The Business Times, 23 April 1991

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  • 11 1 Business Times MCI (P) 16/12/90 Tuesday, April 23, 1991 75* I
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 69 1 BRITISH retail sales rose by 3.7 per cent last month over the February level, the steepest jump in 12 years. According to provisional seasonally-adjusted figures released in London yesterday, the rise was much sharper than analysts' forecasts of a 0.1 per
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    • 51 1 MANY Japanese companies are cautious about domestic economic prospects for the April-September period. A survey conducted among 3.856 companies in six Japanese major cities in March said 54.2 per cent saw Japan's economy levelling off in April-June and 28.6 per cent actually saw it
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    • 25 1 LOCAL personal computer company GES Singapore will be establishing more overseas distribution offices to monitor and expand its business abroad Page 2
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    • 41 1 AN ATTEMPT by the Ministry of National Development to tap bright ideas from private sector architects on new housing forms has drawn a disappointing response, going by the entries for the first competition of its kind Page 2
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    • 44 1 THE Asian Development Bank has offered a USS4OO million (SS7I2 million) loan to finance the computerisation and expansion of the Philippine stock market on the condition that the rival Manila and Makati stock exchanges must first be merged. Page 8
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    • 33 1 THE International Monetary Fund is set to side with Germany against the US in the latter's drive for lower world interest rates to spur global economic growth Page 9
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    • 29 1 INDUSTRIAL production in China showed a marked upswing in the first three months of this year, although the growth base remained tar from steady Page 9
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    • 16 1 FILM DIRECTOR Roman Polanski talks about the ghosts of Cannes past Page 13
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    • 28 1 AUSTRALIA is to introduce air space management procedures which will bring it in line with the rest of the world. Shipping I imes Page 1
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • 43 1 WALL STREET stocks declined broadly early yesterday amid doubts about the outlook for Federal Reserve credit policy and interest rates. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 24.75 points to 2,940.84 at 1430 GMT in the first hour of trading.
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    • 46 1 SHARES slid lower in London at midday yesterday against a background of gathering uncertainty about the outlook that had lifted shares to record highs in recent weeks. The Footsie index of 100 leading shares lost 19.8 points to stand at 2.500.3 at 1200 GMT.
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    • 40 1 KEPPEL HOUSE and its adjoining land, owned by Straits Steamship Land and Keppel Corporation, have been sold to Eu Yan Sang Holdings for S5l million in the first major commercial property sale of the year Page 3
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    • 29 1 CORPORATE strategies which emphasised product innovation. human resource development and computerisation helped Great Eastern Life Assurance generate new business worth $6.9 billion last year Page 3
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    • 24 1 THE AUSTRALIAN Reserve Bank is considering tightening supervision of the country's banks because of some failings in the existing system. Page 7
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    • Article, Illustration
      29 1 Monda> Change BT-MGA 743.65 fO.I8 Kuala j)2.16 -3.34 Tokyo 26,237.01 -304.96 Hongkong 3.582.49 -84 9| Sydney 1,511.7 -7.9 Friday Change New York 2.965.59 -33.67 London 2.520.1 -18.3
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    • 25 1 Exchange rates USS SSI. 7805 100 Yen S$ 1.2832 MS SS0.645I Money market rates Overnight 3 1/2% -2 1/8 i 3-month 4 13/16% unch
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    • 37 1 London Gold AM fix US$356.25 -US$0.85 Rubber S'pore Vlav 145.(H)'/kg unch M'sia May 225.50*/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 85 tonnes +20 Spot MS 14 90/kg +0.04 Crude palm oil Turnover 1.568 lots +263 May MJ790/tonne +22
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  • 545 1  -  Majority of Asian buyers from Japan and Hongkong By S N Vasuki MORE THAN just property is up for grabs in recessionhit Australia nowadays. While Singapore newspapers have in recent weeks seen a spate of advertisements of Australian property on offer,
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  • 415 1  -  From Florence Chong in SYDNEY TWO Singaporeans have received the green light to purchase Strathfield Plaza, a retail commercial complex located about 12 kilometres west of Sydney, for A 525.25 million (about 5534.6 million). The Singaporeans, T P Tay and SC Tay, believed
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  • 291 1 Reuter THE United States wants Japan to crack down on collusive business practices and will press Tokyo hard to reform its anti-trust policies at talks in Tokyo next month. Deputy US Trade Representative Linn Williams said. "As long as Japanese companies can collude
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  • 284 1  -  By Harish Mehta MARKING the 20th annii versary of the Five Power Defence Arrangement, defence ministers from the five member nations of the pact are to meet in Singapore and Malaysia on Saturday and j Sunday to reaffirm their commitment to the grouping.
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  • 403 1  -  By Hong Lee Tiam MORE CHALLENGES lie ahead and it is not time yet for Singapore to get complacent where conservation and the environment are concerned. This is the message Professor Tommy Koh, Singapore's ambassador-at-large, had for industries, businesses and the government at the
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  • 130 1 POLITICAL jitters yesterday caused Hongkong's blue-chip Hang Seng index to slide about 130 points, but light bargain-hunting in the afternoon boosted the sagging index some 45 points from its intra-day low. The index closed at 3,582.49, down 84.91 points from Friday's close. Though the
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    • 3 1 Analysis, Pr 11
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 406 2  -  Datamini makers going global By Jean Wee LOCAL personal computer company GES Singapore is setting out to get a bigger bite of the global computer industry. The homegrown company, which manufactures under the brand name Datamini, will be establishing more overseas distribution offices to
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    • 414 2  -  By Elaine Koh AN ATTEMPT by the Ministry of National Development (MND) to tap bright ideas from private seetor arehiteets on new housing forms drew a disappointing response, going by the entries for the first eompetition of its kind. Of the 10
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    • 268 2 THE MINISTRY of Labour has invited 10 large employers of foreign workers and employment agencies to take part in the pilot phase of an electronic work permit application system (EASY). Using only a personal computer and a telephone line, EASY will save the firms
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
      • 128 2 MINDEF announced yesterday an improved Basic Military Training system that will allow recruits to train at a pace that is commensurate with their level of fitness. Starting from the June 1991 intake, recruits who have attained the National Physical Fitness Award (NAPFA)
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      • 82 2 A NEW TV game show to introduce laymen to the world of stocks and shares is set to make its debut over SBC 5 this Sunday. Risk Management Education Programme is an investment game in which players invest $1 million in various stocks and futures under
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      • 83 2 INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS are coming to Singapore. Telecom Equipment, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecom, has started talks with owners and developers of several building projects under a plan to integrate telecommunication know-how and equipment currently available in Singapore to make them models of intelligent buildings. When implemented.
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  • SINGAPORE – MALAYSIA COMPANY NEWS
    • 431 3  -  Deal includes sale of adjoining land By Elaine Koh KEPPEL HOUSE and its adjoining land, jointly owned by Straits Steamship Land (SSL) and Keppel Corporation, has been sold to Eu Van Sang Holdings for $51 million in the first major commercial
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    • 361 3  -  By Quak Hiang Whai CORPORATE strategies which emphasised product innovation, human resource development and computerisation helped Great Eastern Life Assurance generate new business worth $6.9 billion last year. This new business was an increase of 21 per cent from 1989, GE Life, a
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    • 258 3 NST PROPERTY developer Sri Hartamas Corp (SHC) will actively seek out manufacturing activities, possibly in wood-based and building materials. following the completion of its capital restructuring exercise in June or July. SHC is also considering going into the property holding business when it is
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    • 448 3  -  By William Chia FINANCIALLY troubled video-cassette maker Electro Magnetic (S) Ltd, which is currently under judicial management, intends to retain its listed status under any rescue scheme that will be proposed. This is because a listing status will enable LMS to command a
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    • 318 3 Bernama GUINNESS ANCHOR Bhd is expected to commission its new lager beer facility at its Sungei Way brewery later this year, enabling it to start the transfer of anchor beer production to Sungei Way from Sungei Besi. says chairman PTJ Banner. He
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    • 218 3 L&M GROUP Investment's one-for-two rights issue proposed last month will reduce its outstanding borrowings by about $16.4 million, to $47.06 million. The group said the balance of the funds from the rights issue will provide additional working capital for the continuing expansion
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 45 3 LIM KAH NGAM Limited informed the Stock Exchange of Singapore that it has increased its investment in its whollyowned subsidiary. LKN Development Pte Ltd. by an additional S3 million. The company's total investment in LKN Development stands at SX million.
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      • 154 3 JURONG ENGINEERING has announced that an audit committee was formed on F eb 12, 1990. and members of the committee are Messrs S Chandra Das. Chee Keng Soon and Yasushi Konii. Mr Chee was appointed chairman of the audit committee on Nov 2. 1990. SSANGYONG CEMENT
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  • REGIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 76 4 FLETCHER Challenge I id's statement on Friday that its 1990/91 net profit will he 10 per eent below the previous year's will halt, or reverse, a reeent surge in its share price, analysts polled by Reuters said. FCL, a key stoek for
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      • 89 4 TAIWAN FOOD and beverage conglomerate Wei Chuan Foods Corp is to participate in a joint venture in Shanghai to produce powdered milk for babies. Wei Chuan is also planning to set up a monosodium glutamate plant in Guizhou. in China's south-eastern province of Guanxi. the
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      • 87 4 TRADING in the shares of Chung Wah Shipbuilding and Engineering (Holdings) Co Ltd was suspended yesterday morning at the request of the company pending an announcement, the Stock Exchange of Hongkong said in a Statement. The shipbuilding, machinery and civil engineering company ended three HK cents
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      • 106 4 THE BROKEN Hill Pty Co Ltd said it is seeking permission to mine an anthracite deposit in Vietnam. "We arc in the process of having talks with the Vietnam government to get permission," a spokesman for the Australian coal division of 100 per cent
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    • 493 4 Guidelines cover offering procedures to disclosure requirements THE INDONESIAN Capilal Market Supervisory Agency has announced seven new rulings on public offering procedures, prospectus publication and full disclosure requirements to follow up the Finance Minister's stock market decree issued late last year. The rulings
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    • 237 4 DAIRY Farm International has denied Australian press reports that it is acquiring shares in one of Australia's largest listed food manufacturing companies. Petersville Sleigh. Hongkong's Sunday Morning Post quoted Tim YVestinghouse. a company director. as saying: "We have no intention of
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    • 396 4 HONGKONG'S securities watchdog is urging the stock exchange to amend its constitution and declare itself non-profit-making, the Sunday Morning Post reported. The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has sent a directive to the exchange requesting the crucial amendment, the Hongkong newspaper said. It could
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    • 299 4 GIORDANO GROUP, one of the largest chain store retailers in Hongkong, will seek a listing in Hongkong next month, the Sunday Morning Post reported. The flotation of the 10-year-old retailing giant is scheduled to take place at the end of May, or at the beginning
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    • 348 4 I Straits Steamship Land Limited I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) H I NOTICE OF I I ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING I I ALL MEMBERS ARE CORDIALLY INVITED to attend the Annual General I Meeting of the Company which will be held in the Straits Room, I 10 Collyer Quay
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 365 6 Exley wants guarantee of US$ 110 per share in value at close of offer Reuter NCR CORP chairman Charles Exley will recommend American Telephone Telegraph Co's US$llO (about SSI9S) per share acquisition offer to NCR's board if AT&T will assure NCR that
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    • 174 6 Reuter MOUNT CHARLOTTE In- j vestments pic, the biggest hotelier in London, said it expected to perform better in 1991 and resume strong growth next year. "Mount Charlotte's strong and well spread portfolio of UK hotels gives us confidence that we will make further progress in
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    • 370 6 AP TEXAS FINANCIER T Boone Pickens is considering selling his stake in a Japanese car parts company that has rejected his efforts to gain a board of directors seat, a top Pickens aide said on Sunday. Mr Pickens, who owns 26.4 per cent
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    • 176 6 Reuter SIEMENS Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG (SNI) posted a group loss of 380 million marks (Ss3BB million) in the first six months of the financial year ending Sep 30, 1991, Siemens AG said in a statement. SNl's incoming orders fell 5 per cent to 5.7 billion
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    • 386 6 I JBlSO^^mH 'Mr Tang Wee Sung a( the Singapore Leprosy r Relief Association, one of the 42 charities supported by the Community C hest of Singapore I II has always been our corporate philosophy to help the needy whenever we can. So when we were approached in 1984 by the
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    • 333 6 Business Opportunities Abound ■ggjjsj jg r ItfEsSBBSS Microelectronics Malaysia'9l 23 26 July 1991 Putra World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (Held concurrently with Internepcon/Semiconductor International Malaysia '91) The Ist presentation of the latest in electronic If you are an electronics manufacturer, supplier or components, sub-assemblies, parts, tools dies, distributor, Microelectronics
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 370 7 Reuter THE RESERVE BANK said it is considering tightening supervision of Australian banks because of some failings in the existing system. "We have not been well served by our early warning systems on the extent of some bank problems in the past year," a Reserve
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    • 435 7 NYT AMERICAN EXPRESS Co, long a dominant force in the financial services industry, faces a series of challenges as new competition and more bad debts land on its corporate doorstep each day. The problems are multifaceted, from increasing numbers of customers who fail
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    • 223 7 Reuter A SENIOR Chinese ofTieial yesterday confirmed China's new policy of having small, more frequent devaluations of the currency. "The government is now adopting a policy of minor devaluations," said Zhang Zhongji, director of the General Statistical Department of National Economy,
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 80 7 PAKISTAN'S central state bank has started selling US dollar bearer certificates of one-year maturity. Certificates of different denominations ranging between US$lOO and $100,000 will be available at all authorised banks, state bank officials said. Purchasers will not be asked the source of the funds and profits
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      • 70 7 AN AMERICAN Express Co spokeswoman said the company is discussing establishment of a joint credit card company in Japan with Sumitomo Bank group. She declined to disclose any details. The Japanese financial daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun said that Amex and the Sumitomo Bank group are expected
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      • 71 7 NATIONAL Australia Bank (NZ) will cut its base lending rate to 14.5 per cent from 14.9 per cent, effective May 31. "Bank margins will continue to be squeezed and a further round of cuts to deposit rates is inevitable," the bank said in a
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  • THE REGION
    • 443 8 INDONESIA is offering fiscal incentives to mining investors in the country's frontier provinces. The Jakarta Post reported yesterday. The country's DirectorGeneral of Mines. Kosim Gandataruna. said fringe benefits, allowances other than salaries and wages which were given to employees. could be deducted from income
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    • 252 8 MBT THE MANILA-BASED Asian Development Bank (ADB) has offered a USS4OO million (SS7OB million) loan to finance the computerisa--1 tion and expansion of the Philippine stock market trading. But the bank has imposed one condition: that the rival Manila and Makati stock exchanges
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    • 377 8 Bernama AN ATTEMPT by three American importers to block Malaysian plywood from receiving preferential treatment failed when the US government recently rejected their petition for review. The three companies, which are leading importers of Indonesian plywood, said that the
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • THE WORLD
    • 557 9 Battle against inflation not over, says top official Reuter THE International Monetary Fund is set to side with Germany against the US in Washington's drive for lower world interest rates to spur global economic growth. A senior IMF official has warned of the dangers
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    • 229 9 AFP THE SOVIET economy is collapsing in a dangerous downward spiral that could have dire consequences for reform-minded Eastern European nations, the International Monetary Fund says. "The collapse has started" in the Soviet Union, where the GNP shrank by 8 per cent in the first
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 73 9 TAIWAN'S National Assembly yesterday abrogated 43-year-old emergency wartime provisions, thus paving the way for a return to constitutional rule on the island. The assembly passed a third reading of a motion to scrap the provisions, the pillar of authoritarian rule by the ruling Kuomintang in Taiwan. The
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      • 75 9 A SOUTH KOREAN business delegation is touring Australia with an emphasis on expanding links with Australia's resource projects. The mission, including representatives from South Korea's seven largest companies, is on a two-week tour sponsored by the government-funded Austrade. Although South Korea is Australia's third largest
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      • 76 9 BURMA'S current political parties are totally incapable of governing without causing nationwide disruption, the ruling military junta claimed in a broadcast on Rangoon television last Sunday. Major-General Tin U, the army chief of staff, said there was no political party capable of taking control, forcing
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      • 72 9 POLAND signed a landmark 50 per cent debt-reduction agreement with the Paris Club of Western government creditors last Sunday. Under the agreement, the 17 Western creditor-governments pledged to reduce Poland's official debt of US$35 billion (5562.3 billion) by 30 per cent over the next three years
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    • 347 9 AFP INDUSTRIAL production in China showed a marked upswing in the first three months of this year, although the growth base remained far from steady, a State Statistical Bureau spokesman said yesterday. Retail sales and the country's trade surplus also rose in
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  • 516 10 EDITORIAL THE problem was hype. Children writing to him hoping for a new age in SovietJapanese relations; magnificent talk about trade booming around the Sea of Japan; a general feeling of euphoria given the success of German unification: all these made the territorial dispute
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  • WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
    • 204 10 GPCs are doing a more than creditable job. raising the general standards of debate in Parliament and making many useful policy suggestions. Now, however, some GPC members and MPs are suggesting that GPCs should evolve into bipartisan parliamentary committees, which, like the congressional committees in the US
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    • 162 10 FOR the third time, Mikhail Gorbachev has presented his vision of the post Cold War Asia-Pacific security arrangement. Speaking to the Japanese Parliament, he called upon five major players the US, Japan, China, India and his country to initiate a security conference like that of Europe's. But Asia
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    • 134 10 THE government should continue to shoulder the responsibility of subsidising tertiary education until the NUS and NTI establish their own development funds. Many developed countries in the West have been burdened by free tertiary education for their citizens. However, our government is still in a position to
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  • REGIONAL VIEWPOINTS
    • 194 10 BRINKMANSHIP is an almost inevitable part of the last stage of any set of tough negotiations, and so it is proving with the talks with the mainland on Hongkong's proposed new airport. Although many may find it incredible, there is now a serious risk that the Chek
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    • 153 10 WASHINGTON is already working to reduce prineipal on loans issued by private financial institutions to Latin American countries. The matter of relief concerning government loans will he the topic of bilateral negotiations now being planned. The US is also intending to soon enter talks with Mexico on the
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    • 153 10 ONE of the major stumbling blocks plaguing the official privatisation programme during the administration of former prime minister Chatichai Choonhavan stemmed from stiff resistance by state enterprise labour unions. But such labour opposition may have become a thing ol the past now that the current regime has succeeded
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  • 1166 10  -  The future looks rather bleak for Europe's eomputer manufacturers. Analysts say the industry needs a favourable environment and intelligent help from the state in order to regain the lead lost to the Americans and Japanese. Steven Greenhouse reports Steven Greenhouse NYT EUROPE'S computer makers,
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 938 11 Employee share-ownership is spreading on botn sides of the Atlantic. But it has done little for outside shareholders The Economist EVER since God hired Adam to do his gardening, workers have done what they can get away with, not what they
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    • 1295 11  -  Harish Mehta reports on the security arrangements of the region, with emphasis on the Five Power Defence Arrangement, which enters its third decade this year and provides a valuable psychological boost to its partners Harish Mehta THE Five Power Defence Arrangement (FPDA) turns 20 this year, it is
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    • 505 11 More Japanese high school graduates are opting for vocational studies instead of pursuing a college degree Asahi News Service VOCATIONAL schools are becoming increasingly popular among Japanese high school graduates as an acceptable alternative to college. In the past, most high-school graduates who went to vocational
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 1193 13  -  Joan Dupont listens to Polish film director Roman Polanski's impressions of the Cannes he first saw and the festival today Joan Dupont IHT ROMAN Polanski has been going to the Cannes festival since his days as a scruffy student from the Lodz Film School, but he docs
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    • 535 13 Reuter KING Tut's golden chariots survived more than three millennia in the pharaoh's tomb but they are losing the battle against the ravages of the 20th century. Until American archaeologist Howard Carter discovered them in 1923, the chariots remained untouched in Tutankhamun's tomb at
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    • 444 13 CHATTERBOX QUEEN ELIZABETH II celebrated her 65th birthday quietly on Sunday, with a trip to church and a family gathering at Windsor Castle. At the end of the service, attended by about 100 people, the organist played "Happy Birthday to You." Next year, Britain's
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  • INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY 1
    • 703 14  -  IT MATTERS The spreadsheet market is crowded and competition is hotting up. Aggressive pricing is the favoured strategy. But feisty challenger Borland's offer of low pnces and high service is a tricky combination, observes Kenneth James. Kenneth James WITH yestcrday's grandstand introduction of
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    • 299 15  -  By J Jean Wee TAKING advantage of the current green consciousness, a company is selling waste compacters which are suitable for use in confined areas. VIA Technologies waste compacters, costing between $2,000 and $15,000 each, guarantee they will make molehills out
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    • TECH TAKES
      • 93 15 ANDERSEN Consulting's Training Technology Centre (TT Centre) resource library has an extensive list of Applied Learning International's learning materials ranging from com-puter-related topics to supervisory and management subjects. It was set up with the help of Singapore Computer Systems, the sole distributor of Applied Learning materials
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      • 92 15 MALAYSIAN Airline System (MAS) is automating its Data Centre with software from local systems house Computer Systems Advisers (CSA). MAS will use the automated system operations software package Operations Productivity System which runs on IBM's OPS/MVS mainframe to automate its data centre's console and system operations
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      • 89 15 US RESEARCHERS have discovered a new class of semiconductors which could potentially convert sunlight into electrical or chemical energy, according to a scientist from the Los Alamos National Laboratories. Speaking at the annual convention of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, one scientist said the
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    • 328 15 Reuter Anew process that uses powerful bursts of laser light can transform ordinary carbon into a flawless thin film of diamond, researchers report in Washington. North Carolina State University scientist Jagdish Narayan said the new laser process occurs so quickly that it
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    • 165 15 Supercomputers US builds, Japan uses Reuter THE US is pulling ahead in the race to build the world's fastest computers but trails rival Japan in what may be a more vital sign of a nation's ability to compete putting supercomputers to use in industry. The US is home to about
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    • 596 16  -  THE Carder POLO Nirmal Ghosh watches as Royal Johor beats traditional rival Royal Pahang on wet, slippery ground Nirmal Ghosh THE king of games has been blessed with a suitably elitist sponsor in Singapore. Les must de Cartier's first stab at polo in Singapore
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    • 304 16 UPI MONICA SELES, the world's top women's player, defeated second seed Mary Joe Fernandez. 6-4, 6-3. on Sunday to capture the U*****,000 (*****.000) Virginia Slims of Houston. The 17-year-old Yugoslav, who now lives in Sarasota. Florida, captured the US$7O,OOO first prize and is the leading
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    • 338 16 AP JACK NICKLAUS won the PGA Seniors Championship at Palm Beach Gardens. Florida, last Sunday by six strokes. It wasn't that close. It wasn't a surprise. "Just what I expected." Lee Trevino said. "That's what happens when the best player in
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    • SIDE LINES
      • 80 16 FIFTH SEED Scott Davis of the United States bowed out of the first round of the Epson Singapore Super Tennis championship at Kallang when he lost 1-6, 6-4. 6-3 to Holland's Jacco Eltingh. Other results of yesterday's matches (at press time): Jim
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      • 85 16 AN AGREEMENT to form a non-racial South African cricket authority was made too late for the country to compete in the 1992 World Cricket Cup. New Zealand cricket chairman Peter McDermott said in Auckland yesterday: "We are too far down the track in our
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      • 77 16 MICHAEL JOHNSON, world number one over 200 metres last year, ran a blazing anchor leg to lead his team to an upset win over Carl Lewis's Santa Monica track club in a 4x200 metres relay in Walnut. California, on Sunday. At the same meet. Kevin Young
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      • 61 16 ROSA MOTA took the women's title in the London Marathon on Sunday. Larrieu Smith, the 38-year-old American who finished second last year, was second again. Mota's winning time of 2 hours 26 minutes 14 seconds was the second fastest of the year. Onl> Poland's Wanda Panfil.
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      • 55 16 DEFENDING world champion Wayne Rainev took the lead early on Sunday and cruised to his third successive United States Grand Prix victory for 500 cc motorcycles at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey. California. Rainey won the 35-lap. 123.69-km event with a 6.974-second win over Honda
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      • 49 16 SQUASH LEGEND Jahangir Khan faced arch-rival and world champion Jansher Khan in his attempt for a 10th successive British Open title in London yesterday. Jahangir beat Rodney Martin 9-5. 9-2. 9-7, while Jansher beat Chris Dittmar 9-10. 9-1. 9-6, 9-2 to qualify for the finals.
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 5004 17  -  By Shoeb Kagda DESPITE weaker bourses overseas, the Straits Times Industrials Index edged up 1.99 points to elose at 1,532.08 yesterday, its highest level in more than eight months. The broader market, however, remained sluggish, with 165 losers compared to 77 gainers. After falling
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  • 4143 18 Main Board NatSteel 1040 +45 4.5% C&C 550 20 VK% NalSieel Wt 324 +18 5.9% UOB Foreign 685 +15 +2.2% Jurcrng Eng 50* 380 f 12 +3.3% SSE Foreign 274 H2 4.6% Fas 50* 665 HO +1.5% UOB 660 +10 +1.5% Metro Hldgs 640 HO
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 4197 19 Bemama SHARE PRICES on the Kuala Lumpur stock market closed lower yesterday in thin trading, with investors sidelined by the laek of" clear leads. late bargain hunting, however, helped prices to finish off the day's lows. The KLSE Composite Index fell 3.34 points
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 214 20 Company Ditt Ycir Group Hot Not earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) per sMare dividend ('000) (conts) out Apr 17 Dec 90 *****3(59 149) 20 2(7 4) 16(11) DBS Apr 12 Dec 90 $286 348(5250 338) 60 4(5? 8a) 16( 14 5a) Pnma Apr 12 Dec 90 526
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    • 872 20 Company Date Year Group pre-tax Net earnings Gross ann to profit/loss (L) per share dividend ('000) (cents) Perhs Plant Apr 15 Dec 90 M$204.043($156.667) 52.1(40 5) 16(16) Jurong Eng Apr 12 Dec 90 $4.424($3.673L) 15 7(—) 15(7 5) MMC Apr 12 Jan 91 M$80 866($120.476) 11.2(162) 50(70) Asia
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    • 287 20 Company Date Half-year Group pro-tax Interim ana to profit/loss (L) dividend (000) Times Pub Apr 19 Feb 91 $25.132(518 904 4(4) Antah Wdgs Apr 10 Dec 90 MU8.075(114.587) Kump Emas Apr 5 Jan 91 M*5 333(MJ7 552) 2(2) Rashid Hussain Apr 2 No* 90 M$21.004(S10.862) Seal Inc Mar
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    • 352 20 Apr 22 MBf Holdings has stgned a sales and purchase agreement with the receivers of Beachcomber Sdn Bhd. Coopers Lybrand. to acquire several pieces of land and a partially-completed 21S-room hotel for Msl7 3m (S$ 11.1 m). Apr 19 Dairy Farm International Holdings wholly owned subsidiary. Dairy Farm
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    • 198 20 Company Rights Issue (Xrtop Est Restricted issue of $88 514m nominal value of 101 Convertible Redeemable Unsecured Loan Stock (CULS) 1991/19% issued or the bass of $1 nominal amount of CULS tor every 3 ordinary shares of $1 each held at nominal value Ei-date Apr Books dose Apr
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    • 477 20 Company Rights Issue Mom One-tor two to, MSI00 per share issue of 40m Cumulative Redeemable Preterence Shares (CRPS) of MSO 10 each at MSI per share with 10m detachable TSR on the basis of 1 CRPS with 1 TSR for every 4 CRPS Baft on One for four
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  • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • Taipei shares up 1.2pc, Manila down 4.lpc
      • 207 22 AUSTRALIAN stocks yesterday ended a seven-day winning streak to close lower as weakness in offshore markets over the weekend sapped buyer confidence. The All Ordinaries Index closed at 1.511.7, down 7.9 points, on profit-tak-ing. "After such a good run, the negative performance of overseas markets has taken some of
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      • 771 22 Australia Apr 22 A Cents VoK'OO) AC Minerals 61 -4 7384 ACM Gold 31 unch 2906 ANZ Bank 371 5 ***** Aberfoyle 410 unch 74 AdelStm 13 unch 6900 Advance Bank 530 unch 168 Alcan 158 3 27 Amcor 498 2 5617 Ampoi Ex 268 6 520 Argo 244 1
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      • 837 22 BANGKOK stocks ended little changed yesterday as lower local interest rates and other positive domestic fundamen- tals offset sharp setbacks in major overseas markets, brokers said. The SET Index rose 0.77 point to 908.90 on a heavy 5.7 billion baht turnover. Bangkok Bank was unchanged at 381, Siam Cement
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      • 507 22 MANILA share prices yesterday slid further amid growing concern over the implications of a Supreme Court ruling allowing the return of the late president Ferdinand Marcos' close associate into the board of San Miguel Corp. The Manila Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 4.1 per cent or 44.38 points to
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      • 766 22 IN JAKARTA, after a week's holiday for Eid al Fitr, the stock market yesterday bounced back in heavy trading as a welcome surprise for returning brokers. "The market is very, very liquid," one broker said noting the tightness in re- cent weeks. "It's really encouraging. poi>ple can buy and
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      • 785 22 SEOUL stocks declined yesterday after moving in a wide range as a selling spree by nervous investors, still worried about the tight won liquidity, caused an immediate technical rebound in the af- ternoon session. The Composite Stock Index ended the day at 615.61, down 4.96 points from the previous
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      • 385 22 TAIWAN'S share market yesterday closed at its highest level since last June 19. and brokers said prices would continue rising as optimism about the economy fuelled enthusiastic buying. Yesterday's release of data showing industrial production rose in March provided further confirmation of the economy's recovery from its sharp slowdown
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      • 81 22 IN WELLINGTON, a marking down of Fletcher Challenge and general softness on major overseas bourses took the New Zealand market lower at the close in quiet business yesterday. Brokers are looking to overseas markets for further direction this week, with no major domestic news expected. "We seem to
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      • 94 22 INDICES TURNOVER CkMT Pr*»»»us April 22 SYDNEY All Ordinaries Index 1.511.7 1.5196 -7.9 All Industrials Index 2.159.2 2.369.8 -106 All Resources Index 865 7 8713 -5.6 Turnover (million) 89.97 NA BANGKOK SET Index 908 90 908 08 0.77 Turnover (million baht) 5,700 6,279 -579 JAKARTA Composite Index 415.55 412.48 3.07
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      • 395 22 In local cumrno In S$ In I S$ S da> S >ear S da* S >ear S da\ S tear Ape 14 Index change change change change change change World 416 .7 -04 16.4 -0.5 14.3 -1.5 12.0 tEAFE 544.8 -0.6 15.9 -I.I 11.6 -2
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 893 23  -  THE SANG^KANCIL By David Gabriel Using technical methods, the Sang Kancil weekly report tracks the profit/loss position of a $50.(MH) deposit, leveraged up to 10 times, lor trading in a portfolio of deutschemarks. yen, sterling. Swiss francs, .\ikkei Stixk Index Futures and Euro-yen futures.
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    • 411 23 ASIA THE US DOLLAR closed higher against most major currencies in Tokyo yesterday on widespread speculation that the US is unlikely to ease credit soon, dealers said. The deutschemark was under selling pressure due to the defeat of Germany's Christian Democrats in a state
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    • 1233 23 SIMEX EUHOOOUAH Open High Low Sett Est Vol Op/lnt Vol Jun 91 93.63 9163 9162 9162 3600 ***** 7973 Sep 91 93.29 93.30 93.28 93.29 2300 9814 7079 Dec 91 92.78 92 80 92.78 92.79 900 9799 3246 Mar 92 92.57 92.58B 92.56 92.56 300 5087 1138 Jun
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    • 396 23 Crass rates USS S$ MS Dm Yen SFr \S NZS IJSS 1 7850 2.7585 1.7470 138 90 0.5836 1.4752 1.2953 1.7036 S$ 0.5602 1.5454 0.9787 0.7782 0.3269 0.8264 0.7257 0.9544 MS 0.3625 64.71 ***** 0 5035 0.2116 0.5348 0.4696 0 6176 Dm 0.5724 1.0218 1.5790 79.51 0.3341
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    • 575 23 Interbank rates SS Bid Offer Overnight 3 1/2 3 3/4 !-month 4 3/4 4 7/8 2-month 4 13/16 4 15/16 Vmonth 4 13/16 4 15/16 Overnight mode: 5-1/4 I S$ Bid Offer 7 days 6 1/8 6 1/4 1 month 6 1/8 6 1/4 2 months 6 1/8
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 425 24 Reuter THE Gulf War has taught Japanese petrochemieal firms the need to wean themselves off Middle Eastern naphtha, a major oil product used in making plastics, and they are looking for alternatives, industry sources said. "Since the Gulf crisis we have sought to
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    • 233 24 Bernama DEMAND for tin in Malaysia will drop by 1.9 per cent in 1991 because of the deceleration in world economic activity, says associate professor Mohammad Haji Alias of the Economics Statistics Department of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Writing in Options, a journal
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    • 858 24 REPORTS THE PRICE of tin rose four sen to M$ 14.90 per kg on some shortcovering on the Kuala Lumpur Tin Market yesterday. Dealers said the London Metal Exchange was up by US$l5 last Friday as the US dollar firmed against the ringgit
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  • 1473 24 Rubber Apr 22 HAS (fat talw) S cents/kg Noon Close Inl I RSS Prompt I42.25/I43.25N 142.50/143 SON Int I RSS May 91 144 75/145.25 145 00/145 50 Int I RSS Jun 146.50/147 00 146 75/147.25 Int 2 RSS OP 142 00/144 00N 142 00/I4400N Int 3 RSS OP 137
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 832 25  -  POSTCARD FROM ASSAM By Nirmal Ghosh For those who have given up hope of ever seeing a Javan or Sumatran rhino in the wild, why not try an Indian rhino? The Great Onehorned Indian Rhinoceros is the only truly one-horned land mammal, and
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    • 159 25 As at 3pm yesterday: liKal dollars to one unit of foreign curreno C urrencics Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.36$ 1.385 Canadian dollar 1.522 1.543 N'Z dollar 1032 \M1 Sterling pound 3.033 3.053 US dollar 1.7760 1.7860 I >uoil dollars to KM) units of foreign current) Austrian schilling
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    • 61 25 Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel Duration Title Venue Organiser Tel April International Florence. SOGESF Sp.A ******»">2I April 2*- International I ondon The Building *****6-1951 20-May I Handicraft Italy N1a > 2 [)r,nk Trades air Exhibition Fxhibition Ltd April International Frankfurt. Mcs*e Frankfurt 4*i*****4> Ma> 8-11 Computer'91 Hongkong
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    • 159 25 BANKING, FINANCE INSURANCE 1991 A Business Times Special Supplement The theme for this year's supplement is "Focus: Asia", reflecting the growing economic and financial muscle of Asia as well as its importance as one of the world's fastest growing markets. Target date for publication is May 30. Among the topics
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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    • 236 25 Singapore Outlook: Showers o»er a few areas in the early morning Forecast: Maximum temperature 31.9X7 Assoc humidity 66% i Minimum temperature 24.8* C Assoc humidity 89% Hours of sunshine 1.40 Rainfall in mm Nil Rainfall this month 101.1 Rainv davs this month 9 World forecast Asia-Pacific Hi/lit* Cond. Auckland 18/lW
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  • 347 26  -  Singapore-Taiwan Business Forum By Claire Leow rAIWANESE businesses could gain a firmer foothold in the region by setting up companies in Singapore and ride on Singapore's bilateral ties, such as those cultivated through the Growth Triangle concept. They would do well to tap
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  • 346 26  -  By Lee Han Shih TAIWAN'S huge Pacific Electric Wire and Cable (PEWC) group, the half owner of the Tropicana redevelopment project. is considering making Singapore its operational headquarters (OHQ). Yesterday, Mr David T Sun. a director of PEWC, told BT that the PEWC group
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  • 317 26  -  From Catherine Ong in HONGKONG THE Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum is looking at a Gatt-style strategy of bringing down trade barriers among its members without discriminating against non-members. Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. Senator Gareth Evans, said Apec had just started
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  • 246 26 Reuter IRAQI President Saddam Hussein appears to be close to making an autonomy deal with Kurdish rebels geared at prompting the United Nations to lift crushing economic sanctions, I he limes of London said. The newspaper quoted Kurdish sources as saying
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  • 246 26 AP THAILAND, South Korea and Taiwan arc expected to register the Third World's highest economic growth rates during the next Five years, hut Singapore will continue to have the highest per capita gross domestic product among 36 countries surveyed, says
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  • 734 26  -  The Bottom Line CHUANG PECK MING CHUANG PECK MING The writer is a BT correspondent WHAT DOES April bring to mind? April Fool's Day. And Cheng Ming. when the Chinese visit their ancestors' graves to pay their respects. But the National Wages Council?
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  • 112 26 Reuter PRIME MINISTER Brian Mulroney of Canada, threatened by growing pressure for French-speaking Quebec's independence and shrinking public support, has shuffled senior ministers in a major Cabinet overhaul. The most significant changes included the creation of a Cabinet "unity" committee and the appointment of former prime minister
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    • 646 26 _0L Baume Mercier GENEVE 1830 JOINT CIDB-REDAS-IREM CERTIFICATE IN LEASING AND REDAS MANAGEMENT OF OFFICE BUILDINGS iREM AND SHOPPING CENTRES rhe Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) and Real Lstate Developers' Association of Smgajjore (Kl DAS) in collaboration with the Institute of Real Estate Management (IRI M) from the United States
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    • 206 26 JIL Baume Mercier GENEVE 1830 I Audit Committee I A workshop for company directors Most Singapore listed companies would by now have an audit committee. Some H committees have been functioning for a year, some have yet to commence operation. This Workshop is designed to help company directors perform their
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  • Shipping Times
    • 376 27  -  Up to 2,000 jobs will he lost in shake-up From Florence Chong In SYDNEY AUSTRALIA is to introduce new air space management procedures which will tinalh bring the country in line with the rest of the world. The plan unveiled late last week would
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    • 386 27  -  By Rahita Elias JAPANESE megacarriers, Mitsui OSK Line (MOL) and "K" Line, will further strengthen ties by joining forces on the intra-Asian trade. The two lines, which already plan to launch a joint Transpacific service in early June, yesterday announced that they
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    • 562 27  -  By Magdalene Phang THE marine hull insurance continues to be unprofitable despite rising premium rates. In an interview with BT, Vlr Tony Nunn, chairman of the ocean hull committee of the Swiss-based International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI). said that as rates are already
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    • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 294 27 Reuter THE chairman of Gulf Air. hit hard by the crisis caused by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, said the carrier lost 36 million dinars (SSI62 million) in 1990 and faced tough times for the next three years. The chairman. Youssef Shirawi. on Sunday said
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    • 240 27 AP SAILORS from an unidentified ship fired warning shots and then searched a Japanese fishing boat last Sunday in international waters near disputed islets in the East China Sea. the Maritime Safety Agency said. It was the third time this month that sailors
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    • 247 27 Reuter A HONGKONG legislator said on Sunday that a proposal to extend the lite ot the British colony's overworked airport was a practical option to controversial plans for a new one. Legislative councillor Martin Lee said extending the existing Kai Tak airport
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    • LOG BOOK
      • 59 28 I UK International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko) will hold its Annual General Meeting in Hamburg, Germany, between May 8 and 10. Topics to be discussed at the meeting include future energy supplies, the Tinted States Oil Pollution Act, the tanker
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      • 77 28 I RADING in the shares of Chung Wah Shipbuilding and Engineering (Holdings) Co Ltd was suspended yesterday at the request of the company pending an announcement, the Stock Exchange of Hongkong said. The shipbuilding, mahinery and civil engineering company ended HKSO.O3 higher at HKSO.7B (550.17) on
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      • 83 28 BRITAIN'S largest shipping line, the P&O, has launched a new 20,000-tonne "super-ferry" that it hopes will enable it to meet competition from the forthcoming cross-channel tunnel, a company spokesman said on Saturday. P&O (Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company) is investing £200 million (Ss6lB million) in new
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      • 78 28 I HE BULK ore carrier Mineral Diamond is presumed sunk and the search efforts are concentrating on possible survivors among its crew of 27, officials said in Canberra yesteru ty. The 140,000 tonne Hongkong-registered vessel with an hulian crew was last reported battling huge seas whipped
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      • 39 28 STOLT Tankers and Terminals (Holdings) has tapped the United States credit market for US$l75 million (Ss3o9 million) through private placement. The company reported earnings of US$lB million for the quarter ended Feb 28, 1991.
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      • 45 28 HE FINNISH-REGISTERED ro-ro vessel Canopus is leading for Kiel, in Germany, to carry out repairs after touching the bottom on April 17, Lloyds Shipping Intelligence reported. The 6,565-dwt vessel was bound from Rau;;m, Finland, to Felixstowe, England, when it touched.
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      • 66 28 AT LEAST 31 people were killed when two buses crashed off a bridge in Bangladesh yesterday, officials said. More :han 100 people were injured in the accident, which oc--11 i red near the town of Dhamrai north of the capital, Dhaka, as one bus tried
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    • 921 28 HARTERING in the dry cargo freight market on Thursday was supported by talk the Soviets had fixed one trans-Atlantic vessel, which was later confirmed, and 'Acre looking for more ships, broker •> said. The booking was made by the Soviet grain purchasing agency I \portkhleb for a 50,000
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    • 1052 28  -  A painstaking search for two of explorer Christopher Columbus' ships has pinpointed archaeologists to a bay on Jamaica's northern coast. Robert Glass reports Robert Glass AP Archaeologists believe they may soon find the 500-year-old remains of two ships Christopher Columbus and his
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    • 974 28 April 25-30: 46th International Federation Air Line Pilots-Asso-ciations (Ifalpa) annual conference. hosted by Air Line Pilots Association Singapore, Raffles City Convention Centre, Westin Hotels. April 29-30: Seminar on Interna- tional Trade Practice Commercial. Operations and l Financial Aspects, organised by i Facs World Pte Ltd at Carlton Hotel.
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    • 9021 36 I his is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of Singapore. Advanced dates are published for a
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    • 3490 41 A L m.H( onlainerline NV: Bclsin Shpg Agencies Pte I.til (SyMarine Handling Sdn Bhd (PK/PN) Accord (.roup: Accord Shpg Ptc I id (SyAccord C'ontr Line (PK/PN). Adkris Business C orporation Philippine: Calsource Shpg Trdg Pte Ltd (S) Ahrenkiel Liner Semite: Kim Shpg Trdg (S) Albatros Sea-Air Service: Frata
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    • 257 41 \bu us Couriers Tel 545-8011 Fax *****98 Air Ktpms I ravel Tel: 533-5771. Fa*: *****44 Airborne Freight Corporation Tel: 542-8844 Fa*: *****16. *****80 Air* Worldwide Courier Tel: 278-0188 Fa*: *****83. AJS Supplies Tel: 748-6322 (2 lines). 747-7421. Fa*: *****75. City-link International Tel 344-3377. Fa*: *****50. luster link Stpplin
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    • 1549 41 Abe* Express Freight Tel: 542-7171. Fax: *****84. Actinic Forwarder Tel 225-1833 Fax: *****42. Activair Singapore Tel 542-7822. Fa*: *****20. Aerolink Freight International Tel: 545-8033. Fax: *****05. Aerospeed Tel 542-5911. Fax: *****18. Air Cargo Novo Express Tel 542-5454 Fax *****06 Air Express International Tel 542-7666 Fax *****74. *****50. Air
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    • 2944 42 ARGENTINA Nan ixMvn/o: Port full. S vessels berthed loading various commodities, mainly grain by-products; 5 vessels anchored in roads awaiting berths of which 3 to load by-products. 2 grain Rosario: Three vessels in port of which 1 loading sugar. I pelletised meal. I grain; I vessel berthed in
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    • 454 42 ARRIVALS m I Op Might Type ETA T From 39 3 TODAY TODAY NCA KZ203 B747F 0145 1 NRT SIA SQ802 B747F 0230 2 SYD/AKL KAL KE697 B707F 0150 1 SEL FDX FM22 DCIOF 0335 TYE/NRT/ANC JAL JL6I7 B747F 0345 1 NRT NCA KZ204 B747F 0335 BKK/NRT
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    • 229 42 CRUISE FERRY SCHEDULES CRUISE SHIPS Ait Pep Nit of V«»rt ETA FTP Ports of Calls Port Age* APRIL 23 23 Royal Viking Sea 0900 2359 Sin-Bangkok-Sin Barwil Agencies 23 23 Cora Princess 1000 1800 Jakarta-Sin-Jakarta Sembawang Johnson 25 25 Ocean Pearl 0700 1300 Penang-Sin-Penang Reefer Lines 27 27 Cora Princess
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    • 515 42 SHIP SALES TANKER RATES VESSELS SOLD FOR FURTHER TRADING Tankers The Anunis: 155.505 dwt and built 1977. sold to Nigerian interests for around U5517.5 to US$l9 million. The Sea Silkroad: 60,875 dwt and built 1980. sold to US interests for around US$lB.6 million. The Haukanger 29,912 dwt and built 1982.
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      • 661 43 Vessel Vov No Berth Arrival Departure Vessel Voy No Berth Armal Departwe Keppd Wharves 8etlu 91/3 K29 2304/0800 Cs Ocean 72 K34 atongs.de 24 04/0700 Goto Future 10W K30 22 04/1700 Kota iaya E 89b K31 26 04/1500 Li Heng 91/3 K32 alor«stoe 2204/1630 Sea Princess 5109
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      • 1283 43 >j m FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Ship Voy No Etb/Btr tecord Booiung/Baianc Period From To Rsfts From Anro Melbour ***** 23/1500 22/1500 22/1659 22/1900 Anso n *****N 24/0700 23/0659 23/1159 23/0900 23/1400 B Butang 065 24/2100 3 23/0700 JJfll 4 23/1200 23/1700 B Dahlia 105 24/0900 23/0700
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      • 235 43 Pttiam Port Berth in Buttenmrth on Apri 23: 1: Victory; 2: Hock Hai Lee; 3: Bangluang, Santos. 4: mi. 5. ml, 6 Saadaya Penang Wharf: NB ml. CB; ml; SB Union Pearl BCT: Bl: Yang Cheng Hu. Bll Kapitan Kadeckq. I/B ml VOTP: ml. (hie on Apri
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    • 534 44 NYT RESOLVING an eleventhhour dispute, Volkswagen AG has closed what appears to be the biggest Western investment deal in Eastern Europe by buying a majority share in Skoda, the Czechoslovak car maker. The deal, first announced last December, contains several ground-breaking provisions
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    • 158 44 HarleyDavidson earnings fall 62.6 pc UPI HARLEY-DAVIDSON Inc reported first-quarter earnings were US$4.5 million (557.9 million), or 25 US cents a share, down 62.6 per cent from earnings of US$l2.l million, or 68 US cents a share, a year ago. Sales were U*****.2 million, down from U*****.6 million. The earnings-per-share
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    • 330 44 AP THE upper stage of an Atlas rocket carry ing a satellite for a Japanese broadcasting company tumbled out of control shortly after liftoff on Thursday. launch officials at Cape Canaveral, Florida, said. The problem occurred just after the Centaur upper stage
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    • 220 44 UPI NORTHWEST Airlines said on Friday that it would become the first American carrier to fly to Vietnam since the Vietnam War ended, and planned to begin a charter service there in June. The airline has signed a contract with the International Office
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    • 304 44 AP ROUGH SEAS on Sunday slowed but did not stop the efforts of boat crews trying to clean up oil spilled from a sunken supertanker, Genoa port officials said. "We will continue to work even though it is not possible
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    • 1687 35 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD M mMI PIL Building, 140 Cecil Street Singapore 0106. I Jakarta I I Bangkok VESSEL VOV SIN JKT SIN VESSEL VOY SIN BKK SIN E rit N 17 1 29/4 3/5 7/5 PEGAGUS PROGRESS 664N 24/4 27/4 1/5 RUMrA TFRATAI 173 30/4 2/5 5/5 MA
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    • 1036 39 VKC CONVENTION At HIVICI Vcsml PKI PNG P C loading tor A VESSEL ?8,04 Rotterdam Antwerp china nm contain** »khvic» Vessel SCP PKL BKK HKC QIN SHA YANGfANGKOU 149 01,5 21(4 07 S 12,S 16 5 YANGfANGKOU ISI 01,S 0/6 12 4 16 6 Also accept ng jttier ctiinese ports
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