The Business Times, 15 May 1996

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    21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/95 Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes S I N G A P O R E WEDNESDAY, MAY 15,1996 85c
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Surprise curb on property speculation
    912 1  -  Income from property gain* to be taxed if earned within three years By] Lilian Ang [SINGAPORE] The government will implement from today a wide-ranging package of measures to check sharp increases in the prices of private residential properties and flush out speculators from the market.
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    There is no need to panic
    632 1  -  OOMMEMTARY A soft landing is possible if property players grit their teeth and ride out the initial uncertainty, says Laa Baa Stth Lee Han Shih IN the blink of an eye, Singapore's private housing sector has turned from a seller's market to a buyer's
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    Property stocks will be hit hard, say analysts
    466 1  -  Other stocks may be sold down to prop np property holdings By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Property stocks will be the first casualties of the government's surprise anti-speculation measures, stunned analysts and dealers told BT yesterday. "This is quite a drastic move and
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      108 1 fetCUM'inutats Yes, according to some market watchers, and for a very good reason, Pg 12 MBWSTAMB »T»—n Stock markets often overreact, which presents faring opportunities in the weeks ahead. ♦TußffhnthmUrf MMMlMNraw.jv 27. Purchase likely to invite SES queries. MslAa—iHiahi 2& Counter not popular when first listed last October, but has
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      128 1 More property reports and reactions inside URA's private property price index Take-op rate of new private homes rises 3.7%, Pg2 improves, Pg2 Measures will hit speculators, but Exec oondos to debut at low rate of there will be side effects, Pg3 $427-s46spsf, Pg3 Singaporeans spend 70% of income to Questions
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  • SINGAPORE THE NEW PROPERTY MEASURES
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      Lock icon URA private property price index rises 3.7%
      377 2  -  First quarter fignre below analysts' expectations of 6-8% and last quarter's figure of 4.6% By t Abdul Hadhi THE Urban Redevelopment Authority's property price index for private housing units rose by a lower-than-expected 3.7 per cent in the first quarter. Consultants and analysts
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      Take-up rate of new private homes improves
      274 2  -  By. Agnes Wee A TOTAL of 6,634 new private housing units were unsold at the end of March, according to figures released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) yesterday. This is 9.6 per cent lower than the 7,338 units unsold as at Jan
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      A look at sales in the market
      433 2 status of major residential projects (as of March 31) Landed PRorarnr total UNITS UNSOLD SwufwaAwl m m CimwCM—iRd SnjwAwl CwtwrM mum m m VtoChuKangRd mwrnmuuiPiit m MO Oi oca wood Ave iufcWftiuM v m 348fttflrPaa|angRd HolmdOtowDr Jin KetalaVJta 8etoaeh KewCreecent LhpmQardeo oiwS»iirti8l41 oinSwiSRtr*
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      Measures will hit speculators, but have some side effects
      693 3  -  SpecolaUrs worried; a banlrir bdjcw pt'imt wfflMtfritkr thaacnuh Michelle Low, Catherine Ong, Siow Li Sen and Shiv Taneja SOME were stunned. Others hailed it as necessary curbs on rampant speculation. Not a few were uncertain. These were some of the wide
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      S'poreans spending 70% of income to pay housing loans
      398 3  -  Byi Catherine Ong SINGAPOREANS are spending nearly $7 out of every $10 they earn to pay off their property loans, according to government figures. The government said yesterday that property-related debt had increased significantly. As a proportion of household income, this
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      Exec condos to debut at low rate of $427-$465 psf
      425 3  -  News will cheer 'saaiwichdus'tat By\ Le Han Shih THE first batch of executive condominiums will hit the market next month at lower-than-expected prices of $460,000 to $650,000 lower on a per square foot basis than even some resale Housing and
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      Lock icon Govt aims to cool market frenzy
      1113 4 The following are extracts from the question-and-answer session at yesterday's press conference on the government measures to cool property speculation. The conference was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister BG Lee Hsien Loong, and attended by Finance Minister Richard Hu and National Development Minister Lim
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      5 3 1 u elements? BOSS elements
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      320 4 Personal Finance A Investment reports have been held over A "m foryou: B H fB I V Complimentary chute of Pinnacle performance gplf balls for the first 50 B f B I I f B visitors daily (from 3rd -17th May; limited to one chute per customer). I I I
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  • REGION
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      Eight international firms invest in S'pore's Viet industrial park
      421 6  -  HOCHI MINH CITY Total investment, including 5 more who say they will commit soon, is USsBom Reports by Chuang Peck Ming EIGHT international investors have committed to set up factories in Singapore's flagship industrial park in Vietnam while another five indicated
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      Success of early birds is the best publicity: PM
      259 6 THE success of the first investors who have signed up to set up factories in the VietnamSingapore Industrial Park (VSIP) would serve as the most effective advertisement for the park, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said. "We must not let these
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      Cracks appear in Asia's coalition govts
      560 6  -  IOINfIBW By Yang Razali Kassina ACROSS Asia, coalition governments are facing trouble. They are either on the way out, facing problems of internal cohesion, or bracing for collapse. In India, the once-powerful Congress party has lost its grip on the country. Its defeat in
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      Lock icon US set to clamp sanctions as talks with China fail
      550 7 WASHINGTON Bit analysts expect a 11th hear deal saying trade war is nnlikely AFP Reuter THE United States appears certain to announce trade sanctions against China today for what US officials describe as rampant piracy of American music and software
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      Japanese, Finnish firms to set up chemical plant
      127 7 SINGAPORE JAPANESE chemicals group Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha (ISK) la teaming up with Finnish company Kemira Pigments Oy to invest US$25O million (Ss3so million) in a titanium dioxide (T102) plant in Singapore. TlO2 is a white pigment widely used for paints, paper products
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      Lock icon Fight against fake notes
      96 7 BEIJING AFP CHINA has established a special team to tackle the circulation of counterfeit money, the China Daily reported yesterday. Last year, Chinese police seized nearly 100 million yuan (5116.8 million) in counterfeit bills, up 30 per cent over the previous year, an economic protection bureau
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      Overheating no longer a concern thanks to fiscal, monetary policies
      276 7  -  INDONESIA SUMMIT Contraction seen in monetary indicators, says Bank Indonesia Reports by\ S N Vasuki in Jakarta SENIOR officials of the Indonesian government yesterday asserted that economic overheating was no longer a concern due to the tight fiscal and monetary
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      Three-year wait for national car status
      188 7 INDONESIAN Trade and Industry Minister Tungky Ariwibowo yesterday clarified that automobile manufacturers keen on receiving national car project status will have to wait for at least three years. "At the moment, only one auto manufacturer, PT Timor, has been accorded the status of a
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      Lock icon Land bridge route to be decided
      137 7 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama A "LAND bridge" between Butterworth and Songkhla will be built once a suitable route has been agreed upon by both the governments of Malaysia and Thailand, parliament was told yesterday. Butterworth is across Penang island on peninsular Malaysia while Songkhla, facing
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      Opposition leader Ozawa hints at early elections
      468 8  -  TOKYO Shinshinti'snet breaking 19 and not realigning itself with LDP, he says By. Anthony Rowley THE leader of Japan's main parliamentary opposition party, Ichiro Ozawa, yesterday hinted at the prospect of an early general election and ruled out the possibility of a break-up
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      Lock icon Communist chief says 'no' to PM post
      415 8 NEW DELHI Party's refasal to join coalition boosts BJFs hopes of forming govt AFP INDIA'S main communist party yesterday rejected an appeal by centrist allies to nominate its leader, Jyotl Basu, as a candidate for prime minister, boosting Hindu nationalists' hopes of forming
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      Lock icon Inflation slows to 7.4% but there's new pressure on index
      314 8 BEIJING AFP INFLATION in China continued to slow year-on-year in April to 7.4 per cent, but officials warned that rapid increases in vegetable prices were putting new pressure on the index. The People's Daily yesterday quoted the State Statistics Bureau
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      Lock icon Canada seeks assurance on investment returns
      162 8 SHANGHAI AFP CANADA has asked the Shanghai government to ensure reasonable returns on investment on infrastructure projects and legal protection for its investors. Secretary of State for AsiaPacific Raymond Chan yesterday said he raised the concerns with the Shanghai leadership and also asked them
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        Lock icon Stubbing out a bad habit
        11 8 Reuter sranrai*! i"*- I i. 1
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        Lock icon Tornado kills at least 171
        47 8 AFP [DHAKA] At laaat 171 people w«rekillad and more th*r f* 8,000 injurad by a tornado that ripped through northern w& Bangladesh, aaofltclak warned ysaterday that th« chkfsaid i6gbodfc*hHl>eni«u>»*«dftom tWvtmmc In itogall altar the twig* tow through tha district late on Mondv—itfP
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        Lock icon One-year levy to fund fireareas buybook
        36 8 Reuter (CANBERRA] AuMraUan Prime MlnlMer John Howtrd the forcible buyback of the country's most dangsrooa firearm*, which MrHowirtß^^«atwn^timw^«ftwa«nidin cent ofparsonal income>Would'pay for the Am&ffl&M/M buy back programme, Mr Howard said.—Jtertw
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        Lock icon Prof Keating at Sydney university
        41 8 AFP (SYDNEY] Former Auatrallan prime minlatar Paul Keating, who laft school at 15 and nevar want to nnttaralty, was appointed a visiting profeaaor of Aalan buaineaa at the University of New South Wake here yeeterday. —AFP
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      335 7 Great minds think alike. Now there's an IBM HiinkPad 760 priced for each one of them. Hguy, the marketing guru-they all want one. That's why we've designed an fl ;^H family of ThinkPad* 760 i^mPH notebook computers, priced to give everyone the power base that they want. And with I
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  • FOCUS: INDIAN ELECTIONS
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      Lock icon Nation at crossroads
      1116 9  -  BJP has no allies and the centre-left group is a confused lot singing different tunes on reforms Byl Prem Shankar Jha [NEW DELHI] JUST when it had seemed that the cloud of uncertainty that had hung over India's economic reforms was dissipating, the results of the 11th
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      More decisive vote needed
      402 9  -  Since no party has a clear majority, President Sharma ought to order a re-poll By GP Panicker AS PREDICTED, the people of India have voted for a hung parliament. But Indian politicians, given their penchant for power, will bury their differences and eventually form a government
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Retail prices and sales point to low inflation
      376 11 f WASHINGTON tower-than-expected rise in CPI core rate suggests Fed will hold interest rates steady Bloomberg Business News |lEW figures on retail prices and sales suggest US inflation remains at bay and the Federal Reserve will hold interest fiates steady at a
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      Lock icon Inflation may exceed govt target
      191 11 LONDON NYT UK underlying inflation may exceed the government's target in two years if interest rates are left unchanged at 6 per cent, the Bank of England said. "It is marginally more likely than not that inflation would be above 2.5 per cent some two
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      Lock icon Dutch central banker named head of EMI
      197 11 P FRANKFURT Bloomberg Business News 1L EUROPEAN central bankers iave unexpectedly picked J?im Duisenberg, the governor of the Dutch central bank, o take over the European Monetary Institute (EMI) as fce drive for a common curency enters the homestretch ext year. He will
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      Lock icon All in a puff
      45 11 [LONDON] About 150 human puffins staging a protest outside Mc Vities biscuit factory in west London yesterday. The protest was to highlight the dwindling stocks of tiny sand eels in the North Sea, whose oil is used in processed foodstuffs. REUTER
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      Lock icon Japan, US stay far apart on insurance dispute
      357 11 TOKYO Talks cover little ground over Tokyo's pitrniml deregulation Reuter JAPAN and the US are still at loggerheads over Tokyo's planned deregulation of a niche market in the insurance industry, with little progress seen during the first day of two-day talks yesterday.
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      Lock icon Russia to guard against expansion of Nato
      242 11 MOSCOW Reuter RUSSIAN Defence Minister Pavel Grachev, worried about Nato plans to expand to the edge of the old Soviet Union, said yesterday that Russia and its ally Belarus might strengthen troop positions on the borders of would-be Nato member Poland. Mr Grachev,
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Some in Umno have hopes for Razaleigh
      834 12  -  THH BOTTOM LDVB OPINION By Mohan Kuppusamy The writer is BT's editorial page editor AT FIRST glance, it may seem as if Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah's decision to return to Umno, nine years after his break with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, was forced
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      110 12 'I am not into the tax incentive business because our tax rate is the lowest among the developed economies. I do not think people move away from Hongkong because of tax incentives at all. They go to Singapore because of its strategic position.' -DoaMlfeag Hongkongfinancial secretary on
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      Banharn's sharp moves
      547 12 EDITORIAL IN a couple of months, Banharn Silpa-archa's government will marie its first anniversary in power. There are plans for a major effort to highlight the seven-party coalition's achievements. But the mood must surely be dampened now by the events that led to last weekend's no-confidence debate
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      Rate cuts in China fuel market optimism
      947 12  -  China watchers believe that the era of tight money may be drawing to a close By Vikram Khassa The writer, BT's regional* economics editor, was ink Hongkong recently AFTER sitting out a long spell of Chinese stocks going nowhere, money managers in Hongkong
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      859 12 WITH the movie maker George Lucas working on a new Star Wars trilogy, it somehow seems fitting that Washington is locked in a new round of debate about building a missile defence system. The question now before the US Congress is whether to intensify efforts to
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Cannes folie
      561 14  -  How does one rate each festival film? jametkaslin reports JANET mASLIN NYT WHAT fails to become more delightftilin French? There is Mickey Perdla Tete, the local title for the Mickey Mouse short known in English as Runaway Brain. Or Ma Belle et TendrePoupee d'Amour, which is what the
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      Lock icon Vintage wine prices soar
      477 14 WINE Price surge is tailed by South-east Aaan collectors wbe snip op the best by CMeleeis Bloomberg Business News [PARIS] Connoisseurs from South-east Asia are snapping up the best vintages by the caseload from European auction rooms and brokers, causing prices to soar. Collectors from Singapore,
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      Lock icon John Fowles' 'existingness'
      969 16  -  British novelist has not published a book since his stroke but his fame keeps him busy By David Streitfeld IHT [LYME REGIS, England] Eight years ago, John Fowles awoke to find his senses blurred and his mind askew: at age 62, he was having a stroke. In
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      Lock icon It's dependable Peck to the rescue
      650 16 LAT-WP [HARTFORD, Connecticut] Gregory Peck is nothing if not dependable. In more than five decades of movie stardom, he was usually the four-square American hero who would be sure to bomb the ball-bearings plant in Frankfurt, blast the German guns of Navarone, stand up
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      HK Telecom profit up 14% to HK$10b
      475 17  -  Basalts meet market expectations despite rapid opening of telecoms sector From* Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong DESPITE the rapid opening up erf Hongkong's telecommunications business, Hongkong Telecom yesterday matched market expectations by reporting a rise of 14.3 per cent in net profit to
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      Amin Shah to sell family firm to Setron for M$650m
      349 17  -  From] Ho Kay Tat in Kuala Lumpur BUSINESSMAN Amin Shah Omar Shah, who has been on a big acquisition trail in the past few years, plans to consolidate his private assets into listed Setron (M) Bhd in which he already
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      Joseph Chong sells 48% stake in Samanda
      237 17  -  From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN businessman-cum-politician Joseph Chong, through his private Arm Westmont Holdings Sdn Bhd, has disposed of his 47.75 per cent stake in Samanda Holdings Bhd. Samanda said yesterday that its major shareholder Westmont Holdings had sold its 28.7
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      Glut set to worsen as Ho Chi Minh hotel bubble bursts
      585 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Harish Mehta THE bubble building up in the hotels and service apartments sector in Ho Chi Minh City has burst even before Conrad Hilton got there. Those developers who fancied on being the early birds are
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      Lock icon Pengkalen denies not selling 32% stockbroking stake
      367 17 Bernama (KUALA LUMPUR] The Pengkalen Holdings Bhd board of directors said yesterday its proposal to sell its stake in Pengkalen Capital Bhd would proceed if consent from shareholders was obtained at an extraordinary general meeting. Clarifying a news report, Pengkalen Holdings said in
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      Venture bonus and rights
      134 17 [SINGAPORE] Venture Manufacturing (VMS) is rewarding shareholders with a 1-for-l bonus issue and at the same time raising $72 million through a l-for-2 rights issue. The company will issue up to 89.86 million bonus shares and 44.93 million rights shares at a subscription price of $1.60
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      Van der Horst buys 40% of Philippine power company
      244 17  -  From, Al Labita in Manila SINGAPORE-listed Van der Horst Ltd has bought a 40.02 per cent stake in a listed Philippine power company for 5528.3 million, an official told BT yesterday. The acquisition, one of the biggest deals involving a Singaporean
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        SML maps out expansion plan for three divisions
        390 18  -  Targeted are offshore logistics, ferry services, ports units By\ Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Listed Sembawang Maritime Ltd (SML) has mapped out an expansion plan for its offshore logistics, ferry services and ports divisions. Chairman Er Kwong Wah said in a letter to shareholders
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        SembCorp explains poor results
        272 18 [SINGAPORE] Sembawang Corp has blamed provision for legal claims on outstanding work, a shortfall in gains from asset sales and the poor performance of its engineering sector for its disappointing second half. It was replying on Monday to a request from the Stock Exchange of Singapore
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        Singamas profit plunges 96%
        243 18 [SINGAPORE] Singamas Container Holdings, listed on both the Hongkong and Singapore bourses, has posted a 96 per cent plunge in net profit last year to HK12.2 million (S$400,000). The fall was due to stiff competition in selling prices, a surge in raw material costs and an
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        Lock icon Promet in M$210m deals
        98 18 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Promet Bhd has clinched two construction deals worth about Ms2lo million (SsllB million). Promet's unit, Promet Construction Sdn Bhd, said it had won contracts to build a shopping complex in Kuala Lumpur and an office tower in Johor Baru. The six-storey shopping
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        Total Access to raise US$200m through bonds
        432 18  -  Issue is part of firm's plans to amass USslb for expansion By I Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Total Access Communications (TAC), Thailand's largest mobile phone system operator, is raising US$2OO million (Ss2Bl million) through a convertible bond issue which will be listed on the
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        Backing for Inchcape Bhd's sale
        131 18 [SINGAPORE] Inchcape Bhd independent directors have issued a circular advising shareholders to approve the sale of the office automation division at an extraordinary general meeting on May 28. The division, Repromac Business Machines, will be sold to Inchcape NRG a 50-50 joint venture between Inchcape's
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        Gold Peak places out 6m Clipsal shares
        162 18 [SINGAPORE] Gold Peak Industries (Holdings) yesterday said it has placed 6 million shares in Clipsal Industries (Holdings) to international investors at U552.45 a share. The proceeds of roughly $20.6 million will be used to reduce bank borrowings, to fund other businesses and as
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          Aurio Pacific unit faces M$8.45m suit
          52 18 [SINGAPORE] Auric Pacific Group said yesterday that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Auric Pacific (M) Sdn Bhd (APMX has been sued by O'Seeker Food Industries Bdn Bhd for slleged breach ofcontract O'Seeker has filed a writ in Malacca claiming among ©fiber things dtma®es totalling M$M5 million
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          Saz Toh bonus issue gots SES sod
          22 18 [SINGAPORE] The Stock ltorhanf* of ffingatanrshas approved San Teh's proposed l-for-6 bonds sfcarean# warrant issue.
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          Asiamatrix appoints chairman, directors
          90 18 [SINGAPORE] Aaiamatrix Ltd said yeeterday that RatnawatiHarjoJudanto had been appointed chairman of its board with immediate effect The company aleo snnounced the appointment of Chan Cher Boon and Ong Eng Hln aa directors with Immediate effect Mr Chan and Mr One are aleo appointed audit committee
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          SingTel launches now Internet service
          75 18 SINGAPORE Telecom haa launched Its SingfetfSDN service fcr corporations and Individuals. With tt customers can acceea the Internet at speeds of 19 to UB kbpe which la more than four timee the epeed of SMidipe currently supported by higher speed naodeaas over the telephone network.
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        Lock icon US airline stocks soar after ValuJet crash
        426 19 Big carriers stand to benefit as safety of He-frills airlines comes under scrutiny Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] US airline stocks posted their biggest one-day advance in more than two months as investors figured that larger, more established carriers would benefit from questions
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        Lock icon Mixed results likely from Japan's brokerages
        296 19 Reuter [TOKYO] Japan's big securities houses are expected to have turned a handsome profit in the past business year, but the stock market recovery that burnished their balance sheets has brought little benefit to smaller brokers. Industry sources and analysts yesterday said they expected
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          Lock icon A profit up a narrow 2.0%
          70 19 Bloomberg Business News RtlKyOl Aiwa Coro reported its lowest rise In current in thm years in the year ended March 31 because of alllnf prices of its products and shunp in sales in Asia. It reported current, or pre-tax, profit of 10.28 billion yen
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          Lock icon Chinese Potroisum to cut stake in firm
          86 19 Bloomberg Business News fTAIPEIJ Chinese Petroleum Corp, a Taiwan government-owned oil company, has notified the Seeuritle* and Exchange Commission ofplans to sell 16 Bliltton shares in China Petrochemical Development Corp, ■petrochemicals maker. Under Taiwan rules, the shares fltta& be told within a month
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          Lock icon Westfamers drogs paper pulp mill plan
          69 19 Bloomberg Business News [PERTH) Australian agricultural, building materials and ensrgy group Westerners Ltd said it won't proceed with a pten to develop an A$4CO million (Ss6o6 million) paper pulp ntfUin Western Australia state. One of the main reasons was a drop in pulp prices,
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          Lock icon Trump Hotels may buy Trump's Castle
          82 19 Bloomberg Business News CNKW YORK] Donald Trump may sell his Trump's Castle Casino Rssort to Trump Hotels Casino Resorts Inc to boost the company's prssence in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Ths sale depends on Trump Hotels getting permission ftt» bondholders to repurchase US$BO.9 million
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        43 19 [TOKYO] A sales clerk displaying a Toshiba Corporation's Digital Video Disk-Read Only Memory drive during the Business Show '96 Tokyo, a computer fair, yesterday. The 4.7 gigabytes capacity DVD-ROM drives will be introduced to the market this year. AFP
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        Lock icon Apple to slash costs by cutting number of models
        435 19 Move also to support developers of software applications Bloomberg Business News, Reuter Reuter [SAN JOSE, California] Apple Computer Inc will slash costs by cutting the number of computer models it sells. Chief executive Gilbert Amelio yesterday said that over the next
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        Lock icon Fed okays SBC-Warburg merger
        484 20 fit lhnirt nwiMin tftfir te be merged with SBC Capital Markets Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] The Federal Reserve, after a year-long delay, has approved Swiss Bank Corp's acquisition of SG Warburg Co in the United States. Swiss Bank bought SG Warburg pic a year ago
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        Philippine bank opens office here
        327 20  -  Land Bank office will cater to needs of Filipinos in Singapore By\ Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] The Land Bank of the Philippines yesterday opened a representative office here to cater to the banking needs of the 130,000 Filipino residents and contract workers here. The state-owned
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        Lock icon S Korea eases grip on life insurance business
        298 20 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea has loosened its grip on the life insurance business, allowing all but the the country's top four conglomerates to enter the market, the Ministry of Finance and Economy (MFE) said yesterday. The move comes as existing life insurance
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        Lock icon Rate hike fears hit Euroyen
        248 20 *»—Report Reuter [SINGAPORE] Renewed concerns over a Japanese interest rate hike depressed Simex Euroyen futures by the close of trade. Dealers said Euroyen futures were sold off on a newspaper report which said the Bank of Japan (BOJ) could raise interest rates as early as
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        187 20 Reuter AFP THE dollar traded higher, buoyed by a bout of mark selling against European currencies, most notably the lira and the pound. The US unit also benefited from heavy yen selling versus the mark. At 1454 GMT, the dollar was at 1.5360/70 marks and 105.90/95 yen versus
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        Lock icon India's growth spurs demand for diesel
        326 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [SINGAPORE] India's appetite for diesel remains strong this year, after purchasing a record 1.5 million tonnes for June, spurred by Its rapidly growing Industries and the needs of Its farming sector. With the record June purchase, India's diesel imports by monthly
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2042 21 ■WW Hun *b A. A. Corp Mr 66.450 *1.700 AS Port! 304 *1 APPey National 56? *6 UMlym 496 -6 Amoc 111 Arqyd 343 -1 Asdo Group na *2 •ATM 492 unch HCC 333 -3 BOC Croup 928 *8 BR Petroleum 566 *9 BTB 315 *4 Bank
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      1610 21 Reuter QlfikkeiZß *MM3 STOCKS posted moderate gains after strong support at around the 21,000 level prompted a technical rebound. But trading remained slow with many investors on the sidelines ahead of corporate earnings announcements set to begin later this week, brokers said. The key 225-share Nikkei Average closed up
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      1647 22 Reuter H Hang Seng ♦TLBS Shares closed solidly firmer on Wall Street's 64-point rally after spending most of the day stuck in a tiny band around 10,800, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index ended up 71.88 points at 10,817.88. The broader All Ordinaries Index put on 29.38 to 5,188.53.
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      598 22 Reuter nShaariurißShirehia 4133 THE Shanghai B market ended down in sluggish trade, with investors reluctant to buy because of concern over negotiations between China and the US over intellectual property rights. The index fell 0.33 point to 49.53, on volume of 5.3 million shares worth US$2.2 million. "Investors are
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      333 22 AFP QyPMn +MJ4 SHARE prices finished higher as retail investors pursued bargains among financial and electrical plays. Most foreign traders were sidelined due to the lack of fresh incentives while retail investors were active in sec-ond-liners, said a dealer. The Weighted Price Index gained 28.64 points to 6,155.83. Turnover
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      671 22 AFP Q Composite Index -3.47 SHARE prices closed lower, with most foreign investors sidelined amid perceptions that blue chips have become overvalued and concern over the current account deficit. "Most foreign investors said there is no great value left in Indonesian blue chips. But that does not mean they
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      789 22 AFP PSETM« -6J4 SHARE prices closed lower in thin trading on anticipation that Thailand's controversial finance minister will retain his post in an expected Cabinet shake-up, brokers said. The SET Index lost 5.24 points to 1,319.26. -Turnover was 70.8 million shares worth five billion baht. Declines led advances 192
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      297 22 AFP Qlnb «M 6 SHARES closed higher as the market consolidated with bullish sentiment prevailing. The PSE Index rose 9.85 points to 3,126.9. Turnover was 7.72 billion shares valued at 3.21 billion pesos. Petron Corp rose 25 centavos to 10.50 pesos. PLDT fell 15 to 1,510. Manila Electric Co's
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      401 22 Bloomberg Business News QCilHlliMa -Hjß STOCKS fell after three days of gains, led by brokerage and construction shares, amid concern over interest rates. "Annual inflation is still at a modest 4 to 5 per cent, but there is a chance of hikes in public services charges and other prices
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      576 22 AFP HiKWW *4i SHARE prices rose as a healthy profit result from Westpac Banking Corp helped the local bourse to shnig off a recent spate of corporate profIt downgrades. The All Ordinaries Index rose 4.9 points to 2,261.8. Turnover was 366.7 million shares worth AJ704.5 million. BHP was steady
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      267 22 Reuter Q Wellington -UJ6 SHARE prices ended sharply lower after the bond market took another pre-election pounding. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed 21.65 points down at 2,092.64 on turnover of NZ$5O.3 million. —Reuter ftuM m rwi ANZ Banking 6.95 unch 2*7 Advantages HMgs 1.72 0.04 ***** AklMZNMIN 3.60 -0.10
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        Lock icon Second-liners ease after speculative frenzy
        7401 23 KUALA LXnKPUßßeports Bloomberg Business News HOnpodtoMn *OXO SHARE prices closed mostly lower led by a sell-off in second-liners, and dealers said further consolidation is likely after the recent speculative buying frenzy. But gains in some major blue chips supported the key index. The KLSE Composite
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    • WARRANTS&OPTIONS
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        Pacific Can upside looks good
        3670 24  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan LOW-PRICED warrants of companies with growth potential offer some of the best opportunities for speculative gains. One such instrument is the warrant of listed can-maker, Pacific Can. Pacific Can warrant has a relatively long expiry date stretching to April 1999.
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        63 26  -  -%1 Paul Leo AMCOL HOLDINGS Ml four cents to $XBB with 111 million units done -1.6 tones the 10-day average of 1M million shares. The stock will find temporary support at $3.70 as daily Relative Strength Index is near oversold region. However, with momentum indicators still bearish and
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        Property jitters hit market in final minutes of trading
        915 26  -  STOCK MARKET COMKXOVTASY Investors sold blue chips and property counters as market speculated on purpose of late afternoon govt press conference By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] After showing some early promise, local stocks resumed moving sideways with a downward bias in low
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
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          Good answer to a non-question
          73 26 THE answer to the question that nobody asked at yesterday's mega press conference had everyone laughing. "If I sell Nassim Jade, 111 be caught (by the new tax)," said Deputy Prime Minister BO Lee Hsien Loong. The press conference called to announce a package of
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          No government in India, market up
          73 26 WHICH of India's political parties will be good for the Bombay stock market? Investors don't seem to care much, if the performance of the market on Monday is any indication. Despite there being no new government in place following the recent elections—and deep uncertainty
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          Of Greenspan and European union
          125 26 HANS Tietmeyer, president of the Bundesbank, is no dry-as-dust central banker. At an annual banking dinner in Frankfort last week, he told a joke about a computer which the European Monetary Institute—the forerunner of the planned European central bank—had been forced to abandon. The computer
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          Lemming on the loses
          83 26 FUND managers beware, your machismo Is under scrutiny by central bankers. Bank of Japan deputy governor Akira Nagashima told a conference here last week that "the herd instinct of large (Und managers" can cause more turbulence than good in financial markets when they all plough in
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          Getting the right numbers
          63 26 HONGKONG TELECOM must be worried about the competition ahead and is leaving no stones unturned in making sure it remains profitable. Its latest earnings per share figure is 88.8 HK cents (eight is widely believed to be a lucky number in Hongkong). However, the company's earnings
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          Here's the number
          55 26 IN RESPONSE to an item in this column yesterday, Singapore Telecom said it made no invitation to analysts to call it about the postponement of its results announcement It merely informed them by ffcx and "there was no invitation to those with queries to call; hence, a
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      293 27 Knight-Ridder Reuter THE freight market was very quiet and subdued, r brokers said. They said the Atlantic Panamax market remained flat, with little prospect of any significant improvement in cargo requirements fix-the Summer months. Brokers also painted a different picture for the handymax market They said rates for
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      Lock icon Panama Canal's toll earnings hit US$600m
      232 27 Knight-Ridder [WASHINGTON] The Panama Canal Commission earned more than US$6OO million (SsB4o million) in operating revenues in fiscal 1995, from tolls on ships transiting the canal and from related services. Of that US$6OO million, more than US$lOO million was passed on to the Panamanian
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      SFFA picks its new team for 1996/97
      182 27 [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Freight Forwarders Association (SFFA) has voted Stanley Lim of Conterm Freight (FE) as its chairman for the 1996/97 term. According to a statement issued by SFFA, Mr Lim also heads the committee which liaises with government and public bodies as
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      From cruise tips to insurance – money talks
      652 27  - From cruise tips to insurance money talks STRAIT TALK By I Seafarer IT HAS been a busy week in the shipping scene. Both Intertanko and the Asian Shipowners Forum descended on Hongkong, while an impassioned cabotage dispute in Greece saw sparks fly in the Aegean and a counter attack by
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      STSE opening its second shipyard at Tuas
      413 27  -  Yard kas facilities ♦hat afffmmtiatii larger ships of up to Panamax size By Yong Moi Fong [SINGAPORE] Specialist shipbuilder Singapore Technologies Shipbuilding and Engineering (STSE) is opening its second shipyard at Tuas this weekend. Ifce 6.4-hectare $80 million Tuas Yard started partial op-
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      220 27 Opposition party accuses minister of accepting bribes Knight-Ridder [BANGKOK] Thailand's opposition party says bribery played a role in the award of a concession at Laem Cha bang port, designated as the country's next primary maritime gateway. Laem Chabang, on the eastern seaboard 160
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      224 27 Reuter [WARSAW! Poland's government is likely to choose an investor for the ailing state-con-trolled Gdansk shipyard this week. A privatisation ministry spokeswoman said on Monday: "On Tuesday the ministry will talk with the last of the potential investors and the decision (on
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      100 27 Reuter [SEOUL] South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd said yesterday it has won a US$lOO million ($142 million) contract to build a 103,000tonne shuttle tanker from Norway's state-controlled Den norske stats oljeselskap ASA (Statoil). The tanker, to be equipped with oil processing, loading
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      177 27 Reuter [CAPE MAY, New Jersey] Oil spilled last Friday from a tanker bringing crude to Coastal Corp's Eagle Point, New Jersey, refinery began washing up on Monday at New Jersey beaches on Cape May, state and federal officials said. The Bahamas-registered tanker
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        79 27 [LONDON] Asian Shipowners Forum (ASF) members plan to use their Significant ooßectivw bargaining power to reduos premiums and improve regional insurance services for shipowners. "We intend to establish ap Asian maritet tor insurance, "said George Chao, chairman of the Hongkong Shipowners Association, who presided over
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        88 27 [LONDON] Japaneee shipbuilder NKK said it had socossaftißy achieved tta goal of eliminating SO corporate divisions sine* July IMS. The latest victims of corporate slimming wars the pareonnel and personnel planning divisions, which ware combined into one division. NKK haabaen eliminating divisions for the last Ave
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        91 27 Knight-Ridder [LONDON] UK shipbuilder Yarrow said on Monday it la to lay off nearly 600 workers at its Glasgow yard becauae of a ppin Heard*book, the UK Pras Association reported. A Mai otBlo Jobs are faint despite the yard being awarded a MOCHnilUon (86M6
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        59 27 LONDON] A unionisation bid among truck drivers at the JS ports of Los A nmiassnd Long Beach is forcing sntalner transport prices up with aoroe trucking *mpanles guaranteeing their drivers a minimum paymsnt ctUBHOO (*****) a day to croaa picket lines sat up
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      1029 28  -  AXSLimi BNOIMB INDUSTRY: BRITISH MANUFACTURER'S SUCCESS Thai Airways' choice of the Trent engine for its aircraft was a breakthrough for Rolls-Royce. The company's powerful, low-weight aero engines have cornered 53 per cent of the Asia-Pacific market By Loh Hui Yin The writer is BT's Bangkok correspondent
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        802 45 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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        342 46  -  Region's contribution forecast to grow from 20% to 30% ft? 2000 Froni, Loh Hui Yin in Bangkok ROLLS-ROYCE's aerospace group, which currently earns 20 pa* cent of its revenue from the Asia-Pacific, expects the region's contribution to grow to 30 per cent by
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        313 46 European group to be turned into singfc corporate entity NYT [BERLIN] Ministers from Germany, France, Spain and the UK on Monday approved a controversial plan to turn Airbus Industrie, the European aircraft consortium, into a single corporate entity. Norbert Lammert, state secretary in the
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        58 46 [BERLIN] A view of the exhibition area of the International Air and Space Exhibition at Berlin's Schoenefeld Airport shows in the background the new Airbus aircraft A 319 and a special transport aircraft Sky link A3OO-600ST on Monday. More than 500 exhibitors from all over
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        174 46 Reuter [WASHINGTON] President Bill Clinton on Monday ordered the US Transportation Department to broaden a probe stemming from the crash of a ValuJet airliner in Florida's Everglades "to ensure that all our airlines continue to operate at the highest level of safety". "I'm determined to
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        215 46 Reuter [LONDON] Airline passengers and crews are increasingly at risk from bird strikes as air traffic increases, an aviation expert said on Monday. The Bird Strike Committee Europe 190 delegates from 27 countries is meeting in London this week to coordinate the fight against
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        223 46 Bloomberg Business News [BERLIN] Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG said it is talking to aircraft makers around the world about teaming up with the Europe's Airbus Industrie on (Uture programmes. Among those potential partners is McDonnell Douglas Corp, according to Daim-ler-Benz, one of four partners
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        107 46 AFP [SYDNEY] Australian flagcarrier Qantas has been given approval to resume scheduled flights to India from July for the first time in almost six years, the airline announced yesterday. The International Air Services Commission granted authority for Qantas to operate 8767-300 services twice a
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        182 46 Reuter [KUALA LUMPUR] National carrier Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS) has proposed a private placement of 700 million new shares to raise cash to partly finance payments on 25 aircraft. MAS said the shares, which represent 10 per cent of its existing share capital, would be
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        196 46 Reuter [JAKARTA] Australia and Indonesia wiU expand air traffic by 38 per cent over the next 18 months following a new passenger and freight services deal, Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Trade Minister Tim Fischer said yesterday. "Indonesian officials agreed to a
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          96 46 ATP [LONDON] The French car group Peugeot Citroen PSA may invest &60 million (SI2IO million) to build a sectad model at its plant at Ryton in the British Midlands, ths Financial Tbrm reported yesterday. The paper quoted au. assaying thafwshavf; decktod to
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          87 46 Bernama (KUALA LUMPUR] Proton cart are to be re4aunche| In Malta where sale* of the Malaysian national car thtftf have been insignificant since It wag first saported to thd&" country 10 years ago. Proton Corporation Sdnßhft*** mnnngrr frr inlyr"*****"** Nislnnss ihwK. Zahudl Bald
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          75 46 Reuter [LONDON] Oetrlch meat, the latest trend in healthy eating, is to be served 19 for hinch by British Airways inanew departure tor the flightless bird. The airline said on Monday it woiim te ujuvJUfClm osuicli to its lmwty on > flights between
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          74 46 Reuter {TALLINN] Scandinavian Airlines, one of the bidders tor the national airline oftha Baltic atate of Estonia, Eatcnia Air, on Monday promiaed to make the company profitable in ttis next inr years. SAS has teamed up with Estonian bank TalltnnapSnk and Swedftmdtohld for the 68
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          79 46 AFP 1 j l [PARIS] The fireach airports authority, Aeroportsde Psrt* has wonacompetition for the design ofanew Mfrr*liSMleliiMH 1 iif fWßmghsi t authority saM on Monday. The new airport is eipecfadtojfev; cost at Isnst UBH bflttoe(8ll8 billion). It Is to bssMtaSfe of Shanghai,
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      795 41 PGrC 9 1 GERMANY/SINGAPORE M ff Marshalling Forwarding Services (MFS) W<l Bremen and Hamburg T v. Leipzig jjiP® Our staff at your service: $V I f jar Francis DID: *****54 Maria DID: *****75 (f m Nicholas DID: *****77 Salha DID: *****71 cdL 3sr 7&WTZJY/C ~6 SUPER EXPRESS SERVICE TO SEA
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      410 42 ■■HE SAMUDERA INDONESIA (S) PTE LTD 15 McCALLUM STREET #03-01/02 NATWEST CENTRE S'PORE 0106 ■*■1 TEL: *****81-3 FAX: *****36 (3 HUNTING LINES) TLX: R*****0 BOOKINGS CALL DIRECT LIME: *****41/*****43 JESSICA/CELIA [*****8E^E0B 7 SLGS/WEEK 3SLGS/WEEK ONHK v 5v —m PS* ivnaa. ivov laai |BUR EQUATOR CRYSTAL 932 ffTPT Ifi/06(THU) LUMOSO EXP
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      77 42 HOEGH LINES HARPERS SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD PT HARPUL HOEGH LINES HARTRA HOEGH SDN BHD /0 ANSON ROAD »1 0(1 INDONESIA p KFIANII *****08 APEX TOWER SINGAPORE JAKARTA PENANG 6?857S TEL 1 1388 FAX *****76 TEL 62 ?1 *****/2 73 J BAHRIJ *****0 PPW PT6 f.ODOWN OFFICE *****75 f 62
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      557 43 mmm Singapore Soviet Shipping jra Co. Pte. Ltd. Cfl NO:**********0N S BOMBAY/COCHIN I VESSEL VOY SIN BOM COC m MEKHAMtK KURAKO MKION 14/06 24/06 VANESSA 06N 10/06 20/08 TRADE FAST TFSI9O 23/06 31/06 XOURMA 806 25/06 03AM —UMBBBBMBBBI IVESSEL VOY SPORE ILYCHEVSK EVER GLEAMY 0106-004W 21/06 16/06 EVER GROWTH 0106-063W
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      53 43 ©PTC CONTAINER LINES fCL I i :l SERVICE General Agents POH TIONG CHOON SHIPPING P L TEL *****66 FAX: *****41 TLX; R*****6 (CR NO **********0K) I Ml I II II II II II II I i r i i <rrnL7i^n y ijKM[!ICMLA-Li/Ai[in 111 id 1 k I Where to go
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      594 43 STAR SHIPPING AGENOES (S) PTE LTD Aowiiraft ZIM CONTAINER SERVICE GOLD STAR LINE LTD SETH SHIPPING CORPORATION TELEPHONE: 220-6664 (I UNES) FAX: *****70 fcfc *****12 (MARKETMG) (CR NO. 1031MS0M0-E) N. AMERKA/CARMEAN SBtVKE 'fgflEgm ■i \n\ m I in—■ hn pr wc A.WSM n/M L UVOBM TM 11/ M M./M M/
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      236 44 ATTRACTIVE FCL/LCL RATES TO: MADRAS /BOMBAY/ SJwashpS! i" 1 j I Ttutuvm g -<W |S> O.K. LINE FULL CONTAINER SERVICE S'PORE/JAKARTA S0 VEttEL m m JKT TM IM6 IMB ummn iwrim am rtm S'PORE/SURABAYA/SEMARAM* -r* vesta vor w m 4H IBM 2W VSSSSLt BERTH AT W-1 AND UTPK-1M JAKARTA GEMARTRAHS
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