The Business Times, 4 June 1988

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  • 7 1 BUSINESS TIMES MCI (P) 95/12/87 75 CENTS
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  • 259 1 AP Dow Jones higher THE US stock market gained ground early yesterday, registering a favourable response to the latest data on employment. The Dow Jones Average rose 2.67 points to 2,055.12 in the first hour of trading. Gainers outnumbered losers by nearly two to one in the
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  • 138 1 AFP, Reuter THE US jobless rate rose to 5.6 per cent in May from 5.4 per cent in April, the Labour Department announced yesterday. It was the first increase in 20 months, with the department reporting that 518,000 fewer Americans were at work than in
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  • 511 1  -  Approval will be dream come true for three advertising bodies By CATHARINE FERNANDO AFTER more than 10 years in the planning, the advertising industry's dream of launching its own advertising institute may soon come true. All previous attempts at setting up the institute failed mainly
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  • 231 1 SHARE PRICES continued to climb on the Singapore stock market yesterday, making it the eighth consecutive day of gains. The 11.56-point decline on Wall Street on Thursday did not appear to dampen investor confidence as the Straits Times Industrial Index
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  • 197 1 GOLD ROSE to a four-month high of US$466 an ounce during early trading in Europe yesterday, buoyed by inflation fears and a rally in the commodities market. Dealers said there were heavy purchases of the metal in New York on Thursday after its prices soared
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  • 227 1 AFP THE HONGKONG government is investigating criminal allegations in connection with the colony's October stock market crash, a source close to the government said yesterday. The source said the allegations were made to the Attorney General's office by the govern-ment-appointed Securities Review Committee,
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  • 443 1  - F N and Metal Box PLC form joint venture By CORRINA LIM BEVERAGE group Fraser Neave Ltd has entered into a joint venture with Metal Box PLC one of the world's leading packaging companies to expand into the Asian-Pacific region. As part of this joint venture, the Metal Box group
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  • 250 1 SHELL, which recently pumped $480 million into Singapore, yesterday dropped a broad hint of more investments to come. "As you know, we are currently building a Long Residue Catalytic Cracking Unit and. hopefully. I will be in a position to announce a few
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    • 275 1 Nikon T*» WorM'a Flm—i HtelognplHc Srsfmw Full report, Page 15, Regional Markets, Page 16, World Markets, Page 17 CHARTPOINT, Page 13 More reports, Page 4 INSIDE THE PLEAS BY THE SON of the Abalone King that he should receive a lighter sentence than his father because he had acted out
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 435 2  -  Company offers a subscription service By TONG SUIT CHEE A CONTRACTOR has come up with an innovative service which should be a boon to contractors and suppliers by allowing them to know the results of government tender results quickly. Subscribers to the Info O service
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    • 454 2 TOMORROW'S corporations will need people with a global perspective and will be managed by people drawn from a variety of national and cultural backgrounds, says a top headhunter. This means a change in the way most companies operate. Ip many American corporations today. an
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    • 230 2 TEACHERS were urged yesterday by the Minister for the Environment to help in combating drug abuse in schools. Speaking at the Singapore Malay Teachers Union dinner-cum-charity evening, Dr Ahmad Mattar felt that since schools are an important front-line community in the drug
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    • 269 2 TRADE PROTECTIONISM is beginning to wear a new mask the mask of human rights. Labour Minister Lee Yock Suan said at the International Labour Conference in Geneva yesterday. "There is a worrying trend among some countries to link international trade with the pre-con-ceived notions
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    • 410 2  -  By TAN KEE WEE A BRITISH designer and manufacturer of small electric motors. SM (Blantyre) Ltd, is looking for local joint venture opportunities or licensed manufacturing by a local manufacturer. Mr Jack M McKeand, managing director of SM (Blantyre) Ltd, said this
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    • 128 2 THE MAXIMUM limit for cashless payments through the Network for Electronic Transfers (Nets) system has now been doubled to $2,000 daily. The move, which follows requests from retailers and cardholders to raise the limit, would make it more convenient for cardholders of the five participating banks to
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    • 164 2 TOP INCENTIVE travel organisers will hit town next week to find out what attractions Singapore holds for high-yield incentive travellers. The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) says they have been invited as part of its bid to boost the republic's image as an attractive incentive travel
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    • 140 2 THE PRIMARY Production Department is to levy a fee of 50 cents for the inspection of each head of cattle from Monday. The new fee works out to about one cent per kilogramme of meat. But it will not affect retail prices as butchers are
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    • 1509 2 AT CONVENTIONAL WHARVES VmmI Berth Arrival Departure KEPPEL WHARVES Alfesoni K20 alongside 0506/2300 Als Prosperity KI8 olongside 0506/0600 Boroness K34 alongside 06 06/0700 Equator K22 alongside 04 06*>700 Fronces Boy K27 alongside 04 06/1500 Frotasontos K15 alongside 04 06/0600 Huoyin K29 alongside 0606/2300 Inabufcwo K24E alongside 04
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    • 77 2 SpeM<%* L KINTA'MANI -INDONESIAN RESTAURANTPrime grade, tender and juicy U.S. beef done in typical Indonesian style. Sirloin Betawi a savoury delight expertly grilled to perfection and topped with an exotic sauce. A definite favourite. Other beef specialities include Tenderloin Rendang Borobudur, Rib Eye Jajahan and Tenderloin Kintamani Special. U.S. Beef
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 350 3 AP SET OF figures assembled by e Central Intelligence Agency ustrates how well Japan's onomy has performed in the iJOs, compared with the United ates and Western Europe. The figures show that Japan •tshone the others in dealing th unemployment, inflation, oduction and foreign
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    • 136 3 AFP t HAILAND is to sell 500,000 ones of rice to India in Bangr biggest rice deal yet, a 1 >ai Commerce Ministry official iid yesterday. The value of the shipment has not been made public, but the English-language Bangkok Post said
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    • 174 3 Reuter WEST GERMANY should launch a balanced programme of monetary and fiscal measures to boost domestic growth and help reduce global trade imbalances, a new study by the US Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of Congress said. Even with substantially faster growth and expanded imports,
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    • 284 3 Reuter IN SPITE OF recent economic improvements, US competitiveness with other industrial nations has deteriorated dramatically over the past 15 years, a group of economists said in Washington on Thursday. "Future economic growth and competitiveness does not look better now than it looked several
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    • 109 3 Reuter INVESTMENT by Britain's manufacturing. construction, distribution and some service industries is likely to rise by more than 12 per cent in 1988, a Department of Trade and Industry survey showed. The latest half yearly survey of investment intentions projects total investment of £24.96 billion in
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    • 115 3 Bernama-UNI ECONOMISTS and bankers participating in a seminar in Tokyo concluded that growth prospects of the Indian economy were very bright over the medium and long-term. The seminar, organised in Tokyo by the Indian Investment Centre as a follow up to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's
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    • 998 3 ARRIVALS Operator Sorvk* Local From number time SU SQU 0040 LAX/NRT MAS MH601 0140 KUL CAL 0333 0405 TPE SIA SQ41 0610 MAA MK MK/ 0730 MRU SQ746 SIA SQ23 0755 AMS/BOM MAS MH640 0820 KUL SV SV398 0835 JED/HUH KAL KE624 0840 KUL SIA SQ417 0845
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 1126 4 SINGAPORE: US dollar sentiment was mixed yesterday. It rose to around 126.20/30 yen from New York's 126 15/20 finish and to 1.7240/50 marks against 1.7205/15 marks. Sterling also firmed. to US$1.8055/65 from 1.8040/50 in New York. Against the mark, it firmed to 3.1132/59 marks against 3.1047 in the
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    • 81 4 Treasury bills Period Issue Yesterday's closing Day's code Maturity BID OFFER HIGH LOW 3 months BQ*****F 01.09.88 3.87 3.82 3.85 3.82 6 months BY*****T 24.11.88 3.87 3.82 1 year BY*****Z 23.3.89 3.88 3.83 Government notes and bonds Period Issue Maturity Coupon Yesterday's closing Day's code rate BIO
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    • 188 4 Indicates the ivtrag* of the prim* landing rata* of 12 major banks in S'pora Interbank market rates (offer/bid) on June 3 us* DM SWFC Y«fl 7 days 7 1/2 3/8 7 3/8 1/8 3 3/8 1/4 2 5/8 1/2 3 15/16 13/16 I mtfc 7 9/16 7/16
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    • 244 4 Asian Reuter ASIAN DOLLAR deposit rates closed little changed at opening levels in quiet trading yesterday ahead of the release of US May employment data, dealers said. They said operators were waiting to see the US Federal Reserve's response to the job data, widely expected to show a rise of
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    • 48 4 OVERNIGHT money rose %-point to close at 4!4 per cent yesterday. Term rates were unchanged. S$ Interbank rates at 12 noon yesterday: Off€* BID Ov»rnigh. 4 1/4 4 1 -monltt 4 3 7/8 2-month 4 1/16 3 15/16 3-month 4 1/8 4 Overnight mod®: 3 15/16
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    • 471 4 EURODOLLAR futures yesterday opened lower against Thursday's close following losses in the Chicago session as a result of higher precious metal prices and the surge in the CRB index. The September contract settled 5 ticks lower at 91.78 Currency futures dipped initially from the opening level but recovered towards
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    • 256 4 Reuter IM M currency futures closed mixed on Thursday. West German marks and Swiss francs garnered support from widespread unwinding of futures spreads and cash-market crosses against the yen and British pound. Profit-taking on the spreads pressured June sterling to sharp daily losses before the contract found a floor
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    • 1604 4 CURRENCY FUTURES OPTIONS Friday, Juna 3 1988 DEUTSCHEMARK (SIMEX) Jun M call* Jun M pu* 54 55 56 57 5« 59 60 61 62 63 I08B 158 HI0I 6A Jul 88 CM Lav 112 18 3 CAB CA8 CAB CAB Sal HWi 6A 92A I92A 298A 39SA 498A Jul
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  • BANKING AND FINANCE
    • 534 5 AFP BUSINESS on world financial markets seems set to continue at a relatively sustained pace in the months ahead despite currency tensions and uncertainties about interest rates, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The international capital market is currently growing at
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    • 170 5 FT NORTH KOREA'S foreign commercial bank creditors are considering an unusual proposal for debt forgiveness which would write off more than two-thirds of foreign bank claims against the communist state. The proposal, presented to a meeting in London on Wednesday attended
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    • 402 5  -  By DEXTER LEE THE SINGAPORE BRANCH of Hongkongßank yesterday launched a comprehensive personal banking product incorporating two credit cards with a current-cum-savings account. Under the scheme, called prime account, customers will be able to use the bank's two credit cards. Visa and Mastercard, to operate
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    • 316 5 Reuter JUDGE CHARLES HAIGHT of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an order on Thursday temporarily blocking Bank of New York Co Inc from buying shares of Irving Bank Corp. The court found disclosure deficiencies with regard
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    • 175 5 Gold futures on June 2 100 troy ounces USS per troy ounce Opi" High Low s««* Jvn 456.00 468JO 453X10 467 00 9.40 M 469.00 9.10 Aug 459.80 472.50 457.80 471.50 9.10 Oct 465.00 477JO 462.80 476J0 9.20 Ok 470.00 484.00 467.80 481.60 9.30 F.6 89 475.00
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 394 5 Reuter MALAYSIAN CRUDE PALM OIL FUTURES moved erratically on bouts of profit-taking and covering interest before closing slightly higher, dealers said. They said firmer overnight Chicago soyoil futures aided sentiment, but added trading was reduced ahead of the weekend August delivery closed Mss higher at $1,040 per tonne
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    • 327 5 HONGKONG: The metal closed lower on heavy profit-taking yesterday after its sharp rally in New York, dealers said. It ended an active day at US$463 00/50 an ounce against New York's close of $466 30/80 and Thursday's close here of $454 50/455.00 On the local market, gold closed
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    • 87 5 PRICES DRIFTED aimlessly as traders were uncertain of the market direction and unwilling to commit themselves. Closing prices for crude (FOB origin) USS/barrel Oong* TopH (Mw) 16.97 -0.23 Minoi iJvna) 16.66 undi Dubai (My) 14.65 -0.07 W»*» Ttiai WTI (My)* 1 7j67 *0.03 Tort don previous day.
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    • 110 5 CBT WHEAT futures closed with pared gains of 2-3/4 to 1/2 cents a bushel on Thursday. Spot July finished 2-3/4 cents higher at $3.50-1/2. Traders said gains receded on late profit-taking. Prices had earlier risen along with rallying soy and corn futures. Commercial hedge selling also curbed gains, they
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    • 105 5 Reuter CBT SOYBEAN futures rallied sharply on Thursday to fresh four-year and contract highs across the board as prices closed up 18 to 133/4 cents a bushel. Spot July settled 17-1/4 cents higher at $8.19. Rising soymeal values on demand inspired by talk the USSR may have bought up
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    • 304 5 London Commodity Exchange Buyer/Seller dosing prices on Jim* 2 (£/tonne unless specified). Previous dosing prices in parenthesis. Coffee 8<»ii In-jtore London, tellers option CIF London Jul 1108/1110 (1072/1073) High/Low 1115/1067 Sep 1130/1121 (1083/1084) High/Low 1124/1074 Soles (3505) Cocoa Jul 926/928 (933/934) High/Lew 939/924 S*P 951/952 (952/953) High/Low 957/944
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    • 277 5 Reuter SINGAPORE Prices recovered slightly yesterday after two straight days of sharp falls with July 1 RSS buyers price quoted at 290.00 cents/kilo, up five cents from Thursday's close, dealers said. Dealers said the Inro's offer of SMR 20 at a higher price of 270.00 Malaysian cents/kilo for July
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    • 144 5 Reuter THE Kuala Lumpur tin price rose nine cents to close at M 518.04 a kg, going above MslB rlnggit for the first time since March 1986, dealers said. Some local buying was also evident. Final turnover was 89 tonnes compared with 112 on Thursday, as miners continued
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    • 240 5 Chinese Produce Exchange Sellers' noon closing prices on June 3 (SS/100 kg) Coconut oil Bulk FOB 110.00 Old drum FOB 120.00 New drum FOB 124.00 Copra Mixed (loose) 64 sellers Pepper AAurrtok white FOB NLW 1117.50 Sarawak white FOB faq NLW 1102.50 Sarawak special black FOB NLW 640.00
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    • 82 5 (cents/kg) JULY 1988 AUGUST 1988 (current month) (forward month) RA8 NOON NOON B«y*s Sellers Buyers Sellers SSI 20 262.00 267.00N 262.00 267.00N SSff SO 260 90 265.00N 260.00 265.00N MRELB 9 Sellers Buyers Sellers -SMR CV 575 06- t 579.00N 577.00 581.OON SMR L 3535? 589 OON
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    • 274 5 RAS prices in S cento/kg, FOB In bales NOON CLOSE Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 RSS Prompt 295.00 305.00N 288.00 298.00N Int 1 RSS July 88 297.00 302.00N 290.00 295.00 Int 1 RSS August 302.00 307.00 294.00 299.00 Int 2 RSS OP 292.00 296.00N 287.00 291.00N
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 68 5 Doonesbury ICAN7 UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPBNBP 70 THE EARTHQUAKE. J THERE HAS TO BB SOME EXPLANATION! j fif i^JmZ I UJOULDNT BB A BTT SURPRfSBP... JHATS THB BEAUTY OF THB pseudo-sciences. since thby DON'T DEPBNP ON EMPIRICAL VBRJHCATION, ANYTHING CAN BB EXPLAINED! n BY GARRY TRUDEAU 1 KNOW! THERE WAS AN
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  • PERSPECTIVE
    • 576 6 WAS A remarkable plea. Ng Khway Tiat, son of •the Abalone King, argued that he was acting out of filial piety when he abetted his father and two others in a conspiracy to cheat 16 banks of nearly $57 million four years ago. Thus. Khway
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    • 1634 6  -  It is not only the retarded who have problems, brilliant people too have their own particular obstacles to overcome. For instance, they are easily bored in school and hate to be confined to one field. That, anyway, was the experience of
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    • Article, Illustration
      1146 6 TODAY: Tan Bah Chee. Ipm. Tangs forecourt. Magic show. More performances on June 15 and June 21. Free. Siva Choy and Friends. 3pm. Raffles City Atrium. Siva Choy. Singapore's veteran rock "n" roller. joins friends to relive the rock 'n' roll era with classics of the 1950s and *****.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 812 6 mwmm mmwrn CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 9 What you'll get for tea if you're really good? (5, 4) 10 Making clear to one, with a hint (8) 12 Somebody big, yet light (4) 13 Having knocked many a drink back, is dangerous (6) 14 The old meter when repaired, is great
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  • Executive Lifestyle
    • 345 7 ANYBODY complaining about the bureaucracy of local banks should take a look at British banks. An elderly visitor from these sceptred isles said he was giving up applying for a bank card after his application form was returned because he forgot to fill in his mother's
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    • 1138 7  - Now about that festival in the sun... it may well be the most brilliant show on Earth By DAVID ROPER Arts festivals! who needs them? The years of planning, the months of build-up, the millions spent bringing people from one half of the world to the other. And the anguish
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    • 619 7  -  T/iiviA-" With JOEL LEOW IT BEGINS with orgasmic lust and passion; it ends with orgiastic death. The final blow comes from the gun barrel in the hands of the wife; and in the stead of post-coital depression is a great relief the domestic felicity of the
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment, the Arts & Pursuits
      • 1036 9  - Chablis a fine, dry white wine "Wine By N YK CHABLIS, one of the best Known names in dry white wines, is still insufficiently appreciated as the fine wine it really is. Because the name itself is so well Known it has become almost synonymous with any dry white wine,
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      • 867 10  - Picking-up is not hard to do but watch it MEN By MONICA GWEE OH, THE SUBTLETIES of life. The more perfunctory among us must simply blunder through life, ignorant as we are about standard rituals in something as blatantly upfront as the pick-up. A few years ago, a story in
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Entertainment, the Arts & Pursuits
      • 346 11  -  By CLAIRE LEOW HI! THEATRE was really Flying High in their fringe act of the same title which ended on Wednesday. In the space x>f two hours, the mixed deaf and hearing audience was treated to more than good entertainment. Wit and charm
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      • 361 11  -  -by Jaime Lye CHARACTERISATION proved to be the downfall of Eleanor Wong's To Touch The Soul Of A God, a wishful look at idealism that ended up as a re-statement of a well-worn cliche. Tony Ho, a partner
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      • 370 11  -  By SHOEB KAGDA BEING MIDDLE-AGED is no bed of roses especially if you are a woman with no means of escape. Laundry And Bourbon, performed at the Shell Theatrette on Thursday deals with the lives of two women who are best friends, and their individual crises
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      • Article, Illustration
        386 11 DANCE: Nu Wa: Mender of Heavens. Today through June 7. Bpm Victoria Theatre A dance-drama performed by the Practice Performing Art School, which combines various dance styles and techniques of both East and West to live contemporary music. Tickets at $15, $20 still available for today and tomorrow s
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      • 539 11  -  By JAIME LYE IT WAS LIKE a Lat cartoon come to life laid-back, not particularly refined, rough around the edges, yet wildly entertaining. And that's Malaysian life for you; or so it is according to Malaysian group Kami with their production, Caught In The
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Sports
      • 224 12 TENNIS AP THIRD-SEEDED Mats Wilander, mixing elegant lobs with precise passing shots, outlasted Andre Agassi of the United States 4-6, 6-2, 7-5, 5-7, 6-0 yesterday in the French Open semifinals. Wilander, the only survivor from the top 10 seeds after a week of
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      • 522 12  -  BADMINTON From SHIRISH NADKARNI in Kuala Lumpur THERE WAS no stopping the inexorable march of the Chinese badminton machine. The girls from the world's most populous nation were simply too good for pretenders South Korea yesterday evening. They won the Über Cup.
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      • 622 12  -  TMCK r J liliMt ICDHUC CAkinAD With JEROME FANDOR HE'S DAWAN was an exceptionally good winner of the first leg of the Rothman s International 100 Triple Crown last Sunday, and has earned himself the position of topweight and raging favourite for
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      • 438 12  -  GOLF By CHARLES SAVAGE LIM KIAN KEE tied M Murugiah one below par at 70 to lead 61 professionals in the Tiger Open at the Sembawang Country Club yesterday Following close behind, within striking distance, was a flight of golfers. In good
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      • 188 12 DAVID WONG of Ernst Whitnney scored 41 points to win the 13th Ocean Building Golf Tournament. The tournament, played on May 28 at Jurong Country Club, attracted 54 tenants of Ocean Building. Stamford Building and Keppel House. It was organised by Ocean Properties Pte
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      • 268 12  -  Bridge Maike Thumba THE FIRST Far East Bridge Congress starting today has been upstaged by a re-cord-breaking bridge competition, the Epson Worldwide Bridge Contest. Involving about 100.000 players competing simultaneously in 2.500 cities around the world its jubilant French organisers exclaimed: "It's the greatest event of
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    • Executive Lifestyle: Personal Investment
      • 731 13 BULLION FT THE PRICE of gold bullion is either about to collapse, or to double. That, at any rate, is the helpful message coming from a flood of analysts' reports in recent weeks. A US study by the Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates concludes bleakly that
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      • 405 13 by RC ONE MONTH AGO, this columnist sounded a soft clarion call with the following line: "foreign investors, many of whom left the local market in a hurry after the crash last October, are slowly starting to rebuild their portfolios again". Each successive week
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      • 503 13  -  BEOnnBTS t camen H By CORRINA LIM NOW THAT the local market is boiling over with activity again, picking the right shares to buy is important, but knowing when to sell, and in this case, when not to sell, is just as
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      • 721 13  -  CURRENCIES By RAMESH CHANDIRAMANI Special Correspondent MEMORIES of the dollar bear market remain fresh and vivid in the minds of forex dealers, most of whom made pots of money by betting that it is firmly locked in a downward spiral. This is why many
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    • 228 8 SUNDAY FAMILY LUNCH o w ¥l 5 i S w k Bnng the family for a fabulous meal of fresh seafood and Chinese dishes from our a la cane menu. At a generous 25% off the bill. But only on Sundays between 11.30 am and 2.30pm. And for a limited
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    • 220 8 01 Si A Feast fit for the Queen Tack into the best of British cooking fron June 1 to 30. With Melton Mowbray pie. Fish 'n chips, Prawns in Whisky, Stev ed rabbit casserole, North sea cod fillet, Beef Wellington, English trifle and Oxford lardy cake. Over 60 British favourites
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 269 9 &.\(_([/<_/~+;,.(/*|,;_?,(@(\)' .4 4» V J JV Sunday Brunch: A great family outing It's a wonderful way to combine a late breakfast with an early lunch on a lazy Sunday. Sausages, bacon, eggs any way you want them oysters, smoked salmon, tasty entrees, roast... right through to pastries, puddings, fruit salad
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    • 264 9 ONE GOOD REASON TO LUNCH AT THE PALM GRILL IS OUR APPETISER BUFFE T ANOTHER IS THE CHOICE OF MAIN COURSES. PALM |wf For between $26+ and $40+ I y° u can se ect fr° m our appetiser UKILL buffet including seafood, smoked salmon and oysters. Choose from many lavish
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 1012 9 Saturday BBC 88.9 mHz In VHF Band II SAM World News. 6.09 The World Today 6.25 A Letter from Northern Ireland 6.30 Financial News 6.40 Reflections. 6.45 Sports Roundup 7.00 World News 7.09 Commentary. 7.15 From the Weeklies. 7.30 Multitrack 3. 6.00 World News 6.09 News about Britain. 6.15 Radio
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 251 10 Do you have the stomach Most executives are very good about taking care of their investments. Of the financial kind that is. But when it comes to their health, they fall short. Let's face it. When was the last time you really took care of your body? I mean really
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 1742 10 SLOTS TO WATCH Sequels and The Seduction of Miss Leone Movies The hunter becomes the hunted in French Connection 11. After stumbling on a mammoth drug haul last Saturday in The French Connection, hard-nosed narco "Popeye" Doyle returns in the sequel this week in Marseilles, being hunted by the heroin
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 475 14  -  Deal hinges on approval from creditor banks By LISA LEE UNITED Industrial Corporation Ltd (UIC) is set to make its second acquisition in Malaysia in an estimated Ms 67 million deal to buy the Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. The property
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    • 281 14 Managers' prices Japan Gr Fund 1 58 1 63 for June 4 6 Stanton ThnH Fund 0825 0 825 Singapore Unit Trust UOB Management Untfund 0 89 089 The Commerce 096 1 02Unibond 1 005 103 The Sovings Fund 086 091 S pore Prog Fond S pore Sec
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    • 331 14 DBS LAND will sell some properties to two different parties for a total profit of $2.8 million. This will bring its earnings per share to 1.8 cents this year, against 1.4 cents in 1987, but will not materially affect the
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    • 357 14 MBT A NEW restructuring plan has been formulated for Malaysian Resources Corporation (MRC). details of which are expected to be announced shortly. In a statement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. MRC said the proposed restructuring plan should significantly strengthen the group's financial position,
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    • 452 14  -  By LONG SHIH ROME INDUSTRIAL OXYGEN Incorporated (101) is about to sign a joint-partnership agreement with a Japanese company, enabling the investment company to broaden the scope of its gas technology knowhow The new venture will involve a divestment of 30
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    • 295 14 Sime holders asked to approve stake in Harrisons Crosfield MBT SIME DARBY'S independent directors and shareholders have been advised to vote for the company's proposed acquisition of 9.93 million shares or 7.4 per cent of Harrisons Crosfield PLC (H C)'s equity. This is to be met by the issue of
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    • 167 14 THE Stock Exchange of Singapore has appointed Dr Philip Pillai as its second deputy chairman following the recent posting of its executive chairman. Mr Tan Chok Kian, to an overseas diplomatic position. This was announced after the SES committee approved the
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
    • 5007 15 BULLISH SENTIMENT in the local stock market pushed share prices higher yesterday but profit-taking in the afternoon pared earlier gains. The market opened weaker following an 11-point fall in Wall Street overnight, but the Straits Times Industrial Index rose steadily to a high of 1.026.55
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  • REGIONAL MARKETS
    • 3842 16 DABBLERS were in an indecisive mood yesterday as share prices fluctuated under bouts of buying and selling to close mixed to firmer on the Kuala Lumpur stock market. INDUSTRIALS Acmo H3O —I cd Ajinomoto I 2881 280 «d Alcorn 1743 —I 76 (II 78
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    • 4853 16 810 and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified All Time Settlement Contracts are
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    • 1485 16 Hongkong HONGKONG share prices closed higher yesterday supported by active buying, mainly from local syndicates. brokers said. The Hang Seng Index rose 21.68 points to 2.568 35 after gaining a total ot 50 points over the previous two days. The broader based Hong Kong Index was 15.02
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    • 132 16 JUNE 03 WON 1Kal ***** 1000 Kangwon Ind Kia Motor ***** -500 ***** 800 Cheii Sugar Daeiim Ind Daewoo Corp ***** ***** ***** -700 -400 unch Kolon Ind Korea Long Term Lucky Ltd ***** ***** ***** 600 unch 800 Daewoo Heavy Daishin Securities Dong Ah Phar Dong Suh Slock
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    • 498 16 Reuter TOKYO share prices closed lower yesterday in active trade as most institutions, concerned over Wall Street's direction, stuck to the sidelines, brokers said. "There's not much interest in main-line issues, but there is lots of interest in low-priced speculative stocks (among individuals)," said a broker. The Nikkei Index
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    • 439 16 Reuter THE AUSTRALIAN share market yesterday shrugged off a sluggish early tone to close sharply higher. Brokers said the market's strength was largely in the resource sector following a jump of nearly US$lO in international gold bullion prices overnight. "The market's performance was unquestionably on the back of the
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    • 163 16 Reuter THE SECURITIES Exchange of Thailand Index rose 0.15 to 432.18 on a turnover of 7,752,410 shares worth 626.77 million baht. Reuter JUNE 03 BAMT 1Ao Kham Thai 364 18 Ayudhya Investment 396 •2 Bangkok Agro-lnd 131 •2 Bangkok Bank 327 unch Bank Of Ayudhya 344 *2 Charoong Thai
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    • 302 16 JUNE 03 NT S Kolin 49 50 -0 2 Kuochan Dev 61 50 unch Lee Chang Yuen All Sincere Indus 555 -0 15 Chem Indus 65 50 -05 Asia Cement 86 50 -2 Lien Hwa Indus 69 00 -2 Cathay Cons 107 00 -3 Nan Ya Plas 81 00
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    • 104 16 JUNE 03 PESOS Marsteei Oriental B 0 042 unch Acoje Mining Phil Overseas Anglo Phil 0 0095 -0 0015 Philax B Apen Mining B 0 042 0 00? P«;op B Atlas Con B 24 50 -2 plot Baguio Gold San Migu«l B Basic Petroleum 0 02 unch S«a*ront 0
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  • WORLD MARKETS
    • 1010 17 New York Reuter WALL STREET stocks declined on Thursday as investors cashed in a portion of their profits from the previous two day's 108-point rally. Concern that May job data due to be out yesterday will show swelling employment ranks and prompt a boost in
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    • 1068 17 London Reuter LONDON shares were firmer after a dull start yesterday, as fresh action on the bid front emerged in the form of a British Gas agreed £370 million offer for Acre Oil and a Glynwed agreed £102 million offer for Amari. Dealers said the
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    • 1103 17 Selected indices HONGKONG Hongkong Index Friday 1.700 02 Thursday 1.***** Week ago 1 ***** Hang Seng Index Friday 2.568 35 Thursday 2.546 67 Week ago 2.513 70 All Industrials Friday 2.504 4 Thursday 2,5010 Week ogo 2459 7 NEW YORK Dow Jones Thursday 2.052 45 Wednesday 2.064 01 Week ogo
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    • 177 17 Reuter THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday accused Mr Roberto Polo, a prominent international money manager, with violating securities laws by failing to keep and maintain books and records of his firm. Mr Polo, who has disappeared. was charged by his clients
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    • 20 17 OVERSEA-CHINESE BAMKMQ CORPORATION Limited: 51st AGM at 65 Chulia Street #19-00, OCBC Centre, Singapore 0104 today at noon.
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  • 557 18  -  Asean-Japan trade stages rebound By ANNA TEO SINGAPORE showed the highest growth in exports to Japan among the Asean countries last year, when it shipped more than US$2 billion worth of products. The Republic, long the top Asean importer of Japanese goods, also continued
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  • 92 18 AFP US PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan briefed Japanese Prime Minister Noburu Takeshita on the US-So-viet summit during a half-hour meeting at the US Ambassador s residence in London yesterday. Mr Takeshita had said he wanted to meet Mr Reagan before starting a European tour focusing on
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  • 324 18 Reuter US-JAPAN industry talks on improved American access to Japan's microchip market collapsed in anger and frustration, with a US delegate accusing Japan of abrogating a 1986 bilateral trade pact. Plans for a joint statement yesterday by the US Semiconductor Industry Association and the
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  • 114 18 Reuter SOVIET First Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Maslyukov arrived in Beijing for trade talks yesterday, the highest ranking Soviet official to visit China for almost two years. The official New China News Agency said Mr Maslyukov, who is head of the Soviet state planning committee Gosplan,
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  • 113 18 MR GOH KIM LEONG, permanent secretary (information) of the Ministry of Communications and Information, will replace Mr Cheng Tong Fatt as the deputy chairman of the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation from June 25. The appointment, until January 31 1990, was announced in the government
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  • 318 18 NYT CARL ICAHN told more than 300 analysts and Texaco shareholders on Thursday that he could easily raise the U5514.22 billion needed for his ambitious. US$6O-a-share proposal to take over the third largest oil company in the US. However, analysts in the
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  • 113 18 AFP THE SWISS food group Nestle should sweeten its bid to buy Britain's confectioner Rowntree to 1,050p or I,loop a share within a few days, against the current offer of 890, some London analysts said on Thursday. They said rival Swiss group Jacobs Suchard.
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  • 127 18 Reuter ROYAL Dutch/Shell group, one of the world's biggest oil multinationals, denied on Thursday it was considering making a friendly bid for US rival Texaco Inc. Rumours that Texaco had approached the An-glo-Dutch giant as a White Knight' to counter an unfriendly bid from US
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  • 93 18 NYT THE Bear Stearns Co has reported a 29.1 per cent increase in earnings for the fourth fiscal quarter. However, the firm's profits for the year dropped by 17.9 per cent, hurt by last October's stock market collapse and higher expenses Bear Stearns said it
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  • 178 18 AFP TOP foreign ministry officials of non-communist South-east Asian countries closed a two-day meeting on Vietnamese refugees and Cambodia in Bangkok yesterday, a Thai Foreign Ministry official said. Asean officials, including permanent secretaries and general secretaries for political affairs, are to report to
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  • 111 18 Reuter ARMED Forces chief General Try Sutrisno warned the Indonesian press yesterday not to stir up divisive issues. "The people need the sort of information that can be useful for national development, and not destructive news," General Sutrisno said in an
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  • 385 18 NST, AP. Bernama THE MALAYSIAN government yesterday released seven people, including vice-chairman Tan Seng Giaw and Central Working Committee member V David of the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP), who were detained under the Internal Security Act since last October. The seven were
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  • 137 18 Bernama TUN MOHAMED Salleh Abas who has been suspended as Lord President wants judges whose ranks are equal to him to sit in the tribunal to be set up to hear charges against him. He said in
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  • 100 18 Reuter COMEX GOLD FUTURES held losses in thin midsession dealings yesterday, as the market ignored the snap recovery in CBT soybeans. August gold was off $3.10 at $459.30 an ounce, standing almost in the middle of the day's range of $460.20 to $457.80. Comex silver futures
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  • LATE FILE
    • 47 18 Reuter THE South Korean government offered North Korea high-level talks, dropping Seoul's earlier demand that Pyongyang first apologise for the bombing of an airliner. In a message broadcast to the North yesterday, Prime Minister Lee Hyun-Je suggested talks at Cabinet minister level. Reuter
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    • 36 18 AFP JAPAN'S trade surplus shrank 4.5 per cent in April from a year earlier to US$B.4B billion, the 10th monthly decline on a year-to-year basis, the Japanese Finance Ministry said yesterday. AFP
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    • 49 18 UPI PHILIPPINE President Corazon Aquino yesterday opened a three-day conference on newly restored democracies in Manila. Conference chairman Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus told delegates from 13 countries that the debt problem and threats from right-wing and left-wing forces are expected to dominate the discussions. UPI
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    • 40 18 AFP THE Indian government will start demolishing buildings around the Golden Temple in Amritsar next week as part of an effort to prevent another occupation by militants, the Press Trust of India said yesterday, AFP
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    • 55 18 Bernama THE European Community Commission has identified 24 projects with the potential to be promoted under the Asean Industrial Joint Venture scheme. The Malaysian Industrial Development Authority yesterday said among the projects identified are soft rubber products, toys, processed food and vegetables, wicker furniture (rattan),
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