The Business Times, 18 December 1992

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  • 19 1 Business Times THE HI SI MISS PAPER FOR S-E ASIA Ml IA (P) 552/12/92 Friday, December 18, 1992 75*
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  • NEWS
    • 76 1 WASHINGTON The US trade deficit fell in October as exports jumped to record levels. the Commerce Department said yesterday, giving new buoyancy to an improving economy. The deficit was US$7.O3 billion (SSI 1.53 billion). down 18 per cent from September, when it stood
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    • 76 1 MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin has ordered his new prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to form a government by Tuesday, Russian media reported yesterday. The decree, to set up the new government, stated that the outgoing government should continue to work in an
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    • 36 1 GOVERNMENT-owned Pidemco Land Pte Ltd has joined a growing list of Singapore companies investing in Vietnam. It announced officially in Hanoi yesterday details of its US$5O million (SSB2 million) hotel project. Page 2
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    • 48 1 LORRAIN Osman, the former chairman of Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) which lent some US$BOO million to the failed Carrian group in the early 1980s, will spend his 61st birthday today in jail pending bail application next Monday, a magistrate court in Hongkong ruled yesterday. Page 3
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    • 31 1 THE Thai government has proposed that Russia clear its debts and pay foj new purchases of rice and tapioca with an unprecedented sale of polished diamonds Page 9
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    • 34 1 CHINA'S booming economy expanded at a fast pace last month, with the industrial output value up 26.1 per cent from the same month last year, said the State Statistical Bureau Page 10
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    • 28 1 HOMEGROWN Trans-Link Express has earned the ISO 9002 quality management certification for its international sea freight forwarding and logistics services. Shipping l imes Page 1
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  • MARKET SUMMARY
    • 39 1 I Ht US stock market edged upwards yesterday morning as the battered shares of International Business Machines showed signs of stabilising. The Dow Jones Index rose 0.27 point to 3,255.45 by 1530 GMT in the first hour.
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    • 29 1 SHARE prices rallied in midday trading in London yesterday and the FTSE 1 (X) Index was up by 9.8 points or 0.35 per cent to 2,742.6 points.
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    • 56 1 THE Fraser Neave (F&N) group is looking at ways to enlarge its loss-incurring Haw Par Villa after a recent setback in its plan to build a waterbased theme park nearby. According to a F&N spokesman, the company is considering an alternative use for the 1.3 hectare site
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    • 37 1 NET earnings at Centrepoint Properties Ltd for the three months ended Sep 30 jumped 21.7 per cent to $4.03 million from a year earlier, thanks to better rental yields at Centrepoint Shopping Centre. Page 4
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    • 33 1 INDONESIA'S state-owned Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) yesterday borrowed US$lOO million (SSI64 million) for its general working capital. The term loan, arranged by Singapore's NDC Merchant Bank, was signed yesterday. Page 8
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      30 1 I hursda) Change BT-MCiA 687.23 +2.95 Kuala Lumpur ...636.11 f3.22 Tok\o 17,437.91 169.20 Hongkong 5.329.46 -86.50 Sydney 1.499.4 f2.4 WednexJa* Change New York 3.255.18 -29.18 London 2.732.8 +14.9
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    • 22 1 Exchange rates USS SS SSI.6380 100 Yen SS 1.3295 MS SS 0.6351 Money market rates Overnight unav 3-month 2 3/16% +3/16
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    • 38 1 London Gold AM fix US$337.75 f US$2.85 Rubber S pore Jan 146.50Vkg -I.OO M'sia Jan 227.50Vkg unch KL Tin Turnover 55tonnes -II Spot MS 14.26/kg -0.04 Crude palm oil Turnovcr 492 lots -132 Jan MS932 /tonne unch
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  • 670 1 If Chok Tong can lose after 16 years nursing his constituency, then Singapore has gone crazy, says SM SINGAPORE Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew last night lent his weight to the campaign for Marine Parade with a forceful appeal for voters to
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  • 577 1  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY SINGAPORE Airlines has lost the battle to buy a stake in Australian flag carrier. Qantas. An announcement late last night by Federal Finance Minister Ralph Willis said the Australian Cabinet had accepted the rival bid by
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  • 293 1 Compiled by staff from agency reports BIIIJINCi Russian President Boris Yeltsin arrived yesterday to a red-carpet reception in China eager to boost military cooperation in what he said was a shift of Moscow's foreign policy direction toward East Asia. Declaring a "new
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  • 102 1 SINGAPORE Former Education Minister Tony lan vtill return to the Cabinet. Senior Minister Lee kuan Yew said last night. But Dr I an. now chairman of OCBC Bank. has to fulfill certain obligations to the bank and his family before making a comeback. Mr said
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  • 111 1 AP. Reuter SEOUL South Korea's 29 million voters will participate in an epoch-making election today in which a former dissident is tipped to lead the country toward union with the Communist north. Private polls give the edge in a tight race to Kim
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  • 236 1 Reuter, MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) will remove its 30 per cent foreign shareholding limit on local manufacturing companies once they are listed on the local stock market. its minister Rafidah Aziz said.
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
    • 448 2 Marine Parade GRC hy-eleetion SINGAPORE Even if his prime minister's salary were halved, he would still continue to do the job, Mr Goh Chok Tong said last night. The Singapore Democratic Party, charging that ministers were overpaid, had
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    • 109 2 SINGAPORE The National Trades Union Congress has urged Marine Parade GRC voters to safeguard Singapore's political future and return the PAP in tomorrow's by-election. Voters must seriously consider the consequences of their decision because not just four parliamentary seats are at stake, NTUC said in
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    • 289 2 SINGAPORE Stress is one reason why Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has cancer, says Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. BG Lee had been more than the Trade and Industry Minister, Mr Lee said. He had helped other ministries formulate important
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    • 97 2 SINGAPORE Police have arrested two persons for unnil> beha>iour at the Marine Parade by-election rallies. Despite serious warnings, some groups of people attending the rallies have continued to behate in a disorderly manner. dcfring orders or police warnings or inciting the crowds to
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    • 383 2 SINGAPORE The Singapore Democratic Party yesterday told voters that it would introduce a number of projects in the Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC) if it won the Dec 19 by-election. Laying out his party's plans. SDP candidate Chee Soon Juan
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    • 407 2 SINGAPORE Merchant banker Hsich Fu Hua will head a five-member Edusave advisory council. Education Minister Lcc Yock Suan announced yesterday. The schcmc. which will get a SI billion kick-start from the government in January, will sec 352.000 pupils from six to 16 years old each
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    • 385 2  -  EDB sectoral briefing Reports by Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Investment commitments in the oil. chemical and petrochemical sector are likely to exceed SI.I billion for 1992. the highest in the last five years, despite a depressed climate of falling prices and poor profitability.
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    • 383 2 SINGAPORE Singapore is poised to be the world's second-largest exporter of an aromatic chemical, paraxylene. by the end of the decade as billion-dollar projects by US giants Mobil and Exxon Chemical come onstream. Singapore currently does not produce paraxylene. the
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    • 336 3  -  By Colin Tan SINGAPORE Govern-ment-owned Pidemco Land Pte Ltd has joined a growing list ot Singapore companies investing in Vietnam. Yesterday, Pidemco officially announced in Hanoi details of its US$5O million (SSB2 million) hotel project, its first firm overseas commitment. The hotel
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    • 433 3  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE The Harilela Group, one of Hongkong's largest private groups, intends to be a major player in the Singapore property scene. Its chairman. Hari Harilela, said the group a $200 million business which owns 2,000 hotel rooms in Southeast
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    • 304 3 The tussle for Astra Reuter JAKARTA The chairman of Astra International yesterday defended his opposition to a timber tycoon taking over Indonesia's second largest private company. Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, whose objection threw the struggle for Astra into turmoil on Wednesday, told reporters the company's shares
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    • 401 3  -  The Lorrain Osman extradition From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG FORMER Malaysian banker Lorrain Osman will spend his 61st birthday today in jail pending bail application next Monday, a magistrate court here ruled yesterday. Lorrain, the former chairman of Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF), which lent some
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    • 160 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Faced with a strengthening US dollar and the casing of Malaysian interest rates, the ringgit continued to weaken yesterday. Against the greenback, the Malaysian currency finished at M 52.5765 yesterday, compared with M 52.5745 on Wednesday. The ringgit also fell against the
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    • 10 2 Reports by Anna Teo, Chuang Feck Ming and Shoeb Kagda
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 59 4 SINGAPORE CSA Holdings Ltd has bought 30 per cent (5,637 sq m) of the eight-storev Henderson Building from Henderson Development Pte Ltd for 5i6.38 million. With the purchase. CSA Holdings will he able to house all its operations under one roof. The purchase will
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      • 52 4 SINGAPORE PT DBS Buana Tat Lee Bank, a joint venture between Indonesia's Buana Bank and Singapore's DBS Bank and Tat Lee Bank, will open its Surabaya branch today. It will be located on the 9th floor ot BBD Tower. The branch manager is Yee
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      • 45 4 SINGAPORE The Stock Exchange of Singapore has waived the requirement for Wing Tai Holdings to seek shareholders' approval to sell part of the group's investment in USI Holdings Ltd and to acquire additional shares in Brave Dragon Ltd.
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      • 94 4 KUALA LUMPUR Renong Berhad is to dispose of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Probadi Sdn Bhd, to T H Loy Industries (M) Bhd for M$ 189.41 million. The sale would be satisfied by an issue of 75.76 million new THL Msl shares credited as fully paid at
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      • 23 4 SINGAPORE Chua Boon Keng has resigned as a director of Inno-Pacific Holdings Ltd with immediate effect, the company announced yesterday.
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      • 69 4 KUALA LUMPUR Golden Hope Plantations' property arm. Negara Properties (M) expects to reap total revenues of about Msl.4 billion from its major property development projects over the next eight to nine years. Formerly known as Kundong Tanjung Pau Co, Negara Properties is currently involved in four
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    • 248 4 MBT KUALA LUMPUR THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) yesterday met share registrars of Malaysia's listed companies to discuss measures to prevent illegal tampering of share certificates. One suggestion put forward during the meeting was to rubber stamp the phrase "one share
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    • 398 4  -  Another $30m-s4om may be ploughed into the theme park business By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE The Eraser Neave (F&N) group is looking at ways to enlarge its money-losing Haw Par Villa after a recent setback in its plan to build a water-based
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    • 255 4  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Listed Centrepoint Properties Ltd's net earnings for the three months ended Sep 30 jumped 21.7 per eent to $4.03 million from a year earlier, helped by better rental yields at Centrepoint Shopping Centre. CPL. the property arm of the Fraser
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    • 281 4 Agreement will provide mobile phone serv ice in Ho Chi Minh City SINGAPORE Steamers Maritime Holdings' telecommunications arm and its Vietnamese partner have finalised an agreement to provide a two-way CT2 mobile phone service in the commercial heart of Ho Chi Minh City. Toh
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    • 128 4 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Diversified Amalgamated Steel Mills (ASM) intends to rationalise its expanding financial services business in the immediate future. Managing director William H J Cheng said the group may come out with a rationalisation plan once its proposed acquisition of a substantial block in
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    • 400 4  -  Proceeds to help fund MsBoom project By Sylvia Wong I*9 SINGAPORE The developer of the massive Plaza Rakyat project in Kuala Lumpur has found a buyer for 70 per cent of its office block in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Hamzah
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    • 633 4  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN Bv S N Vasuki SINGAPORE The fate of a proposed lottery venture in south China has itself become a lottery of sorts for punters in the stock market. For the last three months, speculators in Kuala Lumpur
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 69 6 LONLX)N An Anglo-Japanese group, including OEC-Mar-coni, BICC pic's Balfour Beatty unit and Marubeni Corp. won a contract worth £25 million (SS64 million) to design and engineer Kuala L umpur's new international airport. BIC said in a statement construction will begin in July 1993. The
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      • 62 6 HONGKONG Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd yesterday said it opened its first China office in Beijing. "An ever increasing number of our Hongkong and regional customers are conducting business in China.' chiel executive Michael Gale said. Last year, traffic between Hongkong and China grew 35 per cent
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      • 59 6 TAIPEI Taiwan's Securities and Exchange Commission plans regulations revisions to allow holders ot corporate convertible bonds issued by local companies overseas to swop them into ordinary shares, an SEC official said yesterday. This is now technically impossible, though several blue-chip firms have issued so-called convertibles
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      • 60 6 TOKYO NEC Corp yesterday said it has finalised an agreement allowing it to acquire 623,800 shares, or 4.99 per cent, of Control Data Svstems Inc (CDS) for 660 million yen (SSB.7 million). CDS became an independent company in August. Before that it was the
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      • 54 6 MANILA The Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corp has earmarked 20 per cent ot its 1993 output for the spot market, up from 10 per cent this year, said president Alfredo San Miguel yesterday. The contract sales basically cover buvers in Japan, South Korea. Taiwan, Indonesia,
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      • 70 6 TOKYO Kankaku Securities Co Ltd yesterday said it aims to sell half of its short-term shareholdings by March 31, 1993, as part of an asset-restructuring strategy. The shares it planned to sell, worth some 20 billion yen (***** million), were mostly in the form of crossholdings
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    • 436 6 Brokers fear Manila and Makati exchanges will not be united by Dec 31 Reuter MANILA Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Rosario Lopez has set a deadline of Dec 31 for Manila's two stock exchanges to unite, but brokers said on Wednesday they
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    • 287 6 Bloomberg TAIPEI Investors who buy shares in the initial public offering for Taiwan's flagship carrier China Airlines may be in for a bumpy ride, at least at takeoff, analysts said. Underwriters on Wednesday began selling to the public 41 million shares or 5
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    • 289 6 BANGKOK Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group will further expand its al-ready-huge agri-business into fruit and vegetables next year with the intention of creating an integrated operation in this branch of agriculture. The Nation reported. Executive vice-president Ajva Taulananda. who heads its agri-business and
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    • 286 6 Knight Ridder BANGKOK A Thai firm with a government contract to install and operate one million phone lines outside Bangkok has signed a three-billion-baht (SSI92 million) bridge loan with three Thai financial institutions, the firm said on Wednesday. The six-month loan
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    • 227 6 AP HONGKONG Chinese officials have punished nine people for stock fraud in connection with the chaotic sale in August of share application forms in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, official reports said yesterday. The punishment represents the latest effort to crack down on mass
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    • 254 6 AFP SYDNEY Australia's BHP Co Ltd is expected to post a bumper first-half interim profit result today, analysts said. They said a lower Australian dollar. improved production figures and higher steel despatches should lift BHP's interim result by more than AS 100
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    • 151 6 Reuter SEOUL Two South Korean companies, Pohang Iron and Steel Co (Posco) and Dong Ah Construction Industrial Co Ltd. said they planned to set up a joint venture construction company in Vietnam. Posco and Dong Ah exchanged a memorandum of understanding with Vietnamese state-run
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    • 463 7 25,000 jobs to go under Big Blue's restructuring plan FT LONDON Europe, International Business Machines' single largest operation, is expected to account for almost half the 25,000 jobs the US computer giant plans to cut in 1993 under the restructuring programme
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    • 223 7 Bloomberg SANTA CLARA, California Buoyed by large demand for personal computers that use its microprocessors, Intel Corp says its fourth quarter net income will be "well above" analysts' estimates. Semiconductor analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research on Wednesday predicted Intel would report
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    • 225 7 Reuter TORONTO Olympia York filed a revised restructuring plan in a Canadian bankruptcy court on Wednesday that will leave the oncemighty Reichmann family with only a tiny fraction of its former massive holdings, lawyers said. The new plan puts the Reichmann family's
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    • 399 7 Bloomberg STOUGHTON, Massachusetts Reebok International Ltd, the nation's second-big-gest maker of athletic shoes, said on Wednesday that it plans to take an after-tax charge of about US$l35 million (Ss22o million) in the fourth quarter to restructure its operations. The four-part plan includes selling
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 58 7 EINDHOVEN Dutch electronics company Philips NV is switching to historical cost accounting from current cost accounting. Accounting on a historical cost basis shows fixed assets and stocks at their original cost, less provisions for depreciation and other necessary write-offs. Current cost accounting adjusts for inflation and
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      • 94 7 LOWELL, Massachusetts Wang Laboratories Inc. reorganising under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, said yesterday that it has asked the US Bankruptcy Court for an extra 90 days to prepare its plan of reorganisation. The Creditors' Committee has expressed its support for Wang's request for extension ot the
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      • 68 7 MADRID An internal company report dated November 1991 has valued Grupo Torras SA at US$5 billion. KPMG Peat Marwick UK said in a press statement yesterday that the report, drawn up by Torras directors, was based on valuations "performed in mid-1991". Grupo Torras is the Kuwait
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      • 77 7 NEW YORK Donald Trump is close to completing a proposal to refinance US$3OO million of debt on his Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City. New Jersey, credit market analysts said on Wednesday. The flamboyant real estate developer put the Plaza and his Trump
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    • 187 7 Bloomberg LONDON Owners Abroad Group pic said it is forming an alliance with Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale's Thomas Cook Group and the LTU Group. In a statement yesterday. Owners Abroad chairman Howard Klein said the alliance tied in two central strands in the
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    • 90 4 IN THE MARKET PAGES Thai prices gain ground 25 China worries hit HK 26 PRE IV C bf iCi- -r yj* "EXCLIISIFS IIIM ON T A G U T PARIS I I V 'V*' M tA 2. "P > j; —A Montagut Boutiques: 80 Marine parade. «02 18 parkway Parade.
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 89 8 LONDON American Express Co's board will soon consider cutting its ownership of securities arm Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc below 50 per cent through a public stock offer, a report in yesterday's European Wall Street Journal said. Under the plan, to be presented by
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      • 73 8 HONGKONG Hongkongßank of Canada has posted a net profit for the 12 months ended Oct 31 of C 555.4 million (Ss7l million), up from C 551.8 million in the same period a year earlier. The bank, a member of the HSBC group, also reported a net
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      • 106 8 TOKYO A Japanese family whose house had a hole punched through it by a meteorite will be compensated by an insurance company a first in Japanese insurance history. "No insurer in Japan has ever paid for damages caused by falling objects from outer space before," an official at
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      • 74 8 OLDWICK. New Jersey US reinsurance companies will pay US$5.9 billion (559.7 billion) to insurance companies to cover losses sustained from Hurricane Andrew, and will raise rates next year by between 35 and 300 per cent, an A M Best Co survey has found. Hundreds of reinsurance companies
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      • 68 8 LONDON Britain's Deposit Protection Board has asked contributor banks for £80 million (Ss2o6 million) to cover compensation to depositors in insolvent institutions like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. The bulk of the new funding would come from big clearing banks like Barclays pic, HSBC
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    • 288 8  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Indonesia's state-owned Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) yesterday borrowed US$lOO million (S$ 164 million) for its general working capital. Singapore's NDC Merchant Bank arranged the term loan, which was signed yesterday. The cost of borrowing was pegged at 1.28 percentage point
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    • 435 8 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Ministry of Finance (MOF), hoping to ease the pain of deregulation for battered brokerages, said yesterday it would put strict controls on subsidiaries of banks set up to do securities business. The ministry unveiled detailed guidelines on the
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    • 395 8 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR "It's time for you to grow up and stop depending on 'goodies' from Bank Negara" this terse message was handed down to locally-incorporated commercial hanks yesterday by a consumers' organisation. The Federation of Malaysian Consumers Association (Fomca) also told the
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    • 526 8 Reuter SYDNEY The managing director of Australia's embattled Wcstpac Bank resigned yesterday, delivering yet another shock to investors already stung by big losses, a failed rights issue and board upheaval. Frank Conroy's resignation came ahead of and some analysts said because
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    • 277 8 FT PHOENIX, Arizona A US judge has overturned a US$33B million (***** million) jury verdict brought by Standard Chartered against Price Waterhouse in a move which paves the way for a new trial next spring. Judge John Sticht of the Superior Court of
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    • 272 8 Bloomberg WASHINGTON US long-term interest rates will continue to decline through 1994 as inflation lessens and European bond rates tumble, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a report. Short-term rates, however, will increase by the end of
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    • 699 8 A <•> CENTREPOINT PROPERTIES LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) RESULTS FOR THE 3 MONTHS PERIOD The directors are pleased to make the following preliminary announcement of the audited results for the 3 months ended 30th September 1992 (the Company having changed its financial year end from 30th June
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  • THE REGION
    • 528 9  -  From John Helmer in MOSCOW THE Thai government has proposed that Russia clear its debts and pay for new purchases of rice and tapioca with an unprecedented sale of polished diamonds. Thai officials say. The proposal follows a recent decision by the
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    • 376 9 IHT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia appears close to a decision to end its reliance on Western arms by buying jet fighters and attack helicopters from Russia, partly because the US and other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) countries put restrictions on the
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    • 429 9 Reuter BEIJING As a toy for yuppies, portable telephones have found a lucrative niche in Asia, but manufacturers are betting their future on a mass market emerging in the world's fastest-growing region. They argue that cellular telephones are the wave of
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    • 368 9 Reuter BANGKOK Thailand's economy has reached a crossroads where the rapidly industrialising country is finding the paths to further growth rough and uncertain. Analysts and government planners argue that the dwindling of Japanese and other foreign investment requires Thailand to rethink its strategy
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    • 197 9  -  From Philip Wakefield in VIENTIANE I.KFIOVKR copies of a next-to-usclcss investment manual on Laos arc being offloaded on unsuspecting foreigners seeking to do business in the Indochincsc country. Ihe manuals were produced for a forum on Investment Opportunities in Imos, held in Sydney
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 61 9 PHNOM PENH The 21 UN peacekeepers taken hostage by the militant Khmer Rouge guerilla faction in central Cambodia were freed yesterday, a UN spokesman said. The captured men 15 Indonesians, two Cambodian translators and one military observer each from the US. China. France and Senegal
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      • 70 9 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has agreed to sign an investment guarantee pact with Taiwan to help further boost bilateral investments, Malaysia's International Trade and Minister Ralidah Aziz said yesterday. Taipei does not have diplomatic ties with Kuala Lumpur, which recognises Beijing. But Taiwan is one of
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      • 30 9 MARAW I. Philippines Filipino Muslims staging a protest rally opposing logging during a visit of President Fidel Ramos in this southern city on Mindanao island on Wednesday.
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      • 63 9 SYDNEY Australia has decided to drop Britain's Queen Elizabeth 11. still titular head of state of the former British colony, from the oath of allegiance taken by new citizens. Australians-to-be will instead swear allegiance to Australia. Prime Minister Paul Keating told reporters. The change will
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  • THE REGION/THE WORLD
    • 431 10 But govt warns of growing danger of inflation Reuter BEIJING China's booming economy expanded at a fast pace in November, powered by government agencies and factories pouring billions into investment, but the danger of inflation is increasingly severe, the government said. Industrial
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    • 351 10 Asahi News Service TOKYO Promoters are worried they may have to scale down or again postpone a "world-class" exposition slated for 1996 to show oil' the Tokyo metropolitan government's eight trillion yen (S$ 104.8 billion) waterfront development project. The prolonged economic slowdown
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    • 541 10 Change in hardline policies a bid to attract votes AFP TAIPEI Taiwan voters get their first taste of real democracy tomorrow in landmark parliamentary elections that have seen the island's two rival parties modify their hardline platforms to an unprecedented degree. According to
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    • 254 10 Reuter NEW DELHI A bumper harvest and cuts in government spending are helping to lower India's inflation rate to about 9 per cent after a three-year surge, but prices are still too high, analysts said yesterday, "Inflation should be below double-digit levels but
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 94 10 WASHINGTON One in four Americans is of German heritage, making up the biggest ethnic group in the United States, according to statistics published on Wednesday by the Census Bureau. The ancestors of one in six Americans came from Ireland, while one in eight are of
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      • 79 10 BERLIN Former East German leader Erich Honecker, terminally ill with liver cancer, could get a new passport within days as lawyers consider ending his prosecution on medical grounds, legal sources told AFP on Wednesday. Honecker. on trial for the deaths of East German fugitives killed
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      • 44 10 LONDON Police stopping people from walking down Regent Street, near the world-famous Hamley's toy shop after it was sealed off by the police on Wednesday. Two explosions hurt four people in London's West End which was busy with Christmas shoppers.
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      • 62 10 WASHINGTON The Iran-contra prosecutor's office asked a judge on Wednesday to allow the use of diaries of former defence secretary Caspar Weinberger to bolster the government's case. Weinberger is charged with lying to investigators by denying he took detailed notes during White House meetings on the arms-for-hostages
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      • 59 10 JERUSALEM Israel's Cabinet announced yesterday it has authorised deportation orders against Palestinian Muslim fundamentalists, following the kidnapping and killing of an Israeli border policeman earlier this week. However, the deportation orders were stayed early yesterday by the Supreme Court after a human rights group petitioned the
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  • THE WORLD
    • 522 11 Repayment of 17b marks owed by Moscow deferred by eight years FT, Reuter uermany and Russia settled on Wednesday their most important financial dispute, clearing the way tor a debt-rescheduling package for Russia in the Paris Club this week. A series of agreements
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    • 299 11 FT. Reuter MOSCOW Russian President Boris Yeltsin has appointed his former acting prime minister, free market radical Yegor Gaidar, as a personal consultant on economic matters, a presidential spokesman said yesterday. The 36-year-old economist would head a new economic institute and act as presidential
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    • 435 11 Reuter OSLO Norway exports one of the world's most famous Christmas trees to London's Trafalgar Square but Norwegians are squirming with embarrassment this year because half the trees they buy come from Denmark. "Norway importing Christmas trees is like China importing rice," said Egil
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    • 280 11 AFP WASHINGTON The Third World debt is becoming more manageable for middle income countries but the poorest nations remain mired in debt, the World Bank said on Wednesday. The debt load of developing countries hit US$l.42 trillion (552.32 trillion) in 1991, including the
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    • 381 11 AP UNITED NATIONS The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to send 8.000 peacekeepers to Mozambique to enforce a peace accord after 16 years of civil war. The fighting in this southern African nation has killed at least 600.000 people, mostly civilians, and
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    • 361 11 AP WASHINGTON Labour, rural, conservation, consumer and church groups on Wednesday asked Presidentelect Bill Clinton to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. The three-nation pact was scheduled for ceremonial signing late yesterday in Washington, Ottawa and Mexico City. A coalition of
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  • 506 12 EDITORIAL VOTERS in the Marine Parade group representation constituency go to their polling stations tomorrow in a by-elec-tion which the Prime Minister says has become a general election. What started out as an exercise in self-renewal, coupled with keeping a promise made during the 1991 General Election,
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 284 12 HONGKONGERS, who are as clear-headed as they come on matters of "freedom" to be free to accumulate wealth, primarily are not likely to sacrifice life or limb for that. They have the liberty they want. This truism Governor Chris Patten does not appear to have grasped. For
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    • 95 12 THE HDB FLAT conversion scheme is a flexible alternative for many Singaporeans who dream of bigger homes. The scheme also helps residents to stay put in their beloved housing estates, thus strengthening community ties. The costs of upgrading are also made much lower through this scheme.
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    • 126 12 WITH BORIS YELTSIN losing his choice of prime minister, as well as the four major ministers, there is no doubt that Russian policy, both foreign and domestic, is in for changes. After a year of radical reform, the leaving of Gaidar, while not spelling abandonment of
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 176 12 THE DIFFICULTIES Russian President Boris Yeltsin faces in dealing with his conservative opponents in Moscow are such that he might have been forgiven for postponing a three-day visit to Beijing and Shenzhen this week. That he has decided to go ahead with it speaks volumes for
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    • 161 12 FOR TOO LONG, the military has held the self-apv-pointed role of guardian-cum-referee of Thai politics. The role has its seeds in the military's participation in the 1932 revolution in which absolute monarchy was abolished for constitutional rule, and from the military's refusal to submit to civilian
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    • 154 12 ALTHOUGH PRIVATISATION has generally been said to have improved things all round, there remain some residual concerns. Foremost is the behavioural change expected of the staff. The human element that is, the psychology of people steeped in the civil service tradition to become competitive employees in the
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  • 1086 12  -  Cost cutting is the rage. But consultants say few US companies are actually becoming more nimble, competitive and profitable. Steve Lohr reports Steve Lohr NYT THE US economy may be expanding modestly, even adding some jobs at last, but big companies are continuing to
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 1783 13  -  Hongkong Correspondent Catherine Ong relates the background of the Carrian affair as Lorrain Osman awaits trial in the colony Catherine Ong MORE than a decade after the collapse of the Carrian group of companies, the whole truth behind one of Asia's biggest corporate scandals has
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    • 957 13  -  South Koreans vote for a new president today with an apprehensive mind. Andrew Pollack reports Andrew Pollack NYT TO SEE the hope of South Korea's economy, one must put on a special pair of pants, a jump suit, a hood, facial mask, booties
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    • 83 13 CONVERSATONS I RAFFLES "The authorities should environment that IK conducive to H 9' ve people more stm JiJ freedom of thought, H fir provoke them, make f them think more." Sim Wong Hoo, driving force behind the first Singapore company to be listed on Nasdaq, speaks his mind on the
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  • FOCUS
    • 1428 15  -  American firms, which once backed Korean chip makers, are now turning the law against their proteges, reports Andrew Pollack Andrew Pollack NYT WHEN Samsung Electronics decided to enter the computer memory-chip business in the early 1980s, it tried to license the technology
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    • 924 15 Made-in-Japan goods are pricing themselves out of the market even as the West is picking up Japanese management style Nikkei Weekly NOT long ago, some Japanese personal computer makers got hold of new products by Compaq Computer Corp of the US to disassemble them for all-out
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  • LIFESTYLE 1
    • 888 17  -  The ex-Beatle returned to the scene of an old triumph last week to look back and ahead, writes Allan Kozinn Allan Kozinn NYT f f -W" LOOK I around and I I get the I feeling of deja I'm. like I've been here before," Paul
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    • 875 17  -  Hollywood is putting the home of country music on the silver screen. Peter Apple Dome says the townsfolk isn't exactly thrilled about it Peter Applebome NYT THE Bluebird Cafe sits in a strip shopping centre next to the Patio Hair Salon in the pricey Green Hills
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    • 970 18  -  Despite the fall of communism in his native Czechoslovakia, exiled writer Milan Kundera has repeatedly refused official invitations to return. Burton Bollag finds out why Burton Bollag NYT Three years after the fall of communism and the unbanning of his books in Czechoslovakia, Milan Kundera has
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    • 1226 18  -  Mr A H Raskin reminisces about the tough US union leader whose life story has made it to the movie screen A H Raskin The writer w as for many years chief labour correspondent of The New York Times NYT two OMEDAY you're going
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    • 636 18 CHATTERBOX A DOCTOR in Sydney has told Australians that they should steer clear of flatu-lence-producing Christmas fare such as turkey and plum pudding to help save the ozone layer. "There's been no real measurements of emissions from humans as a contributor
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    • 50 18 LONDON Queen Elizabeth talking to director Sir Richard Attenborough at the premiere of his film Chaplin here on Wednesday. Hundreds waited in the rain for the arrival of the queen and the stars. In the centre is actor Robert Downey Jr who plays Charlie Chaplin in the film.
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    • 402 17 gxotte 7 Dec to 31 Dec 92 dxpenence exotic dining and partake in the goodness of snacks, padi birds turtles decrs and ducks Shredded snake meat with chrysanthemum baked padi sparrows slutted with liver sausage and braised turtle in claypot. |ust to name a lew Available tor lunch and dinner
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  • SPORTS
    • 515 19 AP, Reuter MONTECiO BAY, Jamaica A total of US$2.7 million (554.4 million) in prize money with U*****,000 to the winner and US$5O,OOO to the last-place finisher has lured 28 of golfs top players to the Tryall Golf Club for the second World
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    • 334 19 AP GOLD COAST, Australia Jane Geddes will be bidding for her third straight Australian Ladies Masters golf title when she tees-off in the first round today over the Royal Pines resort course. Geddes, who finished a disappointing 32nd on the 1992 US LPGA Money Leaders
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    • 305 19 AP MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica Newly-named World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has listed three possible opponents for his first title defence but said his principal target is still Riddick Bowe. "Lennox Lewis' mission was to become heavyweight champion," Lewis said on Wednesday. "He
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    • 144 19 UPI STRASBOURG Sportsloving British Prime Minister John Major escaped some of the political pressures on Wednesday to promote Manchester's bid for the Olympic Games in the year 2,000. "It seems to me that one of the uncontroversial areas of British politics is sport and Manchester's bid for the
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 102 19 TAY LOR. Michigan Bob Bittner. who fell in love with bowling when he was a child, bowled his first perfect game this week after 31 years of trying. But he showed little emotion while a cheering mob of friends celebrated his feat. Thirty minutes later,
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      • 101 19 LONDON American Jim Courier and Yugoslav Monica Seles were named as tennis' world champions for 1992 by the game's governing body here on Wednesday. Courier won the International Tennis Federation's vote for the first time after his two Grand Slam victories in the Australian and French
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      • 79 19 PARIS French Sports Minister Frederique Bredin has proposed a new tax on cigarettes to compensate motor sports threatened by laws banning tobacco advertising and sponsorship. "New means must be found to safeguard French motor sports." Bredin said on Wednesday. Revenue from a slight increase in the price of
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      • 51 19 MACCLESFIELD, England Next year's European women's professional golf tour is to tee off in Malaysia. Kelab Rahman Putra will stage a US$3OO,OOO event from Jan 14 to 17 and will be the tirst of the tour's 13 tournaments, which will be spread over eight
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    • 378 19 NEXT GENERATION SHOPPING CENTRES Trends In Development Retailing Februaiy 12,1993 Westin Stamford Hotel, Singapore •9am- 5 pm 1993 will undoubtedly be a watershed year in the history of shopping centres in Singapore. Shoppers will experience a quantum leap into the next generation of shopping malls, with the completion of Takashimaya
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 3917 20  -  By Moiz Tyebally LOCAL and foreign investors picked up blue chips yesterday ahead of the long Christmas holiday next week. The moderate buying boosted share prices and the benchmark Straits Times Industrials Index jumped 11.69 points to 1,468.31. However, the UOB-OTC Index,
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      80 20  -  Paul Leo QAF Ltd surged 70 per cent to 81.5 cents from its year low at 48 cents in August and is poised for a correction back to 68 cents. Monthly, weekly and daily RSls are above 75, which indicate that it is overbought. Daily stochastics are approaching 100.
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    • 330 22 BUSINESS TIMES Toll free Tel No 737 0043 Fax No: 734 3698 Kong Joo Pte Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 296 of the Companies Act. Cap 50 that a Meeting of the Creditors of the abovenamed Company will be held at
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    • 315 22 AOO-ON TRADING PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Winding-up) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company convened and held at 1 Colombo Court #08-17 S pore 0617 on Monday 14 December 1992. the following Special Resolutions were duiy passed I.That the Company be wound-up voluntarily and that
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    • 170 22 CONTENTS SPORTS POINT PTE I.TD (INCORPORATED IN SINGAPORE) I In Members' Voluntary liquidation! Registered Office: 140 Pava l.ehar Road. #03-09 A-Z Building Singapore 1440 NOTICE OE FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Final General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Registered Office on 18th January
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    • 266 22 IN THE MATTKR OK THK COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THK MATTKR OK ZONK REALTY PTK LTD (INCORPORATED IN SINGAPORE) (IN MKMBKRS' VOLUNTARY WINDING I P) NOTICE OK KINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50. that a Final Meeting of
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 5716 23 Bernama RETAIL investors took profits to lead share prices to a slightly easier close yesterday hut institutional support for blue chips kept the market indices up. The KI.SE Composite Index at the close added 3.22 points to 636.11, the Industrial Index was
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 449 24 Company Date Year Group Net Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss per share dividend ('000) (cents) Wing Tai Dei 4 Jun 92 $14 431(19/26) 68(5/) 16tl6) Kemayan Dei 2 May 92 M$23.461L($/3) 3(15) AISB Dei 1 lun 92 M$334(M$11.495) 033(11 2) 5(12) Amal Steel Dec 1 lun 92
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    • 403 24 Company Date Half-year Group Net Interim ann to profit/loss dividend ('000) Kim tng Dec 1 Sep 92 $7.368($3.694) -<-) M Credit Dec 1 Sep 92 $2.042L ($6,249) l(-) GB Hldgs Nov 30 Sep 92 $1.825($1.108) 2 5TE(2 5)TE Metro Hldgs Nov 27 Sep 92 $3,661 ($1,938) -<-) PMRI
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    • 158 24 Main Board last FuN Year Forecast Date Net Net Profit EPS awed Year EPS Gross profit Range Range Company Period last jr ending (cts) drv ($000) (SJm) (cts) Marco Poio F Nov 18 Dec 92 1 8 1 5 4.925 4 5 —7 5 1 2-20 Asia Pacific
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    • 300 24 Main Board Last Full Year Company Period Date Tear EPS Gross Itet announced ending (cts) dhr profit 1st year (SS 000) Kings Interim Sep 10 Dec 92 5 3 50 4 436 HTP HWgs Interim Nov 15 Mar 93 25 3 3 3 981 IC MPH Interim
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    • 815 24 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for payment date close payable the year last year A (SB 5%(b) Ian 8 Jan 22 )an 29 5". 12% Amai Steel 50c 12%<b) Nov 19 Dec 3 ten 2 12% 12% Amtek Er* 20c 6%It Oec 4 Dec 10 Dec
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    • 954 24 Dec 16 Eastern Vetonit Industries Pte Ltd, a member of the Nat Steel Group of companies, has been wound up. Chemical Industries (M) Sdn Bhd. a subsidiary of Hexza Corporation is embarking on a second expansion project by investing MS 1.2 million (*****.000) on additional equipment to produce
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    • 882 24 Trans Registered Substantial Buy/ No. of Amount Shareholding Stock Date Holder Shareholder/ Director Sell shares Before After Venture Mfg 11/12/92 Malaysian Smaller Cos Fund (Cay man) S 4.523.000 4.904.741 5.313.000 7 81 790.000 1 16 Semb Stopyard 10/12/92 Street Names Temasek Holdings *B 3.000 23.731 89 532.918
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    • 390 24 Company Rights Issue Alance Ted) Three tor hve SI 00 per share Eidate Dec 10 Bks One Dec 22 Acceptance and Payment NYA Gutfue GTS One tor one SO 23 per share Eidate Nov 26 Books Close Dec 8 Acceptance Payment Jan 18 hron{ En| One tor hve
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    • 385 24 Company Rights Issue fcnal Steel One tof two iff M$2 20 per share Issue of *****m 50" Cumulative Redeemable Preference shares ot 10 sen each 1992/97 (CRPS) with up to *****m Transferable Subscription Rights (TSR) tor an aggregate price of M$1 pet CRPS with one TSR. on the
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    • 127 24 Sunshine ASed Investments Ltd: EGM at 481 Tanglin Halt Road, Singapore 0314. on Friday. December 18. at 8.30 am Benta Plantations Bhd: 17th AGM at the Melia Kuala Lumpur, Rose Room (M Floor), 16 ialan Imbi. ***** Kuala Lumpur, on Friday, December 18. at 10.00 am YTI Corporation
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    • 162 24 RECORD HIGHS LOWS BT Composite Index ST Industrials Index 1992 Nfh: 1316 68 21/2/92) 1992 high: *****2 (27/1/92) 1992 low: 1122.50 (18/8/92) 1992 low: 1310.95 (18/8/92) 1991 Nfh: 1333.08 3/6/91) 1991 htfi: *****8 (3/6/91) 1991 low: *****2 (16/1/91) 1991 low: *****8 (16/1/91) 1990 htfi: 1435 43 (16/7/90) 1990 Ngh: 1607.12
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    • 76 24 C onversion Special Trdg Scripless Conversion deadline Period trading (ompan> starts (IDF) (ST) starts Alliance lech Jan 13 Feb 3 Jan 22 Feb 3 Feb 4 Guthrie C IS Jan 5 Jan 26 Jan 13 Jan 26 Jan 27 SIA Dec 4 Dec 31 Dec 18 Dec 31
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    • 377 24 In local curr In S$ In l'S$ dy S >t S dy yr S dy S yT Dec 16 Index dige chge chge chge chge chge World 390.0 0.0 -4.5 0.2 -6.0 0.3 -7.0 $E\FE 453.3 -0.2 -9.7 0.3 -12.3 0.4 -13.3 Europe 419.8 0.1
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  • CHINA STOCK EXCHANGES
    • 423 25 CLSA FURTHER recovery was seen in Shanghai A shares yesterday. Buying interests emerged to push the CLSA Shanghai A Index up 3.5 per cent to 4.682. but turnover was a thin 10.8 million shares. The Shanghai B Index was little changed at 697.4.
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  • JAKARTA STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 1061 25 STOCKS closed lower yesterday. Brokers said the uncertainty surrounding the ownership of Astra International was detrimental to market sentiment. "There is aggressive selling, some want to clear their positions before Christmas," one foreign broker said. Another said the imminent change in Astra owners affected confidence.
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND
    • 2211 25 Reuter THREE major property firms led gains in their ac-tively-traded sector, and brokers said speculative stocks came back to life again yesterday as investors started to return to the market. The SET Index gained 9.52 points to close at 849.92 on turnover
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2560 26 Reuter STOCKS ended firmer though off highs in indexdriven trade yesterday. Sentiment was eneouraged by speculation that the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) will change its stock futures index and that the government might revise land taxes to help companies with large land holdings, brokers
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2511 26 Reuter SHARE prices were lower near the close yesterday as new China worries hit the market and dealers took profits from Wednesday's sharp rises, brokers said. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index fell 86.50 points or 1.60 per cent to 5,329.46 after China's Foreign Minister Qian
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  • AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2065 27 Router THE market overcame early weakness to end slightly ahead yesterday, helped by solid buying in major stocks. "The market showed very good resilience and there was some good domestic buying." said Prudential-Bache's Geoff Wilson. Dickson's Diane Jenner said the rally was aided by
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Late rally on election eve boosts Seoul stocks
      • 855 27 INTERVENTION by the Korea Securities Market Stabilisation Fund provided a late rally on the active stock market and the index was pushed into positive territory in the dying minutes of the session yesterday, brokers said. They said they were unsure of market direction due to the uncertainties of the
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      • 56 27 INDiCESuSc-TURNOVER Close IVf 17 Previous NEW ZEALAND NZSE-40 Capital 1.509.52 1.521.19 -II 67 MANILA Composite Index Turnover (mil pesos) 1.226.73 261.3 1 222.92 *679.5 3.81 -418 2 TAIPEI Weighted Price Index Turnover (NTS billion) 3.668.67 8.8 3.674.92 6.6 -6.25 2.2 SEOUL Composite Stock Index Turnover (billion won) 660.60 703.15 654
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      • 304 27 LEADING forestry stocks were the main feature yesterday with the NZSE--40 Capital Index closing down 11.67 points at 1.509.52. Fletcher Challenge ended down four cents at NZ52.27 and Carter Holt Harvey. which talked of the impact of lower bleached pulp prices at an extraordinary general meeting closed down
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      • 76 27 STOCKS staged a modest recovery yesterday but the outlook remained bleak because of the fluid political situation in India following last week's riots that left 1,200 people dead. Brokers said political uncertainty was still dogging the country making it difficult for stock markets to recover lost ground. The Bombay
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      • 548 27 SHARE prices inched higher yesterday following a rally by telephone stock PLDT in New York, aided by an interest in oils. But brokers said profit-taking pared overall market gains. Traders rode on the PLDT rally to take cash and shifted some of the funds to oil issues, they said.
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      • 481 27 SHARES ended slightly lower in moderate trade as political uncertainty ahead of tomorrow's parliamentary elections deterred buying, brokers said. The Weighted Index closed 6.25 points lower at 3,668.67. Turnover was NTSB.B billion against Wednesday's NTS 6.6 billion. "People are very cautious, and the situation will remain the same today."
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Wall Street buckles under sell programs
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        1265 28 STOCKS extended their losing streak to a fifth session on Wednesday in heavy trading, as the market buckled under the combined weight of computer-guid-ed sell programs and continued sell-off of IBM shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which slipped 7.84 points on Tuesday, plunged 29.18 points to 3,255.18.
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        733 28 SHARE prices rose slightly on Wednesday, boosted by hopes of an economic recovery as dealers ignored the indecisive opening on Wall Street. At the close, the FT-SE Index of 100 leading shares was up 14.9 points to 2,732.8 points, after earlier falling 4.8 points at the start of the
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      • 549 28 DREARY corporate news from carmakers Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz sent share prices sliding on Wednesday, but traders expect the market to level out ahead of the expiry of options today. The 30-share DAX Index closed 9.17 points lower at 1,472.07. It had dropped as far as 1,468.48 at one point
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      • 257 28 SHARES closed another listless session weaker on Wednesday, due to a lack of investor interest and a lower US dollar. The EOE Index finished 1.10 points down at 277.99. "The big investors have closed their books, so we seem set to quietly drift down towards the year-end," said dealer
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      • 189 28 THE BOURSE staged a mild rally in the final hour on Wednesday, in the wake of increases in the French banks' prime rates that initially drove stock prices down by more than one per cent. The CAC 40 Index ended the day at 1,736.69 points, off by 0.46 per
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      • 299 28 SHARES ended the first day of the 1993 bourse year on Wednesday with only slight gains despite a strong performance by state companies expected to be privatised. Agreement late Tuesday between the Christian Democrats and other governing parties on how to proceed helped dispel some of the doubts over
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      • 266 28 SHARES closed almost one per cent higher on Wednesday. Dealer said buying set in at lower levels after early profit-taking faded. However, volume remained moderate. Dealers said window-dressing of year-end accounts by some brokers was behind some of Wednesday's buying. The broad SPI Index rose 8.2 points to a
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      • 154 28 SHARES closed 0.47 per cent up in moderate trade on the last day of the two-week trading account, but trade was marked by steep losses of steel maker Cockerill Sambre and shipping group CMB. The Bel-20 Index of leading shares closed 5.22 points up at 1.106.35. Some 910 million
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      • 275 28 STOCKS ended up sharply on Wednesday after a round of prime lending rate cuts, a jump in bullion prices and a positive report by the OECD fuelled a rally, despite a drop on Wall Street. The TSE's gold-silver index ended up 146.40 points at 5.293. led by American Barrick.
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      • 76 28 1 INDICES TURNOVER NEW YORK Close l'rt»i<His IX\ 15 IX>» Jones S& P 500 Turnover (million) 3,255.18 3.284,36 431.52 432.57 244.04 227.77 -29 18 -1.05 f 16.27 LONDON rrsfc ioo FT-30 Turnover (million) 2.732.8 2.717.9 2.081.6 2.067.3 673.5 539.2 14.9 14.3 134.3 FRANKFURT DAX Index 1.472.07 1.481.24 -9.17 AMSTERDAM fcOfc
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKET
    • 1135 29 REPORTS ASIA Tokyo: The dollar ended narrowly mixed in Tokyo yesterday, guided by short-covering buying of marks for yen in the afternoon, dealers said. "Dollar/yen has finally broken out of its triangle formation and so the immediate trend is for a weak dollar,"
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    • 259 29 Knight Ridder PARIS Buoyed by extreme volatility in currency markets, trading volume on the Paris-based Matif futures exchange has climbed by 50 per cent this year, with 51 million contracts changing hands by the end of November. Matif President Gerard Pfauwadel said on Wednesday. Speaking
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    • 205 29 Bloomberg WASHINGTON The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Wednesday cleared trading of threemonth Euroyen time deposit futures and options on the underlying futures contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The unit of trading for the new contract is the interest on a
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    • 1454 29 SIMEX EURODOLLAR Open High Low Sett Est Vol Act/Vol Op/lnt Mar 93 28 96.20 25 96.28 ***** ***** ***** Jun 93 95.84 95.84 95 81 95 84 8000 5236 ***** Sep 93 95.36 95.36 95.33 95.36 5500 3406 6046 Dec 93 94.73 94.74 94 69 94.74 3200 867
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    • 403 29 Cross rates Dec 17 USS ss MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS uss 1.6380 2.5760 1.5560 123.30 0.6353 1.3980 1.4472 1.9231 s$ 0.6105 1.5726 0.9499 75.2747 0.3879 0.8535 0.8835 1.1740 MS 0.3882 0.64 0.6040 47.8649 0.2466 0.5427 0.5618 0.7465 Dm 0.6427 1.0527 1.6555 79.24 0.4083 0.8985 0.9301
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    • 598 29 Interbank rates Bid Offer Overnight unav unav 1-month 1 13/16 I 15/16 2-month 1 |/|6 2 3/16 3-month 2 3/16 2 5/16 Overnight mode: 1 1/4 LS$ Bid Offer 7 days 3 1/16 3 3/16 1 month 3 5/8 3 3/4 2 months 3 1/2 3 5/8 3
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 353 30 Knight Ridder TOKYO Depressed premiums for white sugar are likely to result in lower South Korean raw imports in 1993. one more bearish faetor in an ample Asian supply outlook, sources said. South Korean white sugar exports may reach only
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    • 279 30 Knight Ridder LONDON European nickel producers are compiling a file on Russian exports in an effort to raise awareness in political and banking circles of the problems created by cheap shipments from that country. The file, when completed, will be sent
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    • 751 30 REPORTS THE price of tin on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market continued its downtrend and finished four sen lower to MS 14.26 per kg yesterday, dealers said. "Heavy selling prompted price to go down despite a USS2O higher close on the London
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    • 1689 30 Rubber RAS Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at lpm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jan 93 147.00 147.00 146.50 325 1.650 Feb 148.00 146.50 146.75 1.225 4.375 Mar 147.50 147.50 146.75 100 5.325 Apr/Jun 148.50 148.50 147.25 1.350 21.525 Jul/Sep
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    • 1282 31 City Flight ETA Fl.ght ETD Abu Dhatx GA890 2330 Adelaide 0f8l 1935 (JF82 2050 SQ227 2230 Amsterdam KL83.' 1515 KL838 0040 SQ323 1815 SQ320 1100 GA890 2330 Athens SQ348 2300 Auckland NZ35 1425 BA11 1340 SQ288 2045 SQ285 2115 BA12 2200 NZ36 2235 Bandar Sen BI421
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    • 675 31  -  LETTER FROM CAIRO By Chris Hedges THE tourist industry, a bulwark of the Egyptian economy. is in danger of collapse after a series of attacks by Islamic militants against foreign tourists, including one in November that killed a Briton. The decline is being compared to that
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  • 157 31 As at 10am yesterday: I>ocal dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.1276 1.1430 Canadian dollar 1.2693 1.2950 NZ dollar 0.8423 0.8600 Sterling pound 2.5667 2.6030 US dollar 1.6350 1.6420 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currenc) Austrian schilling 14.83
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  • 486 32 France dismisses EC commitments on agriculture AFP GENEVA The state of the latest round of Gatt trade negotiations here has become "exceedingly grim'' in the face of French resistance, a senior US official said yesterday. The official said France's dismissal of European Commission
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  • 146 32 Bloomberg BEIJING US Commerce Secretary Barbara Franklin yesterday hailed China's USSBOO million (551.31 billion) purchase of six Boeing 777 passenger airplanes as a sign that China is sincere in opening its markets to US goods. Ms Franklin made the comments in a
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  • 364 32 AFF FRANKFURT The German central Bundesbank will have to maintain "severe" monetary policy next year because the forecast inflation rate is too high, the bank said in a year-end message yesterday. The statement was seen as likely to kill fading hopes elsewhere in Europe
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  • 464 32 Agencies TOKYO With the Japanese economy still mired in an unusual slump, the Japanese government has decided to set a real economic growth rate estimate for the next fiscal year at 3.3 per cent, according to officials involved in the process
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  • 389 32 Bloomberg Reuter TOKYO The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Tax System Research Council outlined its recommendations for tax reform for the next fiscal year on Wednesday, major newspapers reported yesterday. A final announcement of the LDP's tax proposals for 1993-94 (April-March) were expected
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  • 851 32  -  The Bottom Line ROBERT KUTTNER ROBERT KUTTNER The writer is co-editor oj The American Prospect and author oj The End of Laissez-Faire. I T'S TIME to change that famous sign on the wall of Clinton headquarters to read: "The international economy, stupid." While
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  • 150 32 Reuter NEW DELHI India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) yesterday denied responsibility for plunging the country into turmoil and demanded the government quit for mismanaging a crisis started by the destruction of a mosque. The Hindu nationalist BJP, bringing a motion of no-confidcncc against the
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  • Shipping Times
    • 372 33  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Homegrown Trans-Link Express has earned the ISO 9002 quality management certification for its international sea freight forwarding and logistics services. Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance, an accredited third-party certification body, awarded Trans-Link the certification on Monday for the company's sea
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    • 218 33 The Aegean Sea oil spill Reuter LA CORUNA, Spain Oil spilt from a Greek tanker which ran aground off the north-western coast of Spain two weeks ago has cost the local fishing industry five billion pesetas (about Ss72 million), a government official said on Wednesday.
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    • 227 33 Reuter LONDON A leading marine crime investigator strongly condemned a piracy attack in which a British master and his Philippine first mate were shot dead on Monday in the Sunda Straits, 320 kilometres north of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. "This is a terrible
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    • 206 33 Reuter WELLINGTON A ship carrying 1.7 tonnes of plutonium to Japan from France has entered the Tasman Sea. Radio New Zealand reported yesterday. The radio said New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger was greeted by cries of "shame" from the opposition when he
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    • 404 33 AFP ABU DHABI A major Saudi shipping company plans to start transporting crude oil, ship more petrochemicals and buy new tankers in long-term expansion plans. The Saudi National Shipping Company (SNSC). one of the world's biggest maritime firms, said on Wednesday it had approved
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 107 34 WELLINGTON New Zealand moved a step eloser to healing a security rift with the US when a report said yesterday that nuclear-powered ships did not pose a threat and should be allowed to visit the country. The report, by a committee set up by
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      • 86 34 SEOUL South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd (SHI), a shipbuilding and heavy equipment producing unit of the Samsung Group, said it had won a US$5O-million (SsBo- order from Germany to build a container ship. A company spokesman said SHI signed a contract to construct a
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      • 53 34 LONDON The Cypriot-flagged Hellinicos, carrying sugar, was surveyed afloat at Suez outer anchorage after alleged fire damage to the engine-room and subsequent flooding on Nov 27, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence said on Wednesday. The 14,854-dwt Hellinicos was surveyed on Dec 12-14 and a repair specification is
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      • 42 34 PIRAEUS, Greece The Cypriot-flagged bulk carrier Roubini was under tow towards Piraeus in adverse weather conditions, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence Service said on Wednesday* The 18,494-dwt vessel was immobilised ofT Antikythira island by engine failure on Dec 15.
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      • 70 34 CAIRO, Egypt The Suez Canal's revenue for 1992 reached US$2 billion), the waterway's chairman Mohammed Fzzat Adel said on Wednesday. This makes the waterway, which links the Mediterranean and Red seas, Egypt's sec6nd largest foreign currency earner after tourism. Mr Adel said that this year's
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      • 137 34 KATHMANDU Japan on Wednesday provided a total of US$7.O5 million (S$ 11.28 million) in two grants for transport and other projects in Nepal. State radio quoted an official finance ministry' statement on Wednesday as saying notes on the two grants were signed at the ministry by
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    • 1248 34 The effective management of capacity in liner transport will do much to help maintain good service at a reasonable price International Transport Journal Not only on the North Atlantic but all over the world, experience has shown that the main danger to stability is the bringing
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    • 525 34 Carbon Dec 11 Density Water Rendue Ash Akirnm Sedmnt M/M Exxon KG M*3 1 V/V M M M M PPM method BO/Cimac Limb Spec E25 991 10 m 30* 010* Spec G35 991 10 jj] 015 30* 010* Northern Eirope 180 Ave 983 02 129 005
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    • 12199 42 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 Penang after
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 721 49 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departite Jurong Port Longmen 1143 P05 alongside 1912 0600 Angelina I C N 019? J9 10 17 12 0130 19 12 1100 Mao Aiab*.a 022 P10 alongyde 1712, lbOO ASl 17,B 3 J2 1712/2230 1912 0/00
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      • 142 49 Petiang Port On the way: SaromKos, Concord Gassan, Hong QHB9, Helen N, Hang Jun 409. World Empire. Kasturi, Nagoya 1. Ikrari Maru 3002, Bg. Soon Hock. Saronikas, Emerald. Sea Queen, May Lily, Bunga Kiambang. Umitaka Maru, Thong Nhattk 154. Palm Sea Horse. Yang Cheng Hu, Petro Stella, Dos
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      • 1539 49 DELIVERY OF FCL IMPORT CONTAINERS IN PROGRESS Ship Voy No Containers avaiable Ship Voy Wo Containers wjhMe Dasa Sepuluh 906 *****2 1305 Saigon Fort 536N COO(EST) 17 12.92 1500 SI Express 184E 16.1292 1320 Ned Colombo 8362F COO(EST) 17.1292 1500 Merkur Delta 952 1612.92 1340 Takari I 1-098
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    • 504 50 FREIGHT rates for panamaxes were generally stronger on Wednesday as the busy market moved into January loading dates, brokers said. But they expeeted business to slow soon, ahead of the holidays. At least half a dozen panamax time-charter fixes in the Pacific were reported and a firm grain
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    • 337 50 AFP STRONG demand for grain and a shortage of shipping in the build-up to the Christmas holiday period gave a push to the freight shipping market over the past week. The Baltic Freight Index (BFI) gained 22 points from the week before, closing at 1,359 points, its highest
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    • 887 50 COURSES Shipping courses organised by Singapore National Shipping Association. 1993 Feb 3 Apr 7 (10 evenings): Effective Written Communication in Shipping Management (SDF 50%). Feb 11 May 20 13 evenings): Principles of Shipping Documentations Practices (SDF 70%). Feb 26: 1-day Familiarisation Course on Singapore Bunkering Procedure (case by
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    • 342 52 UPI KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines is embarking on a major aircraft expansion and replacement and will also cut fares to Europe to make up for recent shortfalls in the number of passengers, a senior official said on Wednesday. Managing director Kamaruddin Ahmad
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    • 453 52 AP WASHINGTON The aerospace industry issued a gloomy year-end report on Wednesday, including a loss of 117,000 jobs in 1992, and said things aren't expected to get much better the rest of the decade. "Almost every statistical category is down
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    • 48 52 MONTREAL General Motors employees, wearing ice skates and hockey jerseys, unveiling the new 1993 Pontiac Firebird as Tom Mason. CiM Canada marketing vice-president, looked on on Wednesday. The Firebird and the Chevrolet Camaro are now being assembled at the St Therese plant north of Montreal.
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    • 364 52 Knight-Ridder LIMA Peru on Wednesday sold at public auction 70 per cent of the state-owned airline, Transportes Aereos del Peru SA (Acroperu), as part of its sweeping privatisation programme. The Peru-based companies Naviera Santa SA. a shipping company.and Compania de Aviacion
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    • 173 52 AP PARIS France has given British Airways (BA) the green light for a 49.9 per cent participation in the regional French carrier TAT Furopean Airways, the British concern said on Wednesday. The accord was approved on Tuesday by the Transport Ministry and the General
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    • 300 52 UPI NEW DELHI After leasing Russian-piloted jetliners. Indian Airlines, the country's strike-hit main domestic carrier. is seeking to temporarily hire French pilots to operate its modern Airbus fleet, airline officials said on Wednesday. Domestic flights in India have been disrupted for a
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    • 383 52 AP MANILA Drivers belonging to a left-wing transport federation yesterday began a one-day strike to protest a pending electricity rate increase and plans to phase out passenger jeeps from Manila's streets. The strike began at midnight on Wednesday but by 12 noon yesterday,
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    • 204 52 AFP MONTREAL The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) council is to meet today to discuss reopening an inquiry into the Soviet downing of a Korean Air Lines passenger plane in 1983 in which 269 people died, officials said on Wednesday. The request for a
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    • 640 45 (fc FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) LIMASSOL/PIREAUS 20/12 ROTTERDAM 20/12 HAIFA/ASHDOO/ALEXANDRIA 20/12 HAMBURG/BREMEN 20/12 MARSEILLE/FRANCE 20/12 FELIXSTOWE/UK 20/12 BARCELONA/SPAIN 20/12 LEHAVRE/ANTWERP 20/12 GENOA/ITALY 20/12 GOTHENBURG/SCANDINAVIA 20/12 LOS ANGELES/ WC IPI 20/12 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 19/12 NEW YORK/EC 20/12 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 20/12 VANCOUVER
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    • 816 47 COMPANIA PERUANA W& DE VAPORES "PERUVIAN STATE LINE" ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/FCL/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM CALLAO, MATARANI, ILO* OTHER PERUVIAN PORTS' WITH T/S AT KOBE ON CPV THROUGH BILL OF LADING WgV'EVERETT ORIENT LINE" JAPAN/BAY OF BENGAL/JAPAN SERVICE ACCEPTING BREAKBULK/SOC CARGOES TO/FROM KOBE, YOKOHAMA. NAGOYA, MOJI, TOKYO*. MANILA* DAVAO*. Penjn|* P Kelanj S*i(apore
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    • 529 48 HONG KON6/CHINA 21/12 JAKARTA 20/12 BANGKOK 19/12 MANILA 20/12 BUSAN 21/12 KEELUNG 22/12 TOKYO/KOBE 19/12 KAOSHIUNG 19/12 PORT KELANG/PENAN6 21/12 YOKOHAMA 19/12 COLOMBO 22/12 FELIXSTOWE/HAMBURG 19/12 CHITTA6ONG/MAORAS 22/12 ROTTERDAM/LE HARVE 19/12 BOMBAY/KARACHI 21/12 ANTWERP 19/12 CALCUTTA 22/12 LAX/NYC 20/12 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 18/12 CMT LINER EXPRESS AGENCIES PTE LTD HOT-LINE *****88 F°
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    • 1094 51 I HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. WESTBOUND TO EUROPE VESSELS PNA PKE PGD SX RTM MIT* LEH* HAM BBf| FEL H. INNOVATOR 301W 17/12 18/12 19/12 20/12 S/l 8/1 9/1 9/1 9/1 12/1 SI MARKER 302*1 24/12 25/12 26/12 27/12 15/1 15/1 16/1 16/1 16/1 19/1 H. EXPLORER 303W 31/12
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