The Business Times, 30 May 1994

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    • 48 1 Reuter WASHINGTON Growing demand from an increasing number of industries helped boost orders for US-made machine tools by 11.7 per cent in April. The Association for Manufacturing Technology yesterday said April orders rose to U*****.70 million from a revised U*****.40 million in March. Reuter
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    • 48 1 Reuter BUDAPEST Hungarian excommunist reformers are heading for a landslide win in yesterday's general election, ending four years of conservative rule. The Hungarian Socialist Party is likely to take 208 seats in the 386-seat national assembly, according to the poll for the Magyar Hirlap newspaper. Reuter
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  • 164 1 Stock market indices tridit) Wetk change Si ll 2.323.95 -13.06 KL.SH Conip 1.000.11 -1.05 Nikkei 20.777.16 M34.99 Hang Seng 9.470.13 -161.5 Str Index 1.383.57 *-45.3K Jakarta l ump 504 97 H6.9X CLSA China B 1.097.01 -89.93 AuslAIIOrd 2.102.2 -1.7 FTSt 100 2.966.4 -160 9 Dow Jones 3.757.14 -9.21
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  • 811 1  -  By Anna Teo SINGAPORE Most economists are sticking to their inflation forecasts of 4 to 4.5 per cent for the year, despite a lower than expected 2.9 per cent rate in April. They say it is too early yet to assess the inflationary
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  • 505 1  -  From Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON AMERICAN officials say President Clinton's decision to delink human rights from China's trade status, the renewal of trade talks between Washington and Tokyo, the exchange of diplomatic missions with Vietnam, talks with North Korea over its alleged military
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  • 321 1  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE The Co-oper-ative Societies Act will be amended to allow greater flexibility in investments, the Singapore National Co-operative Federation said yesterday. Proposed changes to the Act will give professionally managed co-operatives with assets exceeding $20 million the freedom to
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  • 199 1 Derivatives not banks 1 biggest threat: study Knight-Ridder LONDON Commercial property lending, growth through acquisition and new competition pose as much, il not more, of a threat to hanks as their growing exposure to derivatives, a study by a City of l.ondon think-tank claims. The study. "Banking banana skins", by
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  • 666 1  -  From Anthony Rowley in HONGKONG AETER pursuing an aggressive and eontroversial policy of listing Chinese securities on overseas markets. Liu Hongru. the chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, has been asked to resign. This easts doubt on whether the ambitious programme
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        343 2  -  By Corinne Kerk AFTER hitting a high of 11.4 per cent sales growth in February, business at eating places in March dipped slightly to a year-on-year increase of 8.1 per cent in volume terms. The February jump was no doubt a seasonal spike due to the Lunar New
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    • 212 2 KIDDER Peabody, the USbased investment bank owned by General Electric Corp, is already thinking of doubling the size of the operation it set up here in March. The branch, which specialises in fixed-income securities and derivatives, kicked off with just five employees.
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    • 553 2  -  Deal hits investment law snag, so group to provide franchise services now By William Chia SINGAPORE'S largest supermarket chain NTUC FairPrice, which earlier planned to take a 49 per cent stake in an Indonesian supermarket venture, has decided to provide franchise and
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    • 328 2  -  By Conrad Raj PONTIREP Holdings Pte Ltd. a diversified Singaporebased holding company, has changed its name to Asia Resource Corporation to better reflect its business. Company chairman Tony Chew Leong Chee said the change was also in recognition of the
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    • 425 2  -  By Soh Tiang Keng THE chief executive of Britain's biggest reinsurance company. Mercantile and General. has urged reinsurers and insurers to rethink their roles and redefine the concept of fair sharing of risks. They had to to show commercial realism by
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    • 225 2 SINGAPORE Telecom will offcr an improved version of is integrated services digital network. called ISDN-30, from tomorrow. For large users of telephone lines, the new version would be more cost-effective than the current ISDN-2. Telecom said yesterday. ISDN-30 gives users, like multinationals, more
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 366 3 Bernama SHAH A LAM The government will take steps to prevent wastage of publie funds in an effort to eurb inflation. Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday. He said the measures would eover expenditures by state governments, ministries and other official
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    • 267 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR The chief minister of Malaysia's Borneo state of Sarawak has accused a local group of using fear tactics over a giant hydroelectric dam project by showing films of how people drown when dams burst. The Sunday Star said Taib Mahmud had
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    • 279 3 AFP CEBU, Philippines Filipino exporters arc urging President Fidel Ramos to stabilise the peso at 27.50 against the US dollar, saying a stronger currency would result in huge losses, the group's leader said yesterday. Members of the Philippine Export Federation met
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    • 176 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Work on Phase One of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system in the city from Ampang to Jalan Sultan Ismail will begin soon and is scheduled for operation by June 19%. The government has approved the project, which is
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    • 331 3 AFP HANOI Vietnam is to scrap its telephone monopoly and allow a military-owned firm to set up a rival network in the first winds of competition to blow through the country's growing communications market. a report said yesterday. Prime Minister
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 78 3 Bernama PENANG Advertisements containing the brand names of cigarettes will be phased out from television and radio soon. Information Minister Mohamed Kahmat said yesterday. "The government is aware that advertisements of apparel, holiday packages and others which use brand names of cigarettes are
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      • 63 3 AFP MANILA 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire (centre) with fellow Irish activist Tom Hyland (left) being escorted back to their plane by Philippine immigration ofYicials at Manila airport on Saturday. Ms Maguire and Mr Hyland were the first foreigners kicked out of
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      • 82 3 AFP PHNOM PENH The Khmer Rouge refused to agree to a ceasefire during peace talks in North Korea with the Cambodian government, according to a government statement released here yesterday. The government had agreed to a ceasefire proposal by King Norodom Sihanouk, but Khmer Rouge
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      • 98 3 Reuter HANOI A US company announced yesterday that it had joined the scramble for a share of Hanoi's growing property market. The Leon D DeMatteis Construction Coip said in newspaper advertisements that it had received a licence last month with partner Dragon Age Investments,
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      • 67 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's tourism industry has been urged to investigate an unprecedented drop in visitors from Japan and Hongkong last year, Antara news agency said yesterday. Tourist arrivals from Japan and Hongkong dropped by 4.4 per cent and 12 per cent respectively in 1993
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    • 141 3 I ANNOUNCBMINT I I The Board of Directors of PONTIREP HOLDINGS wishes to I I announce that the Company has changed its name to: I I ASIA RESOURCE CORPORATION PTE LTD I I Subsidiary and Associate Companies: I W*** I SINGAPORE PHILIPPINES HONGKONG I Representations International Pte Ltd Macondray Holdings
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
      • 89 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Cabinet-level Council of Labour A flairs lias decided to raise the minimum wage by 4.66 per cent the lowest increase ever, newspapers said yesterday. Ihe minimum monthly wage will be raised to NISS 13.972 (*****). pending approval bvthe Cabinet. The planned move
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      • 93 4 AFP BLUING The Guangdong authorities have executed 33 people as part of a major clampdown on car theft which lias reached epidemic proportions in the southern Chinese province. Ihe 33 were among 101 criminals given public trials across the province, the Yungclwng livening Sews
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      • 106 4 Reuter HONGKONG A US government official told a Hongkong newspaper how he feared death during a flight on a Chinese aircraft. The official, a qualified pilot, described to the Sunday Morning Post how the May 16 China Eastern Airlines flight from Hongkong to Qingdao.
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      • 69 4 AFP TAIPEI Labour authorities here have warned the Philippines against new requirements for Taiwanese hiring Filipino domestic helpers, saying they could jeopardise the Filipinos working in Taiwan, officials said yesterday. The Council of Labour Affairs (CLA) will not rule out the possibility of stopping the
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    • 511 4  -  State firms push up prices upon withdrawal of subsidies By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE Inflation in China has shifted from being caused by buoyant demand to cost increases brought about bv reforms introduced at the beginning of the year. While there are signs that
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    • 308 4 AP BLUING Chinese government economists are predicting that state-run industries will expand production by 7 to 8 per cent this year, an official news report said yesterday. Meanwhile, state factories are expected to pay 30 per cent more
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    • 351 4 Bloomberg Business News BIiIJING Officials from China's southern city of Guang/.hou will seek foreign investment to help revive 50 unprofitable state businesses, reports the official China Dully. More than 150 officials will travel to the US next month in a bid to attract
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    • 75 4 AFP GULANG ISLAND, Fujian l*rovinee A snack counter made like a giant Coke can is an eye-catching sight and effective advertising for the American soft-drink maker on this island off the coast of Xiamen city. It's poignant how this icon of the West is making
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    • 189 4 Reuter BEIJING China has announced that four companies, including Imprcgil of Italy and France's Lyonnaise des Eaux Dumez. had won contracts to build the World Bank-financed Xiaolangdi dam project on the Yellow River. The official Xinhua news agency said on
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    • 388 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwanese government enterprises will be allowed to register patents and trademarks in China as a prelude to permitting state-owned companies to invest there, the L niied Daily At'it v said yesterday. The cabinet's Mainland Affairs Council, which formulates
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 395 6 Reuter SYDNEY Australia's major companies are still slow to boost investment although the government's key budget investment forecast is achievable, said John Ralph, chief executive of mining and smelting group CRA Ltd. The government forecast business investment would grow 14.5 per cent in
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    • 319 6 Mr Ralph sees fall in CRA revenue from coal, iron ore despite price rises Reuter SYDNEY The benefit of rising metal prices to Australian mining companies is being negated by the strength of the Australian dollar, John Ralph, chief executive of mining and smelting
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    • 231 6 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter WELLINGTON Australia New Zealand Bank said yesterday that unemployment in New Zealand would continue to decline, as job vacancies advertised in newspapers rose 3.5 per cent in April from March. The number of vacancies in April
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    • 391 6 AP KWANGJU. South Korea About 50,000 students staged an angry anti-government, anti-United States march yesterday in this southern city, demanding punishment of former leaders who bloodily suppressed a 1980 pro-democracy uprising here. "Kill them!" the students screamed, referring to the country's
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    • 250 6 AFP MELBOURNE The Australian government is set to introduce national legislation outlawing racial vilification, Prime Minister Paul Keating has promised. Addressing a mostly Jewish audience here on Saturday, Mr Keating said the measures to be included were now before cabinet. He told the biennial conference
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  • THE WORLD
    • 516 7 Meanwhile, central bankers and lawmakers say they're worried about the instruments' widespread use Bloomberg Business News LONDON Even as the US$l4 trillion (5521.5 trillion) derivatives market draws fire from regulators, the exchanges on which people trade the world's hottest financial instruments are crossing swords
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    • 391 7 AP LONDON The Upjohn Co was defamed by the BBC and a Scottish psychiatrist who criticised the widely used sleeping drug Halcion, according to a judge whose libel ruling also faulted the US drug maker. Justice Anthony May said the BBC
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 122 7 Reuter PANAMA CITY The first of 10,000 US troops stationed here return home this week as the US begins the end ot nearly a century of military presence in Panama. About 600 soldiers plus their families will be pulled out starting Friday as part of
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      • 102 7 Reuter ADEN Southern Yemen denied yesterday that anyone on its side had put proposals to Sanaa for an unconditional ceasefire in the Yemen civil war, now in its fourth week. Aden Radio, quoting an official source at the ruling Yemeni Socialist Party, said reports from
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      • 145 7 Reuter GAZA Two weeks since taking over from Israel in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian policemen face a tough time enforcing the PLO's peace deal among a people used to standing up to men in uniform. After 27 years of Israeli occupation, some Palestinians are
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      • 101 7 Reuter CAIRO South Africa's Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo arrived in Egypt yesterday to attend a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which campaigned for decades against apartheid. Mr Nzo, appointed following South Africa's first multi-racial elections last month, is the first minister to represent
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    • 311 7 AP SANTIAGO, Chile Erich Honecker, who supervised the construction of the Berlin Wall and ruled Communist Hast Germany with an iron fist for 18 years, died yesterday in Chile. He was 81. Honecker spent his final days in Chile, bitter in selfimposed exile and
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    • 496 8 FT BONN Chancellor Helmut Kohl warned that Germany had reached the limit of its financial contributions to the European Union, and called for future budget payments to be linked more closely to per capita incomes. In the stormiest debate so
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    • 225 8 AP PARIS More than 10.000 people the out-of-work, the homeless and those working on their behalf demonstrated on Saturday to culminate a long march by about 150 unemployed across the country. Shouting that they are "fed up with unemployment" and demanding "another logic to
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    • 419 8 NYT BRUSSELS A group of European corporate leaders has rejected proposals to push for an earlier break-up of national telephone monopolies, effectively dashing any prospect that the European Union might liberalise telecommunications services ahead of its 1998 target date.
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    • 425 8 AFP LONDON British Prime Minister John Major on Saturday renewed a controversial attack on beggars, defending his description of them as "offensive" and repeating that they should be dealt with firmly by police. "I stand by what I said,"
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    • 176 8 AP LOS ANGELES At least 8,000 protesters marched on City Hall on Saturday in support of immigrant rights. Some waved American flags. Others burned an effigy of the governor of California, Pete Wilson. The demonstration was peaceful and there were
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    • 270 8 Reuter PARIS Dozens of prominent French business officials have expressed outrage over the jailing of the head of French electrical equipment giant Schneider SA in Belgium. French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur made a direct plea to Belgian authorities for the release from
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    • 303 8 Reuter MILAN Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said on Saturday he feared a revival of Italy's so-called "Years of Lead" when hundreds of people were killed in politically motivated terrorist attacks. Such attacks might be concentrated on Milan, Mr Maroni said after meeting
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    • 328 8 AFP TEHERAN Iran has banned all importers from buying hard currency on the open market in a bid to cut demand for the US dollar and halt the slide of the rial. The measure, which caps a series of efforts
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  • Business IT
    • 751 9  -  Investors can now have up-to-the-minute updates on share prices and market-related news anytime, anywhere, Bernard Chew reports Bernard Chew TELECOM Equipment, a whollyowned subsidiary of Singapore Telecom, will introduce a mobile share-tracking device at the CommunicAsia telecommunications show which starts tomorrow, its general
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    • 720 9  -  A new report focusing on Taiwan highlights some significant industry trends. Claire Leow has the details Claire Leow THE 1990s price wars in the personal computer industry have permanently changed the way PCs are sold and made. Eitrotrade magazine, whose recent issue focused on the
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    • 234 9 Bloomberg Business News Microsoft chairman William H Gates put two long-awaited software packages. Daytona and Chicago, through their paces and said they would be shipped by year's end. Mr Gates said Daytona, an upgrade to Microsoft's Windows NT operating system to link personal computers, will
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    • 706 9  -  DB/Expo '94 David Welcher reporting from San Francisco, assesses the premier computer database show David Welcher MORE user-friendly, more power, more fully integrated this was how major industry executives at the sixth DB/Expo in San Francisco described the future of computers. But
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    • 374 12  -  By Joseph Rajendran THE Interface Group, organiser of Comdex, the world's premier computer show, is to start an Asia-wide version in Singapore. And it has chosen two leading Singapore organisations as partners. The Singapore Federation of the Computer Industry (SFCI)
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    • 327 12  -  By Joseph Rajendran COMPUTER hardware supplier HewlettPackard (HP) and software firm System Software Associates (SSA) have signed a strategic alliance aimed at giving both firms a clear advantage in the open systems/client server environment. SSA is a leading developer of software on IBM's AS/400
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    • 369 12  -  By I Bernard Chew US-BASED Synoptics Communications has signed on SiS Technologies as its distributor for Singapore and Malaysia, the companies announced at a joint press conference last Friday. With the appointment, SiS will now handle the distribution and reseller channel for Synoptic's line of
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    • 285 12 LOCAL software developer and systems integrator Kanishka Systems has teamed up with the Institute of Systems Science (ISS) to come up with a computer program that lets users retrieve information from their computers very quickly. Launched last week, the program, called "Trace"
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 73 12 SINGAPORE US PC major AST Research has launched the Brave NB 4/335. which it elaims is one of the best budget notebook computers in the market. The company said the system's enhanced power saving and high-performance design otTers users 70 per cent faster graphics. 33 per cent
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      • 46 12 SINGAPORE Utah-based software firm WordPerfect Corp has announced Symmetry 4.1. an upgrade to WordPerfect Office 4.0 a. The firm said the name has been changed to closely reflect the significance of electronic imaging and to eliminate the contusion with other competing products.
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      • 54 12 SINGAPORE Systems integrator Datacraft Asia has won a HKSIO million (551.98 million) government contract. The project covers three areas an optical fibre backbone network for the Inland Revenue Dept. a network for a trade-related electronic data interchange processing system, and Itsnet. a communications network of the
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      • 70 12 SINGAPORE Financial services firm Swift has set up a Hongkong-based Asia Pacific Customer Support Centre to provide its customers with front-line support in Mandarin. Cantonese. Korean. Japanese and English. The new facility is Swift's third customer support centre and complements those in the US
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      • 53 12 SINGAPORE France's SCii Telecom has announced its Translan NLM. a multiprotocol router for interconnecting local area networks. The product gives users the advantage of combining the Netware operating system with the functionality of ISDN (intergrated services digital network). The firm is looking for distributors in
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    • It's happenin'
      • 73 12 SINGAPORE The fourth Training Technology Seminar will be held on Thursday from 9 am to 5 pm at the Shangri-La Hotel. It is aimed at human resource personnel and training executives who are involved in the training and development of their staff. The seminar is organised
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      • 52 12 SINGAPORE The Institute of Systems Science will be holding a course on Enterprise Networking from June 8 to 10. During the three-day programme, participants will learn about successful design, integration and management of multi-vendor networking environment, including open systems networking. Contact Vasu/Elizabeth on 772-2096 or
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      • 64 12  -  Compiled by Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE International Business Forum will be organising a conference in Singapore on June 20 and 21, covering issues such as effectiveness of business process re-engineering, management of the change process and the role of information systems in BPR. The conference costs
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    • 941 13  -  IN SYNC INTEGRATING IT BUSINESS Concluding his article on outsourcing, Tom John explains why organisations should look at multisourcing as a strategic option Tom John The writer is a manager win Andersen Consult inn Tec hnology Integration Service Group. He is currently based ii
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    • 307 13 AP A NATIONWIDE wave of computer break-ins has law enforcement authorities scrambling to track down a sophisticated ring of "hackers" who have used the international "information highway," the Internet, to steal more than 100,000 passwords the electronic keys to vast quantities of information stored
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    • 703 14  -  Texas Instruments says you can. Juha Saarinen tests the claim with Tl's Travel Mate 4000E DX4/75 and DeskTop Intelligent Docking System Juha Saarinen The writer is a Singapore-based IT communications con suit ant AT A press briefing recently, Nassir Ahmed, Texas Instruments'
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    • 186 14 the battery charger, spare battery and other accessories push the figure up to about 6kg. Its companion, the DeskTop, is in comparison huge: its dimensions are 451x456x159mm. TI says the case supports a 17" monitor, but it feels too flimsy for that I didn't dare to try it
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    • 350 14 Bloomberg Business News INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp has announced a series of upgrades to its OS/2 operating system software intended to strengthen its penetration in the market against arch-rival Microsoft Corp's Windows products. IBM will develop a complete upgrade of the OS/2
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    • 913 14  -  WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY DAVID WELCHER The writer heads Computing Dynamics (USA), a Brooklyn-based management consulting and software development firm, and also writes on IT issues. He contributed this commentary to BusinesslT. DEVOTEES of Stephen King will immediately understand my reaction. Twice in the
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    • 568 14 NYT, AFP JAPANESE computer manufacturers are jumping onto the multimedia bandwagon, offering televisionpersonal computer hybrids that allow users to take broad advantage of what future multimedia services will offer. IBM Japan, Ltd will begin marketing this month two desktop computers equipped with a TV tuner and
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  • SPORTS
    • 546 15 Golf Reuter FORT WORTH, Texas Steady Scott Simpson extended to 43 his streak of holes without a bogey as he moved to a four-shot lead over Gary Hallberg after the third round of the US$l.4 million (552.2 million) Colonial tournament on Saturday.
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    • 326 15 AP VIRGINIA WATER, England Ernie Els hit the second hole-in-one of his career on Saturday on the way to a six-under-par 66 and a two-stroke lead at the midway point of the European PGA Championship. Els used a six iron to ace the 175
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    • 578 15 1994 NBA playoffs AP INDIANAPOLIS Reggie Miller, the Indiana Pacers' marquee player, took a back seat on Saturday as his teammates inflicted the punishment on the New York Knicks. Derrick McKey. missing in action in the first two games of the National Basketball Association
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    • 665 15 French Open Reuter AP PARIS Former champion Arantxa Sanchez Vicario passed her first real test at Roland Garros yesterday, beating 11th seed Anke Huber of Germany in straight sets to become the first woman into the last eight of the
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      • 145 15 AKP BANGKOK Sepak takraw. a traditional village pastime that has beeome one of South-east Asia's most popular sports, may make it to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the Bangkok Host reported yesterday. International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Juan Antonio Samaranch suggested sepak takraw be included
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      • 83 15 AP SYDNEY Beijing, which lost a close vote to Sydney to host the 2000 Summer Olympics, should try again for the 2004 Games. International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch said yesterday. "We would like them to bid again." he told a news conference.
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      • 126 15 Reuter JOHANNESBURG England flyhalf Stuart Barnes has been reprimanded for writing a scathing newspaper article attacking South Africans who hosted a reception for the touring rugby union team. Barnes wrote of a "Fourth Reich" mentality following a function the England team attended on the eve
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      • 234 15 AFP TOKYO Youri DjorkaetT, Jean-Pierre Papin and David Ginola led France to an easy 4-1 victory over Japan here yesterday to take the Kirin Cup. The French team, who beat Australia 1-0 on Thursday, attacked from the start to secure the US$6O,OOO (5592.400)
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      • 145 15 AP TOKYO Magic Johnson staged his biggest scoring spree in Japan. 32 points, as his team beat Japan's national team 114-94 yesterday and swept a four-game scries here. Johnson's squad beat the Japanese 103-87, 103-78 and 125-91 in the earlier games. Johnson scored 26,
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        84 15 AP NEW YORK Major league games Saturday National League: New York 5, Cincinnati 4; Colorado 3. Montreal 2 (10 innings): Florida 3. San Francisco 2; Houston 7. Philadelphia 5; Chicago 9. Atlanta 2; San Diego 4. St Louis 0; Pittsburgh 7, Los Angeles 2. American league: Cleveland 4. Oakland
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        22 15 Reuter NEW YORK NBA playoff game Saturday Eastern Conference finals: Indiana 88 New York 68 (New York leads best-of-seven scries 2-1).
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        421 15 Reuter AP AFP Reuter TOKYO Mitsubishi Galant tournament in Hayakita yesterday. Tournament decided over 54 holes after second day's play washed out. (Japanese unless stated): 205 Katsuyoshi Tomori 69 66 70 211 Tsuncyuki Nakajima 71 68 72 212 Chen Tzc-ming (Tai) 68 70 74 213 Masashi Ozaki 70 72
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        94 15 AFP BARCELONE Spanish hormula One Grand Prix yesterday: I Damon Hill (Brit) Williams-Renault 65 laps in Ihr 36min 14.3745ev (192.366 kmh) 2 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Benetton-Ford at 24.1665 cc 3 Mark Blundell (Brit) Tyrrell-Yamaha at 1:26.969 4 Jein Alcsi (Fra) Ferrari one lap behind 5 PicrLuigi Martini (Ita) Minardi
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        87 15 PARIS French Open Men's singles. 4th rd: Andrei Mcdvcdcv (Ukr) b Jacco bltingh (Neth) 6-4 3-6 6-4 6-1. Women's singles. 4th rd: Arantxa Sanchez (Spa) bt Ankc Huber (Ger) 6-3 6-2; Julie Halard (Fra) b Natalia Zvcrcva (Bcla) 7-6 7-5; Petra Ritter (Aus) b Ruxandra Dragomir (Rom) 7-6 4-6
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    • 1002 18  -  Women's role in the work force has largely been ignored. An international economic conference wants to change that. Barbara Presley Noble reports Barbara Presley Noble NYT THE LATEST instalment of Robert Skidelsky's biography of John Maynard Keynes indicates the eminent economist was not much interested
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    • 586 19 Reuter Employees should negotiate with managers for a shorter work week without loss in pay in return for higher productivity, as long as both sides are willing, a leading US authority on the workplace argues. Amid continuing economic uncertainty, companies are looking
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  • 500 20 AFP TOKYO Japan's Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata came under increasing pressure from the opposition yesterday to step down but the Socialists remained divided on whether they should return to the depleted ruling coalition. The main opposition Liberal Democratic
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  • 510 20 Reuter BRUSSELS Unemployment is shaping up as a main issue in listless campaigning for next month's European Parliament elections, but would-be EuroMPs have few novel remedies for the European Union's most stubborn social problem. An unemployed citizen leafing through the election brochures of
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  • 148 20 Reuter LONDON A British inventor, struck with inspiration in the bath like the ancient Greek Archimedes, has developed a plug that stops the bath overflowing and could make him a millionaire. Trevor Blaney, who fell asleep while running a bath which
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  • 67 20 AFP HONGKONG Placards lying on a square in front of the Hongkong legislature and the Bank of China building as silent reminders of the June 4 Tiananmen Square massacre that Has commemorated here yesterday. As many as 50,000 people are expected to turn up for a
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  • 478 20 Reuter MOSCOW Afghan war hero Alexander Rutskoi staked his claim to leadership of a united opposition to President Boris Yeltsin at the weekend, railing against the West and demanding creation of an "opposition government". Mr Rutskoi. speaking at a leadership meeting of the
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  • 833 20  - Clinton doing the right thing, moving in the right direction The Bottom Line LEON HADAR LEON HADAR The writer is BT's Washington correspondent CONTRARY TO the concerns among many observers in Washington and in other world capitals. President Bill Clinton did not fudge his dilemma on China's Most Favoured Nation
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  • 283 20 Reuter BEIJING China and Russia pledged yesterday to strengthen eooperation in military technology and to develop economic and trade tics, the official Xinhua news agency reported. It hailed a visit to China by Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin that
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  • 187 20 AFP BEIJING China plans to open up its oil industry to foreign capital, especially through joint ventures, the president of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) said yesterday. Wang Tao was reported in the China Daily Business Weekly newspaper as saying the
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  • 233 20 Reuter FRANKFURT The German unit of General Motors yesterday demanded the arrest of Volkswagen's production chief, firing another salvo in an increasingly bitter dispute over alleged industrial espionage between the two carmakers. A spokesman for GM subsidiary Adam Opel AG said
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 524 21 LANGKAWI Malaysian construction group Ekran Bhd will build and market the Msl billion (***** million) Port Langkasuka development in Langkawi, one of the country's largest tourism projects. Ekran is also handling the MS 15 billion Bakun hydroelectric project in Sarawak. Ekran executive chairman
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    • 445 21  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Aluminium cladding and curtain walling contractor Liang Huat's main board listing next month is likely to involve both vendor and new shares, managing director Peter Tan says. The company's pre-issue paid-up capital is 17 million $1 shares of
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    • 770 21  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Overseas Union Bank surprised analysts last week by cutting its mortgage rates by as much as 0.5 percentage point, and by introducing a monthly rests option for repayment of housing
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    • 414 21 Bernama LANGKAWI Ekran Bhd has put its proposed development of Qeshm Island in Iran on hold because the island has yet to obtain free port status, executive chairman Ting Pek Khiing said on Saturday. He said Ekran agreed to undertake the project on the
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    • 409 21  -  By Dexter Lee SINGAPORE Sembawang Industrial, one of four key subsidiaries of the diversified Sembawang group, has struck a three-way deal to produce air compressors in China. The company agreed on Saturday to form a joint venture with Sullair Corporation, a subsidiary of
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 97 22 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON New Zealand entrepreneurial investor Brierley Investments Ltd is likely to sell its 70 per cent stake in the Mount Charlotte hotels group, London's largest hotel chain, the Sunday Star-Times newspaper reported. The hotel chain is being readied for a
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        • 64 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Formosa Prosonic Industries Berhad's 1.997 million ordinary shares made available for public subscription have been oversubscribed by 69.36 times. Speaking at the balloting for the bumiputra portion here on Friday, general manager of Malaysian Issuing House Sdn Bhd, Fauziah Ibrahim, said a total
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        • 104 22 AFP TOKYO Japan's Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd announced on Friday a pre-tax loss of 28.1 billion yen (SS4I3 million) for the year to March, reversing a profit of 139 million yen a year earlier. The manufacturer of Subaru cars and aircraft and transport
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        • 91 22 AP TOKYO Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp, the world's second-largest telecommunications company, announced on Friday its net group profit plunged 70 per cent for the year ending March 31. NTT's net profit was 49.9 billion yen, down 70.22 per cent from the previous year's 167.55
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        • 76 22 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR UCM Industrial Corporation Berhad is confident about the group's future with the completion of its restructuring exercise, chairman Tan Hua Choon says. UCM's restructuring exercise includes the acquisition of the entire stake in Assedina Sdn Bhd and Jasa Kita Warehousing Service Sdn
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        • 94 22 AFP TOKYO Japan's biggest leasing company Orix Corp said on Friday its pre-tax earnings grew 8.7 per cent from a year earlier to 5.6 billion yen in the year to March. The company, whose biggest shareholder is the London branch of Chase Manhattan Bank
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      • 407 22 Bloomberg Business News NST BEIJING Beijing-based steel giant Shougang Corp plans to more than double its annual production capacity to 20 million tons by early next century to become the world's largest steelmaker, the official China Daily reports.
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      • 470 22 Eastern Express HONGKONG The Securities Futures Commission (SFC) was asked on Friday by Financial Services Secretary Michael Cartland to look into two possible breaches of the Takeovers Code relating to transactions involving Asia Securities International shares in 1991 and
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      • 415 22 Reuter ULSAN, South Korea After starting from scratch to develop the world's biggest shipyard, the Hyundai Group's shipbuilding and heavy engineering arm is setting its sights on conquering related industrial fields. South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd (HHI) has recently undergone a
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      • 380 22 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan flag carrier China Airlines (CAL) may be forced to lower its 1994 pre-tax profit target by 10 per cent to NTS 3 billion (SSI7O million) following its worst accident, newspapers said. CAL's passenger rate has
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      • 709 22 MARKET WATCH MBT KUALA LUMPUR The bold move of Malayan United Industries Bhd (MUI) in divesting its banking and finance subsidiaries and acquiring a controlling stake in Hongkongbased South China Morning Post Holdings Bhd (SCMP) has shifted the conglomerate's corporate game
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      • 311 22 AP SYDNLY Rupert Murdoch said in an interview published on Saturday that his Fox Broadcasting network intends to buy another 15 United States television stations in the next year. Last Monday, Fox Broadcasting stunned the television industry by announcing a
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      • 333 22 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO While much of corporate Japan comes bruised to this year's earnings season, several oil companies are posting increased profits. Koa Oil Co and Cosmo Oil Co said earnings rose, while Nippon Oil Co, the industry leader, posted a marginal decline
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      • 369 22 Reuter BOMBAY India's biggest truck maker Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co Ltd (Telco) tripled net profit for the year ended March 1994, outstripping analysts' expectations. "This (net nrofit) is sharply higher than our expectations," said Arun Subramaniam. analyst with James
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      • 258 22 Eastern Express HONGKONG A Hong-kong-based development company has signed an accord to acquire a 32.7 per cent stake in a joint-venture company created to develop and upgrade the international airport in Hanoi. Hongkong Infrastructure Comprehensive Development (HKICD) agreed to pay U5517.64 million
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      • 452 23 FT LONDON Europe's largest investor in unquoted companies, 3i, has paved the way for a public share offer that is likely to value the British company at about £1.6 billion (552.5 billion). The flotation will be one of the year's largest
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      • 231 23 Reuter LONDON A tidal wave of new issues forecast to hit the United Kingdom share market over the next six months threatens to soak up institutional cash and is partly responsible for the FTSE's current weakness, analysts said last Friday. Richard Jeffrey,
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      • 305 23 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Boots Co pic said it agreed to sell its Farley's infant milk and food business and its adult nutrition business to Pittsburgh-based HJ Heinz Co for £94 million (Ss2l7 million). Farley's, which makes and sells
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      • 272 23 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Viacom Inc plans to seek authorisation from its shareholders to issue as many as 1 billion shares of class B common stock, some of which may be used for future financing requirements or acquisitions. The US entertainment company is
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      • 58 23 Reuter MARIETTA, Ohio Two burnt-out petrochemical storage tanks were among the damage caused by a massive Tire and explosion which broke out on Friday at the Shell Chemical plant in Belpre, Ohio. The blaze at the petrochemical plant resulted in one casualty.
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      • 318 23 AFP HANOI General Electric and Australia's BHP plan to build a USSBIO million (551.24 billion) combined gasfuelled power plant and fertiliser production centre in southern Vietnam, it was reported yesterday. The two are organising a consortium expected to bring in several
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 366 24 Reuter COLOMBO Natural and synthetic rubber prices should continue to rise this year as the world economy recovers, the International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) said. Global rubber demand will rise 2.5 per cent this year to 14.6 million tonnes as car sales
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      • 58 24 Reuter PERTH British-born prospector Mark Creasy with the battered Landrover he uses to And gold deposits around Australia. Mr Creasy struck a golden deal earlier this month when he sold his exploration interests in West Australia to a mining company for US$l22 million (*****.5 million) but he
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      • 278 24 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Bank workers in the country are seeking flexible working hours under a new collective agreement being negotiated as a way to beat traffic jams in major cities. The 26,000-strong National Union of Bank Employees (Nube) wants a 30-minute grace
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      • 154 24 Reuter FRANKFURT The Bundesbank is likely to lower its discount rate by a further 50 basis to 4 per cent by the end of 1994. the chief economist of one of Germany's biggest banks said. "The German Bundesbank will continue its policy
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      • 513 24 AFP TOKYO Japan's three long-term credit banks and seven trust banks announced on Friday more profit falls in the year to March as they continued to write off bad debts incurred in the lending frenzy of the late 1980s. Only three banks Industrial
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      • 270 24 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The trading desks at Citicorp, Chemical Banking Corp and Bank America Corp are rebounding from a tough first quarter, says CS First Boston analyst Thomas Hanley. "Bank trading results are running at a higher trend than
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      • 299 24 Bloomberg Business News LONDON SG Warburg Group pic shares rose as much as 4.5 per cent last week after the leading British investment bank announced that fiscal 1994 pre-tax profit had doubled. Bolstered by a 42 per cent increase in profit from
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      • 435 24 AFP HONGKONG The yen lost value against the US dollar following the breakthrough in trade talks, but other Asia-Pa-cific currencies picked up against the greenback in last week's trading: Japanese yen: The yen closed the week at 104.53 yen to the US dollar,
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      • 646 25  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Meryl Phang, MMS International SINGAPORE The Bank of Japan started ofT a dull week with dollar purchases at 103.90 yen level and maintaining an accommodative monetary policy stance through a soft unsecured overnight call rate which fell to a record low of
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      • 1187 25 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Commodity prices acted as if on a roller-coaster last week, soaring at the beginning of the week on speculative buying before slumping later as traders took profits. Coffee was the most dramatic example, as prices reached their highest point for seven
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    • 1341 25 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exduuige (futures closing at at 5.30pa) KSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest I 150.50 825 Jul 150.00 149.00 150.00 850 2925 Aug 149.00 1 49 00 149 00 200 1300 Sep 147.00 147.00 147.75 400 3275 Oct/Dec
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    • 4828 26 CORPORATE RESULTS N«t tin KPS Dale IY LY TY LY omrmmy ann (Sat) (Sa) (cts) (cts> hem Ind Ma, 23 F 8 845 '♦.IN 33 37 MB Asia Apr 29 F 9908 Jl 064 .8 9 59.7 -WT Apr 26 F 7 058 5.351 7 58
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    • 753 26 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
      • 702 27 FT Hew York HERE we go again. Just when investors thought the demons which had plagued US financial markets throughout the northern spring had been exorcised, an unexpected upward revision in first quarter economic growth sparks a sell-off in bonds and revives fears that
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      • 388 27 AFP London SHARES on the London Stock Exchange registered a particularly sombre week, with shares falling through the key psychological 3,000 level on Friday as markets were nervous about possible rises in interest rates. The FT-SE 100 index of leading shares fell to its lowest
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      • 343 27 AFP Tokyo SHARE prices rose on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last week on buying by foreign investors who were inspired by better-than-expectcd profits of Japanese companies. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues in the first section closed at 20,777.16 on Friday,
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      • 429 27 AFP. Reuter Hongkong STOCKS tracked downwards on thinner volume this past week on the Hongkong stock exchange, despite the late-week announcement that the United States will renew China's trading privileges. The Hang Seng Index went into the weekend at 9,470.13, down
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 111 27 Australian shares closed slightly down on Friday but almost unchanged from the previous week's finish following a see-saw performance by the market, brokers said. The bourse's key indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, rallied on Monday and Tuesday, dropped on the following two days and finally closed just 1.7 points
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        • 77 27 Technical rebounds and corrections kept the Philippine stock market bouncing up and down last week, finally ending higher, analysts said. The Composite Index rose to 2,907 on Friday, up 30.68 points or 1.066 per cent from the 2,876.32 posted on May 20. Average daily volume rose to 1.54 billion
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        • 77 27 The prospect of improved economic conditions and good company financial reports helped rally prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSE) during a holidayshortened week, pushing the index above the 500 mark. The JSE Index rose 16.98 points over the week to close on Friday at 504.971 from 487.988 at
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        • 75 27 The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index jumped 45.38 points or 3.4 per cent during the week, extending its bull run to 10 trading days and closing on Friday at 1.383.57, brokers said. The average daily volume traded during the week was 94.3 million shares, down from 128.5 million
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        • 104 27 Share prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange continued falling for the second week due to dwindling buying interest in the lack of fresh incentives, brokers said. Following a 2.58 per cent drop the preceding week, the 374-issue Weighted Price Index lost another 99.02 points, or 1.7 per cent, to
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        • 89 27 Optimism over the economy and steady buying by institutional investors bolstered a late bull run on the Korean Stock Exchange with the Composite Price Index rising to 953.86 points at Saturday's close, up 5.77 points from the previous week. Brokers said the bull run on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
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        • 82 27 Healthy corporate results announced by industry majors and renewed buying by foreign institutional investors stopped a slide and boosted select share prices on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) last week. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index gained 5.84 points during the week to close on Friday at 3.789.51 points. The
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      • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        • 793 27 +3.68 Blue-chip stocks edged higher on Friday on the eve of the long holiday weekend in the thinnest trading since December. The Dow Jones industrial average ended 3.68 points higher at 3,757.14. It ended with a loss for the week of 9.21 points. In the broad market, advancing
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        • 266 27 -1.83 Stocks ended mixed after wrapping up a quiet session dampened by weak bonds and a slow pre-holi-day US stock market. Gains in precious metals, energy and transportation were offset by weak consumer products, mining and media groups. The TSE 300 composite index edged down 1.83 points to 4328.88
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        • 2281 27 London May 27 Hence Industrials A. A. Corp Adr 46 I.I30 Abbes Nattoiul 383 -4 Allied Lyons 380 4/8 -2 4/8 Amcc 110 -3 x.gvll 240 -5 Asda Group 54 4/8 BAT Ind 408 -114/8 BICC 413 -II B<X" Group 706 -13 BR Pelroleum 385 4/8 -10 BTR 370 -17
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    • 2832 28 MOST ACTTVC vofcjcm Mulpha Inll 50c 18.145.000 Idm H\d 50c 9.887.000 Rcnong Bhd 50c 6.440,000 I'romct 5.487.000 kamunling 50c 5.486.000 Lien Hoc TSR97 4.016.000 KAt B 50c 3.877.000 Multi-Purpose 2.779,000 kemavan 50c 2.659.000 AMDS 50c 2.568.000 liwas Bhd 2.430.000 Fabcr Group 2.385.000 VI Bf Capital 2.367.000 MOeTACTTVt-«*»!$) Mulpha
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      • 6127 28 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Another week of lethargic trading amid decreasing volumes as forced selling and margin calls dampened investor sentiment. The market fell on the opening with forced selling and redemptions by some foreign funds dampening sentiment. With stocks becoming more attractive with the
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    • 159 29 Carder's Tribute To Time A glittering champagne cocktail marked the $4 million exhibition and sale of antique timepieces from the Cartier Collection. On show too, was a stunning range from Cartier's latest jewellery watch creations. Some of the interesting antique pieces for sale include a 1915 HP platinum Art Deco
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    • 344 31  -  By J Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Philippine carrier Aboitiz Shipping Corporation is embarking on a 1.7-billion peso (Ss96 million) fleet modernisation programme. Aboitiz, which has eight ships and is the third largest domestic shipping line in the Philippines, plans to buy three
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      41 31 Reuter 1 I.SAN South Korea A forklift driver at Hyundai Precision and Industry lifts a reefer container in the company s I Isan plant or shipment to China. Ihe container maker is seeking to diversify into transport manufacturing. Keuter
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    • 130 31 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's Evergreen Marine Corp said it plans to buy several of what it says will be the world's largest container ships to cope with rising demand. Evergreen, one of the world's largest container shipping operators, plans to order several container vessels with
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    • 250 31 Reuter PANAMA CITY A series of proposed administrative changes to the Panama Canal should help ensure a smooth transfer of the watenvay to Panama by the end ot the decade. a top Panama Canal official said last week. The official, speaking on the
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    • 417 31 Lloyd's List LONDON Turkey has backed down from its rigid demands for controls on shipping transiting the Bosporus and Dardanelles following opposition from a group of International Maritime Organisation (IMO) member states. A Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) working group has now produced a list
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    • 445 31 Reuter TOKYO Japan's worldleading shipbuilding industry saw profits for the year to March 31 mostly sink as margins sutTered from the relentlessly strong yen and slumping world ship prices, companies said on Friday. But nearly all major companies, many of which are
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    • 15547 40 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Pcnang after
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    • 866 48  -  This year will see the revisions of many of the rules concerning tanker design and spill liability. Bill Box reports Bill Box Seatrade Week Newsfront THE shipping community worldwide is on the edge of its seat as it awaits the final decision by the US
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    • 1469 48 Rates arc now lower for Panamax tonnage in the Atlantic as charterers succeed in bringing rates down from both the US Gulf and Brazil, brokers said. The Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates fell to 1,475 on Thursday from 1.496 on May 25. with the
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      • 384 50 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Commission is due on Wednesday to adopt a blueprint for Europe's airline industry which backs liberalisation and rejects special tax treatment for struggling national carriers. "The European Commission finds it... difficult to join calls for a specific treatment of
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      • 143 50 SINGAPORE Rolls-Royce has added the Flying Spur to its range of luxury cars. The new car, priced at £148,544 (*****,651), builds on the existing Silver Spur 11. It has an updated, turbocharged engine with 50 per cent more power, making it the fastest Rolls-Royce model. Acceleration from
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      • 258 50 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING A team of up to 20 Chinese engineers will soon leave for the US to assist Boeing Co in the design and manufacture of its new 737-700 jetliner, the official China Daily reported yesterday. The engineers from the
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    • 1897 35 H STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 NEW GUINEA PACIFIC LINE cfCjep (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CARGO OUI SAILS ASIAN VENTURE VO2E KK. Skm. Taw 28 t3O Ma» 31 May 02 June FC I. LCL CONTAINER ANO
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    • 783 43 fit FAMOUS CONTAINER LINES 10 ANSON RD. #15-21 INTERNATIONAL PLAZA, S'PORE 0207 HOT LINE: *****33 (24 LINES) GOTHENBURG/SCAN 5/6 ROTTERDAM 5/6 AARHUS/COPENHAGEN 576 HAMBURG/BREMEN 1/6 MARSEILLE/PRANCE 31/5 FELIXSTOWE/UK 5/6 BARCELONA/SPAIN 676 LEHAVRE/FRANCE 1/6 GENOA/ITALY 376 ANTWERP/BELGIUM 6/6 LOS ANGELES/WC/IPI 5/6 SYDNEY/MELBOURNE 31/5 NEW YORK/EC 276 FREMANTLE/ADELAIDE 3/6 VANCOUVER 276 BRISBANE
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