The Business Times, 1 June 1999

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  • 77 1 FOBEX KATES uss ss OSI 1.727 £(l'S$/S$ per —1.906 1771 EURO(USJ/S$perE) 1046 1409 DM 1.870 0524 YEN 121.4 1.422* KM 1800 0.454 HKI 7.755 0123 BAffT 17.19 ***** JHJPIAH 8.123 0.021 St to ite units PUKE BATES SINGAPORE* 5.828 KUALA LUMPUR 111® JAKARTA SMI BANGKOK 14.76 MANILA AW HONGKONG
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  • 822 1  -  Much hinges on who wins and how the losing parties react to their defeat From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta TRADING volumes on Indonesia's main bourse have plunged as investors nervously await the outcome of the June 7 elections. Stockbrokers say the result is
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  • 495 1  -  By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Several penny stocks shot through the roof yesterday, as punters jumped upon all manner of rumours to ramp up their prices by as much as 70 per cent. The activity led to several queries by the Stock Exchange
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  • 445 1  -  Analysts cite higher prices, fewer new project launches Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] Sales of new private residential properties by major property developers slowed to about 450 units in May, no thanks to higher prices and a dearth of new launches. In April,
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  • 249 1 Sources say deal may be announced as early as this week Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Allied Irish Banks pic, Ireland's largest bank, is in talks to buy about a quarter of Singapore's Keppel Tat Lee Bank, people familiar with the negotiations
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  • 371 1 Consolidation picks up in battered KL broking industry Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Kuala Lumpur City Corporation Bhd (KLCCB), a financial services company linked to Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin, has proposed taking over six brokerages managed by a state body set up to
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    • 140 1 mnu*u f*. i i i surprise winner The low-key owner of Leisure Park in Kallang, Han Chee Juan, has beaten 10 other listed companies, to clinch Waterbank Properties' Garlick Ave site, for $71m, Pg 17 I«KMi fef lbbfriß? Malaysia's controversial capital controls rescued neighbouring Asian economies, a senior central bank
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    • 153 1 1 Allow to himself vTflf -qm 6 Whatever the sentimerl J against Pak Harto, I thlnlfflPr MP on© should allow him legal advice, on the I of presumption of W M innocence. We should F J allow him to defend F himself. The court should be independent. Otherwise we can
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    • 20 1 BHlion-$ club Starting today, a monthly update of the market capitalisation of the 353 SES-listed companies Full report, Pg 17
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 613 2  -  Jane rate seen highest for year but hoteliers say impact not significant Heport.s by Carol Eng THE Rotary convention and Indonesian elections are expected to lift June occupancies of hotels to their highestever for the year, but not to the extent
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    • 235 2 AN average of more than 1,000 gazetted hotel rooms are expected to come on-stream per year for the next five years till 2003. According to latest statistics from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), the total supply of rooms at gazetted hotels
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    • 334 2  -  CB Richard Ellis plans to hold monthly auctions By Ang Wan May A CHINATOWN boutique hotel and a freehold Tanglin bungalow are looking to fetch some $8 million each in an auction this Thursday. The 45-room boutique hotel, Regal Inn, is
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    • 291 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Bank loans Clarissa Tan OUTSTANDING loans extended by banks grew month-to-month in April after a four-month slide, suggesting a bottoming-out of the commercial lending market. Latest figures from the Monetary Au- thority of Singapore show that loans totalled $148.8 billion, up
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    • 88 2 nter V9 tior al management arm ofßaffles Holdings which is owned by listed DBS Land, has been granted Business Headquarters (BHQ) status. Singapore Tourism Board chief executive Yeo Keeleng Qefl) presented the BHQ status award to Richard Heifer, chairman of Raffles International, yesterday. The award
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    • 388 2  -  By. Ang Wan May IMPROVING property market sentiment and poor hotel business have led to the closing of the Marco Polo Singapore five months earlier than planned. The 31-year-old hotel will cease operating on July 31 instead of end-December. Mainboard-listed Marco Polo
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    • 198 2  -  MAXLBAG Mohd Kassim bin Ahmad via Internet I WISH to reply to Ethan Chow's response, "Clob saga adds to Malaysia's sovereign risk" (BT, May 25), to my letter. It would appear that Mr Chow is still in a state of denial. I have already said that
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    • 164 2  -  Alan Wong Singapore I WISH to point out that an article pertaining to DBS on the front page of The Business Times issue of May 27 contains a common "Singlish" grammatical error. This is the phrase in the sixth column (second last line) "with regards
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    • 254 2  -  Denis Distant via Internet Singapore I REFER to the letter "Clob solution can be found in hints by KL officials" from Mr Alan Chong (BT, May 29) and think his suggestion could be a very dangerous precedent if adopted. He suggests that Clob investors
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    • 548 4  -  IRAS attributes fall in collection mainly to poor economic conditions By I Soh Tiang Keng TOTAL revenue collected by the government fell by 22 per cent for the first quarter of this year despite early signs of recovery of the Singapore
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    • 433 4 Complaints of shoddy work and dishonesty on the increase The Straits Times LAWYERS were warned yesterday to buck up and behave themselves as more people are filing complaints against them for shoddy work and dishonest conduct. Last year, 141 complaints were filed, an increase
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    • 254 4  -  Warning comes in wake of global scam that's hit S'poreans w David Boey THE Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) has warned that it is illegal to make cold calls to market investment instruments. The CAD's warning came in the wake of media interest
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    • 128 4 THREE people have picked up forms to apply to be eligible to run in this year's presidential elections. The Elections Department yesterday said that the forms are for applications for the certificate of eligibility. However, no forms were submitted yesterday, the first day of applications.
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    • 258 4  -  Byi Christopher Tan THE Land Transport Authority has appointed DBS and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter as joint lead managers of its $300 million debut bond issue. The pair will also be lead arrangers for the 10-year issue, details of which will be announced
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
    • 553 5  -  Anti-Asian sentiments drove Euro-Asia group to sell Asl3sm of investments in last 8 months By< Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] Property developer P L Kua sold Asl3s million (Sslsl million) of his Australian investments in the last eight months because he felt that as
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
    • 517 6 Investment bank says inflation concerns in Asia are exaggerated AFP [HONGKONG] Asia's economies are still fragile and growth will be below potential until the end of2ooo or later, leaving room for interest rates to fall further, investment bank Credit Suisse
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    • 506 6  -  It warns that policy flaws could hurt future ratings From, Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur INTERNATIONAL credit rating agency Standard Poor's has given Malaysia's recent USSI billion (551.73 billion) global bond issue an investment grade rating of triple Bminus, but the
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    • 60 6 [BIRMINGHAM] Participants in "The Debt March "organised by the Jubilee 2000 campaign to cancel Third World debt, gathering at the Century Square Birmingham on Sunday. The group plans to walk from Birmingham to Cologne, Germany, with their arrival coordinated with the start of
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    • 351 6 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's trade surplus narrowed in April from March as stronger domestic demand produced the first rise in imports in nine months. The April trade surplus was 6.2 billion Malaysian ringgit (Ss2.B billion), compared with RM6.5 billion in March, Bernama reported, citing
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  • RUN-UP TO INDONESIA'S ELECTIONS
    • 2040 7  -  Top Indonesian presidential adviser Dewi Fortuna Anwar discusses how gingerly Jakarta has to deal with former president Suharto's alleged corruption Reports from Yang Razali Kassim The writer is BT's regional analysis editor in Jakarta Q: The case of former president Suharto's wealth has become a
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    • 1925 7 AWEEK before the start of the election campaigns on May 19, The Jakarta Post published extracts of an interview with Ibnu Sutowo, the once mighty tsar of the state-oil company, Pertamina. He is the one who single-handedly built Pertamina into an important oil player, but
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 546 8  -  Analysts say it was coincidental Asian markets stabilised after M'sian move From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S controversial capital controls rescued neighbouring Asian economies, a senior central bank official claimed in an article over the weekend. "I may not be venturing
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    • 283 8 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters INDONESIAN state-owned oil monopoly Pertamina is considering strategic alliances to enhance its asset base, its president director Martiono Hadianto said yesterday. "Pertamina is looking closely at strategic alliances to bring capabilities that we do not currently have and which would
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    • 466 8  -  SINGAPORE Millions in damages claimed over alleged fraud conspiracy fty* Conrad Raj AN affiliate of one of Indonesia's largest general insurers has filed a civil suit against four directors of the country's largest non governmentowned oil and gas company in
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    • 232 8 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S largest Islamic party has thrown its support behind an opposition alliance to face the ruling coalition in the coming general elections. But analysts said many challenges lie ahead before the fundamentalist PAS party can join the others to form
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    • NOTE Book
      • 58 8 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia may raise export taxes on a variety of unprocessed agricultural produce, said Minister of Industry and Trade Rahardi Ramelan yesterday. Cocoa beans, copra, rubber, cashew nuts are among the products he'll consider for export taxes to encourage businesses to process these goods
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      • 38 8 Reuters [JAKARTA] Tlw eldest daughter of disgraced former president Suharto, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, went to the Indonesian attorney-general's office yesterday in a visit thought to be linked to an ongoing corruption investigation. Reuters
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      • 39 8 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian Investment Minister Marzuki Usman said yesterday that he had proposed an incentive plan under which foreign individuals investing more than USfl million (551.73 million) would be granted permanent resident status. —AFP
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      • 66 8 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesian voters are far more worried about getting their recession-hit economy back on its feet than over any threats to their safety, according to a poll published yesterday. The poll by the Kompas daily showed 59.9 per cent put improvement of the economy ft*
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 459 10  -  Agency says HK move to ask China to reinterpret law won't hit confidence From Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong INTERNATIONAL rating agency Standard Poor's said yesterday that recent efforts by the Hongkong government to ask for China's assistance in limiting immigration from the mainland
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    • 355 10 SHANGHAI Move comes as some of its units reveal cash-flow woes CHINA'S largest investment company, China International Trust Investment Corp (Citic), has asked the central bank for permission to restructure its securities-trad-ing unit, Citic Securities, the Dow Jones Newswires reported yesterday. The
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    • 222 10 HONGKONG Reuters A COMMITTEE charged with overseeing the merger of Hongkong's stock and futures exchanges says it has reached broad consensus on the structure of the firm that will run the new market. Issues discussed at the second meeting of the Coordinating Committee
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    • 255 10 HONGKONG Reuters CREDITORS of China-backed Guangdong Enterprises are looking at an effective debt writedown of 58 to 63 per cent under its restructuring plan, according to a report by US investment bank Merrill Lynch Co. Hongkong-based Guangdong Enterprises (Holdings) Ltd (GDE), the flagship investment
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  • ASIA
    • 507 11 SINGAPORE The underwater link will provide speedier phone and Internet traffic in the region Bloomberg ASIA'S biggest phone companies will sign a pact in two weeks to build a US$l billion (551.72 billion) underwater cable network, allowing speedier phone and Internet links in
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    • 406 11 BOMBAY Brokers see rebonnd as an over-reaction, warn of volatility Reuters, AFP INDIAN shares rebounded yesterday amid signs of easing tensions with arch-rival Pakistan over India's military action against guerillas in Kashmir. Some brokers viewed the rally as an over-reaction and warned
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    • 213 12 CANBERRA Reuters AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard yesterday reaffirmed the government's intention to honour its tax reform deal with the Australian Democrats minor party. His comment came after newspaper reports that the government and the Democrats may differ on their definitions of "basic
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    • 387 12 SEOUL Probe into graft follows charges that luxury goods used to secure favours AFP WIVES of serving and former government ministers are under investigation in South Korea following accusations that fur coats and other luxury goods were used to secure political favours.
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    • 392 12 SYDNEY Exports down 6%, the biggest decline in almost two years Bloomberg AUSTRALIA'S trade deficit swelled to a record Asl.9 billion (Ss2.l billion) in April as exports of uranium and zinc slumped and falling coal prices hurt Broken Hill Proprietary Co and
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    • 233 12 CANBERRA Decision may put 16.6% govt stake sale at risk Bloomberg THE Australian government's bid to have lawmakers approve the sale of 16.6 per cent of the telecommunications company Telstra Corp may fail after Treasurer Peter Costello said the government won't meet demands for more
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    • 340 12 SEOUL Bloomberg OSAKA Gas of Japan joined BG pic of the UK and Enron Corp of the US as the final bidders for a 900 billion won (Ssl.3 billion) stake in South Korea's monopoly gas importer, the government said. The
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    • 70 12 [SYDNEY] One of the top-portion modules of the steel-framed spires being loweredfrom a helicopter towards waiting workers atop Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral on Saturday. The 24-tonne spires stand over 70 metres high and cost around As 9 million (Sslo million) to attach. They will be covered
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    • ASIA Notes
      • 69 12 Bloomberg [SEOUL] South Korea delayed a 2.4 trillion won (553.5 billion) domestic bond sale planned for next month, a move analysts say will help stop interest rates rising. The finance and economy ministry said the sale will now take place some time in the
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      • 79 12 Bloomberg [WELLINGTON] New Zealand companies' confidence in the economy fell for a third month amid concern a stronger currency is hurting exporters already suffering from low commodity prices and slack demand. National Bank of New Zealand's May business survey showed a net 46.2 per cent of
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      • 57 12 Reuters O— wa »»n [MANAMA] Pakistan is seeking changes in the terms of a proposed package to restructure US$5lO million (*****.2 million) of its commercial loans, a banker said yesterday. "They want more changes. We have to go back to them to discuss it
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    • 242 12 SEOUL Bloomberg SOUTH Korea said it plans to cut the minimum period that company employees must hold shares issued to them as options or bonuses, to less than two years from seven years at present. "The relevant laws are expected to be revised and the
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD Briefs
      • 59 13 Bloomberg [LONDON] The euro rose against the dollar for the first day In four as comments by European Central Bank officials and UK newspaper articles fuelled speculation the ECB may use some of its US$24B billion (Ss42B billion) of foreign currency
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      • 48 13 Reuters [ST PETERSBURG] Actors Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler pose for a picture in front of the monument to the last Russian Tsar Nicholas n during a photocall on Sunday. They were in the city for the Russian premiere of the British-made movie Onegin.—Reuters
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      • 35 13 AFX [BELGRADE] Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic confirmed his government's acceptance of the G-8 principles for a peace plan in Kosovo, calling for a UN Security council resolution to end the crisis.—AFX
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      • 37 13 Bloomberg [BONN] The German economy may expand more than 2.5 per cent next year, following faster export growth in the second half of 1999, Economics Minister Werner Mueller said. —Bloomberg
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    • 470 13 LONDON Demand suggests debt-backed merger wave is likely IHT VIRTUALLY unaffected by the euro's decline, companies across Europe have been raising record amounts in the bond market since the currency was put in place in January. Olivetti last week began marketing around 8 billion
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    • 320 13 NEW YORK Investors seen to eye closelyslewof economic data due this week Reuters WALL Street, haunted by the spectre of rising interest rates and fresh off its stiffest weekly loss of the year, is braced for a suspenseful week that
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    • 139 13 WASHINGTON Reuters INFLATION rather than deflation is the more likely, but not inevitable, menace to the US economy, due to the "very heavily utilised" workforce, the president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank said on Sunday. During a speech to Georgetown University
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    • 262 13 WASHINGTON FT THE International Monetary Fund should create a US$2OO billion (***** billion) trust flxnd to cope with threats to the stability of the international financial system, according to one of the architects of the US Treasury's response to
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 726 14  -  THE BOTTOM LIVE OPINION By William Safire The writer is a New York Times columnist NYT WHEN Alan Pinkerton, Lincoln's bumbling Secret Service chiet set up a private detective agency after the Civil War, he adopted as his logo an open eye
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    • 180 14 'I'm a novice, but as Corazon Aquino (former leader of the Philippines) said: 'I don't know how to cheat, lie and accept all the bribes'.' -Wan Wan lifl wife of jailed Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim, on her new political role. 'People spend according to what their pay
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    • 619 14 EDITORIAL THE controversial JapanUS defence cooperation guidelines were last week passed after a debate which did little to clarify the true intentions of either side in seeking to strengthen their postwar security cooperation. Those Japanese politicians who favour the move to allow the nation's Self-Defence
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    • 905 14  -  OECD is seeking an accurate measure of intangible assets, such as ideas and know-how Barry James IHT WHAT is the value of a company that may be brimming with ideas and potential but owns few physical assets beyond rented office space and computers?
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    • 1082 14 Issue of Indonesia's bonds INDONESIA'S first treasury bonds in over four decades were finally born on Friday through a huge, yet unusual issue totalling 157.61 trillion rupiah (5533.4 billion), of which 103.83 trillion is to recapitalise 23 private and regional development banks and 53.78 trillion is
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 512 15 Details said to inclnde dumping at sea of casket which transported former president's body LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] The National Archives will release this week the latest cache of documents relating to the assassination of President John F Kennedy, reportedly including details of the dumping
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 759 16  -  Zimbabwe's strong position and Australia's helping hand to West Indies look odd, writes Surlnder Singh Surinder Singh WHEN the South Africans lost their World Cup match to African neighbours Zimbabwe on Saturday, they not only did hosts England a disfavour, they also did their own
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    • 501 16 FRENCH OPEN Experience, not yonth,isthekey on red day AFP [PARIS] Venus Williams gone. Anna Kournikova gone. Amelie Mauresmo and Serena Williams both long gone. The much-hyped teenage revolution in women's tennis fizzled out in the first week of the French Open. Experience has proved far more
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 486 17  -  Han Chee Juan beats 10 other bidders with $283 psf offer By. Ang Wan May [SINGAPORE] The low-key owner of Leisure Park in Kallang, Han Chee Juan, has beaten 10 other bidders, including big listed companies, to clinch Waterbank Properties' prime Garlick
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    • 891 17  -  10 more companies join billion-dollar club; top gainers were penny stocks Byi Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Riding on a flood of liquidity, the market capitalisation of the 353 SESlisted companies rose 11 per cent from April to $274.2 billion in May, adding
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    • 269 17  -  By< Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Hong Leong Asia's managing director John Wong Weng Foo has quit the company, ending a decade-long association with the group. A company statement gave no reason for Mr Wong's resignation which is with immediate effect, nor did it say where he
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    • 121 17 [SINGAPORE] TLB Land, an associate company of Keppel Tat Lee Bank, has paid $18 million for a 2,795 sq m (30,085 sq feet) site off Serangoon Road. Located at 22-26 Mar Thoma Road, the plot of land has 882 years of its
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    • 197 17 [SINGAPORE] Ho Wah Genting International says it is currently evaluating a proposal to issue new shares to acquire some assets, a move which may result in a change in the company's controlling shareholder. The precision engineering service firm said in a statement yesterday
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    • 294 17  -  w Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank's Local shares have been trading at levels which have triggered the forced conversion of the bank's remaining nonredeemable convertible preference shares to ordinary shares. DBS yesterday said the automatic conversion, which will be effected
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    • COMPANIES
      • 420 18  -  Airline management says it won't reopen talks with pilots to resolve pay dispute Fromi Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong HIT by a labour dispute with about half of its pilots, Cathay Pacific Airways shares plunged 10 per cent yesterday, wiping out HK$3 billion
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      • 364 18  -  Not clear if it'll be an executive position; Purwadi forerunner By\ Carol Eng [SINGAPORE] Ipco's new board of directors will meet today to elect a chairman, with Indonesian-Chinese Purwadi strongly tipped for the post. It is unsure if this will be an executive position
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      • 279 18  -  By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Boustead Singapore has suffered a 95 per cent drop in net earnings in its financial year to March because of losses by its bakery arm. Net profit fell to $70,000 from $1.29 million a year ago while earnings per share on
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      • 470 18  -  Jeweller to use proceeds to expand operations: MD By] Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Jeweller Lee Hwa Holdings plans to use the $8 million to $14 million it hopes to raise from its upcoming initial public offer (IPO) to expand its retail
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      • 259 18  -  Stamford Residences toearnuptoUSssm in 10 yrs under deal liy. David Boey [SINGAPORE] DBS Land s serviced residence arm, Stamford Residences, will manage an apartment project in the Chinese city of Shanghai under a deal said to be worth between US$3OO,OOO and US$5OO,OOO a
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      • 778 18  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Quak Hiang Whai PIRST, it was the flight attendants who decided they were not getting paid enough to smile. Now, a large number of disgruntled pilots at Cathay Pacific Airways are calling in sick shortly before their scheduled
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      • 245 18 [SINGAPORE] Frozen seafood trader Pacific Andes (Holdings) yesterday said it intends to raise US$5.7 million (Ss9.B million) by placing out new shares representing about 10 per cent of its paidup capital at US$O.3O a share. The Hongkong-based company will do the placement though
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      • COMPANY Briefs
        • 65 18 [SINGAPORE] CSA Holdings said GMPC Corp, which is 20 per cent owned by its wholly owned Malaysian subsidiary Computer Systems Advisers, has secured a contract from the Malaysian government to implement a smart card project valued at 270 million ringgit (*****.6 million). It is
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        • 108 18 [SINGAPORE] Hwa Hong Corp yesterday said it was unaware of any reasons for the sudden interest in its shares, which shot up 40 cents or 21 per cent to $2.31 between May 26 and May 28. It noted, however, that companies in the Hong
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        • 23 18 [SINGAPORE] L&M Group Investments executive deputy chairman Tay Puan Siong has resigned, effective yesterday, according to the company.
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        • 31 18 [SINGAPORE] Heshe substantial shareholder Tan Suan Pit has sold 3.3 million shares, cutting his stake to 15.6 million shares or about 5 per cent, the company said.
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        • 38 18 [SINGAPORE] Teamsphere Ltd yesterday said Citicorp Investment Bank had sold 4.9 million shares, reducing its stake to 4.9 per cent from 10 per cent and is therefore no longer regarded as a substantial shareholder.
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        • 68 18 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Press Holdings yesterday said its wholly-owned unit, The Straits Times Press (1975) Ltd (STPL), has sold its 50 per cent stake in The Straits Times Press (London) to Times Publishing Ltd for $472,700. In a separate deal, Times Publishing sold its 25 per
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        • 37 18 [SINGAPORE] Second Chance Enterprises substantial shareholder Mohamed Salleh s/o Kadir Mohideen Saibu Maricar sold 2.5 million shares for 30.1 cents per share, reducing his stake to 67.14 per cent, the company said.
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        • 36 18 [SINGAPORE] IMM Multi-Enterprise substantial shareholder Ang Kian Kok has sold four million shares at $1.15 per share, reducing his stake to 5.96 per cent from 10.96 per cent, said the company yesterday.
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      • 434 19 Aussie anti-monopolies body foils takeover by refusing clearance Reuters [SYDNEY] Cable Wireless Optus Ltd, whose major shareholder is Cable Wireless pic of UK, yesterday abandoned its Asl.s billion (Ssl.7 billion) hostile takeover bid for AAPT Ltd after Australia's anti-monopolies watchdog refused to
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      • 322 19 The move comes five days before closing date of C&W offer Bloomberg [TOKYO] Nippon Telegraph Telephone Corp, the world's largest telephone company, has submitted a revised offer to buy International Digital Communications Inc, a Japanese telephone carrier that is
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      • 260 19 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] China.com Corp is going public on the Nasdaq stock exchange, trying to form a dream team of Wall St venture capitalists and China's government-run news agency Xinhua to become China's top website. Started by Hongkong entrepreneurs and Xinhua five years ago, China.com will
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      • 375 19 It also wants to relax disclosure norms for big deals Bridge News [MELBOURNE] The Australian Stock Exchange wants to set up a new trading system and relax disclosure requirements for brokers and institutions trading large blocks of stock, it said yesterday. According
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 458 22 Westpac is the other likely strong candidate for fond manager after NAB withdrawal: reports Reuters, Bloomberg [SYDNEY] United Statesbased insurance and financial services group Principal Financial Group is now a leading contender to buy Bankers Trust Funds Management, two Australian
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      • 240 22 Increase to 28,425 tonnes last Friday from 9,225 tonnes at the start of April Reuters [SYDNEY] Chinese importers were responsible for the recent influx of lead into the London Metal Exchange warehouse in Singapore, industry experts said yesterday. "It's the Chinese
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      • 170 22 It also has plans to acquire a bank in the U& executive Bridge News [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Chinatrust Commercial Bank (CCB) is evaluating acquisitions of banks in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and the US, but there are so far no details regarding the issue, a Chinatrust
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      • 473 22 Hans Hufschmid is third partner to quit since firm's bailout Bloomberg [NEW YORK] A third partner has left the bailed out hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management. Hans Hufschmid, co-head of Long-Term Capital's London office, said he left the fund on Thursday, according to a
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      • 341 22 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea has agreed to delay the deadline for the conclusion of a deal on the sale of ailing Seoulbank to British banking giant HSBC Holdings pic, financial authorities said yesterday. The transaction was to have been wrapped
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      • SMALL Change
        • 79 22 Nikkei [TOKYO] Yamaichi Securities, which acknowledged business failure in November 1997, will file for bankruptcy this week as it has nearly completed procedures to place unclaimed customers assets in public depositories. The Bank of Japan extended special lending to Yamaichi on the assumption the
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        • 52 22 Bridge News [TAfPEI] Taiwan's First Commercial Bank wrote off around NT$l billion (5552.6 million) of bad loans in May, a spokesman said yesterday. He said the bank disposed of its holdings in Chang Hwa Bank in May, but did not specify the revenue generated.
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        • 72 22 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Tokyo Sowa Bank Ltd said it has been ordered by Japan's financial regulator to raise capital and submit a restructuring plan to strengthen its finances, the bank said. The bank said it will raise capital by selling new shares through private
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        • 57 22 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Financial services group ING Group yesterday said it had increased it stake in French bank CCF about 1.2 percentage points. ING now holds 13.20 per cent in shares and 13.90 per cent in votes after buying CCF shares from French defence
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        • 49 22 Bloomberg [ZURICH] Credit Suisse Group said more than 5,000 people signed up to trade securities over the Internet through the bank. The demand for "youtrade", a low-cost service Credit Suisse offered last month, has exceeded the bank's expectations, said a spokesman. —Bloomberg
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      • 388 22 VOCATIVE uinifliTv NUMB WOOiPWCES MATURITY YEAR RAISED COUPON INTEREST OF DAYS OF (EXCLUDING GROSS RATE AMOUNT PAYMENT ACCRUE) ACCRUED RHBAPTON (%PA) m DATES INTEREST INTBtST) YRX)(%I>*) 15/06/1999 Low 2 1979 61/4* 55.80 __15/6 15/12 167_ 100.00* 6.08* 01/09/1999 N*****1L 1997 2 3/4#
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      • 116 23  -  himn* Reports MSd Singapore Index Christopher A Podbury, Jardine Fleming THE Simsci futures ended yesterday in what could be best described as a lacklustre day with all contract maturities settling slightly lower. Very little institutional activity was seen, with most of the day's volume
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      • 155 23  -  MSCI Taiwan fixtures Charlie Kuo Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures tumbled in a quiet trading session yesterday as a lack of fresh bullish news resulted in speculative selling by Taiwanese retailers. The new lead June '99 contract, hanging around the 315
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      • 409 23 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Opec members made almost 90 per cent of their pledged oil output cuts in May, according to a Bloomberg survey, as they followed through on a plan to remove oil from the market and
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      • 308 23 Reuters London CONCERN that the European Central Bank would use the opportunity of holidaythinned markets to intervene to support the euro yesterday proved enough to bolster the currency in the absence of London and New York markets. Although dealers said there was no sign of ECB activity on
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      • Article, Illustration
        1265 23 DWERBAMg CROSS RATES C5 Rwb E<ro Ffr Dm HK$ Ind to tuplah Yea Won RM MZ$ Pafc to Peso S$ Raod Sir MT$ Mlt Hmd US$ 0957 0.620 4.070 1213 5.033 27.800 52.718 0.788 7.699 2.466 L2H 33.742 24.662 1121 4.034 0.988 ***** 24.075 0.404 0.649 "jf 4 253 L2M
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      • 1835 23 S1C0M FUTURES May 31 RUBBER (futures dosmq as at 5.30pm) RSSICONTRACTttcMtsAo) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sott (tonnes) Interest Jun 99 106.50 50 Jul 99 107.25 700 Aug 99 109.50 375 Sep 99 112.50 275 Oct/Doc 99 117.00 117.00 117.00 150 1500 Jan/Mar 00 121.75 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US
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      1378 24 AFP P Hang Seng +81SF1 HONGKONG share prices rose 0.7 per cent yesterday, pushed higher by late buying spurred by gains in the Japanese market after a weekend rebound on Wall Street, dealers said. "The market rebounded on a stronger Tokyo market as well the gains on Wall Street,"
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      530 24 Reuters HShenihgi Binder SHENZHEN'S Hongkong-dollar-de-nominated B shares closed 9.86 per cent higher yesterday on hopes that a cut in stamp duty on B share trading effective June 1 heralded further market-boosting policies. All of Shenzhen's B shares closed at their upward trading limits, lifting the B share index 6.46
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    • 343 24 AFP Qvpinfax -103J3 TAIWAN share prices closed 1.4 per cent lower yesterday on heavy selling of overbought cyclical shares, dealers said. "Cyclical shares are considered over-valued because the fundamentals of these companies have shown no signs of improvement," said James Su, deputy manager of research department at Master Link
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    • 2052 24 UMMH Mistrials N— *h 31 Croup —.7.04 0.03 AMay National 12.90 0.09 A B Food! 4.75 O.ia A B Poctft 2.76 -0.04 ANIanca 4 Leicester 9.23 0.08 Alllad Oomacq 5.99 0.16 Alllad Zurich 7.94 0.30 Anglo Amarlcan Cold 43.70 unch ASOA Croup 1.77 -0.02 Bank of Scotland
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    • 1590 24 AFP P Nikkei 225 +138J7 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.9 per cent higher yesterday as late bargain-hunting boosted the key Nikkei index back above the psychologically important 16,000-point level, brokers said. "Bargain-hunting emerged towards the end of the session, which allowed the Nikkei to recover to the 16,000-point
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 412 25 AFP fl Composite Index jJI MALAYSIAN share prices closed 0.8 per cent lower in moderate trading yesterday due to profit-taking on lower liners, dealers said. They said a 6.2 billion Malaysian ringgit (Ss2.B billion) trade surplus for April and a favourable rating for Malaysia's US$l
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      • 8625 25 —UI1II0U Ciniwwr prtMi '999 Last Vol Day Net Cap Hl»> Law Company Sala 'OOP High Law Pit $mll 380 255 Ajinomoto 326 unch 7 326 326 20.7 t32.1 115 46 Angkasa SO -7 K>2 86 80 118.0 293 220 Apollo Food Mlg 268 9.3 1072 204 115 BerjayeLand 164 -4
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    • WARRANTS, OPTIONS & REGIONAL MARKETS
      • 178 26  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy AT the moment, electronics stocks are in vogue, thanks largely to an e-commerce theme that's making the rounds in the market. In the meantime, banks and properties have largely been neglected, partly because of interest rate worries but
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      • 223 26 HONGKONG STOCKS Gr Or S2 V«l Day L**t Ouota Wv Wv YM NX M C«V High Low Stno Company «g» COOP) High Law Buyor Sa—r Cw Pfl $m* 345 173 5123 COL (2000) MK 325 350 8 3.7 2.5 11 6292 5 5124 Cathay Pac 20c MK_720 265
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      • 2331 26 BONDS. LOANS ft VARIANTS L*»t Vol Day LmI Oust* Avq Mtg* Lmi StiM Cwnptny Sato ♦or- rOOO) High Law Buyar Salter Prtea 30.5 3 s 3>60 "Acar W0I073IUSS 29 »3.5 900 30.5 26.5 28.5 29.5 57.5 4.5 s 3164 Acma ******4 48 ♦I.S 753 46 46 47 5 48 47
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      • 412 26 AFP fl Composite Into +3.78 SOUTH Korean share prices closed 0.5 per cent higher yesterday, eroding earlier gains sparked by strong April industrial output data and lower money market rates, dealers said. Hyundai Securities dealer Yoo Yong Seok said sentiment was buoyed by the April industrial output figure which
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      • 325 26 AFP nmiuh *27-56 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 1.2 per cent higher yesterday due to the release of favourable economic growth figures and an upturn on Wall Street at the weekend, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 27.55 points to close at 2,419.83 points. Volume fell to
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        637 26 AFP P Composite Into +L 59 INDONESIAN share prices rose 0.3 per cent yesterday with profit-taking in secondline and banking stocks limited by rises in selected large caps following a government bond issue, dealers said. A dealer with Lippo Securities said many second liners were down, but their declines
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      • 668 26 AFP NAD Ordinaries +IL6 AUSTRALIAN shares closed up 0.4 per cent yesterday as gains on Wall Street and the announcement of a deal on tax reform at the weekend outweighed the release of worse-than-expected trade figures, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index finished up 11.6 points at 2,900.20. The
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      • 297 26 AFP n Wellington -5181 NEW Zealand share prices fell 2.5 per cent yesterday to their lowest level for the year under pressure from index re-weighting and the absence of offshore demand, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 52.81 points at 2,061.40. AFP 11 H$ (0001 Advantag* MOS
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    • 7201 27 Or Gr M Wt 92-Wk Last Vol Day Last Ouota Dtv Oly VM Net Cap Avq High Law St Wo Company Solo COOOI High Low »«yar Sallar C'yr H P/t Smll Prtco MULTI-INDUSTRY 147 17.5 m b 1000 Acma 50c 138 cd +4 1120
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    • 1501 27 Of or m art 92-Wk Last V«4 Day Last Ouata Wv Dtv VM Ntt Cap Av« High Law StNo Company Sala COOP) High Law l«r«r Sadar C'vr Pit $mM Prtca MANUFACTURE 142 30 C 2049 AS Auto 10c 127 *4 2595 130 124 127 128 IS N 7 U
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 450 28 Stocks Votamt IPC Corpn 5c 69,084,000 Hotung Inv HT5 44.351.000 Li Xin 10c 41,042,000 SM Summit 10c 39,980,000 Serial Sys 10c 36,134,000 GES Intl Ltd 20c 32,880,000 Pac Andes US20c 29,826,000 CM Telecom HK75c 27.632,000 Goldtron 20c 27,303,000 Uraco HldgslOc 26,722,000 Stocks GES Intl Ltd 20c 53,931,800 Serial Sys 10c
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      • 609 28  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Panting in penny stocks results in huge unit volume but relatively smaller dollar turnover By R Sivanithy LOCAL stocks continued to power ahead yesterday but perhaps not in the manner that some might have wanted blue chips were
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
        • 164 28 IF you could ease the pain of cancer victims for 27.5 cents a day, would you do it? The folks at Assisi Home and Hospice think you will. Last year, the hospice provided solace and professional care for 700 terminally ill cancer patients,
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        • 127 28 w FRANKFURT'S newest hotel, the posh Hilton which opened only late last year, has the most up-to-date telephone systems with all kinds of features. However, some journalists found that all these came to nought when they tried using the system to send their stories home. An
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        • 157 28 LAST Thursday was the debut of erotica merchandiser Beate Uhse on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Visitors to the august Deutsche Borse building were greeted by a huge billboard at the entrance showing two scantily-clad women in red and another completely naked body etched in the background.
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      • Article, Illustration
        65 28  -  By Wong Wei Kong IPC shares rose 3.5 cents to $0.18 yesterday on a volume of 69.1 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 9.44 million units. The stock has reached a new 52-week high, and technical indicators such as the RSI, Stochastics and MACD suggest
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 164 29 Bridge News, Reuters TANKEB& The week ended on a Arm note for very large crude carriers (VLCCs) from the Persian Gulf with the influx of Iraqi cargoes pushing rates into the high worldscale 40s. Conoco is in the market with 240,000 tonnes for May 24-25 shipment from Fateh
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    • 275 29 SO g CWT Distribution L62 0.03 1067 Chuan*® Llfl 0.03 595 Casco Invastmant L19 0.06 428 Fraight Units 0.32 unch ***** OB HoMngs 0.84 0.06 667 Hal Sun Hup O.K 0.01 1267 IMC HoWlngs-HK—5.60 uncti 0 Jaya Holdings 0.94 0.01 1375 Juronq Shipyard 8.00 ai5 120 K«HM(C«rp 4.84
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    • 434 29  -  Deal with port of Sines expected to be announced in mid-Jane By Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] PSA Corp is eyeing the southern Portugal port of Sines as its next overseas project as it looks Beyond Singapore's shores for expansion. An announcement is expected by
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    • 220 29 [SINGAPORE] PSA Corp has been conferred an innovation award for its Flow Through Container Gate System at the 11th Seatrade Awards in London. PSA's advanced paperless gate system is a fully-auto-mated and integrated hightech gate system which enables trucks to pass through any
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    • 108 29 Bridge News [SHANGHAI] China's three biggest state-owned shipping groups are planning to build 120 ships over the next four years, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, quoting the Shanghai's Shipping Exchange Bureau. The China Ocean Shipping Co (Cosco), the China Shipping Group,
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    • 181 29 Reuters [BONN] The complete length of the river Danube within Germany has been closed to shipping since last week due to flooding and is likely to remain shut through the week, German river authorities said. Karl-Hermann Stoecklein at the Regensburg shipping centre said that
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    • 254 29  -  By\ Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Malaysia's latest port development, the port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Johor, has completed its first berth ahead of schedule. PTP said in a statement that the first of six berths in phase I of the 2 billion Malaysian ringgit
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    • 99 29 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] CSX Corp's Sea-Land Service Inc unit, the biggest US ocean-shipping business, told a US House panel that a Clinton administration proposal to impose service fees at US seaports would cost the company US$3O million (Sssl million) a year and the struggling shipping industry US$l
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    • 912 30 SHIPPING INDUSTRY REVIEW Those which fail to set strict minimum ship standards should be isolated by the shipping industry and other states INCREASED self-regula-tion should be its own reward for the shipping industry. Its main attraction for administrations stems from the perhaps belated realisation
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      • 171 41 Jn3 Austria: Corpus Christi. Joaß Denmark: Constitution Day. JnM Australia: Queen's Birthday. Hm 18 Hong Kong: Tuen Ng Day. Jmn 28 Finland: Midsummer Eve Holiday. JoaM Indonesia: Mouloud Prophet's Birthday. Brunei: Maulud. Finland: Midsummer Day Holiday. JnM Brunei: Half Year Bank Closing. Jul 1 Canada: Canada Day. MM
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      • 826 41 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rlne Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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      • 543 42 CATHAY PILOTS PAT ROW Hongkong carrier may be losing HK$2O million a day in revenue: analysts Reuters [HONGKONG! Just as signs of improvement were beginning to emerge on the horizon for Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, a pay dispute with pilots could
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      • 556 42 Japanese carrier to slash workforce by 12%, cut debt Bloomberg [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways (ANA), Asia's second largest airline after Japan Airlines, said it will slash its workforce and cut its inter-est-bearing debt in a bid to return to profitability after posting its first operating
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