The Business Times, 21 April 1990

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  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 170/12/89 Weekend April 21-22 1990 75*
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  • NEWS & MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 41 1 AP STOCK PRICES hovered in a narrow range yesterday morning against a background of continuing inflation and inter-est-rate worries. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials showed a 4.96-point loss at 2,706.98 one hour into the ses- sion.
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    • 49 1 AP LONDON share prices were just slightly higher at midday yesterday. Analysts said there was a lade of investor interest in the middle of a three-week trading account. At 1100 GMT, the Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index was up 3.7 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 2,188.4.
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    • 36 1 THE BUNDESBANK, West Germany's independent central bank, is taking the offensive to win backing for its controversial proposal to swap East marks for West marks at a general rate of two to one.
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    • 32 1 SOUTH KOREA plans to seek joint oil exploration with North Korea on the peninsula's continental shelf to help make the economies of the two countries interdependent, government officials said.
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    • 21 1 AT&T Consumer Products has completely eliminated the use of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), in its manufacturing process Page 2
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    • 31 1 THE FIRM outlook for the industrial buildings sector has led Amateur Photo Stores, an electrical, electronic and office automation equipment distributor, to invest in the property market Page 2
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    • 34 1 TIMES Publishing Ltd showed a 53 per cent improvement in profit after tax and minorities to $11.67 million in the first half ended Feb 28, 1990, boosted by investment income Page 3
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 762.43 -4.60 Kuala Lumpur ....541.88 -4.59 Hongkong 3,067.30 -0.37 Tokyo 29,835.44 -109.97 Sydney 1,491.4 -3.7 Thursday Change New York 2,711.93 -20.9 London 2,184.7 -21.2
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    • 21 1 Exchange rates US$ S$l.8755 Yen (100) SSI.I916 MS SS0.6891 Money market rates Overnight. 6 1/16% 1/16 3-month 6 13/16% +4/16
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    • 25 1 London Gold PM fix US$376.00 US$0.25 Rubber S'pore May 157.25«/kg +1.50 Vfsia May 211.00*/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 91 tonnes +21 Spot M$17.46/kg -0.06
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  • 280 1  -  By Yong Pow Ang WITH THE car market so volatile, used and new car dealers are not sure who will have the last laugh. At the moment, used car dealers are in bad shape. As the supply of used cars exceeds the demand,
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  • 337 1  -  By Martin Soong TWENTY FIVE people in Singapore probably won't be paying any attention to the first car quota results being announced today. You don't need to, if you can afford to buy what will be one of the most expensive cars in
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  • 399 1 Reuter THE BRITISH parliament has voted in favour of a Bill to grant citizenship to 225,000 Hongkong residents despite rebellion in the ruling Conservative Party's own ranks. China yesterday lashed out at Britain over the plan. Only hours after London's nationality package
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  • 220 1 SINGAPORE has once again proven that it is a provider of quality services when it comes to tourism. At the 1990 Travel Industry Awards sponsored jointly by PATA Travel News (PTN) magazine and the regional weekly newspaper, Travel Trade Gazette Asia, Singapore's travel organisations clinched
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  • 420 1  -  By Loh Hui Yin in TOKYO WITH THE Singapore economy growing at a slower pace this year, wage settlements will have to be more modest than what was seen in 1989, said the Trade and Industry Minister yesterday. The indications
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 117 2 APPLE Computer Singapore is participating in the government's Local Industry Upgrading Programme and has identified three suppliers to work with under the scheme. Apple is presenting a set of proposals to the Economic Development Board in such areas as production control and planning, inventory management,
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      • 98 2 NTUC Voice Cooperative Society Limited will be formed with an initial capital of $4 million to run the NTUC radio station. The money will come from NTUC Fairprice, NTUC Income and NTUC Comfort, which are together sinking $3.5 million into the project. The other
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      • 69 2 THE Westin Stamford and the Westin Plaza have won awards of excellence for food and beverage in a competition conducted for the 65 worldwide properties under the Westin Hotels Resorts group. The competition had a total of 13 -categories and the Singapore hotels were placed within
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      • 56 2 OCEAN Information Systems Malaysia has clinched a M 5250,000 software package order from plastics manufacturer May Plastics Industries for a business planning and control system. This follows Ocean Information Systems' appointment last February as an affiliate by the world's largest AS/400 software company, System Software Associates,
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      • 69 2 WITH noise-induced deafness as the top occupational health hazard in Singapore, early detection has become a top priority. In line with this, the National University Hospital will introduce a course to train people to conduct hearing tests for workers. The two-day course, which will be
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    • 414 2  -  By Genevieve Cua AT&T CONSUMER Products has completely eliminated the use of ozone-depleting chemicals, or chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), in its manufacturing process. It is the first factory in American giant AT&T's worldwide communications and computer products division and most probably the first major local electronics
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    • 212 2 THE Singapore Institute of Labour Studies, initiated by the National Trades Union Congress, will take in the first batch of 25 to 30 students in late August for a two-year part-time diploma course in industrial relations. According to the latest edition of
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    • 287 2 THE FIRM outlook for the industrial buildings sector has led Amateur Photo Stores (APS), an electrical, electronic and office automation equipment distributor, to invest in the property market. It is going full speed ahead to build a six-storey warehouse at Jalan Pemimpin, in the
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    • 119 2 THE National Trades Union Congress has warned employers that industrial peace in Singapore will be jeopardised if workers are not given a fair share of the fruit of their labour. A comment in the NTUC News attributes the success of Singapore to equity
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 402 3  -  By Elaine Koh TIMES PUBLISHING Ltd showed a 53 per cent improvement in profit, after tax and minorities, to $11.67 million in the first half ended Feb 28, 1990, boosted by investment income. The group, a spin-off from Singapore Press Holdings, could
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    • 258 3 Bernama PACIFIC CHEMICALS Bhd is mapping out strategies to introduce to the Malaysian market four new agricultural chemical products manufactured by its parent company Dowelanco BV. Pacific Chemicals chairman Chester R Bouten said on Thursday that one of the products was a fungicide, the
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    • 449 3  -  By William Chia DIVERSIFIED gaming operator Magnum Corporation has reinforced its turnaround by achieving a 300 per cent jump in group after-tax profit to M 530.15 million (M 57.45 million) last year after being in the red just two years ago. Magnum said
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    • 208 3 Bernama PROMET BHD has reported a group pre-tax loss of M$ 14.01 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1989, down 62 per cent from its 1988 loss of M 536.46 million. Group turnover rose by 145 per cent to M 565.53 million from
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    • 219 3 Bernama KUMPULAN Perangsang Selangor (KPS), which has a 91.35 per cent stake in Central Holdings Bhd, has decided not to sell Holiday Inn on the Park, a hotel owned and operated by Central Holdings. Central Holdings said in a statement in Kuala Lumpur
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    • 584 3  -  MARKET TALK By Catherine Ong THE TENACITY of South-east Asian stock markets in weathering the Tokyo bloodbath confirms what many analysts have long held that this region is more influenced by the ups and downs of Wall Street than the vicissitudes
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    • 362 3  -  By Abdul Hadhi THE Insurance Corporation of Singapore (ICS) will be introducing a new sales distribution system this year which will cast its net wider by catering to smaller groups and individuals. Currently the company's sales strategy mainly involves the
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    • 184 3 SESDAQ-LISTED Fuji Offset Plates Manufacturing yesterday announced its subscription for 700,000 new shares in Fuji Printing Cylinder Pte Ltd at 1 per share. The subscription, amounting to $700,000, would be financed by bank borrowings and is not expected to have any
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 67 3 KEPPEL CORP, through Schroders International Merchant Bankers, yesterday officially gave notice of its takeover offers for Asia Commercial Bank shares and convertible loan stocks (CLS). Keppel also announced that it had completed the purchase of 44,929,480 shares and $55,387,862 nominal amount CLS
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      • 80 3 LANDMARKS' offer to buy the entire issued and paid-up capital of Saujana Resort Malaysia other than the 12,330 'A' shares and 1,850 4 B' shares of M 52,500 each that 'it already owns, is fair and reasonable. Independent adviser Permata Merchant Bank said the opinion is
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      • 48 3 DCA (M) Pemaju Corp has obtained credit facilities of $62.S million from Standard Chartered Bank to develops Selangor privatisation project on 54.3 hectares of land. Tfie project will comprise 3,700 units of low-cost houses, flats, medium-cost houses, condominium and a commercial complex.
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      • 38 3 MALAYSIAN MINING Corp and Tronoh Mines M'siaare jointly acquiring 43.91 million shares of SO Australian cents each or about 30 per cent of Australian company Pioneer Minerals Exploration Ltd, for A 541.72 million.
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      • 106 3 SIME DARBY Bhd told the KLSE yesterday that shareholders of seven 1,000-share certificates entitled to the company's bonus shares have not received the certificates which were despatched on Feb 2. Instead, the company added, it had received transfer deeds for the certificates' registration between April 6
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      • 117 3 THE Lion group yesterday refuted a press report that its subsidiary, Parkson Corporation Sdn Bhd, which runs the Parkson Grand and Parkson Ria departmental stores, is buying the 7-eleven chain of stores from Antah Holdings Bhd. "There was never a formal discussion between us and
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 59 4 BRITAIN'S BAT Industries, shedding its far-flung US retailing empire, will sell department store chain Marshall Field Co to Dayton Hudson Corp of Minneapolis for about US$l.O4 billion, the companies said on Thursday. The 130-year-old Marshall Field's, Chicago's premier retailer, operates 24 stores throughout
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      • 86 4 C ITOH and Co Ltd has announced that subsidiaries C Itoh Fine Chemical Co Ltd and C Itoh Inter-Chem Inc will merge on July 1, 1990. The merged company, tentatively named C Itoh Fine Chemical Co Ltd, will be capitalised at 300 million yen
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      • 107 4 FRANCE'S top 50 companies see slightly slower growth in 1990 than they experienced in 1989, according to a study by the bank Credit National. Its annual survey of the top firms, whose total turnover amounted to 1,375 billion francs in 1989, revealed that they expect sales
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      • 63 4 ALLIED-LYONS pic has agreed to sell its Embassy hotels chain to Jarvis Hotels Ltd for £202 million subject to Jarvis being able to arrange financing. Jarvis Hotels was founded in March by former Hilton International chairman and chief executive John Jarvis. Embassy operates 41 hotels
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      • 59 4 THE WEST GERMAN federal cartel office has no objections to West German electronics group AEG AG's planned takeover of Schorch GmbH from Bergmann Elektro GmbH, AEG said in a statement. Last month AEG, which is majority owned by automotive and aerospace group Daimler AG, said it
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      • 59 4 ALCATEL NV Telecommunications company announced on Thursday that it had made a sharply higher net profit last year and had won its fifth contract in China for digital switching and transmission equipment. Its net profit last year rose to 478 million European Currency Units (about US$57B
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      • 65 4 MARCOPPER Mining Corp had a net income of 194 million pesos (US$9 million) in 1989, down sharply from 510 million pesos (US$22 million) the year before. The Philippines' third largest copper producer said its revenues from sales of copper concentrates totalled U5552.87 million in 1989, from
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      • 62 4 UNION PACIFIC of Philadelphia has decided not to go through, at the present time, with a proposed public offering of shares of its wholly-owned Union Pacific Resources subsidiary. The company said it decided that an initial public offering of the unit would not substantially enhance
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    • 362 4 Reuter THE US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday adopted a regulation that makes it easier for large institutional investors to sell unregistered stocks and bonds. SEC chairman Richard Breeden said the rule will fuel participation in the US private placement market
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    • 454 4 Reuter IN A MAJOR STEP towards creation of an alliance between two of the world's biggest industrial groups, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Daimler-Benz have agreed to jointly conduct aerospace research, a Mitsubishi spokesman said in Tokyo on Thursday. Marrying the two conglomerates' interests,
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    • 480 4 NYT AMERICAN Express Co, reflecting record losses at its Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc subsidiary, reported the worst quarterly results in its history on Thursday a loss of U*****.8 million in the first quarter, compared with a gain a year earlier of U*****.9 million, or 59
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    • 222 4 NYT McDONALD's Corp on Thursday reported its 100 th straight quarter of record year-to-year increases in net income, earnings per share and revenues since going public in 1965. First-quarter net income climbed 12 per cent, to US$l5B million, from US$l42 million in the
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    • 208 4 NYT LOCKHEED Corp's firstquarter earnings increased 11.3 per cent to US$69 million from US$62 million in the 1989 period. Sales rose 7.7 per cent to U552.25 billion from US$2.O9 billion. Earnings were held down by the US$l5 million cost of defending against a proxy
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    • 244 4 AP TOYOTA Motor Corp, Japan's largest car manufacturer, will greatly increase its purchases from US motor parts makers, company officials said yesterday. Toyota Motor was among 11 Japanese automakers which participated in meetings with US parts suppliers, held in Las Vegas,
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    • 269 4 Reuter HUNGARY plans to reopen its stock exchange in June as the country moves towards a Western-style democracy and market economy after four decades of communist rule. The exchange will quote between five and 10 Hungarian firms when it starts trading on June
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    • 585 4 AFP INDIAN business tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani has resigned as chairman of Larsen and Toubro (L and T) Ltd, ending a confrontation with institutional shareholders who wanted his ouster and settling a major corporate crisis. Mr Ambani's resignation signalled that the
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 372 5  -  By Elaine Koh THREE of the Big Four local bar£s have taken the lead in raising the basic pay of clerical staff by nearly 25 per cent in a bid to keep workers in a tight labour market. The three banks United
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    • 213 5 NYT MLC and Capita, two of Australia's largest and oldest life assurance groups, have agreed to merge. The deal will create the country's third largest life office with total assets of about Aslo billion. The move again raises the issue of less competition in the
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    • 358 5 Reuter VIETNAM is preparing a radical restructuring of its banking system, bringing in commercial banks to cater for market-oriented reforms, a senior state bank official said. Nguyen Cong Hai, deputy director of the bank's foreign department, said a government decree expected to be
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    • 298 5 Reuter THE Japanese Finance Ministry is considering making it easier for foreign banks to open new branches in Japan, and foreign bankers say the move is expected to mainly benefit Citicorp's Citibank unit. The ministry will consider speeding up the process of branch
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 104 5 THE Hongkong Association of Banks, which fixes interest rates, has investigated accusations of malpractice levied against a number of committee members and found them groundless, chairman Paul Selway-Swift said. "The association has looked into this to the best of its ability. It does
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      • 70 5 JAPANESE Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said he wanted the yen to further strengthen against the US dollar. He made the remark at a press conference yesterday morning after the US dollar opened in Tokyo at 156.78 yen, down 0.97 yen from Thursday's finish. Mr Hashimoto said: "I
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      • 104 5 THREE South Korean investment trust firms will each launch US$lOO million funds in June or July for investment in both domestic and foreign securities markets, South Korean Finance Ministry officials said. Daehan Investment Trust Co will launch its fund in the United States around mid-June,
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      • 82 5 A GOVERNMENT decree removing all remaining controls on capital movements may be approved next week, Italian Cabinet secretary Nino Cristofori said. "It's likely that the decree will be approved at the cabinet meeting on April 27, but it's a complicated question," he said after a
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    • 297 5 REPRESENTATIVES of the Group of Seven industrial countries proposed a broad set of regulatory and banking reforms on Thursday to combat the growing problem of concealing illegal narcotics profits in banks and other financial institutions. A study panel set up by the
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    • 286 5 NYT BANKAMERICA Corp, the nation's third-largest banking company, said its first-quar-ter profits rose 1.1 per cent, to US$27B million, from US$275 million a year earlier. It attributed the gain to steady growth of its consumer banking business and a surprising rise in fees from arranging corporate
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 201 5 Banking, Finance Insurance Supplement 1990 Banking, Finance and Insurance Supplement, Business Times's biggest and most established annual supplement, is here again. The theme of this year's bumper issue, scheduled to be published on May 24, 1990, is Financial Sector Leading Singapore into the 90s. The financial services industry was Singapore's
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • THE REGION
    • NOTE BOOK
      • 95 6 INDONESIA'S investment coordinating board will soon open an office in Brussels, Belgium, to attract foreign investment to Indonesia. Sanjoto Sastrowardoyo, chairman of the board, said the move will be financed by a Belgian government grant of US$BOO,OOO approved on Wednesday in Brussels by Belgian
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      • 84 6 RADIO Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) is prepared to cooperate with TV3 to channel its Mandarin news telecast to the private station. Information Minister Datuk Mohamed Rahmat told newsmen after attending a breaking of fast at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur that RTM would not impose
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      • 61 6 FOREIGN MINISTER Datuk Abu Hassan Omar will represent Malaysia at the United Nations General Assembly's special session on international economic cooperation to be held at the UN headquarters in New York on April 23-28. A Wisma Putra statement says the special session will, in particular,
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      • 65 6 TRADE between Malaysia and Taiwan grew 124 per cent to US$l.5B billion last year from U*****.4 million in 1986 and is set to rise further. Mr Chen Yung-hsiang, the economic director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre which represents Taiwan's interest in Malaysia, said that further
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      • 70 6 THAILAND will soon return to South Korea the wreckage from a Korean Air jetliner downed in the Andaman Sea off Burma in 1987, a news report said yesterday. The KAL Boeing 707 disappeared on Nov 29, 1987, over the sea on a flight from Baghdad
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      • 65 6 SEVENTEEN soldiers and constables were killed and five wounded in an attack by suspected communist rebels in the southern province of Surigao del Sur, Philippine military officials said yesterday. The security forces were pursuing suspected New People's Army guerillas who held up a beer truck in Marihatqg
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      • 89 6 PERVASIVE corruption in government is a leading cause of the six coup attempts against President Corazon Aquino, the Philippine government ombudsman said. "Corruption in government is a derivative cause" of coup attempts, Mr Conrado Vasquez, head of a government office investigating graft cases, said in
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      • 74 6 INDONESIA'S communication satellite, Palapa 82-R has been declared worthy and ready for use, according to its satellite control agency chief, Hari Kartana. A test on its control system has been successful, he said yesterday. The satellite is now awaiting tests on its communication system,
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      • 96 6 FOREIGN AFFAIRS Secretary Raul Manglapus has said the shortfall in US compensation to the Philippines this year for its military bases in the Philippines was US$222 million, not US$96 million as earlier announced. Mr Manglapus, chief Philippine negotiator in talks next month on the future of
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    • 277 6 Bernama THE PATTERN of Malaysia's trade with the BelgiumLuxembourg Economic Union (Bleu) has undergone a significant change, with Belgian importers increasingly shifting to value-added products from Malaysia. The Malaysian trade commissioner in Brussels, Abdul Kabur Ibrahim, said that the share of primary commodities
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    • 62 6 Nigerian nationals Traore Oumar Mahamane (left) and Tahirou Hassana Issaka trying to cover their faces after being arrested by Thai airport customs officials on possession of 4.5 kilograms of top-grade Number 4 heroin worth about US$3 million outside Thailand. The drugs were found concealed
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    • 395 6 Bernama MALAYSIA'S strategies on development for the 1990s will give emphasis to building on the economic recovery which it achieved over recent years and to strengthen the growth momentum. Stating this yesterday, chief secretary to the government, Datuk Seri Ahmad Saiji Abdul Hamid, said
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    • 207 6 Bernama JAPANESE do not have to feel guilty about buying Sarawak timber because logging in the state is sustainable and did not pose a danger to the environment, chief minister Tan Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud said in Tokyo on Thursday night. Addressing a captive
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    • 227 6 Reuter VIETNAM'S deputy foreign minister Dinh Nho Liem will visit Beijing on May 2 for talks with Chinese officials on bilateral problems including the conflict in Cambodia where the two support opposing sides, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said in Hanoi on Thursday. She
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    • 232 6 AFP THE ALL BURMA Students Democratic Front (ABSDF) on Thursday condemned foreign investors in Burma for dealing with Rangoon despite its oppressive policies. An ABSDF release said it was reacting particularly to a recent report from Burma that Pepsico Inc had set up a joint
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    • 406 6 MBT MALAYSIAN regulations to protect house buyers from unscrupulous developers will be enforced by June, three months behind schedule. Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Lee Kim Sai said on Thursday that the delay in the implementation of the housing (project account)
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    • 155 6 AFP AUSTRALIA gave the United Nations Asl million (U*****,000) on Thursday to send a mission to Cambodia to advance the peace process there. Australia's ambassador to the United Nations, Peter Wilenski, gave the cheque to UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. Australia
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    • 471 6 INDONESIAN State Minister for Population and Environment Emil Salim says that construction of infrastructure and facilities in Indonesia's eastern province should be accelerated to stimulate further development of the region. Mr Emil, who was in a group of four Cabinet ministers on a visit to
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  • THE WORLD
    • 532 7 AP PRESIDENT George Bush's plans for nearly US$3OO billion in defence spending next year came under attack on Thursday on Capitol Hill where House of Representatives budget writers approved deep cuts and Senator Sam Nunn called for reduction of US forces in Europe. The
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    • 245 7 THE Bush administration on Thursday announced plans to withdraw up to 15,000 US troops from Asia within three years and more later, turning the lead defence role in South Korea over to Korean forces by the end of the
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    • 416 7 AFP THE European Community, frequently accused of foot-dragging in negotiations for stricter rules governing agricultural trade, on Thursday accused other nations of taking too slow an approach on other trade matters. EC Commission Vice-President Franz Andriessen told an informal meeting in Puerto
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    • 235 7 US Trade Representative Carla Hills told Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama on Thursday she hoped new threats of sanctions would not be needed to open Japan's markets, a ministry spokesman said. But the spokesman, Makoto Yamanaka, would not say if the remark by
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    • 531 7 Reuter CHINESE companies and their overseas joint venture partners have taken out about US$7O billion in gov-ernment-guaranteed foreign loans over the past decade, according to an internal survey by the Chinese government. Information from the survey was given to Reuters in Hongkong
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    • 125 7 Reuter SOUTH AFRICA'S President FW De Klerk promised on Thursday to amend or repeal the remaining pillars of apartheid. "We shall never be able to have complete peace in South Africa as long as there is statutory discrimination," he told parliament. Partly lifting
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    • 324 7 AFP THE European Community will have to provide heavy subsidies for East Germany's backward industry and agriculture after German unification, according to a secret report by the ECs executive Commission. It also warns Bonn that the Commission will keep a close eye
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 143 7 STRONGER exports and falling oil prices helped Sweden's trade surplus rise to 3.4 billion crowns in March and exceed analysts' expectations, spokesman Jan Savenborg of the government's Central Statistics Bureau said. Markets had expected a two-billion crown surplus, compared with a 1.8 billion crown surplus
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      • 135 7 ALMOST one third of Czechoslovakia's economy will remain in state hands despite the transition to a market economy, Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus said. Mr Klaus said state enterprises were not ready for privatisation and a transformation law was being prepared to deal with it. Despite the
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      • 140 7 THE former country estate of deposed East German leader Erich Honecker will be converted into a luxury hotel in spite of local objections. The official news agency ADN said the regional assembly in the northern town of Waren handed the estate over to East
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      • 165 7 BRITISH Premier Margaret Thatcher said there will be "plenty of other things to discuss" at an EC summit than political union, after French and West German leaders called for action on the issue. Mrs Thatcher was referring to talks at a European Community summit
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    • 216 7 SOVIET President Mikhail Gorbachev suggested changes in a long-awaited package of radical economic measures drawn up by his top economic advisors and billed as central to his perestroika reforms. In a statement on Thursday summarising two days of discussions marked by disagreements, he
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    • 177 7 Reuter PRESIDENT George Bush is consulting with Nato allies on responses to the Soviet Union's decision to cut oil supplies to Lithuania, a White House spokesman said on Thursday. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said US officials were trying to verify the extent of the oil cutoff
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 3908 8  -  By Lim Mui Khi THE SINGAPORE MARKET drifted lower again yesterday in dull, quiet trading. The Business Times Composite Index of Malaysian and Singapore shares closed 9.52 points lower at 1,301.45. The Straits Times Industrials Index of 30 Singapore blue chips also fell;
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  • 3417 9 Main Board OCBC Foreign 1060 20 +1-9% Hai Sun Hup 20* 215 +11 +5.4% Roth Inds 50* 324 6 +1-9% Hoed Prop 230 +6 +2.7% Hoed Prop A 224 +6 +2.8% FELSWt 279 +5 +1.8% Polytek 50* 152 5 3.4% Sing Inv Fin 229 +4
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2261 10 Reuter TOKYO shares closed broadly lower yesterday but off their lows on pre-weekend selling and profit-taking reinforced by uncertainty over the yen, brokers said. "The market was very simple today," said Kazuma Kitai, director of Japanese equities, County Natwest Securities Japan. "There was some natural
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2587 10 Reuter HONGKONG'S Hang Seng Index, down nearly 30 points in mid-morning trade yesterday, rebounded just ahead of the close as heavy, European buying boosted stocks to end less than a point below its previous finish. The Hang Seng Index closed 0.37 points lower at
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3648 11 MBT, Bernama Reuter STOCK PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange ended with extended losses on further liquidation and lack of fresh buying support, brokers said. The KLSE Composite Index fell 4.59 points to 541.88 while the New Straits Times Industrial Ordinary Share Index
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Shares rebound sharply in Taipei
      • 87 12 CWmc Pwiow Apr 20 Apr 19 SYDNEY All Ordinaries Index 1,491.4 1,495.1 -3.7 All Industrials Index 2.325.7 2,330.4 -4.7 All Resourves Index 855.4 857.9 -2.5 Turnover (million) 86.2 75.1 +11.1 BANGKOK SET Index 840 56 834.99 5.57 Turnover (nearest'000) 14,967 12,383 2,584 JAKARTA Composite Index NA 643.90 Turnover (nearest'000). NA
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      • 1039 12 THE Australian share market yesterday ended the week slightly easier after a day of directionless trading and thin volumes. The All Ordinaries Index finished 3.7 points down at 1,491.4, with a large slice of turnover dominated by options-related trading. "The market has been doing a lot of work lately
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      • 439 12 TAIWAN share prices, which have been losing ground for more than a week, shot sharply higher yesterday as investors piled back into the market, following the lead of big market players, dealers said. The Weighted Index shot up 461.82 points, or 5.2 per cent, higher to end at 9,292.39
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      • 870 12 SEOUL stocks fell for the third straight session yesterday as the index fluctuated in a narrow band in the afternoon, brokers said. The Composite Index closed at 767.45 points, down 0.86 from Thursday's close. Turnover was 138.4 billion won compared with 136.7 billion in the previous session. The market
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      • 432 12 TAKEOVER speculation surrounding food conglomerate Goodman Fielder Wattie helped the New Zealand share market close markedly higher yesterday. A spokesman at GFW's Auckland office declined comment but Elders NZFP also enjoyed buying support after Brierley Investments confirmed it had bought 3-4 per cent of the company's shares. "These
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      • 631 12 THAI stocks moved higher yesterday in speculative trade focused on smaller issues in the real estate and textile sectors, brokers said. The official SET Index gained 5.57 points to close at 840.56. Advances led declines 87 to 38. Most active were Star Block, Amarin Plaza and First City Investment.
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      • 133 12 BOMBAY share prices yesterday rose sharply in brisk new account trading, despite higher contango (carry-forward) charges. The market welcomed a compromise between two groups battling for control of Larsen and Toubro, under which Larsen chairman Dhirubhai Ambani quit his post, they said. Larsen shares were steady at 75 rupees.
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      • 714 12 Jakarta Rupiah VolCOO) Aqua Golden M. ***** unch As. Bintang Ind. 6250 unch As. Dayin Mitra 6900 unch Bank Bali ***** unch 5 Bank Danamon ***** 50 45 Bank Niaga ***** unch 28 Champion 8900 unch Indo Citra F. 8425 unch Indocement ***** unch Inter Delta 8000 unch Rig Tenders
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      • 394 12 la local cwrency la S$ la USS day year day year day year Vpf 19 Index change change change chaage change chaage World 412.1 f0.6 -11.4 +0.7 -15.0 +1.0 -13.8 1EAFE 576.5 +0.7 -15.4 +1.4 -19.8 +1.6 -18.7 Europe 434.4 -0.7 -3.6 -0.6 -2.8 -0.4 -1.5 Pacific 983 4 +1.8
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Dow index tumbles on program selling
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        1184 13 LATE AFTERNOON program selling sent an already weakened US stock market reeling on Thursday. A series of disappointing earnings reports, soft bond prices and worries about a resurgence of inflation kept the mood on Wall Street bearish. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 20.9 points to close at
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        830 13 LONDON share prices were just slightly higher at midday yesterday. Analysts said there was a lack of investor interest in the middle of a three-week trading account. London's Stock Exchange divides trading into two-week and threeweek trading periods for accounting purposes. The market was drifting and was likely to
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      • 289 13 DUTCH stocks were mixed in quiet early trading yesterday with the market lacking a clear sense of direction, dealers said. At 0905 GMT, the CB-S AllShare Index was at 118.9 points, 0.1 above Thursday's close. Transport group Nedlloyd fell another 2.50 guilders to 93.40 after Thursday's 11.20 slump on
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      • 274 13 WEST GERMAN share prices ended slightly higher yesterday, but off the highs of the day, with market activity mostly restricted to position squaring ahead of the weekend, dealers said. "There was no real interest in the market from either international or domestic investors," one share trader said. Traders said
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      • 283 13 STEADY foreign buying yesterday pushed blue chip stocks in Paris higher through the morning on the last day of the account, surprising French dealers by the strength of demand. "This is exceptional and bodes very well for next week when the new account opens," one dealer said. He added
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      • 213 13 MILAN share prices opened weaker yesterday, continuing Thursday's downward trend, in active trading volume focused on stocks in the De Benedetti group, brokers said. The MIB Index was down 0.2 per cent at 0930 GMT, with 45 per cent of closing prices fixed. Olivetti, actively traded on Thursday, climbed
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      • 379 13 SWISS SHARES traded mixed to firmer at midsession yesterday. Dealers said activity centred on Ciba-Geigy after the company said it was withdrawing a planned capital increase because of its falling share prices. In addition to that, Ciba-Geigy also said its employee foundations would acquire 360,000 registered shares by buying
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      • 336 13 GOLD SHARES in Johannesburg were mixed to slightly easier at midday yesterday in dull trading due to a lack of fresh stimulus in a stock market hamstrung by continued political and economic uncertainties, dealers said. Heavyweight Southvaal shed three rand at 162 and Randfontein 35 cents at 22.75 rand
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      • 249 13 Brussels Apr 19 Francs FORWARD MARKET Acec 4890 +140 Arbed 5430 -20 Astur 1520 +5 Brascan 706 -12 Canpac 664 -14 Cock 205 I De Beers 746 -2 Ebes 4280 -20 Gb-Inno-Bm 1334 -6 Gevaert 8450 50 Gr Bru Lamb 3965 -10 Hobok Petro ***** -100 Ryl Dutch 2610 -15
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      • 85 13 Apr 19 Owe Previous NEW YORK Dow Jones 2,711.94 2,732.88 -20.94 NYSE Financial 139.28 140.29 -1.01 SAP 500 338.09 340.72 -2.63 Turnover (million) 159.9 147.1 +12.8 L0MD0N Financial Times 30 1,712.2 1,732.6 -20.4 FTSE 100 2,184.7 2,205.9 -21.2 Turnover (million) 491.9 352.5 +139.4 AMSTERDAM CBS General 197.20 198.60 -1.40 BRUSSELS
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1137 14 FOREX MARKET REPORTS Reuter THE US dollar closed higher on Asian foreign currency markets yesterday, a reversal from Thursday's sharp fall. It started at 156.78 yen in Tokyo yesterday, down from Wednesday's high of 160.18 yen. Dealers said steady buying boosted
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    • 390 14 Cross rates Apr 20 US$ SS MS Dm Yen SFr A$ NZS USS 1.8770 2.7190 1.6785 157.10 0.6081 1.4830 1.2962 1.7153 SS 0.5328 1.4486 0.8942 0.8370 0.3240 0.7901 0.6906 0.9138 MS 0.3678 69.03 0.6173 0.5778 0.2236 0.5454 0.4767 0.6308 Dm 0.5958 1.1183 1.6199 93.60 0.3623 0.8835 0.7722
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    • 568 14 Interbank rates s$ Bid Offer Overnight 6 1/16 6 3/16 1-month 6 1/2 6 5/8 2-month 6 5/8 6 3/4 3-month 6 13/16 6 15/16 Overnight mode: 6-1/4 t'SS Bid Offer 7 days 8 5/16 8 7/16 1 month 8 3/8 8 1/2 2 months 8 7/16 8
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    • 391 14 Reuter A TOP US Treasury official called on Thursday for a stronger yen, saying the weak currency could upset global trade, and said he was not worried about recent sales of US Treasury securities by Japanese investors. Treasury Undersecretary David Mulford told a
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    • 1447 14 SIMEX EURODOLLAR Open High Law Sett Est Vol Opflnt Vol Jun 90 91.29 91.33 91.29 91.31 3730 ***** ***** Sep 90 91.14 91.18 91.14 91.18 3304 6983 ***** Dec 90 90.96 90.99 90.95 90.98 662 2513 2309 Mir 91 9083 90.88 90.83 90.87 408 618 312
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 317 15 AFP, Reuter PT TAMBANG Timah, an Indonesian state enterprise and one of the world's largest tin mining firms, has announced a five-year modernisation plan in a bid to become more competitive. Timah President Director Kuntoro Mangkusubroto said late Thursday that the plan aimed at
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    • 226 15 Reuter OPEC will hold emergency ministerial talks on May 2 to discuss ways of boosting sagging world oil prices, the group's president, Sadek Boussena of Algeria, said on Thursday. Mr Boussena said in a statement that a meeting of Opec's eight-nation monitoring
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    • 130 15 Reuter FIVE Japanese companies which signed a prepayment deal for Iranian oil have hit trouble after oil prices tumbled and unsold sour Iranian crude piled up in world refining centres, Gulf oil industry sources said. The companies Marubeni, Mitsui, Tomen, C
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    • 828 15 REPORTS THE Kuala Lumpur Tin Market (KLTM) retreated from earlier gains to close six sen lower at MS 17.46 per kg yesterday as prices succumbed to profit-taking ahead of the weekend. At the opening, bids totalled 60 tonnes against offers of 112 tonnes. Of
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    • 1337 15 Rubber Apr 20 MS («■>!■ S cents/kg Noon Close Int I RSS Prompt I53.00/154.00N 154.25/155.25 Int 1 RSS May 90 156.00/156.50 157.25/157.75 Int I RSS June 158 50/159.00 159.75/160.25 Int 2 RSS OP 151 25/I53.25N 152.00/154.00N Int 3 RSS OP I45.75/147.75N 146.50/148 50N Int 4 RSS OP 141.75/143.75N 142.50/144.50N
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    • 427 15 NOTICES INTHE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF DAIUNI MOLD MFG PTE LTD On Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 306 of toe Companies Act Cap. 50. toat a Final Meeting of the Members of toe
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    • 336 15 B.H.T. DOULATRAM CO. PTE LTD. (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308(1) of the Companies Act (Chapter SO) a final general meeting of the above named company will be held on 21st May, 1990 at 10.30 a.m. at the office of
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  • 460 16  -  By Anna Teo in LONDON WITH ITS historical links with the Far East, Britain is in the best position among the European powers to play the bridging role between the Asia-Pacific region and the new Europe, said First Deputy Prime Minister
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  • 299 16 SINGAPORE and UK share common perceptions on the importance of shoring up confidence in Hongkong, according to First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Stopping to talk to reporters outside 10 Downing St after his meeting with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher yesterday, Mr Goh added
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  • 262 16  -  By Loh Hui Yin in TOKYO EASTERN Europe will not easily replace South-east Asia as an important place for Japanese investments, so long as the region stays competitive, says Trade and Industry Minister Lee Hsien Loong. "I think they (Japanese) are
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  • 464 16 AFP THE INDONESIAN economy, having successfully adjusted to become more market-oriented, is now on the verge of taking off with more growth and opportunities for the rest of this century, Coordinating Minister for the Economy Radius Prawiro says. New records were broken in
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  • 380 16 LITHUANIA'S respected Communist Party chief said yesterday that his republic must compromise on some independence steps or face critical Kremlin-imposed shortages of oil and natural gas by May. "In two weeks we will have a critical situation," Algirdas Brazauskas told the Lithuanian parliament in
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  • 250 16 THE FORMER vice-presi-dent of Sun Hung Kai Securities' Hongkong desk was yesterday charged with not taking reasonable care in ensuring that his juniors complied with the provisions of the Securities Industry Act. Edward Mui Cheuk Sang is alleged to have violated Section 107
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  • 243 16 Reuter JAPAN, usually under fire internationally for running huge trade surpluses, was in the red in the first 10 days of April. A sharp increase in crude oil imports, coupled with a continued slump in overall exports, helped account for the deficit in Japan's cus-toms-cleared
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  • Executive Lifestyle
    • 1768 17  -  They're the new boat people those with the money and the vessels, but not enough marina space to park them. Jaime Lye looks at the joys and the plight of the urban sailor Jaime Lye EVER SINCE Man sailed his first paper boat down the
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    • STRAWS IN THE WIND
      • 55 17 IF you want to buy a Ralph Lauren shirt in Japan, what do you say? Ralph Lauren? No. In a land of people who make great sushi but mix up their Ys and Ts, it's Raruf Rohren. Poor Ralph. Maybe he should consider changing his name to Raruf,
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      • 68 17 WHEN you go to the cinema, they tell you: don't smoke, don't litter, don't place your feet on the back of the seat in front. They should add handphones to the list. Halfway through a screening of Blue Steel, a phone rang. Instead of Jamie Lee Curtis picking
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      • 90 17 PLENTY of rules abound when you ride on the MRT. But even if you don't eat, smoke or take durians into a station, you're still breaking the rules when you buy a stored-value ticket. That's because for every ticket you buy, you get a card from
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      • 30 17 According to Punch, several Iraqi officials, who are secretly trying to find ways of getting rid of President Hussein, are now persuading him to introduce a Polls Tax.
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    • OPINIONS
      • 412 18  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Donald Goh Head, Public Affairs Department Environment Ministry I REFER to your article "Wanted: a recipe for home-cooked entrepreneurship" (BT, March 29). The measures taken by the Environment Ministry to close down illegal food factories and disallow home-prepared food to be
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      • 124 18  -  Ng Tien Chan MR S CHANDRA DAS quotes Machiavelli's observations on generosity in his letter to this page last weekend. In spite of the derisive tone of his letter on what many still consider a valuable human trait, I hope many others, like myself, will continue
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      • 56 18  -  Tong Chee Wah (Perry) YOUR NEWSPAPER could consider starting an odd-lot column to help those people with such holdings to dispose of them. Editor: Under the CLOB system, you can ask your broker to put up a two-way quote. There are professional odd-job dealers who will
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      • 766 18  -  In a rapidly changing property market, timely statistics are of the essence, and Lee Han Shih argues that it is within the means of the Urban Redevelopment Authority to trot them out earlier Lee Han Shih Lee Han Shih is BT's Property Correspondent LAST WEEKEND,
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      • 987 18  -  The save-water campaign is likely to go down the drain once the rains come. Tye Kim Khiat says that need not be the case Tye Kim Khiat Tye Kim Khiat is BT's Deputy Features Editor IF I COULD hold off the rain clouds for
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      • 911 18  -  Harish Mehta Harish Mehta is on the Foreign Desk Indian armed forces blitz through Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and advance towards Islamabad. The Pakistan government is pressured by the Pakistan army to stop the Indian forces by dropping a nuclear bomb. Pakistan
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    • REWIEWS
      • 464 19  -  Tapping his toes to the strains of the lambada, Samuel Ee speaks to Singapore's leading exponent of the risque dance to find out if the South American dance has caught on, on our tiny tropical isle Samuel Ee Mr Rafael Chua, when did you first pick
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      • 369 19  -  Dexter Lee found that he could not stomach Noel Coward's 'most brilliant comedy' Dexter Lee THE LEADING lady was sick, the plot was sicker and so was I after Noel Coward's "most brilliant comedy", Private Lives, sick to the stomach. There were the witty repartees and
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      • 593 19  -  BOOK REVIEW By' Chuang Peck Ming The House of Nomura By A 1 Alletzhauser Bloomsbury 343 pages. $49.90. AT Nomura Securities, salesmen who don't meet their commission quotas have their chairs taken away and are made to stand like naughty schoolchildren who didn't do their
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      • 519 19  -  Samuel Ee takes a potshot at another cop-after-killer movie Samuel Ee TIME FLIES when you're having fun, so says the cliche. If that's anything to go by, the clock probably stops every time Blue Steel comes on. Besides looking like some darkroom
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    • PURSUITS
      • 392 20  -  Quek Swee Peng takes a walk through the Han Dynasty's treasure tunnel to uncover an exhibition of more than 200 pieces of priceless 2,000-year-old artefacts Quek Swee Peng Guarding the magnificent mansions and elaborate tombstones of kings and noblemen was the sculpture of the chimera.
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      • 301 20 Public viewing of Sotheby's modern Chinese paintings at Empress Place THE GREAT artists would have been surprised: that their brush strokes would be frightening the walls of the •Empress Place Building. While hundreds and thousands whisk off on their yearly sabbaticals to the major
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      • 408 20 Van Gogh exhibition in Holland i The Economist VINCENT VAN GOGH sold only one painting in his tormented lifetime, and died destitute. When Irisis was sold by Alan Bond to the Getty Museum last month to relieve his own debts, he is said to have wanted USs6sm
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    • SPORTS
      • 432 21  -  ON TRACK By Jerome Fandor THERE is no firm betting mvourite for tomorrow's *****0,000 Perak Derby. The Jxarly betting centres more jKOund how many horses •fcan Allan can get on board $ith his four starters than nphich horse will win this grueling 2400 m classic. It
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      • 640 21  -  DHL Singapore Open By A Surendren ONLY TWO SEEDS remain in the semi-finals of the DHL Singapore Women's Open tennis tournament at Kallang. One of the favourite wild cards of the tournament, Patricia Hy of Canada, took a bow, but Naoko Sawamatsu, a wild card as well,
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      • SIDE LINES
        • 92 21 ROBERT SEGUSO and Ken Flach clinched a place in t&r semi-finals of the US$3OO,OOO WCT World Doubles Chaatpionship on Thursday night with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Jfrjr Grabb and Patrick McEnroe. Anders Jarryd of Sweden and David Pate of the U£v playing together for
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        • 110 21 THE PHILADELPHIA 76ers clinched their first Atlan& Division championship since 1983 on Thursday night 2j£ Charles Barkley scored 36 points to pace a 107-97 vicfcjy over the Detroit Pistons in a game marred by a melee in the closing seconds. .Si The altercation erupted with 14.8
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        • 112 21 THE BALTIMORE Orioles, taking advantage of eight waljsj gave their fans a home opener worth waiting for as Dau* Johnson scattered seven hits over six innings on a 4-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers. The Orioles, who were supposed to open at home on Apinl
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        • 54 21 AMERICAN Jim Andrews' Abracadabra continued to hofil the lead on Thursday in the second day of the Caribbean teg of the 15m Yacht Association World Cup being held off Thomas. Abracadabra, a Reichel-Pugh piloted by forme* America's Cup helmsman John Kolius, is in ninth plabb overall in
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        • 83 21 THE FIRST ALL-FEMALE crew in the Whitbread Round the World yacht race is conquering sexism along with ic&-. bergs, thunderstorms and 15m waves. The Maiden, a 17.7 m yacht skippered by Tracy Edwards of Britain, outraced all other boats in its class during two lags of
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        • 48 21 BRITISH racing driver Nigel Mansell crashed during Formula One team trials on Thursday and was taken to hospital with a suspected fractured wrist. Mansell spun off the rain-swept track into a wall, injuring his right wrist and slightly damaging the nose of his new Ferrari.
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        • 62 21 ITALIAN Michele Moro won the third stage of the Tour of Apulia cycle race on Thursday with a final sprint a kilometre from home which leader Guido Bontempi's team failed to answer. Bontempi finished 10th for the second successive day but the Italian managed
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        • 63 21 TWO-TIME SPRINT world champion Greg Foster was suspended for three months after failing a drugs test. Foster, 31, underwent a drugs test in January during an indoor meeting in Los Angeles. The sample revealed the stimulant, phenylpopalonamine, which is on the list of substances banned by the
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      • 267 21 AP FIVE PLAYERS shot 67s on Thursday to share the firstround lead in the Madrid Open, while defending champion Seve Ballesteros slumped to a 76 and was tied for 128 th place. The leaders, all at 5-under par, were Australians Mike Harwood and Rodger Davis,
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      • 192 21 AP CHARLES COODY scored a hole-in-one and an 18th-hole eagle on Thursday as he and Dale Douglass combined for a 13-under-par 59 and a 5stroke lead in the Legends of Golf. Coody scored his ace with a 7-iron on the 142-yard third hole and capped his first-round
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      • 405 21 AP FOR THOSE who may wonder if Emerson Fittipaldi is fitting into the Penske Racing team, here's a story from Rick Mears about his new teammate. "One day, we were testing and I went out first," Mears said. "I made some changes and set
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    • EPICURE 1
      • 483 22  -  Quek Swee Peng shares her recipe for a scintillating tea party at home Quek Swee Peng OCCASIONALLY, the cooking instinct surfaces; the party mood prevails. Friends hint at an invitation to tea. Some drop broad hints; other demand an invitation. Traditional English tea parties of the genteel
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      • 878 23  -  Richard Seah urges green consumer and green entrepreneurs to stand up and be counted Richard Seah The writer is editor of The Good Life, a health magazine ARE YOU a green consumer? posters at Body Shop outlets ask in their commemoration of Earth
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      • 808 23  -  Jadot's wines have an impeccable reputation. N K Yong takes a look at how they are produced and samples some of them. N K Yong IHAVE in my possession a very old bottle dating way back to 1911. Alas, it is empty and it
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      • 590 23  -  BRIDGE By Sybil Holloway BRIDGE teachers and bridge textbooks tell students that suit overcalls should be made with at least a five-card suit preferably headed by two top honours and that you should not overcall if you have four or more cards in opener's suit.
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    • PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT 1
      • DON'T QUOTE ME!
        • 60 24 WHAT IS the "sickest" financial instrument in Singapore? According to some people, it is the rights issue proposed by OCBC Bank, which comes in an odd ratio of six for 100. This works out to one new share for every 16.**********7 existing shares. As a
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        • 118 24 TALK ABOUT the stockbroking industry being staffed by young (and rich) people. The man who recently took control of the huge Fidelity Magellan Fund (with investments of US$l3 billion) is a 32-year-old highflyer called Morris Smith. Smith took over from superstar Peter Lynch who retired after
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        • 37 24 A JAPANESE OFFICIAL from Nomura assigned to New York asked his boss: "How long will I live there?" "Until you die," came the reply. Japanese tradition for life-long employment is still very much alive!
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        • 69 24 HONGKONG HOTELS are cashing in on the 1997 changeover. They are taking reservations for the night of June 30, 1997, when Hongkong reverts to Chinese rule after 155 years as a British colony. Leading them is the 5-star Excelsior Hotel which is charging a two-night
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      • 615 24 PrtCM (a a at 2.3.90) Convoraktn tarma PramiurrV (dlacount) Expiry n Optional** iiAinn Amount ""f Gaaring 4 Company tMUad Wrta Shi 3 Ln atk Lnetk Data m unit*) Conv ratio Exar prioa nom valua Caah< Ln atk 8 latt CKTang Causeway Inv Chuan Hup 16.9 7.2
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      • 1137 24  -  Rosie Tan reports on a recent survey on fund managers' perforiiance Rosie Tan TOP FUND managers in the world last year had this in common a sizeable portion of their funds was invested in the newly emerging markets including Singapore and Malaysia, which produced
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      • 217 24 AS IF TO underscore the importance of treasury functions to the group, National Iron and Steel Mills (NISM) is bringing in a noted "Gann" chartist, Mr Fred Stafford, to conduct a seminar in Singapore. The seminar next Friday is being organised by one of
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      • 745 24 STOCK SUPPORTED BY a strong management team and an established clientele of some 450 customers in a resurgent marine industry, Horiguchi En- gineering Co Ltd can look to the future with confidence. The company launched its public offering of 10.5 mil- lion shares
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      • 189 24 C H ART Cresvale Hongkong TRADING in the Singapore market was sluggish this week following the Easter holiday. The ST 11 was confined within a 12-point range and closed marginally lower at 1,520.56. Average daily volume shrank to 31.74 million units, compared with a turnover of
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      • 348 24 FT ROYAL Trust Asset Management (RTAM) and the Skandia Group has launched an investment which guarantees an investor a profit not only when the equity market rises but also when it falls. This latest development in guaranteed equity funds is called the
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      • 608 25  -  Strong currency and higher interest rates two reasons why you should take another look at the Singapore dollar. Alvin Tay looks at the currency factor, while Quak Hiang Whai surveys what the market is paying for S$ deposits. Alvin Tay, Quak Hiang Whai
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      • 1128 25 A STRONG Singapore dollar is just one reason why local investors are opting for fixed deposits denominated in the local currency; another equally important reason is the rising domestic interest rates. An industry-wide survey by Business Times earlier this week shows the Republic's 35 full-licensed
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      • 505 25  -  TAXING By Jenny Lim Jenny Lim is a tax partner of an international accounting firm. UNDER general taxation principles, tax is imposed in the country of source. For employment income, however, there are situations where the income is again taxed in
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    • EXECUTIVE JOBS
      • 1006 26  -  True, a regional management position is no bed of roses. But David Marchington believes there is compensation enough David Marchington The writer is managing director of Korn/Ferry International WHAT DO YOU get for spending half or more of your working life in
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      • 714 27  -  LETTER FROM NAPLES By Alexander Norman Naples is so like Calcutta: the dust, the dirt, the faded colours. Seen in the early morning there is the same feeling of walking into someone's drawing room an hour after the last guest left: the evidence of
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      • 216 28 An Evening of German Barouque Music by The La Salle Baroque Players, directed by Lynettc Lim. The programme includes Handel's Concerto Grosso Op 6No 2 in F; Concerto for 4 violins by Telemann; Pachclbel's Canon; Bach's Orchestral Suitc No 2 and Mannheim Sinfonie No 2inA by StamThe Stuttgart Baiiet
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