The Business Times, 24 June 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/12/96 85f SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes TUESDAY, JUNE 24,1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Van Der Horst's 84% profit fall stuns market
    537 1  -  Banks sell shares pledged as collateral by its major shareholders By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Van Der Horst yesterday shocked the market with an 84 per cent dive in half-year earnings and said banks had had to sell shares pledged as collateral by
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    Lock icon Cost of Credit Lyonnais' rescue soars to over US$29.2b: report
    358 1 AFP [PARIS] The total cost of rescuing the state-owned Credit Lyonnais bank is expected to be nearly 170 billion francs or U5529.2 billion (5541.7 billion), a newspaper has reported, quoting a ministerial report. A few months ago, then Finance Minister
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    Two forecasts for Hongkong bourse a world apart
    613 1  -  MD of Morgan Stanley Asia sees a donbling in two years From i Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong TWO forecasts on Hongkong that could go very wrong or at least one of them should were made yesterday, one that Hang Seng Index
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    Lock icon HDB dwellers top buyers of non-prime landed homes
    499 1  -  Terrace houses in Changi, Serangoon, Jurong West are the most popular By\ Diana Oon [SINGAPORE! HDB dwellers were the biggest buyers of landed private homes in the Upper Changi and Serangoon areas last year, according to data from the Singapore Institute of
    Source: SISV  -  499 words
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      117 1 DVSDB Hk Pnprty Cefanm Lee Han Shih draws a conclusion as to why office rents in Singapore are only two thirds of those in Hongkong, Pgf Mtag* China Everbright will sell 56% of its loss-making retailer, Emporium Holdings, to Hieme International for US$336 million, Pg 20 V Aigrywtris Literature scholars
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      4 1 More reports, Pg 9
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Pay rise to slow to 6.5% but bonus will stay at 1.9 months: survey
      421 2  -  Confidence about badness prospects picks up for the first time in five quarters By' Tan Su Yen SALARY Increases this year are expected to be 6.5 per cent, just a shade lower than last year's 6.7
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      SP, GIC join UEL in China project
      515 2  -  TtoUSSSMm power plant project ig in Anhni province By\ Ronnie Lim SINGAPORE Power (SP) and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) are joining hands with listed United Engineers Limited (UEL) to participate in a Chinese project. The US$56O million (***** million) power
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      Lock icon May inflation lower than expected
      335 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Inflation By Jennifer Lien INFLATION came in at a lower-than-ex-pected 1.6 per cent in May, with the key food, housing and transport categories showing slower price rises. Economists polled by BT late last week had expected the consumer price index (CPI),
      Source: Dept of Statistics; ALLAN  -  335 words
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      Mitsubishi Gas to set up US$30m hydrogen peroxide plant in Tuas
      233 2 Plant will cater to semiconductor firms in South-east Asia JAPAN'S Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co (MGC) is setting up a US$3O million (Ss43 million) plant to make and sell su-per-pure hydrogen peroxide for the South-east Asian wafer fabrication market. Construction
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      Lock icon Committee to study manpower needs of oil, chemical industry
      488 4  -  Move to address fears that new projects will severely drain limited manpower available By Ronnie Lim TO PREPARE for the manpower needs of the oil, chemical and petrochemical industry, Singapore has set up a government-industry committee to tackle what is a
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      Mobil's decision on petrochem complex delayed till year-end
      408 4  -  By] Ronnie Lim MOBIL, which was to have decided on a multi-billion-dollar petrochemical complex investment here this month, has postponed its decision to the year-end as it is still lining up downstream partners for the project. Exxon Chemical, meanwhile, has found Japanese
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      475 5 A Pre-Owned Lexus outperforms, outshines and Or simply the confidence of a regular and may seem rather generous. But have you ever outlasts most new cars that just rolled off the exacting Lexus service. known Lexus to compromise on standards? assembly line. But just because a Lexus is a Lexus,
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      When lower office rents are cause for concern
      671 6  -  TBB PROPERTY COLUMN The lack of local entrepreneurs may be a reason for Singapore's prime office rental being a third cheaper than Hgs By Lee Han Shih IS IT good or bad news that prime office rental in Singapore is two-thirds that
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      Newton freehold site up for sale
      347 6  -  By\ Diana Oon [SINGAPORE] Another redevelopment site is being put up for sale on Lincoln Road in the ever-popular Newton area. Three groups of owners are offering a total of 22,900 sq ft of freehold land for sale by tender. The site comprises land
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      Sing Hldgs buys $33m building
      332 6  -  It will be redeveloped into light industrial building warehouse By 1 Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] Sing Holdings yesterday announced the purchase of a freehold industrial building at 80 Tannery Lane which it plans to redevelop into an U-storey light industrial building and warehouse. The building,
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Thailand delays rescue plan for ailing sectors
      385 7 BANGKOK New Finance Minister Thanong asks for time to study issues Reuter THAILAND yesterday delayed its plan to take urgent measures to shore up its ailing finance and property sectors, saying the government needed more time to study the steps. Deputy Finance Minister
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      Troubled Thai health insurers may pull out
      272 7  -  SINGAPORE By Soh Tiang Keng SADDLED with soaring losses on their hospital and surgical benefit business, some life insurance firms in Thailand are considering pulling out of health insurance. The Asia Insurance Review, a Singapore-based regional publication, says this may happen unless mechanisms
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      Lock icon Indon stocks hit record on earnings hopes
      135 7 JAKARTA Bloomberg INDONESIA'S benchmark stock index surged to a record, led by banks, amid optimism about accelerating corporate earnings growth. Expectations that profit gains in Indonesia will double to 20 per cent this year at a much faster pace than its neighbours is
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      Thais likely to see drop in May reserves
      467 7  -  BANGKOK New b&ht attack possible bnt higher export figures seen offsetting sentiment Reports by Harish Mehta THAILAND'S foreign exchange reserves data for May, due out on Thursday, are likely to show that reserves have fallen in the wake of measures to defend
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      BOT's baht move aimed at punishing Soros, says paper
      422 7 THE Bank of Thailand (BOT)'s recent capital curbs were aimed at punishing currency trader George Soros, who led one of the most severe attacks against the baht in mid-May, a newspaper said yesterday. Citing sources, The Nation said: "He (Soros) still
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Industrial spy case puts heat on Taipei copycat drug firms
      520 8  -  TAIPEI VNCs using case to posh for crackdown, but Taiwan firm says it was set op FBI By Bruce Cheesman INTERNATIONAL pharmaceutical giants have seized on an industrial espionage case involving a US and a Taiwan firm to highlight their
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      Lock icon Industrial groups swallow China state firms
      329 8 BEIJING AFP WEALTHY conglomerates are snapping up eastern China's ailing state concerns in a shining example of the ability of big business to squeeze profit from the struggling public sector, reports here said yesterday. Some 2,500 public firms have been taken over in the
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      Lock icon Taiwan launches live-fire war games ahead of HK's return
      309 8 TSOYING, Taiwan AFP TAIWAN yesterday launched two days of major live-fire war games only a week before Hongkong returns to China, brushing aside US and Chinese warnings that the manoeuvres could further heighten tensions across the Taiwan Strait. President Lee Teng-hui,
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      Lock icon Taipei banks not halting property loans
      167 8 TAIPEI Bridge News TAIWAN'S large governmentrun banks are not about to suspend bulk property loans despite a report to the contrary in a local newspaper yesterday, bank executives said. The Economic Daily News said the "Big Three" govern-ment-run commercial banks Hua Nan, Chang Hwa
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      694 8 WOCBCIMKIK Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (Incorporated in Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED SCRIP DIVIDEND SCHEME On 13 June 1997, the Directors of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (the "Company") announced the application of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited Scrip Dividend Scheme (the "Scheme") to the final dividend of 11 cents
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  • HONGKONG'S RETURN
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      Time will tell if SM Lee's right about Asia: Patten
      450 9  -  HONGKONG He says he eqjoys talking with SM despite differences on HK reforms Loh Hui Yin GOVERNOR Chris Patten said yesterday that time will tell if Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's view of Asia, or the views of others, is
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      Networks flock to media event of the year
      449 9  -  SINGAPORE By 1 Toh Han Shih COME the return of Hongkong to China on July 1, all the world's media will be focused cm Asia. From Latin America ta the Middle East, from Britain to the US, TV cameramen affe getting ready
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      Lock icon Britannia's in for the grand finale
      81 9 (HONGKONG] An officer aboard the Royal Yacht HMYBritannia surveying the construction ofgrandstands for an enormous British end-ofempire party in Hongkong's East Tamar, the site of the former Royal Navy headquarters, following the Britannia's arrival yesterday morning. Britain's party to mark the historic handover of
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      China won't dip into HK's forex reserves: HKMA
      366 9  -  HONGKONG By\ Loh Hui Yin ANY fears that China, which will govern Hongkong shortly, will dip into the territory's ample foreign exchange reserves are groundless, said an official of the Hongkong Monetary Authority (HKMA). Norman Chan, HKMA deputy chief executive, said: "I
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      Lock icon Business execs more bullish on HK's future: survey
      241 9 HONGKONG Reuter BUSINESS professionals' confidence in the future of Hongkong has risen substantially over the last year, reversing the downward trend of recent years, a poll released yesterday showed. The survey also showed that maintaining a democratic system in Hongkong was ranked
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  • FOCUS
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      Lock icon Hot debate over Japan's defence plans
      1762 11  -  A review of the US-Japan cooperation pact stirs up fears in China and even among some Japanese From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE decision earlier this month by Japan and the United States to review the joint guidelines for defence cooperation between the two
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon S Korea probes jump in trading of futures abroad
      262 12 SEOUL Ministry summons brokers over soaring trades on London Metal THrrhatngfl Reuter AN official of South Korea's Finance Ministry said yesterday the ministry had summoned several domestic brokers to investigate overseas futures trading by Korean companies. Lee Jong Gap, a director
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      Lock icon The art of making a payoff
      147 12 TOKYO AFP JAPAN'S Nomura Securities Co allegedly capitalised on artwork deals to raise 320 million yen (Ss4 million) in 1995 to pay a corporate racketeer in a payoff scandal, Kyodo News said. Nobutaka Fujikura, a former managing director of the brokerage, allegedly played the
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      Lock icon Racing to reach Hongkong
      51 12 [SYDNEY] Hoteliers racing along the foreshore of Sydney Harbour on Saturday during the annual competition among staff from the city's most prestigious hotels. The overall winner from the various teams of executives waiters and porters was given a free trip to Hongkong for the handover celebrations.
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      Lock icon Kia Motors denies asking for 60b won in emergency loans
      328 12 SEOUL Company says request was part of its annual loan plan Bloomberg, AFP KIA Motors, South Korea's third-biggest auto manufacturer, denied a report that it sought emergency loans to ease cash flow problems. The Maeil Business Newspaper said Kia and
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      Lock icon S Korean group to sue US tobacco firms and dealers
      353 12 SEOUL AFP A SOUTH Korean civic group yesterday said it would sue the US tobacco industry and its main distributors here for damages after a landmark ruling in the United States over the weekend. "We will file the suit at
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      Lock icon Indo-Pakistan talks will discuss Kashmir issue
      457 13 M ISLAMABAD Officials of the two nations end talks on npbeat note, decide to meet again in Sep Reuter INDIA and Pakistan, seeking to put 50 years of rivalry and war behind them, yesterday announced an agenda and negotiating mechanism for future peace talks.
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      Lock icon Chinese Aussies got ethnic-cleansing threats: lawyer
      345 13 SYDNEY AFP WARNINGS of Bosnian-style ethnic cleansing of Chinese Australians by supporters of right-wing nationalist MP Pauline Hanson are being taken seriously by the community, one of its members said yesterday. v Brisbane-based lawyer Lawrence Ma said some of the community had received mail
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      Lock icon Concern over Aussie plan to fight green policy
      260 13 SYDNEY AFP AUSTRALIA faces long-term economic damage if it pursues its policy of opposing an agreement to extend measures to reduce greenhouse gas emission, a group of 131 economists warned yesterday. They said in a statement that many potential measures existed to
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      Lock icon Indian ruling party may split, warns aide
      252 13 NEW DELHI AFP INDIAN Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral's Janata Dal (People's Party) may split over the prosecution of one of its top leaders in a corruption scandal, an aide warned yesterday. "The current situation can result in a split in the party,"
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      Lock icon Samsung India to take longer to invest US$200m
      267 13 BOMBAY Slow market prompts group to spread 3-yr plan over 6 years Reuter THE Indian subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, the Korean consumer electronics giant, said yesterday its US$2OO million (Ss2B6 million) investment in the country will be spread over six years, instead
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon G-7 differences remain after meet
      430 14 DENVER Japan's rising trade surplus with the US still the most pressing issue Reuter TOP industrial nations sounded broadly satisfied with the shape of the world economy and the constellation of currency rates at their Denver summit, but the happy talk masked differences that could
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      Lock icon Earth Summit II opens with depressing news
      272 14 UNITED NATIONS AFP WORLD leaders kicked off Earth Summit n here yesterday amid dire predictions of environmental ruin and US stonewalling over concrete measures to stop it. The official welcome was delivered by US Vice-Presi-dent A 1 Gore and Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso,
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      Call to make the Internet a tariff-free zone
      348 14  -  SINGAPORE Govts should take hands-off approach: US policy adviser w Toh Han Shih THE Internet should be a tar-iff-free zone and governments ought to take a hands-off approach to Internet commerce, senior policy adviser to the US president, Ira Magaziner, told reporters
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      Lock icon US Senator sees major revisions to tobacco deal
      308 14 WASHINGTON Reuter A LEADING congressional critic of the tobacco industry predicted yesterday that Congress would make major revisions to the U*****.5 billion (*****.5 billion) settlement between states and the industry, while one of the state negotiators warned Congress not to "muck it
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      Lock icon Kohl coalition fends off attacks on tax
      289 14 BONN Reform* to cot tax writeoffs for losses hit power utilities Reuter CHANCELLOR Helmut Kohl s coalition yesterday defended itself against an attack by Germany's business lobby on changes to tax reforms which would cost big companies billions of Deutschemarks next year. Business
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      It's still unclear who's running Thai economy
      634 15  -  THE BOTTOMLZME OPINION By Harish Mehta The writer is BT's Bangkok correspondent THE resignation of Thai Finance Minister Amnuay Viravan last week has exposed the weakness of Thailand's coalition government When cabinet rivals attacked Dr Amnuay and forced the government to roll back
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      158 15 'I don't think much of spending money twice that we never had in the first place.' Helmut Kohl German Chancellor on suggestions that Europe review massive public works programmes. 'It's like trying to empty a bathtub with a teaspoon while the tap is running.' Kl&os Kinkel German
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      G-7's flawed process
      594 15 EDITORIAL US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton has set himself a domestic political goal of making the United States government "look more like America", by giving women and minorities a "seat at the table" where critical decisions about the future of the nation are made. As President Clinton bids
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      Lock icon Overcapacity stalks Asia's Tiger economies
      923 15  -  Over-investment has led to excess capacity which will hold back a recovery in exports By: Peter Montagnon Financial Times CHEN ZHAO, managing editor of the prestigious monthly economic review, The China Analyst, is a gloomy man. On a recent visit to north-east China, he says
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      879 15 fffrhiwlii hm I'D feel better about America's economy if I knew we were prospering as one country, not as two. One way I'll know that is when my 11-year-old daughter, who goes to public school in Maryland, stops coming home sad because another one of her
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Uproar over 'new' Ulysses
      994 16  -  A recently-published edition of the James Joyce masterpiece has scholars fuming, says barah ltall SARAH LYALL NYT EVEN James Joyce didn't always know the precise words he intended to use in Ulysses, his masterpiece and a book that was as challenging in the writing as it
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      Lock icon Jackson's new album bombs in US; is he history?
      541 16 MUSIC NYT [NEW YORK] Once promoted as the icon of an entire generation, Michael Jackson now finds himself in the precarious position of seeming to stand on stage alone at least in the United States. Unlike the usual hubbub that surrounds
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      Lock icon Fancy a T-shirt? Buy a magazine
      893 16 PUBLISHING Competition poshing publishers to offer freebies to boost newsstand sales NYT [NEW YORK] Buy this magazine, and get a free T-shirt. Or a bottle of perfume. Or a garden tool. Whatever. That's been the story at the newsstand for the last few years
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      Lock icon Stormy start to Wimbledon
      623 18 TENNIS Torrential rains drive qualifying events indoors; participants expect upsets NYT (WIMBLEDON] This could be the year that Wimbledon, which has already tampered with tradition by ripping up Court One and installing a spanking new stadium nearby, may regret its steadfast decision to use the sky
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      Lock icon Els plays out a convincing win at the Buick
      411 18 GOLF US Open champ leads from start to finish to take the Buick Classic NYT [HARRISON, New York] Ernie Els followed up his US Open triumph with a commanding wire-to-wire victory in the Buick Classic on Sunday. Els fired a two-under
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      SIA mulling over stake in Air New Zealand: report
      365 19  -  SIA conld boy direct stake in Air NZ, or buy into its major shareholder Brierley From Surinder Singh in Sydney SINGAPORE Airlines, which last week tied up with Air New Zealand and Ansett Holdings on the "kangaroo route" between Australia and
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      SIA unit awards US$22m Loyang test cell contract
      422 19  -  It's also in talks for joint venture to repair Mmmiffriftl mginftg By< Conrad Raj SIA Engineering Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, has awarded a US$22 million (5531.4 million) contract to Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to set uiv gine test facility
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      Should firms correct analysts' flagrantly wrong forecasts?
      795 19  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Louis Beckerling CEREBOS and Amcol. What's the connection? In a marketplace displaying all the animation of a stunned mullet, they've provided some news. But unhappily that's where the entertainment value ends. Take Cerebos first. Best known for manufacturing and distributing
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      Stamford Tyres puts loss from warehouse fire at $28m
      199 19 [SINGAPORE] Stamford Tyres Corp requested a suspension of trading in its shares yesterday and estimated the loss from last Friday's fire at its warehouse at $28 million. The company said the loss would be fully recovered through insurance claims. The Sesday-listed
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      New Ho Wah shareholder emerges with 15% block
      334 19  -  $6m purchase by Ramdas Nair adds fuel to takeover talk By' Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] The mystery buyer of a major stake in likely takeover target Ho Wah Genting International (HWGI) has been revealed. The company said yesterday that one Ramdas Nair
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      IDT beats forecast with $11.8m profit
      245 19 [SINGAPORE] Liquid crystal display maker IDT Holdings (Singapore) posted net profit of $11.8 million for the year ended Mar 31, 43 per cent above the previous year's proforma profit of $8.24 million. Turnover on a proforma basis was also 27 per cent higher than
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        Lock icon Everbright sells 56% of Emporium for HK$336m
        362 20 lad chip straps Wm ii m 1m itihn Mi wEkSmht** of ECsTbeaM SCMP [HONGKONGJ China Ever-bright-IHD Pacific has de tailed the deal which brings it elosef to becoming a financebased red-chip conglomerate through a 20 per cent stake in Theme International Holdings. The
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        Plan to list Bank Bumi proposed
        320 20  -  ktllptUMlt MprivattetiM nMtluU Prom, Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian government has not yet decided on Bank Bumiputra's privatisation route, according to Rashid Husaaln yesterday. Mr Rashid, executive chairman of Rashid Husaaln Berhsd (RHB), Mid the group's merchant bank has submitted a proposal
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        DBS Land buys Upper Serangoon site
        280 20  -  ItfeftftigSMAft for 45,424*4 ft mat Ktmi MKT statiM By. Abdul Hadhi (SINGAPORE] Mainboard listed DBS Land has clinched a 40,434 «q ft collective sale site in the Upper Serangoon area fof 190.2 million. The property developer's competitive bid works out to about Hit per
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        Poh Lian unit made sole dealer here for Dutch company HEK
        248 20 [SINGAPORE! CME Industries, a subsidiary of scaffoldings supplier Poh Lian Holdings. has been made the sole Singapore dealer of passenger and material hoists by Dutch company HEK Manufacturing. The ma in board-listed Poh Lian has also secured its largest
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          30% of UOL project for sale
          65 20 [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Land will be selling 30 per cent of its Novena MRT commercial development, and retaining 70 per cent for investment. The company, together with United Overseas Bank and Singapore Land put in the top bid of $506 million for the Novena
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          Pacific Andes bonus issue
          38 20 [SINGAPORE] Frozen-food specialist Pacific Andes is proposing a l-fbr-4 bonus issue after announcing a 28.6 per cent rise in profits for the year ended March 31. The issue will result in 36,281,250 new shares.
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          New MD at ST E&E from July
          82 20 [SINGAPORE] ST Electronic ft Engineering (ST EftE) yesterday said Seah Moon Ming will replace Yap Eng Lip as managing director from July 1. Mr Yap will be made managing director ofMicropolis Singapore Operations and will remain on ST EftE's board. Singapore Technologies Shipbuilding
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          Shangri-La funds laundry unit
          75 20 [SINGAPORE] Shangri-La Hotel raised the paid-up capital of its Singapore-incorporated subsidiary Central Laundry Pte Ltd. Its paid-up share capital has been increased from $4 million to $5.2 million through the proportionate issue of 1.2 million new $1 shares to shareholders. In turn, Shangri-La Hotel got 660,000
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        494 21 Slump may be brief; shares of firms with powerful backers likely to keep rising Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Chinese investment companies, Hongkong's hottest stocks, fell for the first time in seven days, tripped up by new rules designed to make it harder for
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        229 21 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Pacific BBA, an Australian construction company, said it has acquired the 49 per cent minority shareholding Hicom owned in its Malaysian automotive business, PBR Automotive (Malaysia), for an undisclosed amount. Pacific said it approached the Malaysian government seeking permission to purchase the
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        Lock icon Pan-Asian group sets up investment bank in HK
        123 21 Reuter [HONGKONG] Investors representing leading Asian conglomerates said yesterday they had established a Hong-kong-based investment bank, KG Investments (KGI). Shareholders now include Taiwan's Koos Group and Japan's Nippon Life Insurance Co, KGI said in a statement. Other shareholders, subject to regulatory approval,
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        48 21 [KUALA LUMPUR] A Malaysian model showing off radiant-cut natura l yellow diamonds on a necklace and a ring during the opening ceremony of the French Korloff Boutique in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The 25.62 carat diamond set has a US$4OO,OOO (*****,000) price tag. AFP
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        LG Electronics aims to lift sales 10-fold by 2005
        491 21  -  Worldwide brand revamp to help group meet its target Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] LG ELectronics, the flagship unit of South Korea's LG Group, is looking to a 10-fold jump in sales to US$7B billion (Ssl 11 billion) by the year 2005. The
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        Lock icon GEC Alsthom in decentralisation move
        302 22 More flexible organisation needed to cope with changing markets FT [LONDON] GEC Alsthom, the Anglo-French power and transport engineering group, ,is decentralising its management in its biggest organisational change since it was founded eight years ago. iv The company, a joint venture between GEC of
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        Lock icon Wall St gurus see lower Dow ahead
        145 22 Reuter [NEW YORK] A consensus of a roundtable of seven Wall Street investment strategists sees the Dow Jones Industrial Index at significantly lower levels by the end of 1997, Barron's reported. The Dow closed at 7,796.51 on Friday. Smith Barney's Marshall Acuff, Merril
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        Lock icon Interim profit plunges 38% at Lonrho
        340 22 Lower precious metal prices, strong pound take their toll Bloomberg [LONDON] Lonrho pic said "pre-tax profit plummeted 38 per cent in its fiscal first half because of the stronger pound, lower precious metal prices and a decline in African businesses such as auto distribution.
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        329 22 Meeting scheduled for today unlikely to get a quorum FT [PARIS] Shareholders in Eurotunnel, the troubled operator of the Channel tunnel rail link, are close to gathering sufficient votes to block the restructuring plan under negotiation between the company and its creditor banks.
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        Lock icon Compaq buys Tandem for US$3b in stock
        238 22 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Compaq Computer Co, the world's fifthlargest computer company, said it will acquire Tandem Computers Inc for stock valued at about US$3 billion (554.3 billion), the companies said. The transaction is valued at about U5522.40 a share, based on Friday's closing
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        BOC to continue to tap S'pore financial market
        411 23  -  China bank won't shift all its business to HK after June 30, says official Lu Ning [SINGAPORE] The Bank of China (BOC), one of the largest state-owned commercial banks of China, will continue to tap the Singapore financial market for capital even
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        Lock icon Strong growth seen for Metrobank
        366 23 Reuter [MANILA] Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co should post strong growth for the first half of the year despite challenges confronting the Philippine banking industry, analysts said yesterday. Lower loan growth triggered by a recent scare over asset quality, narrowing spreads and keener competition have
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        45 23 [HANOI] Workers unloading fruit from a boat on a canal in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday. Vietnam, a tropical country, has a great production of various fruits but its processing industry is still small, being unable to tap this resourcefully. AFP
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        350 23 Up to 4b yuan of convertible bond issues will be allowed under new qnota Reuter [BElJlNG] The first group of Chinese firms to issue corporate convertible bonds under a new quota could go to the market as early as October with
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        Lock icon NatWest up on talk of Barclays takeover
        266 23 Bloomberg [LONDON] National Westminster Bank surged as much as 4.3 per cent yesterday on a report that Barclays is considering a takeover bid to form Britain's largest bank. Nat West declined to comment on the speculation yesterday, though it did say its chairman
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        187 24 SUKEXReport Reuter (SINGAPORE) Simex Euroyen and Japanese government bond (JGB) futures rose slightly in thin trade yesterday ahead of the Bank of Japan's tankan survey of business sentiment. The tankan report is due out tomorrow. "We think the tankan survey is going to show
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        Futures find support in the cash index
        173 24  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES By Perry Gilbert, Perry Gilbert, vice-president, Refco Singapore Pte Ltd [SINGAPORE] THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Index futures remained firm over the session, supported by the cash index which rose 91.3 points to 8,925.1. Continuous small sellers kept the lid on
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        306 24 ENERGY REPORT Reuter [BAKU] Azerbaijan's state oil company, Socar, plans to sign at least three new contracts with US energy firms to develop Caspian Sea oil fields, a Socar official said yesterday. Davud Babayev said the contracts, with Exxon, Chevron and Mobil,
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        273 24 Reuter, AFP THE US dollar was trading within narrow margins yesterday afternoon by comparison with morning levels, up a tad against the yen but off a bit against European currencies. The dollar was down to 1.7260 marks against 1.7279 in the morning and 1.7295 on Friday, but was
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      1635 25 AFP P Nikkei 225 *6060 JAPANESE share prices edged higher yesterday, aided by light bargain hunting and late fu-tures-led gains in cautions trade ahead of the release of a key survey by the Bank of Japan, brokers said. The key Nikkei stock average of the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2236 25 LONDON Mislvflris Ja*23 Place 31 Group 504 -1.400 AB Ports 269.400 -1 Abbey National 799 -6.400 ADM Domecq 421 unch Airwe 143 -1.400 Asda Group 117.400 2.600 8AT Ind 566 -23 BG Ptc 216 -2 BICC 179 -1 BOC Group 1047 -8.400 BR Petroleum 707.600 -3.800 BTR
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      1555 26 AFP n Hang Seng -***** SHARES fell yesterday in volatile trading after reaching a record closing high last week. "Investors were cautious and not certain what's going to happen next, following the record close last Friday," said an analyst. "Sentiment remained upbeat on Hongkong's future after the handover of
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      644 26 Reuter fl Shenzhen B Index -0.88 THE Shenzhen B share market ended down in volatile trading yesterday due to the suspension of A share market giant Shenzhen Development Bank for unusual price movements. The B Index lost 0.88 point to 148.27. Turnover was HK$B5 million. The A Index gained
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      399 26 AFP HWPlndei **L 2» INVESTORS' growing enthusiasm for high-tech stocks pushed the local bourse to a seven-year closing high yesterday, brokers said. "Electricals dominated trading with most of listed IC (integrated circuit) issues being quoted at the daily ceiling prices throughout the session," said a trader. The TSE Weighted
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      266 26 Reuter n Wellington -8L73 SHARE prices ended lower yesterday as trade thinned out before the budget on Thursday. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended 8.73 points down at 2,414.87 on turnover of NZ532.2 million. Reuter as coooi A*Z B«*lng '0 60 -0.10 ***** Advantogos HlOqi 1.12 unch ***** Air New
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      845 26 AFP HSETIndn *2438 SHARE prices soared 5.1 per cent yesterday ahead of the swearing in of a new finance minister and amid reports that the premier would tackle key economic problems. Analysts said the surge was due to bargain-hunting and news the prime minister will issue executive decrees to
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      423 26 AFP -7*35 SHARE prices closed lower yesterday, led by forced selling of second liners. Dealers said sentiment was extremely weak, affected by the slow inflow of foreign funds and the slower-than-expected pace of yen's rise against the dollar. The Composite Index fell 7.35 points to 753.05. Turnover was 31.7
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      597 26 AFP DAP Primaries -13 SHARES eased yesterday as profit taking and reduced overseas interest countered strong gains in media stocks. The All Ordinaries Index fell 6.3 points to 2,706.3. Turnover was 344.37 million shares worth A 5693.29. The media index jumped 230.1 points to 15,001.6 following a deal between
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      783 26 AFP n Composite Index *1.42 SHARE prices rose one per cent to a record close yesterday as investors chased blue chips higher. "The index closed at an all-time high," said an analyst. "The majority of foreign brokerages were net buyers, but the biggest push came from local investors." The
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      345 26 AFP Q Manila -T3M STOCKS fell 2.5 per cent yesterday as property and banking shares got a beating. Analysts said the market reacted to the Fil invest group pulling out of a major development in Makati last week by selling out to Metro Pacific. The PSE Composite Index fell
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        512 27 AFX-Asia d Composite Indei -&56 SHARE prices closed lower yesterday, with profit-taking seen in blue chips led by Proton, after results, and by Maybank. Dealers said the overall market was lacklustre, with little interest shown by funds or retail investors. The KLSE Composite Index closed
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        VDH warrants: Will punting turn out to be a costly decision?
        152 28  -  WARRANT WATCH -By Ven Sreenivasan SHARES of Van Der Horst, the Indone-sian-controlled engineering group, have been heading downwards and now stand at a four-year low of $2.19. The shares perked in early morning trade on speculative buying, prompting many
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
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        62 30  -  byl Shiv Taneja EXCEL MACHINE TOOLS has run up a fair bit in the last couple of months. Yesterday, it closed 1.5 cents higher at 71.5 cents on a volume of 2.2 million shares. Based on the daily and weekly MACD charts, there is still a little more
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        Index-linked buying sends STII up 26 points
        598 30  -  STOCK MARKET COMMBIVTAKY Bat broader market drifts sideways on thin volume as institutional investors remain cautions; rally hinges on recovery on trade front, say analysts By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Selective buying of in-dex-linked counters yesterday enabled the benchmark Straits Times Industrials Index to
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          Handever celebrations
          118 30 SEVERAL hotel* in Singapore are cashing in on the return of Hongkong to Chinese rale by pandering to Singaporeans'love of food and drink. ANA Hotels entices you to feast on its East meets West buffet lunch or dinner with a bottle 0f1967 Hongkong Handover Red Wine or Gold
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          81 30 WHAT rotten luck for poor Stamford Tyres, whose warehouse at Lok Yang Way was destroyed In a massive fire just as they were rolling out the welcome mat for one of their major Japaneee principals. The fire, which started laet Friday afternoon and laslsd about 10 hours,
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          77 30 PREMIXREI2 gets credit for completely killing off any excitement during their live telecasts from ISPN of the NBA play-ofb In the last frw weeks. For Interminable stretchee at each commercial break, they would put on-screen a blurry still photo of Jordan and Malone while playing extremely dull musak
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          What a wager
          118 30 SO YOU know someone who knows someone who takes an occasional dollar each way on the outcome of a soccer match in this part of the world? Well, try this for size. In London, a woman first stunned the gamblinf fraternity by staking £50,000 on the second
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          All for ONE
          158 30 THE folks tasked with publicising Singapore ONE (meaning: One Network for Everyone), the world's first nationwide broadband multi-media network, seem visibly determined to ensure that reports on this multi-million dollar project aren't fouled by faulty nomenclature. At the tail end of a mass of background material (half
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      288 31 Bridge News SEVERAL Panamaxes were reported fixed both in the east and the Atlantic, but details were not always confirmed. The morning session was non-eventftil, the Baltic Freight Index, down 3 points, set the sentiment for the afternoon attracting fresh sellers for the summer, Clarkson Wolff said in
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      514 31  -  UK-based consultant however says market share will decline though growth will come from volumes By] Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Singapore and Hongkong will retain their status as hub ports for container shipping into the 21st century despite the development of other regional ports,
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      289 31  -  Traffic is increasing at 9% per amnim and port development is seen to need USsllb From Vivek Raghuvanshi in New Delhi FACED WITH congestion in most of its major ports, the Indian government has identified 21 of them for private
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        82 31 Reuter [OSLO] Norway's largest shipping company Bergesen ASA said last week it had sold the 143,000 deadweight-tonne dry bulk vessel, Barge Master, to a Greek buyer for US$l4 million (5H9.88 million). The vessel will change owners in August, Bergesen said in a statement
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        109 31 Reuter [BRUSSELS] A dredging programme to deepen access to the Port of Antwerp so that the world's largest container vessels can dock will start in July, the Antwerp Port Authority said ina statement last week. The programme can now go ahead after Dutch legislative approval of
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        Japan port to get new terminal
        76 31 A NEW Pacific deepsea container terminal is scheduled to be opened in March 1996 at the new Kochi port, in western Japan. The new terminal building, tentatively named the New Kochi Port Import Terminal, is under construction, Llyod's List reported. When the terminal building
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      133 31 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] TNT Australia Pty Ltd, a unit of Royal PTT Nederland NV, won the contract to manage Victoria state's Port of Hastings, the government said. TNT will manage the port for a minimum 10 years with an option to extend the contract
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      168 31 Bernama-Xinhua [HONGKONG] Hongkong's status as a cargo shipping hub will remain unchanged after it returns to China on July 1, thanks to continuous inflow of overseas capital to Hongkong and the interior area. This was stated by Zhang Dachun,
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      346 31 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The new head of Japan's port association, on his first day in office, has vowed to resist efforts to reach a compromise aimed at settling a lingering dispute with the US over Japan's maritime practices. Mutsumi Ozaki, president
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      961 32 PARIS Am SHOW: AIRBUS INDUSTRIE Airbus shows vision of travel on its planned 600-seat A3XX, which is still long on fantasy but short on funding Bloomberg ONE of the more entertaining exhibitions at the Paris Air Show is a film produced by Airbus Industrie to
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      16059 38 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage SIN Oest'n Nam* Mm Number Number SIN Oest'n Name Name Number Number To BUENOS AIRES (BUE) 2060 A Argentina "lb ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 I 25/0* 19/07 CSAV IKARUGA 0I1S *5-*****55 I Ivory Coast, Cote D'lvoire
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        175 45 Ml Canada: Canada Day. M 4 United States: Independence Day. MM France: National Day. United States: Independence Day. Jallß Brunei: H.M. The Sultan's Birthday. Jul 17 Brunei: Maulud Rasul. Indonesia Birthday of Prophet Mohammed. Malaysia Brithday of Prophet Mohammed. JMI2I Belgium: National Day. Egypt: Revolution Day. *Ml Switzerland:
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        883 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
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        566 46  -  Main benefit wfll be to eventually feed passengers to destinations in Europe and the US via S'pore, says chairman By Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] The inclusion of Singapore Airlines will strengthen Ansett and Air New Zealand's "bedrock" alliance and help nurse the Mel-bourne-based Ansett
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        372 46 FT [PAßlS] Lionel Jospin, the French Socialist Prime Minister, favours a merger of the country's two aircraft makers, state-owned Aerospatiale and private sector Dassault, to create a national champion in defence and aerospace. He also backed calls for Airbus Industrie to be converted
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        270 46 Bloomberg [CARACAS] British Airways and other European carriers are expanding or considering expanding service to Venezuela in the face of increased passenger demand and the collapse of Venezuela's international carrier. British Airways said it's considering adding a third weekly round-trip
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        120 46 Bloomberg [TURIN, Italy] Fiat SpA said it has found a partner in India to build its Palio model, and that It is in talks with two companies to build the car in China. Speaking at the annual shareholders meeting of the Italian car maker, chief executive
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        277 46 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Holden Australia, a unit of General Motors Corp, said its annual export revenue could more than triple to Asl billion (551.07 billion) within a decade as the carmaker seeks to expand beyond the limited domestic market. Holden Australia
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        443 46  -  Official notes overcapacity in Asa only restricted to Japan, Sooth Korea Byl Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Ford Motor, the second-largest carmaker next to GM, is confident of doubling its share of the Asian vehicle market by 2002, according to a company
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        Lock icon Air NZ, Air Canada in alliance; may include code-sharing
        234 46 Bloomberg, Reuter [WELLINGTON] Air New Zealand said it will join Air Canada, Canada's biggest airline, in an alliance that may include code-sharing and aircraft exchange. The agreement will allow reciprocal access to frequent flyer programmes, timetable sharing, aircraft exchange and, "subject
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      301 31 Tie-up with SIA a boonto Ansett The alliance can help the airline recoup from poor earnings. Book Page People IgJ® Ronald Bergman, chairman of Sweden's Nordstrom&ThulinAß, has taken over from FHdt)of Lor wiliw i as president of the Baltic and International Maritime Council (Bimco). At the same time, Philippe d*
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