The Business Times, 1 December 1990

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  • 11 1 Business Times MCI (P) 170/12/89 Weekend Edition, December 1-2 1990 75*
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  • NEWS & MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 60 1 INDONESIA and Malaysia said yesterday that they have agreed to cooperate in efforts to counter environmentalists seeking to boycott tropical timber. Malaysian Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik said the agreement was a recognition of the importance of forestry for employment, income and
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    • 31 1 SHARE PRICES opened higher on Wall Street yesterday, with the Dow Jones index of leading industrials gaining 0.25 points to 2,519.06 points in the first five minutes of trading
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    • 35 1 LONDON shares were higher at midday yesterday. At about 12:15pm (1215 GMT) the Footsie 100-Share Index was up 8.3 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 2,143.9. Volume at midday was 198.2 million shares.
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    • 28 1 A LEADING manufacturer of flavours and fragrances has relocated its operations from Hongkong to Singapore with the opening of its $8 million factory yesterday Page 2
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    • 36 1 THE NATSTEEL group has put in the highest bid of 131 million in Singapore's biggest land sale which is to turn 126 hectares in East Coast into a lucrative leisure proposition Page 3
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    • 32 1 TEXAS oilman T Boone Pickens will comply with a new rule requiring him to disc Jose information about his holdings in Japanese car-parts maker Koito Manufacturing Co Ltd Page 4
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 549.04 -0.29 Kuala Lumpur ....464.71 -0.91 Hongkong 2.965.06 -13.29 Tokyo 22,454.63 -257.97 Sydney 1319.6 -18.8 Thursday Change New York 2.518.81 -16.34 London 2,135.6 -8.7
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    • 18 1 Exchange rates USS ssi.7185 Yen SSI.2945 MS SS0.6358 Money market rates Overnight 5-3/4 +1 3-montn 5-15/16% +5/16
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    • 35 1 London Gold AM fix US$384.80 -US$0.45 Rubber S'porc Dcc l55.25Vkg -0.25 M'sia Dcc 242.50«/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 16 tonnes +2 Spot M$l5.72/kg +0.17 Crude palm oil Turnover 2,070 lols -401 Dcc M$847/tonnc +14
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  • 301 1  -  Jy Suzanne Soh RESULTS released by four listed retailers yesterday paint a grim picture for the entire retail industry, even for those operating in the prime Orchard Road area. The four Metro, its subsidiary Transmarco, CK Tang and Sesdaq-ksted The Hour Glass cover
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  • 380 1  -  By Lee Han Shih IN A MOVE that could have a great impact on the local property market, Ng Teng Fong has started to sell his properties along Orchard Road. Yesterday, the market mover, through his listed Ming Court Hotel, entered
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  • 298 1 The Gulf Crisis THE United Nations Security Council on Thursday authorised military force to remove Iraq from Kuwait if it does not withdraw its troops and release all hostages by Jan 15 but Baghdad said it would defy the UN ultimatum. Only Cuba and Yemen
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  • 141 1 MOST ASIAN stock markets fell yesterday over fears of a war in the Gulf after the UN Security Council told Iraq to get out of Kuwait. Tokyo stocks closed down but well off their lows. The key Nikkei index fell more than 700 points on a
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  • 325 1 Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad's yesterday urged Malays and Malaysians to look towards developing a more progressive and respected nation. "The Malays can be equally successful as the other races in this country. And this country, with its multiracial
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  • 148 1 AP THE UNITED States government's chief economic forecasting gauge fell in October for the fourth straight month, the government said yesterday, signalling a recession that many economists believe is already underway. The 1.2 per cent plunge in the Commerce Department's Index of Leading
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  • HOME NEWS
    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 74 2 THE Minister of Home Affairs, Mr S Jayakumar, has lifted the Prohibition of Entry order made against Dominic Puthucheary, James Joseph Puthucheary, S Woodhull, Fong Swec Suan, Jamit Singh, Lim Shee Ping, Yap Ser Jin, Abdul Samad bin Ismail and Chan Chiaw liior. The
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      • 43 2 BP OIL has reduced the prices of its jet fuel and premium kerosene by US$O.2O a US gallon. The new prices are US$l.l3 for aUS gallon of jet fuel, and US$l.l6 for aUS gallon of premium kerosene.
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      • 47 2 THE Singapore Board of Commissioners of Currency will be issuing $2 notes and making them available to banks from Jan 28, 1991. Part of the current series of notes bearing the 'Ship' theme, they will depict a local vessel known as a 'tongkang'.
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      • 44 2 THE first group of the Ngee Ann Polytechnic's mass communication students is hosting a seminar called 'Comm Power Tomorrow's Professionals with the Right Stuff* today. The seminar is to bring together Singapore's communication practitioners to share their ideas and expertise.
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      • 51 2 THE SINGAPORE Tourist Promotion Board yesterday launched a package giving Singaporeans a $5 discount to 15 popular attractions including Haw Par Villa and the Singapore Zoo. This is to celebrate the arrival of Singapore's five millionth visitor this year expected sometime over the next two
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      • 67 2 THE Sharity Gift Box was yesterday opened for the third consecutive Christmas by Dr Tay Eng Soon, Senior Minister of State for Education. All gifts received at the "box" opposite Centrepoint will be presented on Christmas Eve to residents and members of 39 charities under the
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      • 35 2 THE Speedpost Service will be introduced on a reciprocal basis with Hungary, Maldives, Spain and Sri Lanka from today. With these additions, Speedpost service is now available to 53 countries.
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    • 239 2  -  By Anne Lee A LEADING manufacturer of flavours and fragrances has relocated its operations from Hongkong to Singapore with the opening of its $8 million factory yesterday. Dragoco Gerberding's decision to shift here was due to the brain drain and the rising cost of
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    • 62 2 THE Singapore International Monetary Exchange has approved in-principle the admission of Fuji Futures (Singapore) Pte Ltd as a corporate clearing member. Fuji Futures is a whollyowned unit of Fuji Bank Ltd, the first Japanese bank to obtain in principle approval for corporate clearing
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    • 280 2  -  By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Airlines and British Airways yesterday signed a cargo systems cooperation agreement, said to be the first of its kind between a major Asian and a leading European carrier. The joint cargo systems arrangement involves an electronic link-up between the
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    • 302 2  -  By Lee Han Shih THE GOVERNMENT is acquiring one of the most historic sites in Singapore the large Tyersall Park next to the Botanic Gardens from the estate of the late Abubakar, the Sultan of Johor. A short announcement from the Law Ministry yesterday said
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 383 3  -  Sale of STPB sites in East Coast By Elaine Koh THE NATSTEEL group has put in the highest bid of $131 million in Singapore's biggest land sale which is to turn 126 hectares in East Coast into a lucrative leisure proposition. Close on
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    • 504 3  -  By Amy Balan THINGS are definitely looking much better at Marina Centre Holdings, an associate company in which Singapore Land is keen to raise its stake. Not only had MCH's legendary losses narrowed last year, with a return to the black expected this
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    • 156 3 Bernama HONG LEONG Credit Bhd has been admitted as a corporate member of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange following its move to acquire a 51 per cent stake in stockbroking house Zalik Securities. James Lim, its senior group managing director, said yesterday that with
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    • 652 3  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN By William Chia THE RECENT announcement by the Malaysian Hong Leong's flagship property group, Bedford Bhd, that it has acquired 21.4 per cent of former electrical product-turned-gaming group Mycom Bhd has attracted a number of questions
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    • 579 3  -  By Susanne Soh A HIGHER contribution from associate companies has enabled Metro Holdings to report a group after-tax profit of $2.83 million for the halfyear ending Sep 30, a reversal from a near $1 million loss situation in the same period last year. The group's
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 32 3 OVERSEAS Union Securities has appointed Mr Sum Soon Lim, executive vice-president of Overseas Union Bank Ltd, as an additional director with effect from November 30, 1990.
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      • 74 3 SUMMA Investments Ltd has replied to the Stock Exchange of Singapore's queries about Gladioli Investments and Monticn International Ltd. It said that Mrs Endang Utari Mokodompit was the sole shareholder of Montien International, which is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. Gladioli's share of the Bugis
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      • 77 3 HOTEL Grand Central is purchasing a 54,520 sq ft of commercial land in Johor, Malaysia for M 59.81 million. The company announced yesterday that the vendor is Sembaru Bhd and the property comprises three lots of land located at Jalan Tebrau and Jalan Datuk
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      • 54 3 PRIMA Ltd has announced that two of its directors, Messrs Cheng Tsang Man and Cheng Chih Kwong, have increased their stake in the company by acquiring a total of 650,(XX) shares of $1 each at $5.25 per share. The shares have been registered under Chengs
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      • 72 3 IMC HOLDINGS Ltd has reported a profit before tax of HK588.42 million (HK5238.92 million) for the six months ended September 30, 1990. This was achieved on a turnover of HK5176.42 million (HK5161.87 million). No provision for tax is required for the six months under review. Its
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      • 29 3 INTRACO has acquired the total shares of Sintra Marine International and Intraco Motors, which were incorporated on September 28 and October 8, 1990 respectively.
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      • 95 3 LEISURE Holidays Sdn Bhd. a leisure and accommodation company associated with the MBf group which started its business only three years ago, is becoming a property developer, specialising in tourism-related properties. The company, which has already built two resorts the MSB.B million leisure bay, a 20-storey condominium
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 91 4 BLUE-CHIP Hongkong trading house Jardine Mathcson Holdings has proposed a scheme to exempt large Hongkonglisted companies from future securities industry regulations. The company's general counsel Greg Terry said at a seminar that some major firms are worried about subjecting their international assets to regulations
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      • 84 4 FRENCH beverages group Source Perrier has appealed a commercial court decision annulling its rights to Pepsico France's bottling and distribution activities. The Nov 27 court decision would allow Pepsico France's parent company, the US beverage, snack food and restaurant firm Pepsico, to recover the bottling and
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      • 97 4 NORTH BROKEN Hill Peko has closed its scheelite mine at King Island, Tasmania, yesterday because it has not found a buyer. It said the price of scheelite, a tungsten ore mineral, had steadily deteriorated since 1981, making the mine uneconomic. "The market situation is unlikely to
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      • 65 4 KOBE STEEL and the Soviet Union's State Committee for Science and Technology have signed a three-year contract to exchange technical information, a Kobe Steel spokesman said. Kobe and the committee will mainly exchange information on new materials and biotechnology, he said. Kobe is also considering
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      • 97 4 JAPAN'S Asahi Glass said it would acquire a 40 per cent stake in the sheet glass division of the largest glass producer in Czechoslovakia. The Belgian subsidiary of Asahi, Japan's largest comprehensive glass manufacturer, will invest an unspecified sum in the state-run Sklo Union,
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      • 59 4 SHIN-ETSU Chemical Co will build a plant that will produce an annual 22,000 tonnes of silicone monomers starting in April 1992, a company spokesman said. Shin-Etsu Chemical will invest about 20 billion yen in the plant, which will be built in Gunma prefecture. The company
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    • 380 4 Reuter BRITISH Steel pic is expected to slash 1,500 to 2,000 administrative jobs in the first few months of 1991 as part of its cost cutting drive, analysts said. "Two thousand are likely to go in the very near term; 25 per
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    • 245 4 Reuter US CARMAKERS have been criticised recently for bringing out "full-sized" cars at a time when oil prices are skyrocketing, but analysts said they have little choice given the industry's weak condition. This year, both General Motors Corp and Ford Motor Co came
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    • 469 4 Reuter TEXAS oilman T Boone Pickens will comply with a new rule requiring him to disclose information about his holdings in Japanese carparts maker Koito Manufacturing Co Ltd, a lawyer representing Mr Pickens in Tokyo said. "He will disclose what he has to,"
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    • 56 4 Reuters managing director and chief executive Glen Renfrew (left) with Peter Job, currently managing director of Reuters Asia after a press conference at Reuters headquarters in London on I hursday. Mr Renfrew will retire on March 1 next year and will be succeeded by
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    • 437 4 AP MOBSTERS of Japan's top underworld syndicate have become the second-largest shareholders in a huge textile company in what police say is the largest known case of gangster activity on the Tokyo stock market. Police and company sources said on Wednesday that
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    • 532 4 Reuter UNITED STATES lenders, investment banks and rating agencies arc eyeing a fledgling Japanese asset-backed securities market following Citibank's victory in cracking the tightly-regulated Japanese financial scene. Scars, Roebuck and Co has filed an application after Japan's Ministry of Finance in September recognised
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 422 5 Reuter TWO joint ventures involving foreign financial institutions might be set up in Shanghai by the middle of next year, banking sources in Hongkong said. Shanghai said in September that foreign companies could set up joint venture banks and financial companies with Chinese partners
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    • 368 5 Reuter INCOMING Securities Industry Association chairman Dale Horowitz has urged the US Congress, the White House, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury to hold a financial summit on restoring the structure of the US financial system. "We need to have a financial summit," Mr
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 94 5 THE CHAIRMAN of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp Ltd, Mr William Purves, warned that labour was no longer a cheap and plentiful commodity in Hongkong and said inflationary wage settlements threatened to erode the colony's competitive edge. "Wage inflation in Hongkong has become
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      • 121 5 DRESDNER Bank AG will need to make relatively large write-offs in its bond and share portfolios to cope with the current market situation, the bank said in a letter to shareholders. Dresdner said profits from trading on its own account had shown above-average growth in the
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      • 88 5 NOMURA Securities Co Ltd plans to open an investment bank unit in Hungary in January jointly with the International Finance Corp (IFC), and two other Hungarian firms, a Nomura official said. Nomura Investment Bank Hungary Rt will be capitalised at 2.4 billion yen and owned
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      • 76 5 DAIWA Europe Ltd, the London subsidiary of Daiwa Securities Co Ltd, said it will start a London-based training programme for middle managers in the Eastern European financial sector early next year. The scheme follows establishment of a joint training initiative for the region between the
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    • 531 5 DBS Bank weekly currency review US$/Dm: Bears going into hibernation? LAST FRIDAY'S close above the resistance of 1.4820 was the first hint of possible US dollar rally, which was subsequently confirmed when the greenback continued to trade higher this week. It broke the resistance line joining
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  • THE REGION
    • NOTE BOOK
      • 92 6 INLX)NESIAN President Suharto will visit India in January to attend Republic Day celebrations and hold talks on forging closer relations between the two countries, officials said yesterday. Mr Suharto has accepted India's invitation to be chief guest at the Republic Day parade in New
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      • 84 6 VIETNAM has signed an agreement with the Australian national carrier, Qantas, to open direct air links between the two countries, the official Vietnam News Agency said yesterday. Qantas and Vietnam Civil Aviation's General Company would stage an inaugural flight between Sydney, Melbourne and Ho Chi Minh City
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      • 105 6 BURDENED by too many sheep and too much wool, Australia's wool industry the world's largest exporter is preparing a controversial programme to do something about it. Starting next week, the industry says it will kill 10 per cent of the nation's sheep under a plan
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      • 50 6 CHINA'S State Planning Commission has approved plans by the southern city of Canton to build a 12.7 km underground railway, the Beijing-owned newspaper Ta Kung Pao said. The newspaper, published in Hongkong, quoted an unnamed government official as saying the total investment would be $794 million.
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      • 66 6 FIJIAN Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara said on Thursday that Fiji, which imports most of its food and equipment from Australia and New Zealand, is looking towards Malaysia as an alternative source for these goods. He said before leaving for Singapore after a six-day visit
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      • 74 6 SOME 50 leading figures from the Indonesian arts and cultural world criticised police for banning a satiricaj comedy and called for legal action against the authorities, the leading Kompas daily said yesterday. Prominent playwrights, poets, musicians and others from the Arts Society held an impromptu gathering at
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    • 337 6 AFP JAPANESE firms operating in South-east Asia came under fire on Thursday for failing to use local parts and train local people. "The time has come for Japanese investors to change their philosophy," Malaysian Industrial Development Authority chairman Abidin Sulong said. Mr Sulong.
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    • 46 6 Philippine President Corazon Aquino shared a light moment with (from left) Vice-President Salvador Laurel, House Speaker Ramon Mitra, Senate president Jovito Salonga, Senator Aquilino Pimentel and opposition Senator Juan Ponce Enrile after a mass for peace and reconciliation in Manila yesterday.
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    • 306 6 THAILAND'S Deputy Premier Pramual Sabhavasu earlier this week took to task Finance Minister Virabongsa Ramangkura in a cabinet meeting for his decision to raise the interest rate ceiling on loans from 16.5 per cent to 19 per cent. According to a Nation report,
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    • 376 6 Reuter THE Philippine government has asked the Supreme Court to reverse its ruling halting the transfer of a Taiwanese petrochemical project, saying the decision could choke foreign investment in the Philippines. "Your decision will ring the death knell of foreign investments in the
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    • 463 6 Reuter ANOTHER easing of Australian monetary policy this year is in doubt despite a sharper than expected contraction in the economy in the September quarter, economists said. Although Treasurer Paul Keating conceded another interest rate cut by year-end is
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    • 427 6 AP COMMUNIST North Korea is set to open a visa office in the Portuguese colony of Macao, seeking tourists and business from capitalist countries, its honorary consul said. Wong Sing-wa, a Hong-kong-based businessman and managing director of DPR Korea-Macao International Tourism
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 83 8 US SECRETARY of State James Baker on Thursday handed over to UN Secretary-General Javier Perez dc Cuellar a cheek for U*****,732,250, as payment towards the US contribution to the world body. The US yearly contributes 25 per cent of the UN budget the maximum
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      • 77 8 SECRETARY-GENERAL Manfred Woerner, saying lessons must be drawn from the Gulf crisis, proposed in London on Thursday an accord within Nato to grant Alliance facilities to members involved in conflicts outside Europe. In a speech to the North Atlantic Assembly, Mr Woerner also ruled out
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      • 90 8 INDUSTRIAL and developing countries agreed in Paris this week to establish a new fund within the World Bank devoted to protecting the global environment. The US, which had resisted the formation of such a fund, has now conditionally agreed, Bush administration and bank officials said on
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      • 87 8 LECH WALESA on Thursday accused former communists of mounting a "counter-revolution" by supporting emigre businessman Stanislaw Tyminski, his opponent in the Dec 9 runoff of Poland's first popular presidential election. "Today this is a challenge from the old nomenklatura, security service, and activists of old Poland who
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      • 109 8 EGYPTIAN VOTERS showed little enthusiasm for Thursday's lacklustre general elections in which victory for the ruling National Democratic Party was a foregone conclusion. Three major opposition parties boycotted the polls in protest against the way the voting was to be supervised, saying there were too
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      • 63 8 CHINESE PRIME MINISTER Li Peng is to visit Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Laos from Dec 10-19, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Beijing on Thursday. The last such round of official visits was in August and brought China significant diplomatic gains and
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    • 260 8 NYT FOR YEARS, American makers of supercomputers have complained that the Japanese government has refused to buy any Americanmade versions of the world's fastest problem-solvers. Now it is the Japanese who are complaining. A few weeks ago, NEC Corp
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    • 497 8 Reuter JOHN MAJOR, on his first full day as British Prime Minister, played down the huge challenges of beating an economic recession and emerging from the shadow of Margaret Thatcher. Mocked by an opposition Labour Party member about the "back-seat driver" role some
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    • 461 8 Reuter DIFFERENCES have emerged within the European Community on sending food aid to the Soviet Union, with Italy warning that disaster eould ensue if help is long delayed, and other countries stressing the need for caution. As Germans pledged millions of marks worth
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    • 298 8 Reuter WORLD dairy prices slipped this year from record levels in 1989 as production continued to grow, an annual dairy report from the world trade body Gatt said yesterday. But a trend towards lowfat and blended dairy spreads reduced butter consumption
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    • 342 8 Impact of the Gulf crisis AP FEDERAL RESERVE Chairman Alan Greenspan can only do so much to ease the pain of oil-price problems from the Gulf crisis, analysts say. He can cut interest rates a bit in hopes of stimulating the
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    • 445 8 UPI THE UN Security Council approved on Thursday a resolution authorising use of force against Iraq, but the major United Nations powers called instead for a peaceful solution to the Persian Gulf conflict. The 15-nation council allowed the military measure with a 12-2-1 vote
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4662 10  -  By William Chia SHARE PRICES ended easier yesterday but off the morning's lows as a partial recovery in Tokyo led to late bargain-hunting. The Straits Times Industrials Index fell 2.82 points to end at 1,106.59 after falling to 1,100.36 at the morning close. The
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  • 3999 11 Main Board SNP 50* 500 158 28 21.5% UOB Wt 215 +19 +9.7% DBS 930 +15 +1.6% Shangri-La 494 +14 4-2.9% S Unil Wits 228 +13 +6.0% SSE 25* 125 +11 +9.6% SPH 705 +10 +14% LAM Wt 70 +9 +14.8% L&M 50" 193 *6
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 3874 12 Bernama SHARE PRICES in Kuala Lumpur closed lower yesterday but off the day's lows following some last-minute buying. The KLSE Composite Index ended 0.91 of a point down to 464.71 after touching 460.16 at the start of the afternoon session while the Industrial
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  • TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 2223 13 Reuter TOKYO STOCKS closed lower yesterday but well off their lows. The key Nikkei Index Jell more than 700 points on a weaker yen in the morning session, but recovered more than hall of its losses in the afternoon on buying
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONGKONG
    • 2306 13 SHARE priccs ended lower in thin turnover after rebounding from their lows after the Tokyo market recovered some ot its earlier losses, dealers said. "The Nikkei's recovery in the afternoon lent a little bit of support to the Hongkong market said James
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Aussie stocks end lower on Gulf fears
      • 348 14 In local cui rrency IB S$ la US$ day year day year day year NOV 29 Index change change change cl lange cnange ci tange World fEAFF. Europe Pacific Far East 347.6 457.4 366.3 741.9 961.6 -04 -0.8 -0.3 -1.2 -1.3 -25.2 -32.8 -18.7 -41.4
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      • 93 14 INDICES TURNOVER Close Nov JO Previous SYDNEY All Ordinance Index All Industrials Index All Resources Index Turnover (million) 1311.6 1987.1 802.4 111.62 1338.4 2014 6 816.3 81.68 188 -27.5 -13.9 29.94 BANGKOK SET Index Turnover (million) 544.30 1.200.0 558.20 1.186.1 -13.90 f 13.9 JAKARTA Composite Index Turnover (nearest "(XX)) 382.20.
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      • 1016 14 AUSTRALIAN shares slumped to their lowest level in three weeks yesterday as investors became anxious over the UN Security Council's decision to back the use of force against Iraq if it refuses to quit Kuwait. Brokers said the market recorded its largest one-day fall for the month in heavy
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      • 627 14 THAI share prices finished lower in thin trade as bearish sentiment over economic and political uncertainty continued to dominate the market, brokers said. The SET Index fell 13.90 points to end at 544.30 in volume of 1.2 billion baht. Declines led advances 138 to 23. Most active were Asia
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      • 364 14 TAIWAN stocks finished sharply higher on strong financials in volatile trade yesterday, dealers said. The weighted index surged 167.13 points, or four per cent, to end at 4,377.27 compared with Thursday's 4 210.14 finish. Turnover rose to NT566.9 billion from NT554.5 billion. Dealers said investors did not consider the
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      • 301 14 NEW ZEALAND share prices bounced around to close at another six-year low in quiet trade yesterday. Carter Holt Harvey, which yesterday posted a NZ577.86 million first half profit, down from NZ$9l.OB million the corresponding period last year, was initially sold down to NZ$2.O5 on the news but then
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      • 742 14 SEOUL stocks rose in moderate trade yesterday with buying focussed on shortterm finance and securities firms on fa- vourable investor sentiment towards the government's plans to streamline the financial sector, brokers said. The composite index closed at 697.03, up 4.48 points from Thursday's close. Turnover was 204 billion won
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      • 581 14 Reuter MOST prices on the Jakarta's regular market closed lower yesterday, with the official index down 2.59 points at 382.20. Volume fell to 1.43 million shares from Thursday's 1.44 million. Cigarette shares were well traded on the big board, with Sampoerna and Gudang Garam leading the market. They said
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      • 379 14 Manila 29 No* Ptso +/-Vol C000) Abra Mining .01 unch 5000 Alcorn M A 013 unch *****0 Anglo Phil A 005 Anscor A 1. 120 unch 130 Anscor B 3.500 Apex Mining A .006 +.001 ***** Ape* Mining B .006 Atlas Cons A 22.250 .250 19 Atlas Cons B 24.000
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • Sectional gains fail to stop Dow slide
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        1018 15 POCKETS of strength in the drug and technology scctors and continued gains in small-capitalisation issues on Thursday failed to offset the US stock market's jitters about a possible war in the Mideast. A news report that British troops in Saudi Arabia had been put on a raised alert
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        850 15 UK SHARES wiped out early losses to stand higher in morning trading yesterday, as fears of a Gulf war failed to scare the market. News the United Nations has endorsed a US resolution authorising the use of force if Iraq fails to leave Kuwait by Jan 15 initially hurt
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      • 292 15 DUTCH shares started with a positive tone in quiet trade yesterday supported by a firmer dollar and steady British and German bourses. After an hour's trade the CBS Tendency Index was 0.2 points higher at 94.5. Business remained thin, although Thursday's UN Security Council resolution brought some investors back
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      • 172 15 GERMAN share prices jumped nearly one per cent at the opening, lifted by the strength of the dollar and speculative buying ahead of the first free German elections in nearly six decades on Sunday. The 30-sharc DAX index climbed 13.27 points shortly after opening to 1,432.19, but then cased
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      • 333 15 JOHANNESBURG share prices drifted aimlessly on Thursday in dull and uncertain trading as unpredictable swings in the financial rand continued to leave the market floundering in search of clear direction, dealers said. After surging to a 3.42 per dollar closc on Wednesday the restricted foreign investment currency fell back
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      • 220 15 SHORT-covcring helped Italian shares recover at the opening of settlement day of the November trading account, brokers said. The MIB index was shown one Dcr cent at 1030 GMT. "There was some caution at the start, but settlement went smoothly and this triggered the buying," one dealer said. There
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      • 131 15 FRENCH share prices were steady at midscssion as the market appeared to have already discounted the United Nations Security Council resolution authorising the use of force against Iraq, traders said. The CAC-40 index was up 1.00 point at 1,608.06 at 1205 GMT. "We've been hearing about war for months
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      • 61 15 PRICES on the Stockholm bourse fell anew yesterday after Thursday's gains due to increased worries of a possible war in the Gulf after last night's UN security Council resolution, dealers said. By mid-morning, the bourse general index had lost 0.35 per cent to 815.99 in moderate turnover of 108
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      • 389 15 FEARS of a Gulf war sent Toronto stocks tumbling to close near session lows on Thursday, dealers said. US officials said they had no reports confirming rumours that shots had been fired in the Gulf, but refused to say if shots had been fired over the bow of a
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      • 342 15 Reuter SWISS shares closed a directionless session on Thursday little changed as investors stood sidelined ahead of the UN security council's vote later on Thursday on whether to authorise the use of force against Iraq, dealers said. They added Wall Street's lower opening, Frankfurt's mixed close and high Swiss
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      • 119 15 Brussels No* 29 Kraaa FORWARD MARKET Accc 2775 M75 Arhcd 3010 unch Aslur 980 -24 Brascan 3X0 Canpac 492 unch Cock 132 -5 Dc Beers 580 H4 Hbcs 4450 35 (■b-lnno-Bm.. 1082 Cicvaert 6300 -120 (»r Bru Umh 3400 -15 I lobok Pet ***** f 25 Ryl Dutch 2430 +15
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      • 93 15 INDICES TURNOVER Nov 29 lose Previous NEW YORK 1 X>w Jones 2.518.81 2.535.15 -16 34 NYSF. Financial 115 55 116.41 -0 86 S&l' 500 316.42. 317.95 -1.53 Turnover (milium) 141 146 -5 LONDON Financial rimes 30 1.674.8 1.686 21 -11.4 FTSF. 100 2.135.6 2.144 32 -8.7 Turnover (million) 415.4 381.5
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 1226 16 REPORTS THE DEUTSCHEMARK and yen yesterday opened sharply lower against the US dollar in Frankfurt on the back of comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and the UN vote authorising the use of force against Iraq. Mr Greenspan's remarks this
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    • 387 16 Cross rates Nov 30 US$ SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.7180 2.7045 1.5030 133.15 ***** 1.2800 1.2920 1.6447 SS 0.5821 1.5742 0.8749 0.7750 0.3002 0.745 0.7520 0.9574 MS 0.3698 63.52 0.5557 0.4923 0.1907 0.4733 0.4777 0.6081 Dm 0.6653 1.1430 1.7994 88.59 0.3431 0.8516 0.8596
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    • 135 16 AFP THE head of New Zealand's largest public company yesterday demanded the sacking of Reserve Bank Governor Don Brash and senior officials of the central bank and Treasury. Hugh Fletcher of Fletchcr Challenge Ltd said in an opening address to an economic conference
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    • 346 16 Coupon Intweat Number Indleattv* Oraw Maturity Y*ar Amount of day* of *7 redemption ralMd rat* <% P») payment dates accru*d Interest (•xciudlng accrued lnt*r**t) yivto P«) 1.4.91 N*****0E 1989 4 7/8# 500.00 1/4 1/10 60 100.40# 3.64# 15.4.91 Loan 1 1976
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 376 17 Reuter A RECENT spate of companies leaving the London gold market or rationalising their operations is a symptom of a deep structural change in the market which has come to a head in the past year, analysts said. Gold has been
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    • 348 17 Reuter A CRITICAL early period will determine whether a new white rice futures contract in London will transform trade in the commodity or see interest quietly fizzle out, traders said. The London Futures and Options Exchange (FOX) launched the contract yesterday.
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    • 847 17 REPORTS THE tin pricc on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market continued to gain ground, closing 17 sen higher at M 515.72 per kg in very thin buying interest. Besides the steadier overnight close on the London Metal Exchange which was up by
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    • 1433 17 Rubber Nov 30 MS(fcH«b«te») S cents/kg Noon Close Int I RSS Prompt I55.50/156.50N 155.25/156.25 Int I RSS Dec 90 155.50/156.50 155 25/I56.25N Int I RSS Jan 91 154.25/154.75 154.00/154.50N Int 2 RSS OP 149.00/151.00N 149.00/151 OON Int 3 RSS OP 144 00/146.00N I44.00/I46.00N Int 4 RSS OP I40.00/I42.00N 140
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  • 327 18  -  Gatt trade talks By Yong Pow Ang DEPUTY Prime Minister, Lee Hsicn Loong, will be attending next week's final meeting of the Gatt Uruguay Round negotiations in Brussels, after which he will pay a five-day visit to France. Brigadier-General (Res) Lee, who
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  • 367 18 AFP JAPANESE businessmen yesterday called for new trade and investment strategies for Asean to reflect Japan's growing economic ties with the region. "We want Asean nations to reach the same level as us," Nissan Motor Co Ltd chairman Takashi Ishihara said. Otherwise, Japan would not
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  • 246 18 AFP SHARP increases in food and energy prices pushed Japan's inflation rate to its highest point in eight years, the Management and Coordination Agency said in a preliminary report yesterday. Consumer prices in Japan jumped 3.5 per cent in October from a year earlier,
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  • 191 18 Reuter CHINA and Thailand plan to expand their trade by 20 per cent next year in an agreement signed in Beijing, official reports said. Thailand will export rice, sugar, rubber, tapioca and tapioca products for Chinese petroleum, oil products, cement, coal, cotton, medical and other
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  • 378 18 NYT AFTER MEETING with his economic advisers, US President George Bush reiterated his confidence on Thursday that the nation's economy would improve soon. In a brief speech to the Association of Bank Holding Companies, meeting in Washington this week, the President said: "We are in
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  • 37 18 Smoke billows from the Brussels stock exchange, and it isn't due to overheated rumours. The fire broke out early yesterday, causing extensive damage to the ornate 19n century building. There were no injuries.
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  • 251 18 AFP SOUTH KOREAN President Roh Tae-Woo said that growth in foreign trade was the only path to prosperity, calling for Seoul trade volume to reach US$2OO billion by the mid-*****. Speaking at an annual Trade Day ceremony to decorate exemplary traders, Mr Roh said
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  • 296 18 Bernama EUROPE is trailing behind Taiwan and Japan in the rapidly expanding investment in Malaysia's manufacturing sector, International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Scri Rafidah Aziz told a group of British manufacturers at an investment seminar in London. In the speech, read by Malaysia's High
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  • Executive Lifestyle
    • 1155 19  -  French designer Pierre Cardin started out as an Italian. Little did he know that by changing his name, he would grow to be a pioneer in the fashion industry. Samuel Ee speaks to the tycoon who does everything from clothes to designer
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    • STRAWS IN THE WIND
      • 41 19 NOW who says stat boards aren't understanding? For those who've never been able to figure out HDB's rules and regulations, the board recently called a press conference aptly titled "Defect Rectification and Overcoming the Overdose of Rules and Regulations".
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      • 62 19 A GROUP of people were eating and drinking merrily when a prominent MP walked in to have dinner. Although they'd prettv much finished, they decided to wait until he had finished. Not so much out of respect or anything, but because there were a lot of cops around
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      • 25 19 HERE'S another addition to the load of dating agencies with fancy names: Introducer. Sounds like a brand of insecticide though, said one sceptic.
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      • 81 19 HEARD at the Cellar the other day. The group, Terry, Hans and Philip singing these lyrics to the tune of Eric Clapton's Cocaine: "He's alive, he's alive, he's alive, Hussein" followed by "He'll be dead, He'll be dead, He'll be dead, Hussein." They may not be very
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    • OPINIONS
      • 239 20  -  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Stephen Ng Managing Director The Wharf (Holdings) Ltd I REFER to the article "Satellite TV dishes out egg on the faces of cable partners" in the Hock Lock Siew Column (BT, Nov 20). Firstly, it is important
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      • 303 20  -  Dr Eugene Ung I REFER to The Bottom Line commentary "Decisions Please" (BT, Nov 29), in which you advocated use of the land at Nelson Road for economic rather than for environmental purposes with intangible material benefits. I hold the contrary opinion. I
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      • 971 20  -  Elaine Koh says that we can do something about looking after the rights of animals Elaine Koh The writer is a BT journalist ANIMAL rights may seem a quixotic notion at best, but it !s a concept that has long been entrenched in
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      • 957 20  -  On Wednesday, both Singapore and Britain saw changes in their political leadership. Suzanne Soh reflects on the contrast and similarities in the handover of power Suzanne Soh The writer is a B1 journalist GOH Chok Tong and John Major kept their dates with destiny on Wednesday
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      • 1072 20  -  Anna Teo on her reactions to the swearing in of Mr Goh Chok Tong as prime minister Anna Teo The writer is a BT journalist IT was not a previewer's pick, though a select group of advertisers, banking on the wide viewership
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    • EPICURE
      • 679 22  -  Quek Swee Peng lunches at one of Goodwood Park's two Chinese restaurants Quek Swee Peng IT COULD sometimes prove difficult for restaurants in hotels to build up a separate identity. Even more difficult it would be if the restaurants are similar in some respects though remaining
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    • LIFESTYLE
      • 1017 23  -  By Laura Cunningham NYT BEFORE I discovered high tea, I knew only low tea, the sad, sodden tea bag oozing its last in the base of a plain crockery cup. Or worse the ignominy of lowest tea, takeout tea from the deli, a tepid
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      • 725 23  - Air Canada a great way to wine WINE By N K Yong Dateline: Nov 3,1990, on board Air Canada AC 889, en route to lujndon. IT IS ten in the morning according to my bodytime, we have just left Bombay where it was lam, and there are still a good
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      • 433 23  -  BRIDGE By Sybil Holloway COUNTING the hand gives the declarer or the defenders a chance to gain information on the distribution of the hidden hands and to make the right decision in determining how to play a particular suit. When today's deal turned up at a weekly
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    • SPORTS
      • 641 24  -  Paul Ramani reports on the golf school which will teach everything about golf Paul Ramani THE Ryder School, Singapore's first golf school and believed to be the first in South-east Asia will open its doors on Jan I next year. The school, to
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      • 438 24 AP SIX-TIME Olympic swimming champion Kristin Otto, long jumper Heike Drechsler and several other top East German athletes have been named by a magazine as long-term users of perfor-mance-enhancing drugs. Slern magazine said in Wednesday's edition it had obtained a confidential East German document
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      • SIDE LINES
        • 73 24 MILLIONAIRE optician Alain Afflelou has taken over scan-dal-hit and financially troubled French soccer team Bordeaux. The Algerian-born Afflelou, a dynamic businessman who boasts France's largest chain of opticians' outlets, was elected president in place of Claude Bez who resigned on Monday after being charged with
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        • 57 24 PAKISTAN'S cricket tour of India, thrown into doubt by political tension over the disputed Kashmir state, is set to go ahead following approval on Wednesday by the Indian government. A government spokesman said the Indian cricket board was told there were no objections to
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        • 66 24 WILLIE MILLER, capped 65 times by Scotland, announced his retirement from soccer on Wednesday. Miller, 35, was forced to quit after 18 years with Scottish premier league club Aberdeen on medical advice. He has played only five games since suffering a serious knee injury as
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        • 75 24 TWO THOUSAND Italian soccer fans clashed with Austrian police during a UEFA Cup third round first leg match between Vienna club Admira Wacker and Bologna on Wednesday. As Italian side Bologna went in two goals down at halftime their fans tried to tear down the
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        • 80 24 ENGLAND bundled out the Australian Cricket Academy for a meagre 95 in 42 overs at St Peter's College on a pacy wicket in Adelaide on Thursday. Both Devon Malcolm and Gladstone Small claimed three wickets, the latter conceding only seven runs in as many overs. All
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        • 66 24 THE US governing body for athletics said on Wednesday it would not hold national championships in states which do not recognise the birthday of civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr as a legal holiday. The resolution, which affects Arizona, Montana and New Hampshire, was
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        • 66 24 CHRIS DICKSON fought back on the second day of the world match race yachting championship on Thursday, chalking up three wins in a row and ensuring the defending champion has a chance to make the semi-finals. However the New Zealand skipper, who has dominated the world circuit
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    • PURSUITS
      • 654 25  - There's life after death isn't there? An incredulous Jaime Lye finds out what makes things go bump in the night in the movie Ghost Jaime Lye SOME ghosts like to sneak up on you, pat you on the back and say: "Boo". Others like to throw things at you if
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      • 663 25  -  CD Review By RINGO LIEW GEORGE BENSON: Big Boss Band featuring the Count Basie Orchestra PEOPLE who have survived blind dates can understand the problem facing George Benson and the Count Basic Orchestra on this album. Each comes with impressive credentials. Benson made a name for
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      • 359 25  -  Samuel Ee keeps his ear to the ground to find out what rare offerings the TV channel has in store for viewers Samuel Ee This Christmas, forget about watches or Walkmans. Ask for a stereo TV. And it doesn't matter if you already have one, bccausc
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    • JOBS
      • 817 26  - Fancy titles make sense sometimes If clothes make a man, do job designations describe his position in an organisation? S N Vasuki finds out. S N Vasuki WHAT happens when a window cleaner describes himself as a "Transparent Wall Maintenance Engineer" or a waiter as a "customer service manager"? It
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      • 402 26 Robert J Neidermire succeeds John W Gander as Northwest Airlines' general manager for Singapore and South-east Asia. Mr Neidermire joined Northwest in 1981, working in the Pension Investment Section at the airline's Minneapolis/St Paul World Headquarters. He subsequently held other important posts in the corporate finance department. Diane
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      • 1008 26  -  Companies are moving away from the era of a lump sum payment plus a handshake and are talcing a more supportive approach towards employees who are no longer needed or wanted, says Elaine Ng Elaine Ng The writer is senior consultant with compensation and employee
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    • 1061 27 City Flight ETA Flight ETD Adelaide SQ228 1910 QF82 2115 QF81 2010 Amsterdam SQ23 1345 KL838 2115 KL837 1505 SQ24 2200 Athens 0A471 0015 Auckland NZ21 1720 NZ22 1830 SQ338 2030 BA12 2200 Balikpapan GA525 1450 Bandar Seri SQ182 0915 Begawan SQ181 1410 Bangkok QF62 1135
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    • THE TRAVEL PAGE
      • 152 27 As at 3pm yesterday: I>ocal dollars to one unit of foreign currency C urrencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.3230 1.3430 Canadian dollar 1.4650 1.4850 NZ dollar ***** 1.0700 Sterling pound 3.3200 3.3400 US dollar 1.7190 1.7290 Ixical dollars lo 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling I6.0S
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      • 495 27 LETTER FROM BUDAPEST THE appearance of Budapest, a city of two million which is home to one Hungarian in five, has been determined by the architecture of a relatively short period; a period of barely 50 years which preceded World War I. A feverish
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      • 69 27 Duration Title Venue Organiser Dcc 4-7 Commtd Asia '90 Hongkong Business Convention Industrial Trade *****00 Exhibition Fairs Pte Ltd Centre Dcc 5-7 International Exhibition of Medical Sciences Stockholm Stock holmv massan AB (46)8/*****00 Duration Title Venue Organiser T« Jan 11-14 International NordSalon 1991 Household Villepinte International Appliances
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    • PERSONAL FINANCE & INVESTMENT 1
      • 855 28  -  The bad news is, Britain is in recession. The good news, says Alan Budd, is that interest rates are unlikely to rise further. That is not necessarily good news for the pound Alan Budd, Professor Alan Budd is economic adviser to Barclays Bank
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      • 749 28 Reuter SPECULATION is likely to pervade Philippine stock markets into next year with traders focusing on oil or US dollarearning firms seen spared by economic gloom, share analysts said. Analysts saw a long but relatively gradual decline in Philippine stocks in 1991,
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      • 687 28 Large-scale dumping to raise cash ruled out Reuter THE Soviet Union, conspicuous by its absence from the gold market in the second half of 1990, is likely to continue its strategy of gold swaps and cautious sales into 1991, London-based bullion analysts
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      • 758 29  -  Tis the season to be merry, 'tis the season to spend. Diana Oon sniffs out the bargains Diana Oon IT'S THE time of the year once again for bonuses and Christmas and New Year spending. Cash registers are ringing at
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      • 682 29 Prices (as at 29.11.90) Conversion terms Premium/ (discount) Expiry Amount Wrts Share Lnstk Optional" using Gearing 4 Company issued (m units) Conv ratio Exec price Lnstk nom value Cash Cash 1 Lnslk 1 Date MfrS left S CACWt 37.5 0.825 EfFfjl 1.00 3.09 25 3.81 26.4
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      • 460 29  -  CHAR^ By Najeeb Jarhom I Najeeb Jarhont is the research manager of Fraser and Roach IN A repeat of its behaviour three weeks ago, the 14-day Relative Strength Indicator of the Straits Times Industrials Index is testing its uptrend line AB.
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      • DON'T QUOTE ME!
        • 299 29 DBS SECURITIES really should do something about its fax messages they keep going to the wrong parties. In this column last week, we wrote of the fax sent by a City Developments subsidiary in Hongkong to DBS Sec in Singapore, and we urged
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        • 116 29 SINGAPORE'S no more a shopping paradise, not even for the Japanese. Some local businessmen were told by their Japanese associates who visited recently that some men's designer clothes now cost as much in Orchard Road as they do in Tokyo. And if one moves out of Tokyo
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        • 156 29 DESPITE 1997, Hongkong is still the place that sets records in property prices. A house a mansion in this case in the posh Repulse Bay area has just been contracted for sale at HKSI2S million. This beats the record set by Yaohan chairman K Wada
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      • 927 29 NYT THIS YEAR is shaping up as the worst one in a decade for the US stock market, but mutual fund investors have responded by buying shares in stock funds at a record pace. Mutual fund sponsors said on Thursday
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    • TIME OFF
      • 204 30 SSO Concert Conducted by Choo Hoey, with soloist Elena Mouzalas. The programme: Brahms' Academic Overture, Theodorakis' Piano Concerto and Rachmaninov's Symphony No 3 in A minor op 44. Victoria Concert Hall. Dec 7 and Dec 8. 8.15pm. Boxes Performed by the Necessary Stage, the play centres around Joan, a
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        322 30  -  Compiled by K Jayanti The Impossible Dream Dali and Beyond This collection of contemporary European works consists of 35 paintings, prints and photographs by 15 artists of diverse reputations. Includes lithographs and silkscrecn prints by Salvador Dali and Marc Chagall. Allan Art Galleries, 1 Scott Rd, #03-31 and #03-32
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      517 30 Air America. They thought this movie with Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr would bring in the crowds by virtue of the stars' names, but apparently, some people do prefer movies with plots, which is why this flick about one pilot and his young protege crashlanded where the critics
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