The Business Times, 1 December 1993

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    13 1 Business Times MITA (P) 552/12/92 Wednesday December 1 1993 WE KHOW ASIA 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow Jones up 13 points
      46 1 AFP NEW YORK Bluc-chip share prices edged higher yesterday after the release of a report showing a surge in US consumer confidence in November. The Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials rose 13.41 points to 3.691.21 at Ipm EST. AFP
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      Lock icon Commerzbank predicts Bundesbank rate cut
      69 1 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT Commerzbank AG. Germany's fourthlargest listed hank, is predicting that the Bundesbank will trim its leading discount and Lombard rates by 0.25 to 0.5 point at tomorrow's central council meeting. West German unemployment figures for November. due for release tomorrow. is expected
      Bloomberg Business News  -  69 words
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      Lock icon South Africa, US sign economic agreement
      49 1 AFP CAPE TOWN South Africa and the United States yesterday signed an investmeni guarantee agreement, setting the stage for a significant increase in trade between the two countries. US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who is on a fiveday tour of South Africa, said.
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    121 1 Stock market indices luesdat Change ST1I 2.096.14 -2.78 KLSE Composite 996 45 24.35 Nikkei 16 406 54 +327 83 Hang Seng 9.125.21 4-112.44 SET Index ...1.309.95 +14 44 Jakarta Composite ...518.78 -1.68 CLSA China B 1.260.2 +49 Aust All ()rd 2.009 4 -0 9 FTSE 100 3.1669 +31.1
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    Consortium to challenge Telecom in cellular phones
    551 1  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE A consortium is gearing up to challenge Singapore's biggest listed company, the newly floated Singapore Telecom, in its most profitable business providing cellular phone services. Sources say the consortium grouping Singapore Technologies Ventures (STV), a division of the
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    MAS pre-tax profits plunge 97pc
    350 1 SINGAPORE Malaysia Airline System Bhd (MAS), which barely escaped the red ink for its half-year earnings, yesterday blamed fierce price competition in the global airline industry for a 97.4 per cent plunge in its pre-tax profits. For the six months ended Sept 30, group pre-tax
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    Tokyo stocks lead Asian rebound
    245 1 SINGAPORE A rebound in the Japanese stock market yesterday helped regional share prices end firmer, with the Kuala Lumpur market posting a record close. In Singapore, early trading was cautious as investors watched Tokyo's performance. The Straits Times Industrials Index shed six points before news
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    Lock icon US consumer confidence surged in November, says poll
    424 1 AP. Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK United States consumer confidence rose sharply in November, reflecting greater optimism about the job market and the economy in general. The Conference Board, a New York research group which tracks sentiment through a monthly poll, yesterday
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    HK to give 3 new licences for local phone network
    498 1  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG HONGKONG will issue three new licences for its local telephone network in a move to encourage competition and further promote itself as a regional telecommunications and financial centre. Although the city has one of the
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    Lock icon KLSE beefs up computers to track corporate fraud
    369 1 AFP KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday said it was beefing up its computer system to detect corporate fraud as listed firms were warned they could be fined up to M$ 100,000 (5562,460) for non-disclosure of vital information. The general
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      54 1 Jurong Shipyard, DBS Land and PSA take top prizes for annual reports Last night was Oscar night for Singapore's best annual reports. Though no listed company or statutory board made the Grand Award, DBS Land, Jurong Shipyard and the Port of Singapore Authority walked away with prizes in their own
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      9 1 Regional Analysis: Pg is Mega airport projects in Asia
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • eye on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Economy strong judging by IDD calls
        300 2  -  By Teh Hooi Ling THE Singapore economy should remain strong at least for the next six months going by the number of international telephone calls for the year to August. Telecom figures show that in August. 10,420,512 outgoing International Direct Dial calls were made,
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      Seagate Technology stepping up investment in Singapore
      446 2  -  By Claire Leow SEAGATE Technology, which aims to double its revenue to US$6 billion (559.6 billion) by 1999, has stepped up its investment in Singapore. At its 10th anniversary celebration this time last year, the California-based disk drive maker announced plans to invest
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      The day it rained inside Raffles
      366 2  -  By A J Leow IT RAINED outside and it poured inside. Raffles Hotel's Bar Billiards Room became, during lunchtime yesterday, its Bar and Pool room when water first tricklcd down the walls and then poured down from the ceiling. Table by table, diners beat
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      A-G says Phua's case not relevant in present case
      459 2  -  The OSA Trial Reports by Ramesh Divyanathan AN OFFICIAL Secrets Act case decided by the High Court in 1986 is not relevant to the present case, AttorneyG ineral Chan Sek Keong said yesterday. Mr Chan said the decision of Judge L
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      Accused's reckless acts led to leaks: A-G
      396 2 THE reckless acts of an accused led to the unauthorised communication of secret data, a Subordinate Court heard yesterday. Bringing up the issue of recklessness for the first time, Attorney-General Chan Sek Kcong argued that the first accused, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, recklessly communicated the
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  • THE REGION
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      Riau development will benefit Singapore and Indonesia: ministers
      362 3  -  Reports by William Chia in JAKARTA THE development of the Riau province will benefit Indonesia as well as Singapore. This was emphasised by Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Industry and Trade Hartarto and Industry Minister Tungki Ariwibowo when they spoke to reporters yesterday
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      More than $5b committed to Riau projects
      261 3 SINGAPORE and Indonesia have committed more than Sss billion to date to the development of four major projects in the Riau province. These four projects involve a resort on Bintan island known as Bintan Beach International Resort (BBIR), a light industrial estate on
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      Vietnam acts to reform inefficient state enterprises
      252 3  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Vietnam has more than halved the number of inefficient state-run enterprises, says a European banker. The managing director of Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank Research, Hung Tran, said yesterday: "The number of entities has been cut from 12,000 to about 6.000."
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      KL to discuss sanctions against Canberra
      482 3 Malaysian govt insists that Keating apologises for remarks on Mahathir KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Cabinet is to discuss possible sanctions against Australia as the government yesterday insisted that Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating apologise for critical remarks against his Malaysian counterpart Mahathir Mohamad. "The
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      Lock icon UK wants to be No 1 exporter to Asia
      269 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR British Trade Minister Richard Needham yesterday said that although his country's exports to Asia had risen sharply, Britain was still determined to be the number one exporter to developing countries in the region. "The reality is that in
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      Lock icon Thai PM, minister differ over police panel revamp
      248 3 AFP BANGKOK The campaign by Thailand's embattled interior minister, Chaowalit Yongchaiyudh. to revamp an uncooperative police oversight panel has met with a cool response from Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai. Mr Chavalit's New Aspiration Party (NAP), secondstrongest member of Mr Chuan's five-party coalition
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      Lock icon HK going ahead with limited Bill to reform polls system: report
      431 5 Bloomberg Business News AP Reuter, HONGKONG The Hongkong government decided yesterday to defy China and go ahead with a limited Bill to reform the colony's election system, Hongkong radio said. It said the Executive Council, Hongkong's Cabinet, resolved to
      Bloomberg Business News; AP; Reuter,  -  431 words
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      Lock icon Foreign travel agents owe Chinese companies millions of dollars: report
      279 5 AFP BEIJING Chinese travel agents are owed more than 200 million yuan (5554.9 million) by their foreign counterparts, a debt that threatens the industry, an official trade newsletter said yesterday. "Chinese travel agencies that offer travel have delivered services before
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    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon M'sia's trade with Asean up 14.6pc
        91 5 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia said its trade with the rest of Asean rose 14.6 per cent to M$ 13.96 billion in the second quarter of 1993 from MS 12.18 billion in the previous quarter. Total trade with Asean countries in the first half of
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        Lock icon Hanoi promotes AIDS awareness
        70 5 AFP HANOI A woman distributing condoms and leaflets on AIDS yesterday to a man on a street here to mark World AIDS Day today. The Vietnamese authorities are conccmed about the increasing number of AIDS cases that have been reported since 1990 when the first case
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        Lock icon Japan, China resume security talks
        75 5 AFP TOKYO Japan and China will resume security talks early next year, which have been suspended since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, according to Japanese Defence Agency officials. During the planned meetings with China, Japan is expected to ask for transparency in the operation of
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        Lock icon Thai Cabinet allows labour unions
        100 5 AP BANGKOK The Cabinet yesterday approved a bill that would restore the right of workers to set up labour unions in both the government and the private sector. State enterprise unions were outlawed by a military junta that toppled an elected government in 1991. The
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      Lock icon Debts mount at China's state-run companies, causing credit crisis
      312 5 UPI BEIJING Chinese state-run industry's resurgent chain debt problem, with US$3O billion (5547.7 billion) in uncollectable bills through the first seven months of 1993, has provoked "a credit crisis", an official newspaper said yesterday. The so-called triangular debt problem, fuelled by
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      Lock icon China's Ministry of Posts sets up HK office
      118 5 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications will officially open a representative office in Hongkong today, the Beijingbacked Ta Kung Pao newspaper reported. Called Telpo Communications, the office will seek to secure funding, facilities and advanced management experi- ence
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      SM Lee urges a realistic approach to Hainan tourism plan
      301 5  -  From Yong Row Ang in SANYA, HAINAN AIM HIGH, but work realistically to achieve the target. This was Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's message after he was briefed yesterday on an ambitious plan to promote tourism in Hainan. Mr Lee
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      Lock icon Japan's Cabinet endorses 2nd t top-up budget of 709b yen
      567 6 Reuter TOKYO Japan's Cabinet has endorsed a second top-up budget totalling 709 billion yen (5510.4 million) to balance the I*3/94 state budget. Ministry ojR inance officials said. This measure, which requires parliamentary approval, will partly finance an emergency economic package
      Reuter  -  567 words
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      Lock icon Japanese economic indicators read like temperature chart for North Pole in Dec
      696 6 AP, AFP TOKYO Profits are down, unemployment is rising, the stock market has lost almost 20 per cent of its value in the last month. Winter has come early to the Japanese economy and there is no promise
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      Lock icon Tokyo, US said to have reached pact on limited rice imports
      496 6 NYT TOKYO Japan and the United States have agreed to a plan to partly open Tokyo's rice market, clearing one of the remaining hurdles to reaching a new global trade agreement by mid-December. A US official said on Monday
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      Lock icon Aussie economy shows healthiest signs yet of pickup in 3rd quarter
      385 6 Reuter SYDNEY Australia's gross domestic product rose 0.4 per cent in third quarter, exceeding market forecasts and revealing some of the healthiest signs yet of a pickup in business investment, official data released yesterday showed. The Australian Bureau of
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      Lock icon India tests medium-range missile for 12th time
      187 6 AFP NEW DELHI India yesterday successfully test-launched for the 12th time a sophisticated medium-range surface-to-surface missile that will likely be inducted into the armed forces this year. The Indian-built Prithvi. or Earth, was fired at 12.25 pm (0655 GMT) in clear weather from
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      Lock icon Boost for US rice
      57 6 Reuter I OKYO California Governor Pete Wilson showing off a bag of home-grown US rice at the California Trade Office, which was officially opened in Tokyo on Monday. Mr Wilson is leading a trade mission on a seven-day visit to Japan, hoping to boost exports and
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      Lock icon Battle over leadership of NZ's opposition party ends today
      547 6 AFP WELLINGTON A battle over the leadership of the opposition Labour Party will climax here today with likely victory to Helen Clark described by former Prime Minister David Lange as "so dry she is combustible". Besieged Labour leader Mike Moore calls
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Talks with US on Nafta useful: Canadian minister
      430 9 Reuter WASHINGTON Canadian Trade Minister Roy MacLaren said on Monday he had held useful talks with his US counterpart to iron out differences over the North American Free Trade Agreement. Canada, suspicious of what it considers heavy-handed US trade practices, wants improvements
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      Lock icon Spain delays EC asylum plan, blocks setting up of Europol
      436 9 Reuter BRUSSELS Spain, angry over moves by fellow EC member Belgium to grant temporary asylum to two accused Basque separatists, delayed a plan on Monday to create a Community-wide asylum law. It also blocked the setting up of Europol, the
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      Lock icon Belgium govt, unions discuss new austerity plan
      231 9 Reuter BRUSSELS Belgium's government yesterday discussed its new austerity plan with trade unions in make-or-break talks which political analysts say will test the mettle of the four-party coalition. The opposition Flemish newspaper, Het Laatste Nieuws. speculated the current climate of political instability might
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      Lock icon Cold comfort
      65 9 Reuter TRONDHEIM, Norway The Swedish Worldwide Fund for Nature tried in vain to free five killer whales trapped by ice in a Norwegian fjord. An icebreaker was used to try to clear a channel, but was unsuccessful. The two orcas pictured above died. Norwegian officials plan to monitor
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      Lock icon Poverty can be halved in one generation, says World Bank
      343 9 AP WASHINGTON Nearly a third of the world's people are poor and hungry, but the problem can be cut in half in a generation, the World Bank said on Monday. Economic progress in Asia, the achievements of non-gov-ernment programmes, increases
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon Slower growth for Canadian economy
        70 9 AFP OTTAWA The Canadian economy grew at an annual rate of just 2.4 per cent between July and September, the government said yesterday. Statistics Canada said the third quarter growth in the gross domestic product was "a bit slower than in the previous two quarters"
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        Lock icon German plant, machinery orders up
        63 9 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT German plant and machinery orders rose an inflation-adjusted 3 per cent in October from the year-earlier month, the VDMA engineering association said yesterday. It is the first rise since March 1992, a VDMA spokesman said. Foreign orders fueled October's order climb,
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        Lock icon E African nations in cooperation pact
        76 9 Reuter RUSHA. Tanzania Leaders of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania met yesterday to sign an accord, paving way for the revival of regional cooperation 16 years after the collapse of the East African Community. Presidents Daniel arap Moi of Kenya, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and
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        Lock icon Call for review of Atlantic Alliance
        67 9 Reuter PARIS The heads of Nato and the Western European Union called on Monday for a "re-balancing" of the Atlantic Alliance to give Europe greater responsibility for its own security without alienating the US. Both Nato Secretary-General Manfred Woerner and his WEU counterpart Willem
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        Lock icon George Bush is knight, but no 'Sir'
        72 9 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Queen Elizabeth II bestowed an honorary knighthood on former US President George Bush at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Mr Bush was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in a private ceremony at the Palace. Like
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        Lock icon French jobless rate hits record 12pc
        56 9 Reuter PARIS The jobless rate in France hit a record 12 per cent of the workforce in October, the Labour Ministry said yesterday. The numbers out of work rose 1.2 per cent on the month to a record 3.28 million. The jobless rate was
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      Lock icon Gore in more public role to boost diplomatic image of US
      426 10 Reuter WASHINGTON US VicePresident A 1 Gore, who has emerged as Bill Clinton's top troubleshooter, is about to spread his wings on the world stage in an effort to polish the administration's diplomatic image. Mr Gore departed yesterday for
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      Lock icon Prosecutors seek trial of 5 Italian deputies
      258 10 Reuter MILAN Anti-corruption prosecutors on Monday requested that five Italian deputies be sent for trial a move which could put parliamentarians in the dock for the first time since Italy's graft scandals broke in April 1992. The five are the first to suffer
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      Lock icon Russia to reimpose import tariffs next month
      192 10 FT MOSCOW Russia is to reimpose import tariffs on a range of imported foodstuffs next month. First Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar said on Monday. He said the tarifTs would be low. But the move is a further sign of an increasing tendency
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      Lock icon US firm on Pakistan ban despite new aid proposal
      320 10 Reuter WASHINGTON The US on Monday insisted it intends to continue a ban on military aid to Pakistan despite a new proposal that would radically revamp American foreign assistance to reflect post-Cold War realities. Last week. State Department spokesman Mike McCurry
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      Lock icon Knick, knack, paddy whack, give a dog a home
      53 10 AFP KIEV, Ukraine This well-bundled dog has learnt a new trick: to beg for a winter shelter. As city authorities grapple with the problem of hundreds of stray dogs, a local animal group has stepped in to help raise funds for
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      Lock icon White right-wingers pledge to defy S African transition to majority rule
      298 10 Reuter JOHANNESBURG White right-wingers have given notice of their determination to set up an Afrikaner homeland in defiaodflHMMflhtfrica's quickenmajority rule. People's Front (AVF), an umbrella group of far-right organisations, said on Monday it now regarded itself as a "transitional
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Arcadia, City of Angels bag top prizes
      340 13 Evening Standard Drama Awards AP TOM Stoppard's Arcadia. a play about love, death and landscape gardening. and a musical import from Broadway, City of Angels, were named the year's best shows on Monday at the annual Evening Standard Drama Awards in London. A
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      Lock icon Bristling over graffiti art
      733 13 CHATTERBOX UPI AP AP AP AP SCIENCE FICTION author Ray Bradbury is bristling at the fact that graffiti painters have been talking about their "art" and "craft" to UCLA students in classes. Bradbury, a Los Angeles resident, in a letter to the Los Angeles limes proposed
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      1256 13 TV RADIO irascible elderly woman. R\an R O'Neal and Katherine Hep- mi S Fatal Attraction. 8.30pm. TV 2 &£&>■ I^^ Michael Douglas has a fling with Glenn Close in this 1987 hit. She gets incensed when he wk gives her the brush-oIT. His r A../ 'Z&c*'"chauvinistic attitude makes her V
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      Lock icon Second world championship for Faxon
      369 14 Johnnie Walker World Championship Golf Prism HONGKONG Brad Faxon's win in the Australian Open in Melbourne last weekend means that he has become the penultimate qualifier for the US$2.7 million (554.3 million) Johnnie Walker World Championship to be held in Jamaica from Dec 16-19. The
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      Lock icon Legendary coach remembers when Caps meant a 15-0 start
      746 14  -  In pro basketball's pioneer years, Caps had nothing to do with salaries and everything to do with a man named Red Auerbach, writes Dave Anderson Dave Anderson NYT NEW YORK When the Washington Capitols opened the 1948-49 schedule with 15 consecutive
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      449 14 AP NEW YORK When it comes to quartcrbacking a team towards the National Football League playoffs this year, older is better. Quarterbacks in their 30s are all the rage in a season where younger counterparts have been victimised by injuries and inconsistency. There's
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        50 14 Reuter MANILA Asian Track and Field Championships: Men's 3,000 metre steeplechase 1. Sa'ad Mossae (Saudi Arabia), 8 min-32.08 sec; 2. Ahmer Mohammad (UAE), 8:39.02; 3. Sajadi Hezave (Iran), 8:43.29. Women's discus finals: 1. Cao Qi (China), 61.58 metres; 2. Zhao Yonghua (China), 57.78; 3. Ikuko Kitamori (Japan), 50.40. Reuter
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        237 14 Reuter NEW YORK NFL Monday (home team first): Indianapolis 0 San Diego 31. Standings (won, lost, tied, points for, points against) American Conference, Eastern Division: 1 Miami 9 2 0 234 186 2 Buffalo 8 3 0 202 152 3 NY Jets 7 4 0 240 170 4
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        24 14 Reuter NEW YORK NBA Monday (home team first): San Antonio 102 Milwaukee 95; LA Clippers 118 New Jersey 94; Sacramento 103 Indiana 105.
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        70 14 AFP LONDON England's Nick Faldo stays at the head of the world rankings this week. I reading rankings: I Nick Faldo (GB) 21.27 pts avc 2 Greg Norman (Aust) 19.32 3 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 17.12 4 Fred Couples (US) 15.11 5 Nick Price (Zim) 14.91 6 Paul Azingcr (US)
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        26 14 Reuter NEW YORK NHL Monday: Ottawa 2 Hartford 4; Toronto 0 Buffalo 3; Edmonton 5 Dallas 6 (OT); Vancouver 2 Chicago I (OT). Reuter
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        62 14 AFP LONDON Wales wonder kid Ryan Giggs dashed AC Milan's hopes of buying him by celebrating his 20th birthday with the signing of a new fiveyear contract for English League leaders Manchester United on Monday. The subject of a £10 million (5523.8 million) offer from the Italian aristocrats, he
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        215 14 UPI Reiser MADRAS, India Ramesh Krishnan, who in 1980 became the first Indian tennis player to be ranked in the world's top 100, sensationally quit the sport on Monday in protest at the All-India Tennis Association (Aita). Krishnan, 32, was seething after Aita president R K Khanna criticised him
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      1191 14 TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-800-741-1883 FAX:74I-1298 STRAITS STEAMSHIP LAND LTD (Incorporated m tie Republic ol Smgvnre) LOST STOCK CERTIFICATES Applicabon has been made to the Directors ol Ihe abownamed company to issue duplcate certificate in place of the tallowing certificate has been reported lost or destroyed ta.tf Mectm* CarMitaft N« taM
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      343 14 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND MTHE MATTER OF PEARL ZONE PTE LTD (In MemborV Voluntary Winding-up) SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED ON 2GTH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1993 Al an Extraordinary General Meeong of tw Company held ft 100 Beach Road #?SO6 Shaw Towers Singapore 0718 on tw
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      Lock icon Will Asian airports beat the end-of-the-century rush?
      1367 15  -  Special to BT Mega-airport projects in Asia TERENCE HARDEMAN TERENCE HARDEMAN The writer is group editor of Aerospace magazine published in Singapore. JAPANESE steelworkers on a golf junket wait for their delayed flight at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport. Grannies from Hongkong on their
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      Bangkok in bid to be an air hub
      1236 15  -  Alan Boyd reports on Thailand's ambitious airport scheme Alan Boyd The writer is a journalist based in Bangkok. He has worked for new spapers in Hongkong. Europe and Australia. IN A snake-infested swamp east of the Thai capital, engineers are banging in
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      Serving the skies, the Changi way
      1288 17  -  Mega-airports Singapore and Malaysian-style CONRAD RAJ CONRAD RAJ The writer is BT's associate nens editor CONSISTENTLY voted the best airport in the world by international business travellers, Singapore Changi Airport continues to improve and expand to maintain its top rank. While other cities quibble
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      Is Kuala Lumpur's new airport racing to beat Changi?
      1205 17  -  LESLIE LOPEZ LESLIE LOPEZ The writer is BT's Kuala Lumpur correspondent END- 1997. That is the deadline for the take-off of Malaysia's new multi-billion dollar airport. Few, if any, of Malaysia's aviation experts are disputing that jumbo jets will actually be
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      70 15 Auction: The Sheraton Towers Hotel, Southgate, 11a.m. Thursday 9th December, 1993. Melbourne's 5 u Investment Prime CBD location within close proximity to the new Casino development situated at Southbank. Income as at Ist Jan. 1994 $749,000 approx. -ft Building area: approx. IIOUSQ vY 15 Car spaces ■V^VTTTTI -Y High yielding
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      203 15 A Feast That's Out Of This World, Need Not Cost The Earth. COLD DISH DELUXE BRAISED SHARK'S FIN WITH BRAISED SUPERIOR SHARK'S FIN j SUPERIOR SHARK'S FLN IN CRAB MEAT ROAST SUCKLING PIG CLEAR SOL I STEAMED RED FISH STEAMED POMFRET ROAST SLCKLIV SPRING CHICKEN IN SPECIAL SAUCE PAN-FRIED PRAWNS
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      123 16 r B K Mm l~ I' I K K I B I K I A I UB Brl m L II A I m m B H B J^r VIM H B r^K I I I m 'mR Ljf A^ Singapore's Biggest And Most Outrageous f Italian Restaurant r II
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      169 17 IV, o Critics purr! I "A STUNNING PRODUCTION THAT FINALLY PUSHES SINGAPORE INTO THE LEAGUE OF WORLD-CLASS THEATRE." "SUCH WAS THE SHEER MAGIC THAT THE CAST SPUN OVER THE AUDIENCE AS THEY CREATED A MYSTICAL. LYRICAL FAIRYLAND." I "IT REALLY IS A HECK OF A SHOW... GO!" Jaime Ee, Business
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    Five days a week
    569 18 EDITORIAL IN BRITAIN, Keep Sunday Special lobbyists are up in arms over plans to reform a centuries-old law banning Sunday trading. Their opposition, they say, boils down to one of employee protection: proponents of deregulation usually overlook the human cost of what it really means to
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
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      And now, for the fruits
      262 18 A YEAR AGO. Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew warned at the People's Action Party conference that unless Singapore built an external economy like other NIEs and fast this country was in danger of becoming another failed economic success story. Today, there is ample evidence that
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      Remove economic disparity
      131 18 THE Indonesian leadership was wise to disband the state lottery' and is seen sharing the feeling of the students who protested against it. This gesture does not mean that Indonesia is succumbing to pressures of an Islamic revival. It shows the sincerity of the government in recognising
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      Malaysia Cup: a shattered dream
      144 18 THE DEFEAT of Singapore in this year's Malaysia Cup was a great blow, not only to the team, but also to many Singaporeans who were watching eagerly. Singapore's dream of bringing the Cup back has been shattered. The present task is to analyse the reasons
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      The issue is Hongkong's future
      180 18 IT IS LESS than three weeks since a new optimism enveloped the talks between China and Britain on Hongkong's political system. Britain is being more subtle. It hints at putting to Legco the "simple" proposals voting age, the single vote, single-seat voting method and the
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      Development with a heart
      207 18 ONE OF THE most common and complex problems which a Third World city such as Jakarta has to face is phenomenal population growth. Apart from accommodating a growing population, the city itself has to grow to meet the challenges of a modern world, such as through
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      Questions of ethics
      142 18 NEWS REPORTS of Telecom Asia's offer to sell 25 million shares at par value of 10 baht each to employees of the Telephone Organisation of Thailand (TOT) raise questions of the legality and ethics of such a practice. Also: is it acceptable to offer to sell politicians
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    731 18  -  Kunda Dixit says although the region's intelligentsia may be convinced about T democracy's long-term merits, the impoverished millions are impatient Kunda Dixit The writer, a Nepalese journalist, is regional editor of Inter Press Service, based in Manila IHT IN sharp contrast to
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      150 18 im -.>. The British Council i§f MANAGEMENT SCHOOL ■1-HIWfIHI University of London Designed for experienced graduate managers *6 -O 3 weeks in both Year 1 and Year 2at Imperial College in London > Further teaching in Singapore primarily from Imperial Faculty Workplace project in Year 3 supervised by Imperial Faculty
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      85 18 TOR TW£ roouey I G£T Hcffe I I've. lOP.TCHIHG "ibu FoO SHOULD PLM COITH A Full VApiLF P»N HOUR RND SOU I \D£CVC *S V4fwe^' T MQVGD.... DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU I 'DAL-WC. AS He 15 knoujn I f Dai-Tex: r I N CCNSPtKACf Have just f Motorcade.-1 No, butare^^^^*| I
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      Lock icon Sounding the death knell for income tax
      2158 19  -  In the light of yesterday's UK Budget, John Plender explains why the 1980s tax reforms have failed, and says an expenditure tax would overcome the proulems that income tax has with inflation, depreciation, and the valuation of pension rights and human capital John
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      7 19 LAW PAGE Every Thursday in Business Times
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      54 19 REDISCOVER 1 u RADIO 1 It never dawned an me that Radio 1 plays such a good variety of music. I find it really enjoyable. I have it on all day, rediscovering the legendary classics such as Simon and Garfunkel, Dusty Springfield, Cliff Richard and the Carpenters. J) MARY TAN
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    Lock icon US hints of possible compromise with France in Gatt trade talks
    507 20 AP, AFP, Reuter WASHINGTON Signifying a possible breakthrough in the Gatt world trade talks. United States Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy yesterday signalled that there might be room for a compromise with France in a bitter dispute over farm subsidies
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    Lock icon UK budget reviews welfare spending, cuts deficit
    480 20 Chancellor pledges to remove need for govt borrowing by 2000 Reuter, AFP, AP LONDON Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke yesterday announced a sweeping review of Britain's huge welfare spending and vowed to remove the need for government borrowing by the year 2000.
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    Lock icon Joblessness in Japan soars to 2.7pc
    241 20 AP TOKYO Reflecting the deepening economic recession, Japan's jobless rate has jumped to a near six-year high of 2.7 per cent. Japan's unemployment rate remained far lower than that of other Western industrialised nations, but the latest monthly rate was its highest since Fetv
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    When will Japanese share prices come down to earth?
    927 20  -  The Bottom Line ANTHONY ROWLEY ANTHONY ROWLEY The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent OBSERVING the latest collapse of the Tokyo stock market gives one a strong feeling of deja vw or "this is where I came in" in 1990, 1991 and
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    Lock icon Tokyo to cut taxes on land deals to help banks reduce bad loans
    395 20 Reuter AFP TOKYO Two key Japanese ministers yesterday agreed to case heavy taxes on land transactions to help banks rcducc huge amounts of bad loans, which would in turn help shore up sliding stock prices. But economists
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    392 20 Bloomberg Business News. Reuter CANBERRA Minutes after the release of data on Australia's gross domestic product at 11.30 am Sydney time, an economist at Bankers Trust realised something was not right. Jenny Cratchlcy was at the Sydney office of the Australian Bureau of Statistics shouting
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      DBS Land, Jurong Shipyard are tops
      571 21  -  Annual Report Award By Joyce Quek SINGAPORE In a year of more stringent marking for the Annual Report Award (ARA), no Grand Award was handed out at the 20th ARA ceremony at The Mandarin hotel last night. The Best Annual Award for multi-industry and
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      Tuan Sing to set up joint venture for new investments in Shanghai
      223 21 SINGAPORE Propertybased Tuan Sing Holdings has signed a letter of intent with the Min Hang district of Shanghai City to set up a jointventure company to invest in real estate, among other things. The listed company said in
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      Lock icon Talks on sale of Union Paper shares off
      77 21 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Talks on the sale of 3.923 million Union Paper Holdings Bhd shares have fallen through. UPHB said in a statement yesterday that it was told by its controlling shareholder, Queeline Sdn Bhd. that talks with a third party had
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      A Far East-Sino Land merger would create new regional property heavyweight
      965 21  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Is one of Singapore's biggest private fortunes going public soon? On Monday, the Chinese-language Lianhe Zaobao daily reported that property tycoon Ng Teng Fong was thinking of injecting all his Singapore
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      Summavest buys HK life insurance firm for HK$145m
      291 21  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE Summa Investments has entered into an agreement to buy the entire share capital of a Hongkongbased life insurance company, NZ Insurance Life (NZIL). The HKSI4S million (Ss3o million) purchase from UK-listed General Accident Pacific Ltd marks Summavest's first
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      Hai Sun Hup in two tie-ups
      161 21 SINGAPORE The marinebased Hai Sun Hup group yesterday announced that it has entered into two new jointventure deals as part of its fleet renewal programme. The agreements with Arabian Marine Bunker Sales Co. a subsidiary of Mitsui OSK Lines, and Asahi Tanker Co called
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      SUMMARY
      287 21 Performance of STII's Index stocks Nov 30 Last iBfe* Stock sale <$) factor i Avhdo 1.770 -0.050 1.23 26.32 C4C 7.900 -0.100 5.51 52.63 CWT 2 680 -0020 1.87 10.53 (erebos 6 500 -0.100 4.53 52.63 FAN 15 300 10.67 Gen Mag 1.040 0020 0.73 -10.53 Ha» Par 3
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          CDL Hotels appoints new CEO
          77 22 SINGAPORE CDL Hotels International, a subsidiary of City Developments, appointed Edouard Alfred Gremlich as its chief executive officer and executive director on Nov 1. Mr Gremlich will be responsible for all aspects of CDL Hotels' operation, including accountability for the group's continued growth and performance.
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          New director at Guthrie GTS
          83 22 SINGAPORE Guthrie GTS has appointed Ong Kin Bee, currently general manager of the company's engineering division, Guthrie Engineering, as director of Guthrie. Besides his current responsibility of overseeing the engineering division, Mr Ong also sits on the executive committee of the board, which oversees the
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          Amcol completes China plant purchase
          79 22 SINGAPORE Trading and property group Amcol Holdings yesterday announced that its purchase of the Qingyuan Qiaoyuan Power Plant has been completed. Amcol entered into an agreement to acquire the power plant last month, becoming the first Singapore company to acquire and operate a power plant
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          Swens Asia-Pacific changes name
          42 22 SINGAPORE Swens Asia-Pacific Ltd announced yesterday that it had changed its name to ABR Holdings Ltd. The name change was made at an extraordinary general meeting of its members on Nov 15 and took effect from Nov 17.
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        UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
        505 22 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manager*' prices Dec I Unibond 105 108 i,_jx t_„i United Or Fund 1.46 1.52 Singapore unit irusi United Asia Fund 1.73 l.SI* The Commerce 1.59 1.67 NTUC InCMM The Savings Fund 1.49 I 56 S pore Prog Fund 0.67 0.70 Income Bond folio 4.UK 4.22 S pore
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        Lock icon AMDB in joint venture with Blue Star of India
        499 22 MBT KUALA LUMPUR ArabMalaysian Development Bhd (AMDB) has concluded a joint venture agreement with Blue Star Ltd of India to tap the huge potential of the heating, ventilating and air-condition-ing (HVAC) installation business in Malaysia. The joint venture, ArabMalaysian Blue Star
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        Lock icon Amcorp unit has M$308m contracts in hand
        299 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR ArabMalaysian Corp Builders Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Arab-Malaysian Corp Bhd, has been awarded contracts to date totalling MS3OB million (SSI9I million), executive chairman Azman Hashim said yesterday. Amcorp Builders, a bumiputra construction company, provides a total package of
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        Lock icon Cepco plans bonus, rights, higher share capital
        216 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Concrete Engineering Products Bhd (Cepco) has announced a bonus issue, a rights issue and an increase in share capital. Cepco has proposed a bonus issue of 7.96 million new ordinary shares of Msl each on the basis of two ordinary
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        Lock icon Tongkah to focus on manufacturing
        157 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Tongkah Holdings Berhad is to focus on manufacturing and reduce its dependency on its property division, says chairman Yahya Abdul Wahab. The company planned to divest or jointly develop the Rusju Project and the Tongkah Properties Sdn Bhd Project in Jalan Ipoh,
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        Faber expects revamp to benefit group
        215 22 KUALA LUMPUR Faber Group Berhad expects its rationalisation exercise to streamline and refocus its business into four divisions to augur well for the group in the long term, chairman Abdullah Mohd Yusof says. The exercise, which involved property, development, hotels, transport and expressway operations,
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        Lock icon CASH still in the red
        134 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Construction and Supplies House Bhd yesterday announced a group operating loss of M 52.28 million (551.41 million) for the six months ended June 30, from a loss of M 52.00 million previously. Releasing its unaudited results, CASH said it achieved a turnover
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        Lock icon Leader's Hongkong unit in Philippine tie-up
        392 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Leader Universal Holdings Bhd says its Hongkong-based wholly owned subsidiary. Leader Universal (Hongkong) Co Ltd, has formalised a joint venture to manufacture aluminium rods in the Philippines. Leader said in a statement yesterday that the subsidiary had signed agreements with its
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        Accident in Makati business district kills 2 workers, injures 20
        281 22  -  From Al Labita in MANILA A PASSAGEWAY linking the Makati Stock Exchange (MkSE) and an adjacent tower under construction collapsed last night, pinning to death two workers and injuring 20 others. Makati police told BT in a telephone interview that
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        DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
        757 22 Payment Ex Books Piy date dose date AISB SO* b 5 Dec 31 Jan 14 Jan 21 Amal Steel 50* b 14 Dec 2 Dee 16 Jan 15 Antah Hldgs 50* b 6 Dec 9 Dec 23 Jan 17 Bedford F 2.5 Nov 3 Nov 17 Dec 8
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          Lock icon Kuok Group's China palm oil deal
          82 24 Reuter BEIJING Malaysia's Kuok Group has signed a contract with China Vegetable Oils Co to set up a plant to process Malaysian palm oil in Xiamen, the People's Daily said. It said they will invest more than 100 million yuan (5527.4 million) to build
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          Lock icon Woolworths chief dies on golf course
          68 24 Reuter SYDNEY Harry Watts, managing director of Australia's biggest food retailer Woolworths, collapsed and died yesterday while playing golf with Greg Norman, company executive chairman Paul Simons said. Mr Watts, 51, suffered an apparent heart attack. Mr Watts had been managing director since 1986
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          Lock icon Hitachi plans joint venture in China
          35 24 Reuter TOKYO Hitachi Ltd will set up a joint venture in January to produce and market control equipment for use in thermal power plants, a company spokesman said. Reuter
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        Lock icon Ericsson GE and AirSoft in joint venture to tap wireless communications market
        286 24 Bloomberg Business News TOTOWA, New Jersey Ericsson GE Mobile Communications Inc and Air Soft Inc, targeting the burgeoning wireless communications industry, said they will develop and market products to move information from offices out to portable computers via
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        Indonesia's Matahari chain plans to open 10 more stores
        408 24  -  By Teh Hooi Ling in HONGKONG DESPITE the lower-than-expected performance of the stores it opened this year, Ja-karta-listed PT Matahari Putra Prime plans to add another 10 stores next year to its existing chain of 44. Hari Darmawan, the president director
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        Lock icon ABB to set up paint joint venture in China
        178 24 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Asea Brown Boveri Ltd, a global electrical engineering group, has set up a joint venture with China's Xiamen Torch Co to design, build and equip paint finishing plants for vehicle manufacturers in China. The joint venture company,
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        Lock icon Philips' Taiwan unit to build CRT plant
        191 24 Reuter TAIPEI Philips Electronics Industries (Taiwan) Ltd, a subsidiary of Philips Electronics NV, said it would invest USS33S million (***** million) in Taiwan to build a factory making cathode ray tubes (CRTs) for use in computer monitors. Construction will begin in December and
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        Lock icon Philips shares hit by fears that CD-I research will stop
        288 24 Reuter AMSTERDAM Shares in Philips Electronics NV fell US$O.9O to 37.20 guilders yesterday after earlier hitting a low of 36.30 guilders on a newspaper report that Japanese electronics giant Matsushita was dropping research into CD-I technology. Dealers said the report,
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        Lock icon Tough times ahead for India's Tatas
        612 24 MARKET WATCH Reuter BOMBAY India's biggest business group, Tatas, without the towering presence of its chairman J R D Tata, may have to struggle harder to retain its pre-eminent position in the country's corporate world, analysts said. They said Mr Tata's death on Monday
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        Lock icon Staff of Thai phone body to buy 25m TelecomAsia shares
        297 24 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK About 20,000 employees of the Telephone Organisation of Thailand (TOT) will be allowed to buy a total of 25 million shares of Telecom Asia Corp at par value, TOT said in a news release yesterday. The
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        Lock icon Shanghai chicken breeder to issue B sares
        162 24 Reuter SHANGHAI Shanghai Dajiang Group, a leading chicken breeder and producer of animal feed, will issue B shares for foreign investors, a company statement said yesterday. Dajiang will issue 35 million B shares priced at U550,402 per share to raise a total of
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    • CORPORATE FOCUS
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        Corporate dinosaur must become leaner creature
        786 25 SINCE it bccamc a subsidiary of Matsushita Electric several years ago, MCA Universal Pictures in Hollywood has scored a huge box-office success with Steven Spielberg's film classic Jurassic Park. Some say the movie is an appropriate symbol of Matsushita itself a Japanese corporate dinosaur.
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        Lock icon Japanese giant reviews offshore investment
        771 25  -  Matsushita Electric which direction now? Reports by Anthony Rowley in TOKYO MATSUSHITA Elcctric. a pioneer Japanese investor in South-east Asia, is growing more cautious in its approach towards offshore investment. Like many other Japanese industrial groups. Matsushita is becoming conscious of the need to preserve
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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        Lock icon Japan seen cutting short-term rates through 1994
        588 26 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO The Bank of Japan will push down short-term interest rates through the new year to shore up the weak economy, market traders and economists said yesterday. The central bank will lead the benchmark unsecured overnight call rate as low
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        Thanapol renews US$30m loan
        190 26  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Bangkokbased Thanapol Finance and Securities renewed a US$3O million (5547.7 million) syndicated loan facility yesterday. The lenders are Bank Brussels Lambert and the Singapore branch of Sumitomo Bank, which together have put up U5510.25 million, and Fuji Bank (Singapore), which is providing
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      • SMALL CHANGE
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          Lock icon Thai govt lifts foreign loan limit
          56 26 Knight Ridder BANGKOK The Thai government has raised the limit on its foreign borrowing for the 1993-94 (Oct-Scp) fiscal year to US$3.2 billion (555.08 billion) fro US$2.5 billion in 1992-93, an official said yesterday. It also approved 23 projects with priority status requiring foreign
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          Lock icon India raises US$ non-resident rates
          77 26 Knight-Ridder BOMBAY Interest rates on time deposits submitted by nonresident Indians in the four major foreign currencies have been altered, said the Reserve Bank of India. The new rates took effect on Monday. While rates on US dollar deposits for all maturities have been increased
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          Lock icon Indon foreign currency rating at BBB-
          43 26 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Standard Poor's Asia affirmed its triple B-minus rating on Indonesia's long-term foreign currency debt. The rating reflected the substantial restructuring of the Indonesian economy over the past decade, said S&P. Bloomberg Business News
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          Lock icon Banks agree on loan for China plane
          50 26 Bloomberg Business News LONDON ANZ Asia and the Bank of China have agreed on a US$6OO million (***** million) bridging loan to allow two Boeing 737-300 aircraft to be delivered to China Southern Airlines early next month, according to a Daily Telegraph report.
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        Quotation of Singapore Government Stocks as at November 30, 1993
        347 26 1 I Numb— hxllt iiiw fyrm Maturity Y-r C Up0 Amount «*<**•<* mlddleprtcee red^npttoo raised /sml P«ym«* accrued (excluding yi^d (%P«) l date. interact accrued (%pe) tntareet) 1 i 1 i 1 11 12.94 N*****0V 1992 i 3 850.00 1/2
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        Lock icon Closed Bank Summa still owes US$357m, says liquidator
        192 26 AFP JAKARTA The closed Bank Summa still owes the equivalent of U*****.89 million (***** million) to its former clients and creditors, a member of the bank's liquidation team said yesterday. The bank still owes a total of some 753 billion rupiah, said
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        Lock icon Information a problem for Indon bond market
        263 26 Reuter JAKARTA Trading in Indonesia's secondary bond market is still in its infancy, hampered chiefly by a lack of price information, say investment managers say. "The value of outstanding issues is already relatively large but trading in the secondary market has not really
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        Lock icon Indonesia sees rubber prices remaining low
        188 26 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia predicts the price of natural rubber will stay low next year because of recession in Europe and Japan. "We can't expect much for a better rubber price through the end of this year and next year because of the recession in
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        183 26 Reuter HONGKONG Wardley Ltd has introduced the first bond index to monitor the price performance of Hongkong dollardenominated securities. Wardley. the Asian investment banking arm of international banking conglomerate HSBC Group, said the index introduced today gives institutional investors a gauge against which to measure
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        133 26 THE USS/majors slipped lower yesterday on the back of a Nikkei rccovcry and position adjustment on month-end squaring. The USS/SS was taken to a high of 1.5914 in morning trade before resistance was met. Subsequent purchase of S$ by a local corporate after lunch pushed
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        192 26 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The British pound rose 0.5 pfennig to a threemonth high yesterday after Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke delivered his budget speech for the financial year ending March 1995. Analysts said plans to slash the UK's swollen government debt rely more on public spending cuts
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        85 26 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was mixed yesterday in quiet mid-morning trading ahead of the release of the November figures for US consumer confidence. Around 9:30 am (1430 GMT), the dollar was trading at 1.7090 German marks against 1.7082 on Monday and at 109.08 yen against 109.25. Earlier
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        Lock icon Coffee officials worry plan to boost prices may not work
        199 26 Reuter BREMEN Coffee industry officials said they worried the export retention scheme, launched by growers in October, may not pull producer nations out of crisis. "If prices don't turn around, the viability of the whole industry will be at stake...
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        1575 26 Trade-weighted index caicuiaied agauui Spore s top 14 trading partneri Base year 198! US$/S$«M "ward rates Noon Nov 30 S$ PLi AWL-1-month 1-5967 UDer 1.5982 2-fnonth 1.5963 1.5978 V month 1.5957 1.5972 6-month 1.5947 1.5967 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES i S J -8 a 30 Singapore dollars to
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        1347 27 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex key September Euroyen futures ended higher but a shade off the day's highs as the recovery on the Tokyo stock market spurred slight profittaking yesterday, dealers said. "But sentiment remains very firm, people still want to buy
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        KL tin unchanged on poor support
        621 27 COMMODITY REPORTS Tin TIN closed unchanged at MS 11.62 per kg yesterday after both buyers and sellers decided to close deals at the opening level, traders said. Trading was brief with a lower London market and higher local premium to LME discouraging keen buying.
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          Japan aluminium premiums cut
          88 27 TOKYO Aluminium consumers in Japan have been successful in their efforts to reduce premiums paid to producers on metal for delivery under long-term contracts in the first quarter of 1994. Japanese buyers have agreed to pay between US$27 and USS29 a tonne over the London Metal
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          China cotton inquiries continue
          120 27 SYDNEY China earlier this month purchased 4.000 to 5.000 tonnes of US and Commonwealth of Independent States cotton for shipment in De-cember-January, traders in Tokyo and Hongkong said. Chinese buyers are continuing to check with traders on prices but have not purchased additional quantities, the traders
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          Japan Oct copper output up
          112 27 TOKYO Japan's refined copper production rose to 100,995 tonnes in October, a 2.6 per cent increase from a year before, according to figures released yesterday by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. October production of refined zinc fell 8.9 per cent from a year
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        COMMODITY PRICES
        1635 27 Rubber Mft (tat Ml cWl MfMIt lpa) IAS (pfcysteal trie* >) RSS 1 Cwrtract (S cents/kg) i lnyars SaMavs Close Volume Open As at 12 mm (b cents/kg) Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest RSS 2 Dec 93 127.00 128 00N Dec 93 Jan 94 Feb Mar 0.00
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        Australia
        1156 28 -0.9 Australian stocks ended little changed from the last close after firmer Asian markets and domestic buying drove the key .market indicator up from its morning lows, brokers said yesterday The \ll Ordinaries index hit a low of 1.994.8 points in early trade but recovered as Tokyo's •Nikkei index
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        Taipei
        698 28 -30.61 Taiwan stocks finished lower on profit-taking from Monday's 5.3 per cent gains, but brokers said optimism after the ruling N'a- tionalist Party's victory in elections last week would support the market. I he index ended 30.61 points down at 4.35.VM). Turnover w.is a heavy N I $47.17 billion
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        Seoul
        505 28 6.52 Stocks staged a rebound following four straight sessions of decline as a result of strong busing interest in export-oriented blue-chip manufacturing issues, brokers said. "Strong resistance was noted at around the X(K) level." said II k Kang of Schroder Securities. "I believe the market has already hit its
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        451 28 Manila \~.7 N"» V* IVv> 11MMII SonjuoC «wp I 660 tfMW USBB -2MI im Uon Pe« Di \Kt*n IVt li 112* t■ 11 2<VNM) \ng)o PhiMhl A 014 unch 41MM) \pe* Mining X 00* Apr* Mining B '«>H unch \il.iN<t»n>\ mi»> 24 \llj> C «*r.> R m»i MM I m
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        New Zealand
        296 28 -20.94 New Zealand stock prices ended lower for the third day running on concern about changes in the government's cabinet, traders said. Ihe market's key price index. the lop-40 capital index, dropped 20.94 points, or I per cent, to end at 2.021.62. However. the close is up from
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        London
        807 28 31.1 The FISH 100 index of leading UK shares ended with gains across the board as the market's expectations of an equities-friendly UK. Budget had been largely borne out by measures announced by the market's close. The USE closed 31.1 points higher at 3.166.9. But a new levy on
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        Paris
        131 28 -9.21 French shares finished easier after a burst of activity in mid-afternoon as marketmakers marked down cash prices to match strike prices of maturing options and futures contracts, traders said. Total and Elf suffered on concerns of softer world oil prices, continuing Monday's worries after Merrill Lynch London put
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        Stockholm
        130 28 l.llpc Swedish shares ended the day higher after a strong •finish. Dealers had no immediate explanation for the climb hut said that alter the .declines of late it was time •to start buying. The all-share index rose 1.11 percent to 1.2XX.X1 in low turnover of 1.134 billion crowns. Ihe
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        Frankfurt
        175 28 14.34 Ccrman share prices closed firmer, but dealers said the rise was not supported b> strong buying and major in.vestors were likely to re•main sidelined until the end ,'of the year. A general trend was "hard to predict and as long as this uncertainty continued. plavers would stay cau-
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        Brussels
        182 28 1.39 Belgian stoeks were little ehanged as investors waited to see the outeome of talks between the government and unions before changing positions. Ihe Bel-20 index rose 1.39 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 1.388.68. No stock price moved by more than 1.24 per cent. 1 here wasn't much
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        Milan
        157 28 -o.BBpc The Milan bourse was dragged into negative territory by a tumbling Kind market and weaker lira, but volumes were thin and traders said many players would remain sidelined ahead of Sunday's second round local election vote. I he day's star performer was J-erru//1 which surged ahead to close
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        Amsterdam
        196 28 f 2.43 Dutch shares rose early on m line with foreign markets and held most gains to the close, bemusing some dealers who saw scant direction in the market. Ihe I ()l Index closed 2.43 points ahead at 3X3.46. off a session high ot 3X4.66 but well above i
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        Zurich
        243 28 4-2.85 Swiss shares ended mixed with a firmer tone in moderately active business. Dealers said firmer bourses in Frankfurt and London encouraged sent iment However, the market struggled to find direction. Swiss inflation data due today anil expected to show a sharp fail in November might revive the market,
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        Johannesburg
        282 28 11 Ciold shares ended marginally above earlier lows but dealers said the market remained nervous about bullion as New York entered the market. Industrials were generally steady after Tokyo's bounce, but still lacked clear direction. Ihe gold index was 38 points weaker at 1.826. the industrial index was II
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        Toronto
        248 28 4.39 Stocks gained early yesterday as gold and energy issues mounted a modest recovery after Monday's plunge, dealers said Ihe ISI 300 Composite Index rose 4.39 points to 4.174.72 in early turnover of 8.10 million valued at CSI 14.07 million. Declining issues continued to lead advances 177 to 136.
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        New York
        836 28 5.03 I lie Dow Jones industrial average was ahead 5.03 points to 3.6X2.X1 at 11 am I SI yesterday. Ihe key barometer was down one point shortly after the market opened. Ihe New York Stock I xchange composite index was ott 0.2 X to 254. l while Standard
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        504 28 Vienna \m H> Wh ~T~ M I Mil Kirk VuslrullM *"4 2 i .'iwjitiu 15 ('ufhatirn 14 5 I m/M| I U\Um vn |< Mc\cr-l>P 1*0 t Slfjhj# |<M» 20 VntaiKv I? irtKrtvri 4* Source: Nasdaq \«*2<r iss V1o ph f'«x*r* lirrwir>£ I* H 4 H \pple < onipulcr I
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      3027 29 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Hang Seng index rose 1.25 per cent yesterday as investors snapped up some shares at bargain prices, defying predictions that the market would decline on concerns over Sino-British talks. The Hang Seng index ended the day 112.44 points higher at 9.125.21 on volume of
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      CHINA
      428 29 SHANGHAI and Shenzhen markets performed differently yesterday. Shanghai remained sluggish with investor standing on the sidelines. The CLSA B Index ended down 11.56 points to 906.34 on light turnover. Chlor Alkali was the worst performer losing 8.9 per cent. In Shenzhen, both index and turnover picked up. Chiwan Wharf
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      2511 29 Reuter TOKYO Stocks closed higher after sharp ups and downs triggered by remarks by key ministers and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor on economic stimulus measures. Firm futures also supported cash stock prices. The benchmark Nikkei 225 average rose 327.83 points, or 2.04 per cent, to 16,406.54. The
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      1863 29 Reuter BANGKOK Thai shares closed at the day's high after local mutual funds bought bank, finance and brokerage shares in the afternoon yesterday, brokers said. The SET index gained 14.44 points, or 1.11 per cent, to 1.309.95 in thin turnover of 7.98 billion baht. Advances led declines 181 to
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      1125 29 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed mixed in late trading although sentiment was positive on selected stocks yesterday, brokers said. The official index ended 1.68 points lower at 518.78. "The market has been quiet for most of the day," one local dealer said. One broker said sentiment was positive on
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      Lock icon CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2876 30 Source: Bridge Info Source: Bridge Info MOST ACTIVE volume krma>an MX I5.H17.000 Idm HmI Mk U»UM Hromtt 7.717jBH InnuveM Bhd 6.314.000 FMlJk 5.66 *>.000 Mulpha loll MV 5 .094 000 Bedford MK. 4.913.000 I icn HOC TSK97 4.754.000 Faber liroup 4.615.000 Mclriiple* TSK9"? 4.504 000 Metriipte\ 50c 4.225.000
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        Lock icon Bargain-hunting pushes market broadly higher
        5936 30 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share pnces here rebounded on bargain-hunting to elosc broadly higher in active trading yesterday. A moderate rally in Tokyo, recovering from a sharp plunge on Monday, brought buyers back to the local market. Institutional players were seen returning to pick up quality
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        7153 31 [MAHBOAWP Ttanretioa drte: N^30| Gr Gf l»3 Last Vol Day Last Qwxe D»» Di« VM Net MClf High Low Co* pa ay Sale (*000) High Low Bayer Seller Cn P/E Sail INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1380 260 l Aetna 1200 20 46 1200 1170 1190 1200 12.5 2.1 1.0 51.9 827.1
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        Lock icon STII ends weaker in day of roller coaster trade
        1746 32  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Share prices again rode the Japanese roller coaster yesterday, falling in the morning on weakness in Tokyo and then rising in the afternoon when the Nikkei recovered ground. From the start of trading, the Straits Times Industrials
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        Far East Levingston
        146 32  -  HOT STOCK By Paul Leo FAR EAST Levingston Shipbuilding's 1994 warrant faces formidable resistance between $3.30 and $3.68. Daily, weekly and monthly RSIs are at or above 75, indicating that the warrant is overbought. The weekly RSI is declining while prices are rising, indicating that the medium-term
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      288 32 BROKHiy STOCK PICKS Booms arid Busts Is history about to repeat itself or are we entering the J golden age of the SIJ Asian stock market? Jt /'SSXS'wr ALSO IN THIS ISSUE-. 8??>»°oo 'I U j f The hard road to franchising Stijy^s A blitz of business news Sri Lanka:
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      Stricter dangerous goods code to take effect from Jan
      451 33  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE Shippers and shipping lines must comply with tougher international rules on the carriage of dangerous goods from Jan 1. But sources say local awareness of the new regulations is lacking. The International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) code,
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      Lock icon Nedlloyd expected to stage strong recovery
      484 33 Reuter AMSTERDAM Koninklijke Nedlloyd Groep is staging a rapid recovery from recent heavy losses on the back of an unexpectedly swift pick-up in its core shipping line business, analysts say. Nedlloyd shares soared 3.80 guilders to hit a new peak for the year at
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      Lock icon Task force to study M'sian forwarding industry
      327 33 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Transport Ministry has set up a task force to look into the forwarding industry which needed to be upgraded. Transport Minister Dr Ling Liong Sik said yesterday. The task force, headed by the ministry's secretary general Haji Wan Awang
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      Lock icon Commissioner to consider relaxing EC shipping rules
      233 33 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Community's Competition Commissioner Karel Van Miert agreed on Monday to probe whether there was a need to make life easier for shipping consortia by loosening the EC's competition rules. Mr Van Miert told reporters he had promised EC transport
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      Keppel wins $2m deal to repair vessel
      140 33 SINGAPORE Keppel Shipyard has clinched a $2-million contract to repair a floating production vessel, the Jabiru Venture. It will be the second time that Keppel has worked on the vessel, which is owned by BHP Petroleum of Australia. The Jabiru Venture first came
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        AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
        561 34 Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vntel *o» No Berth Arrival Departure iurong Port Dyke 0621 po6 01.12/1100 02.12/1900 Batam Bafcagia 11/07 93 11 alongside 01 12/2300 Hong H*a 9306! P04 3011/1930 01 12/2130 Batam Baru B285 19 alongside 01 12/2000 tayapura 09/93 P04 30.11/1830 01.12/1730 Dm Guna
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1476 34 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookinf/Baianci Rdts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Aa Daisy 0466 03/2000 2 30/1700 01/0659 01/0900 4 01/1200 01/1459 01/1700 *c. Swan 094A 01/1500 1 30/1500 30/1669 30/1900 Altai
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      11103 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. LEGENO PN: ship calls at Penang after
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      DAILY FREIGHTS
      940 49 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1,259 on Monday from 1,265 on Nov 26. Panamax activity has been limited in a slow start to the week on the freight market, brokers said. The key US grain routes in the Atlantic area were
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      TRANSPORT DIARY
      75 49 COURSES Title: Transport Disciple Duration: December Organiser The Chartered Institute of Transport Tel: For more information contact CIT Secretariat at 226-3433 or fax: 226-2477. Title: International Freight Forwarding (SDF 70%) Duration: Jan 20 Apr 7 Organiser: Singapore Freight Forwarders Association Tel: For more information contact SFFA Secretariat at
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      Lock icon Maritime communications rides the slow boat
      897 50 Bimcom is out to help coax the industry into the communications revolution Seatrade Review 7 HE INNATELY conser--5 vative maritime industry I is "lagging substantially I behind" today's commu--2 nications revolution. That's the view of Bimcom, the Communications arm of Bimco, which was set
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        Lock icon Airlines, city officials meet on LA landing fees crisis
        575 52 AP WASHINGTON Locked in a high-stakes showdown over increased airport landing fees, Los Angeles city officials and airline representatives agreed to meet yesterday at the United States Department of Transportation in an attempt to avoid a threatened shutdown of Los Angeles
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        Lock icon France, UK set for row over crisis in airlines
        528 52 FT BRUSSELS Yesterday France and the UK were due to set out widely opposing views on how the European Union (EU) should respond to the financial crisis in Europe's airlines. Paris will call for ca-pacity-sharing and an EUbacked plan to reduce
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          Lock icon New delays on Taipei's subway project
          92 52 UPI TAIPEI Taipei's Department of Rapid Transit Systems (Dorts) late on Monday announced another delay on the city's US$l7 billion (5527.2 billion) subway network. In an address to Taipei's city council, Dorts director Liao Ching-lung said the pilot Mucha Line would begin paid service
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          Lock icon Japan posts worst ever car exports
          83 52 Knight-Ridder TOKYO Japan's motor vehicle exports in October posted the worst year-on-year plunge on record, dropping 25.4 per cent from a year earlier to 350,559 vehicles, an industry group said on Monday. October exports of cars, trucks and buses were also down 22.6 per
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          Lock icon Peru president wants ship lease probe
          94 52 Reuter LIMA Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori said Congress should carry out an exhaustive probe into the controversial leasing of two ships but that Peru will have to recognise the US$72 million debt linked to the operation. "Peru cannot be seen as a cheating country.
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          Lock icon Lebanon, France sign Beirut port deal
          86 52 UPI BEIRUT Lebanon's Council of Development and Reconstruction on Monday signed a contract with representatives of French port authorities for rehabilitating the war-damaged Beirut harbour. The contract, signed by the CDR and the Marseilles harbour, stipulates that the French will provide research, consultative services
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          Lock icon Finnish ship strike may be avoided
          63 52 Reuter HELSINKI Negotiators of Finland's Seamen's Union and the employers have approved a mediation offer for an income settlement. the Finnish news agency said on Monday. The union had threatened to start a strike from Dec 3 that would hit passenger ferries as well
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        Lock icon Pakistani govt ordered to decide on fate of taxis
        178 52 Reuter ISLAMABAD Pakistan's Supreme Court has given the government 10 days to make a decision on thousands of taxis held up at Karachi port after a job creation scheme by the previous government was halted. "No further adjournment will be granted,"
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        Lock icon French, Germans tipped to win Beijing's rail deal
        256 52 AFP BEIJING German and French firms are favourites to win contracts to build China's first high-speed railway, a L'SS 10-hillion (SSI6 billion) project to connect Beijing with Shanghai, the China Daily said yesterday. The Inter-City Express (ICE) made by a German consortium
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