The Business Times, 2 October 1998

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    13 1 MITA(P) ll(V12/97 85c THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1998
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon Global bond yields crash on fears of world recession
    938 1 Bellwether US 30-year Treasury bond yields hit record low Bloomberg [LONDON] Reflecting fears of recessionary conditions spreading around the world, yields on bonds haVe fallen to new lows, led by the beUwether US 30-year Treasury which has breached the 5 per
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    Lock icon IMF cuts China growth to 5.5% for '98
    399 1 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its growth forecast for China to 5.5 per cent for 1996, far short of the government's economic target of 8 per cent, and warned that the slowdown could drag on. Despite Asia's year-old
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    Early birds catch the $1 handphones
    285 1  -  Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] There may be no such thing as a free lunch but for less than $1, you can now get a handphone. The older or basic, no-frills models, that is. What you need is 95 cents, a coupon from Adpost, the
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    Lock icon Investors flee European bourses
    278 1  -  Dow down 151 points to 7,691 atlpmEDT From', Neil Behrmann in London THE sense of crisis closed in on European bourses yesterday, with markets plunging by up to IS per cent as investors fled equities for the relative safety of bonds. In London, screens in the
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    Pidemco to guarantee OPH's $90m note issue in unique deal
    463 1  -  There will be several layers of security for noteholders By, Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] Ng Teng Fong's Orchard Parade Holdings has roped in govern-ment-owned Pidemco Land to guarantee a $90 mUlion note issue in an unusual deal that comes with
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    Lock icon Index, index on the wail
    81 1 [SINGAPORE] This is probably what many stock market investdts would U&e the shape qf the Straits Times Index to be. But porry to say, this encouraging "trendline" is, Just the noon day sim reflected off a metal trimming on to the facade of Ocean Building
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      135 1 UfgODE DarMte Japan has invited Singapore to be a donor 1 in a new US$3O billion 1 aid programme for crisisv hit South-east Asian 1 economies, Pg 3 Jp c' v; >- Indonesian President B J Habibie wants troubled banks to repay liquidity credits In cash within a pI year,
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      8 1 More reports on World Economic Outlook, Pg 4
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      24 1 IMF urge* world's central banks to ease up, Pg 4 Credit cranoh may cause Fed to cut rates again, Pg 4 Market lip Ml*
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      173 1 EYE ON HEDGE FUNDS Bailout not a new poticy to protect fund investors: Fed, Pg 16 r Blame lack of OTC derivative transparency: CFTC chief, Pgie. Bankers trust said to have USslb hedge Kind exposure, Pg 16 j Invented for you TL TVpe XX Aeronamue chronograph has a doubly prestigious
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      KepLand cuts prices by a third to $410 psf for Jurong condo
      368 2  -  Mm expected after it made provisions in Ang for Mayfair, first sold in 1997 By Diana Oon KEPPEL Land has cut prices in its Mayfair development by about one-third to an average of $410 per sq ft. The
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      Time for some housing policy adjustments
      450 2  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ng Toh Lam I AGREE with the points raised by Oh Soh Beng in his letter "Let market forces dictate property prices", published in BT on Sept 24. With the benefit of hindsight, I would rather live with higher prices
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      Govt must revive housing sector
      273 2  -  Ong Mei Lin I AGREE with your reader (Oh Soh Beng, "Let market forces dictate property prices", BT Sept 24) that our government needs to take more action to revive (as opposed to support) our ailing property market. To take an analogy: If a patient
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      Lock icon Govt likely to cut employers' CPF rate by 5-10%: PM Goh
      580 2 It win also reduce overall costs by 15-20%, he says The Straits Times {SANTIAGO] The Singapore government is likely to cut the employers' Central Provident Fund contribution rate by 5 to 10 per cent, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong
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      Office rents drop 8.4% in Q3 while capital values slide 12.8%
      500 2  -  Largest quarterly declines since IM6; CBD hardest hit By David Boey AVERAGE office rental and capital values have racked up their biggest quarterly declines since the peak of the property boom in 1996, real estate consultants Jones Lang Wootton
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      Nelco to pump $15m into plant
      291 2  -  By Annette Pau NELCO Products Pte Ltd yesterday announced it would invest another $15 million in its plant in Gul Crescent, bringing its total investment here to $60 million. Its latest investment is an advanced lamination and resin system with an automated assembly line
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      Lock icon Sept non-oil exports seen lower
      328 2  -  BYE ON THE ECONOMY Outlook By. Audrey Tan SEPTEMBER is likely to be a bad month for Singapore's manufacturing sector, says Fraser-AMMB Research. In its "Daily Review" published yesterday, Fraser says growth of Singapore's non-oil domestic exports is unlikely to match August's 5 per cent
      Source: Ministry of trade  -  328 words
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      Lock icon KL says S'pore planes and vessels breaching restrictions
      380 2 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia said yesterday that Singapore aircraft and vessels had entered Malaysian territory without permission at least seven times in two weeks. "According to our records there has been quite a number of violations, but we have taken It through
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      Lock icon Hove Over – it's all fine
      60 2 Hove Over it's all fine [SINGAPORE] Bargain-hunters practically wiped Tangs Studio dean on iheflrst day qfits "The Move Over!" sale yesterday. The store, occupying two floors at NgeeAnn City, will soon dose after five years (flosses and re-open as a chthing corner in the group's flagship CK Tang store and
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      S'pore move to protect copyrights hailed
      159 2 THE Business Software Alliance (BSA), a watchdog body for the computer software industry, yesterday applauded Singapore's accession last week to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. Effective Dec 21, the convention ensures that all works first published in Singapore,
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      $50m to help train new engineers overseas
      540 3  -  Target of 500 engineers, other professionals under expanded EDB scheme Reports from Ronnie Lim in Tokyo SINGAPORE is setting aside $50 million to train 500 engineers and other professionals in the next two to three years to ensure that there is a ready
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      Lock icon 20 SCI members join trial of info service
      249 3 TWENTY member companies of the Singapore Confederation of Industries (SCI) have signed up to take part in a trial of the new Business Information Service (BIS) at the National Library. The trial Is open to only 150 of SCl's 1,300 members and
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      S'pore invited to be a donor in Japan's US$30b aid package
      379 3 BO Lee says matter was broached by the foreign minister JAPAN has invited Singapore to be a donor In a new US$3O billion (5550.7 biUion) aid programme for crisis-hit South-east Asian economies. The matter was broached by Japanese Finance
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      Insurer Guardian's new outfit seeking OHQ status
      278 3  -  By\ Soh Tiang Keng BRITISH Insurer Guardian Royal Exchange is beefing up the role of Its Singapore office as its Asia-Pacific nerve centre. It has set up a new company In Singapore—the Guardian Royal Exchange (Asia Pacific) to carry out the business of
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      39 3 "My-fricnds were all ears when I fold them about Fandi Ahmad's class of '74 reunion, Ang Peng Siong's swim camp and badminton lessons given by 1989 World Grand Prix Champion Zhang Qjngwu." Abdul Rah, m avid sports fan ICATA
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      10 3 Tokyo aid won't be enough to lift economies, Pg 6
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
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      Lock icon Japanese business confidence hits four-year low
      589 4 T&nk&n survey shows credit crunch tightening, firms catting back AFP [TOKYO] Japan's central bank said yesterday that business confidence in the world's second largest economy had tumbled to its worst level in four years, driving Tokyo's stock market down to new lows. In the
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      Lock icon Credit crunch threat may cause Fed to cut rates
      403 4 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The threat of a credit crunch that could stifle US economic growth for years to come is a major reason many analysts believe the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut this week won't be its last Credit is the lifeblood
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      Lock icon Banking on a Mercedes to draw customers
      88 4 B ANGKOR] A woman walking past a Mercedes car put on display in front of Thailand's Citibank headquarters on Wednesday as part of a promotion to attract more credit-card members. Each new Citibank credit-card member will be entered in a lucky ama> to
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      Lock icon Yen hit by strong selling from Japan
      492 4  -  Traders see further weakness, especially against mark By\ Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] The Japanese currency took it on the chin, and Tokyo's key Nikkei stock index closed at its lowest in more than 12 years yesterday, as Japanese companies registered their lowest level of
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      Lock icon Big drops seen for Indon, Thai, S Korean output
      435 4 Mrs would eoomomic outlook Bat good chance of a turnaround starting next year Reuters [WASHINGTON] The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday forecast steep falls in output in Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea this year, but said there was a good chance
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      Lock icon IMF urges world's central banks to cut interest rates
      343 4 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on "90 per cent" of the world's central banks to reduce interest rates to head off a global recession, noting that the US Federal Reserve is likely to cut interest rates further
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      Lock icon No capital flows to Latin America?
      225 4 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Wednesday that the current panic among investors may not subside soon and capital flows to Latin* American and other emerging markets may suffer a prolonged disruption. The fUnd said developing nations must reduce their vulnerability
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      Regional markets buckle on Nikkei, Wail St woes
      210 4  -  By: R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Any optimism over the recent US interest rate cut was quickly extinguished yesterday, following an almost 3 per cent overnight drop on Wall Street and a collapse in Japanese equities to a 12-year low. All regional markets ended
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  • THE ANWAR SAGA
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      Lock icon Indon minister voices regret over reported beating
      438 5 State secretary says Habibie rethinking visit to lTsia bat ties still good Reuters [JAKARTA] A senior Indonesian minister yesterday expressed regret over the reported beating of sacked Malaysian .deputy leader Anwar Ibrahim, the latest sign of a cooling in relations between the two
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      Lock icon Police harassing me: Anwar's wife
      300 5 Reuters, Bridge News, Bernama Reuters Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The wife of sacked Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday she was being harassed by police. And in a dramatic twist of events, Anwar's political secretary, Mohamad Ezam Mohd Nor, has accused Malaysia's Inspector-General of
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      Lock icon Estrada may not attend Apec meet
      360 5 He threatens to boycott KL summit bat official plays down remarks AFP [MANILA] Philippine President Joseph Estrada yesterday threatened to boycott next month's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Malaysia, citing the treatment meted out to jailed former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim. Mr Estrada
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      Lock icon Dr M in tears over sacking: Annuar
      211 5 Bernama [BANGI] A minister said yesterday that Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was in tears when briefing several Umno leaders on his sacking of Anwar Ibrahim. Rural Development Minis- v ter Artnuar Musa said this showed that Dr Mahathir loved Anwar and was sad
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      Lock icon Munawar won't appeal
      161 5 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Munawar Ahmad Anees, jailed six months after pleading guilty to an act of gross indecency by allowing Anwar Ibrahim to sodomise him, does not wish to pursue the appeal against the Sept 19 judgement. Counsel Mohd Yacob Karim said Munawar had sent a letter
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  • REGION
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      Lock icon Indon banks must repay liquidity credits in cash within a year: govt
      582 6 JAKARTA Assets no longer acceptable due to discrepancies in value estimates AFP Bloomberg INDONESIAN President BJ Habibie wants troubled banks to repay liquidity credits in cash within a year, instead of a drawn-out handover which could include assets,
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      Lock icon Ringgit no longer convertible overseas
      373 6 KUALA LUMPUR Mm could result in a. less efficient economy: economist AFP THE Malaysian ringgit became non-convertible overseas yesterday as part of sweeping exchange controls designed to insulate the economy from foreign pressure. The move leaves the Malaysian unit similar to other currencies such as
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      Lock icon Thai deputy minister quits over seeds scam
      219 6 BANGKOK Heis4tkpditieiaß te resign over graft charges in 3 weeks AFP A NEW corruption scandal rocked Thai politics yesterday, forcing Deputy Agriculture Minister Wirat Rattanaset to resign amid allegations of corruption. The Chart Thai Party minister stepped down to clear the way for
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      Lock icon Tokyo aid won't be enough to lift Asian economies: analysts
      368 6 JAKARTA Reuters JAPAN'S proposed US$3O billion (5550.7 billion) financial aid for South-east Asia is a welcome boost for the capitalstarved region which needs funding for its structural reforms, analysts and policymakers said yesterday. The move signalled a new determination by
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      Lock icon More HK companies unveil staff cuts
      474 7 HONGKONG Workers stage rallies and protests, call for more government action AFP MORE Hongkong companies announced yesterday they will lay off hundreds of employees amid noisy protests over growing unemployment as the territory's first recession in 13 years deepened. The layoffs came as rallies
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      Lock icon Beazley admits odds stacked against Labor
      395 7 AUSSIE ELECTION Latest opinion polls show Howard govt regaining lead Reuters [CANBERRA] Opposition Labor leader Kim Beazley virtually conceded defeat yesterday. as opinion polls published two days before a general election showed the conservative government consolidating its lead. Mr Beazley said he needed another
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      Lock icon Victorian gas crisis expected to cost A$1b
      276 7 MELBOURNE Unions accuse Howard of ignoring calls for help AFP INDUSTRY groups estimated yesterday that the gas crisis in Victoria would cost in excess of All billion (SII.O billion) as unions turned on the prime minister, saying he had spurned cries for help.
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      Lock icon S Korean trade surplus jumps 36% to US$3.6b
      259 7 SEOUL Bloomberg SOUTH Korea's trade surplus widened 36 per cent last month as the settlement of a strike at Hyundai Motor Co boosted car exports. The surplus rose to U553.63 billion (Ss6.l billion) on a customs-cleared basis in September from $2.67 billion
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      203 6 LOOK! THE GREATEST FEATURES ARE INVISIBLE. t ■/-2 -i v f 4 The dual band GSM 900/1800 systems makes it easier to stay connected. Vv~- any wires. B KHBBM^iHHi i rfri"'* |HH^H The modem to the SH 888. you connect to the Internet, as well as send and receive faxes
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      8 7 Editorial: The problem with Aussie polls, Pg 9
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      243 7 jjjSjjiQ \yy jtok np 11 /7\\ J Bjbv j MM fA I |v^>. m 11 Rv^v I I K|n3l^v j VB r «MBf *nss Guest Of Honour His Excellency, Mr. Raymond Loretan jHHp Siv/ss Ambassador To Singapore Freedom to move. Freedom of choice. Freedom to expand, to rearrange, to do
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon US Sept output contracts on weak exports
      363 8 WASHINGTON Bloomberg US manufacturing contracted for a fourth month in September as weakened global economies reduced demand for US-made goods, sent prices lower and cut into factory employment. The National Association of Purchasing Management's index of manufacturing activity was unchanged at 49.4 for
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      Lock icon Fallout from crises in Asia and Russia hitting European firms
      558 8 FRANKFURT Purchasing managers' surveys reveal losses in export orders Reuters MANUFACTURING companies across Europe are increasingly feeling the bite of the financial crisis that is sweeping through emerging markets, surveys of purchasing managers in three major European economies showed yesterday.
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      Lock icon Russia to increase state control over economy
      377 8 MOSCOW Bloomberg RUSSIA has begun work on a plan to roll back much of the economic reforms of recent years, increasing control over prices and allocation of capital to industry in a move economists warned could lead to food shortages and hyperinflation. The
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      Lock icon BOE plans in place to meet any euro snafu
      277 8 LONDON Reuters THE Bank of England has drawn up contingency plans in the event of administrative turmoil in financial markets when the euro is launched next year, but remains confident that banks are well prepared for the event, a spokeswoman said
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      Lock icon G-7 can check market slump, says IMF chief
      419 8 WASHINGTON if they take clear stand to boost growth, restore confidence AFP AN effort by the Group erf Seven industrial countries to take the lead in action to promote economic growth could help halt further excessive falls in major stock markets, IMF
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      Lock icon Bundesbank holds key interest rates unchanged
      363 8 FRANKFURT Rate cot not cure-all to boost jobs, economy: official AFP THE Bundesbank stood firm and held German interest rates unchanged yesterday, even though the United States Federal Reserve had cut US rates earlier in the week in response to the deepening international financial
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      22 8 HOCK LOCK SIEW Takes you behind the news TheßusinessTimes i i t r I i Mondays Crisis Watch by Vikram Khanna TheßusinessTimes
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Fundamentals, riot controls, support yuan
      565 9  -  na BOTTOMLDfII OPINION By Joe Zhang The writer,formerly a manager at China's central bank, is head of China research at HSBC Securities in Hongkong THE fashion gurus of capital markets are suddenly flocking to the notion that capital controls are necessary and even good in
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      185 9 "Hie IMF should learn a lesson from the past five years. The IMF was pretending that it was seeing a lot of reforms in Russia Russia was pretending to conduct reforms. The Western taxpayer was paying for it' -jDons ryoGoruv Russia'sformer tax chief, urging the West not
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      The problem with Aussie polls
      606 9 EDITORIAL AUSTRALIA'S complicated voting system seems designed to be supercautious about handing over unencumbered authority to govern to any single party or coalition, whatever its appeal to the electorate. In the past few years, the system has enabled the minor party in the Senate to
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      Why Asia's still a long way from real recovery
      1015 9  -  Fashionable to am<> DO" bit alternatives aired den't provide plausible hope of realistic success By] Paul Samuelson The writer is an economist at the Inftttutv of Technology. This commentary first appeared in The Los Angeles Times THE 1997 Asian crisis has
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      1062 9 THE string of good news since early August seems to have ignited the beginning of the long-awaited recovery of the rupiah, pushing it into a range of between 10,800 and 11,000 rupiah against the US dollar for the past eight weeks. Still more encouraging was t£e
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Life on Earth is killing us: study
      394 10 Global warming breeds disease, made worse by rising malnutrition and pollution, Cornell researchers find Reuters ORTY per cent of deaths worldwide are caused by |H pollution and other P environmental factors, and climate change will make I matters worse, a study by Cornell
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      Lock icon Heart surgery as safe for women as men, says study
      262 10 HEALTH Survival rate of 87% for women very close to the 88% for men LAT-WP [BOSTON] Women who undergo bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty to improve blood flow to the heart have essentially the same survival rate as men, a
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      Lock icon Found: Signs of billion-year-old wrigglers
      761 10 SCIENCE It nggasta birth «f mnlticelliilar animals twice as early as thought LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] Researchen have uncovered evidence that worm-like animals lived on Earth more than one billion years ago, or almost twice as early as any previously known multicellular life. In a development that
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  • THE LEADING EDGE
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      Lock icon A dreamer who lives his dreams
      1436 12  -  Simon Tay, a senior law lecturer, Nominated MP and writer, has made choices different from others of his generation, reports tan su ten TAN SU YEN IN a city where many establishment figures are painfully stiff with the press, senior law lecturer, Nominated MP
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      489 12 WHEN Simon Tay was made nominated Member of Parliament, he said he would speak up on the environment, human rights, a civil society and his generation, since at 37, he is one of the youngest in Parliament His views on his
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      See Hup Seng gets listing nod
      139 13 [SINGAPORE] See Hup Seng, a company which provides anti-corrosion painting services to the shipbuilding and construction sector, has received in-principle approval for a Sesdaq listing. The company provides an-ti-corrosion paintwork through a variety of coating and blasting methods for ships, offshore oil rigs as
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      Broadway secures loan agreement
      155 13 [SINGAPORE] Packaging company Broadway Industrial has secured a standstill letter from its lenders, paving the way for it to tap a $4.8 million loan from DBS Bank. The loan was extended to subsidiary Broadway Enterprises (Pte) Ltd (BEPL). A standstill letter is an agreement between banks
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      Serious obstacles to IPC revival: analysts
      656 13  -  Lack of core basinets, savaged balance sheet, poor cashflow dted By t Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Analysts are not convinced that IPC Corp's actions so far can pull it out of the abyss. While some said staunching the bleeding of its PC business did not
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      Investors cant ignore the earnings picture
      623 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Wong Wei Kong WITH the end of the interim reporting season, investors must now have a fairly clear idea how badly the regional economic crisis has hurt Singapore listed companies. But for the stock investor, the real question is: has the
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      Lock icon Indon-linked stocks chased up again on debt-restructuring talk
      366 13  -  Food group QAF and ice-cream milker ABR Holdings join the list of surging counters By) Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] "Indonesian play" continued on the local stock market yesterday amid rumours that share prices of Indonesian-linked stocks wore being chased up because of debt-restructuring
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      Lock icon Asia Food plans to offload marginal assets
      474 13 It's in talks with potential partners to beef up core areas Reuters [SINGAPORE] More than a year after rescuing a troubled Singapore firm, Asia Food Properties Ltd (AFP) is looking to sell non-core assets and talking to potential parties to boost core operations,
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        Lock icon Tanjong interim pre-tax jumps 24% to RM168.4m
        289 14 Bnt the gaming group's unaudited remits show turnover fell 3% Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Gamingbased Tanjong pic has posted a higher group pre-tax profit of 168.4 million Malaysian ringgit (5174.8 million) for the half year ended July 31 compared with RM135.5 million recorded in
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        Lock icon Renong leans on Malaysia's capital controls for support
        244 14 Lower interest rates will enable it to cot costs on &M2ob debt Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Renong Bhd, Malaysia's largest construction group, is looking to the country's capital controls as a much-needed lifeline after it posted on Wednesday a worse-than-expected fiscal 1998 loss
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        Lock icon Pernas may miss bond payments: RAM
        226 14 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Pernas International Holdings Bhd which manages Hilton hotels in Malaysia, may not be able to redeem 480 million Malaysian ringgit (Ss2l3 million) of bonds when they're due, a credit rating agency warned. Rating Agency Malaysia (RAM) said it "anticipates a cash
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        Lock icon Simex's Sept trading volume hits all-time high
        230 14 [SINGAPORE] Trading volume at the Singapore International Monetary Exchange hit an all-time high of 3.18 million contracts in September. This surpassed the previous record of 2.87 million in June. It is also 70 per cent more than the turnover for September last year.
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        Lock icon Kyocera, DDI to form Thai venture for mobile phones
        227 14 It'll provide services to seven countries including Singapore Bloomberg [TOKYO] Kyocera Corp and DDI Corp said they're forming a joint venture in Thailand to provide mobile telecommunication services via Iridium's global satellitebased phone system. Kyocera, the world's largest maker of ceramic
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        Lock icon Citic Pacific gets US$l25m loan
        188 14 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Citic Pacific Ltd, which owns stakes in Hongkong's main airline, largest power utility and chunks of prime real estate, received a US$l25 million (Ss2lo million) loan from five international banks, one of the banks said. The letter of credit allows Citic to sell
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        Lock icon Tenaga, IPPs reach accord to ease its cashflow
        197 14 Dnes to be paid monthly instead of weekly or fortnightly Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian utility Tenaga Nasional Bhd said it has reached an accord with independent power producers (IPPs) to allow it to pay its financial dues in monthly instalments, the Malaysian
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      • COMPANY Briefs
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          New CEO at Asia Food & Properties
          80 14 New CEO at Asia Food Properties [SINGAPORE] Former managing director of CEF Capital, Francis Chang Chu Fai, has been appointed chief executive officer erf Asia Food k Properties. Mr Chang, 44, will synergise and manage the China and Singapore businesses, mainly in the area of food, agri-business, property and operations.
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          $1.7m loss keeps National
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          SIA in sell- and- lease- back deal
          15 14 an agreement to ofll and lease back a
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          Lock icon Creative Labssuit against Aureal
          62 14 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Creative Labs Inc said yesterday it had filed a lawsuit alleging false advertising and related Semiconductor. Creative Labs, the US subsidiary of Singapore-based Creative Technology, said the lawsuit case Creative Technology filed against Aureal in February. Aureal Semiconductor Inc is a Freemont company which
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          New director on Shangri- La's board
          73 14 [SINGAPORE] Shangri-La Hotel has announced the appointmentofAngPoonTiak to its board of directors and audit committee with effect from yesterday. Mr Aug, who represents Hoe Seng Co Pte Ltd, a substantial shareholder of the company, replaces his brother, Ang PoonSoon, who passed away on June
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          Lock icon TA Enterprises staff again
          123 14 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] TA Enterprises Bhd said it is conducting its second round of voluntary retrenchments in eight months amid weak volumes on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, the Malaysian Business Times reported. Executive director Wong Hong Meng said: "Basically, with lower trading volume, we realise
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          Lock icon Ucom unit sells Logic Telecom shares
          85 14 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai telecommunications company United Communication Industry pic (Ucom) said yesterday it sold 15J7 mill ion shares in Logic Telecom SA of Romania t tor 1.79 billion baht(Ss76.6mfflfa>n). Ucom said its' subsidiary, Ucom International Co Ltd, sold the stock to Telecommunication Business Service
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          Lock icon Ayala Land seeks share sale to parent
          150 14 Reuters [MANILA] Real estate giant Ayaia Land has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to allow it to issue •hares to parent Ayala Corp following the suspension erf its deal with CAP Hones. The move is intended to restore Ayala Corp's stake in
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          Corrections and
          118 14 IN a BTs Sept 23 report headlined "Nearly all Japanese dept stores here plagued by losses", we said that Seiyu Japan expected a loss of 34.2 billion yen for the six months to August Seiyu has clarified thai the amount refer* to losses incurred in the liquidation of
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        Lock icon British Telecom takes 23% stake in Korean firm
        403 15 USs39om investment is BTs most significant in Ada' official Reuters [SEOUL] British Telecommunications pic took a huge step in increasing its share of Asia's lucrative telephone services market by acquiring a 23.49 per cent stake in South Korea's LG Telecom Co (LGT),
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        Lock icon JAL's interim net expected to slide 46%
        224 15 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan Airlines Co, the nation's biggest airline, expects first-half operating profit to slump 46 per cent due to a decline in passengers on international and domestic flights, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported yesterday, without citing sources. The world's sixth largest airline
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        Lock icon Bell Atlantic seen taking US$1b in charges
        325 15 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Bell Atlantic Corp is expected to announce next week that it will take pre-tax charges of US$l billion (Ssl.7 billion) to US$l.4 billion in the third or fourth quarter, said Guy Woodlief, an analyst at Prudential Securities Research. The charges
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        Lock icon Kia creditors drop debt terms to expedite sale
        187 15 Bloomberg [SEOUL] South Korea threw open the sale of Kia Motors Corp to the highest bidder, dropping onerous debt conditions in a bid to end a 14month saga that helped tip the country into recession. After two failed auctions, Korea Development Bank
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        Lock icon IBM wins US$2.6b contracts from Boeing, Banc One
        289 15 Computer services is Big Bine's fastest growing business Bloomberg [AßMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp said it won computer services contracts from Boeing Co and Banc One Corp valued at a combined U552.62 billion (554.4 billion), bolstering its fast-growing services business.
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        Lock icon Motorola unveils new voice technology
        167 15 AFP [NAPERVILLE, Illinois] US electronics giant Motorola on Wednesday unveiled new technology that will enable consumers to use natural voice commands to access Internet sites by telephone. Hie company said its new programming language, VoxML, allows designers and Internet providers to write voice-activated software that
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        Lock icon Bankers Trust said to have US$1b hedge fund exposure
        316 16 HEDGE FUNDS DEBACLE Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Bankers Trust Qorp has US$l billion (Ssl.7 billion) in exposure to hedge ftinds, backed by collateral in cash and US Treasury bonds, a person at the bank familiar with the exposure said on Wednesday. The
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        Lock icon Dresdner Bank says emerging market crisis hurts Q3 profit
        352 16 Tike German bank, unlike ÜBS, doesn't expect to post tan Bloomberg {FRANKFURT] Dresdner Bank AG, Germany's third largest bank, said third-quar-ter earnings will be hurt by economic downturn in emerging markets, though this will be partly offset by in its retail,
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        Lock icon Bailout not a new policy to protect fund investors: Fed
        392 16 Greenspan says LTCM rescue aimed at avoiding serious market dislocations Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said the Fed's brokering of a US$3.5 billion (555.9 billion) rescue of Long-Term Capital Management LP was a one-time event that doesn't signal
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        Lock icon Blame lack of OTC derivative transparency: CFTC chief
        277 16 FT [CHICAGO] The near-col-lapse of Long-Term Capital Management, the US hedge fUnd, demonstrates the "lack of transparency and... unrestrained lending" in the over-the-counter derivatives industry, the chief US futures regulator said on Wednesday. Brookaley Born, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading
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        Lock icon JP Morgan, DKB in mutual fund talks
        254 16 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), Japan's thirdlargest lender, and JP Morgan Co, the US' fourth-larg-est, are in discussions about launching a mutual-fund company in Japan by the end of the year, said a spokesman for DKB. The company will develop mutual funds
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        Lock icon JGBs end firmer as Nikkei sags
        188 16 mini Report Reuters [SINGAPORE] Simex Japanese government bond (JGB) futures reclaimed ground to end above the 139 mark yesterday as Tokyo stocks dived to fresh 12-year lows. Dealers said the Bank of Japan s tankan survey of corporate sentiment which showed a worse-than-expec-ted withering
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        Futures down again despite rate cut
        167 16  -  MSCI TAIWAN FUTURES Cecilia Loh Cecilia Loh, service dealer, Rtfco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures feU again on gloomy market sentiment as investors felt that the slight slashing of key interest rates to ease credit did not have much impact in
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        Lock icon Oil prices fall again on swelling US stocks
        303 16 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDONI Oil prices buckled yesterday as a bearish global economic outlook and high inventory levels overshadowed effects of storm-related production cuts in US. World benchmark Brent Blend crude yras a hefty 40 cents down at U5514.28 a oarrel on
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        289 16 AFP Bridge News t -—«4" THE US dollar plumbed depths unseen In 1998 as it shed 1.5 pfennigs to hit a 20month low against the Deutsche mark and 1.5 centimes to strike a 21-month nadir versus the Swiss franc in a session of almost one-way trading as the
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
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      1511 17 Bloomberg □Nikkei 225 -20U7 JAPAN'S benchmark stock index fell to a new 12-year low for the second time in as many days, as worries about eroding corporate assets and weakness on Wall Street deepened pessimism about prospects for recovery. Sanwa Bank Ltd and Sony Corp led the retreat as
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      699 18 AFP Qj Composite Index -128 INDONESIAN share prices yesterday closed 0.8 per cent lower following Wall Street's overnight fall and amid uncertainty over the government's bank recapitalisation plan, dealers said. "In general, the market was very quiet. Wall Street's fall was one major factor that affected us," an institutional
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      765 18 AFP F1 SET Index +0.65 THAI shares bucked the regional downtrend yesterday, closing 0.3 per cent higher in a day of directionless trade, analysts said. Analysts said the market traded in meagre volumes with foreign investors staying away while the Hongkong bourse stopped for a holiday. "The market was
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      Lock icon MANILA
      307 18 AFP n Manila -3132 SHARES closed 2.5 per cent lower yesterday on bleak corporate news, analysts said. The Composite Index fell 32.32 points to 1,227.32 Total shares traded reached 477.17 million valued at 893.22 million. Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co fell 15 pesos to 905 while B shares of
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      403 18 AFP Q Composite Index -4*B SHARE prices closed 1.5 per cent lower yesterday as institutional investors sold largecapitalisation shares amid regional economic uncertainties, dealers said. The Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 4.68 points to close at 305.64. The benchmark corporate bond yield was down at 11.4 per cent.
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      Lock icon SYDNEY
      592 18 AFP nAH Ordinaries -YI& AUSTRALIAN share prices closed 0.7 per cent lower yesterday following an almost 3 per cent fall on Wall Street overnight and further losses on the Nikkei in Japan. The All Ordinaries Index, dropped 17.8 points to 2,569.2. The All Industrials tumbled 35.9 points to 4,499.7,
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      237 18 AFP Q Wellington -314 NEW Zealand stocks fell 1.9 per cent yesterday on the back of a steep fall in US stocks. The NZSE-40 Index lost 33.4 points to 1,694.54 on modest turnover of NZ579.7 million. Telecom Corp dropped 22 cents to close at NZ57.43. Wl V- f— ANZ6ankin«
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      353 18 AFP □wPlafaa -13L89 TAIWAN share prices closed 1.9 per cent lower yesterday, led by technology shares, amid lack of confidence on the back of sharp overnight falls on Wall Street, dealers said. The Weighted Price Index dropped 131.89 points to 6,702.06, the lowest level of the session. "Confidence has
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      KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
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      376 19 AFP Bloomberg n Composite Index -s£B MALAYSIAN share prices ended 1.6 per cent lower yesterday, dragged down by poor corporate results due to the prevaUing economic crisis. "Results at Time Engineering and Renong Bhd were exceptionaUy bad. This triggered some selling," a dealer with
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    • WARRANTS&OPTIONS
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        AFP wrt: shares offer a better deal
        170 20  -  WARRANT WATCH -/tyl R Sivanithy INDONESIAN-LINKED stocks are stUl very much in focus at the moment. So, for the time being, we'll keep our sights in this part of the market. Today's feature is the Asia Food Properties warrant which costs a relatively
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        CLOB INTERNATIONAL
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      STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE: MAIN BOARD
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        Market down on renewed worries over global equities
        637 22  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Weak US market, Tokyo fall, soft Europe opening cited; speculative play still on Indon-linked stocks By R Sivanithy AFTER putting up staunch resistance for most of the day, local stocks eventually succumbed to a combination of a weak US
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          More brickbats for Fed
          84 22 HERE are more brickbats for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for the bailout ofLong-Term Capital Management. In the latest issue of the US financial weekly Barron's, columnist Kathryn Welling said the Fed's move was to save "affluent, BMW-driving, Dom Perignon-drinking, Vail-vacationing, Hampton- weekending, Greenwich-living
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          To err is machine
          114 22 Ben Ezzell, wthorotDmxloplns Windows l! Errors Messages, and book and softwari publisher O'Reilly Associates recently convened a contest for the worst computer error message. Some of the submissions: Error: Keyboard not found. Press Pi to continue. A fatal exception OS has occurred at 0028:C027E29C in VXD
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          More to the 'L' phenomenom
          57 22 m noted in this column on Wednesday lhat all but one of Singapore Telecom's top, management have surnames that start with an X'. The exception, we said, is senior vice-president Chua Sock Koong. In feet, a little bird told us that she Is no exception
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          Hongkong the ATM
          61 22 Still on ATMs, we hear that at the height of the speculative attacks on the Hongkong ij < dollar peg, American hedge fund managers were referring to Hongkong as their ATM. Because when they needed some cash, theywould take positions on the HRg, being assured of certain
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        HOT STOCK
        67 22  -  -by Wong Wei Kong VAN der Horst closed yesterday at $0,355, up five cents and on a volume of 13.6 million shares, compared with a 10-day average of 1.18 million shares. Technical readings indicate that the upside may be limited. Daily and weekly RSI indicators sugoest that the
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      8 22 TURN TO PACES 18 20 FOR MORE NOTICES
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      328 23 Bridge News THERE was talk of Cargill covering a cargo to China from the St Lawrence in late trade, but details were sketchy. Talk of higher rates for Panamaxes from the US Gulf continued to surface. TAMXERSc Trading was quieter with alack of cargoes to cover. Some higher
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      264 23 CWT Distribution. 0-285 0.005 M Choan Hup 0.36 unci) 109 Coko ln»a«lraant 0-39 -0.01 37 rratoM Links 0.V4 -0.01 484 OB HoMlnft 021 unch 57 Hal Sun Hup 0.295 -0.015 3M Hitachi Zotan OS unch MS IMC Hotfnqs 5.6 Jaya llaMlnga 0.41 unch 54 Jurang Shipyard 5.95 -0.05
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      622 23  -  FEFC, lADA terminal handling charges are 25% more than PSA stevedorage charge By: Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Two major groups of international shipping lines have been overcharging shippers in Singapore by as much as 25 per cent for terminal handling charges (THCs), according to the Singapore
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      881 23  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By Selva Kumar THE English Court of Appeal has stayed an action in London and has allowed the Pakistan National Shipping Company to assert an exclusive jurisdiction clause in favour of courts in Pakistan. But the concession
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      194 23 [SINGAPORE] PSA's focus on staff training and development has earned it the Singapore Productivity and Standards Board's (PSB) People Developer Standard award which recognises organisations' efforts in staff development. The world's largest container terminal operator invests about $16 million or 4 per cent of its
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      210 23  -  By\ Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Maersk Benelux (Maersk) and Europe Combined Terminals (ECT) have signed a joint venture agreement for the development of a new NLG 170 million (*****.64 million) container terminal at the Rotterdam Maasvlakte. The Maersk Delta Terminal will be located on the existing
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      1111 24  -  SINGAPORE SHXP BROKING Broking companies making alliances with large industrial groups are likely to be big winners when things pick up By'. Patrick O'Neill The writer is with Clarkson Asia Pte Ltd. This article first appeared in a publication to commemorate the Singapore Shipping Association's
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        1832 37 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booklng/BtUnco Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Portod From To From Au Daty om 01/1400 U OVHOO OVUM OVHOO ovhoo mmn ovhoo IA 0VT700 02/0*51 02/0900 n 0VI700 02/065* 02/0900 02/0700 02/115* 02/1400 4 02/1200 02/1451 02/1700 >IW<HII *341 03/2300 S
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        192 37 Oat 2 China: National Day Holiday. Hong Kong: National Day Holiday. Oct 3 Germany: Day of German Unity. South Korea: National Foundation Day. Oct S Portugal: Republic Day. South Korea: Harvest Moon Festival. Taiwan: Mid-Autumn Festival. Oct 6 South Korea: Harvest Moon Festival. Oct 10 Japan: Sport- s
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        916 37 THIS report, compiled bv Cockett Marine OU Ltd. shows price range* In US dollars Instead at single price* for a more comprehensive deecrlptloo of the market Price* shown are baaed on average+iaed stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index chance and the individual
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        592 37 ——WlIf— *•9 24 Dtnuty Water htMw At* Atumlnlum Sediment HN/M >t/W3 V/V M/M */M mt nwtio« ISO/Clm* Limits Sp«c E25 991 1.0 15.0 0.10 80* 0.10* Spe< 635 991 1.0 W.O 0.15 80' 0.10* Northern Europe 180 Ave 961.8 0.1 12.4 0.03 21 0.02 180 Mm
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        527 38 Chairman in tAlks with several groups on buying a stake in Philippine national carrier Bloomberg, AFP AFP [MANILA] Philippine Airlines chairman Lucio Tan asked senior executives to submit their resignations immediately to allow potential new investors to name a
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        565 38 Bloomberg [BLACKPOOL, England] The British government rejected calls from labour unions to re-nationalise the country's rail system, sold to investors by the previous Conservative government. The Labour Party's ruling national executive committee said in a statement that though the previous government's sale of
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        592 38 Carmakers to lannch a dozen new products next week Reuters [TOKYO] After a year-and-a-half of nothing but warmed-over models, Japanese minicar makers are set to roll out over a dozen new products next week, showing off major improvements in design, performance and crash resistance. The flurry
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        278 38  -  From Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi INDIA'S largest business house, the Tata group, will join a new study to see if a private international airport project near Bangalore in south India can be revived two months after quitting it along
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        231 38 Govt worried about purchase of 3 aircraft in light of economic crisis Bernama-TNA [BANGKOK] Transport and Communications Minister Suthep Thueksuban has told national carrier Thai Airways International (THAI) to scrap its order for three aircraft worth over 14 billion baht (***** million)
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        222 38 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways Ltd, Australia's largest airline, had its long-term recommendation upgraded to "buy" from "accumulate" by Merrill Lynch Co, following the announcement of the Oneworld global alliance. "We believe the now obvious global trend towards alliances can deliver substantial benefits to
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      222 23 PAL managers told to resign to make way for investors Chairman in talks with several groups on buying a stake in Philippine national carrier. Back Page Shipping times Now Shipping Times is Proposed editorial onipDUliaing poised to deliver your highlights include: Special Feature advertising message right Prospects of the up
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      989 26 am MAC-WELS S'PtlftE M'Slfl Carriers MM CONTR LINES, INC p.qudang: (07)*****26 I~J\V\> J CWWOHIOOtTIOOOOt SIBU: (084) *****9 MANILA: (632) *****24 PENAWQ: (04) *****36 BANGKOK: (662) *****57 SURABAYA: (31) *****0 P. KELANG: (03) *****77 JKT: (21) *****07 MON: (61) *****3 KUCHING (082)*****1-3 KfIOHSIUNG SURABAYA MV "KOTA BERKAT" V.BKT3I Mv <|<OTA SURIA"
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      1775 27 IK9V&VSWSVSW DIRECT TO ISRAEL 1 mm in i 3 days i EVERY THURSDAY I ItmSSwi&mluMm: 6 SHINToi WAY HI: M 6 1900 fl^rn22M^^^Sd7/^^^!m!or^S!!SllWK^ m^m^mmmmm^^\ COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD #i7-MDtsnoG SAUS/BKGS *****57/w INWARD DIPT (D/ 0) *****85 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD CR NO: **********0 M TOW!« TWO (*****9) CONVINTIONAI *****50/55
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      674 27 EASTERN CAR UNER, LTD.'""SifwT 2 VE 1 ECL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD 1 SPiOAIIZI IN ROWO 4 HEAVY LIFT UPTO 450 TONS ECL (SiNGAPME) PTE UD LOADING FOR JEBEL AU CHENNAI MV 'LUNA A2UL" V.14 MV "ORIENT ROSE" V.27 ETA SIN 06/10/98 ETA JEBEL AU 15/10/98 ETA SM 07/10/98 ETA CHENNAI
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      761 28 f PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD j KEEK 140 Cedl Street #03 00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. CRNO: 1Q*****0000E T i™. ST W 181 Ml \VM otahtiuM M- ivi, ivn a;; KSwSS" ?£»is i'/'i» -it/io ),/io i m "H' y|||wssa vor m RWGAniAsa ?i] IZlO_ 9/10 JO/io mTTo HTio SoTio
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