The Business Times, 5 January 1996

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  • 625 1  -  US and European funds are scrambling to get back, say fond managers By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] A raging New Year bull run which has propelled world stock markets to new highs continued yesterday as investors seized undervalued stocks in Asia and looked towards lower
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  • 411 1  -  Byi Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Indonesian businessman Johannes Kotjo still wants to play a major role in Singapore's corporate arena despite having been censured by the Stock Exchange of Singapore. Contacted by BT yesterday, Mr Kotjo said: "I want to be a
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  • 257 1  -  By S N Vasuki in Jakarta INDONESIAN President Suharto delivered the annual 1996-97 budget yesterday, warning that overheating threatened the economic stability of the country. The source of the overheating, he said, was rising inflation and a current account deficit that touched a record US$7.9 billion
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  • 266 1  -  By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Fund managers say the 100-point surge in Singapore stocks in the last two days is grounded in better fundamentals than other regional equities. "Fundamentals-wise, Singapore is the strongest," says the senior portfolio manager for Yamaichi Capital Management, Marco Wong. "There
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    • 125 1 BBDI 'j i J Cycle Carriage has received nearly 1,200 orders for the new Meroedee-Benz E-class it started faUng bookings three weeks ago. And orders are still 'streaming in', despite a naa-reAmdable $22,000 deposit, Pf3 OfcCgMTMr»UlO«^gihr Pgt C&C shares have been setting very strong support jiisli sillw Mtry is Wl«r,
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    • 39 1 MORE REPORTS, Pg2 Don't oonnt the bears out; Political storm brewing in Nikkei's blue sky; What ftind managers say Brokers expect rally till Lunar New Year: Letter to editor, Pg 15 Inflation, current account pose danger: Suharto, Pg 6
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  • FOCUS: ARE THE BULLS BACK?
    • 750 2  -  there are enough risks to wake the bears from their slumber By Vikram Khanna T UST four days into 1906 and 1 I year-to-date gains of 4-6 per I cent are already seen in the 0 I stock markets of Singapore, Hongkong, Kuala
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    • 273 2  -  From* Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong SHARE prices In Hongkong surged to a 23-month record yesterday as the benchmark Hang Seng Index cleared the psychological hurdle of 10,500, though some softening was evident in the afternoon. Stocks rose across the board,
      JEN CHUA  -  273 words
    • 328 2  -  By Lee Yoke Har ASIAN markets seem to be returning as the flavour of the moment as investors usher in 1996. There is a general consensus among fund managers that 1996 will see a return to the buying of previously side-stepped Asian stocks. The buying momentum
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    • 365 2  -  From,] Ho Kay Tat pt Kuala Lumpur jASECOND straight day of solJfd gains on the Malaysian "ftock market has set the stage for a rally that could last till the Lunar New Year, brokers •aid, yesterday. With Lunar
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    • 162 2 Knight-Ridder [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara, may boost interest rates by a farther 50 basis points in 1996, said the Swiss-based securities firm ÜBS Securities. But ÜBS said its projections were below the 100 to 150 basis point hike expected by most analysts.
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    • 97 2 AFP, Reuter (FRANKFURT] The Bundesbank held its key rates unchanged at its first fortnightly meeting of the year yesterday. It held the discount rate at 3 per cent and the Lombard rate at 5 per cent. The bank last cut these rates, by half a percentage
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    • 314 2  -  Prom, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo EVEN by the standards of New Year bull runs in equity markets around the world, Tokyo's near 4 per cent rise yesterday in just half a day of trading was remarkable and a good augury
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    • 693 2  -  HOCK LOCK SORT By Anthony Rowley THERE is no shortage of analysts prepared to predict that it will be "blue sky" all the way between here and 25,000 for the Nikkei 225 average. They are probably right, although it
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 313 3  -  EYE 0M THE ECONOMY Prices By Teh Hooi Ling WHOLESALE prices appear to have bottomed out, judging from latest figures from the Department of Statistics. The Manufactured Products Price Index for November was 80.8, 0.3 of a percentage point higher than a year ago. Compared
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    • 230 3 THE Economic Development Board is working closely with 200 promising local enterprises (PLEs) to meet its goal of nurturing 100 budding Singaporean MNCs over the next 10 years. This group of local companies, identified by the EDB as potential MNCs, registered
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    • 268 3  -  Good response in the face of an apparent weak market By' Christopher Tan CYCLE Carriage has collected about 1,200 orders for the new Mercedes-Benz E-class since it started taking bookings three weeks ago. With an average deposit of $22,000 for each car,
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    • 338 3  -  Baiki nnder USSCCS play initial game before making any changes By Diana Oon MOST of the banks that have signed up for a faster and potentially cheaper way to clear locally-drawn US-dollar cheques are sticking to their current customer charges. BT understands that
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    • NEWS Roundup
      • 73 4 "SO EASY to enfoy, so hard to forget"—that*s the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board's new marketing tagiine. Launched by chief executive Tan Chin Nam yesterday, the tagllne aims to reflect the fact that one of Singapore's distinctive appeals as a destination is its i ability to
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      • 28 4 PARLIAMENT will sit Jan 18, a Thursday. Members of Parliament are expected to debate the White Paper on the out the L/TA's
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      • 64 4 Labour Party, arrives tomorrow night for a two-day visit. Accompanied by two members of his private staff, Mr Blair on Monday will call on Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Helen Loongand Foreign Affairs Minister S Jayakumar.
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    • 264 4  -  Announcement could channel Singapore money away from condominiums From Abdul Hadhi in Johor Baru FOREIGN buyers of industrial properties in Johor will be exempted fTom the Msloo,ooo (5555,690) levy, Johor Mentri Beear Abdul Ghani Othman said yesterday. Officiating at the launch of the Kota
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    • 407 4  -  Condo, apartment take-op trend seen dipping from 90% to 85%, says JLW By Michelle Low ONE clear trend has emerged in the uncertain residential property market supply is growing increasingly faster than demand. But after an "unusual" 1995, market watchers hesitate to say how this
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    • 290 4  -  By] Diana Oon THE local construction industry pie is expected to shrink this year, following a record growth last year. The Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) expects $14.3 billion in total contracts to be awarded in 1996, down from a record $14.7
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    • 1070 4 Selected sales caveats lodged from 13 Nov 1996 to 23 Dec 1995 fir District 10 (lectors HJ7) f rtp P'ie« Billt-I«/ F«f Street name t,p date UUmi* J J (Srttt) <s*ft) (8$) Non-landed 2<M)ct 909 1388 1068 709 f tTn m Apt 24-Oct 999 798 1064 756 RA
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  • REGION
    • 757 6  -  INDONESIAN BUDGET He is worried about 8.6% inflation region's highest and soaring current account deficit Reports from I S N Vasuki in Jakarta INDONESIAN President Suharto presented the annual 1996-97 budget yesterday but warned that rising inflation and a ballooning current account deficit could
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    • 398 6 They say it will not curb current account deficit ANALYSTS expressed scepticism yesterday over the Indonesian government's commitment to cool an overheated economy. They see the 1996-97 budget as expansionary and say steps to curb the current account deficit are inadequate. Eminent economist
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    • 243 6 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S Education Minister Najib Tun Razak said the cabinet has approved the draft of two education bills that would allow local private organisations to apply to set up universities in the country. "The two bills would be debated in a
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    • 225 6 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama DEPUTY Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday directed the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) to embark on low and medium-cost housing projects on a major scale to counter the high cost houses built by the private sector. Describing the present prices of
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    • 54 6 [BANGKOK] A mahout riding his elephant against the traffic on a road here yesterday. Despite a ban on elephants roaming the Thai capital, several mahouts violate the ban during the New Year season, cashing in on the belief of some city residents that walking under the mammals will
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    • 353 6 BANGKOK AFP A DECISION by Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa to place Thailand's embattled finance minister under the supervision of another senior cabinet member was welcomed by financial analysts yesterday. Amnuay Virawan, a deputy premier charged with international economic affairs,
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    • 124 6 m KUALA LUMPUR Reuter A SOUTH KOREAN firm implicated in a graft scandal involving former president Roh Tae Woo will not lose its contract to help build a dam in Malaysia, Bernama reported yesterday. Dong Ah Construction and Industrial Co Ltd was granted a M
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    • NOTE Book
      • 90 6 Reuter Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR) An Australia-Malaysia bustnaas ftxtun to highlight business cooperation between the two countries will be held here on Jan 16 in conjunction with the visit of Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. Mr Keating will deliver a keynote address on "Strengthening Australia's Business and Economic
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      • 64 6 Reuter [MANILA] Philippine President Fidel Ramos yesterday ordered fresh steps to revamp the country's police to bolster the government's fight against worsening crime, the presidential palace said. He ordered 18 police officers in key posts replaced on Wednesday. The palace sa|d the move was
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      • 71 6 AFP, [BANGKOK] The United States has offered a US$2 million re ward for information leading to the arrest and convlction erf reputed Myanmese drug lord Khun 9a, a US embassy official said here yesterday. The offer came amid reports that Myanmese forces had taken
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      • 76 6 AFP [HANOI] Vietnam licensed 401 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects worth US$6.6 billion (Sse.3 billion) last year, increasing the total number of foreign projects in the country to 1348, the Vietnam News Agency said yesterday. About half of total FDI in Vietnam of US$l9.3
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      • 56 6 [HONGKONG] A worker removing cartons ofVitasoy milk and juice from a supermarket shelf yesterday after the Hongkong-owned drinking product company found finite in manufacturing at its Shenzhen factory. More than eight million paper packages of various Vitasoy products have been pulled from local stores after some
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    • 179 6 MANILA Reuter CENTRAL Bank governor Gabriel Singson said he expects the Philippines' full-year 1995 inflation to average between 8 and 8.1 per cent. This is lower than the 9.3 per cent registered in 1994 but above the government's original 1995 target of 6.5 to 7.5
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    • 183 7 NEW DELHI TflE number of foreigners working in Singapore has jumped more than five times to 350,000 in the past two decades, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday. f In his address to some 200 opinion-makers at the India
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    • 572 7  -  SX LEE ZV DVDIA S'pore cited as an example of how survival depends on staying useful in a competitive world By Chuang Peck Ming THE problem India faces is working out how fast it can create the conditions to make its people
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    • 154 7 TOKYO Bloomberg Business News JAPAN is considering reducfng the repayment burden on countries whose yen-denomi-nated loans have soared in value with the strengthening of the currency, Nikkan Kogyo newspaper reported. Developing countries have been hit by the sharp rise in the yen's value
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    • ASIA Notes
      • 64 7 Reuter (BEIJING] Foreigners entering or leaving China must M declare foreign currencies in excess of US$5,OOO (557.127) under new rules effective Jan 1,1996, the International fs Business newspaper said yesterday. Chinese travellers must declare foreign currencies exceeding US$l,OOO. All fj tuvellers must also declare Chinese
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      • 51 7 Reuter applied to join the 18-nation Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) to gain stronger economic bargaining power within a regional grouping, Media Minister Dharmasiri Senanayake said yesterday. S important in the future," he said. India and Pakistan also want to join Apec, he said.
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      • 49 7 Reuter H ICOLOMBO] About 500 Sri Lankan telecom workers jr PWteatad against their government's plan to privatise Sri Lanka Telecom, the state telephone monopoly, on m Wednesday. Last week Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and the Finance Corp of Ceylon won the tender to w restructure the telecommunlcationa industry.—Reuter
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      • 60 7 AFP S [TOKYO] An overwhelming majority of Japanese are unhappy with domestic politics, according to two newspaper surveys published yesterday. The Yomiuri J Shlmbun poll showed that 82.8 per cent of respondents were discontented with political, economic and social conditions, while 84 per cent in
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      • 82 7 Bloomberg Business News I D&KJING} China's grain prices are likely to rise 3 per cent par month this year despite a bumper harvest in 1906, the official Economic Datfy reported. Grain prices rose 36.4 per J cent In the January-November period over
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      • 49 7 AFP 1 [TOKYO] A record 87.88 million people offered prayers at shrines and temples across the country during uj Japan's three-day New Year holidays, the National Police S Agency said yesterday. This exceeds last year's 85.21 minion and 1994's 86.44 million. —AFP -T >v
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    • 37 7 [BEIJING] Junior Public Procurators taking an examination here on Wednesday to verify their working abilities for job suitability. A public procurators law brought about in 1995 requires tests to affirm legal knowledge. AFP
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    • 316 7  -  SINGAPORE Higher pay and bank mortgage loans help locals boy houses By\ Lu Ning CHINA'S real estate market is set for a dramatic surge despite a recent downturn, says an investment research report by Morgan Stanley Asia Ltd. The surge will
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    • 132 7 BEIJING AFP CHINA will recruit more foreign experts to help with crucial state sector reforms this year, although shopfloor antipathy towards foreign overseers will prevent most from taking a managerial role. The State Bureau of Foreign Experts will use more of its annual budget to import
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    • 222 7 WELLINGTON Reuter NEW ZBALAND's political leaders and central bank face gruelling examinations in 1996, with a landmark general election and the performance of the inflation rate the toughest papers to pass. From a market point of view, analysts tip a continuation of the
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    • 192 7 TAIPEI Reuter, AFP TAIWAN has scored a diplomatic success by establishing ties with the African state of Senegal, diplomatic analysts said yesterday. But while the move slightly boosts Taiwan's diplomatic strength a few days after President Lee Teng-hui said Taiwan should "walk tall" in the
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    • 389 7 WASHINGTON Washington considering request, which Bering says it will oppose Reuter TAIWAN has requested a US visa for its vice-president, raising the prospect of another potential diplomatic confrontation between Washington and Beijing, US officials said on Wednesday. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns confirmed that Taiwan
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    • 132 7 TOKYO AFP JAPAN'S government plans to promote economic development in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa by expanding a free trade zone to include the whole prefecture. The Sankei Shimbuu newspaper said yesterday that the government aimed to imple- ment the project under the
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    • 559 8 In the Mailer of the Compute* Act. Cap. SO BETA DESIGNS (PTE) (Incorporated In Singapore) SPECIAL RESOLUTION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the memberi of the aboveaamed Company, duly convened and held at 21 Balmoral Road dOl-01. Singapore *****5 on 29th DccniUwr 1995 at 10.00 the following Special Resolution
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    • 503 8 HR SYSTEMS PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Winding-up) LIQUIDATORS' OFFICE: IS Beach Road *03-10 Beach Centre Singapore *****7 NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY J GIVEN pursuant lo Section 308 of the Companies Act, 1 Chapter 50. that the final Meeting of the Company will be held at IS
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  • THE WORLD
    • 660 9  -  Clinton, congressmen and Britain's Tories could learn a thing or two from cool Icelanders WORLD TXBW By Kevin Sullivan WHEW! What a shocker! Air transport between Europe and North America narrowly escaped abrupt and radical restructuring over the New Year, when 82 extremely important inhabitants ofjceland decided
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    • 277 9 LONDON Reuter THE art market rebounded in 1995 and leading auctioneers yesterday painted a rosy picture for this year with jewellery and old masters the big growth areas. Gone are the heady days of the late 80s when speculators sent prices soaring.
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    • 41 9 [MIAMI, Florida] A worker with Florida Power and Light removing the twisted remains of a canoefrom power lines here after a tornado hit the town, damaging about 100 homes. Some 30 people were treated for minor injuries. REUTER
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    • 261 9 WASHINGTON Reuter THE partial government shutdown is rippling through Hollywood and broadcasting, with dozens of media deals including Walt Disney Co's purchase of Capital Cities/ABC Inc on hold because regulators can't rule on the ventures, lawyers and government officials said.
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    • 429 9 WASHINGTON Representatives vote to prolong longest govt shutdown in US history Reuter, AFP HOUSE Republicans refused on Wednesday to end the longest US government shutdown in history, with Speaker Newt Gingrich vowing his troops would not budge until President Bill Clinton agreed to
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    • 86 9 JERUSALEM AFP AMERICAN Secretary of State Warren Christopher joined Is-raeli-Syrian negotiations outside Washington DC yesterday in an "intensified effort" to achieve results in the peace talks, Israeli radio reported. The radio quoted Israeli negotiators as saying that the talks had their "best day yet" and
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 51 9 Reuter [SARAJEVO] Serbs yesterday freed the remaining 13 Muslim captives they were hokllng In dartaiye of Nato, witnesses said. Journalists said the hostages, whose abduction by separatist Serbs sparked a crisis for Nato, were released from the main Bosnian Serb holding camp for detainees at Kuls
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      • 60 9 Reuter [WASHINGTON] President Bill Clinton will visit US troops in Bosnia in the next two weeks, before delivering his State of the Union address, White House officials said yesterday. One official said Mr Clinton's advisers were considering several dates before his annual speech to the nation,
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      • 71 9 Reuter [LONDON] Britain said yesterday tt was deporting a top Saudi dissident to protect relations with a key ally, raising fears that free speech was being compromised for the sake of lucrative trade deals. Mohammed Maaari promised to appeal against the order, which Britain said was
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      • 38 9 AFP [MANAMA] Former British foreign secretary Douglas Hurd yesterday singled out Iran as a threat to world security and accused Teheran of supporting subversive activities in the Middle East and Africa.
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      • 57 9 Reuter [SARAJEVO} Croatian President FranJo TudJman arrived in Sarajevo yesterday to disease the Dayton peace deal and an uneasy Bosnian federation between local Croats and Muslims. Strain within the fiKlsratton was illustrated only hours befbre Mr TudJman arrivßd, as Muslims in Mostar were reported to have
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      • 72 9 Reuter (ANKARA] Caretaker Turkish Prime Minister Jansu Ciller has caned tor Islamist party members who beat her at general elections last month to be given a chanoe to form a new pnwuiaaiiL Bat, hi an interview with the Hurriyet daily iwd^jshedveetn^vthftprwrfV^rtrtwtTriam^ WeMhre Party (RP)
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    • 177 9 LONDON AFP THE embattled London Stock Exchange (LSE), struggling to maintain its position as the dominant centre for share dealing in Europe, ditched its chief executive, Michael Lawrence, yesterday. LSE officials said that Mr Lawrence, who upset the establishment with "radical" plans to modernise the exchange,
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 756 10  -  OPINION THB BOTTOM LIMB By Rudi Dornbusch The writer is professor ttfeconomics at the Massachusetts Institute# Technology. Reproduced from Business Week International by special permission. Copyrighted by McGraw-Hill, Inc. All rights reserved IN the broad swing of the ideological pendulum, free market
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    • 136 10 Hie lesson learned by producers, including Saudi Arabia, is not to shock the market' JUL-L—LI an oil analyst at Credit lyonnais, on the likelihood ofa change tn oil prices following the temporary transfet of power by Saudi Arabia's King Fahd to his half-brother Prince Abdullah. 'Earnings may
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    • 547 10 EDITORIAL CHINA'S appointment of the Preparatory Committee (PC) has run into the usual barrage of criticism. And the most persistent charge is that the business sector is over-represented Of the 94 Hongkongers on the list, at least a third are businessmen But why not? Detractors were quick
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    • 1056 10  -  TheyuuQyny the coming year will be like the last me. Bat, ii no orirtflint points out, tkey are almost always wrong By, James Glassman JamesGlassman writes regularly on financial affairs for The Washington Pm LAT-WP THE nation's highly paid and much-quoted economic forecasters have
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    • 404 10 Pmnaaßa innraoy THE PUBLIC has been waiting for the Indonesian government to adopt more open policies governing political life to balance out the prevailing openness of the economic field. The government has never hesitated to use the term "liberalisation" in economic matters. But both forms of
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous

  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • CHATTER Box
      • 113 11 Reuter PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela, aided by the world's most winning smile and the cutest dimples, tops the list of South Africa's most eligible and sexy bachelors published In a women's magazine. "Currently divorcing, the world's favourite president is about to become South Africa's most eligible bachelor," the
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      • 56 11 AFP wWTTIgS being one of Hollywood's top money earners, comicactor Jim Carrey is also the fan-mail king, amassing about 50,000 pieces of fen mail a month. "He is incredibly popular, especially with kids, who tend to write a lot of Can mail," said author Michael Levine,
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      • 53 11 AFP BORROWING Bruce Willis for a reshoot cost the makers of Die Bard With a Vengeance U*****,000(*****,500). 12 Monkeys director Terry Gilliam told the Dallas Morning News: "They pulled him away for several days, and they fc&d to pay us, which was good for us because
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      • 61 11 AFP IVANA TRUMP is taking her knowledge of finance on the read. She will hold a business seminar for Ecuadoran executives in Guayaquil at the end of the month. The 'former model and ex-wiffe of New York real estate tycoon Donald Trump is amassing valuable experience as
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      • 68 11 UPI QBNG LIN, the eldest daughter of China's paramount Jteodor Deng Xiaoping, has made a U5512,500 (S$17,818) dpnation to Macau's Catholic Caritas charity to support disabled children in the Portuguese enclave. Ms Deng's gift aps a portion of the income she made from
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      • 73 11 Reuter OSCAR-WINNING Russian director Nikita Mikhalkovha» declined to take up the seat he won inlastmonth's parliamentary election, preferring to make films instep ??rr «#-Tass news agency said on Wednesday that Mr Mlkhalkov, who won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1966 for Burnt by the
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    • 953 11  -  DAVID oabmel, on a sampling spree, finds the Aussies are giving the French a run for their money DAVID GABRIEL CABERNET SAUVIGNON, the king of grapes from the Bordeaux region in France, has travelled very well around the world. It has proved to be an easy grape
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    • 266 11 MOVIE NYT [NEW YORK] Babe, the popular family film about a plucky piglet who rebels against his assigned role in barnyard society and insists on being a sheep dog, was named the best film of 1995 by the National Society of Film Critics on
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    • 433 11 VIDEO Video movie costs less to make than one for theatres Bloomberg Business News [POINT RICHMOND, California! Pixar Inc has said it is talking with Walt Disney Co about creating a direct-to-vid-eo sequel to Toy Story, the two companies' hit computer-ani-mated movie. A
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    • 486 12 MUSIC Quota on foreign music on radio resurrects fierce row AFP [PARIS] French cultural watchdogs, concerned as ever at la menace anglo-saxonne, have finally struck back at that most threatening of youth culture imports: English-lan-guage rock and pop. And being French, they have
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    • 706 14  -  INTERNET Our cyberspace guide sips Coke, watches dinosaurs and mulls over a light bulb By] Lin Hsin Hsin The writer, an information technologist, maintains her own home page at: http://www.ncb.gov.sg/lhh/lhh.htmL [SINGAPORE] Did you know that 650,000 people drink Coke every day, and that you can order
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    • 691 14 TRAVEL Flores, 1,500 km east if Jakarta, has much to offer the tourist Reuter [MAUMERE, Indonesia] A former Portuguese colony now part of modern-day Indonesia, earthquake-prone Flores island boasts a rich tapestry of traditions and an alluring beauty. The Portuguese were forced out
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    • 180 14 MUSIC AP x [LOS ANGELES] Sweeping changes may be ahead in tU£ way record companies promote and market their music. Technology has reduced t£jp value of information offered by tipsheets and other pronation consultants. Broadcast Data Systems, k high-tech airplay tracking system in 126 of
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    • 628 14 PEOPLE AFP [LOS ANGELES] Pop music icon Madonna testified on Wednesday that she has been plagued by nightmares since last April when she stared into the eyes of a man whom she believes wants to kill her. Accused stalker Robert Hoskins
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    • 42 14 n f lounced in N^w York on Wednesday that the late actor James Dean ukll stamp The stamp, which is part of the Postal Service's Legends of Hollywood Series, will be available at post offices inJune REUTER
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 244 15 [SINGAPORE] First Capital Corporation (FCC) is getting into the property scene in India indirectly. The company yesterday said it had formed a joint venture with Thakral Investments Ltd of Hongkong and Khattar Holdings Pte Ltd to invest in Indian property. FCC owns 40 per
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    • 488 15 S'pore investor wins Aussie approval to buy theme park despite furore (SINGAPORE] Janola Dale, the Australian subsidiary of Singapore company KPL Holdings, has Anally obtained approval fromtthe Australian Foreign Investment Review Board and Treasury to buy the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast. Wire agencies said
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    • 461 15  -  Pacific Century Group plans to develop building into office complex By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Mainboardlisted Pacific Century Regional Developments (PCRD) has been granted an option to take a half share in a HKS67S million (*****.4 million) commercial building in Hongkong which
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    • 306 15 [SINGAPORE] Fu Yu Manufacturing, a plastic injection moulding specialist, will increase its production capacity in China following the acquisition of land in Tianjin on which a 9,000 square metre factory will be built. This will be Fu Yu's third plant in China and
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    • 236 15  -  From David Hughes in London A SOUTHAMPTON court has sentenced a ship management executive to three years' jail for accepting payments in return for favouring Singapore's Keppel Shipyard in repair contracts in 1994 and 1995. Dutch national Cornells Van der Horst, 54,
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    • 210 15  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Johanes Kotjo I REFER to your article in yesterday's The Business Times, "Kotjo unfazed by SES censure". I am disturbed by the tone of the report which implies that I am totally unconcerned with the action taken by the SES barring me
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    • 317 15  -  Move spurred by talk of pending announcement From! Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur PERSISTENT market talk of a pending announcement by second-board counter Repco Holdings sent the stock soaring 15 per cent to hit the auspicious MsBB mark yesterday. Brokers also noted
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
      • 602 16  -  Car czar wants company to move away from being import-substitution project Reports by] Ho Kay Tat in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S newly-crowned car czar Yahaya Ahmad wants to steer the national car company away from being just another import-substitution project. Proton (Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Bhd) cannot
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      • 176 16 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Shoemaker Pengkalen Industrial Holdings Bhd said it was planning to acquire two property firms for Msso million (5527.8 million) and a 28.78 per cent stake in a securities firm for Ms 36 million. It also announced a 1-for-l rights issue
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      • 162 16 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's stock exchange said yesterday the stock of six firms would be transferred to scripless trading under the Computerised Central Depository System. The announcement brings to 169 the total number of main board firms on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange
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      • 305 16 HICOM Holdings Bhd will divest its stakes in non-core joint ventures if it is not allowed to help shape their business strategies. Hicom boss Yahaya Ahmad told BT that if the joint ventures depended on business generated within the Hicom group, Hicom would want
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      • 470 16 Timber prices not likely to recover in near future, says MD MBT, Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] Aokam Perdana Bhd expects performance to be slightly poorer in the current year compared to the previous financial year if the prices of timber products do not improve,
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      • 388 16 Bloomberg Business News ITAIPEIJ Taiwan will today scrap key restrictions on the movement of money out of the country by foreign stock investors, in a move which executives say may lead to a big rise in overseas purchases of the country's shares.
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      • 280 16 Reuter, Bloomberg Business News [SANTA CLARA, California] Intel Corp scored a victory in its first international patent infringement dispute on Wednesday when it said a Taiwan firm agreed to stop making a version of Intel's 466 chip. Under a settlement, United Microelectronics Corp (UMC),
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      • 342 16 Joint ventures aim to cash in on strong global PC demand [SINGAPORE] Hitachi Ltd plans to invest 230 billion yen (553.11 billion) to set up semiconductor joint ventures on both sides of the Causeway. In Malaysia, the electric machinery maker
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      • 215 16 Reuter [HONGKONG] Spurred by the Barings and Daiwa scandals that rocked world financial markets last year, an official of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said yesterday that monitoring of derivative trading will continue. "We did a fUll review (in 1995) on the entire controls
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      • 211 16 Bloomberg Business News [HONGKONG] Citic Pacific Ltd, the Hongkong arm of China's leading overseas investment company, is selling 120 million new shares at HK$27 apiece, said an official at Peregrine Brokerage Ltd. Citic Pacific's privately held parent, Citic (Hongkong) Ltd, will
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      • COMPANY Briefs
        • 38 16 w-— w [SINGAPORE] Singapore Press Holdings has acquired all the shares of Hipro Printing as a fully owned subsidiary. Hlpro Printing, with an issued capital of $20*000, puldishes Tami/Muratu, Singapore's <mly Tamil language newspaper.
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        • 79 16 [SINGAPORE] Property and trading group Guthrie OTS Is entitled to maintain, control and use the Belvedere Hotel in Vientiane, a court in Laos has ruled. The case Involved a dispute between Lao Petlco Co Ltd, builnesmin Joseph Teng and Guthrie over the Singapore-listed company's
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        • 73 16 [SINGAPORE] sacs Property will complete its subscription 0f54.44 million shares—for ***** million caah at $1 per share —of the enlarged capital of LC Hotels on March 8 Instead of Jan 8. LC Hotels is a subsidiary of Lum Chang Holdings which plans to ss& 40 per
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        • 53 16 [SINGAPORE] RDC Construction, a subsidiary of Rseoureee Devriopmsnt Corporation, )>as hsen awnled a 1 $15.9 million contract to ooastruct eight remote aircraft m Parking stands at Changi Airport The project, awarded by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore* is espected to be completed in September
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 448 17  -  Codelce claims its former trader conspired with another firm Sogemin to defraud company From. Neil Behrmann in London LITIGATION by Chile Copper Corp (Codelco), the world's largest »copper producer, threatens to tarnish the lustre of the London Metal Exchange (LME). Codelco has issued
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      • SMALL Change
        • 94 17 Reuter [LONDON] Investment bank Morgan Stanley Group feces "from negligence" from investors angry over gj ofiftftfresimsntftuad, The Times newspaper jHfi 'Mpkt on Wednesday. The Global Opportunity Fund was from Luxembourg and London and Morgan v- WanleyßanqiM Luxembourg acted as its administrator ■fßililltfndltin; lbs|io|w» wnlit 17n
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        • 55 17 Reuter Halifax Building Society, Britain's largßSt 1 in talks to buy an unnamed large IwiMT.4 market share in the financial Independent said yesterday. The newspaper,* 4 Xf sources, said Ralifex had examined fftnufft and Scotland. But it quoted Halifal l -4 %\Tsaying it was
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        • 54 17 Bloomberg Business News Japan's Ministry of Finance plans to introduce a 1 fey reporting on derivativea Keizat newspaper said. The new system t as earfa 1 as March when the next tlfts^xalu# i^ptMijmlMii transactions according to the marketi§s Batfe* St the time of the
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        • 36 17 Reuter ■GTON] President Bill Clinton nominated m lawyer Martin Kamarck on Wednesday to be of the Rxpott-Import Bank, an independent ntagency that finances the sale ofUS products e is currently its vice-chairman.—Reuter
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        • 43 17 AFP The Bank of Canada announced on Wednesday ra te would be cut from last week's 0.79 *iftireefittos.7Bper cent The move, which was largely expected, Is unlikely to affect interest rates charged by financial Institutions, analysts said. —AFP
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      • 295 17 M«*e an important reform of financial system Reuter, Bloomberg Business News, AFP [SHANGHAI] The People's Bank of China will issue a daily weighted average of the six contracts traded on the Shang-hai-based interbank renminbi market, the China Securities newspaper said yesterday. The
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      • 261 17 Bloomberg Business News [CHICAGO] Trading activity at the Chicago futures markets, the world's largest. feU last year as rising bond prices and more stable short-term interest rates reduced the need to manage the risk from wide price swings. The Chicago Board
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      • 349 17 Fund investors to boost retirement savings, be on prowl for foreign stocks Reuter [NEW YORK] American mutual funds are set to echo last year's excellent performance this year even if they fail to match it, according to Wall Street analysts. Fund
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      • 147 17 Knight-Ridder [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's second futures exchange, the Malaysian Monetary Exchange, has again postponed its start date for trading. When contacted yesterday, an MME spokesman said the start date was "not going to be this month", but trading "will start this year".
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      • 174 17 Reuter, AFP THE dollar was buoyant in Europe after soaring against the yen overnight to its highest level since April 1994 as Japanese markets started the new year and endorsed the trend of yen weakness amid a search for yield. The yen tumbled against both the dollar and
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      • 303 17 ENERGY BBPOBT Reuter [SINGAPORE] Spot prices of regional light sweet crudes have hit their highest levels since 1992 as end-users, spurred by healthy demand for refined products, continue to scramble for limited supplies, traders said yesterday. "Refiners in Asia underestimated the winter products
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 921 18 [KUALA LUMPUR] Tin prices on the FCLTM held steady on better buying support and heavy offering but remained unchanged at M 115.75 per kg. Traders said the market was firm despite a fall of US$2O on the London Metal Exchange. *At the opening level, initial bids amounted to
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      • 216 18 Reuter [SINGAPORE] Euroyen and Japanese government bond (JGB) futures limped to a weak finish on hectic selling following the dollar's sharp rise against the yen. The dollar rose to 105.68 yen in early Tokyo trade its highest level since April 8, 1994. It shed some of its gains
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      • 553 18 rooooomo ki i— t«n at ft Actvi otm JMM 14.42 94.43 94.42 94.42 270 TO 1151 Ftb N 94.57 94.57 9157 94.57 03 9 1034 Mar N 9441 9449 94.47 94.17 3944 2542 ***** CM* r«*»: Jan HM. FM 9k U.57, Mar M: M.i744.M mom— oh* h> im tut iioi
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      • 453 18 QAilhßjnpiliudMtlM [HONGKONG] China's Hubei province hte purchased 4.75 million tonnes of gtain from farmers as of Dec 20, the official Economic Daily reported yesterday. Of the total, 3.24 million totanes were purchased at the gOvernment-fixed price, reaching 112 per centof the compulsory quotas set by the central
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    • 845 18 aio<mruTuiiBB j an 4 CMN mt SJ6WU ■gcwnWTatwmAe am mm o*m fr** m U» >ttt (t—w) tofrurt S5S SS is 38 £3 gJ:S SS iSS ***** 3000 feCOR7«ACT(»l( M v.!.,, ON* I ill Ty ft—M> Ifi I i I M# 164.50 MMO 163.00 ISO 3*60 fifeS ***** 3030
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    • 4549 19 Dftfcyt +741*86 JAPANESE stocks ended the first trading day of 1996 sharply higher as a weak yen and strong New York shares fuelled waves of buying of blue chips, particularly high-techs and exporters. The Nikkei Average surged 749.85 points, or 3.8 per cent, to close at 20,618.00,
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    • 1570 19 Pi-*- -u SHARE prices closed down, but off lows as Wall Street's morning gains helped reverse early losses. The FT-SEIOO index closed 1.5 points lower at 3,714.1, off a new all-time high of 3,723.0, but up from a low of 3,709.0. Volume was 657.4 million shares. Dealers
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      2424 20 Bloomberg Business News Filling Seng ****** STOCKS rose, led by propertyrelated issues, as international fund managers moved money from the US to Asia. International investors are looking to Asia for big returns in 1996, especially from property companies, which could be helped by lower interest rates. Hutchison Whampoa, HK
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      669 20 Reuter H Shanghai B Share ladex *130 SHANGHAI B Share Index ended up 4.7 per cent, or 2.30 points, to 51.53 on volume of 12.9 million shares worth US$4.l million. Brokers said the rise was mainly on the back of a revival in investor confidence, prompted by Tuesday's release
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      990 20 Bloomberg Business News HOimpogiteMg *12J« STOCKS rose to a 16-month high, led by shares of big companies like Telkom and Indosat that attracted foreign investors pouring money into Asian markets. Construction stocks like Bimantara Citra and Indocement Tunggal Perkasa also rose after the government said it plans to spend
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      1207 20 Bloomberg Business News HSETMn +37.14 STOCKS surged to their highest levels in five months, led by banks and other companies with large market capitalisations, as foreign investors wagered interest rates would fall and boost profits. The rise of the US dollar to a 19-month high against the yen also
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
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      • 394 21 KUALA LUKPURReports Bloomberg Business News HOwnporiteMn *1&M MALAYSIA'S benchmark stock index rose 2.6 per cent to a five-month high as foreign investors bid up shares of big companies such as Maybank and Petronas Gas. "It's big blue-chip buying by foreign investors,"
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    • WARRANTS & OPTIONS
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      • 206 22  -  WARRANT WATCH By' Ven Sreenivasan FOLLOWING the theme set this week, we look at another interesting instrument traded on the Malaysian second board. This time it is the warrants of littleknown Tenggara Capital Bhd. Tenggara Capital is primarily involved in logging and sawmill ing,
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      • 4339 23 Or Or M Wt 1999/96 Last Val Day Last Ouata D»v Dt« YM Mat Cap A*g ttmi Law WHa Ciim «ala COOO) High Lasr Buyar Mar Cor P/l $wB Prtca 210 IT* 1250 AcarSOc US207 *16 018 210 192 206 200 119 342.7 494 310* Hit 1000 Acma
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      • 822 23 «r Or M m Itw/M Last Vai Laat Ovate Mr Mv VM Nat Cap A*9 HI# Law im» CT Mi COOP HI# L— 8wyar lilw Cw P/I $■> Wet Tftftflfl 322 40 a 2000 ABftHM*s9c 269 *4 499 201 2M 2M 2*9 1X0 6.9 04 9t.9 119.0 277 280
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        209 24 Vetamo *kfcisHyd50c 26*49.000 Kim Eng 25c 13,559,000 •InsasBM *****.000 •tMphalntl 12.240,000 'ttetroptex 50c 9,688,000 Urn Eng Wt97 8.556,000 DBS land 8.034,000 *8er)aya Group 7,196,000 •CASH 50c 7,049.000 SPP25C 7,033,000 Stoda I *idrts Hytl 50c 54,284,080 DtSLand 41,507,750 U08 Foreign 35,711.164 Sembawang Corp 30,466^50 City BM 50c 28,727,003 FSH 28,029,170 OCBC
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        55 24 WING TAI Holdings has been rising almost untisrrypted since mid October from around 52.30 to SlO6 currently. On the charts, the stock is overbought with both the daily and weekly RSI having reached 75. But turnover has been very heavy in the last few days, suggesting that further
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      • 680 24  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Despite the market's strong showing, some analysts feel that volumes are not high enough to warrant a boll run By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Flush with institutional funds, the Singapore stock market continued its surge a second day yesterday, with
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
        • 104 24 SELL in May and so away is an old saying among fond managers who like to take the hot summer oft resulting in normally lacklustre stock markets around that time ofthe year. Judging by market performances in the last three years, sell in May and come back
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        • 46 24 THE stock markets of Asia, which were the emerging markets of the 1993 bull run, promptly became the submerging markets of 19M. If their spectacular surges in the last three days are anything to go by, they will be the re-emerging markets 0f1996.
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        • 101 24 WHAT is tills? It's only the second day of the 1966 bull run and some dealers are already all stressed out and starting to make mistakes with orders. An irate investor complained to us that in the hectic market of Wednesday, her dealer had sold
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        • 81 24 AMCOL'S spokeswoman, Ms Teng Hwee Kocm, said there's no truth in tbe market f rumour that Mr Henry Pribadi may be the next Indonesian tycoon to face censure from the Stock Exchange of Singapore. She said that neither Mr Pribadi nor the company itself has been
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        • 146 24 TRUE to form, Marc Faber, Hongkong's venerable Dr Doom, is km than enthusiastic about the prospects for most equity markets In 1906. In his December 1996 "Gloom, Boom and Doom Report", he writes: M optimism regarding the US economy and its financial markets (including the
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    • 398 15 fAßcxal highlights AMMB HOLDINGS BERHAD Half-Year Ended 30th September, 1995 Audited Consolidated Results 1995 1994 In Million RM In Million RM Change Profit Before Taxation 301.6 261.1 15.5 Profit After Taxation Minority Interests 162.9 154.4 5.5 Shareholders' Funds 1,272.3 1,004.4 26.7 Loans Advances, Net of Provisions 16,466.1 11,336.0 45.3 Deposits
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    • 821 24 BUSINESS TIMES NOT I CJES TOLL-FREE TEL. No. 1-800-741-1883 FAX:74I-1298 |51 HUP SENG HUAT CO. LTD BUI (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Second Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held on 24 January 1996 at 170
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    • 496 24 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. St AND IN THE MATTER OF LOKE MUN LENG HOLDING (PRIVATE) LIMITED (li n|nnii< la the RcpaMtc *f Singapore) (la Mm ben* V«luUr) Winding-up) At an extraordinary general meeting of Loke Mun Leng Holding (Private) Limited duly convened and held at 154
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    • 795 24 Singapore Closing Share Prices 04/01/1996 CLOSE PREV LOW HIGH 4 US$ US$ US$ US$ \llllr Jardine Matheson 7.15 7.05 7.15 7.50 |V|EDDDra Jardine Strategic 3.20 3.08 3.12 3.20 I IfifiAAf I Dairy Farm 0.09 0.935 0.94 0.99 Hongkong Land 1.94 1.90 1.91 1.95 nanail Mandarin Oriental 1.33 1.25 1.27 1.34
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 290 25 Knight-Ridder, Reuter HOLIDAYS in the Far East continued to cast a pall over trading on the freight market, although brokers noted an increase in new Business. PANAMAX: There were a few more grain cargoes Quoted for US Gulf Panamax loaders, brokers said. It was difficult to gauge rates
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    • 243 25 a CWTMstrikuOan—U4 *OOS 44* On—1»» UO -003 210 CaacatowataantS LOO uncft 23 MU 7.04 «0.K> 539 Wfify o#7 «oo*s ms iBriMkfi 120 -0.03 1390 ON ♦O.OIS 6*4 U7 *004 7M MCHlllp HKLtO i-lllliawp US *003 84 *0.20 1454 tmm 040 *0-20 MM U4 *003 3103 NOtftraf 545 Oapray
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    • 360 25  -  Fierce competition for both shipowners and shipbuilders, says report By Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Shipowners will have to pay at least 25 per cent more over 1995 prices to buy new ships in the next decade, according to Londonbased Drewry Shipping
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    • 196 25 Knight-Ridder [TOKYO] South Korean shipping lines wiU spend about US$2.5 bUlion (553.5 billion) in 1996 to expand their fleets, nearly double the amount they spent last year, The Journal of Commerce has reported the Korea Shipowners' Association as saying. In total, South
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    • 651 25  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By I Selva Kumar A SHIPOWNER which issued a false bill of lading (B/L) found itself liable to pay damages to the deceived party without an opportunity to defend or justify its dishonest action. Such strict liability was
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    • 76 25 [AUCKLAND] A replica of British explorer James Cook's ship Endeavour sailing out of Auckland harbour on Wednesday on a three-month tour of New Zealand, buffeted by a controversy it was supposed to help heal Captain Cook was the first European to land in New Zealand in 1769
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    • 248 25 AFP [SUVA] An Australian team headed by Qantas chief executive James Strong began talks here on Wednesday to end a protracted row over the cost of a cruise ship, the Reef Endeavour, built here for an Australian travel company. An
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    • 242 25 The Economic Times (GOA, India] India's largest shiprepair facility with investments from the private sector has been inaugurated in Goa. The floating dry dock is being built by Western India Shipyard Limited (WISL). The project, with an investment of 1.4 billion rupees (5158.8 million),
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    • 924 26  -  Ok SHXPPXNG XMDUSTRT: 1997 HOLDS NO FEAR k: maritime sector has been planning for the territory's return to China for at least a decade, and the shipowners' Association has been welcoming more and more members with strong mainland connections Edward Ion Lloyd's List HE internaW
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    • 473 26 PACE ABCCont 17 AEL 17 ANL 3 API M Able 7 Accord 8 Alders 6 Ahrenkiel 4 AppensMp 4 Arowana IS Astro 12 Austral 9 Avant 6 8tang Mas ISA 9 BTL 13 flMiriiriiTh 14 IHMMO 7 Bengal* IS Blue Star t Bright
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    • 13969 34 ETA ETA Advertiser Vtsstl Voyage Pg ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Pg SIN Oesfn Name Name No. No. SIN Destn Name Name No. No. 13/01 03/02 Yang Ming MEO CENOVA 86I06W 17 A 13/01 06/02 Contship CONTSHIP BARCELONA 5621 17 Abidjan Biv Of Conceocion 08/01 12/02 "K" Lino
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      • 616 43 VfM Nrt» Arrtwl Po»orM* (•T) F4*r bra VW Jl dll»Hl 05.0VM30 'IT) M(M 09W Jl UlUlHl 05.01/0(00 (UJlMHtM* Jl llimlii 0501/0400 fsot J1S/K rtiplh 05 01/0700 OMMal 01/01/94 J2 llnplll 05 01/2300 bM ON* JV» *m$Me 05.01/1000 ■LI J. 01*2/94 JB Map* 010OI00 Qtr. Oflrtort 19/0 JI0 MapM
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      • 1495 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO ■oott^jMK 0 Rstto SMp Voy mm Nrt* Fr— T> Frw kiMt 272A 07/0*00 I OV0700 OVTBt OS/MOO 4 OVBOO OVMN 0VT700 total mi tanm i ovboo ovmn ovboo OVBOO 0V*W OVBOO a 04/1700 OVOtN OVDWC a ovnoo ovmn ovotoo i
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      • 203 43 Jul Czech Republic. Prague Stock Exchange closed for trading to Jan 8. Sri Lanka: Market and Public holiday. Jai7 Belarus-. Market and Public holiday, Orthodox Christmas. Croatia: Public holiday (optional). Czech Republic. Prague Stock Exchange closed for trading to Jan 8. Bangladesh: Market and Public holiday, Shab-e-Barat. Egypt.
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      • 996 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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    • AIR & LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 441 44 Success due to strong demand for new 777 and new Torsions of 737, say analysts Bloomberg Business News [SEATTLE] Boeing Co trounced the competition in collecting new aircraft orders in 1995, getting more than twice as many as its closest rival,
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      • 279 44 1,500 km Alice Spring-Darwin line to cost AsL2b Reuter [SYDNEY] South Koreanowned Daewoo Engineering and Construction Australia Ltd is pressing for a political go-ahead on one of the world's biggest and most remote rail projects, through the centre of northern Australia. Daewoo,
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      • LOG Book
        • 75 44 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] DHL Worldwide Express Sdtnßhd has 'I invested nearly Msl million (*****,000) to open a new service centre located In Jalanlpoh!*». General mana*r Bryan Jam toon said in a statement here yesterday that the 11,000-sq ft centre would have mechanised state-of-the-art equipment
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        • 86 44 Reuter [BANGKOK! Thai Airways International pic will consider at Ha board nesting next week a proposal to streamline itim fleet to reduce operating costs, the carrier's president ThamnoonWanfiee said. He was quoted by the Thai Newt Agency yesterday as saying that the airline would review
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        • 87 44 [EDMONTON, Canada] Lawyers tor German businessman Karl-Helm Bchrelber filed on Wednesday a daim far libel against the statoownedCanadtanßroadcasting Corporation: suit alleges that be was detuned by CBC for linking him to allegations that former prime mtnistsr S Brian Mulrooey received kickbacks in the Csl.B billion
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        • 68 44 Bloomberg Business News (DETROIT) Mercedes-Benz North America Inc is building P«H?roductkm models of its new sport-utility vehieie at to plant in Tuscatooaa, Alabama. The German carmaker will begin selling its four-wheel-drive All-Activity modal in the Man»7. The starting price for the vehicle, which was unveiled on
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      • 36 44 [DETROIT] A BMW narrator dropping into the *****MW Z3 in James Bond style on Wednesday during practice for the opening of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit's Cobo Center. REUTER
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      • 200 44 NYT [PARIS] European plane maker Airbus Industrie said it won an order for nine A32ls worth US$5BO million (*****.8 million) from GATX A 321 Partners, a new partnership managed by GATX Capital Corp's Air Group. Airbus said in a statement on Wednesday that GATX Partners will
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      • 213 44 Bloomberg Business News [ATLANTA! United Parcel Service (UPS) of America Inc is boosting the cost of ground shipping for packages at least 2.9 per cent and changing its rate structure for domestic air delivery. UPS said it is switching to distance-based pricing for
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      • 1300 44 CITY FU6HT ETA FU6HT ETO AtaOMM BY602 0910 IV606 0420 VW745 1305 VH744 M05 IY619 2050 WI74I OIO VW740 1410 ftip3 2310 MtfYai ***** 2120 TG406 0020 A—a S0227 2230 MM95 2255 MM96 1920 XmMM SO327 0640 KLB44 0110 W** AV902 1050 AT9Q3 2140 «L*37 1540
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      • 251 44 AFP [BEIJING] Sales in China of imported finished cars feU about 22 per cent in 1995, as cars made domestically or brought into the country as parts for assembly boosted their share of the market, a report said yesterday. China Trade
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    • 13 25 1997 holds no fear for HK shipping industry It'll be business as usual.
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    • 355 25 1996 Diploma Programme In Shipping A Port Management Jointly Offered By The Singapore Port Institute And University Off Delaware, USA Applications are Invited for the 1996 Diploma Programme in Shipping fir Port Management The objective is to provide personnel from the maritime industries with an industrially relevant and academically sound
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    • 18 25 Boeing takes top spot in airplane orders in 1996 Orders more than double those of Airbus. Book Page
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    • 1032 29 STRAITS SHIPPING PTE LTD wlfta|. |BW 11 CklMfl Rm4 #11-11 KtpMlTtmrs fT «H>w» Til: *****88 Fax: *****7 HtllFflHlllfft HliliiHftliMi I iggßp (A BERVICE Of CHINA NAVIGATION CO) IsiMmsiM VM4IE MPT MM Mm. UtoM *KM UmM BSTMfTCHOPE MK BM 14 M KM. KM KM4M *MM P«.m I— MM |CMMA«MU2 VN4IE 11
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    • 414 36 B :i KAPAL KRIS Shipping Pte Ltd I 70* DUXTON ROAD, S'PORE WtS» *****74 toM4M77 OHO. 1Q*****0000C SYARIKAT PERKAPALAN KRIS SENDIRIAN BERHAD 309-409 MOQ( A GUMMWSMSSCBfIRt 10 JAUNSS 6/1, KHANAJAYJir.O.IOX942I *****KDUMGXtKSBANG09.TH:*****77/71/79 MX:*****07 THEkMAMiIS MA^YMA IKUCWWOI i mu 1 WIAM I UMWIAW vissa voy eto spore vessb voy eto spore vissa
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