The Business Times, 14 September 1995

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    11 1 Business Times WE KNOW\ASfA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Thursday September 14 1995 $2
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    161 1 Wifauiiy Change STII 2,126.4 +4.12 KLSEComp ~997.83 +11.17 Nikkei 18,614.26 +142.09 Hang Sens 9,581.36 +146.5S SET Index 1,323.01 +33.58 Jakarta Coop 493.60 +6.34 Manila Comp —2,***** +22.91 Taipei WPI 4,986.99 -80.76 Seoul Comp 968.32 +16.04 BombayBSE30 ..3,350.23 -11.41 CLSA China B .......866,84 -5.36 Aust All Ord 2,161.8 +16.8 FTSE 100
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    KL stock market gets boost from Clob plan
    648 1  -  Malaysian brokers say SES move is a win-win formula From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR TRADING on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) perked up yesterday as investors welcomed the plan unveiled by the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) to continue
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    OTC prices and turnover soar
    238 1  -  -By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Clob International yesterday came roaring back into the limelight, with volume surging powerfully and prices closing an average of 2 per cent higher. Brokers said their clients were relieved that the uncertainty over the future of the over-the-counter market had been
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    Will Clob revival doom Sesdaq?
    593 1  -  mmmmmmammmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmamtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmi Premature to predict slump on 2nd board, says R Sivanithy R Sivanithy Tuesday's announcement of a novel solution to have scripless trading on Clob International came as a relief to the local stock market. Predictably, trading in Malaysian second-liners yesterday reached frenzied proportions, with
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    UK fraud office will not seek Leeson's extradition
    345 1  -  From Neil Behrmann THE scene is set for a trial of Nick Leeson in Singapore. The UK Serious Fraud Office yesterday confirmed it will not attempt to extradite Leeson, the 28-year-old trader who caused the collapse of Barings pic, Britain's oldest merchant
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    October COEs up for almost all classes
    439 1  -  By Christopher Tan SINGAPORE Just when COE (Certificate of Entitlement) premiums appear to have levelled off, the bids for October have shot up. All categories except that for small cars rose, with goods vehicles and buses chalking up the biggest increase with a
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    Lock icon NYSE to list shares in foreign currency by 2nd-half 1996
    292 1 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The New York Stock Exctange plans to let overseas companies list ordinary shares denominated in their local currency by the second half of 1996, the head of the exchange said. Speaking at a securities industry
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      241 1 ~.?>-%{=}(+/*%^`+=)_=[%~@*<%?,$ Dow falls 10.22 points NEW YORK Despite the good news on the inflation front, US blue chips fell yesterday after two days of heady growth. At 2pm EDT, the Dow Jones index was down 10.22 points at 4,736.99. The retreat followed Tuesday's 42point rally to a new record closing
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      8 1 Law Page: Pg is Efficiency of court system
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      28 1 Company News: pg 17 Camerlin's gain from YHS sale Dollar shoots past 102 yea a 15-month high Pftlt Big blunder Mhsahftshi gives ap 11-. flip 11 Koateieiier p»i*
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Visitors hit a high in July
        277 2  -  By Agnes Wee ARRIVALS hit a record 676,117 in July this year, up 5.2 per cent over the same month last year, according to figures released by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) yesterday. Industry observers attributed July's rise to events held then such
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      Western Digital to make high-end disk drives here
      359 2  -  By David Mok AMERICAN disk drive maker Western Digital is setting up a factory here to make high-end drives for powerful computer workstations and servers its first such facility in the world. The company, which is one of the world's top four
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      Lock icon Simex ups Nikkei price limits
      115 2 Reuter THE Singapore International Monetary Exchange (Simex) has decided to revise daily price limits for Nikkei 225 and Nikkei 300 futures contracts with effect from Sep 25, a statement by Simex to members in Tokyo said. The current initial limit of 5 per cent and
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      Hotel refits ballroom to tune of $8m
      143 2 WESTIN Hotels is making a song and dance about its new Raffles Ballroom, which boasts ultra-modern lighting and sound plus the world's biggest chandelier. Westin reckons the only other hotel ballroom as hightech is that at the Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles
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      Use IT to cut costs, travel agents told
      379 2  -  Agents also urged to move from being brokers to being dream merchants By Agnes Wee TRAVEL agents could use information technology to cut staff costs, a senior executive of computerised reservations group Abacus said yesterday. Speaking at the Abacus international subscriber conference,
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      Let IT smoothen Asean integration: SMA chief
      240 2 TECHNOLOGY could be used to hasten the liberalisation of services across Asean's borders and smoothen the integration of its economies, Singapore Manufacturers' Association (SMA) president Robert Chua said yesterday. Making the point at a news conference, he said: "Information technology, telecommunications and video
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      Fraser sees 8.1% growth in 2nd-half
      304 4  -  22nd Ciret conference rn mm ~1. wapotrs uj Anna Teo CHANCES that economic growth will dip below 6.5 per cent over the next three to six months are lower now than a quarter ago, according to an indicator developed by a broking house. And
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      Dept of Statistics data: easier access soon
      266 4 MORE information on economic trends and easier data access are on the way, Chief Statistician Paul Cheung said yesterday. To provide more timely indicators, the Department of Statistics (DOS) will add to its list of sectoral surveys one on business receipts for the
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      East Asian economies urged to open up capital markets
      228 4 EAST Asian economies would do wefl to gradually liberalise their capital markets and allow perisioh funds from developed countries to benefit from the region's growth, an economist said yesterday. There is no better way to ensure improved market access and cordial
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      $20m worth of business awaits TV antennae contractors, suppliers
      363 4  -  By Jennifer Lien CONTRACTORS and suppliers of TV antennae may reap at least $20 million worth of business from private households unable to receive Premiere 12, according to industry estimates. But they may have to wait a while demand for the
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Ramos confident on inflation, says price rises temporary
      413 5 Bloomberg Business News MANILA Seeking to calm financial markets about accelerating inflation, Philippine President Fidel Ramos said tint last month's surge in consumer prices was temporary. "We shall be achieving our projected (inflation) target for 1993,** Mr Ramos said at a weekly
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      Lock icon Marking 50 years of Viet independence
      36 5 Reuter HANOI Vietnamese Military officers walkiag past aauequs weariag amy uifons while at aa exhibition yesterday. The exhihitioa highlights Vietnam achieveaeats siace the dedaratioa of iadcpeadeace SO years ago. Reater
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      Lock icon Taiwan investment in Philippines expected to surge
      337 5 Reuter MANILA Taiwanese investment in the Philippines will rise sharply in the coming years, especially in the former US naval base at Subic Bay, Taipei's chief representative in Manila said on Tuesday. Chan Hsien-ching told foreign reporters in Manila that fuU development of
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      Jakarta to boast world's third tallest tower
      156 5 JAKARTA The Indonesian capital's changing skyline will soon indude a 500-metre tower in the heart of the city. A consortium has unveiled plans to build the tower, which will rank as the world's third tallest, after Canada's CN Tower and TV A BC
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      Lock icon EU food import rule harmful: Ramos
      132 5 AFP MANILA Philippine President Fidel Ramos yesterday said a proposed European Union (EU) directive on transport of foodstuffs would "destabilise global trade and productivity". "The Philippine government considers this directive to be unfair, unjustified and unnecessary, since it imposes stricter measures than those prescribed
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      Lock icon Viet trade deficit down sharply
      181 5 Reuter HANOI Vietnam's monthly trade deficit narrowed sharply in August to US$4O.7 million (SSSB million) from U*****.7 million in July, official figures released yesterday showed. The General Statistics Office said Vietnam exported US$35O million worth of goods in August, 31.6 per cent more than the
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      Lock icon Cambodian official mistaken for bandit
      189 5 AFP PHNOM PENH A group of overzeaious Cambodian police tying in wait on Sunday to ambush a band of criminals fired on a car carrying a provincial governor, press reports said yesterday. Lay Sophat, governor of south-eastern Svay Rieng province, was farced to run for
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      Lock icon Manila posts public sector surplus
      73 5 AFP MANILA The Philippines enjoyed a consolidated public seotor surplus of 4.21 billion pesos (***** million) in the nrS half of this year, government documents issued here yesterday said. It was a reversal from the 9.33-billion-peao consolidated public sector deficit projected for the first half
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      Lock icon Thailand plans to start banking hours later
      421 6 Proposal aims to ease Bangkok's traffic gridlock Bloomberg Business News BANGKOK Banking hours are expected to be pushed forward by at least one hour as part of the government's initiative to reduce Bangkok's traffic gridlock. "We have asked representatives of the bankers association
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      Lock icon Thailand to host Defence Asia '95 exhibition
      147 6 Reuter BANGKOK Thailand will this week show off" the output of its weapons factories, as well as equipment from almost 30 other countries, when it holds a two-day defence equipment exhibition and conference. Some 200 companies from 27 countries will display their wares
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      Lock icon Fields that yield rice and fish
      42 6 AFP HANOI Two Vietnamese peasants using traditional fishing methods in a rice field pond in a Hanoi suburb. Most peasants fish after their work in the rice fields in order to supplement their families* incomes. AFP
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      Lock icon Indonesia's targets for spending on telecoms
      150 6 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian government set a target of 25 trillion rupiah (S$ 15.7 billion) for telecommunications projects from 1994 through 1999, a news report said yesterday. Telecommunications Minister Joop Ave said the government estimated 25 trillion rupiah would be the overall investment in
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      Lock icon 13 Muslim states recommending aid for Bosnia
      366 6 AP KUALA LUMPUR Senior officials and military commanders of 13 Islamic nations yesterday urged comprehensive assistance for the economy and people of war-torn Bosnia. The recommendations, developed over three days of talks, will be submitted to foreign and defence ministers of the 13
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      Lock icon KL to host conference on Philippine hero Jose Rizal
      249 6 AP KUALA LUMPUR A major conference will be held here next month to herald the centenary of the martyrdom of Jose Rizal, the Filipino nationalist writer who defied Spanish colonial rule. Among the speakers at the Oct 1-3 conference will be
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      Lock icon Bangkok, KL to jointly develop Golok river
      175 6 Bernama BANGKOK Thailand and Malaysia have agreed to jointly develop the border river of Golok to facilitate maritime traffic and avoid border disputes, a senior Thai official said here yesterday. Roongrueng Chulajata, deputy director-general for engineering of Thailand's Royal Irrigation Department, said the
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  • CHINA /HONGKONG /TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China maps goals for new 5-year plan
      343 7 Bloomberg Business News, AFP BEIJING The State Information Centre has published China's goals for its 1996 to 2000 five-year plan, according to the government-owned China News Service. The five points are: ensuring steady increases in grain and cotton production; narrowing income differences between
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      Lock icon Taiwan increases limits on foreign ownership of shares
      231 7 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Taiwan will today open its stock market wider to both foreign institutional and individual investors, the government said. The government will allow foreign institutional investors to own up to IS per cent of a listed company's shares, up
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      Lock icon Cut prices, Guangzhou land owners told
      83 7 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Guangzhou has asked landlords and developers to lower land prices, the South China Morning Post reported. Jin Yiguo, a senior official at Guangzhou Lands Real Estate Management Bureau, said the city will decide what are "reasonable" prices for the different
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      Lock icon Camels on the Great Wall
      62 7 AFP A CHINESE security officer trying to touch a camel on the Badaling section of the Great Wall, some 100 km north of Beijing. This is where most tourists from Beijing start their tour of the wall. In 1994, some 43.7 million tourists visited China
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      Lock icon Shanghai personal checking accounts
      61 7 UPI HONGKONG Shanghai will implement new regulations this month allowing personal checking accounts, the China-funded Wen Wei Po newspaper reported yesterday. The new service will probably be the first personal checking in China, said Ma Guonan, senior economist at Peregrine Brokerage. Wen Wei Po said the
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      Lock icon HK policemen's debt up 20%
      110 7 Bernama-Xinhua HONGKONG Hongkong's police officers were estimated to have borrowed HK&SO million (5546.3 million) in the first half of this year, the local media reported yesterday. The loans from the police welfare fund or the police credit union increased by 20 per cent over the
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      Lock icon Beijing, Tokyo resume talks on proposed textile quotas
      355 7 AFP BEUING China and Japan resumed talks here yesterday on Japan's threat to set textile quotas that Beijing has warned could seriously damage trade ties. The two countries have already held several rounds of talks following Tokyo's announcement in April that it
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      Lock icon HK govt urged to scrap taxes on financial services
      356 7 SCMP HONGKONG Bold moves to scrap taxes on financial service should be considered by the Hongkong government as a weapon to stave off the growing Singapore threat to the colony's status as a regional financial centre. This strategy for making Hongkong
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon EPA chief calls for bold moves to open Japan's economy
      353 8 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO The government must implement bold measures to deregulate Japan's economy in order to ensure a strong recovery, Isamu Miyazaki, the newly appointed director-gen-eral of the Economic Planning Agency (EPA) said in a speech yesterday. "We would
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      Lock icon Tokyo urged to review tax system
      165 8 AFXAsia TOKYO Keidanren president Shoichiro Toyoda called on the Economic Planning Agency to implement a "drastic review" of the tax system, EPA officials quoted him as saying. Mr Toyoda made the call when he met yesterday morning with EPA director-general Isamu Miyazaki. The Japanese
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      Lock icon Canberra determined to curb current account deficit: Willis
      365 8 Bloomberg Business News MELBOURNE Australian Treasurer Ralph Willis has said the government was determined to cut the burgeoning current account deficit to ease the nation's foreign borrowings. Too much of Australia's investment has been financed with foreign capital, Mr Willis told a
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      Lock icon Aussie consumer confidence falls
      85 8 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY A widely watched measure of consumer confidence in Australia fell 2 per cent in September, its third successive monthly decline. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment fell 2.1 points to 102.9 this month. It has been declining in recent months from
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      Lock icon Murayama may leave office this year
      80 8 AFP TOKYO Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama may leave office at the end of the year after the compilation of next year's budget, a senior official of Murayama's Social Democratic Party (SDP) said in an interview published yesterday. Wataru Kubo, secretary general of the SDP,
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      Lock icon No code of conduct on logging
      65 8 AFP MADANG, Papua New Guinea The South Pacific Forum summit has backed away from introducing a regional code of conduct on logging despite concern about massive clear-felling of tropical rain forests in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The Papua New Guinea government
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      Lock icon India okays 5.75b rupees in investment
      83 8 Bloomberg Business News NEW DELHI The Indian government has approved 58 proposals allowing foreign companies to invest a total of 5.75 billion rupees (*****.5 million) in joint ventures, a statement said yesterday. A committee headed by Finance Minister Manmohan Singh cleared a proposal of
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      Lock icon North Korea's trade down 6.1%
      65 8 AFP SEOUL North Korea's trade volume shrank 6.1 per cent in the first half of this year to US$93O million (551.32 billion), mainly due to drastic falls in deals with Russia and China, the Seoul government said yesterday. The National Unification Board (ministry) said North
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      Lock icon Rao expands cabinet to boost voter appeal in coming polls
      332 8 AP NEW DELHI With an eye on elections next year, Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao expanded his cabinet yesterday with 16 new members, giving his government more regional balance and voter appeal. The cabinet reshuffle was designed to give a
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      Lock icon Huge crowds expected at opening of Sydney's first legal casino
      269 8 Reuter SYDNEY Australia's largest city, Sydney, was due to open the doors to its first legal casino yesterday and the owners, Sydney Harbour Casino Ltd, were expecting huge crowds. Already casino fever has spread through Sydney, with casino officials expecting
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      Lock icon Seoul sees its economic boom continuing
      131 8 Reuter SEOUL Minister of Finance and Economy Hong Jaehyong said the nation's economic boom was expected to continue for the time being despite a slowdown in the growth of exports and capital investments. Mr Hong told a meeting of economic ministers and business executives
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  • FOCUS
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      Time to stand up and be counted
      1145 9  -  Asean and the new world trade order by Vikram Khanna ■HICH is the lowest-key, ■ftest-spoken group of na--s>ns in the World Trade OrBnisation (WTO) today, rela■ve to its economic mportance? Hint: it's a sev-A-country group of 420 milEn people and the world's TOurth
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      More gains for Asean from intellectual property rights pact
      370 9 MOST Asean countries have moved more quickly than other developing countries in drawing up legislation to protect intellectual property rights. But is that enough? Far from it, says Geoffrey Yu of the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation, who presented a paper
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      Labour standards-trade link: is it avoidable?
      403 9 VIRTUALLY all developing countries have denounced the labour standards-trade link as a form of disguised protectionism. At the Asean roundtable, Anthony Yeo, secretary-general of Malaysia's Ministry of Human Resources, pointed out categorically that Asean will continue to oppose the link at every possible forum.
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      Lock icon Will US tell Russia: Share — or risk losing it all?
      744 12 Will US tell Russia: Share or risk losing it all? Azerbaijan oil caught in pipeline politics NYT WASHINGTON On Aug 24, Em re Gonensay, the chief adviser to Turkey's Prime Minister, visited Georgia's leader, Eduard Shevardnadze, appealing to him to support plans for an oil pipeline that would go from
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Chinoiserie in New York
      725 11  -  Chinese artworks are set to go under the hammer at two major auction houses in the Big Apple next week. Susan Tsang has the details Susan Tsang THOSE interested in Chinese collectibles will be spoilt for choice at next week's New York sales. Christie's and Sotheby's
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      Drama and tension
      630 11  -  Vivian Wang reviews Monday's performance by the Hungarian Choral Quintet Vivian Wang Vivian Wang is a freelance writer who contributed this review to Business Times THE HUNGARIAN Choral Quintet, an eclectic chamber ensemble consisting of two clarinets, two French horns and an organist, gave a concert of
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      Lock icon Royal family fumes over briefs encounter
      558 11 AP AP UPI UPI AP AP THE royal family is not amused by an Italian magazine's photos of Prince Charles putting on his boxers. "There is no justification for intrusive photographs taken of the Prince of Wales whilst on holiday at the private home
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      386 12 UN Expert on JjfigL A Private Extension of the EDB Contract Practice in Singapore at the invitation of NUS School of Building Estate Management for a conference. EPC is pleased that Dr Pinnells will also conduct 2 workshops for local enterprises. These are aimed at senior executives, project managers, sales
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      149 13 IISo who insures the insurers? Business as usual at Swiss Re. A city block goes up in flames, a tanker spills its oil at sea, an best brains in the business. And by financial resources that nothing earthquake rocks a town; and the alarm bells go off at insurance has
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  • Article
    Nuclear tests are not cost-free
    540 14 IF PRESIDENT Jacques Chirac thought that France's little display of nuclear might was going to be cost-free bar some noisy little demonstrations in the nether regions of the world it is clear now that he was sadly mistaken. The protests turned into pro-independence riots in
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    Towards low interest rates
    212 14 LAST week, Japan's central bank announced cutting the official lending rate from one per cent to O.S per cent, making it the lowest Japanese lending rate in history. It was coordinated with the US and Germany, with the aim of broadening the differences in US-Ja-pan and
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    Right to be free
    163 14 THE main impediment is Hebron. Unless some sort of an agreement is arrived at...the Palestinians and Israel may not move forward. As a result, another deadline for an agreement on the control of the West Bank will be missed. The only hurdle in the way of
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    East Timor conundrum
    196 14 IT IS good to hear from the authorities that order was restored on Sunday in Dili, the capital of East Timor, where youths rampaged late last week. The violence reportedly lasted two days Friday and Saturday during which motorcycles were burned, cars smashed and newcomers from other
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    142 14 SOUTH Africa's apartheid regime has been dismantled, but not its legacy of suffering, particularly among survivors of the violent crimes committed in its name. Paying the debt of accountability and reparations owed to these South Africans is essential to building a peaceful democracy. It can
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    Look beyond Afta 2000
    244 14 THE Sultan of Brunei caught many off-guard last July when he called on Asean countries to have their free trade area ready by 2000 instead of the designated 2003. Last week, he repeated the call at the opening of the 27th Asean economic ministers meeting in
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    IT must be user-friendly
    151 14 RESTRUCTURING the National Computer Board and allowing the private sector to serve the civil service computer network are some of the logical steps in strengthening the republic's place in information technology (IT). The $200 million fund will facilitate such efforts. However to be a role model
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    949 14  -  An IMF paper on Singapore has some pointers on how public policy can boost productivity, reports Anna Teo Anna Teo The dynamism of East Asia remains staggering, the 1995 World Competitiveness Report says. And in its annual report released this week, the UN Conference on Trade and
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      Greater efficiency need not be at expense of justice
      1240 15  -  Sir Anthony Mason, chief justice of Australia from 1987 until he retired this year, spoke this week on the topic From Procedure to Substance and Refinement of Legal Principle at the Singapore Academy of Law's 2nd Annual Lecture. Yen Sreenivasan reports
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    Lock icon Dollar shoots past 102 yen — a 15-month high
    336 16 Dollar shoots past 102 yen a 15-month high Reuter, AFP £KYO The dollar rock--1 to its highest level in almost IS months yesterday, doming up through the 102yfn barrier in Tokyo trade with dealers saying it still had farther to climb. True to form, the dollar Cered ahead in London,
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    Lock icon US consumer index up modest 0.1% in August
    134 16 Reuter WASHINGTON More positive news emerged on the inflation front yesterday as the tabor Department reported (hat consumer prices rose just 0.1 per cent in August, the third straight month of modest price increases. Falling vegetable prices, airane fares and a steep
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    Weaker yen little impact on Asia: Merrill Lynch
    271 16  -  ly Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE The US dollar's recovery against the Japanese yen will have little effect on Asian economies, says Merrill Lynch. The US-based securities house said in its latest Asian Economic Commentary: "Although the precise effects will vary depending on
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    Lock icon You can't afford to ignore Asia, business and govt leaders told
    381 16 PM Goh in Canada The Straits Times TORONTO Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, on a four-day official visit to Canada, spent the better part of Tuesday meeting Canadian corporate chiefs and government leaders and encouraging them to look
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    IMF vows to tighten monitoring of members' economies
    308 16  -  Frm Anthony Rowley in WASHINGTON THE International Monetary Fund, which was caught napping by the Mexico crisis at the end of last year, vows in its 1995 annual report published yesterday to tighten monitoring of members 1 economies in order to prevent
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    Framework for Apec free trade is 80% complete, says Japan
    297 16  -  Frta Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG A MEETING by senior Apec officials ended yesterday with the chairing member declaring the groundwork for an action agenda on Asian trade and investment liberalisation is 80 per cent complete but conceding that some
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    822 16  -  The Bottom Line EVELYN WONG EVELYN WONG The writer is the director, Singapore Institute of Labour Studies. She contributed this article to Business Times. THE Singapore government has clearly defined what it will take for the nation to keep pace with the demands of
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    264 16 NYT WASHINGTON The Senate Appropriations Committee approved sharp cuts in the State Department budget on Tuesday. Secretary of State Warren Christopher immediately warned that such a move could force the United States to close SO overseas missions and to violate its
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      MARKET MOOD
      50 17 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 Lyonnau Securities. Daiwa, Fraser, GK Goh, Kay Hian, Morgan Grenfell, Ong Co. Nomura, Phillip, Smith New Court, Wl Can and S G Warburg.
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      ACI hits US$2.10 intra-day high in sparkling debut
      408 17  -  By David Mok SINGAPORE Acer Completer International (ACI) turned in a stellar debut yesterday, bucking the trend of generally lacklustre interest in US dollar-denominated issues on the local bourse. Issued at US$l.4O each, ACl's shares shot up to US$2.O3 (552.90) right after
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      Lock icon Heshe shares soar on takeover rumours
      521 17  -  But MD says company is not negotiating with anyone By Jenny Lam SINGAPORE Garmentmaker and retailer Heshe Holdings shone in a lacklustre Sesdaq market yesterday, notching up an 8 per cent gain to close at 68 cents in feverish trading of 31.5 million shares.
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      Camerlin partners reap over $9m each from YHS sale
      289 17  -  By Genevieve Cua SINGAPORE The Camerlin consortium may have lost its bid for YHS but it will be smiling all the way to the bank with each member expected to reap a trading profit of more than $9 million from the
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      Champerdon plans to expand Horiguchi's business scope
      161 17 SINGAPORE Champerdon, the local company that is taking over Horiguchi Engineering at $1 a share, has big plans for the Sesdaq-listed firm. Champerdon, which is owned by Malaysian and Singapore interests, said yesterday in its offer document that it would consider expanding Horiguchi's
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      HOT STOCK
      82 17  -  By Shiv Taneja THE daily price chart or Mulpha International Bhd indicates the end of a falling wedge pattern. The share price can now be expected to move sideways before rising again, but only a little more. In the longer term, the share price will fall to below
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      Lum Chang to raise $56.5m through bond issue
      385 17  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Lum Chang Holdings yesterday announced plans to raise $56.5 million by way of a bond issue through Citicorp Investment Bank Singapore and ABN-Amro Asia. Citicorp and ABN-Amro will subscribe to the unsecured fixed-rate bonds whose principal value is
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      Lock icon 140,000 applicants included in Great Wall's fresh balloting
      328 17 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR A total of 139,949 applicants who were excluded from the initial balloting of Great Wall Plastic Industries Bhd's public offer of 5.096 million shares were given a chance to participate in a fresh balloting of the company's shares yesterday.
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        Lock icon Ekran scrapped bond issue due to low rating: analysts
        479 18 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Ekran Bhd, which plans to build a Mi 15 billion (SSB.6 billion) hydroelectric power project, was foriiJ to revise its funding arrangements after a low rating for a proposed bond issue, analysts said yesterday. They said Ekran
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        Ipco unit lands HK$43m project
        49 18 SINGAPORE Ipco International's subsidiary Ipco Insituform (SE Asia) has clinched a HKS43 million (557.9 million) contract to reconstruct a 4 km sewerage system in Hongkong's Kwun Tong Township using trenchless technology. It is the fourth contract it has won off Hongkong's drainage services department.
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        Koh Bros forms China, Indon units
        102 18 SINGAPORE Koh Brothers has set up two new subsidiaries in Shenyang and Batam. Both will produce ready-mix concrete and concrete products as well as providing equipment rental services. In China, Koh Brothers' 70 per cent stake in Shenyang G&W Cement Products Co is held
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        ITE Electric earnings flat
        47 18 SINGAPORE ITE Electric Co reported flat interim earnings at $415,000. Turnover rose 12 per cent to $13.3 million for the six months ended June 30 as a result of increased sales to export markets. The flat result was due to start-up manufacturing costs.
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        Datacraft director dilutes stake
        37 18 SINGAPORE Datacraft Asia Ltd director Derek Althorp sold 110,000 shares in the company at 65 US cents per share last PVift > t reducing his stake from 4.57 per cent to 4.51 per cent.
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        Lock icon Wembley's mall to yield M$800m gain
        270 18 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Wembley Industries Holdings expects to make profits of MsBoo million (***** million) from selling a giant mega-mall it is building, up from the Mssoo million projected previously, a senior official said. The higher forecast followed a recent approval to enlarge the
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        Lock icon Jaya Tiasa's profit expected to jump 60%
        276 18 Zalik Securities sees boost from higher plywood prices, production capacity Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian timber group Jaya Tiasa Holdings Bhd, which announced a massive rise in earnings on Tuesday, will see its profit jump again in 1996 because of forecast gains in plywood
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        514 18 MaMm' prim Sep 14 Mendalu Gr Fond 1.00 I.O3xd0 SfalCMM* US Gf Fund 1.13 1.19* tEcSTL 1.54 1.63 UOt AtMt Rftgt LM The Savings Fund 1.49 I.3S Unrfund 1.41 1.47 S*pa«e Frag Fund 0.61 0.63 Uaibond 1.06 IXM3 S pore See Fand 0.91 0.97id United Gr Fund! 1.59 1.66* S
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        BMB issues 28m call warrants on Sime Darby
        137 18 KUALA LUMPUR Bumiputra Merchant Bankers yesterday said it was issuing 28 million call warrants on Sime Darby Bhd at an issue price of M 51.98 apiece. BMB said the exercise price would be M 55.675 a 14.25 per cent premium over Sime
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        Lock icon Leong Hup's group pre-tax surges 57% to M$31.6m
        191 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Leong Hup Holdings Bhd announced a group pre-tax profit of M 531.6 million (5517.9 million) for the year ended March 31, 1995, representing a 56.7 per cent over the previous year. A statement by Leong Hup yesterday said the
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        Lock icon Mitsubishi gives up ownership of Rockefeller Center
        743 19 Move to cut losses on US$2 billion real estate blunder Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Mitsubishi Estate Co admitted to one of the biggest real estate blunders in history by walking away from a US$2 billion (552.9 billion) investment in New York's Rockefeller Center.
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        Lock icon Thakral's Aussie unit starts year strongly with revenues rising
        335 19 Reuter SYDNEY Australian property and holds group Thakral Holdings Lid, part of the Thakral Group of Singapore, has begun the new financial year strongly with rising revenue, managing director David Conners said yesterday. Thakral, which floated to the Australian public lists
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        Lock icon AFX-Asia expects profits in four to five years
        177 19 The Straits Tunes SINGAPORE AFX-Asia, a newly launched £6-million (Ssl3 million) financial news service, is expected to be profitable in four to five years. At the launch of the service yesterday, Financial Times (FT) managing director Martin Brooks said AFX-Asia would turn
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        Lock icon Oracle profit seen rising at least 43%
        102 19 Bloomberg Business News REDWOOD SHORES, California Oracle Corp's first-quarter earnings could rise more than 43 per cent as the company steals business from weaker rival Sybase, analysts and investors said. Oracle has also sold lots of its database-management software in recent months. Oracle
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        Lock icon Canon Singapore sales rise 47%
        89 19 Bloomberg Business News SINGAPORE Canon Singapore, part of Japan's Canon Inc, said its sales rose by 47.3 per cent to U*****.4 million in the first half of 1995, from U*****.7 million in the same period in 1994. Sales of photocopiers saw the biggest increase with
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        Lock icon Interhotel takeover: accord reached
        64 19 Bloomberg Business News FRANKFURT Deutsche Bank, Depfa Bank and Frankfurter Hypothekenbank said they have reached an accord to take over the majority of the troubled Interhotel Group, Deutsche Bank said. The current owners, Klaus Groenke and Axel Guttmann, will retain a participation in the hotel group,
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        Lock icon Pioneer may cut dividend by 40%
        60 19 Reuter TOKYO Pioneer Electronic Corp said it expects to pay a dividend of 7.50 yen (S$0.I0) for the six months to end-Sep-tember 1995, after paying a dividend of 12.50 yen in the same period a year earlier, a drop of 40 per cent. The
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        Lock icon Derivatives help push trading profits at US banks up by 60%
        329 20 Bloomberg Business News 4 WASHINGTON Trading p'jpiits at US banks jumped 60 per cent to US$l.6 billion (552.3 billion) in the second quarter on a surge in revenue from derivatives and other instruments tied to interest rates, the, Office
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        Lock icon Mobil unit signs one-year deal to buy Viet crude: traders
        323 20 Reuter SINGAPORE Mobil Sales and Supply, a unit of Mobil Carp, has signed a one-year term deal to buy a cargo of Ho crude from Vietnam evcjy quarter, traders said. 'The Mobil unit in Singapore declined comment on a Hanoi
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        Lock icon Prudential 1st-half profit up 20%
        75 20 Bloomberg Business News LONDON Prudential Corp pic, Britain's biggest life insurer, smd first-half pre-tax profit rose 20 per cent boosted by investment gains and a one-time profit from the sale of its Canadian operations. Pre-tax profit in the six-month period climbed to £335 million (*****
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        Lock icon Big losses for Japan housing firms?
        79 20 AFP Japan's seven troubled housing loan companies are aA expected to suffer accumulated losses exceeding shareholders' equity at the end of the six-month period to September, a newspaper said yesterday. Japan Housing Loan Inc, Daiichi Hpusing Loan Co Ltd and Nippon Housing Loan Co
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        71 20 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd appears to have positioned itself for a shake-up in the banking industry by making an investment of Asl2o million (S$ 131.3 million) in another bank, the Australian Financial Review reported. Notes to the Commonwealth Bank's full-year profit accounts
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        Lock icon Queensland claims A$91m savings
        65 20 Reuter SYDNEY Queensland Treasury Corp (QTC), the borrowing arm of the Queensland state government, said it achieved savings of A 590.6 million (5599.1 million) in 1994-95 for the government and over 160 participating statutory bodies and authorities. QTC said AJ20.6 million of these savings represented performances
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        Lock icon Mexico's reserves rise to US$15b
        64 20 Reuter MEXICO CITY Banco de Mexico said its international reserves rose to U5515,215 billion (5521.8 billion) on Sep 8 from U5515,073 billion on Aug 31. It said its reserves were boosted during the period by the sale of US$l99 million in foreign currency by Petroleos
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        Metal producers, users want more transparent LME
        615 20  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON DISGRUNTLED metal producers and users have called for a more transparent London Metal Exchange (LME). "The exchange is the world's biggest metals market, and yet producers and consumers find it virtually impossible to determine who owns its huge
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        Lock icon Petronas expanding outside S-EA, strikes oil in Syria
        378 20 Reuter SINGAPORE Malaysia's state-owned oil exploration arm, Petronas Carigali, is spreading its wings in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia and has struck oil in Syria, Petronas said yesterday. The discovery in Syria has been made from four exploratory wells
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        Lock icon Tokyo investors chase foreign currency bonds
        326 20 One trillion yen invested last month, 70% of which was in A$ Reuter TOKYO Japan's private investors are piling into foreign currency bonds as concern about a higher yen dwindles and all-time low interest rates at home drive them to look elsewhere, syndicate sources
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        US August oil demand slips 2.5%
        329 20 WASHINGTON Sluggish economic growth dropped last month's US petroleum demand to the year's low, an industry trade group said. Oil product deliveries a key measure of demand averaged 17.7 million barrels a day in August, the weakest monthly showing so far his year. The
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        194 20 Reuter LONDON The dollar was off its overnight highs against the yen in early European trade, but was still firm above the 101.50 yen level. Overnight trade, boosted by talk that the Bank of Japan was buying dollars in the 101.70-101.80 yen range, saw the dollar reach 102.10 yen,
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        93 20 AFP NEW YORK The dollar jumped against other major currencies early yesterday here in calm trading as the dollaryen parity continued to boost the market, a trend traders expect to continue. At 1425 GMT, the dollar was quoted as trading at 102.37 yen, up from 101.08 yen late
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        1220 20 7raJr »rtghmi index initialed agonal S'porr 's up 14 trading partners. tor ytar: I9ti US$/S$ forward rates Noon Sep 13 S$ BU Offer 1-month 1.4298 1.4303 2-momh 1.4264 1.4279 i-month 1.4233 1.424* 6-month 1.4133 I.4IS3 Source: OCBC FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES As at «aa Sap 13 Singapore dollars to oae
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        Lock icon Euroyen ends steady despite yen's plunge
        1334 21 Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen and Japanese government bond (JGB) futures ended steady despite the yen's plunge against the dollar and the advance of Tokyo stocks. Eurodollars were quiet ahead of yesterday's US Consumer Price Index for August. "Euroyen was just marking time today," said
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        Tokyo rubber falls despite weak yen
        678 21 COMMOOITY REPORTS Rubber TOKYO: Rubber futures plunged in all months on active selling despite the yen's falls against the dollar. Prices were I.I to 4.7 yen per kg lower, with benchmark February falling 4.7 yen to 128.2. Investors engaged in active selling from the
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        Thais using more copper cathodes
        111 21 BANGKOK Thai copper cathode use is expected to total at least 140,000 tonnes this year and at least 155,000 tonnes in 19%, traders here said yesterday. The views come as the Thai market prepares for 19% long-term supply contract talks in late October. Demand has
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        Lead, zinc edge higher on weaker yen
        61 21 TOKYO Retail prices of lead, zinc and other metals in Japan edged higher this week, generally reflecting a weaker yen against the US dollar. Most non-ferrous metals are priced in US dollars on international markets, and as the US currency firms against the
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        China zinc output below forecast
        75 21 TOKYO China's zinc production is falling and is now expected to total 960,000 tonnes for all of 1995, unchanged from 1994, according to source* > close to Chinese state metal firms. This compare*' with an earlier forecast of 1.05 million tonnes of zinc output this
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        S Korea buys EU rye, India soymeal
        84 21 SEOUL South Korea's Korean Feed Asocial**; today bought 60,000 tonnes of Indian soybean meal and 45,000 tonnes of European rye. However, the KFA passed on all offers for 150,000 tonnes of US com due to high prices. The KFA paid unexpectedly low price
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      COMMODITY PRICES
      1410 21 SICOM Futures (Mm cteatag as at S.3tpa) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Oct 95 116.00 183 00 I S3.00 75 1650 Nov 183.00 183.00 113.00 23 1323 Dec 1(3.00 113.00 183.00 23 1273 Jan/Mar 96 186 00 111.00 111.00
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        Australia
        1096 22 +16.8 STOCKS closed higher yesterday as bank and gold stocks rallied following a strong show by overseas bourses. "It's been a good day on the back of overseas markets... with a lot of strength seen in the banking sector, said a broker. The All Ordinaries Index climbed 16.8 points
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        Mania
        535 22 +22.91 Bargain-hunting and Wall Street's rally bolstered prices yesterday. An analyst said the rise was "technical in nature", describing it as normal bargain-hunting after the prolonged downturn market earlier this month. The PSE Composite Index surged 22.91 points to 2,682.46 on a turnover of 10.5 billion shares worth 1.33
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        Seoul
        431 22 +16.04 The stock market ended higher, buoyed by the government's confirmation that new income taxes would be imposed on securities excluding stocks. "The market was boosted by a government decision to impose taxes on interest from bonds, commercial papers and certificates of deposits, which is expected to shift funds
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        Bombay
        83 22 •11.41 Prices closed lower in dull trade on news that the Securities and Exchange Board of India did not discuss changes to its proposed system of forward trading at a board meeting on Tuesday. The BSE 30 Index finished 11.41 points down at 3,350.23. One broker said investors had
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        New Zealand
        347 22 +5.92 Share prices largely ignored a 42-point rise on wall Street, but ended in positive territory nevertheless and off the session's high. The NZSE-40 Capital Index gained 5.92 points to 2,127.11 on a volume of NZ$37 million. Investors are holding back ahead of today's six-month Reserve Bank of
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        Taipei
        506 22 -80.76 Share prices Finished lower amid a wait-and-see sentiment, with all eight major categories of shares registering losses. "Most investors retreated to the sidelines due to the lack of fresh incentives while the market consolidated around the 5,000point level," said a dealer. The 321-issue Weighted Price Index lost 80.76
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        London
        713 22 +34.9 UK STOCKS soared to an all-time high as a stronger dollar sparked a surge in exEorters shares and amid opes for lower interest rates on both sides of the Atlantic. Strong corporate earnings from insurer Prudential and retailer Kingfisher added to the advance. "Good economic data in the
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        Paris
        137 22 +23.67 French shares gained over one per cent as cash stocks followed strong buying in futures to cover short positions, operators said. One said there was a rush to buy the September contract which pushed it back over 1,900, after it hit an intra day-low of 1,889. Another broker
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        Frankfurt
        206 22 +24.65 German stocks stormed to a new record high, buoyed by the dollar's recovery that has given new hope to beleaguered German companies hurt by the recent strength of the mark. Tne 30-share index hit an all-time high of 2,295.54 in bourse dealings, surging past its old high of
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        Amsterdam
        240 22 +3.79 Dutch stocks closed at a record high, boosted by a 2.3 percent rally in Philips. Optimism over lower interest rates and a dollar that rose to a four-week high against the guilder also bolstered the market. The EOE Index rose 3.79 points, to 471.78, breaking a previous record
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        Stockholm
        107 22 +14.10 Dutch stocks ended at a record high in moderate volumes, bolstered by a K'tive European trend and :r Swedish bond yields. The AEX Index gained 14.10 points to 1,***** in turnover of 2.7 billion crowns. Index heavyweight Astra dropped 3.5 crowns to 253 as rumours that investment group
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        Zurich
        273 22 +26.0 Swiss shares closed well above 3,000 on the SMI but off the day's highs after stocks were unable to keep up their dizzying early pace. The firming dollar and a favourable outlook for interest rates were seen pulling the market higher. Gains on foreign bourses and short covering
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        Milan
        167 22 +lisfc Italian shares ended firmer as investors bought the cash market and sold futures in largely a technical move, while the strength of the lira and bonds lent support as did the firmer tone of other stock markets. With the September futures contract and the current account set to
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        Johannesburg
        357 22 +18.3 South African shares closed higher after shedding some of their earlier gains during quiet afternoon trade, but the market was still wellsupported, dealers said. They said the firmer undertone was likely to push the market higher for the rest of the week but sentiment was largely hanging on
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        Toronto
        240 22 •7.22 Stocks opened lower due to further Quebec referendum uncertainty, but are seen rising, analysts said. The TSE 300 fell 7.22 points to 4605.99 on volume of 14.9 million shares worth C 5174.6 million. "I would think that the probability is that the market's going to do pretty well,"
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        New York
        710 22 +7.39 Stock prices turned narrowly mixed in heavy trading as the market tried to extend Tuesday's record-setting sains even though bonds failed to rally despite another benign inflation news. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which soared 42.27 points to a record high 4,747.21 on Tuesday, was ahead 7.39
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      2559 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks posted their biggest gains in two months amid optimism falling interest rates will bolster corporate earnings. Property stocks led the drive, with some issues rising more than 6 per cent. "A cut in interest rates is the theme of this market," said a dealer.
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      576 23 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index gained 16.9S points to 1,064.07. Yizheng Chemical, the most actively traded counter, closed 5.2 per cent up. In contrast, Kunming Machine was the worst performer, down 4.8 per cent. The Shanghai B market eased 7.99 points to close at 706.04 in moderate
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      2450 23 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Shares gained on optimism over the dollar's 15month high and a proposal by a senior government official that public money be used to support land prices, traders said. The Nikkei Average rose 142.09 points to 18,614.26. The Nikkei 300 Index picked up 2.87 to 274.88.
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      1423 23 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks surged 2.6 per cent as a two-day technical rebound gathered momentum and domestic negative factors eased. The SET Index soared 33.58 points to 1,323.01 on turnover of 8.52 billion baht. Winners overwhelmed losers 282 to 64. M A government pledge to liberalise the financial sector and
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      1177 23 AFX-Asia JAKARTA Share prices closed higher on a technical rebound of selective large cap stocks and on bargain hunting of some second liners, dealers said. The Composite Index closed up 6.34 points at 493.60. Gainers beat losers 60 to 25. "Wall Street and the regional markets were all up
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        6529 24 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks rose after the Stock Exchange of Singapore said its member firms can continue trading Malaysian shares even after Malaysia's new electronic trading system takes effect. Some Singaporean investors had feared Singapore's over-Jhe-counter market could not
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        1812 26  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Local investors returned to the Clob market with a vengeance yesterday to raise prices there by as much as 17 per cent. Local counters were largely ignored as punters rushed into low-priced Malaysian counters, particularly warrants. The renewed interest
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      503 27 Knight-Ridder, Reuter EARLY loading positions are giving shipowners cause for concern despite a promising level of demand for grain shipments from the US Gulf in October. Following Bunge's fixture of the Russian-controlled 080 Kapitan Koziar for 60,000 heavy grain at a weak US$l5.lO, there were reports of Skydragon
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      309 27 BANGKOK Faced with a growing shortage of personnel both on board ship and for on-land administration in the shipping industry, the Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy at Chulaiongkorn University plans to revise its course in marine transport business. Associate Professor
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      221 27 FT BERLIN Bremer Vulkan, Germany's largest shipbuilding group and Europe's second biggest, yesterday dismissed nearly half its board amid mounting concern about the company's financial outlook. Friedrich Hennemann, chairman of Bremer Vulkan, Rudiger Zinken, chief financial officer and Karl Friedrich Triebold, head of planning, stood
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      322 27 SES '000 Sep 13 S$ Vol CWT Distribution -.1.54 -0.02 198 Chuan Hup Holding 1.26 +0.04 390 Cosco Investment 2.07 -0.05 438 Far East Levingston 6.25 +0.05 32 Freight Links Express 0.715 -0.025 258 GB Holdings Ltd 0.995 -0.005 206 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.915 -0.01 737 Hitachi
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      378 27  -  By Yong Mei Fong SINGAPORE Ship operators have been urged to exercise self-restraint in responding to the increase in demand for ship carrying capacity. Nippon Yusen Kaisha chairman Jiro Nemoto made the call in his keynote address on "The Future
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      283 27  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Singapore should adopt a more integrated approach to further develop itself as a global shipping centre, says IMC Holdings chairman Chavalit Tsao. Speaking at the Asia-Pacif-ic Seatransport Conference 1995, which opened yesterday at the Raffles City Convention Centre, Mr Tsao
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      99 27 SINGAPORE P&O Container has added direct calls at Kaliningrad in Russia and Tallinn in Estonia. This move makes it the only deep-sea carrier to provide direct calls at all the Baltic States and Russia. The calls are part of P&O's fixed day weekly feeder services
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      412 27  -  From Surinder Singh in SYDNEY CRUISE industry giant Cunard, with its eye on the growing Asia-Pacific market, has decided to shift its headquarters for the Asia-Pacific region from Hongkong to Sydney. The group's new vice-pres-ident and general manager for Asia-Pacific, Sarina
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      369 27 HONGKONG Pan Ocean Shipping, South Korea's largest bulk carrier operator, expects to make a profit of more than US$4O million (S$S6.B million) this year, after a measly U*****,000 last year, company officials say. The company expects turnover to top
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      141 27 Reuter ATHENS The European Union's Commission was to debate yesterday whether or not to extend a deadline expiring at midnight for Greece to sell Hellenic Shipyards at Skaramanga, national economy ministry officials said. The Commission could take the state to court for again fail- ing
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      568 27 Lloyd's List HONGKONG The ship has come in for container terminal stocks in emerging markets like the Philippines, Malaysia and southern China. Often overlooked and not very well understood, many industry experts say that so-called port plays offer exposure to economies riding trade
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      1062 28  -  Better skilled workforce and greater productivity have helped, but a rising won and wage increases are threatening the industry. Lee Byung Jong reports Lee Byung Jong WHEN Japan's shipping giant NYK ordered a 150,000tonne bulk carrier from South Korean Samsung Heavy Industries two years ago, the
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      329 28 Page •ANL 3 Able 7 Accord 10 •Ahlers 6 •Ahrenkiel 4 •Appcnship 4 Astro 10 Austral 11 Avant 6 BSA II Batamindo 7 B'tang Mas 10 Bright Express 6 •CCNI 4 •C MA II •COSCO 7 •CSAV 3 Centenary 7 Central Ex 11
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      THE SHIPPING GUIDE
      10525 34 This guide lists the sailing destinations from Singapore. The first date indicates the ETA at Singapore followed by the The page number refers to the location of the schedule advertisement. Page 8 EU ETA Mwrttttf Vassal V«W P| A Arieiaide 14/09 04/10 MOL LIBRA AUSTRALIA 285 3
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        847 39 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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        391 40  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Dutch carrier KLM is expanding its presence in India with a planned partnership with India's second largest private airline and a new weekly air freight service into India. KLM and Jet Airways recently announced their intention to enter into
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        218 40 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Toyota Motor Co said it will spend US$24l million (*****.2 million) to expand plants in Kentucky and Missouri, a move intended to offset currency fluctuations and satisfy an agreement with the Clinton administration to reduce the number of imported parts.
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        321 40  -  By Christopher Tan SINGAPORE The rear-seat airbag, an innovation which many car manufacturers have toyed with but none have applied, will be available on all Nissan Presidents imported here from next month. Up till now, the feature was available only
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        357 40 Reuter FRANKFURT As the Frankfurt car show gears up to open its doors to the public today, the industry is desperate to move the metal. Stocks are piling up as recession-shocked consumers hang on to their cars longer. The industry hopes that the
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        285 40 AP CHICAGO The Midwest region of the US experienced its sixth major computer breakdown in the past year, and flights across the continent had to be temporarily halted on Tuesday. As the main computer at the Federal Aviation Administration's Midwest air
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        243 40 Reuter MANILA Plans for a new light rail system to relieve traffic congestion in Manila are finally moving along after years of delay, although it took a big property project to lure businessmen into investing in the scheme. Robert John Sobrepena, president of
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        80 40 SINGAPORE The member-carriers of the Orient Airlines Association (OAA) have endorsed the text of a proposed new Global Intercarrier Agreement relating to air carrier liability to be considered by the lata annual general meeting in Kuala Lumpur at the end of next month. The
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        93 40 Bloomberg Business News LONDON British airport operator BAA said the number of passengers using its seven UK airports rose 3.9 per cent from a year earlier to 9.5 million passengers. London-based BAA has reported increased traffic every month this year. BAA said all routes, except
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        75 40 Reuter FRANKFURT Mercedes-Benz received more than 77,000 orders for its new E class cars at the beginning of this month. "Incoming orders for the new E class exceed all expectations," the company said in a statement distributed at the Frankfurt lAA International Car
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        92 40 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Mitsubishi Motors Corp said it is discussing a possible joint venture to manufacture passenger cars in India. A company spokesman said Mitsubishi Motors has produced a total of 34,000 Canter trucks in India since 1985 and is now looking to
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        81 40 AFP HANOI Vietnam has opened an internationalrailway station in Dong Dang district close to the border with Chiw, hoping eventually to reopen routes to China, Mongolia and east European countries, an official said yesterday. But it is not known when the international line will reopen. Etong
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        124 40 Bloomberg Business News MANILA The Civil Aeronautics Board has approved a fare increase on domestic routes served by ailing flag carrier Philippine Airlines, the first increase granted since 1987, Business World reported. Fares on routes serviced by Boeing 737 jets can be raised as
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      997 37 ADVANCE CONTAINER LINES (PTE) LTD n r I 140 Cacil Straal, #124)0, PIL BuNdhifl, Singapore 0106 Z 111 .1 TEL: *****21, FAX *****19, TELEX :RS ***** ACLPL CR NO **********06 r ~SAMWMK ~~~~ZZZZII———JAMAMTA I (3 »HT, 188 M HIT, I iaHlaga to Uitti (2 S.IHh«A».«) 'VBirflfll" IMI> 1 war I
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