The Business Times, 17 September 1994

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  • 14 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Weekend Edition, September 17-18 1994 75*
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  • 702 1  -  By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE The Inland Revenue Authority is cracking down on car dealers who trade in Certificates of Entitlement (COEs). An IRAS spokeswoman said yesterday that the authority will treat gains made from the buying and selling of
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  • 289 1  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA INDONESIA'S securities watchdog body, Bapepam, has decided to scrap its controversial limit on the price at which new shares can be offered. But it has warned that it will not tolerate inflated pricing of new issues. Bapepam
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  • 604 1  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Oversea-Chi-nese Banking Corporation (OCBC) has won its defamation suit against Norman Wright, the managing partner of executive search firm Egon Zehnder. Mr Wright was ordered to pay OCBC damages of $50,000 and legal costs. Justice Chao Hick Tin,
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  • 307 1  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Diversified electronics group Acma yesterday announced a 151 per cent increase in after-tax interim profit to $48.93 million and disclosed a stock split to make its shares more accessible to the public. Acma said turnover for the six
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  • 435 1 Dow down 27 after plunge of 40 points in morning Bloomberg Business News Reuter NEW YORK Stock markets plunged yesterday after figures showing vigorous US industrial growth renewed fears of inflation and higher interest rates. US blue chips, which hit their
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  • 169 1 SINGAPORE The local currency ended at an all-time high of S$ 1.4845 against the US dollar yesterday. The Sing dollar started trading in Asia at S$ 1.4880 per USSI and fell to a low of S$ 1.4830 before recovering to end at S$ 1.4845,
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  • 161 1 Stock market indices Friday Change STII 2,297.18 +16.34 KLSEComp 1,185.27 +9.21 Nikkei 19,796.26 -123.12 Hang Seng 9,968.52 +105.88 SET Index 1,546.24 +12.20 Jakarta Comp 525.63 +3.60 CLSA China B 1,221.42 -4.65 Aust All Ord 2,059.0 +8.2 FTSE 100 3,065.1 -47.6 Friday Pretious 2pm close Dow Jones 3,926.62 3,953.88
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 17 1 Karaoke in Singapore: el i Moving into cruise mode Corporate results: Vickers Ballas; Shangri-La; Parkway, Pg 6
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    • 29 1 Stock Watch: f.l 4 Pokka's a good buy Car distributors want COE system modified, Pg 2 Entry permits for M'sian vehicles to cost more, Pg 2 11l 8" *****1"*****2
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 426 2  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE'S manufacturing industry expanded at a more moderate pace of 10.5 pfcr cent in July as most major sectors particularly the key electronics segment registered slower growth. The latest index of industrial production released by the Economic Development Board
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 89 2 A SUBORDINATE court yesterday adjourned again the match-fixing case against former national footballer Michal Vana. to Sep 30. Vana's lawyer S Radakrishnan told the court that the defence was still waiting for replies to submissions made to the Attor-ney-General's Chambers. Vana, 31, has pleaded not guilty
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      • 61 2 RETAILER Pisces group has bought printed circuit board maker Circuits Plus for $10 million, through its 56 per cent owned industrial arm Pisces Technologies Holdings. Pisces Tech aims to double the PCB firm's annual sales from $10 million by raising capacity utilisation from the present
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      • 65 2 PRODUCTIVITY in the local retail sector still lags that in other countries, leaving a 20-30 per cent margin for improvement before it catches up. Koh Juan Kiat, executive director of the National Productivity Board, yesterday attributed the poor performance to lower use of productivity-improving capital equipment
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      • 94 2 UNOCAL Pacific (S) Pte Ltd has become the 56th company to be awarded the Approved Oil Trader (AOT) status by the Singapore government. The company intends to use Singapore as a base to tap into the Asia-Pacific market. Set up in 1993, Unocal Pacific
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    • 208 2 THE Economic Development Board is leading a recruitment mission to Australia to attract talent to work in Singapore. The mission from today until Sep 26 is the fourth of its kind to Australia and will cover Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. The team will interview
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    • 384 2  -  By Ramesh Dyanathan CAR distributors are seeking changes to the vehicle quota system in view of the unrelenting rise in the premiums for Certificates of Entitlement. Motor Traders Association vice-president David Tay told BT that the organisation's
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    • 194 2 FROM next month, Malaysian vehicles entering Singapore have to pay more for their vehicle entry permits, the Registrar of Vehicles announced yesterday. The current $20 daily fee for a car will be increased to $30, while the monthly fee goes
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    • 410 2 TELECOM Equipment said yesterday it was not against parallel imports, and that its actions over the past few weeks had come because of concern consumers would be confused if its products were carried alongside such imports. It said it issued a statement
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • THE REGION
    • 454 3  -  Reports from Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad held wide-ranging talks with Indonesian President Suharto yesterday on the first day of a two-day working visit. A senior Indonesian official said alter the more than hour-long meeting that the
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    • 302 3 PROPOSED plans for a massive Asean super grid took shape yesterday with the signing of an initial agreement between private companies from Malaysia and Indonesia to build a USS7.S billion (SSI I billion) power plant. Malaysia's Sikap Group and Indonesia's
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    • 262 3  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Vietnam's gross domestic product grew 8 to 9 per cent from January to August this year, despite bad weather slashing the winter rice crop in the north. The latest issue of the Vietnam Investment Review quotes Le Van Toan, director of the
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    • 386 3 Reuter HONGKONG British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said yesterday Britain wants to heal a rift with China over the 1997 handover of Hongkong, but ruled out new initiatives in upcoming talks with his Chinese counterpart. "What I will
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    • 304 3 AFP HONGKONG Governor Chris Patten's democratic reforms face their first real test tomorrow when Hongkongers cast ballots in neighbourhood elections, but apathy is threatening to confuse the results. For the first time, all seats on Hongkong's district boards largely powerless bodies
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    • 339 3  -  From Teh Hooi Ling in BEIJING CHINA'S Vice-Premier Li Lanqing is happy with the progress of the SingaporeSuzhou Industrial Township project. And he is particularly pleased by the marketing effort which resulted in a pioneer group of 14 international companies agreeing to
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    • NOTEBOOK
      • 134 3 AFP MANILA Investments in the Philippines' special export processing zones soared 406 per cent to 4.279 billion pesos (***** million) in the first eight months of this year, zone administrators said yesterday. The increase over the 843.8 million pesos invested in the zones in the
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      • 101 3 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor told Japanese Ambassador Takakazu Kuriyama on Thursday that Japan needs to compromise further on trade. This is, in effect, a rejection of current proposals by Japan to resolve the US-Japan trade dispute, the Asahi
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      • 76 3 Reuter JAKARTA An international trade-union organisation has called on its members to protest against the scheduled trial of Indonesia's independent labour leader Muchtar Pakpahan, which it fears will lead to the break-up of his union. In a letter to affiliates dated Wednesday, the Brussels-based
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      • 93 3 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan is to relax controls on capital flows for outgoing and incoming investment applications as part of its economic liberalisation programme, the Central Bank of China (CBC) said yesterday. Under the move, local enterprises will be allowed to make overseas investments of up
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    • 244 3 Reuter CHIANG MAI, Thailand Asia's six Mekong river countries have agreed to focus ambitious plans for economic cooperation on building a road network to spur energy development and trade. The six Myanmar, Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam wound up
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  • REGION/WORLD
    • 653 4 Attack expected to be over within hours; Haiti leader vows resistance Reuter AP WASHINGTON As President Bill Clinton mobilised America's military might yesterday for an anticipated invasion of Haiti, officials said the US invasion of Haiti could come within days and be over *in
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    • 488 4 Reuter TOKYO The US yesterday filed a suit seeking more than 544 million yen (SSB.I million) in compensation from 53 Japanese contractors who allegedly rigged bids for construction projects at a US naval air station south-west of Tokyo. The suit, filed by
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    • 324 4 Reuter BEIJING China is likely to enter the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) this year. Australia's trade minister said yesterday. Senator Bob McMullan was addressing a news conference at the end of a high-profile visit, during which he led
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    • 183 4 Reuter TOKYO Japan said yesterday it would allow Taiwan's Vice-Premier Hsu Li-teh to attend the Asian Games in Hiroshima next month, despite strong objections from China. Chief Cabinet Secretary Kozo Igarashi said Mr Hsu would visit Japan as chairman of the Taipei
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    • 385 4 Reuter SINGAPORE Beijing's excessive control over its oil-re-fining policies are nearing a critical stage not only for sup-ply-hungry China but also the Asia-Pacific region, a top energy analyst said yesterday. New policies to reassert central control over China's chaotic energy industry
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    • 202 4 AP Reuter BATON ROUGE, Louisiana A judge on Thursday ordered a homeowner to pay U*****,000 (*****,000) to the parents of a Japanese exchange student who was shot to death in 1992 when he went to the wrong house while looking for a
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • THE WORLD
    • 433 5 IHT BRUSSELS The United States and Britain are preparing a dramatic opening of telephone services between the two countries that is expected to unleash fierce price-cutting throughout Europe on transAtlantic phone calls, government and industry sources said
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    • Article, Illustration
      50 5 AFP LONDON French comics heroes Asterix and Obelix standing in front of Big Ben tower yesterday after arriving here from their village in the Asterix Entertainment Park near Paris. Their visit was part of a celebration to mark the 25th year of Asterix comics in the UK. AFP
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    • 297 5 FT LONDON Provisional antidumping duties on colour television sets from five Asian countries and Turkey are likely to be announced shortly by the European Union (EU), in a move that threatens to raise prices for European consumers. The decision follows an investigation launched
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 72 5 AFP WASHINGTON Scientists have unlocked a gene that can make plants and fruit grow bigger in what the US agriculture department says might be the first step towards replacing growth chemicals with genetic engineering. In a study published yesterday in the journal Science, researchers Jedrzej Szcrszen,
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      • 61 5 AFP LONDON Britain's public sector borrowing requirement (PSBR) rose to show a provisional deficit of £3.2114 billion (557.4 billion) in August from a revised deficit of £1.902 billion in July, the Treasury said yesterday. Analysts had forecast a budget deficit of about £2.5 billion. The
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      • 97 5 Reuter SANTIAGO Peru and Argentina will show the strongest economic growth in Latin America this year, although the region as a whole will fall slightly short of 1993 levels, the UN organisation Ecla said on Thursday. In its 1994 report on the continent's economies. Ecla
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      • 86 5 Reuter JERUSALEM The man in charge of economics in the Palestinian Authority running self-rule in Gaza and Jericho has tendered his resignation to PLO chief Yasser Arafat, a PLO official said yesterday. Mahmad Korei, also known as Abu Alaa, made the move a week ago but
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    • 507 5  -  From John Helmer in MOSCOW INDIA and Russia are close to agreements to boost trade, which officials hope will be formalised by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin when he visits New Delhi in December. Mr Chernomyrdin met the Indian Commerce Minister,
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
      • 18 6 For next week's expected market sentiment, see BT Sentiment Index on EL4 (Personal Finance Investment section)
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      • Article, Illustration
        127 6  -  By Quak Hiang Whai Golden Hope Plantations rose from about $2 in April to close at $2.97 yesterday. It could go up further as the upward trend appears intact and the daily indicators are still neutral. Its daily RSI and stochastics are still below 75, and its daily
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    • 372 6  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Listed broker Vickers Ballas Holdings hoisted group net earnings 36 per cent to $18.5 million in the half-year to June 30 on a 55 per cent rise in turnover to $99.5 million. Announcing the results yesterday, Vickers said
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    • 372 6  -  From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR SARAWAK'S Samling Corp Sdn Bhd (SCSB) wants to link Lingui Developments Bhd with Glenealy Plantations (Malaya) Bhd, two listed companies into which it is injecting some of its massive timber operations. SCSB, controlled by the Yaw
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    • 142 6 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR The owners of MBf Capital Bhd, the most active stock on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange for the past two days, may be selling a 30 per cent stake to an unidentified buyer, The Sun newspaper said yesterday.
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    • 974 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Lee Han Shih and Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Some five years ago, the Hong Leong group made an unsuccessful bid for Apollo Enterprise, the owner of the Apollo Hotel and Shopping Centre
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    • 250 6  -  By A J Leow SINGAPORE More tourists and a new ballroom has helped Shangri-La Hotel post a 124 per cent rise in interim group net earnings to $13.41 million, up from $6 million last year. The two factors drove turnover up 24 per cent
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    • 187 6 SINGAPORE Main boardlisted Hwa Hong has lifted its interim net earnings by 18.8 per cent to $7.17 million, compared with earnings for the corresponding period last year of $6.03 million. The rise in mid-term earnings comes on the back of turnover of $155.03
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    • 277 6 SINGAPORE Tibs Holdings has reported a 16.9 per cent drop in net earnings to $5.8 million, due largely to the poor performance of its bus operations. Turnover for the half-year edged up 3 per cent to $59.8 million. At pre-tax level, the profit from
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    • 362 6 SINGAPORE Higher tax stifled the interim performance of property and healthcare group Parkway Holdings. The listed group said yesterday it made an interim net profit of $18.62 million in the six months to June 30. This was about one per cent down
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    • 175 6 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Khazanah Holdings Bhd took over substantial stakes in five listed companies from the Ministry of Finance Inc last Saturday. The listed companies were notified of the changes by Khazanah and MOF on Tuesday. Khazanah's notice of interest of substantial shareholder
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    • 198 6 SINGAPORE Main board counter Inno-Pacific Holdings was the most actively traded stock yesterday, fuelling a week-long rumour that it is the subject of a takeover bid. Among the 34.88 million shares that changed hands during the day was a parcel of 30 million units, crossed
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    • 207 6 SINGAPORE The listing of contract manufacturer Eltech Electronics has been upgraded from Sesdaq to the main board. Eltech, which listed on the junior board in June 1992. said yesterday the move had been approved by the Stock Exchange of Singapore and
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    • COMPANIES
      • 449 7 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines' organisational revamp, as promised last month by new chairman Tajudin Ramli, has taken ofT. The two managing director posts have been abolished, new positions created, and oversized divisions cut to size. The most drastic change in the management structure
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      • 490 7  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE British Gas and First Philippine Holdings Corp (FPHC) signed a preliminary agreement yesterday to pursue key natural gas projects in the Philippines. Downstream projects covered by the memorandum may include construction of an onshore gas transmission pipeline,
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      • 165 7 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR IGB Corporation Bhd posted a group pre-tax profit of M 540.45 million (5523.5 million) for the six months ended June 30, up 14.7 per cent from M 535.28 million in the same period last year. Releasing its unaudited results,
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      • 119 7 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Palmco Holdings Bhd yesterday posted a 35 per cent drop in group pre-tax profit to MS 11.09 million (556.43 million) for the year ended June 30, from M$ 17.06 million previously. Group turnover, however, rose 16 per cent to M 5519.87 million
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      • 551 7 H—PW' pricts Sep 17 A 19 Mendaki Gr Fund I 20 I 23*dfi Singapore Unit Trust lJS Gr Fund 101 1 o HMD 1 i i j The Commerce 1.68 1.78 UWD UtVtSl Hip Ltd The Savings Fund 1.61 1.70 I nifund |.J7 (,j S'pore Prog Fund 0.67 0.7lxd Umbo«d
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 73 7 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Union Paper Holdings Bhd says significant price movements on stock prices are common due to an intermediate term strong bull market sentiment on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Replying to a KLSE query on the unusual market action of its shares,
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        • 78 7 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Trading in the shares of Ayer Molek Rubber Co Bhd has been suspended at the company's request pending an announcement, a Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange official said yesterday. The counter was the top gainer yesterday, jumping Mss2, or 44.4 per cent, to close
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        • 86 7 SINGAPORE Material Handling Engineering has gone further into the red, chalking up a net operating loss of $4.8 million for the year ended June 30. This is a 13 per cent increase from last year's net operating loss of $4.3 million. The loss came
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        • 63 7 Bernama SEREMBAN Lion Land Bhd expects turnover of Ms6o million (5535.8 million) from its Bandana Bahau township project near here on full completion in five years. Lion Group general manager (property) C K Chong said the first phase of the aroject should be
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      • 280 7  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE The largest fund investing in Vietnam, the US$l2O million (*****.6 million) closed-end Vietnam Opportunities Fund, ended its first day of trading in New York at a premium to its net asset value. Launched by Singaporebased Templeton Investment Management
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 97 8 Reuter HONGKONG First Pacific Co Ltd said yesterday it has signed a joint venture agreement to build and operate a potato dehydration plant in China's Liaoning province. Total investment for the first phase of the project is U556.25 million (559.4 million). First Pacific China Ltd,
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        • 75 8 Reuter TAIPEI A Taiwanese court has ordered a local toy company to pay NT$2.l million (S$ 118,860) in compensation to the Taiwan branch of Japanese video game giant Nintendo Co Ltd for copyright violation, a court spokesman said yesterday. Chia Pao Toy Co, based in
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        • 67 8 AP SEOUL South Korea's two state-run giants, Pohang Iron and Steel Co (Posco) and Korea Electric Power Co (Kepco), will list on the New York Stock Exchange next month. Posco and Kepco, both enjoying monopoly status here, will each issue US$3OO million
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        • 69 8 Reuter NEW YORK McCaw Cellular Communications Inc will spend more than US$l billion (SSI.S billion) to expand its national network and marketing in the next 18 months as it becomes part of AT&T Corp, the Wall Street Journal reported. AT&T could get approval from
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      • 212 8 AP BEIJING Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp was the top Chinese firm among the 500 best performing industrial firms in 1993, an official report said yesterday. Management World Magazine, a publication of the State Council's research centre and the State Statistical Bureau, based
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      • 382 8  -  De-listings will weaken Hang Seng Index From Lim Soon Neo in HONGKONG HONG KONG Land Holdings Ltd and Mandarin Oriental International Ltd, both members of the Jardine Matheson group, yesterday announced their decisions to delist from the Hongkong stock exchange on Mar 31,
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      • 325 8 HONGKONG Land Holdings yesterday reported a 10 per cent rise in net profit to US$lB2 million (SS27I million) for the year to June 30, 1994. Its sister company, Mandarin Oriental International Ltd, chalked up a 15.9 per cent
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      • 56 8 Reuter GLASOW, Scotland Phil lolan, from Associated Metal, with the stainless steel toilet, which will be installed neai'ly 6,000 metres up the side of Mount Everest at the base camp. The toilet will be first used by members of the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition, which
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      • 398 8 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Global investors have given a cool response to China Huaneng Power International, whose imminent US stock listing has been substantially overpriced, according to analysts. "Power can be a profitable investment but not on these terms, and not at
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 353 9  -  Region offers best growth prospects, says chief By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Dutch banking group Rabobank plans to expand in Asia, with an eye on China, India, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The deputy general manager of the bank's international division, Hanno Riedlin, said
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      • 280 9 SINGAPORE Thai property developer Land and Houses Public Company borrowed US$5O.5 million (Ss7s million) in the local capital market yesterday. The three-year floating rate note issue, which carries an interest rate of slightly more than 1 per cent above the London Interbank
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      • 246 9 Knight-Ridder BANGKOK Thailand has announced plans for a fund to attract international finance for infrastructure projects in neighbouring countries, reports said yesterday. The scheme was outlined at a ministerial meeting of Mekong Delta countries in Chiang Mai. It calls for links and
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      • SMALL CHANGE
        • 59 9 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Wharf Holdings Overseas Capital 1994 Ltd will offer 33 billion yen (***** million) worth of samurai bonds with five-year and five-month maturity, an official at Daiwa Securities, the lead underwriter of the bonds, said yesterday. The company is
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        • 74 9 Reuter WASHINGTON Assets of the 680 US retail money market mutual funds increased by U*****.9 million (*****.1 million) to U*****.76 billion for the week ended Wednesday, according to the Investment Company Institute. Assets of the 420 taxable money market funds in the retail category
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        • 69 9 Reuter HONGKONG Standard Chartered Bank has opened a representative office in Chengdu, the capital of China's inland Sichuan province. The office is the bank's 15th in China. The company's immediate focus in Chengdu will be the introduction of foreign investment and foreign partners, the arranging
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        • 41 9 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Royal Bank of Scotland Group pic, Britain's sixth largest bank, said yesterday it will merge its asset management arm with Newton Management Ltd, a top-performing UK pension management firm. Bloomberg Business News
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      • 293 9  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE Four Singa-pore-based Japanese banks have arranged a USSI6O million (SS23B million) revolving credit facility for Astra International, Indonesia's largest assembler and distributor of vehicles, heavy equipment and machinery. The three-year syndicated loan is the largest tapped by
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      • 430 9 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK J P Morgan Co has announced that Dennis Weatherstone, the English trader who helped transform the bank into a Wall Street powerhouse, will retire as chairman and chief executive at the end of
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      • 313 10 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The boom in corporate mergers and acquisitions isn't creating the huge fees for Wall Street that used to come with such transactions. This year's fees related to mergers and acquisitions are going to fall below
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      • 230 10 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Fidelity Investments, the biggest American mutual fund manager, sees good investment opportunities in India, Mexico, Japan and Hongkong. "In India, the vast array of extremely well-managed, highgrowth companies on low valuations makes it very attractive,"
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        1502 10 /radr-Hrtfhiai inde\ cakuhteil afamu S'pore'% lop 14 iraJinf partner* Bom' inr 198.5 (JS$/S$ forward rates Noon Sep 16 s$ Bid Offer 1-month ***** 1 4826 2-month ***** ***** 3-month 1.4755 1.4775 6-monlh 1.4747 1.4767 Sowxr OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9mi on Sep IS Singapore dollars
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      • 466 10 DBS Bank weekly currency report L'Ss/mark: bears waiting to strike? Choppy trading was seen for US$/mark as the unit seesawed between 1.5340 and 1.5515 for the first four days of the week. The technical picture is still unclear. The potential bearish triangle remains intact,
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      • 299 10 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON Fleet Financial Group Inc employed a little-known loophole in federal disclosure requirements to secretly invest in at least 14 north-eastern banks. The Providence, Rhode Island, company sought and received permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission
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      • 419 10 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO Confirmation the Brazilian government is suspending the sale of five million bags of coffee stocks was greeted with relief by traders, if only because it should help stabilise jittery international markets. "It is a very good thing that the government
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      • 305 10 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Crude oil reversed a six-day price slump, which had pushed futures to their lowest prices in four months, as traders who had sold contracts bought them back. Trading activity was restricted however, in part because of the continued absence
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      • 197 10 Reuter LONDON The dollar, baulked by resistance around 1.5500/20 marks, was moving sideways against a generally weak German currency in Europe. A "no comment' yesterday morning from the Swiss National Bank, on rumours its president Markus Lusser told bankers Germany may have room for one more cut,
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      • 97 10 AFP NEW YORK The dollar fell against other major currencies yesterday in light trading following news that US industrial production rose to its highest level in five years. The 0.7 per cent rise in production to 84.7 per cent pushed interest rates on the bond market to 7.72
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1329 11 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures and Japanese government bond (JGB) futures ended slightly firmer after trading in a narrow range. Dealers said the Euroyen traded in a range in the absence of fresh news. They said the Euroyen tried the downside in
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      • 677 11 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber TOKYO: Rubber futures surged on the back of firm prices overseas and lingering worry over the availability of supplies. Prices rose 3.1 to 5.9 yen per kg, with benchmark February closing up 3.5 yen at 126.9. February hit its life-of-contract high
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      • KNIGHT-RIDDER COMMODITY SUMMARY
        • 90 11 PARIS French nickel and specialty steel producer Eramet said first-half 1994 nickel sales rose 16 per cent from the same period last year, to 26,885 tonnes, while high-speed steel sales rose 21 per cent to 11,472 tonnes. Selling prices recovered to levels near those
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        • 63 11 TOKYO Japanese smelters consumed 90,004 tonnes of imported copper-in-concentrate in July, up 2 per cent from a year before, according to figures released yesterday by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Stocks of copper concentrate held by the smelters fell 18.5 per cent from a
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        • 102 11 TOKYO Production of aluminium sheets and extruded products by Japan's seven major fabricators totalled 113,815 tonnes in August, up 13.6 per cent from a year before, according to the Japan Aluminium Federation. Of the total, August production of aluminium sheets rose 15.0 per cent in
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        • 80 11 SYDNEY Australia's MIM Holdings yesterday said it has raised it copper cathode price by AS 50 (SSSS) to A 53,450 a tonne, effective Thursday. The price for standard copper rod was left unchanged at A 53.710 a tonne. Cathode prices are based on an average
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    • 1418 11 Rubber Singapore Commodity Exchange (futures dosing as at 5.30pm) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Oct 94 199.00 199.00 200.25 i~25 p700 Nov 193.50 193.50 191.50 250 3450 Dec 189.50 186.00 187.75 1000 4100 Jan/Mar 95 186.00 183.00 183.75 1575
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1136 12 +8.2 CONTINUING anxiety over US economic data yesterday restrained prices, which closed only marginally up after failing to maintain an early rally. The All Ordinaries Index ended 8.2 points higher at 2,059.0. The All Industrials closed 13.1 higher at 2,930.6 and the All Resources rose 4.4 to 1,411.8. Turnover
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      • 652 12 •12.08 Share prices fell yesterday, driven by lower metal prices abroad and the general lack of good news on the home front. The PSE Index shed 12.08 points to 2,942.38. Turnover was 3.23 billion shares valued at 1.63 billion pesos. Dealers said the market was weighed down by the
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      • 246 12 18.67 Shares rebounded in line with a sharp rise in US stocks, as global inflation fears eased. The NZSE-40 Capital Index jumped 18.67 points to 2,111.87. However, the index was still down 2.2 per cent from a week earlier. Yesterday, advancers on the index outnumbered decliners by 19
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      • 578 12 -8.77 Stocks ended lower in slow trade, with electrical and paper shares posting the largest loss. The Weighted Price Index declined 8.77 points to 6,981.2. Turnover was 1,16 billion shares worth NT567.16 billion. Thanks to bargain-hunters who attempted to cash in on heavy losses on Thursday, the market jumped
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      • 509 12 12.05 The index reached 1,000.8 points yesterday, a 65-month record, as bulls overpowered government endeavours to cool the market, brokers said. The Composite Price Index staged a strong 12.05-point return from a 10.61-point slide on Thursday to hit 1,000.8, coming close to a record of 1,007.77 posted on April
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      • 87 12 18.78 Share prices closed higher on sustained buying in a few select counters. Multinational drug companies stole the limelight following the government's announcement of a liberalised drug policy, they said. The 30-share BSE Index closed 18.78 points higher at 4,622.93. The 100-share National Index went up 8.40 at 2,184.83.
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    • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      • 670 12 -47.6 STOCKS tumbled as signs of stronger-than-expected US economic growth heightened speculation of another rise in US interest rates. The FT-SE 100 Index fell for the eighth time in the past nine sessions, closing 47.6 lower at 3,065.1. A surprise increase in US plant use, or capacity utilisation, was
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      • 154 12 -52.71 French stocks fell as a larg-er-than-expected rise in US industrial output rekindled concerns of a quickening pace of inflation. The CAC-40 Index fell 52.71 at 1,924.59. That more than wiped out Thursday's gain of 24.36 points. The biggest percentage losers on the CAC included Euro-Disney, which was down
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      • 201 12 -21.29 German stocks fell in late trading, tracking a plunge in bond prices, after a Federal Reserve report raised concern that inflation will accelerate, forcing the Fed to raise rates for the sixth time this year. The DAX Index closed at 2,097.44, down 21.29, the lowest level in the
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      • 150 12 -4.86 Belgian stocks dropped for the eighth time in nine days as rising bond yields threaten to raise borrowing costs for companies and making shares less attractive. A drop in the dollar also depressed stocks in companies with US activities. A lower dollar means less profit when US earnings
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      • 125 12 133 Italian stocks rose as news that Montedison bounced back to profitability in the first half of the year fueled hopes for a slew of positive results. "It's the beginning of the half-year results season and it's a good start," said an analyst. The Mibtel Index rose 133 points
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      • 305 12 •4.03 Dutch stocks closed at their lowest in seven weeks as bonds plunged on new concern over US inflation and budget deficits in Europe. The yield on the 30>-year 7.5 per cent government rose above 8 per cent for the first time ever, following rises in US yields. Treasuries
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      • 105 12 -10.08 Swedish stocks closed lower, tracking declines in UK shares, after higher-than-ex-pected US capacity utilisation renewed concern that interest rates will rise. The benchmark OMX Index closed 10.08 points lower at 1,128.25. "The figures from the US led the market lower." said a trader. "The figures were higher than
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      • 240 12 •25.3 Switzerland's leading stocks fell after a surge in US industrial output rekindled concerns about inflation and higher interest rates. The SMI Index closed 25.3 points lower at 2603.3. "We lost points this afternoon because of the bad figures from America on output and capacity utilisation," said a trader.
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      • 682 12 Britannia Funds Sterling ash Bid Offer Mim Cap Deposit 38 6400 38 6500 Mim Jersey Gilt 0 1893 0 1992 Mim Mas Income *0 8900 *0 9MO LSS Cash Income Plus Fund *4 5100 *10 0200 PS Reserse Fund *5 3100 *5 3200 Sterling Lquits Euro Performance 0 4592 0
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      • 317 12 -9 A late spurt in the gold price failed to lift gold shares yesterday and they closed near the day's mild lows, with a strong financial rand and general lack of interest depressing the market. The softer tone extended to industrials despite gains in New York, and which followed
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      • 267 12 -9.55 stocks continued to soften at midday as the New York market was thrown into turmoil by triple-witching expiry and profit-taking. "I think what we are seeing here is the wonders of triple-witching," one trader said. "That's caused New York last night and this morning to go all over
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      • 754 12 -33.31 The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 33.31 points to 3,920.57 at Nam EDT. The NYSE Composite Index was off 1.51 to 259.91, while Standard poors 500-stock index was down 3.08 to 471.73. Declines pounded advances 1,313-488 among the 2,607 issues crossing the NYSE tape. Volume was
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      2990 13 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks rose for a second day as traders interpreted a three-day advance in the US as a signal that investors could be returning to equity markets. The Hang Seng Index closed up 105.88 points at 9,968.52. The All Ordinaries Index rose 46.06 to 5,007.35. Turnover
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      547 13 CLSA H SHARES dipped 4.62 points to 1,624.85 with turnover up slightly to HK.5246.1 million. Qingling Motors was down 2 per cent on volume of HK546.9 million. Bohai Chemical, Luovang Glass and Yizheng followed suit: all three counters slid one per cent on profit taking. Shanghai B shares fell
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      2548 13 Reuter TOKYO Stocks finished lower on corporate stock selling ahead of half-year book closings on Sep 30. Brokers said many investors do not expect a quick recovery in the Nikkei and will remain sidelined next week. "We thought corporate stock selling was over by Wednesday, but the sales continued
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      1834 13 Reuter BANGKOK The stock index ended the day higher but was unable to break the 1.550 resistance level. The index closed up 12.20 points at 1,546.24. It hit the day's high of 1,549 in early trade but failed to break the 1,550 level and swung back and forth in
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      990 13 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed higher in sluggish trade. Brokers said the market lacked momentum, dragging on without any firm direction although prices ended broadly higher. "We might see the index close higher but the underlying tone wasn't firm." a broker said. Plywood maker Barito Pacific remained under selling
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    • 2554 14 Idns Hyd 50c 25.690.000 MBf C apital 24.633.000 MBf Hkigs 50c 9.993.000 Tongkah W|99 8 897.000 McnangCorp 5.984.000 HLcong Prop 50c 5.441.000 Kcnong Bhd 50c 5.212.000 Mulpha Intl 50c 5.111.000 NBT 4.916.000 MBI Hldgs TSR96 4.626.000 iVuMsia 4.-*****0 Kulim (M) Wt99 4.326.000 Mulli-P Wl 3.949.000 MOST ACTIVE vafc*
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 6206 14 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR The leading stock index hit an eight-month high as investors rushed to bid up shares based on real and imagined corporate developments. Also, renewed expectations that the Prime Minister will call general elections brought out investors who
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 8238 15 [MAIN BOARD Transaction due; Sep 16~ Of C* M l»»4 Last Vol D» Last (>•«« W* Oh VM N« Cm A*t Hi** Lo« C ompaai Sate (-000) High Law 8»)«r Seller CNr HI IN00STR1AL AND COMMERCIAL 1440 *35 ml s Vma 1000 unch 49 1010 1000 1000 1010 ITS 4.7
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      • 1872 16  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE The market yesterday reacted indifferently to a powerful overnight surge on Wall Street, with prices closing mixed, although gains by blue chips pushed the Straits Times Industrials Index up by 16.34 points. Malaysian shares, however, continued to be
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    • 244 16 MASTER ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION (S) PTE LIMITED (la Members' Voluntary Wlndin« Up) Liquidator's Office 152 Beach Road #10-05/07 Gateway East Tower Singapore 0718 NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act. Cap. 50. the Final General Meeting of the Company will be
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  • Executive Lifestvle
    • 1563 17  -  Karaoke has certainly been a hit with Singaporeans, but is its popularity beginning to wane? Michelle Low finds out Michelle Low CHINESE businessmen still love it. Shenton Way types bave grudgingly, become regulars. Ang Peng Siong does it (in Mandarin, no less). Karaoke has come a
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    • STRAWS IN THE WIND
      • 38 17 THE HAZE may be causing some panic around Singapore, but one wit believes that it will increase the productivity of many senior executives. Why? Because the weather's too lousy for them to play golf.
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      • 71 17 THE QUOTE of the week comes from Miss Singapore/World Angela Lee who was on TV recently. Host Lance Alexander said: "A lot of people associate beauty contests with skin contests. Do you think that's true?" The beauty queen paused for a few seconds and replied: "Skin is very
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      • 83 17 AN EXPATRIATE hotel pastry chef, new in Singapore and deeply concerned about landing on the wrong side of the law, burst into the PR manager's office and asked anxiously: "I've just been asked to make a cake shaped like a naked woman. Will I be jailed for
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    • OPINION
      • 1043 18  -  Tommy Koh deplores the tendency to portray Asian discussion of moral values as a blanket repudiation of long-cherished Western ideals Tommy Koh Professor Tommy Koh. Singapore 's roving ambassador, delivered this speech at a conference* on heritage in
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      • 1084 18  - Come off it Gerry Adams is definitely no Nelson Mandela Neville Stack says the glorification of the Sinn Fein leader might lead to disastrous misreadings of the IRA's long-term objectives Neville Stack The writer is a political commentator based in London. He writes regularly for BT. THE euphoria that followed
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      • 864 18  -  Syed Farid Alatas advocates greater public awareness of the power of the media to give a slant to matters that affect us all Syed Farid Alatas The writer is a sociologist lecturing at the National University of Singapore THE ROLE often set up
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    • CORPORATE PROFILE
      • 2646 19  -  Can India's Tata Group adapt to the country's rapidly changing business environment? Ratan Tata is asked this a lot these days. The chairman of India's best-known business empire tells S N Vasuki how Tata plans to face the future Asia's corporate giants A fortnightly series S
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      • 766 19 RATAN TATA's long association with Singapore started when the group established Tata Precision Industries, a tooling and machining shop in the early '70s. Mr Tata was impressed with the support the company received from organisations like the EDB and DBS Bank, and much later decided
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    • 805 22  -  Travel By SHAHIRON SAHARI S S -w- -jr OU'LL love the desert safari." Peter, the South African PR officer livV ing in Dubai, told me. "Especially if you like roller-coaster rides." Actually, I don't, which made me think that maybe this trip was a mistake.
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    • 584 22 MENTION Dubai and the immediate picture that comes to mind is one of masked terrorists waiting to pounce on unsuspecting transit passengers. But not so. Dubai may not be a hip place, but it's come a long way in shaking off this
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    • 810 22  -  Cinema Review By SUSAN TSANG WHEN nice-guy sheriff Ed Masterson (Bat's brother) gets murdered, hardman Wyatt Earp is recalled to Dodge City to clean up the place. He bursts into the saloon, preceded by his brothers, all wielding guns. "My name is Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!"
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    • 677 22  -  Woody Allen proves that he: hasn't lost his touch Cinema Review By JULIETTE WALKER AFTER two years of doubt, now we know. Woody Allen still has it. The writer-director solved the mystery with his latest film, Manhattan Murder Mystery. Movie-goers who've been on tenterhooks to
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    • 705 23  -  CD Review By SHAHIRON SAHARI 3 TENORS: In Concert 1994 THIS is an opera album with a pop feel, one that should win over the unconverted and satisfy those who wish to taste the best of opera without having to work too hard. 3
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    • SPORTS
      • 502 24 Presidents Cup NYT GAINESVILLE, Virginia It is medieval jousting without the lances, boxing without the blood and brain damage. It is a duel at 20 paces with golf baHs instead of bullets. It is match play, that taxing, wrenching exercise of golf in which
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      • 362 24 AP LONDON The world does not really care about what is supposed to be ITS series. The French ignored it, the Italians gave it a fleeting mention and the English could not be bothered. Even baseballmad Japan only referred to
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      • SPORT SHORTS
        • 77 24 AFP SANTA CLARA, California Two-sport star "Neon" Deion Sanders shrugged ofT the baseball strike on Thursday and signed a one-year. US$l.l million (551.63 million) deal with the NFL's San Francisco 49ers. Sanders, a free agent, turned down several bigger oners in favour of San Francisco's winning record. "Winning
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          165 24 AFP HONGKONG Pan-Asian satellite broadcaster Star TV has beaten rival ESPN Asia to strike a fouryear television deal with the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC), the regional governing body. The deal, worth an estimated US$l.5 million (552.2 million), will give the Rupert Murdoch-owned broadcaster exclusive satellite access to one of
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          183 24 Reuter ENDICOTT, New York US$9OO,OOO B C Open Ist rd I hursday (par-71, US unless stated): 63 JefT Sluman 64 Glen Dav. Joel Edwards. John Flannery 65 Mark O'Meara. Tom Byrum. Todd Barranger, Marco Dawson. Mike Heinen. KENT, Washington I *****.000 Safeco LPGA Classic Ist rd Thursday (US unless
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          166 24 AP WELLINGTON New Zealand will new! to improve substantially if it is to mount a realistic challenge for next year's World Cup in South Africa, coach Laurie Mains said vesterday. Mains said the performance of the All Blacks in 1994, during which the New Zealanders won only two of
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          108 24 BARCELONA, Spain World Open 2nd rd Thursday: Jansher Khan (Pak xl) b Philip Whitlock (Eng) 15-9 15-8 15-8; Anthony Hill (Aust) b Ross Norman (NZ x 8) T5-9 17-15 15-9. Chris Walker (Eng x 6) b Zarak Jahan Khan (Pak) 15-10 15-7 10-15 15-9; Rodney Eyles (Aust x 4)
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          68 24 SAN DIEGO Star World Championships regatta fifth race I hursdav (skipper listed first): 1 Ross Mac Donald, Eric Jespersen (Can) 2 Enrico ChiefTi, Roberto Sinibaldi (Ita) 3 Pietro D'Ali. Corrado Cristaldini (Ita) 4 Carl Buchan, Fritz Lanzinger (US). Standings: 1 Mac Donald. Jespersen (Can) 13 pts 2 Alan Adler,
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    • PEOPLE
      • 265 24 SINGAPORE AIRLINES will have a new home in early 1997 when the national carrier completes the redevelopment of its SIA Building in Robinson Road. The present 17-storey building will be demolished, and rising to replace it is a 35-storey edifice. SIA has reset the lease to
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    • TIME OFF
      • 785 25 AP IT is 11 on a Wednesday night at JJ's disco in Shanghai. Fog pours from the fog machine, the dance floor is packed and Billy, the DJ from the Philippines, has just segued from a tune called Sex Drive to one called Sweet
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      • 427 25 Wife Begins at Forty Tim-Brooke Taylor heads the cast in this dinner-theatre that takes a look at the apprehension of facing middle age. Organised by the Hilton-British Airways playhouse. Till Sep 18. Cocktails: 7.45pm, dinner: 9.15pm; at the Hilton Grand Ballroom. Tickets at $110 and $125 for shows on
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        513 25 Concerto Evening Choo Hoey dons his coat and tails with the SSO as they perform various works from Mozart (Clarinet Concerto), Janacek (Violin Concerto Wandering of a Soul) and Shumann's Konzertstuck in Ffr 4 Horns and Orchestra, Op 86. Today. 8.15pm at the Victoria Concert Hall. Tickets at $4.
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      • 213 25 Omnimax Movies Tropical Rainforests Experience the everyday existence of the rainforests of Costa Rica, Queensland and Malaysia and the inhabitants of these forests from the point of view of a bug. Show times: Ham, 3pm and 7pm (Mandarin). Tickets at $8 for adults and $4 (for children below 12).
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      • 989 25 Fun With Prints Winning entries from the Printmaking Competition, all done by children who were invited to make original prints. Also works from artists Cng Seok Tin and Lim Mu Hue are featured. Till Sep 18 at the Children's Discovery Gallery. National Museum. Forms A Decade of Ceramics By
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      • 336 25 STDs: All You Need To Know STDs or Sexually Transmitted Diseases have often been the bane of many societies. Syphillis. herpes, gonorrhea and even Aids usually occur because the necessary precautions are not heeded. This forum discusses how they are transmitted, the symptoms and what steps one can take
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      • 210 25 Memories in the Creation of "A Little Older" A dialogue session between the awardwinning Scottish playwright, John Binnie and Josephine Peter, founder and director of The Necessary Stage. Sep 20. 6.30pm at The British Council Auditorium. Admission is free. Lantern Festival '94 This festival features the China Lingnan. Lantern
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      • 230 25 Our Place in Time An exhibition of items contributed by Singaporeans from all walks of life. See the familiar with the unique that encompasses the Singaporean heritage and that which is what Singapore is made of: its people. Sep 16 to 25. at the Gallery. Memories of
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      • 97 25 Kurt Eisner Liberty Awakens Exhibition on prints and lithagraphs of some 20 artists. Specially created for the revolution in Bavaria and the proclamation of the Free State by Kurt Eisner. Sep 1-18. at the Goethe-lnstitut Foyer (6th floor). Admission is free. An Evening of Piano with Hetdrun Hottmann Second
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      • 64 25 The Necessary Stage It is looking for actors (both male and female) aged 20 to 40, for roles in their upcoming play My Grandfather in a Cellar for the Festival of Asian Performing Arts '95. Auditionees must be able to speak Peranakan. ie, Malay and Hokkien as well as
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      • 142 25  -  Compiled by Christopher Toh Sistic outlets are at Forum The Shopping Mall, Ginza Plaza* Junction 8, Liang Court, Raffles City, Scolts, Specialists Centre.< Takashimaya. Cold Storage at Jelita and World Trade Centre. Also at the Victoria Concert Hall Singapore Indoor Stadium. Hotline: 348-5555. Ticket Charge outlets are at Metro-,
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    • EPICURE
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        602 26  -  Bon Appetft By JAIME EE WIJEN it comes to oysters, most people would admit that the only bivjilves they've had the pleasure of bating would be those they've grapbed from some buffet spread in 1 downtown hotel. Which seems logical: who wants to eat half a dozen oysters
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      • 625 26  -  By SUSAN TSANG THE Rose Veranda at the ShangriLa, best known as the place to enjoy a long, civilised spot of tea, is now offering luncheon as well. Whereas afternoon tea used to take place anytime past noon, it has now been pushed to later in
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