The Business Times, 3 February 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/1^96 SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3.1997 85t
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    54 1 9I0CK MAHET INDICES Week Change 8TO ...*26.24. SNH 1.101.86 -11.1! KLSE COMP 1416.72 ..*7.41 WKKEl 18^30.01.._+640.65 BANG SENG ll.Kl.79 -67.76 flR INDEX 788.04 -60.52 Jakarta coup. —m. 12 +12^1 (ANILA COMP —2,421.91 +89.38 E1WP1 7J83.40 +35.39 LOOMP 683.13 -1J8 CHINA B —1,249.82 +61.45 AU8T ALL ORD .......2.423.7 +0.7
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    FINANCE
    24 1 JEtuuhw *S-.-JlIM 8YDMEY- 6.00 im SEOUL..._ 10.95 187 fMMlWUm- AM LONDON 6.00 BVTOK A2S Awn* of 12 bote. ~Flaat ~Geatnlta*«mntn*« (Source: NatWest Bank)
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    IPC definitely not going under, says chairman
    698 1  -  It's likely to provide for $45J>m exposure to troubled Korean unit after its probe By, Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] Putting a lid on speculation concerning main-board-listed IPC Corp's liability to its Korean subsidiary's woes, group chairman Patrick Ngiam stressed yesterday that "IPC Corp is
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    Creative Technology shares likely to soar today
    659 1  -  Hie stock is seen dosing above $20 after 111% profit jump By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPOREI Creative Technology's shares are likely to soar today following Saturday's announcement of a stunning 111 per cent Christmasquarter net profit jump, analysts said. Analysts contacted by BT over
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    Slight pickup seen for business in first half: survey
    459 1  -  By, Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Business performance remained weak in the fourth quarter last year but sentiment improved somewhat, suggesting a weak pickup in the first half of 1997, a survey by BT and the National University of Singapore's Centre for Business
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    Fed expected to leave US interest rates unchanged
    317 1  -  From Leon Hadar in Washington WITH the US economy continuing to grow without showing any inflationary pressures, most obafcftttra are predicting that the members of the US Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee meeting tomorrow will leave interest rates unchanged and refrain from
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Almost 50% of firms saw drop in sales in Q4
      439 2  -  BT-CBRD INDEX REPORT Poor demand and keen competition to blame; 6 in 10 also posted lower profits Reports by. Anna Teo NEARLY half of the firms that responded to a business survey said their fourth quarter 19% sales dropped compared
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      Prospects, costs almost equally worrying for companies
      154 2 FOR both small and large companies, business prospects and costs count almost equally as the top concerns this year. But cost is by far the biggest bugbear of local companies, while foreign companies worry more about the business outlook and prospects. Overall, business
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      Cinema admissions dip 7%, takings up on higher ticket prices
      320 2  -  t*y Toh Han Shih BOX office takings rose to $114 million last year from $107 million in 1995, thanks to higher ticket prices. Were it not for the $1 hike to $7 a ticket, the situation may have been quite
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      Ericsson in $5m project tie-up with 2 partners
      210 2 ERICSSON has tied up with two Singapore institutions for a $5 million research project in high-speed wireless data communications. Ericsson's partners are the Institute of Systems Science and the Centre for Wireless Communications. The project, called Wireless ATM, will study a new
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      Local firms form just over half of survey's respondents
      249 2 JUST over half 53 per cent of the 158 respondents to the latest survey covering the Oc-tober-December 1996 quarter are local companies. Of the foreign companies, about twofifths are Japanese, and one quarter, American. About half of the companies, 51 per
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      Lock icon 17% rise in firms made defunct
      308 2  -  E7E ON THE ECONOMY Company formation By. Michelle Low THE rate of firms being deregistered last year again outpaced the rate of companies being registered. This is the third consecutive year that it has happened. According to the Registry of Companies and Businesses (RCB),
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      NSTB, China commission form technology company
      270 2  -  Shanghai venture to commercialise Chinese innovations By] Lu Ning THE National Science and Technology Board (NSTB) and China's State Science and Technology Commission (SSTC) have formed a company to help commercialise Chinese technology and innovations. An NSTB spokesman said the company, Shanghai Zhong Xin
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      Asiatic Enterprises gets approved trader status
      147 2 HOMEGROWN commodities trading firm Asiatic Enterprises has secured Approved International Trader (AIT) status from the Trade Development Board. The 25-year old company, ranked ninth among Singapore's top SO most enterpris- ing privately-held firms last year, deals mainly in coffee, pepper, cotton, synthetic fabrics and
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      EXECUTIVE MOVES
      318 2 ANDREW TAN BOON ANN has been appointed executive vice-president and chief agency officer of American International Assurance (ALA) Co Ltd. In his new role, Mr Tan will spearhead the continued development of a professional and quality agency force within the region and lead the continuous re-en-gineering of business
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  • FOCUS
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      Killing the goose that lays golden eggs
      1285 4  -  A Matsushita director points out that China's new tax regime will hurt foreign investors By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] T's like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs," says Yukio Shohtoku, not mincing his words. The director and board member of Matsushita
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Selective easing of interest rates seen in Asia in 1997
      559 5 SINGAPORE Inflation benign, current account deficits narrower SocGen-Crosby AFP EAST and South-east Asian economies are experiencing benign inflation while current account deficits have narrowed paving the way for a selective easing of interest rates, according to a forecast here. Policy
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      Lock icon Looks good on paper
      40 5 [MANILA] Filipino craftsman Nick Castro putting on display yesterday one of many paper dragons he is making in preparation for the Lunar New Year, which will be celebrated in the city's Chinatown district on Friday. REUTER
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      Lock icon Illegal workers: M'sia seeks help of employers
      187 5 m KUALA LUMPUR AFP Bernama MALAYSIA yesterday sought the help of local employers in flushing out an estimated one million illegal workers, after arresting some 1,900 in an intense blitz on Saturday. Deputy Home Minister Megat Junid Megat Ayob said he was disappointed
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      Lock icon FEER correspondent in contempt suit: report
      149 5 KUALA LUMPUR AFP A MALAYSIAN High Court has allowed the wife of an Appeals Court judge to file an application to jail a correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review for alleged contempt of court over an article in the magazine, a report said
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      Lock icon Manila to be free from monitoring by IMF
      289 5 LUCENA, Philippines No date set, bat IMF credit programme expires in Jane AFP THE Philippines will no longer be subject to International Monetary Fund (IMP) monitoring of its economy as of later this year, Finance Secretary Roberto De Ocampo said here yesterday.
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon US, Beijing sign textile pact, averting trade war
      410 6 BEIJING New accord will see doubling of US textile exports to China in the short term Reuter AFP CHINA and the United States signed a new textile agreement yesterday in an elev-enth-hour deal that narrowly averted a multi-million-dollar cross-Pacific trade war and
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      Lock icon HK welcomes Sino-US agreement
      80 6 ■HONGKONG Reuter HONGKONG yesterday welcomed the textile accord reached between its two largest trading partners, China and the United States, to avert a multi-million-dollar trade war. "The Hongkong government welcomes the textiles agreement between China and the United States," a spokesman for the Government Information Service
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      Lock icon Taiwan firm gets nod for China route
      368 6 TAIPEI Uniglory Marine gets approval from Xiamen authorities to sail across Strait Reuter AFP TAIWAN'S Uniglory Marine Corp has obtained initial approval from Chinese port authorities to become the first shipping firm to legally sail directly between Taiwan and China, a newspaper said
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      Lock icon China plans to go ahead with changing Hongkong's laws
      321 6 HONGKONG Pro-democracy camp condemns move, says it will petition Tung AFP Reuter CHINA signalled yesterday that it is to forge ahead with plan to rewrite Hongkong laws despite international fears about human rights and growing objections in the territory. After China's
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      Lock icon Beijing delays plans to send advance troops to HK: report
      268 6 HONGKONG AFP CHINA has delayed plans to send an advance military party to Hongkong before the July 1 handover as Beijing and London failed to strike a deal on the proposal, a report said yesterday. Xu Hezhen, deputy chief of
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      Lock icon Taiwan-US trade talks deadlocked over farm issues
      229 6 TAIPEI AFP THE latest round of trade talks between Taiwan and the US under the framework of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have become deadlocked over farm issues, the leader of the Taiwan delegation said yesterday. Lin Yi-fti, director of the board of
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      Lock icon China still wants foreign gold investors
      291 6 BEIJING Reuter CHINA is determined to woo foreign funds to its gold Industry despite difficulties that have deterred potential investors since Beijing opened the closely guarded sector three years ago, state media said yesterday. "You cannot expect everything to change in a short period
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  • ASIA
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      Pakistani politics in a sorry state
      622 7  -  TOere're no credible politicians In the llnenp for today's polls COMMEXTAKY By Shada Islam The writer, who is based in Brussels, was recently in Pakistan IN AUGUST, Pakistan will celebrate its 50th anniversary as an independent nation. But a large majority of the country's
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      Lock icon South Korea's Q1 growth could be lowest in decades
      383 7 SEOUL Gloomy outlook due to rittord January trade deficit, Hanbo crisis And labour strikes AFP SOUTH Korean economists warned yesterday the country could register its lowest growth rate in decades in the firet quarter of 1997, after the trade deficit hit
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      Lock icon Japan to seek G-7 help on the yen: report
      145 7 TOKYO Reuter JAPAN will ask other major industrial nations to help curb the sharp fall of the yen against the dollar at this week's Group of Seven (G-7) finance ministers' meeting in Berlin, an economic daily said yesterday. The Nihon Keizai
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      Lock icon Hanbo creditors not in jeopardy: official
      428 7 SEOUL Central bank chief says Korea's money market is stable Bloomberg Business News AFP reports that some Japanese financial institutions are reluctant to lend money to Tokyo branches of Korean banks that have been exposed to Hanbo's bad loans. The Hanbo Group, Korea's 14th
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      Lock icon Indian economic reform in stages, not as package: minister
      265 7 DAVOS, Switzerland Bloomberg Business News INDIAN Finance Minister P Chidambaram said yesterday the government's economic reform plan would come in a series of steps leading up to this month's budget and not a single economic package. Mr Chidambaram said the government
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  • THE WORLD
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      US$3b rise in US treasury securities in Fed's custody
      705 8  -  LONDON Fears of foreign central banks reducing holdings after 67 meeting seem nnfonnded By. Neil Behrmann THE foreign exchange and bond markets fear that major nations may sell the US dollar following the Group of Seven (G7) meeting next weekend, but
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      Lock icon Asian nations' US Treasury buys exceed Japan's
      245 8 TOKYO Bridge News FOUR Asian economies China, Taiwan, Hongkong and Singapore were net purchasers of a combined U5527.6 billion (5538.6 billion) in US Treasury bonds in the first nine months of 1996, a figure that surpassed Japan's net purchase of US$26 billion, the
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      Lock icon Yeltsin-Chirac meeting said to be highly satisfactory
      315 8 MOSCOW Reuter AFP FRENCH President Jacques Chirac said after talks with Boris Yeltsin yesterday he was impressed by the speed of the Russian leader's recovery from pneumonia and heart surgery. Mr Chirac was speaking to reporters at Moscow's Vnuko-vo-2 airport after an afternoon
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      Lock icon Plan to privatise London Underground
      420 8 LONDON Details leaked to the press suggest it'll be grossly underpriced Reuter A SECRET plan to privatise the London Underground may be revealed this week, to link up with a pre-election privatisation theme, according to a front page report in The Sunday Times British newspaper.
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      Lock icon SEC nod for looser trading halts if Dow falls sharply
      130 8 WASHINGTON Bloomberg Business News CIRCUIT-breakers that automatically halt trading when the stock market falls sharply will be loosened by about 40 per cent starting today. The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a plan on Friday allowing trading on all US
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      Lock icon EU ministers agree to improve Europe's competitiveness
      395 8 THE HAGUE It's lagging behind US in employment rates and GDP per capita Reuter EUROPEAN Union industry ministers agreed on Saturday on the need to improve the competitiveness of Europe's industry which is lagging behind that of economic rivals the United States and
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      After economic news, it's back to the future
      543 8  -  Technology issues are expected to finally come to the fore over the next few days' WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM By Kenneth Jame FOR MOST corporate chiefs attending the 1997 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, computers and the Internet are matters still
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Boom in inkjet printer demand leads to flurry of new products
      737 9  -  Asean market estimated at USs3oom and growing thrice as fast By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] The demand for inkjet printers has shot up in the Asean region this year, following its boom in Singapore last year. According to industry sources,
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      Kodak buys Wang software unit
      232 9  -  Bi/ Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Eastman Kodak has acquired the software business unit of US computer firm Wang Laboratories for US$26O million (5364 million) in cash. Kodak's new software subsidiary will operate as part of Kodak's business imaging systems. All 700 Wang employees will be
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      Singapore Hq for NEC-Marcam venture
      152 9 [SINGAPORE] A JOINT venture between Japjfn's NEC and US software firm Mar cam has s*| up its regional headquarters in Singapore to oversee Asia-Pacific operations outside Japan. The joint-venture company, Obtech, provides object-oriented software for manufacturj Asia-Pacific managing director James Loo tc|d BusinesslT last week
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      Lock icon PC markets lose their byte
      536 9 Lowest rates of growth in years, says research firm Reuter [FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts] The US and the worldwide personal computer markets slowed to their lowest rates of growth in years in 1996, according to preliminary figures released last week by International Data Corp. The technology research
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      Scitor changes name to Equant, ties up with SingTel
      187 10  -  By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Datacom service provider Scitor Asia-Pa-cific last week announced it had signed an agreement with Singapore Telecommunications to "offer managed X.25 and frame-relay services in Singapore" for an initial period of two years. In return, Sing Tel will
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      Lock icon Texas Instruments to unveil new chip
      119 10 Reuter [NEW YORK] Texas Instruments Inc this week plans to introduce a computer chip that can process 1.6 billion instructions per second, a Wall Street Journal report said. The new digital-signal processor has about 40 times the processing power of a comparable chip in
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      Compaq aims to better 24% sales growth
      490 10  -  Company wants to set higher goals rather than just maintain market share By. Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Compaq Computer Corp posted healthy sales growth of 24 per cent last year but vice-president Paul Chan wants to do much more. "It's no longer just good
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      Oracle loses some database market share
      471 10  -  Informix now posing a strong challenge By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Oracle Corp, said to be the largest database company and the second largest software company after Microsoft, has conceded part of the lower-end database market to the latter. Although Oracle said it would
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      Non-profitable companies can still have high market value, says Sculley
      407 10  -  Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Companies that do not make a dollar of profit can still have high market capitalisation and see their share prices soar, said John Sculley, former CEO of Apple Computer. "Companies that are in a sustainable pre-emptive
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    • IT TAKES
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        Macintosh's mega-show coming here
        42 10  -  Compiled by Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Mac World Expo, the largest and most comprehensive Macintosh event in South-east Asia, will be in Singapore for its third presentation from March 14 to 16 at the Raffles City Convention Centre.
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        Spyglass-Microsoft alliance expanded
        60 10 [SINGAPORE] Spyglass Inc is extending its Internet technology relationship with Microsoft, formed two years ago. The companies plan to work on open standards such as HTML for television and other devices. Spyglass' Professional Services Group will perform integration services for Microsoft Windows CE operating system. Some of
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        Dell launches direct sales in Thailand
        51 10 [SINGAPORE] Dell Computer Corporation has started selling directly desktop PCs, notebooks and network servers in Thailand. Customers in Thailand can now order Dell's computer products custom-made to their requirements, by dialling toll-free *****6006 which will link them to Dell's Asia-Pacific Customer Centre in Penang,
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        Verifone appoints Asia-Pacific president
        58 10 [SINGAPORE] VeriFone Asia Pacific, a provider of secure payment solutions, has appointed Larry Kessler as president of Asia-Pacific. Based in Singapore, Mr Kessler will be responsible for all ofVeriFone's businesses in Asia, Austalasia and the Indian subcontinent. Previously, Mr Kessler was president of Tandem Computers International,
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        R&D in high-speed wireless networks
        123 10 [SINGAPORE] The Institute of Systems Science (ISS) and the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), two local research institutes, have signed a $5 million Joint research agreement with Swedish handphone company Ericsson. ISS and CWC will work with Ericsson to research a new system through which
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        Xiroom ships new notebook card modem
        65 10 [SINGAPORE] Xircom will make available in Singapore by the middle of this quarter its Credit Card Token Ring Modem 33.6, its newest 33.6 Kbs PC card modem. The Credit Card Token Ring Modem 33.6 combines a 33.6 data/fax modem with a 16/4 Mbs Token
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      And now, mobile phones to browse the Internet
      675 11  -  By Raju Chellam The writer is a BT journalist IN THE beginning, you had a computer system and a telephone instrument. You used the former to read and write, and the latter to talk and listen. Then, not so long ago, the
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      Lock icon Digital to put AltaVista Web site in Asia
      148 11 Reuter [MAYNARD, Massachusetts] Digital Equipment Corp said last week that it will establish one of its popular AltaVista Internet search sites in Asia. The Asia site will provide users there with faster response to their AltaVista Internet search queries than by using
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      Lock icon Japan's latest innovation: a virtual pet
      627 11 Game by Japan's top toy maker takes the country by storm AFP [TOKYO] The latest innovation in the virtual reality and electronic games paradise has taken Japan by storm: Tamagotch, a pet confined to the small screen that has a "life expectancy" of a
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      Lock icon MCI technology combines phone calls and Internet access
      433 12 New products using latest know-how in the pipeline Bloomberg Business News [WASHINGTON] MCI Communications Corp has unveiled technology that it says will let customers use their personal computers to simultaneously surf the Internet and make a telephone call over a single phone
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      IT giants offering solutions to Internet traffic congestion
      419 12  -  New switching technology many times better than routing technology By Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Several IT giants are offering new technologies to relieve the Internet of traffic congestion, and make the Internet and networks fast enough to distribute multimedia. The new switching
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      Novell launches IntranetWare for SMEs
      105 12 [SINGAPORE] US-based Novell Inc last week announced that IntranetWare for small businesses will be commercially available from the middle of the month. It is targeted at SMEs that need up to 25 network users per server. Novell Singapore said the product comes with new, userbased
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      'Fastest' desktop graphics range of computers launched
      191 12  -  By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] US-based Silicon Graphics Inc last week launched what it claimed to be the "world's fastest desktop graphics range of computers" targeted at solid modelling performance applications. The systems, called the Octane range, comes in three models and will start
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      Epson's 1,440-dpi inkjet printers put on market
      235 12 [SINGAPORE] Japan's Epson Inc last week launched a range of four inkjet printers that it claimed were the "world's first to perform at 1,440 dots per inch (dpi), featuring the highest print resolution achievable with InkJet technology". The four models will be available
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      Lock icon Found – substance that can boost data memory
      177 12 Found substance that can boost data memory AFP [WASHINGTON] A team of International researchers has announced the discovery of a new substance that could increase data memory by a factor of 100,000 and have the potential to radically change computers. The announcement was made by researchers at City College of
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      181 13 Where to wine, dine and entertain I Not wKen our cKeJ jrepares tKem tKe way lie at tKe HuKertus Grill. They're simply Ef selectable. Only tKe resKest Burgundy snails .are conjured up witK SpanisK garlic and FrencK I parsley. And Koy, do tKey go at a pacy rate! A ANA
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      102 13 A Ramadan Taste Of Malaysia Date 10 January to 5 February 1997 Price Adult: Ss2B.oo+++ Child: S$ 18.00+++ Nightly from 6.30pm to 9.30pm For reservations, please call 731-7990 ■OV A l &V\A. CrtOWNE PLAZA' SINCAPOti 2S Scotts Road, Singapore *****0. Tel: (65) 737-7966 Fa*: (65) 737-6646 TheChoiceisallYours! For a promotion
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      174 13 SINGAPORE BUSINESS Giving you the winning edge I <Lhali I Promotion t Enjoy North Indian dining on a 7lnsA a flat, wide and round silver tray. Try our set dinner with 6 varieties of food items to choose from! Vegetarian TbaU (s2o+++) Highlights include Paneer Makhni, Moong Dal Kachori and
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      844 13 TV&RADIO Premiere 12 MTV). 1 L4O The Extraordinary. 12.00 MN TV Innovations. sX 230 Crime Story Pursuit. 2.00 AM Close. M<M AJ o!« Z'VT.Sy. Mo„, y Emertainmen, Tonigh, w J? iIVJ|NW|f Executive Lifestyles. 4. 15 Liberty Street. 12.00 NNNewsatl2 KTjfc Jr y t4V r ]L f ,I,j Innovations. 4.25 Hogan's
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      331 13 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD across hh I p I r i —c —g —l —g —m^m 1 Extremely short view of clairvoyance? (6-5) 7 Respond to an encore? (5) ™ri— BOf great importance although I I j I r for a very short time with lousycentre(9) H 10 lin France have a
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      1232 14  -  edwarp ROTimTBPT discovers thrills and nostalgia in the restored Stars Wars trilogy EDWARD ROTHSTEIN NYT ALONG time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, Star Wars appeared, light sabres hummed, Wookies roared and the Force was with us. Only someone held prisoner in a
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      436 14  -  MUSIC By\ Benjamin Loh COGENT readings of a Mendelssohn overture and a Mozart violin concerto were given at last Friday's Singapore Symphony Orchestra concert by Wang Ya-Hui, a Singaporean who has just been appointed associate conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Dutch violinist
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      603 14 HISTORY Britain's National Archives is a time capsule of UK history Reuter [LONDON] Prom Shakespeare's will to Captain Bligh's logbook recalling the mutiny on the Bounty, history is in your hands at Britain's National Archives. With Edward VHl's signature on the abdication document that shook
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      145 14 "I'm WEATHER I Wnffpnra Showers in the late afternoon mainly over western Singapore. Temperature (32-23). Awthud a/18 (Touch AhMh OX ~3 Ooudy *va Ooudy AJm 111H Cloudy Bunot Am* ji/h B"** cbmy) oin* aSr a^? ,y H 0 Ckmt y hm3sl_ A/is mB M JM4 awn (oprnteeo 02/-S Sumy Hau*»
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      372 15  -  IPO WATCH Almost all the new issues trade at premiums of 20-60% to their issue price By Abdul Hadhi [SINGAPORE] The strong IPO sentiment which the New Year ushered in shows no sign of receding, with almost all the new issues trading
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      199 15 Reuter BEL.HIJ The Indian cabinetstffifceiy to reconsider the Pill Tgpg-^» 11 '1 joint venture ilfeCVr&n India's Tata Singapore Airlines *?Bte Press Trust of India (PTTP*yesterday said the pro(Jfeal would be decided when the issue of allowing equity partnerships by foreign air- lines under a
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      645 15  -  There's probably more than meets the eye to the CLP deal HAMO SEHG XMSXGHT By Quak Hiang Whai HOW long will Citic Pacific shareholders continue to be lieve in their chairman's Midas touch? Under the leadership of red capitalist Larry Yung, the
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        Waiting for a giant to awake
        1165 16  -  Haw Par's acquisition of UWI has turned out to be just a stirring, not the hoped for awakening Company Focus By\ Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] IF ANYONE is out looking for a quiet, almost sleepy, conglomerate in Singapore's stock market, he needs to look
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        434 16 Finance unit also to seek Tier-1 status in move to raise group's competitiveness MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] EON Bank Bhd's proposed rights issue will increase the capital base of the bank and its main subsidiary, EON Finance Bhd, to meet
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        426 16 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] The termination of two proposed banking mergers in Malaysia is a setback to the country's policy of creating bigger financial institutions. "It is an indication that mergers are not as simple as they seem and that banks have
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        418 17 Higher interim seen doe to better results from US TV operations AFP fSYDNEY] Rupert Murdoch's global media giant News Corp Ltd is set to record a rise of about 12 per cent in first half net earnings to around As76o million
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        283 17 lTsian oil firm said to be baying 44% stake in Vietnam oil field Bloomberg Business News [KUALA LUMPUR] Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd is keeping mum on a report that it has agreed to sell its 43.75 per cent stake in a
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        409 17 Reuter {HONGKONG] Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd is likely to feel the brunt of Washington's efforts to force down international calling rates whatever the validity of the company's arguments against US regulators. However, analysts say lower settlement rates could hurt Hongkong
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        325 17 HE market robust in 1997, but volatility seen in rest of world AFP {HONGKONG] A leading international brokerage which consults astrologers for an annual good luck index said yesterday investors in Hongkong should be "bullish" about the Year of the Ox
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        503 18 As many as 3,000 jobs may be lost with revamp of business into three groups Bloomberg Business News [CUPERTINO, California] Apple Computer Inc will announce as early as today a restructuring that could include as many as 3,000 job cuts and a revamping of
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        315 18 Bloomberg Business News [STUTTGART] Porsche AG said on Friday that insatiable demand for its new Boxster helped net profit triple in the first half and forced it to add production outside Germany for the first time, a move that sent its shares soaring. Porsche
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        384 18 UK telecoms firm s&id to be in talks with Global One FT Bloomberg Business News (LONDON] A realignment of European telecommunications alliances appeared in prospect at the weekend. Cable and Wireless (C&W) of the UK is holding up the conclusion of its proposed joint venture
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        391 18 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] With the Standard Poor's 500 Index up 6.1 per cent one month into the new year, investors and analysts say 1997's biggest gains may be over. "I don't know that we're going to see a lot of change
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        223 18 Bloomberg Business News [NEW YORK] The New York Stock Exchange had its busiest month ever in January, surpassing the record set last October. Some 11.6 biUion shares changed hands on the world's biggest stock market, compared with last October's old record volume of
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        455 19  -  But managers say Asean bond markets still growing at a tremendous pace By I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Investors of Asean bonds, who last year made returns associated more with equity investments, will have to be happy with more modest returns
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        244 19 Central bank will also promote use of commercial bills Reuter [BEIJING] The People's Bank of China, the central bank, will tighten supervision of payments and settlements in commercial banks, spreading the use of commercial bills to reduce risk, state media said yesterday. Flawed payments
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        429 19 Bloomberg Business News (BOMBAY] India, aiming to drive down interest rates and raise more money for infrastructure projects, said it will allow access by foreign investors to its high-yield government bond market. The Securities and Exchange Board of India said that mutual
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        363 19 ij S3; INDICATIVE NUMBER mux* mien ""K SEH5E OFDAYSO* (EXCLUDING GROSS MA-nmrrv WAR raided AM0 2S ACCRUED ACCRUED REDEMPTION MATURITY YEAR RAISED (%PA) OM) DATES INTEREST WHLR1CT) YIELD PA) "1.4.87 N*****0X 1995 1 7/B# 750.00 1/1 1/10 122 98.96# 2.17# £l.R»7 Loan
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        204 19 Bloomberg Business News [SAN DIEGO] Golden Eagle Insurance Co, California's third largest writer of workers' compensation insurance, was seized by California regulators, who allege the company hid a U*****.5 million (Ssl94 million) shortfall in cash reserves. The California Department of Insurance seized the San
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        313 19 Reuter [HONGKONG] Hongkong's Cheung Kong last Friday became the latest of the territory's blue chip borrowers to get funding at a fine price. Cheung Kong Finance Co mandated four banks to arrange a HKS3.6 billion (***** million) term loan facility guaranteed
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        373 19 Reuter [LONDON] Insurance rates are stUl falling and are likely to continue to do so until there is a series of huge individual catastrophe losses, Lloyds of London members' agent Christie Brockbank Shipton Ltd (CBSL) said in its latest newsletter. "The margins in
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        591 20  -  STTVTRX Weeklyßoundup The G-7 is unlikely to take action to stem the upward trend of the greenback By Callum Henderson MMS International This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [SINGAPORE] Given the pace of US dollar gains to
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        889 20 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP (LONDON) Few countries have the power to make the commodities markets tremble at the flick of a wrist. Brazil is one of these. The soya, coffee and cocoa markets have all been under the spell of the
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      1760 20 S1C0M FUTURES Jan 31 RUBBER (Mm clotf* as at 5.30pm) RSS1 C0NTRACT(S centsAo) Close VotaflM Open Month High Low Sett (tows) Interest Feb 97 165.00 800 Mar 9? 167.00 1950 Apr 97 170.25 167.00 169.50 200 1100 May 97 171.25 168.00 170.50 200 1225 Jttn 97 172.25 169.00
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        126 21  -  Source: Analysed by Johan Tellvik a Director of Bridge Intl Broking The MACD (moving average convergence and divergence) measures the difference between two MAs. The MACD is usually plotted together with a signal line, or an MA of the MACD. Crossovers between the two acts as buy or sell
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        238 21 Market's Outlook The Straits Times Industrials Index closed lower for the week at 2216.47 down 0.011 percent for the week. The overall market was drag down by strong profit-taking on Clob stocks which were not unexpected. The OTC market has seen surged for the past 2 weeks as retail
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        145 21 Relative Strength Index RSI measures the rale at which prices move. As a rule, an RSI above 80 indicates an overbought condition while and RSI below 20 indicates an oversold market RSI is more effective in detecting divergences (sell signals) and convergences (buy signals). A divergence occurs
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        107 21 Fraser Naeve Outlook In recent years F 4 N could be thought of as a stereotypical Asia corporate story of lost focus, ie. Investment into property/building (Centrepoint) instead of concentrating on it historical corporate strength. Recent articles and research have shed light on F N's re-focus on its core, traditional
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        107 21 Outlook Creative Technology has outperformed the STII by 26% since the beginning of the year. Createive Technology corporate mission is reacquire market share in the sound chip arena. According to reports the company's second quarter net profit was predicted to be 23.9 mln USD on strong performance by
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        693 22 NEW YORK Good corporate earning*, benign inflation among reasons for optimism FT AFP SIGNALS that inflation remained under control and healthy corporate earnings reports fuelled strong gains last week on Wall Street, making up most of the ground lost a week earlier. The Dow Jones
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        119 22 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG share prices fell 0.4 per cent over the week to Friday amid concerns over Wall Street and local property prices, brokers said. The Stock Exchange of Hongkong's key Hang Seng Index dropped 57.76 points over the week to finish
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        860 22 pSydney +0.7 THE Australian bourse ended barely higher on Friday after a week which brokers said showed the level of concern caused by an uncertain outlook for interest rates and corporate profits. The Australian Stock Exchange's key barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, finished the week at 2,423.7,
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        1887 22 QPJuts +133% FRENCH stocks are likely to set new records in the coming days as last week's batch of full-year earnings suggest 1996 may have been even better for corporate France than previously expected. The benchmark CAC 40 Index rose 13.50 points or 0.54 per cent to
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        385 22 LONDON AFP AT THE end of an uneventful week during which London tended to follow New York's strong lead, the British stock market enjoyed a late burst of energy which propelled it to a new record high. The Footsie-100 Index of leading shares
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        313 22 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE share prices turned higher in volatile trading during the week on strong buying of international blue-chip issues and short covering moves. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 select issues on the exchange rose 640.65 points, or 3.6 per
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        322 23 Bloomberg Business News AFP Q Composite Index -27.41 MALAYSIA'S key stock index ended 2.2 per cent lower in the week to Friday amid profit-taking on key blue chips following negative domestic leads. Brokers said the index, which was restrained by Wall Street's falls earlier
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        215 24  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan IN RECENT columns, we spoke of rising stock market sentiment and activity directly benefiting warrants. Anyone who has been watching the market lately would have noticed that Clob-traded warrants have been exploding in recent weeks. One counter which has
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        422 26 SOURCE: Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Research Stacks Votam *MBf Hldgs 50c 56,669,000 Jade Tech 50c 53,473,000 •Sri Hartamas 46,815.000 Clwan Soon Huat 44,933,000 •RenongWtOO 44,696,000 •KM Corp Wt 41,059,000 •Berjaya Ind 40,677,000 •lien Hoe TSR97 40,108,000 •Mulpha mtl 50 33,394,000 •AM06 SOc 31.410,000 wm* < OCBC Foreign 82.831,273 Keppel Corpn 75,642.322
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        61 26  -  ®y! Shiv Taneja WING TAI HOLDINGS closed last Friday at f4.46, up eight cents on a volume of 2.6 miliion shares. The RSI and stochastic charts are giving out confusing signals, but based on the directional charts, investors with a short term horizon should take profit. Longer term
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        687 26  -  Market players divided as to whether pre-Lonar New Tear rally will continue STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE) Is history repeating itself or is this rally the real thing? That must be the question some market players are asking themselves amid a raging
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      258 21 BUSINESS Notices Vl.l I (>| I-I Kll INOII-741 ISS* THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 E.L.C. FASHIONS PTE LTD (la Voluntary l iquidation) At an Kxtraordmary General Meeting of the Members of the above-named Company duly eonvened and held at 10 Anson Koad. #13-12 International Pla/a. Singapore *****.1 on the 31st
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      314 21 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Litn Wee Mingof 140Jln Bukit Merah#l9-1152 Singapore *****0, have applied for a retail beer shop in respect of M/s Ming Sia Trading located at 11 Collyer Quay #02-23, The Arcade Singapore *****7, and that this application will be considered by the Liquors Licensing Board
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      213 21 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT Name of Company Chor Pee Company Address of Registered Office 50 Raffles Place 18th Floor Shell Tower Singapore *****3 Court High Court, Singapore Date 28 December 1996 Number of Matter Originating Summons No. 1260 of 1996 Name and Address of Receivers Mr Wee Aik Guan Mr Kaka
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      124 23 land Transport Authority Infoline— COE Bidding Results Car Registration Number Availability. Available on 10th or 11th of every month. All you Available between Saturday and Wednesday each week. All you need is need is enter your IC, Passport or Company Registration enter your Car Registration number* number and the Vehicle
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      288 27 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young ACTIVITY surrounding Panamax bulkers is still at the forefront of the market and it will be interesting to see the response following the large number of inspections carried out on the Japanese controlled Dynasty (70,242/89). There have been a reasonable number of sales
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      540 27  -  Plan to develop Cigading into container terminal and later to take stakes in venture By' Yong Mei Fong [SINGAPORE] The Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) and Sembawang Maritime Limited (SML) have been invited by an Indonesian consortium to conduct feasibility studies
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      233 27 AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong will lose one per cent of its cargo throughput as a result of an agreement by China and Taiwan to start direct shipping links, the territory's Trade Development Council said over the weekend. The impact could even
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      524 27  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes POR the first time for a very long time the UK press has been giving considerable coverage to shipbuilding and shiprepair. It must be the first time the subjects have hit the headlines since the demise of British
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      194 27 AFP [TOKYO] Japan plans to host a meeting of countries surrounding the Sea of Japan to discuss ways to cope with accidents which lead to marine pollution. The July meeting will be attended by officials from China, Russia and South Korea
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      278 27 Lloyd's List [TOKYO] Mitsui OSK president Masaharu Ikuta has called for the complete revamping of the Japanese port structure. Among other things, Japan must establish an international port authority and develop a paperless system along the lines of Singapore's Portnet and Tradenet,
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      158 27 AFP [OSLO] Norwegian offshore, engineering and shipbuilding group Kvaerner has clinched a 6.6 billion kroner (Ssl.4 billion) offshore gas platform contract the biggest single development contract to be awarded in the-Norwegian oil and gas industry. The contract was awarded by the state-owned oil
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      124 27 [TOKYO) An association of foreign shipping companies has called for a change in car-go-handling procedures at Japanese ports to allow them to directly negotiate with suppliers of longshoremen. Transport Ministry officials said the request was made by the Japan Foreign Steamship Association
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      723 28  -  GERMAN CAR MARKET: CUT-THROAT COMPETITION With their industrial spying row behind them, car makers Adam Opel and Volkswagen face the task of regaining market share in Germany after Mercedes and aggressive Asian competitors stole away buyers last year By, John Gilardi Reuter Rival carmakers Adam
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        725 43 THIS report, complied by Cockett Ma rine OU Ltd. shows price ranges In US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        283 44 Reuter [BRUSSELS] The European Commission may impose conditions on airlines' rights to airport slots on busy routes in return for allowing them to sell unwanted slots. The plan, one of several being considered in a commission review of EU slot allocation rules,
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        60 44 [DAKAR, Senegal] Senegalese rescue workers wheeling away one of the survivors of the Air Senegal plane crash, at Dakar airport over the weekend, after he was evacuated from Tambacounda in south-eastern Senegal. Theflight, which was carrying 52 people, crashed shortly after takeoff there, then caught
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        248 44 It will cater to intl charters and private business planes NYT [TOKYO] One of the three runways at Tokyo International Airport in Haneda will be opened around the clock to international charters and private business planes, Ministry of Transportation sources
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        240 44 Reuter [PARIS] State airlines Air France and Alitalia have signed a deal under which they will cooperate on codesharing and in other areas in a bid to expand and cut costs in the face of tough private competition. Air France said chairman
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        328 44 Plan to set up European version of US Federal Aviation Authority Reuter [AMSTERDAM] European Union transport ministers have urged the European Commission to push ahead with institutionalising air transport safety during the final day of an informal transport council in Amsterdam.
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        188 44 Reuter [SEOUL] North Korea would be ready to open up its airspace for overflights by foreign carriers early this year, a senior official from the International Air Transport Association (lata) said. Pierre Jeanniot, director general of the Montreal-based organisation, told
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        236 44 Reuter [NEW DELHI] India needs huge doses of private investment to build vital airport infrastructure and spruce up flight safety, aviation experts say. "If money is required for air safety, then the government has to provide it. If they cannot, let them
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        274 44 Reuter [LONDON] This will be a crucial week for the airline world as British and US officials reopen their open skies talks, and Europe sets the scene for hearings on the British Airways/American Airlines alliance. British transport officials will meet US
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        177 44 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Air Asia, Malaysia's second national carrier, will embark on a major programme to lease more aircraft to spread its wings to China, India and Indonesia soon. Air Asia director Tik Mustaffa, who is also the vice-president of Hicom Holdings Berhad, said
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          93 44 Reuter [BEIJING] The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) imposed a fine 0f500,000 yuan (5984.450) on a small domestic airline engaged in crop spraying for a poor safety record in 1996, officials and state media said late last week. The company based
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          82 44 AFP [SINGAPORE] General Motors Corp.(GM) said its passenger car sales in the Asia-Pacific region fell nearly 5 per cent in 1996 to 192,000 units due to tough market conditions in Taiwan and Thailand. Total vehicle sales by the GM group were up
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          67 44 AFP [BEIJING] Chongqing, an industrial city in China's south-west Sichuan Province, will open an air route to Bangkok early this month, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The first direct international air link from the city will open on Feb 8, Xinhua said quoting
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      97 38 FCL/LCL CONSOLIDATION SERVICE TO ASIA/F.E., EUROPE, USA, AUST, NZ, INDIA, S. AFRICA, MED., ETC. PHASE CALL *****00 (16 LINES) VIETNAM CONVENTIONAL SERVICE "DOOR TO DOOR" SERVICE *6Sa rasi LQtfMGFM WTO is/02 HAIfNONG WHAIOHGM M/W NOOVMMN Also Accepting Cargo For Alt Ofier Vntnorrnw Po«1» PtEASE CALL 223 8622 (8 UNES) ETA
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      705 39 FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS ,/i 62 Toh Guan Road Singapore *****1 cfch Tel: *****66 (60 Unes) Fax: *****33 Vff E-MAlL:flesin@singnet.com.sg IfiHaflja so *002 > CONSOLIDATION SERVICE CANADA ETD SIN SOUTH AFRICA ETD SIN MONTREAL 05/02 CAPETOWN 09/02 TORONTO 05/02 DURBAN 09/02 VAN COUVER 05/02 JOHANNESBURG 09/02 GREECE ETD SIN SPAIN ETD
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      1202 40 -w SAMUDERA INDONESIA (S) PTE LTD 15 McCALLUM STREET #03-01/02 NATWEST CENTRE S'PORE TEL: *****81-3 FAX: *****08 (OUTWARD) *****69 (INWARD) TLX; R*****0 CR NO. **********00 BOQKTM6S CALL 01R EC T I'" E= 2 2 *****/43 J ESS ICA/CELIA/MEICHAII 7 SLGS/WEEK 3 SLGS/WEEK P™ 0 |VOY |SW IJAK [VESSEL IVQY ISH
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      411 40 1 -i- Singapore Soviet Shipping Co. Pte. Ltd. CR NO: **********0N I BOMBAY/COCHIN I VESSEL vov ism BOM MEKHANIK KURAKO MK2BN 06AH 14/02 I KOTACAHAYA CAHI76 00/02 10/02 I T®" 18/02 27/02 I KOTACAHAYA TFSI79 21/02 02/03 I ANNOUNCING REGULAR MONTHLY RO-RO BREAKBULK SERVICE SIN/BOM/N.SHEVA I VESSEL VOY SIN BOM/N.SHEVA
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      450 41 APM SAIGON SHIPPING THRICE WEEKLY DIRECT TO HO CHI MIWH CITY EXPORT TO HO CHI MIHH CITY IMPOHT FHOM HO CHI MIHH CITY wga Iml wr I m- TT*ssr"n kmc |l|w» |wr nwc j rara QOA6OW IMMMTMI (ID 01/11) (01/02) 04/01 (MQ 00/OJ OKMONUUMMCM Off 02/92 04/01 m VJ (01/07)
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      354 42 SINO EXPRESS SHIPPING WjELJ 11 COLLYER QUAY #06-01 THE ARCADE fSINOTRANSI *1 S (*****7). TEL: *****90 FAX: *****98 V U4-WV* TLX: R*****1 SINOEX SINOTRANS SHANGHAI (CONTAINER SERVICE) VESSEL VOYAGE ETA SIN ETAHKG ETA SHA 0. GLORY 9704 07/02 12/02 16/02 G. WELL 9704 14/02 19/02 23/02 G. LUCK 9704 21/02
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