The Business Times, 12 October 1995

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  • 12 1 BUSINESS TIMES WE KNOW ASIA MITA(P) 194/12/94 Thursday October 12 1995 85<^
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  • 75 1 Reuter NEW YORK US stocks yesterday extended their rebound as bargain-hunting returned to battered technology shares. But analysts cautioned that the market would still have to navigate a tough course through third-quarter corporate earnings. At 2 pm EDT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 9.39
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  • 151 1 Wednesday Chute STII 2,128.96 +14.13 KLSEComp 958.80 -11.95 Nikkei 17,891.19 -285.08 Hang Seng 9,635.06 -95.86 SETIndex 1,323.00 +5.74 Jakarta Comp 496.28 +0.29 ManilaComp 2,588.82 -H-18 Taipei WPI 5,165.36 -95.42 Seoul Comp 1,011.00 +6.84 Bombay BSE30 ...3,***** +14.42 CLSA China B 825.65 +0.54 Aust All Ord 2,068.60 +6.40 FTSE100 3,474.3 +14.2
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  • 672 1  -  Bii Conrad Raj Shiv Taneja SINGAPORE Scotts Holdings, the troubled hospitality and property group, has not transferred any funds to India for the purchase of 175 acres of land near New Delhi, a company spokesman said yesterday. Scotts, under criminal
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  • 357 1 AFP NEW YORK The dramatic ups and downs of technology shares this week have fuelled fears of a sharp correction in the sector that has driven Wall Street issues to soaring heights this year. That was abundantly clear as the
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  • 232 1 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) is studying a proposal to provide tax exemption on imported goods sold in the local rtiarket for tourist consumption, its minister, Rafidah Aziz, said yesterday. "There would be a mechanism
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  • 291 1  -  From Neil Behrmann in LONDON NICK LEESON, the trader who brought down Barings, helped a group of bondholders bring about a private prosecution against him. This collaboration between the Leeson defence team and the group of bondholders was disclosed in the courts
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  • 533 1  -  Diversified Resources says it is not negotiating to buy stake From Ho Kay Tat in KUALA LUMPUR SPECULATION persists that the Malaysian government is planning to sell its controlling interest in industrial conglomerate Hicom Holdings Bhd despite a denial from a potential buyer.
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  • 505 1  -  By Christopher Tan SINGAPORE Car inspector Vicom Ltd posted an up-to-the mark performance on its first day of listing yesterday. The counter closed at a creditable 84 cents, a 40 per cent premium over its offer price of 60 cents, on a massive volume of 51.6
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 317 2  -  By Anna Teo DOMESTIC interest rates are expected to hold around current levels in the final quarter of the year, two banks have forecast. In its latest financial review, Overseas Union Bank points to two countervailing forces for its projection. On the one hand, Singapore's
        Source: Bloomberg  -  317 words
    • 332 2  -  By Kevin Sullivan SINGAPORE may overtake Hongkong as a major investor in the Canadian city of Thunder Bay, if projects under discussion are finalised in the next 12 months, Thunder Bay Economic Development Corporation general manager Dick Charbonneau
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    • 425 2  -  By Siow Li Sen THE recent increase in turnover of rubber futures on the Singapore Commodity Exchange (Sicom) is due to more interest from Japanese and American rubber dealers and nibbling from fund managers, rubber brokers and dealers say. "Of course more speculators have also
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    • 254 2  -  By Genevieve Cua FAST-growing Telecom Equipment is gearing up to open eight more Teleshop outlets and a service centre over the next six months, the company's officials said yesterday. The expansion will bring the total number of Teleshops to 28. There
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    • 428 2  -  By Toh Han Shih A SINGAPORE-based Japanese and a Singaporean is going into the Myanmar business scene in a big way, with plans to build apartments and offices, organise trade fairs and exhibitions, and run an im-port-export business. The Japanese is Kengo Mochizuki,
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    • 81 2 HO Yew Ming, tipped to run as a People's Action Party candidate in Bukit Gombak in the next general election, was found dead yesterday morning in a room above his clinic in Aljunied Avenue 2. Police have ruled out foul play, according to a report
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    • 90 2 SINGAPORE MRT Ltd (SMRT) has added another train on the westbound line to ease passenger loads during the morn ins peak hours. The train, which starts running today, is the third additional one to be put on this line this year. The average morning
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 382 4 Reuter t-MANILA The Philippine government yesterday deferred an oil price rise that rtvould have led to higher inflation, but reaction to the move Sm mixed. Some economists said the Uiecision was the right one, hfrith inflation last month at
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 74 4 Knight-Ridder The Thai Finance Ministry has assigned a jfcommittee to study amending a law to pave the way for the ♦Jovernment to issue long-term bonds despite a balanced 1995-96 budget, a senior ministry official said yesterday. The amendment, however, was not likely
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      • 76 4 AFP HANOI South Korean industrial giant LG Business Group set Hip a joint venture yesterday to manufacture electrical cable in the fcttorthem port of Haiphong, a company official said. LG Cable and Kfachinery Co Ltd, South Korea's largest cable maker, has set up the
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      • 68 4 Reuter feSEOUL South Korea's Youone Construction Co has won a HJSS236 million (*****.5 million) order to build a hydroelectric £power plant in the ftutippinea. The Philippine government had the Transbasin Diversion Project to California OTnergy Co on a buildoperatoMransfer basis. The unlisted Youone »>w>n the
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      • 50 4 AFP BUaNILA The Paris Club group of lender nations has rescheduled US$4.2l biDion (Ss6 bimon) in loans to Manila, the Central £$ank of the Philippines said yesterday. Repayment of the debts, jGwhich were to have matured m two-to-three years, has been Stretched to December 2012. AFP
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    • 284 4 AFP j: HANOI Vietnam will no longer license export-process-ing zones (EPZs) because of the slow progress in five of the six that have so far been set up. Lu Minh Chau, vice-chair-man of the State Committee for Cooperation and Investment (SCCI),
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    • 271 4 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Syarikat Kurnia Setia Bhd said it has struck a deal to set up an oil palm plantation and a processing mill in the Philippines. Kurnia said yesterday in a statement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange that it has
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    • 55 4 AFP SUNGAI PENUH, Indonesia Indonesian President Suharto (left) shaking hands with Sungai Penuh residents yesterday. He was on a brief visit to assess the extent of damage caused by an earthquake that rocked this mountainous region in Sumatra last Saturday. Eighty people were killed and 2,256
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    • 192 4 AFP MANILA The Philippines yesterday welcomed Indonesian proposals to undertake multi-national projects in disputed areas of the South China Sea, but cautioned that the sovereignty issue should not be dropped. Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said at a regional
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    • 238 4 Reuter BANGKOK Growth in Thailand's industrial production is beginning to slow down due to lower investment but the economy is still in danger of overheating, Morgan Guaranty Trust said in a report. The year-on-year growth in industrial production fell from a peak of 17 per
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    • 284 4 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR South Korean investments in Malaysia, amounting to M 53.4 billion (S$ 1.9 billion) in the first half of this year, are expected to grow over the next few years, said the country's tr#de commissioner Kim Jae Hyo here. More
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    • 353 4 4VY* Suppon* by: HMRNhhIhI The Flrrt Stop Enterprise rntrr A Private Extension o the Eftfa CTHE SENIOR EXECUTIVE FORUM Over the last decade, China's economic progress has been led by the south, the Guangdong Province, and by foreign investment. However, because of her sheer size, China's long term growth has
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  • CHINA/HONGKONG/TAIWAN
    • 450 7  -  Rapocts by Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG BOWING to intense public pressure, the Hongkong government yesterday announced plans to slash the import quota ceiling for foreign workers from 25,000 to 5,000 from next year. In his annual policy speech, Governor Chris Patten
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    • 330 7 WITH just over 600 days to go before Britain returns Hongkong to China, Governor Chris Patten yesterday opted for a conservative annual policy speech which disappointed the business community and drew criticism from lawmakers. Many lawmakers deplored the governor's warning that he would use his Legislative
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    • 269 7 SINGAPORE Hongkongbased Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co (Asia Sat) said yesterday it had obtained the green light from its board to proceed with the procurement of Asia Sat 3, to be launched in 1997. Asia Sat corporate affairs manager Winnie Pang said the cost
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    • 267 7 AFP BEIJING The Chinese post and telecommunications ministry will buy a satellite from the General Motors Corp unit GM-Hughes Electronics Corp, which it will launch next July, the China Daily reported yesterday. It was the first Chinese purchase of an American satellite, Hughes
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    • CHINA WATCH
      • 179 7 Knight-Ridder HONGKONG Hongkong's treasury secretary will move a resolution in the legislature to extend a stamp duty system set up three years ago to curb residential property speculation. The government said in a statement that the measures would lapse on Dec 31 unless
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      • 59 7 Bloomberg Business News PARIS Elf Aquitaine, responding to reports that Shanghai halted plans to build a USS2.S billion (553.6 billion) oil refinery after Elf withdrew, said it never said anything about withdrawing from the project. A Shanghai city official earlier said that Elf pulled out,
        Bloomberg Business News  -  59 words
      • 78 7 AFP BEIJING China has reduced its overall debt burden to 2.9 per cent of gross domestic product this year, keeping both internal and external liabilities within manageable levels. Assistant Minister of Finance Hang Guochun said yesterday the debt burden was now 0.1 of a percentage
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    • 219 7 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Hundreds of depositors rushed to withdraw funds from the District Farmers Cooperative for a second day this week in Taiwan's third bank run in as many months. Local reports said the run at the Hsiao-Kang District Farmers Cooperative in
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  • ASIA
    • 591 9 AFP Reuter SYDNEY Australia's Labor government admitted yesterday to being "bewildered" by what it saw as a harsh and unjustified attack on the national economy by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. Mr Murdoch, previously an admirer of Prime Minister Paul Keating, delivered what
      AFP; Reuter  -  591 words
    • 448 9 Weekly Outlook challenges might of established fortnightly India Today Reuter NEW DELHI India saw the launch of its first mainstream news magazine in more than a decade yesterday as the weekly Outlook hit the stands to challenge the monolithic might of the fortnightly India
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    • 288 9 Reuter SEOUL South Korea plans to ease limits on foreign ownership in investment trust firms and investment consulting firms to boost the local industry's international competitiveness, the Finance and Economy Ministry said yesterday. It will raise within this year the ceiling
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    • 247 9 Bernama SEOUL The government is working on a package of measures that will provide a breakthrough in the stalemated talks with North Korea and help improve relations. The package will contain both sticks and carrots political pressure, such as the kind
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    • ASIA NOTES
      • 108 9 UPI NEW DELHI Indian electoral officials have discovered voter rolls for the Indian capital are inflated by as many as two million bogus names, the Pioneer newspaper reported yesterday. Officials said electoral rolls list 7.2 million registered voters in New Delhi, out of an estimated
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      • 101 9 Reuter DHAKA More than 1,100 medical teams spread out across 14 Bangladesh districts, much of it still under water, to tackle a diarrhoea epidemic that has pushed the flood death toU up past 400, local officials said yesterday. The officials said nearly SO,OOO people were suffering
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      • 100 9 AFP TOKYO A research arm of Nikko Securities Co Ltd said yesterday it had raised its forecast of Japan's gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the year to March to 0.7 per cent fram an earlier 0.4 per cent. Nikko Research Centre also upgraded its GDP
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      • 99 9 AFP NEW DELHI One of India's top business bodies expressed concern yesterday over the country's growing fiscal deficit, saying it could derail economic growth. "Deteriorating public finances, reflected in the growing fiscal deficit, could impinge on the current year's performance," the Associated Chambers of
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  • FOCUS
    • 1320 11  -  Interview with Barclays de Zoete Wedd's top officials By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Barclays de Zoete Wcdd (BZW) is confident it can retain its independence and edge even as it sees a succession of British investment banks and securities firms falling like dominos
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 1060 13  -  Lan Johnson tells why Red Sorghum actor Jiang Wen is unhappy with his compatriots in the industry Ian Johnson LAT/WP AVING whipped HI foreign films at the box office, I movie star Jiang ..M. .JL Wen is now in the 'mood to thrash a few of
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    • 567 13  -  Toni Clarke tells why price controls are the main theme at the book fair this year Toni Clarke Bloomberg Business News «j RANKFURT's annual book fair kicks off this JL week, with 8,900 compaj nies from 97 countries gathering to trade in
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    • 37 13 Reuter NEW YORK Title holder Gary Kasparov of Russia smiling as he holds the Intel World Chess Trophy on Tuesday in New York. Kasparov won the best-of-20 match over Indian challenger Viswanathan Anand. Renter
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    • 204 13 CHATTERBOX UPI UPI AFP ACTRESS Elizabeth Taylor has undergone another hip surgery, her third in under two years. Her left hip was replaced in March 1994 and her right hip last June, leaving her legs uneven in length and causing
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 1039 13 TV RADIO Paris Opera Patrick Dupond and Marie- 3B Claude Pietragalla take the W"&S lead roles in Swart Lake. A flfki J^^BB pretty girl is under a charm as a wflP^.■* Jf|jß«Hß she falls love it anyway. an v U§fffFevil sorcerer whose spell she B M El.Cj^V^^^^B creates a look-alike
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  • The Law Page
    • 947 14  -  The US legal publishing industry is in a flux as service providers rush to go on the Net. Laura Mansnerus reports Laura Mansnerus NYT LAWYERS everywhere would love to pull court opinions into their computers free or at least for a lot less than the
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  • 591 15 THIS year's annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, due to wrap up in Washington today, have been clouded more than usual by controversy relating to the funding of the two institutions. This is unfortunate: one would have hoped for
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 208 15 IT DOES not look as if the Apec stalemate will be broken by the time the officials' meeting ends in Tokyo on Friday. While this may be disconcerting, there is no reason why it should mean the end of the road for the historic development
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    • 147 15 CHOICE is obvious for Indonesians. President KSuharto has been slated to run for his seventh term in f office. Despite his age, 76, he is still robust enough to f usher his country into the next century, which will be a phase in Indonesian history. A
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    • 210 15 THE TIMING of holding the Beijing International Anti-corruption Conference right after the announcei ment in the fifth plenum that former Beijing party i chief Chen Xitong has been expelled from the politburo and central committee has special significance, t Coupled with the fact that the Communist Party
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    • 189 15 IF all goes according to plan, China by the year 2009 will have built the world's biggest, most expensive and perhaps the most dangerous dam. The mega-dam is under construction near the centre of China on a fabled stretch of the Yangtze River. The government claims
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    • 135 15 ONLY a small group of people continue to seek financial advice from Michael Milken, the junk bond champion who fell from grace at the end of the 1980s. But they include Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, Ronald Perelman and other communications titans involved in some of the biggest
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    • 139 15 THE Government-Cuepacs negotiations can be smooth or stormy. By early next year, public servants could have fatter bank balances from arrears and adjusted pay scales. Alternatively, they may have to wait a year or two if Cuepacs decides to press on for Ms 3 billion (SSI.7
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  • 1011 15  -  The environmental destruction caused by Australian mining giant BHP at a PNG mine has sparked a debate over ethics and calls for a code of conduct, reports Peter Lynch Peter Lynch The writer is a Sydney-based journalist who contributes to BT FOR a country that
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  • 516 16  -  Fran Neil Behrmann in LONDON OTHER UK banking and building society mergers are expected following Lloyds Bank and TSB Group's decision yesterday to combine their operations to form the UK's biggest retail bank. The two banks formally agreed to a merger
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  • 292 16  -  World Bank/IMF annual meetings FM Anthony Rowley in WASHINGTON THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) will shortly launch a global programme to bring more advanced developing countries on-line in a planned international network of data provision. The aim is to avoid a further Mexico-type
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  • 270 16 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG China Internet Corp, an Internet provider owned by China's state-run news agency, wants to sell shares in the United States, its chairman said. China Internet, 60 per cent owned by the Xinhua news agency, discussed selling shares with several US investment
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  • 381 16 AFP Reuter TOKYO The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum failed to reach agreement on finalising its freetrade agenda yesterday after extending two days of talks for half a day, government officials said. 'There are not so many things to report,"
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  • 641 16  -  The Bottom Line ANTHONY ROWLEY ANTHONY ROWLEY The writer is BTs Tokyo correspondent IT MIGHT be unkind to suggest that the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing when it comes to the activities of
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  • 135 16 Reuter FRANKFURT The Bun| desbank allowed its main money market rate to slip yesterday but analysts said the reduction was not significant enough to signal Germany had adjusted policy to aid neighbour France's beleaguered currency] The German central bank let its
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  • 352 16 Bloomberg Business News AFP TOKYO Japanese Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura defended his ministry's response to Daiwa Bank's revelation that its New York unit had incurred a US$l.l billion (551.58 billion) loss on alleged fraudulent bond trading. Mr Takemura said the ministry hesitated to inform
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  • 81 16 Reuter PARIS French Prime Minister Alain Juppe escaped prosecution yesterday over his personal apartment lease, but was ordered to move house. The decision by prosecutor Bruno Cotte spared Mr Juppe from resignation but could further embarrass him politically at a time when his popularity has crashed.
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  • 58 16 Reuter MEVASERET, Israel Religious Jews in Israel can now buy a Big Mac without the cheese after the opening yesterday of McDonald's first kosher restaurant. The fast-food restaurant in this tranquil Jerusalem suburb adheres to kosher dietary laws banning the mixing of dairy and meat products.
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  • 73 16 Reuter STRASBOURG A German Euro-MP demanded yesterday that Coca-Cola reveal its secret recipe, saying otherwise European governments should consider banning it. "The ingredients are known, they can be known by chemical analysis," said socialist Gerhard Schmid. "But we don't know the actual recipe." That, he
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  • 72 16 AFP BEIJING The last thousand giant pandas living in the Chinese mountains are about to enter the computer age. Xinhua news agency yesterday said researchers in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, had created a CD-ROM on the pandas containing 800,000 words, 1,000 photos and graphics and rare
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 253 17 SINGAPORE Listed companies in the Jardine stable have offered to buy back "odd lots" of its shares at a 5 per cent premium but most Singapore shareholders will not be able to accept the offer. The companies are Jardine Matheson, Jardine Strategic,
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    • 366 17  -  Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Sesdaq aspirant Kian Ho Bearings intends to use the funds raised through its initial public offering to boost its warehousing and distribution capacity. The company, which is one of the region's leading distributors of bearings
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    • 336 17 Bernama PETALING JAYA The Sime Darby Group expects to conclude a deal with a Japanese company to market its earthquake bearings in Japan in about six months, said DMIB Bhd's managing director, Jafar Carrim. Speaking yesterday after presenting some of these
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    • 367 17  -  Letter to the Editor Tay Lai Wat Group Financial Controller Hai Sun Hap Group WE refer to your report, "Hai Sun Hup calls off Inter-Conti-nental talks", in the Oct 10 edition of the Business Times. We are indeed surprised that on
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    • 540 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By Ruth Wong KUALA LUMPUR At a time when the authorities are championing due diligence in corporate disclosure, it comes as a surprise that a recently-published listing prospectus did not meet with an internal guideline of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE).
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    • 291 17  -  Fran Ruth Wong in KUALA LUMPUR REPCO Holdings shares lifted from suspension yesterday shot up 23 per cent after the company announced a revised deal to buy a gaming firm in Sabah. The shares soared to M 528.25 (SJ 15.88)
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    • 166 17 SINGAPORE Haw Par Brothers International is selling 20 per cent of its whollyowned subsidiary Asian Computer Services. The company said in a statement yesterday that the one million ordinary shares of $1 par value in the information technology offshoot was being
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    • Article, Illustration
      47 17 Ifiirnrlihi Market Mood'indicates the likely trading sentiment today. based on broken polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled Alliance, Barings, Credit Lyonnais Securities, Daiwa, Fraser.G KGoh, Kay Hum, Morgan GrenfeU, Ong Co, Nomura, PhiUip, Smith New Court and W I Can.
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      88 17  -  By Paul Leo SM Summit's fall from its ail-time high of 76.5 cents in early September to 53.5 cents yesterday will slow down to a halt at SO cents. A consolidation between 30-65 cents will follow. Daily Relative Strength Index is oversold while weekly RSI is heading down
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      • 278 18  -  From Al Labita in MANILA iIHALAYSIAN-LISTED TA Enterprise Bhd has struck a rdcal to build a high-rise office building in Ortigas, Metro Manila's new commercial hub. The flagship of Malaysian businessman Tony Tiah signed preliminary agreement on the project with state-run Philippines National
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      • 376 18 Acquisition to be carried out through 2 wholly-owned units Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Park May Bhd has proposed to ac,r> quire three transport compa- «ies, Pengangkutan Sri (Perak) Bhd, Syarikat Ebban Sdn Bhd and Foh Hup Omnibus Company Bhd, it was announced yesterday.
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      • 75 18 SINGAPORE United Engineers said yesterday Medical Hall haataken up its full entitlement of 600,500 rights shares of Mil (56 S cents) at par in associated company Apex Pharmacy Holdings. Medical Hall is a wholly owned subsidiary of McAlister and Company, which is a wholly
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      • 72 18 SINGAPORE L&M Group Investments said yesterday it had received a formal notice of a previously announced takeover offer on behalf of Zasidon Holdings, a vehicle for an Indonesian consortium led by Johannes Kotjo. The offer price is 51.45 a share and 45 cents a warrant. Morgan
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      • 48 18 SINGAPORE Alliance Technology and Development's wholly owned subsidiary Igel Visioncare has increased its shareholding in UK-incorporated Igel International to 91.64 per cent. Igel Visioncare has bought 4,600 Igel International ordinary shares at £2.18 (554.92) each and 47,800 non-voting shares at £1.33 each.
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      • 47 18 SINGAPORE Cosco Investment, Cosco Holdings and Star Marine Investments have terminated an agreement under which Cosco Investment was to buy 700,000 Costar Shipping shares from Cosco Holdings and 100,000 from Star Marine. Cosco Investment said the deal fell through because of "technical factors".
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      • 69 18 SINGAPORE Cam Mechatronic subsidiary Cam Products and Japanese company Toho International have agreed to withdraw an April 11 distributorship agreement under which Cam Products was appointed exclusive distributor in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the US for Toho 9000 commercial and industrial lubricating oil. Cam Mechatronic
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      • 36 18 SINGAPORE Lum Chang Holding? has received in-principle approval from the Stock Exchange of Singapore for the listing and quotation of $80 million 5 per cent unsecured bonds due 2000.
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      • 118 18 Bloomberg Business News TAIPEI Acer Inc, Taiwan's personal computer maker, yesterday began selling 85 million shares to overseas investors, an investment banker familiar with the sale said. At yesterday's closing price of NTs6* (553.49), the sale would raise NTSS.6I
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      • 359 18 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Hongkong-based investment house Jardine Fleming is preparing to team up with a local partner to set up joint venture fund management operations in Kuala Lumpur. This ipay make Jardine Fleming the first foreign investment group to
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      • 646 18 Analysts are stripping out windfall development gains from their forecasts Bloomberg Business News SINGAPORE A fall in Singapore's residential property market will hit earnings for many large industrial and commercial companies that have become accustomed to windfall development gains, analysts said yesterday. House
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      • 172 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Securities Commission has approved Land General Bhd's proposed acquisition of an 87 per cent interest in Perlis Consolidated Sdn Bhd from the Perlis State Economic Development Corporation on revised terms. Commerce International Merchant Bankers Bhd said in a statement
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      • 1588 18 Oct 12 Ml llV Met MG Spore Premier T 0.90 0.94»d® SHRPIIV UN IIWK MG Am Premier T 0.92 0.97»d® The Commerce 1.52 1.61 The Savmp Fund 1.47 1.56 CWCff l>VMtnMt BMk ypore Pro* Fund 0.57 06 Ud Cltl Gtobrt Bond Fd 0.971 0.9USpore Sec Fund 0.M 0.93 ckl lntn
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      • 341 18 Marks Spencer moves cautiously in China Reuter SHANGHAI British retailer Marks Spencer plans a cautious start in China with a single Shanghai store, but could quickly expand nationwide into a 50-outlet chain. Asian marketing manager Tracey Nelson said yesterday that the company was laying the groundwork for a move into
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      • 441 19 Fisons accepts Rhone-Poulenc Rorer's 1.83b bid, ending takeover battle Reuter LONDON British drugs firm Fisons pic yesterday succumbed to a £1.83 billion (SS4.I billion) bid from Fran-co-American predator RhonePoulenc Rorer Inc and put an end to what had become an increasingly bitter takeover battle. Fisons had rejected Rorer's original 240
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      • 101 19 Reuter DALLAS Halliburton Co intends to spin off to shareholders its Highlands Insurance Group Inc unit by year-end and will take an after-tax charge of about US$67 million (Ss94 million), or US$O.59 a share, for discontinued operations as a result. Halliburton also said yesterday
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      • 84 19 Bloomberg Business News ABBOTT PARK, Illinois Abbott Laboratories said on Tuesday that its third-quarter earnings rose a less-than-expected 8.8 per cent, as for its drugs and diagnostic tests fell below analysts expectations. The US maker of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and testing kits posted net income
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      • 78 19 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL Daewoo Electronics Co, South Korea's third largest electronics maker, said its US$6O million (SsB4 million) appliances plant in Vietnam began operations yesterday. The joint venture, owned 70 per cent by Daewoo and 30 per cent by Vietnam's Hanoi Electronic Corp (Hanel),
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      • 83 19 Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK Phillips-Van Heusen Corp will buy 25 per cent of Pyramid Sportswear for US$B.75 million (5512.2 million) in cash and stock in an effort to expand its presence in the global market. The New York-based retailer said yesterday it also
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      • 354 19 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO Advanced Micro Devices Inc said on Tuesday that its third-quar-ter earnings dropped by a third to US$56.l million (SsBo million) in a report that was worse than expected despite the company's previous warnings. The earnings, released after the stock market closed,
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      • 153 19 Bloomberg Business News PARIS SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV, Europe's largest independent chipmaker, said third-quarter net profit rose by almost half as sales rose by 40.4 per cent. SGS-Thomson, which last year sold al7 per cent stake to investors in New York and in Paris, said it
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      • 68 19 Reuter SYDNEY Chairman Dick Warburton (left) and chief executive Chris Tideman unveiling the float details for David Jones Limited yesterday. The float on the Australian Stock Exchange is worth AsBo6 million (SsB7B million) and is aimed at clearinga mountain of debt owed by the company.
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      • 128 19 Reuter MELBOURNE Australia's largest retailer Coles Myer Ltd yesterday announced a multibillion dollar restructuring of its entire operations in one of the largest series of transactions in Australian history. But it failed to please major shareholders who plan a board shake-up and analysts who
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      • 247 19 Bloomberg Business News PURCHASE, New York International Paper Co said its third-quarter earnings tripled from a year ago on higher paper prices. The world's largest forestproducts company said net income rose to US$32B million (***** million), or US$l.27 a share, from US$lll million,
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 615 20 Reuter C' LONDON The merger of Britain's Lloyds Bank and TSB f Group means the consolidation of the country's financial r -sector looks set to continue, driven by overcapacity and excess capital, analysts said on ,V Tuesday. Jar The Lloyds-TSB tie-up agreed
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      • 270 20 Reuter WASHINGTON HSBC V 'H&lduigs pic is not actively looking for acquisitions in the UK at the present time, chairman William Purves told j, Reuters on Tuesday. "We have no shopping list -in the UK at present. We are not actively looking," he
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      • 279 20 Reuter NEW YORK The New "York Cotton Exchange's (NYCE) board of managers voted unanimously on Tuesday to move with the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange Inc (CSCE) to a site in Jersey City, New Jersey, NYCE president Joseph O' Neill said. The vote reaffirmed the
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      • 330 20 Reuter HONGKONG China's cur- rent soybean crop could be four million tonnes down on last year, and Beijing should be a major importer in the coming year, said traders with a US grain house who recently toured growing regions. v Soybean acreage
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      • 422 20 Reuter COLOMBO A Sri Lankan bank will tap world debt markets for the first time when the state-owned Bank of Ceylon issues a floating rate note on Oct 18 to raise US$l2 million (5517.1 million), officials said yesterday. The issue,
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      • 215 20 Reuter BEIJING Three major obstacles remained before foreign banks in China could conduct renminbi business, Lois Dougan Tretiak, China director for the Economist Group, told reporters yesterday. These are an inadequate legal system, the foreign exchange control system and different rates of
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      • 331 20 Move will lead to the closure of at least 100 bank branches Reuter NEW YORK Core States Financial Corp and Meridian Bancorp Inc said on Tuesday they agreed to a US$3.2 billion (SS4.S4 billion) merger, the latest marriage creating a regional powerhouse in the
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      • 303 20 Reuter Bloomberg Business News LONDON Oil prices stagnated yesterday, failing to build on a two-day rally from last week's slide. November futures for international benchmark Brent blend were down five cents at U5515.98 a barrel in London at 1600 GMT. Dealers said latest
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      • 194 20 Reuter LONDON The US dollar ended higher in Europe against the mark as the French franc staged a rally against the German unit on news French Prime Minister Alain Juppe would not be prosecuted for a housing lease offence. The franc ploughed through 3.50 per mark to as low
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      • 97 20 AFX NEW YORK The US dollar was higher against the mark but lower against the yen in quiet midday trading, while the mark continued to weaken against the French franc, dealers said. The dollar was trading at 1.4248 marks and 100.76 yen. They said the dollar's rise against
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 1300 21 BIMEX WSPOfIT tailing, iu Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen futures ended mixed while Eurodollar futures were easier but deaiers said the market continued to have a firm undertone. Dealers said Euroyen futures moved within a fairly tight band with no clear direction. "It was mainly
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      • 665 21 coMMoomr reports IMb«Singapore: Rubber futures closed higher across the board in fairly active trade on late local buying interest, brokers said. "The market was very volatile today. Activity was centred on the RSS3 contract, especially November and December which recorded a big tonnage due
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      • 64 21 TOKYO Pakistan has not banned cotton exports, but has halted cotton export registrations to replace them with a new system which is expected to be in place soon, according to industry sources. An exporter in Karachi said Pakistan cotton for a grade equivalent to US
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      • 61 21 KUALA LUMPUR Indonesia is keen to iH raw palm oil, but isn't aggressive on selling palflMlein, a refined product, Malaysian traders said. JB the main export terminal of Belawan, Sumqtifi the sellers' price of October raw palm oil is Spout US$59O per tonne
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      • 79 21 SEOUL National Livestock Cooperatives Federation of South Korea yesterday passed on all offers for three 52,000 tonne cargoes of US corn for Feb-Apr shipment, the NLCF said. Position 1 was offered by Mitsui at 106.92 US cents per bushel over Chicago Board of
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      • 35 21 PARIS French National Cereals Intervention Board said it estimated the 1995-96 French maize harvest at 12.51 million tonnes, last month's estimate and down from !2.j4jpullion for the 1994-95 campaign.
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      • 64 21 MOSCOW Russia produced 96.5 tonnes of gold in the fust nine months of the vear, 7.8 tooflS less than in the same period of 1994, accordingo a report by the state precious metals commiuß. Of the total, 90.5 tonnes was produced bj&old prospectors themselves, 4.3 tonnes
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    • 1353 21 SICOM Futures Rubber (futucM closing m at 8.90pm) «gIC>afcout (Scents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Set! (tonnes) Interest Nov 95 205~50 20Sl5 20iM 25 IK5 Dec 202X0 1390 Jan 96 200.00 200.00 199.50 175 1350 Feb 96 200.00 200 00 199.50 175 1350 Mar 96 200.00 200.00
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1029 22 +6.4 SHARES closed 0.3 per cent stronger yesterday after a late surge of buying by bargain hunters, brokers said. "It's been a surprising turnaround," an analyst said. "It's mainly because no one was coming in and selling and that saw a return of confidence in the market." The All
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      • 506 22 -11.18 Philippine shares ended lower following the loss overnight of market heavyweight Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co in New York, brokers said. The Composite Index shed 11.18 points to 2,588.82, but advances outpaced declines 41 to 40 on 150 issues traded. Brokers said the market opened weak but cut
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      • 498 22 •95.42 Taiwan share prices closed sharply down to reflect the plunges by high-tech shares in overseas markets, brokers said. The Weighted Price Index ended down 95.42 points or 1.81 per cent at 5,165.36, off a 5,152.85 low. Turnover was an active NT545.43 billion. Electronics fell the most by 3.45
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      • 412 22 +&S4 South Korean share prices closed 0.7 per cent higher yesterday, as buying interest focussed on bargain hunting. "Following a one-day break in the string of upward marches, the buying force was in search for promising shares and snapped up asset players and stocks with a theme of merger
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      • 277 22 +9.72 The New Zealand share market ended the session firmer on improved turnover after a slow start to the week. The barometer NZSE-40 Capital Index ended the day at 2,091.33, up 9.72 points. Volume was NZ$3B million, around NZ$lO million better than Monday and Tuesday. "This is the
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      • 100 22 +14.42 Share prices finished selectively higher on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) aided by late buying by foreign funds and local speculative demand, brokers said. "FII (foreign institutional investors) buying gave the market a boost at the end," said a dealer. The first half results of Reliance Industries Ltd
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      • 609 22 +14.2 SHARE prices closed higher, with the market boosted by Wall Street's gains overnight and in early trading yesterday, dealers said. The market was also boosted by further takeover activity, with the FTSE-100 Index up about 5 points on the gains seen in Lloyds Bank and TSB alone following
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      • 215 22 +3*6 Dutch stocks rose for the first time in five sessions, boosted by a rebound in Philips Electronics NV and the US dollar's gains against the guilder. The Amsterdam EOE Index of the 25 most actively traded shares closed 3.36 prints, or 0.74 per cent, higher at 457.98, making
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      • 136 22 +1&47 French stocks tracked bonds higher as political tension surrounding Prime Minister Alain Juppe began to dissipate and the franc gained ground. A decision by the justice ministry to close a legal case against Prime Minister Alain Juppe should allow him to keep his job, promising to reverse the
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      • 160 22 +16*5 Share prices were higher in quiet late Ibis trading in line with gains in early Wall Street trading, dealers said. The Ibis DAX index closed up 8.26 points at 2,153.56 from the floor close and compared with an Ibis close on Tuesday of 2,137.01. The DAX closed yesterday's
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      • 176 22 +o*l Belgian stocks closed little changed, with industrial companies whose performance is closely tied to the economic cycle, such as steel maker Cockerill Sambre SA, recouping Tuesday's losses. Traders said the rebound was triggered by a recovery in Us stocks. The Bel-20 Index closed up 0.01 at 1,414.98 points,
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      • 218 22 +23* Swiss shares ended a volatile session higher on rising volume, dealers said. The firm US dollar supported industrial shares and low interest rates supported banks. The broad SPI closed 11.80 points up to 1,994.74. The blue-chip SMI was up 23.0 to 3,073.0. Swiss Re, down 25 Swiss francs
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      • 324 22 +35* Shares ended mostly firmer vesterday as buyers crept back into the market following a late slide on Tuesday, dealers said. They said demand had resurfaced in key stocks after Wall Street's overnight bounce from lows, but gold shares were easier amid concern about gold mine quarterly results. The
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      • 237 22 +4*l Stocks edged higher, rebounding after Tuesday's sharp decline, as bargainhunters snapped up cheap technology stocks. The TSE Composite Index rose 4.81 points to 4,477.11 on volume of 7.5 million shares valued at C 5102.6 million. Advancing stocks outnumbered declines 169 to 129, with 231 issues unchanged. "Traditionally after
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      • 133 22 4-28 Italian stocks rose for the first time in eight days, as telecommunications shares and Gemina SpA recovered some of their previous losses. A steady US dollar and a weaker mark also helped support the lira, giving the Italian stock market some respite from losses that had driven the
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      • 720 22 -0.36 Stock prices turned narrowly mixed in active trading early yesterday as the market tried to follow through on Tuesday's late rebound. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which eased 5.42 points on Tuesday, was off 0.36 point to 4,720.44 at 11am EDT. The Dow was ahead 12.28 points
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      • 101 22 +21*1 The Stockholm bourse was one of Europe's strongest performers yesterday. All sectors apart from forestry closed firmer, but the strength of the bourse was largely due to a 4.6 per cent jump in Ericsson. The OMX Index jumped 21.51 basis points to 1,752.35. Volumes were quite heavy at
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      2360 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks fdl to their lowest levels in the month amid concern earnings won't grow fast enough to justify a rally that drove prices to 13-month highs. The Hang Seng Index fell almost one per cent to close below 9,700 for the first time since Sep
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      598 23 CLSA THE Hongkong H Index slipped 0.8 per cent or 7.61 points to 972.23 points yesterday on low turnover of US$2.7 million. Zhenhai was the only riser, up 2 J per cent on low volume, whilst Northeast Electric, Shanghai Petrochem and Yizhens remained unchanged. All other counters dropped. The
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      2426 23 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks fell to the lowest level in more than a week on concern that corporate earnings will be lacklustre and that the banking industry still fines innumerable problems, traders and analysts said. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index fell 285.08 points, or 1.57 per cent, to
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      1365 23 Reuter BANGKOK Thai stocks rallied late as investors did some last-minute shopping for relatively cheap bank shares, though trade remained light with most investors stuck on the sidelines, brokers said. The SET Index finished at the day's high, 5.74 points up at 1,323.00 points on lacklustre trade of only
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      1094 23 Reuter JAKARTA Share prices ended the day flat despite modest buying in Astra and some small issues due to a lack of fresh leads, dealers said. The Jakarta Composite Index rose 0.29 points, or 0.06 per cent, to close at 496.28 after touching the day's low at 494.93. "Local
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 6582 24 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian stocks tumbled, led by plantation company Kuala Lumper Kepong Bhd, to a new fivemonth low amid concern about what steps the government would take to stop the economy overheating. The government, which has voiced concern about rising inflation,
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      • 1753 26  -  By R Sivanithy SINGAPORE A late propping up of the Straits Times Industrials Index masked a generally poor day in the local stock market yesterday amid lingering fears of further shocks from Wall Street. Malaysian stocks were also not spared, as worries about
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    • 544 27 Knight-Ridder Reuter THE ABSENCE of positive news in the freight market continued to dominate sentiment and holidays in Japan and Taiwan have contributed to the negative trend, trade sources said. The Baltic freight index recorded its 31st consecutive daily decline, losing another 15 points to 1,794. The index
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    • 374 27 BANGKOK A price-cut-ting war is making life difficult for small and medium-size freight forwarding firms in Thailand. Straits Liner Express, a me-dium-size freight forwarding company, said recently it could only just survive at present and make no progressive investments. The
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    • 324 27 SO 500 Oct 11 s$ vd CWT Distribution...... 1.48 unch 104 Chuan Hup Holdings 1.22 unch 55 Cosco Investment 1.90 -0.01 63 Far East Levingston 6.2S >0.05 8 Freight Links Express 0.74 >0.01 123 GB Holdings Ltd 1.00 -0.03 188 Hai Sun Hup Group 0.93 unch 200 Hitachi
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    • 366 27  -  Rahita Elias SINGAPORE A group of leading logistics companies in Singapore has struck a deal to set up China's first inland container depot. The group, called the Singapore Logistics Consortium, yesterday signed an agreement in Zhengzhou to set up the
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    • 234 27 SINGAPORE Jurong Shipyard Ltd (JSL) has become the latest shipyard to receive ISO 9001 certification. Speaking at a function celebrating the event, JSL chairman Lua Cheng Eng said the yard took just eight months to obtain ISO 9001 certification a record time for
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    • 239 27 Reuter COLOMBO Colombo harbour is becoming a hub port for India's fledgling car export industry, shipping officials said yesterday. "Suzuki Maruti cars made in India are being transhipped through Colombo," said Colombo port's chief operations manager H D A S Premachandra. "They
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    • 754 27  -  A fortnightly review of newbuilding orders By David Hughes THE last fortnight has seen a mixed bag of newbuilding contracts. The biggest order, by a long way, is for Taiwan liner carrier Evergreen. However that order 4,000-plus-TEU
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    • 352 27 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Specialised roll-on, roll-off ship operator Able Shipping is negotiating with South Korean and Japanese shipping companies to undertake their feeder needs in South-east Asia. 'Talks are expected to be finalised by the end of the year. We want to
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    • 154 27 Bloomberg Business News Reuter MEXICO CITY Mexico's Communication and Transportation Ministry said it closed 25 ports in Yucatan Peninsula as Hurricane Roxanne churned across Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula early yesterday, packing 160kmh winds. Most of the ports are being closed for the second time in a
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      • 440 40 Reuter BEIJING Airbus Industrie said on Tuesday it aimed to end Boeing Co's dominance of the China market by winning half of the 1,300 new aircraft orders it expects Chinese airlines to place during the next 20 years. "Our goal
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      • 345 40 Reuter BEIJING China said yesterday that western competitors would have to wait until the end of the year to discover who would get to co-produce a 100seat plane, a coveted prize in one of the world's highest-fly-ing markets. "We hope to choose
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      • 390 40 UPI HONGKONG If there is •ne thing keeping China from enjoying status as Asia's next dragon economy, it is its failure to transport goods in a timely fashion from producers to consumers. 1 By one government estimate, US$57 billion (5581.5
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      • 109 40 Reuter HANOI Vietnam and Myanmar are expected to sign an air services agreement tomorrow, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) announced on Tuesday. The news was contained in a CAAV press release. It gave no further details. However, a senior Myanmese diplomat in
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      • 371 40 NYT STUTTGART, Germany Daimler-Benz AG said on Tuesday it agreed to sell AEG's low-voltage business to General Electric Co of the US for an undisclosed amount. Daimler would not reveal further details about the sale of the unit, which had revenue of 320
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      • 348 40 Reuter JAKARTA Strong growth in Indonesia's air cargo market is being hampered by the inability of existing facilities to cope with rapidly expanding demand and an unfavourable tax regime, industry officials said on Tuesday. As Indonesia's economy grows at more than 7
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      • 71 40 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Toyota Motor Corp said its Canadian manufacturing subsidiary had opened a Cs3o million (Ss32 million) engine-aa-sembly plant at its factory in Cambridge, Ontario. Toyota Mptpr Manufacturing Canada will assemble 1.6- and 1.8-litre engines for Corolla cars. The new facility is capable
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      • 112 40 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG A senior official at China's airline regulator said the new airline China plans to set up in Hongkong would bring "healthy" competition to Cathay Pacific Airways, the Chinese-lan-guage Hong Kong Economic Journal reported. Shen Yuankang, an official at the
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      • 86 40 UPI DUBAI Korean Air yesterday launched a weekly Boeing 747 cargo flight between Seoul and Dubai, the Khaleej Times said. "Commencing with a weekly service, our airline hopes to increase the frequency as demand grows," Korean Air's regional nuniyr Y S Chung told the Dubai
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      • 113 40 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR Transmile Air, a newcomer to aviation, with a fleet of three Boeing 737-200 aircraft, will break national carrier Malaysia Airlines' monopoly on flights to the north Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak, the national Bemama news agency repotted on Tuesday. Transmile will
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      • 296 40 Reuter DETROIT The Mitsubishi Motors Corp assembly plant in Illinois that started as a bold cooperative experiment with Chrysler Corp faces a very different future as it celebrated its 10th anniversary yesterday. A much stronger Chrysler, both in terms of financial muscle and product resources,
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