The Business Times, 14 October 1994

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  • 13 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KHOW ASIA MITA(P) 010/12/93 Friday October 14 1994 75*
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  • 2am LATEST
    • 41 1 Bloomberg Business News WILMINGTON, Delaware American General Corp won a legal victory bolstering its effort to take over Unitrin Inc for US$2.6 billion (SS3.B billion), as a Delaware judge struck down Unitrin's stock buyback. Bloomberg Business News
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    • 36 1 Reuter GENEVA United States and North Korean negotiators were edging yesterday towards an accord on restructuring Pyongyang's nuclear energy programme to ensure it could not produce weaponry, diplomats said. Reuter
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  • 164 1 Stock market indices Thursday Change ST1I 2,357.82 -10.49 KLSEComp 1,135.67 -1.33 Nikkei 20,148.83 +59.11 Hang Seng Closed SET Index 1,475.06 +4.16 Jakarta Comp 506.94 -4.48 CLSA China B Aust All Ord 1,998.9 -3.7 FTSE 100 3,141.9 +41.4 Thursday Previous 2pm EDT close Dow Jones 3,912.50 3,875.15 Average of
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  • 437 1  -  By Joseph Rajendran SINGAPORE The plan by WBL Corp, formerly Wearne Brothers, to inject six of its profitable firms into subsidiary Polytek Wearnes is in limbo. Polytek managing director Soh Yew Hock said yesterday: "We don't know if it will
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  • 280 1  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA INDONESIA, concerned over the destabilising effects of short-term capital on its stock exchange, has postponed plans to raise the ceiling on shares foreigners can own in listed companies. "We may amend it in the future but give us
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  • 510 1 Bloomberg Business News AP WASHINGTON Prices paid to factories, farmers and other producers fell an unexpected 0.5 per cent in September, the biggest drop in 13 months and a signal to stock and bond markets worldwide that the Federal Reserve will not push
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  • 169 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue chip stocks soared yesterday, putting the Dow within 50 points of a record high, as an unexpected drop in producer prices for September dispelled fears of inflation and another interest rate increase. The Dow gained more than 50 points in
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  • 315 1 AFP JAKARTA The government here has replaced all the directors of a state bank for the second time since it was hit by a massive scandal, with the latest change coming two days before help from a British bank arrived, an
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  • 501 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE The West should help China build its economy not only to gain from it but, more important, to safeguard its own strategic interests. Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday. Speaking at the World Economic Forum,
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  • 172 1  -  Jy Amy Balan SINGAPORE If anyone were to know when the Malaysian general elections will be held, surely it must be Malaysian Prime Minister and I mno president Mahathir Mohamad. Right? Not so, according to Dr Mahathir himself. At a press conference called after his
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 314 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan A SLOWDOWN in United States demand for electronics, the negative impact of the rising Singapore dollar and weakening construction and real estate activity will moderate economic growth to 7.9 per cent in 1995, Crosby Securities says. In its latest Quarterly Economic
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    • 401 2  -  By Lee Wai Leong GROWTH in the information technology industry here was stronger than expected last year, jumping 23 per cent to $3.7 billion. Minister of State for Finance and Defence Rear Admiral (NS) Teo Chee Hean said yesterday. IT
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    • 459 2  -  By Conrad Raj ECONOMIC relations between the Philippines and Singapore have been put on a firmer footing with the set-ting-up of a business council to take advantage of business opportunities in the two countries and the Asia Pacific
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    • 223 2 THE republic's telecommunications regulator was told yesterday to investigate the breakdown of telephone services on Wednesday. The order came from the Ministry of Communications, which said it was taking a serious view of the incident and had asked the Telecommunication Authority of
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    • 209 2 MALAYAN Credit is to begin marketing 124 terrace houses in two weeks at its Mera Terrace project at Upper Changi Road East. Malayan Credit director Boon Yoon Chiang said at the ground-breaking ceremony yesterday that built-up area for the three-storey terrace
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    • 181 2 THE Comfort group has taken over the marketing of roof-top advertisements from an agency it appointed in 1990. Comfort Transportation Pte Ltd said yesterday that it has formed a unit called Comfort Ads to market roof-top ads for its fleet of 8,815
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    • 302 2 AIR India and South African Airways are the latest airlines to offer special first and business class fares for direct flights out of Singapore. On Oct 6, Singapore Airlines announced new, lowerpriced fares in first and business class for 33 destinations in Asia,
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    • 81 2 Asia's corporate giants I What js Sjme Darby dojng k these days since Nik Mohamed Yaacob took over the helm of the Malaysian conglomerate as t Ju'y? Nik Mohamed talks about his first year as group 3|, S chief executive officer. He also 3 IHft M discusses his plans for
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  • WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
    • 624 3 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Philippines President Fidel Ramos yesterday supported the idea of trade liberalisation within Apec. But they stopped short of publicly endorsing any deadline by which Apec would be turned into a free trade zone. The two leaders met
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    • 277 3 A FORMER French prime minister warned yesterday that economic revival was a reality in Western Europe, and East Asian nations were mistaken in assuming European Union members were protectionist or in a state of terminal decline. Raymond Barre told the Europe-East
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    • 316 3 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who 30 years ago called for a mental revolution among his country's Malay community if it wanted to progress, is now offering the same formula to Europe. Europe needed a mental revolution before it could take full advantage of the
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    • 394 3 THE trend is for East Asia to become a "self-propelling, self-energising" entity which builds its economies upon resources within the region, says Malaysia's Minister of International Trade and Industry' Rafidah Aziz. "The buzzword of the future will be East Asia
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    • 391 3 VALUES such as reverence for the family and respect for education and thrift were not uniquely Asian but were shared by many societies, Singapore's Ambassador-at-Large Tommy Koh said yesterday. Speaking at the East Asia/Europe economic summit at the Shangri-La Hotel, he said
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    • 339 3 EAST Asian countries must be careful not to let their supply of engineers shrink if they want to maintain economic development. participants in a technology cross-flow session of the summit warned. "Engineers are the key to the development of an economy,"
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    • 470 3 WHAT the Philippines has set out to do to develop economically and socially as a democracy may go against the grain of conventional wisdom in East Asia. Philippine President Fidel Ramos said yesterday that while it was true that authoritarian governments had brought unprecedented
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    • HEARD AT THE FORUM
      • 58 3 FIRST, a couple of slip-ups at the august meeting: The minder of Cambodia's First Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh went off with the latter's speech, leaving His Highness high and dry at the rostrum for a good few minutes. A co-chairman of a plenary session referred
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      • 67 3 IN A DAY heavy with platitudes and buzzwords, Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's humour and repartee kept some of us awake most of the time. Responding to World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab's introductory remark about him being one of the politicians who writes his own speeches after
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      • 107 3 AT THIS Europe/East Asia summit, we hear ad nauseam about how the Europeans ought to be less Eurocentric and get to know Asia better. It is clearly a tall order for the Europeans when within the region, we do not even know one another very
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      • 92 3  -  -By Catherine Ong THE Japanese came in for some knocking when the topic of transfer of technology was discussed at various sessions. Dr Mahathir noted how "we got to squeeze it from them" while Patrick Wang, president of Microelectronics Technology, maintained that the huge trade deficit Taiwan
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    • 315 3  -  Reports by Vikram Khanna, Catherine Ong, S N Vasuki Yang Razali Kassim THE USE of trade sanctions by industrial countries to pressure the developing world to adopt more stringent labour and environmental standards would be counter-productive, the World Bank's vice-presi-dent for Asia,
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • NOTEBOOK
      • 90 4 AFP MANILA The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday praised Indonesia, South Korea. Malaysia and I hailand tor their success in generating employment compared to their South Asian counterparts. The bank said the nations' success was a result of a balanced combination ot liberal
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      • Article, Illustration
        71 4 Reuter MANILA US servicemen from the assault ship USS Belleau Wood inspecting the bags of Filipino schoolchildren yesterday during an open house during its port visit at Manilas pier 15. The Belleau Wood was in the Philippines for the 50th anniversary of the landing of US and allied
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      • 86 4 Bernama BANGKOK Thailand will support a proposal to make the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum a full free trade area by 2020 and will sign a declaration of the plan at an upcoming Apec summit in Indonesia, a government source said yesterday. The decision was made
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      • 75 4 Reuter MANILA Economists and businessmen yesterday welcomed a proposal for the Philippine government to limit tax breaks to export industries operating outside Metro Manila. They said this would lead to an industrial boom in the countryside and relieve the crowded capital. The Presidential Tax Force
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    • 253 4 AP JAKARTA About 4.000 workers at an Adidas shoe factory were on strike for the second day yesterday, to demand more allowances, refocusing attention on Indonesia's restrictions against labour activism. It was the biggest work stoppage in Indonesia since a union-inspired strike
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    • 415 4 AFP JAKARTA Private sector power generating capacity in Indonesia is growing too fast in an unregulated environment. The private power adviser to the Directorate General of Electricity and Energy Development. Peter Jezek. yesterday said: "I am concerned that this fashion of private
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    • 240 4 KUALA LUMPUR A month and a half after Malaysia lifted the ban on government contracts for British firms, trade ties between the two countries are expected to receive a shot in the arm with the visit of the British Trade Secretary, the
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    • 52 4 Reuter TAM NONG, Vietnam Villagers on boats checking submerged thatched houses on Wednesday in lam Nong district in the south of the country At least 180 people have died in Dong Thap Province near the Mekong Delta where waters have risen to four metres in some
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    • 208 4 Bernama HANOI Much-publicised Faber Group's proposed Hanoi Sheraton may not be Malaysia's first hotel in the Vietnamese capital after all. a banking source said yesterday. This is because a group of Malaysian investors has begun renovating an existing building on
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    • 241 4 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Visiting Bangladesh Premier Begum Khaleda Zia yesterday said that Malaysia could take the lead in forging closer tics between the countries of South and South-east Asia. "I believe institutional linkage between Asean and SAARC is the need of
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    • 244 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia may subscribe to the Global Star satellite telephone network that is expected to start operating at the end of 1998. Energy, Telecommunications and Post Minister SSamy Vellu said yesterday that a Cabinet paper was being prepared on the
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    • 398 4 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR South Korea views Malaysia as an important trade partner and gateway to South-east Asia, say South Korean businessmen. "Given Malaysia's fastgrowing economy, there is tremendous potential, especially in the trade and construction fields," Kim Jae Hyo. trade commissioner of
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 512 6 Reuter SLOUL China's Prime Minister Li Peng is to become the most senior communist Chinese official ever to visit South Korea later this month but analysts say his trip will be more economically than politically significant. Seoul government officials
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    • 128 6 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan approved 211 overseas investment projects by local businessmen worth USS 1.288 billion (551.906 billion) in the first nine months of 1994. marking a 25 per cent jump over a year earlier. The Investment Commission yesterday said approved investment by foreigners on the
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    • 76 6 Reuter TAIPEI The notion may be romantic, but for this Taiwanese couple the reality must be something else. While a Russian space ship whiz/ed past them yesterday, the pair must have been thinking about more down-to-earth activities like moonlight walks and candlelit dinners. A trip
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    • 310 6 Reuter BEIJING China said yesterday that its relations with the US were at a crueial point, just before a visit by the US Secretary of Defence. "The Sino-US relationship is now at a critical juncture," Foreign Ministry spokesman Chen Jian told a
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    • 294 6 UPI BEIJING China's new tax laws are meeting stiff resistance from the public who are murdering and attacking tax collectors to avoid paying their dues, the official media said on Wednesday. "The number of people resisting tax payment with
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    • CHINA WATCH
      • 69 6 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping attended fireworks on China's Oct I National Day, the Newspaper and Magazine Digest yesterday reported, citing Mr Dengs younger sister, General Deng Xianqun, who passed on the news during an inspection tour of soldiers in
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      • 48 6 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan yesterday said it wanted a meeting between the island's president Lee Teng Hui and China's Jiang Zemin at next month's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum. China made clear, however, that it was not interested in such a meeting taking place. Reuter
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      • 59 6 Reuter TAIPEI The investment arm of Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Partv has signed an initial agreement with an Israeli firm to jointly invest some NT$4 billion (***** million) to set up an aircraft maintenance plant in Taiwan. Kuang Hwa Investment Holding Corp signed a memorandum of
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      • 67 6 AFP SHANGHAI Shanghai's external trade rose by 25.7 per cent in the first nine months of the year to reach US$6.5 billion (559.6 billion), a newspaper reported. The Ain Min Evening Post quoted the Shanghai Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Commission on Wednesday as saying
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  • REST OF ASIA
    • 411 7 AFP SYDNEY Australia announced yesterday that new jobs surged by a massive 75,700 in September and analysts forecast the surprise figure would lead to a rise in interest rates next month. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said the
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    • 258 7 AFP TOKYO Asian interest rates are expected to rise further to offset inflationary pressures, exerting a more negative effect on domestic demand in the coming year, according to the Nomura Research Institute. in the latest edition of its Capital
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    • 215 7  -  Frew Anthony Rowley in TOKYO THE Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will hold its first small and mediumsized enterprises meeting next week with a view to fostering increased cooperation between small businesses in the region. The two-day forum, in Osaka, is likely to
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    • 89 7 AFP TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama has said he would tolerate additional nuclear power facilities in Japan, newspapers reported yesterday. "I think, to a certain extent, additional construction (of nuclear power plants) could not be helped," he was quoted as telling a parliamentary committee on
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    • 63 7 AFP WASHINGTON A Bangladeshi economist who founded a bank that specialises in loans to landless people in rural areas has been awarded the 1994 World Food Prize. Muhammad Yunus, founder and chief executive officer of the Grameen Bank, is the ninth person to win the
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    • 57 7 AFP SEOUL North Korea informally approached the Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) in March this year to enquire about whether it could become a member, ADB president Mitsuo Sato said here yesterday. He said that the contact was "very informal". Membership would require the consensus
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    • 74 7 AP TOKYO Owners of "pachinko" pinball parlours topped a government list of tax evaders in the year ended June 30, the tenth consecutive year they have held that rank, the National Tax Administration Agency said yesterday. Owners of the Japanesestyle pinball parlors failed to
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    • 297 7 Reuter BOMBAY India's tightlycontrolled media firms arc heading for the bourses as the industry draws battielines for control of the country's potentially lucrative emerging television and information market. The listing soon of Dalai Street Communications, to become India's first traded
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    • 47 7 AFP NEW DELHI Smoke billowing from New Delhi's wholesale plastic market after a major blaze gutted nearly 200 shops on Wednesday. The fire destroyed two buildings and property worth millions of dollars. Forty-five firefighters battled the blaze for more than six hours. AFP
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    • 149 7 Reuter SEOUL South Korean makers of electronics, forced since the 1980s by rising local wages to shift assembly lines abroad, are gearing up overseas production to break further into export markets. Industry analysts and company officials yesterday said their moves to add partsmaking
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  • REGIONAL FOCUS
    • 1489 8  -  Interview with Cambodian First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh Reports by Harish Mehta SINGAPORE Prince Norodom Ranariddh says he is losing patience with the pace oj economic development in Cambodia. The 50-year-old prime minister who is here for the World Economic Forum is reshuffling
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    • 888 8 SINGAPORE Cambodia's government is stepping up business links with Singapore it is talking to Singapore firm CWT Distribution to set up an inland port near Phnom Penh, and is working closely with the Port Authority of Singapore and the Economic Development Board to rebuild the
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  • THE WORLD
    • 531 9  -  Reports by Yang Razali Kassim SINGAPORE The United States says it does not seek to dominate Apec and has "no hidden agenda" in promoting the 17-member Asia-Pacific grouping as a free-trading region. Making this point, the US
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    • 250 9 SINGAPORE The United States does not wish to take a confrontational stance towards the East Asia Economic Caucus, which Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad mooted and Asean is now promoting. But at the same time, the US does not want
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    • Article, Illustration
      63 9 Reuter PHILIPSBURG, Canada Birdwatchers come in all shapes and sizes: big or small or furry. This trio of enthusiasts were looking out from a blind in the 485-ha Montgomery Wildlife Sanctuary, 100 km from Montreal, on Wednesday. With the duck hunting season in full swing, waterfowl flee
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    • 238 9 NYT DALLAS The United States has refused to pursue complaints that Mexico has failed to enforce union organising rights at two plants owned by US corporations. The rulings, by Labour Secretary Robert Reich on Wednesday, were the first test of how far
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    • 428 9 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Bank of England governor Eddie George says there are few signs of a buildup of pressures that would push the inflation rate higher. "Inflation has come down to its lowest rate for a generation
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    • 263 9 AFP TEL AVIV US Secretary of State Warren Christopher has put the responsibility for an Israeli hostage's life firmly on the shoulders of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. "It seems to be common ground now that (Nachshon) Waksman is probably in the Gaza
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 78 9 AFP JOHANNESBURG US aid to South Africa reached a record US$2l2 million (*****.8 million) for the fiscal year ended Sep 30, the US Agency for International Development (Usaid) said on Wednesday. The figure represents a 164 per cent increase over the US$BO
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      • 47 9 AFP FRANKFURT The Bundesbank said yesterday it would not change its two key interest rates. The discount rate would remain at 4.5 per cent and the Lombard rate at 6 per cent. The two rates have been unchanged since May 13. AFP
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      • 68 9 AFP LONDON Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke said yesterday that no tax cuts would be included in the 1995-96 Budget he will present to the House of Commons next month. "Tax cuts will follow once we have (a) healthy economy." he
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      • 54 9 AP MOSCOW The head of the huge MMM investment scheme walked free from jail yesterday, greeted by a thousand supporters at the prison entrance. Prosecutors released Sergei Mavrodi, held since Aug 4 on charges of tax evasion and obstructing an investigation. after he promised to
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    • 384 9 I Seminar on VIETNAM Laws Policies Affecting Foreign Investments Organised by the Law Society of Singapore Saturday, $250 per person 12 November 1994 (Group discount at $200 Time: 9.00 am to I.oopm per person if three or more persons from the same or ITB related organisations attend) Singapore Academy of
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  • ADVERTISING & MARKETING
    • 479 10  -  Corinne Kerk reports on a recent survey finding Corinne Kerk Newspaper readership levels in Asian countries are already comparable with those in Europe, although Europeans still have a much higher magazine readership than Asians. Andrew Green, media director of Survey Research Singapore, said that
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    • 126 10 TENNIS lessons went up for auction last Saturday in the first major charity event held at the fitness centre of the newly-opened Four Seasons Hotel Singapore. The highlight, however, was a slick choreographed tennis show (abort) staged by a sixman team from
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    • COPY LINES
      • 58 10 Reuter WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wisconsin Consolidated Papers Inc said magazine advertising appears to be strong with magazine advertising-page counts holding gains in the first nine months of the year. However, the company said imports of coated papers, which were up in 1993, continue to be a "bothersome factor"
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      • 49 10 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Compaq Computer Corp is Intel Inc's biggest customer and Intel is Compaq's largest supplier of microprocessors, Fortune reported. But Compaq has criticised Intel's Pentium chip advertising campaign, "Intel Inside", for undermining Compaq's attempt to build a unique brand identity. Bloomberg Business News
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  • SPORTS
    • 827 11 Asian Games AP HIROSHIMA Philippine boxers went 3-for-3 in finals yesterday, winning their nation's first gold of these Asian Games, but the South Koreans were the day's biggest medal winners. The Koreans outdid even the powerful Chinese for the day, capturing 10 gold
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    • 624 11 Reuter HIROSHIMA Small nations at the Asian Games, already overwhelmed by China's onslaught, say they fear being pushed further aside by former Soviet republics. "For the last 10 years, the Asian Games may as well have been called the East Asian Games because
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    • 418 11 AP VIRGINIA WATER, England The World Match Play Championship, which began yesterday at the Wentworth Club, is one of the biggest and richest golf tournaments in Europe. Past winners include Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Weiskopf and Hale Irwin. Yet
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    • 748 11 Bloomberg Business News SAN FRANCISCO It's that time of year, when true sports fans develop "remote wrist" from delving through the smorgasbord of broadcast offerings at their fingertips. There's the post-season and World Series in baseball, the opening of hockey
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    • SIDELINES
      • 69 11 Reuter HIROSHIMA Three Bangladeshi boxers were reported missing yesterday from the Asian Games, taking the number of athletes to disappear from the event to 13. police said. The missing athletes are from Pakistan. Sri Lanka. Nepal. Iran and now Bangladesh. There are also unconfirmed
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      • 97 11 AP RANCHO MURIETA, California With 23 of this year's top 25 money winners entered, the U*****,000 (*****.000) Senior Gold Rush appears to be one tough tournament. Dave Stockton leads the 78-player field in the Senior PGA Tour event that starts today at Rancho Murieta Country
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      • 67 11 AP NAPLES. Florida A lot more than first place could be at stake this week in the World Championship of Women's Golf. The 72-hole event that began yesterday at Naples National Golf Club features a 16-player field including 12 of the top 14 LPGA players.
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      • 91 11 AP CARDIFF. Wales Fly half Neil Jenkins kicked seven penalties and a drop goal to beat Paul Thorburn's Welsh scoring record on Wednesday as Wales downed Italy 29-19 in a World Cup qualifying game. Although both teams have already qualified, the result means Wales will
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      • 72 11 AFP SYDNEY Moves were afoot yesterday to dump Australia's controversial Commonwealth Games boss Arthur Tunstall whose remarks in Vancouver about Aboriginal star Cathy Freeman and disabled athletes caused a national furore. Reports here said Athletics Australia president David Prince. Australian Gymnastics president Jim Barry and
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    • 289 11 AFP JEREZ, Spain The shoot-out for the 1994 world drivers' championship starts at Sunday's Grand Prix of Europe here with German Michael Schumacher and Briton Damon Hill only one point apart with three races to go. "There's going to
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    • SCORE CARD
      • 500 11 HIROSHIMA Selected results yesterday: BADMINTON Men's q-fi-nals: Joko Supnanto (Ina) b Lin Liwen (Chn) 15-2 10-15 15-2: Kim Hak Kyun (Kor) b Fumihiko Machida (Jpn) 15-2 15-1; Dong Jiong (Chn) b Ong Ewe Hock (Mai) 15-11 15-9; Herivanto Arbi (Ina) b Park Sung Woo (Kor) 15-9 15-4. Doubles: Ricky Subagdja/Rexy
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      • Article, Illustration
        45 11 TOKYO 150 million yen (552.2 million) Asahi Beer Golf Digest Ist rd yesterday (Japanese unless stated): 66 Masayuki Kawamura. Hisavuki Sasaki. Stewart Ginn (Aust). Eiichi Itai. Ken Kusumoto 67 Katsunari Takahashi, Peter Senior (Aust). Noboru Sugai 68 Nobuo Scrizawa. Kazuhiro Takami. Samson Gimson (Sin).
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  • 697 13  -  Ceramic art has endless possibilities, says Parvathi Narayan after seeing a trio s works Parvathi Narayan The writer is an artist who contributed this article to Business Times IN its debut show "Kiln's Art", local gallery Sculpture D'Art has brought together three talented
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  • 627 14 *Drroßi*& LAST week's Apec trade ministers in Jakarta could have put up a better show. To begin with, a number of ministers who were supposed to be there could not turn up. US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor stayed home to keep a watch over the Gatt
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 227 14 AS THE HAZE starts to clear up and Singaporeans begin to catch a glimpse of blue skies again after two months, it is appropriate to take stock of the environmental cooperation among Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Vivid as the haze problem might still be, it is
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    • 202 14 IT IS a sad fact that more than half the fatalities among motorcyclists in accidents last year were riders below 30 years of age. Why? This is not the first time that concern has been voiced over the fate of motorcyclists and their pillion riders. The loss
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    • 174 14 SENIOR MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew has predicted that there will not be any major political upheaval in China when paramount leader Deng Xiaoping eventually passes away. His optimism is based on very sound observations. In recent years, younger Chinese leaders have been faithfully pursuing Mr
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    • 128 14 PEOPLE in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones at others. Thus, local authorities, being prime contributors of pollution through their open burning activities at their dumpsites, should disqualify themselves from issuing compounds to the public for air pollution. The Department of
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    • 161 14 IT IS TOUGH being a democrat in the pro-China camp. So tough that the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hongkong (DAB) is beginning to show symptoms of ideological distress. Embarrassed by the Preliminary Working Committee's (PWC) proposal to set up an interim legislature "by consultation" in 1997,
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    • 147 14 WHILE the national Constitution has since the first day of the republic guaranteed freedom of expression and of association, how to regulate the use of the freedom is still a problem here. Until today, police still oblige citizens to obtain a permit before holding a seminar or
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  • 997 14  -  Shada Islam finds the Union learning to abandon what a top EU official calls Europe's 'mistaken fears and misplaced superiority' in dealing with Asia Shada Islam The writer, a Brussels-based journalist, contributed this article to BT EUROPEAN Union policymakers, hoping to expand
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    • 1729 15  -  Leon Hadar examines the raging debate in the United States centring around the Federal Reserve's raising of interest rates to keep inflation at bay. Critics say the Fed's preoccupation with inflation hurts economic growth and threatens a US and global economic recovery Leon
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    • 1110 15  -  Neville Stack describes what former prime minister Edward Heath is up to and how he just might prove a godsend for Labour Neville Stack The writer is a political commentator based in London. He writes regularly for BT. BRITAIN'S last-but-four prime
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  • 561 16  -  Aim to expand bilateral relations, step up economic ties From Walton Morais in PARIS PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong leaves Singapore this weekend on a week-long visit to France and Switzerland aimed at expanding bilateral relations and stepping up economic ties. In France, Mr
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  • 344 16 AFP AP MOSCOW The roller-coast-er rouble soared against the US dollar yesterday, erasing the losses suffered in the spectacular Black Tuesday plunge and making its strongest one-day showing ever. Driven by massive Central Bank intervention and new trading rules, the rouble shot up to
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  • 369 16 Reuter AFP WASHINGTON The commander of United States forces yesterday said the crisis in the Gulf had been defused, but was not over. General Binford Peay, head of the Central Command based at McDill Air Force Base in
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    75 16 Reuter BOURNEMOUTH, England A lone demonstrator delivering his protest from the top of a tall lamp on Wednesday. An estimated 2,000 demonstrators marched in protest against the Criminal Justice Bill. The bill includes proposals to remove a defendant's right to silence among a package of measures which Home
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  • 248 16 Bloomberg Business News SAN JOSE, California Conner Peripherals Inc reversed a third-quarter loss, but the financially battered disk drive maker still disappointed Wall Street. The company reported net income of US$lO.2 million (5515.1 million), or 20 cents a share, compared to a
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  • 111 16 Reuter STOCKHOLM Kenzaburo Oe. the Samurai enfant terrible of the Japanese literary world, won the 1994 Nobel Literature Prize yesterday. The Swedish Academy of Letters cited the 59-year-old novelist for creating an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of
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  • 851 16  -  The Bottom Line JOHN HELMER JOHN HELMER The writer is BT's Moscow correspondent WHEN Russia*s tsars successfully faced down internal trouble, they used to stride out of the Kremlin and onto the Red Square, to lobnove mesto literally, the place of execution. It
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  • 258 16 The Straits Times JAKARTA Foreign Minister Ali Alatas says he does not see any link between Malaysia's decision to establish a rapid deployment force and its claims to the Sipadan and Ligitan islands which Indonesia also regards as its territory. The
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 395 17  -  By Schutz Lee SINGAPORE China-based Norinco Fund, whose shares will begin trading on the Stock Exchange of Singapore next Tuesday, has received subscription funds of US$4OO million (***** million) more than twice the targeted US$lB5 million. A substantial number of subscribers were
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    • 213 17 SINGAPORE Liang Court Holdings will offer London and Sydney properties worth $220 million for sale this weekend. The listed developer has been building up its portfolio of Australian properties, in particular in the past 18 months, with the aim
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    • 236 17 SINGAPORE LC Development, the listed property and leisure arm of Lum Chang Holdings, has acquired two adjacent plots of land in Jalan Loyang Besar for $15.39 million. The company said yesterday it planned to merge the two plots, with a combined area
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    • 223 17 SINGAPORE Small investors subscribing to plastic injection mould maker Meiban Plastic's initial public offer will be allotted about half of the company's shares. Punters who applied for up to nine lots of shares will receive 55.83 per cent of Meiban's Sesdaq shares,
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    • 701 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Cosco Investment (Singapore), the listed vehicle of China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, is one red chip in a hurry. It is burning rubber as it races towards its goal of becoming a blue chip in just five
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    • 421 17  -  By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Wing Tick, part of Joseph Chong's Westmont group, will buy a 55 per cent stake in the Philippines' National Steel Corporation for about M 51.25 billion (SS72O million) under a two-stage privatisation plan unveiled
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    • 53 17 IN AN article yesterday headlined "HK firm Singamas offers 50 million shares in SES secondary listing", we stated incorrectly that applications for Singamas shares through automated teller machines would close on Saturday, Oct 15. Applications, in fact, close at 9pm on Sunday, Oct 16. We are sorry
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        40 17 Mixed 'Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday Owrnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled Fraser. Kay llian. Morgan Grenfell. Nomura. OngCo. Phillip. Smith New Court and H I Can.
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        128 17  -  By Paul Leo PETALING Garden has been trading in a right-angle triangle formed by joining the peaks since Sep 28 at $2.% and the two equal bottoms at $2.57 on Oct 4 and Oct 10. The stock is likely to break above the sloping side of the triangle
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    • COMPANIES
      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 67 18 AFP MANILA Globe Telecom Inc. a joint venture between Singapore Telecom and the Philippines* Ayala Corp. needs 5.7 billion pesos (***** million) for its expansion programmes over the next 18 months, according to documents obtained here yesterday. Documents submitted to the Securities and Exchange
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        • 75 18 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Mining Corp Bhd, which diversified out of tin mining a year ago. reported yesterday a 51 per cent plunge in its group pre-tax profit over the previous year in the six months to July. Profit for the six months to July
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        • 38 18 SINGAPORE Hotel Properties said yesterday it had acquired the entire equity of HPL Properties (North Asia) Pte Ltd, for $2. The latter, a newly formed investment company, has an authorised capital of $1 million.
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        • 28 18 SINGAPORE The Ministry of Defence has awarded Singapore Electronics and Engineering Ltd two contracts to supply flight simulators for more than $10 million.
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        • 62 18 SINGAPORE Pan Pacific Public Co has agreed to buy 25 per cent of Panpac Media Pte Ltd, amounting to 300,000 shares of $1 each. The balance is held equally by International Press Company and two individuals, Ricky Ang Gee Hing and Paul Tan Kah
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        • 97 18 SINGAPORE QAF Ltd said yesterday it would pay the interest on its 2 per cent Unsecured Loan Stock 1998 for the period Nov 15, 1993 to Nov 14, 1994 on the 15th of next month. It will make payments at 2 per cent per annum taxed
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      • 181 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Phileo Allied Berhad (PAB), formerly known as Linatex Process Rubber Berhad, plans to set up a broad range of specialised financial investment services, according to a circular pertaining to a restricted offer for sale. "By first establishing and
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      • 891 18 Payment Ex Books Pay date close date Acma I 10 Oct 17 Oct 21 Nov 3 AMDB 50* b 3 Sep 15 Sep 29 Oct 28 Antah Hldgs 50* b 6 Nov 23 Dcc 7 Jan 5 Avimo 20* 1 6.25TE Sep 19 Sep 23 Oct 18 Boustcad 50* F
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      • 503 18  -  From Al Labita in MANILA THAI FIRMS, driven by keen competition at home, are turning to Manila for fresh investment opportunities. One, the Italian-Thai Development Public Company Ltd, has proposed a whopping US$3 billion (554.44 billion) development package for Clark Air
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      • 567 18 Reuter MANILA The Philippine real estate sector is starting to boom after a five-year slump, prompting investors to pile into property issues, analysts said. "The real estate sector as a whole is facing a boom this year and up to year 2000," said an
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      • 493 18 Bloomberg Business News MANILA The winning bidder of a massive redevelopment project must keep for at least five years its stake in a joint venture company that will handle the redevelopment. The hold-out period will be required for the lead firm, the developer
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      • 337 18 Bernama. KOTA KINABALU The Sabah state government has decided to corporatise the Sabah Land Development Board and list it on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister Yahya Hussin said in a statement yesterday that a leading merchant bank,
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      • 361 18 Vincent Tan's libel suit Bernama KUALA LUMPUR A staff writer of the Malaysian Industry told the High Court yesterday that he had not conspired to defame Berjaya Group Bhd chairman Vincent Tan when he wrote an article which appeared in the
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      • 488 18 MaMfen' prices Oct 14 Mendaki Gr Fund 1.18 121 id liiiirmiirj M»tt Trnrf US Gr Fund 098 102SSEL TJ WW Invest Mgt LM The Savings Fund 1 66 1 76 Unifund 56 L63 S pore Prog Fund 0 66 0 7(hd Unibond 04 1065 S pore See Fund 103 1
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      • 596 19 Reuter BEIJING Microsoft's rocky foray into China has outraged state regulators and the local trade press, but industry players say the US software giant's global muscle still makes it the main force to be reckoned with. "Microsoft has been very arrogant
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      • 174 19 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's computer giant Acer Inc said yesterday its net profits for the first three quarters of this year surged 247 per cent to a record high of NTS2.I billion (S$ 118.7 million) compared to last year. Acer is
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      • 178 19 AFP TAIPEI The state-run Chinese Petroleum Corp (CPC) of Taiwan plans to list its shares on the local stock market starting 1997, CPC officials said yesterday. CPC had registered assets last year of NT5313.7 billion (SSI 7.7 billion) and capital of
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      • 275 19 AFP SHANGHAI The People s Bank of China (PBOC) has moved to regulate Shanghai's wildly fluctuating bourse, causing share prices to plunge 10 per cent yesterday. Brokers said the stock exchange's composite index shed 75.62 points to close at 635.38 points.
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      • 247 19 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL Foreign companies will be allowed to list their shares on the Korea Stock Exchange starting next year. According to a blueprint prepared by the Finance Ministry yesterday, foreign companies will also be permitted to raise money in
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 57 19 Reuter HONGKONG China shipping company Shanghai Haixing Shipping Co is relaunching its issue of H shares to foreign investors here after postponing its initial issue in July. Local newspapers yesterday reported that Haixing would offer 1.08 billion H shares at HKSI.4O-HKSI.7O a share, pitching the price
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        • 91 19 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Sega Enterprises Ltd's stock yesterday tumbled 5.9 per cent to the lowest level in nearly four years after the company cut the price of its newest product in the hotly contested video game market. The move sparked speculation among investors that Sega,
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          31 19 AFP LONDON Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone meeting his namesake Sylvester the Cat at the opening of the Warner Brothers studio store in London's Regent Street on Tuesday. AFP
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        • 68 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Finance company and brokerage Shanghai International (HK) Ltd will launch two joint venture operations overseas this month. The company yesterday said it would set up Shanghai International Securities (Europe) Ltd in London along with investment banker Roger Williams. It will set
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      • 367 20 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has arranged for his four children to own all the extended family's shares in the global media giant, the magazine Business Review Weekly said. Mr Murdoch also said he was not
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      • 286 20 AP TOKYO The government's securities trading watchdog will soon bring charges against 30 people, including a doctor, over suspected insider trading. Local news media yesterday said these were to be charged with selling off stock in a drug company which they
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      • 228 20 Bloomberg Business News SUNNYVALE, California After a year of partnership with International Business Machines Corp, Kalpana Inc is concluding negotiations to be acquired by IBM for about US$l5O million (***** million), according to people familiar with the talks. The acquisition would fill
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      • 446 20  -  By Claire Leow SINGAPORE Disk drivemaker Western Digital has reported record first-quarter net revenue of U*****.6 million (*****.6 million) for the period to Oct 1 up 63 per cent from a year earlier. Earnings were U5534.7 million, against a loss
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      • 51 20 Reuter LONDON Virgin group founder Richard Branson donning Russian costume on Wednesday to launch Virgin Vodka, developed in partnership with whisky specialists William Grant and Sons. The 37.5 per cent proof vodka will go on sale in the London area on Nov 2, with first exports to Russia.
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      • 289 20 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON New Zea-land-based forestry and energy group Fletcher Challenge Ltd will invest NZ$4l million (Ss37 million) in a venture to expand a Chinese iron and steel plant. Fletcher will take a 58 per cent interest in the Datong
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      • 126 20 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK JP Morgan Co yesterday said third-quarter earnings fell 30 per cent, as tough times on Wall Street dragged down revenue from the bank's securities businesses. The nation's fifth-largest banking company said net income fell to US$327 million (Ss49o million),
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      • 410 20 Reuter BALTIMORE Less than a month after announcing it was buying the customer services unit of France's Groupe Bull, Wang Laboratories lnc on Wednesday said it plans to let go 700 workers. Wang chairman and chief executive officer Joe Tucci
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 412 22  -  By Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Morgan Grenfell Investment Management Asia yesterday launched the Asia Premier Trust, a fund that will invest in Asian equities outside of Japan, Australia and New Zealand. It is Morgan Grenfell's second local unit trust and comes less than
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      • 560 22 NYT NEW YORK Bankers Trust New York Corp has given its first detailed rebuttal to the US$73 million (SsloB million) lawsuit by Gibson Greetings Inc in connection with losses that the greeting card company took on transactions known as derivatives. In
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      • SMALL CNANGE
        • 61 22 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Securities and Exchange Commission will announce today new moves to simplify mutual fund prospectuses, the documents used to describe funds' objectives and risks. At the same time, SEC chairman Arthur Levitt will announce a new public education programme designed to promote
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        • 86 22 AFP BANGKOK The third generation of Thailand's banking dynasty, the Sophanich family, will take over the reins of power at Bangkok Bank Limited on Dec 1, an official said yesterday. Chartsiri Sophonpanich, 35, son of bank chairman Chatri, had initially been expected to serve
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        • 88 22 Reuter COLUMBIA Fleet Mortgage Group, one of the nation's largest mortgage lenders and servicers, said on Wednesday that it has bought rights to service US$3 billion (554.44 billion) of home loans from an unspecified company. The loans are scattered nationwide and have
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        • 80 22 AFP LONDON Britain's leading life assurance company. Prudential Corporation, said on Wednesday it was holding discussions with major shareholders of Thai Sethakit Life Assurance to acquire up to 24.99 per cent of the company. Bangkok-listed TS Life has market capitalisation of £37 million (5586.6
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        • 51 22 Reuter LOS ANGELES California insurance commissioner John Garamendi proposed a state-wide plan to offer basic earthquake coverage to all California homeowners under a shared-risk mechanism. He said the proposal was in response to a "homeowners insurance availability crisis" stemming from California's devastating Northridge earthquake in January.
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      • 184 22 Reuter BOMBAY India's central bank is expected to relax controls on interest rates in its sixmonthly credit policy statement next Monday but it may stop short of full deregulation, bankers said on Wednesday. "The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has two options. One
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      • 439 22 Reuter TOKYO Japan's five major commercial banks will set up wholly owned securities subsidiaries next week in a move they say is vital to their future. "We are focusing on the securities business as more and more companies are coming into
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      • 256 22  -  From Al Labita in MANILA INTERNATIONAL Finance Corp has extended a US$25 million (5537.5 million) credit to All Asia Capital, its largest loan to a local investment house. All Asia Capital president Roland Young said yesterday
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      • 286 22 Bloomberg ENERGY REPORT LONDON Crude futures extended Wednesday's plunge amid pessimism demand will outstrip supply in the fourth quarter. US heating oil again led energy prices lower following a report from the American Petroleum Institute on Tuesday night which showed a 2.2 per cent
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      • 177 22 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The dollar was higher on the day in Europe against most major currencies, tracking US bonds higher, as an unexpected drop in US producer prices eased investors' worries that inflation is poised to accelerate. The drop prompted investors to buy dollars to purchase
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      • 105 22 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The dollar fell against major currencies, giving up early gains, after a surprise drop in US producer prices failed to convince currency traders that inflation is no longer a threat. The dollar was last quoted at 1.5359 Deutsche marks, down from 1.5400 marks
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        1456 22 tradeweighted index .uk ulaled again* Spore's lop 14 trading (tannery Bate iiw 198* US$/S$ forward rates Noon Oct 13 s$ Bid Oder 1-month 1.4780 1.4795 2-month ***** 1.4775 Vmonth 1.4740 1.4755 6-month 1.4690 1.4710 Sounr OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at 9m m Oct 13 Singapore dollars
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1285 23 SIMEX REPORT Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen and Eurodollars ended easier after trading in narrow ranges. Dealers said there is still no clear direction for Euroyen but the market continues to speculate over the possibility of higher Japanese interest rates. "The market is looking to
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      • 640 23 COMMODITY REPORTS KL Tin TIN rose four sen to close at M$ 13.54 a kg in line with rising prices in London, dealers said. "The market gained slightly as prices rose US$45 in London," a dealer said. "But there are not many buyers
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        • 84 23 VANCOUVER Canada's Inco Ltd, the world's largest producer of nickel, yesterday announced it had discovered a new high-grade nickel deposit at its Thompson, Manitoba, nickel camp. The deposit, known as Pipe Deep, is about 35 km south of Inco's Thompson processing facilities and has been
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        • 80 23 TOKYO Japan's major wool spinners will redirect efforts at reducing wool yarn production due to a projected decrease in 1995 demand, the Kihon Keizai Shimbun reported yesterday. During AprilJune this year, the spinning industry had been slowly easing production curbs carried out over a
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        • 85 23 TOKYO Yamamura Glass Co, Japan's largest glass bottlemaker, has set up a 6-billion-yen (5588.6 million) aluminium can joint venture in Manila, to start operation in early 1996, a company spokesman said. The plant's production capacity is set at 42CM80 million cans. Sixty per cent
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        • 75 23 WASHINGTON A number of factors, including high world wheat prices, prompted Usda yesterday to reduce its forecast of Russia's 1994-95 wheat imports to 4.5 million tonnes, down 1 million from the September forecast, a Usda analyst said. However, with the 1994-95 wheat marketing year only
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    • 1403 23 Rubber Oct 13 Singapore Commodity Exchange Pfcy»*ca< Pric (Mm dMtag m at SJCpn) Bvym SMara As at 12 mm (S cents/kg) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) —r- rr— RSS 2 Nov 94 208 00 209.00N Mnnrh H..h Low Srtt (mmiS) RSS 3 Nov 94 207 00 N Month
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      • 1075 24 -3.7 The Australian share market closed under the 2,000 level but well off its lows for the session. Dealers said investors continued to show caution ahead of yesterday's release of US September wholesale PPI data. The All Ordinaries Index closed 3.7 points or 0.18 per cent lower at 1,998.9,
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      • 645 24 +20.29 The Philippine stock market rose for the second day in a row yesterday although opinion was divided whether the increase was a sign of a sustained rally or just another sideward movement. The Composite Index rose by 20.29 or 0.68 per cent to hit 2,990.75 points yesterday after
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      • 424 24 +6.88 Stocks ended higher for the fourth straight day on across-the-board buying, with the Composite Index hitting a new record closing high, brokers said. The index closed at 1,096.54, up 6.88 points from the previous high of 1,089.66. "Buying was almost across the board. Most investors looked very confident
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      • 352 24 -13.10 Shares ended lower on light volume, raising the possibility that Wednesdays 31-point rally may have been over-done. By the close, the NZSE-40 Capital Index had lost 13.10 points to 2,043.71 on turnover worth just under NZ$25 million. Brokers said that, in view of the uncertainty surrounding last
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      • 593 24 130.61 Taiwan share prices finished 2.01 per cent higher in active trade following Wednesday's 6.06 per cent rises led by fundamentally strong electronics, but brokers expect the market to consolidate in the near term. The index ended up 130.61 points, or 2.01 per cent, at 6,626.39 in active turnover
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      • 631 24 +41.4 UK stocks surged to their highest levels in five weeks after a fall in the US wholesale inflation rate sparked a rally on Wall Street. The 100-share Footsie Index gained 41.4 points or 1.3 per cent on the day to end at 3,141.9 points, its sixth consecutive gain
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      • 176 24 +0.24pc German DAX Index closed floor session higher as prices kicked up in tandem with bund futures prices on release of US data showing unexpected fall in September PPI. Shares were seen holding gains in post-bourse trade but volumes remained moderate. keeping DAX Index below 2,100, dealers said. The
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      • 136 24 14.20 Belgian stocks rose for the fourth day as rising bonds, and their falling fixed returns. made stock dividends seem like good value, analysts said. The Bel 20 Index of Belgium's top shares rose 14.20 points, or 1.04 per cent, to 1.379.68. its highest close for two weeks. Belgian
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      • 164 24 1.06pc The Italian stock market touched a nine-month low briefly yesterday as the country braced for a general strike called by unions to protest against government plans to cut spending. The Milan bourse index briefly slipped below 10,000 points, the level at which it began the year, for the
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      • 222 24 +5.01 Shares bounded ahead after US producer price data showed an unexpected fall for September. The AEX Index closed up 5.01 points or 1.25 per cent at 407.31, powered by all-round demand for shares, short-covering in futures and a bullish tone in index options after the data. Amsterdam Oct
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      • 118 24 +24.06 Swedish stocks rose for a fourth day to their highest level since Sep 15 as the weak krona promised higher earnings for exporters. A delayed rise in a capital gains tax and a report that US producer prices fell in September further bolstered gains. The OMX Index of
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      • 261 24 +30.6 Swiss shares gained more than one per cent in afternoon trading, helped by bet-ter-than-expected US producer price index (PPI) data, dealers said. The market must now digest its gains and looks to today's US consumer price index data to confirm the positive US PPI figures, dealers said. Resistance
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      • 286 24 +63 Industrial shares posted sizeable afternoon gains as a strong start on Wall Street spurred fresh buying in South African shares, but a falling gold price took golds ofT their highs. The Overall Index closed up 53 points at 5.612. the Industrial Index was 63 points higher at 6.324
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      • 318 24 +6.60 Stocks were higher in active midday trade, but had surrendered earlier gains as profit takers assaulted gold stocks, traders said. Equities were propped up by strength in Canadian bonds after weak US inflation data and strong corporate profits. The TSE 300 Composite Index was up 6.60 points at
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      • 800 24 +41.04 Blue chip stocks and bonds soared yesterday after the surprise report of falling prices reassured inflationwary traders and caused a stampede of buying on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 41.04 points, or 1 per cent, at 3,915.86, at 12:30 pm EDT (1630 GMT).
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      167 25 Reuter SHANGHAI A leading Shanghai newspaper yesterday lashed out at rumour mongers on the stock exchange, sending prices of domestically-traded shares diving amid fears of a witch hunt, brokers said. Shanghai's A share Index plunged 11.12 per cent, shedding 81 .OS points to 647.56 points. In Shenzhen, the A
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      2500 25 Reuter TOKYO Stocks closed slightly higher as foreign buying of major steel and chemical shares pushed up overall prices, brokers said. However, electrical shares were battered by the dollar's small drop to below 100 yen, they said. "There are no new factors in the steel and chemical shares, but
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      1771 25 Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Thai share prices rose for a third day as banking and finance stocks were bid up as third-quarter earnings announcements began, analysts said. The benchmark stock index closed at 1,475.06, up 4.16 points, or 0.28 per cent. Turnover was a moderate 72.6 million shares, valued
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      1063 25 Bloomberg Business News JAKARTA Indonesian stocks fell amid concern interest rates will rise again, making stocks look less attractive investments, traders said. Investors who bid up prices recently on hopes the government would raise the 49 per cent limit on foreign ownerchip of stocks were discouraged after the government
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      • 1836 28  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Share prices closed mixed yesterday ahead of a key inflation indicator from the US last night with activity focused on Malaysian stocks traded on Clob here. Brokers said activity was moderate, with retail investors and traders looking
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    • 465 29  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Taiwanese shipping major Evergreen Marine Corp lifted pre-tax profit 2.5 per cent to NTS 1.68 billion (Ss9s million) in the six months to June 30, despite an 11 per cent drop in revenue to NTS 14.12 billion.
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    • 186 29 Bloomberg Business News OSLO Norwegian shipping group Bergesen dy AS said on Wednesday pre-tax profit for the eight months to Aug 31 dropped 46 per cent to 92 million kroner (5520.2 million) compared with 171 million kroner in the period a year ago, due to
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      • 375 48 Reuter GENEVA The International Air Transport Association (lata) predicted on Wednesday that international scheduled passenger traffic would increase by an average of 6.6 per cent a year from 1994-98. In its latest forecast, lata said scheduled and charter freight traffic
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      • 153 48 SINGAPORE US-based air-express firm United Parcel Service yesterday started its first regular service to Singapore. Its DC-8 now flies here six times a week from Monday to Saturday. Cargo handler Changi Inter- national Airport Services has set aside more than 2,200 sq m
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      • 262 48 Bloomberg Business News BONN Germany's car makers have agreed to a new measure to thwart car thieves. Under pressure from insurers hit by rising payouts for car crime, they will equip all new cars with an electronic system that
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      • 278 48 Reuter NEW YORK Trans World Airlines Inc (TWA) assured employees on Wednesday that their ownership of the troubled airline is crucial to the carrier's future even though a proposed restructuring plan may dilute their stake. The company also said it will hold a special
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      • 199 48 AP STUTTGART, Germany Germany's luxury car makers Mercedes-Benz and Porsche are planning family size compacts specifically designed for the huge Chinese markets, the two companies said on Wednesday. Both companies, based in Stuttgart, are attending a "Family Automobile Congress" in Beijing on Nov
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        • 83 48 Reuter WASHINGTON Two Japanese Boeing 767 jumbo jets will be turned into Airborne Warning and Control System (Awacs) air command planes for Japan, the Air Force announced on Wednesday. It said it. awarded Boeing Defence and Space Group's Electronic System Centres a US$32B million
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        • 79 48 Bloomberg Business News PHOENIX America West Airlines Inc will offer fall and winter fare sales that can save leisure travellers up to 50 per cent in selected markets. The Phoenix-based carrier said the non-re-fundable tickets must be purchased by Oct 21, and require a Friday
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        • 90 48 Bloomberg Business News CHICAGO Midway Airlines will re-design restrooms on its five aircraft to make one available for women passengers only. "We have chosen to designate one of two restrooms for women in response to queries from travellers," said Joanne Smith, the discount carrier's senior
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