 jetliners worth US$5.2 billion. The decision was a blow to Europe's Airbus Industrie, which had previously won large orders from Northwest. The St Paul. Minnesota-based carrier, which
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      • 924 11 Saatchi and Saatchi a fairy tale turns sour FT SAATCHI and Saatchi has finally found a new chief executive and a new finance director, two of the least attractive vacancies in the global communications industry. By any definition, Robert Lou-is-Dreyfus and Charles Scott who are leaving Dun and Bradstreet to
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      • 472 11 NYT COCA-COLA, buoyed by an ocean of soft-drink sales abroad, has reported a 20 per cent surge in third-quarter profits to US$356 million, or US$l.O3 a share. Sales rose 8 per cent to US$2.3 billion. The third-quarter surge was typical of the year
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  • 364 12 Bernama/Reuter GROWTH in Malaysia's nominal gross domestic product (GOP) rose to 8.7 per cent in 1988 from 5.3 per cent in 1987 the highest achieved in the 1980s, the Statistics Department said. The growth was due mainly to contributions from
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  • 425 12  -  New laws on banking and insurance also in the offing By SOH TIANG KENG Financial Correspondent INDONESIA'S finance minister, Professor J B Sumarlin, yesterday revealed that his government is working on new regulations covering investment or mutual funds to enable the
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  • 173 12 Reuter MALAYSIA'S state-owned Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd, which suffered massive losses on local loans in its last financial year, has announced a capital restructuring. The bank, in a newspaper advertisement, called a shareholders' meeting for next Tuesday to approve a nine-fold reduction of its paid-up
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  • 260 12 AFP THE SIX Asean nations should support US bases remaining in the Philippines in the short term although Asean should push for their removal as a long-term goal, an Indonesian study said on Thursday. "Asean leaders would prefer to see the
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  • 318 12 AFP ioUTH KOREAN President Roh Sae-Woo has said that a cutback US forces in his country not be considered now. In an interview with The New *Xork Times published in the International Herald Tribune yesfcrday, Mr Roh
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  • 410 12 MBT THE MALAYSIAN government has decided to go ahead with the formation of the Langkawi Development Authority, according to a senior official. The authority, to be jointly chaired by Finance Minister Datuk Paduka Daim Zainuddin and Kedah Chief Minister Datuk Paduka Osman Aroff,
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  • 191 12 Reuter BANK LOAN exposure to property firms has been rising rapidly and Bank of England supervisors have been monitoring the situation quite closely, Bank of England governor Robin Leigh-Pemberton said. Speaking in Paris, in a speech released in London, he said: "We cannot
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  • 259 12 AP IN A REVERSAL of an electronics trend, Philips Consumer Electronics Co began shipping American-made television sets to Japan on Thursday. The 1,500 sets Philips will export to Japan this year represent a "turning point when US-made TV sets go back in the opposite
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  • 800 12 PM LEE'S LIBEL SUIT AGAINST FEER AN HONEST and ordinary-mi ruled person, reading the Dec 17, 1987 Far Eastern Economic Review article at the centre of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's libel suit against the magazine, would conclude
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  • 182 12 AP THE HEAD of Exxon's subsidiary in Thailand said yesterday he had received a two-year suspended jail term and a fine after employees filed a company report to the government two weeks late. Roy W Weiland, managing director of Esso Standard Thailand,
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  • LATE FILE
    • 47 12 AFP ABOUT 10,000 Hongkong residents have applied to resettle in Taiwan, which has approved most of them. Spokesman Shaw Yu-ming said that only about 2,000 people had migrated because most wanted to "make a last dollar" before leaving the colony. AFP
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    • 31 12 Reuter PRESIDENT George Bush said in Washington yesterday that while he still strongly supported a reduction in the capital gains tax. he was open to compromise.
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    • 68 12 Reuter AFP BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said at the Conservative Party conference yesterday that high interest rates would bring down inflation, and ruled out sterling depreciation. But the UK Central Statistical Office said yesterday the year-on-year inflation rate rose to 7.6 per cent last
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    • 34 12 AFP BRITISH AIRWAYS shareholders approved by a large majority yesterday the company's plans to acquire a 15 per cent stake in US company United Airlines for £480 million. AFP
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    • 77 12 Reuter COMEX GOLD futures were up sllghtty early yesterday as the US dollar dropped sharply than rallied on increases in the September Producer Price Index (PPI) and retail sales data, floor sources said. "The dollar's jump was a surprise," one trader said. "It should have been the other
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      1048 13  -  Happy management makes for happy workers, and ultimately, happy watch faces? Existential timepieces may be hard to find, but it's not hard to make your employees happy, as Francis Besson, president of luxury watch-maker Girard-Perregaux, tells CHUANG PECK MING. Here, he reveals how he lost no time in
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    • 255 13 THE BIODATA of the English, Europeans, Americans, Pakistanis. Aussies and other players currently taking part in the current SIA-Ascot World Team Squash Championship in Singapore indicate their interests include golf, tennis, cricket, music, reading, swimming, cycling. And the Hongkong team? Mahjong, playing cards and horse racing.
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    • Commentary
      • 746 14  -  ASAD LATIF A NEW RELIGION has arrived. Like moet religions, it is remarkably jealous, claiming absolute monopoly of the truth. Like moet religions, it promises believers an after-life of self-righteous happiness. The difference this time is that the heathen are not even allowed to
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      • 186 14 letters to the Editor Doer Sir, The present Section 363 of the Companies Act was a result of the re-numbering and amendments to the previous Section 327 way back in 1973. Essentially, Section 363 says that an approved invest- ment company must keep
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      • 250 14  -  Saharudin bin Kaasim for Chtof Executive Officer URA Dear Sir, Please refer to the report, "New guidelines for re-tender of site next to Liat Tower" (BT Oct 6). The report said that the 14 companies which took part in the first tender were given
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      • 263 14  -  LAU YM YUEN Dear Sir, With a view to providing information on warrants or TSRs to readers, BT publishes in its weekend edition a table showing the premiums and gearing of all warrants listed on the SES. As a regular
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      • 413 14  -  KEN SUNN Dear Sir, Since the introduction of the Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor programme in 1985, some 25 eminent personalities have graced our shores with their wit and intellectual lectures. The Programme has generated much interest, especially
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      • 199 14  -  Tan Bing Chui for Ag Chief Estate Management Officer I Housing A Development Board Dear Sir, Please refer to the letter "Danger from machine is real" by Mr D W Distant (BT Sep 30). The writer expressed concern about the use of steelblade
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      • 72 14  -  D W Distant D«ar Sir, The shares in Acma have been suspended on the SES for quite some time. Since suspension, there has been an announcement of a proposed reverse takeover. So what is the reason for its continued suspension? Any suspension
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      • 139 14  -  DONALD HAGGER Dear Sir, Critics as well as authors have a responsibility to the public which Samuel Ee has failed to discharge in his silly, pretentious and uninformative review of Percival. He was for too busy trying to be clever to actually consider the
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      • 656 14  -  SHOEB KAGDA MARRIAGE and children were once very personal matters. A man and his wife were the only ones involved in these crucial decisions that shaped one's life and lifestyle. True, it must be conceded that the family of the
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Pursuits
      • 794 16  -  Winet By N K YONG A WELCOME new name on Sime Darby's latest list is Balgownie from Victoria, Australia. A little-known small winery, with an enviably high reputation for its cabernet sauvignon wines, Balgownie was started by a pharmacist, Stuart Anderson, in 1969 in the
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      • 851 19  -  /<i4prvg By JACKIE SAM HONGKONG'S film-makers produce some of the zaniest cop n' robber movies in this part of the world. And its people just lap it up. So picture this: Four men walk into a jewellery shop in sleazy, busy Mongkok in
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      • 385 19  -  ENCOUNTERS By JAIME LYE I HAD a tete-a- tete with Queen Nefertiti on Thurs day night. She was highly pleasant, even if she didn't move around much while she spoke, except for the occasional dart of the eyes and the arching of her elbows. She
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      • 453 19  -  FOOD A satiated Robin Hood gets in touch with SAMUEL EE via arrow express: SAMUEL EE METHINKS IT'S not really safe to venture forth from Sherwood Forest these days. Especially when the Sheriff of Nottingham hasn't been able to get good venison recently, what with
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment, the Arts & Pursuits
      • 491 17  -  FOOD By HOHDAS JUZO CUISINE from Wiili n »ya>a<ia"> Gourmets will acoM. ■»>«*• laymen's tummies will probebly churn at imagined Auae*e concoctions like BBQ-ed kangaroo baked platypus or koala steak, rare. But two chefs. Stephen Reagan and Chris Taylor, in Singapore for a
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      • SHORT TAKES
        • 274 17 THEATRE is a Shared Experience, according to the English theatre company of the same name. In that vein, the company, sponsored by the British Council, intends to bring the intellectual profundity and buffoonery of George Bernard Shaw to the World Trade Centre Auditorium's stage next week.
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        • 76 17 TEE OFF and listen to Frances Yip at the same time. That is, if you play in the Jurong Country Club's Frances Yip Charity Classic to be held from Nov 3 to 5. The Hongkong singer will co-host the tournament. Held under the distinguished patronage of President
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        • 83 17 Singapore's hidden treasure from the past will be revealed this Monday when the winning entries in the Heritage Hunt 1989 go on display. Organised by the Singapore Heritage Society, some literary gems have been uncovered. A good example is famous Singapore pioneer Hoo Ah Kay's three
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      • 979 17  -  HEALTH By RICHARD SEAH KONG YUN CHEUNG is a scientist steeped in culture and tradition. This is not surprising, considering his research has lent scientific support to age-old Chinese beliefs about the health-giving properties of such things as double-boiled chicken soup and bird's nest
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        1222 17  -  Compiled by JUANITA SHAKILA STAGE PERFORMANCES: Organ Recital A Workshop by Karl HochreMher. International pianist and recording artiste, Karl Hochreither will give a recital as well as share some finer points in organ music. He is scheduled to perform on Oct 23 at Victoria Concert Hall at Ipm, and
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment & Pursuits
      • Article, Illustration
        591 18  -  ART The seedlings of local company Rosefern Fine Art are germinating, nurtured by the government's endorsement of grooming Singapore into the arts centre of the region. QUEK SWEE PENG wanders into the Rosefern turf to join in its anticipated ardour for the first bloom. QUEK SWEE PENG
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      • 581 18  -  AUCTIONS The tale of the tragedy of the sole heir of a multi-million-dollar fortune, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud, whose death has prompted the forthcoming auction of one of the art world's magnificent jewellery collections. by QUEK SWEE PENG FATE dealt a severe blow to A. du Boisrouvray, the granddaughter
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      • 350 18 AP THE MUSEUM of Modern Art agreed to sell two Picassos, a Monet, a Renoir and three other paintings from its permanent collection to get Vincent van Gogh's portrait of the postman Joseph Roulin, said The New York Times. The portrait, painted in
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      • 161 18  - van Gogh the later years By SAMUEL EE FANCY SEEING the very same sights van Gogh saw when he painted some of his masterpieces? If it's too difficult to go to Holland yourself. the next best thing might be to view the collection of photographs of the places the master
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      • 337 18  -  CINEMA By LAWRENCE TAN JIM. WHAT ARE WE doing in the wondrous Yosemite Valley camping under the stars rather than flying rings round them? Have we run out of alien film-sets? Has the Voyager seen something we pioneers haven't? Aren't we going to continue to split infinity
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      • Article, Illustration
        1005 24  -  SWITCHING With ROGER LOH "SAVE THE BEST for the last" must be SBC's in-house motto. For that's what SBC has planned for the year-end blockbusters worth watching with something for everyone in the family. Comedies dominate the November movie fare. So do dramas. especially stories about traditional family
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Personal Investment
      • 731 20 STOCK MARKETS The world's three largest markets Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom all grew by about 10 per cent in dollar terms for the quarter through Sep 28. NYT WITH FEW EXCEPTIONS and little variation, stock markets around the world posted strong
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      • 711 20 FINANCIAL PLANNING A month ago, BT's regular contributor to financial planning, Mr Philip Teh, gave his views on "Preparing for a lifestyle 20 years ahead" which also provided possible ways of building up a retirement sum of $625,000 in the CPF. A reader, Mrs
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      • 539 20 THE TECHNICAL indicators accompanying our daily stock market report have become a popular feature among BT readers. We have received letters and telephone calls from as far away as India requesting more information on how best to use them. Today s feature will
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      • 506 20 Conversion terms Premium/ Amount Prices (as at 13.10.89) j—~ (discount) Expiry issued Optional** Company Conv Exer (m units) Wrts Share Ln stk ratjo Lnstk Cash Cash 1 Ln stk J Gearing 4 p nom Date mth value left CKTang 16.9 3200 5.550 1.00 2.25 -2 1.73
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      • 563 20 FUND MANAGERS FT FUND MANAGERS have been excited for some time over the investment potential and prospects of the South-east Asian (Tiger) markets: Hongkong, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. They are. however, highly volatile and thus avoided by many investors. One way
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      • 1213 20 THE RANGE of credit and charge cards in Singapore today is rather bewildering. Consumers face a blitz of advertising by card issuers. The table below shows the costs and main features of the cards currently on offer. It first appeared in the October issue of Singapore
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      • Don't quote me...
        • 219 21 WHAT IS IN a number? A lot, if you believe that the right number will bring you luck, and the wrong one evil tidings. In the Suntec project out in Marina Centre, for example, the Hongkong engineer in charge of the project has specified that
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        • 128 21 The saga of Saatchi Saatchi THE TOP management changes at troubled communications group Saatchi Saatchi, announced yesterday, have brought a flood of comment in the British press. The Financial Times described the company's dilemma as "a shattered dream", and "a Thatcherite fairy-tale". Maurice Saatchi, one of two brothers who is
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        • 83 21 DBS BANK is to be blamed for the sharp drop in turnover on the local exchange in the past two days, or at least that's what brokers seem to say. Asked to account for the low volume, they said many fund managers and institutional investors
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      • 1171 21  -  ASEAN MARKETS By ANDREA BORCH ASEAN STOCK MARKETS have nowhere to go but up and no way to grow but stronger. The forces providing the boost: annual economic growth rates ranging from 6 per cent to as high as 11 per cent, governments turning
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      • 598 21  -  J 1 ry| vvj [J By C DOW Mr Dow is an investment manager with a major publiclylisted company. This article has been based solely on technical grounds and is a personal view of the writer and not to be construed as investment advice. IN
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      • 703 21  -  AN INTERVIEW WITH TEMPLETON FUND MANAGER By ANDREA BORCH ECONOMIC POLICIES adopted by the Singapore government have created value for the Asean region, says Mark Mobius ot the Templeton International fund management group. Mr Mobius, whose specific business is seeking out
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      • 157 21 (?|||TO Cresvale Research, Hongkong AFTER three weeks of decline in lacklustre trading, the STII hss regained its strength. The Stochastic indicator surged back into the upper region of its chart as bargain hunters emerged near the 1,370 level. However, relative strength does
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Sports
      • 561 22  -  SQUASH By A SURENDREN IT IS A different league altogether for Singapore from now on. No more hob-nobbing with the elites of squash like Australia, Pakistan, England and New Zealand till at least after four years have passed. -Singapore lost 0-3 to Finland in the Singapore
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      • 312 22 GOLF AP CHIP BECK, playing the kind of golf he enjoys the most, easily defeated Aki Ohmachi of Japan 8 and 6 on Thursday to advance to the second round of the World Matchplay championships. Beck, one of the most consistent golfers on the
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      • 498 22  -  CHESS By DEXTER LEE WHAT A NAIL-BITING finish it was. Neck and neck with Telerec (Telecom Recreation Club) in the penultimate round, Singapore Airlines A' had to slug it out until the final seconds of the last round before winning the Business Houses
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      • 201 22 MOTOR-RALLY AP ITALY'S Massimo Biasion on Thursday clinched the world drivers' title for the second consecutive year as he led a hardfought 1-2 triumph of the Lancia team in the Italian rally. Biasion, who trailed Toyota's Spanish driver Carlos Sainz by 1:41 minutes following the
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      • 598 22  -  Oh With JEROME FANDOR THE DECK is stacked for the $250,000 Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Cup tomorrow. Trainer Ivan Allan saddles five of the 16 thoroughbreds handicapped tor the first running of this 1600 M classic. The punters call his runners "four aces and a
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      • 479 22 TENNIS AP AFP SECOND-SEEOED Jimmy Connors of the US had a narrow escape when he had to go to a third-set tie break on Thursday to gain the quarter-finals of the U*****,000 Toulouse Grand Prix tournament while John McEnroe won in straight sets. Connors came
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      • 257 22 AP LARS WAHLGREN. who was considering quitting tennis because he was not making any money, stunned defending champion Slobodan Zivojinovic of Yugoslavia 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) yesterday. That propelled him into the semi-finals of the U*****,500 Australian Indoor tennis championships in Sydney. Wahlgren, a 23-year-old Swede, ranked 222
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      • 241 22 BASEBALL AFP THIS YEAR'S World Series, which begins in Oakland today. will feature the "Pacific Sock Exchange" against the "Bash Brothers as the San Francisco Giants take on the Oakland Athletics in a best-of-seven games battle for baseball supremacy. The Giants, winners over
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      • 298 22 CYCLING AP THE TOUR OF LOMBARDY classic today wraps up a memorable cycling season courtesy of American Greg LeMond, who pulled off the greatest comeback in the history of the sport. LeMond, whose career seemed as good as over after he was riddled with shotgun pellets in
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    • Executive Jobs
      • 273 23 THE Chase Manhattan Bank NA has appointed MICHAEL BARRETT as the South-east Asia regional manager of individual banking group. He has 16 years' experience in branch banking, consumer product management and strategic planning. Yeo Hiap Seng Limited has appointed YEOW CHEE TIONG as its business development manager. Mr
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      • 1046 23  -  Ugly employers come in all shapes and sizes. They can be large, bureaucratic machines, tightly controlled family businesses, up-and-coming SMEs, or a one-man show, reports DAVID MARCHINGTON. Do you work for one? DAVID MARCHINGTON "J! Mr Marchington is the martaging director of Korn/Ferry
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      • 640 23  - The expatriate in the US comes home to her own self J/L By TYE KIM KHIAT By TYE KIM KHIAT BACK IN Singapore. Ruyee How somehow doesn't look the part that of the highly assertive and vocal expatriate in America where she had worked for eight years, first as a
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