The Business Times, 16 May 1995

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    13 1 SINGAPORE Business Times WE KMOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Tuesday May 16 1995 85*
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  • 2 am LATEST
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      Lock icon Dow up 10 points
      58 1 Reuter NEW YORK Blue chip stocks rose yesterday. At 1 pm EDT, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 10.03 points at 4,440.59, surpassing the new milestone set last Friday of 4,430.56. In the broader market, advancing issues led declines 12-8 on active trading of more
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      Lock icon US to list sanctions against Japan today
      57 1 AFP WASHINGTON US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor will release today the list of Japanese products earmarked for sanctions. His spokesman said the list will be released at 1400 GMT under Article 301 of US trade law which allows 30 days for the two
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    Stock market indices
    53 1 Monday Chaste STII closed KLSE Corap closed Nikkei 16,609.70 +188.94 Hang Seng 9,189.79. -28.04 SET Index closed Jakarta Cotnp closed Manila Cotnp 2,717.94 -14.33 Taipei WPI 5,828.21 -16.08 Seoul Comp 887.11 -3.0 Bombay BSE30 .3,116.37 -35.74 CLSA China B 744.68 +3.05 Ausl All Ord ...2,048.8 +10.0 FTSE
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    Average of prime or equvalent lending rate
    52 1 Singapore* 6.63 Kuala Lumpur 7.65 Jakarta 18.50 Bangkok 13.00 Manila 17.00 Hongkong 9.00 Taipei 8.80 Sydney 10.75 Tokyo 3.60 Seoul 12.50 Zurich** 5.125 Frankfurt*** 6.00 London 6.75 New York 9.00 Average of 12 banks calculated by Bl float Central bank discount rates Source:
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    Exchange rates
    62 1 Exchange rates us$ s$ USS I 412 1.567 2.213 DM 0.690 0.975 100 Yen 1.152 1.635 MS 0.400 0.566 HKS 0.129 0.182 Buht 0.040 0.057 100 Rupiah 0.044 0.063 CnrftOil USS Change WT1 19.38 -0.38 Brent blend. 18.33 -0.17 Dubai fatch 17.00 0.20 Mtenas 18.70 unch Tfcpis blend
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    Lock icon China foils Taipei plan for direct shipping links
    163 1 AFP TAIPEI A veto by Beijing has forced Taipei to freeze a project to set up an offshore zone that would serve as the first step towards direct shipping links between Taiwan and the mainland. Officials yesterday said that under the project,
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    India minister turns down SIA-Tata airline venture
    591 1  -  But Tata exec says he has no official word that the deal is off By Ramesh Dfryanathan K P Nayar SINGAPORE India's Civil Aviation Minister has turned down Singapore Airlines' joint venture with the giant Tata Group to operate a domestic airline in
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    Japanese economy poised for mere 0.2% growth: Salomon report
    328 1  -  From Anthony Rowley in TOKYO JAPAN is likely to experience falling prices over the next two years while its economy will grow by no more than 0.2 per cent in fiscal 1995, according to a report published yesterday by investment bank
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    Lock icon Asian bourses expected to outperform other markets
    499 1  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON ASIAN share markets are cheap and although international investors are still cautious, they could outperform other markets in the next 12 months. This is the view of Michael Howell, head of the global strategy unit of Baring Securities.
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    Clearer Jakarta property rules bring back foreign buyers
    507 1  -  From Maggie Ford in JAKARTA FOREIGN investors are beginning to enter the Indonesian property market following a clarification of investment rules and renewed interest by locals in office buildings. Overseas interest is focused on new and existing central Jakarta office towers, and
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    Kerala high court extends Pillai's toil indefinitely
    323 1  -  From K P Nayar in NEW DELHI CITING the Indian government's inaction on Singapore's request for extraditing fugitive businessman Rajan Pillai, the Kerala high court has extended Pillai's bail period, which expired yesterday. The bail extension granted yesterday in Kerala former Biscuit King
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Suburban shop rent remains high
        303 2  -  By Michelle Low SUBURBAN shopping area rentals should hold strong as firm demand keeps up with new supply, said a recent Jones Lang Wootton report. Prime retail area rentals, however, are expected to hold or ease slightly, as limited supply in these areas follows a
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      S'pore firm plans hospital in China's Wuxi City
      359 2  -  By Genevieve Cua A MEDICAL services company set up by Singapore Member of Parliament Arthur Beng and his wife is looking into setting up a hospital in Wuxi City, China. Singapore Technologies Industrial Corp (STIC) is expected to have a stake in
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      HP pumps millions into hand-held products
      307 2  -  By Claire Leow HEWLETT-PACKARD Singapore's Asia-Pacific Personal Computers Division invests US$4 million (5J5.56 million) to US$5 million yearly to develop hand-held information products, general manager Khaw Kheng Joo said last week. The division received its worldwide charter from its US headquarters 12 months ago
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      DuPont to expand Tuas plant, investment here to cross $lb
      321 2  -  By Michelle Low AMERICAN chcmicals giant DuPont will expand its Lycra manufacturing plant at Tuas to include new technology a move that will bring its investments in Singapore past the $1 billion mark. DuPont's decision to build the extension comes
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon More cases of vote fraud surface in Philippines
      427 3 AP MANILA Officials discovered more cases of possible vote fraud yesterday, raising doubts about the integrity of last week's national elections that President Fidel Ramos termed a "fresh mandate" for his administration. On Saturday, officials said up to 30,000 votes apparently were
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      Lock icon Mahathir backs Aussie entry into East Asia caucus
      293 3 Knight-Rid-der SYDNEY Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad signalled his support for Australia's eventual entry into the proposed East Asia Economic Caucus in a newspaper interview published yesterday, Kyodo news service reports. Australian membership is a "distinct possibility," he told the Australian, a
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      Manila takes Spratlys row to the media
      393 3 MANILA Three months after official protests failed to sway China over its occupation of a Spratly reef claimed by the Philippines, Manila has launched a propaganda war to draw international attention to the dispute. About 40 local and foreign journalists are expected to
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      Lock icon Thai finance minister says inflation under control
      109 3 Knight-Ridder BANGKOK Thai Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanhaeminda said inflation has reached a year-on-year rate of 5 per cent, but maintained existing central bank anti-infla-tion policies are "effective," the Business Day newspaper said at the weekend. The Bank of Thailand has targeted a 1995
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      Lock icon Japanese investment returns to Manila
      104 3 Bloomberg Business News MANILA Sumitomo Bank president Toshio Morikawa met central bank governor Gabriel Singson yesterday to discuss plans to set up a 1-billion-peso (5554.5 million) investment house in Manila. "If I may be frank, the main factor that made Japanese companies hesitant to invest
      Bloomberg Business News  -  104 words
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      Lock icon Kit Siang may be ousted: officials
      104 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's opposition leader has been threatened with removal after his party fared badly in recent polls and clashed with a former ally, officials said yesterday. Lim Kit Siang, secretary-general of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), has headed the Malaysian opposition for
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      Lock icon Philippine export receipts up
      53 3 AFP MANILA Philippine export receipts rose 26.4 per cent on the previous year to U553,713 billion (555.2 billion) in the first three months to March. The National Statistics Office yesterday said the figure included a 22.4 per cent increase on the previous year for March, to
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      Lock icon Mahathir visiting Japan
      68 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, accompanied by his wife, left yesterday for a six-day official visit to Japan. Dr Mahathir is scheduled to meet his Japanese counterpart Tomiichi Murayama tomorrow and address the Nikkei International Conference on Friday. He will also take the opportunity to
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      Lock icon M'sia hosting Asean meet to discuss forest fires
      178 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will host a four-day meeting among Asean nations, the United States, Canada and Australia next month to find ways to overcome regional pollution caused by forest fires in Indonesia, officials said yesterday. Asean environmental experts will attend the
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  • CHINA/ HONGKONG/ TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Zhu warns against diversion of agricultural funds
      423 4 UPI BtIJING China's economic tsar yesterday warned that inflation control was dependent on rural officials using increased agricultural funds for farmers and not for construction jobs or other diversions. "In the last two years, the problem of diverting funds has become very serious,
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    • CHINA WATCH
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        Deng in good health, says son-in-law
        68 4 HONGKONG The son-in-law of Deng Xiaoping, Wu Jianchang. yesterday said that the health of the paramount leader was "very good", in response to speculation that Mr Deng's health had recently taken a turn for the worse. Mr Wu, chairman of Hongkong-listed Oriental Metals (Holdings)
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        Lock icon China's workplace accidents up: report
        67 4 AFP BEIJING About 840 people died in 137 major workplace accidents in the first three months of the year, a report said yesterday, announcing a week-long campaign to heighten safety awareness. The number of deaths was up 4 per cent on the same period last
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        Lock icon Russian defence chief in Beijing
        68 4 AFP BEIJING Russian Defence Minister Pavel Grachev arrived here yesterday on a five-day official visit aimed at strengthening defence ties between the two military giants and boosting arms sales. Mr Grachev, who was last in China in November 1993, attended a parade of all three
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        Lock icon HK property sales up in April
        63 4 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Sales agreements for buildings and apartments in Hongkong surged in April, registering an increase of 73 per cent over the previous month. The Land Registry yesterday said the 12,964 agreements registered represented a drop of 5.7 per cent compared with
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      Lock icon Marketable Mao
      47 4 AFP BEIJING A portrait of Mao Zedong, the founder of communist China, displayed for sale along with old vases and a potpourri of other bric-a-brac at a flea market on Sunday in a Beijing neighbourhood. Some people buy images of Mao as good-luck charms. AFP
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      Lock icon Inflation widens urban-rural wealth gap in China
      223 4 Reuter M*r~iiiil* BEIJING SOTfWgTmtf^W^* in rural China is causing a widening wealth gap between the country's poorer central and western provinces and the wealthy east. An official at the State Statistical Bureau said yesterday that while annual consumer price inflation in the first
      Reuter  -  223 words
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  • ASIA
    • ASIA NOTES
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        Lock icon Bill to help yen-hit Japan SMEs
        66 6 UPI TOKYO The Japanese government has approved a bill making it easier for local small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) hurt by the appreciation of the yen to receive financial help from the government, officials said yesterday. The bill is part of a comprehensive economic
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        Lock icon Seoul pips Tokyo in steel investments
        71 6 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO South Korea will surpass Japan this year in total investments in steel plant and equipment, according to the International Iron and Steel Institute, Jiji Press reported on Friday. South Korean investment will rise 94.9 per cent to US$7.3B billion (Sslo
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        Lock icon Japan timber imports unlikely to surge
        109 6 Reuter ACCRA, Ghana Japan's tropical timber imports are unlikely to be swayed much by demand for wood for reconstruction in the wake of January's Kobe earthquake, according to the assistant director of the Japanese Wood Products Trade Office. Atsuo Ida forecast the need for
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        Lock icon Diet endorses supplementary budget
        49 6 AFP TOKYO Japan's cabinet yesterday endorsed a 2.72 trillion yen (Ss43 billion) supplementary budget plan for fiscal 1995 and immediately submitted it to parliament, officials said. The supplementary budget, the first for the current fiscal year, is aimed mainly at reconstructing the quake-destroyed Kobe area.
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        Lock icon S Korea offers North cheap aid
        61 6 AFP SEOUL South Korean President Kim Young Sam yesterday offered to provide grain and other commodities to North Korea on a long-term, low-interest basis. Mr Kim, addressing the opening session of the International Press Institute assembly here, said the offer was part of South
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      Lock icon Timing of next Aussie rate rise seen to hinge on election date
      342 6 Reuter SYDNEY The near-term pressure on Australian interest rates has eased, but talk of an election later in the year is clouding forecasts for the timing of the next rate rise which most economists continue to expect. The
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      Lock icon Miti offers attacked for not addressing problems
      388 6 US-Japan car talks Reuter AFP TOKYO No offers from Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) so far hold any prospect of resolving the problems at the root of the huge gap in US-Japan car trade, a US official told reporters in
      Reuter; AFP  -  388 words
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      Lock icon Welcome to the land of the rising sum
      55 6 AFP TOKYO Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono (left) with visiting Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen before their talks at the Foreign Ministry here yesterday. Mr Petersen is on a three-day visit to discuss economic ties and to seek strong trade relationships
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      Lock icon S Korea now 4th in world electronics output
      188 6 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL South Korea jumped ahead of Great Britain and France to fourth place in the world in total electronics production last year, the Electronics Industries Association of Korea said. South Korea was still behind the US, Japan and Germany
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Menem sweeps to second term in Argentine polls
      358 8 AP BUENOS AIRES President Carlos Menem, whose free market reforms tamed hyperinflation and revived the Argentine economy. won a second term by a wide margin in national elections on Sunday. Mr Menem, accompanied by vice-presidential running mate Carlos Kuckauf, told 5,000 cheering
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      Lock icon Major set to reshuffle cabinet, says UK paper
      151 8 Reuter LONDON British Prime Minister John Major is poised to reshuffle his cabinet within the next month, the Guardian newspaper reported yesterday, citing senior sources in the ruling Conservative party. It said the shakeup, designed to give the government a facelift, was
      Reuter  -  151 words
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      Lock icon Rate savings a balm for budget pains
      499 9 US govt looks to windfall from lower interest rates to pay for tax relief AP WASHINGTON As they conduct their assault on the federal budget deficit, congressional Republicans are counting on an economic windfall from lower interest rates to help pay for tax
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    • WORLD WATCH
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        Lock icon WEU meeting focuses on security
        70 9 Reuter LISBON European countries from east and west met yesterday to outline common security threats in an unstable post-Cold War world ranging from organised crime to chemical gas attacks from terrorist groups. The gathering, under the auspices of the 10member Western European Union (WEU), brought
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        Lock icon US planning a new naval fleet in Gulf
        83 9 Reuter DUBAI The United States is considering establishing a new fleet in the Mid-east Gulf, a move that will not increase US naval presence but underlines long-term military commitment to the region, a US navy spokesman said on Sunday. Commander T McCreary
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        Lock icon Dollar's surge to help German exports
        83 9 Bloomberg Business news MUNICH Bundesbank council member Franz-Christoph Zeitler said the latest rise in the dollar will help German exporters even though the US currency remains undervalued. "In terms of the fundamental factors, especially the strength of the American economy, the dollar is undervalued,"
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      Lock icon Political inertia may doom EU plan to generate jobs
      177 9 FT BRUSSELS A European Union drive to promote employment and halve the European jobless level of some 18 million over the next five years is in danger of collapsing because of political inertia. The EU strategy, launched with much fanfare two
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      Lock icon Business groups do their part to fight poverty in developing world
      376 9 Reuter LONDON Shopping-with-a-conscicnce is becoming increasingly fashionable in the industrialised world's fight against poverty in the developing world. Consumer organisations which aim to help producers with a consumer-friendly approach are cropping up in the developed world, complementing government aid.
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  • PROPERTY
    • Article, Illustration
      NAV — Not Always Valid
      807 10  - NAV Not Always Valid *■1 THE rJ PROPERTY —COLUMN By Lee Han Shih FOR the past two I months, brokers have been talking themselves hoarse trying to sell Singapore property stocks. Last week, someone if not everyone finally listened. On Thursday and Friday, there was a sudden surge of buying
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      Lock icon Office oversupply will not hit Beijing: expert
      358 10 SCMP THE massive supply of office space in Beijing and Shanghai forecast by property experts will not take place, according to a China real estate consultant At a seminar organised by the South China Morning Post on Saturday, L D Beijing director Michael
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
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      Hotels spending big bucks on renovations to woo guests
      1036 11  -  Upgrading to tune of 160 m is planned to retain competitive edge, reports Agnes Wee Agnes Wee THE tussle for the hotel guest dollar is hotting up. And the players are sparing no efforts to get or keep an edge. Take
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      PROPERTY WATCH
      329 11 Selected transections in the past week Date of rr~ Built in area/ Saiepric* transaction Dt<trict land area (aq ft) T<nur (SS) gg PRIVATE May 8 1542 Crane Rd Comer Terr 1800/2100 FH 1,060,000 505 May 8 1646~ SaiamWalk Terrace 2300/1679 FH 1,470,000 876 May 8 1543 Viewpoint Cdo
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      Koon Seng bags building contract
      333 11  -  Its bid of $73.38 million for the Immigration Building was lowest, reports Ramesh Divyanathan Ramesh Divyanathan LOCAL contractor Koon Seng Construction Pte Ltd has clinched a contract to build the new 10-storey Immigration Building at Kallang Road. Koon Seng's $73.38 million offer was the lowest
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      16 11 WW m See Sunday a Sunday Classified special on antiques, collectors' items, and arts crafts J
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      144 11 Auction Friday 9th June on site at Ipm alA g A 1 AI i IVI ill CUT FRANKLINS INol No Fniis SUPERMARKET Paringa Boulevard, Coolaroo Victoria PLUS Adjoining development land of 1500m2* with a permit for a petrol filling station to be offered separately. Rare opportunity to purchase an established
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      418 11 ASIA "PROPERTY '95 12-13 July Pan Pacific Hotel Singapore Information-packed conference designed to give you ail the information you need to keep up with the frantic pace of the property market in Asia. Discussion topics include I The Office Market and Investment Opportunities in Asian Cities Review of Singapore's Public
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • Article
      Lock icon S'pore's CityDev snaps up NZ land after yachting win
      246 12 AFP WELLINGTON A company controlled by one of Singapore's largest property owners, City Developments, yesterday paid NZ$5.OB million (554.74 million) for prime waterfront land in Auckland, just a day after the city picked up yachting's America's Cup. The chairman of CDL
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      Impending sale of regional HQ dashes MBf' s ambition
      424 12  -  By Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE The ambition of Malaysian tycoon Loy Hean Heong to build his MBf group as a regional financial heavyweight has suffered a major blow. According to news from Hongkong, MBf is on the verge of selling its
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      Lock icon Speed up approval of KL dealers9 licences, brokers urge authorities
      442 12 Speed up approval of KL dealers 9 licences, brokers urge authorities Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Stock Brokers Association is seeking the help of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, the Securities Commission (SC) and the Licensing Office of the Ministry of Finance (MOF) to expedite the licensing of dealers' representatives.
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      871 12  -  HOCK By William Chia SINGAPORE Indonesian automotive blue chip P T Astra International has chalked up a record performance in spite of the industry's battering by rising interest rates and a sharp appreciation of the yen. Astra, which controls about 56
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        Lock icon Hagemeyer, Borsumij plan merger to tackle Asian market
        435 13 Bloomberg Business News AMSTERDAM Royal Borsumij NV and Hagemeyer NV are discussing a merger to create a trading company that would have about 8 billion guilders (Ss7 billion) in sales and a stronger foothold in the lucrative Asian market. Hagemeyer is 62.6
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        361 13 UPI BEIJING The British brewer Bass pic joined the rush into China's rapidly expanding beer market yesterday with a US$4O million (5556.4 million) investment in north-east China's Ginsber beer group. The new venture, Bass Ginsber Beer Company Ltd, will have net assets of US$7B
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        Lock icon RFM Corp's profit surges 56%
        56 13 AFP MANILA Food and beverage group RFM Corp of the Philippines said yesterday its profit rose 56 per cent from the previous year to 132.6 million pesos (Ss7 million) in the three months to March 31. Sales grew 33 per cent to 2.6 billion pesos
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        Lock icon SCMP declares third interim dividend
        61 13 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG South China Morning Post (Holdings), an investment holding company that publishes Hongkong's biggest English-language newspaper, said its third interim dividend is 5 HK cents. The company announces dividends four times a year. The third interim dividend announced yesterday was for the
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        Lock icon CNT enjoys 77% earnings jump
        73 13 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Paint, property and bus company CNT Group said its net profit rose 77.9 per cent to HKSUO.4 million (SSI9 million) for the year ended last Dec 31, up from HKS62 million the year before. The company said exceptional gains made up
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        Lock icon Oriental Photo suspends trading
        75 13 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Shares of photographic paper maker Oriental Photo Industrial were suspended from trading yesterday after the company said it had filed for court protection against its creditors. The Tokyo Stock Exchange also said it plans to delist the company on Aug 15, pending
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        44 13 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG SAS Dragon Holdings, an electronic components distributor, said its net profit last year leapt 104 per cent to HK536.18 million (556.5 million). Earnings per share rose 94 per cent to 17.39 HK cents. Bloomberg Business News
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        Lock icon Pioneer to stop buying Motorola units
        42 13 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Pioneer Electronic Corp will stop buying cellular telephone terminals produced by Motorola Inc, the Nikon Keizai newspaper reported on Sunday. It will start making its own digital phone terminals. Bloomberg Business News
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        360 13 Reuter MANILA A host of initial public share offers (IPOs) are in the pipeline to meet the renewed appetite for Manila equities, including a unit of Philippine Long Distance and Telephone Co, analysts said. The strong performance of William Lines Inc, which made
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        Lock icon Westin Hotel owner may sell part of chain to pay debts
        177 13 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO The Japanese corporate owner of 28 hotels worldwide, mostly under the Westin Hotel name, is considering selling some of them to pay off debts. A company spokesman yesterday said neither the number nor location of
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        Lock icon Westpac's first-half profit doubles as costs, debts drop
        413 14 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Westpac Banking Corp, Australia's second-largest capitalised bank, said first-half profit doubled on reduced costs, higher income from in-terest-rate products, and a drop in bad debts. The bank said profit in the six months ended March 31 rose to
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        Lock icon Finance One to hike stake in Bank of Asia
        168 14 Knight-Ridder BANGKOK Major Thai finance company Finance One is seeking to boost to between 10 and 15 per cent its current 5 per cent stake in Bank of Asia, a mid-sized local bank, local newspapers said yesterday. The deal, said to
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        522 14 AFP Reuter SHANGHAI The Shanghai Securities Exchange (SSE) resumed treasury bond futures trading yesterday, while suspending the operations of member firms which violated trading rules last week. The Shanghai Securities News daily reported that five member firms which exceeded permitted holdings of bond futures
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        J P Morgan appoints new MD for Asia-Pac region
        288 14 SINGAPORE J P Morgan has appointed Peter Woicke head of its Asia-Pacific operations to be based in Singapore, making him the investment bank's most senior executive for the Asia-Pacific region. JP Morgan said yesterday that Mr Woicke who holds the title
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        Only 50% of workforce back at smelter
        71 14 JOHANNESBURG A little over half of the workforce at South Africa's Alusaf aluminium smelter expansion project returned to work yesterday after operations were shut down on Wednesday last week following violent clashes between workers and security staff which left over 50 injured. A
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        Commodity funds dump Nymex crude
        79 14 NEW YORK Commitments of traders data appear to confirm that Tuesday's heavy sell-off in Nymex crude oil futures was due to heavy longliquidation by speculators such as commodity funds who were taking profits from the market's two-month-long run-up, analysts said. But the data also show
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        S Africa gold output down 13%
        98 14 JOHANNESBURG The fall-off in South Africa's gold production continued in April when output slumped even further to 44.3 tonnes a 13 per cent decline on the previous year as sporadic labour disruptions and the sharply higher number of public holidays continued to take their
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        Iran to boost offshore oil output
        111 14 K.HARG ISLAND, Persian Gulf Iran plans to increase offshore oil production capacity by some 140,000 barrels per day to 600,000 bpd next March and up to one million in the year 2000, an official at the National Iranian Offshore Oil said yesterday. Iran now
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        Confusion over tariff on cotton yarn
        74 14 TOKYO The possibility of new tariffs on imports of Pakistan's cotton yarn is causing mild chaos among Japanese importers, who say they are unwilling to enter into new import agreements until the government reaches a final decision. The Japanese market is confused over how
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        N German metals industry upswing
        54 14 HAMBURG The northern German metals and electronic industry has finally entered a phase of economic upswing, but it is still characterised by job cuts, according to Herbert Mueller, chief of the employers' organisation Nordmetall. He said the tide had now turned and that the business
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        Australia
        1125 15 10.0 SHARES closed higher yesterday as investors poured cash into commodity stocks and the banking sector. The All Ordinaries Index closed 10 points firmer at 2,048.8. The All Industrials rose 6.5 to 3,087.8 while the All Resources climbed 13.3 to 1,262.3. Turnover was 165.7 million shares worth A 5407.3
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        Manila
        619 15 -14.33 Share prices declined on a healthy correction as investors took profits after last week's 8.4 per cent surge. The bourse closed 14.33 points lower at 2,717.94. Turnover was 966 million shares valued at 1.9 billion pesos. "It's a healthy correction," said an analyst, noting that volume remained "strong".
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        Taipei
        530 15 -16.08 Shares registered a modest fall amid profit-taking pressure, with textiles and market heavyweight banking and insurance issues hit hardest. The 321-issue Weighted Price Index dropped 16.08 points to finish at 5,828.21. Turnover was 760 million shares worth NT534.5 billion. The market opened slightly higher and moved in a
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        Seoul
        432 15 -3.0 Share prices turned bearish on as arbitrage selling eroded an early advance. The Composite Price Index nudged down by three points to finish at 887.11 amid sluggish trading with 24.67 million shares valued at 350.9 billion won changing hands. In the earlier session, bargain hunters took positions on
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        New Zealand
        348 15 16.33 Stocks hit a 1995 high yesterday, but dealers ruled out any influence from the country's winning the America's Cup at the weekend. "A stock with a strong relationship to the cup, like Ports of Auckland, was actually down four cents today," a broker said. Ports of Auckland,
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        Bombay
        56 15 -35.74 Stocks fell amid concern some ruling-party lawmakers may back an opposition attempt to oust the government of Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao. "Nobody has the guts to take a position in the market," said a broker. The BSE-30 Index fell 35.74 points to 3,116.37. The 100share National
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        London
        689 15 +0.4 STOCKS closed mixed as a declining British pound and a report of stronger-than-ex-pected input prices raised concern that inflation will accelerate, forcing a rate increase. That offset gains in blue chip companies such as Hanson, National Power and Allied Domecq which are expected to post buoyant earnings this
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        Paris
        121 15 -25.74 French stocks fell, as the euphoria of Jacques Chirac's presidential election last week faded and investors focused on the makeup of his first government, to be announced this week. Since Chirac's victory on May 7, the CAC-40 Index had gained 4.7 per cent. Yesterday, the CAC fell 25.74
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        Stockholm
        165 15 +9.13 Sweden's leading stock index climbed to a record closing high, led by banks, as the steady krona fuelled bond gains. Forestry issues also contributed, rebounding after tumbling 4.6 per cent last week following disappointing first-quarter earnings from Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB. The krona rose 0.04 per cent against
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        Frankfurt
        207 15 -10.40 German stocks fell, dragged down by the leading companies Allianz and Siemens, as the dollar pared recent gains against the mark. The DAX Index dropped 10.40 points to close at 2,092 with insurer Allianz and electronics and engineering giant Siemens causing more than a third of its losses.
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        Brussels
        155 15 -1.90 Belgian shares closed mixed, as a fall in financial shares offset gains in companies with dollar-denominated sales. Banks and insurers, the main holders of Belgian Kvernments, tracked bonds ver, amid concern no government will emerge from Sunday's legislative elections, which could weaken the Belgian franc and bonds. The
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        Zurich
        227 15 10.8 Swiss shares closed slightly firmer. Dealers said volume was well below last week's big turnover as the market waited for new factors to trade on. The firm dollar supported sentiment. The broad SPI Index ended up 10.70 points to 1,795.04 while the blue-chip SMI Index added 10.8 to
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        Milan
        168 15 +49 Italian shares closed higher for the fifth day, paced by telecommunications shares, following bonds and the lira higher amid signs the government is capable of controlling its spending deficit. "The continuing gains in reflect faith in Italy," said a trader. "Fund managers are playing on the recovery of
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        Amsterdam
        267 15 -0.48 Dutch stocks fell after rising for three days as financial stocks like ING Groep, Aegon and Fortis Amev gave up some of their gains made in recent weeks. Most multinational stocks, benefiting from the recovery in the dollar, rose. Among them, consumer products group Unilever, brewer Heineken and
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        Johannesburg
        391 15 10.4 South African shares finished a slow day mixed as the market found no few fresh factors to influence direction, dealers said. They said the listing of unbundled JCI divisions had been the feature of the day, where a bullish start for the listings turned softer by the close.
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        New York
        747 15 Stocks turned moderately higher in quiet trading early yesterday as strong bonds helped the market fend off profit taking following last week's record-setting sweep. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which climbed 19.37 points to a new re-cord-high 4,430.56 on Friday, was ahead 10.03 to 4,440.59 at 1 lam
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      2793 16 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks were little changed yesterday as investors decided that lower US interest rates have exerted their full effect on share values in Hongkong for now. The Hang Seng index dropped 28.04 points to 9,189.79. Altogether, HK55.33 billion in shares traded hands, a steep drop from
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      569 16 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index rose 4.85 points to 1,161.39 on a turnover of HKSB7 million. Tsingtao Brewery lost 5.8 per cent on profit-taking. Turnover in both the Shanghai and Shenzhen B markets dried up yesterday. Foreign investors made up the majority of sell orders while local
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      2518 16 TOKYO Stocks rose for the first time in six days yesterday as the yen's continued retreat against the dollar brightened the outlook for export earnings. Exporters, including precision instrument and car shares, were among the biggest gainers as the dollar climbed as high as 87.57 yen, up from last
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      439 17 The America's Cup AP AUCKLAND New Zealand awoke with a happy hangover yesterday and its biggest city started to plan for the next America's Cup regatta. Team New Zealand won sport's oldest international trophy off San Diego on Saturday early Sunday New Zealand
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      Lock icon The self-righteous Jordan Rules are in vogue again
      724 17  -  NBA Playoffs By Harvey Araton NYT CHICAGO This at one time was said to be the basketball season from hell, when the gimme-gimme Generation Xers were supposedly tearing down everything that Larry, Magic and Michael painstakingly built. Then the great Jordan himself
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        Basketball
        33 17 NEW YORK NBA semifinals Sunda> Eastern: Chicago 106 Orlando 95 (Best-of-seven scries tied 2-2). Western: LA Lakers 71 San Antonio 80 (San Antonio leads 3-1); Houston 110 Phoenix 114 (Phoenix leads 3-1).
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        78 17 AP SOUTHAMPTON, England Less than two weeks after losing its first Test series in 15 years, to Australia, the West Indies were beaten in a one-day match on Sunday by a Hampshire team that is wi'nless in English play this season. The tourists lost by 43 runs, due in
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        Golf
        124 17 IRVING, lexas I'SSIJ million B>ron Nelson Classic final rd Sunday (US unless noted): 263 Emie Els (SA) 69 61 65 68 266 D A Weibring 65 69 67 65. Mike Heinen 67 66 67 66, Robin Freeman 65 65 68 68 268 Jav Don Blake 64 69 69 66,
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        185 17 Reuter BARCELONA Nigel Manscil's severe criticism of the car built for him by the McLaren Formula One team raised new doubts over his future yesterday in the wake of Michael Schumacher's convincing victory in Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix. The 41-year-old Briton, who won the drivers* world championship with Williams
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        84 17 AFP BEIJING China's state-run media gave prominent coverage yesterday to the national team's clean sweep in the World Championships, hailing the victory as a "great honour" tor the whole country. The party mouthpiece, the People's Daily, gave front page coverage to China's success on Sunday. The paper said
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        101 17 ROME Conchita Martinez of Spain turned the tables on compatriot Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario to clinch a hat-trick of Italian Open titles here on Sunday. Wimbledon winner Martinez kept her composure after a 90 minute break for rain in the first set to defeat the top seed 6-3, 6-I.The win also
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      192 17 Golf AP SYDNEY Sydney financial adviser Gary Dawson enjoys a game of golf. He enjoys it so much, in fact, that he played 1,180 holes over the past seven days. Dawson, who is also a competitive triathlete, yesterday claimed a world record
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      Feast of Japanese culture
      556 19  -  A festival in Singapore this September will showcase Japan's top artistes, writes Susan Tsang Susan Tsang SUSHI and other Japanese food are catching on here, but come September, Singaporeans will find an even wider assortment on their plates on National Day. As the fireworks go up
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        233 19 NYT AP AP THREE actors in baby outfits playing a kicking and screaming David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg sing a version of Triplets. Melanie Griffith, Keanu Reeves and Juliette Lewis are also ridiculed in another skit. This is the wicked
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      670 19 TV RADIO I Creatures i World, 9pm, Ch African wildlife usually brings to mind lions and elephants. t David and Carol Hughes look *f|yFs^|s''.'-' :<i^: at the small creatures who pop- -t<T **'v lib ulate the continent: dung bee- -<V?r ties, wasps, praying mantises, r* 'jfl ticks, frogs, baboon spiders,
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    528 20 k .£DtTOfttftfcr IT IS hard to give more than a cautious welcome to China's promulgation of a commercial bank law which will come into force on July i. In principle the new law, passed last week, is a major step towards the liberalisation of China's financial
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      Spratlys free for all?
      326 20 A MAJOR pronouncement by Beijing in connection with the disputed Spratly islands seems almost to have escaped the world's notice: about three weeks ago, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Chen Jian announced that while maintaining its claim to sovereignty over the archipelago "and maritime rights and interests",
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      Another form of assistance
      131 20 SINGAPORE'S position of not contributing to the Asian Development Fund should not be construed as its scepticism towards the development in Asia. The debate on the effectiveness of official development has been long and unnecessary. After all, such aid is usually associated with a developed country's
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      Let China develop its potential
      240 20 THOSE who are worried that China may become hegemonic often neglect the fact that many Asian countries besides China are also becoming developed countries, and their wealth could exceed that of China. Therefore, even though China becomes one of the top economies in the world,
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      A triumph for diplomacy
      137 20 THE Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) is full of holes large enough to have been blasted by multiple nuclear warheads. Not the least of these is its endorsement of the right of the five established nuclear powers to retain their weapons (despite the lip-service they are expected
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      Meaning business
      97 20 THE thought that ministers, deputy ministers and parliamentary secretaries could get the sack if they cross the line of proper demeanour is something to savour, surely. Would the government really terminate the services of cabinet ministers if they misbehave? Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad seems to have no qualms
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      Bigger role for business
      116 20 FOR this country, the private sector is not just significant for its relationship with international investment. With the degree to which Malaysia is committed to trade, the takers of such investment are increasingly shaping and multiplying the economic opportunities being sown nation-wide. As more and more
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    851 20  -  Mukul Asher on what the regional grouping can do to sustain co-operation Mukul Asher The writer is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy. National University of Singapore THE recently concluded eighth summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-opera-tion (Saarc)
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      2858 21  -  Jamie Spitscovsky interviews the man who defeated the French and Americans on the road to freedom for Vietnam Jamie Spitscovsky VIETNAMESE General Vo Nguyen Giap has made his place in history as one of the greatest military geniuses of all times. In 1954,
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      684 21 ON AUG 28, 1911, a village called An Xa ensured its name in history when Vo Nguyen Giap was bom there. At the age of 13, the future nationalist general already had his name registered in police flies. But An Xa almost disappeared from the
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    473 22 Knight-Ridder ISLAMABAD Relations between Pakistan and India continued to deteriorate as Islamabad ordered a nationwide protest against the burning of an Islamic shrine in Kashmir, officials said yesterday. The decision to hold the protest later this week was taken at
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    471 22 Reuter AFP TOKYO Japanese police yesterday arrested the suspected mastermind of the Tokyo subway gas attack and were poised to storm the doomsday cult headquarters where the sect's founder was holed up. After an investigation spanning nearly two months following the
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    295 22 AFP HONGKONG US President Bill Clinton looks poised to renew China's most favoured nation (MFN) trading status, this time with strong support from Congress, the American Chamber of Commerce in Hongkong said yesterday. "Our feeling is that it looks pretty good.
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    254 22 Japan says blast could harm economic aid AP Reuter BEIJING China conducted an underground nuclear test yesterday, just days after the United Nations ended talks on indefinitely extending the international treaty to prevent the spread of atomic weapons. The test was China's third in a year
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    287 22 Reuter MUNICH A regional German central bank chief yesterday raised the prospect of a further cut in interest rates this year, the third to do so in the past two weeks. Franz-Christoph Zeitler, president of the central bank in
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    153 22 AP SEOUL North Korea has accepted a US proposal to hold high-level nuclear negotiations in Malaysia this week, a South Korean official said yesterday. The talks have been called to break the deadlock over North Korea's refusal to accept South
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      394 23  -  Foreign shipowners unhappy with resolutions of some recent disputes From Tran Dinh Thah Lam in HO CHI MINH CITY VIETNAMESE lawmakers are calling for a thorough look at the nation's maritime code. This comes in the wake of unhappiness among foreign shipowners
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      836 23  -  From Alan Boyd in BANGKOK THAILAND is studying the feasibility of building a third deepwater seaport serving the central industrial belt around Bangkok, as existing terminals approach full capacity. The government's Maritime Promotion Commission is looking at possible sites
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      306 23 TOKYO World shipbuilding capacity in 2000 may increase by a staggering 74 per cent on the 1990 capacity, according to the Japan Maritime Research Institute (Jamri). That would mean a 26 per cent to 29 per cent surplus capacity given the
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      397 23 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Department of Environment wants to reduce the time it takes to respond to oil dumping activities in Malaysian waters. It feels that the current six to 10-hour process causes the department to fail to gather more
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      130 23 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Freight traffic through UK ports increased 6 per cent in 1994. the biggest annual increase in 15 years. Department of Transport figures show. According to provisional statistics, freight traffic through UK ports totalled 538 million tonnes in 1994.
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      64 23 Reuter BEIJING China's first oil tanker cleaning port has already cleansed 33 foreign tankers. most of them supertankers with capacity above 200,000 tonnes, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The recently opened port at Zhoushan in Zhejiang province near China's most populous city, Shanghai,
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      344 23 Journal of Commerce MANILA A long-awaited boom in the Philippines' sleepy domestic inter-island shipping industry is becoming a reality as local and foreign investors position themselves in this potentially profitable sector. Business interest in domestic inter-island shipping was spurred after President Fidel Ramos signed an
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      257 23 Reuter DUBAI The US has warned ships to exercise caution when sailing in the northern Gulf, where it said Iranian gunboats have been intercepting and hijacking ships to extort money, shipping sources said on Sunday. "Mariners are advised to exercise extreme caution
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      634 24  -  But Cosco says it is not out to undercut others. Elizabeth Canna and Joseph Bonney report Elizabeth Canna and Joseph Bonney American Shipper ASK any global liner operator which competitor it wonders and worries about the most. Nine times out of 10 the
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        99 24 China Southwest Airlines has named W Helen Hong (above) to head its new W Singapore office as general manager. The M office is in Carlton Building at Cecil Street. Ms Hong joined the airline in 1965 after graduating from Chengdu University. Her airline career began
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        94 24 The Inmarsat (International Maritime Satellite Organisation) Council has appointed Noel Isotta as an interim director general of the 77-member organisation. Mr Isotta assumed his new position on April 1. He takes over from Olof Lund berg who resigned to serve as chief executive officer of
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        102 24 c i u* Pnmarder* Association (SFFA) The Sinaapo" Fre, lnlM(r and d»n« on I b. hoWina thl. OrtW*» ttwM tar,n '"IL,mi. number of comp.nl" have ptoda* 4 3« nerou9 con {n CWT Distribution, II comp»ni«» lnclu«i«- M global Container Freiaht. V BuOetin Board vril
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        69 24 Message Management, the Hongkong-based PR consultancy specialising in transport and travel, marked its fifth anniversary with the opening of its Singapore office this month. The new company MM Communications opened its office at 65A Tanjong Pagar Road. Message Management clients include Airbus Industrie, Avro International, International
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      10962 30 This guide lists the sailing destinations from Singapore. The first date indicates the ETA at Singapore followed by the ETA at the destination. 1 he page number refers to the location of the schedule advertisement ETA ETA LlM Vassal Voyage Pg I SIN Datt'n
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        451 35 Voy Wo Berth Arrival D«paftut iurong Port p« 3003/B J13 alongside 16.05.0700 Rachmanuel I VM/95 J3 alongside 16.05/1800 Vincent Dehnas 201W J16/17 alongside 16.05/1500 Auha Seraya AS/09/95 J21 16.05/0800 16.05/2000 Barenbete J4/5 16.05/0700 18.05/0700 Batam Bahagia 05/03/95 J1 16.05/0915 17.05/2315 Batam Indah N198 J12 16.05/0900 17.05/2300 Hefly
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        901 35 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        327 36  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE India's domestic airline market, which Singapore Airlines (SIA) and partner Tata Industries have been eyeing, is suffering from excess capacity. UK-based Airline Business magazine says in its May issue that many private domestic operators have reported falling load factors
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        43 36 AFP PHNOM PENH A Cambodian family travelling by cyck) racing through rush hour traffic in downtown Phnom Penh. Cyclos remain a convenient and inexpensive form of transport and are celebrated with an annual race this month. AFP
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        373 36 AFP HANOI Car giants Toyota and Ford have officially submitted licence applications to the State Committee for Cooperation and Investment (SCCI) to set up joint-venture production lines in Vietnam, a news report said yesterday. SCO's weekly Vietnam Dau Tu Nuoc
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        106 36 Knight-Ridder BEIJING China will produce a multi-purpose vehicle for domestic use in a joint-ven-ture project reported to be worth US$l billion (S$ 1.39 billion), the official China Daily said yesterday. A senior executive of China Nanfang Automotive Corp, the local company chosen to
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        218 36 Reuter SEOUL About 2,000 workers at a Hyundai Motor Company factory went on strike yesterday demanding the reinstatement of seven workers they said were fired unfairly, company officials said. "A small section of our lines in Ulsan have been suspended today," a Hyundai
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        310 36 UPI MEXICO CITY Mexico's programme of privately operated toll highways is in crisis, caught between truck drivers demanding reduced rates and bankers demanding repayment of billions of dollars in outstanding debt. Truckers represented at last week's assembly of the national freight transport chamber said
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        414 36 FT LONDON The UK and the US believe they will be able to reach a new agreement on air services during talks scheduled for the end of the month in Washington. After two days of discussions in London last week, the
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          82 36 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's flag carrier. China Airlines, will add seven weekly non-stop flights from Taipei to Kuala Lumpur starting today, bringing its total weekly routes to the Malaysian capital to 14. The additional seven flights will mark China Airlines' first non-stop flights to Kuala
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          71 36 AFP TOKYO Japan's Mazda Motor Corp announced yesterday plans to start testing hydrogen-fuelled cars on public roads in cooperation with the Hirohata works of Nippon Steel Corp in western Japan. The company, the first to be authorised to conduct such tests in Japan, said two
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          82 36 Reuter DETROIT General Motors Corp said on Sunday it is recalling 111.000 1995 Chevrolet Blazer and GMC Jimmy sport/utility vehicles to fix a potential fuel tank leakage problem. The fourdoor vehicles are being recalled in response to a federal government crash test in November 1994
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          80 36 AFP PARIS The president of Air France, Christian Blanc, is to take control of management at the Air Inter domestic airline in replacement of Michel Bernard who resigned on Friday, Air Inter said on yesterday. Mr Blanc said in a statement that
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          78 36 AFP LONDON The Swiss-Swedish train building company ABB is to close its factory in the northern English town of York, a pioneer plant in rail history, with the loss of 750 jobs, the company told workers recently. The plant will shut by the end
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        257 36 Reuter SEATTLE United Airlines executives got the keys to their first Boeing Co 777 jetliner yesterday, ending the initial phase of a US$5-billion (556.9 billion) development programme that has transformed the world's biggest plane maker. While it will take years for the new twin-engine jetliner
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