The Business Times, 5 October 1995

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    12 1 SINGAPORE BusinessTimes WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Thursday October 5 1995 85$
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    148 1 Stock MriNt^Mew^^ STII 2,127.72 +17.32 KLSEComp 988.32 +11.08 Nikkei 18,145.08 +2.09 Hans Seng 9,939.95 +134.49 SETIndex 1,312.94 +16.62 Jakarta Comp 492.65 +4.85 Manila Comp 2,569.33 -48.35 Taipei WPI 5,086.45 +50.66 Seoul Comp 982.89 +7.10 Bombay BSE30 ...3,531.49 +38.28 CLSA China B 833.55 -0.84 AustAUOrd 2,103.4 -28.6 FTSE100 3,544.1 +19.1 Aweragief
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    German court allows Leeson's extradition to S'pore, UK not contesting
    690 1  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON BRITISH trader Nick Leeson, blamed for bringing down Barings investment bank, must return to Singapore to face trial for fraud and forgery, a German court ruled yesterday. In its 13-page ruling, the court allowed 11
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    Residential property downturn may have finally kicked in
    681 1  -  By Michelle Low SINGAPORE Property watchers expect the benchmark Urban Redevelopment Authority price index to fall in the third quarter, signalling that the much-talked-about residential property downturn has finally kicked in. Consultants and analysts agree prices in the more vulnerable market segments
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    S'pore vies to be a hub for global satellite phone system
    507 1  -  Fran Catherine Ong in GENEVA SINGAPORE is one of four Asean countries vying to be the South-east Asian hub for the US$2.6 billion (553.7 billion) Inmarsat-P global satellite phone system in which Singapore Telecom has so far invested US$94
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    Lock icon See what O J does to markets ...
    261 1 See what O J does to markets Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK An eerie quiet descended over the nation's financial markets on Tuesday as the pursuit of profits took a back scat to the fate of OJ Simpson. New York's Wall Street was deserted and the bars filled with TV
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    Lock icon Talks breakthrough sends HK stocks to 13-month high
    469 1  -  Froa Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG THE significant breakthrough in Sino-British talks and declining bond yields powered Hongkong's Hang Seng Index to a 13-month high yesterday, with brokers expecting the index to break the psychological 10,000 barrier today. Brokers say improved SinoUK
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    Lock icon Dow down 16.26
    70 1 Reuter NEW YORK Stocks fell for the third straight session yesterday as Wall Street braced itself for disappointments in the upcoming batch of thirdquarter profits. At 2 pm EDT, the Dow Jones index was down 16.26 points to 4,733.44 after losing nearly 12 points on Tuesday, and
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      8 1 Focus Pg it What the Vienna Convention means
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      21 1 Hock Lock Siew p g 13 Should DBS Land sell Clarke Quay? What lies ahead for O J Simpson? Pg 9
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
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        Lock icon Growth in int'l calls slows to 17%
        337 2  -  By Jennifer Lien GROWTH in international telephone traffic continued to drop in July, with the number of calls growing just 17.3 per cent over the number in the same period last year. This is a far cry from the year's high of 26.9
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      Lock icon Tony Tan assures expat S'poreans on children's education
      293 2 The Straits Times JAKARTA Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan assured Singaporeans here yesterday that the Government would give serious attention to education for children of those who worked overseas. At a tea reception on the second day of a three-day visit to
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      Suzhou Township can be replicated elsewhere in China: BG Lee
      485 2  -  Fnm Teh Hooi Ling in BEIJING THE Singapore government can replicate the US$3O billion (Ss43 billion) Suzhou Township project elsewhere in China if it is successful, said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. It will also not allow other
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      Lock icon Telecom plans to offer super-fast data link service soon
      363 2  -  Lee Wai Leong SINGAPORE Telecom plans to offer companies in Singapore ultra-high-speed data communication services by the end of this year. Based on an emerging technology known as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), the service will enable users to transmit data at
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      Opryland sets up shop in S'pore
      309 2  -  Base to test market for country music in region By Corinne Kerk AMERICAN entertainment production company Opryland Productions will use Singapore as a test market for country music in the region and will begin by putting on two performances here. Its sister company the
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      Net surplus of airport operator CAAS up 11%
      306 2  -  Rahita Elias THE Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) hoisted its net suiplus 11 per cent to $304 million for the year to March 31. Chairman Sim Kee Boon says in the 1994-95 annual report, released yesterday: "Healthy yearly surpluses are necessary
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      More firms to provide finance for companies to automate
      332 2  -  Toh Han Shih THE government has improved conditions for manufacturing and service companies to automate. Such companies can now turn to 20 more financial institutions for financing and two more government bodies for consultancy grants. The changes were disclosed by Minister
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      Aiwa opens $5m testing centre here
      115 2 JAPANESE electronics giant Aiwa yesterday opened its $5.5 million testing centre here. The new electromagnetic compatibility centre the only one Aiwa has outside Japan is a result of the company's effort to make its Singapore operation self-sufficient, thus freeing its Japanese parent to focus
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      Asia-Pac to fuel Westin chain's growth
      365 2 THE Westin Hotels Resorts Group's main engine of growth will be its operations in the Asia-Pacific, which is expected to account for some 40 per cent of group revenue in the next three years. Westin's regional headquarters in Singapore is expanding to meet the
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      309 3 Two Top Prizes Return to Canon Sydney, for the J&J& 0 attractive goody bag! Prizes GARDEN COURSE r; Mercedes other //o/z- iVoi#M TAMPINES COURSE Honda Omega One return Thanks to Mercedes-Benz It's an event you won't want to miss for the world. At Canon TMCC His Excellency, President of Republic
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Jakarta's not planning drastic measures to curb capital inflow
      411 4  -  From William Chia in JAKARTA INDONESIAN monetary authorities have no plans to introduce drastic measures to counter the inflow of speculative capital despite the pressure this has put on exchange rates. Bank Indonesia governor Sudrajat Jiwandono, dampening concerns sparked by the
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      Philippine inflation hit 11.8% last month
      270 4 MANILA The Philippines said yesterday annual inflation hit 11.8 per cent in September, its highest in three years, and economists and stock market analysts urged the government to bring prices under control. The figures, widely leaked before they were officially released, sent the already
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      Lock icon Electronics shipments raise Philippine exports 35%
      159 4 AFP Bloomberg Business News MANILA Philippine exports rose year-on-year by 34.5 per cent to U551,585 billion (552.2 billion) in August, buoyed by shipments of electronics, the National Statistics Office said. This brings the value of exports in the first seven months of 1995 to
      AFP; Bloomberg Business News  -  159 words
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      Lock icon Report predicts failures in Asian banking minefield
      442 4 SCMP HONGKONG The Asian banking landscape is "nothing short of treacherous" and fraught with potential problems, Thomson Bank Watch said. The agency said banks in China, Hongkong and Indonesia faced the most pressing credit risks. In a strongly critical report, Bank Watch analyst
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      Lock icon Thai minister says full-year CPI will be right on target
      203 4 Reuter BANGKOK Thai Finance Minister Surakiat Sathienthai has said he is not worried about the rising inflation, saying he is confident the consumer price index (CPI) will come in on target for all of 1995. Year-on-year CPI rose 6.2 per
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        Lock icon Gas discovery in Gulf of Thailand
        132 4 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysia-Thailand joint venture has made a substantial gas discovery in overlapping waters in the Gulf of Thailand. Bernama news agency yesterday quoted the Malaysia-Thailand Joint Authority as saying the combined gas flow rate recorded from tests conducted in the well
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        Lock icon KL manufacturing sales up
        69 4 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's manufacturing industries recorded sales of M 588.2 billion (SSSO billion) in the first seven months of this year, up 25.6 per cent from the same period last year, the Statistics Department said. A survey covering 58 manufacturing industries showed the semiconductor industry
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        Lock icon Checking on Sipadan slick damage
        116 4 AFP KOTA KINABALU Malaysian officials were trying yesterday to ascertain the ecological damage wreaked by an oil slick on a coral island, a well-known divers' haven, off the eastern state of Sabah. The Department of Environment (DOE) said it was first alerted on Saturday by
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        Lock icon Suu Kyi ventures out
        92 4 Reuter YANGON Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday made her first trip out of Yangon since she was released in July after nearly six years of house arrest. Ms Suu Kyi left for Tharmanya Hill in Karen state, about 270 km from Yangon, yesterday
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        Lock icon Visitors to Indonesia up
        73 4 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia recorded nearly 2.3 million foreign tourists arrivals in the eight months to August, 4.4 per cent more than for the same period last year. Information Minister Harmoko said yesterday that 2,296,336 foreign tourists visited Indonesia in the period, with 335,940 arrivals recorded in
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      Lock icon Indon trade, inflation figures paint bright picture
      378 4 Reuter JAKARTA Indonesia announced positive trade figures yesterday, prompting optimism among analysts who said the economy was on the right track while the central bank reiterated inflation would be kept below double digits. Information Minister Harmoko told a news conference that Indonesia recorded
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      Lock icon Johor won't change ownership rules
      143 4 Bemama JOHOR BARU The Johor government does not intend to change its rules on foreign ownership of property when its redevelopment project at Gelang Patah is completed, Mentri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman said yesterday. He said the state government was considering more effective alternatives for
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      Lock icon Rice at the right price
      55 4 Reuter MANILA Filipinos queueing for cheap government rice yesterday. The rice is being sold at 10.25 pesos (550.56) a kg compared to prices of up to 26 pesos in retail markets in Manila. Rice prices shot np because of a supply shortage caused by drought
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      Lock icon Trade pact: Vietnam unhappy with US
      305 4 UPI WASHINGTON Vietnam expressed frustration on Tuesday with the slow pace at which the US is negotiating a trade pact and said both nations' economies have suffered as a result. Vietnamese foreign minister Nguyen Manh Cam, whose country established diplomatic relations with the US
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      227 4 Singapore INSTITUTE OF yp MANAGEMENT More Ahead With An Accounting Master's The Master of Business (Accounting) programme is designed to meet the needs of accounting professionals and executives who wish to upgrade their accounting degrees or professional qualification to a Master's level and at the same time to enhance their
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  • ASIA
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        Lock icon Q3 Aussie inflation seen nearing 3%
        120 5 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Australian annual inflation in the July-September quarter was likely to have accelerated to just below the central bank's 3 per cent annual ceiling. And this could sound alarm bells among interest rate hawks. The government is scheduled to release figures
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        Lock icon GM can skip Japan car inspection
        80 5 Reuter TOKYO General Motors Corp received a licence to sell its Cavalier model car in Japan without having each car inspected, the Transport Ministry said yesterday. It is the second non-Japanese company to win a licence which allows the car maker to avoid the
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        Lock icon Japan, UK, HK in phone venture?
        70 5 AFP TOKYO Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) is considering a joint venture with trading house Itochu Corp, Britain's Cable and Wireless pic and Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd to promote Japan's personal handyphone system in Asia, company officials said yesterday. NTT and Itochu officials said
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        Lock icon Tokyo trade surplus down 16.8%
        71 5 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Japan's merchandise trade surplus for the first 20 days of September shrank 16.8 per cent from the same period a year ago to U554,988 billion (557.14 billion), the Finance Ministry said yesterday. Exports during the 20-day period rose 5.7 per cent
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        Lock icon Japan power firms on Aussie spree
        68 5 Bloomberg Business News SYDNEY Japan's five largest electric power companies will send representatives to Australia next week on a buying mission. The companies will meet with Australian manufacturers in Melbourne on Oct 11, according to the Australian Trade Commission. The five companies are Tokyo
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      Lock icon Seoul plan to curtail loans for foreign projects draws protest
      428 5 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL South Korea's largest business group denounced a government measure requiring companies to curtail borrowing from foreign capital markets when investing overseas, saying it will raise fund-raising costs. The Federation of Korean Industries held a meeting of
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      Lock icon S Korea posts world's highest export growth
      202 5 AFP SEOUL South Korea posted the world's highest export growth rate this year, followed by Mexico and Spain, the state-run Korea Trade Promotion Corp (Kotra) said yesterday. A Kotra survey of the 34 largest exporting countries showed that South Korea recorded a 33.4
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      Lock icon US$2b missing from Beijing coffers under ex-mayor: sources
      248 5 AFP BEIJING More than US$2 billion (Ss2.B billion) went missing from Beijing municipal coffers during the 12year tenure of disgraced city chief Chen Xitong, sources said yesterday. Beijing's former mayor and party secretary who last week was stripped of all his party
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      Lock icon China turning state firms into limited holding firms
      285 5 Reuter SHANGHAI China is turning most of its state-run enterprises into limited holding firms as part of its overhaul of state industry, a senior official was quoted as saying by official newspapers. A few are becoming limited shareholding firms, with some to
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      Lock icon Nepal to urge World Bank to stay in power project
      408 5 Last-ditch bid to revive controversial USsBoom hydroelectric scheme AFP KATHMANDU Nepal's Finance Minister is to meet the World Bank's president to ask for help in reviving a controversial hydroelectric power project here, scrapped after the bank withdrew funding two months
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      Lock icon China gives details of plan to boost growth in inland areas
      451 5 Bloomberg Business News Reuter BEIJING China has vowed to boost economic growth in inland regions over the next five years, in a bid to reduce poverty. Sixteen years of economic liberalisation yielded uneven results, with economic growth and investment
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      Lock icon Farewell to an industrial baron
      102 5 Reuter BOMBAY Kumarmangalam Birla (centre), the son of noted industrialist Aditya Vikrmm Birla, carrying his father's body at the funeral in Bombay yesterday. Thousands thronged to pay their last respects to the industrialist, who died in the US on Sunday. Concern over the future of
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      Lock icon Business chief urges Tokyo to cut corporate tax by 5 points
      131 5 AFP TOKYO A top Japanese business leader yesterday urged the government here to cut corporate tax rates by 5 percentage points. "It is obvious Japan's corporate tax rate of 49.98 per cent is excessive in comparison to major Western
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      Recovery in HK residential market not in sight: bank
      442 5  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG THE sluggish Hongkong residential property market is unlikely to recover in the short term, according to Hang Seng Bank, the second largest bank in the territory. The bank, which has one of the largest mortgage
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      HK's Studio City to be Beijing's first foreign cineplex operator
      373 5  -  By Lu Ning SINGAPORE Hongkong's Studio City Cinemas, an associate of US cinema giant United Artists, is to become the first wholly-owned overseas movie-house operator to run a cineplex in Beijing. It will operate an eightscreen cineplex in Sun Dong
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      186 5 What do today's market leaders offer their customers? Cpieas© Vone) best total cost Q best products best total solution WORLD COMPETITIVE MANUFACTURING Copyright 1995 All Rights Reserved Intensive 3-Day Workshop 2 Leaders 3 Facilitators 1 to 3 Nov 1995 Hilton International Singapore This workshop gives companies the unprecendented focus and
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  • FOCUS
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      Strong growth increases risk of overheating for Asian economies
      482 7  -  World Economic Outlook Leon Hadar in WASHINGTON THE storm that broke with the financial crisis in Mexico has been weathered well by most emerging market countries in Asia and Latin America, according to the IMF Outlook. Contrary to earlier fears, "contagion
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      Japan needs to act decisively on problems
      232 7 JAPAN is experiencing M one of its most serious economic slowdowns in the postwar period", the result of successive finarci&l shocks including the bunting of the 1980s assetprice bubble and the yen's continued sharp appreciation, says the IMF Outlook. With an exchange rate
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      Underlying trends are encouraging, says report
      334 7 UNDERLYING trends in the world economy are encouraging, says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest World Economic Outlook. It points to effective economic policies contributing importantly to the favourable performance and prospects of most countries, especially the emerging economies of Asia. The
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  • LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon A future clouded in uncertainty
      1275 9  -  Now that the courtroom drama is over, what lies ahead for OJ Simpson? Tamara Jones looks at the challenges to come for the footballer-turned-actor Tamara Jones LAT-WP WHEN OJ Simpson became a free man at prec i s e 1 y 11.02 am (Los Angeles
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • Article
    Closing the circle of peace
    533 10 THE term "peace process" has fallen into disrepute, more and more regarded as a euphemism, an internationally-accepted palliative. Innocents around the world are starved, shelled, massacred and "cleansed" as the peace process continues in conference halls, at summits and through shuttle diplomacy. Yet the 460page
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    Peace in the West Bank
    254 10 ISRAELI Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin put his finger on the pulse of the moment when he said: "Only poets dreamed of it, and to our great pain, soldiers and civilians went to their deaths to make this moment possible." The occasion was the signing of
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    Peace treaty rewards
    203 10 ISRAEL is already reaping the rewards of its peace treaty signed with the PLO. No sooner had the ink dried in Washington last week, when the first prize for the Jewish state was announced: The sale of American supercomputers to Israel. Next came the consideration of the
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    Practical decision
    177 10 STATEMENTS made by both Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen and US Secretary of State Warren Christopher after their talks in the past few days show that the bilateral relationship at the moment is not at a sufficient state of progress for US President Bill Clinton to invite his
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    Family charter perhaps?
    146 10 THE CONCERN over family violence and how best to deal with it is taking centrestage now. At the last sitting of Parliament, the Acting Minister for Community Development, Abdullah Tarmugi, announced that the Women's Charter would be revised and expanded to deal with cases involving family violence.
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    No change in sight
    151 10 PUBLIC DEBATE about the role of the military in the realpolitik of this country used to emerge only before general elections or around Armed Forces Day. Now it is becoming more frequent. The trend seems to have been influenced by both the process of globalisation and
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    Structural reform needed
    135 10 IT HAS BEEN 10 years since the Plaza Accord was adopted, marking a shift from a monetary system dominated by the US dollar to one featuring policy coordination between major economies. The success of the accord, however, took a heavy toll on Japan, which failed to take
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    Repairing US-China ties
    1135 10  -  But Mr Clinton's critics are making rapprochement difficult, says Leon Hadar Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent PRESIDENT BUI Clinton and his aides are saying that after several months of Sino-American tensions on human rights, trade and Taiwan, they are finally moving towards repairing the
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      190 10 We Brought High-Performance Storage To Mainframes. We Brought It To Midrange Systems. We Brought It To The Open Environment Now We're Bringing It ToAsia. The worldwide leader in data storage, retrieval and cbsinbuttm has now opened is doon in Asia. And not a moment too soon. The information explosion has
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  • THE LAW PAGE
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      Adoption of Vienna Convention in Singapore will enhance trade
      1081 11  -  Diana Oon looks at the fine print to find out what's different in the Vienna Convention for the international sale of goods from the local framework Diana Oon ROM next March, I Singaporean businessmen can choose I to use a United
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      S'pore businessmen urged to include convention in dealings
      310 11 Businessmen who attended a recent Trade and Development Board seminar on Singapore's ratification of the Vienna Convention had two main concerns to put to a panel of experts. They were: How do businessmen include the Vienna Convention in future trade contracts? and;
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      Lock icon Procter & Gamble bedevilled by the rumour mill
      866 11  - Procter Gamble bedevilled by the rumour mill Rick Raber reports on guerilla tactics in corporate rivalry Rick Raber Bloomberg Business News A LOT of companies have to fend off rumours about being taken over. It's the one about being possessed that has Procter Gamble Co fuming. For almost 20 years
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      David Chong opens office in the Caribbean
      351 11  -  AT THE BAR By Conrad Raj David Chong Co has not only expanded into the region but has also recently established an office in the British Virgin Islands. According to senior partner David Chong, his firm is the first and only one from
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    364 12 NYT Reuter WASHINGTON Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin acknowledged on Tuesday that the world economy was in "a pause" but forecast that growth would be solid next year. On the eve of the annual meeting of the International
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    Lock icon Beijing planning to raise up to US$1b in world bond markets?
    351 12 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG The Chinese government is looking to raise from US$5OO million (SS7IS million) to US$l billion in the international bond markets in the next few months in its first foreign debt sale since February 1994. Investment
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    Lock icon US index of leading indicators up 0.2% in August
    274 12 Reuter WASHINGTON The Index of Leading Indicators rose by a modest 0.2 per cent in August, the Commerce Department said, partly because of stronger manufacturing activity. The index has risen in two of the past three months, suggesting a firmer underlying
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    236 12 Reuter FRANKFURT The Bundesbank sanctioned a small reduction in its leading money market interest rate yesterday but economists expected the central bank would keep its official, interest rates unchanged this week. The Bundesbank allowed its securities repurchase rate, or "repo", to fall slightly
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    185 12 AFP Reuter TOKYO Japan's Daiwa Bank Ltd is considering a sharp cut in overseas operations, especially in the US, following last week's disclosure of a US$l.l billion (S$ 1.6 billion) bond trading fraud in New York, Kyodo News Service said yesterday. The
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    803 12  -  The Bottom Line YANG RAZALI KASSIM YANG RAZALI KASSIM The writer is BT's regional analysis editor I SO MUCH has been said about Liem Sioe Liong, Indonesia's richest man, and his rags-to-riches story. Most of the talk has been about his links with
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    327 12 Reuter The Economic Times NEW DELHI India's premier housing finance agency will raise more than four billion rupees (SSI6B million) in equity through a private placement with a group of foreign investors, including Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC).
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    137 12 Reuter GENEVA The European Union will offer today to ease foreign access to its telecommunications sector under a global pact on basic telecommunications being negotiated in the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Trade diplomats said last night that the EU liberalisation offer, which
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      Marco Polo faces $54m rental loss from Lane Crawford
      322 13  -  By Agnes Wee SINGAPORE Marco Polo Developments says it stands to lose about $54 million in rental income up to the year 2000 with the three floors of Lane Crawford Place given up by retail store Lane Crawford Singapore to be
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      506 13  -  By Jenny Lam SINGAPORE City Developments is strengthening its existing retail operations and intends to open more shopping complexes in the suburbs here. "We intend to build and manage more malls in good suburban locations, especially near MRT stations,"
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      Lock icon Sell in market if price above $1.46, Econ shareholders advised
      277 13 SINGAPORE The financial advisers to construction company Econ International have advised its shareholders to sell their stock in the open market if they can get a price higher than that offered by takeover hopeful Yenville, failing which to accept the
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      Time for DBS Land to sell off Clarke Quay?
      810 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Lee Han Shih SINGAPORE Well, it's not exactly the end. But it's certainly telling that DBS Land decided to exclude Clarke Quay in its soon-to-be listed hotel and leisure arm. The "festival marketplace" concept of Clarke Quay was
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      Hard to find buyers for YHS at $535
      292 13  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Property tycoon Ng Teng Fong is in the market trying to spread out his holdings in Yeo Hiap Seng in an attempt to retain the beverage company's listing status. He is trying to do so at his takeover
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      Showpla's IPO subscribed 19.76 times
      121 13 SINGAPORE The public tranche of Showpla Asia's initial public offer of 6 million shares was subscribed 19.76 times at the close yesterday. It comprised more than 30 per cent of Showpla's total launch of 20 million shares at US$O.35 (550.50) each. The other 14 million
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        MARKET MOOD
        47 13 Mtod 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 KGoh, KayHian, Morgan Grenfell, Ong Co, Nomura, Phillip, Smith New Court and WI Can.
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        HOT STOCK
        77 13  -  UIU I 1 By Ven Sreenivasan ALTHOUGH the daily stochastics suggest that it has upside potential, Datapulse is meeting stiff resistance at the 80-cent level. If it breaks resistance from yesterday's close of 78 cents, it could reach 8S cents in the short term. Support is at 75
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        Champerdon bid for Horiguchi fails
        64 14 SINGAPORE Champerdon has failed in its $1-a-share takeover bid for Sesdaq-listed Horiguchi Engineering. It received acceptances for only 7,200 shares, representing 0.02 per cent of Horiguchi's capital, when its offer closed yesterday. This was not enough to take its shareholding over SO per cent. Champerdon
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        Fax Int'l no longer Telecom subsidiary
        86 14 SINGAPORE Singapore Telecommunication Group's equity stake in US-based Fax International (FI) has dropped from 50.89 per cent to 49.99 per cent. This is due to the exercise by Fax International employees of stock options for 303,407 shares of common stock. With the decrease, Fax
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        Board reshuffle for FCC units
        57 14 SINGAPORE First Capital Corp yesterday reported changes to the boards of its subsidiaries. Lee Hon Chiu has resigned as a director of Melville Park Development and First Changi Development. Pauline Wong has been nominated as a director for the companies. Lim Ee Seng has been
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        Lock icon MMC Engineering group profit down
        84 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR MMC Engineering Group Bhd's group pre-tax profit for the half year ended July 31 dropped 14 per cent to MJ5.52 million (553.12 million) from M 56.39 million in the previous corresponding period. However, group turnover increased 15 per cent to MS 8
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        New man at helm tightens grip on Promet by becoming sole MD
        577 14  -  Fran Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR BUSINESSMAN Soh Chee Wen yesterday tightened his grip on Promet by becoming its sole managing director and promptly declared that he would "kickstart Promet back into the Malaysian business scene" through
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        His hard-to-believe comeback started with a golf club job
        508 14 The fall and rise of Soh Chee Wen MANY people find Soh Chee Wen's spectacular recovery from financial ruin to corporate success hard to believe. But Mr Soh himself denied yesterday that he was just a frontman for more powerful Figures.
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        DBS Land awards US$18m Viet contract
        172 14 SINGAPORE DBS Land has awarded the main construction contract for its service apartment project in Ho Chi Minh City, worth US$lB million (SS2S.7 million), to Christian i Nielsen International Construction Asia. The contractor is a whollyowned subsidiary of Thailand- listed Christiani Nielsen (Thai) Public
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        386 14 SCMP BERLIN German vehicle manufacturer Daimler Benz has put aside its planned Shanghai listing after the lacklustre response to its Singapore flotation last year. Chief financial officer Manfred Gentz said the company wanted to stimulate trade in Singapore before
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        Lock icon Farlim and Suiwah team up for commercial developments
        194 14 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Farlim Group (Malaysia) Bhd and newly-listed Suiwah Corporation Bhd will undertake commercial development projects through a joint-venture company, Private Range Sdn Bhd. Farlim said in a statement yesterday that it had on Sep 30 acquired the entire stake in
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        102 14 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Southern Plastic Holdings Bhd, which is listed on the second board, hopes to be listed on the main board of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange by 1997. The group has estimated a total turnover of Ms7o million (5539.7 million) for 1996 and about
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        Lock icon Berjaya Sports Toto spruces up outlets
        290 14 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya Sports Toto Bhd is wellpoised to capitalise on its competitive edge by having the most number of sales outlets and the most types of games, said chairman Vincent Tan. He said, in the company's 1995 annual report, that efforts were
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        Lock icon Electronics firm Dai Hwa to list on KLSE from tomorrow
        156 14 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Electronics firm Dai Hwa Holdings (M) Bhd will be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's main board tomorrow, a KLSE statement said. Dai Hwa, which has a paidup capital of M 5112.7 million (5563.9 million), made
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        Lock icon China Resources offers shares in food unit to cash in on trend
        427 15 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China Resources Holdings Ltd is cashing in on investors' renewed appetite for China stocks as it offers shares in its food unit, Ng Fung Hong Ltd. In one of Hongkong's largest initial share sales
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        Lock icon TI-Acer to break ground for US$13b Taiwan chip plant
        266 15 Bloomberg Business News HSINCHU, Taiwan Texas Instruments-Acer will break ground today for a US$l.35 billion (S$ 1.93 billion) computer memory chip plant designed to meet a surge in worldwide demand. TI-Acer spokeswoman Ruth Pao said the plant in the central Taiwan
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        Lock icon Ford breaks new ground
        73 15 Renter HANOI Officials from the Ford Motor Company of the US and Vietnamese officials shovelling soil during the groundbreaking ceremony for a US$lO2 million (Ssl4s million) motor assembly plant in Hai Duong town, about 551 un east of Hanoi, yesterday. Construction work on the 15,000 sq
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        132 15 Reuter SYDNEY The float of Papua New Guinea's big Lihir gold project closed to private investors yesterday after overwhelming demand but brokers said the bulk of the issue will be in the hands of institutions. "The demand has been extraordinary and we
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        337 15 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG New World Development Co Ltd has already lured investors to shares in a new company that will run its highway, bridge, power and port projects, bankers said yesterday. Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia Ltd, which began taking orders for stock
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        Lock icon Fletcher, Maoris to buy Forestry Corp
        171 15 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON Forestry and energy group Fletcher Challenge Ltd said it has reached agreement with Maori groups for a joint bid to buy the New Zealand government's forestry plantation company Forestry Corp. The government is planning to sell Forestry Corp's forests, which
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        Lock icon AT&T files satellite plan that could take Internet to space
        485 16 NYT Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK AT&T Corp, in an early sign of how it plans to pursue its Internet and global communications strategy after it splits up into three groups, has quietly filed a federal application to build and
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        Lock icon Microsoft exec's pay beats Gates'
        146 16 Reuter SEATTLE Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates may be the richest businessman in the world, but he is far from the best-paid executive at the software giant. Microsoft Corp chief operating officer Robert Herbold, the company's No 3 executive, currently receives more than double Mr
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        Lock icon IBM, MasterCard endorse new Internet security specifications
        209 16 Reuter NEW YORK A rift between credit card giants MasterCard and Visa over security for online business widened on Tuesday as MasterCard teamed up with International Business Machines Corp (IBM) for a new set of specifications for shopping security on the Internet! MasterCard
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        Lock icon IBM's Lotus unit gets boost from telecom pact
        270 16 Reuter NEW YORK IBM's Lotus Notes software received a huge boost with a pact with 11 telecommunications partners that will help Lotus reach its goal of 20 million Notes users by 1997, analysts said. Earlier, IBM's Lotus Development Corp unit announced strategic
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        Lock icon Bank of Scotland profit up 22.8%
        79 16 Bloomberg Business News LONDON The Bank of Scotland pic yesterday said first-half pre-tax profit rose to £261.6 million (SSS9O million) from £213 million last year on increased lending and fewer bad debts. Analysts had expected the bank to post a profit of £255 million
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        50 16 AFP JAPAN Japan's Pioneer Electronics company has unveiled its latest CD player CDJ-5011 (right) and mixer DJM-500 for disc jockeys. The CD player allows the DJ to start play within 0.01 of a second. The mixer features an automatic beat per minute (BPM) detector. AFP
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        79 16 Reuter WASHINGTON Bowing to an environmental campaign, Texaco Inc has agreed to cap all of its oil and gas field production unit stacks within a year to protect birds and bats from falling or flying down the stacks. The company in 1994 covered 600
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        Lock icon P&G accuses Bankers Trust units of derivatives fraud
        473 17 Reuter CINCINNATI Procter Gamble Co said in court filings that subsidiaries of Bankers Trust New York Coq?, in derivatives dealings with P&G, committed fraud and engaged in a pattern of what it termed racketeering. Bankers Trust has said a pending P&G lawsuit
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        Lock icon Crude oil glut in Asia as Japan cuts refinery runs
        526 17 Reuter SINGAPORE Lower refinery runs in Japan, Asia's largest crude oil importer, have created a glut of crude supplies which will persist due to poor refining margins in the region, industry sources said yesterday. "There are too many products around,"
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        Lock icon Daiwa braces itself for probe by govt
        369 17 Bloomberg Business News OSAKA Daiwa Bank Ltd expects Finance Ministry officials to begin poring over its books by the end of the week as authorities step up their probe on how a lone trader could have racked up USSI.I billion (S$l.SB billion) in
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        Lock icon Oil prices get short-term support from Hurricane Opal
        274 17 Reuter LONDON Oil prices stayed firm yesterday, supported by the closure of US installations in the path of Hurricane Opal, but only major damage was likely to force a significant move upwards, brokers said. London November futures for North Sea Brent blend
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        180 17 Reuter LONDON The dollar eased against most major currencies by late London dealings as a round of profit-taking after Tuesday's gains set in. The G-7 meeting in Washington on Saturday has been helping to keep the dollar's undertone firm this week, but scepticism over whether central banks will match
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        94 17 AFP NEW YORK The dollar was mixed against other major currencies early yesterday in a calm market here focused on consolidating ahead of US unemployment figures for September and a G7 financial ministers meeting. At 1400 GMT, the dollar was quoted as trading at 1.4365 marks, up from
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        Lock icon Euroyen ends up, Eurodollars soften
        1211 18 Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen closed slightly higher on the back of a Arm US dollar while Eurodollars were softer in quiet trade. Dealers said Euroyen trade was range-bound on lower-than-average volumes, but the dollar's continued strength against the yen provided support to Euroyen futures. US
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        Tokyo rubber buoyed by weaker yen
        664 18 COMMODITY REPORTS Rubber TOKYO: Rubber futures closed higher, with buying back in nearby months on the yen's weakness against the dollar hauling distant contracts higher. Prices ranged from four to 4.6 yen per kg stronger. Benchmark March finished 4.6 up at 140.4. Sentiment is
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        Shell cuts output ahead of storm
        60 18 NEW YORK Shell said it began cutting back operations at its 225,000-barrd-per-day Norco crude oil refinery on Monday to about 150,000 bpd as a precaution against Hurricane Opal. "It was gradually brought down," an official at the plant said. Operations are expected to be
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        Nigeria, oil firms reach deal on funds
        108 18 ABUJA The Nigerian government has reached agreement over the payment of funding arrears to the major oil firms which are its venture partners in crude-oil exploration. Officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation confirmed yesterday that the payment of arrears in government contributions
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        China edible oil demand rises
        88 18 HONGKONG China's demand for edible oil has increased recently in expectation that the government wilt issue up to 500,000 tonnes of import licences for the commodity, traders said. Demand for soyoil has picked up in the past week with inquiries of up to 30,000 tonnes
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        Copper price plateau to continue
        84 18 LONDON Copper is likdy to remain on a price plateau at the top of its bull market through the rest of this quarter and into the first and possibly the second quarters of next year, Bioomsbury Minerals Economics says in its September report. Bioomsbury said
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        Australia
        881 19 •28.6 SHARES closed easier yesterday amid hefty futures sdl-ofTs and fears of a correction on Wall Street. "The futures market was negative all day and that tended to influence the physical market," a broker said. "It sounds crazy, but Wall Street was very nervous coming up to the O
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        Manila
        552 19 -4835 Share prices plunged amid unconfirmed rumours that inflation had surged in September. 'This was because of the unconfirmed report that inflation rates had gone to double digits in the month of September," a dealer said. The PSE Composite Index lost 48.33 points to 2,569.33. Turnover was 3.65 billion
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        Taipei
        508 19 +50.66 Share prices finished higher in firm trading, with majorbuying focused on textile, construction and food shares. "We saw more buyers today as the rise in the value of Taiwan dollar is expected to help ease the tight credit which currently plagues the bourse," said 2 dealer. The 321-issue
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        New Zealand
        263 19 -1428 Stocks declined, as foresters Fletcher Challenge and Carter Holt Harvey mirrored declines in US paper and forestry stocks. Foreign investors, dominated by Americans, own an estimated 53 per cent of New Zealand stocks. Sentiment in the US tends to spill into the domestic market. Some investors are
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        Seoul
        405 19 Stocks were mixed as shares of big exporters rose on expectations institutional investors will buy them, while securities and other financial issues fell on poor earnings prospects. "Institutional investors are formulating their new investment portfolio for the second half of the year,** said a trader. The Composite Index rose
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        Bobay
        76 19 +3&2S Share prices closed up, but stocks of companies owned by Aditya Birla who died on Saturday were down. "It was a selective rally," said a dealer. "The Birla group shares were down but that s not surprising." Other brokers said speculative demand at the start of new account
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        London
        605 19 4-19.1 UK STOCKS rose, hoisted by pharmaceutical stocks as US investors sparked a surge in buying interest. Positive comments from Salomon Brothers and Goldman Sachs for SmithKline Beecham and the drugs industry as a whole cncouraged the advance. "We're seeing a lot of US buying for the drug stocks
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        Paris
        139 19 4-3.17 French stocks recovered from earlier lows to close mixed as investors focused on companies reporting first-half earnings results. "We're still getting mediocre results there aren't any fundamental reasons for the market to rebound," said a trader. "Movements (in stocks) over the last few days have largely been technical."
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        Frankfurt
        180 19 +14.58 German stocks rose, disregarding the dollar's fall, amid hopes the US currency's weakness will be contained before the meeting of the Group of Seven industrial nations this weekend. "As long as there isn't a lot of negative news coming out of the US on the dollar, the DAX
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        Brussels
        220 19 -11.27 Belgian stocks fell to a three-month low on speculation tax increases announced in the government's 1996 budget will stifle consumer spending. The decline was aggravated by a fall in the dollar, reducing earnings of companies such as steel cord and wire maker Bekaert NV, which sells 30 per
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        Zurich
        214 19 -12.5 Swiss shares ended weaker on moderate volumes after slipping into negative territory in early trading. The easing dollar and early losses on Wall Street offset good sentiment. The market was seen consolidating after recent gains. Profit taking pressured some insurer stocks. The blue-chip SMI Index fell 12.5 points
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        Johannesburg
        320 19 +7A South African shares ended mildly firmer after quiet trading as few fresh factors emerged to spur price gains despite a steady undertone. Demand for blue-chip industrials had picked up and the market was seen tending firmer on positive local economic factors and expected strong corporate earnings growth. The
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        Toronto
        191 19 +4*6 Stocks opened mixed and were seen drifting lower in light trading as October doldrums hit and some resources enter a weak season. The TSE-300 Index rose 4.6 points to 4,504.1 on volume of 7.7 million shares with a value of Csl2B million. Toronto Oct i d WAbttiMPnce 24
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        New York
        630 19 -7.95 Stock prices edged lower in 3uiet trading early yesteray as the market tried to cope with persistent worries about upcoming third-quar-ter earnings reports amid a sell-off in technology issues. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which slipped 11.56 points on Tuesday, was down 7.95 to 4,741.75 at 11am
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        Milan
        164 19 -29 Italian shares edged lower throughout the day depressed by the heavy fall in the market's largest stock Fiat, which took a pounding on concerns over its second half prospects after Tuesday's investors presentation in London. Fiat spelt out its problems in the Brazilian car market in the second
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        Amsterdam
        227 19 +0.12 Dutch shares ended barely chaneed, supported by a mostly steady dollar in generally thin trade. The AEX index edged just 0.12 point higher at 463.82, down from the day's high of 466.00. KLM shares gained 1.30 guilders to finish at 57.60, buoyed by market talk that strategic realignments
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        Stockholm
        100 19 +3.31 Swedish stocks rose in moderate trade, with Astra the main market mover. Astra rose four crowns to 423. The OMX Index rose 3.31 points to 1,445.86. Interest-sensitive shares were also among the market winners, dealers said. "We're following the US, with an upturn for pharmaceuticals stocks but more
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      2383 20 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks rose to 13-month highs as traders bet declining bond yields would prompt investors to buv more shares in the fourth quarter. "This isn't the time to be defensive," said a dealer. "The Hang Seng may reach 11,000 by year-end as US bond yields decline
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      620 20 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index lost 7.69 points at 998.22 on a turnover of HKSS.7S million. Luoyang Glass was the biggest winner of the day, gaining 5 per cent on a turnover of US$6OO,OOO. Chengdu Cable was the top loser, failing 3.5 per cent. In Shanghai, the
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      2414 20 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks were little changed as gains by Nippon Steel and other steelmakers offset declines in airline shares on concern that prices don't reflect earnings potential. The Nikkei Average rose 2.09 points to 18.145.08. The Nikkei 300 Index climbed 1.44 to 272.56. Led by the surge
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      1368 20 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks closed sharply higher in moderate trade led by strong buying of relatively cheap bank and finance issues as the gloomy market mood was buoyed by rallies in Hongkong and other regional bourses. The SET Index closed 16.62 points higher at 1,312.94. Turnover was 53.5 million shares
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      1069 20 Bloomberg Business News JAKARTA Slocks rose as investors welcomed the release of trade and inflation figures that they considered positive for shares. The Composite Index rose 4.8S points to 492.65. "Stocks were definitely moving up a little bit because of the trade surplus," said a trader. Clove cigarette maker
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        1806 24  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE Noticeable activity in the shares and related instruments of the Jardine group of companies, and late buying of Cycle Carriage shares were the main features in the local bourse yesterday. The Straits Times Industrials Index, which had traded
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      536 25 Knight-Ridder Reuter AN EXCEPTIONALLY quiet dry cargo freight market could only partly be accounted for by holidays in the Far East and Germany, trade sources said. BifTex futures were actively traded lower with November taking the brunt of the losses to trade as much as SO points down.
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      397 25  -  Yong Mei Fong SINGAPORE With the growing trade in the region, container-leasing companies would have to operate on a scale large enough to cater to the demand for more containers by shipping lines. At the same time, they would be challenged to
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      445 25  -  rafli i Al Labita ift MANILA THE ANZ Banking Corp has extended a US$lO million (5514.3 million) loan to an Australian-managed company currently in the midst of a 2.3 billion peso (SS 126.3 million) project to expand and modernise
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      95 25 SINGAPORE Taiwan's Evergreen group was recently involved in an unusual assignment shipping container loads of single malt Scotch whisky on n 70-day 'round-the-world' voyage. The idea was to keep the whisky in oak barrels (abort) at sea for many weeks for the spirit to mature. The whisky was
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      58 25 Knight-Ridder JAKARTA Indonesia's Transportation Minister Haryanto Dhanutirto has proposed a revision of tax rates on cargo vessels in an effort to stimulate the domestic shipping business. The Jakarta Post yesterday quoted Mr Haryanto as saying only 3.6 per cent of cargo to and from
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      812 25  -  A special focus on people in the shipping industry »y Alec Almazan THE first thing a visitor notices as he enters Robert Yap's plush office is a large framed poster of the Chinese word sheng hanging on the wall
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      355 25 Reuter COLOMBO Container traffic at Colombo port, Sri Lanka's main harbour and South Asia's transshipment hub, is rising despite fears that a recent tariff hike could hit market share, port authorities said on Tuesday. "Total tonnage and transshipment traffic increased by about 21
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      176 25 Reuter ISTANBUL Projects are needed to ease shipping and transport among countries that use the Black Sea, participants at the First International Black Sea Ports and Shipping Conference said on Tuesday. Evgeni Kutovoy, director of Black Sea Economic Coop* eration, said
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      1003 26  -  Holland's smaller ports are all part of the country's transport success story. Alan Dickey reports Alan Dickey Lloyd's List The dutch pons sector has a tendency to be overshadowed by the achievements of its showcase facility, the world's largest port, Rotterdam. And whpe Rotterdam is
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        191 37 OCT 6 Egypt: Armed Forces Day. Syria: October War Anniversary. OCT 7 Namibia: Day of goodwill. OCT 8 Israel: Eve of Feast of the Tabernacles (Sukkoth). Sri I.aa ha: Poya Day. OCT 9 Caaada: Thanksgiving Day. Eantfor: Holiday. Israel: Feast of the Tabernacles (Sukkoth). OCT 10 Japaa: Physical
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        515 38 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Lenders are falling over themselves to provide financing for Mass Transit Railway Corp, the company building the rail link from central Hongkong to a new airport. The company sold US$3OO million (***** million) of 10year
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        69 38 AFP TAIPEI A construction site at Taiwan's East-West Expressway cared in yesterday. Fire vehicles, including a taxi, plunged into the 4,900 sq m large pit with a depth of 30 metres. The taxi driver was slightly injured. Police sealed off the entire area as
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        305 38 Reuter LONDON British Airways could soon be dancing to a new tune in the pairings for global airline networks now that strategic partner USAir is a possible takeover play for United Airlines and American Airlines, say analysts. Shares in BA shot
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        268 38 UPI DETROIT Three major car makers in the US have reported weak sales in September, as problems with afTordability and availability marred the start of the 1996 model year. Chrysler Corp posted a 7 per cent decline in car and light truck sales
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        214 38 AFP DUBAI, United Arab Emirates The Gulf emirate of Dubai, dubbed the Hongkong of the Middle East, on Tuesday reported a surge in cargo this year, indicating a business upturn in the oil-rich region. Dubai's Cargo Village, the laigest facility of its kind
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        132 38 AFP SYDNEY Australia's international airline Ansett Australia Ltd announced yesterday a code-sharing arrangement with Taiwanese airline EVA Airways Corp that will see an immediate low-cosf expansion of its soon-to-be-launched services on the Sydney-Taipei route. The deal, which allows Ansett and EVA to take
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        184 38 Reuter BEIJING China has begun initial feasibility studies for a 60 billion yuan (SS 10.2 billion) project to build tunnels and bridges across 170 km of the northern Bohai Sea, the China Daily said yesterday. The aim of the project is to build two
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        309 38 Reuter SEATTLE Investors may be nervous about a possible strike by Boeing Co's biggest union, but a relatively short work stoppage could actually benefit the aerospace giant, industry analysts said. Machinist union leaders said they are recommending the 34,000 Boeing workers they represent
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        80 38 Reuter LONDON British Airways Pic is expanding its Indian service by adding two more flights a week to take the total weekly number to 16. The airline said it would operate a daily flight from London's Heathrow airport to Bombay from next spring and would
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        101 38 Reuter SEOUL Daewoo Heavy Industries Ltd, a unit of South Korea's Daewoo Group, is close to a US$6OO million (SsBsB million) contract with the Argentine government to make 400 train care for use in Buenos Aires, a local business paper said. The Korea Economic Daily,
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        84 38 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China National Aviation Corp (CNAC) may object to a plan to list Dragonair, the Chinese-language Hongkong Economic Journal reported. Citing unnamed sources, the paper said China National Aviation, in negotiating to buy a 10 per cent stake in privately held Dragonair, voiced
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        124 38 Bloomberg Business News PARIS Air France is expected to present plans today for a new European carrier within the state-owned airline group, the Financial Times said in its Tokyo edition. The move is in response to the liberalisation of European air travel in 1997.
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        61 38 AFX-Asia TOKYO All Nippon Airways Co Ltd s4irf*t i^seQ^fcaHMoval from the Ministry of Transportation for rto^caiflo Tokyo to Shanghai scheduled at the end of this the flights will not be on a regular basis. It,said tyoV4^ttlaiy<\Hft be leased to the company by Nippon Cargo Amines
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        117 38 AFP JAKARTA A charter Casa-212 aircraft crashed in southern Aceh, killing the co-pilot and injuring 13 other people, the Metjiq Indonesia daily said here yesterday. The aircraft,' openUed by the domestic carrier Merpati Nusantara Airlines, was carrying 12 passengers and a crew of two
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