The Business Times, 28 May 1990

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  • 10 1 Business Times MCI (P) 170/12/89 75* Monday May 28 1990
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 57 1 PAS ended its 36th general assembly yesterday by adopting a 13-point declaration to realise its aim of making Malaysia an Islamic state during the current decade. The declaration, which sets the Malaysian party's preparations towards that aim, will form guidelines for
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    • 21 1 LOCAL COMPANIES will be able to tap directly into a business information database by next year Page 2
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    • 28 1 IN A MOVE to diversify its business interests, local trading company Transworld Corporation has bought a pottery fac-tory-cum-showroom in Jurong for $3.88 million Page 2
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    • 34 1 A GROUP of Hongkong and Taiwanese watch manufacturers has taken a HKS2OO million step towards realising its vision of turning Malaysia into the next 'watch centre' in the region Page 7
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    • 32 1 THE US is facing a new competitor as it tries to raise cash in global capital markets an Eastern Europe hungry for billions of dollars of investment money. Page 8
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    • 34 1 THE EUROPEAN Commission and Japan will open the first ministerial talks in over three years tomorrow, with Tokyo hoping that the agenda will include more than just trade problems Page 9
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    • 16 1 ARTISTIC MATURITY was what pianist Gyorgy Sandor displayed at last Friday's concert Page 17
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    • 34 1 JAPANESE GIANT Nippon Yusen Kaisha has joined forces with South Korean carrier Hyundai Merchant Marine in the US trade following NYK's break with Mitsui OSK Lines. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 47 1 UNITED Industrial Corporation has not only confirmed its one-for-two bonus and one-for-two rights issue at 1 each but has also disclosed that it has to spend about another $145 million for shares and warrants that had earlier been rejected by the registrars Page 3
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    • 34 1 The RGM group, through takeover vehicle Asian Investments Holdings, has yet to flex its muscle since it bought its 38.41 per cent stake in EMS several months ago Page 3
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    • 31 1 FOREIGN shareholding in Neptune Orient Lines is expected to reach its limit soon, and may require the setting up of a separate register for such shares Page 3
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    • 39 1 A SINGAPORE LAWYER told a Kuala Lumpur court last Friday how he managed to purchase over IS million shares in Renong Bhd after revealing his business plans to two major shareholders of the company Page 3
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    • 22 1 TWO PUBLICLY-LISTED Singapore companies are planning to issue American Depository Receipts in the next few months Page 6
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    • 28 1 TAIWAN is expected to take new measures to ease its tight monetary policy further to spur the island's economic growth this year Page 6
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      28 1 Frkta v Chance BT-MGA 800.37 -2.17 Kuala Lumpur ....586.51 -0.22 Hongkong 3,059.50 +11.49 Tokyo 32,793.88 +482.13 Sydney 1,479.7 9.4 New York 2.820.92 -34.63 London 2,265.6 -11.5
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    • 23 1 Fwrtiawgt rates US$ S$1 8465 Yen (100) S$ 1.2326 MS SS0.6845 Moiwy iMrlist ritci Overnight 4 1/2 +4 3-montn 7 5/8 unch
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    • 21 1 Rubber ypore June 159.25 '/kg +0.50 M'sia June 23l .50«/kg +0.50 KL Tin Turnover 49 tonnes -5 Spot M$l6.97/kg -0.03
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  • 527 1  -  By John Tan A NEW WAY of looking at hotel room rates will be introduced soon, which observers say would be an important indicator for the hotel industry. To be compiled by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB), the new
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  • 403 1  -  By Conrad Raj SIME DARBY Bhd has called off its Ms 2 billion bid for N Z Forests Products, the New Zealand forest products arm of Australia's brewing and resource-based group, Elders IXL. The Malaysian conglomerate is said to have
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  • 151 1 Bernama THE JOHOR ECONOMY is expected to experience rapid growth with the implementation of the long-term Johor economy plan for 1990 and 2005, Chief Minister Tan Sri Haji Muhyiddin Yassin said yesterday. The plan was expected to be ready by the end of the
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  • 107 1 Bernama JOHOR should grab the opportunity to forge closer economic ties with Singapore and Indonesia's Batam island for the sake of its economic growth, State Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) executive director Datuk Mohamed Ali Hashim said yesterday. He said the SEDC was willing to assist
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  • 196 1 WAfER TARIFF increases will be deferred till early next year, barring any unforeseen depletion of water stocks, the Public Utilities Board announced yesterday. The decision was made because of "the positive response by the public in reducing water consumption", it said in a press
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  • 50 1 General Saw Mating, Myanmar's military strongman, is seen casting his ballot in Rangoon in yesterday's election the first multi-party polls there in 30 years. Missing, however, were the ruling junta's two main opponents who are under house arrest. Full report on the Back Page.
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  • 552 1  -  B1 Wilton Morais IN THE MIDST of a chorus from hoteliers against speculation of a second round of rate hike this year, at least four hotels are raising or have raised their room rates. Come next month, rates in the Century Park Sheraton
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  • 87 1 AFP THE Australian economy is hurtling towards a technical recession if not in the March quarter, then by the middle of the year, according to Australian economists. They said that the release of key national accounts data on Wednesday would show negative gross domestic
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 103 2 THE Registry of Vehicles released on Saturday a list of the open-market values (OMV) of cars sold in Singapore. This was done to give the public a better understanding of what cars cost and what buyers are paying for them. The list
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      • 79 2 THE annual fee for trade plates used mainly by car distributors when taking prospective clients on test drives will be increased in two stages. It will be increased from $240 to $600 from next month, and then go up again on Dec 1 to $1,200. The
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      • 44 2 TWENTY-ONE of Singapore's 23 pig importers obtained import licences on the same day that the government announced the new rule that all importers of live pigs must be licensed under the Price Control Act. The rule comes into effect today.
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      • 60 2 SPECIAL SCHOOLS will get 35 per cent more from the Ministry of Education this year, bringing the grant to $6.1 million, Senior Minister of State for Education, Dr Tay Eng Soon, announced on Saturday. This amount will include costs incurred in setting up a new
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      • 89 2 SINGAPORE must continue to maintain its tough laws against drug abuse and not take the soft way out like some European countries are doing, National Development Minister Mr S Dhanabjlan said on Saturday. He said that these countries believed that legalising the sale of drugs was
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      • 55 2 THE Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs, Dr Ahmad Mattar, has urged prospective Muslim kidney donors to make an effort to persuade their next-of-kin to agree to the pledge. Speaking at a forum on organ transplant on Saturday he reminded his audience that without the consent of two next-of-kin,
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      • 53 2 THE Singapore Book Publishers Association has elected its executive committee for the year 1990/91. It comprises Charles Cher (president); NTS Chopra (vice-president); K P Sivam (secretary); Maria Chong (assistant secretary); Tan Wu Cheng (treasurer); B C Poh; Loh Mun Wai; Nand Mirchandani; R Perumal; Joanna Au; and
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    • 289 2  -  By Suzanne Soh LOCAL businesses will be able to tap directly into a business information database, specially set up by Enterprise Promotion Centres Pte Ltd (EPC), by next year. The EPC network (EPCNet) will also provide information on various government assistance schemes
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    • 118 2 SEVEN British companies are visiting Singapore early next month to seek partners in manufacturing projects. The mission, organised by the Luton, Bedford and District Chamber of Commerce, will be here from June 4 to 8. They will examine the potential for joint venture manufacturing
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    • 324 2  -  By Sangeeta Mulchand IN A MOVE to diversify its business interests, local trading company Transworld Corporation has bought Ming Village, a pottery factory-cum-showroom in Jurong, for $3.88 million. And, in a show of confidence for the tourist attraction which has been under receivership
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    • 50 2 BRIGADIER-GENERAL (Res) Lee Hsiea Loons, the Minister for Trade and Indnstry, yesterday finned off the. Autoventure Rnce organised by the Teck Ghee Citizens' Consultative Committee. Several teams took part in the rally, which saw participants chasing clues from various parts of the island. o
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 623 3  -  By Conrad Raj UNITED Industrial Corporation has not only confirmed its one-for-two bonus and one-for-two rights issue at $1 each but has also disclosed that it has to spend about another 14S million for shares and warrants that had earlier been
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    • 455 3  -  A Abdul Hadhi FOREIGN shareholding in Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) is expected to reach its limit soon,''and might require the setting up of a separate register for such shares. This was revealed in the company's 1989 annual report which was released over the
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    • 234 3 Bernama CONSTRUCTION-BASED group Sungei Way is expected to spend up to MS 12 million to install an up-to-date, fully-computerised environment in its proposed corporate headquarters. Deputy group general manager (finance and administration) Quah Siak Seng said the 25-storey building in Bandar Sunway, near Subang
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    • 553 3  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN By William Chia VIDfcOTAPE housing manufacturer Electiro-Magnetic (S) Ltd (EMS) invited Indonesian conglomerate Raja Garuda Mas (RGM) on board because it wanted a strtong and well-connected partner to support its fast growing operations. Bpt the RGM group, through its takeover
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    • 543 3 Bernama A SINGAPORE lawyer told the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur on Friday how he managed to purchase over 15 million shares in Renong Bhd after revealing his business plans to two major shareholders of the company. Mr Lim Kiap Khee, 42,
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 102 3 MALAYSIA'S Landmark Holdings Sdn Bhd said it would buy a SO per cent stake in ÜBN Holdings Sdn Bhd from Peremba Bhd for M 5221.1 million through a share issue. Landmarks said it would also take over an outstanding M 541.3 million loan ÜBN
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      • 164 3 TAN CHONG MOTOR Holdings Bhd views the proposed truck manufacturing project under the Asean industrial joint venture (AIJV) programme to be profitable and prestigious, said its managing director, Tan Eng Soon, in Kuala Lumpur last Friday. The programme is under the auspices of the Asean Committee
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      • 109 3 THE SUNGEI WAY group, which has 30 member companies, expects to hit close to.Ms4oo million in turnover this year compared with Ms3oo million last year, says the deputy group managing director, finance and administration, Quah Siak Seng. He said the listed vehicle of the group, Sungei Way
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      • 111 3 UNITED MALAYAN BANKING CORPORATION Bhd will introduce a few financial packages aimed at the retail and middle segment of the banking sector before the end of the year, said its president and chief executive, Haji Abdul Aziz Omar, in Kuala Lumpur last week. He said since
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 433 4 AFP PHILIPPINE economic officials have reiterated their support for a Taiwanese-led US$37O million petrochemical project despite reservations expressed by two major government banks. The Luzon Petrochemical Corporation (LPC) project, headed by Taiwan-based USI Far East, was plunged into a new controversy last week when the
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    • 362 4 TWO of Philippine President Corazon Aquino's cabinet officials last week denied charges they pressured state banks to grant "behest loans" to the Taiwanese-owned Luzon Petrochemical Corp (LPQ. "It's pure folly for anybody to think of even trying to exert pressure or influence
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    • 359 4 AFP JAPAN'S Mitsubishi Corp remained the country's most profitable trading company in the year to March followed by Sumitomo Corp and Mitsui and Co, according to figures released last Friday. But unconsolidated financial results posted by the nine biggest Japanese trading houses also showed
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 102 4 VIETNAM and South Korea have agreed to establish p joint venture in Ho Chi Minh City to produce cigarettes, thek Korea Tobacco and Ginseng Corp announced on Friday. Corporation officials said that agreement was reached on Thjursdas when Hong Do-kyun, head of the Korean corporation, Visited
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      • 88 4 SHARP CORP, a leading consumer electronics and? office automation group, plans to boost investment in plait and equipment to 96.0 billion yen in 1990/91 to March 31 from 65.0 billion in 1989/90, a spokesman said. Some 23.0 pillion yen would be used to strengthen its liquid
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      • 93 4 BANK OF NEW ZEALAND'S strengthened position h<y> been reflected in higher capital ratios which exceed international and local capital adequacy guidelines, chairman Syd tPasley said. The state-controlled bank's tier one capital stood at 6.44 per cent at March 31, 1990 with its total capital ratio
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      • 100 4 KONICA CORP said it expects parent net profit to rise to 9.5 billion yen in the year ending April 20, 1991 from 8.53 billion a year earlier. The photosensitive materials maker laid it expects current profit to rise to 20 billion yen in 1990/91
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 375 5 NYT GENERAL MOTORS shareholders have approved by a wide margin a sharp increase in pension benefits for the company's top executives. Roger Smith, the retiring chairman, whose annual pension under the new plan will be about US$l.2 million rather than the US$7OO,OOO provided by the
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    • 773 5 NYT THE COLLAPSE of the US "junk bond" market and the well-publicised troubles of First Executive Corp, whose California insurance unit has the largest investment portfolio of the high-risk, high-yield bonds, have prompted employers and employees in the US to stop and take
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    • 257 5 NYT FOR SEVERAL YEARS, many of the leading companies who consider themselves on the vanguard of financial reporting, like the Boeing Corp, the Marriott Corp and the Chrysler Corp, have been reserving a little-noticed section in their annual reports for something called the "management report". In
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 112 5 GENERAL MOTORS CORP announced a joint venture on Friday with an East German firm to begin the manufacture of cars, the first entry by a US camaker into Eastern Europe since its political liberalisation. Chairman Roger Smith said GM would join with
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      • 95 5 COURTAULDS TEXTILES on Friday announced closure of three of its 14 remaining yarn spinning mills with the loss of 500 jobs, blaming the retrenchment on pricing pressure caused by overcapacity and weak demand on the European yarn market. The closures, all in Britain's textiles heartland in
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      • 102 5 SHARES in international food and drinks group Grand Metropolitan pic were marked down after the company said on Thursday its Alpo Petfoods Inc business in the United States was no longer for sale. "This came as a disappointment to the market. If it had
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      • 102 5 DEGUSSA AG said it expects 1989/90 net profit to match the 175.3 million marks of the previous year if the drop in chemicals earnings stops and metals and pharmaceuticals results continue to develop favourably. In a letter to shareholders Degussa said poorer results in its chemicals
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      • 101 5 WEST GERMAN Dresdner Bank AG said partial parent operating profit in the first four months of the 1990 financial year rose 30 per cent compared with the same period of last year. It gave no exact figures. Board chairman Wolfgang Roeller told the bank's annual shareholders meeting
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 76 6 A NEW DBS BRANCH opens today at Block 634 Bukit Batok Central, next to the MRT station and the bus interchange. The braflch will provide a complete range of service including safe-deposit boxes, both Singapore and foreign currencies fixed deposits, credit card
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      • 39 6 MOODY'S INVESTOR'S SERVICE has assigned a rating of Prime-1 to the commercial papers of Hongkong Bank of Canada. The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, which has a total assets of US$l33 billion, unconditionally guaranteed the papers.
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      • 58 6 THE HONGKONG Association of Banks has decided to leave interest rates unchanged, keeping the prime lending rate at 11 pef cent. "Interest rates have hardly moved since last week, so there's no reason for a change despite a slightly softer tone in US rates," acting association
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      • 73 6 EAST GERMANY wants to borrow up to 50 billion Deutschemarjes (US$3O.l billion) to provide liquidity for its industry wlpch is in dire need of modernisation. The Financial Times newspaper quoted Mr Wolfram Krause, deputy head of Treuhandanstalt. the trust body which owns most state property in
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      • 102 6 EXCHANGE RATE POLICY is a low priority among major industrialised countries and this has left the world with an unstable floating rate system. Mr Erik Hoffmeyer, Danish central bank governor, told currency dealers at the Association Cambiste Internationale (ACI): "Attitudes show that there is no
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      • 59 6 BELGIUM has announced it was lifting its objections to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), a week after the European Community members fought a bitter turf battle over the future agency. The decision opens the way to trouble-free ceremonies in Paris tomorrow, when foreign ministers
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    • 308 6  -  By Quak Hiang Whai TWO publicly-listed Singapore companies are planning to issue American Depository Receipts (ADRs) in the next few months. Through ADR specialist, the Bank of New York, the two companies will issue the papers in the over-the-count-er market in the US.
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    • 352 6 Reuter BANKAMERICA Corp's plan to expand international operations, particularly to help serve clients in Eastern Europe, is a natural extension of the strategy that returned the bank to profitability, analysts said. "They are now the third largest bank holding company in the US and have
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    • 219 6 Reuter NIGERIA'S interlocking negotiations with various groups of creditors over its US$32 billion foreign debt are hanging fire awaiting the judgement of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team which visited the country recently. "We are trying to put a new IMF programme in place
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    • 191 6 Reuter TAIWAN is expected to take new measures to ease its tight monetary policy further to spur the island's economic growth this year. Central Bank governor Samuel Shieh told reporters on Saturday: "We would further ease the current credit conditions to spur the economic
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    • 308 6 AFP JAPAN'S seven trust banks suffered a decline in earnings in the six months to March, with figures released on Friday showing an average fall of around 10 per cent despite higher revenues. Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corp, the biggest, said its
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    • 222 6 Reuter US BANKS spent over US$l29 million last year to record and report suspicious transactions in an effort to help regulators catch money launderers, the American Bankers Association said in a survey released on Friday. "We think that number's low, but
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    • 353 6 AFP CHINA has hinted that it might take retaliatory action if one of Japan's biggest banks opens a representative office in Taiwan against its wishes. The warning to Bank of Tokyo Ltd was published in the Economic Daily per
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    • 323 6 AFP EAST GERMANS will no longer be allowed to change their Ost marks for Deutschemarks in West Germany after the end of May, the Bundesbank said on Friday. They will, however, continue to be able to
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • THE REGION
    • 450 7 MBT A GROUP of Hongkong and Taiwanese watch manufacturers have taken a HKS2OO million (Ssso million) step towards realising their vision of turning Malalysia into the next "watch centre" in the region. "Between 25 and 35 companies have agreed to invest in Malaysia
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    • 372 7 AP MALAYSIAN Foreign Minister Abu Hassan Omar last Saturday signed a protocol boosting trade between his country and Iran to US$2OO million a year, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Tehran Radio, like the official agency monitored in Nicosia, said Malaysia agreed to
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    • 463 7 THE Master Builders Association of Malaysia (MBAM) fears another "boom and bust" cycle may afflict the country's property and construction sector if the present price increase of building materials goes unchecked, executive secretary Kong Yee Peng said. The association, which
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    • 214 7 MBT MALAYSIAN COMPANIES and businessmen continued to remain bullish on the Philippines' investment climate. A central bank report shows that Malaysians pumped in US$6OO,OOO in fresh equity investments in the first quarter of this year. The amount represents 0.12 per cent of the total of
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 73 7 SRI LANKA has completed one of Asia's largest development projects, designed to increase its irrigated land and generate more hydro-electricity. President Ranasinghe Premadasa last Saturday opened the last of six reservoirs under the Mahavdi River Development Scheme built with 6.4 billion rupees (US$l6O million) of West
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      • 64 7 BANGLADESH Prime Minister Kazi Zafar Ahmed said in Dhaka last Saturday that his five-day official visit to Thailand should help reduce Bangladesh's trade deficit with the Southeast Asian country. Mr Ahmed, who returned home on Friday, told reporters that he was "extremely satisfied" with the visit,
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      • 67 7 DOLE FOOD Co, the leading US fruit producer, will export flowers from the Philippines to Japan under an agreement announced May 24 by Flora International Co, a Japanese importer of cut flowers. Dole will raise tropical and subtropical flowers at a 35-hectare farm on the Philippine
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      • 55 7 CONSTRUCTION began last Saturday on a US$B.55 million industrial park, Indonesia's first such project built as a joint Indonesian-Japanese venture. Junior Industry Minister Tungki Anwibowo led the groundbreaking ceremony in the village of Sukaresmi about 80 km east of Jakarta. The 210-hectare development is being built by
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 89 8 THE US COMMERCE DEPARTMENT'S announcement last Friday that American consumer spending rose by 0.6 per cent last month was greeted by US economists as a further sign that a recession could be avoided. Consumer spending had risen by 0.5 per cent in the
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      • 76 8 A GROUP of former heads of state have urged the US and the Soviet Union to start talks on cutting their military strength in Asia, following a reduction of tension in Europe. The group, called the InterAction Council, made the call in a statement
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      • 102 8 AUSTRALIA is the "most embarrassing member" of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the amount of overseas aid expended each year, says a former senior Australian government adviser. Elizabeth Reid, the programme director for the UN Women in Development Programme, told a press
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      • 80 8 US EXPORTS of essential oils the kind that smell and taste good rose to an all-time high last year, says the US Agriculture Department. Last year's exports of essential oils reached nearly US$l44 million a 17 per cent increase over a year earlier and well
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      • 84 8 HUNGARY'S hard currency current account deficit narrowed to US$49 million in the first quarter of this year, says the country's national bank chief. Frigyes Harshegyi, managing director of the National Bank of Hungary, said in Frankfiirt last Friday that there was every chance that the full-year target
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      • 85 8 JAPANESE TELECOMMUNICATIONS FIRM Marubeni Corporation has won a US$27 million contract to improve Uganda's telephone system. Funds for the two-year programme would come from a US$5O million World Bank soft loan, the director of the state-owned Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Corporation, Pascal Mukasa, said in Kampala
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    • 561 8 Reuter THE US GOVERNMENT is facing a new competitor as it tries to raise cash in global capital markets an Eastern Europe hungry for billions of dollars of investment money. The result, say American economists, should be upward pressure on US interest rates,
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    • 346 8 NYT AMERICAN TOURISTS, who flocked to the Soviet Union in record numbers in the last two years, are thinking twice this year, say US travel companies and agents specialising in Soviet tours. Though Americans are still eager to witness the changes in Soviet
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    • 52 8 AFP AUSTRALIA can expect another large current account deficit when the April bal-anee-of-payments figures are released today, a leading banker said yesterday. ANZ Banking group chief executive Will Bailey, speaking on Australian television, said: "My indicators (are) that there is still going to be a very strong
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    • 175 8 Reuter CANADA has announced that it will pay Cs3o million (U5525.4 million) a year for five years in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development that is designed to help Eastern European nations shift from centrallyplanned economies to a liberal free market system. Canada's
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    • 370 8 AFP INDIAN environmentalists have declared war on big dams, using an international-ly-funded, US$l5 billion project as the main target of a growing movement against "destructive development". The movement is led by the aged and internationallyrenowned Baba Amte, who calls the Narmada
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    • 531 9 AFP THE EUROPEAN Commission and Japan will open the first ministerial talks in over three years tomorrow in Brussels, with Tokyo hoping that the agenda will include more than just trade problems. "We hope to see relations take the form of
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    • 273 9 AFP JAPAN needs to keep a trade surplus to meet a growing demand for assistance from Eastern Europe and developing countries. According to a report by a Japanese Finance Ministry study group, developed nations must raise their savings rates and build
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    • 230 9 Reuter THE EUROPEAN Community (EC) should dedicate one per cent of the combined gross national product to helping Eastern Europe and other developing nations, according to an Italian minister. Speaking in Caracas, Venezuela, last Friday, Italian Foreign Minister Gianni de Michelis said
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    • 47 9 French painter Jean-Laffitte Pigassoupose stands on his 10,000 sq m work, described as "the biggest painting in the world? The painting, housed in Castelnaudary, consumed three tonnes of paint and took 500 hours to complete. AFP picture AFP picture
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    • 207 9 Reuter THE EUROPEAN Community (EC) will not tolerate cosy arrangements some carriers seem to be planning to protect their market share, says Sir Leon Brittan, the European commissioner in charge of competition policy. "The airline industry in the Community must understand that we
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    • 435 9 Reuter EUROPEAN Community governments that are not ready to make a commitment to economic and monetary union (EMU) will face more rapid inflation, says an independent member of the Delors committee on EC integration. Speaking to currency traders at the annual conference of the Association
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1034 10 Analysts think Moscow's latest economic reform proposals are aimed at discrediting the idea of a third way between socialism and capitalism NYT THE KREMLIN'S latest proposals to rejuvenate the Soviet economy, unveiled to an incredulous citizenry last week, are widely viewed by Western analysts
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    • 674 10 Hongkong business leaders expect China to keep the golden goose NYT YOU WOULD NOT expect Karl Otto Pohl, the president of the West German Bundesbank, to be saying now that the economic union with East Germany will be inflationary and force interest higher, even if
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    • 711 10 IHT SHUNNED by Western governments and Japan, the military rulers of Myanmar (Burma) have opened the country's rich resources to foreign investment in an effort to revive a stagnant economy and pacify political unrest. While dozens of international investors, including major oil companies, have established operations
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    • 232 11 QosingTheGap Between What Business Needs Md What Information Systems Can Deliver. .ri I»1 •hi >i I, 1 t.y Unprecedented changes in markets, com- handle rapid change. In fact, the gap and software. So you can add applications petition, regulations, and technology are between what business needs and what and functionality
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    • 2585 12 &olbtn Caatle Jfinantt llfltf CORPORATION LIMITED 17W lA. M (Incorporated in Singapore) \jUlLx AND ITS SUBSIDIARY COMPANY BALANCE SHEETS AS AT 31 DECEMBER 1989 e FIXED SAVINGS ANO OTHER OEPOSITS G' Hull r nmny, GfOUP Ca—at 19H9 i QAA 1989 ao« to tea 1989 1988 1989 1988 ss ss ss
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    • 892 12 NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 ETENNE AIONER PRIVATE UMITED (Incorporated In Singapore) SPECIAL RESOLUTION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of 9m member* of lha abovenamed company, duly convened and held at 10 Anaon Road #24-06 International Plaza, Singapore 0207 on 24* May 1990 the Mowing
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  • FOCUS 1
    • 1410 13  -  More Singaporeans are making the grade as senior managers at multinational corporations. Terry Hoyt reports ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT EDITED BY CHUANQ PECK MING Terry Hoyt Terry lloyl is a local writer. This article first appeared in the April issue of Singapore Business IN THE "melting pot" culture
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    • 1060 14  -  Eleven years ago, a young lady set up a small temporary help and recruitment enterprise, expecting to sell it when the time was right. Today, Business Trends has expanded and there is no way the lady will even take time off work. Chuang Peck Ming
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    • 747 14  -  SPOTLIGHT ON MANAGEMENT By Jen Shekk Voon FROM a management perspective, information technology has made it possible for global competitors to set product strategies and marketing goals as well as to measure business performance worldwide. In this environment, the need for a global information and
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    • 653 14  -  By Chuang Peck Ming THE RINGING telephone, the papers and mail arriving on your desk, someone popping into your room asking, "Have you got a minute?" these are the everyday distractions that get in the way of your work at the office. They
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    • 57 14 This announcement appears as a matter of record only KOREA MERCHANT BANKING CORPORATION US$ 30,000,000 Negotiable Floating Rata Notea dua June 1093/95 Arrangers and Lead Managers KDB International (Singapore) Ltd Bayerlsche Landesbank Glrozentrale, Singapore Branch Managers Korea First Finance Ltd Banque Internationale A Luxembourg BIL (Asia) Ltd Agent Bank /XBAYERISCHE
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  • SPORTS
    • 273 15 AP SOUTH AFRICAN John Bland shot his second successive 67 on Saturday to share the lead with Spain's JoseMaria Olazabal after two rounds of the US$6BO,OOO European PGA Championships at Wentworth. Bland's 5-under round put him and Olazabal at 10-un-der 134, two shots ahead of
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    • 429 15 AP KEITH CLEARWATER, 164 th on this year's money list, turned in a bogey-free 6-under-par 66 to build a two-shot lead in the third round of the Atlanta Golf Gassic on Saturday. Qearwater, who has not won on the PGA Tour since capturing
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    • 418 15 AP AYRTON SENNA broke his two-day-old qualifying mark on Saturday, winning the pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix. Racing through the streets of Monte Carlo, the Brazilian covered the 3.068-km (2.068mile). circuit in 1 minute, 21.314 seconds to clinch the 45th pole position of his
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    • 139 15 AP GORAN PRPIC upset Stefan Edberg 6-1, 6-4 on Saturday to lead Yugoslavia to a 2-1 victory over Sweden and a berth in the finals against the United States in the US$l.3 million ATP World Cup. Yugoslavia, playing for the first time in the tournament's 13-year history,
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    • 480 15 AP HISTORY at the Indianapolis 500 can be as daunting as it is rich, and Emerson Fittipaldi is trying to defy it. Only four men have won two straight at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the 73 years the 500-mile (804-km) race
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 97 15 THIRD-SEEDED Helen Kelesi of Canada defeated Sabine Hack of West Germany 6-2, 6-1 on Saturday, advancing to the finals of the US$ 150,000 Geneva European Open. In the other semi-final, No 2 seed Barbara Paulus of Austria defeated Emanuela Zardo of Switzerland
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      • 142 15 IT WAS to be a busy afternoon in holiday traffic for the Brabham bothers yesterday. David Brabham qualified for yesterday's Monaco Grand Prix. About 9,600 km away, hi# older brother Geoff was starting in the Indianapolis 500., Their father, Sir Jack Brabham of Australia, won at Monaco; in
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      • 59 15 SEVERAL of New Zealand's rugby All Blacks could earn much as NZ$5OO per Test to compensate for time away from their regular jobs, the Sunday Star in Auckland reported. Such compensation has been approved by the International Rugby Board and the All Black-Scotland Test on June 16 will
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      • 74 15 RANDY BARNES fell short of bettering his new world shot putt record but his winning heave at the Bruce Jenner Classic in California on Saturday was still good for the world's second best. Barnes threw 75ft 10.25 in (23.12 metres) one week ago j. to better
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      • 66 15 MICHAEL JORDAN scored 47 points and led a second-half charge that brought the Chicago Bulls back from a 14-point 1 deficit for a 107-102 victory over the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference final on Saturday. The triumph cut Detroit's lead to 2-1 in the best-of-7
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      • 51 15 GILBERT DELE of France retained the European light-mid-dleweight title in Caserte, Italy, on Saturday when he unanimously outpointed 30-year-old Italian Giovanni De Marco over 12 rounds. It was 26-year-old Dele's second defence oC the title he won when he knocked out another Italian, Giu- seppe Leto, last
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      • 49 15 WORLD record holder Peter Koech of Kenya won the Nunez Blanca Memorial Track and Field Meet's 3,000-metre steeple-" chase in Granada on Saturday, edging Uruguay's Ricardo Vera by less than 3-10ths of a second. Koech finished in 8:29.83, just ahead of Vera, who ran a 8:30.05.
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      • 73 15 VLADIMIR POULNIKOV of the Soviet Union won the mountainous 176-kilometre (105.6-mile) ninth stage of the Tour of Italy cycling race on Saturday, finishing one minute and 39 seconds ahead of a pack of four riders. Italy's Gianni Bugno finished 25th in the stage in a large
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      • 43 15 DENMARK'S Palle Redder Madsen clinched his first win in > an international marathon competition by winning the 42-km Kuala Lumpur International Centenary Marathon yesterday, The 30-year-old Madsen clocked two hours 31 minutes 37 seconds to win the men's open event.
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    • 114 15 fIHHHHIH HE IHK June brings an in-depth investigation into US/Japan relations —in the first of an exhausl||p tive three-part series, HOW OTHERS SEE JAfMThis month: HH 'fißfe Japan as seen through the eyes of commentators in the US. Then we examine EVERYDAY INTUITION. It's not a 'gift; say scientists; intuition
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    • 174 16 WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN... WHERE TO WINE, DINE AND ENTERTAIN... WHERE TO WINE, DINE... Some of our best advertising is by word of mouth. For outstanding haute cuisine in surroundings of unashamed opulence. The Palm Grill is the name on everyone's lips. Reservations. 330 8310 or 338 8585
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    • 342 16 1 DIAN XIN TEMPTATION! Treat yourself to a Delectable Dian Xin lunch. Ml-\(xi-can-eat for only $16.80" per person Lunch Hours: 11.30 am 2 30pm HYMT regency©sngapore I I't 12 Scons K»ud Ntnjypure W— lei 7J3IIKH j V C r 0 j Truly local sweet and sour, spicy and tangy dishes
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    • 700 16 TELEVISION AND RADIO I 9.00 NeLsatNlne. 6.00 Regional News (M). WL riNII JI iW L 71A »m Th- 930 F#€l Good <*"" «-30 Holy Book. BBC, 89.9 mHz hi VMF Band II XC4rkJ Vv/A til TT V/VkJ Game The Among the topics dealt are 6.45 Religious Programme. 5.30pm, 3.25 am:
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  • THE ARTS
    • 715 17  -  P Y Van reviews last Friday's Singapore Symphony Orchestra concert P Y Van GYORGY Sandor's book On Piano Playing is subtitled Motion, Sound and Expression. Uncertain motion, unexpected sound and expression followed the Friday night audience as they picked their way through the roadworks to
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    • 539 17  -  Galina Vromen reports on an ongoing exhibition in Amsterdam which suggests startling conjectures Galina Vromen Reuter AT first glance, two artists could hardly seem further apart than Picasso and Rembrandt. But an exhibition in Amsterdam shows how the 20thcentury Spanish cubist was
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4888 18  -  By William Chia THE Singapore stock market saw the emergence of profit-taking and some consolidation in the second half of last week but this was considered a healthy sign by most market analysts. The market is likely to continue its upward trend on a
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  • 3900 19 Main Board Semb Maritime 414 +62 +17.6% Singmarine 50* 520 60 +13.0% DBS 1350 +50 +3.8% Nat Iron 995 +50 +5.3% i UOB Foreign 790 f40 +5.3% GB Hldgs 10* 324 +38 +13.3% •FAN 975 +35 +3.7% Shangri-La 840 33 +4.1% SIA 200 1380 30
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 1367 20 By DBS Securities SHARE PRICES in Hongkong rose in active trading last week, buoyed by Washington's renewal of most-favoured-nation (MFN) trading status for China, with the Hang Seng Index gaining 133.61 points, or 4.6 per cent, to close at 3,059.50. Average
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    • 397 20 HEW AFP WALL STREETS week began with a roar and three record-setting sessions but ended with a whimper on resumption of inflation fears. Despite starting the week with three record high closes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average managed to advance just
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    • 524 20 AFP SHARE PRICES advanced four weeks in a row on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week, supported by the yen's continued rise against the dollar and lower bond yields. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 blue chips closed the week at 32,793.88
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    • 818 20  -  pNDtfi By Ray Heath INVESTING in the UK stock market is a riskier business than it appears. Not only do buyers of shares have to worry about the overall performance of the market, but they find themselves sadly undefended should the
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    • 180 20 JAKARTA AFP FOREIGN investors dominated trading in block sales and on the regular market of the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) last week as prices moved ahead slightly. The JSE Index closed at -647.366, up from the previous week's finish of 646.283. The
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    • 249 20 AFP RISES on Wall Street and a government move to block the ANZ Banking Group Ltd's merger with National Mutual counteracted earlier pessimism and Australian stocks ended the week steady, brokers said. The main market indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, rose 1.6 points to 1,479.7.
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    • 465 20 D Keppel Corporation Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT UNCONDITIONAL CASH OFFERS ("OFFERS") BY SCHRODER INTERNATIONAL MERCHANT BANKERS LIMITED ON BEHALF OF KEPPEL CORPORATION LIMITED ("KCL") FOR SHARES ("OFFER SHARES") AND CONVERTIBLE UNSECURED LOAN STOCK 1987/2012 ("OFFER CLS") OF ASIA COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED ("ACB") On behalf of KCL,
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3917 21 MBT THE RETURN of buying interest took the Kuala Lumpur stock market to higher ground last week, absorbing well the fairly widespread profit-taking on three sessions out of five. The New Straits Times Industrial Index firmed 43.11 points to 3,051.13 compared to an
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Dow in biggest drop since mid-February
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        1186 22 HEAVY LOSSES in technology stocks sent US blue chips stumbling to a sharply lower finish in very light preholiday trading on Friday. Adobe Systems Inc's lowered second quarter earnings projection triggered a sell-off in technology issues almost across the board. "Adobe tilted the market downward with the surprise
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      • 277 22 DUTCH SHARES closed firmer in quiet trade with many dealers taking the Friday off after Ascension Day holiday. "A typical in-between-day with low turnover in a market where no clear directions could be noted," a dealer said. The CBS all-share index ended 0.3 points up at 119.4. Most actively
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      • 184 22 ITALIAN SHARES ended the week on a firm note, with Montedison leading a general rise on Friday which took in most sectors. But Fiat was sidelined. Brokers said interest in Montedison, which included some foreign buying, had been sparked by renewed hopes a settlement may be in sight in
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        789 22 SHARES finished mostly lower on London's Stock Exchange on Friday after mostly sluggish trading before a long holiday weekend. Today is a bank holiday in Britain. The Financial Times- Stock Exchange 100-share index finished down 11.5 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 2,265.6, slightly below its session best of
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      • 313 22 GERMAN SHARE prices drifted lower in extremely thin trade on Friday as many market participants extended Thursday's Ascension Day holiday into a long weekend. Dealers said much of Friday's decline was technical, with the market giving back some of the gains recorded on Wednesday. They also said the market
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      • 130 22 THE BELGIAN share market was closed on Friday for the Ascension holiday. On Wednesday, the market ended firm in followthrough buying after the Belgian government's decision to link the value of the franc closely to the deutschemark. The main forward share market index closed up 26 points Wednesday to
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      • 378 22 JOHANNESBURG gold shares closed narrowly mixed on Friday after tentative early gains as traders nervously watched the bullion price for any further signs of weakness after Wednesday's heavy Middle East sell-off. The gold price has recovered partially to around US$367, but market confidence has been severely shaken by the
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      • 196 22 FRENCH SHARE prices ended lower on Friday, discouraged by a slide on Wall Street, in very quiet trade ahead of! holiday weekends in both France and Britain. The CAC-40 index ended 1 points down at 2,111.90 after starting a" touch higher. The broader CAC Gener-; al index, calculated on
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      • 178 22 TORONTO STOCKS closed off across the board on Friday after Wall Street stocks were hit by steep losses in US technology shares. Trade was dull and quiet as portfolio managers covered their short positions. The composite index fell 15.88 to 3,494.69 on volume of 15.25 million shares. Toronto May
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      • 248 22 ZURICH SHARE prices ended mixed below the day's high on Friday. Profit taking and an easier Frankfurt close and Wall Street opening weighed on the market. The SMI index of leading 1 shares closed at 1,731.7, down 0.6 points from Wednesday's pre-holiday close while the SPI all-share index rose
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      • 128 22 May 25 CIoh Previous MEW YORK Dow Jones 2,820.92 2,855.55 -34.63 NYSE Financial 145 83 146.73 -0.90 SAP 500 354 58 358 41 -3.83 Turnover (million) 122.00 153.04 -31.04 LONDON Financial Times 30 1,800.0 1,805.2 -5.2 FTSE 100 2,265.6 2,277.1 -11.5 Turnover (million) 385.6 420.3 -34.7 AMSTERDAM CBS General NA
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 440 23 IWEEKLY ROUND-UP AFTER A sharp decline during the two earlier weeks, the dollar ended the week firmer against the mark but softened against the yen when the US Treasury under-secretary Mr David Mulford said that the US would welcome a lower dollar against the yen.
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    • 551 23 ASIAN CURRENCIES MOST ASIAN currencies made marginal gains against the US dollar during the week, led by the Japanese yen which rose almost 2 per cent on the week, buoyed by selling pfessure on the West German mark. Japanese yen: The yen continued to
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    • 394 23 Cross rates May 26 USS S$ MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.8475 2.6965 1.6828 149.30 0.5915 1.4235 1.3017 1.7437 SS 0.5413 1.4595 0.9109 0.8081 0.3202 0.7705 0.7046 0.9438 MS 0.3709 68.51 0.6241 0.5537 0.2194 0.5279 0.4828 0.6466 Dm 0.5942 1.0979 1.6024 88.72 0.3515 0.8459 0.7736
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    • 558 23 Interbank rates S$ Bid Offer Overnight 4 1/2 5 1-month 7 5/8 7 3/4 2-month 7 5/8 7 3/4 3-month 7 5/8 7 3/4 Overnight mode: 6-3/8 USS High Iaw 7 days 8 1/8 8~I7I 1 month 8 3/16 8 3/16 2 months 8 5/16 8 1/4 3
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    • 373 23 Reuter BRITISH CHANCELLOR John Major has ruled out a cut in British interest rates until there was more evidence that inflation was easing. Tight monetary policy, with bank base rates at IS per cent since October, was already forcing inflation down according
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    • 329 23 Reuter THE ITALIAN central bank's hopes of quickly dousing international demand for the lira by cutting its lending rate have been dashed, and analysts see the currency continuing to cause problems within the European Monetary System (EMS). Since the Bank of Italy dropped its discount
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    • 332 23 GOLD FINANCIAL FUTURES REPORT SPOT GOLD'S vulnerability to large physical sales was exposed again last Wednesday by a huge bullion offering made by the National Commercial Bank of Jeddah supposedly acting on behalf of the Central Bank of Saudi Arabia. The sale was unveiled during
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    • 292 23 COMEX May 23 COLD FUTURES(100 oz) USS/oz Open High Low Settle Change y Z Z 368 20 T70 Jun 367.50 369.10 367.10 368.40 +1.50 Jul 370.50 +1.60 Aug 371.70 373.50 371.50 373.00 +1.70 Oct 377.40 377.80 376.40 377.80 +1.70 Dec ***** 383.00 ***** 382.50 +180 Feb 91 385.40
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    • 388 23 BANKS ABN Bank 8 Allied Irish Bank PLC 8 American Express Bank 8 Am'Dam K'terdam Bank 8 Arab Banking Corp 8 7V« 7 ANZ Banking Group 8 IV* Banca Commerciale 7*. 8 Bangkok Bank 7*. IV, Bank Negara Indo 7Vj 7% 6V« Bank of Communications 7V. Bank
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 436 24 Bernama MALAYSIAN palm oil refiners and producers should work in harmony and become a united force to tackle the problem of price discounts of the commodity in the world market, the senior executive director of United Plantations Bhd, Datuk Sen Bek Nielsen said.
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    • 280 24 Reuter COCOA FUTURES soared to near two-year highs reflecting concern over the return of dry weather in key growing areas of West Africa and a strike by Ivory Coast customs officials, analysts and dealers said. An overnight private weather forecast on Friday talked
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    • 876 24 WEEKLY ROUND-UP GOLD PRICES underwent a violent markdown last week, as a big Middle East sell order hit the market, pushing it down to its lowest level for seven months. The market recovered some of the losses later in the week, but sentiment
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  • 1081 24 Rubber MtjWIihjlg Scents/kg Int 1 RSS April Close May 21 159.75 May 22 159.00 May 23 158.75 May 24 158.75 May 25 159.25 KWEL1 (fcfc In M cents/kg Int I RSS April Close May 21 230.00 May 22 230.00 May 23 230.50 May 24 231.00 May 25 231.50 LflMDON
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    • 709 24 NOTICES CHANGE OF COMPANY NAME WEF 7 MARCH 1990 TOYO TRAVEL SERVICE PTE LTD IS KNOWN AS SUNTEC HOLIDAY PTE LTD OUR ADDRESS, TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS REMAIN UNCHANGED AT: 1, PARK ROAD, #03-43 A, PEOPLE S PARK COMPLEX SINGAPORE 0105 10 TEL: *****95/6. FAX: *****78 IN THE MATTES OP
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    • 382 24 la the Matter The Cempaates Act, Cay. M aai TBILESTABI MAS PTE LTD (la Menken' Vataatarily UqaMatfea) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 0001 Beach Road #12-02 Golden Mile Tower, Singapore 0710 on Wednesday, 23rd May 1990 at 10.00 a.m. the following
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
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    • 528 25 LETTER FROM INDIA jy Mr ,W Jw aWr TO MOST people, the word "jungle" conjures up images of dense, lush tropical forest with torrential rainfall, huge trees festooned with creepers and infested with dangerous animals, snakes and insects. But in its Sanskrit origins, the
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    • 152 25 As at 3pm yesterday: Local dollar* to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.4110 1.430 Canadian dollar I.S42 1.562 NZ dollar 1.048 1.088 Sterling pound 3.110 3.140 US dollar 1.8450 1.8550 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 15.40 16.40
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    • 80 25 Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Duration Title Venue Otgaker Td Jun 1-4 International Italy E.A Fieri (39)2/***** Jun 7-13 International Fair West Dusseldorfer (49)211/4560 Exhibition Internationale for Packaging Germany MeaaegaeUof Gift Aiti Milano Machinery, schaft mbH cles. Fancy Packaging Nowea Goods Itemi Materials Confectionery Jun 4-8 International
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    • 649 25 A OIL&MONEY (J ASIA THE PACIFIC SINGAPORE, JUNE 11-12, 1990 The second annual conference co'sponsored by the International Herald Tribune and The Oil Daily JUNE 11 JUNE 12 08.30 OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS 08 30 A E [^i^ P of H.E. G. Aghazadeh, Minister of Petroleum, Iran Hanson k 09 ,5
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 318 25 I Dyer knows it is proof against at speed (8) 5 Earthenware pots needing t A terrorist's minute weap- ■■l 10 Artist dining out may call for it if he wants... (6) I I j 12 wine with first-class ]H| jHT meals but not port (9) 13 We've said how
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    • 210 25 Singapore Outlook: Showers over several areas ia the morning. Report Max temp. 33.2* C Assoc humidity 67% Min temp 26.3* C Assoc humidity 95% Hrs of sunshine 4.95 Rainfall in mm 0.2 Rainfall this mth 175.2 Rainy days this mth 10 World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland 18/12 Windy Bangkok
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  • 445 26  -  From Margaret Thomas in LONDON EUROPE last year overtook Japan and the US as a source of foreign investments for Singapore. In both 1987 and 1988, Europe accounted for around 17 per cent of total manufacturing investment commitments. Last year, it accounted
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  • 655 26 IT IS "good politics" for Mr Goh Chok Tong to want a more participative style of government and let Singaporeans feel they have a say in the running of Singapore, says PM Lee Kuan Yew. In an interview broadcast by the BBC
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  • 52 26 A US TEAM from San Diego won the World Invitational Dragon Boat Race yesterday, beating a Thai crew by one-half second before 6,000 spectators at Marina Bay. China finished third in the 700 m race while Indonesia, last year's winner, took
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  • 208 26 AFP THE PARTY of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, yesterday won the first seats in Myanmar's general elections and seemed on the way to sweeping Rangoon. Unofficial results show the first seat was won by Kyi
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  • 121 26 Bernama MALAYSIA needs trade privileges accorded under the US's Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) to protect its growing economy, Primary Industries Minister Datuk Sen Dr Lim Keng Yaik said in Ipoh yesterday. As a developing country, Malaysia still requires such privileges to protect its
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  • 147 26 Reuter STRIKE LEADERS in Poland stepped up their challenge to the Solidarity-led government yesterday, issuing calls for national rail stoppages that cast a pall over the country's first fully free elections in more than 50 years. Sharply escalating the eight-day-old conflict over railway
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  • 325 26 Agencies THE SOVIET UNION will never agree to allow the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to play the leading role in building a new European security order, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says in an interview to be published by Time magazine. He
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    • 402 27  -  By Rahita Elias JAPANESE SHIPPING giant Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has joined forces with South Korean carrier Hyundai Merchant Marine in the US trade following NYK's break with Mitsui OSK Lines. The new joint service to Far East/Pacific North West (PNW) ports
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    • 269 27 THE THAI government should enact a marine transport law and offer more incentives to promote marine and life insurance businesses, says the private sector. Private business associations have sent proposals to the Thai Board of Trade (BoT). The Bangkok Shipowners and
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    • 297 27 THAILAND'S Ekachai Container Terminal (ECT) has invested in a new 100 million baht off-dock terminal on 52 rai of land in Samut Sakhon to attract customers from the South. It has also urged the government to support the formation of an off-dock
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    • 187 27 Reuter SEA-LAND Service, a unit of US-based CSX Corp, has entered a series of cooperative agreements with transportation authorities in the Soviet Union. The company did not discuss terms but said currency convertibility should not be a problem, as service barter opportunities will
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    • 208 27 THE Shipping Credit and Investment Co of India (SCICI), is diversifying its portfolio into shipping-relat-ed businesses. After assisting a project for oil exploration and production, it is now trying to induce the private sector into large-scale fishing. The Managing Director of SCICI, Mr N C
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    • 235 27 NIPPON Yusen Kaisha (NYK) Line is set to expand its operations in the MiddleEast next month with a scheduled call at Jebel Ali port in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A container ship, part of the Oasis Container Consortium of which NYK
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    • 338 27  -  By Sangeeta Mulchand WEST GERMAN airline Lufthansa is gearing to grab a larger slice of the regional travel pie, with plans for daily flights to all major Asian cities by 1993. Topping the list of priority markets are Singapore, Bangkok, Manila and
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    • 115 27 Reuter NIPPON Express is starting two regular weekly shipping services to China next month, together with that country's state-owned firm Sinotrans. The routes will be BeijingTokyo, taking about 14 days, and Shanghai-Kobe, taking about seven days, with each company responsible for transport of the goods in
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      • 86 28 MITSUI OSK Lines Ltd said it sees parent net profit rising slightly to five billion yen in the year to March 31, 1991 from 4.92 billion yen in 1989/90. Current profit is forecast at 16 billion yen, up from 15.51 billion in 1989/90, on
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      • 97 28 THE General Council of British Shipping (GCBS) and the UK government are to set up a working party to identify measures to improve the competitiveness of British shipping, new GCBS president Sir Jeffrey Sterling, said. The terms of reference for the working party, were outlined
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      • 69 28 AIR traffic controllers at Rome's main airport have called for five days of strikes, the last one scheduled just two days before the World Cup soccer competition begins. The controllers' union announced the strikes for Saturday, Sunday and June 4-6 for Leonardo da Vinci Airport. A strike would
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      • 117 28 AMR Corp's American Airlines said it will begin its expansion into Central and South America on July 1 from its new hub at Miami and plans to have its entire route network in place by Aug 15. American said it will start the expansion with
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      • 70 28 A GREEK captain has been arrested for allegedly running a ship aground to collect insurance money, and endangering the environment. Matrancas Panagiotis was arrested on Wednesday and is being held without bail in Mangaratiba, 105 km south of Rio de Janeiro. Panagiotis was being charged with placing
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      • 57 28 ALASKA state officials said that West Coast Shipping Co, a subsidiary of Unocal Corp, has agreed to pay a U*****,000 fine for failing to have a state-approved oil spill response plan for a tanker that carried crude oil from Prince William Sound to Cook Inlet. The
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    • 920 28  -  Ang Thian Chin has doubts about making the transition from a physicist to a senior air cargo executive. That was more than a decade ago. Mr Ang is now well known in the industry as a promoter of Singapore as an airfreight centre. Hugh McAtear
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    • 835 28 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 13008 36 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for a maximum
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      • 1770 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Transtarar Sdwdto Mp Voy No Ait Date Tkno From To Booki* 6ate A Op G* 9i MkrgaC 48 28.05.90 2200 28/1200 28/1259 Tlx/Fa* 2 N4 00 F05 0! 28/1300 28/1359 Th/Fax 2 Q4 AJ Watba 52A 30.05.90 0700 28/1100 28/1159
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      • 245 43 Port King South Port Petro Niaga berth 1; Bangkhunprom berth 3; Thai Ho No 1 berth 7; Swee Long Satu berth 7A. KCT: Nil North Port: Ivan Vazov berth 11; Bangtuang berth 12; Pskov berth 13; Dade berth 14; Tai Bao berth 16; Southern Cross berth 17;
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    • 918 43 THE ASCENSION DAY holiday in much of Europe and the forthcoming holiday in the UK contributed to a quiet freight market on Thursday, where interest again focused on trans-Atlantic routes. "Basically there's a continuing oversupply situation in the Atlantic and rates, even on time-charters, aren't being helped by
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    • 488 44 AP US AUTHORITIES are reconsidering harshly restrictive rules on Soviet and East European ships and crewmembers from those countries on other vessels. The rules ban East Bloc ships from 12 US ports, and require those countries' crewmembers on other ships docking at the
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    • 221 44  -  From Julie Chatterjee IN BOMBAY THE US GOVERNMENT has offered a US$9 million grant to India to implement the national airspace system plan, as part of the country's trade development programme. This was announced by the US Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) director of Europe,
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    • 124 44 AFP MITSUBISHI Heavy Industries Ltd, Japan's biggest heavy-machinery concern, said on Friday that its net profit grew 12.1 per cent from a year earlier to 55.2 billion yen in the year to March. The company which ranks number one in shipbuilding, power plants, aircraft and arms
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    • 127 44 THYSSEN Handelsunion AG, a fully-owned unit of steel and engineering group Thyssen AG, and Franz Haniel Cie GmbH of Duisburg, West Germany, are merging their transport businesses, a West German national daily newspaper said. The merger would result in one of the world's largest transport
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    • 222 44 Reuter ISHIKAWAJIMA-HARIMA Heavy Industries Co Ltd (IHI) forecast parent company net profit of 1S billion yen in the year to March 31, 1991, up from 12.14 billion a year earlier. The heavy machinery and shipbuilding company's statement also forecast parent current profit of 30 billion
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    • 419 44 Reuter DELTA Air Lines chairman Ronald Allen said 1990 would be a good year for his Atlanta-based airline in spite of a weak start. "This quarter was a little soft we were pleased to make money but we feel 1990's going to
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