The Business Times, 23 September 1997

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/12/96 85e SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23.1997
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon Ringgit crashes below 50 S'pore cts
    577 1  -  EL shares dm 3-9% to 760-50 paints on DrlTs comments on currency trading By. Larry Wee, Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur The Malaysian ringgit crashed below the psychological 50 Singapore cent level yesterday and Kuala Lumpur share prices took a further beating, following weekend
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    Lock icon Still less than two for one
    58 1 [KUALA LUMPUR] Money changers in Johor Baru were doing brisk business yesterday. Most of them were quoting 199.5 ringgit for every Ssloo, with afew like this giving an extra 20 cents. They are enjoying a good margin as the ringgit costs less than 50
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    KL, Indon firms under probe for causing fires
    381 1  -  By: Meera Tharmaratnam, S N Vasuki in Jakarta Prominent Malaysian and Indonesian groups are among 18 palm oil and timber companies being investigated by the Jakarta authorities for starting forest fires in Sumatra that are responsible for the "haze" in Singapore and
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    Singapore stocks finish higher
    263 1  -  Gains despite doubts over dual listing, KL currency trading By] R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Despite confusion and frustration over the future of currency trading in Malaysia, and over the continued viability of the dual listing system here, Singapore shares ended higher yesterday. The Straits Times Industrials Index
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    Dr M should stop bashing currency traders: analysts
    429 1  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad cannot afford to maintain his current posture of bashing currency traders because of the severe negative fallout, political analysts said yesterday. But they added that the combative leader continues to have a
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      113 1 XMSXDE ft>Hi linKmi httftr mm at JO. Indonesia's Salim group Is stirring things a little at Jurong Cement Ltd. Pg2l -JH flmt niety ctde Ships which do not comply with the new international safety code, which comes into effect in July next year, may face detention if J-IMt_rw— AIKJK n
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      54 1 Stay with existing institutions, Editorial Pg 17 Excerpts of Dr Mahathir and George Soros' speeches, Pgll More reports, Pg 8 Market reports, Pg 27-32 ALFRED DUNHILL LONDON The Ntw Aitumn/Winter 1997 Tie Collection VISIT ALFRED DUNHILL AT RAFFLES HOTEL ARCADE, THE PARAGON. NGEE ANN CITY, SOGO RAFFLES CITY AND DAI
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Science Park opens centre for high-tech firms
      230 2  -  By l Carol Eng THE Singapore Science Park (SSP) officially opened its Innovation Centre yesterday but is already planning to expand the resource and support facility which is targeted at hightechnology start-up firms. Housed in the Aquarius building, the Innovation Centre is already
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      UOB offers M'sian unit trust fund
      91 2 THE United Overseas Bank group will launch its United Malaysia Fund today amidst uncertainties in the region's equity and currency markets. This unit trust fUnd, with a projected annual investment return of 10-15 per cent within the next four years, will Invest mainly in
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      Lock icon Van Ommeren plans third storage terminal
      535 2  -  13th ASIA PACIFIC PETROLEUM CONFERENCE Dutch terminal operator also looking at more storage ventures with PSA Reports by, Ronnie Lim VAN Ommeren Tank Terminal Singapore (Votts) is planning a third storage terminal here, this time for the petrochemical industry on Jurong Island. In Asia,
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      Asian oil industry seen growing strongly despite currency turmoil
      514 2 DESPITE short-term hiccups from the region's currency crisis, the oil industry in Asia is expected to continue to grow strongly in the future, keynote speakers at an oil conference here said yesterday. Opening the 13th Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference, Senior Minister
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      More new firms formed in Q2
      397 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Business climate Byl David Boey THE second quarter saw a slight rise in the number of new firms compared to the preceding January-March period. Figures from the Registry of Companies and Businesses (RCB) show a total of 2,441 firms were
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      Lock icon $8m in damages is too high, Tang's lawyer tells court
      608 2 Q& Penalty will chill freedom of expression and political debate The Straits Times THE $8,075 million in damages awarded to the 11 People's Action Party (PAP) leaders who sued Mr Tang Liang Hong is grotesquely high and will have a
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        Parliament to sit on Oct ?
        19 2 Parliament to sit on Oct PARLIAMENT win tit on Oct 7 at MLBOpm, the Qark of Parliament announced yiitirdiy.
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        Corrections & clarifications
        85 2 Corrections clarifications WE wrongly reported last Saturday In a itory headlined, Xooeultant appointed fbrPWDcorpor*tiaation H that the building ofroode and expreeewaye and the eewerage •yetetn came under the Public Worka Department. The Land Tranaport Authority la reapooaitde ft* the building of roads and expreeewaye while the environment ministry looka after
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Lock icon Will DBS Land price cuts start a trend?
      798 4  -  THEFBOFBRTT COLUMN Meanwhile, a retailer's plight shows impact of bad property moves By Lee Han Shih GOOD news for DBS Land shareholders, bad news for other developers. Going by the big ads over the weekend, the governmentlinked company is making another push
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      Lock icon Sydney hotels see falling occupancies
      403 6  -  Slump due mainly to fewer tourist arrivals from S-E Asia By\ Surinder Singh [Sydney] SYDNEY'S four and five-star hotels, which have been enjoying excellent occupancy rates for the past four years, have seen the levels fall to their lowest point since 1994. A report in
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      Tong Nam Building put up for en-bloc sale
      306 6  -  By\ Diana Oon [SINGAPORE] Tong Nam Building, a freehold commercial building on Bukit Timah Road, is being put up for enbloc sale by its owners. The six-storey block, built some time in 1984, will be sold fully tenanted. It has 47,760 sq
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      Mipim Asia article not by JLW
      185 6  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Christopher M G Brown yiristopher M G Brown, chairman JLWProperty Consultants Pte Ltd PLEASE refer to the item Conflicting views in the On the Grapevine column last Wednesday. For your information, the article in the Mipim Asia '97 magazine, from
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Bank Indonesia cuts benchmark rate again
      385 7 JAKARTA Foarth cot this month; move shows govt dropping policy of nsing rates to protect rupiah Bloomberg THE Indonesian central bank yesterday cut the rate on its benchmark three-month SBI government bill for the fourth time this month, signalling the government will abandon its
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      Lock icon Thais launch ad drive to boost image
      160 7 BANGKOK Reuter THAILAND yesterday launched a multi-million dollar international advertising campaign to show it is on the road to recovery. One of three television advertisements sponsored by a leading Thai state agency begins with a bleeping cardiogram tracing an overactive heart which slows
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      Lock icon KL to send 1,200 firefighters to Indonesia
      178 7 JAKARTA AFP MALAYSIA will send 1,200 firefighters to the Indonesian island of Sumatra to battle blazes that have blanketed much of the region in a thick smog, a minister said yesterday. "Malaysia has offered to send 1,200 firefighters and a number of medical
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      Lock icon Chavalit to call for an early election
      171 7 BANGKOK Reuter EMBATTLED Thai Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh said yesterday he planned to dissolve parliament early next year and call an election, but analysts said this was just intended to ease pressure on him to quit Mr Chavalit said the move, which could
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      East Asian turbulence won't spark global crisis: report
      459 7  -  SINGAPORE But reallocation of global financial assets is expected By' Ven Sreenivasan THE East Asian crisis will not cause a global financial crisis but will lead to a reallocation of global financial assets, according to Independent Strategy In its latest bi-monthly bulletin,
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      Lock icon Vietnam to get new leaders
      161 7 HANOI Reuter VIETNAM'S National Assembly will vote on nominees for the posts of president and prime minister on Thursday and approve new cabinet members at the beginning of next week, an official newspaper report said. The French-language daily Le Courrier du Vietnam said the newly
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  • RUN-UP TO IMF/WORLD BANK MEETING
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      China links import tax exemption to WTO seat
      306 8  -  From Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong CHINA will resume tax exemption on capital goods imports for foreign investments but reinstatement is now linked to Beijing's membership of the World Trade Organisation. Raising the linkage of the two issues yesterday was China's Vice-Premier
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      Lock icon China to brainstorm financial reforms in Nov
      519 8  -  Conference will decide how to speed np modernisation of banking sector From. Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong CHINA will hold a major brainstorming session in November where important decisions to hasten the modernisation of its banking sector will be taken, said the country's
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      IMF to set up training institute in Singapore
      329 8  -  From< Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong SINGAPORE and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday signed an agreement to set up the IMF-Singa-pore Regional Training Institute (STI) in the Republic, the first of such IMF institutes in Asia. The institute, which will train
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      Currency woes: 'crisis teams' to be formed
      492 8  -  World Bank to lead the way after accord on need for action From, Anthony Rowley in Hongkong A MASSIVE public and private sector assault on financial sector problems in developing countries is needed in the wake of the crisis in Southeast Asia, world
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      Lock icon Soros' scapegoat claim absurd, says Anwar
      270 8 Billionaire says he has been made scapegoat to cover op Dr M's failure Bernama, AFP [HONGKONG] George Soros' claim that he has been made a scapegoat for Malaysia's currency crisis is absurd, said Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday. "I think Mr Soros
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      SEHK chiefs warning on red chips
      340 8  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE chairman of the Stock Exchange of Hongkong warned yesterday against a "vicious circle" of exaggerated expectations and disappointments as investors bet on red chips in the Hongkong bourse. "At present we have a virtuous circle in the
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      Lock icon Ultra-rich out to impoverish developing countries: Dr M
      1312 11 We reproduce below excerpts of Dr Mahathir Mohamad's speech WHEN I was invited to speak at this World Bank and IMF gathering more than three months ago, things were going very smoothly indeed for Asia. East Asian countries were at peace. There
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      Lock icon Towards a global open society
      1336 11 We reproduce below excerpts of Mr Soros'speech WE do live in a global economy. But it is characterised not only by the free movement of goods and services but, above all, by the free movement of ideas and of capital. This applies both to direct
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      213 8 INDONESIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE 93RD BUSINESS SEMINAR Supported by: EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA BANK INDONESIA, SINGAPORE ECONOMIC PROSPECTS OF INDONESIA (WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON CURRENCY AND MONETARY POLICY) Spkr: Prof. Or. 4. Soadmfad Dpwandono Oovhhh of Dull Indonesia Prof. O. J. Sosdradjad Ojnwandono, has been a key
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      266 11 SINGAPORE Gateway to Brazil EXPO Brazil Asia *97 28-31 October 1997 Singapore International Convention Exhibition Centre (SICEC)/ Singapore O An open invitation to Singapore investors ond the business community Go and tap the immense resources and opportunities of the sth largest country in the world! The "China" of Latin America,
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon US dollar oversupply renews upward pressure on yuan
      531 12 BEIJING CMmm cMrtnl buk intai'vullw gatting tifficvh Mjnai ends atShMrtkUgk Reuter THE Chinese yuan is facing renewed upward pressure against the US dollar because ofan oversupply of dollars and increased difficulty of the central bank to intervene, analysts said. "The yuan la
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      Lock icon Taiwan tiger still on the prowl
      357 12 TAIPEI Esprtirlirstip nmcvttoMtk Bloomberg AS ECONOMIES from Seoul to Jakarta slow down, Taiwan, with a population of 21 million, it about the only place in Asia where growth is picking up. By the end of 1907, the Taiwaneee economy it likely to be running
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      Lock icon Most Taiwanese want status quo: survey
      156 12 TAIPEI AFP MORE than 80 per cent of Taiwanese people are against seeking immediate reunification with China due to Beijing's hostile stance, according to a government survey released yesterday. The survey, carried out by the cabinet-level Mainland Affairs Council, showed that 82 per cent
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      Lock icon Speeding up damming of Three Gorges
      56 12 [BEIJING] An attendant explaining the latest progress on the construction of China's massive Three Gorges dam project during an exhibition in Beijing yesterday. The historic damming ofthe Yangtze River—the third longest in the world—has been brought forward to early November to avoid apotential disaster
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      Lock icon Li assures HK of autonomy
      374 12 HONGKONG AFP CHINESE Premier Li Peng assured Hongkong yesterday the territory would retain its autonomy under Chinese rule, with no interference from the central government in Beijing. Mr Li, who arrived here on Saturday, said at a luncheon banquet hosted by Hongkong Chief Executive Tung
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      Lock icon Zhao's letter on Tiananmen massacre a fake: family
      202 12 BEIJING AFP CHINA'S disgraced Communist Party secretary Zhao Ziyang did not write a letter to President Jiang Zemin attacking the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, sources close to his family said yesterday, adding that the document was a fraud. The two and a
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Tokyo minister with criminal record quits
      228 13 TOKYO Reuter A JAPANESE minister promoted to the cabinet despite a criminal record resigned under pressure yesterday as Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto apologised but scrambled to put the appointment behind him. Koko Sato, head of the Management and Coordination Agency, tendered his resignation to
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      Lock icon Top Japan banks set to write off up to 8t yen in bad debts: report
      406 13 TOKYO Economy still recovering though growth has slowed temporarily, says BOJ AFP, Bloomberg JAPAN'S 21 biggest commercial banks are expected to write off bad debts totalling 7 trillion (5587.1 billion) to 8 trillion yen in
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      Lock icon Kia asks Seoul court for more time to repay loans
      245 13 ■SEOUL Bloomberg, AFP THE Kia Group asked a Seoul court to freeze loan payments for four units and override a demand by creditors that its executives resign as it tries to avert South Korea's largest bankruptcy ever. In a showdown
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      Suzuki loses first round in battle with Indian govt
      485 13  -  NEW DELHI Joint vootnre's AGM to pick new MD can go ahead, court rules By\ Rajendra Bajpai AN Indian court has effectively declined to intervene in a bruising battle between the Indian government and Japan's Suzuki Motor Corporation, which are equal
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon WTO wants financial pact to be signed in December
      345 15 GENEVA Delaying accord will barm credibility of global multilateral trading system AFP THE World Trade Organisation (WTO) called in a report published yesterday for an agreement on financial services to be signed by member states in December. "Liberalising financial services helps
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      Lock icon Solidarity set to take power in Poland
      291 16 WARSAW Reuter POLAND'S Solidarity alliance stood ready yesterday to take power after a surprisingly clear victory over its archfoes, the ruling former communists, in parliamentary elections on Sunday. Projections based on a results from 1,000 sample polling stations showed the Solidarity Election Action
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      Lock icon Fed official warns banks over 'millennium bomb'
      247 16 LONDON Failure to tackle problem will affect integrity of global payments system FT THE inability of some bank computers to deal with dates after 2000 risks damaging international payments systems and even the global economy, William McDonough, president of the New York Federal
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Clinton vows to pay US debts to UN
        101 16 Reuter fUNITEr NATIONS] US President Bill Clinton, saying he wantc Itwit the issue to rest, yesterday reaffirmed his pledge K pay US debts to the United Nations but urged the world body to reduce American dues in return. "I have made it
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        Lock icon US-Russia Mir programme to go pn
        82 16 AFP [MOSCOW] US Vice-President A 1 Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin agreed yesterday to continue the joint Mir programme despite the space station's spate of problems, Russia Space Agency director Yuri Koptev said. Mr Koptev, quoted by Itar-Tass news agency, said the
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        Lock icon UK taskforce to tackle skills shortage
        70 16 Reuter [LONDON] The British Chambers of Commerce announced yesterday the creation ofa new taskforce of business leaders to tackle the skills shortage facing employers. The taskforce met for the first time yesterday and will investigate the nature of skills shortages in the UK and
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        Lock icon Turner seeks ways to make UN donation
        99 16 Reuter [NEW YORK] Ted Turner said he wants to find a way to give the US$l billion (Ssl£ billion) he pledged to the United Nations without selling his 58 million shares of Time Warner stock, the New York Times reported. The shares represent
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        Lock icon Italy, France reaffirms euro commitment
        74 16 Reuter [PARIS] French President Jacques Chirac and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi restated yesterday their commitment to strict respect for the Maastricht Treaty and 1 its timetable for the euro, an aide to Mr Chirac said. France also reaffirmed its desire to see as many
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      247 16 CSA HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDMARY GENERAL MEETING l j NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the shareholders of CSA Holdings Ltd ("the Company") will be held at 221 Henderson Road, *06-01, Henderson Building, Singapore *****7 on 8 October 1997
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      Why Seattle wants to 'fast track' Clinton
      732 17  -  OPINION THE BOTTOM LDIB By Leon Hadar Leon Hadar is BT's correspondent in Washington, DC. He visited Seattle, Washington, recently THE US capital of Washington will soon be centre stage for a national debate on America's role in the global economy, during which
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      110 17 'Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral It should be stopped. It should be made illegal. We don't need currency trading.' Malaysian Prime Minister at the IMF- World Bank Annual Meetings in Hongkong. 'Dr Mahathir's suggestion to ban currency trading is so inappropriate that it does
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      Stay with excisting institutions
      606 17 EDITORIAL IT was only to be expected that the verbal war between Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and US billionaire financier George Soros became the media highlight of the ongoing IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Hongkong The row was sharp and undecorous. Whatever the intellectual merits
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      Lock icon The global imperative
      856 17  -  The rapidly growing world market is forcing national and regional players to specialise or qnit By, Jane Fraser, Jeremy Oppenheim The writers are consultants with the management consulting firm McKinsey Company International Herald Tribune CYNICS ASK: "What's so important about globalisation? It's been under way for decades."
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      935 17 FlgftttaftlMhut RAGING forest fires in Indonesia, many set by plantation firms clearing land, have cast a pall of haze across much of peninsular Malaysia and Singapore... Asean's environment ministers have long paid lip service to the notion of regional cooperation. In January, the ministers gathered in
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      47 17 DQOHESBPRY By Garry Trudeau ipunno, tenesmi MINUS YBAH— /jiAkir ,_J| Kin I JUST Her.&ffS! I PIP, TRENT! )CAH,TR&9. AU&X XXJGAS MiKJM.fTS JSSS'JXPA FesLUKe seeN-ne TRSsaxx- TOO norm? gomzurmtha AGO/MM- H OUR COMPANY H&BfV&S T&XT TREAT- UKZ,TUJXiMf NAME&R7HS ATI ON OF I /SNTeemNG iputur* j comrqny vft* ourham&
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon NY film fest looks at families
      1092 18  -  Several films in the NY festival explore family ties and links within the larger community, says rick lybkak RICK LYMAN NYT JOHNF Kennedy was in the White House, Ed Sullivan was on television, and Rabbit Angstrom had been running for only a couple of
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      Lock icon Light at the tunnel's end for Japan movies?
      593 18  -  FILM Award-winning films have sent Japanese back to cinemas, tat experts aren't sore if the stamp's over By\ Koichi Kawaguchi Reuter [TOKYO] Japanese movies have won major International awards this year and Japanese are flocking to cinemas in record numbers to see
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        Lock icon Di's car was tailed by another: bodyguard
        217 18 AFP [LONDON] Trevor Rees-Jones, the Princess Diana's bodyguard and the only survivor of the Paris car crash in which she died, has told a French judge that her car had been followed by another vehicle the night of the tragedy. The Guardian newspaper,
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        Lock icon First US movie shot in Vietnam since war
        108 18 AFP [HANOI] US actor Harvey Keitel will play an American GI in the first American film Jto be shot in Vietnam since the war, one of the producers said yesterday. Keitel will play an American soldier who returns to Vietnam to find
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        Lock icon Havel puts his foot down
        87 18 AFP [PRAGUE] Czech President Vaclav Havel Is suing an advertising company for 5 million koruna (5J227.550) after it used his likeness in a poster campaign containing offensive language, a presidential spokesman said on Saturday. The posters, advertising a shoe company, depict a sculpted bust of
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      Lock icon Fox opens studio in Mexico to help cut costs
      301 18 SHOW BUSINESS AFP [ROSARITO, Mexico] Hollywood's 20th Century Fox has opened a state-of-the-art studio in Mexico, blazing a trail south of the border to cut bigbudget moviemaking costs. The studio here in this coastal town across the border from California is
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      Lock icon Time to really appreciate Sampras
      966 20  -  DAVIS CUP He has been labelled boring but he's undeniably one of the greatest players and may get better yet By\ Michael Wilbon LATWP I'M GUILTY of under-appreci-ating Pete Sampras, and I'm not alone. It's a club with far too many members. Since Sampras is
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      380 20 FASHION NYT IN Argentina, they want no bums. In Brazil, they want bigger bums. In Mexico, they want to look more Spanish than Indian. In Venezuela, they will do whatever it takes for their dream of being Miss Universe. Throughout South America, and in the
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      681 20 BUSINESS Notices To advertise call toll-free 1800-*****83 MANDARIN ORIENTAL THE HOTEL GROUP SM Mandarin Oriental Payment off interim dividend ffor the six months ended 30th June 1997 Dividend An interim dividend of US<l.65 per share will be payable on 25th November 1997 to Shareholders on the register of members at
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Salim makes hostile moves at Jurong Cement meeting
      620 21  -  Group tries to block chairman's re-election, queries directors'pay By Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Indonesia's huge Salim group is stirring things a little at Jurong Cement Ltd (JCL), more than two years after it started accumulating its stake of 20 per cent in
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      Concrete supplier TMC gets nod for Sesdaq listing
      257 21 [SINGAPORE] Transit-mixed Concrete (TMC), a supplier of ready-mixed concrete in Singapore and Malaysia, has received in-principle approval from the Stock Exchange of Singapore for a Sesdaq listing. The company yesterday said its initial public offer was likely to be launched in the
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      ST Aero's Mindef conversion project a world first
      182 21 [SINGAPORE] After years of silence, Singapore Technologies Aerospace has thrown the wraps off its RF-5E Tigereye project with this picture which shows ST Aero technicians at work on the Republic of Singapore Air Force's latest photo reconnaissance fighter. The photo's appearance in
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      STE formation can strengthen company's engineering clout
      410 21  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW David Boey THE announcement late last month that the defence and engineering units of Singapore Technologies Group are to be merged by year-end to form ST Engineering (STE) can be viewed as another step to keep Singapore's defence industry vibrant
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      SingTel agrees to buy NCB subsidiary for $65m
      503 21  -  Deal signals a new start for Sing Tel, says Hsien Yang By Kenneth James (SINGAPORE) Singapore Telecom has agreed to buy National Computer Systems (NCS) from the National Computer Board for $65 million, in a move which Singtel Group president and CEO
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      Lock icon Sinochem: no plans for listing on SES soon
      96 21 Reuter [SINGAPORE] China National Chemicals Import and Export Corp (Sinochem), a main Chinese state oil trader, has no immediate plan to list on the Stock Exchange of Singapore, a company executive said yesterday. "Our decision earlier this year to temporarily halt the
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        Regent buys motor facility for $20.2m
        303 22  -  Lengthy Exkluaiv wanted $20m-$2Sm for Kampong Übi site By I Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Listed Sime Singapore's wholly-owned Regent Motors has bought a fourstorey motor facility in Kampong Übi from Exklusiv Auto for $20.2 million. Renault dealer Exklusiv, which put the 53,748 sq ft site
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        GPE aims to keep pace of growth at double digits
        385 22  -  Target set despite slower growth In China car market By Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Mainboardlisted GPE Industries is aiming for double-digit growth in both its cable harness and automotive electronics businesses in the next few years, company executives said. This is
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        Fuji Offset interim falls 68%, Ho Wah Genting in the red
        423 22  -  Sea view hotel reviewing property revamp as profit fells By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Sesdaq-listed Fuji Offset Plates Manufacturing reported a fall in earnings while marine-based Ho Wah Genting remained in the red for the half year to June 30.
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      • COMPANY Briefs
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          Clipsal interim earnings rise 17%
          46 22 tMNOAPOßEintpeallMdeliiec jeefdaj npwledanJ per oeutriee in net $12.4 millian for the half yi in Jinn Tibim»w nan 1< If i—l In IW liHttM Earnings par share root 02 cents to 10.6 cent*. An interim dividend 0f4.36 cents per ehare was declared.
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          SembCorp takes control of JSL
          53 22 (SINGAPORE] Sembawaug Corporal ton hn inmeedMly taken control cf Jurong Shipyard (JBL)aftei getting approval ft*>msharehoMsrihoMing $1.6 parent of JSL'a gristing capital. MnetJST, shareholder a opted for Sembawang'a oaah offer oTS6JO per JSLehaara. Tliie compare wtfo Jurors cioatig price ofs6J»onth«ionly partite now hoM about 71 per
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          Keppel unit wins second AP Moller deal
          47 22 [SINGAPORE] Kegpei Marina Induetriee. through Ma flagship Kappel Singmarine Dockyard, haa won a aecood contract, worth $100 millioii, from APMoDsr group to bnOd two anchor handling tag/supplyveemfc. IWa fbQows APMoOer'adeciaton to exardae the option whidiwaß included in an earlier contract
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          Using ATMs to apply for rights issues
          48 22 [SINGAPORE] Central Depoaitary aecoritlM aocosnt holders can now uee their ATM cards to apply for rights aharee and exceee lights eharee at the ATMs of three member banks—DßS, Kappai and POfißßaafc Other member banka an expected to Introduce thie service later.
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        Lock icon Yaohan Japan's woes won't affect three HK units
        243 23 No direct links, say Yaohan Food, Yaohan Caterers and Whimsy Reuter [HONGKONG] Three members of the Yaohan group in Hongkong said yesterday they were not affected by Yaohan Japan Corp's application for court protection from creditors. Yaohan International Caterers Ltd, Yaohan Food
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        Lock icon BHP loses top market cap spot to Nat Australia Bank
        321 23 Reuter [SYDNEY] The Big Australian is no longer the biggest Australian. As the nation's most valuable listed firm, resources group The Broken Hill Pty Ltd (BHP) has enjoyed the tag "Big Australian" for many years. News yesterday that in market
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        Lock icon Bank of East Asia in asset swap talks
        138 23 AFP [HONGKONG] Bank of East Asia Ltd is holding talks with the Bank of China over an asset swap, it was reported yesterday. David Li, chairman of Bank of East Asia, told the Chinese-language Apple Daily that his bank was holding talks
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        Ex-UOB banker named head of Kerry unit
        155 23 [HONGKONG] The Kerry Group, controlled by tycoon Robert Kuok, has picked a former Singapore-based banker who was convicted for insider trading as the new chairman of its unit, Kerry Properties Ltd. Ng Poh Meng, a former deputy chairman of United Overseas Bank, was
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        Lock icon China Everbright to buy 10.8% of Kumagai Gumi
        136 23 AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong construction giant Kumagai Gumi has agreed to sell a further 10.82 per cent of the company's stake to a whollyowned unit of China Everbright Holdings Co Ltd, an investment arm of China's State Council, its chairman said yesterday. Kumagai
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        Lock icon Thai Telephone shares surge on govt plan to raise stake
        409 23 Smaller royalty payments for govt; bailout will widen Thai budget deficit Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Telephone Telecommunications pic surged 9.6 per cent after the government decided to raise its stake in the country's sec-ond-biggest fixed-line phone company and cut the royalty
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        Lock icon IBM finds key to smaller, more powerful computer chips
        493 24 fiftmpany plana ffffffl* new copper chips in £ratha]fflf'96 NYT IBM has solved a fundamental problem holding back the development of faster semiconductor chips and will begin '■manufacturing chips early "next year that are smaller and Tl ttp to 40 per cent
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        Lock icon Deutsche Bank to sell minority stakes?
        189 24 Bloomberg (HONGKONG] Deutsche Bank AG chief executive Rolf Breuer said Europe's largest bank would consider selling some stakes in other firms to boost its shareholder value. "There has to be a refocusing. Minorities stakes are not satisfactory for the long term," Mr Breuer told
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        Lock icon Foster's, Grand Met sell UK pub chains
        329 24 £L2bsaleof 2 years ahead of plan Reuter [MELBOURNE] Australia's Foster's Brewing Group Ltd and its United Kingdom partner yesterday surprised investors with the sale of British pub chains Inntrepreneur and Spring Inns. Foster's, which makes one of the world's most popular beers, said
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        Lock icon Sony to invest more in Japan, US as digital era emerges
        292 24 nmire investments m Asia production hinge •o market growth AFX-Asia (HONGKONG) Sony Corp will sharply increase investments in production in Japan and the US but will put less emphasis on emerging economies in Asia where further investments will depend
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        Lock icon NTT in talks with US firm
        141 24 Reuter [TOKYO] Japanese telecoms giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) said yesterday it might invest in a US wireless telecoms venture, which is seen as a major step towards offering independent phone service between Japan and the US. The move comes as the
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        US bull run to continue into early '98: analyst
        576 25  -  Surge will be led Ijy nmiij mid-size thwiwi stocks, says Wall Street's Farrell By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] The bull market in the US is likely to continue late into the year or early 1998, led by small and medium-sized theme
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        Templeton launches Smaller Companies Fund
        364 25  -  By( Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Templeton Asset Management Ltd yesterday launched its Global Smaller Companies Fund in Singapore to invest in companies around the world with less than US$l billion (Ssl.s billion) in market capitalisation. Templeton managers say that small cap stocks grow faster, tend to
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        Lock icon Euroyen up on easy rates scenario
        269 25 SOKELBeport Reuter [SINGAPORE) Simex Euroyen futures headed higher yesterday on signs that Japan would keep interest rates low as it continued to struggle on the road to economic recovery. Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Yasuo Matsushita said the central bank would maintain its easy
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        Futures steady on talk of move to ease capital
        164 25  -  MBCITAIWAX FDTDBBS By Perry Gilbert Perry Gilbert, vice-president, Refco Singapore [SINGAPORE] The Simex MSCI Taiwan Index futures contracts saw support at the 390 level yesterday, on rumours of a cut in Taiwan banks reserve requirements, which would free liquid to support
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        Lock icon Texaco off-loads Myanmar assets to Agip
        228 25 EMEROT REPORT AFP [YANGON] US-based oil giant Texaco has off-loaded its assets in military-run Myanmar to Agip International of Italy in a US$26O million (***** million) swap deal, a source said here yesterday. No official announcement has yet been made of the deal in
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        257 25 Reuter, AFP THE US dollar stabilised against the yen at mid-day, after having opened with a strong rise, ignoring a Group of Seven appeal for the yen to stop depreciating. At 1215 GMT, the dollar was trading at 122.75 yen against 122.85 in the morning and 121.93 on
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      1827 27 I—H* No *h AB Ports 281.400 1.400 Abbey National 892 -11 AMed Ooi—cq. 477.600 -10.400 Aimc *****0 uncti A tda Group 155 *1400 BAT M S26 -3.400 BGPfc 263 5 BtCC 148.400 -i BOC Group 1137 30.600 aft Petroleum 908.400 *1.400 BT* 240.400 *1 Bank of Scotland
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      1573 27 AFP H18kt0225 iWt SHARE prices closed higher yesterday, supported by active buying of blue chips by domestic institutional investors, brokers said. The 225-share Nikkei Average rose 143.11 points to end at 18,201.32, while the broader Topix Index gained 13.06 points to 1,402.52. Turnover was an estimated 470 million shares,
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      1512 28 Bloomberg PHangSeag -***** STOCKS fell in light trading yesterday. China-related issues led the retreat on concern Beijing will have a hard time following through on its plan to overhaul state-owned companies. The 15th Communist Party Congress ended without elaborating on proposals to overhaul state industries. "People are starting to
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      593 28 Reuter ClShqiifaaiß Index -4.71 CHINA'S share prices closed sharply lower yesterday as fears over new A share issues for domestic investors spilled into the B share market. Dealers said the Communist Party's plans to restructure ailing state industries by reducing government ownership convinced many investors more stock offers could
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      371 28 AFP HWPMn +M.78 STOCKS rose yesterday amid speculation of the central bank's move to ease capital flow to boost trading. The Weighted Price Index rose 19.78 points to 9,220.99. Turnover was 1.5 billion shares worth NTSB3.6 billion. Risers beat falls 222 to 180. Banking and insurance issues were the
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      228 28 Reuter PWeffingtoc -1M WEAKNESS in Telecom put a dampener on an otherwise steady market yesterday. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended 2.04 points down at 2,573.61 on turnover worth NZ579.3 million. —Renter hpia «a no ANZBtnklng 12.80 0J4 ***** Advantages Hldgs 1.00 *0.11 ***** UNHZHMU) 2.80 0.01 *****2 AirNcvZMiMtfCI) 4.20
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      802 28 AFP PSETMg «M 0 SHARE prices were marginally up in thin trading yesterday, with most investors sidelined ahead of a no-confi-dence debate this week against the prime minister. An analyst said narrow range trading in thin volume indicated that most investors were sidelined waiting for a clearer picture of
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      396 28 AFP nOwportahig -1L52 STOCKS closed lower yesterday on news that Kia Group has applied for court mediation to protect Kia Motors. "Selling was across the board in the afternoon session, with sentiment hurt by the news of Kia's application for court mediation," an analyst said. "A further fall is
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      585 28 AFP HAlMMhiri— +315 SHARES closed at a record high yesterday led by strong gains in industrial stocks. The All Ordinaries Index rose 34.5 points to 2,764.9, eclipsing its previous record close of 2,745.9 set on July 2. Turnover was 324.6 million shares worth A 11.3 billion. Among the leaders,
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      693 28 AFP +4JB SHARE prices rose yesterday following a cut in SBI (Bank Indonesia certificate) interest rates but amid generally lacklustre trade. An analyst said trade was dominated by short-term moves aimed at short-term profit. "That's going to be the way things go for at least the next few months,"
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      308 28 AFP Qtfamh ♦I7J» STOCKS rose yesterday following a peaceful rally and a promise from President Fidel Ramos that he would not seek a second term or amendments to the constitution. The PSE Composite Index rose 17.66 points to 2,096.23. Turnover was 3.2 billion shares worth 2.1 billion pesos. Philippine
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        Lock icon Shares down on forex uncertainties
        238 29 AFX-Asia PCbmnoaf fain -27,34 SHARE prices closed lower on investor uncertainty about the government's policy on forex trading despite reassurances by Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, dealers said. Light bargain-hunting in the afternoon session pared early losses, they added. The KLSE Composite Index closed down
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        Even the strong-hearted should avoid Rashid Hussain warrant
        185 30  -  WARRANT WATCH -By] R Sivanithy ONE of the most volatile warrants in the past two weeks has been Rashid Hussain 2002 warrant, which on Sept 10 jumped 82 sen to close at 3.32 Malaysian ringgit, but which had since collapsed to RM2.35
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        60 32  -  Ven Sreenivasan CLOB-TRADED Malayan Banking has been on an inexorable decline in recent months and is approaching the 17.00 support level The counter is deep in oversold territory and if it manages to hold above this critical level, there Is chance of a technical rebound supported by volume-driven
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        Lock icon Poor export data, ringgit's slide spook traders
        698 32  -  STOCK MARKET COMXHIVTARY Renewed worry over dual listing adds to problems; woes of IME's parent IMII said to cast pall over Sesdaq By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] The recent spate of bad news that the market has had to contend with continued its run
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          124 32 HERBACEOUS BORDERS, which is what we will call her (although actually she signed herself something entirely different, care of a Public Relations firm in Victoria, Australia), believes in getting names at least more or less right when she sends press advisories. Having got
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          123 32 BORLAND TECHNOLOGIES, one of the oldest software companies, has made an intriguing corporate video, which was shown in Singapore yesterday. It's a take-off of Star Wars, with Borland's chairman and CEO Delbert Yocam acting as the wise old Obi Wan Kenobi, advising one of his senior managers, who
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          95 32 ON HIS way to the rank of Brigadier-General, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong may have had the opportunity to do some occasional drilling out on the parade ground. While this might have explained it, our reporter who visited a downtown dental clinic last week following an
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          141 32 MORE than I,ooojournalists descended on Beijing last week to try and report soberly to the world the secretive comings and goings at the 15th Communist Party Congress. In the circumstances, official press conferences were turned by hacks desperate for news headlines into unofficial bazaars established for the purpose
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          64 32 WHAT do holiday makers on cruise ships see when they arrive in reputedly clean and green Singapore? Answer graffiti along the docksides. The graffiti is visible along a long stretch of the dock wall at the Cruise Centre, next to the World Trade Centre. Our informant
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          38 32 POKKA introduced a new line of 100 per cent fruit Juices in the grocery stores recently. Their orange juice, despite the large "100%" label, contains added cane sugar and flavourings if one reads the ingredients list
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      306 33 Bridge News, Reuter THE KEY US Gulf to Japan grain run again dominated trade with Andre booking in tonnage at a lower U5522.00 without combination port discharge for early to mid October shipment down 50 US cents on reports from Thursday. Whether rates will continue to fall is
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      698 33  -  Action wfll be taken to ensure ships calling at S'pore comply with the Code from July next year, MPA warns By. Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Ships which flagrantly flout the new international safety code which comes into effect in July next year may
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      Advisory group set up to help develop S'pore port
      460 33 15-man panel will guide republic's development into intl maritime centre [SINGAPORE] The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has put together a high-powered group of distinguished international maritime personalities to advise the authority on strategic plans to strengthen Singapore's position
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      1,500 tonnes of DisneyFest equipment sail into S'pore
      210 33 [SINGAPORE] Ninety-nine 40foot containers landed at the Port of Singapore Authority recently, marking the arrival on Singapore shore of what is billed as the biggest touring entertainment event ever. US carrier APL clinched the deal to transport some 1,500 tonnes of equipment,
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      163 33 AFP [MANILA] Philippine port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) lost a bid to operate a major port in Brazil but said it would continue to expand its operations overseas. "We lost it," said Joe Rosete of ICTSI, referring to
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      Van Ommeren forms Asian gas shipping company
      331 33  -  By\ Ronnie Lim [SINGAPORE] Dutch terminal operator Van Ommeren has set up a new Asian gas shipping company, Van Ommeren Gas Shipping, which will start operations next month. Announcing this yesterday, Van Ommeren chairman Carel van den Driest said the Singapore-based shipping company
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        68 33 [HONGKONG] Modern Terminals Limited (MTL) is concluding arrangements for a stake In Qlngdao, its first investment In a Chinese port. MTL would not confirm the*v* deal, but outgoing managing director, Mark LBese, said earlier in June that they hoped to condudedecarWtth'' Qlngdao, Ningbo
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        Lock icon China to auction off Honduras ship
        64 33 Reuter [BEIJING] China's Qlngdao maritime court has approved a public auction of the Honduras-registered ship Hfcim Ruby on Oct 29, the Business Weekly gafd. The court made the decision after ruling in favour of the Yantai Rescue and Salvage Bureau in a salvage payment
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      Lock icon Canberra set for the sell-off
      874 34 ATJSTRAUA'S RAILWAYS Australian government believes the business sector can offer services and control work practices more efficiently Reuter Trains are staging a comeback in Australia as privatisation and huge new projects promise a transport revolution. Part of the government-owned railway system has already been sold
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      INDEX TO SHIPPING LINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
      234 34 PACE Ethiopian 6 ACL tl Eurohans 6 •AMI 3 6 Accord 12 F 7 Appenship 5 Fl-Bright 6 Astro 3 f«»gSun 12 Austral n 6L Avwl Gemartrans 13 7 Genshpg II Batammdo 7 d, GuanCuan 4 B'tangMas 12 12 am 7 JJJJ CMA
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        GLOBAL HOLIDAY
        174 47 Bapt 23 Japan: Autumn Equinox Day. Baft 28 Taiwan: Birthday of Confucius. Ootl China: National Day. Oot 2 China: National Day Holiday. Oot Australia: Labour Day. Out 10 Hong Kong Chung Yeung Festival. Japan: Sports Day. Taiwan Double Tenth National Day. Oot 13 Canada: Thanksgiving Day. United States:
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        884 47 THIS report, complied by Cockett Marine Oil Ud. (hows price ranges In US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Price* shown are based on average-sized •Jem Market movements are Indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index chance and the Individual
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        VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
        361 47 SMtti 1,0 0.9 15.4 o.oe 59 0.04 221!! Density WMtr Hutu* Art Uummm StdHimt No above 125 0 0 1 0 0 0 Kit* W0 Aw 985.8 0J 12J 0.06 32 0JK MAn «MA. i22 390 m mo 0J 177 o w 51 0.07 Win %*m
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        Manila to deny S'pore open skies deal at talks
        449 48  -  It may agree to more passenger and cargo traffic rights during talks starting today By. Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] The Philippines will reject an open skies policy with Singapore but may instead agree to increase passenger and cargo traffic rights between the
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        Lock icon Manila train collision kills 7, injures 105
        282 48 Reuter [MANILA] Seven people were killed and more than 100 injured after a collision between two packed commuter trains yesterday in a Manila suburb, officials and witnesses said. The two trains, each carrying about 100 workers as well as students, were both heading
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        Lock icon UK demands may threaten Eurotunnel's licence extension
        334 48 FT [LONDON] Demands by the British government that Eurotunnel carry more freight through the Channel tunnel are threatening an agreement between the UK and France to extend the company's operating licence. The UK Department of Transport said yesterday it was seeking changes in
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        Lock icon Lufthansa to announce new partner
        196 48 Reuter [MUNICH] Germany's Lufthansa AG is expected to announce another international partnership soon, the group's chief executive said in an interview. "We are expanding our international alliances. We could add a new partner shortly," Juergen Weber told the news weekly Focus in an interview due
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        Lock icon MAS adds more flights to Kuching
        172 48 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia Airlines (MAS) operated three more flights to and from Kuching yesterday evening to meet demand. The three flights were scheduled for departure at 6pm, 8.30pm and 10.30pm respectively, according to a MAS statement. Earlier yesterday, eight flights were provided as
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        Lock icon Ansett Australia may decide to join Star Alliance
        239 48 Airline bracing for industry consolidation, told AFX-Asia [WAGGA WAGGA, Australia! Ansett Australia is braced for industry consolidation and is considering joining the Star worldwide airline alliance, executive chairman Rod Eddington said yesterday. Speaking at a conference here on Australia's regional aviation industry,
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        Lock icon Lockheed's F-22 to survive any air force budget cuts
        486 48 Accidents mar US Air Force's celebration of 50 years of service Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Lockheed Martin Corp's F-22 fighter plane should escape the axe of future budget cuts, said US Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall. "The F-22 is a great plane and
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        Lock icon Taiwan's Giant to open US bicycle factory
        314 48 Financial Times [KAOHSIUNG] Giant, the Taiwanese company which is one of the world's biggest producers of bicycles, has announced plans to set up a manufacturing plant in the US as part of its globalisation drive. The company has just opened a plant in
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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      21 33 Canberra set to sell off railways Govt believes business sector can offer services and control work practices more efficiently. Page 2
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      263 33 Bimco's Asia Office^Hk T>e Baltic and International Maritime CoundTs (Bimco) new representative office in Asia is located at 10 Col Iyer Quay #07-05 A Ocean Building Singapore *****5. Tel: *****36; fax: 536 0164. Or e-mail the council's representative, Goh Thean Hock at gtsbimco.org£g. Talk on Shipping JJHtrBunker Disputes Xjk, The
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      21 33 Manila to deny STpore open sties It may agree to more passenger and cargo traffic rights during talks starting today. BaokPage
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