The Business Times, 12 April 1993

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  • 13 1 Business Times WE KNOW ASIA M1TA (P) 552/12/92 Monday April 12 1993 75"
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 82 1 AFP JOHANNESBURG At least three people have been killed and 10 injured as violence erupted in clashes between police and protesters in South Africa's poorest black areas early this morning, a day after the murder of ANC official Chris Hani. Quoting eyewitnesses
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    • 64 1 Reuter CAIRO Egypt, trying to inject life into its financial markets, says it will exempt investors from tax on stock market profits and abolish a ceiling on corporate bond interest rates. Local bankers say the new law, to take effect today. should bring Cairo's long dormant
      Reuter  -  64 words
  • 107 1 Exchange rates uss s$ USS 1626 1.517 2.467 DM 0.619 1.007 100 Yen 0.881 1.433 MS 0.387 0.630 HKS 0.129 0.210 Baht 0.039 0.064 Rupiah 0.048 0.078 Crude oil ts$ Change WTI 20.33 0.06 Brent blend 18.85 0.05 Dubai fatch 16.40 0.05 Minas 20.45 0.05 Tapis blend 20.60
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  • 531 1  -  By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Japanese stocks continued to dominate trading in non-Singapore dollar shares last year although Thai and Hongkong stocks are making inroads. More than $22.4 billion in non-Singapore dollar shares were dealt in the republic last year, the Monetary Authority
    Source: Monetary Authority of Singapore  -  531 words
  • 540 1  -  By Anna Teo SINGAPORE Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday that Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong remains his ehoice as successor. At a press conference after a five-hour tour of Punggol yesterday, Mr Goh was asked if BG
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  • 524 1  -  From Leslie Lopez in KUALA LUMPUR CITING irregularities. Malaysia's Finance Ministry has ordered private cellular-phone operator Mobikom Sdn Bhd to withdraw a MS2OO million (SSI 30 million) supply contract awarded to Sweden's Telefon AB L M Ericsson. Sources said the ministry informed
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  • 335 1 HONGKONG Chinas communist leaders are maintaining close contacts with the colony's biggest criminal gang in an apparent bid to unnerve the British administration of the territory. Quoting Hongkong detectives, the Sunday Morning Post said that Public Security Minister Tao Siju
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  • 325 1 MBT, Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) has denied reports that it has directed broking firms to limit contra deals. It pointed out that contra dealing was a business decision of the respective stockbroking companies, not that of the
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  • 215 1 Reuter HANOI Cambodia could slide into the forlorn state of Beirut in the 1970s if its attempt to set up an elected government fails. United Nations secrctarygcncral Boutros Boutros-Ghali yesterday gave this vcrdiet on the situation in Cambodia, where violence has dogged
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
      • 331 2  -  By Schutz Lee THE creation of the Single European Market on Jan 1 appeared to have opened more doors for Singapore's non-oil domestic exports, rather than shut them out, judging by the value of such exports to the European Community in the first two months of
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    • 637 2  -  PM Goh's walkabout in Punggol Reports by Anna Teo THE DISPUTE between the National University of Singapore and dismissed lecturer and opposition politician Chee Soon Juan is a "straightforward disciplinary matter" that should not have gone to Parliament, said Prime Minister
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    • 225 2 UPPERMOST on their minds was when the Mass Rapid Transit line would come their way. Also, when they could get a wet market, a library, a post office and more feeder bus services. No-one during Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's fivehour tour of
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    • 742 2  -  Owner of Agritrade now a big name in Wuxi By Teh Hooi Ling WITH all the craze about investments in China, many wonder how successful Singaporeans have been in their ventures in the vast land of the awakening dragon. Here'a a success story: Ng
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  • THE REGION
    • 497 3  -  From Maggie Ford in JAKARTA INDONESIA has no plans to increase its defence budget in order to buy 100 UK-made Hawk trainer aircraft. Gen Edi Sudradjat, the defence minister and army commander, confirmed at the weekend. His statement follows a revelation last
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    • 508 3 AP WASHINGTON US Gen John W Vessey Jr will visit Vietnam this month to assess that nation's cooperation in accounting for Americans missing since the war and seek further progress, the White House said on Saturday. The announcement came as Vietnam was pursuing fresh
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 82 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will begin building a large naval base in Sabah state on Borneo island between 1996 and 2t)00. Defence Minister Najib Razak said yesterday. "The Sepangar Bay (naval base) is a long-term project for the Ministry of Defence," Bernama quoted him
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      • 78 3 Reuter HANOI Inflation in Vietnam was 3.1 per cent in the first three months of this year, a minister said, indicating the country was on course for the government's target of less than 15 per cent for the full year. Reducing inflation has been
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      • 58 3 AFP BANGKOK Thailand is poised to round up and deport thousands of illegal immigrants it considers a security threat, a news report said here yesterday. Several detention centres will soon be opened to house those illegal immigrants rounded up by police pending deportation, the Bangkok
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      • 72 3 AFP MANILA Thirty communist guerillas and a soldier have been killed and nine other government forces wounded in clashes in the northern Philippines on Good Friday, military spokesmen here said yesterday. Nine army scout rangers were wounded in the initial clash with about 84 New
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    • 223 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia announced yesterday an immediate freeze on the recruitment of foreign workers 18 months after officially opening its doors to aliens to help ease an acute labour shortage. Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba said the Cabinet had ordered that the recruitment
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    • 422 4 AP BEIJING Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin was the latest Chinese official on Saturday to urge an improvement in US-China relations. In a meeting with former US President Richard Nixon. Mr Jiang quoted a remark Mr Nixon made during his historic 1972
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    • 273 4 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan will revise its copyright law in line with demands from Washington in order to avert trade retaliation from the US, senior officials said yesterday. "We will immediately revise our copyright law in order to meet the US demand, while
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    • 138 4 AFP HONGKONG Vietnamese communist party veteran Vo Nguyen Giap was briefed on "socialism with Chinese characteristics" last Saturday by China's new President Jiang Zemin, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Mr Giap, a former defence minister, met Mr Jiang for an hour to discuss
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    • 173 4 Reuter SEOUL South Korean President Kim Young Sam has said his administration will not seek to revise the Constitution during his term in office. To discuss amending the Constitution at this time amounts to pouring cold water on the ongoing
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    • 165 4 AFP BLUING A Sino-US joint venture has begun constructing a luxury residential area in suburban Beijing modelled after Beverly Hills home to the Hollywood stars, the China Daily reported yesterday. The "American neighbourhood" has been designed by US architects for the "new generation of
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    • 357 4 AFP TOKYO North Korea has initiated secret talks with South Korea and the US in a bid to ease mounting tensions, the Tokyo Shimhun reported yesterday. The newspaper, quoting diplomatic sources, said Pyongyang had begun talking with South Korea through a
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    • 185 4 AFP SEOUL South Korea is considering offering to downscale military exercises with the US and increase economic cooperation with North Korea to persuade the reclusive Stalinist state to accept nuclear verification inspections, a press report said yesterday Yonhap news agency quoted officials as saying
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    • 412 5 About 50 people killed over the weekend Reuter SRINAGAR, India The government in Indian-ruled Kashmir has ordered an inquiry into a savage upsurge of violence in which about 50 people were killed at the weekend. A crowd of 5,000, watched by hundreds of grim paramilitary
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    • 138 5 AFP DHAKA South Asian leaders, at the opening of their twoday summit here on Saturday, pledged to boost regional cooperation despite the many bilateral disputes hampering good relations between individual nations. The twice-postponed summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
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    • 307 5 Reuter ISLAMABAD A fifth Pakistani Cabinet minister resigned on Saturday, accusing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of arrogance and apathy and of taking advice from sycophantic bureaucrats. The Minister of Defence Production, Mir Hazar Khan Bijrani, became the fifth minister in two weeks to submit
      Reuter  -  307 words
    • 473 5 AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan has ordered the expulsion of 98 Arabs from its north-western region as part of a crackdown on Islamic groups accused of complicity in international terrorism. Officials in Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier Province (NWFP). said on Saturday that the
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 1006 6  -  China at the crossroads From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG WITH so many chefs in there cooking different cuisine, it is no wonder the so-called "second kitchen" that China is threatening to set up in Hongkong after 1997 has become a cauldron of confusion. Some
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    • 723 6 NYT BLUING Four years after China's leaders crushed a movement by millions of prodemocracy protesters, they are facing a new challenge one that is quieter and less confrontational but eventually perhaps more serious. The challenge is most visible in the form of
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  • THE WORLD
    • 476 7 NYT, AP JERUSALEM Foreign Minister Shimon Peres left little doubt on Saturday that Israel would accept an important change in the rules governing the Middle East peace talks and agree to negotiate directly with the Palestinian leader in East Jerusalem. Faisal
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    • 188 7 AP JERUSALEM Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak this week in preparation for the renewal of Middle East peace talks, a Rabin aide said yesterday. The meeting is set for \Yednesda> in the Egyptian city of Ismailiya, said Eitan
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    • 314 7 Lack of support for basic research may block great discoveries, they say NYT NEW YORK President Clinton's US$l.52 trillion (552.49 trillion) budget package, sent to Congress on Thursday, recommended a modest 4.1 per cent overall increase in Federal financing of American science. Much of it
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 87 8 AP MOSCOW Russian President Boris Yeltsin has ordered tighter eontrol over all nuelear facilities, including defence plants, following an explosion at a secret Siberian weapons complex. Meanwhile. a generator at the Chernobyl-type nuclear power plant at lgnalina in Lithuania malfunctioned and was shut down on
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      • 62 8 AFP RICHMOND. Virginia Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev says he has no plans to vote in the April 25 referendum on reform in Russia, dismissing it as a waste of time. "We simply have no time now for rcferendums. We must not wait a single hour."
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      • 79 8 Reuter MOSCOW Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev flew to the US on Saturday amid speculation about the health of the former Soviet president's wife. Russian television said the couple left officially to attend festivities marking the 250 th anniversary of the birth of US President Thomas Jefferson.
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      • 50 8 AFP BUDAPEST Hungarian customs officials turned away more than 40 trucks full of meat and milk products from the European Community on Saturday under an import ban introduced on Thursday. Most of the trucks were transit deliveries from Germany to Croatia and Italy. AFP
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    • 199 8 Reuter LONDON Soviet ships dumped 20 nuclear reactors at sea and plutonium from nuclear warheads is threatening to contaminate international fishing grounds off Norway, The Observer said yesterday. It quoted an internal Russian report as also saying that Russia's submarine fleet is
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    • 475 8 NYT MOSCOW Under pressure from Western governments and the International Monetary Fund, which are stepping up their aid. the Russian central bank has agreed with the Russian government for the first time on the amount of new credits it will issue.
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    • 267 8 Reuter, AP TOKYO Eleven days before the referendum that will decide the fate of Russia's reformist president, the world's big industrial nations are meeting to decide on a rescue act. Group of Seven (G-7) finance and foreign ministers, who get together here on Wednesday
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    • 493 8 Reuter JOHANNESBURG Leaders across South Africa's political spectrum appealed for restraint as demonstrators took to the streets in several centres in protest at the assassination of black resistance leader Chris Hani. Church and political leaders described Hani's death as a blow
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 574 9  -  IVTsian Emerging Companies Fund converted into Asian regional fund By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Another Malaysian fund has come under attaek from arbitrageurs. But the US$75 million (SSI23 million) closed-end Malaysian Emerging Companies Fund survived the raid and has been converted into an Asian regional
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    • 483 9 DBS CHARITY INMESIMjENT RACE SINGAPORE Wardley Ltd. which ended the second DBS Charity Investment Race with a profit, plans to take part in the next race, says its chief, Koh Kah Yeok. "We will give our full support to the race," he
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    • 943 9  -  IOCK LOCK SIEW By Joyce Quck SINGAPORE AGM: Will it stand lor "Another Go ne-down-t he-drain Meeting" or will minority shareholders get more involved by Asking, Grilling. Moving? It's Annual General Meeting (AGM) time again for most listed eompanics. If you're
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    • 423 9  -  By Dexter Lee, Bob James SINGAPORE Former Singmarine Industries executive director Wong Kok Seng will leave the Keppel Group this month after clearing his leave. His departure comes as a surprise as Keppel had said earlier this year that he was to
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    • 374 9 SINGAPORE Singapore Bus Service (SBS) is fighting a losing battle at least where manpower cost is concerned. The bus operator said in the latest issue of its newsletter Husway that the company was having a hard time keeping and recruiting drivers and
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    • Article, Illustration
      354 9 Source: Bridge Info Performance of STII's index stocks Apr 8 Ijim Stnw Index Stock sale < h«* factor mm er* IS) (i> s Vimo I960 0010 I 59 -500 (At 6 9t 10 >61 < erchos >400 4N I i: 400 0 200 1004 ***** (•t \>ia >200 0
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    • COMPANIES
      • 359 10  -  By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE The Korean government is agonising over whether it should slash financial and other aid to the country's mighty business conglomerates. or chaebols. The sprawling familyowned and managed groups helped for years by preferential financing and other
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      • 536 10  -  Filipino mining giant blames USs22.3m loss last year for decision From Al Labita in MANILA MANILA Benguet Corp, one of the four Philippine companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has declared a moratorium on the payment of its bank loans. In a report
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      • 303 10 AFP BANGKOK Thai Airways International shares fell to an all-time low last Friday on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), closing at 40 baht or 33.3 per cent off the issue price last July. One broker blamed the
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      • 521 11 Bloomberg Business News Reuter South China Morning Post HONGKONG In a second attempt to get a light railway system off the ground here. Hongkong property tycoon Li Ka-shing has offered to build a HKSIS billion (553.2 billion) link between
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      • 542 11 Reuter BEIJING One of China s most influential economists has proposed allowing Chinese investors to buy special B shares now reserved for foreigners. thereby almost certainly boosting the price of those issues. Li Yining. who heads a committee drafting a national securities
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      • 535 11 Reuter TOKYO Scared by recent tough, unsolicited ratings by Moody's Investors Service. Japanese firms are turning to rating advisers for help on getting the best ratings they can. say investment bank officials. Companies hoping for international credit ratings are keen to use
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 87 11 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian Capital Market Supervisor} Board has revoked the lieenees of five brokerages and one underwriter operating at the Jakarta Stock Exchange, according to a statement yesterday. The six firms failed to report their obligations, submit financial reports and their required capital
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        • 96 11 AFP HONGKONG In a deal reportedly consummated in less than a day. Malaysian tycoon Robert kuok's Kerry group is to build two Shangri-la hotels in north-east China, the la kurii; Pao newspaper said yesterday. Kern, would have a 90 per cent stake in
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        • 95 11 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Yaohan International Group, a Japanese supermarket operator, will jointly develop a hamburger franchise in China with another Japanese firm and a Chinese company, a spokesman said. Yaohan plans to launch the joint venture in Hongkong this month with Mos Food Services,
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        • 112 11 Bloomberg Business News AKRON. Ohio Goodyear Tyre Rubber Co. citing increasing demand for tyres in Asian markets, has said it will spend I'SS22 million (Ss36 million) to expand capacity at its 3<K>.(M)O sq ft tyre plant in Malaysia. Work on the 29.000 sq ft expansion
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    • FINANCE
      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 75 12 CAIRO two financial groups, hacked bv the World Bank, have set up a USS4O million (SS66 million) fund to attract Western institutional investment to Lgvpt. Barclays pic, Schroder Asseilv Co and the World Bank's investment arm the International Finance Corporation will each take
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        • 79 12 Knight Ridder WASHINGTON Volume of trades in US futures markets rose 16 per cent in March, compared with the same month a year ago. according to Futures Industry Association data. Futures trades in March at US exchanges totalled 30.693.110 contracts, bringing the total so
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        • 84 12 TAIPEI H Y You. a prominent securities industry executive and member ol laiwan s parliament, has been named chairman of United Securities Investment 1 rust Co. a recently formed laiwan mutual fund management company, the company said. United. 15 per cent owned by BT Australia
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        • 42 12 TOKYO The Federation of Bankers' Associations of Japan has named Dai-lchi Kangyo Bank president ladashi Okuda as its new chairman, the A Hum kcizui newspaper said. Mr Okuda replaces Tsuneo Wakai. president of the Mitsubishi Bank.
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      • 521 12 Companies able to bypass commercial banks and get cheaper funds Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The corporate bond market is becoming a key sector in Malaysia's financial system, emerging from the shadow of the booming stock market, officials and bond traders say. "There is
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      • 335 12 Reuter PARIS Societe Generate wrapped up another gloomy reporting season for French commercial banks, but its fall in profits last year was small when compared with those of its competitors. The bank said that net profit after payments to minorities slipped three
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      • 351 12  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Indonesia's largest clove cigarette maker. P T Gudang Garam. has raised USS6O million (SS9B million) through a syndicated loan facility to finance its paper mill subsidiary. P T Surya Pamenang. The one-year finance package is being arranged by Deutsche
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      • 135 12 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China has issued regulations to clamp down on a perceived drain on hard currency caused by the proliferation of foreign-funded ventures, the China Daily reported. New regulations require ventures to have annual audits of their foreign currency use
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      • 539 13 Balance of funds in capital markets may be temporarily disrupted Bloomberg Business News TOKYO A record Japanese government spending package will force municipalities to boost bond sales, which could temporarily disrupt the balance of funds in Japan's capital markets, say analysts.
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      • 336 13 Reuter ABU DHABI Gulf Arab central banks have agreed to bring the Kuwaiti dinar, which crashed during the Iraqi occupation, into a regional monetary exchange system. Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) central bank governors made the decision after a oneday
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      • 329 13 Reuter BRUSSELS Belgium has invited bids for a large stake in state-owned savings bank and insurance group ASLK-CGER in a move which opens the possibility of offers from both at home and abroad. The state wants to sell 49 per cent of
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      • 222 13 IHt US dollar opened the week close lo the high, hut gradually lost ground through the week, weighted down by both offshore and local selling and general dollar bearishness. Dealers also cited the current boom in the local and Kuala Lumpur stock markets lor the Singapore
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 725 14  -  CURRENCY SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By James Koo. MMS International SINGAPORE The US dollar started last week on a bearish footing, hitting a low ol" 1.5425 mark and 113.30 yen. The weak-er-than-expected US employment data over the previous weekend had dented the bullish trend
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      • 780 14 COMMODITIES WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON The commodity markets eased before the long Easter weekend on sentiment depressed by the lack of interest from investors who seemed more interested in planning their weekend holidays than in watching the fluctuating prices. Precious metals were
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    • 1571 14 Rubber RAS Commodity Exchange (futures closing as at 1pm) RSS 1 Contract (S ccnts/kg) Close Volume Open Month high Lo» Sett (tonnes) Interest Ma\ 93 1.14.00 13 3 50 134 00 8.500 3.825 Jun 0.00 0.00 135.7* 1.775 6.550 Jul 0.00 0 00 137.00 750 5.175 \ug 0
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    • 5870 15 CORPORATE RESULTS Net tarn tl* Dale TV LV LV i>mpan> ann (Sm) (Sm) (cl») (els) Vmj Mar 30 P ***** ***** 23.1 173 \ISB* Mar H) I 0.173 1 255 0 2 1.2 Alliance Tech Mar 24 I* 1079L 0 962L \mal Steel* Mar 24 I
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    • 750 15 Relative Strength Index: The RSI measures the rate at which prices move. In theory, it ranges between zero and 100. In practice however, it fluctuates between 10 and 90. RSI is calculated over a specified period, say 13 days, and is derived from the formula: 100 100/ [(up
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 701 16 FT New York WALL STREETS love affair with brand-name consumer stocks ran on to the rocks last week. On Monday and Tuesday, heavy selling hit a wide range of consumer issues which, in turn, lopped a few points ofl the Dow
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      • 287 16 AFP Tokyo SHARE PRICES continued to rise on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week with Nikkei Stock Average topping 20,000 points for the first time in more than a year. The Nikkei index of 225 selected issues in
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      • 373 16 AFP London SHARE PRICES slipped in a quiet week's trading ahead of the Easter holidays with the absence of economic indicators or major company results leaving trading largely lifeless. The FT-SE 100 Index lost 48.1 points, down 1.7 per cent, to
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      • 179 16 AFP Hongkong SHARE PRICES fell nearly 2 per cent in dull trading over the week with no improvement in stalled Sino-British relations over the colony's democracy Bill. The key Hang Seng Index dropped 118.77 points, or 1.9 per cent, to close the
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      • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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        • 904 16 -0.54 Wall Street ended nearly unchanged on Thursday, recovering in the last hour of trading from early losses caused by sell-otTs of medical and consumer stocks. News of a smaller-than-expected 0.1 per cent increase in wholesale prices, if food and energy is excluded from the index, spurred Wall
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        • 279 16 Toronto stocks ended weaker in relatively thin dealings on Thursday, dragged down by losses in gold and metal shares, but overall activity was quiet as many investors squared positions ahead ot the Easter holiday weekend. The TSE-300 Index eased 9.62 points or 0.27 per cent to 3.591.80. LXxliners led
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        • 118 16 The Australian share market put in a strong finish for the end of the short trading week on Thursday, but was down overall on the previous week's close as sellers kept a lid on prices, brokers said Friday. The main market indicator the All Ordinaries Index closed at 1,665.7
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        • 79 16 It was a jittery week on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE). still reeling from a recent fake shares scandal, with prices mainly stagnant and the index down slightly. The JSE index which closed the previous week at 310.078 finished the fourday trading week at 307.810 on Thursday. Friday was
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        • 106 16 The sluggish Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) edged up 5.51 points during a week of light trading to close on Friday at 862.71. The average daily volume last week was 28.42 million shares, down sharply from the average 41.9 million shares the previous week. The average value of shares
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        • 126 16 The Philippine stock market perked up last week as traders positioned themselves for an anticipated rise in prices after the Easter week- end. At the Manila Stock Exchange, the Composite Index rose 5.1 per cent to close at 1,556.13 points on Wednesday, the last day of trading while at
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        • 85 16 Share prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange lost momentum after piercing the 5,000-point mark and ended lower during the holidayshortened week. In contrast to a 7.5 per cent jump the previous week, the 325-issue Weighted Price Index slipped 101.49 points or two per cent to settle at 4.847.13 on
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        • 70 16 Bulls roared back to Seoul's stock market in heated trading during the week with the index soaring past the 700point level. The broad-based Composite Stocks Price Index closed on Saturday' at 708.33 points, up 19.09 points or 2.7 per cent from the previous week's close. Daily turnover averaged 53.0
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        • 57 16 Stock prices slipped on India's largest bourse last week in response to the central bank's new slack-season fiscal policy which left lending rates unchanged at a prohibitive 1 7 per cent. Over the week. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensitivity Index slid 0.53 points to 2,310.91. The National Index
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      • 5251 17 Bernama THE bulls continued to rampage on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange last week as frenzied buying amid profit-taking saw the bourse register a few record-breaking performance in volume, value and the Composite Index. Ready turnover on the main board reached an all-time record high
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      • 7328 18  -  By Sylvia Wong THE MARKET is expected to trade sideways this week as investors take profits in the wake of the Straits Times Industrials Index's record-breaking streak last week. In a week shortened by the Good Friday holiday. 1.43 billion units worth SI.S3
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    • 288 9 DEVELOPING THE EXTERNAL VY ECONOMY The MBA Alumni NUS and the School of Postgraduate Management Studies have brought together key business leaders to examine and focus on the issues, implications and opportunities for local businesses arising from Regionalisation. CLOSINQ DATE FOR REGISTRATION IS MONDAY, 26TH APRIL 1993 Time 0830-0900 Registration
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    • 686 10 I xCI I I Singmarine I Singmarine Industries limited I (Incorporated in the Republic ot Singapore) I Notice of Annual General Meeting I I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Company I will be held at the Board Room. Singmarine Industries Limited. 55 Gul Road.
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    • 431 11 SEMBAWANG SHIPYARD LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twenty-Fourth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Company's Registered Office at the Shipyard, Admiralty Road East, Sembawang. Singapore 2775, on 27 April 1993 at 10.00
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    • 359 12 CREATING EXTERNAL ECONOMY THROUGH REGIONAL/GLOBAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE 21 22 April 1993, The Oriental, Singapore Keynote Address by Dr. Hong Hai, President CEO Haw Par Brothers International Limited Strategic Alliance: From Planning to Action From Strategic Alliance to Superior Performance Forms of Strategic Alliance Sustainability of the Strategic Alliance Courting Strategic
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    • 184 13 HSIHHffIK ASIA '93 23rd April 1993 The Oriental Hotel Singapore H: VhK|l Increasing Consumer Affluence, Changing Tastes and Lifestyle Distribution Patterns and Costs Technological Developments Regulatory and Environmental Concerns Conference Chairman Alex Buchanan, Asia Pacific Food Industry Publications, Australia Conference Speakers and Panelists Dr Chris Oates, National University Of Singapore,
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  • SPORTS
    • 805 19 The 57th US Masters Golf Gusty winds and pressure test golfs best players AP AUGUSTA, Georgia Whipping winds frustrated the world's finest golfers last Saturday at the Masters. Everyone, that is. but Bernhard Langer. The German with the peculiar putting style shot a three-under 69
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    • TOURNAMENT DIARY
      • 77 19 AFP SIX FOREIGN PLAYERS have won the Masters, with the title going to Europe seven times since 1980. Spain's Seve Ballesteros won in 1980 and 1983, and current leader German Bernhard Langer won in 1985. The other overseas players to win in the past decade were all from
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      • 71 19 AP SOUTH AFRICAN Gary Player was the first to tee off in the third round, going out with a non-competing marker. "First time ever," he said of playing alone in a tournament. "If I make the cut here, I don't mind playing with a lady that is
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      • 75 19 AFP DAN FORSMAN was so upset at his third-round 73 last Saturday that he could barely appreciate that he was lying second going into the final round of the Masters. He had two double bogeys, three bogeys and six birdies in his round. "A friend of mine
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      • 64 19 AFP WELSHMAN lan Woosnam. who won the Masters in 1991, was less than impressed with his putting in the third round here last Saturdav. He missed a short putt for par at the 11th and three putted the 16th and 18th en route to a
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      • 69 19 AP IT WAS BEGINNING to look as if the Masters would get its first pairing of brothers. Until John Huston, playing in a twosome with Jack Nicklaus, lumbered in with a third-round high score of 84. the Ozakis of Japan were in line to play the final round
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      • 45 19 AP LEE TREVINO says he's happy to be at Augusta National for the 57th Masters. He's not playing. He's merely watching. "It's never been a good course to me,' said Trevino, who insists his game isn't suited for the course. AP
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      • 85 19 AP THE MASTERS announced last Saturday the prize money for the 1993 tournament will be about US$l.7 million (SS2.B million), with the winner taking home U*****,000. The first prize is U5536,000 more than Fred Couples earned when he captured the Masters last year. Second place money
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    • SCORE CARD
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        109 19 Reuter NEW YORK Major league results Saturday: National league San Francisco Giants 12 Pittsburgh Pirates 5: Houston Astros 6 New York Mets 3: Colorado Rockies 9 Montreal Expos 5; Florida Marlins 2 San Diego Padres I; Philadelphia Phillies 5 Chicago Cubs 4; Los Angeles Dodgers 2 Atlanta Braves 1
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        44 19 Reuter NEW YORK NBA results Saturday: Atlanta 118 Charlotte 105; Miami 119 Philadelphia 114; Cleveland 100 New Jersey 99: Houston 98 San Antonio 88; Chicago 92 Indiana 87; Milwaukee 108 Orlando 97; Golden State 100 Dallas 94; LA Clippers 118 Denver 101. Reuter
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        121 19 AFP DONINGTON, England Results of the European Formula One Grand Prix here on Sunday: 1. Ayrton Senna (Bra) McLaren ford lhr 50min 46.5705 ec 2. Damon Hill (GB) Williams-Renault Imin 23.1995cc3. Alain Prost (Fra) Wil-liams-Renault 4. Johnny Herbert (GB) Lotus Ford, both a lap behind 5. Riccardo Patrese (Ita)
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        511 19 Reuter Reuter AFP AUGUSTA, Georgia Thirdround scores at the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on Saturday (US unless stated): 207 Bernhard Linger (Ger) 68 70 69 211 Chip Beck 72 67 72. Dan Foreman 69 69 73 212 Lanny Wadkins 69 72 71. Steve Elkington (Aus) 71
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        81 19 Reuter NEW YORK NHL results Sat- urdav: Detroit Red Wings 6 BufTalo Sabres 5: Chicago Blackhawks 4 Tampa Bay Lightning 2: Ottawa Senators 5 New York Islanders 3: Pittsburgh Penguins 4 New York Rangers 2: Quebec Nordiques 6 Hartford Whalers 3; New Jersey Devils 5 Washington Capitals 3:
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        23 19 AFP TOKYO World Cup Asian Ist Round results here Sundav Group F Thailand I Sri Lanka 0: Japan 8 Bangladesh 0. AFP
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        110 19 AFP Reuter TOKYO Results in the LSSI.I9 million Japan Open Sunday (x denotes seeds); Men's singles final Pete Sampras (US x 2) b Brad Gilbert (US x 7) 6-2. 6-2. 6-2. Doubles final Ken Flach/Rick Leach (US x 5) b Glenn Michibata/David Pate (Can/US x 8) 2-6 6-3 6-4.
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    • 299 19 Reuter AUGUSTA. Georgia Greg Norman thinks Bernhard Langer will be tough for anyone to catch in the final round at the Masters, but no one is ready to hand the green jacket to the German just yet. "He's going to be a tough
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 81 19 AFP IIATTIESBURG, Mississippi A superb 20-foot put! on the 18th green completed a spectacular six-undcr 64 and earned Greg Kraft a share of the lead with fellow-American Barry Jacckcl at the end of the third-round of the Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic last Saturday. Both players
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      • 39 19 Reuter DONINGTON, England France's Alain Prost sweeping round Old Hairpin during the second practice session for the European Grand Prix last Saturday. He finished the day with the fastest time and took pole position. Rcutcr
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      • 104 19 AFP TOKYO Pete Sampras, enjoining his overnight celebrity for securing the world number one spot, disposed of Brad Gilbert in the final to wrap up the USSI.I9 million ((551.93 million) Japan Open tennis tournament yesterday. The 1990 US Open champion, who earned enough points to overtake
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      • 114 19 Reuter ST GEORGE'S, Grenada Asif Mujtaba and Shakccl Ahmed shrugged off the drugs row surrounding the Pakistan team to slam centuries on the opening day of a three-day match against a West Indies undcr-23 XI on Saturday. Opener Shakcel hit an unbeaten 132 and Mujtaba 102
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      • 59 19 AP' GOTEBORG, Sweden Michacl Matz of the US performed a fast, faultless jump-off aboard Rhum IV to win the second round of the World Cup show jumping competition last Saturday in Gotcburg, Sweden. Ludger Bccrbaum from Germany, who finished second on Saturday with Almox Ratina Z,
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    • 17 19 SBCI2 and RTMI will show delayed highlights of the final day of The Masters at 10.30pm tonight
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  • THE ARTS
    • 1049 21  -  Classical need not mean boring, as Simone Vaz finds out when she meets the exuberant members of the T'ang Quartet Simone Vaz Leslie tan, 28-year-old cellist with the Tang Quartet, is someone you can just imagine bouncing out of bed in the mornings, throwing open his windows,
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    • 397 21  -  P Y Van reviews a concert with a strong visual dimension P Y Van An evening full of percussion and Bartok may sound like a good excuse for investing in earmuffs. but the recent Tapestry of Rhythms concert by a creative group of musicians proved that
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    • 1311 21 TV RADIO After the Stallone copes post-natal coma ex- j^HRF N^Kpt a sequel, this slightly silly 1979 M^Sv^ film is more of a rehash. Its only spectacular moment is thePPr" r PQ IF finale, but that did BIL stop the flow of sequels. FBI: The Untold Stories, 9pm, SBC 12
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT
    • 1041 22  -  For Kozo Chiba. life began again at 50. Joseph Rajendran reports SINGAPORE'S E NT. RE BRE N E URS Joseph Rajendran AT AN AGE when most people are thinking of retiring. Kozo Chiba quit a highly-paid job with a Japanese multinational to start his
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    • 273 22 SENRI Electronics' founder and managing director. Kozo Chiba. has realised that contributing to the Singapore economy is not reason enough to get permanent resident (PR) status. He has been rejected by the government twice but the 54-year-old Japanese is still determined to
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    • 961 23  -  The US giant is rethinking the way it operates, reports Martin Dickson Martin Dickson FT Xerox is at it again. The US document processing company, which became a by-word in the 1980s for its adoption of cutting-edge management theories, has been undergoing another big upheaval.
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    • 436 23 ROELF VENHUIZEN has been appointed as Shell Companies Singapore's new chemical director. Mr Venhuizen will be taking over from John Malcolm, who has retired from the company after 40 years. Mr Venhuizen will also take on all the positions previously held by Mr Malcolm in the Petrochemical Complex
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    • 53 22 Doonesbury by garry trudeau QOOP SVBNIN6. INASPBN AS POZSNS OFRSSCUE WORK- UJORPOFTHaRBSOBBFFOKT R/6HTTHIS} THAFSNOT\ r\ TOCW, AN ASTONISHING ERS B&6AN TO PIQ FOR FORMER m, MS. REAL FUR, TALZ OF SURVIVAL BBGAN US. AMBASSADOR PUKB, TRfIPP& SNP, HUNWSPS OFOJRfOSTry STMSM>! \IS IT? r> A TOUNFOLP- IN HIS CABIN WAN /mANCHZ.
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  • 524 24 AFP, Bernama KOTA BAKU The ruling party of Malaysia's oppositionled state of Kelantan yesterday pledged to defend its hereditary ruler and his throne after he was publicly denounced and his crown challenged by a relative. The fundamentalist Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), which
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  • 251 24 Reuter TOKYO Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa will unveil a programme demonstrating Japan's readiness to lead the world economy and cut its huge trade surplus when he meets US President Bill Clinton this week. The Nihon Kcizai Shimbun said
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  • 409 24 NYT WASHINGTON A team of experts sent to Bosnia by US President Bill Clinton to assess the plight of civilians caught in the fighting has urged Washington to seriously consider military intervention to end the suffering there. In a draft report yesterday,
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  • 175 24 AFP KARACHI Five successive explosions roeked this populous Pakistani port city early yesterday, setting fire to a hotel and gutting several shops, officials said. Initial reports from relief agencies said five people were injured in the blasts, which police
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  • 684 24  -  The Bottom Line DAVID MASON DAVID MASON The writer is a partner in an international accounting firm THE publication of the first hatch of proposed subsidiary legislation on GST (Goods and Services Tax) marks the beginning of a new stage in
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  • 277 24 NYT WASHINGTON The Clinton administration has concluded that the Bush administration's covert programme to overthrow Saddam Hussein has failed to weaken the Iraqi leader, but it plans to maintain a scaled-down version of it anyway. Administration and other government officials said
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    • 277 24 2J£7Y H i fN [♦liiwiii] R Professional Resources Agency Pte Ltd I H presents I M J An Intensive Full-Day Seminar On L I W MARINE CARGO CLAIMS I 26 April 1993, Orchard Hotel Singapore I This seminar, led by Prof. William Tetley (Queen's Counsel, Author and Professor whose H
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    • 247 24 Tomorrow in Business Times Take that ->l First Step Kj World Wide~. ond soor above IS your competitors. These day* «o *oy succwrful m busmen one hos 10 /y hove it* nqf 10 mor#oir compewtve edge f The tight «u»f means having 10 captivate ihe right image obramng ergonomics m
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  • Business IT
    • 846 25  -  Worldwide, networking hardware is a double-digit growth phenomenon. It's making waves in the region too, as Joseph Rajendran finds out Joseph Rajendran ROBUST growth in the regional computer networking market has encouraged Cabletron Systems to set up an Asian regional office in Singapore. The move by the
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    • 800 25  -  Sun recently announced a dramatic push into the massive corporate desktop market. Claire Leow reports from Santa Clara on the advantages and dangers of its strategy Claire Leow WHEN Sun decided to move downstream into the desktop market, it wasn't an easy move for the world's
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    • 917 26  -  Singapore's IPC PCs have earned number-one ratings in France. Joseph Rajendran, who visited IPC France's Paris HQ, found out why Joseph Rajendran THE IPC personal computer is not a household name in Singapore. But in France it is a premier brand mentioned in the same breath with
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 56 26 SINGAPORE Compaq Computer Asia has cut the prices of selected Deskpro and ProLinea computers by between 3 per cent and 19 per cent. It has also introduced new. competitively priced models. New ProLinea PCs incorporate local bus graphics, while the latest Deskpro/i models include
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      • 44 26 SINGAPORE PC maker ALR International has extended the warranty on its products to three years. It covers all ALR parts for three years and labour for one year. An on-site service maintenance contract after the first vear is also available.
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      • 48 26 SINGAPORE Hard disk drive maker Western Digital has extended the two-year warranty on all its 3.5-inch products to three years. The warranty covers all 3.5-inch drives which have the Architecture I chipset, which has been built into products that began shipping in September 1992.
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      • 61 26 SINGAPORE Japan's largest convenience store 7-Eleven has purchased USSI2.S million (SS2O million) Unix-based systems from Hewlett-Packard. The system is being implemented in the Tokyo headquarters and will link up to 30 district offices throughout Japan. The system consists of five HP 9000 business servers, 200 Apollo
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      • 57 26 SINGAPORE Hitachi Data Systems has announced its Osiris programme, a range of high-capacity products for clientserver computing. It is part of the company's strategy to link local area networks to mainframe computers. The first of the products will be the Osiris Super Server, which combines a
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    • It's happenin'
      • 82 26 SINGAPORE Leading US software firm Lotus Development Corp is launching Improv today at the Sheraton Towers. Improv. a dvnamie spreadsheet program, introduces new and more powerful ways to view and analyse spreadsheet data. Up to May 31, the program will retail for SI9B. a 5619 savings oft
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      • 77 26 SINGAPORE The Reed Exhibition Companies has organised Jemas "93 (Jakarta Electronics Manufacturing and Supporting Industries Exhibition), the first of its kind. It will be held at the JE Kcmayoran Centre from April 13 to 16. The show has attracted 60 companies from 10 countries and has
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      • 60 26 SINGAPORE Digital Equipment Singapore is holding a full-day seminar on April 14 on the theme "DEC factory: Reengineering the manufacturing enterprise". The seminar, which will show local manufacturers how to integrate process, people and technology, will be held at the Sheraton Towers. Please call Melissa Wee on
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      • 45 26 SINGAPORE Computer peripherals distributor ACA-Pacif-ic is holding a seminar. "From Conceptualisation to Visualisation to Real-Life Simulation". The seminar, on April 161 at the Dynasty Hotel, is held in collaboration with Autodesk Asia. Attendance is free. Call Pearlv Lai on 299-9228 for details.
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      • 51 26 SINGAPORE SP-Execom Quality Management Consultancy Pte Ltd is conducting a seminar on "Software Quality Management to ISO 9001" from April 28 to 29 at the National Computer Board. The seminar is targeted at IT professionals and quality control managers. Please call June Tan on 777-0889 for more
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    • 810 27  -  How well do computer operations survive a natural disaster? David Welcher, writing for BusinesslT, picked up some intriguing answers on a Hawaiian island recently devastated by a tropical storm David Welcher Kauai, the fourth largest island in the Hawaiian chain, is known as the Garden Isle because
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    • 764 27  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Cecilia Chua wraps up the series on Business Integration with some case examples and a summary Cecilia Chua Cecilia Chiui is a senior manager with Andersen C onsulting Singapore. She lias been involved with clients in rethinking their business strategies
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    • 619 27  -  IT for SMEs Teo Tat-Khai shows you a trick or two in controlling IT expenditure Teo Tat-Khai The writer, an I T consultant. has managed product development projects in an MSC and has held Information Systems managerial resptmsibilities with a regional organisation M ANN business enterprises. big
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    • 1012 28  -  Technology Editor Kenneth James checks out two of today's cutting-edge notebooks that already incorporate some of tomorrow s technology Kenneth James IMAGINE a computer that you wear on your wrist. Or a notebook that runs the latest Jet Li movie from a credit card-sized
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    • 939 28  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY TOM AMBROSE The writer is president of Ambrose Consulting, a Sacramento. California. consulting firm that helps businesses use information technology productively. He contributed this commentary to BusinesslT g 9 LATELY, the hottest topic of conversation in the computer world is multimedia. I
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  • Shipping Times
    • 452 29  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE The Singapore authorities are upset by blatant advertisements for "gambling" cruises and have begun cracking down on operators who offer gambling on their vessels as a major draw. The Port of Singapore Authority (PSA), the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board
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    • 252 29 AFP BEIJING China is investing in docks and facilities in a bid to become the world's largest shipbreaking nation, according to an official newspaper. "China is aiming to be the world's largest dismantlcr of the China Daily said yesterday, adding that "only the Chinese
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    • 290 29 Seatrade Week MANILA It is a long road ahead, but things are finally looking up for the Philippine Register of Shipping (PRS) after it got itself officially recognised by the Maritime Industry Authority and launched full operations last November. "We are really taking off." PRS president
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    • 1150 29 Page Col ABC' Containerline 12 1 Accord Group 8 1-3 Ahrcnkiel Liner 16 4 Allied-Link 16 4/5 Alpha Feeders 6 1 ANL 3 1/2 APL 5 3-5 ASCL 5 5 Asian Breakbulk 16 3 ASXCLShpg 15 2 Avant Shpg 6 4/5 Bait Orient
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      36 29 Reuter BEIRUT Lebanese construction workers working on Beirut's 107-vear-old lighthouse which was damaged during the IS years of civil war. The lighthouse will be ready to guide ships into Beirut port by next month. Reuter
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    • 382 29 Nihon Keizai Shimbun TOKYO Occan carriers doubt whether they can make sufficient profits to justify the enormous costs involved in buying the new double-hulled tankers they arc being mandated to use. according to industry sources. A tanker with a double hull is 30
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 435 30 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy Wo Berth Arm* Otwtae Marina Wharves Kota *»tai awicsw TO2 1005.2230 16 04/2230 Samuderalnd *****3 M02 alongside 1104 2300 lucona 2 48 93 P01B JOK WOO |1M:0?00 Sumber Main *****B M04 alongside 0905,2300 Maco Arataa 003 P10 005 0600
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      • 1703 30 DELIVERY OF FCL IMPORT CONTAINERS IN PROGRESS Ship Voy No Containers avaiabte SNp Voy Wo Containers ivafaMt Hmm Advance 013* COO(EST) 10 04 93 0700 Srtra 907 MO(tST) *****3 0700 Ned Colombo 9364F C0CKEST) 09 04 93 2300 Anson *****S COO(EST) 10 04.93 1500 Aci Violet 196 COD(EST)
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      652 31  -  The use of weather forecasts to calculate the optimum route for a ship to take will help to minimise operational delays, reports Nigel Kitchen Nigel Kitchen Lloyd's List TUB avoidance of bad weather is the most effective way of minimising both operational delays becausc ot voluntary and involuntary speed
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    • 11101 38 This is a list of ships loading at 2 Singapore for ports around the t world. It tabulates, by destination, I the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from J the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship
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    • 445 45 THE dry cargo market was finely balanced as short vessel supply in the Atlantic offset disappointment the US grain aid to Russia might not generate as much employment as previously thought, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index was marked up one point to 1,477 on Apr 8. One
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    • 847 45 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead ot single prices tor a more comprehensive description ot the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements i are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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    • AIR AND LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 319 48  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE The AsiaPacific is slow to achicve its potential as a major corporate jet market because much ot its airspace is under military control, said a senior American executive recently. Astra Jet Corporation's marketing director for the
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        33 48 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's Kia Motors Co introduced its first solar-powered car last week. The solar car, weighing 180 kg, can reach a maximum speed of 120 km per hour. Reuter
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      • 305 48 AP WASHINGTON The Clinton administration is considering a request from The Boeing Co and General Electric for permission to sell commercial jets and engines to Iran. White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers confirmed at a Friday briefing that the administration
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      • 439 48 Reuter BEIJING China's US$BOO million (Ssl.3 billion) order for Boeing aircraft heralds an overall increase in imports from the United States this year, a senior Beijing trade official was quoted as saying here yesterday. The order for 20 mediumrange 737s and
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      • 263 48 Reuter BEIJING Chinese airlines turn increasingly to Sovietmade aircraft and their crews to meet soaring passenger demand. Xinhua news agcncy reported. China is cxpcctcd to "wet lease" 11 llyushin-86s and 11 Tupolcv-154s from Russia this year alone, the official agcncy reported on
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      • 700 48 NTY NEW YORK Like the aerial acrobatics of hummingbirds, which seem to defy the laws of aerodynamics, the shuttle operations of Delta Air Lines and USAir seem to fly in the face of airline economics. Despite fewer passengers,
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        • 71 48 Bernama-Kyodo TOKYO Japan and Brunei on Wednesday agreed on plans for Royal Brunei Airlines to fly to Kansai International Airport, which is scheduled to open in the summer of 1994. The agreement, which came during Japan-Brunei governmental talks held in Brunei, would allow a
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        • 71 48 AFP SEOUL The bodies of three South Koreans were found and 12 others feared drowned after their squid trawler sank in unexplained circumstances on Saturday in the South Atlantic. A Royal Navy boat and helicopter, which took part in the rescue operation off
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        • 55 48 Reuter WILMINGTON, Delaware Du Font's Conoco Shipping Company said Samsung Shipbuilding and Heavy Industries finished construction of its third double-hulled tanker for the company. The tanker, named Pioneer, will be one of four double-hulled tankers the company will use in the Gulf of Mexico by
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        • 69 48 AFP LOS ANGELES McDonnell Douglas, the No 2 US aerospace manufacturer, may be seeking to sell its missile branch, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday. Sources said McDonnell is believed to have contacted a number of potential buyers. A company spokesman refused to deny
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    • 7 29 REGIONAL ANALYSIS Every Wednesday in Business Times
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    • 1506 32 AQABA R OAM/ LE ALSO ACCEPTING FROM VESSEL VOY NO SPORE JEDOAH (VIA JED) S'TON H BURG A WERP HAVRE W EST MALAYSIA LA SEINE 29/114 14/4 1/5 4/5 2/5 Port Kelang. Penang HOECHST EXPRESS 08/314 17/4 26/4 2/5 5/5 8/5 10/5 12/5 Pasir Gudang TOKIO FXPRFSS 10/115 22/4 8/5
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    • 2074 33 H STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppd Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 NEW GUINEA PACIFIC LINE BallilS9kSCMalllßSlalalHillllSfllAiiy3H ctPep <a service of china navigation co> CARGO QUI SAB.S RAJAH BKOOKE Vlo€ Mu«i Lib 12 13 Apt 14 Aj» 15 Apr FCL, LCt CONTAINER AND MCAKBULK
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    • 723 34 INDONESIA NATIONAL LINE r— m ~""wt |»at| wrntM ~H«tjw» minn IjgWMjl 34W8 I ?-5/i I »/S i/i 1 14 TO AUSTRAST—-* EAST COAST PO"" VSt VOt PHI STOtt STD MELB BIBS FK AOEL MHO AUSTHALIA 43S 13/4 12/4 29/4 2/S »/4 jz Vs_ MHO SOW* 04S H/4 18/4 4/5 7/5
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    • 1510 35 WE ARE PLEASED TO ADVISE: HI II ELECTRONIC LINKED-UP WITH OUR CONTAINER DEPOT (OCWS) I SSS J~ II ENABLE COLLECTION OF EMPTY CONTAINERS W WITHOUT PRESENTATION OF RELEASE ORDERS I II FOR ALL EXPORT SHIPMENTS (NOL SERVICES) H —I Tn PNW .uSA inland POINTS i to CALiFomtui ■in cult mump
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    • 1194 36 Q'Wjr" AS AGENTS: KAWASAKI SINGAPORE (PTE) LTD (CR No ***** 7 ***** M» WT W W7* TEL: *****77 TELEX: KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****07/8/9 m MALAYSIA: "K" LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD MmJ M. JL Mm* TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****0 JB *****1 PGU *****5/6 mHB KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA,
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    • 141 36 Continental Pacific Shipping J TIMBER PLYWOOD SERVICE TO U.K./CONTINENT KKU STOKE PK 10MXHG FOR MART I SAIED SUED S All ED SETE ROT/AWT FLU Iff MLAGRO 15/4 21/4 25/4 SITE ROT/ANT/FLU/l* loads Sabah Indonesia MULTIPORT AGENCIES (S) PTE. LTD. jVA TEL: *****77 FAX: *****31 VjlM/ p.K. MULTIPORT SDN BHD. TEL:
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    • 967 37 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD] 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building. Singapore 0106. *****55? K miwklV cn NO iooao67ooooe t"l ukcsci Toy SIN jkt sin VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN EQUATOR HAWK «TN 14/4 17/4 21/4 KOTA SURIA KSRISN 14/4 17/4 21/4 K OTA INDAH 3261 18/4 21/4 25/4 SINO
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    • 54 39 1/C VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD Q Established Since 1984 OCEANIA PORTS REGULAR lcl consolidation AUCKLAND SYDNEY IMPORT EXPORT MELBOURNE FREMANTLE SERVICES W FOR BOOKING St SAILING SCHEDULE. CALL THE TOTAL TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE. VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD VISA LCL CONSOL PTE LTD TOLL-FREE TEL: 1800 *****66 TOLL-FREE TEL: 1800
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    • 2743 40 Page 12 j: Conventional Semi-Container Full Container Liner Services Liner Services Arms: *t Mts < General Agents: Booking Agents: General Agents: Booking Agents: Guan Guan Shipping Sdn Bhd Chung Chiao Shipping Sdn Bhd P.T. Global Putra Indonesia Maritime Yick Fung Shinoine t Freight Boohing Gmtshlp Agencies Costar Shipping Pie Ltd
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    • 721 41 FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES I 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, SPORE 0207 I HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) I GOTHENBURG/SCAN 19/04 ROTTERDAM 19/04 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 19/04 HAMBURG/BREMEN 19/04 I MARSEILLE/FRANCE 19/04 FELIXSTOWE/UK 19/04 I BARCELONA/SPAIN 19/04 LEHAVRE/FRAWCE I GENOA/ITALY 19/04 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 19/04 I LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 17/04 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 14/04 I NEW YORK/EC
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