The Business Times, 27 October 1992

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  • 17 1 Business Times THE BUSINESS PAPER FOR S-E ASIA MITA (P) 35/12/91 Tuesday, October 27, 1992 75 c
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 77 1 NABATIYEII, Lebanon Israeli helicopters attacked three Hizbollah-held villages in south Lebanon yesterday in retaliation for a bomb ambush that killed five Israeli soldiers on Sunday. Security sources said all three villages are strongholds of the pro-Iranian Hizboliah (Party of God). There were no immediate reports
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    • 44 1 DETROIT General Motors, ending more than a week of speculation, said yesterday that chairman Robert Stcmpcl had resigned from the helm of the world's biggest company. GM said his decision to quit as chairman and chief executive was effective immediately.
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    • 35 1 HO CHI MINH City officials have drafted a general law to safeguard nature and the environment, taking the first step towards building a legal and institutional framework for environmental protection. Page 2
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    • 44 1 STRONG domestic demand and buoyant intra-Asian trade and investment are sustaining fast rates of economic growth in South-east Asia despite a slowdown in the US, Japan and Europe, which are major markets and sources of capital for the region Page 8
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    • 29 1 DESPITE growing fears of recession across Europe, Britain's decision to strike out on its own for economic growth is finding little sympathy on the continent Page 9
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    • 25 1 MANY US manufacturers are concerned that victory for Democrat Bill Clinton in the presidential elections could be bad for business Page 9
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    • 23 1 QUEENSLAND, which escaped largely unscathed from the ravages of a two-year recession, is the envy of other Australian states Page 11
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    • 35 1 SHIPBUILDER and repairer Singmarine Industries' main floating dock, which can accommodate vessels of up to 30,000 deadweight tonnes, sank suddenly at the company's Gul Road yard on Sunday. Shipping Times Page 1
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  • MARKET SUMMARY
    • 30 1 WALL STREET share priccs opened little changed yesterday. The Dow Jones index of leading industrial shares was up just 0.25 points at 3,207.89 five minutes after the opening.
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    • 30 1 LONDON share prices were lower at mid-day yesterday. At about 1230 GMT. the Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index was down 10.1 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 2,659.6.
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    • 13 1 SINGAPORE and Malaysian markets were closed yesterday Tor the Deepavali holiday.
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    • 27 1 HONG LEONG Industries Bhd is diversifying into cement manufacturing to broaden its earnings base and strengthening its core ceramics and motorcycle divisions. Page 3
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    • 26 1 TRADITIONAL herbal medicine seller Eu Yan Sang Holdings Ltd plans to'expand its wholesale distribution business to East Malaysia and Brunei. Page 3
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    • 29 1 CHINA'S Cabinet has set up a new watchdog agency headed by economic supremo Zhu Rongji to monitor the country's securities boom, the official media reported. Page 4
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    • 30 1 ONLY 22 of 39 star analysts in the United States polled a year ago managed to pick stocks that outperformed the Dow Jones industrial average. Page 6
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    • 38 1 CITICORP retains its position as America's biggest banking company, according to thirdquarter asset figures, but if current trends continue it is only a matter of time before another bank takes over, analysts say Page 7
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    • 27 1 Monday Change BT-MGA closed Kuala Lumpur closed Tokyo 17.011.33 -106.32 Hongkong 6,062.47 -200.07 Sydney 1,450.7 -4.9 Frida) Change New York 3.207.64 +6.76 London 2.669.7 +11.6
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    • 22 1 Exchange rates USS SS 1.6150 100 Yen SS 1.3309 MS SS 0.6451 Money market rates Overnight 2% +3/4 3-month 115/16% +1/16
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    • 7 1 London Gold AM fix US$341.30 -US$2.30
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  • 535 1  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG THE Hongkong stock market plunged by 3 per cent of its value yesterday as a political row between China and Britain over plans to speed up democracy in the territory hit investors' confidence. The Hang Seng
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  • 550 1  -  No planes sold to boost earnings; second-half outlook grey By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE The weak world economy, intense competition in the airline industry and the strong Singapore dollar were the storm clouds that continued to pare margins at national carrier Singapore Airlines. With
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  • 458 1  -  From Salil Tripathi in PRETORIA SENIOR MINISTER Lcc Kuan Yew met South Africa's Foreign Minister, RoclofW Pik Botha, yesterday at the historic sandstone Union Buildings overlooking the administrative capital of South Africa, Pretoria. In a 90-minutc meeting Mr Lcc and Mr
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  • 208 1 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's best known economist warned that the country would slip into economic chaos if it relaxed controls on offshore commercial borrowings. "The level of foreign loans raised by private companies is alarming. The government should adopt tighter measures to prevent expansion
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  • 343 1 Reuter LONDON HungarianAmerican financier George Soros made almost US$l billion (SSI.6 billion) out of last month's sterling devaluation, taking a heavy market position that sterling would collapse despite British government assurances to the contrary. In an interview reported by The Times
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
    • 474 2  -  Ho Chi Minh drafts environmental law, sets up watchdog committee From Genevieve Cua in HO CHI MINH CITY HO CHI MINH City officials have drafted a general law to safeguard nature and the environment, taking the first step towards building
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 65 2 ASIA can play a major role in meeting the world's future demand for fish products because of its strong aquaculture industry, said Senior Parliamentary Secretary (National Development) Lee Yiok Seng at the third Asian Fisheries Forum/Fish Asia '92 conference yesterday. Asia
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      • 44 2 SINGAPOREANS dug deep into their pockets and donated generously $701,666 in all to a fund-raising drive to aid six charity organisations under the Children's Charities Association. The fund-raising drive was organised by the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's Class 95 FM station.
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      • 64 2 THREE MEMBERS of the C S Holding Group Credit Suisse, C S First Boston and Calriden Asset Management will move to UOB Plaza early next year, doubling the office space currently held in their Six Battery Road and Shell Tower locations. The three offices
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      • 37 2 THIRTEEN PEOPLE have been awarded this year's Tan Kah Kee Postgraduate Scholarship. They were selected from a total of 144 applicants received during the month of August when the scholarship was open for application.
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    • 213 2 HO CHI MINH City is looking to Singapore to help shorten its learning curve in environmental matters. Hoang Anh Tuan, chairman of the city's Committee for Science and Technology, said that if the Ho Chi Minh City could tap the experience
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    • 148 2 SINGAPORE Macao casino tycoon Stanley Ho yesterday officially opened the island's only floating restaurant, Sea Palace, at the World Trade Centre. Sea Palace, costing $12 million, is jointly owned by Stanley Ho's listed Shun Taic Holdings Ltd and another Hongkong company, Qantel International Holdings Ltd.
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    • 245 2 SINGAPORE A leading software supplier from Australia will open its regional headquarters here today. Mincom International Proprietary Ltd was started in 1979 in Brisbane. It supplies software for the mining, utilities, transport and defence industries. Senator John Button, Australia's Minister for Industry,
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • 679 3  -  Company planning to diversify in bid to meet ambitious target By William Chia KUALA LUMPUR Hong Leong Industries Bhd (HLI), which has an ambitious target to meet by next year, is diversifying into cement manufacturing to broaden its earnings base and is also
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    • 249 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Hong Leong Industries Bhd (HLI) will increase its competitiveness through cost cutting, product rationalisation and human resources development programmes in the year ahead, chairman Quek Leng Chan said in his annual statement. Reviewing the group's operations, Mr Quek said the
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    • 298 3 Kelang Container Terminal opens Singapore roadshow today SINGAPORE Kelang Container Terminal (KCT), which opens its roadshow here today, has received a thumbs-up from a Kuala Lumpur investment adviser. The Malaysian Business Times (MBT) reported yesterday that Capital Dynamics' managing director Tan Teng 800 said KCT
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    • 771 3  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN By William Chia SINGAPORE Shareholders of debtridden Innovest Bhd can hardly be blamed for feeling that current management has failed them and for welcoming the latest talk that financial services group MBf Holdings
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    • 338 3  -  By Shoeb Kagda SINGAPORE Traditional herbal medicine seller Eu Van Sang Holdings Ltd plans to expand its wholesale distribution business to East Malaysia and Brunei. Other regional countries are also being looked at as part of the company's strategy to broaden its customer base
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 116 3 KUALA LUMPUR Palmco Holdings (Palmco) is confident that its manufacturing division will be able to retain its competitive edge over other producers, following the completion of its capital expenditure programme. Chairman Robert W K Chan in the company's latest annual report says that the
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      • 100 3 KUALA LUMPUR Boustead Holdings (Boustead) is expecting a stronger performance from its trading and shipping operations, while the property division should record further gains from its existing activities for the current financial year, said its chairman Mohd Ghazali Che Mat. However, commodity prices will have
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      • 52 3 KUALA LUMPUR In response to queries from the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange on its joint venture with Steelcorp and its proposed acquisition of Sabah Gas Industries, Malayawata Steel Bhd said its directors and substantial shareholders do not have any direct, or indirect interest in its Steelcorp
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      • 44 3 KUALA LUMPUR Long Huat Timber Industries has bought the entire issued and paid-up capital of Idaman comprising two MSI ordinary shares for Ms 2 cash. None of the directors and substantial shareholders from LHTI have any interest in Idaman Kayangan.
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      • 49 3 KUALA LUMPUR Melewar Corp has identified three of its subsidiaries for possible listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange by next year, or early 1994. The companies, mainly involved in services and manufacturing, are in the midst of preparing their proposals for flotation.
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      • 53 3 KUALA LUMPUR Bata shares will be temporarily suspended on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange from Nov 5 until further notice. The suspension, requested by the company, is to facilitate the exchange of share certificates and to maintain an orderly market in its shares in connection with a
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    • 423 4 Move paves way for nationwide trading Reuter BEIJING China's Cabinet has set up a new watchdog agency headed by economic supremo Zhu Rongji to monitor the country's securities boom, the official media reported yesterday. The Securities Committee of the State Council (Cabinet) will
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    • 317 4 AFP SYDNEY Arnotts, the Australian biscuit maker at the centre of an US$BBO million (S$ 1.4 billion) takeover bid by the Campbell Soup Co of the US, posted a 33.9 per cent gain in first-quarter profit yesterday. Arnotts' announcement of
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    • 430 4  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG HUTCHISON Telecoms axed about 80 per cent of its staff in the international division yesterday, putting a check on its ambition to become a global telecommunications player. Sources told BT that 30 to 40 employees were given their severance pay
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    • 477 4 Reuter MANILA Continued power blackouts in the Philippines htfve aborted an expected boom in the stock market but analysts say hopes for a resurgence have not been snuffed out altogether. Share prices, which took a breather after the euphoria over the peaceful election
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 79 4 MANILA Philippine Airlines (PAL) posted a record I.IIJ billion peso (5571.2 million) net income in fiscal year ending March 31, PAL documents released here yesterday said. This was a sharp improvement over the 3.334 billion peso net loss suffered in the previous fiscal
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      • 84 4 TOKYO A small Japanese firm has developed a 16-mega-byte single in-line memory module (Simm) for Macintosh personal computers that can boost the memory capacity of a personal computer to rival that of a costly mainframe computer, the company's spokesman said yesterday. International Scientific Co, a
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      • 77 4 TAIPEI Taiwan's state-owned Chinese Petroleum Corp (CPC) plans to shed 5,000 employees, a quarter of its workforce, to prepare for competition from the private sector, the United Daily Nens said yesterday. CPC, which will lose its monopoly on oil imports and processing in the
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      • 78 4 TOKYO Two of Japan's top paper manufacturers, Oji Paper Co Ltd and Jujo Paper Co Ltd, said yesterday their pre-tax earnings dropped more than 20 per cent from a year earlier in the six months to September. Oji, an affiliate of the Mitsui group with major
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      • 57 4 TOKYO Japan's Toshiba Corp and Mitsubishi Electric Corp will enter the submarine telecommunications cable business by joining a trans-Pacific cable project, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday. The two makers of electrical machinery, with rival firms NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd, wiH build the cable to
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    • 394 6 NYT NEW YORK Brokerage firms pay USSI million (S$ 1.6 billion) and more a year to some of their superstar analysts. For that kind of money, they should be dazzling clients with blockbuster stock picks. Yet only 22 of 39 star analysts
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    • 345 6 They need to invest heavily to comply with green legislation: study Reuter LONDON Existing and future environmental legislation could mean 36 copper, zinc and lead plants worldwide would face problems unless they made significant investments, a new study said. The most threatened units
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    • 325 6 NYT NEW YORK Despite recent setbacks. Europe will eventually have a telecommunications market nearly as competitive as that of the United States, perhaps as soon as five years from no\\, says the chief executive of Belgacom, Belgium's telephone company. Last week,
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    • 183 6 Reuter NEW YORK Facing declining sales this year in its bread-and-butter business. International Business Machines Corp is moving aggressively to change the perception that the mainframe is becoming a relic for a computer museum. IBM executives said in an interview that they have
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 70 6 LONDON Ikca. a privately-owned Swedish group famous for its vast retail stores offering modern furniture at reasonable prices, will acquire most of rival Habitat, the British firm's parent said yesterday. Storehouse pic ot Britain said it was selling the French and British
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      • 63 6 WASHINGTON Tobacco firms are giving more and more money to American political candidates and tightening their stranglehold on public health policy, two leading US public interest groups said yesterday. Public Citizen and the Advocacy Institute said in a report that tobacco indus-try-related contributions to congressional campaigns had
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      • 63 6 NEW YORK The New York Times Co reported a third-quarter loss of U5533.9 million (5554.2 million) on Friday, reflecting a write-off for the closing of a suburban Atlanta newspaper and start-up costs for a New Jersey plant. The loss compares with a profit of
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      • 62 6 LONDON Alcatel Alsthom, the world's largest telecommunications equipment company, is raising US$3.5 billion (555.6 billion) in medium-term notes, commercial paper and Euro-commercial paper, said arranger Lehman Brothers International. The French company is raising US$l.5 billion through a global medium-term note programme, and US$l.O billion in a
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      • 63 6 SAN FRANCISCO Conner Peripherals Inc. a maker of computer disk drives, said on Friday it had agreed to acquire Archive Corp. a tape-drive producer, for U5511.25 a share, or about U*****.4 million (*****.6 million). Finis Conner, Conner's chairman and chief executive, said the purchase is
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 318 7 Reuter NEW YORK Citicorp retains its position as America's biggest banking company, according to third-quarter asset figures, but if current trends continue it is only a matter of time before another bank takes over, analysts say. Citicorp ended the quarter with about
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    • 330 7 1987 market crash the lesson for clearing houses Reuter CHICAGO Since the 1987 stock market crash, clearing houses for futures exchanges around the world have considered the benefits and obstacles to linking up their operations in an increasingly global futures industry. Representatives from several clearing houses, who appeared on a
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 79 7 MILAN The Bank of Italy has asked commercial banks operating in Italy to control lending growth over the next 6 months to an annual rate of 8 per cent. A senior monetary source said the move, which he described as "moral suasion," would
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      • 94 7 TOKYO Major life insurance companies, including Nippon Life Insurance Co, plan to request approval to cut the yield on managing premiums from the Employees' Pension Insurance fund from fiscal 1993. This would mark the first time the yield the annual assumed rate of interest at
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      • 72 7 TOKYO The Japanese government is likely to rely on bond issuance for 13 per cent of fiscal 1992 general account revenue, the highest dependency rate on bonds since the 16 per cent posted in fiscal 1987, government officials said. The rate is expected to
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      • 86 7 LONDON The UK's largest mortgage lender has urged the government to "reduce interest rates sharply" in order to boost the sagging housing market. In its Viewpoint bulletin, the Halifax Building Society said "current economic conditions justify bank base rates of 7 per cent or
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  • THE REGION
    • 571 8 IHT KUALA LUMPUR Strong domestic demand and buoyant intra-Asian trade and investment are sustaining fast rates of economic growth in South-east Asia despite a slowdown in the US, Japan and Europe, which are major markets and sources of capital for the region.
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    • 143 8 AFP MANIIA The Philippine government will privatise at least five major government assets between now and June 1993, Finance Secretary Ramon del Rosario said yesterday. The assets include International Corporate Banlc, Manila Hotel, National Steel Corp, Petron, and duty-free shops, he
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    • 381 8 Reuter MANILA Asia needs continued aid despite its booming economies because it still has the largest share of the world's poor, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Official development assistance (ODA) for Asia may be squeezed because of demands from eastern Europe
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    • 141 8 AFP WASHINGTON Demand for electrical power is growing faster than supply in developing Asian countries, necessitating greater private-sector involvement, according to the World Bank. The gap between demand and capacity presents an "urgent rationale" for private investment, World Bank vicepresident for East Asia
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 86 8 EAST TIMOR Indonesia is tightening security ahead of next month's anniversary of an army massacre in East Timor and expelling anyone without identity cards from the local capital Dili. "Many people have been caught without proper identity cards staying with friends in Dili. We
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      • 67 8 BANGKOK Japan yesterday released development loans to Thailand worth 93 billion yen (S$ 1.24 billion) after a delay of several months because of political turmoil in Bangkok. The official Japan Information Service said the money would be used for infrastructure projects. The loans carry 3 per
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      • 44 8 SYDNEY The Marxist Khmer Rouge is unlikely to take part in elections due in Cambodia next May and will probably pose a military threat to an elected government, Australia's representative in Phnom Penh. John Holloway, has told ABC Radio.
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      • 110 8 HONGKONG The Asia Sat consortium has announced plans to launch a second communications satellite to keep pace with the surge in demand in the Asia-Pacific region. Asia Sat. a consortium jointly owned by Hongkong's Hutchinson Whampoa. Britain's Cable and Wireless and China's international investment arm Citic,
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  • THE WORLD
    • 472 9 British recession expected to last well into next year Reuter, Bloomberg PARIS Despite growing fears of recession across Europe, Britain's decision to strike out on its own for economic growth is finding little sympathy on the continent. Prime Minister John Major
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    • 186 9 Reuter WASHINGTON A bank lobbying group has called for major changes in the way export credit agencies in leading industrial countries support projects in the developing world. The Institute of International Finance has urged the agencies to extend their export insurance for
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    • 362 9 Reuter PARIS What do the words "Made in France" conjure up besides fine wines, cognac, perfume or clothes? For many people, France equals fun and frippery, yet the country is the world's fourth largest industrial power. But not even the French know that,
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    • 344 9 Reuter TOGLIATTI, Russia A senior Russian minister has said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) could threaten the future of the government's radical economic reforms if it was too inflexible with Moscow. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Shokhin said Russia would have difficulty meeting targets the
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    • 347 9 JC Reuter PITTSBURGH Many US manufacturers are concerned that victory for Democrat Bill Clinton in the presidential elections could be bad for business. "We look to this to be a very challenging task of trying to present the manufacturers' point of view (if
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 90 9 BEIRUT Hizbollah guerillas exploited a chink in Israel's armour when they set off a remote-controlled bomb in south Lebanon and killed five soldiers on Sunday. Security sources said the ambush of a supply convoy involved a technique identical to an attack in the
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      • 76 9 NENV YORK. Orders for American-made machine tools jumped 16 per cent in September from levels a year earlier, the Association for Manufacturing Technology reported. The association said the increase reflected heavy ordering last month at an industry trade show that is held every two years.
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      • 85 9 SEOUL Daewoo Group chairman Kim Woo-choong has denied he will run for president of South Korea, a Daewoo spokesman said. The denial follows days of often fevered speculation that the silver-haired tycoon would accept the nomination of a new political party formed last week by
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      • 79 9 VILNIUS Lithuania's former communist party emerged as the winner on Sunday in the Baltic state's first general elections since gaining independence from the Soviet Union, according to an exit poll. The Democratic Labour Party won 32 per cent of the votes compared with 27 per cent
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  • 467 10 EDITORIAL ON THE surface, the results of the Business Times' survey of profit margins of 65 local listed companies looked encouraging. The survey found operating profits for the first half of this year up a whopping 23 per cent over the same period last year. This
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 277 10 CENSORSHIP policies have far-reaching effects, and for no medium are the stakes higher than for television. Found in almost every home and turned on for two or three hours a day, TV has effects which are a matter of on-going debate, but which are certainly
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    • 115 10 BRITISH Prime Minister John Major faces a dilemma. He is treading carefully on economic land mines. Theoretically speaking, his policies would be the right remedy to the ailing British economy. However his supporters in the ruling Tory Party cannot swallow the protests from their electorates. The economic problems
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    • 109 10 NEWSPAPER reports of a recent seminar about "Understanding Japanese tourists" give us cause to believe that finding ways to maintain its competitiveness in prices is a serious problem that the Singapore tourist industry has to face at the present time and in the next few years. To
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 185 10 IN HIS address on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of Golkar last Tuesday, President Suharto said it would be no problem for him if the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) entrusted him with another five-year mandate. It is understandable that the president's statement promptly provoked debate. In
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    • 187 10 DR MAHATHIR'S frank dialogues with newsmen and corporate decision makers are always welcome, more so when his comments are analysed and evaluated by businessmen with deep interest in exploring trade opportunities in the country. Dr Mahathir did very well to clear some of the misinformation embedded in
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    • 125 10 GOVERNOR Chris Patten has made much of his desire that the people of Hongkong and their legislators in particular should decide the fate of his reform package. If they are to do so, they must be made aware of any correspondence that could be construed as affecting
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  • 1068 10  -  John Cushman examines US presidential eandidate Bill Clinton's plan to collect taxes from foreign-controlled companies if he is elected John Cushman NYT ARKANSAS Governor Bill Clinton's proposal to collect billions of dollars in taxes owed by foreign-controlled companies would tap into one of the richest, but also
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 844 11  -  Analysts believe that the incumbent governments of the West are on the way out as their electorates become increasingly disillusioned. Joseph Fitchett reports Joseph Fitchett IHT ARE VOTERS in all the major Western democracies on the verge of toppling their incumbent leaders? Would a
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    • 1490 11  -  Philip Bowring looks at the rising fortunes of Queensland, an Australian state largely unscathed by the recession Philip Bowring The writer, a former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, contributed this article to BT THEY used to call it the Deep North. Citizens of Australia's south-eastern
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    • 1194 12 The Japanese are invading China again this time through massive investments. Emperor Akihito s visit last week is simply putting the seal on a new relationship Bloomberg AS Japanese Emperor Akihito attempts to heal bitter war-time memories in a visit to China
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY 1
    • 588 15  -  IBM has warned about the potential ill effects of two chemical solvents used in America s semiconductor and aerospace industries. Are they used in Singapore? Claire Leow reports Claire Leow ONLY one of two chemical solvents used in America's semiconductor and aerospace industries,
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 46 15 SINGAPORE Supermarket chain NTUC Fair Price Co-op-erative Ltd has installed a new Hitachi mainframe as part of its $4 million computerisation programme. The Hitachi system, called EX22, replaced the existing IBM mainframe. The computerisation will include both frontline and back-end operations.
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      • 111 15 SINGAPORE Inchcape, a services and marketing group, has completed the first phase of a $6 million regional information systems project. The pilot scheme, implemented in Malaysia, will be the model for 13 other Inchcape sites in South-east Asia. The entire project, to be completed by next
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      • 54 15 SINGAPORE Come Nov 12, Apple Computer will host its Mac World Expo/Asia '92 in Hongkong again. The three-day show, to be held at the Hongkong Convention and Exhibition Centre, is the only regional showcase of Apple and related products. It is expected to draw 20,000 visitors and
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      • 92 15 SINGAPORE Santa Clara-based Intel, a semiconductor maker, yesterday named its next generation product the Pentium processor, rather than the 586. The 586 chip, an advancement over the 386 and 486 chips, is used in personal computers as the brain of the system. The Pentium
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    • 795 16  -  Geof Wheelwright and Louise Kehoe report on challenges in the printer market Geof Wheelwright,Louise Kehoe FT Ease of use has become the slogan of the personal computer industry. Whether this means pictorial representations of commands on the computer screen, or handwriting recognition that enables control of the
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    • 376 16  -  A US computer company tells Helen Chang its bottomline lies with developing software Helen Chang COMPUTER company Mentor Graphics plans to further shift its focus from the computer hardware to software market, as the hardware business becomes less profitable, said Mentor's
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    • 403 15 A One Day Conference on New Trends Developments in 4 November 1992 The Dynasty Singapore William Reddawoy, L °T a d GROUP 4 CISCO TRAINING, oppl^chons .w. j Designing a total sec ur ry plan j United Kingdom j 9 Dealing with emergencies Kerran Campbell, Identifying risks CCD, Australia R
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    • 433 16 flllillllllllllllllllilllllllilllllllllllllll^^ t Senior Manager Jorge Veiga Franca will be in Singapore on I November 3 to host a seminar supported by the Singapore M Manufacturers Association. For details please contact m Geoffrey Kirkby or Debby Yu of the Far East Office in KmJm I A fJ fi t V A
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  • SPORTS
    • 1313 17  -  Ira Berkow on the transformation of tennis star Arthur Ashe Ira Berkow NYT THEY were seated around the kitchen table Arthur Ashe, his wife, Jeanne, and their daughter, Camera, now six years old. This was a short time ago and the conversation was unremarkable,
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 74 17 LOS ANGELES Raymond Floyd rolled in four straight; birdies en route to a 9-under-par 62 on Sunday and a tourna-ment-record victory in the US$6OO,OOO Senior Classic* Floyd's three-day total of 195 was 18-under-par, five bettef than the tournament record of 13-under 200 set last year by
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      • 113 17 HAMILTON, Bermuda New Zealander Russell Coutts survived a cliff-hanger, five-race final on Sunday against American Paul Cayard to win the Gold Cup match racing yachting championship on Hamilton Harbour. Coutts, the world match racing champion, came out on top in a see-saw struggle as he lost
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      • 80 17 SAN ANTONIO, Texas PGA champion Nick Price became the fourth player to pass US$l million in prize money on the 1992 US PGA Tour when he won the US$9OO,OOO Texas Open after a playoff with Steve Elkington on Sunday. Price and Elkington tied at 21-under-par 263
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    • 726 18 TELEVISION AND RADIO L lsjlltc SBCI2 S*s 400 drama BUSINESS ON RADIO -L Ulij 7.25 Hi Opening foljowed by to- tta worfd of gourmet cooking 4.M UttW Itoy th. Pry.. BBC, 88.9 mllz in VHF Band II pan Mm Today. (C Last ep). 530 Mighty Mouse and Friends 05am c
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  • LIFESTYLE 1
    • 687 19  -  Dan Cox talks to the British actress who is winning raves in Robert Red ford's latest film Dan Cox Reuter Emily lloyd loves to imitate Americans. The 22-year-old British actress, who is winning raves in Robert Redford's film A River
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    • 744 19  -  Despite the Aids scare, sex tours to Asia are still popular with Japanese men. Aya Takadaare reports on what is being done to increase Aids awareness in Japan. Aya Takadaare Reuter OF Japanese men who contracted Aids through sex with women, 60 per
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    • 564 19 CHATTERBOX THIEVES have snatched a drawing by the 17th-century Dutch master. Rembrandt, and one by a contemporary in a raid on the Netherlands' largest art fair, organisers in Amsterdam said on Sunday. The two works, together worth about 800.000 guilders (*****.000),
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    • 627 20  -  J D Salinger's house caught fire last week. But even the fire could not smoke the enigmatic writer out, says William H Honan William H Honan NYT NOT EVEN a fire that consumed at least half his home could smoke out the reclusive J D Salinger,
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    • 1643 20 OSTATE BANK OF INDIA (INCORPORATED IN INDIA) Central Office Bombay 400 021, India BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 ST MARCH 1992 (OOOs Omitted) Profit and Loss Account for the Tear Ended 31st March 1092 (OOOs Omitted) As on 31.3.92 As on 31.3.01 As on 31.3.92 As on 31.3.91 CAPITAL AND
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    • 721 22 I 1 Hp he BANQUE ASIA '93 conference and exhibition 11 II -I programme is the eighth in a biennial series which 11 II commenced in 1980. It is the most important and II II respected bank technology programme of its kind II I 1 in the Asia/Pacific region. BANQUE
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  • CHINA STOCK EXCHANGES
    • 425 23 CLSA SHANGHAI A shares yesterday fell 398.40 points with the index closing at 3.346.8. Sell-otYs in the Shanghai domestic market were triggered by cash calls on shares allocated to successful subscribers of the fourth official share allotment. Investors liquidated some of
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  • JAKARTA STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 955 23 STOCK PRICES ended barely ehanged on selective buying yesterday, brokers said. The Official Index closed at 308.39, compared to Friday's 309.61. They said local interest was weak in most sectors while foreign investors were active in industry shares. "Trading volume is fairly thin.
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND
    • 2196 23 Reuter SOARING PRICES in a handful of major banks boosted the stock index to its highest close in more than two years yesterday, despite declines in most shares. The SET Index gained 11.12 points to close at 913.88 on active turnover of 13.11
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2592 24 Reuter STOC KS ENDED lower yesterday on a lack of incentives after barely moving all day. Most investors were sidelined ahead of a slew of earnings results from high-tech firms this week and central hank meetings here and in Germany, and could only
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2502 24 Reuter SHARE PRICES ended sharply lower yesterday as investors took profits after Beijing attacked the governor's plans to widen democracy in Hongkong, brokers said. The blue chip Hang Seng Index plunged 200.07 points or 3.19 per cent to close at 6,062.47. It fell 4
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  • AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2080 25 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN share market ended a four-day climb yesterday when it closed near its lows for the day ahead of what is expected to be an uncertain week. Brokers cited the lead up to the US presidential election on Nov 3
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Seoul stocks end active day sharply higher
      • 806 25 STOCKS yesterday closed sharply higher on heavy buying inspired by news the Daewoo Group chairman has denied political aspirations. The Composite Index jumped 24.88 points to 582.74 as 852 shares gained with 684 going limit-up and therefore out of play during the morning session. Turnover totalled 423.65 billion won
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      • 423 25 THE STOCK market was closed yesterday for a public holiday. Shares closed slightly higher on Saturday in thin trading, reversing an earlier trend because some institutions entered the market to buy at lows, brokers said. The Weighted Index rose 8.30 points to close at 3,670.90 compared with Friday's 3,662.60
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      • 177 25 THE STOCK exchange, closed yesterday and today for Hindu New Year holidays, will reopen tomorrow. During symbolic trading on Sunday evening to herald the new year, brokers said share prices ended steady after an early rally. "Only token business was done'... trading was unexciting," said a broker. Traditionally, investors
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      • 625 25 Close Previous Oct 26 NEW ZEALAND NZSE-40 Capital closed 1.381.21 MANILA Composite Index dosed 1.321.41 Turnover (mil pesos) dosed 212 TAIPEI Weighted Price Index 3,670.90 3,662.60 +8.30 Turnover (NTS billion) 6.29 7.7 -1.41 SEOUL Composite Stock Index 582.74 557.86 24.88 Turnover (billion won) 423.65 325.82 +97.83 Manila Oct 23 Peso
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS/COMMODITIES
    • 780 26 IHT PARIS While analysts argue about how fast shortterm German interest rates are likely to fall over the coming weeks, investors are positioning themselves for continued reductions and are moving back to European markets where yields are higher on the assumption that
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    • 890 26 REPORTS THE US dollar ended weaker against the mark in sleepy Tokyo trade yesterday, while it was little changed against the yen, dealers said. Interbank operators bought back marks for dollars after the dollar reached 1.53 marks overseas. Mark gains were
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    • 1040 26 SIMEX EURODOLLAR Open High Low Sett Est Vol Act/Vol Op/lnt Dec 92 96.37 96.37 96.30 96J1 6i00 5332 ***** Mar 93 96.32 96.32 96.21 96.23 8000 ***** ***** Jun 93 95.83 95.83 95.72 95.72 5500 4528 ***** Sep 93 95.28 95.29 95.22 95.24 2600 1175 3663 Dec 93
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    • 152 26 GOLD HONGKONG: Gold closed slightly easier on late Middle Eastern selling yesterday, but dealers said trade was quiet and turnover light. Bullion ended at U*****.80/U*****.30 an ounce against Saturday's local close of U*****.40/90. Dealers expect it to keep to a range of US$342
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  • 1327 27 City Flight ETA Flight ETD Abu Dhabi GA887 230 GA892 0100 GA893 400 GA886 2340 QF81 935 QF82 2050 Amsterdam GA893 400 KL838 0040 KL837 515 GA892 0100 SQ323 815 SQ338 2300 SQ348 2300 ft Mf III—Ml NZ35 425 SQ288 2045 SQ286 >045 NZ36 2235 Bahrain
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 672 27  -  LETTER FROM LEBANON By Samia Nakhoul FLUTE music and the murmur of a flowing stream. Shady stone arcades. Memories of Khalil Gibran. A visit to this ancient hermitage, carved out of a rocky, cypress-clad mountain in north Lebanon, leaves no room for doubt why Gibran. a poet,
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    • 152 27 As at 10am on Friday: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.1530 1.1650 Canadian dollar 1.286 1.2% NZ dollar 0.8630 0.8830 Sterling pound 2.6270 2.6470 US dollar 1.6100 1.6180 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling
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    • 109 27 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Nov 26-29 20lh Antiques Geneva Orgexpo 022/*****00 26- Valenc.a Valencia. Fena Muestrano *****6.11.00 p a j r (f ax j Jan 3. International Spain Intemacional 1993 Trade Fair De Valencia Nov 26- Dakar Dakar. Centre Interna- 221/*****2
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    • 7 27 Advertising Marketing in Business Times every Thursday
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    • 748 27 ix i The Nippon Credit Bank, Ltd. (Incorporated in Japan) Maod Offlca: 13-10. Kudan-kito 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku. Tokyo 102, Japan. BALANCE SHEET I STATEMENT OF INCOME March 31. 1992 and 1991 Yaar* andad March 31. 1992 and 1991 Million* of Yen Million* of Yon 1992 199? 1991 AStm IMCOMI Cosh and
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 303 27 1 Justice obtained by soldier in various matters (10) j 6 Weather protection for morning doctor's round I I I I I I I I 1 9 Pulling back and turning 10 Spend wisely, being de- is pressed (4) I I I I I I I I 13 The French
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    • 163 27 Singapore Outlook: Showers over several areas in the morning. Report: Maximum temperature 32.0 Assoc humidity 64% Minimum temperature 24.3 Assoc humidity 79% Hours of sunshine 8.85 Rainfall in mm 0.5 Rainfall this month 174.9 Rainy days this month 14 World report Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Auckland 18/14 Rain Bangkok 33/24 Gear
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  • 506 28 Clinton's lead slipping in final week of campaigning ra§p§w Reuter WASHINGTON The US presidential campaign entered its final full week yesterday amid sensational charges of political skulduggery and signs that Democratic challenger Bill Clinton's lead is slipping. Texas billionaire Ross Perot accused top Republicans on
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  • 271 28 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Commission is confident it will be able to solve by Thursday a farm row with Washington holding up a Gatt deal to free world trade, a senior EC official said yesterday. The official, speaking on condition
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  • 416 28 IHT, AFP PARIS The Bundesbank has been discreetly selling dollars over the past few days, in part to keep its options open for a cut in leading interest rates, according to market analysts. The sales are of dollars the German central bank received in repayment for
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  • 447 28 Reuter BEIJING Spurred by Deng Xiaoping's economic reform drive. Chinese state industry has gone on an investment binge that is overheating the economy and threatening to cause inflation, an official newspaper said yesterday. China is heading into another boom cycle without correcting old problems
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  • 671 28  -  The Bottom Line LEE HAN SHIH LEE HAN SHIH The writer is a BT news editor IN THE Cold War days, there were some widely told stories about Soviet chess masters. It was said that Soviet children who showed promise in chess were given much
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  • 305 28 Reuter MANILA President Fidel Ramos said yesterday the Philippines was worried a rapprochement between China and Japan following Emperor Akihito's visit to Beijing could lead to cuts in Tokyo's assistance to the rest of Asia. Mr Ramos told his weekly news conference he was calling
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  • Shipping Times
    • 437 29  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Loael me-dium-sizc shipjjptoKr and repairer Singmarine Industries' main floating dock, which can accommodate vessels of up to deadweight tomiefc, -submerged yesterday, causing major damage. The mishap at the company's Gul Road yard came just a fortnight after the dock named
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    • 431 29 BANGKOK In addition to its plan to establish an intermodal transport model for Asia, terminal operator SSA Thailand is eyeing room at the Laem Chabang Commercial Port to provide a complete intermodal transport service. William Plymale, SSA's executive vice-president,
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    • 874 29 Page Col ABC Containerline 12 I Accord Group 8 1-3 •APL 5 3-5 Alpha Feeders 6 1 •ANL 3 1/2 Asia Cont Lines 14 5 •ASCL 5 5 Avia Airways 9 3 •Bait Orient Line 7 4/5 Bangladesh Shpg 9 4 Bank Line.
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    • 242 29 Reuter NEW YORK Exxon Corp has settled its lawsuit against Sperry Marine Inc over claims that steering equipment made by Sperry malfunctioned and led the Exxon Valdez tanker to run aground in Alaska, a company spokesman said last Friday. The oil company
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    • 387 29 UPI LOS ANGELES Hoping to stave off final closurc of the Todd shipyard in San Pedro, a city council panel directed city staff last Friday to investigate three offers to lease the 32.8-ha site. Councilwoman Joan Milke Flores, chairwoman of the
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    • 277 29 AFP VIENNA Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) plan to take special care in monitoring a controversial shipment of highly radioactive plutonium from France to Japan, an lAEA spokesman said last Friday. The 1.5 tonnes of plutonium one of the
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 70 30 KATMANDU Thai Airways International on Sunday started its fifth weekly service between Bangkok and the capital of the Himalayan kingdom, aviation sources said. The move came three months after one of the company's aircraft crashed as it approached the mountain-ringed airport, killing all 113 passengers and
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      • 87 30 AMSTERDAM A Norwegian freighter carrying over 2,000 tonnes of lead concentrates sank off the Dutch coast on Sunday, posing a serious local pollution threat, Coast Guards said. AH six crew members of the the Nordfrakt were picked up by helicopters and transferred
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      • 83 30 SEOUL A South Korean politician quoted a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report yesterday as saying some of the victims of the 1983 downing of a South Korean jumbo jet may have survived. "We have got a CIA report classified as top secret which says
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      • 90 30 PORT SAID, Egypt A Russian submarine sold to Iran last month before Moscow suspended the sale of submarines to Tehran entered the Suez Canal on Sunday on its way to the Red Sea. Canal officials confirmed a Russian submarine was going through the canal, heading
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      • 76 30 MANILA Tropical storm Colleen dumped heavy rains yesterday, disrupted business and commercial activity and threatened to unleash avalanches as it churned toward the Mount Pinatubo volcano. The Manila Weather Bureau said Colleen, which was downgraded from typhoon status late Sunday, struck Luzon Island, 110 km east
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      • 86 30 BEIJING A chartered domestic airplane carrying Taiwanese and European tourists crashed on Thursday in western China, killing 13 people and injuring four others, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The plane, the type of which was not immediately identified, crashed less than an hour after
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    • 1192 30  -  Passengers love the Singapore Girl and what she epitomises. And the success of Singapore Airlines, tfte-world's most profitable airline, is in no small measure due to her, reports Philip Shenon Philip Shenon NYT The worlds most profitable airline does not employ anyone called a flight attendant.
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    • 9255 38 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. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Pcnang after
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    • 3298 43 Containerline NV: Belsin Shpg I Agencies Pic Ltd (SVManne Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN). Accord Group: Accord Shpg Pte Ltd (SVAccord Contr Line (PK/PN). Ad km Business Corporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Service: Kim Shpg Trdg (S). Alhatros Sea-Air Service: Frata Shpg Pte Ltd
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    • 257 43 Abacus Couriers Tel: 545-8011. Fax: *****98. Air Express Travel Tel: 533-5771. Fax: *****44. .Airborne Freight C orporation Tel: 542-8844. Fax: *****16, *****80. Airswift Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188. Fax: *****83. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fax: *****75. City-Link International Tel: 344-3377. Fax. *****50. Ouster Link Supplies Services
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    • 1491 43 Abex Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel: 225-1833. Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel: 542-7822. Fax: *****20. Aerotink Freight International Tel: 545-8033. Fax: *****05. Aerospeed Tel: 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel: 542-5454. Fax: *****06 Air Express International Tel: 542-7666. Fax: *****74, *****50. Air
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    • 3552 44 ALBANIA Durres: Six vessels in port. ARGENTINA Labour working normally. Buenos Aires: Berthing situation normal, with no delay expected. San Lorenza: Port fully occupied with 6 vessels operating, 4 waiting in roads; not more than 2 days berthing delay expected. Rosario: Five vessels in port of which 1
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    • 557 44 ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Op Flight Type ETA T From Op Flight Type ETD T To TODAY TODAY NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 I NRT SIA SQ802 B747F 0230 2 SYD/AKL KAL KE697 B747F 0150 1 SEL NCA KZ204 B747F 0335 1 BKK/NRT JAL JL617 B747F 0345 1 TYO KAL
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    • 922 44 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES VESSELS ON OFFER Bulk Carriers Baroo: 144,800 dwt and built October 1980 Hitachi; inspectable Seven Islands prompt ets Oct 21; therafter Philippines Dec 8. Try offering in the region of USslB.om, ideas closer to USs2o.om with 3 option 1 option 1 year (try 5 years straight);
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