The Business Times, 12 September 1994

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  • 12 1 SINGAPORE BusinessTimes WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Monday September 12 1994 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 56 1 Reuter LONDON A British Petroleum spokesman yesterday said he had no comment on a newspaper report that it had discovered a huge undersea gas field off Vietnam. The report in The Independent on Sunday said the find was thought to be between two trillion and
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    • 45 1 AP NEW YORK Jessica Tandy, who won an Academy Award at age 80 for her portrayal of a spirited Southern matriarch in Driving Miss Daisy, died yesterday at her Connecticut home after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 85. AP
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  • 157 1 Stock market indices Friday Week change ST1I 2,299.96 -30.65 KLSEComp 1.181.66 20.78 Nikkei 19,897.88 -755.95 Hang Seng 10,145.02 243.46 SET Index „....l,508.85 -31.01 Jakarta Comp 532.36 +16.86 CLSA China B 1,234.97 +76.59 Aust All Ord 2,070.6 -36.4 FTSE 100 3,139.3 -77.2 Dow Jones 3,874.81 -10.77 Average of prime
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  • 571 1  -  From Teh Hooi Ling in NANJING SINGAPORE has widened the scope of its Suzhou Township project by securing the agreement of the Jiangsu provincial government to incorporate a chemical park in the township. In talks with provincial leaders over the
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  • 315 1 THE Wuxi-Singapore Industrial Park, originally earmarked to cover two sq km, will be expanded to 8 sq km. In-principle approval for the expansion was given by Jiangsu provincial government officials in discussions over the weekend with Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister, Yeo Cheow
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  • 479 1 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Eastern Express editor Steve Vines was sacked by the Oriental Press Group (OPG) after relations had soured following publication of a story about Chinese patriarch Deng Xiaoping's younger brother, say the newspaper's staff members. Staff members yesterday
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  • 620 1  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON UNITED STATES and London brokers have warned that there will be considerable uncertainty in global bond and equity markets this week after US producer prices spooked financial markets with their biggest rise in four years. The US dollar is
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  • 518 1  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Tourism has emerged as one of the fastest growing sectors in Asian economies in recent years and indications are that it will be a huge industry in most Asian countries by 1998. The Economist Intelligence Unit, in the
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    • 19 1 .£7 Hock Lock S/gwfrW i\ l Limits for Jakdrfktourss? China's first national labour law, Enterprise A Management Pg 9
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 303 2  -  By Corinne Kerk BUSINESS at eating places continued to slide in June, dropping 5.2 per cent over the same period last year. The June figures are the latest available on the Catering Trade Index, which measures business volume at restaurants, fast-food outlets and other
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    • 319 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan THE United States is fast overtaking Japan as the leading investor in Singapore, according to the Hongkongbased risk consultancy. Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (Perc). "One trend that has become increasingly obvious in recent years is the rapid
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    • 139 2 CAR maker BMW's latest model, the 316 i Compact, is set to go on the roads here early next year. Launched at the Geneva car show in March, the 1.6-litre Compact is a shortened, hatchback version of BMW's successful 3-series saloon. Local distributor Performance
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    • 247 2  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan FINANCE Minister Richard Hu will deliver the keynote address this morning at a financial analysts' conference on new investment opportunities in Asia. The 16th annual conference of the Asian Securities Analysts Council focuses on emerging markets in Asia, especially China and
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    • 114 2 A BRITISH trade minister is in Singapore to further strengthen business ties between Singapore and the United Kingdom. Lord Ferrers, Minister for Small Firms and Consumer Affairs, arrived yesterday and will leave on Thursday. Accompanying him is a delegation of 11 British
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 408 3  -  USs3om scheme the first build-operate-transfer contract in country By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Two Malaysian firms have teamed up with the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to construct a US$3O million (Ss4s million) city water supply system the first build-operate-transfer contract
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    • 390 3 Reuter JOGJAKARTA Senior officials and advisers from the Asia-Pacific's dynamic economies will meet today to discuss closer links before an informal summit in Indonesia in November. Diplomats from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum and advisers yesterday
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    • 345 3 AFP JAKARTA The youngest son of President Suharto has said his conglomerate of businesses, one of the largest in Indonesia, would continue to prosper even if his father was no longer in power, a news report said yesterday. Hutomo Mandala Putra, president of
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    • ASIANOTES
      • 119 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia will prosecute private minibus drivers who damaged public buses during a four-day strike last week against higher traffic fines. Jakarta regional police chief MajorGeneral Hindarto was quoted by the official Antara news agency yesterday as saying most people held during the strike
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      • 96 3 Reuter MANILA A Philippine Navy ship with a cracked hull leaked oil off southern Palawan island but the spillage was minor and caused no damage to mangrove forests. The Navy yesterday denied reports by an official of the Presidential Committee on Oil Spill Prevention that the
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      • 107 3 AFP TOKYO Dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi is guardedly optimistic about the chances of reform in Myanmar but will not give in to demands from the military junta to leave the country. Rewata Dhamma, an expatriate Myanmar Buddhist priest, told the Yomiuri newspaper yesterday
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      • 100 3 Reuter MANILA The Philippines' leading churchman has accused the government of trying to weaken the influence of the Roman Catholic church over the overwhelmingly Catholic population. In one of his strongest attacks on President Fidel Ramos' administration, Cardinal Jaime Sin said on Saturday that
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      • 63 3 AFP PHNOM PENH The former communist Cambodian People's Party yesterday condemned the assassination last week of a newspaper editor and denied any involvement. "The Cambodian People's Party (CPP) strongly condemns this criminal act," a CPP statement said. Non Chan editor of the Samleng Ynvachun Khmer (Voice
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      • 81 3 Reuter JAKARTA At least 170 alleged members of a separatist movement in Indonesia's eastern-most province of Irian Jaya returned home last month from neighbouring Papua New Guinea. Antara news agency yesterday quoted Major General Tarub, head of the Trikora military command which oversees security in
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 375 4 AP BEIJING Nudging its debtridden state sector a step closer towards competition in a market economy, China plans to allow state-run enterprises to begin setting their own wages. Gauging from current trends, those wages are likely to shoot higher: in the
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    • 55 4 AFP TAIPEI A bride and groom helping to set free 1,000 butterflies (around the ribbons) on Saturday outside a photo studio, which was celebrating its opening here. The butterflies were bought by the studio owner from butterfly hunters for NT$2O,OOO (551,144). They were originally intended to be
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    • 300 4 AFP BEIJING China's central bank has warned of chaos in the country's banking sector, with many institutions violating settlement rules and enterprises using bank loans to avoid defaulting on payments, reports said yesterday. Addressing a national meeting Saturday, People's Bank
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    • 332 4 Eastern Express HONGKONG Profits for developers are expected to keep growing over the next couple of years, despite fears that the depressed property market will hold down property prices. "I don't think any developer has any worries, even with the
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    • 138 4 AFP BEIJING With divorce rates soaring, Chinese couples who make a success of their marriages can literally afford to be smug thanks to a new insurance policy that rewards marital longevity, a report said yesterday. The country's largest insurer, the People's Insurance Company of
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    • CHINAWATCH
      • 101 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING One of Asia's potential conflict zones, the disputed South China Sea islands, could hold oil reserves of at least 30 billion tonnes, the China Daily yesterday quoted a minister as saying. Song Ruixiang, Minister for Geology and Mineral Resources,
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      • 124 4 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan will maintain air and sea links with Hongkong after the British colony reverts to China in 1997, said a policy paper by the Mainland Affairs Council published in newspapers yesterday. However, the paper is careful to avoid designating the territory after
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      • 89 4 AFP BEIJING The issue of China's preferential trade status with the US is stiil a major obstacle to bilateral trade ties, despite the renewal of MFN in May, the C/iina Daily Business Weekly yesterday quoted a senior Chinese official as saying. Until Washington decides
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      • 64 4 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING In a move to tighten control over trade and squeeze out corruption, China's trade ministry will put export quotas on 11 more products next year, the China Daily reported yesterday. The new products, the quotas of which will all
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 374 6 AFP SYDNEY The Australian government yesterday promised to give substantial aid to farmers suffering a devastating drought, as Prime Minister Paul Keating prepared to tour the worst-affected areas. Primary Industries Minister Bob Collins said he would seek further funds to assist farmers following Mr
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    • 341 6 Reuter DHAKA Opposition activists exploded dozens of homemade bombs and pelted police with rocks as an eight-hour general strike to press demands for early elections shut down much of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka yesterday. Witnesses said eight bombs went off near
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    • 297 6 Reuter BOMBAY India must introduce laws making it easier to hire and fire workers as part of its sweeping economic reforms. Dipankar Basu, chairman of the State Bank of India (SBI). yesterday said that the reform programme would be weakened and
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 783 7  -  From Brian Gomez in SYDNEY THE gunning down of a state member of parliament has put Australia's Asian community, and the government's policy of multi-culturalism, under the spotlight. Understandably, with many observers pointing their finger at "Asian gangs" as probable culprits,
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    • 786 7  -  By Peter Osborne RARELY HAS Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States been as important to the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as it will be at the party's national conference which begins in Hobart today. For it is the CIS that holds
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    • 1041 7  -  From Peter Lynch in SYDNEY MACABRE though it may seem, Australian opposition leader Alexander Downer must have momentarily thanked his lucky stars when the country experienced its first political assassination last week. The news has, in all probability, postponed the second. His
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLDWATCH
      • 70 8 Reuter MEXICO CITY Mexico's next president, Ernesto Zedillo, called on Saturday for sweeping reforms to his ruling party, in power since 1929, saying he wants clear advances made before he takes office in December. Mr Zedillo, who won the Aug 21 elections by a wide
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      • 129 8 AFP MENDRISIO, Switzerland Three thieves who stole 1.3 tonnes Of gold from a Swiss bank over a 30-month period were sentenced here on Saturday to between two and seven years in prison judicial officials said. Vito Ghielmetti, 47, considered the mastermind behind the theft
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      • 74 8 Los Angeles Times LONDON Five members of the Irish Republican Army tried to shoot their way out of a high-security jail, shaking the fragile Northern Ireland peace process, authorities said on Saturday. The British government and the IRA said the foiled escape did not constitute
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      • 72 8 The Washington Post WASHINGTON Robert C "Bud" McFarlane, who served as national security adviser to former president Ronald Reagan, claims in a new book that an Israeli official in mid-1985 proposed the assassination of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The proposal, he contends, was part
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    • 174 8 AP SALT LAKE CITY After spending the past four years and US$5O million (Ss7s million) making his mark in Russia, American industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr is pulling out. Mr Huntsman was acting on promises by former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev of open economic
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    • 445 8 Reuter MONTREAL Final opinion polls published before today's election in Quebec have given the separatist Parti Quebecois a 3-5 percentage point lead over the Liberal Party, more than enough to oust the incumbents after nine years in power. That could sweep
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    • 256 8 AFP WASHINGTON The US economy should sustain growth well past the 1996 presidential elections, according to 51 economists polled by a private research publication for a report released on Saturday. "About six out of 10 (panelists) felt the axe would
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    • 48 8 Reuter ZAGREB Pope John Paul Ii being received by President of Croatia Franjo Tudjman (right) upon his arrival at the presidential palace yesterday. The Pope was in Zagreb for a two-day visit to Croatia the first visit by the Pope to the former Yugoslavia. Reuter
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    • 394 8 UPI MOSCOW The US is shifting the emphasis in its financial support of Russia from humanitarian aid to trade and investment backing, senior US administration officials said. A trio of officials, who asked not to be identified, told reporters
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGAMENT
    • 1839 9 China's first national labour law IT took 15 years and 30 drafts, but finally China has its first national labour law passed by the standing committee of the National People's Congress in July and due to go into effect on Jan 1, 1995.
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  • BusinessIT
    • 678 11  -  While the big players slug it out, smaller firms are struggling to survive, reports Joseph Rajendran Joseph Rajendran WHOLESALE computer peripheral and software firms see their long-term survival coming from big volume sales as the business gets tougher and margins get sliced. Industry players
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    • 542 11  -  The disk drive leader plans to fulfil its ambitious plans through acquisitions. Claire Leow reports Claire Leow THE chairman and chief executive officer of Seagate Technology, Al Shugart. wants the company to lead in data technology, be it the management, storage or
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    • 345 11  -  By Lee Wai Leong THE year-old Multivendor Customer Services has proved to be Digital Equipment Corp's largest and most profitable business unit, bringing in some 35 per cent of Digital Singapore's revenues and accounting for 31 per cent of Digital's worldwide revenues of more than
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    • 512 12  -  By David Mok US-BASED AST Research, a top 10 firm in terms of PC sales in the US, is the latest PC vendor with big plans to grab a sizeable piece of the market share in the fiercely competitive Singapore
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    • TECHTAKES
      • 63 12 SINGAPORH Microsoft Singapore has announced that Chicago, its long-awaited new operating system (OS), will be officially called Windows 95. Chicago is the code-name for Microsoft's soon-to-be released operating system that will replace both DOS and Windows. Several industry observers had expected Chicago to be the permanent
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      • 55 12 SINGAPORE Advanced Matrix Technology has launched the AMT Color Jet, a 300 by 600 dots per inch colour inkjet printer. The ColorJet uses separate ink cartridges for black and colour and AMT claims that the black ink cartridge is refillable up to seven times. The
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      • 53 12 SINGAPORE NEC Singapore Pte Ltd has tied up with Tata Elxsi (India) Limited (TEIL) to sell NEC Unix-based servers in the Indian sub-continent. The alliance marks the entry of NEC Unix-based computers in the Indian market. Tata Elxsi will distribute the NEC 4800 family of
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      • 72 12 SINGAPORE Microsoft Singapore has released Excel version 5.0 for the Macintosh and PowerMac. The new version of Excel, Microsoft's popular spreadsheet, contains Microsoft's IntelliSense technology. The company claims that the technology enables the program to sense what the user wants to do and help to produce the
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      • 42 12 SINGAPORE Retix Corporation, a supplier of network products, has announced the setting up of its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Sydney. Retix has also appointed Anixter Inc as its regional distributor for Singapore, Hongkong, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand.
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      • 54 12 SINGAPORE Systems integrator Datacraft Asia has tied up with US-based network supplier Micom to bring the latter's products to Asia. Datacraft will bring broadband asynchronous transfer mode technology which can be used in local and wide area networks. The products offer transmission speeds between 45 and
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      • 47 12  -  Compiled by David Mok NEW YORK Sony Corp of America wants to reach its fans through cyberspace. Sony said it planned to form a new interactive, on-line computer service that will be available worldwide over the Internet computer network. Reuter
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    • It's happenin'
      • 76 12 SINGAPORE Compaq's much awaited Intech '94, organised as an international technology summit, begins at the World Trade Centre tomorrow. The event will feature keynote addresses from Compaq president and CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer and Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) president and CEO Lars Tundal and a speech by
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      • 63 12 SINGAPORE The Institute of Systems Science is conducting a series of courses this month and next month. Topics to be covered include "Multimedia Technology" (Sep 12 to 15), "Executive Information Systems for Developers" (Sep 14 to 16), and "Object-oriented Modelling and Design" (Sep 16). For registration and
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      • 56 12 SINGAPORE The Singapore Polytechnic will be holding a seminar on the MIPS RISC processor on Sep 13. It will also conduct a course on PC multimedia starting on Sep 21. Participants will be taught PC and multimedia hardware as well as techniques to produce multimedia applications. For
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      • 58 12 SINGAPORE A symposium on strategic management of technology will be held on Sep 27 and another entitled "Starting successful high-tech ventures" will be held on Sep 28. The events arc jointly organised by the National Science and Technology Board, National University of Singapore and MIT Sloan School of
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      • 60 12  -  Compiled by Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE The Singapore Computer Society's Special Interest Group is organising its first SIG Festival on Oct 13-14 at the World Trade Centre Convention Centre. The festival is held in conjunction with Singapore Informatics 1994. The festival will consist of several seminars, workshops
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    • 681 13  -  IT THE NEXT WAVE Ngair Teow Hin explains why a new character representation called Unicode is so important Ngair Teow Hin The writer is a member of the research staff at the Institute of Systems Science where he leads research in next generation multilingual
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    • 893 13 Big Blue is hoping to capitalise on Microsoft's late-to-market Windows upgrade and take a big bite out of the latter's market share NYT ro IBM, hoping to revive its desktop software business and exploit a delayed product introduction by Microsoft
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    • 929 14  -  TEST RUltmi Juha Saarinen checks out the features in Microsoft's upcoming Windows upgrade Juha Saarinen The writer is a Singapore-based IT communications consultant Windows 3.x is a poor communications platform even Microsoft admits that. This is due to the cooperative multitasking process being used, whereby a process
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    • 261 14 NYT Making its second foray into the computer hardware business, Microsoft Corp has begun shipping a keyboard last week with a suggested retail price of US$99 (SSI4B). Microsoft said the keyboard would be broadly available through computer retailers in early October. The software giant already
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    • 795 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. COME along with me as we invisibly join a computer enthusiast on
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  • SPORTS
    • 816 15 US Open NYT NEW YORK If only life were as simple as a 22-minute first set. If only Steffi Grafs two opponents Arantxa Sanehez-Vicario and Grafs ailing back had stayed down when she had them down. Graf would still be the undisputed heavyweight champion of women's
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    • 427 15 AP ROME China's women set two world records in one race and Russia's Alex Popov became the first swimmer to win the 50 and 100 freestyle titles at the same World Championships on Saturday. The Chinese relay squad of He Cihong, Dai
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    • SPORTSHORTS
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        190 15 AFP LONDON Algeria's Noureddine Morceli led an African charge on the second day of the World Cup finals here on Saturday with another demonstration of top class 1.500 m running. The world champion and record holder won the race in 3min 34.705 ec, just outside the World Cup record
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      • Article, Illustration
        146 15 NARASHINO, Japan Suntory Open final scores yesterday: 277 David Ishii (US) 72-68-69-68. Hisayuki Sasaki (Jpn) 71-70-69-67 (Ishii bt Sasaki in playoff) 278 Katsunari Takahashi (Jpn) 72-70-70-66, Naomichi Ozaki (Jpn) 71-71-68-68, Andrew Magee (US) 73-68-68-69. Brent Franklin (Can) 67-71-70-70. Anthony Gilligan (Aust) 70-70-67-71 279 Masashi Ozaki (Jpn) 72-68-66-73, Masayuki Kawamura
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      • Article, Illustration
        129 15 AP MONZA, Italy Gerhard Berger. the Austrian driver of the Ferrari team, crashed during yesterday's warm-up for the Italian F-l Grand Prix and was taken by ambulance to hospital for medical examinations. Berger suffered a neck lash when his car spun oil the track at the Variante Delia Roggia
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      • Article, Illustration
        142 15 ROME World Championships, Finals Saturday Men's 200 m butterfh: I Denis Pankratov (Rus) 1:56.54 2 Danyon Loader (NZ) 1:57.99 3 Chris-Carol Bremer (Ger) 1:58.11. 50m freestyle: 1 Alexander Popov (Kus) 22.17 2 Gary Hall (US) 22.44 3 Raimundas Majolis (Lith) 22.52. 100 m backstroke: I Martin Lopcv-Zubcro (Spn) 55.17
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      • Article, Illustration
        28 15 NEW YORK L 559.36 million L'S Open Saturday Women's doubles s-finals: Katerina Malccva (Bul)-Robin White (US) b Gigi Fernandez (USKNatalia Zvereva (Bela xl) 7-6 (7/2) 1-6 6-3.
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      • Article, Illustration
        120 15 Reuter SYDNEY New Zealand test winger Daryl Halligan landed a drop goal in extra time to propel Canterbury into the New South Wales Rugby l eague grand final with a 19-18 win against Canberra yesterday. Halligan scored from 10 metres out to break the deadlock with two minutes remaining,
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    • 562 15 AFP NEW YORK Andre Agassi moved within a match of becoming only the third unseeded player ever to win the US Open tennis championships here on Saturday with a semifinal victory over ninthseeded Todd Martin. Agassi, who came into the Open unseeded for
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    • 649 17  -  Susan Tsang reports on Nomura's plans to celebrate National Day next year Susan Tsang HAVING just celebrated our 29th anniversary as a nation, the aftermath can be a bit quiet. The good news, though, is that Nomura Singapore is already looking ahead to next
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    • 394 17  -  From John Helmer in ST PETERSBURG FOR the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a major world recording company is launching its own programme of Russian classical music releases. Japanese company Sony inaugurated its new "St Petersburg Classic" series
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  • 486 18 AFP Reuter LOS ANGELES Trade Representative Miekev Kantor said on Saturday that talks with Japan had been constructive as both sides intensified efforts to break their trade deadloek before a Sep 30 deadline for US sanetions. "We have had constructive discussions," Mr Kantor
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  • 324 18 Reuter TOKYO Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama suffered a setback yesterday when the opposition easily won the first by-election since his government took office 10 weeks ago. The Upper House win by a candidate supported by eight main opposition parties was expected to give fresh impetus
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  • 351 18  -  From Chuang Peck Ming in SYDNEY SINGAPORE and Australia will discuss how to take the Asean Regional Forum on security one step forward when the leaders of the two countries meet tomorrow. Minister of State (Foreign Affairs) Lim Hng Kiang said in
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  • 332 18 KnightRidder BERLIN International investor George Soros says last Friday's unexpectedly high gain in the US August producer price index suggests the Fed will have to hike key US rates again. But he said it was "50-50" whether the next German key rate
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  • 117 18 Reuter LINDAU, Germany European Union finance ministers yesterday agreed their countries had put recession behind them but called for vigilance to avoid repeating the mistakes of previous recoveries. They said governments could not relax in their efforts to cut budget deficits and it was vital that
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  • 946 18  -  The Bottom Line VIKRAM KHANNA VIKRAM KHANNA The writer is BT's regional economics editor THE once-in-a-decade International Population Conference going on in Cairo appears to have made a breakthrough over the weekend. But only after five days of what the cynics had predicted
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  • 311 18 Reuter Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON A member of New Zealand's ruling National Party has defected to start a new party, costing the government its one-seat majority. Despite his defection, former National member of parliament Ross Meurant said he will continue to support the government
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 447 19  -  From Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK HOTEL Properties, which is controlled by Singapore businessman Ong Beng Seng, is spending about US$l2 million (S$ 18 million) to develop low-rise blocks of office and service apartments next to Yangon's The Nawarat Hotel, which it
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    • 283 19 KUALA LUMPUR The Stamford College group, which expects to make Ms 4 million (552.3 million) in pre-tax profit for its current financial year, has obtained the approval of the Securities Commission for a second board listing. "The group, which has met
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    • 168 19 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya South Island Bhd anticipates better results for the current year. Chairman Ismail Hashim said in the company's 1994 annual report that the US and European economies, especially the former, have shown positive signs of recovery. He added that the management is
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    • 576 19  -  HO« By Leslie Lopez JAKARTA What's in a PE ratio? A lot. say analysts and brokers in Indonesia. For nearly a year, regulators have limited the price at which new shares can be offered. Companies seeking a public listing on
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    • 212 19 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya Industrial Bhd's proposed sale of a 20.5 per cent stake in Star Publications Bhd to two Bumiputra parties has paved the way for Star to seek a listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, observers said.
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANYBRIEFS
        • 67 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Cement Manufacturers Sarawak Bhd's group pre-tax profit rose 7.3 per cent to M 510.139 million (555.9 million) for the half year ended June 30, 1994, from the previous half year. CMS said turnover edged up 6.12 per cent to M
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        • 45 20 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Pernas International Hotels and Properties Bhd reported group net profits rose 16.59 per cent to M$ 13.377 million in the six months ended July 31, 1994, compared to the first half last year. Bloomberg Business News
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        • 35 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malpac Holdings Bhd announced a 25.1 per cent increase in group pre-tax operating profit to M 520.423 million for the half-year ended June 30, 1994. Bernama
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        • 67 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Three of Hongkong's premier property developers are to sign a 3.5 billion yuan agreement with Chinas Wuhan municipality to develop high-tech industrial property, the South China Sunday Morning Post reports. New World Development, Sun Hung Kai Properties and Henderson Land,
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      • 442 20 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Managers' pricaa Sep 10 12 Mcndaki Gr Fund 1.21 l-24xd£ US Gr Fund 101 1.05** SHE!" UMB Invest Mgt Ltd The Savings Fund 1.61 1.70 Unifund 1.58 M Spore Prog Fund 0.72 0.76 Umbond 1035 06 S pore Sec Fund 1.05 1.1 Ixd United Gr Fund 73
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      • 557 20  -  By William Chia SINGAPORE Indonesian property developer PT Pudjiadi Prestige will offer 26 million new shares next month in an initial public offer (IPO), in view of the healthy residential housing market. Executive director Eddie Goh of Morgan Grenfell Asia
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      • 255 20 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Kampong Lanjut Tin Dredging Bhd is planning to expand its landbank to help turn around its fortunes, which took a dip despite the booming property market in Malaysia. Together with other measures already mapped out, the land acquisition strategy will
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      • 252 20 AFP MANILA Christfund Securities (Holdings) Ltd. one of Hongkong's top stockbroking firms, will formally start its Philippine operations today in what an official described as a vote of confidence in the country's economic future. The company inaugurated its local office, Christfund Securities Philippines,
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      • 312 20 Reuter SYDNEY The Australian Wheat Board (AWB) and food group Goodman Fielder Ltd have teamed up with noodle manufacturer Vietnam Food Industries Co to set up a flour mill in the country. AWB chairman Clinton Condon said last week the Vietnamese government has
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      • 519 21 Reuter SEOUL South Korea's giant Hyundai Group is spending more than a quarter of its total investment on building up its electronics unit. Hyundai officials are confident the heavy investment will pay off for the group, which hopes to catch
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      • 229 21 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL Goldstar Co of South Korea will participate in a joint venture to build a colour television parts plant in Beijing next year, a move designed to make an inroad into the giant Chinese market. Goldstar, the second largest electronics
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      • 253 21 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Electrolux AB has launched a US$5O million (Ss7s million) retail expansion in South-east Asia, focusing on the sale of high-end household appliances through department stores and independent dealers. "The markets in the region have developed to the
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      • 186 21 AFP NEW DELHI US giant Allied Signal will invest US$l billion (Ssl.s billion) in India in one of the single largest inflows of foreign capital after the market reforms of 1991, the Business Standard daily reported. The Fortune 500 firm will focus
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      • 421 21 Eastern Express HONGKONG Shanghai Hai Xing Shipping is expected to join power giant Shandong International in seeking an H share listing on the Hongkong stock exchange next month. Tan Weixing, Hai Xing's company secretary, said during the weekend that a revised
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      • 392 21 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON New Zea-land-based Tasman Properties Ltd, formerly Robt Jones Investments, unveiled a rescue plan to inject up to NZ$l2O million (US$lOB million) of new money into the company through a rights issue and placement of shares. Tasman chairman David
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      • 412 22 AP WASHINGTON After months of rallies, news conferences and swirling debate about whether the proposed Disney's America theme park represents a golden apple or a poisoned one for Washington, DC. the people had their say on Saturday. Hundreds turned out at the
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      • 440 22 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Forte's 13-year battle for control of some of the world's most famous hotels could succeed if. as expected. Savoy Group managing director Giles Shepard leaves. Forte, one of Britain's biggest hotel companies, would then fulfil its
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      • 367 22 Reuter MIDLAND. Michigan Dow Corning Corp. once the largest maker of silicone-gel breast implants. said it will continue to participate in the U554.25 billion (556.38 billion) global settlement of implant litigation. Dow Corning said on Friday it will fund US$2 billion
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      • 250 22 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO An arbitration court ruling ordering Kyocera Corp, the world's largest maker of ceramic packages, to pay US$275 million (*****.5 million) to two US firms for alleged breach of contract is unlikely to inflict lasting damage to
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      • 151 22 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Chase Manhattan Corp said it completed its acquisition of American Residential Holding Corp for about US$34B million (***** million), becoming the nation's fifth-largest mortgage originator. The acquisition of the La Jolla, California, lender was completed by a newly
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      • 377 22 Reuter LONDON British construction firm Costain Group pic surprised investors last Friday by saying it was putting its loss-sufTering US coal business back up for sale to concentrate on its engineering and contracting activities. The news, along with a plunge
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 485 23 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK An unprecedented stream of scandals and controversies this year threatens to halt the mutual fund industry's explosive growth. "There is a tremendous escalation in controversy in the fund industry," said Bob Powell, editor of Mutual Fund Market
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      • 203 23 Bloomberg Business News MAASTRICHT, Netherlands The regulation of the US$l4 trillion (Ss2l trillion) derivatives market should be left mostly to banks and securities firms, said Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland president Jerry Jordan on Friday. "The ultimate regulator of any economic activity is the
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      • 294 23 Reuter HANOI Standard Chartered Bank on Friday became the first British bank to open a branch in Vietnam and said it hoped to use it to introduce multinational companies to the country. "We do not see ourselves as competing with the local banks but as
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      • 268 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Peregrine Fixed-Income, the newest player in Asia's bond underwriting business, is putting together a jumbo bond financing of up to USSI billion (SSI.S billion) for "a major Hongkong corporate", say several fund managers who have had discussions with Peregrine.
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      • 365 23 Reuter WASHINGTON The nation's top savings and loan regulator said the insurance fund that backs deposits at failed thrifts could face major strains in the years ahead if banks and thrifts paid widely divergent deposit-insurance fees. Office of Thrift Supervision acting director
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      • SMALLCHANGE
        • 109 23 AFP TOKYO Japan's Nomura Securities Co plans to set up a subsidiary in Hongkong on Oct 1 to broker and procure funds for major projects mainly in Asia, the newspaper Nihon Keizai reported yesterday. The new company, named Nomura Project Finance International Co,
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        • 88 23 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING Hongkong's Commercial Bank Ltd, the first overseas bank to open a branch on the Chinese mainland, said it is optimistic about opening a branch in Beijing or Shanghai this year, the state-run China Daily reported yesterday. The bank, now part of
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        • 103 23 Reuter BOMBAY The State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest commercial bank, is planning to open a branch in Johannesburg to cater to a rapid expansion of trade between India and South Africa, its chairman said. "We are also considering upgrading our representative
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        • 105 23 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australia's FAI Insurances Ltd has posted its first full-year net profit in three years. The insurer said net profit was A 51.47 million (551.64 million) in the year ended June 30. That compares with a loss of Aslo.B million a
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        • 94 23 Bloomberg Business News LONDON US investment bank Morgan Stanley Group Inc topped a league table for cross-border European activity between January and June this year on a list compiled by magazine Acquisitions Monthly, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The company was financial adviser
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      • 157 23 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Chang Hwa Commercial Bank, one of Taiwan's largest banks, opened its first branch office in Hongkong on Friday. "We expect to be able to serve the large number of Taiwanese companies in Hongkong that do business with mainland
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      • 313 23 Eastern Express HONGKONG Cheung Kong launched the sale of its long-awaited HKS6B6 million (S$ 133 million) securitised mortgage bonds last Friday, the first-ever to be issued by a property development company as opposed to a bank, according to fund managers. Merrill Lynch, the arranger,
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      • 121 23 AFP TOKYO Japan's biggest supermarket chain Daiei Inc will set up a 50-50 non-life insurance joint venture in Japan with the French insurance company AGF, the Yomiuri newspaper reported yesterday. The new firm will begin operation early next year, not only handling its
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      • 515 24 AFP PAITON, Indonesia PT Paiton Energy Company (PEC), the multinational consortium building the world's largest privately financed power plant, is looking for other ventures in Indonesia, a representative said. "Yes, we want to invest in other projects," said Hashim Joyohadikusumo during a ground-breaking
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      • 379 24 Knight-Ridder VANCOUVER American Barrick Resources Corp will have to expand significantly its exploration efforts if the company expects to sustain its huge gold production levels past the year 2000, trade analysts said on Friday. American Barrick earlier last week announced that more
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      • 319 24 UPI BEIJING Strict government controls have effectively wiped out China's black market in gold and boosted output by 34.5 per cent, according to official media. "The once-brisk black markets in gold have been smashed and the state's gold purchasing monopoly has
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      • 606 24 Reuter SINGAPORE Asian term buyers and traders are uncertain about how Saudi Arabia's new liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) pricing method will affect them. "We need to take LPG constantly to Japan. Demand is strong and we would like to know the
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      • 195 24 AFP BEIJING China has become the world's third-largest producer of sugar, hut it must increase production hy at least 50 per cent by 2000 to meet demand, the government-run Xinhua news agency said last Friday. The 1993 production record of 7.91 million tonnes
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      • 218 24 Bloomberg Business News CALGARY, Alberta An Alberta regulator has rejected a request by Amoco Canada Petroleum Co to drill a natural gas well in an area considered ecologically sensitive. The Energy Resources Conservation Board refused the application to drill in the
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 652 25  -  SIMEX WEEKLY ROUNDUP By Meryl Phang MMS International SINGAPORE The dollar started on a weak note last week. The market was at times volatile responding to comments from US officials on the ongoing trade talks with Japan and Buba council members' views on German interest rates. There
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      • 758 25 COMMODITY WEEKLY ROUNDUP AFP LONDON Aluminium continued to soar last week, reaching its highest point since March 1991 as stocks again fell by encouraging amounts on the London Metals Exchange. Aluminium has seen a 47.5 per cent rise in prices from last
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    • 1303 25 Rubber Sep 9 Singapore Commodity Exchange Phytic* 1 Prices (futures dosing as at 5.30pm) Bayers Sellers As at 12 noon (S cents/kg) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) p—~ RSS 2 Oct 94 188.25 189 25N Mnmh H.«h Low funncs) InteE* RSS 3 Oct 94 187.25 I88.25N Month High
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    • 4852 26 CORPORATE RESULTS Net Eara EPS Dale TY LY IY LY Mi (to) (to) (cts) (cl») ABK Hklgs May 10 F 1.407 2.851 12 7 0 Acma Jun 1$ F 41.518 14.268 62.5 23.1 Alcorn* Aug I I 9.373 7 905 7 44 6.40 Ala Hides Aug
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    • 755 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
      • 779 27 FT New York PUT the bubbly back on ice, deflate the balloons and cancel the catering: it looks as if Wall Street's late-summer/early-autumn market rally may never materialise. Two weeks ago, share prices began an ascent which took the Dow Jones Industrial Average up
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      • 443 27 AFP London AFTER a brief respite in August, uncertainty returned to the stock exchange in September and the market was once again fearful of inflationary pressures in the United States and a rise in British interest rates. The FT-SE 100 Index of leading
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      • 210 27 AFP Reuter Hongkong STOCKS gained 2.45 per cent in Hongkong last week on robust overseas buying which (SolTthe Hang Seng Index up to its highest level in six months. The blue chip barometer went into the weekend at 10,145.02, up 243.46 on the
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      • 496 27 AFP Tokyo SHARE prices dwindled on a five-day losing streak on the Tokyo Stock Exchange to a four-month low after a week of disappointment over the low-keved debut of Japan Telecom Co. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average closed the week at
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      • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
        • 95 27 Australian stocks fell during the week as investors reacted to uninspiring profit re- ports from major industrial companies, brokers said on Friday. The key All Ordinaries Index ended on Friday at 2,070.6 points, down 36.4 t points, or 1.7 per cent on the previous week's finish, t The All
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        • 86 27 i The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index shed 30.21 points, or 2.0 per cent, during the week to close on Friday at 1,508.85 points, brokers said. The average daily vol- > ume of stocks traded was 126.15 million, down sharp- ly from 169.7 million shares the week before.
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        • 100 27 Philippine share prices tum- bled last week as all inves- tors concentrated almost if exclusively on Petron Corp, the country's largest firm, which was listed on Wednesday, analysts said on Saturday. The Philippine Stock Ex- change Composite Index > closed at 2,981.97 points on Friday, down 114.29 points, or
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        • 105 27 Share prices continued their upward movement on the Jakarta Stock Exchange J (JSE), mostly influenced by the government announce- ment to reduce income tax, t pushing up the index by J more than 16 points. Analysts said the government's announcement earlier test week of a cut in incomc tax
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        • 91 27 The Taiwan bourse fell 0.33 per cent last week in light trading as locomotive financial, electronics and plastics issues lost steam, giving way to smaller shares, brokers said. The 378-issue Weighted Price Index of the Taiwan Stock Exchange closed at 6,987.20 points on Friday, falling 23.43 points from the
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        • 97 27 Thanks to ample liquidity and the strengthening economy, share prices on the Korea Stock Exchange rose sharply during the week, with the index gaining 4 per cent in value. The Composite Price Index closed out at 986.52 points, up 1.72 points from the previous day and 38.64 points, or
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        • 77 27 Share prices remained steady on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), India's largest bourse, a week after the market sensitivity index hit a peak. The BSE Sensitivity Index. which tracks the performance of 30 blue chip shares, gained 24.74 points to close at 4,550.95 points on Thursday against the previous
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      • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        • 771 27 •33.65 Stock prices dropped on Friday on renewed fears of inflation and higher interest rates after the government reported a sharp jump in August wholesale prices. Stocks fell across the board along with bonds and the dollar, leaving the Dow Jones Industrial Average off 33.65 points, or 0.86
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        • 280 27 -25.24 Stocks plunged to close sharply lower as US inflation data rocked North American financial markets. The producer price index in the United States jumped by 0.6 per cent in August, its highest rise in four years. The TSE 300 Index fell 25.24 at 4329.14 in volume of 66.57
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        • 2259 27 London Sep 9 Pence Industrials A. A. Corp Adr 57 620 -.130 Abbey National 397 4/8 -II 4/8 Allied Lyons 601 4/8 Amcc 117 unch \rgy II 276 *6 Asda Group W unch BAT Ind 433 -I BICC 402 5.430 BOC Group 725 6 BR Petroleum 418 4/8 -I BTR
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    • 2447 28 Scl Properties 35.248.000 "1dra Hyd 50c 28.466.000 Mulpha Intl 50c 24.133.000 Asta fac Ld 21.011.000 Mult >-Purpose 18.945.000 CASH 50c 17.412.000 Canda Hldjp «6.53».000 Lien Hoc TSR97 16.413.000 Bcnaya L Wt99 15.812.000 Pron»ct 15.353.000 Ind Oxyacn Wt95 1 4 603.000 Dunlop tit 13.955.000 Magnum Corp 50c 13.018.000 Idns
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 4991 28 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Share prices at the local bourse surged last week. The main board all-share Emas Index rose 9.22 points or 2.74 per cent from the previous week's finish to 346.17. It was a 77.93-point or 29 per cent recovery from
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 8370 29 MAIN BOARD Transaction date: Week ended Sep 9 Gr br M Wt IW Last Vol IM Quote Di« Di> \M Net < »p A>« High In («npu) Sale (000) High Low lh)n Seller C'lr P F Smil Prke INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1440 835 Ann 975 -15 599 1000 960 975
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      • 1956 30  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE For the past seven months, world equity markets have been obsessed with US inflation, whether it is rising and if so, the impact on interest rates. These fears were temporarily laid to rest in August, after the US Federal
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    • 313 30 UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) LOST CERTIFICATES Notice is hereby given that the following certificates have been reported k>st Certificate Nos No. of »h«rca In th« mm of *****59-8 1 x 112 Lim Hui Choo *****71-4 3 x 1 *****42-6 1 X 14 *****38-5 1
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    • 275 31  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE Tricon, a joint service between DSRSenator Lines and Cho Yang Lines of South Korea, is launching an express service between the US and Mediterranean in November, in collaboration with two other carriers. Tricon now has a nine-ship weekly
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    • 245 31 SINGAPORE Fast ferry specialist Kvaerner Fjellstrand (S) Pte Ltd has built a 40metre catamaran for Damania Shipping Ltd of India. The Indian firm, a member of the Damania Group which also owns and operates publicly listed Damania Airways Ltd, will take delivery of the ferry
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    • 274 31 No dividend payment despite 29.8 pc rise in net earnings Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The largest manufacturer of dry freight shipping containers in China. Singamas Container Holdings, said its net profit rose 29.8 per cent in the six months ended June 30. Singamas company secretary Chan
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    • 279 31  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE A leading West Australian shipbuilder says it has delivered its 22nd catamaran to China. Austal Ships, which specialises in high-speed ferries, says the 300-passenger capacity X(in He Shan was delivered to the He Gang Passenger Transportation Corp in Au-
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    • 983 32 THE Baltic Freight Index for spot dry cargo shipping rates rose to 1,480 on Thursday from 1,471 on Sep 7. Firm conditions continue for capers and panamaxes with solid enquiry from grain charterers and government front companies continuing to underpin steady conditions in the Atlantic, brokers said. New
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    • 14438 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 Penang after
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 358 48 Vwid Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure 36,94 P03 1209 1130 1709, 2200 iS L N144 II alongside 12 09 2300 Caha »a'«an 008* J0» !>2/!So MM 1800 09,03.94 a 1209 2300 S.7 M7 TO SI'S/lS I3H/M0 fc\5S 09,94 Hi/19 UMMM .2S£P-
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      • 1248 48 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Bookinf/Balance Rsfc Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From 13/0/00 3 }j/0g »/»5 jj K 12/0900 f 12/1200 12. MM 12/WOO ssns %{5 SIS i3 900 f s;a !?/uw 55
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    • 283 48 COURSES Title: International Freight Forwarding I (SDF 70%) Duration: Sep 15 Nov 24 (11 evenings) Organiser Singapore Freight Forwarders Association Tel: For more information contact SFFA Secretariat at 253-7550 or fax: 253-2303. Title: IATA-FIATA Basic Air Cargo Rating Duration: Sep 19-24 Organiser International Air Transport Association Tel: For
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      • 424 50 Reuter CLERMONT-FERRAND, France Jacques Calvet, chairman of France's biggest car group PSA PeugeotCitroen, said last Thursday he expected his company to return to profit in 1994 and saw European car sales up by 4 per cent this year. But. in line with
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      • 41 50 AFP ALIOLIPPA, Pennsylvania The wreckage of USAir flight 427 lying in a remote wooded area last Friday 11km from Pittsburgh International Airport. The Boeing 737-300 crashed on Thursday. All 133 passengers aboard died. AFP
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      • 342 50 Reuter TOKYO All Nippon Airways (ANA), struggling to cope with falling revenues and rising competition, said last Thursday that six Asian and European airlines would join its frequent flyer programme. Japan's airlines have been looking for ways to improve their balance sheets, cutting labour
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      • 567 50 AP DEARBORN, Michigan In a surprise move that makes a Ford family member the frontrunner to assume eventually the top job at Ford Motor Co. a great-grandson of founder Henry Ford was named last Thursday as chairman of the car maker's powerful finance
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      • 152 50 Reuter BRUSSELS AMR Corps American Airlines Inc unit said 1994 second quarter first and business class revenue per available seat mile (ASM) on Europe had jumped 31 per cent. "In the second quarter of 1994 our first and business class revenue per ASM
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        • 100 50 Reuter MANILA South Korea's Hanjin Engineering and Construction Co and a Filipino partner, F F Cruz and Co Inc, have won a U5526.76 million (5540.14 million) contract to improve the airport at the Subic freeport and commercial zone in the Philippines. The contract, awarded
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        • 112 50 Reuter LONDON Delta Air Lines said last week it is targeting a modest US$l2 million (SSIB million) increase in its international cargo revenue for fiscal year 1995 (ending June 30 1995) over the U*****.5 million revenue earned in fiscal 1994. "The first two months of
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        • 102 50 Bloomberg Business News DETROIT A proposal by Chrysler Corp to build minivans in China may be in peril after the Chinese government added some last-minute demands, the Detroit Free Press said last Friday. While Chrysler chairman Robert Eaton declined to be specific, he said that
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        • 126 50 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Saudi Arabia has agreed to buy 20 British Aerospace pic Hawk jet aircraft and a similar number of basic trainers for about £500 million (SSI.I billion), the Financial Times said last Friday. The Ministry of Defence said the training
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      • 238 50 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG A new airline to serve the Portuguese colony of Macau will be formally established today, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported Last thursday. Air Macau will be 51 per cent owned by a China-con-trolled Macau company, Companhia dc
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      • 321 50 AFP LONDON Rail unions called for urgent safety investigations, following a "near miss" at a level crossing and a derailment, as managers worked signal boxes last Thursday, in a 13-week-old signalworkers strike. At an unmanned level crossing in Derbyshire, northern England, two
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    • 11 31 Lubricant Peugeot expects 1994 profit, higher European car sales, Back Page
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    • 2102 33 OOCL (S) PTE LTD JARDINE SHIPPING AGENCIES SnlPPlNu f AX 03 *****42 CFS 03-*****42 ROAD 3 2 «»6SS" h p0 s,ng pore J lit; Si 7 777 KE S.'£T 2 DOCUMENTATION TEL *****55 |1NV»ARD),*****90 {OUTOAnOI S"JJ* 4 FAX 25M3M lOPNSI ™f ,OUER SERV>CE Hi johqtTbahru m gS. CT E" St-oMaU.
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    • 1640 34 I™"™" AGABA ROAM/1 LE ALSO ACCEPTING FROM VESSEL VOV NO SPORF JEDOAH (VIA JED) S'TON H BURG A WERP HAVRE WEST MALAYSIA KIRISHIMA 06/136 '4/9 o'/ '0 04/ 10 02/10 Port Kelang. Penang DRESDEN EXPRESS 18'336 17/9 ?6/9 03' 10 05/10 06/10 10/10 10 Pasir Gudang FRANKFURT FXPRESS 75/ 137
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    • 1840 35 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD KB9 Z'SA 10 Hoe Chiang Road #11-01 Keppel Towers Singapore 0208 Tel: *****88 Fax: *****17 uiAmAiMbnimfmmm'MMMim new guinea pacific line (A SERVICE OF CHINA NAVIGATION CO) CARGO OUI SAILS C.J. MAGA *30 VO2l Mu», lab. KK 09-10 Sep 12 Sep 14 Sep FCL. LCL CONTAINER AND
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    • 576 36 O" i|K EKA JAYA AGENCIES f TEL: *****22 (8 LINES) FAX: *****05 I SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN CHARGE E nis cm. am rrrY paqeh HAHPPHOH6/PM6CT LHSMErHOt 21HWM mwa/wiw 1 KELVIN CHAW »HW» MBMfl— j manoj i'w»—wwra ►TO VIETNAM/HCMC K CONTAINER-FEEDER SERVICE CENTER-POINT jT LINES *51 Wt tT> STOW Wl~ tT» HCMC
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    • 2165 37 Thi7^eekTTrrlva!/depfNtureTl2/o^^6/09)!^^^^^^^^^^^^lH V' II VESSEL VOYAGE EXCHANGE RATES (USS) I II IN OUT IN OUT I HI JEAN BOSCO 4513 ***** I PACIFIC EAGLE 46S 47N 1 5075 1 502 HI KOTA SURIA 1 5075 I CALIFORNIA LUNA 67W 68E 1 5005 1 5000 I NEPTUNE AVENTURINE 05E 1 5000 H
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    • 1024 37 A MULTILINE SHIPPING PTE LTD ■V (a member of SINSOV Group) CR NO: **********0 C ENQUIRIES: *****33 7^ —BOOKINGS: *****64, *****51, *****31, *****13 BALTIC: INWARD *****97 OUTWARD *****10 T/S *****10 A BLASCO: INWARD *****65 OUTWARD *****28 T/S *****46 FESCO: BOOKINGS *****99/*****01 DOC *****07 MARINE INSURANCE: *****87 INVENTORY: *****59 AGENTS: KL:
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    • 1371 38 H AS AGENTS "K" LINE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (CR NO: **********0 M GST REG NO M 2 *****99-6) K- TEL *****77 TELEX KAWAKI R*****5 FAX: *****16/7/8/9 W T TVT MALAYSIA LINE MARITIME (MALAYSIA) SON BHD Mm P j TEL: SA *****00 PK *****75 PEN *****20 JB *****01 PGU *****25/6 I
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    • 55 41 17C" VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD Established Since 1984 OCEAMIA PORTS REGULAR tcL consolidation AUCKLAND SYDNEY BRISBANE import st export MELBOURTIE FREMANTLE SERVICES T FOR BOOKING 8e SAILING SCHEDULE. CALL THE TOTAL TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE. VISA FREIGHT SERVICES PTE LTD VISA LCL CONSOL PTE LTD TOLL-FREE TEL: 1800 *****66 TOLL-FREE TEL:
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