The Business Times, 6 June 1995

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  • 12 1 Business Times WE IQJWy ASIA. MITA(P) 194/12/94 Tuesday June 6 1995 sy
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  • 48 1 Reuter NEW YORK Share prices extended their gains yesterday on hopes of lower US interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 24.9 points at 4,483.54 at Ipm EST. In the broader market, advances led declines 13 to seven in moderate trading. Reuter
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  • 52 1 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The dinton administration yesterday signed an airline pact with Britain that falls short of the sweeping "open skies'* regime long sought by the US. The deal is expected to yield United Airlines a coveted new route from Chicago to London's Heathrow. Bloomberg
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  • 154 1 Moodsy Chtn|( STII 2,218.03 +9.52 KLSEComp. 1,0(5.04 +6.96 Nikkei 15,197.32 +48.19 Hang Seng 9,570.37 +10.63 SETIodex 1,408.26 +1.38 Jakarta Corap 497.26 +3.84 Manila Comp .....2,840.54 +15.87 TaipdWPI 5,671.18 -43.15 Seoul Comp 899.04 +8.96 Bombay BSE30 ..3,366.19 -18.80 CLSA China B ***** -7.04 Amt AUOrd 2,011.7 +5.0 PTSE 100 „.3,376.6 +31.6
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  • 556 1  -  Fran Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK SINGAPORE Technologies Industrial Corp has won a $500 million contract to design and build the new Mandalay airport, making it the first Singapore company to land a major infrastructure contract in Myanmar. A memorandum of
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  • 204 1 BANGKOK Top Myanmar leaders, led by Prime Minister Than Shwe, will pay a four-day official visit to Singapore, starting Thursday. Than Shwe, who is also chairman of the rating State Law and Order Restoration Council (SlorcX arrived in Indonesia yesterday on the first leg
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  • 374 1 AP NEW YORK IBM yesterday launched a US$3.3 billion hostile bid for Lotus Development Corp, the biggest takeover attempt in the personal computer software industry. The deal, if it goes through, would significantly alter the landscape in one of the most intensely competitive
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  • 465 1  -  By Agnes Wee SINGAPORE British hotel group Mount Charlotte Investments, in which the Singapore government has a 30 per cent stake, plans to spend £100 million (Ss22l million) to £120 million in the next four years upgrading its UK hotels.
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  • 471 1  -  •>< Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Shell Eastern Petroleum, long seen as an "iron rice bowl" employer, yesterday confirmed that it will have to lay off 29 employees to "remain competitive in an increasingly difficult business environment". The Anglo-Dutch oil company, which has
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  • 394 1 NYT WASHINGTON Even as figures indicating possible trouble ahead have piled up in recent weeks, Federal Reserve policymakers have shed their usual gloom and Clinton administration officials have been steadfastly optimistic. Thoir motivation is dear the difference in the
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 312 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan AFTER a surge in February and March, retained imports fell sharply in April, dashing hopes that domestic demand will pick up in the near term. Figures from the Trade Development Board show retained imports shrank 2.1 per cent year-on-year in April. This
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    • 216 2 SINGAPORE Cinema patrons who thought Golden Village's pre-paid cards were the way to go after the cinema operator raised general admission prices are in for a surprise. It has bumped up the price of its Smart Cards by $10 to $65. This
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    • 490 2  -  By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Cablevision (SCV) will have the first dialect channel on television since the government launched its "Speak Mandarin" campaign in 1979. In an announcement yesterday that is bound to please older Singaporeans who miss those popular Cantonese serials
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    • 394 2  -  By Michelle Low DEMAND for industrial property was healthy in the first three months of this year despite a slowdown in manufacturing, Jurong Town Corp says in its latest quarterly report. Year-on-year, first-quarter demand grew 6.6 per cent to 3,580 ha, boosted by
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    • 241 2 SINGAPORE has reopened its embassy in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to strengthen the growing economic and political relations between the two countries. A Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman said yesterday that the embassy began functioning on June 1. Singapore
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    • 336 2 THE government may form an employment service agency to help women who wish to return to work, said National Trades Union Congress secre-tary-general Lim Boon Heng yesterday. Such a move would depend on how successful a seminar on the subject
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    • 104 2 MINISTER of Labour Lee Boon Yang is leading a delegation to the 82nd session of the International Labour Conference which starts today in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference will discuss, among other things, issues relating to labour standards for work in the home and the extension
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    • 156 2 THERE were 637,000 personal computers in Singapore last year, of which 70 per cent were used in business establishments and the rest in homos. One-third of Singapore households own a PC, and home demand was increasing at 14.9 per cent annually, said RearAdmiral
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    • 116 2 POST-EDUCATION training and skills upgrading is increasingly a major factor in attaining higher productivity, said Zulkifli Mohammed, political secretary to minister without portfolio, yesterday. Speaking at a productivity and skills training seminar, he said 16 per cent of Singapore's workforce has only primary school qualifications,
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 457 3  -  Reports by Loh Hui Yin in BANGKOK THAILAND'S general elections are shaping up to be a contest between the Democrats and Chart Thai Party, with each vying to be the core of a new government which, in all likelihood, will be another coalition. Analysts
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    • 391 3 Reuter NUSA DUA, Indonesia Fast-industrialising Asia needs up to US$5O billion (Ss7o billion) a year to generate and supply power, making the private sector an increasingly attractive market for power plant builders, an official from an international financial organisation said. Paul Nickson,
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    • 224 3 MBT KUALA LUMPUR One in three foreign firms in Malaysia may consider shifting some of their operations to other countries if labour shortage persists, according to the findings of a survey jointly conducted by the Malaysian Business Times and Research Pacific. The poll,
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    • 262 3 BANKER-tumed-politician Vichit Suraphongchai is unlikely to contest the July 2 general elections, say sources a decision that will derail implementation of the telecommunications masterplan he drew up. The move will also mean that two listed telecommunications companies, Telecom Asia and Thai Telephone Telecommunication (TT&T),
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    • 273 3  -  By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE The second meeting of the World Infrastructure Forum will be held in New Delhi next year, the Asian Infrastructure Development Alliance (Aida) announced yesterday after a two-day meeting in Bangkok last week. Aida, which grew out of
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    • 60 3 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's President Suharto has urged government ministers to push ahead with plans for a new port to accommodate the country's future economic growth. "The president said it is important to build a new port to accommodate export activity," State Secretary Murdiono said
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    • 64 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesians should be aware of possible misleading information on the Internet. The Jakarta Post yesterday quoted the secretary-general of the Ministry of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications, Jonathon Parapak, as saying that Indonesians should be selective about the material they accessed on the global
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    • 83 3 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police yesterday fired tear gas and used a water cannon against about 600 Vietnamese boat people who refused to return to a refugee camp after escapiag earlier in the day. Witnesses said about 300 federal riot police charged into the
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    • 74 3 Reuter JAKARTA Malaysia's state-run oil company, Petronas, will continue to raise domestic gas use while expanding gas investments abroad to ensure steady reserves in the long term, a company official told an industry conference yesterday. "Huge investments have been made in an effort to
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    • 449 3 Reuter MANILA A vibrant domestic economy is likely to nudge Philippine inflation above the government's 1995 target of 6.5 per cent, economists and analysts said. Inflationary pressures are also coming from lower agricultural supplies because of a drought and an impending oil price increase,
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 311 4 Move will help ailing companies, say economists Reuter SHANGHAI China should allow cash-rich investment companies, industrial groups and foreign firms to buy into ailing state companies to help solve their chronic debt problem, economists have proposed. One of the most serious roadblocks
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      56 4 AFP TAIPEI Top US skate board player Tony Hawk and his fellow American biker Malt Hoffman performing on Sunday at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall here for the launching of the US-based ESPN sports channel in Taiwan. ESPN will introduce a series of Extreme Games activities through the
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    • 346 4 BEIJING China invested 9.5 billion yuan (SSI. 5 billion) in the Three Gorges dam project between January 1993 and the end of April this year, the China DaUjfjpd. Fixed-asitt investment in the period was ft bill ion yuan, of wfiicS ISHlSllion
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    • 191 4 Rcuter SHANGHAI The Shanghai city government is moving to a new building this month, opening the way for the lease of its grandiose premises at the Bund to a new tenant, probably a foreign bank. The move to a purposebuilt high-rise building
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    • 158 4 AFP HONGKONG Hongkong will be featured prominently in "China's Year of Tourism '97", to mark its reversion to Chinese sovereignty, it was reported yesterday. Liu Yi, China National Tourism Administration director, was quoted by the Hong-kong-based China News Service as saying preparation
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    • 433 6 South China Morning Post HONGKONG Billions of dollars in extra payments are being claimed by contractors working on the Hongkong government's seven airport core projects because of design changes and bad weather. All of the major contracts including the Lantau Fixed Crossing,
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    • 108 6 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING The personal financial assets of Chinese citizens stand at more than three trillion yuan (***** billion), about eight times the level when economic reforms began in 1978, the official Financial News reported yesterday. The paper said savings provided the deposit base for
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    • 106 6 Reuter SHANGHAI The ambitions of Shanghai's city fathers know no bounds they want their stinking Suzhou river to resemble the Seine and to turn their ageing waterfront into the Wall Street of the Orient. Water expats have worked out a plan to turn the Suzhou river,
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    • 64 6 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING The Chinese government ordered a nationwide check on the use of funds earmarked to buy agricultural goods, the official China Daily reported yesterday. A circular issued by the State Council, China's cabinet, give local governments until the middle of June to
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    • 278 6 Bloomberg Business News BEIJING China could potentially have 150 million people unemployed, or 12.S per cent of its total population, a report by the Bank of East Asia said. The bank's China Division said in a report entitled "China's Unemployment Problem'' that
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    • 53 6 Reuter BEIJING A shop attendant reading the latest edition of body-tmilding magazine Health and Beauty in Beging yesterday. Health exercise has become increasingly popular m China in recent years, with gyms and health clubs springing up in many cities and some people going jogging through
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    • 219 6 Reuter BEIJING China has closed 6,500 front companies this year in a crackdown on fraudulent firms that have business licences but no capital, property or organisation, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday. Front companies wearing a cloak of legality were seriously damaging market
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    • 207 6 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's per capita national income will by the year 2000 increase by 90 per cent to more than US$2O,OOO (5527.800), a Finance Ministry statement quoted Finance Minister Lin Chen-kuo as saying in a speech in Canada. He said Taiwan's targets for that
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  • ASIA
    • 472 8 Analysts fear likely rise in non-development spending may fuel inflation Reuter DHAKA The Bangladesh government is expected to introduce a softer budget for the coming financial year to woo voters ahead of elections, analysts say. But higher non-develop-ment spending likely to feature in Finance
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    • 306 8 AP TOKYO The head of a public sewer authority knew that nine major electronics Firms now under investigation were colluding to rig bids for a major sewer construction project, a news report said yesterday. Itaru Nakamoto, president of the Japan Sewage
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    • 61 8 Knight-Ridder NEW DELHI The US has told India that failure to honour a power project accord with Enron Corp will jeopardise investments in other power projects, the Press Trust of India news agency reported yesterday. It quoted the US Department of Energy as saying
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    • 71 8 Reuter CANBERRA Foreign equity continued to finance most of Australia's capital account deficit on the balance of payments in the March quarter, Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show. The bureau's March quarter International Investment Position release also shows that a fall in the value of
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    • 63 8 Reuter CANBERRA New Zealand's economic reforms in the early 1990s were brutal and socially unfair and would not be adopted by any civilised country, Australian Industry Minister Peter Cook said on Monday. Mr Cook said he welcomed New Zealand's now strong economic growth, but said
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    • 56 8 AP SEOUL A leading Japanese politician's denial that his country colonised Korea threatened yesterday to blow up into a major diplomatic row between the two neighbours. South Korean officials warned for the second day that they would take unspecified strong measures unless former Japanese Foreign Minister
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    • 182 8 AFP SEOUL South Korea's Daewoo Electronics Co said yesterday it had slashed retail prices of its borne appliances by op to 16 per cent to keep its edge as the country prepared to allow in more foreign rivals. The Daewoo move echoed similar moves
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    • 58 8 Renter TOWNSVILLE, Australia Bonis Mabo, wife of nhoriginal leader Eddie Mabo, whose long legal fight led to a landmark court ruling oa aboriginal land rights, sitting at the defaced grave of her husband here on Sunday with her grandchildren. Mr Mabo died in January 1992 but
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    • 286 8 Reuter TOKYO Japan's "persistently high current account surplus" has contributed to "a massive rise in the value of the yen, undermining corporate profits and stifling recovery", European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Leon Brittan told a media luncheon yesterday. Sir Leon,
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  • PROPERTY & CONSTRUCTION
    • 662 9  -  Chng Holdings is making the most of fresh fields overseas, with three hotel projects on the go, writes Agnes Wee Agnes Wee A LOCAL property group is spreading its wings overseas in Vietnam with investments totalling US$35 million (SS49 million). Chng Holdings,
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    • 314 10  -  Singapore investors snap up 70% of prime office block, reports Abdul Hadhi Abdul Hadhi A PRIME Beijing office property put on the market over the weekend drew a good response from Singapore investors. According to consultants Colliers Jardine, which is marketing the 18-storey Canway
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    • 184 10 COLLIERS Jardine expects interest in Indonesia's office property market to pick up from this quarter onward, after the traditionally slow first quarter. A factor expected to boost the take-up rate is PP2O, one of the major economic deregulations introduced last year. The managing director
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    • 501 10 Suites target those staying beyond few days NYT IN THE FACE of a soft property market, some of Boston's small, older office buildings are being converted into suites for visiting businessmen, scholars or health-care consumers who stay here for several weeks or months.
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    • 283 10 Singapore's newest property consultancy firm, Edmund N S Tie Company, is relying on its team's experience rather than the obvious move of cutting fees to land business. Executive chairman and chief executive officer Edmund Tie, who left international consultant Jones Lang Wootton
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  • SPORTS
    • 543 11 French Open AP PARIS Sergi Bruguera survived his toughest match of the French Open with a four-set fourth-round victory yesterday over Magnus Larsson, but the two-time defending champion was booed off the court for a dispute with the umpire. Upset that the umpire would
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    • 247 11  -  From Michael Karon in PARIS Por the first time in the history of Grand Slam tennis, three rapanese women won through to the last 16 at the French Open, yet another sign of the progress of the sport in Asia. »iThe three Kimiko Date, iJflTSugiyama
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      163 11 Reuter EUGENE, Oregon Michael Johnson won a 200-metre showdown with Carl Lewis, pulling ahead on the curve to win a battle ai Olympian rivals at the Prefontaine Classic on Sunday. Johnson won in 20.1S seconds with Lewis second in 20.47 and Kevin Little third in 20.63 before a crowd
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      83 11 Reuter NORTHAMPTON, England Tony Penberthy hit 73 and tailendet Neil Mallender an unbeaten 49 to lift Northamptonshire to 281 all out on the second day of their three-day match against the West Indies on Sunday. The home side looked in trouble at 88-5 and 190-7 but spirited late resistance
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      318 11 AP COVENTRY, England An ailing Philip Walton sank a four-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole on Sunday to win the English Open. out-duelling defending champion Colin Montgomerie. After matching Montgomerie almost stroke-for-stroke through 18 holes, Walton set up with his winning shot with a superb approach at
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      94 11 MILWAUKEE Milwaukee 200 IndyCar race Sunday (driver, chassis and motor, laps completed, winner's speed in mph): 1 "Paul Tracy (Can), Lola Ford-Cosworth, 200 laps, 137.304 mph/220.96 kph 2 AI Unser Jr (US), Penske MercedesBenz, 200 3 Michael Andretti (US), Lola Ford-Cosworth, 199 4 Teo Fabi (Ita) 5 Robby
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      133 11 AP PARIS US$lO3 million French Open 4th rd Sanday (seeds onhr) Men: 1-Andre Agassi (US) b Younes El Aynaoui (Mor) 6-4 6-2 6-2; 5-Thomas Muster (Aus) b Andrei Medvedev (Ukr) 6-3 6-3 6-0; 9-Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Rus) b Alex Corretja (Spn) 6-3 6-2 6-2; Alberto Costa (Spn) b 13-Jim Courier
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    • 581 11 NBA Playoffs AP ORLANDO, Florida In the Magic's noisy kingdom, nothing bad ever seems to happen to the home team. And now Shaquiile O'Neal and Anfernee Hardaway, the Orlando Magic's two 23-year-old stars, are taking their talent and youthful exuberance to
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    • 282 11 Golf AP DUBLIN, Ohio Greg Norman won for the first time on the US golf tour in more than a year, shooting a 6-under par 66 on Sunday and capturing the Memorial by four strokes on a
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    • 852 11 Rugby World Cup AFP JOHANNESBURG England came good at last, beating Western Samoa 44-22 on Sunday while Ireland took the last quarter-final place with the narrowest possible win and the All Blacks scored a record victory. With 24 pool games
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 768 13  -  Steven A Holmes laments the lack of sensitive and intelligent movie roles for today's black actors Steven A Holmes NYT BORED moviegoer seeks honest, hardworking, intelligent black man for short-term relationship. (Two hours on a Saturday night should do it). Should be sensitive and witty. Can
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    • 434 13 AP Reuter NYT AFP UPI THE Duchess of York may coproduce a Hollywood movie on the early life of Queen Victoria, The Sunday Times of London reported. Michael Hirst, the scriptwriter on the film, was quoted as saying he believed she had "agreed
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • 478 14 THE best cure for inflation, according to conventional economic wisdom, is a good dose of tight monetary policy. TTie side-ef-fects are painful, but monetarists and central bankers who swear by it believe there is no better medicine for this very common ill. After average annual economic growth
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  • 403 14 THERE is no danger of Singapore not tapping the tremendous potential of the Internet. But a system such as this is only as useful as people make it. It is all too easy to forget in the excitement of a new invention that information is
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  • 105 14 AN expelled student will probably find other schools shutting their doors on him. His family, friends and society at large may look at him differently. He will discover suddenly that he just doesn't quite belong. Hence expulsion is an extreme act. Before the Ministry of Education
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  • 137 14 TO MOST Nantah graduates, nothing can replace the former Nantah. Even if NTU were to remove the word "technological" from its name, even if it were to boost Chinese research and teaching, it could not become the former Nantah in terms of spirit and outlook. As
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  • 142 14 VAGRANCY is a peculiar problem affecting free, urbanised societies. There is always a grey area between individual freedom and these societies' desire for welfare, order and security that is home to an "underclass" of the alienated, the dysfunctional and the anti-social. It is also uniquely urban.
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  • 118 14 THERE will be few in Hongkong (or elsewhere in the region) who could seriously argue with President Bill Clinton's decision to renew China's Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status for another 12 months. His announcement last year that he was separating trade agreements from arguments over human rights
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  • 135 14 THE ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka has claimed the lives of more than 30,000 people in the last decade. Although the Buddhist Sinhala majority and the Hindu Tamil minority coexisted in peace on the island for over 2,000 years, in modern Sri Lanka, antagonism and friction have come
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  • 929 14 Peter Norman sees little chance of the G-7 Halifax summit reducing overlap among the many international organisations FT IT BEGAN with a fanfare. It could end with a whimper. The review of the institutions of global cooperation, announced by the leaders of the
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    • 920 15  -  Companies investing in Laos are happy to do business in the present relaxed environment, reports Steve Vines Steve Vines The writer, a Hongkong-based journalist, was recently in Laos. He contributes regularly to BT Foreign investors are usually pleased when the government gets
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    • 1088 15 But fitting companies' needs with graduates' aspirations isn't easy AMERICAN and European multinationals with operations in Asia have long relied upon professionals with a master's degree in business administration (MBA) to fill middle and senior management slots in their regional
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    • 23 15 EThis article was reprinted from the. May 22 issue of Business Asia, a fortnightly management report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (Asia) Ltd
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    • 552 15 SINGAPORE OIL WEEK 1995 mrTl^^ The most Important event in Asia's oil calendar, the Singapore Oil Week is back in September. The focal meeting point for more than 2,000 top level executives from Asia, Australia, Europe and the USA, Singapore Oil Week 1995 is a must for anyone in the
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  • 474 16 Canada to sell novel idea of letting nations file for bankruptcy Reuter OTTAWA Canada will push leaders of the world's most powerful economies later this month to consider the novel idea of allowing a sovereign country to file for a
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  • 228 16 LAT-WP, Reuter WASHINGTON In what he called a "very important, very significant development," US Defence Secretary William Perry has said that Washington will establish an intelligencegathering operation to help the leaders of a planned European strike force monitor the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mr Perry,
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  • 376 16 Reuter LONDON World grain prices are rising, amid warnings that food stocks are set to dwindle perilously near safety margins. Experts are not yet saying that 18th century English cleric and doomsayer Thomas Malthus was right after all when he predicted that the
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  • 315 16 Reuter NEW YORK Companies that train workers, involve them in decisions, give them a stake in the business and keep their inventories lean are likely to be rewarded with healthier bottom lines, according to a US study issued yesterday. The study,
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  • 99 16 AFP JOHANNESBURG President Nelson Mandela's admission that he told guards to shoot to kill outside the ANC headquarters has battered his image as South Africa's miracle worker who can do no wrong. "Mandela is sending a message to the outside world: 'I'm a nice man, but
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  • 77 16 AP BOSTON The National Rifle Association a major United States gun lobby says it is the target of an Internal Revenue Service audit that will review its tax-exempt status. The Boston Sunday Globe reported former NRA board members as accusing current officials of misusing and mismanaging
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  • 138 16 Reuter ROME Election fatigue and confusion could add up to chaos next Sunday when Italians will be asked to vote in 12 referendums that range from what to do about media mogul Silvio Berlusconi's television empire to shopping hours. The sheer number of issues Italians will
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  • 99 16 Reuter JERUSALEM Israel is making preparations to withdraw troops swiftly from Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank whenever the government gives the order. But military sources yesterday said the final pullout and Palestinian elections, both originally set for last July under a 1993 peace deal,
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  • 113 16 Reuter LONDON Iran looks set to drop the threat to carry out a death sentence on British author Salman Rushdie (right), the BBC said yesterday. "Our government is not going to dispatch anybody, any commandos, to kill anybody in Europe Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati said in
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  • 77 16 Reuter WASHINGTON The nation's new spymaster, John Deutch, wants to be more aggressive about using covert actions, such as sending undercover agents into terrorist states, according to Newsweek magazine. Mr Deutch, the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said he wanted the organisation to be more "forward
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  • 881 16  -  The Bottom Line LEON HADAR LEON HADAR The writer is BT's Washington correspondent OBSERVERS IN foreign capitals are focusing these days on that huge mess called United States foreign policy, trying to figure out if there is a unifying theme behind the
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  • 211 16 AP WASHINGTON Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said Americans could express their outrage at offensive films by boycotting them, selling the stock of companies that make them, and staging shareholder revolts. Mr Dole, in a television interview, defended his previous criticism
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  • 297 16 Reuter LOS ANGELES It was designed as an innovative attack on smog that would give businesses financial incentive to reduce emissions. But critics say the only incentive coming from southern California's pollution credit trading system is the incentive to spew more toxic gases into the air.
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • EYE on your STOCKS
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        52 17 Mixed 'Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Alliance, Barings, Credit Lyonnais Securities. Daiwa, Fraser, G K Goh, Kay Hian, Morgan Grenfell, Ong Co. Nomura, Phillip, Smith New Court, WI Carr and S
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        95 17  -  By Paul Leo KAMUNTING's decline from $2.32 in December 1993 seems to have stopped at around $1.00. Trading volume is also trailing off 919,000 shares changed hands yesterday, compared to the 10-day average of 1.2S million units. Monthly Relative Strength Index is near 25, indicating the bottom may
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    • 351 17  -  By Michelle Low SINGAPORE Keppel Integrated Engineering Ltd (KIE) has secured two contracts worth $20 million through its subsidiary Keppel Engineering Pte Ltd. KIE, a member of the Keppel group, said yesterday that the bigger contract, worth $11.5 million, involved a turnkey
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    • 358 17  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Mainboardlisted Liang Huat Aluminium Ltd is building a $38 million corporate headquarters in Tuas. Peter Tan Yong Kee, managing director of the manufacturer of aluminium products, said in the company's latest annual report that the need for
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    • 202 17 SINGAPORE Multimedia firm Aztech Systems yesterday launched a new high speed CD-ROM drive touted as one of the fastest products of its kind on the market. A company spokesman told Business Times that Aztech is aiming to have its new sixspeed CD-ROM drive shipping in
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    • 361 17 SINGAPORE Soft drink maker Yeo Hiap Seng said yesterday Pepsico and Seven-Up International had renewed their exclusive bottling arrangements with it for another year. Last month, Pepsi-Cola International officials expressed confidence in YHS despite its recent troubles. Officials said the franchise would be
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    • 713 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE After drifting for almost 16 months, it looks like the local stock market is poised for a sustained upturn. US interest rates have apparently peaked and could even come down if the numbers keep showing that US
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    • 311 17 SINGAPORE Sembawang Corp and associated companies of Temasek Holdings (Sembawang) have increased their stake in property developer First Capital Corp to 26.33 per cent by converting warrants into new shares at an exercise price of $1.52. But Sembawang has been exempted from having to
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    • 183 17 SINGAPORE Shares of diversified engineering group Acma were yesterday suspended from trading on the local stock exchange yesterday, after a steady rise in the past few days. Last night the company had yet to make a statement regarding the suspension leaving analysts and dealers to
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    • COMPANIES
      • 471 18  -  Thai Military Bank seeking majority control of UK bank's securities business From Alan Boyd in BANGKOK THAI Military Bank yesterday confirmed it was leading a bid for the securities business of Standard Chartered Bank, heralding a major push by the group into regional investment banking.
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      • 168 18 SINGAPORE Cosco Investment Singapore yesterday announced an agreement to take control of a sister company dealing in general agency services in the shipping industry. Cosco Investment, which is controlled by Cosco Holdings Singapore, will buy equity stakes in Costar Shipping from
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      • 133 18 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed York Pacific Holdings expects one of its China subsidiaries to contribute to group profit this year. But another mainland arm will remain in the red because of uneven demand and the inability of its Chinese customers to pay
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      • 425 18  -  From Leslie Lopez in JAKARTA INDONESIA, stung by numerous delays in its satellite programme, has decided to terminate the services of Arianespace in favour of US firm General Dynamics Co for the launch of its new satellite. Industry officials say PT Satelit Palapa
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      • 255 18  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STA), a member of the Singapore Technologies group, says the rising regional growth in air travel will raise demand for aircraft maintenance services by the end of the century. "Our growth will
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      • 188 18 SINGAPORE Marinebased company Jaya Holdings Ltd is set to boost its gross charter revenue by US$25 million (5534.8 million) for the next three years with the delivery of three new vessels. The new additions are one containerised and two general
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      • 519 18 <$) Jun 6 Sh Greater China Fd 1.00 <8 Mendaki Gr Fund 1.04 1 07§ Nugapore umt Trust us Gr Fund 1.02 1.06 s The Commerce 1.62 1.71 xd sum m m m m The Savings Fund I 58 1.67 ASSSt Mgt Ltd S*poR Pra« Fund 0.64 068 Unifund I
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      • 454 19 Firm says lack of publicity affected subscription rate Reuter HONGKONG Peregrine Investments Holdings Ltd said it has cancelled a note issue linked to the Hang Seng Index, and another offer has closed undersubscribed. The two notes, launched on May 23 and
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      • 122 19 Reuter BEIJING China's Capital Iron and Steel, also known as Shougang, cut costs by 3.76 per cent in the first four months of 1995 despite year on year inflation of 22.6 per cent during that time, the official Workers' Daily said yesterday. The Chinese capital's
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      • 251 19 Reuter HONGKONG Two Kerry Group affiliates are tapping the syndicated loan market to finance hotel projects in China. Shenyang Traders Hotel Ltd last week launched a US$42 million (S$SB.B million) term loan, said arranger CCIC Finance. The loan has a maturity of 6.5 years
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      • 215 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG A consortium led by Hongkong's Lippo Ltd is raising a US$lOO million (SSI39 million) closed-end fiind to invest in Chinese supermarkets, according to the Hongkong newspaper Ming Pao Daily News. A company spokesman from Lippo confirmed the report and
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      • 264 19 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia's largest timber group, PT Barito Pacific Timber, posted disappointing first-quarter results following a sustained fall in plywood prices. Barito, controlled by tycoon Prajogo Pangestu, blamed the steep fall of 32.3 per cent in sales and 50.7 per cent
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      • 91 19 AFP TOKYO TDK Corp and Fuji Photo FUm Co Ltd plan to halt production of cheap videotapes for the Japanese market amid intense competition with imported tapes and rising material costs. A spokesman for TDK, the world's biggest manufacturer of recording media, said local production
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      • 123 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Bank of America said it would probably not buy Chase Manhattan Bank's 54 per cent share in Manhattan Card Co, the South China Morning Post reported. Saying that the ratio of share price to per share earnings was too high for his
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      • 100 19 Bloomberg Business News LONDON MCI Communications and News Corp said they intend to launch a global on-line newspaper, the Times reported. The electronic newspaper will be available on the Internet, a worldwide computer network, and will draw on all the News Corp titles. News
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      • 63 19 Bloomberg Business News MELBOURNE Diversified plastics group BTR Nylex Ltd said its Laminex Industries unit will spend AS 100 million (5J99.25 million) upgrading its plant at Gympie in Queensland state. The investment will increase the production capacity of Laminex Industries' local plants to 380,000
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      • 102 19 Reuter HONGKONG Tianjin Bohai Chemical Industry (Group) Co Ltd plans to offer and list 68.98 million A shares on the Shanghai stock Exchange this year, according to a report in the China Securities Bulletin. But the listing date of the shares designated for mainland
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      • 100 19 Reuter HONGKONG First Asia International Holdings Ltd said it has sold a Sri Lankan textile mill to an independent third party, East-West (Clearing Forwarding) Ltd, for US$7.5 million (5510.4 million). It sold South Textiles Lanka (Private) Ltd, whose principal asset is a textile mill. In
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      • 529 20 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Georgette Mosbacher, wife of former US Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, has said she has plans to buy the troubled British retailer Laura Ashley Holdings pic. Mrs Mosbacher said she made a "very definite overture" to
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      • 276 20 Reuter LONDON Regional British water group Anglian Water pic yesterday reported annual results in line with expectations but pumped up its share price with a sharp dividend rise and plans for a share buyback and rebate to customers. Anglian said pre-tax profits
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      • 267 20 Changes in share settlement system prompt review of charges FT LONDON The London Stock Exchange is reviewing the price it charges members for trading in shares and other services. Some fees are likely to rise. The price review reflects the exchange's imminent loss of
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      • 69 20 Renter ROME Two of Fiat's new models: Brava and Bravo. The company is planning to penetrate into the expanding markets of the lndustnahsing world with its World Car series of hatchbacks, saloons and vans. With a total investment from 1996 to 1998 of around I Ss2
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      • 342 20 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australian appliance maker Email Ltd said its full-year net profit rose 13.9 per cent to a record AS 100 million (SS99 million), mainly from gains in its metal distribution business. Earnings per share after tax for the period
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      • 260 20 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's economic slump claimed another victim yesterday when Nippon Data Kiki Co, once a darling of Japanese and foreign stock market investors, said it had gone bankrupt with nearly US$6OO million (SsB4o million) in debt. The over-the-counter firm,
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 407 21 KnightRidder KUALA LUMPUR Bank Negara is likely to follow tradition and choose its new deputy governor from within the central bank, financial market sources said. The post has been left vacant following the death on Wednesday of Khong Kim
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      • 237 21 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Citibank Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Citibank NA of the United States, said it has been granted a "first tier" bank status by the Malaysian central bank with immediate effect. So-called first tier banks are allowed to operate
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      • 96 21 Reuter MANILA The Manila branch of HSBC Holdings pic plans to set up two additional branches in the Philippines, Central Bank Governor Gabriel Singson said yesterday. The bank has applied to open branches in the Binondo area in Manila, a Chinese-Fili-pino dominated district, and in
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      • 92 21 Ridder HONGKONG The HSBC Hongkong Bond Index surged for the sixth consecutive month to 109.51 points in May, up 3.37 from 106.14 points in April, HSBC Markets said in a statement yesterday. It said the rise was the largest since the index was
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      • 103 21 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO The Central Communication Bureau, a Japanese personal credit reference agency established by credit card companies, will exchange data with the credit information unit of Cleveland, Ohio-based TRW Inc, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported on Sunday. The two organisations will be
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      • 54 21 Reuter SYDNEY Citibank Ltd, the Australian unit of Citicorp, said it arranged a 280,000 ounce syndicated gold loan for Poseidon Gold Ltd (PosGold) with a number of international bullion banks. Citibank said the loan follows As2oo million (SSI9B.S million) raised through a 10-year fixed-interest gold bond
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      • 331 21 Reuter SEATTLE US banks were not planning to cut their prime rates soon, three US bank chairmen attending the International Monetary Conference said on Sunday. "You won't see it happen until the Fed (Federal Reserve) makes a move," said Mellon
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      • 514 22 Reuter MEXICO CITY Mcxican banks face their toughest times since privatisation but most sh«uld emerge from the country's economic crisis on their feet, thanks to help from friends abroad and the government at home. Mexico's economic recession has already claimed one
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      • 551 22 Reuter SINGAPORE South-east Asian rubber prices could falter further this week on market concern of reduced Thai government buying ahead of Thailand's July 2 general elections as well as signs of a slowing US ecxmomy, traders said yesterday. Thailand
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      • 160 22 Reuter MELBOURNE The Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd said its whollyowned unit BHP Power Inc has signed a letter of intent to conduct a pre-feasibility study into the commercial viability of an integrated coal mine mouth power plant near the inner Mongolian provincial
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      • 206 22 Reuter NICOSIA Saudi Arabian state oil company Saudi Aramco has approved the development of the US$2.5 billion (553.5 billion) Shaybah oil field, the Middle East Economic Survey (Mees) said. "Mees understands that Aramco's board of directors approved the huge Shaybah oil field development
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      • 330 22 By 2010, India alone will need to invest US$l5O billion to meet oil demand Reuter SINGAPORE Booming demand for oil and chemicals in Asia is producing million-dol-lar investment opportunities in storage and distribution facilities, industry experts told a conference yesterday. "Terminalling is clearly
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      • 309 22 LONDON Oil futures here and in New York rose as Brazilian oil workers ended their 31-day strike. The workers called oflf their strike when the state oil monopoly, Petroleo Brasileiro SA warned they would be fired if they didn't return to work. Today, the
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      • 199 22 Reuter LONDON The dollar opened lower in Europe but held steady in thin early trading as lingering concern about central bank intervention prevented further selling which would otherwise be indicated by worries about the weaker US economy. Most continental European centres are closed for the Whitsun holiday but Friday's
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      • 98 22 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was mixed against other major currencies yesterday in light trading due to the absence of new economic figures and the closing of several European markets for Pentecost. At 1410 GMT, the dollar was trading at 1.4088 marks against 1.4089 late Friday and at
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        1174 22 Trade-weigkled indexr calculated against Spare's lap 14 trading partner*. Bate yew: 1995 USS/S$ forward rates Noon /Jun S SS ■M Ofer !-month ***** I 38X1 2-month ***** 11-3791 3-month 1.3726 1.3741 6-month I.3M9 ***** Samr OCBC Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES At at tan km 5 t Singapore dollar*
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      • 1303 23 Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Eurodollars and Euroyen futures ended firm in moderately active trade. Sentiment for Eurodollars was bullish after a weak report on Friday about the US job market renewed speculation that the Federal Reserve would ease rates soon, said dealers. "The
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      • 669 23 COMMODITY REPORTS Gold HONGKONG: Gold closed marginally firmer after spending the day trapped in a tight range in sleepy trading Gold ended at USS3B3.S(V U*****.00 an ounce, up slightly from New York's U*****.20/70 close on Friday. It opened here at U*****.60/384.10. Local gold
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      • 65 23 LONDON China's largest offshore oilfield has gone into the first phase of production in Bohai Bay, south-east of Beijing, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday in a report. The Suizhong 36-1 field is estimated to have oil deposits of 300 million tonnes. The 48
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      • 59 23 SYDNEY Australia is expected to produce around 4.8 million tonnes of raw sugar from the 1995 sugarcane harvest, which will be starting in two weeks. This comes from the Queensland Sugar Corporation's latest estimate for the Queensland crop of 4.SS million tonnes, and
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      • US coffee roastings down to 6.8m bags
        • 50 23 Coverage. Roastings for the week ended May 27 stood at 340,000 bags, down from 360,000 bags in the same week of 1994. The data is based on a survey of "a representative group" of US roasters and includes the amount of green coffee roasted for the production of soluble coffee.
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      • 113 23 SYDNEY Australia's Norminco Ltd said it has accelerated its tin mining development plans for its Leichhardt Creek operation in Queensland state following an agreement on funding. Norminco aims to start annual production of 600 tonnes of tin by August, with production increasing as more
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    • 1354 23 SICOM Futures (Marts dMiag M at 5.30pa) SHSS (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonne*) Interest JUi 218.30 218.50 218.50 300 2025 Aug 213.50 212.50 215.50 350 2500 Sep 213.00 2900 Oct/Doc 213.00 207.00 207.00 1050 6150 Jan/Mar 96 206.50 3075 Apr/Jun 96 207.50 1380
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 915 24 +5.0 SHARES closed slightly higher, as the bonds market surged and positive results in Asian bourses provided encouragement. "Probably the three-year and 10-year bonds have been leading the market. They have been very, very strong and the overseas markets in Asia have been in positive territory. That was helpful
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      • 582 24 +15.87 Share prices rose by 0.56 per cent yesterday on heavy buying. "It's a combination of local and foreign buyers," said one analyst, although there were differing opinions on the cause of the upturn. He said the announcement that the Philippine economy had grown by 5.2 per cent in
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      • 465 24 +8.96 Stock prices ended one per cent higher, as buying interest returned following a week-long consolidation. "Thanks to abundant liquidity, investors took an active participation in the bourse," said a dealer. The Composite Price Index rose 8.96 points to close at 899.04 on a turnover of 21.86 million shares
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      • 458 24 -43.15 Share prices closed 0.76 per cent lower on a technical correction, with construction issues suffering the largest loss. "Following four successive winning sessions, it's healthy for the market to consolidate," said o Hp^lpr The' 321-issue Weighted Price Index lost 43.15 points to 5,671.18. Turnover was 593 million shares
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      • 210 24 -18.80 Shares on the Bombay Stock Exchange finished lower and brokers said volumes were high only in select stocks. The BSE 30-share Index closed 18.80 points down at 3,366.19 while the 100-share National Index lost 13.69 to 1,578.81. Brokers said the session was dull and volumes were light except
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      • 971 24 +31.6 STOCK shortages, Wall Street strength and takeover rumours helped the FTSE 100 to a new 1995 closing high, but trading activity remained light, dealers said. "There's been a shortage of stock around today and that together with a bit of institutional buying squeezed prices higher," said one dealer.
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      • 718 24 +10.72 Stock prices edged higher in quiet trading early yesterday as the market tried to rebound after Friday's plunge with the help of stronger bonds. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which dropped 28.36 points on Friday, was ahead 10.72 to 4,455.11 at 11am EDT. A big loss in
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      • 396 24 +9.0 Stocks rose early with moderate gains in most sectors supported by firmer North American bond markets, analvotc coiH The TSE-300 Composite Index rose 9.0 points to 4,458.80 on volume of 14.46 million shares valued at C 5182.00 million. Advancing stocks outpaced declines 166 to 131, with 225 issues
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      • 176 24 +11 Italian stocks closed little changed, as a decline in Fiat SpA offset a rise in bank shares. The all-share Mibtel Index climbed 0.11 per cent, or 11 points to 10,052. The narrower MIB3O Index rose 47 points to 14,776. Fiat SpA led the declines, falling 105 lire to
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      2562 25 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks were mixed, as concern that prices had climbed too far, too fast tempered optimism that interest rates would fall. The Hang Seng Index climbed for a third day before a slump in utility stocks in late trading helped wipe out the rise. The drop
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      521 25 CLSA IN Hongkong, H shares finished 8 points lower at 1,175.19 on turnover of HKS69 million. Shanghai Petrochem, with a turnover of HK$l4 million, was the day's most active stock. Jilin Chemical lost 0.6 per cent. In Shanghai, the B index closed down 1.1 per cent on turnover of
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      2525 25 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks ended the day little changed, as the yen's renewed strength offset optimism linked to an expected government plan to bail out the nation's crippled banks. A rise in banking shares and real estate companies was tempered by declines in electronics exporters. The Nikkei Average
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      1470 25 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks closed slightly higher on concentrated buying of the property development sector, but gains were limited by profit-taking in the blue chip sector. The SET Index gained 1.38 points to a new 199S high of 1,408.26. The year's previous closing high was on Friday, when the index
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      1163 25 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices closed slightly higher in active trade on buying of third-liner stocks, but profit-taking following a sharp rise last week was seen limiting the gains. The Composite Index ended up 3.84 points at 497.26. Third-liners in property-relat-ed stocks, with prices below 2,500 rupiah, topped the active
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    • 2252 26 Gr Gr iw Last Vol Day La* Qmc Di* DO* YM Nrt M Op H%h Low (oaapaay Salt COOO) H«h low Bayer SHkr C> P/E Sad MALAYSIAN STOCKS 47* 196 m A1S8 50c 1*6 unch 179 194 186 186 3*8 10 39 6 127 77J m AMD6 50c
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      • 6557 26 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks rose to a seven-month high as investors bought shares they think securities companies may acquire in order to issue warrants on them. During the next few months, brokers expect securities companies will issue more than a dozen
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      • 8205 27 IMS Last' Val Day LotQMM Hi Dh VH IM Cm Aff Hi«k La* ~t I Sri* 08B8) Hi»k Urn Buyer Seller CNr P/E tall Price —BUM. AND COMMERCIAL 411 182 mis AcaaSOc 486 cd nop 500 488 472 22.3 2.3 10.2 670.0 457 4J0 450 It AJex Hides 50c 450
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      • 1814 28  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE A cautiously optimistic mood prevailed in the local stock market yesterday, as investors were said to be generally bullish, but at the same time wary of developments on Wall Street and in the currency market. The benchmark
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    • 539 29 JHE descent of the Baltic Freight Index (BR) accelerated at the end of last week down 26 points to 2,055 on Friday jwith few signs of a revival in the dry cargo market. The most significant falls were cm the Atlantic. Dreyfus is laid to have fixed 54,000
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    • 322 29 Reuter OTTAWA Canadian Transport Minister Douglas Young has unveiled a far-reaching plan that includes commercialising operations on the St Law- rence Seaway and revamping its port system to make it more market-responsive. "Canada's marine sector has to adjust to confront the
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    • 337 29 SES TOO JaS S$ Vol CWT Distribution L 1.61 unch 51 CWT Distribution A 1.51 Chuan Hup Holdings —1.17 +0.01 127 Coaco Investment S 1.70 Coaco Investment A 1.65 Far East Levingsto 6.60 109 CB Holdings Ltd 0.81 +0.015 4 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.825 -0.025 971 Hitachi
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    • 353 29  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Listed Sembawang Maritime Ltd (SML) has entered into a US$2-mil-lion (552.78 million) joint venture agreement to operate ferry services in Vietnam. SML will operate ferry services between Ho Chi Minh City and Vung Tau, in partnership
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    • 48 29 ODENSE Denmark's IwM a ceremony m the Ode Steel Shipyard to mm to oil tanker. The wife of die mayor of Arhus, MraEdny Simonsen, named the vessel Ellen Mmnk (above). The 300,000-tonne very erode carrier will operate from Roskilde, Denmark, as its home port.
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    • 208 29 SINGAPORE Prospects for third-party terminal operators in Asia were excellent, a director of one of the world's leading petroleum and chemical storage companies said here yesterday. Opening the two-day Terminalling Asia '95 conference at the Hilton Hotel, GATX Terminals Corp director
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    • 502 29  -  By Ramesh Divyanathan SINGAPORE An oil refinery's claim for more than US$B million (Ssl 1.1 million) against an insurer on the grounds that it had been assigned rights under an insurance policy was rejected in an English court. The case, Colonia Versicherung AG v
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    • 173 29 AFP TOKYO Japanese shipbuilders are expected to suffer declines in credit quality due to severe competition, the stronger yen and low prices for very large crude carriers, Moody's Investors Services lnc said yesterday. "The overall credit quality of Japan's shipbuilding com paMa is likely
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    • 368 29 SINGAPORE The revised edition of the Singapore Bunkering Procedure (SBP) strengthening documentation procedure and equipment requirements is now available at the Singapore National Shipping Association (SNSA). The SBP, which spells out minisium requirements for compliance by both suppliers and buyers during a bunker delivery operation,
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    • 678 29 Lloyd's List LONDON The historic relationship between major oil companies and the shipping industry is about to change, according to a new report by London-based shipping consultants, Drewry Shipping. This relationship, which has altered considerably over the past 20 years, has
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    • 559 30  -  The return of Hongkong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 raises the question of whether Hongkong-registered vessels retain cabotage rights. Alastair MacAuley examines the issues Alastair MacAuley Fairplay THE Sino British Joint Declaration of 1984, which returns Hongkong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997,
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    • 325 30 Par •ANL 3 Able 7 Accord 10 •Ahlers 6 •Ahrenkiei 4 •Appenship 4 Astro 10 Austral II Avant 6 BSA II Batamindo 7 •CCNI 4 •CM A II •CQSCO 7 •CSAV 3 Centenary 7 Central Ex 11 Chahaya 4 •Cho Yang 5 Contipac
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    • 11011 36 This guide lists the sailing destinations from Singapore. The first date indicates the ETA at Singapore followed by the ETA at the destination. The page The page number refers to the location of the schedule advertisement ETA ETA Um VmmI Voyagt P| tm 0w>'»
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      • 1525 41 RECEIVING OF EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Record Booklnt/Baiance Mb y* Vty m Etb/Bb fitted Fw U From Aa Swan 173A 07/1000 2A 05/1700 06/0659 06/0900 26 05/1700 06/0659 06/0900 4 06/1200 06/1459 06/1700 A* Miracle ***** 08/2359 1A 05/1500 05/1659 05/1900 IB 05/1500 05/1659 05/1900 3
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      • 482 41 Atoms Port ZaoSatu 1 M/5 Jones* 06.06/0600 Mam Into N201 J2 alongside 06.06/2300 Mum 06/01/95 J1 alongside 0606/2300 c ouf Sea/B 002 J13 alongside 06.06/2300 An Jaya 23/95 06.06/0800 iSnoo 06/02/96 J1 alongside 06.06/1300 I~ 47 M aiongsde 06.06/1500 Piasetva Lestan P100 J2 alongside 06.06/2300 £Ltra 06/01/95
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      • 814 41 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 Cocliett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 484 42 A chance for region to control its aviation destiny, says magazine MBT KUALA LUMPUR Countries and companies in Asia should combine forces to build 100-seat aircraft as the market, capital and means for such a venture are available. This call was made
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      • 41 42 PHNOM PENH»— Cydo pushers taking put in the annual cydo race in Phnom Penh «t off to• a SmfoyThousands of spectators watched the marathon teams make their way through the streets of the capital of Cambodia. Keuter Reuter
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      • 157 42 Reuter JAKARTA The Indonesian government has approved a US$2B5-million (*****.1 million) integrated transport project in Jakarta, according to consortium leader Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana yesterday. A consortium of seven companies led by Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, President Suharto's eldest daughter, will build the project, which will integrate buses
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      • 211 42 BernamaKyodo TOKYO Japan Airlines Co (JAL) will join a trial project to use a satellite global positioning system (GPS) for aviation control, company officials said Recently. JAL's archrival All Nippon Airways Co is also considering participating in the project, industry officials said. The project, drafted
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      • 183 42 Reuter r BONN German Environment Minister Angela Merkel said on Sunday Germany was considering banning cars without catalytic converters from the roads by the year 2000. "Short-term bans in the case of high ozone levels in the air are not sufficient to reduce environmental damage
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      • 200 42 Reuter HONGKONG Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd and Air Canada said they will start flying a joint freighter service between Hongkong and Toronto on July 27. The airlines said a Cathay Boeing 747-400 freighter will operate twice-weekly on the route, with the two carriers sharing
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      • 236 42 Reuter LONDON British airports operator BAA pic said it expects to start a new round of expansion for retail facilities at Sts main airports, now that its j£loo-million (SS22O million) {programme to double selling 'space is nearly complete. The firm said it plans to
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      • 330 42 Bloomberg Business News WASHINGTON The Clinton administration has agreed to resume high-level talks on airline rights with Japan, putting threatened aviation sanctions on hold, at least for now. The decision came after a two-hour phone call between US Transportation Secretary Federico
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      • 86 42 AFP MELBOURNE Taiwanese international airline Eva Air made its inaugural flight into Melbourne on Sunday to launch a biweekly service tipped to bring 40,000 visitors here annually. Deputy Victorian state Premier and Tourism Minister Pat McNamara greeted Flight 317 at Tullamarine Airport to mark the
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      • 62 42 Reuter SH ANGHAI Shanghai will seek project financing to pay for a new international airport it plans to build in the Pudong new area, Vice-Mayor Zhao Qizheng said recently. Previously, China financed airport construction through government allocation but the Pudong airport will be paid for
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      • 72 42 Reuter DUBAI Regional carrier Gulf Air is starting a weekly Boeing 757 freighter service between Bahrain and Lahore in northern Pakistan. The 37-tonne capacity freighter will leave Bahrain at 0125 local time on Mondays (2225 GMT Sundays) and arrive in Lahore at 0700 local time
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      • 97 42 Reuter DHAKA Aero Bengal Airlines, Bangladesh's first private domestic airline, will start flying its two Chinese made Y-12 Turbo Prop aircraft to its only destination in southern Barisal, its managing director said late last week. B H Haroon said the airline would start operations this week,
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      • 415 42 Reuter HONGKONG Veteran British colonial trader Jardines and top local developers will battle for the right to develop Hongkong's coveted airport railway Central station site, analysts say. "All the big boys will be there and the local tycoons have long wanted to
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